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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 4 16:42:27 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:42:27 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, Verona (Italy) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:10:34 +0100 From: fomi Message-Id: <2F30582D-7474-11D9-9439-000393D26C34 at loa-cnr.it> X-url: http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ *********************************************** Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ June 9-10, 2005 Lake of Garda, Verona (Italy) ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized and supported by: - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento ******************************************************** Description =========== Modeling corporate knowledge is one of the most attractive themes in applied research and it has been an important motivation for several areas of investigations like distributed systems and knowledge management. Clearly, the business world considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same one. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Proceedings =========== A selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be considered for publication in a special track of the international journal 'Applied Ontology'. ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprise modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. ******************************************************** Important dates =============== Workshop: June 9-10, 2005 Deadline for paper submissions: March 4th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 4th, 2005 Camera ready submission: May 2nd, 2005 ******************************************************** Submission ========================== We invite two types of submissions in any of the topics of interest to the workshop: 1. Technical papers Maximum 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. 2. Short position papers Maximum 4 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for the workshop. In particular, we insist the paper to be written for a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and published as proceedings. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format to Roberta Cuel at: cuel at sci.univr.it If electronic submission is not possible, please contact Roberta Cuel at ph. +39-045-802-7908 (or at cuel at sci.univr.it) for further instructions. ******************************************************** Workshop Organising Committee ============================= Roberta Cuel (University of Verona -- cuel at sci.univr.it) Francesco Bellomi (University of Verona -- bellomi at sci.univr.it) Roberta Ferrario (LOA ISTC-CNR -- ferrario at loa-cnr.it) ******************************************************** Program Committee (to be completed) =================================== Chair Matteo Cristani (University of Verona -- cristani at univr.it) Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR, Italy -- guarino at loa-cnr.it) Stefano Borgo (LOA-CNR, Italy -- borgo at loa-cnr.it) Miltiadis Lytras (Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece -- mdl at aueb.gr) York Sure (Institut AIFB Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany -- sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Paulo Leitão (Polytechnic Institute of BraganÁa, Portugal -- pleitao at ipb.pt) ******************************************************** Please do not hesitate to contact any of the Organizing Committee members for further details. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 4 16:45:33 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:45:33 +0100 Subject: [ln] Job: research positions 2005-4, Tarragona, Spain Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 05:52:23 +0100 From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Message-ID: <024a01c508e3$026b1de0$3200a8c0 at ibm13832> X-url: http://www.grlmc.com X-url: http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm Apologies for multiple posting! Please, pass the information to whom may be interested. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A few positions may be available starting in the Fall-Winter 2005 in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). The web site of the group (the host institute) is: http://www.grlmc.com or http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm ELIGIBLE TOPICS The eligible topics are the group's current or future research directions: - Formal language theory and its applications. - Bioinformatics. - Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology. - Language and speech technologies. - Formal theories of language acquisition. - Computational neuroscience. Other related fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong enough candidates for them. JOB PROFILE - Between 12 and 36 months long. - The positions are intended for top-level appointments, i.e. to attract world-class researchers. - Very experienced researchers are sought with outstanding past achievements in teaching and research. - Teaching at PhD level, research and student supervising are all expected. - The research subject should be of a leading edge and/or multidisciplinary nature. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS - There is no restriction on nationality or age, with the following two exceptions: (i) Spaniards are ineligible unless they have resided for at least 4 of the last 5 years outside the European Union. (ii) Non-Spaniards having resided in Spain for at least 4 of the last 5 years are ineligible. - Candidates must be working at present outside the European 25 Member States, Associated Candidate States (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey) or Associated States (Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland), and can not have resided for more than 1 year of the last 3 years in Spain. - Although there is no particular preference, European citizens working outside Europe at present are encouraged to apply. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - The financial size of a position (all included: salary, travel and mobility expenses, research management and overheads, equipment) will be in the interval 260,000-700,000 euros. The relations between the holder and the host institute will be governed by a specific agreement. - The holder will be hired under a work contract. EVALUATION PROCEDURE It will consist of 2 stages: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - a full proposal, to be evaluated by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until February 7, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-4" in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. For the preselected candidates, the deadline for the submission of the full proposal will be February 16, 2005. Directions, advice and support will be given to them by the host institute. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin at urv.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 4 16:47:32 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:47:32 +0100 Subject: [ln] Job: Stage, Japonais, Memodata Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:15:11 +0100 From: "dominique dutoit" Message-ID: Stage pour un étudiant connaissant le japonais. Alexandria est un service de dictionnaire mono et multilingue susceptible d'être installé librement sur n'importe quel site web. Déjà une dizaine de sites importants comme www.sekooya.com ont installé Alexandria. Vous pouvez trouver des informations sur Alexandria en consultant notre site web : www.memodata.com. Un organisme de traduction (français/anglais/japonais) est intéressé par le fait d'accéder à ses ressources terminologiques à travers Alexandria, aussi bien pour en faire bénéficier les membres inscrits de son propre site que pour en faire bénéficier la communauté internet. A cette fin, il nous ont confié un fichier comprenant 109.000 traductions. Le fichier comporte des marques grammaticales pour le japonais. Un autre fichier précise la prononciation d'environ 200.000 noms propres. Nous acceptons d'intégrer ces données dans Alexandria. Cependant, (1) certaines marques comprises dans ces fichiers sont assez obscures, (2) une ergonomie propre au japonais en langue source devra être inventée et (3) une intégration maximale aux autres données d'Alexandria (réseau sémantique multilingue) devra être atteinte. L'ensemble définit un stage varié au plan technique, et permettra à un étudiant de confirmer ses connaissances ou de s'initier pratiquement à des problèmes de morphologie, de lexique multilingue et d'ergonomie. Idéalement le stage se déroulera à Caen. Cependant, une partie de travail pourra s'effectuer ailleurs, avec une liaison internet. Pour tout renseignement complémentaire: Dominique Dutoit tél : +33 2 31 35 75 21 d.dutoit at memodata.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 4 16:49:54 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:49:54 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: FSMNLP 2005, Helsinki, Finland Message-ID: Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 05:19:33 +0200 From: Anssi Yli-Jyra Message-Id: X-url: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/events/FSMNLP2005 Call for papers ---------------------------------------------------------------- FSMNLP 2005 Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing ---------------------------------------------------------------- University of Helsinki, Finland 1 - 2 September 2005 http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/events/FSMNLP2005 Papers due: 25th April 2005 FSMNLP 2005 will be a forum for researchers working on applications of finite state methods (FSM) in natural language processing (NLP) or on the theoretical and implementation aspects of such finite-state methods that are relevant to NLP. The aim of the workshop is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community working on finite-state based models in language technology, computational linguistics, linguistics and cognitive science or on related methods in fields such as computer science and mathematics. TOPICS: We invite novel high-quality papers that are related to the themes including but not limited to: 1. NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods The topic includes but is not restricted to: - speech, sign language, phonology, hyphenation, prosody - scripts, text normalization, segmentation, tokenization, indexing - morphology, stemming, lemmatisation, information retrieval, spelling correction - syntax, POS tagging, partial parsing, disambiguation, information extraction - machine translation, translation memories, glossing, dialect adaptation - annotated corpora and treebanks, semi-automatic annotation, error mining, searching 2. Finite-state models of language With this more focused topic (inside 1) we invite papers on aspects that motivate sufficiency of finite-state methods or their subsets for capturing various requirements of natural language processing. The topic includes but is not restricted to: - performance, linguistic applicability, finite-state hypotheses - Zipf's law and coverage, model checking against finite corpora - regular approximations under parameterized complexity, limitations and definitions of relevant complexities such as ambiguity, recursion, crossings, rule applications, constraint violations, reduplication, exponents, discontinuity, path-width, and induction depth - similarity inferences, dissimilation, segmental length, counter-freeness, asynchronous machines - garden-path sentences, deterministic parsing, expected parses, Markov chains - incremental parsing, uncertainty, reliability/variance in stochastic parsing, linear sequential machines 3. Practices for building lexical transducers for the world's languages. The topic accounts for usability of finite-state methods in NLP. It includes but is not restricted to: - required user training and consultation, learning curve of non-specialists - questionnaires, discovery methods, adaptive computer-aided glossing and interlinearization - example-based grammars, semi-automatic learning, user-driven learning (see topic 6 too) - low literacy level and restricted availability of training data, writing systems/phonology under development, new non-Roman scripts - linguist's workbenches, stealth-to-wealth parser development - endangered languages, experiences of using existing tools for computational morphology and phonology 4. Specification and implementation of sets, relations and multiplicities in NLP using finite automata The topic includes but is not restricted to: - regular rule formalisms, grammar systems, expressions, operations, closure properties, complexities - algorithms for compilation, approximation, manipulation, optimization, and lazy evaluation of finite machines - finite string and tree automata, transducers, morphisms and bimorphisms - weights, registers, multiple tapes, alphabets, state covers and partitions, representations - locality, constraint propagation, star-free languages, data vs. query complexity - logical specification, MSO(SLR,matches), FO(Str,<), LTL, generalized restriction, local grammars 5. Constraint-based grammars and k-ary regular relations With this more focused topic (inside 4) we invite researchers from related fields (computational linguists, mathematicians and computer scientists) into discussion that is motivated by constraint-based, declarative approaches to morphology/phonology and computational problems related to them. For example, regular relations in general are not closed under intersection, but restricted use of intersection or relations have proven useful in computational phonology and morphology, and their implementations such as KIMMO, PC-KIMMO, TWOLC, SEMHE, AMAR, WFSC, etc. In the future, new useful approaches and implementations may come up. The approaches may also propagate to other application areas in natural language processing, including finite-state syntax and query languages for parallel annotations in linguistic corpora. The topic includes but is not restricted to: - multi-tape automata, same-length relations and partition-based morphology, Semitic morphology - autosegmental phonology, shuffle, trajectories, synchronization, segmental anchoring, alignment constraints, syllable structure, partial-order reductions - problems related to auto-intersection of multi-tape automata e.g. marked Post Correspondence Problem - varieties of regular languages and relations, descriptive complexity of finite-state based grammars - automaton-based approaches to declarative constraint grammars, constraints in optimality theory - parallel corpus annotations, register automata, acyclic timed automata 6. Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language This topic includes but is not restricted to: - learning regular rule systems, learning topologies of finite automata and transducers - parameter estimation and smoothing, lexical openness - computer-driven grammar writing, user-driven grammar learning, discovery procedures - data scarcity, realistic variations of Gold's model, learnability and cognitive science - incompletely specified finite-state networks - model-theoretic grammars, gradient well/ill-formedness 7. Finite-state manipulation software (with relevance to the above themes) This topic includes but is not restricted to - regular expression pre-compilers such as regexopt, xfst2fsa, standards and interfaces for finite-state based software components, conversion tools - tools such as LEXC, Lextools, Intex, XFST, FSM, GRM, WFSC, FIRE Engine, FADD, FSA/UTR, SRILM, FIRE Station and Grail - free software such as FSA Utilities, Unitex, OpenFIRE, Vaucanson, SFST, PCKIMMO, MONA, Hopskip, ASTL, UCFSM, HaLeX, SML, and WFST - results obtainable with such exploration tools as automata, Autographe, Amore, and TESTAS - visualization tools such as Graphviz and Vaucanson-G - language-specific resources and descriptions, freely available benchmarking resources The descriptions of the topics above are not meant to be complete. The submitted papers or abstracts may fall in several categories. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper/poster submissions due: 25th April Notifications sent out: 25th May Deadline for early registration: 10th June Abstracts for software demos due: 10th June Camera-ready papers due: 20th June SUBMISSIONS: We expect three kinds of submissions: 1. full papers, 2. interactive presentations (posters) and 3. software demos. Please visit the workshop home page for further details. PROCEEDINGS: The final versions of papers and abstracts will be published both online and/or on CD-ROM (with an official ISBN number), as well as a technical report if there are many participants who would like to have printed proceedings. RESERVING A JOURNAL ISSUE: We are planning to reserve a journal issue so that selected papers could be invited for submission for a special issue of an international journal. After earlier FSMNLP and similar workshops, the following special issues have been published: * Natural Language Engineering 2(4), 1996 based on Extended Finite State Models of Language 1996 * Natural Language Engineering, 9(1), 2003 based on FSMNLP 2001 * Machine Translation 18(3), 2003 based on FSMNLP 2003 Currently, we cannot say whether a similar special issue will be realized this time or not. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia) Francisco Casacuberta (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) Jean-Marc Champarnaud (Université de Rouen, France) Jan Daciuk (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Tero Harju (University of Turku, Finland) Arvi Hurskainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, Finland, co-chair) Lauri Karttunen (PARC and Stanford University, USA, co-chair) André Kempe (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) George Anton Kiraz (Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, USA) Andras Kornai (Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary) Terence Langendoen (University of Arizona, USA) Eric Laporte (Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France) Mike Maxwell (Linguistic Data Consortium, USA) Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey) James Rogers (Earlham College, USA) Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy) Jean-Eric Pin (CNRS/University Paris 7, France) Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy) Jacques Sakarovitch (CNRS/ENST, France) Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Nathan Vaillette (University of Tübingen, Germany) Atro Voutilainen (Connexor, Finland) Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel) Sheng Yu (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) ORGANIZATION: The workshop will take place in the University of Helsinki. The organizing institution is the Department of General Linguistics in the University of Helsinki. The local committee is headed by Anssi Yli-Jyrä at CSC -- Scientific Computing Ltd. The workshop is a follow-up for some earlier workshops, but also continues their dynamic, changing tradition. These workshops and courses are under different names and time intervals: * 1996: course on Finite-State Techniques in NLP (Groningen) * 1996: ECAI workshop: Extended Finite-State Models of Language (Budapest) * 1998: Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing (Ankara) * 2001: ESSLLI workshop: Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing (Helsinki) * 2003: EACL workshop: Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing (Budapest) * 2005: Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (Helsinki) FSMNLP workshops have traditionally had tutorial lessons and/or invited speakers. CO-LOCATED EVENTS: There are initial thoughts about a national, one-day workshop on Automata, Words and Languages (AWL) that would take place in Helsinki just before FSMNLP. 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Message-id: <420769A8.5000203 at uni-bielefeld.de> X-url: http://www.constraints-in-discourse.de Please apologize cross-postings Workshop on Constraints in Discourse 3-5 June, 2005 Dortmund, Germany http://www.constraints-in-discourse.de For a long time, the development of precise frameworks of discourse interpretation has been hampered by the lack of a deeper understanding of the dependencies between different discourse units. The recent 15 years have seen a considerable advance in this field. A number of strong constraints have been proposed that restrict the sequencing and attaching of segments at various descriptive levels, as well as the interpretation of their interrelations. Early, and very influential, work on the sequencing and ordering of discourse segments has been done by Grosz & Sidner (1986). One of the best-known of the constraints on sequencing and accessibility of expressions across sentence boundaries is the RFC (Right Frontier Constraint), often associated with a paper of Polanyi (1988). Other relevant constraints are, e.g. the CSC (Coordinate Structure Constraint, Ross 1967) or the recently expressed MDC (Maximal Discourse Coherence, Asher & Lascarides 2003) principle. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting recent research on constraints in discourse. The target areas include the recognition of discourse structure as well as the interpretation and generation of discourse in a broad variety of domains. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from diverse formal approaches, including but not limited to: - Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) - Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) - Tree Adjoining Grammars - The QUD Modell - Plan Based Reasoning - Abductive Reasoning - Gricean Pragmatics - Speech Act Theory We invite talks that further our theoretical understanding of the role of constraints in discourse, as well as empirical studies that shed light on their empirical validity. The conference is explicitly intended for discussion and comparison of theoretical accounts that lay the ground for applications. It is not intended as a platform for system demonstrations. Specific topics might relate to - Anaphora Resolution - Co-reference - Dialogical vs. Monological Discourse - Questions and Answers - Lexicon and Discourse Relations - Cognitive Modeling - Underspecification and Nonmonotonic Inferences etc. The organisers are planning to publish a selection of the results of the workshop either as a special issue of a journal or as a book. Publication (and workshop) language is English The workshop is endorsed by SIGdial, the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, and SIGsem, the Special Interest Group on Semantics, of ACL. Invited Speakers ================ Nicholas Asher, Univ. of Texas (Austin), USA Claire Gardent, LORIA/CNRS, France Barbara Grosz, Harvard Univ., USA Livia Polanyi, Palo Alto Research Center, USA David Schlangen, Univ. Potsdam, Germany Paper Submission ================ Researchers interested in contributing a paper to the workshop are invited to submit an abstract that spans not more than 3 pages in PDF or PS (single column, 10pt font size, a4 paper, including a bibliography) using the form at the workshop website (http://www.constraints-in-discourse.de). Reviews will be done blindly; the abstracts may accordingly not include explicit hints that allow the identification of the authors (such as "in paper (...) we show that"). Important Dates =============== Conf: 3-5 June, 2005 Deadline for Submissions: 1 March, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: 1 April, 2005 Final Abstracts due: 15 May, 2005 Program Committee ================= Nicholas Asher, Univ. of Texas (Austin) Anton Benz, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Kolding Kurt Eberle, Lingenio GmbH, Germany Claire Gardent, LORIA/CNRS, France Barbara Grosz, Harvard Univ., USA Anke Holler, Ruprecht-Karls-Univ., Germany Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany Livia Polanyi, Palo Alto Research Center Claudia Sassen, Univ. Dortmund, Germany David Schlangen, Univ. Potsdam, Germany Organisation ============ Organisation Committee: Anton Benz, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Kolding Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany Claudia Sassen, Univ. Dortmund, Germany Local Organisation: Claudia Sassen (claudia.sassen at uni-dortmund.de) Coordinates =========== The workshop will take place from 3-5 June, 2005. It will be hosted by the University of Dortmund, Germany. Dortmund is situated in the Eastern region of the Ruhrgebiet and can easily be reached via car, airplane or train. The venue will be Haus Bommerholz, the conference center of Univ. Dortmund. Fees ==== We thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG = German NSF) for the funding. Their support allows us to keep the fees generally low. The fees (including coffee breaks and lunch) are People from countries with weak economy: free Students, including PhD students: EUR 25 Other participants from Academia: EUR 85 Participants from commercial enterprises: EUR 170 -- http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." 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Organisateurs: Remo Mugnaioni (institut de recherche et d'étude du monde Arabe et Musulman, Université de Provence), Serge Rosmorduc (équipe langue et littérature de l'Égypte ancienne, ÉPHÉ). Objectifs Apparu à la fin des années 50, tout d'abord dans une optique de traduction automatique, le traitement automatique du langage naturel (TAL) a assez tôt fait l'objet d'applications dans les langues anciennes, en particulier dans le domaine de l'analyse morphologique et pour la réalisation de corpora électroniques. Depuis une quinzaine d'années, avec la généralisation de l'outil informatique et d'internet, les applications du TAL au sens large du terme se multiplient dans les disciplines philologiques. La présente journée d'étude se propose de faire un tour d'horizon de ces pratiques. Thèmes essentiels - Analyse morphologique et/ou syntaxique automatique des langues anciennes ; - Corpus informatiques (constitution du corpus, recherches, et exploitation du corpus), comme par exemple le projet Perseus ; - Dictionnaires ; - Codage des langues ancienne (définition du signe d'écriture, représentation du texte) ; - XML, TEI et langues anciennes (formalismes XML pour représenter les documents anciens, structuration de corpus en XML, DTD ou schémas pour les dictionnaires) ; - acquisition de textes, OCR, et langues anciennes (reconnaissance de caractères, recherche de mots dans des documents scannés, liens entre corpus d'images et corpus structurés) ; - le TAL comme outil pour le philologue (emploi effectif de techniques de TAL en philologie, segmentation, lemmatisation) ; - TAL et pédagogie des langues anciennes ; - ... Organisation Communications : nous proposons une gamme de participation : exposés standard (30mn de présentation, proposition sur 2 pages), notes de projet, pour un travail en cours (15mn, texte de 1 page), propositions de démo (1 page). Communications à envoyer à Serge Rosmorduc (rosmord at iut.univ-paris8.fr). Textes en français pour les francophones, ouvert aux participants de tous pays (anglais autorisé). Commité de lecture : Joseph Denooz (LASLA, Liège), Remo Mugnaioni, Serge Rosmorduc. Dates importantes: Soumissions jusqu'au 9 avril Notification aux auteurs : le 15 avril Pour tout renseignement complémentaire, contacter S. 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Bush is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress at 9 p.m. "Fixing Social Security permanently will require an open, candid review of the options," Bush will say. "I will work with members of Congress to find the most effective combination of reforms." In his speech, Bush will refer to Social Security as "one of America's most important institutions -- a symbol of trust between generations." The president will also address the war in Iraq, saying that "our generational commitment to the advance of freedom, especially in the Middle East, is now being tested and honored in Iraq." "We will succeed because the Iraqi people value their own liberty, as they showed the world last Sunday," Bush will say. "We are standing for the freedom of our Iraqi friends, and freedom in Iraq will make America safer for generations to come." Bush will also tell Americans that "the new political situation in Iraq opens a new phase of our work in that country." 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 11 16:47:11 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:47:11 +0100 Subject: [ln] Job: Stage pour un etudiant connaissant le francais et l'anglais Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:50:08 +0100 From: "dominique dutoit" Message-ID: Objet: [ln]Stage pour un etudiant connaissant le francais et l'anglais. Alexandria est un service de dictionnaire mono et multilingue susceptible d'etre installe librement sur n'importe quel site web. Deja une dizaine de sites importants comme www.boolgum.fr ont installe Alexandria. Vous pouvez trouver des informations sur Alexandria en consultant notre site web : www.memodata.com. Notre collaboration internationale nous amene a renforcer une convergence entre nos travaux (autour du Dictionnaire Integral) et de WordNet (Universite de Princetone). Les modeles sont assez differents et de la tache resultera un enrichissement des deux "ontologies". Le stage, qui s'adresse a un etudiant interesse par la lexicologie mono et multilingue visera a : - exprimer en anglais certains concepts du dictionnaire integral - decouvrir des points de convergence supplementaires entre les deux structures et etablir des fusions locales. Le stage utiliser les outils d'administation de reseaux semantiques, graphes conceptuels et hypergraphes de la societe. Un memoire, a l'issue du stage, pourra refleter les difficultes rencontrees (bizarreries dans wordnet a faire corriger, bizarreries corrigees dans le dictonnaire integral, probleme du decoupage -traitement de la polysemie-, tiraillements entre terminologie, traduction et representation notionnelle etc. Le stage sera une tres bonne occasion pour faire un vaste tour d'horizon des problemes indiques ci-dessus. 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For instance, Machine Learning techniques have successfully been applied to problems of legal documents classification, legal information retrieval, legal knowledge discovery and extraction. As the use of these techniques becomes more widespread it also becomes clearer how to enhance their performances. One way of doing this is to employ structured (domain) knowledge in order to reduce complexity and support correct reasoning. Legal Ontologies are playing a crucial role in providing such knowledge at various levels of specificity and formality. The LOAIT workshop aims at offering an overview of theories and well-founded applications that combine Legal Ontologies and AI techniques. Similarly to past events organized in conjunction with ICAIL-97, Jurix 2001 and ICAIL-03 the LOAIT workshop will constitute a valuable opportunity for researchers and practitioners in AI, AI&Law, Legal Ontologies and related fields to discuss problems, exchange information and compare perspectives. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original completed work, work in progress, interesting problems, case studies or research trends related to one or more of the topics of interest listed below. Submitted papers will be refereed by two experts based on originality, significance and technical soundness. ==== == LOAIT Topics of Interest Topics of Interest include but are not limited to: Legal Ontologies and Natural Language Processing Legal Ontologies and Machine Learning for classification tasks Legal Ontologies for text categorization Legal Ontologies and the Semantic Web Legal knowledge discovery and organization by AI approaches Ontologies and legal standard modelling languages Ontologies of property rights, persons and organizations, legal procedures, contracts, legal causality, etc. Ontological views on models of legal reasoning (e.g. regulatory compliance, case-based reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, etc.) Multilingual and terminological aspects of regulatory ontologies Engineering of regulatory ontologies (e.g. conceptual analysis, representation, modularization and layering, reusability, evolution and dynamics, etc.) Experiences with projects and applications involving regulatory ontologies (e.g. legal knowledge based systems, legal information retrieval systems, e-government or e-commerce applications) Modeling legal norms, concepts, rules, cases, principles, values and procedures, methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems ==== == LOAIT Important Dates March 25, 2005: Paper submission April 25, 2005: Notification of acceptance May 10, 2005: Camera-ready paper June 6, 2005: Workshop ==== == LOAIT Submission & Registration Details Paper length: max. 14 pages Paper electronic submission: manuscript must be submitted in PS or PDF format at http://vortex.uvt.nl/icail05ws/ (create your account, select "Submit Paper" and choose "LOAIT Workshop") Paper camera ready format: instructions for camera ready papers to be announced on http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait.html#top Registration details on http://www.wogli.unibo.it/icail05/?page_name=reg ==== == LOAIT Organizers Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Rome, Italy Jos Lehmann jos.lehmann at istc.cnr.it Institute of Legal Information Theories and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR) Florence, Italy Maria Angela Biasiotti biasiotti at ittig.cnr.it Enrico Francesconi francesconi at ittig.cnr.it Maria Teresa Sagri sagri at ittig.cnr.it ==== == LOAIT Program Committee Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain Guido Boella, Universita' di Torino, Italy Daniele Bourcier, University of Paris, France Joost Breuker, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands Pompeu Casanovas, Department of Political Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy Mustafa Jarrar, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Guiraude Lame, Responsable des systèmes d'information juridique, Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne & Ecole CERSA, Université Paris 2, France Laurens Mommers, Leiden University, The Netherlands Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna, Italy Daniela Tiscornia, Institute of Legal Information Theories and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR), Italy André Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, United States of America Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands ==== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 11 16:52:45 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:52:45 +0100 Subject: [ln] Job: Stage pour un etudiant connaissant le japonais, Memodata Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:56:19 +0100 From: "dominique dutoit" Message-ID: Objet: [ln]Stage pour un étudiant connaissant le français et l'anglais. Alexandria est un service de dictionnaire mono et multilingue susceptible d'être installé librement sur n'importe quel site web. Déjà une dizaine de sites importants comme www.boolgum.fr ont installé Alexandria. Vous pouvez trouver des informations sur Alexandria en consultant notre site web : www.memodata.com. Notre collaboration internationale nous amène à renforcer une convergence entre nos travaux (autour du Dictionnaire Intégral) et de WordNet (Université de Princetone). Les modèles sont assez différents et de la tâche résultera un enrichissement des deux "ontologies". Le stage, qui s'adresse à un étudiant intéressé par la lexicologie mono et multilingue visera à : - exprimer en anglais certains concepts du dictionnaire intégral - découvrir des points de convergence supplémentaires entre les deux structures et établir des fusions locales. Le stage utiliser les outils d'administation de réseaux sémantiques, graphes conceptuels et hypergraphes de la société. Un mémoire, à l'issue du stage, pourra refléter les difficultés rencontrées (bizarreries dans wordnet à faire corriger, bizarreries corrigées dans le dictonnaire intégral, problème du découpage -traitement de la polysémie-, tiraillements entre terminologie, traduction et représentation notionnelle etc. Le stage sera une très bonne occasion pour faire un vaste tour d'horizon des problèmes indiqués ci-dessus. 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He is also meeting with leaders from the Islamic Jihad militant group. The talks come hours after Israeli and Palestinian officials announced Israel will allow about 55 exiled Palestinians to return to the West Bank. An Israeli official says the returnees must refrain from terrorist activities. The deal could be implemented in two weeks. Israel expelled the Palestinians to the Gaza Strip and Europe for alleged terror links. Some were involved in the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Mr. Abbas announced a cease-fire Tuesday during a summit in Egypt. But Thursday, Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets and mortars into Jewish settlements in Gaza. No casualties were reported. Mr. Abbas fired several senior officials in response to the attack. No quieres? Hasta luego :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Hariri, 60, a multi-billionaire businessman who resigned from government last October, recently joined calls by the opposition for Syria to quit Lebanon in the run-up to general elections in May, Reuters reported. Hariri served as prime minister from 1992-98 and again from 2000 until his resignation after parliament amended the Lebanese constitution to extend Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud's term by three years. Lahoud had been set to leave office last November. At least six fires were burning in the immediate aftermath of the blast, which took place at shortly after 1 p.m. (1100 GMT). The powerful blast took place in front of the five-star hotels St. George and Phoenicia-Intercontinental in the Lebanese capital's famed Cornische overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Re'ove :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Indeed, a recent survey regarding ten emerging technologies that will change the world, placed Machine Translation at the leading number one position. It is expected that with the increased number of official languages in Europe, and the continuing growth of non-English Internet resources, machine translation and computer-aided translation systems will become indispensable tools in everyday work. Machine Translation is a complex scientific task involving almost every aspect of natural language processing. Following the developments in language technology, during the last 10 years, corpus-based approaches to machine translation (statistical or example-based) tried, and partially succeeded to replace traditional rule-based approaches. The main advantage of corpus-based machine translation systems is that they are self-customising in the sense that they can learn the translations of terminology and even stylistic phrasing from previously translated materials. However, after a first enthusiastic period it turned out that pure corpus-based methods also have limitations, which can only be overcome by introducing linguistic knowledge. Therefore current research focuses on hybrid methods, combining data-driven (corpus) and rule-driven methods. On the other hand, more practical CAT applications such as translation memories and bilingual concordancers along with the extensive use of electronic dictionaries and term tools/banks, emerged as popular, vital tools for professional translators. The current workshop aims to bring together researchers working in machine and machine-aided translation. The workshop will alternate paper presentations with panel discussions. Main topics of interest are: o Hybrid approaches to machine translation o Recent advances in machine aided translation o Evaluation of MT and CAT systems o Impact of Semantic Web activities on MT and CAT systems. o Tools for professional translators We welcome original papers related (but not limited) to one or more of the following topics: o Learning from parallel aligned corpora o Integration of statistical and example-based approaches o Statistical support for rule-based machine translation o Dynamic combination of example-based machine translation or translation memories with rule-based approaches o Template learning in example based machine translation o Integration of Termbases, Translation Memories, and Parallel Corpora o Evaluation criteria for MT and CAT systems o Usage of semantic web-ontologies for machine translation o Usage of semantic web annotations in corpus-based machine translation o Perspectives of grid technologies for MT and CAT systems. o Practical MT systems (MT for professionals, MT for multilingual eCommerce, MT for localization o Automatic and semiautomatic acquisition of bilingual and multilingual lexica o Practical CAT tools (Translation memories, bilingual concordancers, terminology tools and resources) o Use of corpora in translation We also encourage demonstrations of developed tools. Submissions for a demonstration session should include a 2 page demo-note describing the system-architecture and performance as well as technical requirements. Workshop organisers : Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg) John Hutchins (EAMT) Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) Programme Committee includes: Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Science) Michael Carl (Institut für Applied Information Research, Saarbrücken) Chris Callison-Burch (Linear B/ University of Edinburgh) Yves Champollion (Wordfast) Daniel Grasmick (SAP, Germany) Walther von Hahn (organiser) (University of Hamburg) John Hutchins (organiser) (EAMT) Susanne Jekat (Technical University Winterthur) Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Paola Monachesi (UIL/OTS - University of Utrecht) Andrea Mulloni (Interlanguage Ltd./ University of Wolverhampton) Victor Pekar (University of Wolverhampton.) Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic, Budapest) Harold Somers (University of Manchester) Cristina Vertan (Organiser) (University of Hamburg) Andy Way (Dublin City University) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Deadlines: Paper Submission 1st June 2005 Notification of acceptance 15 July 2005 Camera Ready Papers 10th August 2005 Workshop 24 September 2005 Submission guidelines Submissions should be A4, one-column format and should not exceed seven pages, including cover page, figures, tables and references. Times New Roman 12 font is preferred. The first page should state the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Continue with the first section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in **PDF** format to cri at nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de . Each paper will be reviewed by up to three members of the program committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding camera-ready versions Parallel submissions to the main conference and the workshop are allowed but the review process will be coordinated. Please declare this in the notification form. -- Dr. Cristina Vertan Natural Language Systems Division Computer Science Department University of Hamburg Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30 22527 Hamburg GERMANY Tel. 040 428 83 2519 Fax 040 428 83 2515 http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~cri ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beenie5cIg at MAILSHACK.COM Thu Feb 17 02:15:35 2005 From: beenie5cIg at MAILSHACK.COM (Fredrick G. Martiniere) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:15:35 -0100 Subject: Important news Message-ID: qoieuqoer.com Donna's daughter hasn't practiced playing yet. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Johnny.Hickey at ABS-LTD.COM Thu Feb 17 21:36:16 2005 From: Johnny.Hickey at ABS-LTD.COM (Eduardo Egan) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:36:16 -0800 Subject: as low as 2.00% fixed rates Message-ID: One of Hariri's senior bodyguards and officials at the American University in Beirut hospital confirmed Hariri's death to CNN. The hospital, which said it had seen another nine bodies and more than 100 injuries, said Hariri was dead on arrival. Former Economy Minister Basil Fuleihan, riding in the motorcade, was critically wounded, Reuters reported. Witnesses reported seeing at least 10 bodies on the scene of Monday's explosion, which caused widespread destruction. There has been no claim of responsibility for the blast. Hariri, 60, a multi-billionaire businessman who resigned from government last October, recently joined calls by the opposition for Syria to quit Lebanon in the run-up to general elections in May, Reuters reported. Hariri served as prime minister from 1992-98 and again from 2000 until his resignation after parliament amended the Lebanese constitution to extend Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud's term by three years. Lahoud had been set to leave office last November. At least six fires were burning in the immediate aftermath of the blast, which took place at shortly after 1 p.m. (1100 GMT). The powerful blast took place in front of the five-star hotels St. George and Phoenicia-Intercontinental in the Lebanese capital's famed Cornische overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Re'ove :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: yfm.gif Type: image/gif Size: 14252 bytes Desc: not available URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 18 17:30:53 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:30:53 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: SEM-05 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:23:56 +0100 From: Michel Aurnague Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20050218181110.00966ce0 at messv2.univ-pau.fr> X-url: http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/sem05/ X-url: http://www.ehu.es/ilcli X-url: http://www.sc.ehu.es/ilcli X-url: http://semantique.free.fr Faire circuler SVP ---- SEM-05 Appel à Communications ---- Faire circuler SVP Symposium sur l’étude du Sens : Exploration et Modélisation (SEM-05) Connecteurs, cadres discursifs et structure du discours : des analyses en corpus et des expérimentations aux théories du discours Biarritz (Pays Basque, France) - Casino Bellevue - 14-15 novembre 2005 http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/sem05/ --- Symposium on the Exploration and Modelling of Meaning --- Semantika Solasaldiak: Ereduztatze eta Miatze --- Simposiom sus l’estudi del Sens : Exploracion e Modelisacion --- Simposium sobre el estudio del Significado: Exploración y Modelización --- Objectifs et problématique Le symposium international SEM se tiendra pour la première fois les 14 et 15 novembre 2005 à Biarritz (Pays Basque, France), à la suite de l’atelier international SPR (Sémantique, Pragmatique, Rhétorique) organisé du 10 au 12 novembre 2005 à Donostia-San Sebastián (Pays Basque, Espagne ; http://www.ehu.es/ilcli). Les symposiums SEM visent à confronter approches, données et théories, en linguistique descriptive, psycholinguistique et en sémantique formelle, en se focalisant chaque fois sur un thème spécifique de l’étude du sens. SEM-05 sera consacré à la segmentation et à l’organisation du discours. Son objectif est d’établir des liens entre différents domaines des recherches sur la construction et l’interprétation du discours. Certaines thématiques sont déjà largement reconnues et explorées, parmi lesquelles le rôle des relations de discours et la contribution de divers éléments linguistiques ou extra-linguistiques -connecteurs, adverbiaux anaphoriques, ...; connaissance du monde, principes pragmatiques- dans la détermination de ces relations, autant de moyens d’aborder la question de savoir comment le discours est «structuré», c’est-à-dire segmenté en unités liées les unes aux autres. D’autres questions émergentes ouvrent de nouvelles pistes pour les recherches sur la segmentation: c’est le cas, par exemple, de «l’encadrement du discours» qui examine des marqueurs linguistiques spécifiques dont la propriété est d’avoir une portée dépassant le cadre de la phrase. Sur ce terrain fertile, le symposium SEM-05 propose de comparer différentes perspectives: études descriptives en corpus, expérimentations psycholinguistiques et analyses dans le cadre des théories formelles du discours. Une attention particulière sera réservée aux marqueurs linguistiques qui jouent à la fois un rôle des points de vue de la structure du discours et de l’encadrement discursif, tels que les adverbiaux en position initiale de phrase et les connecteurs discursifs. Thèmes d’intérêt Cohérence du discours (approches cognitives/ expérimentales, descriptives et formelles) Marqueurs discursifs et particules discursives : connecteurs, modifieurs de phrases... Relations de discours et structure du discours Topiques discursifs et structure du discours Partition informationnelle et segmentation du discours Interface sémantique-pragmatique Actes de langage et structure du discours Structure du document et structure du discours Aspects cognitifs du traitement du discours Approches en corpus du discours Théories du discours : Théorie des Représentations Discursives Structurées, Encadrement du Discours, Théorie du Centrage, Théorie des Structures Rhétoriques, Interprétation comme Abduction, Structure du Discours comme Reconnaissance d’Intentions, Grammaires d’Arbres Adjoints Lexicalisées en Discours, Théories cognitives du discours, ... Conférenciers invités Nicholas Asher (Univ. of Texas, Austin) Michel Charolles (Univ. Paris 3 & Lattice-CNRS) Ted Sanders (Univ. Utrecht) Conditions de soumission Outre les conférences invitées, débats et tables rondes, le symposium fera la place à des contributions sélectionnées sur la base de leur qualité scientifique, leur pertinence vis-à-vis du thème principal ainsi que leur ouverture aux questions interdisciplinaires. Le comité de programme s’efforcera de maintenir un certain équilibre entre approches descriptives, formelles et expérimentales. Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des résumés étendus de 5 pages maximum (incluant la page de titre et la bibliographie), rédigés en anglais. Les normes de présentation sont les suivantes: papier A4; toutes les marges à 2,5 cm (exactement); police Times New Roman 12 pt; simple espacement. Ce format devrait correspondre à environ 500 mots pour une pleine page de texte. La page de titre (une page de titre séparée n’est pas nécessaire) doit inclure les informations suivantes: titre; noms des auteurs, appartenance et adresse courriel; résumé (bref: jusqu’à 5 lignes). Les articles, uniquement au format .pdf, seront soumis par courriel à l’adresse sem AT univ-tlse2 DOT fr Dates importantes 2 mai soumission des articles 20 juin notification de l’acceptation/rejet 15 septembre articles revus pour actes 10-12 novembre SPR-05 (Donostia-San Sebastián) 14-15 novembre SEM-05 (Biarritz) Publication Les résumés étendus des contributions sélectionnées seront disponibles sur le site Web avant la conférence. Une copie de ces résumés sera également distribuée aux participants durant le symposium. Inscription Il n’y a pas de droits d’inscription mais, pour des raisons d’organisation, il sera demandé aux participants de s’inscrire sur le site de SEM-05. L’inscription à SPR-05 n’est pas nécessaire pour pouvoir prendre part à SEM-05. Comité d’organisation Michel Aurnague (IKER-CNRS, Bayonne) Myriam Bras (Univ. Toulouse 2 & ERSS-CNRS) Anne Le Draoulec (ERSS-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 2) Jean-Luc Nespoulous (Univ. Toulouse 2 & Lab. Jacques Lordat-INSERM) Laure Vieu (IRIT-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 3 & LOA-ISTC-CNR, Trento) Comité de programme (*: à confirmer) Pascal Amsili (Univ. Paris 7 & Lattice/Talana-CNRS) Michel Aurnague (IKER-CNRS, Bayonne) Andrée Borillo (Univ. Toulouse 2 & ERSS-CNRS) Mario Borillo (IRIT-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 3) Myriam Bras (Univ. Toulouse 2 & ERSS-CNRS) Joan Busquets (Univ. Bordeaux 3 & ERSSAB-CNRS) Patrick Caudal (LLF-CNRS, Univ. Paris 7) Francis Corblin (Univ. Paris 4 & Institut Jean Nicod-CNRS) Francis Cornish (Univ. Toulouse 2 & ERSS-CNRS) Laurence Danlos (Univ. Paris 7 & Lattice/Talana-CNRS) Liesbeth Degand (Univ. Cath. Louvain) Ricardo Etxepare (IKER-CNRS, Bayonne) Marion Fossard (Univ. Toulouse 2 & Lab. Jacques Lordat-INSERM) Claire Gardent (LORIA-CNRS, Nancy) Hans Kamp (Univ. Stuttgart & IMS)* Kepa Korta (Univ. Basque Country & ILCLI, Donostia-San Sebastián) Jesus Mari Larrazabal (Univ. Basque Country & ILCLI, Donostia-San Sebastián) Anne Le Draoulec (ERSS-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 2) Philippe Muller (Univ. Toulouse 3 & IRIT-CNRS) Jean-Luc Nespoulous (Univ. Toulouse 2 & Lab. Jacques Lordat-INSERM) Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley (Univ. Toulouse 2 & ERSS-CNRS) Sophie Prévost (Lattice-CNRS, ENS) Laurent Prévot (LOA-ISTC-CNR, Trento) Joël Pynte (LPL-CNRS, Univ. de Provence, Aix en Provence) Antje Rossdeutscher (Univ. Heidelberg & IDF) Laurent Roussarie (Univ. Paris 8 & Structures Formelles du Lang.-CNRS) Laure Sarda (Lattice-CNRS, ENS) Wilbert Spooren (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam) Laure Vieu (IRIT-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 3 & LOA-ISTC-CNR, Trento) Rolf Zwaan (Florida State Univ.)* Contacts http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/sem05/ semuniv-tlse2fr Michel Aurnague IKER-CNRS, 28 rue Lormand, 64100 Bayonne, France Anne Le Draoulec ERSS, Maison de la Recherche, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 5 allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse cedex 9, France Equipes organisatrices ERSS (CNRS & Univ. Toulouse 2) IKER (CNRS, Univ. Bordeaux 3 & UPPA) IRIT (CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 3, INPT & Univ. Toulouse 1) Laboratoire Jacques Lordat (Univ. Toulouse 2 & INSERM) Avec le soutien de la Ville de Biarritz En partenariat avec SPR-05, 10-12 Novembre 2005 Donostia-Saint Sébastien: http://www.sc.ehu.es/ilcli GDR Sémantique et Modélisation: http://semantique.free.fr ________________________________________________________________________ Please circulate --- SEM-05 Call For Papers --- Please circulate Symposium on the Exploration and Modelling of Meaning (SEM-05) Connectives, discourse framing and discourse structure: from corpus-based and experimental analyses to discourse theories Biarritz (Basque Country, France) - Casino Bellevue 14-15 November 2005 http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/sem05/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 nathankutje9qKx at PHREAKER.NET Sun Feb 20 21:11:22 2005 From: nathankutje9qKx at PHREAKER.NET (Kathie) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:11:22 -0300 Subject: not answering calls anymore? Message-ID: ntvvoodoo.com/1 Doesn't Suzanne like skiing among the trees? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Elba.Goodson at AMADAMFG.COM Sun Feb 20 23:38:54 2005 From: Elba.Goodson at AMADAMFG.COM (Deana Rutherford) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:38:54 -0800 Subject: lowest rates in 45 years Message-ID: One of Hariri's senior bodyguards and officials at the American University in Beirut hospital confirmed Hariri's death to CNN. The hospital, which said it had seen another nine bodies and more than 100 injuries, said Hariri was dead on arrival. Former Economy Minister Basil Fuleihan, riding in the motorcade, was critically wounded, Reuters reported. Witnesses reported seeing at least 10 bodies on the scene of Monday's explosion, which caused widespread destruction. There has been no claim of responsibility for the blast. Hariri, 60, a multi-billionaire businessman who resigned from government last October, recently joined calls by the opposition for Syria to quit Lebanon in the run-up to general elections in May, Reuters reported. Hariri served as prime minister from 1992-98 and again from 2000 until his resignation after parliament amended the Lebanese constitution to extend Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud's term by three years. Lahoud had been set to leave office last November. At least six fires were burning in the immediate aftermath of the blast, which took place at shortly after 1 p.m. (1100 GMT). The powerful blast took place in front of the five-star hotels St. George and Phoenicia-Intercontinental in the Lebanese capital's famed Cornische overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Re'ove :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Wed Feb 23 08:32:57 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:32:57 +0100 Subject: [ln] Ecole: Eurolan 2005 Summer School - The Multilingual Web: Resources, Technologies, and Prospects Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:20:25 +0200 From: "Dan Cristea" Message-Id: <20050222091213.81050133ED at thor.info.uaic.ro> X-url: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005/ X-url: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm X-url: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" * Apologies for multiple postings! * **************************** First Call for Participation **************************** Seventh Biennial Summer School EUROLAN 2005 THE MULTILINGUAL WEB: RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGIES, AND PROSPECTS http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005/ July 25 - August 6, 2005 "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania A truly global society will rely heavily on access to information that can accommodate multiple cultures and languages. To enable this, researchers in language technology are developing resources and applications to support a multilingual web that will ensure the requisite trans-lingual capabilities. The EUROLAN 2005 summer school will provide two weeks of intensive study of the technologies and resources currently under development to support multilingual processing, as well as the applications that exploit them to enable multilingual access to information disseminated via the web. Internationally known scholars and researchers involved in leading-edge work in relevant areas will serve as professors at the school, giving half- and full-day seminars and hands-on labs to provide students with in-depth understanding and experience. Topics to be covered in the school include the following: - creation and exploitation of multilingual resources, including corpora, lexicons, wordnets, and ontologies; - multilingual alignment of syntax, semantics, discourse, and other language phenomena; - annotation of various phenomena in multiple languages, including word senses, time annotations, anaphora; - annotation transfer, enabling importing in new languages of knowledge encoded in the mark-up for English, etc.; - cross-lingual applications, including machine translation, information retrieval, extraction and summarization, document indexing, etc.; - the multilingual "knowledge web", its philosophy, state of the art, needs, and vision for the future. EUROLAN 2005 Professors (more to be announced): Branimir Boguraev, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University, Romania Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Martin Kay, Stanford University, USA Bernardo Magnini, IRST-ITC, Italy Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California, USA Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa, Canada Nicolas Nicolov, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK Marius Pasca, Google Inc., USA Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, USA Emanuele Pianta, IRST-ITC, Italy Oana Postolache, Saarland University, Germany Georgiana Puscasu, University of Wolverhampton, UK Michael Stollberg, DERI, Austria Valentin Tablan, University of Sheffield, UK Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Romania Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University, USA The venue of EUROLAN 2005 is Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the heart of Transylvania. An excursion to the medieval town of Sighisoara and Bran ("Dracula") Castle is planned for the weekend at the school's mid-point. Whatever the venue, the EUROLAN summer schools are well known for the degree of camaraderie that develops among students and professors alike - just ask any previous participant! Students in the school learn an enormous amount, but at the same time enjoy the warmth of new friendships with both fellow students and professors. Program Committee: Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania Satellite events: 1. Workshop on "Cross-Language Knowledge Induction" http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm Organized by: Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy Diana Zaiu Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada 2. to be announced Welcome to EUROLAN 2005! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Wed Feb 23 08:34:10 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:34:10 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, Verona, Italy Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:02:59 +0100 From: fomi Message-Id: X-url: http://www.loa-cnr.it/Files/fomi X-url: http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ *********************************************** REMINDER DEADLINE APPROACHING Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://www.loa-cnr.it/Files/fomi http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ June 9-10, 2005 Lazise, Lake of Garda, Verona (Italy) ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized by: - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento and supported by - Knowledgeboard - Knowledgeweb ******************************************************** Description =========== Modeling corporate knowledge is one of the most attractive themes in applied research and it has been an important motivation for several areas of investigations like distribute systems and knowledge management. Clearly, the business world considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same one. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Proceedings =========== A selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be reconsidered for publication in a special track of the international journal 'Applied Ontology' ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprise modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. ******************************************************** Important dates =============== Workshop: June 9-10, 2005 Deadline for paper submissions: March 4th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 4th, 2005 Camera ready submission: May 2nd, 2005 ******************************************************** Submission and Proceedings ========================== We invite two types of submissions in any of the topics of interest to the workshop: 1. Technical papers Maximum 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. 2. Short position papers Maximum 4 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for for the workshop. In particular, we insist the paper to be written for a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and published as proceedings. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format to Roberta Cuel at: cuel at sci.univr.it If electronic submission is not possible, please contact Roberta Cuel at ph +39-045-802-7908 (or at cuel at sci.univr.it) for further instructions. ******************************************************** Program Committee (to be completed) =================================== Chair Matteo Cristani (University of Verona -- cristani at univr.it) Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR, Italy -- guarino at loa-cnr.it) Stefano Borgo (LOA-CNR, Italy -- borgo at loa-cnr.it) Miltidias Lydras (Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece -- mdl at aueb.gr) York Sure (Institut AIFB Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany -- sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Paulo Leitao (Polytechnic Institute of Bragana, Portugal -- pleitao at ipb.pt) Wolfgang Maass (University St. Gallen, Switzerland - Wolfgang.Maass at unisg.ch) Roberta Cuel (University of Verona, Italy -- cuel at sci.univr.it) Francesco Bellomi (University of Verona, Italy -- bellomi at sci.univr.it) Roberta Ferrario (LOA ISTC-CNR, Italy -- ferrario at loa-cnr.it) ******************************************************** Please do not hesitate to contact any of the Organizing Committee members for further details. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 bmdllyih at BOARDERMAIL.COM Thu Feb 24 07:06:14 2005 From: bmdllyih at BOARDERMAIL.COM (Trinity Cassidy) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 02:06:14 -0500 Subject: No subject Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Mon Feb 28 08:54:41 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:54:41 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: Workshop NLP for Under-Resourced Languages, TALN05 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:23:05 +0100 (CET) From: "Chantal ENGUEHARD" Message-ID: <62318.193.251.227.210.1109254985.squirrel at 193.251.227.210> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/TALN05 =========================================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS for the Workshop NLP for Under-Resourced Languages Friday, 10 June 2005 in Dourdan, near Paris ============================================ Held in conjunction with the conference TALN 2005 (6-10 June 2005) http://www.limsi.fr/TALN05 Many languages have little or no information technology available: they have no substantial presence on the Internet, and existing software has not been adapted for their use. These are languages of countries in the developing world (e.g. Wolof in Senegal), or regional languages in countries where the first language is a global one (e.g. Breton in France). Linguistic work on these languages is often lacking, and must overcome a number of difficulties: - the presence of many lexical alternatives - multiple spellings for the same word, - the lack of exhaustive lexicons, - non-standardized transcription methods - etc. This is why we describe these languages as "under-resourced" or "pi-languages": for political and economic reasons they lack sufficient resources in terms of both linguistic study and information technology. The goal of this workshop is to provide a progress report on techniques being used for Natural Language Processing of under-resourced languages. THEMES Researchers are invited to present work related to any of the following topics: - Methods for measuring the level of technology available for a given language - Assessment of resources for basic computerization, and standardization of these resources (editors, virtual keyboards, printing, sorting, etc.) - Collection of corpora and other linguistic resources (lexicons, grammars); the role of the Internet, diasporas, unsupervised training algorithms - Methodologies for computerization of under-resourced languages (details of techniques) - Specific technologies (OCR, PDA) - Encoding of linguistic data (lexicons, morphology, syntax, and semantics) and genericity of formats. - Reports concerning the computerization of a particular language or group of pi-languages. - Architectures for NLP technologies : adaptation of existing technologies to pi-languages. - Surveys of major problems encountered in this area. SELECTION CRITERIA ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers concerning original research. All submissions will be examined by at least two specialists in the area. Particular attention will be paid to: - appropriateness for the themes of the workshop - importance and originality of the contribution - validity of the technical and scientific content - critical discussion of the results, in particular as they relate to other work in the field - organization and clarity of the presentation The selected articles will be published in the conference proceedings. METHODS OF SUBMISSION ------------------------------ * Submitted articles may not exceed 10 pages in Times 12, single-spaced (about 3000 words), figures, examples, and references included. Articles are to be written in French for French speakers and in English for non-French speakers. * A LaTeX style file and Word template file will be available from the conference web site http://www.limsi.fr/TALN05. * Articles must be submitted as an attachment to an email with the subject "atelier TALN soumission" and containing the title of the article, principal author's name, affiliation, postal address, email address, telephone number, and fax number. Send this email to chantal.enguehard@ univ-nantes.fr. * It is IMPERATIVE that one of the following file formats be used, formatted for A4 paper: PS, PDF, RTF (Word). * In case an email submission is not possible, paper submissions may be accepted. Send 3 paper copies of the article to the following address: Chantal Enguehard - TALN 2005 LINA 2, rue de la Houssinière BP 92208 44322 Nantes Cedex 03 France CALENDAR Submission deadline: Thursday, 10 March 2005 Notification to authors: Tuesday, 5 April 2005 Final version: Friday, 15 April 2005 Conference : Friday, 10 June 2005 PROGRAM COMMITTEE . Denis Béchet - Laboratoire d'Informatique Nantes-Atlantique . Vincent Berment - Laboratoire Communication Langagière et Interaction Personne-Système . Christian Boitet - Laboratoire Communication Langagière et Interaction Personne-Système . Malek Boualem - France Telecom . Marcel Diki-Kidiri - Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire . Chantal Enguehard - Laboratoire d'Informatique Nantes-Atlantique (President) . Laura Monceaux - Laboratoire d'Informatique Nantes-Atlantique . Kevin Scannell - Saint Louis University . 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On y traite plus particulièrement de la description de la syntaxe et de la semantique des langues dans lecadre de theories logiques, ainsi que de realisations informatiques basees sur de tels modèles. Session etudiante ------------------------ Une session etudiante est organisee pendant LACL05. Pour plus d'information, reportez-vous au site de cette session : http://lacl.labri.fr/student_session Inscription ------------ Les inscriptions pour LACL 2005 sont ouvertes. Vous pouvez acceder au formulaire d'inscription sur le site internet de la conference http://lacl.labri.fr/registration.html Le tarif de l'inscription preferentielle (inscription avant le 28 fevrier), est de 100 euros pour les étudiants et de 160 euros pour les autres participants. Voyage ----------- L'aeroport de Bordeaux est desservi par vols directs de Paris (Charles de Gaulle et Orly), Amsterdam, Londre Gatwick et plusieurs autres destinations Europeennes. Il existe egalement une gare TGV, desservie depuis Paris Montparnasse. Hebergement ------------------- Les informations pour l'hebergement seront mise en ligne sur le site internet de la conference http://lacl.labri.fr avant le 25 fevrier. Site de la Conference ------------------------------ LACL aura lieu dans la salle de conference du Musee d'Aquitaine, a quelques pas de l'arret de tramway `Musee d'Aquitaine' de la ligne B. Questions pratiques ---------------------------- Joan Busquets busquets at u-bordeaux3.fr Richard Moot moot at labri.fr Brigitte Larue-Bourdon +33 5 40 00 69 30 Dates importantes -------------------------- Date limite d'inscription preferentielle : lundi 28 fevrier 2005 Date limite denvoi des articles corriges : lundi 28 fevrier 2005 LACL conference : jeudi 28 - samedi 30 avril 2005 Conferenciers invites ---------------- Gerard Huet INRIA Futurs & Rocquencourt Ruth Kempson King's College, London Carl Pollard Ohio Statu University, Columbus, OH Programme Preliminaire ------------------- Bassam Haddad and Mustafa Yaseen `A Compositional Approach Towards Semantic Representation and Construction of Arabic' Nissim Francez `Lambek-Calculus with General Elimination rules and Continuation Semantics' Richard Zuber `More algebras for determiners' Anne Preller and Joachim Lambek `Categorical semantics for pregroup grammars' Allan Third `The Expressive Power of Restricted Fragments of English' Denis Bechet and Annie Foret `k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Grammars (without Product) Form a Strict Hierarchy of Languages' Claire Gardent and Yannick Parmentier `Large scale semantic construction for Tree Adjoining Grammars' Peter Ljunglof `A Polynomial Time Extension of Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammar' Marcelo da S. Correa and E. Hermann Haeusler `On the Selective Lambek Calculus' Areski Nait Abdallah, Alain Lecomte `On expressing vague quantification and scalar implicatures in the logic of partial information' David A. Burke, Kristofer Johannisson `Translating Formal Software Specifications to Natural Language. A Grammar-Based Approach' Erwan Moreau `Learnable classes of general combinatory grammar' Ryo Yoshinaka, Makoto Kanazawa `The Complexity and Generative Capacity of Lexicalized Abstract Categorial Grammars' Isabelle Tellier `When Categorial Grammar meet Regular Grammatical Inference' Denis Bechet, Alexander Dikovsky, Annie Foret `Dependency Structure Grammars' Roberto Bonato `Towards a Computational Treatment of Binding Theory' Benoit Crabbe `Grammatical Development with XMG' Benoit Sagot `Linguistic facts as predicates over ranges of the sentence' Djame Seddah and Bertrand Gaiffe `How to Build Argumental graphs Using TAG Shared Forest : a view from control verbs' Jens Michaelis and Hans-Martin Gaertner `A Note on the Complexity of Constraint Interaction: Locality Conditions and Minimalist Grammars' Joachim Niehren and Mateu Villaret `Describing Lambda Terms in Context Unification' Veit Reuer and Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger `Feature Constraint Logic and Error Detection in ICALL Systems' Evelyne Jacquey `Un cas de "polysemie logique"' John T. Hale and Edward P. Stabler `Strict Deterministic Aspects of Minimalist Grammars' ======================================================================= LACL 2005 site internet : http://lacl.labri.fr Apologies for multiple copies / please redistribute ************************************************** L A C L 2 0 0 5 Fifth International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics --- 28-29-30 april 2005, Bordeaux (France) http://lacl.labri.fr/ CNRS - INRIA - University of Bordeaux 1 & 3 ************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Early registration deadline: monday 28 february 2005 LACL conference series ---------------------- LACL-2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. Student Session ---------------------- A student session will be organize. For more informations, see our web site http://lacl.labri.fr/student_session Registration ------------ Registration for LACL 2005 is open. You can access the registration form from the LACL website http://lacl.labri.fr/registration.html Early registration fees, for participants registering before the 28th of february, are 100 euros for student and 160 euros for other participants. Travel ------ Bordeaux has an airport with direct flights from Paris (both Charles de Gaulle and Orly), Amsterdam, London Gatwick and several other major European destinations. There is also an hourly TGV service from Paris Montparnasse. Accommodation ------------- Information on accommodation will be posted on our website http://lacl.labri.fr before february 25th. Conference Site --------------- LACL will take place at the conference room of the Musee d'Aquitaine, a few steps away from the stop `Musee d'Aquitaine' of tramline B. Practical inquiries ------------------- Joan Busquets busquets at u-bordeaux3.fr Richard Moot moot at labri.fr Brigitte Larue-Bourdon +33 5 40 00 69 30 Important dates --------------- Early registration deadline : monday 28th february 2005 Camera-ready papers due : monday 28th february 2005 LACL conference : thursday 28th - saturday 30th april 2005 Invited speakers ---------------- Gerard Huet INRIA Futurs & Rocquencourt Ruth Kempson King's College, London Carl Pollard Ohio Statu University, Columbus, OH Preliminary Program ------------------- Bassam Haddad and Mustafa Yaseen `A Compositional Approach Towards Semantic Representation and Construction of Arabic' Nissim Francez `Lambek-Calculus with General Elimination rules and Continuation Semantics' Richard Zuber `More algebras for determiners' Anne Preller and Joachim Lambek `Categorical semantics for pregroup grammars' Allan Third `The Expressive Power of Restricted Fragments of English' Denis Bechet and Annie Foret `k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Grammars (without Product) Form a Strict Hierarchy of Languages' Claire Gardent and Yannick Parmentier `Large scale semantic construction for Tree Adjoining Grammars' Peter Ljunglof `A Polynomial Time Extension of Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammar' Marcelo da S. Correa and E. Hermann Haeusler `On the Selective Lambek Calculus' Areski Nait Abdallah, Alain Lecomte `On expressing vague quantification and scalar implicatures in the logic of partial information' David A. Burke, Kristofer Johannisson `Translating Formal Software Specifications to Natural Language. A Grammar-Based Approach' Erwan Moreau `Learnable classes of general combinatory grammar' Ryo Yoshinaka, Makoto Kanazawa `The Complexity and Generative Capacity of Lexicalized Abstract Categorial Grammars' Isabelle Tellier `When Categorial Grammar meet Regular Grammatical Inference' Denis Bechet, Alexander Dikovsky, Annie Foret `Dependency Structure Grammars' Roberto Bonato `Towards a Computational Treatment of Binding Theory' Benoit Crabbe `Grammatical Development with XMG' Benoit Sagot `Linguistic facts as predicates over ranges of the sentence' Djame Seddah and Bertrand Gaiffe `How to Build Argumental graphs Using TAG Shared Forest : a view from control verbs' Jens Michaelis and Hans-Martin Gaertner `A Note on the Complexity of Constraint Interaction: Locality Conditions and Minimalist Grammars' Joachim Niehren and Mateu Villaret `Describing Lambda Terms in Context Unification' Veit Reuer and Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger `Feature Constraint Logic and Error Detection in ICALL Systems' Evelyne Jacquey `Un cas de "polysemie logique"' John T. Hale and Edward P. Stabler `Strict Deterministic Aspects of Minimalist Grammars' ======================================================================= LACL 2005 web site: http://lacl.labri.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 thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Mon Feb 28 08:57:49 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:57:49 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: FINEXIN 2005 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:08:46 -0500 (EST) From: Stan Szpakowicz Message-Id: <200502261908.OAA18010 at kamla.csi.UOttawa.CA> X-url: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/workshop/workshop.html X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/format/typeinst.pdf X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/format/word.zip X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/format/llncs2e.zip X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/format/llncs.zip X-url: http://www.site.uottawa.ca:1093/finexin2005 X-url: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe/ X-url: http://www.bwl.univie.ac.at/bwl/org/Mitarbeiter/Vetschera/Vetscherae.html _________________________________________________________________ FINEXIN 2005 Workshop on the Analysis of Informal and Formal Information Exchange during Negotiations May 26-27, 2005 http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/workshop/workshop.html Second call for papers In the course of negotiations, the parties involved communicate in two fundamental ways. They normally hold informal discussions that help them reach an agreement. They also usually exchange formal offers. This general model applies to face-to-face and electronic negotiations as well. The medium of e-negotiations enables data collection on a scale not possible in classical face-to face negotiations. This two-day workshop will look at these two modes of information exchange. We will focus on the properties of informal discussions and formal offers, in particular on the analysis of text data related to negotiations. We would like to bring together researchers on negotiations, behaviour, language and computer science, to find ways of addressing and analyzing various aspects of negotiations. We invite the submission of original, previously unpublished papers that address the areas including, but not strictly limited to, the following. 1. Behaviour and Sentiment Analysis of Informal Communications in Negotiations. [NOTE: While the emphasis on analyzing negotiation data is desirable, it is not a strict requirement. (Footnote)] The topics of interest include: - sentiment analysis, - sentiment categorization, - detection of strategies in negotiations, - linguistic indicators of behaviour, - cultural influences in negotiations, - patterns in temporally organized data. 2. Analysis of Formal Offers. The topics of interest include: - preference elicitation, - utility functions in negotiation support systems, - assessment of negotiation processes and outcomes based on utility functions, - cultural, social and psychological influences on the use of negotiation support systems, - business models for e-negotiation services. The accepted papers will be printed in the workshop proceedings. The authors of the best papers on language analysis will be invited to submit their work to a special issue of the journal Computational Intelligence. The authors of the best papers on negotiation-related aspects of the workshop will be invited to submit their work to a special issue of the journal Group Decision and Negotiation. _________________________________________________________________ Venue School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada _________________________________________________________________ Important Dates asbtract submission March 18, 2005 paper submission March 21, 2005 notification April 25, 2005 camera-ready papers May 9, 2005 workshop May 26-27, 2005 _________________________________________________________________ Paper submission guidelines Paper submission deadline is March 18th. The papers submitted should have the length of at most 8 pages, and they should be formatted according to Springer LNCS instructions. Please submit PDF files! Do not include the authors' names and affiliations in the paper you submit! Every paper will be fully reviewed by several referees in a blind-review process. Please read the formatting instructions at and very carefully follow all the recommendations. * Microsoft Word users, please download the Word template and instructions: * LaTeX2e users, please download the LaTeX2e template and instructions: * LaTeX (old versions) users, please download the LaTeX template and instructions: Alternatively, you can consult Springer's formatting instructions at www.springeronline.com, click on Computer Science, click on the LNCS logo, click on Information for LNCS Authors and Volume Editors, click on Information for LNCS Authors. Refer to the next section for specific file names and more info. _________________________________________________________________ Paper submission _________________________________________________________________ Workshop Program May 26, 2005 May 27, 2005 Behaviour and sentiment Analysis of formal analysis offers 9:00 - 9:15 "Information, Negotiation and Research in the GDN Community" (Prof. Mel Shakun) 9:15 - 10:15 Invited talk Invited talk (Prof. Jan Wiebe) (Prof. Rudolf Vetschera) 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break Coffee break 10:30 - 12:30 Presentations Presentations 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Presentations Presentations 15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break Coffee break 15:45 - 17:30 Presentations Presentations _________________________________________________________________ Invited speakers Day 1: Janyce Wiebe Day 2: Rudolf Vetschera _________________________________________________________________ Program Committee Morad Benyoucef School of Management, University of Ottawa Jeanne Brett Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University John Carroll Department of Informatics, University of Sussex João Clímaco Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra William Cohen Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, Carnegie Mellon University Jamshid Etezadi John Molson School of Business, Concordia University Alexander Gelbukh Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou Department of Computer Science, Columbia University Diana Inkpen School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa Gregory Kersten John Molson School of Business, Concordia University Marc Kilgour Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University Sabine Köszegi Faculty of Business and Administration, Vienna University Vivi Nastase chool of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa Mareike Schoop Information Systems, University of Hohenheim Stefan Strecker John Molson School of Business, Concordia University Stan Szpakowicz School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa Simone Teufel Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge Tadeusz Trzaskalik Department of Operational Research, University of Economics at Katowice Peter Turney Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Rudolf Vetschera Faculty of Business and Administration, University of Vienna Janyce Wiebe Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh John Zeleznikow Faculty of Business and Law, Victoria University _________________________________________________________________ Fees and registration Regular $100 (CDN) Student $50 (CDN) _________________________________________________________________ Workshop co-chairs Vivi Nastase SITE, University of Ottawa Stan Szpakowicz SITE, University of Ottawa _________________________________________________________________ Our sponsors Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the University of Ottawa's School of Management and School of Information Technology and Engineering; Power Corporation of Canada. The workshop is organized with the cooperation of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Section on Group Decision and Negotiation. _________________________________________________________________ Footnote We work with a collection of text messages that accompany negotiations conducted with the Web-based Negotiation Support System Inspire. If you would like to experiment with this data, please read first this detailed description. If the data fit your needs, please contact Prof. Gregory Kersten, and make the subject of your message "INSPIRE dataset". _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Mon Feb 28 08:58:49 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:58:49 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: KRAQ05, IJCAI workshop, new submission deadline, April 1st Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:31:08 +0100 (MET) From: Patrick SAINT-DIZIER Message-Id: <200502241531.j1OFV8K02946 at cassiopee.irit.fr> !!!! IMPORTANT NOTICE !!!! KRAQ05, IJCAI workshop on: KNOWLEDGE and REASONING for ANSWERING QUESTIONS July 30th, Edinburgh, Scotland NEW submission DEADLINE: April 1st In order to better synchronize submissions with other events. See all details at: www.irit.fr/recherches/ILPL/kraq05.html or on the IJCAI05 web page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Mon Feb 28 09:00:35 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:00:35 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: SARA'2005, July 26-29 2005 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:44:07 +0100 From: Jean-Daniel Zucker Message-Id: X-url: http://sara2005.limbio-paris13.org CALL FOR PAPERS (Submissions due on March 1st 2005) SARA'2005 Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation Radisson SAS Airth Castle & Hotel,Stirlingshire Scotland July 26th-July 29th 2005 (just prior to IJCAI'2005) Submissions are due on March 1st, and may be either full papers or extended abstracts. Graduate students whose research involves techniques of abstraction, reformulation or approximation are highly encouraged to submit. Email your submission as a PDF attachment to sara_submission at limbio-paris13.org In the body of your email please include the paper's title, abstract, authors, and contact information. Full details about the submission requirements, and additional information about SARA'2005, may be obtained from the symposium home page: http://sara2005.limbio-paris13.org *** OVERVIEW *** SARA'2005 is an Artificial Intelligence symposium on all aspects of abstraction, reformulation, and approximation. Like past editions, SARA'2005 will offer stimulating technical presentations, insightful invited talks, and ample space for discussion. SARA'2005 will will be located in a wonderful location: Radisson SAS Airth Castle & Hotel, Stirlingshire, 20 minutes from Edinburgh (Scotland's capital city, one of the greenest and architecturally most beautiful cities in Northern Europe). To make it convenient for IJCAI-2005 attendees to participate in SARA, a bus will drive from the SARA to the IJCAI conference site the afternoon of July 29th. *** SUBMISSION *** Submissions are requested about all aspects of abstraction, reformulation and approximation (AR&A), including (but not limited to) the following topics: * New techniques for automatically constructing and selecting appropriate AR&A. * Methods for selecting which of several applicable AR&A techniques is best for a given problem. * Frameworks that unify and classify AR&A techniques. * Empirical and theoretical studies of the costs and benefits of AR&A. * Applications of AR&A to: search, constraint satisfaction, deterministic and probabilistic planning, theorem proving, logic programming, game playing , distributed data and knowledge bases, internet search and navigation, knowledge compilation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge reformulation, simulation, design, diagnosis and control of physical systems (including mobile robots), automatic programming, analogical reasoning, case-based reasoning, reasoning under uncertainty, reinforcement learning, machine learning, speed-up learning. * Fielded applications demonstrating the benefits of AR&A. *** FOR MORE INFORMATION *** Additional information may be obtained from the symposium home page at: http://sara2005.limbio-paris13.org Lorenza Saitta Jean-Daniel Zucker SARA-2005 co-chairs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Amparo.Enriquez at ABQMANOR.COM Mon Feb 28 11:10:40 2005 From: Amparo.Enriquez at ABQMANOR.COM (Summer Browning) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:10:40 -0800 Subject: 80% 0ff only today Message-ID: The 84-year-old pontiff was resting in a Rome hospital after doctors performed a successful operation to help the ailing pontiff breathe. 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 4 16:42:27 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:42:27 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, Verona (Italy) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:10:34 +0100 From: fomi Message-Id: <2F30582D-7474-11D9-9439-000393D26C34 at loa-cnr.it> X-url: http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ *********************************************** Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ June 9-10, 2005 Lake of Garda, Verona (Italy) ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized and supported by: - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento ******************************************************** Description =========== Modeling corporate knowledge is one of the most attractive themes in applied research and it has been an important motivation for several areas of investigations like distributed systems and knowledge management. Clearly, the business world considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same one. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Proceedings =========== A selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be considered for publication in a special track of the international journal 'Applied Ontology'. ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprise modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. ******************************************************** Important dates =============== Workshop: June 9-10, 2005 Deadline for paper submissions: March 4th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 4th, 2005 Camera ready submission: May 2nd, 2005 ******************************************************** Submission ========================== We invite two types of submissions in any of the topics of interest to the workshop: 1. Technical papers Maximum 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. 2. Short position papers Maximum 4 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for the workshop. In particular, we insist the paper to be written for a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and published as proceedings. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format to Roberta Cuel at: cuel at sci.univr.it If electronic submission is not possible, please contact Roberta Cuel at ph. +39-045-802-7908 (or at cuel at sci.univr.it) for further instructions. ******************************************************** Workshop Organising Committee ============================= Roberta Cuel (University of Verona -- cuel at sci.univr.it) Francesco Bellomi (University of Verona -- bellomi at sci.univr.it) Roberta Ferrario (LOA ISTC-CNR -- ferrario at loa-cnr.it) ******************************************************** Program Committee (to be completed) =================================== Chair Matteo Cristani (University of Verona -- cristani at univr.it) Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR, Italy -- guarino at loa-cnr.it) Stefano Borgo (LOA-CNR, Italy -- borgo at loa-cnr.it) Miltiadis Lytras (Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece -- mdl at aueb.gr) York Sure (Institut AIFB Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany -- sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Paulo Leit?o (Polytechnic Institute of Bragan?a, Portugal -- pleitao at ipb.pt) ******************************************************** Please do not hesitate to contact any of the Organizing Committee members for further details. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 4 16:45:33 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:45:33 +0100 Subject: [ln] Job: research positions 2005-4, Tarragona, Spain Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 05:52:23 +0100 From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Message-ID: <024a01c508e3$026b1de0$3200a8c0 at ibm13832> X-url: http://www.grlmc.com X-url: http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm Apologies for multiple posting! Please, pass the information to whom may be interested. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A few positions may be available starting in the Fall-Winter 2005 in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). The web site of the group (the host institute) is: http://www.grlmc.com or http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm ELIGIBLE TOPICS The eligible topics are the group's current or future research directions: - Formal language theory and its applications. - Bioinformatics. - Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology. - Language and speech technologies. - Formal theories of language acquisition. - Computational neuroscience. Other related fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong enough candidates for them. JOB PROFILE - Between 12 and 36 months long. - The positions are intended for top-level appointments, i.e. to attract world-class researchers. - Very experienced researchers are sought with outstanding past achievements in teaching and research. - Teaching at PhD level, research and student supervising are all expected. - The research subject should be of a leading edge and/or multidisciplinary nature. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS - There is no restriction on nationality or age, with the following two exceptions: (i) Spaniards are ineligible unless they have resided for at least 4 of the last 5 years outside the European Union. (ii) Non-Spaniards having resided in Spain for at least 4 of the last 5 years are ineligible. - Candidates must be working at present outside the European 25 Member States, Associated Candidate States (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey) or Associated States (Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland), and can not have resided for more than 1 year of the last 3 years in Spain. - Although there is no particular preference, European citizens working outside Europe at present are encouraged to apply. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - The financial size of a position (all included: salary, travel and mobility expenses, research management and overheads, equipment) will be in the interval 260,000-700,000 euros. The relations between the holder and the host institute will be governed by a specific agreement. - The holder will be hired under a work contract. EVALUATION PROCEDURE It will consist of 2 stages: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - a full proposal, to be evaluated by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until February 7, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-4" in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. For the preselected candidates, the deadline for the submission of the full proposal will be February 16, 2005. Directions, advice and support will be given to them by the host institute. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin at urv.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 4 16:47:32 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:47:32 +0100 Subject: [ln] Job: Stage, Japonais, Memodata Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:15:11 +0100 From: "dominique dutoit" Message-ID: Stage pour un ?tudiant connaissant le japonais. Alexandria est un service de dictionnaire mono et multilingue susceptible d'?tre install? librement sur n'importe quel site web. D?j? une dizaine de sites importants comme www.sekooya.com ont install? Alexandria. Vous pouvez trouver des informations sur Alexandria en consultant notre site web : www.memodata.com. Un organisme de traduction (fran?ais/anglais/japonais) est int?ress? par le fait d'acc?der ? ses ressources terminologiques ? travers Alexandria, aussi bien pour en faire b?n?ficier les membres inscrits de son propre site que pour en faire b?n?ficier la communaut? internet. A cette fin, il nous ont confi? un fichier comprenant 109.000 traductions. Le fichier comporte des marques grammaticales pour le japonais. Un autre fichier pr?cise la prononciation d'environ 200.000 noms propres. Nous acceptons d'int?grer ces donn?es dans Alexandria. Cependant, (1) certaines marques comprises dans ces fichiers sont assez obscures, (2) une ergonomie propre au japonais en langue source devra ?tre invent?e et (3) une int?gration maximale aux autres donn?es d'Alexandria (r?seau s?mantique multilingue) devra ?tre atteinte. L'ensemble d?finit un stage vari? au plan technique, et permettra ? un ?tudiant de confirmer ses connaissances ou de s'initier pratiquement ? des probl?mes de morphologie, de lexique multilingue et d'ergonomie. Id?alement le stage se d?roulera ? Caen. Cependant, une partie de travail pourra s'effectuer ailleurs, avec une liaison internet. Pour tout renseignement compl?mentaire: Dominique Dutoit t?l : +33 2 31 35 75 21 d.dutoit at memodata.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 4 16:49:54 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:49:54 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: FSMNLP 2005, Helsinki, Finland Message-ID: Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 05:19:33 +0200 From: Anssi Yli-Jyra Message-Id: X-url: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/events/FSMNLP2005 Call for papers ---------------------------------------------------------------- FSMNLP 2005 Workshop on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing ---------------------------------------------------------------- University of Helsinki, Finland 1 - 2 September 2005 http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/events/FSMNLP2005 Papers due: 25th April 2005 FSMNLP 2005 will be a forum for researchers working on applications of finite state methods (FSM) in natural language processing (NLP) or on the theoretical and implementation aspects of such finite-state methods that are relevant to NLP. The aim of the workshop is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community working on finite-state based models in language technology, computational linguistics, linguistics and cognitive science or on related methods in fields such as computer science and mathematics. TOPICS: We invite novel high-quality papers that are related to the themes including but not limited to: 1. NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods The topic includes but is not restricted to: - speech, sign language, phonology, hyphenation, prosody - scripts, text normalization, segmentation, tokenization, indexing - morphology, stemming, lemmatisation, information retrieval, spelling correction - syntax, POS tagging, partial parsing, disambiguation, information extraction - machine translation, translation memories, glossing, dialect adaptation - annotated corpora and treebanks, semi-automatic annotation, error mining, searching 2. Finite-state models of language With this more focused topic (inside 1) we invite papers on aspects that motivate sufficiency of finite-state methods or their subsets for capturing various requirements of natural language processing. The topic includes but is not restricted to: - performance, linguistic applicability, finite-state hypotheses - Zipf's law and coverage, model checking against finite corpora - regular approximations under parameterized complexity, limitations and definitions of relevant complexities such as ambiguity, recursion, crossings, rule applications, constraint violations, reduplication, exponents, discontinuity, path-width, and induction depth - similarity inferences, dissimilation, segmental length, counter-freeness, asynchronous machines - garden-path sentences, deterministic parsing, expected parses, Markov chains - incremental parsing, uncertainty, reliability/variance in stochastic parsing, linear sequential machines 3. Practices for building lexical transducers for the world's languages. The topic accounts for usability of finite-state methods in NLP. It includes but is not restricted to: - required user training and consultation, learning curve of non-specialists - questionnaires, discovery methods, adaptive computer-aided glossing and interlinearization - example-based grammars, semi-automatic learning, user-driven learning (see topic 6 too) - low literacy level and restricted availability of training data, writing systems/phonology under development, new non-Roman scripts - linguist's workbenches, stealth-to-wealth parser development - endangered languages, experiences of using existing tools for computational morphology and phonology 4. Specification and implementation of sets, relations and multiplicities in NLP using finite automata The topic includes but is not restricted to: - regular rule formalisms, grammar systems, expressions, operations, closure properties, complexities - algorithms for compilation, approximation, manipulation, optimization, and lazy evaluation of finite machines - finite string and tree automata, transducers, morphisms and bimorphisms - weights, registers, multiple tapes, alphabets, state covers and partitions, representations - locality, constraint propagation, star-free languages, data vs. query complexity - logical specification, MSO(SLR,matches), FO(Str,<), LTL, generalized restriction, local grammars 5. Constraint-based grammars and k-ary regular relations With this more focused topic (inside 4) we invite researchers from related fields (computational linguists, mathematicians and computer scientists) into discussion that is motivated by constraint-based, declarative approaches to morphology/phonology and computational problems related to them. For example, regular relations in general are not closed under intersection, but restricted use of intersection or relations have proven useful in computational phonology and morphology, and their implementations such as KIMMO, PC-KIMMO, TWOLC, SEMHE, AMAR, WFSC, etc. In the future, new useful approaches and implementations may come up. The approaches may also propagate to other application areas in natural language processing, including finite-state syntax and query languages for parallel annotations in linguistic corpora. The topic includes but is not restricted to: - multi-tape automata, same-length relations and partition-based morphology, Semitic morphology - autosegmental phonology, shuffle, trajectories, synchronization, segmental anchoring, alignment constraints, syllable structure, partial-order reductions - problems related to auto-intersection of multi-tape automata e.g. marked Post Correspondence Problem - varieties of regular languages and relations, descriptive complexity of finite-state based grammars - automaton-based approaches to declarative constraint grammars, constraints in optimality theory - parallel corpus annotations, register automata, acyclic timed automata 6. Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language This topic includes but is not restricted to: - learning regular rule systems, learning topologies of finite automata and transducers - parameter estimation and smoothing, lexical openness - computer-driven grammar writing, user-driven grammar learning, discovery procedures - data scarcity, realistic variations of Gold's model, learnability and cognitive science - incompletely specified finite-state networks - model-theoretic grammars, gradient well/ill-formedness 7. Finite-state manipulation software (with relevance to the above themes) This topic includes but is not restricted to - regular expression pre-compilers such as regexopt, xfst2fsa, standards and interfaces for finite-state based software components, conversion tools - tools such as LEXC, Lextools, Intex, XFST, FSM, GRM, WFSC, FIRE Engine, FADD, FSA/UTR, SRILM, FIRE Station and Grail - free software such as FSA Utilities, Unitex, OpenFIRE, Vaucanson, SFST, PCKIMMO, MONA, Hopskip, ASTL, UCFSM, HaLeX, SML, and WFST - results obtainable with such exploration tools as automata, Autographe, Amore, and TESTAS - visualization tools such as Graphviz and Vaucanson-G - language-specific resources and descriptions, freely available benchmarking resources The descriptions of the topics above are not meant to be complete. The submitted papers or abstracts may fall in several categories. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper/poster submissions due: 25th April Notifications sent out: 25th May Deadline for early registration: 10th June Abstracts for software demos due: 10th June Camera-ready papers due: 20th June SUBMISSIONS: We expect three kinds of submissions: 1. full papers, 2. interactive presentations (posters) and 3. software demos. Please visit the workshop home page for further details. PROCEEDINGS: The final versions of papers and abstracts will be published both online and/or on CD-ROM (with an official ISBN number), as well as a technical report if there are many participants who would like to have printed proceedings. RESERVING A JOURNAL ISSUE: We are planning to reserve a journal issue so that selected papers could be invited for submission for a special issue of an international journal. After earlier FSMNLP and similar workshops, the following special issues have been published: * Natural Language Engineering 2(4), 1996 based on Extended Finite State Models of Language 1996 * Natural Language Engineering, 9(1), 2003 based on FSMNLP 2001 * Machine Translation 18(3), 2003 based on FSMNLP 2003 Currently, we cannot say whether a similar special issue will be realized this time or not. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia) Francisco Casacuberta (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain) Jean-Marc Champarnaud (Universit? de Rouen, France) Jan Daciuk (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Tero Harju (University of Turku, Finland) Arvi Hurskainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Juhani Karhum?ki (University of Turku, Finland, co-chair) Lauri Karttunen (PARC and Stanford University, USA, co-chair) Andr? Kempe (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) George Anton Kiraz (Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, USA) Andras Kornai (Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary) Terence Langendoen (University of Arizona, USA) Eric Laporte (Universit? de Marne-la-Vall?e, France) Mike Maxwell (Linguistic Data Consortium, USA) Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey) James Rogers (Earlham College, USA) Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy) Jean-Eric Pin (CNRS/University Paris 7, France) Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy) Jacques Sakarovitch (CNRS/ENST, France) Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Nathan Vaillette (University of T?bingen, Germany) Atro Voutilainen (Connexor, Finland) Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel) Sheng Yu (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) ORGANIZATION: The workshop will take place in the University of Helsinki. The organizing institution is the Department of General Linguistics in the University of Helsinki. The local committee is headed by Anssi Yli-Jyr? at CSC -- Scientific Computing Ltd. The workshop is a follow-up for some earlier workshops, but also continues their dynamic, changing tradition. These workshops and courses are under different names and time intervals: * 1996: course on Finite-State Techniques in NLP (Groningen) * 1996: ECAI workshop: Extended Finite-State Models of Language (Budapest) * 1998: Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing (Ankara) * 2001: ESSLLI workshop: Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing (Helsinki) * 2003: EACL workshop: Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing (Budapest) * 2005: Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (Helsinki) FSMNLP workshops have traditionally had tutorial lessons and/or invited speakers. CO-LOCATED EVENTS: There are initial thoughts about a national, one-day workshop on Automata, Words and Languages (AWL) that would take place in Helsinki just before FSMNLP. 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Message-id: <420769A8.5000203 at uni-bielefeld.de> X-url: http://www.constraints-in-discourse.de Please apologize cross-postings Workshop on Constraints in Discourse 3-5 June, 2005 Dortmund, Germany http://www.constraints-in-discourse.de For a long time, the development of precise frameworks of discourse interpretation has been hampered by the lack of a deeper understanding of the dependencies between different discourse units. The recent 15 years have seen a considerable advance in this field. A number of strong constraints have been proposed that restrict the sequencing and attaching of segments at various descriptive levels, as well as the interpretation of their interrelations. Early, and very influential, work on the sequencing and ordering of discourse segments has been done by Grosz & Sidner (1986). One of the best-known of the constraints on sequencing and accessibility of expressions across sentence boundaries is the RFC (Right Frontier Constraint), often associated with a paper of Polanyi (1988). Other relevant constraints are, e.g. the CSC (Coordinate Structure Constraint, Ross 1967) or the recently expressed MDC (Maximal Discourse Coherence, Asher & Lascarides 2003) principle. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting recent research on constraints in discourse. The target areas include the recognition of discourse structure as well as the interpretation and generation of discourse in a broad variety of domains. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from diverse formal approaches, including but not limited to: - Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) - Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) - Tree Adjoining Grammars - The QUD Modell - Plan Based Reasoning - Abductive Reasoning - Gricean Pragmatics - Speech Act Theory We invite talks that further our theoretical understanding of the role of constraints in discourse, as well as empirical studies that shed light on their empirical validity. The conference is explicitly intended for discussion and comparison of theoretical accounts that lay the ground for applications. It is not intended as a platform for system demonstrations. Specific topics might relate to - Anaphora Resolution - Co-reference - Dialogical vs. Monological Discourse - Questions and Answers - Lexicon and Discourse Relations - Cognitive Modeling - Underspecification and Nonmonotonic Inferences etc. The organisers are planning to publish a selection of the results of the workshop either as a special issue of a journal or as a book. Publication (and workshop) language is English The workshop is endorsed by SIGdial, the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, and SIGsem, the Special Interest Group on Semantics, of ACL. Invited Speakers ================ Nicholas Asher, Univ. of Texas (Austin), USA Claire Gardent, LORIA/CNRS, France Barbara Grosz, Harvard Univ., USA Livia Polanyi, Palo Alto Research Center, USA David Schlangen, Univ. Potsdam, Germany Paper Submission ================ Researchers interested in contributing a paper to the workshop are invited to submit an abstract that spans not more than 3 pages in PDF or PS (single column, 10pt font size, a4 paper, including a bibliography) using the form at the workshop website (http://www.constraints-in-discourse.de). Reviews will be done blindly; the abstracts may accordingly not include explicit hints that allow the identification of the authors (such as "in paper (...) we show that"). Important Dates =============== Conf: 3-5 June, 2005 Deadline for Submissions: 1 March, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: 1 April, 2005 Final Abstracts due: 15 May, 2005 Program Committee ================= Nicholas Asher, Univ. of Texas (Austin) Anton Benz, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Kolding Kurt Eberle, Lingenio GmbH, Germany Claire Gardent, LORIA/CNRS, France Barbara Grosz, Harvard Univ., USA Anke Holler, Ruprecht-Karls-Univ., Germany Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany Livia Polanyi, Palo Alto Research Center Claudia Sassen, Univ. Dortmund, Germany David Schlangen, Univ. Potsdam, Germany Organisation ============ Organisation Committee: Anton Benz, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Kolding Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany Claudia Sassen, Univ. Dortmund, Germany Local Organisation: Claudia Sassen (claudia.sassen at uni-dortmund.de) Coordinates =========== The workshop will take place from 3-5 June, 2005. It will be hosted by the University of Dortmund, Germany. Dortmund is situated in the Eastern region of the Ruhrgebiet and can easily be reached via car, airplane or train. The venue will be Haus Bommerholz, the conference center of Univ. Dortmund. Fees ==== We thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG = German NSF) for the funding. Their support allows us to keep the fees generally low. The fees (including coffee breaks and lunch) are People from countries with weak economy: free Students, including PhD students: EUR 25 Other participants from Academia: EUR 85 Participants from commercial enterprises: EUR 170 -- http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Feb 8 09:04:30 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:04:30 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: Journee ATALA, Traitement automatique des langues anciennes, Second appel Message-ID: Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:48:27 +0000 From: ROSMORDUC Serge Message-ID: <4203B56B.2050002 at iut.univ-paris8.fr> X-url: http://www.atala.org/je/je.html Second appel ? contributions pour la journ?e de l'Atala Traitement automatique des langues anciennes, le 21 mai 2005 ? Paris. Organisateurs: Remo Mugnaioni (institut de recherche et d'?tude du monde Arabe et Musulman, Universit? de Provence), Serge Rosmorduc (?quipe langue et litt?rature de l'?gypte ancienne, ?PH?). Objectifs Apparu ? la fin des ann?es 50, tout d'abord dans une optique de traduction automatique, le traitement automatique du langage naturel (TAL) a assez t?t fait l'objet d'applications dans les langues anciennes, en particulier dans le domaine de l'analyse morphologique et pour la r?alisation de corpora ?lectroniques. Depuis une quinzaine d'ann?es, avec la g?n?ralisation de l'outil informatique et d'internet, les applications du TAL au sens large du terme se multiplient dans les disciplines philologiques. La pr?sente journ?e d'?tude se propose de faire un tour d'horizon de ces pratiques. Th?mes essentiels - Analyse morphologique et/ou syntaxique automatique des langues anciennes ; - Corpus informatiques (constitution du corpus, recherches, et exploitation du corpus), comme par exemple le projet Perseus ; - Dictionnaires ; - Codage des langues ancienne (d?finition du signe d'?criture, repr?sentation du texte) ; - XML, TEI et langues anciennes (formalismes XML pour repr?senter les documents anciens, structuration de corpus en XML, DTD ou sch?mas pour les dictionnaires) ; - acquisition de textes, OCR, et langues anciennes (reconnaissance de caract?res, recherche de mots dans des documents scann?s, liens entre corpus d'images et corpus structur?s) ; - le TAL comme outil pour le philologue (emploi effectif de techniques de TAL en philologie, segmentation, lemmatisation) ; - TAL et p?dagogie des langues anciennes ; - ... Organisation Communications : nous proposons une gamme de participation : expos?s standard (30mn de pr?sentation, proposition sur 2 pages), notes de projet, pour un travail en cours (15mn, texte de 1 page), propositions de d?mo (1 page). Communications ? envoyer ? Serge Rosmorduc (rosmord at iut.univ-paris8.fr). Textes en fran?ais pour les francophones, ouvert aux participants de tous pays (anglais autoris?). Commit? de lecture : Joseph Denooz (LASLA, Li?ge), Remo Mugnaioni, Serge Rosmorduc. Dates importantes: Soumissions jusqu'au 9 avril Notification aux auteurs : le 15 avril Pour tout renseignement compl?mentaire, contacter S. 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 11 16:47:11 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:47:11 +0100 Subject: [ln] Job: Stage pour un etudiant connaissant le francais et l'anglais Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:50:08 +0100 From: "dominique dutoit" Message-ID: Objet: [ln]Stage pour un etudiant connaissant le francais et l'anglais. Alexandria est un service de dictionnaire mono et multilingue susceptible d'etre installe librement sur n'importe quel site web. Deja une dizaine de sites importants comme www.boolgum.fr ont installe Alexandria. Vous pouvez trouver des informations sur Alexandria en consultant notre site web : www.memodata.com. Notre collaboration internationale nous amene a renforcer une convergence entre nos travaux (autour du Dictionnaire Integral) et de WordNet (Universite de Princetone). Les modeles sont assez differents et de la tache resultera un enrichissement des deux "ontologies". Le stage, qui s'adresse a un etudiant interesse par la lexicologie mono et multilingue visera a : - exprimer en anglais certains concepts du dictionnaire integral - decouvrir des points de convergence supplementaires entre les deux structures et etablir des fusions locales. Le stage utiliser les outils d'administation de reseaux semantiques, graphes conceptuels et hypergraphes de la societe. Un memoire, a l'issue du stage, pourra refleter les difficultes rencontrees (bizarreries dans wordnet a faire corriger, bizarreries corrigees dans le dictonnaire integral, probleme du decoupage -traitement de la polysemie-, tiraillements entre terminologie, traduction et representation notionnelle etc. Le stage sera une tres bonne occasion pour faire un vaste tour d'horizon des problemes indiques ci-dessus. Pour tout renseignement complementaire: Dominique Dutoit tel : +33 2 31 35 75 21 d.dutoit at memodata.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 11 16:48:55 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:48:55 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: LOAIT Workshop, Bologna, Italy Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:21:19 +0100 From: "Jos Lehmann" Message-ID: <017701c51045$27e53dd0$81c01291 at Lehmann> X-url: http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait.html#top X-url: http://www.wogli.unibo.it/icail05/ X-url: http://vortex.uvt.nl/icail05ws/ ---------------------------------------------------------- --- Apologies for Multiple Postings - Please Circulate --- ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS LOAIT Workshop Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait.html#top June 6, 2005 Bologna, Italy held in conjunction with ICAIL-05 http://www.wogli.unibo.it/icail05/ == LOAIT Description In the last few years Legal Informatics (the study of methods for automating the treatment of legal information) has been significantly influenced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches. For instance, Machine Learning techniques have successfully been applied to problems of legal documents classification, legal information retrieval, legal knowledge discovery and extraction. As the use of these techniques becomes more widespread it also becomes clearer how to enhance their performances. One way of doing this is to employ structured (domain) knowledge in order to reduce complexity and support correct reasoning. Legal Ontologies are playing a crucial role in providing such knowledge at various levels of specificity and formality. The LOAIT workshop aims at offering an overview of theories and well-founded applications that combine Legal Ontologies and AI techniques. Similarly to past events organized in conjunction with ICAIL-97, Jurix 2001 and ICAIL-03 the LOAIT workshop will constitute a valuable opportunity for researchers and practitioners in AI, AI&Law, Legal Ontologies and related fields to discuss problems, exchange information and compare perspectives. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original completed work, work in progress, interesting problems, case studies or research trends related to one or more of the topics of interest listed below. Submitted papers will be refereed by two experts based on originality, significance and technical soundness. ==== == LOAIT Topics of Interest Topics of Interest include but are not limited to: Legal Ontologies and Natural Language Processing Legal Ontologies and Machine Learning for classification tasks Legal Ontologies for text categorization Legal Ontologies and the Semantic Web Legal knowledge discovery and organization by AI approaches Ontologies and legal standard modelling languages Ontologies of property rights, persons and organizations, legal procedures, contracts, legal causality, etc. Ontological views on models of legal reasoning (e.g. regulatory compliance, case-based reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, etc.) Multilingual and terminological aspects of regulatory ontologies Engineering of regulatory ontologies (e.g. conceptual analysis, representation, modularization and layering, reusability, evolution and dynamics, etc.) Experiences with projects and applications involving regulatory ontologies (e.g. legal knowledge based systems, legal information retrieval systems, e-government or e-commerce applications) Modeling legal norms, concepts, rules, cases, principles, values and procedures, methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems ==== == LOAIT Important Dates March 25, 2005: Paper submission April 25, 2005: Notification of acceptance May 10, 2005: Camera-ready paper June 6, 2005: Workshop ==== == LOAIT Submission & Registration Details Paper length: max. 14 pages Paper electronic submission: manuscript must be submitted in PS or PDF format at http://vortex.uvt.nl/icail05ws/ (create your account, select "Submit Paper" and choose "LOAIT Workshop") Paper camera ready format: instructions for camera ready papers to be announced on http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait.html#top Registration details on http://www.wogli.unibo.it/icail05/?page_name=reg ==== == LOAIT Organizers Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Rome, Italy Jos Lehmann jos.lehmann at istc.cnr.it Institute of Legal Information Theories and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR) Florence, Italy Maria Angela Biasiotti biasiotti at ittig.cnr.it Enrico Francesconi francesconi at ittig.cnr.it Maria Teresa Sagri sagri at ittig.cnr.it ==== == LOAIT Program Committee Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain Guido Boella, Universita' di Torino, Italy Daniele Bourcier, University of Paris, France Joost Breuker, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands Pompeu Casanovas, Department of Political Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy Mustafa Jarrar, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Guiraude Lame, Responsable des syst?mes d'information juridique, Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne & Ecole CERSA, Universit? Paris 2, France Laurens Mommers, Leiden University, The Netherlands Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna, Italy Daniela Tiscornia, Institute of Legal Information Theories and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR), Italy Andr? Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, United States of America Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands ==== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 11 16:52:45 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:52:45 +0100 Subject: [ln] Job: Stage pour un etudiant connaissant le japonais, Memodata Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:56:19 +0100 From: "dominique dutoit" Message-ID: Objet: [ln]Stage pour un ?tudiant connaissant le fran?ais et l'anglais. Alexandria est un service de dictionnaire mono et multilingue susceptible d'?tre install? librement sur n'importe quel site web. D?j? une dizaine de sites importants comme www.boolgum.fr ont install? Alexandria. Vous pouvez trouver des informations sur Alexandria en consultant notre site web : www.memodata.com. Notre collaboration internationale nous am?ne ? renforcer une convergence entre nos travaux (autour du Dictionnaire Int?gral) et de WordNet (Universit? de Princetone). Les mod?les sont assez diff?rents et de la t?che r?sultera un enrichissement des deux "ontologies". Le stage, qui s'adresse ? un ?tudiant int?ress? par la lexicologie mono et multilingue visera ? : - exprimer en anglais certains concepts du dictionnaire int?gral - d?couvrir des points de convergence suppl?mentaires entre les deux structures et ?tablir des fusions locales. Le stage utiliser les outils d'administation de r?seaux s?mantiques, graphes conceptuels et hypergraphes de la soci?t?. Un m?moire, ? l'issue du stage, pourra refl?ter les difficult?s rencontr?es (bizarreries dans wordnet ? faire corriger, bizarreries corrig?es dans le dictonnaire int?gral, probl?me du d?coupage -traitement de la polys?mie-, tiraillements entre terminologie, traduction et repr?sentation notionnelle etc. Le stage sera une tr?s bonne occasion pour faire un vaste tour d'horizon des probl?mes indiqu?s ci-dessus. Pour tout renseignement compl?mentaire: Dominique Dutoit t?l : +33 2 31 35 75 21 d.dutoit at memodata.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From antonio1 at NTLWORLD.COM Sun Feb 13 17:44:02 2005 From: antonio1 at NTLWORLD.COM (Britney Knapp) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:44:02 -0800 Subject: noprescription u.s pharm 8o% off Message-ID: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has met with Hamas leaders to urge the militant group to abide by a cease-fire with Israel. 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Hariri, 60, a multi-billionaire businessman who resigned from government last October, recently joined calls by the opposition for Syria to quit Lebanon in the run-up to general elections in May, Reuters reported. Hariri served as prime minister from 1992-98 and again from 2000 until his resignation after parliament amended the Lebanese constitution to extend Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud's term by three years. Lahoud had been set to leave office last November. At least six fires were burning in the immediate aftermath of the blast, which took place at shortly after 1 p.m. (1100 GMT). The powerful blast took place in front of the five-star hotels St. George and Phoenicia-Intercontinental in the Lebanese capital's famed Cornische overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Re'ove :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: inh.gif Type: image/gif Size: 14252 bytes Desc: not available URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Feb 15 12:04:26 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:04:26 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: RANLP 2005, Workshop Modern Approaches in Translation Technologies Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:17:47 +0100 From: Cristina Vertan Message-Id: X-url: http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/view/RANLPMT2005/WebHome X-url: http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005/ X-url: http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~cri FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** apologize for multiple postings *** International Workshop Modern Approaches in Translation Technologies (http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/view/RANLPMT2005/WebHome) - Workshop in conjunction with the international Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing- RANLP 2005"- (http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005/) In the current globalized communications scene, both machine and computer-aided translation have become key technologies. Indeed, a recent survey regarding ten emerging technologies that will change the world, placed Machine Translation at the leading number one position. It is expected that with the increased number of official languages in Europe, and the continuing growth of non-English Internet resources, machine translation and computer-aided translation systems will become indispensable tools in everyday work. Machine Translation is a complex scientific task involving almost every aspect of natural language processing. Following the developments in language technology, during the last 10 years, corpus-based approaches to machine translation (statistical or example-based) tried, and partially succeeded to replace traditional rule-based approaches. The main advantage of corpus-based machine translation systems is that they are self-customising in the sense that they can learn the translations of terminology and even stylistic phrasing from previously translated materials. However, after a first enthusiastic period it turned out that pure corpus-based methods also have limitations, which can only be overcome by introducing linguistic knowledge. Therefore current research focuses on hybrid methods, combining data-driven (corpus) and rule-driven methods. On the other hand, more practical CAT applications such as translation memories and bilingual concordancers along with the extensive use of electronic dictionaries and term tools/banks, emerged as popular, vital tools for professional translators. The current workshop aims to bring together researchers working in machine and machine-aided translation. The workshop will alternate paper presentations with panel discussions. Main topics of interest are: o Hybrid approaches to machine translation o Recent advances in machine aided translation o Evaluation of MT and CAT systems o Impact of Semantic Web activities on MT and CAT systems. o Tools for professional translators We welcome original papers related (but not limited) to one or more of the following topics: o Learning from parallel aligned corpora o Integration of statistical and example-based approaches o Statistical support for rule-based machine translation o Dynamic combination of example-based machine translation or translation memories with rule-based approaches o Template learning in example based machine translation o Integration of Termbases, Translation Memories, and Parallel Corpora o Evaluation criteria for MT and CAT systems o Usage of semantic web-ontologies for machine translation o Usage of semantic web annotations in corpus-based machine translation o Perspectives of grid technologies for MT and CAT systems. o Practical MT systems (MT for professionals, MT for multilingual eCommerce, MT for localization o Automatic and semiautomatic acquisition of bilingual and multilingual lexica o Practical CAT tools (Translation memories, bilingual concordancers, terminology tools and resources) o Use of corpora in translation We also encourage demonstrations of developed tools. Submissions for a demonstration session should include a 2 page demo-note describing the system-architecture and performance as well as technical requirements. Workshop organisers : Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg) John Hutchins (EAMT) Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) Programme Committee includes: Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Science) Michael Carl (Institut f?r Applied Information Research, Saarbr?cken) Chris Callison-Burch (Linear B/ University of Edinburgh) Yves Champollion (Wordfast) Daniel Grasmick (SAP, Germany) Walther von Hahn (organiser) (University of Hamburg) John Hutchins (organiser) (EAMT) Susanne Jekat (Technical University Winterthur) Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Paola Monachesi (UIL/OTS - University of Utrecht) Andrea Mulloni (Interlanguage Ltd./ University of Wolverhampton) Victor Pekar (University of Wolverhampton.) Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic, Budapest) Harold Somers (University of Manchester) Cristina Vertan (Organiser) (University of Hamburg) Andy Way (Dublin City University) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Deadlines: Paper Submission 1st June 2005 Notification of acceptance 15 July 2005 Camera Ready Papers 10th August 2005 Workshop 24 September 2005 Submission guidelines Submissions should be A4, one-column format and should not exceed seven pages, including cover page, figures, tables and references. Times New Roman 12 font is preferred. The first page should state the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Continue with the first section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in **PDF** format to cri at nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de . Each paper will be reviewed by up to three members of the program committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding camera-ready versions Parallel submissions to the main conference and the workshop are allowed but the review process will be coordinated. Please declare this in the notification form. -- Dr. Cristina Vertan Natural Language Systems Division Computer Science Department University of Hamburg Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30 22527 Hamburg GERMANY Tel. 040 428 83 2519 Fax 040 428 83 2515 http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~cri ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beenie5cIg at MAILSHACK.COM Thu Feb 17 02:15:35 2005 From: beenie5cIg at MAILSHACK.COM (Fredrick G. Martiniere) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:15:35 -0100 Subject: Important news Message-ID: qoieuqoer.com Donna's daughter hasn't practiced playing yet. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Johnny.Hickey at ABS-LTD.COM Thu Feb 17 21:36:16 2005 From: Johnny.Hickey at ABS-LTD.COM (Eduardo Egan) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:36:16 -0800 Subject: as low as 2.00% fixed rates Message-ID: One of Hariri's senior bodyguards and officials at the American University in Beirut hospital confirmed Hariri's death to CNN. The hospital, which said it had seen another nine bodies and more than 100 injuries, said Hariri was dead on arrival. Former Economy Minister Basil Fuleihan, riding in the motorcade, was critically wounded, Reuters reported. Witnesses reported seeing at least 10 bodies on the scene of Monday's explosion, which caused widespread destruction. There has been no claim of responsibility for the blast. 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Communications ---- Faire circuler SVP Symposium sur l??tude du Sens : Exploration et Mod?lisation (SEM-05) Connecteurs, cadres discursifs et structure du discours : des analyses en corpus et des exp?rimentations aux th?ories du discours Biarritz (Pays Basque, France) - Casino Bellevue - 14-15 novembre 2005 http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/sem05/ --- Symposium on the Exploration and Modelling of Meaning --- Semantika Solasaldiak: Ereduztatze eta Miatze --- Simposiom sus l?estudi del Sens : Exploracion e Modelisacion --- Simposium sobre el estudio del Significado: Exploraci?n y Modelizaci?n --- Objectifs et probl?matique Le symposium international SEM se tiendra pour la premi?re fois les 14 et 15 novembre 2005 ? Biarritz (Pays Basque, France), ? la suite de l?atelier international SPR (S?mantique, Pragmatique, Rh?torique) organis? du 10 au 12 novembre 2005 ? Donostia-San Sebasti?n (Pays Basque, Espagne ; http://www.ehu.es/ilcli). Les symposiums SEM visent ? confronter approches, donn?es et th?ories, en linguistique descriptive, psycholinguistique et en s?mantique formelle, en se focalisant chaque fois sur un th?me sp?cifique de l??tude du sens. SEM-05 sera consacr? ? la segmentation et ? l?organisation du discours. Son objectif est d??tablir des liens entre diff?rents domaines des recherches sur la construction et l?interpr?tation du discours. Certaines th?matiques sont d?j? largement reconnues et explor?es, parmi lesquelles le r?le des relations de discours et la contribution de divers ?l?ments linguistiques ou extra-linguistiques -connecteurs, adverbiaux anaphoriques, ...; connaissance du monde, principes pragmatiques- dans la d?termination de ces relations, autant de moyens d?aborder la question de savoir comment le discours est ?structur??, c?est-?-dire segment? en unit?s li?es les unes aux autres. D?autres questions ?mergentes ouvrent de nouvelles pistes pour les recherches sur la segmentation: c?est le cas, par exemple, de ?l?encadrement du discours? qui examine des marqueurs linguistiques sp?cifiques dont la propri?t? est d?avoir une port?e d?passant le cadre de la phrase. Sur ce terrain fertile, le symposium SEM-05 propose de comparer diff?rentes perspectives: ?tudes descriptives en corpus, exp?rimentations psycholinguistiques et analyses dans le cadre des th?ories formelles du discours. Une attention particuli?re sera r?serv?e aux marqueurs linguistiques qui jouent ? la fois un r?le des points de vue de la structure du discours et de l?encadrement discursif, tels que les adverbiaux en position initiale de phrase et les connecteurs discursifs. Th?mes d?int?r?t Coh?rence du discours (approches cognitives/ exp?rimentales, descriptives et formelles) Marqueurs discursifs et particules discursives : connecteurs, modifieurs de phrases... Relations de discours et structure du discours Topiques discursifs et structure du discours Partition informationnelle et segmentation du discours Interface s?mantique-pragmatique Actes de langage et structure du discours Structure du document et structure du discours Aspects cognitifs du traitement du discours Approches en corpus du discours Th?ories du discours : Th?orie des Repr?sentations Discursives Structur?es, Encadrement du Discours, Th?orie du Centrage, Th?orie des Structures Rh?toriques, Interpr?tation comme Abduction, Structure du Discours comme Reconnaissance d?Intentions, Grammaires d?Arbres Adjoints Lexicalis?es en Discours, Th?ories cognitives du discours, ... Conf?renciers invit?s Nicholas Asher (Univ. of Texas, Austin) Michel Charolles (Univ. Paris 3 & Lattice-CNRS) Ted Sanders (Univ. Utrecht) Conditions de soumission Outre les conf?rences invit?es, d?bats et tables rondes, le symposium fera la place ? des contributions s?lectionn?es sur la base de leur qualit? scientifique, leur pertinence vis-?-vis du th?me principal ainsi que leur ouverture aux questions interdisciplinaires. Le comit? de programme s?efforcera de maintenir un certain ?quilibre entre approches descriptives, formelles et exp?rimentales. Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des r?sum?s ?tendus de 5 pages maximum (incluant la page de titre et la bibliographie), r?dig?s en anglais. Les normes de pr?sentation sont les suivantes: papier A4; toutes les marges ? 2,5 cm (exactement); police Times New Roman 12 pt; simple espacement. Ce format devrait correspondre ? environ 500 mots pour une pleine page de texte. La page de titre (une page de titre s?par?e n?est pas n?cessaire) doit inclure les informations suivantes: titre; noms des auteurs, appartenance et adresse courriel; r?sum? (bref: jusqu?? 5 lignes). Les articles, uniquement au format .pdf, seront soumis par courriel ? l?adresse sem AT univ-tlse2 DOT fr Dates importantes 2 mai soumission des articles 20 juin notification de l?acceptation/rejet 15 septembre articles revus pour actes 10-12 novembre SPR-05 (Donostia-San Sebasti?n) 14-15 novembre SEM-05 (Biarritz) Publication Les r?sum?s ?tendus des contributions s?lectionn?es seront disponibles sur le site Web avant la conf?rence. Une copie de ces r?sum?s sera ?galement distribu?e aux participants durant le symposium. Inscription Il n?y a pas de droits d?inscription mais, pour des raisons d?organisation, il sera demand? aux participants de s?inscrire sur le site de SEM-05. L?inscription ? SPR-05 n?est pas n?cessaire pour pouvoir prendre part ? SEM-05. Comit? d?organisation Michel Aurnague (IKER-CNRS, Bayonne) Myriam Bras (Univ. Toulouse 2 & ERSS-CNRS) Anne Le Draoulec (ERSS-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 2) Jean-Luc Nespoulous (Univ. Toulouse 2 & Lab. Jacques Lordat-INSERM) Laure Vieu (IRIT-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 3 & LOA-ISTC-CNR, Trento) Comit? de programme (*: ? confirmer) Pascal Amsili (Univ. Paris 7 & Lattice/Talana-CNRS) Michel Aurnague (IKER-CNRS, Bayonne) Andr?e Borillo (Univ. Toulouse 2 & ERSS-CNRS) Mario Borillo (IRIT-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 3) Myriam Bras (Univ. Toulouse 2 & ERSS-CNRS) Joan Busquets (Univ. Bordeaux 3 & ERSSAB-CNRS) Patrick Caudal (LLF-CNRS, Univ. Paris 7) Francis Corblin (Univ. Paris 4 & Institut Jean Nicod-CNRS) Francis Cornish (Univ. Toulouse 2 & ERSS-CNRS) Laurence Danlos (Univ. Paris 7 & Lattice/Talana-CNRS) Liesbeth Degand (Univ. Cath. Louvain) Ricardo Etxepare (IKER-CNRS, Bayonne) Marion Fossard (Univ. Toulouse 2 & Lab. Jacques Lordat-INSERM) Claire Gardent (LORIA-CNRS, Nancy) Hans Kamp (Univ. Stuttgart & IMS)* Kepa Korta (Univ. Basque Country & ILCLI, Donostia-San Sebasti?n) Jesus Mari Larrazabal (Univ. Basque Country & ILCLI, Donostia-San Sebasti?n) Anne Le Draoulec (ERSS-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 2) Philippe Muller (Univ. Toulouse 3 & IRIT-CNRS) Jean-Luc Nespoulous (Univ. Toulouse 2 & Lab. Jacques Lordat-INSERM) Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley (Univ. Toulouse 2 & ERSS-CNRS) Sophie Pr?vost (Lattice-CNRS, ENS) Laurent Pr?vot (LOA-ISTC-CNR, Trento) Jo?l Pynte (LPL-CNRS, Univ. de Provence, Aix en Provence) Antje Rossdeutscher (Univ. Heidelberg & IDF) Laurent Roussarie (Univ. Paris 8 & Structures Formelles du Lang.-CNRS) Laure Sarda (Lattice-CNRS, ENS) Wilbert Spooren (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam) Laure Vieu (IRIT-CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 3 & LOA-ISTC-CNR, Trento) Rolf Zwaan (Florida State Univ.)* Contacts http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/sem05/ semuniv-tlse2fr Michel Aurnague IKER-CNRS, 28 rue Lormand, 64100 Bayonne, France Anne Le Draoulec ERSS, Maison de la Recherche, Universit? de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 5 all?es Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse cedex 9, France Equipes organisatrices ERSS (CNRS & Univ. Toulouse 2) IKER (CNRS, Univ. Bordeaux 3 & UPPA) IRIT (CNRS, Univ. Toulouse 3, INPT & Univ. Toulouse 1) Laboratoire Jacques Lordat (Univ. Toulouse 2 & INSERM) Avec le soutien de la Ville de Biarritz En partenariat avec SPR-05, 10-12 Novembre 2005 Donostia-Saint S?bastien: http://www.sc.ehu.es/ilcli GDR S?mantique et Mod?lisation: http://semantique.free.fr ________________________________________________________________________ Please circulate --- SEM-05 Call For Papers --- Please circulate Symposium on the Exploration and Modelling of Meaning (SEM-05) Connectives, discourse framing and discourse structure: from corpus-based and experimental analyses to discourse theories Biarritz (Basque Country, France) - Casino Bellevue 14-15 November 2005 http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/sem05/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 nathankutje9qKx at PHREAKER.NET Sun Feb 20 21:11:22 2005 From: nathankutje9qKx at PHREAKER.NET (Kathie) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:11:22 -0300 Subject: not answering calls anymore? 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Hariri, 60, a multi-billionaire businessman who resigned from government last October, recently joined calls by the opposition for Syria to quit Lebanon in the run-up to general elections in May, Reuters reported. Hariri served as prime minister from 1992-98 and again from 2000 until his resignation after parliament amended the Lebanese constitution to extend Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud's term by three years. Lahoud had been set to leave office last November. At least six fires were burning in the immediate aftermath of the blast, which took place at shortly after 1 p.m. (1100 GMT). The powerful blast took place in front of the five-star hotels St. George and Phoenicia-Intercontinental in the Lebanese capital's famed Cornische overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Re'ove :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Wed Feb 23 08:32:57 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:32:57 +0100 Subject: [ln] Ecole: Eurolan 2005 Summer School - The Multilingual Web: Resources, Technologies, and Prospects Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:20:25 +0200 From: "Dan Cristea" Message-Id: <20050222091213.81050133ED at thor.info.uaic.ro> X-url: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005/ X-url: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm X-url: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" * Apologies for multiple postings! * **************************** First Call for Participation **************************** Seventh Biennial Summer School EUROLAN 2005 THE MULTILINGUAL WEB: RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGIES, AND PROSPECTS http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005/ July 25 - August 6, 2005 "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania A truly global society will rely heavily on access to information that can accommodate multiple cultures and languages. To enable this, researchers in language technology are developing resources and applications to support a multilingual web that will ensure the requisite trans-lingual capabilities. The EUROLAN 2005 summer school will provide two weeks of intensive study of the technologies and resources currently under development to support multilingual processing, as well as the applications that exploit them to enable multilingual access to information disseminated via the web. Internationally known scholars and researchers involved in leading-edge work in relevant areas will serve as professors at the school, giving half- and full-day seminars and hands-on labs to provide students with in-depth understanding and experience. Topics to be covered in the school include the following: - creation and exploitation of multilingual resources, including corpora, lexicons, wordnets, and ontologies; - multilingual alignment of syntax, semantics, discourse, and other language phenomena; - annotation of various phenomena in multiple languages, including word senses, time annotations, anaphora; - annotation transfer, enabling importing in new languages of knowledge encoded in the mark-up for English, etc.; - cross-lingual applications, including machine translation, information retrieval, extraction and summarization, document indexing, etc.; - the multilingual "knowledge web", its philosophy, state of the art, needs, and vision for the future. EUROLAN 2005 Professors (more to be announced): Branimir Boguraev, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University, Romania Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Martin Kay, Stanford University, USA Bernardo Magnini, IRST-ITC, Italy Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California, USA Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa, Canada Nicolas Nicolov, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK Marius Pasca, Google Inc., USA Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, USA Emanuele Pianta, IRST-ITC, Italy Oana Postolache, Saarland University, Germany Georgiana Puscasu, University of Wolverhampton, UK Michael Stollberg, DERI, Austria Valentin Tablan, University of Sheffield, UK Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Romania Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University, USA The venue of EUROLAN 2005 is Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the heart of Transylvania. An excursion to the medieval town of Sighisoara and Bran ("Dracula") Castle is planned for the weekend at the school's mid-point. Whatever the venue, the EUROLAN summer schools are well known for the degree of camaraderie that develops among students and professors alike - just ask any previous participant! Students in the school learn an enormous amount, but at the same time enjoy the warmth of new friendships with both fellow students and professors. Program Committee: Dan Cristea, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania Satellite events: 1. Workshop on "Cross-Language Knowledge Induction" http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm Organized by: Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy Diana Zaiu Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada 2. to be announced Welcome to EUROLAN 2005! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Wed Feb 23 08:34:10 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:34:10 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, Verona, Italy Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:02:59 +0100 From: fomi Message-Id: X-url: http://www.loa-cnr.it/Files/fomi X-url: http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ *********************************************** REMINDER DEADLINE APPROACHING Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://www.loa-cnr.it/Files/fomi http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ June 9-10, 2005 Lazise, Lake of Garda, Verona (Italy) ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized by: - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento and supported by - Knowledgeboard - Knowledgeweb ******************************************************** Description =========== Modeling corporate knowledge is one of the most attractive themes in applied research and it has been an important motivation for several areas of investigations like distribute systems and knowledge management. Clearly, the business world considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same one. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Proceedings =========== A selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be reconsidered for publication in a special track of the international journal 'Applied Ontology' ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprise modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. ******************************************************** Important dates =============== Workshop: June 9-10, 2005 Deadline for paper submissions: March 4th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 4th, 2005 Camera ready submission: May 2nd, 2005 ******************************************************** Submission and Proceedings ========================== We invite two types of submissions in any of the topics of interest to the workshop: 1. Technical papers Maximum 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. 2. Short position papers Maximum 4 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for for the workshop. In particular, we insist the paper to be written for a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and published as proceedings. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format to Roberta Cuel at: cuel at sci.univr.it If electronic submission is not possible, please contact Roberta Cuel at ph +39-045-802-7908 (or at cuel at sci.univr.it) for further instructions. ******************************************************** Program Committee (to be completed) =================================== Chair Matteo Cristani (University of Verona -- cristani at univr.it) Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR, Italy -- guarino at loa-cnr.it) Stefano Borgo (LOA-CNR, Italy -- borgo at loa-cnr.it) Miltidias Lydras (Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece -- mdl at aueb.gr) York Sure (Institut AIFB Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany -- sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Paulo Leitao (Polytechnic Institute of Bragana, Portugal -- pleitao at ipb.pt) Wolfgang Maass (University St. Gallen, Switzerland - Wolfgang.Maass at unisg.ch) Roberta Cuel (University of Verona, Italy -- cuel at sci.univr.it) Francesco Bellomi (University of Verona, Italy -- bellomi at sci.univr.it) Roberta Ferrario (LOA ISTC-CNR, Italy -- ferrario at loa-cnr.it) ******************************************************** Please do not hesitate to contact any of the Organizing Committee members for further details. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 bmdllyih at BOARDERMAIL.COM Thu Feb 24 07:06:14 2005 From: bmdllyih at BOARDERMAIL.COM (Trinity Cassidy) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 02:06:14 -0500 Subject: No subject Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Hariri served as prime minister from 1992-98 and again from 2000 until his resignation after parliament amended the Lebanese constitution to extend Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud's term by three years. Lahoud had been set to leave office last November. At least six fires were burning in the immediate aftermath of the blast, which took place at shortly after 1 p.m. (1100 GMT). The powerful blast took place in front of the five-star hotels St. George and Phoenicia-Intercontinental in the Lebanese capital's famed Cornische overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Re'ove :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Mon Feb 28 08:54:41 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:54:41 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: Workshop NLP for Under-Resourced Languages, TALN05 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:23:05 +0100 (CET) From: "Chantal ENGUEHARD" Message-ID: <62318.193.251.227.210.1109254985.squirrel at 193.251.227.210> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/TALN05 =========================================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS for the Workshop NLP for Under-Resourced Languages Friday, 10 June 2005 in Dourdan, near Paris ============================================ Held in conjunction with the conference TALN 2005 (6-10 June 2005) http://www.limsi.fr/TALN05 Many languages have little or no information technology available: they have no substantial presence on the Internet, and existing software has not been adapted for their use. These are languages of countries in the developing world (e.g. Wolof in Senegal), or regional languages in countries where the first language is a global one (e.g. Breton in France). Linguistic work on these languages is often lacking, and must overcome a number of difficulties: - the presence of many lexical alternatives - multiple spellings for the same word, - the lack of exhaustive lexicons, - non-standardized transcription methods - etc. This is why we describe these languages as "under-resourced" or "pi-languages": for political and economic reasons they lack sufficient resources in terms of both linguistic study and information technology. The goal of this workshop is to provide a progress report on techniques being used for Natural Language Processing of under-resourced languages. THEMES Researchers are invited to present work related to any of the following topics: - Methods for measuring the level of technology available for a given language - Assessment of resources for basic computerization, and standardization of these resources (editors, virtual keyboards, printing, sorting, etc.) - Collection of corpora and other linguistic resources (lexicons, grammars); the role of the Internet, diasporas, unsupervised training algorithms - Methodologies for computerization of under-resourced languages (details of techniques) - Specific technologies (OCR, PDA) - Encoding of linguistic data (lexicons, morphology, syntax, and semantics) and genericity of formats. - Reports concerning the computerization of a particular language or group of pi-languages. - Architectures for NLP technologies : adaptation of existing technologies to pi-languages. - Surveys of major problems encountered in this area. SELECTION CRITERIA ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers concerning original research. All submissions will be examined by at least two specialists in the area. Particular attention will be paid to: - appropriateness for the themes of the workshop - importance and originality of the contribution - validity of the technical and scientific content - critical discussion of the results, in particular as they relate to other work in the field - organization and clarity of the presentation The selected articles will be published in the conference proceedings. METHODS OF SUBMISSION ------------------------------ * Submitted articles may not exceed 10 pages in Times 12, single-spaced (about 3000 words), figures, examples, and references included. Articles are to be written in French for French speakers and in English for non-French speakers. * A LaTeX style file and Word template file will be available from the conference web site http://www.limsi.fr/TALN05. * Articles must be submitted as an attachment to an email with the subject "atelier TALN soumission" and containing the title of the article, principal author's name, affiliation, postal address, email address, telephone number, and fax number. Send this email to chantal.enguehard@ univ-nantes.fr. * It is IMPERATIVE that one of the following file formats be used, formatted for A4 paper: PS, PDF, RTF (Word). * In case an email submission is not possible, paper submissions may be accepted. Send 3 paper copies of the article to the following address: Chantal Enguehard - TALN 2005 LINA 2, rue de la Houssini?re BP 92208 44322 Nantes Cedex 03 France CALENDAR Submission deadline: Thursday, 10 March 2005 Notification to authors: Tuesday, 5 April 2005 Final version: Friday, 15 April 2005 Conference : Friday, 10 June 2005 PROGRAM COMMITTEE . Denis B?chet - Laboratoire d'Informatique Nantes-Atlantique . Vincent Berment - Laboratoire Communication Langagi?re et Interaction Personne-Syst?me . Christian Boitet - Laboratoire Communication Langagi?re et Interaction Personne-Syst?me . Malek Boualem - France Telecom . Marcel Diki-Kidiri - Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire . Chantal Enguehard - Laboratoire d'Informatique Nantes-Atlantique (President) . Laura Monceaux - Laboratoire d'Informatique Nantes-Atlantique . Kevin Scannell - Saint Louis University . 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On y traite plus particuli?rement de la description de la syntaxe et de la semantique des langues dans lecadre de theories logiques, ainsi que de realisations informatiques basees sur de tels mod?les. Session etudiante ------------------------ Une session etudiante est organisee pendant LACL05. Pour plus d'information, reportez-vous au site de cette session : http://lacl.labri.fr/student_session Inscription ------------ Les inscriptions pour LACL 2005 sont ouvertes. Vous pouvez acceder au formulaire d'inscription sur le site internet de la conference http://lacl.labri.fr/registration.html Le tarif de l'inscription preferentielle (inscription avant le 28 fevrier), est de 100 euros pour les ?tudiants et de 160 euros pour les autres participants. Voyage ----------- L'aeroport de Bordeaux est desservi par vols directs de Paris (Charles de Gaulle et Orly), Amsterdam, Londre Gatwick et plusieurs autres destinations Europeennes. Il existe egalement une gare TGV, desservie depuis Paris Montparnasse. Hebergement ------------------- Les informations pour l'hebergement seront mise en ligne sur le site internet de la conference http://lacl.labri.fr avant le 25 fevrier. Site de la Conference ------------------------------ LACL aura lieu dans la salle de conference du Musee d'Aquitaine, a quelques pas de l'arret de tramway `Musee d'Aquitaine' de la ligne B. Questions pratiques ---------------------------- Joan Busquets busquets at u-bordeaux3.fr Richard Moot moot at labri.fr Brigitte Larue-Bourdon +33 5 40 00 69 30 Dates importantes -------------------------- Date limite d'inscription preferentielle : lundi 28 fevrier 2005 Date limite denvoi des articles corriges : lundi 28 fevrier 2005 LACL conference : jeudi 28 - samedi 30 avril 2005 Conferenciers invites ---------------- Gerard Huet INRIA Futurs & Rocquencourt Ruth Kempson King's College, London Carl Pollard Ohio Statu University, Columbus, OH Programme Preliminaire ------------------- Bassam Haddad and Mustafa Yaseen `A Compositional Approach Towards Semantic Representation and Construction of Arabic' Nissim Francez `Lambek-Calculus with General Elimination rules and Continuation Semantics' Richard Zuber `More algebras for determiners' Anne Preller and Joachim Lambek `Categorical semantics for pregroup grammars' Allan Third `The Expressive Power of Restricted Fragments of English' Denis Bechet and Annie Foret `k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Grammars (without Product) Form a Strict Hierarchy of Languages' Claire Gardent and Yannick Parmentier `Large scale semantic construction for Tree Adjoining Grammars' Peter Ljunglof `A Polynomial Time Extension of Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammar' Marcelo da S. Correa and E. Hermann Haeusler `On the Selective Lambek Calculus' Areski Nait Abdallah, Alain Lecomte `On expressing vague quantification and scalar implicatures in the logic of partial information' David A. Burke, Kristofer Johannisson `Translating Formal Software Specifications to Natural Language. A Grammar-Based Approach' Erwan Moreau `Learnable classes of general combinatory grammar' Ryo Yoshinaka, Makoto Kanazawa `The Complexity and Generative Capacity of Lexicalized Abstract Categorial Grammars' Isabelle Tellier `When Categorial Grammar meet Regular Grammatical Inference' Denis Bechet, Alexander Dikovsky, Annie Foret `Dependency Structure Grammars' Roberto Bonato `Towards a Computational Treatment of Binding Theory' Benoit Crabbe `Grammatical Development with XMG' Benoit Sagot `Linguistic facts as predicates over ranges of the sentence' Djame Seddah and Bertrand Gaiffe `How to Build Argumental graphs Using TAG Shared Forest : a view from control verbs' Jens Michaelis and Hans-Martin Gaertner `A Note on the Complexity of Constraint Interaction: Locality Conditions and Minimalist Grammars' Joachim Niehren and Mateu Villaret `Describing Lambda Terms in Context Unification' Veit Reuer and Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger `Feature Constraint Logic and Error Detection in ICALL Systems' Evelyne Jacquey `Un cas de "polysemie logique"' John T. Hale and Edward P. Stabler `Strict Deterministic Aspects of Minimalist Grammars' ======================================================================= LACL 2005 site internet : http://lacl.labri.fr Apologies for multiple copies / please redistribute ************************************************** L A C L 2 0 0 5 Fifth International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics --- 28-29-30 april 2005, Bordeaux (France) http://lacl.labri.fr/ CNRS - INRIA - University of Bordeaux 1 & 3 ************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Early registration deadline: monday 28 february 2005 LACL conference series ---------------------- LACL-2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. Student Session ---------------------- A student session will be organize. For more informations, see our web site http://lacl.labri.fr/student_session Registration ------------ Registration for LACL 2005 is open. You can access the registration form from the LACL website http://lacl.labri.fr/registration.html Early registration fees, for participants registering before the 28th of february, are 100 euros for student and 160 euros for other participants. Travel ------ Bordeaux has an airport with direct flights from Paris (both Charles de Gaulle and Orly), Amsterdam, London Gatwick and several other major European destinations. There is also an hourly TGV service from Paris Montparnasse. Accommodation ------------- Information on accommodation will be posted on our website http://lacl.labri.fr before february 25th. Conference Site --------------- LACL will take place at the conference room of the Musee d'Aquitaine, a few steps away from the stop `Musee d'Aquitaine' of tramline B. Practical inquiries ------------------- Joan Busquets busquets at u-bordeaux3.fr Richard Moot moot at labri.fr Brigitte Larue-Bourdon +33 5 40 00 69 30 Important dates --------------- Early registration deadline : monday 28th february 2005 Camera-ready papers due : monday 28th february 2005 LACL conference : thursday 28th - saturday 30th april 2005 Invited speakers ---------------- Gerard Huet INRIA Futurs & Rocquencourt Ruth Kempson King's College, London Carl Pollard Ohio Statu University, Columbus, OH Preliminary Program ------------------- Bassam Haddad and Mustafa Yaseen `A Compositional Approach Towards Semantic Representation and Construction of Arabic' Nissim Francez `Lambek-Calculus with General Elimination rules and Continuation Semantics' Richard Zuber `More algebras for determiners' Anne Preller and Joachim Lambek `Categorical semantics for pregroup grammars' Allan Third `The Expressive Power of Restricted Fragments of English' Denis Bechet and Annie Foret `k-Valued Non-Associative Lambek Grammars (without Product) Form a Strict Hierarchy of Languages' Claire Gardent and Yannick Parmentier `Large scale semantic construction for Tree Adjoining Grammars' Peter Ljunglof `A Polynomial Time Extension of Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammar' Marcelo da S. Correa and E. Hermann Haeusler `On the Selective Lambek Calculus' Areski Nait Abdallah, Alain Lecomte `On expressing vague quantification and scalar implicatures in the logic of partial information' David A. Burke, Kristofer Johannisson `Translating Formal Software Specifications to Natural Language. A Grammar-Based Approach' Erwan Moreau `Learnable classes of general combinatory grammar' Ryo Yoshinaka, Makoto Kanazawa `The Complexity and Generative Capacity of Lexicalized Abstract Categorial Grammars' Isabelle Tellier `When Categorial Grammar meet Regular Grammatical Inference' Denis Bechet, Alexander Dikovsky, Annie Foret `Dependency Structure Grammars' Roberto Bonato `Towards a Computational Treatment of Binding Theory' Benoit Crabbe `Grammatical Development with XMG' Benoit Sagot `Linguistic facts as predicates over ranges of the sentence' Djame Seddah and Bertrand Gaiffe `How to Build Argumental graphs Using TAG Shared Forest : a view from control verbs' Jens Michaelis and Hans-Martin Gaertner `A Note on the Complexity of Constraint Interaction: Locality Conditions and Minimalist Grammars' Joachim Niehren and Mateu Villaret `Describing Lambda Terms in Context Unification' Veit Reuer and Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger `Feature Constraint Logic and Error Detection in ICALL Systems' Evelyne Jacquey `Un cas de "polysemie logique"' John T. Hale and Edward P. Stabler `Strict Deterministic Aspects of Minimalist Grammars' ======================================================================= LACL 2005 web site: http://lacl.labri.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 thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Mon Feb 28 08:57:49 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:57:49 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: FINEXIN 2005 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:08:46 -0500 (EST) From: Stan Szpakowicz Message-Id: <200502261908.OAA18010 at kamla.csi.UOttawa.CA> X-url: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/workshop/workshop.html X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/format/typeinst.pdf X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/format/word.zip X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/format/llncs2e.zip X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/format/llncs.zip X-url: http://www.site.uottawa.ca:1093/finexin2005 X-url: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe/ X-url: http://www.bwl.univie.ac.at/bwl/org/Mitarbeiter/Vetschera/Vetscherae.html _________________________________________________________________ FINEXIN 2005 Workshop on the Analysis of Informal and Formal Information Exchange during Negotiations May 26-27, 2005 http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/workshop/workshop.html Second call for papers In the course of negotiations, the parties involved communicate in two fundamental ways. They normally hold informal discussions that help them reach an agreement. They also usually exchange formal offers. This general model applies to face-to-face and electronic negotiations as well. The medium of e-negotiations enables data collection on a scale not possible in classical face-to face negotiations. This two-day workshop will look at these two modes of information exchange. We will focus on the properties of informal discussions and formal offers, in particular on the analysis of text data related to negotiations. We would like to bring together researchers on negotiations, behaviour, language and computer science, to find ways of addressing and analyzing various aspects of negotiations. We invite the submission of original, previously unpublished papers that address the areas including, but not strictly limited to, the following. 1. Behaviour and Sentiment Analysis of Informal Communications in Negotiations. [NOTE: While the emphasis on analyzing negotiation data is desirable, it is not a strict requirement. (Footnote)] The topics of interest include: - sentiment analysis, - sentiment categorization, - detection of strategies in negotiations, - linguistic indicators of behaviour, - cultural influences in negotiations, - patterns in temporally organized data. 2. Analysis of Formal Offers. The topics of interest include: - preference elicitation, - utility functions in negotiation support systems, - assessment of negotiation processes and outcomes based on utility functions, - cultural, social and psychological influences on the use of negotiation support systems, - business models for e-negotiation services. The accepted papers will be printed in the workshop proceedings. The authors of the best papers on language analysis will be invited to submit their work to a special issue of the journal Computational Intelligence. The authors of the best papers on negotiation-related aspects of the workshop will be invited to submit their work to a special issue of the journal Group Decision and Negotiation. _________________________________________________________________ Venue School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada _________________________________________________________________ Important Dates asbtract submission March 18, 2005 paper submission March 21, 2005 notification April 25, 2005 camera-ready papers May 9, 2005 workshop May 26-27, 2005 _________________________________________________________________ Paper submission guidelines Paper submission deadline is March 18th. The papers submitted should have the length of at most 8 pages, and they should be formatted according to Springer LNCS instructions. Please submit PDF files! Do not include the authors' names and affiliations in the paper you submit! Every paper will be fully reviewed by several referees in a blind-review process. Please read the formatting instructions at and very carefully follow all the recommendations. * Microsoft Word users, please download the Word template and instructions: * LaTeX2e users, please download the LaTeX2e template and instructions: * LaTeX (old versions) users, please download the LaTeX template and instructions: Alternatively, you can consult Springer's formatting instructions at www.springeronline.com, click on Computer Science, click on the LNCS logo, click on Information for LNCS Authors and Volume Editors, click on Information for LNCS Authors. Refer to the next section for specific file names and more info. _________________________________________________________________ Paper submission _________________________________________________________________ Workshop Program May 26, 2005 May 27, 2005 Behaviour and sentiment Analysis of formal analysis offers 9:00 - 9:15 "Information, Negotiation and Research in the GDN Community" (Prof. Mel Shakun) 9:15 - 10:15 Invited talk Invited talk (Prof. Jan Wiebe) (Prof. Rudolf Vetschera) 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break Coffee break 10:30 - 12:30 Presentations Presentations 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Presentations Presentations 15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break Coffee break 15:45 - 17:30 Presentations Presentations _________________________________________________________________ Invited speakers Day 1: Janyce Wiebe Day 2: Rudolf Vetschera _________________________________________________________________ Program Committee Morad Benyoucef School of Management, University of Ottawa Jeanne Brett Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University John Carroll Department of Informatics, University of Sussex Jo?o Cl?maco Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra William Cohen Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, Carnegie Mellon University Jamshid Etezadi John Molson School of Business, Concordia University Alexander Gelbukh Centro de Investigaci?n en Computaci?n, Instituto Polit?cnico Nacional Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou Department of Computer Science, Columbia University Diana Inkpen School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa Gregory Kersten John Molson School of Business, Concordia University Marc Kilgour Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University Sabine K?szegi Faculty of Business and Administration, Vienna University Vivi Nastase chool of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa Mareike Schoop Information Systems, University of Hohenheim Stefan Strecker John Molson School of Business, Concordia University Stan Szpakowicz School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa Simone Teufel Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge Tadeusz Trzaskalik Department of Operational Research, University of Economics at Katowice Peter Turney Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Rudolf Vetschera Faculty of Business and Administration, University of Vienna Janyce Wiebe Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh John Zeleznikow Faculty of Business and Law, Victoria University _________________________________________________________________ Fees and registration Regular $100 (CDN) Student $50 (CDN) _________________________________________________________________ Workshop co-chairs Vivi Nastase SITE, University of Ottawa Stan Szpakowicz SITE, University of Ottawa _________________________________________________________________ Our sponsors Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the University of Ottawa's School of Management and School of Information Technology and Engineering; Power Corporation of Canada. The workshop is organized with the cooperation of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Section on Group Decision and Negotiation. _________________________________________________________________ Footnote We work with a collection of text messages that accompany negotiations conducted with the Web-based Negotiation Support System Inspire. If you would like to experiment with this data, please read first this detailed description. If the data fit your needs, please contact Prof. Gregory Kersten, and make the subject of your message "INSPIRE dataset". _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Mon Feb 28 08:58:49 2005 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:58:49 +0100 Subject: [ln] Appel: KRAQ05, IJCAI workshop, new submission deadline, April 1st Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:31:08 +0100 (MET) From: Patrick SAINT-DIZIER Message-Id: <200502241531.j1OFV8K02946 at cassiopee.irit.fr> !!!! IMPORTANT NOTICE !!!! KRAQ05, IJCAI workshop on: KNOWLEDGE and REASONING for ANSWERING QUESTIONS July 30th, Edinburgh, Scotland NEW submission DEADLINE: April 1st In order to better synchronize submissions with other events. 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Graduate students whose research involves techniques of abstraction, reformulation or approximation are highly encouraged to submit. Email your submission as a PDF attachment to sara_submission at limbio-paris13.org In the body of your email please include the paper's title, abstract, authors, and contact information. Full details about the submission requirements, and additional information about SARA'2005, may be obtained from the symposium home page: http://sara2005.limbio-paris13.org *** OVERVIEW *** SARA'2005 is an Artificial Intelligence symposium on all aspects of abstraction, reformulation, and approximation. Like past editions, SARA'2005 will offer stimulating technical presentations, insightful invited talks, and ample space for discussion. SARA'2005 will will be located in a wonderful location: Radisson SAS Airth Castle & Hotel, Stirlingshire, 20 minutes from Edinburgh (Scotland's capital city, one of the greenest and architecturally most beautiful cities in Northern Europe). To make it convenient for IJCAI-2005 attendees to participate in SARA, a bus will drive from the SARA to the IJCAI conference site the afternoon of July 29th. *** SUBMISSION *** Submissions are requested about all aspects of abstraction, reformulation and approximation (AR&A), including (but not limited to) the following topics: * New techniques for automatically constructing and selecting appropriate AR&A. * Methods for selecting which of several applicable AR&A techniques is best for a given problem. * Frameworks that unify and classify AR&A techniques. * Empirical and theoretical studies of the costs and benefits of AR&A. * Applications of AR&A to: search, constraint satisfaction, deterministic and probabilistic planning, theorem proving, logic programming, game playing , distributed data and knowledge bases, internet search and navigation, knowledge compilation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge reformulation, simulation, design, diagnosis and control of physical systems (including mobile robots), automatic programming, analogical reasoning, case-based reasoning, reasoning under uncertainty, reinforcement learning, machine learning, speed-up learning. * Fielded applications demonstrating the benefits of AR&A. *** FOR MORE INFORMATION *** Additional information may be obtained from the symposium home page at: http://sara2005.limbio-paris13.org Lorenza Saitta Jean-Daniel Zucker SARA-2005 co-chairs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Amparo.Enriquez at ABQMANOR.COM Mon Feb 28 11:10:40 2005 From: Amparo.Enriquez at ABQMANOR.COM (Summer Browning) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:10:40 -0800 Subject: 80% 0ff only today Message-ID: The 84-year-old pontiff was resting in a Rome hospital after doctors performed a successful operation to help the ailing pontiff breathe. 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