Appel: ISDD 06, International Symposium Discourse and Document
Thierry Hamon
thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR
Fri Jan 20 13:07:09 UTC 2006
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:30:07 +0100
From: Patrice Enjalbert <patrice at info.unicaen.fr>
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X-url: http://discours2006.info.unicaen.fr/
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Second Call for Papers
ISDD 06 - INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM « DISCOURSE AND DOCUMENT »
Caen (France) 15-17 Juin 2006
http://discours2006.info.unicaen.fr/
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MOTIVATIONS
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In connection with the development of digital documents, discourse
linguistics, document engineering and NLP are increasingly converging:
a) applying corpus analysis methods to discourse calls for greater use
of NLP techniques; b) new modes of access to documents' contents place
more emphasis on exploiting discourse structure. This convergence is
manifest in a number of joint studies, and results in cross
fertilisation of the disciplines.
* Text and discourse linguistics
Constructing a coherent interpretation of discourse involves
delimiting segments, and identifying hierarchical and
semantico-pragmatic relations. These processes may be approached via
the notions of discourse relations (cf. RST, SDRT), of theme or topic,
of discourse framing, etc. A major challenge for the field is to
identify in corpora linguistic correlates of specific discourse
functions, taking into account potential register- and domain-linked
variation. Another promising research area focuses on the global
structure of documents: role of titles, of "logical structure", of
layout...
* Document engineering and NLP
Access to the information stored in digitised documents is a major
issue, and recent approaches seek to take better account of the
organisation of the documents being processed - such as their thematic
and rhetorical structure. A growing number of applications are
concerned by this evolution: automatic summarisation, document
browsing, information retrieval (e.g. for passage extraction from
selected documents). In addition, hypertextual and composite documents
raise new questions about the interaction between semiotic functions
(text-image for instance).
The Discourse and Document Symposium will bring together researchers
interested in what can be termed the "document level" in discourse
linguistics, in computational linguistics, and in document
engineering, according to the following (preliminary) postulates:
The document is envisaged as a functional unit, situated in a specific
setting, and actualised in a medium (whatever its nature) which
confers on it material characteristics which are an integral part of
the use and sense made of it;
The expression "document level" signals a marked interest in coarse
grain structures, or "global" structures (so-called "logical"
structure, organisation in sections...), or in the interaction between
local and global structures (reference chains, topical chains,
inter-propositional relations, etc.). It indicates a specific interest
in "top down" approaches based on the exploitation of surface cues or
markers.
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TOPICS OF THE SYMPOSIUM
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The call for papers covers the following areas (non-exhaustive list):
- Analysis of discourse structures; the setting-up of automatic
procedures for these analyses;
- Analysis of the structure of composite documents (text-images,
text-graphics); automatic procedures for these analyses;
- Impact of hypertextual or hyperdocument organisation on the way
documents are apprehended. Hypertext formatting, computational tools
based on NLP procedures;
- Reading models, discourse organisation models;
- Computational experimentation as a means of testing hypotheses on
corpora;
- Preliminary corpus studies: identification and annotation of
discourse structures;
- Computational devices for such experimental approaches (formalising
linguistic knowledge, ensuring re-usability of resources, articulating
levels of processing, visualising annotations);
- Articulating approaches using linguistic markers, domain knowledge,
statistical techniques;
- Applications: intra-document information retrieval, browsing aids,
document summarisation or synthesis, etc.
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SYMPOSIUM ORGANISATION
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The Symposium will include:
- A plenary conference (submitted and invited papers).
- A "young researchers' session", intended for doctoral and
post-doctoral students: short papers + poster presentations, followed
by discussion. Work in progress will be welcome, as the aim is to
encourage free exchange between participants, to facilitate possible
future collaborations.
- An NLP demonstration workshop for the presentation of tools oriented
towards discourse processing and analysis, and of experiments making
use of such tools: descriptive approaches or concrete applications,
corpus-based evaluation of linguistic hypotheses or capitalisation of
linguistic knowledge, technical or formal tools, etc. Demos may be
stand-alone or a follow-up to a paper (at plenary or young
researchers' session). The organisers may propose a common task or
corpus.
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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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Complete instructions, as well as an on-line submission and
registration service are available on the Symposium site.
- Plenary conference:
Declaration of intention to submit: 200-word abstract + key words
indicating the themes of the proposed paper. Full papers will not
exceed 10 pages (in accordance with the style sheets provided).
Presentation of full papers will conform to that for final versions.
- Young researchers' session:
A two-page abstract and keywords.
- NLP Demonstration workshop:
A two-page abstract and keywords. References to existing on-line
demonstrations will be welcome. Authors will be contacted by the
organising committee on practical questions of hardware and software
installation on the Symposium's site.
Symposium languages: English and French
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PUBLICATION
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The proceedings of the symposium will be published by Caen University
Press / Presses Universitaires de Caen , both in electronic and
printed form.
Important dates
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- declaration of intention to submit (optional, 200 word abstract):
January 30, 2006
- submission of papers : February 15th 2006
- notification of acceptance: April 15th 2006
- final versions to reach us by May 15th 2006
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SYMPOSIUM SECRETARY, INFORMATION
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Lydie Sauvé, Département d'informatique, Campus II, bd Maréchal Juin,
Université de Caen, 14032 Caen Cedex
Symposium website : http://discours2006.info.unicaen.fr/
Email (information) : discours2006 at info.unicaen.fr
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Symposium's chairpersons: Marie-Paule Péry Woodley (U. Toulouse),
Patrice Enjalbert (U. Caen) , Mauro Gaio (U,Pau et Pays de l'Adour)
** Plenary conference:
J. Bateman (U. Bremen, Germany), D. Battistelli (U. Paris 4, France),
Y. Bestgen (U. C. Louvain, Belgium), B. Boguraev (IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center, USA), A. Borillo (U. Toulouse 2, France), N.
Bouayad-Agha (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), F. Cerbah (Dassault
Aviation, France), M. Charolles (U. Paris 3, France), D. Cristea (U.
Iasi, Romania), L. Degand (U. C. Louvain, Belgium), D. Dutoit
(Memodata, France), P. Enjalbert (U. Caen, France), S. Ferrari (U.
Caen, France), O. Ferret (CEA, France), M. Gaio (U. Pau, France), B.
Grau (U. Paris-Sud, France), N. Hernandez (U. Caen, France), G. Lapalme
(U. Montréal, Québec, Canada), A. Le Draoulec (U. Toulouse 2, France),
A. Lehmam (Pertinence Mining.com, France), D. Legallois (U. Caen,
France), N. Lucas (U. Caen and CNRS, France), F. Maurel (U. Caen,
France), A. Max (U. Paris-Sud, France), J.-L. Minel (U. Paris 4,
France), M. Mojahid (U. Toulouse 3, France), M.-P. Péry Woodley (U.
Toulouse 2, France), H. Saggion (U. Sheffield, England), L. Sarda
(CNRS, LATTICE, France), I. Saleh (U. Paris 8, France), S. Salmon Alt
(ATILF-CNRS, France), D. Scott (Open University, England).
** Young researchers' session (in addition to the plenary conference
committe)
Frédéric Bilhaut (U. Caen), Nicolas Hernandez (U. Caen), Mai Ho-Dac (U.
Toulouse 2), Marion Laignelet (U. Toulouse 2), Christophe Pimm (U.
Toulouse 2), Antoine Widlöcher (U. Caen)
** NLP workshop :
Frédéric Bilhaut, Antoine Widlöcher (U. Caen)
** Organising Committee
S. Ferrari (chair), F. Bilhaut, N. Hernandez, A. Widlöcher
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