From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 19 18:13:45 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:13:45 +0200
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:21:48 +0200
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Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.

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ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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ELRA is happy to announce that 4 new Speech Resources and 1 new
Multimodal Resource are now available in its catalogue.

*ELRA-S0276 Swedish EUROM1 (EUROM1_S)**
*EUROM1 is the first really multilingual speech database produced in
Europe. Over 60 speakers per language pronounced numbers, sentences,
isolated words using close talking microphone. 
For more information, see:
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1066

*ELRA-S0277 SpeechDat Galician Database for the Fixed Telephone Network*
The SpeechDat Galician Database for the Fixed Telephone Network
contains the recordings of 653 speakers of Galician recorded over the
fixed telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 44 read and
spontaneous items.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1067

*ELRA-S0278 SmartWeb Handheld Corpus (SHC)*
This corpus contains recordings spoken by 156 speakers in a
human-machine query situation. Users were asked to solve several tasks
with a spoken query system to the WWW using a smart phone as portable
device in natural environments (office, hall, restaurant, street).
Recorded channels are the Bluetooth headset over UMTS (telephone
quality), the Bluetooth headset and an additional collar microphone in
high quality.
See also ELRA-S0279 and ELRA-S0280.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1068

*ELRA-S0279 SmartWeb Motorbike Corpus (SMC)*

This corpus contains recordings spoken by 36 speakers in a
human-machine query situation on a running motor cycle (BMW). Bikers
were asked to solve several tasks with a spoken query system to the
WWW using an integrated system connected to a speech server via an
UMTS connection.  Recorded channels are the Bluetooth helmet
microphone over UMTS (telephone quality), and - partly - the Bluetooth
helmet microphone and an additional neck microphone in high quality.
See also ELRA-S0278 and ELRA-S0280.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1069

*ELRA-S0280 SmartWeb Video Corpus (SVC)*
This multimodal corpus contains 99 recordings each containing a
human-human-machine dialogue: one speaker (which is being recorded)
interacts with a human partner as well with a dialogue system via a
smart phone (SmartWeb system).
See also ELRA-S0278 and ELRA-S0279.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1070

For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

Visit our on-line catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info 

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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 19 18:10:00 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:10:00 +0200
Subject: Conf: Colloque La question polyphonique ou dialogique,
 8-10 septembre 2008
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.201000.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:00:43 +0200
From: Evelyne STEINER <Evelyne.steiner at univ-metz.fr>
Message-ID: <487F184B.9070801 at univ-metz.fr>
X-url: http://www.univ-metz.fr/recherche/labos/celted/

 

Le CELTED (Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques des Textes et des Discours)
de l'Université Paul Verlaine de Metz et l'Université du Luxembourg
ont le plaisir d'annoncer la tenue d'un colloque de linguistique
consacré à la « /Polyphonie/ », les 8, 9 et 10 septembre 2008.

 

Outre le programme du colloque présenté ci-dessous, vous trouverez _en
pièce jointe_ *le formulaire d'inscription* à nous renvoyer par mail
pour le 31 août 2008 au plus tard.

 

*Pour l'actualité du colloque songez à consulter régulièrement le site
du Celted :*

*http://www.univ-metz.fr/recherche/labos/celted/*


                     Colloque Metz -- Luxembourg

  */La question polyphonique ou dialogique en sciences du langage/*

 Marion Colas-Blaise, Mohamed Kara, Laurent Perrin & André Petitjean


    Programme

 

*Lundi 8 septembre*

*/La langue polyphonique/*

* *

*Université de Metz*

9h30

Ouverture

10h30 -- 11h15

*Henning Nølke*, Université d'Aarhus (Danemark)

« L'ancrage linguistique de la polyphonie »

11h15 -- 12h00

*Jean-Claude Anscombre*, CNRS, Université de Paris 13

« Autour d'une définition linguistique des notions de voix collectives
et de on-locuteur »

12h00 -- 12h45

*Jacques Bres*, Université de Montpellier 3

« Dialogisme et temps verbal »

Repas

14h30 -- 15h15

*Marion Carel*, EHESS, Paris

« Polyphonie et attribution de point de vue »

15h15 -- 16h00

*Maria Louisa Donaire*, Université d'Oviedo (Espagne)

« Antonymie et polyphonie: le cas de l'adjectif »

Pause

16h30 -- 17h15

*Danielle Coltier*, Université du Mans & *Patrick Dendale*, Université
d'Anvers (Belgique)

« Êtres imaginaires et dictionnaires de Langue. Traces de polyphonie
dans les définitions de dictionnaires de langue »

*Mardi 9 septembre*

*/La polyphonie en question/*

* *

* *

*Université de Metz*

9h30 -- 10h15

*Bernard Combettes* & *Annie Kuyumcuyan*, Université de Nancy 2

« Opération de topicalisation et polyphonie : aspects diachroniques »

10h15 -- 11h00

*Denis Apothéloz*, Université de Nancy 2

« Polyphonie et opacité référentielle ».

Pause

11h30 -- 12h15

*Marie-José Béguelin & Alain Berrendonner*, Universités de Neuchâtel
et de Fribourg (Suisse)

12h15 -- 13h00

*Louis de Saussure*, Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse)

« Polyphonie, métareprésentation et hiérarchisation des contenus »

13h15 Repas

14h30 Départ de Metz pour le Luxembourg

15h30 Hôtel -- Campus

*Université du Luxembourg*

16h -- 16h45

*Pierre Larrivée*, Aston University (Angleterre) & *Laurent Perrin*,
Université de Metz

« Voix et points de vue de la négation »

16h45---- 17h30

*Pierre Patrick Haillet*, Université de Cergy-Pontoise

« Nature et fonctions des points de vue : principes d'une approche
polyphonique des stratégies discursives »

18h Visite

*Mercredi 10 septembre*

*Université du Luxembourg*

* *

*/Approches discursives, interactionnelles/*

9h15 -- 10h00

*Sophie Moirand*, Université de Paris 3

« Retour sur un modèle dialogique d'analyse du discours »

10h00-- 10h45

*Kjersti Fløttum & Øyvind Gjerstad*, Université de Bergen (Norvège)

« Voix européennes et voix nationales dans le discours politique de
l'Union européenne »

Pause

11h15 -- 12h00

*Hugues de Chanay*, Université Lumière, Lyon 2

« La polyphonie au service de l'ethos. L'exemple du débat du 2 mai
2007 entre N. Sarkozy et S. Royal »

12h -- 12h45

*Guy Achard-Bayle*,* *Université de Metz

« Mélange conceptuel & échanges de points de vue »

Repas

*/Approches historiques/*

14h30 -- 15h15

*Alain Rabatel*, IUFM de Lyon, Université Lumière, Lyon 2

« Retour sur les relations entre locuteur et énonciateur. Des voix et
des points de vue »

15h15 -- 16h00

*Laurence Rosier*, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgique)

« Tandem ou Origines théoriques et avatars d'un « couple »
problématique : polyphonie versus dialogisme »

16h -- 17h

Synthèse, clôture

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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 19 18:16:30 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:16:30 +0200
Subject: Conf: 2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication (Dec
 15-16, 2008) - Extended Deadline
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.201630.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:31:05 +0200
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X-url: http://www.is-uc.org/2008/submission.

Call for Papers/Demos
2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication
Dec 15 - 16, 2008
Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan

Important Dates
Papers:
Extended Abstract due August 4, 2008 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance August 29, 2008
Camera-ready papers due September 26, 2008

Demos:
Submission of description due September 19, 2008
Notification of acceptance October 10, 2008

The development of information network systems enables us to
communicate with people in remote places "anytime and anywhere",
enriching human knowledge, affection and sensibility. However, there
are various barriers which stand in our way to using these systems
freely and flexibly. In order to discuss how to overcome these
barriers and create a more human-centered communication environment,
in 2007 the first International Symposium on Universal Communication
was held in Kyoto, Japan featuring discussions with well-known
researchers from around the world.  Following its success, the second
International Symposium on Universal Communication will be held in
Osaka, Japan.

Topics of interest are as follows, but not limited to
　- Information retrieval and information analysis
　- Information credibility
　- Knowledge processing
　- Language resources
　- Speech recognition and synthesis
　- Machine translation and speech translation
　- Natural language processing
　- Spoken language processing
　- Multilingual information processing
　- Super high-resolution image technology
　- 3D visualization, imaging and display technologies
　- 3D sound processing
　- Virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality
　- Multisensory (visual, acoustic, haptic, olfactory, etc)
    interaction
　- Human factors
　- Human interface and interaction technologies
　- Real-world sensing technologies

General Chair
Yuichi Matsushima, National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

General Vice Chairs
Kazumasa Enami, NICT, Japan
Hiromitsu Wakana, NICT, Japan

Technical Program Committee
Chair: Satoshi Nakamura, NICT/ATR, Japan
Vice Chair: Naomi Inoue, NICT/ATR, Japan
- Akio Ando, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
- Martin S. Banks, UC Berkeley, USA
- Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France
- Marcello Federico, FBK/IRST, Italy
- Sidney Fels, The University of British Columbia, Canada
- Jukka Häkkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Munpyo Hong, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
- Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Hitoshi Isahara, NICT, Japan
- Ken Kaneiwa, NICT, Japan
- Takashi Kawai, Waseda University, Japan
- Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan
- Kyeong Soo Kim, Swansea University, UK
- Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
- Makoto Okui, NICT, Japan
- Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Melon University, USA
- Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan
- Eiichiro Sumita, NICT/ATR, Japan
- Yoiti Suzuki, Tohoku University, Japan
- Yasuhiro Takaki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
- Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan
- Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan
- Chiu-yu Tseng, Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Kiyotaka Uchimoto, NICT, Japan
- Takehito Utsuro, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Andy Way, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Andrew Woods, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
- Wieslaw Woszczyk, McGill University, Canada
- Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan
- Kwon Yongjin, Korea AeroSpace University, Korea
- Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM & Management SudParis, France

Demo Chair
Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan

Technical Advisors
Takashi Matsuyama, Kyoto University, Japan
Michitaka Hirose, Tokyo University, Japan

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT,
Yukio Takahashi, NICT
Contact info: isuc2008 at khn.nict.go.jp

Website
http://www.is-uc.org/2008/

Venue
Osaka International Convention Center
3-51 Nakanoshima 5-chome,Kita-ku,Osaka, Japan
http://www.gco.co.jp/english/english.html

Submission Information
All papers must be submitted through the ISUC 2008 homepage at 
http://www.is-uc.org/2008.

Paper submission:
The extended abstract must be written in English and is limited to 2
pages in the IEEE 2-column format. This abstract should also indicate
whether it is an oral paper or a poster, and be submitted in PDF. Once
accepted, the camera-ready paper shall be 4~8 pages, not exceeding 8
pages.
More detailed author guidelines are available at 
http://www.is-uc.org/2008/submission.

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be included in the
IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries as
well as indexed through IET INSPEC, EI (Compendex) and Thomson ISI.

Demo submission:

Please submit a one-page description of your demo in PDF. This
description must be written in English and should include: An abstract
of what you will show, Space needed, Facilities needed including power
supply and Internet access. A specified submission format will be
available on the ISUC 2008 homepage.


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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 19 18:20:18 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:20:18 +0200
Subject: Info: International Calendar of Events for the language industry
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.202018.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:41:29 +0100
From: "Alan Wheatley" <gensec at iti.org.uk>
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Dear colleagues,

 

The Institute of Translation & Interpreting, Great Britain, welcomes
you to a unique, free to use, International Calendar of Events for the
language industry. ICE is available in French, German, Spanish and
English.

 

If you are involved in the language industry as a practitioner,
academic, technology provider, training provider, publisher, event
organiser, professional association or university, ICE is for you.

 

What is ICE?

The International Calendar of Events is a free and easily accessible
resource for the language industry.

 

Why should I use ICE?

Interested in attending an event? make ICE your first port of call,
search by numerous criteria including country, organiser name, type of
event etc. ICE publishes details of events up to 2013. Plan your
calendar by using ICE as a key resource, keep informed of new events
by signing up to the RSS <http://www.iti.org.uk/ice/rss/ice.asp> feed.
Never again miss that important event.

 

Organising an event? ICE is a free of charge key resource to ensure
that details of your event are circulated quickly to a wide, industry
specific global audience. Use ICE to help you avoid conflicts with
similar events being held either locally or internationally. You can
view planned events by type and make decisions as to the style and
theme of your future event. Make your event a success, attract a wider
audience, increase exposure, advertise on ICE.

 

Who uses ICE?

Since ICE was launched in January 2007 over 550 international events
have been advertised to more than 35,000 visitors. At any one time
there are around 100 events advertised. ICE includes an RSS
<http://www.iti.org.uk/ice/rss/ice.asp> feed to transmit details to
readers within a few minutes of an event being added.

 

Can our website link to ICE as a service to our clients, students and
members?

Yes, this is not a problem, you can link to ICE through a url or make
use of the ICE logo at the top of this page, it is a hyperlink. If you
do link to ICE please let us know, gensec at iti.org.uk

 

How do I use ICE?

ICE is very easy to use. To add a new event simply select the 'add'
option from the ICE homepage, enter your event details and most
important, enter an email address and a useful password; you will need
these if you want to edit your event in the future. You retain
complete control of your own event, changing the content as and when
you need to.  Your event will be removed automatically the day after
it takes place.

 

If you are interested in attending an event use the 'Quick Search'
option which will list all events in a chosen period. You can also use
the advanced search tool to query by location, date, event type and
more.

 

Is there a fee for using ICE?

No, the Institute of Translation & Interpreting provides ICE free of
charge.

 

ICE is free - visit now - www.iti.org.uk/ice

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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 19 18:22:48 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:22:48 +0200
Subject: Appel: Colloque international Theorie,
 pratique et didactique  de la traduction specialisee
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.202248.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:49:41 +0200
From: Adriana Lau <a.lau at unilat.org>
Message-Id: <7.0.1.0.2.20080722154932.02710a78 at unilat.org>
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Colloque international Théorie, pratique et didactique de la
traduction spécialisée
Craiova (Roumanie), 28-29 mai 2009



La faculté des lettres de l’université de Craiova (département de
langue et de littérature françaises) et l’Union latine organisent les
28 et 29 mai 2009, à Craiova, le Colloque international Théorie,
pratique et didactique de la traduction spécialisée. Les langues
officielles du colloque sont le français et le roumain.

La finalité de ce colloque est de stimuler le dialogue étudiants -
formateurs - traducteurs en vue d’une meilleure insertion sur le
marché du travail. Le colloque sera structuré en trois sections et
plusieurs espaces de débat - deux tables rondes et deux ateliers - où
les professionnels issus du domaine de la traduction spécialisée
(enseignants, traducteurs, spécialistes, etc.) partageront des idées
et des expériences sur la théorie et la pratique de la traduction

Les communications pourront porter sur les thèmes suivants :
    * Les théories de la traduction spécialisée
    * La typologie des textes/discours spécialisés et stratégies de
      traduction
    * La didactique de la traduction spécialisée
    * La formation des traducteurs
    * La traduction spécialisée en Roumanie : 
statut du traducteur spécialisé, rapport offre/demande sur le marché
de la traduction Nous vous invitons à soumettre, en français ou en
roumain, votre proposition de communication sous la forme d’un résumé
d’environ 300 mots. Les communications ne devront pas excéder quinze
minutes, afin de laisser suffisamment de temps pour les échanges et
discussions.

La date limite d’envoi des propositions de communications est fixée au
1 octobre 2008. Les personnes intéressées sont invitées à nous faire
parvenir leur résumé par courriel à l’adresse cits09 at yahoo.fr, avec
pour objet « Colloque international – Communication ».

Les résumés devront être accompagnés des éléments suivants :

Titre de la communication
Nom de l’auteur (noms des auteurs), institution, 
fonction, coordonnées (adresse, numéro de téléphone, courriel)
Thématique
Courte bibliographie
Matériel nécessaire pour la présentation de votre communication

Calendrier

Date limite d’envoi des résumés : 1er octobre 2008
Notification aux auteurs : 15 novembre 2008
Date limite de payement de la taxe : 1er mars 2009
Date limite d’envoi des communications : 1er avril 2009

Public visé

Le Colloque s'adresse à toute personne intéressée par la traduction
spécialisée au sens large, notamment :
    * aux traducteurs et autres professionnels du langage ;
    * aux enseignants, chercheurs et étudiants ;
    * aux gestionnaires des services de traduction spécialisée.
Informations supplémentaires : cits09 at yahoo.fr / 
http://dtil.unilat.org/colocviu_craiova_2009/index.htm



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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 19 18:27:15 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:27:15 +0200
Subject: Appel: LATA 2009, April 2-8, 2009, Tarragona, Spain
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.202715.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:13:03 +0200
From: <carlos.martin at urv.cat>
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X-url: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/
X-url: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0
X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2009
X-url: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/


Apologies for multiple posting!

Please, forward the announcement to whoever may be interested in it.

Thanks.

*********************************************************************

Call for Papers

3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS (LATA 2009)

Tarragona, Spain, April 2-8, 2009

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/

*********************************************************************

AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its
applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal
Languages and Applications that was developed at the host institute in
the period 2002-2006, LATA 2009 will reserve significant room for
young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at
attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and
application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language
technology, artificial intelligence, etc.).

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

- algebraic language theory
- algorithms on automata and words
- automata and logic
- automata for system analysis and programme verification
- automata, concurrency and Petri nets
- biomolecular nanotechnology
- cellular automata
- circuits and networks
- combinatorics on words
- computability
- computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized
  complexity
- data and image compression
- decidability questions on words and languages
- digital libraries
- DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
- document engineering
- extended automata
- foundations of finite state technology
- fuzzy and rough languages
- grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional,
  unification, categorial, etc.)
- grammars and automata architectures
- grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
- graphs and graph transformation
- language varieties and semigroups
- language-based cryptography
- language-theoretic foundations of natural language processing,
  artificial intelligence and artificial life
- mathematical evolutionary genomics
- parsing
- patterns and codes
- power series
- quantum, chemical and optical computing
- regulated rewriting
- string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and
  bioinformatics
- symbolic dynamics
- symbolic neural networks
- term rewriting
- text algorithms
- text retrieval, pattern matching and pattern recognition
- transducers
- trees, tree languages and tree machines
- weighted machines

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2009 will consist of:

- 3 invited talks (to be announced in the second call for papers)
- 2 invited tutorials (to be announced in the second call for papers)
- refereed contributions
- open sessions for discussion in specific subfields or on
  professional issues (if requested by the participants)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Parosh Abdulla (Uppsala)
Stefania Bandini (Milano)
Stephen Bloom (Hoboken)
John Brzozowski (Waterloo)
Maxime Crochemore (London)
Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Michael Domaratzki (Winnipeg)
Henning Fernau (Trier)
Rusins Freivalds (Riga)
Vesa Halava (Turku)
Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich)
Lucian Ilie (London, Canada)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto)
Aravind Joshi (Philadelphia)
Juhani Karhumaki (Turku)
Jarkko Kari (Turku)
Claude Kirchner (Bordeaux)
Maciej Koutny (Newcastle)
Kamala Krithivasan (Chennai)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Andrzej Lingas (Lund)
Aldo de Luca (Napoli)
Rupak Majumdar (Los Angeles)
Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona & Brussels, chair)
Joachim Niehren (Villeneuve d'Ascq)
Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
Joerg Rothe (Duesseldorf)
Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw)
Philippe Schnoebelen (Cachan)
Thomas Schwentick (Dortmund)
Helmut Seidl (Muenchen)
Alan Selman (Buffalo)
Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo)
Frank Stephan (Singapore)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Madalina Barbaiani
Gemma Bel-Enguix
Cristina Bibire
Adrian-Horia Dediu
Szilard-Zsolt Fazekas
Mihai Ionescu
Alexander Krassovitskiy
Guangwu Liu
Carlos Martin-Vide (chair)
Robert Mercas
Catalin-Ionut Tirnauca
Bianca Truthe
Sherzod Turaev
Florentina-Lilica Voicu

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and
unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages
and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer
Verlag's LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). Submissions
have to be uploaded at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2009

PUBLICATION:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will
be available by the time of the conference. A refereed volume of
extended versions of selected papers will be published after it as a
special issue of a major journal. (This was Information and
Computation for LATA 2007 and LATA 2008.)

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration will be open since September 1, 2008 to
April 2, 2009. The registration form can be found at the website of
the conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/

Early registration fees: 450 euros
Early registration fees (PhD students): 225 euros
Registration fees: 540 euros
Registration fees (PhD students): 270 euros

At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have
a registered author by December 31, 2008 will be excluded from the
proceedings.

Fees comprise free access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings
volume, and coffee breaks. For the participation in the full-day
excursion and conference lunch on Sunday April 5, the amount of 70
euros is to be added to the fees above: accompanying persons are
welcome at the same rate..

PAYMENT:

Early registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before December
31, 2008 to the conference account at Open Bank (Plaza Manuel Gomez
Moreno 2, 28020 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES1300730100510403506598 - Swift
code: OPENESMMXXX (account holder: LATA 2009 – Carlos Martin-Vide).

(Non-early) registration fees can be paid either by bank transfer to
the same account or in cash on site.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the
registration form at the website of the conference. A receipt for the
payment will be provided on site.

FUNDING:

Up to 20 grants covering partial-board accommodation will be available
for nonlocal PhD students. To apply, candidates must e-mail their CV
together with a copy of the document proving their present status as a
PhD student.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: October 22, 2008
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 10, 2008
Application for funding (PhD students): December 15, 2008
Notification of funding acceptance or rejection: December 19, 2008
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: December 24, 2008
Early registration: December 31, 2008
Starting of the conference: April 2, 2009
Submission to the journal special issue: June 22, 2009

FURTHER INFORMATION:

carlos.martin at urv.cat

ADDRESS:

LATA 2009
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Plaza Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-559597


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:24:51 +0200
Subject: Conf: Journee scientifique de Realiter, 6 octobre 2008,
 Gatineau (Canada)
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:56:59 +0200
From: Adriana Lau <a.lau at unilat.org>
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X-url: http://realiter.net/spip.php?rubrique103
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Le délai d'inscription à la prochaine Journée scientifique de Realiter
qui aura lieu le lundi 6 octobre 2008 à Gatineau (Canada) a été
prolongé au 8 septembre prochain.


Les personnes intéressées à participer à cette journée sont priées de
remplir le formulaire d’inscription qui figure sur le site Internet du
Réseau à l'adresse : http://realiter.net/spip.php?rubrique103 (et dans
les pages correspondantes dans les autres langues). Les personnes
inscrites recevront une confirmation ainsi que des renseignements
concernant l’hébergement et les restaurants disponibles dans la région
d’Ottawa-Gatineau.

Organisée à l’initiative du Bureau de la traduction du Canada, la
Journée aura comme thème principal « La langue et le droit », entre
autres dans le contexte de la mondialisation. De plus, elle visera à
favoriser la réflexion sur les tendances et les pratiques en matière
de traitement méthodologique de la terminologie juridique et à
présenter un panorama de la formation dans le domaine. Pour plus
d'informations, consulter le programme provisoire de la Journée.


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:36:36 +0200
Subject: Revue: Discours 2
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.203636.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:08:22 +0200
From: Laure Sarda <laure.sarda at ens.fr>
Message-ID: <E1KNqol-0002cg-Hd at canoe>
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/index3062.html
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/index1042.html
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/index2022.html
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/index3232.html
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/index863.html

* The editorial team of DISCOURS (the new international e-journal for
  linguistics, psycholinguistics and NLP) is pleased to announce the
  publication of its second non-thematic issue. The issue, coordinated
  by D.  Vigier, features five articles. The first, by A.M. Guiraud,
  is entitled « Les emplois corrélatifs de parfois, quelquefois et des
  fois ». This corpus-based study focuses on discursive configurations
  where these three temporal adverbs are repeated, and examines the
  varying degrees of dependency that are built up (parallelism in
  construction, semantico-pragmatic relations, etc.). E. Havu and
  M. Pierrard, in the article « Réduction et intégration de
  prédications : paramètres pour l'analyse des co-prédications
  adjectivantes », propose the use of two types of semantico-syntactic
  parameters to examine a set of adjectival co-predications,
  consisting of adjuncts, direct and indirect object complements,
  predicative uses with avoir and expressions with de adj. The article
  by F. Heyna, « Sémantisme et potentiel argumentatif des dérivés
  dénominaux en anti- », considers denominal formation in anti- from a
  semantic and argumentative viewpoint. A distinction is drawn between
  two types of derivative on the basis of the semantic value of anti-:
  an adversative value in anti-rides, antigrippe for example, and an
  antonymic value in antihéros, antiroman, etc. B. Lamiroy and
  M. Charolles, in a paper on « Les verbes de parole et la question de
  l (in)transitivité », examine the relationship between an aspect of
  verbal syntax (transitivity) and the semantic characteristics of
  speech verbs. The last paper « Contribution à une étude des
  constructions antéposées du type : « En homme intelligent et humain,
  il partagea tout de suite l'inquiétude de Marcel » (J. Verne), by
  D. Vigier is a corpus-based study of a set of prepositional phrases
  with « en N) ». The constructions, to which little attention has
  previously been paid, are examined not only from a syntactical and
  semantic viewpoint but also from an enunciative and discursive
  perspective.

* L'équipe éditoriale de la revue DISCOURS (revue électronique
  internationale de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique)
  (http:// discours.revues.org/) a le plaisir de vous annoncer la
  publication de son second numéro de Varia. Coordonné par D. Vigier,
  ce numéro propose au lecteur cinq articles. Tout d abord, une étude
  sur corpus portant sur « Les emplois corrélatifs de parfois,
  quelquefois et des fois ». L auteur, A.-M.  Guiraud, s y intéresse à
  des configurations discursives plus ou moins étendues où ces
  adverbes temporels se répètent, et à l intérieur desquelles se
  tissent des relations de dépendance plus ou moins lâche qu elle
  examine (parallélismes de construction, relations
  sémantico-pragmatiques, ). E.  Havu et M. Pierrard, dans un article
  intitulé « Réduction et intégration de prédications : paramètres
  pour l'analyse des co-prédications adjectivantes », proposent d
  exploiter deux types de paramètres sémantico-syntaxiques pour rendre
  compte d'un ensemble de « co-prédications (coP) adjectivantes »
  regroupant les adjoints, les attributs (directs et indirects) de
  l'objet, les emplois attributifs avec avoir et les tours en de
  adj. L article de F.  Heyna, « Sémantisme et potentiel argumentatif
  des dérivés dénominaux en anti- », examine les dérivés dénominaux en
  anti- du point de vue sémantique et argumentatif. Deux types de
  dérivés sont discriminés en fonction de la valeur sémantique que
  prend anti- : valeur adversative dans anti-rides, antigrippe par
  exemple, valeur antonymique dans antihéros, antiroman, etc.
  B. Lamiroy et M. Charolles, dans une étude portant sur « Les verbes
  de parole et la question de l (in)transitivité », examinent la
  relation entre un aspect de la syntaxe verbale (la transitivité) et
  les caractéristiques sémantiques d un ensemble de verbes, celui des
  verbes de parole. D. Vigier, enfin, propose une « Contribution à une
  étude des constructions antéposées du type : « En homme intelligent
  et humain, il partagea tout de suite l'inquiétude de Marcel »
  (J. Verne) ». Il y étudie, essentiellement à partir d exemples
  attestés, une gamme de SP en « en N (exp) » peu examinée jusqu
  ici. Le point de vue adopté sur ces constructions est non seulement
  syntaxique et sémantique, mais aussi énonciatif et discursif.

 

* Contents of issue 2 / Sommaire du numéro 2 :

     # Anne-Marie Guiraud Les emplois corrélatifs de parfois,
       quelquefois et des fois

     # Eva Havu et Michel Pierrard Réduction et intégration de
       prédications : paramètres pour l'analyse des co-prédications
       adjectivantes

     # Franziska Heyna Sémantisme et potentiel argumentatif des
       dérivés dénominaux en anti-

     # Béatrice Lamiroy et Michel Charolles Les verbes de parole et la
       question de l (in)transitivité

     # Denis Vigier Contribution à une étude des constructions
       antéposées du type : « En homme intelligent et humain, il
       partagea tout de suite l'inquiétude de Marcel » (J. Verne)

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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 19 18:39:01 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:39:01 +0200
Subject: Job: Coordinator of the Master (MA multi-LEARN),
 University of Luxemburg
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.203901.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 02:05:06 +0200
From: Gudrun Ziegler <gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu>
Message-ID: <D71764EF-F71B-4D57-89A1-F7F65074B71D at uni.lu>
X-url: http://multi-learn.uni.lu
X-url: http://www.uni.lu"
X-url: http://multi-learn.uni.lu"
X-url: http://multi-learn.uni.lu</a

Please circulate, the official publication of the position will be out  
soon (website of www.uni.lu > jobs),

regards, Gudrun Ziegler


----------------------


The University of Luxemburg invites applications for the following
vacancy in its Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts
and Education

Coordinator of the Master - Learning and Development in Multilingual
and Multicultural Contexts (Multi-Learn)

(ref. FLSHASE/F3-08_MA Multi-learn)

  (20 hrs/week)

Open ended contract

Application deadline: 15 September 2008


The coordinator of the MA multi-LEARN plans, structures, organises,
coordinates and monitors the study programme by assisting the
scientific board of the programme and by supporting the applied
research dimension of the MA multi-LEARN in all relevant respects
(technical as regards admission, data and documentation, learning,
medial, logistics, administrative) with regard to the broad range of
its scientific and dissemination activities inside the Faculty, the
University and beyond (external partners).



Activities/Tasks

The successfully launched academic MA multi-LEARN is grounded in an
applied research perspective, implementing research projects and
requiring its future candidates, its permanent academic staff and its
invited researchers and lecturers to display a comprehensive vision of
what knowledge building means and what is necessary in terms of
scientific, managerial, technical and administrative requirements for
its successful accomplishment. The coordinator is supporting the
scientific board of the MA multi-LEARN by fulfilling the following
tasks:

- Management and Coordination of Administration, Resources and
  Communication

- Admission and academic development of candidates

- Program Sustainability, Technical Monitoring and Assistance to the
  Scientific Board



Profile:

The successful candidate is an interdisciplinary experienced,
multilingual and technically aware team-player with a proven record in
developing and managing emergent projects and teaching programmes.
Experiences in developing, administrating and monitoring projects,
programmes, budgets and its relevant technical devices from and within
University (or comparable) contexts are required.

Excellent command of English, French and/or German (written and spoken)

Experiences in conceiving of and presenting (written, spoken, web-
presentation, proposal format etc.) complex programme matter for any
kind of dissemination (specialized/general public)

Proven experiences and skills in generalized office programmes and
platforms

(Proven) Educational, professional and training background, with a
minimum tertiary education degree of 3 years that is relevant to the
study programme.



Contact:

For further information please contact:

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler (gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu)

Find out more about the Master - Learning & Development in
Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts (MA multi-LEARN):
http://multi-learn.uni.lu

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:41:56 +0200
Subject: Appel: GW 2009
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.204156.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:37:32 +0200
From: Kirsten Bergmann <kirsten.bergmann at uni-bielefeld.de>
Message-id: <169660C7-2322-4F4E-A25D-344E4A988D27 at uni-bielefeld.de>
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X-url: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/
X-url: http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ags/wbski/GW/
X-url: http://www.gw2009.de/submission.html


Apologies for multiple posting

** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS **

GW 2009 - The 8th International Gesture Workshop Gesture in Embodied
Communication and Human-Computer Interaction www.GW2009.de

Feb 25-27, 2009
ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University

Organisers:
Stefan Kopp, Sociable Agents Groups, Bielefeld University
Ipke Wachsmuth, Artificial Intelligence Group & ZiF, Bielefeld  
University

The International Gesture Workshop is an interdisciplinary event for
researchers working on gestural interaction, who want to meet and
exchange their ideas and newest research. GW 2009 aims to bring
together researchers from computer science, engineering, and the
humanities in order to connect recent theoretical discoveries about
the embodied bases of human verbal and nonverbal communication with
approaches taken to developing interactive systems that exploit
gesture as a means of interacting with machines. The workshop will be
the 8th in the Gesture Workshop series initiated in 1996.

Confirmed invited speakers:
Antonio Camurri (DIST-University of Genova)
Asli Özyürek (MPI Psycholinguistics & Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Koc  
Univ. Istanbul)
Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon Univ., Univ. of Karlsruhe)


=== Scope and Topics
Under the focus of gesture-based human-computer interaction, we invite
submissions of original work that addresses, but is not limited to,
one or more of the following aspects:

Concepts, models, architectures:
* Theoretical aspects of gestural communication and interaction
* Gesture and speech, gaze, or other natural modalities
* Gesture and embodied cognition
* Gesture and sociality
* Gesture and multimodal dialogue
* Gesture expressivity
* Gesture development and learning
* Sensori-motor aspects of gesture
* Sign language processing
* Gesture recognition and analysis
* Gesture production and synthesis
* Fusion and fission of gesture with other modalities
* Systematic and idiosyncratic aspects of gesture

Applications:
* User issues, usability studies, application paradigms
* Vision-based gesture recognition
* Gesture in virtual and augmented reality
* Gesture in embodied conversational agents
* Gesture in mobile computing
* Gesture in tangible and haptic interfaces
* Gesture for gaming and entertainment
* Gesture for audio-visual applications
* Gesture for therapy and rehabilitation
* Gesture for music and performing arts
* Gesture for education

=== Submission Procedure and Publication
Authors are encouraged to submit original scientific contributions to
GW 2009 in the form of extended abstracts of up to 2 pages. Abstract
headings must include title, authors, and keywords, according to
Springer formatting guidelines (see www.gw2009.de/submission.html).
Upon review and acceptance by the GW 2009 PC, authors will be asked to
present their work either orally, as a poster, or in form of a
technical demonstration (where applicable). Submitted abstracts must
be in English and should, to the extent possible, use language that
will be understood across disciplines i.e. avoids unnecessary jargon.
Submissions should be sent electronically in PDF to the following e-
mail address: gw2009 at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

Presenting authors will be invited after the workshop to submit a full
paper on the topic of their talk. All papers will be peer- reviewed
and compiled into a high-quality publication typically published by
Springer-Verlag (see www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ags/ wbski/GW).

=== Important Dates
Submission of extended abstracts: September 12, 2008
Notification of acceptance/rejection: October 15, 2008
Submission of final versions of extended abstracts: November 4, 2008
Workshop: February 25-27, 2009

==== About the Venue
GW 2009 will be held at the ZiF - the Center for Interdisciplinary
Research at Bielefeld University. Bielefeld is located in North
Germany on the flanks of the wooded hills of the Teutoburg Forest and
is easily reached by IC and ICE trains on the route Dortmund-
Hannover. The nearest airports with hourly train connections are
Hannover (115 km), Dortmund-Wickede (110 km), Duesseldorf (190 km),
and Frankfurt (320 km).


The GW organizing team
Stefan Kopp, Ipke Wachsmuth, Kirsten Bergmann


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:45:14 +0200
Subject: Conf: MMIES2 / COLING 2008 : Multi-source,
 Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization Workshop
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:18:31 +0100
From: saggion <H.Saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
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*** WORKSHOP DATE: 23rd August 2008 ***


http://doremi.cs.helsinki.fi/mmies2/

Workshop to be held in conjunction with

*** COLING 2008 ***
The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics

http://www.coling2008.org.uk/
Manchester, 18-22 August, 2008


THEME

The objective of The 2nd MMIES Workshop: Multi-source, Multilingual
Information Extraction and Summarization is to bring together
researchers and practitioners in the areas of extraction,
summarization, and other information access technologies, to discuss
recent approaches to multi-source and multi-lingual
challenges. Approaches to coping with the idiosyncratic nature of the
new Web2.0 media are especially welcome, including: mixed input, new
jargon, ungrammatical and mixed-language input, and emotional
discourse.


INVITED SPEAKER

Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield)


PROGRAMME

9:30–10:30 Invited speaker: Robert Gaizauskas
Generating Image Captions using Topic Focused Multi-document
Summarization

10:30-11:00 BREAK

*** 11:00 – 12:30 Named entity and lexical resources for IE and
summarization

11:00-11:30 Learning to match Names Across Languages (Inderjeet Mani,
Alex Yeh and Sherri Condon)

11:30-12:00 Automatic Construction of Domain-specific Dictionaries on
Sparse Parallel Corpora in the Nordic Languages (Sumithra Velupillai
and Hercules Dalianis)

12:00-12:30 Graph-Based Keyword Extraction for Single-Document
Summarization (Marina Litvak and Mark Last)

12:30-2:00 LUNCH

*** 2:00 – 3:30 Multi-document summarization

2:00-2:30 MultiSum: Query-Based Multi-Document Summarization (Mike
Rosner and Carl Camilleri)

2:30-3:00 Mixed-Source Multi-Document Speech-to-Text Summarization
(Ricardo Ribeiro and David Martins de Matos)

3:00:-3:30 Evaluating automatically generated user-focused
multi-document summaries for geo-referenced images (Ahmet Aker and
Robert Gaizauskas)

3:30-4:00 BREAK

*** 4:00 – 5:00 Applications

4:00-4:30 Licking inking similar news over time and across languages
(Bruno Pouliquen, Olivier Deguernel and Ralf Steinberger)

4:30-5:00 Automatic Annotation of Bibliographical References with
Target Language (Harald Hammarström)

5:00-5:30 Open discussion


ORGANIZERS

* Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India)
* Thierry Poibeau (CNRS / Université Paris 13, France)
* Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finland)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

* Javier Artiles (UNED, Spain)
* Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Nathalie Colineau (CSIRO, Australia)
* Nigel Collier (NII, Japan)
* Hercules Dalianis (KTH/Stockholm University, Sweden)
* Thierry Declerk (DFKI, Germany)
* Michel Généreux (LIPN-CNRS, France)
* Julio Gonzalo (UNED, Spain)
* Brigitte Grau (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
* Ralph Grishman (New York University, USA)
* Kentaro Inui (NAIST, Japan)
* Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
* Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal, Canada)
* Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Jean-Luc Minel (Modyco-CNRS, France)
* Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
* Cecile Paris (CSIRO, Australia)
* Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy)
* Bruno Pouliquen (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy)
* Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, France)
* Agnes Sandor (Xerox XRCE, France)
* Satoshi Sekine (New York University, USA)
* Ralf Steinberger (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy)
* Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada)
* Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft Research, USA)
* José Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:49:53 +0200
Subject: Ecole: Ecole d'Automne en Linguistique (ENS, Paris 16-25 sept.)
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.204953.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:51:50 +0200
From: retore <christian.retore at labri.fr>
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Je me permets de vous signaler la prochaine Ecole d'Automne de
Linguistique qui se tiendra (en anglais) à l'école normale supérieure
de Paris du 16 au 25 septembre. http://ealing.cognition.ens.fr/
ealing2008/web/PageAccueil 

Christian


EALing VI - Fall School in Linguistics 2008 

The Department of Cognitive Studies at the Paris Ecole Normale
Supérieure (ENS) with the support of the École Normale Supérieure
Foundation,the Euryi Project (Presupposition: A formal pragmatic
approach) funded by the European Science Foundation and the Research
Alliance Ecole Normale Supérieure-University College London
-Université Pierre et Marie Curie

organizes its sixth international Fall School in Linguistics (on  
the ''summer school'' model). The goal of this interdisciplinary  
Fall school is to provide exposure to linguistic theory and grammar  
based approaches to cognitive studies. Its content varies from year  
to year, but typically includes: * General non technical  
introductions to contemporary linguistic research * Intensive  
introductory courses to some core areas of linguistic theory or  
relevant domains * Seminars and talks on current research *  
Interaction between research in grammar and some related domains  
e.g. Psycholinguistics of Acquisition or of processing,  
Neurolinguistics, Experimental Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language/ 
Mind etc... Special events this year will include: A workshop on  
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, and Experimental Approaches will  
be held on Saturday September 20th. A poster session in which  
school participants can present their work will be organized. A  
call for abstracts detailing submissions guidelines will be issued  
shortly. This Fall school will be held at the Ecole Normale  
Superieure (45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris: see http://www.ens.fr, from  
Tuesday, September 16th to Thursday September the 25th included.  
Teachers and Lecturers will include: Klaus Abels - University  
College London
Adriana Belletti  - University of Siena
Richard Breheny - University College London
Robyn Carston - University College London
Guglielmo Cinque - University of Venice
Heather Ferguson - University College London
Bart Geurts - University of Nijmegen
Sabine Iatridou - MIT
Nathan Klinedinst - University College London
Geraldine Legendre - Johns Hopkins
Nausicaa Pouscoulous - University College London/Max Planck Insitute
Luigi Rizzi - University of Siena
Daniel Rothschild - Columbia University
Philippe Schlenker - Institut Jean Nicod; Ecole Normale Supérieure
Paul Smolensky Johns Hopkins University
Edward Stabler - UCLA
Arnim von Stechow - University of Tuebingen
Michael Tanenhaus - University of Rochester

All relevant information regarding: - the registration procedure -  
teaching and lecturing faculty - calendar of courses, seminars and  
lectures - abstract submissions for the poster session - lodging  
and other practical information will be posted and regularly  
updated on the EALing website: http://ealing.cognition.ens.fr  
Please address all correspondence to: Ernest Ulm <ealing at ens.fr>  
Note on registration: Registration fees: 95 Euros Space is limited.  
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:54:03 +0200
Subject: These: Marianna Apidianaki,
 Desambiguisation et la selection lexicale en traduction
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:23:53 -0300
From: Marianna Apidianaki <Marianna.Apidianaki at linguist.jussieu.fr>
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Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à la soutenance de ma thèse intitulée
"Acquisition automatique de sens pour la désambiguïsation et la
sélection lexicale en traduction" ainsi qu'au pot qui suivra.

La soutenance aura lieu le vendredi 5 septembre à partir de 14h, dans
la salle 134 (1er étage) de l'UFR de Linguistique de l'Université
Paris 7, au 30 rue du Château des Rentiers (Paris 13eme), devant le
jury suivant :

- Helge DYVIK, Professeur, Université de Bergen
- Catherine FUCHS, DR, CNRS-LaTTiCe (Directrice de thèse)
- Eric GAUSSIER, Professeur, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I
- Daniel KAYSER, Professeur, Université Paris Nord (Rapporteur)
- Philippe LANGLAIS, Professeur, Université de Montréal (Rapporteur)
- Elsa SKLAVOUNOU, Technical Account Manager, SYSTRAN

Cordialement,

Marianna APIDIANAKI
(LaTTiCe, Université Paris 7)


******

Résumé :

Le travail présenté dans cette thèse explore la question de
l’acquisition automatique de sens pour la désambiguïsation lexicale
dans un cadre de traduction. Partant de l’hypothèse du besoin de
conformité des inventaires sémantiques utilisés pour la
désambiguïsation dans le cadre d’applications précises, la
problématique du repérage des sens se situe dans un cadre bilingue et
le traitement s’oriente vers la traduction.

Nous proposons une méthode d’acquisition de sens permettant d’établir
des correspondances sémantiques de granularité variable entre les mots
de deux langues en relation de traduction. L’induction de sens est
effectuée par une combinaison d’informations distributionnelles et
traductionnelles extraites d’un corpus bilingue parallèle. La méthode
proposée étant à la fois non supervisée et entièrement fondée sur des
données, elle est, par conséquent, indépendante de la langue et permet
l’élaboration d’inventaires sémantiques relatifs aux domaines
représentés dans les corpus traités.

Les résultats de cette méthode sont exploités par une méthode de
désambiguïsation lexicale, qui attribue un sens à de nouvelles
instances de mots ambigus en contexte, et par une méthode de sélection
lexicale, qui propose leur traduction la plus adéquate. On propose
finalement une évaluation pondérée des résultats de désambiguïsation
et de sélection lexicale, en nous fondant sur l’inventaire construit
par la méthode d’acquisition de sens.


Abstract :

This study explores the question of automatic sense acquisition for
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in a translation context. On the basis
of the need for conformity of the methods and sense inventories used
for disambiguation to the requirements of specific applications, the
question of sense identification is situated here in a bilingual
context and the processing is oriented towards translation.

A sense induction method is proposed which permits the establishment
of semantic correspondences of varying granularity between the words
of two languages in translation relation. Sense acquisition is done by
combining distributional and translation information extracted from a
bilingual parallel corpus. Being unsupervised and fully data-driven,
the proposed method is language-independent and enables the
elaboration of sense inventories relevant to the domains represented
in the corpus.

The results of this method are exploited by a WSD method, which
assigns a sense to new instances of ambiguous words in context, and by
a lexical selection method, which suggests their most adequate
translation. Finally, we provide a weighted evaluation of the
disambiguation and lexical selection results which relies on the sense
inventory built by the sense induction method.


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:58:44 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, lundi 8 septembre 2008 (Helge Dyvik)
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:00:50 +0200
From: Benoit Crabbé <bcrabbe at linguist.jussieu.fr>
Message-ID: <1219086050.48a9c6e22a3f6 at imp.linguist.jussieu.fr>
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******************* Séminaire Alpage *******************

        Séminaire de l'école doctorale de Paris 7

Il s'agit du séminaire de recherche en linguistique informatique
organisé par l'équipe Alpage, Alpage est une nouvelle équipe mixte
Inria -- Paris 7 issue de la fusion des équipes Atoll et Talana.
L'équipe centre ses intérêts scientifiques autour de l'analyse
syntaxique automatique et du traitement du discours pour la langue
française.

Ce séminaire remplace l'ancien séminaire Talana. Il se tient le lundi
de 14.30 à 16.30 tous les 15 jours.
Il a lieu en salle 131 au 30 rue du Chateau des Rentiers 75013 Paris
(premier étage)

Toute personne intéressée est la bienvenue.

*************************************************************
Lundi 8 septembre 2008 Helge Dyvik (Univ. Bergen, Norvege)

nous parlera de :

Deep Grammars in Hybrid Machine Translation

Resume :

The topic of the talk is a proof-of-concept machine translation
demonstrator translating tourism-related texts from Norwegian into
English. The system is developed within a project called LOGON
(http://www.emmtee.net/) in cooperation between groups at the
universities of Bergen, Oslo and Trondheim. It is a hybrid transfer
system in which the backbone is rule-based, with statistical
processing interspersed. The Norwegian analysis is performed by a
comprehensive Norwegian Lexical-Functional grammar developed on the
Xerox Linguistic Environment (XLE) platform, in conjunction with
morphological analysis and other modules. The grammar is augmented
with a Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) component, whose
representations are the input to transfer. An unusual feature of the
system is that it combines two grammatical models: the English target
grammar is the English Resource Grammar (ERG), which is based on the
HPSG framework. Statistical processing is responsible for parse
selection, ranking of transfer outputs, and ranking of generator
outputs.

The presentation will focus on the analysis component of the system,
including LFG grammar development, the development of the MRS
component, and the development of a treebank tool called a 'Parse
Banker', which is a discriminant-based system for selecting the
desired analysis efficiently in treebank construction. The Parse
Banker was used to produce training material for the derivation of the
statistical model for parse selection.


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http://alpage.inria.fr/seminaire.fr.html
Cursus Linguistique informatique de Paris 7 :
http://li.linguist.jussieu.fr

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:56:03 +0200
Subject: Conf: TAMA CANADA 2008,
 Terminology in Advanced Management Applications, 9-10 oct.,
 Gatineau, CANADA
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:07:13 +0200
From: <bnajera at termnet.org>
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Dear colleagues,

TermNet is proud to present its forthcoming International Conference
TAMA 2008 in CANADA, 9-10 October, Gatineau

TAMA (Terminology in Advanced Management Applications) is TermNet´s
business-oriented international conference where renowned
representatives from the terminology community converge to discuss the
latest trends and technologies emerging in this field.  This year,
TermNet has organized the event in collaboration with the following
partners:


- Translation Bureau (Government of Canada);
- Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO);
- Association de l'industrie de la langue / Language Industry
  Association (AILIA). 

The theme for 2008 is Quality, Standards and Technology: Terminology's
Future.

TAMA will be held on October 9 & 10, 2008, at the UQO in Gatineau,
Canada, as one of the highlights of the Terminology Week from 1-10
October 2008.

For more information please refer to:
http://www.uqo.ca/tamacanada2008/index.php
Please send us your inquiries to tama2008 at uqo.ca
We hope to see you all there!
Best regards,

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:03:31 +0200
Subject: Revue: Applied Ontology,
 Special Issue Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelling
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:08:15 +0200 (CEST)
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Special Issue Applied Ontology out now:
Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelling
Guest-edited by Giancarlo Guizzardi and Terry Halpin

The objective of this issue is to collect innovative and high-quality
research contributions regarding the role played by formal ontology,
philosophical logics, cognitive sciences and linguistics to the
foundations of conceptual modeling. The issue should be of interest to
several academic communities, including primarily the communities of
applied ontology and conceptual modeling, but also the ones of
database and information systems design, knowledge engineering,
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particular domain and requirements engineering), natural-language
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:01:05 +0200
Subject: ATALA: En hommage a Rose DIENG-KUNTZ
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.210105.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:05:43 +0200
From: "Segond, Frederique" <Frederique.Segond at xrce.xerox.com>
Message-ID: <FE4C3A2704112F4B8FCD916BBDDA33E70410E1D2 at luberon.xrce.xeroxlabs.com>


	De retour de vacances j'apprends la très triste nouvelle du
	décès de Rose.

	La notoriété de Rose était immense et nombreux sont les sites,
	les journaux qui ont retracé son parcours. Ce n'est pas mon
	propos.

	La première fois que j'ai contacté Rose, c'était par courrier
	électronique pour lui demander des conseils d'ordre
	professionnel. J'étais intimidée par sa notoriété. Elle m'a
	tout de suite appelée et a fait preuve d'une très grande
	gentillesse alors qu'elle ne me connaissait pas. J'ai eu, par
	la suite, la chance de travailler avec elle dans différents
	contextes européens. Chaque fois, j'ai été impressionnée par
	son savoir, sa rigueur, son humanité, sa force et tout cela
	sans jamais aucune arrogance.

	La nouvelle de sa mort m'a fortement émue.

	L'ATALA, dont j'ai l'honneur d'être présidente, s'occupe de
	traitement automatique du langage naturel ; Rose s'occupait de
	représentation des connaissances. Ces deux domaines
	thématiquement connexes n'ont fait que se rapprocher avec avec
	la montée en puissance du web sémantique si cher à Rose.

	Nombreux sont les membres de l'ATALA qui ont connu, travaillé
	et apprécié tant la chercheuse que la femme. Notre communauté
	perd une grande et belle figure scientifique et humaine. Les
	membres de l'ATALA ont été affectés par son décès et se
	joignent à moi pour dire à ses proches leur tristesse et
	surtout leur admiration pour Rose.

	
	Frederique Segond,  Presidente de l'ATALA

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:08:12 +0200
Subject: Appel: Revue CORPUS numero 8
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:31:05 +0200
From: Sylvie Mellet <mellet at unice.fr>
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Appel à contributions :

CORPUS, numéro 8, à paraître en novembre 2009.

Thème :
« Corpus de textes, textes en corpus : concepts, méthodes et travaux ».


Responsables :
  Jean-Michel Adam (Jean-Michel.Adam at unil.ch)
  Jean-Marie Viprey (jean-marie.viprey at univ-fcomte.fr)

Calendrier :
- réception des propositions d'article (déclaration d’intention,
  titre, résumé d’une page maximum): avant le 1er décembre 2008
- réponse indicative du comité de lecture: 5 janvier 2009
- version provisoire complète soumise à relecture: 25 avril 2009
- retour du comité avec avis (acceptation/rejet/révision): 30 mai 2009
- version définitive à remettre: 31 juillet 2009
- publication papier : octobre 2009
- publication électronique : juin 2010


Texte de cadrage :

Depuis dix ans au moins, la pratique des corpus de textes précède
constamment sa théorisation. La numérisation des documents "anciens"
(i.e. datant d'avant la micro-informatique), l'état numérique initial
des documents "nouveaux", l'amélioration des conditions de stockage et
d'exploration des données, l'apparition d'environnements logiciels
dédiés ont généralisé le recours à l'ordinateur pour se confronter aux
textes et les confronter entre eux, notamment dans l'optique où ils
constituent l'accès privilégié aux matérialités des discours.  Dans ce
moment et ce mouvement, texte et corpus sont ébranlés jusque dans
leurs fondements définitionnels. Deux champs disciplinaires des
sciences du langage encore très jeunes, linguistique de corpus et
linguistique textuelle, sont dans une redistribution permanente de
leurs attendus respectifs et de leurs frontières.

Ce numéro de Corpus a pour objectif de contribuer à une mise en 
perspective et à d'indispensables stabilisations sur ces thèmes.

Nous souhaitons mettre en regard

- des essais de synthèse critique et épistémologique sur le rapport
  des concepts de texte et de corpus, essais fondés sur un effort de
  recension et d'état des lieux, internationaux ou concernant un grand
  domaine langagier (francophonie, univers anglo-saxon ou hispanique,
  extrême-oriental ou arabophone);

- des contributions de bilan et perspectives rendant compte de la
  construction et de la mise à l'épreuve de méthodes d'analyse
  textuelle en corpus orientée vers l'élucidation du discours et/ou la
  construction d'archives en sciences humaines

- des travaux plus circonscrits sur corpus, mais présentés dans la
  perspective critique du numéro, c'est-à-dire exposant la réflexion
  des auteurs sur l'évolution de leur approche du texte sous l'impact
  de leur processus de recherche, notamment sous l'impact de
  l'appareillage logiciel employé et éventuellement modifié en vue de
  la constitution, du stockage, de l'échange et de l'exploration des
  données.

Les grandes questions auxquelles nous voudrions que ce numéro réponde
sont :

- Quel est l'impact de la mise en corpus sur le statut et la
  perception du texte antérieurement défini comme unité globale, comme
  tout cohérent et auto-suffisant ?

- Dans quelle mesure le texte est-il amené à incorporer des éléments
  jusqu'ici désignés comme plus ou moins "extérieurs" à lui
  (paratexte, péritexte, épitexte, intertexte, hypertexte...), et
  comment les chercheurs gèrent-ils ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler en
  conséquence l'"ouvert" du texte ?

- Dans ce cadre, quelles solutions théoriques et pratiques se
  présentent-elles pour gérer la variation textuelle, que ce soit dans
  la perspective de l'établissement, de l'exploration/lecture, ou des
  mesures statistiques ?

- Que faire de la "philologie numérique", peut-on et doit-on
  normaliser les procédures d'établissement des ressources textuelles,
  pourquoi et comment ?

- Quelle terminologie sont amenés à mettre en place les chercheurs
  confrontés à la nécessité de définir leurs objets dans le cadre de
  l'analyse textuelle sur corpus : texte, document, archive, énoncé,
  discours, base, corpus, sous-corpus, section, unité, segment,
  partition.... ?

- Comment se construit une interprétation dans le cours d'une étude
  menée sur corpus, et comment s'équilibre dans cette optique le
  rapport entre texte et corpus; peut-on formuler des principes
  généraux voire théoriques de cette articulation ?

- Jusqu'où est-il vrai que le travail sur corpus informatisé assure
  une suspension de l'activité interprétative et diverses autres
  modifications "déontiques" des conditions de la critique en sciences
  humaines ?

- Quel impact ces nouvelles orientations et ce foisonnement empiriques
  sont-ils susceptibles d'avoir sur la mesure statistique et sur
  l'intérêt qu'elle suscite ?

Ces questions ne définissent en aucun cas un "plan" du numéro, elles
devraient toutes se poser à un degré variable à chaque contributeur..
En revanche, une question centrale nous guidera : qu'est-ce qui a
changé, de manière significative, dans notre pratique critique des
textes au long de cette montée en force du corpus conçu comme
op-position d'un matériau langagier ?

Les propositions d'articles doivent être envoyées par courrier
électronique à chacun des deux responsables du numéro (voir
ci-dessus).


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:41:10 +0200
Subject: Conf: FG 08
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:07:14 +0200
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 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (deadline for early registration is July 18):
************************************************
FG-2008: The 13th Conference on Formal Grammar
************************************************

Hamburg, Germany, August 9-10, 2008
http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/fg08/

Collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information

 FG-2008 is the 13th conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in
conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information, which takes place in 2008 in Hamburg, Germany. Previous
Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996),
Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki
(2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005),
Malaga (2006) and Dublin (2007).


 Aims and Scope:

 FG provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research
on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of
formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural
language. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,

   - formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics
     and pragmatics;
   - model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
   - logical aspects of linguistic structure;
   - constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
   - learnability of formal grammar;
   - integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;
   - foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar;
   - mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic
     analysis.

Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide
variety of frameworks.


Program:

Saturday, August 9th

   - 9.30 a.m. - 9.40 a.m. opening
   - 9.40 a.m. - 10.40 a.m. Invited talk: Philipp Koehn
   - *coffee*
   - 11.10 a.m. - 11.50 a.m. Geoffrey Pullum and Hans-Jörg Tiede:
     Inessential Features and Expressive Power of Descriptive
     Metalanguages
   - 11.50 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Yael Sygal and Shuly Wintner: Type
     Signature Modules.
   - *lunch*
   - 2.30 p.m. - 3.10 p.m. Wolfgang Maier and Anders Søgaard:
     Treebanks and mild context-sensitivity.
   - 3.10 p.m. - 3.50 p.m. Stephan Kepser: A Landscape of Logics for
     Finite Unordered Unranked Trees.
   - *coffee*
   - 4.20 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Anne Bjerre and Tavs Bjerre: Danish
     there-constructions with intransitive verbs

 Sunday August 10th

   - 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Invited talk: Markus Egg
   - *coffee*
   - 11.00 a.m. - 11.40 a.m. Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen and Mary
     D. Swift:
     Toward a Universal Underspecified Semantic Representation.
   - 11.40 a.m. - 12.20 p.m. Alain Lecomte: Semantics in
     Minimalist-Categorial Grammars12.20 p.m. 
   - 12.30 p.m. closing

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:38:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: LATA 2009, 2nd call for papers
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:13:29 +0200
From: <carlos.martin at urv.cat>
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X-url: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/
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Apologies for multiple posting!

Please, forward the announcement to whoever may be interested in it.

Thanks.

*********************************************************************

Second Call for Papers

3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS (LATA 2009)

Tarragona, Spain, April 2-8, 2009

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/

*********************************************************************

AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its
applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal
Languages and Applications that was developed at the host institute in
the period 2002-2006, LATA 2009 will reserve significant room for
young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at
attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and
application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language
technology, artificial intelligence, etc.).

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

- algebraic language theory
- algorithms on automata and words
- automata and logic
- automata for system analysis and programme verification
- automata, concurrency and Petri nets
- biomolecular nanotechnology
- cellular automata
- circuits and networks
- combinatorics on words
- computability
- computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized
  complexity
- data and image compression
- decidability questions on words and languages
- digital libraries
- DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
- document engineering
- extended automata
- foundations of finite state technology
- fuzzy and rough languages
- grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional,
  unification, categorial, etc.)
- grammars and automata architectures
- grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
- graphs and graph transformation
- language varieties and semigroups
- language-based cryptography
- language-theoretic foundations of natural language processing,
  artificial intelligence and artificial life
- mathematical evolutionary genomics
- parsing
- patterns and codes
- power series
- quantum, chemical and optical computing
- regulated rewriting
- string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and
  bioinformatics
- symbolic dynamics
- symbolic neural networks
- term rewriting
- text algorithms
- text retrieval, pattern matching and pattern recognition
- transducers
- trees, tree languages and tree machines
- weighted machines

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2009 will consist of:

- 3 invited talks
- 2 invited tutorials
- refereed contributions
- open sessions for discussion in specific subfields or on
  professional issues (if requested by the participants)

Invited speakers will be:

Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux): Graph Structure and Monadic Second-order
Logic (tutorial)

Markus Holzer (Muenchen): Nondeterministic Finite Automata: Recent
Developments (tutorial)

Sanjay Jain (Singapore): Role of Hypothesis Spaces in Inductive
Inference

Kai Salomaa (Kingston, Canada): State Complexity of Nested Word
Automata

Thomas Zeugmann (Sapporo): Recent Developments in Algorithmic Teaching


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Parosh Abdulla (Uppsala)
Stefania Bandini (Milano)
Stephen Bloom (Hoboken)
John Brzozowski (Waterloo)
Maxime Crochemore (London)
Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Michael Domaratzki (Winnipeg)
Henning Fernau (Trier)
Rusins Freivalds (Riga)
Vesa Halava (Turku)
Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich)
Lucian Ilie (London, Canada)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto)
Aravind Joshi (Philadelphia)
Juhani Karhumaki (Turku)
Jarkko Kari (Turku)
Claude Kirchner (Bordeaux)
Maciej Koutny (Newcastle)
Hans-Joerg Kreowski (Bremen)
Kamala Krithivasan (Chennai)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Andrzej Lingas (Lund)
Aldo de Luca (Napoli)
Rupak Majumdar (Los Angeles)
Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona & Brussels, chair)
Joachim Niehren (Lille)
Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
Joerg Rothe (Duesseldorf)
Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw)
Philippe Schnoebelen (Cachan)
Thomas Schwentick (Dortmund)
Helmut Seidl (Muenchen)
Alan Selman (Buffalo)
Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo)
Ludwig Staiger (Halle)
Frank Stephan (Singapore)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Madalina Barbaiani
Gemma Bel-Enguix
Cristina Bibire
Adrian-Horia Dediu
Szilard-Zsolt Fazekas
Armand-Mihai Ionescu
M. Dolores Jimenez-Lopez
Alexander Krassovitskiy
Guangwu Liu
Carlos Martin-Vide (chair)
Zoltan-Pal Mecsei
Robert Mercas
Catalin-Ionut Tirnauca
Bianca Truthe
Sherzod Turaev
Florentina-Lilica Voicu

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and
unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages
and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer
Verlag's LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). Submissions
have to be uploaded at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2009

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will
be available by the time of the conference.

Two special issues of the journals Information and Computation
(Elsevier, 2007 impact factor: 0.983) and Journal of Logic and
Computation (Oxford University Press, 2007 impact factor: 0.821)
containing extended versions of selected papers will be published
after the conference.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration will be open since September 1, 2008 to
April 2, 2009. The registration form can be found at the website of
the conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/

Early registration fees: 450 euros
Early registration fees (PhD students): 225 euros
Registration fees: 540 euros
Registration fees (PhD students): 270 euros

At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have
a registered author by December 31, 2008 will be excluded from the
proceedings.

Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings
volume, and coffee breaks. For the participation in the full-day
excursion and conference lunch on Sunday April 5, the amount of 70
euros is to be added to the fees above: accompanying persons are
welcome at the same rate.

PAYMENT:

Early registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before December
31, 2008 to the conference account at Open Bank (Plaza Manuel Gomez
Moreno 2, 28020 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES1300730100510403506598 - Swift
code: OPENESMMXXX (account holder: LATA 2009 – Carlos Martin-Vide).

(Non-early) registration fees can be paid either by bank transfer to
the same account or in cash on site.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the
registration form at the website of the conference. A receipt for the
payment will be provided on site.

FUNDING:

Up to 20 grants covering partial-board accommodation will be available
for nonlocal PhD students. To apply, candidates must e-mail their CV
together with a copy of the document proving their present status as a
PhD student.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: October 22, 2008
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 10, 2008
Application for funding (PhD students): December 15, 2008
Notification of funding acceptance or rejection: December 19, 2008
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: December 24, 2008
Early registration: December 31, 2008
Starting of the conference: April 2, 2009
Submission to the journal special issues: June 22, 2009

FURTHER INFORMATION:

carlos.martin at urv.cat

ADDRESS:

LATA 2009
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Plaza Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-559597


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:42:30 +0200
Subject: Appel: LSA-TEL'09
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:24:33 +0200
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Apologies for cross-posting

*************************************FIRST CALL FOR PROPOSALS:  
16/07/08*************************************************

                              LSA-TEL'09

Second European Workshop on Latent Semantic Analysis in Technology-
Enhanced Learning

March 25-26, 2009, Grenoble, France
__
IMPORTANT DATES
     *October 27th, 2008:   Deadline for submission.
     *December 1st, 2008: Notification of acceptance.
     *January 15th, 2009:   Camera ready papers due date.
__
AIM & TOPICS

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has been successfully deployed in
various educational applications to enrich learning and teaching with
information-technology. The primary goal of the workshop is to bring
together experts in the field in order to share knowledge gained
within the distributed research about latent semantic analysis in
educational applications (either from the context of the IST projects
Cooper, iCamp, TenCompetence, Cooper and ProLearn, or from computer/
cognitive scientists involved in LSA-based research). The topics of
this workshop relate on the educational technology applications of LSA
(e.g., Automated Essay Scoring) and the methodological issues raised
by this technique (e.g., corpus composition). The second edition of
this workshop, two years after the first one held at Heerlen (OUNL),
has the aim to continue the coverage of these topics, with a new
emphasis on cognitive simulation. This second edition emerges from the
joint effort of the participants of the european project LTfLL
(Learning Technologies for LifeLong Learning).

Topics should cover, but not be restricted, to
* Educational technology applications of LSA, such as:
    * Automated essay scoring & grading, Summarization & writing  
      assistance
    * Feedback generation, Tutoring & Tutor support, Question
      answering
    * Learner modelling, Enriching user profiles, Peer finding &  
      community formation
    * Positioning & Placement of Learners
    * Selection & Sequencing of Content
    * Protocol analysis, Knowledge gap analysis, Task analysis

* Methodological issues for LSA in Educational Technology, such as:
    * Corpus composition & preparation (sanitising, filtering,  
      selection, seeding, domain modelling, ...)
    * Optimisation of analysis and queries
    * Statistical properties
    * Combining LSA with other techniques
    * Evaluation and Validation of LSA

* Cognitive Modelling using LSA, such as:
    * Knowledge acquisition
    * Language acquisition and development
    * Measure of semantic relatedness
    * Cognitive architectures
    * Activity modelling
    * Cognitive corpora

COMMITTEES
Program Committee
    * Jean-Yves Antoine (University of Tours, France)
    * Gaston Burek (Tuebingen University, Germany)
    * Philippe Dessus (University of Grenoble, France)
    * Arthur C. Graesser (University of Memphis, USA)
    * Kurt Hornik (Vienna University, Austria)
    * Mathieu Lafourcade (University Montpellier, France)
    * Benoît Lemaire (University of Grenoble, France)
    * Danielle S. McNamara (University of Memphis, USA)
    * Paola Monachesi (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
    * Traian Rebedea (UPB, Roumania)
    * Stefan Trausan-Matu (UPB, Roumania)
    * Jan van Bruggen (OUNL, The Netherlands)
    * Peter van Rosmalen (OUNL, The Netherlands)
    * Fridolin Wild (Vienna University, Austria)
    * Virginie Zampa (University of Grenoble, France)

Organisational Committee
    * Philippe Dessus (LSE, UPMF & IUFM, Grenoble, France)
    * Benoît Lemaire (TIMC-IMAG, UJF, Grenoble, France)
    * Sonia Mandin (LSE, UPMF & IUFM, Grenoble, France)
    * Virginie Zampa (LIDILEM, Univ. Stendhal, Grenoble, France)

KEYNOTE
     *Jose Quesada, Max Planck Institute for Human Development,  
      Berlin, Germany.

SUBMISSION TYPES
     *Official language for both papers and talks: English.
Submissions are expected in the following two formats. They should
describe substantial and unpublished work.

    * Full Papers: Papers should be maximum 6 pages in length (about
4,000 words), using an IEEE stylesheet. PDF, MS-Word are accepted. PDF
is preferred for submisssion.

    * Posters: For reviewing purposes, posters are submitted as short
papers (2 pages-long, up to 1,500 word-long) using the same stylesheet
than full papers. After acceptance, authors will have to design a
poster for presenting the content of their research.

VENUE

     *MSH-Alpes, Grenoble University, France:
      http://www.msh-alpes.prd.fr/Acces/plan-msh-upmf.htm

Contact: lsa-tel at upmf-grenoble.fr
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:43:32 +0200
Subject: Job: Chef de projet GED, Sesin
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:45:49 +0000
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Poste : Chef de projet (H/F)

Rattaché(e) à la Direction des Projets, vous êtes le moteur et le
responsable au quotidien de l'état d'avancement des projets. En
relation avec le service Développement pour réaliser les logiciels,
vous assurerez la gestion du projet en respectant les coûts, veillerez
au respect du planning, des délais, du cahier des charges et des
contraintes techniques.

Profil

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connaissances techniques en informatique), autonome et dynamique, vous
maîtrisez l'anglais technique ; la maîtrise de l'anglais parlé est un
plus.

Déplacements ponctuels.Poste de cadre en CDI, 35 heures.

Lieu : Paris
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:45:55 +0200
Subject: Job: Research position, learning sciences,
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:31:14 +0200
From: Gudrun Ziegler <gudrun.ziegler at web.de>
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X-url: http://www.lcmi.uni.lu
X-url: http://www.cr.rockhal.lu/fr/agenda/2008/10/multi-SPACES_08/index.php
X-url: http://www.dica-lab.org
X-url: http://precis.berkeley.edu/
X-url: http://multi-learn.uni.lu


Dear collegues, chers collegues, liebe Kollegen,

please transmit to the potentially interested, regards, Gudrun  
Ziegler





PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT (position to be published within the next weeks,
www.uni.lu/jobs))



50%/100% Researcher Position

Junior (MA) and/or Senior (PhD) researcher level

in the field of the Learning Sciences

specializing in discourse/interactional linguistics and/or science
education/learning and/or multi-media/IT and learning with a strong
focus on the multilingual/multi-modal dimensions of knowledge
construction (Project: CODI-SCILE-A)



Full-time and/or part-time (40h/week and/or 20h/week)



Planned starting time: November 2008 (end of contract October 2011)



Contributing to the UL's Priority "Building Excellence in Education",
the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education
(LSHASE) hosts the Unit for Sociocultural Research on Learning and
Development with the group DICA-lab being particularly active in the
field of medial, plurilingual and multi- modal learning.

The project "Competences for organizing discourse-in-interaction &
science learning" (CODI-SCILE-A) specifically focuses on scientific
knowledge construction by children (age 4 - 8) as
discourse-in-interaction practices, features and formats with regard
to the multi-modal, multi-medial and multi-lingual quality of
resources deployed and taken up by the learners.

The project team is looking for a highly motivated, internationally
experienced researcher (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in the field of the
learning sciences with a proven record as regards the integration,
set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific
projects. Experiences with the creative-/media- industries (e.g.,
interface design, learning media) and/or schooling institutions an
asset.



The successful candidate/s hold/s a relevant degree (MA-level or
doctorate (PhD)) in one of the following fields, relevant to the
project: educational sciences, (multi-modal/multi-medial)
communication and information technology, interactional studies,
learning (including human/machine), applied linguistics, science
learning, activity/socio-cultural theory.

Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as regards
the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ interactional
data are required, prior experiences in collecting and integrating
situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are an asset.

Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources,
socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific domain
(e.g., science) or a specific age group (e.g., pre-primary/ primary)
represent an advantage.



The candidate(s) will join the project CODI-SCILE-A (Prof. Dr.  Max,
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Ziegler) within the DICA-lab working group of the Unit
for Sociocultural Research on Learning and Development (Research Unit
LCM. Language, Culture, Media and Identities, http://www.lcmi.uni.lu ;
www.dica-lab.org).



As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data
covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent
command of at least two of the following languages: German and/or
French/English (written and spoken), Luxembourgish and/or a further
Romance language an asset. Advanced level of using learning platforms
and other interactional IT-/medial devices an asset. Excellent
self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage into active
team-management a prerequisite, intercultural, technical and
interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a
challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young
University are prerequisites for this position.




Candidates should submit the following documents, by October 1st, 2008
(upon official publicaiton of the position via www.uni.lu/ jobs):

-      letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ 
interests to the position within the project

-      curriculum vitae

-      record of publications and projects (if applicable)

-      copies of diploma(s)

-      two references (relevant to the position)



For further information as regards the project please contact:

Prof. Dr. Charles Max

Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9413

or

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler

Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363

Mail: gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu







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Join in for the next multi-lingual, multi-modal learning performance
- multi-SPACES '08 - VJ-ing Night @ Rockhal -
http://www.cr.rockhal.lu/fr/agenda/2008/10/multi-SPACES_08/index.php

Out now - CALL for PAPERS - International Conference - Learning '08
- Methodologies and Practices for Approaching Learning as a Social  
Phenomenon -
http://www.dica-lab.org

Vient de paraître:
Zarate, G.; Lévy, D.; Kramsch, C. (eds.):
- Précis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme -
http://precis.berkeley.edu/

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Find out more about the
- Master - Learning & Development in Multilingual and  
Multicultural Contexts (MA multi-LEARN) -
http://multi-learn.uni.lu

Ass.-Professor Dr. Gudrun Ziegler
Faculty of Language & Literature, Humanities, Arts & Education

Send to: University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, Route de  
Diekrich, L-7201 Luxembourg
Call: 00352 46 66 44 93 63
Mail to: gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu AND gudrun.ziegler at web.de

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:49:50 +0200
Subject: Info: Recherche participants pour une collecte de SMS
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:16:53 +0200
From: Victoria Arranz <arranz at elda.org>
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X-url: http://www.smscollecte.fr/
X-url: http://www.elda.org
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***********************************************************

*Recherche participants pour une collecte de SMS*


Afin de constituer une base de données sur des messages textuels, SMS,
dans le cadre d'un projet qui servira à la création d'outils de
communication SMS, ELDA (Agence pour la Distribution des ressources
Linguistiques et l'Evaluation) recherche 1000 participants entre 15 et
60 ans (hommes et femmes).

Chaque participant procèdera à la saisie de messages SMS en se
connectant au site Internet dédié à la collecte. Seul l'accès à
Internet est requis (pas de déplacement).

La tâche consiste à réaliser 10 messages SMS pour chacun des scénarios
proposés.

 _Conditions_ :                 *Être de langue maternelle française.*

                                *Hommes et femmes entre 15 et 60 ans*..

 Si vous êtes intéressé(e), connectez-vous au site dés maintenant pour
vous inscrire et participer à la collecte :

* _Site :_              www.smscollecte.fr <http://www.smscollecte.fr/>*

*
*Les participants à cette collecte aideront à améliorer les
 technologies de communication  et à faire progresser la recherche
 scientifique. En remerciement de leur participation, ils recevront un
 chèque de 10 euros.


Pour tout complément d'information, vous pouvez nous contacter à
l'adresse suivante :

_Contact _:          smscollecte at elda.org



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Head of Department
Language Resource Identification and Distribution
ELDA / ELRA
55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin 
75013 Paris - FRANCE

Tel.:+33 1 43 13 33 31 (direct)
Fax:+33 1 43 13 33 30

Homepages: 		http://www.elda.org / http://www.elra.info
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:47:21 +0200
Subject: Appel: WWW2009, 18th Int. World Wide Web Conference,
 20-24 April 2009, Madrid, Spain
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:14:10 +0200
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 [Apologies for cross-posting]    

[Please, distribute it to those who might be interested]

 

********************************************************************

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                               WWW2009

              18th International World Wide Web Conference 

                   April 20 - 24, 2009, Madrid, Spain

                            http://www2009.org

********************************************************************

 

WWW2009 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the
Web.

Papers may be submitted to the following tracks:

 

* Data Mining

* Internet Monetization

* Performance and Scalability

* Rich Media

* Search

* Security and Privacy

* Semantic / Data Web

* Social Networks and Web 2.0

* User Interfaces and Mobile Web

* Web Engineering

* XML and Web Data

 

In addition, the conference solicits original research papers to the
following alternate tracks:

 

* Industrial Practice and Experience

* WWW in Ibero-America

 

IMPORTANT DATES

---------------

Refereed papers due: November 3, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii Time; no
extensions will be granted)

Acceptance Notification:   January 20, 2009 

Conference dates:  April 20 - 24, 2009

 

OTHER SUBMISSION DEADLINES

--------------------------

 

Workshops: October 10th, 2008

Tutorials: November 30th, 2008

Panels: December 21st, 2008

Posters: January 11th, 2009

Developers track: February 2nd, 2009

 

Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work
and can be up to 10 pages in length. Papers should properly place the
work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the
innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We
will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under
review for or has already been published or accepted for publication
in a journal or another conference.

 

All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from an
International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in online
proceedings published by the ACM Digital Library and the conference's
web site. The Program Committee will select a small number of
excellent papers for fast-track journal publication in the ACM
Transactions on the Web.

 

Authors of accepted papers will retain proprietary rights to their
work, but will be required to sign a copyright release form to
IW3C2. Detailed formatting and submission requirements are available
at http://www2009.org/submission.html.

 

The WWW2009 program will also include Tutorials and Workshops, Panels,
a W3C track, a Developers track, Posters, and Exhibitions. See
http://www2009.org/calls.html for details.

 

General Chairs:

    * Juan Quemada, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

    * Gonzalo Leon, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

 

Program Chairs

    * Yoelle Maarek, Google Inc. (Israel) 

    * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and Hannover University (Germany)

 

Local Organizing Committee Chair 

    * Joan Vinyes, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

 

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:45:49 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI,
 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals (deadline Monday September
 1st)
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:17:00 +0200
From: retore <retore at labri.fr>
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                         ESSLLI
        Monday, 20 July -- Friday, 31 July 2009
                    Bordeaux, France
        Call for Course and Workshop Proposals
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI)
is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and
Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around
Europe.
The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics,
logic and computation.  ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and
advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of
topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation,
Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation.
Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to
500 students from Europe and elsewhere.  The school has developed into
an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and
researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic,
Language and Information.


*** Call for Course and Workshop Proposals ***

The ESSLLI 2009 Program Committee invites proposals for
foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops
for the 21st annual Summer School in the broad interdisciplinary
area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the
cognitive sciences.
The Summer School program is organized around the components:

* Language and Computation
* Language and Logic
* Logic and Computation.

We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these
three categories. All proposals should be submitted no later than:

Monday, September 1, 2008.

Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's
decision no later than:

Wednesday October 15, 2008.

Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2009.


*** Guidelines for Submission ***

Anyone interested in lecturing a course or organizing a workshop
during ESSLLI-2009, should follow the guidelines below, and those
on the website, while preparing a submission. Proposals that
deviate can not be considered.
Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers, and workshops are
organized by 1 or max. 2 organizers. Lecturers and organizers
should have obtained a PhD in their field at the time of the
proposal. Courses and workshops last a week and consist of five
sessions, of 90 minutes each. Lecturers who want to offer a long,
two-week, course should submit two independent one-week courses.
The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of
the two proposed courses.


*** Foundational Courses ***

These are strictly elementary courses not assuming any background
knowledge.  They are intended for people to get acquainted with
the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they
should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key
competences of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the
development of a truly interdisciplinary research community.
Foundational courses may presuppose some experience with scientific
methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on the issues that
are germane to the area of the course.


*** Introductory Courses ***

Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer
School.  They are intended to equip students and young researchers
with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques.
Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation,
can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an
introductory course in computational linguistics should address
an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and
computation.  Proposals for introductory courses should indicate
the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the
area (if available).


*** Advanced Courses ***

Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced
Masters or PhD students.  Proposals for advanced courses
should specify the prerequisites in detail.


*** Workshops ***

Next to the courses there is room for a number of workshops.
The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced
Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their
work.  Workshops should have a well defined theme, and workshop
organizers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop.
Organizers are required to give a general introduction to the
theme of the workshop during the first session.  They are also
responsible for the organization and program of the workshop
including inviting the submission of papers, setting up a
program committee, reviewing, expenses of invited speakers, etc.
In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for
sending out a first Call for Papers for the workshop by November
17, 2008. The call must make it clear that the workshop is
open to all members of the ESSLLI community.  It should also note that
all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School.
Important dates are:

* Nov 17, 08 & Call for Workshop Papers
* Feb 15, 09 & Deadline for Submissions
* Apr 15, 09 & Notification
* June 1, 09 & Deadline for Proceedings

Workshop speakers will be required to register for the
Summer School; they are entitled to the reduced student
rate.


*** Proposals Format ***

The submission form at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2009

will require you to submit the following information:

* Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer)
* Address (contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer;
email, phone, fax, homepage)
* Title (title of proposed course/workshop)
* Type (is this a workshop, a foundational course, an introductory
course, or an advanced course? If a course is introductory or
advanced, what are the prerequisites?)
* Section (does your proposal fit in Language & Computation,
Language & Logic or Logic & Computation?)
* Description (describe the proposed contents of the course,
outline the program, and substantiate timeliness and relevance
to ESSLLI in at most one page a4)
* External funding (will you be able to find external funding to
help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if so, how?)
* Further particulars (any other relevant information; e.g.,
experience with the field, with teaching, with ESSLLI; other
information)


*** Financial Aspects ***

Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be aware that
all teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a
voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as
possible. Lecturers and organizers are not paid for their contribution,
but they are reimbursed for travel and/or accommodation expenses,
up to a fixed maximum amount specified after notification. Lecturers
and workshop organizers are allowed a fee-waiver.
In case a course is to be taught by two lecturers, or a workshop
is organized by two organizers, a lump sum is reimbursed to cover
travel and/or accommodation expenses for one of them. The splitting
of the sum is up to the lecturers/organizers.
It should be emphasized that while proposals from all over the
world are welcomed, the Summer School cannot guarantee full
reimbursement of travel costs.

The local organizers highly appreciate it if, whenever possible,
lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover
travel and accommodation expenses, and such issues might be taken
into account when selecting courses.


*** Programm Committtee ***

Chair:
Uwe Moennich (SfS, Tuebingen)
Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 19
72074 Tuebingen, Germany
phone: +49-7071-29-74035
e-mail: um at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de
http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~um
Local co-chair:
Richard Moot (LaBRI, Bordeaux)
Area Specialists:
Marco Baroni and Claire Gardent
(Language and Computation)
Paul Egre and Kjell Johan Saeboe
(Language and Logic)
Alex Rabinovich and Ulrike Sattler
(Logic and Computation)


*** Organizing Committee ***

Chair:
Christian Retore (LaBRI Bordeaux)

*** Further Information ***
The website for ESSLLI 2009 can be found at:

http://esslli2009.labri.fr

The website of this year's summer school at:

http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:13:45 +0200
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.201345.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:21:48 +0200
From: info at elda.org
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Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.

*****************************************************************
ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
*****************************************************************

ELRA is happy to announce that 4 new Speech Resources and 1 new
Multimodal Resource are now available in its catalogue.

*ELRA-S0276 Swedish EUROM1 (EUROM1_S)**
*EUROM1 is the first really multilingual speech database produced in
Europe. Over 60 speakers per language pronounced numbers, sentences,
isolated words using close talking microphone. 
For more information, see:
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1066

*ELRA-S0277 SpeechDat Galician Database for the Fixed Telephone Network*
The SpeechDat Galician Database for the Fixed Telephone Network
contains the recordings of 653 speakers of Galician recorded over the
fixed telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 44 read and
spontaneous items.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1067

*ELRA-S0278 SmartWeb Handheld Corpus (SHC)*
This corpus contains recordings spoken by 156 speakers in a
human-machine query situation. Users were asked to solve several tasks
with a spoken query system to the WWW using a smart phone as portable
device in natural environments (office, hall, restaurant, street).
Recorded channels are the Bluetooth headset over UMTS (telephone
quality), the Bluetooth headset and an additional collar microphone in
high quality.
See also ELRA-S0279 and ELRA-S0280.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1068

*ELRA-S0279 SmartWeb Motorbike Corpus (SMC)*

This corpus contains recordings spoken by 36 speakers in a
human-machine query situation on a running motor cycle (BMW). Bikers
were asked to solve several tasks with a spoken query system to the
WWW using an integrated system connected to a speech server via an
UMTS connection.  Recorded channels are the Bluetooth helmet
microphone over UMTS (telephone quality), and - partly - the Bluetooth
helmet microphone and an additional neck microphone in high quality.
See also ELRA-S0278 and ELRA-S0280.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1069

*ELRA-S0280 SmartWeb Video Corpus (SVC)*
This multimodal corpus contains 99 recordings each containing a
human-human-machine dialogue: one speaker (which is being recorded)
interacts with a human partner as well with a dialogue system via a
smart phone (SmartWeb system).
See also ELRA-S0278 and ELRA-S0279.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1070

For more information on the catalogue, please contact Val?rie Mapelli
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

Visit our on-line catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info 

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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 19 18:10:00 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:10:00 +0200
Subject: Conf: Colloque La question polyphonique ou dialogique,
 8-10 septembre 2008
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:00:43 +0200
From: Evelyne STEINER <Evelyne.steiner at univ-metz.fr>
Message-ID: <487F184B.9070801 at univ-metz.fr>
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Le CELTED (Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques des Textes et des Discours)
de l'Universit? Paul Verlaine de Metz et l'Universit? du Luxembourg
ont le plaisir d'annoncer la tenue d'un colloque de linguistique
consacr? ? la ? /Polyphonie/ ?, les 8, 9 et 10 septembre 2008.

 

Outre le programme du colloque pr?sent? ci-dessous, vous trouverez _en
pi?ce jointe_ *le formulaire d'inscription* ? nous renvoyer par mail
pour le 31 ao?t 2008 au plus tard.

 

*Pour l'actualit? du colloque songez ? consulter r?guli?rement le site
du Celted :*

*http://www.univ-metz.fr/recherche/labos/celted/*


                     Colloque Metz -- Luxembourg

  */La question polyphonique ou dialogique en sciences du langage/*

 Marion Colas-Blaise, Mohamed Kara, Laurent Perrin & Andr? Petitjean


    Programme

 

*Lundi 8 septembre*

*/La langue polyphonique/*

* *

*Universit? de Metz*

9h30

Ouverture

10h30 -- 11h15

*Henning N?lke*, Universit? d'Aarhus (Danemark)

? L'ancrage linguistique de la polyphonie ?

11h15 -- 12h00

*Jean-Claude Anscombre*, CNRS, Universit? de Paris 13

? Autour d'une d?finition linguistique des notions de voix collectives
et de on-locuteur ?

12h00 -- 12h45

*Jacques Bres*, Universit? de Montpellier 3

? Dialogisme et temps verbal ?

Repas

14h30 -- 15h15

*Marion Carel*, EHESS, Paris

? Polyphonie et attribution de point de vue ?

15h15 -- 16h00

*Maria Louisa Donaire*, Universit? d'Oviedo (Espagne)

? Antonymie et polyphonie: le cas de l'adjectif ?

Pause

16h30 -- 17h15

*Danielle Coltier*, Universit? du Mans & *Patrick Dendale*, Universit?
d'Anvers (Belgique)

? ?tres imaginaires et dictionnaires de Langue. Traces de polyphonie
dans les d?finitions de dictionnaires de langue ?

*Mardi 9 septembre*

*/La polyphonie en question/*

* *

* *

*Universit? de Metz*

9h30 -- 10h15

*Bernard Combettes* & *Annie Kuyumcuyan*, Universit? de Nancy 2

? Op?ration de topicalisation et polyphonie : aspects diachroniques ?

10h15 -- 11h00

*Denis Apoth?loz*, Universit? de Nancy 2

? Polyphonie et opacit? r?f?rentielle ?.

Pause

11h30 -- 12h15

*Marie-Jos? B?guelin & Alain Berrendonner*, Universit?s de Neuch?tel
et de Fribourg (Suisse)

12h15 -- 13h00

*Louis de Saussure*, Universit? de Neuch?tel (Suisse)

? Polyphonie, m?tarepr?sentation et hi?rarchisation des contenus ?

13h15 Repas

14h30 D?part de Metz pour le Luxembourg

15h30 H?tel -- Campus

*Universit? du Luxembourg*

16h -- 16h45

*Pierre Larriv?e*, Aston University (Angleterre) & *Laurent Perrin*,
Universit? de Metz

? Voix et points de vue de la n?gation ?

16h45---- 17h30

*Pierre Patrick Haillet*, Universit? de Cergy-Pontoise

? Nature et fonctions des points de vue : principes d'une approche
polyphonique des strat?gies discursives ?

18h Visite

*Mercredi 10 septembre*

*Universit? du Luxembourg*

* *

*/Approches discursives, interactionnelles/*

9h15 -- 10h00

*Sophie Moirand*, Universit? de Paris 3

? Retour sur un mod?le dialogique d'analyse du discours ?

10h00-- 10h45

*Kjersti Fl?ttum & ?yvind Gjerstad*, Universit? de Bergen (Norv?ge)

? Voix europ?ennes et voix nationales dans le discours politique de
l'Union europ?enne ?

Pause

11h15 -- 12h00

*Hugues de Chanay*, Universit? Lumi?re, Lyon 2

? La polyphonie au service de l'ethos. L'exemple du d?bat du 2 mai
2007 entre N. Sarkozy et S. Royal ?

12h -- 12h45

*Guy Achard-Bayle*,* *Universit? de Metz

? M?lange conceptuel & ?changes de points de vue ?

Repas

*/Approches historiques/*

14h30 -- 15h15

*Alain Rabatel*, IUFM de Lyon, Universit? Lumi?re, Lyon 2

? Retour sur les relations entre locuteur et ?nonciateur. Des voix et
des points de vue ?

15h15 -- 16h00

*Laurence Rosier*, Universit? libre de Bruxelles (Belgique)

? Tandem ou Origines th?oriques et avatars d'un ? couple ?
probl?matique : polyphonie versus dialogisme ?

16h -- 17h

Synth?se, cl?ture

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:16:30 +0200
Subject: Conf: 2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication (Dec
 15-16, 2008) - Extended Deadline
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.201630.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:31:05 +0200
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X-url: http://www.is-uc.org/2008/
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X-url: http://www.is-uc.org/2008/submission.

Call for Papers/Demos
2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication
Dec 15 - 16, 2008
Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan

Important Dates
Papers:
Extended Abstract due August 4, 2008 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance August 29, 2008
Camera-ready papers due September 26, 2008

Demos:
Submission of description due September 19, 2008
Notification of acceptance October 10, 2008

The development of information network systems enables us to
communicate with people in remote places "anytime and anywhere",
enriching human knowledge, affection and sensibility. However, there
are various barriers which stand in our way to using these systems
freely and flexibly. In order to discuss how to overcome these
barriers and create a more human-centered communication environment,
in 2007 the first International Symposium on Universal Communication
was held in Kyoto, Japan featuring discussions with well-known
researchers from around the world.  Following its success, the second
International Symposium on Universal Communication will be held in
Osaka, Japan.

Topics of interest are as follows, but not limited to
?- Information retrieval and information analysis
?- Information credibility
?- Knowledge processing
?- Language resources
?- Speech recognition and synthesis
?- Machine translation and speech translation
?- Natural language processing
?- Spoken language processing
?- Multilingual information processing
?- Super high-resolution image technology
?- 3D visualization, imaging and display technologies
?- 3D sound processing
?- Virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality
?- Multisensory (visual, acoustic, haptic, olfactory, etc)
    interaction
?- Human factors
?- Human interface and interaction technologies
?- Real-world sensing technologies

General Chair
Yuichi Matsushima, National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

General Vice Chairs
Kazumasa Enami, NICT, Japan
Hiromitsu Wakana, NICT, Japan

Technical Program Committee
Chair: Satoshi Nakamura, NICT/ATR, Japan
Vice Chair: Naomi Inoue, NICT/ATR, Japan
- Akio Ando, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
- Martin S. Banks, UC Berkeley, USA
- Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France
- Marcello Federico, FBK/IRST, Italy
- Sidney Fels, The University of British Columbia, Canada
- Jukka H?kkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Munpyo Hong, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
- Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Hitoshi Isahara, NICT, Japan
- Ken Kaneiwa, NICT, Japan
- Takashi Kawai, Waseda University, Japan
- Yutaka Kidawara, NICT, Japan
- Kyeong Soo Kim, Swansea University, UK
- Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
- Makoto Okui, NICT, Japan
- Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Melon University, USA
- Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan
- Eiichiro Sumita, NICT/ATR, Japan
- Yoiti Suzuki, Tohoku University, Japan
- Yasuhiro Takaki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
- Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan
- Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan
- Chiu-yu Tseng, Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Kiyotaka Uchimoto, NICT, Japan
- Takehito Utsuro, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Andy Way, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Andrew Woods, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
- Wieslaw Woszczyk, McGill University, Canada
- Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Tatsuya Yamazaki, NICT, Japan
- Kwon Yongjin, Korea AeroSpace University, Korea
- Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM & Management SudParis, France

Demo Chair
Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT, Japan

Technical Advisors
Takashi Matsuyama, Kyoto University, Japan
Michitaka Hirose, Tokyo University, Japan

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Kazuhiro Kimura, NICT,
Yukio Takahashi, NICT
Contact info: isuc2008 at khn.nict.go.jp

Website
http://www.is-uc.org/2008/

Venue
Osaka International Convention Center
3-51 Nakanoshima 5-chome,Kita-ku,Osaka, Japan
http://www.gco.co.jp/english/english.html

Submission Information
All papers must be submitted through the ISUC 2008 homepage at 
http://www.is-uc.org/2008.

Paper submission:
The extended abstract must be written in English and is limited to 2
pages in the IEEE 2-column format. This abstract should also indicate
whether it is an oral paper or a poster, and be submitted in PDF. Once
accepted, the camera-ready paper shall be 4~8 pages, not exceeding 8
pages.
More detailed author guidelines are available at 
http://www.is-uc.org/2008/submission.

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be included in the
IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries as
well as indexed through IET INSPEC, EI (Compendex) and Thomson ISI.

Demo submission:

Please submit a one-page description of your demo in PDF. This
description must be written in English and should include: An abstract
of what you will show, Space needed, Facilities needed including power
supply and Internet access. A specified submission format will be
available on the ISUC 2008 homepage.


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:20:18 +0200
Subject: Info: International Calendar of Events for the language industry
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:41:29 +0100
From: "Alan Wheatley" <gensec at iti.org.uk>
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Dear colleagues,

 

The Institute of Translation & Interpreting, Great Britain, welcomes
you to a unique, free to use, International Calendar of Events for the
language industry. ICE is available in French, German, Spanish and
English.

 

If you are involved in the language industry as a practitioner,
academic, technology provider, training provider, publisher, event
organiser, professional association or university, ICE is for you.

 

What is ICE?

The International Calendar of Events is a free and easily accessible
resource for the language industry.

 

Why should I use ICE?

Interested in attending an event? make ICE your first port of call,
search by numerous criteria including country, organiser name, type of
event etc. ICE publishes details of events up to 2013. Plan your
calendar by using ICE as a key resource, keep informed of new events
by signing up to the RSS <http://www.iti.org.uk/ice/rss/ice.asp> feed.
Never again miss that important event.

 

Organising an event? ICE is a free of charge key resource to ensure
that details of your event are circulated quickly to a wide, industry
specific global audience. Use ICE to help you avoid conflicts with
similar events being held either locally or internationally. You can
view planned events by type and make decisions as to the style and
theme of your future event. Make your event a success, attract a wider
audience, increase exposure, advertise on ICE.

 

Who uses ICE?

Since ICE was launched in January 2007 over 550 international events
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there are around 100 events advertised. ICE includes an RSS
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Can our website link to ICE as a service to our clients, students and
members?

Yes, this is not a problem, you can link to ICE through a url or make
use of the ICE logo at the top of this page, it is a hyperlink. If you
do link to ICE please let us know, gensec at iti.org.uk

 

How do I use ICE?

ICE is very easy to use. To add a new event simply select the 'add'
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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 19 18:22:48 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:22:48 +0200
Subject: Appel: Colloque international Theorie,
 pratique et didactique  de la traduction specialisee
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.202248.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:49:41 +0200
From: Adriana Lau <a.lau at unilat.org>
Message-Id: <7.0.1.0.2.20080722154932.02710a78 at unilat.org>
X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/colocviu_craiova_2009/index.htm
X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/


Colloque international Th?orie, pratique et didactique de la
traduction sp?cialis?e
Craiova (Roumanie), 28-29 mai 2009



La facult? des lettres de l?universit? de Craiova (d?partement de
langue et de litt?rature fran?aises) et l?Union latine organisent les
28 et 29 mai 2009, ? Craiova, le Colloque international Th?orie,
pratique et didactique de la traduction sp?cialis?e. Les langues
officielles du colloque sont le fran?ais et le roumain.

La finalit? de ce colloque est de stimuler le dialogue ?tudiants -
formateurs - traducteurs en vue d?une meilleure insertion sur le
march? du travail. Le colloque sera structur? en trois sections et
plusieurs espaces de d?bat - deux tables rondes et deux ateliers - o?
les professionnels issus du domaine de la traduction sp?cialis?e
(enseignants, traducteurs, sp?cialistes, etc.) partageront des id?es
et des exp?riences sur la th?orie et la pratique de la traduction

Les communications pourront porter sur les th?mes suivants :
    * Les th?ories de la traduction sp?cialis?e
    * La typologie des textes/discours sp?cialis?s et strat?gies de
      traduction
    * La didactique de la traduction sp?cialis?e
    * La formation des traducteurs
    * La traduction sp?cialis?e en Roumanie : 
statut du traducteur sp?cialis?, rapport offre/demande sur le march?
de la traduction Nous vous invitons ? soumettre, en fran?ais ou en
roumain, votre proposition de communication sous la forme d?un r?sum?
d?environ 300 mots. Les communications ne devront pas exc?der quinze
minutes, afin de laisser suffisamment de temps pour les ?changes et
discussions.

La date limite d?envoi des propositions de communications est fix?e au
1 octobre 2008. Les personnes int?ress?es sont invit?es ? nous faire
parvenir leur r?sum? par courriel ? l?adresse cits09 at yahoo.fr, avec
pour objet ? Colloque international ? Communication ?.

Les r?sum?s devront ?tre accompagn?s des ?l?ments suivants :

Titre de la communication
Nom de l?auteur (noms des auteurs), institution, 
fonction, coordonn?es (adresse, num?ro de t?l?phone, courriel)
Th?matique
Courte bibliographie
Mat?riel n?cessaire pour la pr?sentation de votre communication

Calendrier

Date limite d?envoi des r?sum?s : 1er octobre 2008
Notification aux auteurs : 15 novembre 2008
Date limite de payement de la taxe : 1er mars 2009
Date limite d?envoi des communications : 1er avril 2009

Public vis?

Le Colloque s'adresse ? toute personne int?ress?e par la traduction
sp?cialis?e au sens large, notamment :
    * aux traducteurs et autres professionnels du langage ;
    * aux enseignants, chercheurs et ?tudiants ;
    * aux gestionnaires des services de traduction sp?cialis?e.
Informations suppl?mentaires : cits09 at yahoo.fr / 
http://dtil.unilat.org/colocviu_craiova_2009/index.htm



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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:27:15 +0200
Subject: Appel: LATA 2009, April 2-8, 2009, Tarragona, Spain
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.202715.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:13:03 +0200
From: <carlos.martin at urv.cat>
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X-url: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/
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Apologies for multiple posting!

Please, forward the announcement to whoever may be interested in it.

Thanks.

*********************************************************************

Call for Papers

3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS (LATA 2009)

Tarragona, Spain, April 2-8, 2009

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/

*********************************************************************

AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its
applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal
Languages and Applications that was developed at the host institute in
the period 2002-2006, LATA 2009 will reserve significant room for
young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at
attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and
application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language
technology, artificial intelligence, etc.).

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

- algebraic language theory
- algorithms on automata and words
- automata and logic
- automata for system analysis and programme verification
- automata, concurrency and Petri nets
- biomolecular nanotechnology
- cellular automata
- circuits and networks
- combinatorics on words
- computability
- computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized
  complexity
- data and image compression
- decidability questions on words and languages
- digital libraries
- DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
- document engineering
- extended automata
- foundations of finite state technology
- fuzzy and rough languages
- grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional,
  unification, categorial, etc.)
- grammars and automata architectures
- grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
- graphs and graph transformation
- language varieties and semigroups
- language-based cryptography
- language-theoretic foundations of natural language processing,
  artificial intelligence and artificial life
- mathematical evolutionary genomics
- parsing
- patterns and codes
- power series
- quantum, chemical and optical computing
- regulated rewriting
- string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and
  bioinformatics
- symbolic dynamics
- symbolic neural networks
- term rewriting
- text algorithms
- text retrieval, pattern matching and pattern recognition
- transducers
- trees, tree languages and tree machines
- weighted machines

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2009 will consist of:

- 3 invited talks (to be announced in the second call for papers)
- 2 invited tutorials (to be announced in the second call for papers)
- refereed contributions
- open sessions for discussion in specific subfields or on
  professional issues (if requested by the participants)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Parosh Abdulla (Uppsala)
Stefania Bandini (Milano)
Stephen Bloom (Hoboken)
John Brzozowski (Waterloo)
Maxime Crochemore (London)
Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Michael Domaratzki (Winnipeg)
Henning Fernau (Trier)
Rusins Freivalds (Riga)
Vesa Halava (Turku)
Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich)
Lucian Ilie (London, Canada)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto)
Aravind Joshi (Philadelphia)
Juhani Karhumaki (Turku)
Jarkko Kari (Turku)
Claude Kirchner (Bordeaux)
Maciej Koutny (Newcastle)
Kamala Krithivasan (Chennai)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Andrzej Lingas (Lund)
Aldo de Luca (Napoli)
Rupak Majumdar (Los Angeles)
Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona & Brussels, chair)
Joachim Niehren (Villeneuve d'Ascq)
Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
Joerg Rothe (Duesseldorf)
Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw)
Philippe Schnoebelen (Cachan)
Thomas Schwentick (Dortmund)
Helmut Seidl (Muenchen)
Alan Selman (Buffalo)
Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo)
Frank Stephan (Singapore)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Madalina Barbaiani
Gemma Bel-Enguix
Cristina Bibire
Adrian-Horia Dediu
Szilard-Zsolt Fazekas
Mihai Ionescu
Alexander Krassovitskiy
Guangwu Liu
Carlos Martin-Vide (chair)
Robert Mercas
Catalin-Ionut Tirnauca
Bianca Truthe
Sherzod Turaev
Florentina-Lilica Voicu

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and
unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages
and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer
Verlag's LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). Submissions
have to be uploaded at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2009

PUBLICATION:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will
be available by the time of the conference. A refereed volume of
extended versions of selected papers will be published after it as a
special issue of a major journal. (This was Information and
Computation for LATA 2007 and LATA 2008.)

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration will be open since September 1, 2008 to
April 2, 2009. The registration form can be found at the website of
the conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/

Early registration fees: 450 euros
Early registration fees (PhD students): 225 euros
Registration fees: 540 euros
Registration fees (PhD students): 270 euros

At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have
a registered author by December 31, 2008 will be excluded from the
proceedings.

Fees comprise free access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings
volume, and coffee breaks. For the participation in the full-day
excursion and conference lunch on Sunday April 5, the amount of 70
euros is to be added to the fees above: accompanying persons are
welcome at the same rate..

PAYMENT:

Early registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before December
31, 2008 to the conference account at Open Bank (Plaza Manuel Gomez
Moreno 2, 28020 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES1300730100510403506598 - Swift
code: OPENESMMXXX (account holder: LATA 2009 ? Carlos Martin-Vide).

(Non-early) registration fees can be paid either by bank transfer to
the same account or in cash on site.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the
registration form at the website of the conference. A receipt for the
payment will be provided on site.

FUNDING:

Up to 20 grants covering partial-board accommodation will be available
for nonlocal PhD students. To apply, candidates must e-mail their CV
together with a copy of the document proving their present status as a
PhD student.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: October 22, 2008
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 10, 2008
Application for funding (PhD students): December 15, 2008
Notification of funding acceptance or rejection: December 19, 2008
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: December 24, 2008
Early registration: December 31, 2008
Starting of the conference: April 2, 2009
Submission to the journal special issue: June 22, 2009

FURTHER INFORMATION:

carlos.martin at urv.cat

ADDRESS:

LATA 2009
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Plaza Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:24:51 +0200
Subject: Conf: Journee scientifique de Realiter, 6 octobre 2008,
 Gatineau (Canada)
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:56:59 +0200
From: Adriana Lau <a.lau at unilat.org>
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Le d?lai d'inscription ? la prochaine Journ?e scientifique de Realiter
qui aura lieu le lundi 6 octobre 2008 ? Gatineau (Canada) a ?t?
prolong? au 8 septembre prochain.


Les personnes int?ress?es ? participer ? cette journ?e sont pri?es de
remplir le formulaire d?inscription qui figure sur le site Internet du
R?seau ? l'adresse : http://realiter.net/spip.php?rubrique103 (et dans
les pages correspondantes dans les autres langues). Les personnes
inscrites recevront une confirmation ainsi que des renseignements
concernant l?h?bergement et les restaurants disponibles dans la r?gion
d?Ottawa-Gatineau.

Organis?e ? l?initiative du Bureau de la traduction du Canada, la
Journ?e aura comme th?me principal ? La langue et le droit ?, entre
autres dans le contexte de la mondialisation. De plus, elle visera ?
favoriser la r?flexion sur les tendances et les pratiques en mati?re
de traitement m?thodologique de la terminologie juridique et ?
pr?senter un panorama de la formation dans le domaine. Pour plus
d'informations, consulter le programme provisoire de la Journ?e.


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:36:36 +0200
Subject: Revue: Discours 2
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.203636.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:08:22 +0200
From: Laure Sarda <laure.sarda at ens.fr>
Message-ID: <E1KNqol-0002cg-Hd at canoe>
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/index3062.html
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/index1042.html
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/index2022.html
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/index3232.html
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/index863.html

* The editorial team of DISCOURS (the new international e-journal for
  linguistics, psycholinguistics and NLP) is pleased to announce the
  publication of its second non-thematic issue. The issue, coordinated
  by D.  Vigier, features five articles. The first, by A.M. Guiraud,
  is entitled ? Les emplois corr?latifs de parfois, quelquefois et des
  fois ?. This corpus-based study focuses on discursive configurations
  where these three temporal adverbs are repeated, and examines the
  varying degrees of dependency that are built up (parallelism in
  construction, semantico-pragmatic relations, etc.). E. Havu and
  M. Pierrard, in the article ? R?duction et int?gration de
  pr?dications : param?tres pour l'analyse des co-pr?dications
  adjectivantes ?, propose the use of two types of semantico-syntactic
  parameters to examine a set of adjectival co-predications,
  consisting of adjuncts, direct and indirect object complements,
  predicative uses with avoir and expressions with de adj. The article
  by F. Heyna, ? S?mantisme et potentiel argumentatif des d?riv?s
  d?nominaux en anti- ?, considers denominal formation in anti- from a
  semantic and argumentative viewpoint. A distinction is drawn between
  two types of derivative on the basis of the semantic value of anti-:
  an adversative value in anti-rides, antigrippe for example, and an
  antonymic value in antih?ros, antiroman, etc. B. Lamiroy and
  M. Charolles, in a paper on ? Les verbes de parole et la question de
  l (in)transitivit? ?, examine the relationship between an aspect of
  verbal syntax (transitivity) and the semantic characteristics of
  speech verbs. The last paper ? Contribution ? une ?tude des
  constructions ant?pos?es du type : ? En homme intelligent et humain,
  il partagea tout de suite l'inqui?tude de Marcel ? (J. Verne), by
  D. Vigier is a corpus-based study of a set of prepositional phrases
  with ? en N) ?. The constructions, to which little attention has
  previously been paid, are examined not only from a syntactical and
  semantic viewpoint but also from an enunciative and discursive
  perspective.

* L'?quipe ?ditoriale de la revue DISCOURS (revue ?lectronique
  internationale de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique)
  (http:// discours.revues.org/) a le plaisir de vous annoncer la
  publication de son second num?ro de Varia. Coordonn? par D. Vigier,
  ce num?ro propose au lecteur cinq articles. Tout d abord, une ?tude
  sur corpus portant sur ? Les emplois corr?latifs de parfois,
  quelquefois et des fois ?. L auteur, A.-M.  Guiraud, s y int?resse ?
  des configurations discursives plus ou moins ?tendues o? ces
  adverbes temporels se r?p?tent, et ? l int?rieur desquelles se
  tissent des relations de d?pendance plus ou moins l?che qu elle
  examine (parall?lismes de construction, relations
  s?mantico-pragmatiques, ). E.  Havu et M. Pierrard, dans un article
  intitul? ? R?duction et int?gration de pr?dications : param?tres
  pour l'analyse des co-pr?dications adjectivantes ?, proposent d
  exploiter deux types de param?tres s?mantico-syntaxiques pour rendre
  compte d'un ensemble de ? co-pr?dications (coP) adjectivantes ?
  regroupant les adjoints, les attributs (directs et indirects) de
  l'objet, les emplois attributifs avec avoir et les tours en de
  adj. L article de F.  Heyna, ? S?mantisme et potentiel argumentatif
  des d?riv?s d?nominaux en anti- ?, examine les d?riv?s d?nominaux en
  anti- du point de vue s?mantique et argumentatif. Deux types de
  d?riv?s sont discrimin?s en fonction de la valeur s?mantique que
  prend anti- : valeur adversative dans anti-rides, antigrippe par
  exemple, valeur antonymique dans antih?ros, antiroman, etc.
  B. Lamiroy et M. Charolles, dans une ?tude portant sur ? Les verbes
  de parole et la question de l (in)transitivit? ?, examinent la
  relation entre un aspect de la syntaxe verbale (la transitivit?) et
  les caract?ristiques s?mantiques d un ensemble de verbes, celui des
  verbes de parole. D. Vigier, enfin, propose une ? Contribution ? une
  ?tude des constructions ant?pos?es du type : ? En homme intelligent
  et humain, il partagea tout de suite l'inqui?tude de Marcel ?
  (J. Verne) ?. Il y ?tudie, essentiellement ? partir d exemples
  attest?s, une gamme de SP en ? en N (exp) ? peu examin?e jusqu
  ici. Le point de vue adopt? sur ces constructions est non seulement
  syntaxique et s?mantique, mais aussi ?nonciatif et discursif.

 

* Contents of issue 2 / Sommaire du num?ro 2 :

     # Anne-Marie Guiraud Les emplois corr?latifs de parfois,
       quelquefois et des fois

     # Eva Havu et Michel Pierrard R?duction et int?gration de
       pr?dications : param?tres pour l'analyse des co-pr?dications
       adjectivantes

     # Franziska Heyna S?mantisme et potentiel argumentatif des
       d?riv?s d?nominaux en anti-

     # B?atrice Lamiroy et Michel Charolles Les verbes de parole et la
       question de l (in)transitivit?

     # Denis Vigier Contribution ? une ?tude des constructions
       ant?pos?es du type : ? En homme intelligent et humain, il
       partagea tout de suite l'inqui?tude de Marcel ? (J. Verne)

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:39:01 +0200
Subject: Job: Coordinator of the Master (MA multi-LEARN),
 University of Luxemburg
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.203901.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 02:05:06 +0200
From: Gudrun Ziegler <gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu>
Message-ID: <D71764EF-F71B-4D57-89A1-F7F65074B71D at uni.lu>
X-url: http://multi-learn.uni.lu
X-url: http://www.uni.lu"
X-url: http://multi-learn.uni.lu"
X-url: http://multi-learn.uni.lu</a

Please circulate, the official publication of the position will be out  
soon (website of www.uni.lu > jobs),

regards, Gudrun Ziegler


----------------------


The University of Luxemburg invites applications for the following
vacancy in its Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts
and Education

Coordinator of the Master - Learning and Development in Multilingual
and Multicultural Contexts (Multi-Learn)

(ref. FLSHASE/F3-08_MA Multi-learn)

  (20 hrs/week)

Open ended contract

Application deadline: 15 September 2008


The coordinator of the MA multi-LEARN plans, structures, organises,
coordinates and monitors the study programme by assisting the
scientific board of the programme and by supporting the applied
research dimension of the MA multi-LEARN in all relevant respects
(technical as regards admission, data and documentation, learning,
medial, logistics, administrative) with regard to the broad range of
its scientific and dissemination activities inside the Faculty, the
University and beyond (external partners).



Activities/Tasks

The successfully launched academic MA multi-LEARN is grounded in an
applied research perspective, implementing research projects and
requiring its future candidates, its permanent academic staff and its
invited researchers and lecturers to display a comprehensive vision of
what knowledge building means and what is necessary in terms of
scientific, managerial, technical and administrative requirements for
its successful accomplishment. The coordinator is supporting the
scientific board of the MA multi-LEARN by fulfilling the following
tasks:

- Management and Coordination of Administration, Resources and
  Communication

- Admission and academic development of candidates

- Program Sustainability, Technical Monitoring and Assistance to the
  Scientific Board



Profile:

The successful candidate is an interdisciplinary experienced,
multilingual and technically aware team-player with a proven record in
developing and managing emergent projects and teaching programmes.
Experiences in developing, administrating and monitoring projects,
programmes, budgets and its relevant technical devices from and within
University (or comparable) contexts are required.

Excellent command of English, French and/or German (written and spoken)

Experiences in conceiving of and presenting (written, spoken, web-
presentation, proposal format etc.) complex programme matter for any
kind of dissemination (specialized/general public)

Proven experiences and skills in generalized office programmes and
platforms

(Proven) Educational, professional and training background, with a
minimum tertiary education degree of 3 years that is relevant to the
study programme.



Contact:

For further information please contact:

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler (gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu)

Find out more about the Master - Learning & Development in
Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts (MA multi-LEARN):
http://multi-learn.uni.lu

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:41:56 +0200
Subject: Appel: GW 2009
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.204156.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:37:32 +0200
From: Kirsten Bergmann <kirsten.bergmann at uni-bielefeld.de>
Message-id: <169660C7-2322-4F4E-A25D-344E4A988D27 at uni-bielefeld.de>
X-url: http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~kbergman
X-url: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/
X-url: http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ags/wbski/GW/
X-url: http://www.gw2009.de/submission.html


Apologies for multiple posting

** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS **

GW 2009 - The 8th International Gesture Workshop Gesture in Embodied
Communication and Human-Computer Interaction www.GW2009.de

Feb 25-27, 2009
ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University

Organisers:
Stefan Kopp, Sociable Agents Groups, Bielefeld University
Ipke Wachsmuth, Artificial Intelligence Group & ZiF, Bielefeld  
University

The International Gesture Workshop is an interdisciplinary event for
researchers working on gestural interaction, who want to meet and
exchange their ideas and newest research. GW 2009 aims to bring
together researchers from computer science, engineering, and the
humanities in order to connect recent theoretical discoveries about
the embodied bases of human verbal and nonverbal communication with
approaches taken to developing interactive systems that exploit
gesture as a means of interacting with machines. The workshop will be
the 8th in the Gesture Workshop series initiated in 1996.

Confirmed invited speakers:
Antonio Camurri (DIST-University of Genova)
Asli ?zy?rek (MPI Psycholinguistics & Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Koc  
Univ. Istanbul)
Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon Univ., Univ. of Karlsruhe)


=== Scope and Topics
Under the focus of gesture-based human-computer interaction, we invite
submissions of original work that addresses, but is not limited to,
one or more of the following aspects:

Concepts, models, architectures:
* Theoretical aspects of gestural communication and interaction
* Gesture and speech, gaze, or other natural modalities
* Gesture and embodied cognition
* Gesture and sociality
* Gesture and multimodal dialogue
* Gesture expressivity
* Gesture development and learning
* Sensori-motor aspects of gesture
* Sign language processing
* Gesture recognition and analysis
* Gesture production and synthesis
* Fusion and fission of gesture with other modalities
* Systematic and idiosyncratic aspects of gesture

Applications:
* User issues, usability studies, application paradigms
* Vision-based gesture recognition
* Gesture in virtual and augmented reality
* Gesture in embodied conversational agents
* Gesture in mobile computing
* Gesture in tangible and haptic interfaces
* Gesture for gaming and entertainment
* Gesture for audio-visual applications
* Gesture for therapy and rehabilitation
* Gesture for music and performing arts
* Gesture for education

=== Submission Procedure and Publication
Authors are encouraged to submit original scientific contributions to
GW 2009 in the form of extended abstracts of up to 2 pages. Abstract
headings must include title, authors, and keywords, according to
Springer formatting guidelines (see www.gw2009.de/submission.html).
Upon review and acceptance by the GW 2009 PC, authors will be asked to
present their work either orally, as a poster, or in form of a
technical demonstration (where applicable). Submitted abstracts must
be in English and should, to the extent possible, use language that
will be understood across disciplines i.e. avoids unnecessary jargon.
Submissions should be sent electronically in PDF to the following e-
mail address: gw2009 at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

Presenting authors will be invited after the workshop to submit a full
paper on the topic of their talk. All papers will be peer- reviewed
and compiled into a high-quality publication typically published by
Springer-Verlag (see www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ags/ wbski/GW).

=== Important Dates
Submission of extended abstracts: September 12, 2008
Notification of acceptance/rejection: October 15, 2008
Submission of final versions of extended abstracts: November 4, 2008
Workshop: February 25-27, 2009

==== About the Venue
GW 2009 will be held at the ZiF - the Center for Interdisciplinary
Research at Bielefeld University. Bielefeld is located in North
Germany on the flanks of the wooded hills of the Teutoburg Forest and
is easily reached by IC and ICE trains on the route Dortmund-
Hannover. The nearest airports with hourly train connections are
Hannover (115 km), Dortmund-Wickede (110 km), Duesseldorf (190 km),
and Frankfurt (320 km).


The GW organizing team
Stefan Kopp, Ipke Wachsmuth, Kirsten Bergmann


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:45:14 +0200
Subject: Conf: MMIES2 / COLING 2008 : Multi-source,
 Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization Workshop
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:18:31 +0100
From: saggion <H.Saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
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*** WORKSHOP DATE: 23rd August 2008 ***


http://doremi.cs.helsinki.fi/mmies2/

Workshop to be held in conjunction with

*** COLING 2008 ***
The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics

http://www.coling2008.org.uk/
Manchester, 18-22 August, 2008


THEME

The objective of The 2nd MMIES Workshop: Multi-source, Multilingual
Information Extraction and Summarization is to bring together
researchers and practitioners in the areas of extraction,
summarization, and other information access technologies, to discuss
recent approaches to multi-source and multi-lingual
challenges. Approaches to coping with the idiosyncratic nature of the
new Web2.0 media are especially welcome, including: mixed input, new
jargon, ungrammatical and mixed-language input, and emotional
discourse.


INVITED SPEAKER

Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield)


PROGRAMME

9:30?10:30 Invited speaker: Robert Gaizauskas
Generating Image Captions using Topic Focused Multi-document
Summarization

10:30-11:00 BREAK

*** 11:00 ? 12:30 Named entity and lexical resources for IE and
summarization

11:00-11:30 Learning to match Names Across Languages (Inderjeet Mani,
Alex Yeh and Sherri Condon)

11:30-12:00 Automatic Construction of Domain-specific Dictionaries on
Sparse Parallel Corpora in the Nordic Languages (Sumithra Velupillai
and Hercules Dalianis)

12:00-12:30 Graph-Based Keyword Extraction for Single-Document
Summarization (Marina Litvak and Mark Last)

12:30-2:00 LUNCH

*** 2:00 ? 3:30 Multi-document summarization

2:00-2:30 MultiSum: Query-Based Multi-Document Summarization (Mike
Rosner and Carl Camilleri)

2:30-3:00 Mixed-Source Multi-Document Speech-to-Text Summarization
(Ricardo Ribeiro and David Martins de Matos)

3:00:-3:30 Evaluating automatically generated user-focused
multi-document summaries for geo-referenced images (Ahmet Aker and
Robert Gaizauskas)

3:30-4:00 BREAK

*** 4:00 ? 5:00 Applications

4:00-4:30 Licking inking similar news over time and across languages
(Bruno Pouliquen, Olivier Deguernel and Ralf Steinberger)

4:30-5:00 Automatic Annotation of Bibliographical References with
Target Language (Harald Hammarstr?m)

5:00-5:30 Open discussion


ORGANIZERS

* Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India)
* Thierry Poibeau (CNRS / Universit? Paris 13, France)
* Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finland)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

* Javier Artiles (UNED, Spain)
* Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Nathalie Colineau (CSIRO, Australia)
* Nigel Collier (NII, Japan)
* Hercules Dalianis (KTH/Stockholm University, Sweden)
* Thierry Declerk (DFKI, Germany)
* Michel G?n?reux (LIPN-CNRS, France)
* Julio Gonzalo (UNED, Spain)
* Brigitte Grau (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
* Ralph Grishman (New York University, USA)
* Kentaro Inui (NAIST, Japan)
* Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
* Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal, Canada)
* Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Jean-Luc Minel (Modyco-CNRS, France)
* Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
* Cecile Paris (CSIRO, Australia)
* Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Rome ?Tor Vergata?, Italy)
* Bruno Pouliquen (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy)
* Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, France)
* Agnes Sandor (Xerox XRCE, France)
* Satoshi Sekine (New York University, USA)
* Ralf Steinberger (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy)
* Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada)
* Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft Research, USA)
* Jos? Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)


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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 19 18:49:53 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:49:53 +0200
Subject: Ecole: Ecole d'Automne en Linguistique (ENS, Paris 16-25 sept.)
Message-ID: <TUE.19.AUG.2008.204953.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:51:50 +0200
From: retore <christian.retore at labri.fr>
Message-Id: <FEEFFDC1-A371-4BC8-87B5-C5105A75E07F at labri.fr>
X-url: http://ealing.cognition.ens.fr/
X-url: http://www.ens.fr,
X-url: http://ealing.cognition.ens.fr
X-url: http://www.labri.fr/perso/retore/


Je me permets de vous signaler la prochaine Ecole d'Automne de
Linguistique qui se tiendra (en anglais) ? l'?cole normale sup?rieure
de Paris du 16 au 25 septembre. http://ealing.cognition.ens.fr/
ealing2008/web/PageAccueil 

Christian


EALing VI - Fall School in Linguistics 2008 

The Department of Cognitive Studies at the Paris Ecole Normale
Sup?rieure (ENS) with the support of the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure
Foundation,the Euryi Project (Presupposition: A formal pragmatic
approach) funded by the European Science Foundation and the Research
Alliance Ecole Normale Sup?rieure-University College London
-Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie

organizes its sixth international Fall School in Linguistics (on  
the ''summer school'' model). The goal of this interdisciplinary  
Fall school is to provide exposure to linguistic theory and grammar  
based approaches to cognitive studies. Its content varies from year  
to year, but typically includes: * General non technical  
introductions to contemporary linguistic research * Intensive  
introductory courses to some core areas of linguistic theory or  
relevant domains * Seminars and talks on current research *  
Interaction between research in grammar and some related domains  
e.g. Psycholinguistics of Acquisition or of processing,  
Neurolinguistics, Experimental Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language/ 
Mind etc... Special events this year will include: A workshop on  
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, and Experimental Approaches will  
be held on Saturday September 20th. A poster session in which  
school participants can present their work will be organized. A  
call for abstracts detailing submissions guidelines will be issued  
shortly. This Fall school will be held at the Ecole Normale  
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Tuesday, September 16th to Thursday September the 25th included.  
Teachers and Lecturers will include: Klaus Abels - University  
College London
Adriana Belletti  - University of Siena
Richard Breheny - University College London
Robyn Carston - University College London
Guglielmo Cinque - University of Venice
Heather Ferguson - University College London
Bart Geurts - University of Nijmegen
Sabine Iatridou - MIT
Nathan Klinedinst - University College London
Geraldine Legendre - Johns Hopkins
Nausicaa Pouscoulous - University College London/Max Planck Insitute
Luigi Rizzi - University of Siena
Daniel Rothschild - Columbia University
Philippe Schlenker - Institut Jean Nicod; Ecole Normale Sup?rieure
Paul Smolensky Johns Hopkins University
Edward Stabler - UCLA
Arnim von Stechow - University of Tuebingen
Michael Tanenhaus - University of Rochester

All relevant information regarding: - the registration procedure -  
teaching and lecturing faculty - calendar of courses, seminars and  
lectures - abstract submissions for the poster session - lodging  
and other practical information will be posted and regularly  
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:54:03 +0200
Subject: These: Marianna Apidianaki,
 Desambiguisation et la selection lexicale en traduction
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:23:53 -0300
From: Marianna Apidianaki <Marianna.Apidianaki at linguist.jussieu.fr>
Message-ID: <1219058633.48a95bc9785f8 at imp.linguist.jussieu.fr>


Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? la soutenance de ma th?se intitul?e
"Acquisition automatique de sens pour la d?sambigu?sation et la
s?lection lexicale en traduction" ainsi qu'au pot qui suivra.

La soutenance aura lieu le vendredi 5 septembre ? partir de 14h, dans
la salle 134 (1er ?tage) de l'UFR de Linguistique de l'Universit?
Paris 7, au 30 rue du Ch?teau des Rentiers (Paris 13eme), devant le
jury suivant :

- Helge DYVIK, Professeur, Universit? de Bergen
- Catherine FUCHS, DR, CNRS-LaTTiCe (Directrice de th?se)
- Eric GAUSSIER, Professeur, Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I
- Daniel KAYSER, Professeur, Universit? Paris Nord (Rapporteur)
- Philippe LANGLAIS, Professeur, Universit? de Montr?al (Rapporteur)
- Elsa SKLAVOUNOU, Technical Account Manager, SYSTRAN

Cordialement,

Marianna APIDIANAKI
(LaTTiCe, Universit? Paris 7)


******

R?sum? :

Le travail pr?sent? dans cette th?se explore la question de
l?acquisition automatique de sens pour la d?sambigu?sation lexicale
dans un cadre de traduction. Partant de l?hypoth?se du besoin de
conformit? des inventaires s?mantiques utilis?s pour la
d?sambigu?sation dans le cadre d?applications pr?cises, la
probl?matique du rep?rage des sens se situe dans un cadre bilingue et
le traitement s?oriente vers la traduction.

Nous proposons une m?thode d?acquisition de sens permettant d??tablir
des correspondances s?mantiques de granularit? variable entre les mots
de deux langues en relation de traduction. L?induction de sens est
effectu?e par une combinaison d?informations distributionnelles et
traductionnelles extraites d?un corpus bilingue parall?le. La m?thode
propos?e ?tant ? la fois non supervis?e et enti?rement fond?e sur des
donn?es, elle est, par cons?quent, ind?pendante de la langue et permet
l??laboration d?inventaires s?mantiques relatifs aux domaines
repr?sent?s dans les corpus trait?s.

Les r?sultats de cette m?thode sont exploit?s par une m?thode de
d?sambigu?sation lexicale, qui attribue un sens ? de nouvelles
instances de mots ambigus en contexte, et par une m?thode de s?lection
lexicale, qui propose leur traduction la plus ad?quate. On propose
finalement une ?valuation pond?r?e des r?sultats de d?sambigu?sation
et de s?lection lexicale, en nous fondant sur l?inventaire construit
par la m?thode d?acquisition de sens.


Abstract :

This study explores the question of automatic sense acquisition for
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in a translation context. On the basis
of the need for conformity of the methods and sense inventories used
for disambiguation to the requirements of specific applications, the
question of sense identification is situated here in a bilingual
context and the processing is oriented towards translation.

A sense induction method is proposed which permits the establishment
of semantic correspondences of varying granularity between the words
of two languages in translation relation. Sense acquisition is done by
combining distributional and translation information extracted from a
bilingual parallel corpus. Being unsupervised and fully data-driven,
the proposed method is language-independent and enables the
elaboration of sense inventories relevant to the domains represented
in the corpus.

The results of this method are exploited by a WSD method, which
assigns a sense to new instances of ambiguous words in context, and by
a lexical selection method, which suggests their most adequate
translation. Finally, we provide a weighted evaluation of the
disambiguation and lexical selection results which relies on the sense
inventory built by the sense induction method.


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:58:44 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, lundi 8 septembre 2008 (Helge Dyvik)
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:00:50 +0200
From: Benoit Crabb? <bcrabbe at linguist.jussieu.fr>
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******************* S?minaire Alpage *******************

        S?minaire de l'?cole doctorale de Paris 7

Il s'agit du s?minaire de recherche en linguistique informatique
organis? par l'?quipe Alpage, Alpage est une nouvelle ?quipe mixte
Inria -- Paris 7 issue de la fusion des ?quipes Atoll et Talana.
L'?quipe centre ses int?r?ts scientifiques autour de l'analyse
syntaxique automatique et du traitement du discours pour la langue
fran?aise.

Ce s?minaire remplace l'ancien s?minaire Talana. Il se tient le lundi
de 14.30 ? 16.30 tous les 15 jours.
Il a lieu en salle 131 au 30 rue du Chateau des Rentiers 75013 Paris
(premier ?tage)

Toute personne int?ress?e est la bienvenue.

*************************************************************
Lundi 8 septembre 2008 Helge Dyvik (Univ. Bergen, Norvege)

nous parlera de :

Deep Grammars in Hybrid Machine Translation

Resume :

The topic of the talk is a proof-of-concept machine translation
demonstrator translating tourism-related texts from Norwegian into
English. The system is developed within a project called LOGON
(http://www.emmtee.net/) in cooperation between groups at the
universities of Bergen, Oslo and Trondheim. It is a hybrid transfer
system in which the backbone is rule-based, with statistical
processing interspersed. The Norwegian analysis is performed by a
comprehensive Norwegian Lexical-Functional grammar developed on the
Xerox Linguistic Environment (XLE) platform, in conjunction with
morphological analysis and other modules. The grammar is augmented
with a Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) component, whose
representations are the input to transfer. An unusual feature of the
system is that it combines two grammatical models: the English target
grammar is the English Resource Grammar (ERG), which is based on the
HPSG framework. Statistical processing is responsible for parse
selection, ranking of transfer outputs, and ranking of generator
outputs.

The presentation will focus on the analysis component of the system,
including LFG grammar development, the development of the MRS
component, and the development of a treebank tool called a 'Parse
Banker', which is a discriminant-based system for selecting the
desired analysis efficiently in treebank construction. The Parse
Banker was used to produce training material for the derivation of the
statistical model for parse selection.


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http://alpage.inria.fr/seminaire.fr.html
Cursus Linguistique informatique de Paris 7 :
http://li.linguist.jussieu.fr

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:56:03 +0200
Subject: Conf: TAMA CANADA 2008,
 Terminology in Advanced Management Applications, 9-10 oct.,
 Gatineau, CANADA
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:07:13 +0200
From: <bnajera at termnet.org>
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Dear colleagues,

TermNet is proud to present its forthcoming International Conference
TAMA 2008 in CANADA, 9-10 October, Gatineau

TAMA (Terminology in Advanced Management Applications) is TermNet?s
business-oriented international conference where renowned
representatives from the terminology community converge to discuss the
latest trends and technologies emerging in this field.  This year,
TermNet has organized the event in collaboration with the following
partners:


- Translation Bureau (Government of Canada);
- Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO);
- Association de l'industrie de la langue / Language Industry
  Association (AILIA). 

The theme for 2008 is Quality, Standards and Technology: Terminology's
Future.

TAMA will be held on October 9 & 10, 2008, at the UQO in Gatineau,
Canada, as one of the highlights of the Terminology Week from 1-10
October 2008.

For more information please refer to:
http://www.uqo.ca/tamacanada2008/index.php
Please send us your inquiries to tama2008 at uqo.ca
We hope to see you all there!
Best regards,

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:03:31 +0200
Subject: Revue: Applied Ontology,
 Special Issue Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelling
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:08:15 +0200 (CEST)
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Special Issue Applied Ontology out now:
Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modelling
Guest-edited by Giancarlo Guizzardi and Terry Halpin

The objective of this issue is to collect innovative and high-quality
research contributions regarding the role played by formal ontology,
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:01:05 +0200
Subject: ATALA: En hommage a Rose DIENG-KUNTZ
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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:05:43 +0200
From: "Segond, Frederique" <Frederique.Segond at xrce.xerox.com>
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	De retour de vacances j'apprends la tr?s triste nouvelle du
	d?c?s de Rose.

	La notori?t? de Rose ?tait immense et nombreux sont les sites,
	les journaux qui ont retrac? son parcours. Ce n'est pas mon
	propos.

	La premi?re fois que j'ai contact? Rose, c'?tait par courrier
	?lectronique pour lui demander des conseils d'ordre
	professionnel. J'?tais intimid?e par sa notori?t?. Elle m'a
	tout de suite appel?e et a fait preuve d'une tr?s grande
	gentillesse alors qu'elle ne me connaissait pas. J'ai eu, par
	la suite, la chance de travailler avec elle dans diff?rents
	contextes europ?ens. Chaque fois, j'ai ?t? impressionn?e par
	son savoir, sa rigueur, son humanit?, sa force et tout cela
	sans jamais aucune arrogance.

	La nouvelle de sa mort m'a fortement ?mue.

	L'ATALA, dont j'ai l'honneur d'?tre pr?sidente, s'occupe de
	traitement automatique du langage naturel ; Rose s'occupait de
	repr?sentation des connaissances. Ces deux domaines
	th?matiquement connexes n'ont fait que se rapprocher avec avec
	la mont?e en puissance du web s?mantique si cher ? Rose.

	Nombreux sont les membres de l'ATALA qui ont connu, travaill?
	et appr?ci? tant la chercheuse que la femme. Notre communaut?
	perd une grande et belle figure scientifique et humaine. Les
	membres de l'ATALA ont ?t? affect?s par son d?c?s et se
	joignent ? moi pour dire ? ses proches leur tristesse et
	surtout leur admiration pour Rose.

	
	Frederique Segond,  Presidente de l'ATALA

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:08:12 +0200
Subject: Appel: Revue CORPUS numero 8
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:31:05 +0200
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Appel ? contributions :

CORPUS, num?ro 8, ? para?tre en novembre 2009.

Th?me :
? Corpus de textes, textes en corpus : concepts, m?thodes et travaux ?.


Responsables :
  Jean-Michel Adam (Jean-Michel.Adam at unil.ch)
  Jean-Marie Viprey (jean-marie.viprey at univ-fcomte.fr)

Calendrier :
- r?ception des propositions d'article (d?claration d?intention,
  titre, r?sum? d?une page maximum): avant le 1er d?cembre 2008
- r?ponse indicative du comit? de lecture: 5 janvier 2009
- version provisoire compl?te soumise ? relecture: 25 avril 2009
- retour du comit? avec avis (acceptation/rejet/r?vision): 30 mai 2009
- version d?finitive ? remettre: 31 juillet 2009
- publication papier : octobre 2009
- publication ?lectronique : juin 2010


Texte de cadrage :

Depuis dix ans au moins, la pratique des corpus de textes pr?c?de
constamment sa th?orisation. La num?risation des documents "anciens"
(i.e. datant d'avant la micro-informatique), l'?tat num?rique initial
des documents "nouveaux", l'am?lioration des conditions de stockage et
d'exploration des donn?es, l'apparition d'environnements logiciels
d?di?s ont g?n?ralis? le recours ? l'ordinateur pour se confronter aux
textes et les confronter entre eux, notamment dans l'optique o? ils
constituent l'acc?s privil?gi? aux mat?rialit?s des discours.  Dans ce
moment et ce mouvement, texte et corpus sont ?branl?s jusque dans
leurs fondements d?finitionnels. Deux champs disciplinaires des
sciences du langage encore tr?s jeunes, linguistique de corpus et
linguistique textuelle, sont dans une redistribution permanente de
leurs attendus respectifs et de leurs fronti?res.

Ce num?ro de Corpus a pour objectif de contribuer ? une mise en 
perspective et ? d'indispensables stabilisations sur ces th?mes.

Nous souhaitons mettre en regard

- des essais de synth?se critique et ?pist?mologique sur le rapport
  des concepts de texte et de corpus, essais fond?s sur un effort de
  recension et d'?tat des lieux, internationaux ou concernant un grand
  domaine langagier (francophonie, univers anglo-saxon ou hispanique,
  extr?me-oriental ou arabophone);

- des contributions de bilan et perspectives rendant compte de la
  construction et de la mise ? l'?preuve de m?thodes d'analyse
  textuelle en corpus orient?e vers l'?lucidation du discours et/ou la
  construction d'archives en sciences humaines

- des travaux plus circonscrits sur corpus, mais pr?sent?s dans la
  perspective critique du num?ro, c'est-?-dire exposant la r?flexion
  des auteurs sur l'?volution de leur approche du texte sous l'impact
  de leur processus de recherche, notamment sous l'impact de
  l'appareillage logiciel employ? et ?ventuellement modifi? en vue de
  la constitution, du stockage, de l'?change et de l'exploration des
  donn?es.

Les grandes questions auxquelles nous voudrions que ce num?ro r?ponde
sont :

- Quel est l'impact de la mise en corpus sur le statut et la
  perception du texte ant?rieurement d?fini comme unit? globale, comme
  tout coh?rent et auto-suffisant ?

- Dans quelle mesure le texte est-il amen? ? incorporer des ?l?ments
  jusqu'ici d?sign?s comme plus ou moins "ext?rieurs" ? lui
  (paratexte, p?ritexte, ?pitexte, intertexte, hypertexte...), et
  comment les chercheurs g?rent-ils ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler en
  cons?quence l'"ouvert" du texte ?

- Dans ce cadre, quelles solutions th?oriques et pratiques se
  pr?sentent-elles pour g?rer la variation textuelle, que ce soit dans
  la perspective de l'?tablissement, de l'exploration/lecture, ou des
  mesures statistiques ?

- Que faire de la "philologie num?rique", peut-on et doit-on
  normaliser les proc?dures d'?tablissement des ressources textuelles,
  pourquoi et comment ?

- Quelle terminologie sont amen?s ? mettre en place les chercheurs
  confront?s ? la n?cessit? de d?finir leurs objets dans le cadre de
  l'analyse textuelle sur corpus : texte, document, archive, ?nonc?,
  discours, base, corpus, sous-corpus, section, unit?, segment,
  partition.... ?

- Comment se construit une interpr?tation dans le cours d'une ?tude
  men?e sur corpus, et comment s'?quilibre dans cette optique le
  rapport entre texte et corpus; peut-on formuler des principes
  g?n?raux voire th?oriques de cette articulation ?

- Jusqu'o? est-il vrai que le travail sur corpus informatis? assure
  une suspension de l'activit? interpr?tative et diverses autres
  modifications "d?ontiques" des conditions de la critique en sciences
  humaines ?

- Quel impact ces nouvelles orientations et ce foisonnement empiriques
  sont-ils susceptibles d'avoir sur la mesure statistique et sur
  l'int?r?t qu'elle suscite ?

Ces questions ne d?finissent en aucun cas un "plan" du num?ro, elles
devraient toutes se poser ? un degr? variable ? chaque contributeur..
En revanche, une question centrale nous guidera : qu'est-ce qui a
chang?, de mani?re significative, dans notre pratique critique des
textes au long de cette mont?e en force du corpus con?u comme
op-position d'un mat?riau langagier ?

Les propositions d'articles doivent ?tre envoy?es par courrier
?lectronique ? chacun des deux responsables du num?ro (voir
ci-dessus).


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:41:10 +0200
Subject: Conf: FG 08
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:07:14 +0200
From: "Laura Kallmeyer" <lk at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de>
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 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (deadline for early registration is July 18):
************************************************
FG-2008: The 13th Conference on Formal Grammar
************************************************

Hamburg, Germany, August 9-10, 2008
http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/fg08/

Collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information

 FG-2008 is the 13th conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in
conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information, which takes place in 2008 in Hamburg, Germany. Previous
Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996),
Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki
(2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005),
Malaga (2006) and Dublin (2007).


 Aims and Scope:

 FG provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research
on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of
formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural
language. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,

   - formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics
     and pragmatics;
   - model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
   - logical aspects of linguistic structure;
   - constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
   - learnability of formal grammar;
   - integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;
   - foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar;
   - mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic
     analysis.

Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide
variety of frameworks.


Program:

Saturday, August 9th

   - 9.30 a.m. - 9.40 a.m. opening
   - 9.40 a.m. - 10.40 a.m. Invited talk: Philipp Koehn
   - *coffee*
   - 11.10 a.m. - 11.50 a.m. Geoffrey Pullum and Hans-J?rg Tiede:
     Inessential Features and Expressive Power of Descriptive
     Metalanguages
   - 11.50 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Yael Sygal and Shuly Wintner: Type
     Signature Modules.
   - *lunch*
   - 2.30 p.m. - 3.10 p.m. Wolfgang Maier and Anders S?gaard:
     Treebanks and mild context-sensitivity.
   - 3.10 p.m. - 3.50 p.m. Stephan Kepser: A Landscape of Logics for
     Finite Unordered Unranked Trees.
   - *coffee*
   - 4.20 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Anne Bjerre and Tavs Bjerre: Danish
     there-constructions with intransitive verbs

 Sunday August 10th

   - 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Invited talk: Markus Egg
   - *coffee*
   - 11.00 a.m. - 11.40 a.m. Mehdi Manshadi, James Allen and Mary
     D. Swift:
     Toward a Universal Underspecified Semantic Representation.
   - 11.40 a.m. - 12.20 p.m. Alain Lecomte: Semantics in
     Minimalist-Categorial Grammars12.20 p.m. 
   - 12.30 p.m. closing

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:38:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: LATA 2009, 2nd call for papers
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:13:29 +0200
From: <carlos.martin at urv.cat>
Message-ID: <fc53f41813b.48abfc59 at urv.cat>
X-url: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/
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Apologies for multiple posting!

Please, forward the announcement to whoever may be interested in it.

Thanks.

*********************************************************************

Second Call for Papers

3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS (LATA 2009)

Tarragona, Spain, April 2-8, 2009

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/

*********************************************************************

AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its
applications. As linked to the International PhD School in Formal
Languages and Applications that was developed at the host institute in
the period 2002-2006, LATA 2009 will reserve significant room for
young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at
attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and
application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language
technology, artificial intelligence, etc.).

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

- algebraic language theory
- algorithms on automata and words
- automata and logic
- automata for system analysis and programme verification
- automata, concurrency and Petri nets
- biomolecular nanotechnology
- cellular automata
- circuits and networks
- combinatorics on words
- computability
- computational, descriptional, communication and parameterized
  complexity
- data and image compression
- decidability questions on words and languages
- digital libraries
- DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
- document engineering
- extended automata
- foundations of finite state technology
- fuzzy and rough languages
- grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional,
  unification, categorial, etc.)
- grammars and automata architectures
- grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
- graphs and graph transformation
- language varieties and semigroups
- language-based cryptography
- language-theoretic foundations of natural language processing,
  artificial intelligence and artificial life
- mathematical evolutionary genomics
- parsing
- patterns and codes
- power series
- quantum, chemical and optical computing
- regulated rewriting
- string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and
  bioinformatics
- symbolic dynamics
- symbolic neural networks
- term rewriting
- text algorithms
- text retrieval, pattern matching and pattern recognition
- transducers
- trees, tree languages and tree machines
- weighted machines

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2009 will consist of:

- 3 invited talks
- 2 invited tutorials
- refereed contributions
- open sessions for discussion in specific subfields or on
  professional issues (if requested by the participants)

Invited speakers will be:

Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux): Graph Structure and Monadic Second-order
Logic (tutorial)

Markus Holzer (Muenchen): Nondeterministic Finite Automata: Recent
Developments (tutorial)

Sanjay Jain (Singapore): Role of Hypothesis Spaces in Inductive
Inference

Kai Salomaa (Kingston, Canada): State Complexity of Nested Word
Automata

Thomas Zeugmann (Sapporo): Recent Developments in Algorithmic Teaching


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Parosh Abdulla (Uppsala)
Stefania Bandini (Milano)
Stephen Bloom (Hoboken)
John Brzozowski (Waterloo)
Maxime Crochemore (London)
Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Michael Domaratzki (Winnipeg)
Henning Fernau (Trier)
Rusins Freivalds (Riga)
Vesa Halava (Turku)
Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich)
Lucian Ilie (London, Canada)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto)
Aravind Joshi (Philadelphia)
Juhani Karhumaki (Turku)
Jarkko Kari (Turku)
Claude Kirchner (Bordeaux)
Maciej Koutny (Newcastle)
Hans-Joerg Kreowski (Bremen)
Kamala Krithivasan (Chennai)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Andrzej Lingas (Lund)
Aldo de Luca (Napoli)
Rupak Majumdar (Los Angeles)
Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona & Brussels, chair)
Joachim Niehren (Lille)
Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
Joerg Rothe (Duesseldorf)
Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw)
Philippe Schnoebelen (Cachan)
Thomas Schwentick (Dortmund)
Helmut Seidl (Muenchen)
Alan Selman (Buffalo)
Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo)
Ludwig Staiger (Halle)
Frank Stephan (Singapore)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Madalina Barbaiani
Gemma Bel-Enguix
Cristina Bibire
Adrian-Horia Dediu
Szilard-Zsolt Fazekas
Armand-Mihai Ionescu
M. Dolores Jimenez-Lopez
Alexander Krassovitskiy
Guangwu Liu
Carlos Martin-Vide (chair)
Zoltan-Pal Mecsei
Robert Mercas
Catalin-Ionut Tirnauca
Bianca Truthe
Sherzod Turaev
Florentina-Lilica Voicu

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and
unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages
and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer
Verlag's LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). Submissions
have to be uploaded at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2009

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will
be available by the time of the conference.

Two special issues of the journals Information and Computation
(Elsevier, 2007 impact factor: 0.983) and Journal of Logic and
Computation (Oxford University Press, 2007 impact factor: 0.821)
containing extended versions of selected papers will be published
after the conference.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration will be open since September 1, 2008 to
April 2, 2009. The registration form can be found at the website of
the conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2009/

Early registration fees: 450 euros
Early registration fees (PhD students): 225 euros
Registration fees: 540 euros
Registration fees (PhD students): 270 euros

At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have
a registered author by December 31, 2008 will be excluded from the
proceedings.

Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings
volume, and coffee breaks. For the participation in the full-day
excursion and conference lunch on Sunday April 5, the amount of 70
euros is to be added to the fees above: accompanying persons are
welcome at the same rate.

PAYMENT:

Early registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before December
31, 2008 to the conference account at Open Bank (Plaza Manuel Gomez
Moreno 2, 28020 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES1300730100510403506598 - Swift
code: OPENESMMXXX (account holder: LATA 2009 ? Carlos Martin-Vide).

(Non-early) registration fees can be paid either by bank transfer to
the same account or in cash on site.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the
registration form at the website of the conference. A receipt for the
payment will be provided on site.

FUNDING:

Up to 20 grants covering partial-board accommodation will be available
for nonlocal PhD students. To apply, candidates must e-mail their CV
together with a copy of the document proving their present status as a
PhD student.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: October 22, 2008
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 10, 2008
Application for funding (PhD students): December 15, 2008
Notification of funding acceptance or rejection: December 19, 2008
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: December 24, 2008
Early registration: December 31, 2008
Starting of the conference: April 2, 2009
Submission to the journal special issues: June 22, 2009

FURTHER INFORMATION:

carlos.martin at urv.cat

ADDRESS:

LATA 2009
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Plaza Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-559597


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:42:30 +0200
Subject: Appel: LSA-TEL'09
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:24:33 +0200
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Apologies for cross-posting

*************************************FIRST CALL FOR PROPOSALS:  
16/07/08*************************************************

                              LSA-TEL'09

Second European Workshop on Latent Semantic Analysis in Technology-
Enhanced Learning

March 25-26, 2009, Grenoble, France
__
IMPORTANT DATES
     *October 27th, 2008:   Deadline for submission.
     *December 1st, 2008: Notification of acceptance.
     *January 15th, 2009:   Camera ready papers due date.
__
AIM & TOPICS

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has been successfully deployed in
various educational applications to enrich learning and teaching with
information-technology. The primary goal of the workshop is to bring
together experts in the field in order to share knowledge gained
within the distributed research about latent semantic analysis in
educational applications (either from the context of the IST projects
Cooper, iCamp, TenCompetence, Cooper and ProLearn, or from computer/
cognitive scientists involved in LSA-based research). The topics of
this workshop relate on the educational technology applications of LSA
(e.g., Automated Essay Scoring) and the methodological issues raised
by this technique (e.g., corpus composition). The second edition of
this workshop, two years after the first one held at Heerlen (OUNL),
has the aim to continue the coverage of these topics, with a new
emphasis on cognitive simulation. This second edition emerges from the
joint effort of the participants of the european project LTfLL
(Learning Technologies for LifeLong Learning).

Topics should cover, but not be restricted, to
* Educational technology applications of LSA, such as:
    * Automated essay scoring & grading, Summarization & writing  
      assistance
    * Feedback generation, Tutoring & Tutor support, Question
      answering
    * Learner modelling, Enriching user profiles, Peer finding &  
      community formation
    * Positioning & Placement of Learners
    * Selection & Sequencing of Content
    * Protocol analysis, Knowledge gap analysis, Task analysis

* Methodological issues for LSA in Educational Technology, such as:
    * Corpus composition & preparation (sanitising, filtering,  
      selection, seeding, domain modelling, ...)
    * Optimisation of analysis and queries
    * Statistical properties
    * Combining LSA with other techniques
    * Evaluation and Validation of LSA

* Cognitive Modelling using LSA, such as:
    * Knowledge acquisition
    * Language acquisition and development
    * Measure of semantic relatedness
    * Cognitive architectures
    * Activity modelling
    * Cognitive corpora

COMMITTEES
Program Committee
    * Jean-Yves Antoine (University of Tours, France)
    * Gaston Burek (Tuebingen University, Germany)
    * Philippe Dessus (University of Grenoble, France)
    * Arthur C. Graesser (University of Memphis, USA)
    * Kurt Hornik (Vienna University, Austria)
    * Mathieu Lafourcade (University Montpellier, France)
    * Beno?t Lemaire (University of Grenoble, France)
    * Danielle S. McNamara (University of Memphis, USA)
    * Paola Monachesi (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
    * Traian Rebedea (UPB, Roumania)
    * Stefan Trausan-Matu (UPB, Roumania)
    * Jan van Bruggen (OUNL, The Netherlands)
    * Peter van Rosmalen (OUNL, The Netherlands)
    * Fridolin Wild (Vienna University, Austria)
    * Virginie Zampa (University of Grenoble, France)

Organisational Committee
    * Philippe Dessus (LSE, UPMF & IUFM, Grenoble, France)
    * Beno?t Lemaire (TIMC-IMAG, UJF, Grenoble, France)
    * Sonia Mandin (LSE, UPMF & IUFM, Grenoble, France)
    * Virginie Zampa (LIDILEM, Univ. Stendhal, Grenoble, France)

KEYNOTE
     *Jose Quesada, Max Planck Institute for Human Development,  
      Berlin, Germany.

SUBMISSION TYPES
     *Official language for both papers and talks: English.
Submissions are expected in the following two formats. They should
describe substantial and unpublished work.

    * Full Papers: Papers should be maximum 6 pages in length (about
4,000 words), using an IEEE stylesheet. PDF, MS-Word are accepted. PDF
is preferred for submisssion.

    * Posters: For reviewing purposes, posters are submitted as short
papers (2 pages-long, up to 1,500 word-long) using the same stylesheet
than full papers. After acceptance, authors will have to design a
poster for presenting the content of their research.

VENUE

     *MSH-Alpes, Grenoble University, France:
      http://www.msh-alpes.prd.fr/Acces/plan-msh-upmf.htm

Contact: lsa-tel at upmf-grenoble.fr
web: http://www.upmf-grenoble.fr/sciedu/lsatel

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:43:32 +0200
Subject: Job: Chef de projet GED, Sesin
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:45:49 +0000
From: Aziez Amina <amina_aziez at hotmail.com>
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Poste : Chef de projet (H/F)

Rattach?(e) ? la Direction des Projets, vous ?tes le moteur et le
responsable au quotidien de l'?tat d'avancement des projets. En
relation avec le service D?veloppement pour r?aliser les logiciels,
vous assurerez la gestion du projet en respectant les co?ts, veillerez
au respect du planning, des d?lais, du cahier des charges et des
contraintes techniques.

Profil

De formation Bac + 4 (ou plus) en informatique (ou ayant des
connaissances techniques en informatique), autonome et dynamique, vous
ma?trisez l'anglais technique ; la ma?trise de l'anglais parl? est un
plus.

D?placements ponctuels.Poste de cadre en CDI, 35 heures.

Lieu : Paris
Salaire ? n?gocier.
D?butant(e) accept?
 
Recrutement
Envoyer un CV et une lettre de motivation ? :
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:45:55 +0200
Subject: Job: Research position, learning sciences,
 University of Luxembourg (pre-announcement)
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:31:14 +0200
From: Gudrun Ziegler <gudrun.ziegler at web.de>
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X-url: http://www.lcmi.uni.lu
X-url: http://www.cr.rockhal.lu/fr/agenda/2008/10/multi-SPACES_08/index.php
X-url: http://www.dica-lab.org
X-url: http://precis.berkeley.edu/
X-url: http://multi-learn.uni.lu


Dear collegues, chers collegues, liebe Kollegen,

please transmit to the potentially interested, regards, Gudrun  
Ziegler





PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT (position to be published within the next weeks,
www.uni.lu/jobs))



50%/100% Researcher Position

Junior (MA) and/or Senior (PhD) researcher level

in the field of the Learning Sciences

specializing in discourse/interactional linguistics and/or science
education/learning and/or multi-media/IT and learning with a strong
focus on the multilingual/multi-modal dimensions of knowledge
construction (Project: CODI-SCILE-A)



Full-time and/or part-time (40h/week and/or 20h/week)



Planned starting time: November 2008 (end of contract October 2011)



Contributing to the UL's Priority "Building Excellence in Education",
the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education
(LSHASE) hosts the Unit for Sociocultural Research on Learning and
Development with the group DICA-lab being particularly active in the
field of medial, plurilingual and multi- modal learning.

The project "Competences for organizing discourse-in-interaction &
science learning" (CODI-SCILE-A) specifically focuses on scientific
knowledge construction by children (age 4 - 8) as
discourse-in-interaction practices, features and formats with regard
to the multi-modal, multi-medial and multi-lingual quality of
resources deployed and taken up by the learners.

The project team is looking for a highly motivated, internationally
experienced researcher (MA-level and/or PhD-level) in the field of the
learning sciences with a proven record as regards the integration,
set-up and/or management of data-driven scientific
projects. Experiences with the creative-/media- industries (e.g.,
interface design, learning media) and/or schooling institutions an
asset.



The successful candidate/s hold/s a relevant degree (MA-level or
doctorate (PhD)) in one of the following fields, relevant to the
project: educational sciences, (multi-modal/multi-medial)
communication and information technology, interactional studies,
learning (including human/machine), applied linguistics, science
learning, activity/socio-cultural theory.

Substantial, theoretically grounded methodological skills as regards
the (analytical/technical) handling of developmental/ interactional
data are required, prior experiences in collecting and integrating
situated data into corpora-/data-treatment-systems are an asset.

Experiences in working with development (language/s, resources,
socio-cognitive dimensions, activity dimensions) in a specific domain
(e.g., science) or a specific age group (e.g., pre-primary/ primary)
represent an advantage.



The candidate(s) will join the project CODI-SCILE-A (Prof. Dr.  Max,
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Ziegler) within the DICA-lab working group of the Unit
for Sociocultural Research on Learning and Development (Research Unit
LCM. Language, Culture, Media and Identities, http://www.lcmi.uni.lu ;
www.dica-lab.org).



As the candidate/s will be working with different types of data
covering an array of languages and modalities, she/he has excellent
command of at least two of the following languages: German and/or
French/English (written and spoken), Luxembourgish and/or a further
Romance language an asset. Advanced level of using learning platforms
and other interactional IT-/medial devices an asset. Excellent
self-management skills, ability and willingness to engage into active
team-management a prerequisite, intercultural, technical and
interdisciplinary awareness as well as a motivation to join a
challenging environment within a trilingual, international and young
University are prerequisites for this position.




Candidates should submit the following documents, by October 1st, 2008
(upon official publicaiton of the position via www.uni.lu/ jobs):

-      letter of motivation, stating the link of previous work/ 
interests to the position within the project

-      curriculum vitae

-      record of publications and projects (if applicable)

-      copies of diploma(s)

-      two references (relevant to the position)



For further information as regards the project please contact:

Prof. Dr. Charles Max

Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9413

or

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler

Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 9363

Mail: gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu







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Join in for the next multi-lingual, multi-modal learning performance
- multi-SPACES '08 - VJ-ing Night @ Rockhal -
http://www.cr.rockhal.lu/fr/agenda/2008/10/multi-SPACES_08/index.php

Out now - CALL for PAPERS - International Conference - Learning '08
- Methodologies and Practices for Approaching Learning as a Social  
Phenomenon -
http://www.dica-lab.org

Vient de para?tre:
Zarate, G.; L?vy, D.; Kramsch, C. (eds.):
- Pr?cis du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme -
http://precis.berkeley.edu/

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Find out more about the
- Master - Learning & Development in Multilingual and  
Multicultural Contexts (MA multi-LEARN) -
http://multi-learn.uni.lu

Ass.-Professor Dr. Gudrun Ziegler
Faculty of Language & Literature, Humanities, Arts & Education

Send to: University of Luxembourg, Campus Walferdange, Route de  
Diekrich, L-7201 Luxembourg
Call: 00352 46 66 44 93 63
Mail to: gudrun.ziegler at uni.lu AND gudrun.ziegler at web.de

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:49:50 +0200
Subject: Info: Recherche participants pour une collecte de SMS
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:16:53 +0200
From: Victoria Arranz <arranz at elda.org>
Message-ID: <48B41E65.9000808 at elda.org>
X-url: http://www.smscollecte.fr/
X-url: http://www.elda.org
X-url: http://www.elra.info

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*Recherche participants pour une collecte de SMS*


Afin de constituer une base de donn?es sur des messages textuels, SMS,
dans le cadre d'un projet qui servira ? la cr?ation d'outils de
communication SMS, ELDA (Agence pour la Distribution des ressources
Linguistiques et l'Evaluation) recherche 1000 participants entre 15 et
60 ans (hommes et femmes).

Chaque participant proc?dera ? la saisie de messages SMS en se
connectant au site Internet d?di? ? la collecte. Seul l'acc?s ?
Internet est requis (pas de d?placement).

La t?che consiste ? r?aliser 10 messages SMS pour chacun des sc?narios
propos?s.

 _Conditions_ :                 *?tre de langue maternelle fran?aise.*

                                *Hommes et femmes entre 15 et 60 ans*..

 Si vous ?tes int?ress?(e), connectez-vous au site d?s maintenant pour
vous inscrire et participer ? la collecte :

* _Site :_              www.smscollecte.fr <http://www.smscollecte.fr/>*

*
*Les participants ? cette collecte aideront ? am?liorer les
 technologies de communication  et ? faire progresser la recherche
 scientifique. En remerciement de leur participation, ils recevront un
 ch?que de 10 euros.


Pour tout compl?ment d'information, vous pouvez nous contacter ?
l'adresse suivante :

_Contact _:          smscollecte at elda.org



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Dr. Victoria Arranz  (arranz at elda.org)
Head of Department
Language Resource Identification and Distribution
ELDA / ELRA
55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin 
75013 Paris - FRANCE

Tel.:+33 1 43 13 33 31 (direct)
Fax:+33 1 43 13 33 30

Homepages: 		http://www.elda.org / http://www.elra.info
ELRA Catalogue: 	http://catalog.elra.info
LREC Conferences:	http://www.lrec-conf.org
Evaluation Portal:	http://www.hlt-evaluation.org
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:47:21 +0200
Subject: Appel: WWW2009, 18th Int. World Wide Web Conference,
 20-24 April 2009, Madrid, Spain
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:14:10 +0200
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 [Apologies for cross-posting]    

[Please, distribute it to those who might be interested]

 

********************************************************************

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                               WWW2009

              18th International World Wide Web Conference 

                   April 20 - 24, 2009, Madrid, Spain

                            http://www2009.org

********************************************************************

 

WWW2009 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the
Web.

Papers may be submitted to the following tracks:

 

* Data Mining

* Internet Monetization

* Performance and Scalability

* Rich Media

* Search

* Security and Privacy

* Semantic / Data Web

* Social Networks and Web 2.0

* User Interfaces and Mobile Web

* Web Engineering

* XML and Web Data

 

In addition, the conference solicits original research papers to the
following alternate tracks:

 

* Industrial Practice and Experience

* WWW in Ibero-America

 

IMPORTANT DATES

---------------

Refereed papers due: November 3, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii Time; no
extensions will be granted)

Acceptance Notification:   January 20, 2009 

Conference dates:  April 20 - 24, 2009

 

OTHER SUBMISSION DEADLINES

--------------------------

 

Workshops: October 10th, 2008

Tutorials: November 30th, 2008

Panels: December 21st, 2008

Posters: January 11th, 2009

Developers track: February 2nd, 2009

 

Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work
and can be up to 10 pages in length. Papers should properly place the
work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the
innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We
will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under
review for or has already been published or accepted for publication
in a journal or another conference.

 

All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from an
International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in online
proceedings published by the ACM Digital Library and the conference's
web site. The Program Committee will select a small number of
excellent papers for fast-track journal publication in the ACM
Transactions on the Web.

 

Authors of accepted papers will retain proprietary rights to their
work, but will be required to sign a copyright release form to
IW3C2. Detailed formatting and submission requirements are available
at http://www2009.org/submission.html.

 

The WWW2009 program will also include Tutorials and Workshops, Panels,
a W3C track, a Developers track, Posters, and Exhibitions. See
http://www2009.org/calls.html for details.

 

General Chairs:

    * Juan Quemada, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

    * Gonzalo Leon, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

 

Program Chairs

    * Yoelle Maarek, Google Inc. (Israel) 

    * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and Hannover University (Germany)

 

Local Organizing Committee Chair 

    * Joan Vinyes, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

 

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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Fri Aug 29 14:45:49 2008
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:45:49 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI,
 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals (deadline Monday September
 1st)
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:17:00 +0200
From: retore <retore at labri.fr>
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                         ESSLLI
        Monday, 20 July -- Friday, 31 July 2009
                    Bordeaux, France
        Call for Course and Workshop Proposals
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The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI)
is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and
Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around
Europe.
The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics,
logic and computation.  ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and
advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of
topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation,
Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation.
Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to
500 students from Europe and elsewhere.  The school has developed into
an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and
researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic,
Language and Information.


*** Call for Course and Workshop Proposals ***

The ESSLLI 2009 Program Committee invites proposals for
foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops
for the 21st annual Summer School in the broad interdisciplinary
area connecting logic, linguistics, computer science and the
cognitive sciences.
The Summer School program is organized around the components:

* Language and Computation
* Language and Logic
* Logic and Computation.

We also welcome proposals that do not exactly fit one of these
three categories. All proposals should be submitted no later than:

Monday, September 1, 2008.

Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's
decision no later than:

Wednesday October 15, 2008.

Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2009.


*** Guidelines for Submission ***

Anyone interested in lecturing a course or organizing a workshop
during ESSLLI-2009, should follow the guidelines below, and those
on the website, while preparing a submission. Proposals that
deviate can not be considered.
Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers, and workshops are
organized by 1 or max. 2 organizers. Lecturers and organizers
should have obtained a PhD in their field at the time of the
proposal. Courses and workshops last a week and consist of five
sessions, of 90 minutes each. Lecturers who want to offer a long,
two-week, course should submit two independent one-week courses.
The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of
the two proposed courses.


*** Foundational Courses ***

These are strictly elementary courses not assuming any background
knowledge.  They are intended for people to get acquainted with
the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they
should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key
competences of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the
development of a truly interdisciplinary research community.
Foundational courses may presuppose some experience with scientific
methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on the issues that
are germane to the area of the course.


*** Introductory Courses ***

Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer
School.  They are intended to equip students and young researchers
with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques.
Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation,
can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an
introductory course in computational linguistics should address
an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and
computation.  Proposals for introductory courses should indicate
the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the
area (if available).


*** Advanced Courses ***

Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced
Masters or PhD students.  Proposals for advanced courses
should specify the prerequisites in detail.


*** Workshops ***

Next to the courses there is room for a number of workshops.
The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced
Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their
work.  Workshops should have a well defined theme, and workshop
organizers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop.
Organizers are required to give a general introduction to the
theme of the workshop during the first session.  They are also
responsible for the organization and program of the workshop
including inviting the submission of papers, setting up a
program committee, reviewing, expenses of invited speakers, etc.
In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for
sending out a first Call for Papers for the workshop by November
17, 2008. The call must make it clear that the workshop is
open to all members of the ESSLLI community.  It should also note that
all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School.
Important dates are:

* Nov 17, 08 & Call for Workshop Papers
* Feb 15, 09 & Deadline for Submissions
* Apr 15, 09 & Notification
* June 1, 09 & Deadline for Proceedings

Workshop speakers will be required to register for the
Summer School; they are entitled to the reduced student
rate.


*** Proposals Format ***

The submission form at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2009

will require you to submit the following information:

* Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer)
* Address (contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer;
email, phone, fax, homepage)
* Title (title of proposed course/workshop)
* Type (is this a workshop, a foundational course, an introductory
course, or an advanced course? If a course is introductory or
advanced, what are the prerequisites?)
* Section (does your proposal fit in Language & Computation,
Language & Logic or Logic & Computation?)
* Description (describe the proposed contents of the course,
outline the program, and substantiate timeliness and relevance
to ESSLLI in at most one page a4)
* External funding (will you be able to find external funding to
help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if so, how?)
* Further particulars (any other relevant information; e.g.,
experience with the field, with teaching, with ESSLLI; other
information)


*** Financial Aspects ***

Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be aware that
all teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a
voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as
possible. Lecturers and organizers are not paid for their contribution,
but they are reimbursed for travel and/or accommodation expenses,
up to a fixed maximum amount specified after notification. Lecturers
and workshop organizers are allowed a fee-waiver.
In case a course is to be taught by two lecturers, or a workshop
is organized by two organizers, a lump sum is reimbursed to cover
travel and/or accommodation expenses for one of them. The splitting
of the sum is up to the lecturers/organizers.
It should be emphasized that while proposals from all over the
world are welcomed, the Summer School cannot guarantee full
reimbursement of travel costs.

The local organizers highly appreciate it if, whenever possible,
lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover
travel and accommodation expenses, and such issues might be taken
into account when selecting courses.


*** Programm Committtee ***

Chair:
Uwe Moennich (SfS, Tuebingen)
Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 19
72074 Tuebingen, Germany
phone: +49-7071-29-74035
e-mail: um at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de
http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~um
Local co-chair:
Richard Moot (LaBRI, Bordeaux)
Area Specialists:
Marco Baroni and Claire Gardent
(Language and Computation)
Paul Egre and Kjell Johan Saeboe
(Language and Logic)
Alex Rabinovich and Ulrike Sattler
(Logic and Computation)


*** Organizing Committee ***

Chair:
Christian Retore (LaBRI Bordeaux)

*** Further Information ***
The website for ESSLLI 2009 can be found at:

http://esslli2009.labri.fr

The website of this year's summer school at:

http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/


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