From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 1 10:46:21 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:46:21 +0100 Subject: Appel: Ontolex'08, Deadline Extended To 1st March Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:12:07 +0100 From: Laurent PREVOT Message-ID: X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ ****************************************************** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS * ****************************************************** LAST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 1st March OntoLex 2008 - The role of ontolex resources in building the infrastructure of Web 3.0: vision and practice In Association with LREC2008 - 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION Palais des Congr�s Mansour Eddahbi Marrakech (Morocco) 31 May 2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ The integration of ontologies and lexical resources can be seen as a new route across which hybrid agents negotiate contents and exchange linguistic and ontological aspects of knowledge in shared environments. In this workshop we aim at investigating the role of ontolex resources across developing ideas and practice of Web 3.0, the connection of Web 2.0 (the �social web�) with the Semantic Web infrastructure of ontology-based standards and technologies. The workshop will address the following specific topics of interest: � Integrating multimedia into ontolex resources � Cooperative construction of ontolex resources � Linguistic interfaces for Semantic Web applications � Exploiting ontolex resources in social networking � Web-Corpus linguistics for OntoLex Resource building As well as the following general topics: � Ontology-driven meta-models for multilingual lexica � Evaluation of ontolex resources in NLP tasks � Evaluation of ontologies for building ontolex resources � Ontology-driven annotation of corpora for ontology learning � Design principles for the integrated representation of lexical and ontological knowledge � Open-source platforms for ontolex resources The workshop is addressed to researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds � Semantic Web, AI, Machine Learning, NLP, Information Retrieval � that are concerned with the representation and use of lexical knowledge in semantic annotation, ontology-based approaches to information extraction, ontology learning, ontology matching, etc. Originating in 2000 from a visionary initiative of Kiryakov and Simov, and �historically� hosted by LREC (2002-2004-2006), OntoLex has recently turned into a yearly workshop (IJCNLP 2005, ISWC 2007) for a growing interdisciplinary community of lexicographers, ontologists and computational linguists who recognize it de facto as their common �meeting room�. This years edition aims at raising the issue of ontolex resources in Web 3.0 to foster the discussion about next-generation ontolex tools, on the basis of state-of-the-art technologies and ongoing projects within the LREC community. Important dates 1 March 2008: Deadline for extended abstract submission 14 March 2008: Acceptance notifications 31 March 2008: Camera-ready papers 31 May 2008: Workshop Participants are invited to submit an extended abstract of max 1000 words related to one or more topics of interest to the following address: oltramari-at-loa-cnr.it. The final paper should not exceed 5000 words. Each accepted paper will receive a slot of 40 minutes for presentation (30 minutes talk and 10 minutes for discussion). Organising Committee Alessandro Oltramari (contact person) - Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), Italy Chu-Ren Huang - Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Laurent Pr�vot - CLLE-ERSS (CNRS), France Paul Buitelaar - DFKI GmbH, Germany Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Programme Committee Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany Luisa Bentivogli, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Povo (Trento), Italy Philipp Cimiano, Karlsruhe University, Germany Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (CNR), Rome, Italy Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext, Bulgaria Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy Sujian Li, Peking University, China Qin Lu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Andrea Schalley, University of New England, Australia Armando Stellato, Universit� di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy Tokunaga Takenobu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Paola Velardi, University of Rome, Italy Guido Vetere, IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Rome, Italy Johanna Voelker, Karlsruhe University, Germany Chris Welty, IBM, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 1 10:47:53 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:47:53 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journee Realiter 2008, La langue et le droit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:19:43 +0100 From: Adriana Lau Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.2.20080227171920.0210e7c0 at 212.37.192.23> X-url: http://www.realiter.net/ X-url: http://realiter.net/spip.php?rubrique103 X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/ X-url: http://www.terminometro.info/ Journée Realiter 2008 « La langue et le droit » Gatineau, Canada Le Réseau panlatin de terminologie (Realiter) est heureux de vous confirmer que la prochaine Journée scientifique aura lieu à Gatineau (Canada), le lundi 6 octobre 2008. 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. Comme ce fut le cas lors des précédentes Journées scientifiques Realiter, chaque conférencier présentera une communication de 20 minutes dans sa langue maternelle, et il n'y aura pas de service d'interprétation. Toute personne intéressée doit faire parvenir un résumé de sa communication avant le 28 mars 2008 à Mme Francine Gosselin (francine.gosselin at tpsgc.gc.ca), membre du Comité organisateur de la Journée scientifique Realiter. Nous vous prions d'inscrire Journée Realiter 2008 dans le champ Objet de votre courriel. Les résumés reçus au-delà de cette date ne seront pas pris en compte. Les résumés, d'un maximum de 350 mots, devront faire état clairement des éléments suivants : * Titre * Auteur(s) * Organisme * Sujet (thème) et objectif(s) Le Comité scientifique évaluera les propositions de communications reçues et informera les candidats concernés de l'acceptation ou non de leur projet de communication. Pour rappel, Realiter veillera à assurer une distribution géolinguistique équitable. Voici les dates d'échéance retenues : 28 mars 2008 (Membres Realiter) : Envoi des résumés 30 mai 2008 (Comité scientifique) : Confirmation de l'acceptation des communications. Une fois le choix des communications arrêté, le Programme de la Journée Realiter sera finalisé et affiché sur le site Web du Réseau : www.realiter.net. Info en d'autres langues : http://realiter.net/spip.php?rubrique103 ______________________________________________________________________ Adriana Lau DTIL Unió LLatina - Unión Latina - Union latine - Unione Latina - União Latina - Uniunea Latina 131, rue du Bac - 75007 Paris T. +33 (0) 1 45 49 60 62 F. +33 (0) 1 45 49 67 39 a.lau at unilat.org http://dtil.unilat.org/ Info terminologie/a : www.terminometro.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 1 10:51:49 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:51:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: TAG+9, Deadline extension Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:42:54 -0500 (EST) From: gardent at loria.fr (Claire Gardent) Message-Id: <20080229074254.023915763F at loria1.loria.fr> X-url: http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag9 *** Deadline extension : March 6, 2008 **** The Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+9) 7-8 June 2008 Tuebingen, Germany http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ CALL FOR PAPERS An important subfield of computational linguistics and natural language processing is research on the formal machinery for describing language. This covers a wide range of interdisciplinary work in the cognitive science of language, including the mathematical and algorithmic properties of this machinery, the grammatical description of natural language, and the mechanisms of parsing and human language use. This research is also applied to empirical areas leading to novel algorithms and models for machine learning. Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) is a prominent formalism in the study of natural language because of its attractive formal properties and its extended domain of locality. TAG has been studied extensively in the last three decades with respect to mathematical properties and computational applications, as well as its role in constructing grammatical theories, new models of language processing and applications. This workshop, the latest in a series that has been running successfully since 1990, aims at bringing together researchers interested in various aspects of the TAG formalism including relations to other grammar formalisms -- this is the reason for the "+" in the workshop's name. In the past, interaction between such formalisms has been productive, leading for example to the shared development of broad-coverage grammars, transfer of parsing and machine learning algorithms from one formalism to another and to new insights into properties of different formalisms. Such related formalisms would include minimalist syntax, categorial grammar, dependency grammars, HPSG, LFG, and others which share with TAG general properties such as lexicalization of syntactic structure, a simple notion of local grammatical dependency, and a formal system strictly more powerful than context-free but not fully context-sensitive. Invited speakers: * Uwe Moennich, University of Tuebingen * Stuart Shieber, Harvard University Topics: We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related systems including the following topics: * syntactic and semantic theory; * mathematical properties; * computational and algorithmic studies of parsing, interpretation and generation; * machine learning models for TAG; * corpus-based research and grammar development using TAG; * psycholinguistic modeling; and * applications to natural language processing or biological sequence modeling. Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two sorts of presentations at the workshop: spoken presentations and poster presentations. Poster presentations are particularly appropriate for brief descriptions of specialized implementations, resources under development and work in progress. Regardless of the type of submission, abstracts may not exceed two pages in length (not including data, figures and references). Both one-column or two-column abstracts are permissible. However do not use a font that is smaller than 11pt. If you are using LaTeX for document preparation, then any recent ACL style file can be used. The final camera ready will be in two-column format conforming to the most recent ACL style file. Contact Information: The workshop website is at http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ The electronic submission website is at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag9 Email contact: tagplus at sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de Important dates: * Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 6, 2008. (deadline extended) * Notification to authors of decision: April 10, 2008. * Deadline for camera-ready submission: April 28, 2008. * Workshop dates: June 7 to 8, 2008. Proceedings including full papers for accepted abstracts (including both oral presentations and poster presentations) will be available on-line and at the workshop. In addition, we will explore possibilities for subsequent publication of workshop articles, for example through a special issue of a journal. Organization: Local Arrangements Chair * Laura Kallmeyer, University of Tuebingen Program Committee * Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA Nancy, (France). Program Co-Chair * Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University, (Canada). Program Co-Chair * Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research (USA) * Tilman Becker, DKI Saarbruecken (Germany) * Pierre Boullier, INRIA Rocquencourt, Paris (France) * John Chen, Columbia University (USA) * Joan Chen-Main, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * David Chiang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA) * Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA (France) * Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins University (USA) * Chung-Hye Han, Simon Fraser University (Canada) * Karin Harbusch, University of Koblenz (Germany) * Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) * Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * Laura Kallmeyer, University of Tuebingen (Germany) * Marco Kuhlmann, University of the Saarland (Germany) * Alessandro Mazzei, University of Torino (Italy) * David McDonald, BBN Technologies (USA) * Martha Palmer, University of Colorado (USA) * Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA) * Frank Richter, University of Tuebingen (Germany) * James Rogers, Earlham College (USA) * Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz (Germany) * Tatjana Scheffler, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * Sylvain Schmitz, INRIA Nancy Grand Est (France) * Vijay K. Shanker, University of Delaware (USA) * Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh (UK) * Matthew Stone, Rutgers University (USA) * Naoki Yoshinaga, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan) * Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK) Previous TAG+ meetings have been held at: * Dagstuhl (1990) * Philadelphia (1992) * Paris (1994) * Philadelphia (1998) * Paris (2000) * Venice (2002) * Vancouver (2004) * Sydney (2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 1 10:45:01 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:45:01 +0100 Subject: Appel: CIAA 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:21:06 +0200 From: "Andrei Paun" Message-ID: <007001c87933$28127390$3201a8c0 at dime521> X-url: http://ciaa2008.cs.sonoma.edu CIAA 2008 Third Call for Papers =============================== The Thirteenth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA) will take place in San Francisco, California, USA on July 21-24, 2008. The conference is sponsored by the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Sonoma State University, a California State University campus. The URL for the CIAA 2008 web site is: http://ciaa2008.cs.sonoma.edu The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in the theory, implementation and application of automata and related structures. For a list of topics of the conference, please see the web site http://ciaa2008.cs.sonoma.edu Important dates *NEW* Deadline for submission: March 8, 2008 *NEW* The submission server is now OPEN! Notification of acceptance: April 11, 2008 Submission for open problems session: April 13, 2008 Camera-ready version: April 25, 2008 Conference: July 21-24, 2008 Please note that CIAA 2008 will be four days long. (In the past, CIAA conferences have been three days long.) As another new feature of next year's conference, there will be a session devoted to Open Problems. Details about this session will be posted later on the web site. On behalf of the CIAA 2008 organizing committee, Andrei Paun ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 4 21:11:58 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:11:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC 2008 Workshop on Partial Parsing, Extended deadline (9 March 2008) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:45:55 +0100 From: Jakub.Piskorski at jrc.it Message-id: X-url: http://langtech.jrc.it/PaPa2008/ X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/-Submissions-.html FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS LREC 2008 Workshop on PARTIAL PARSING Between Chunking and Deep Parsing Marrakech, Morocco 1 June 2008 http://langtech.jrc.it/PaPa2008/ *Extended* submission deadline: *9 March 2008* MOTIVATION ========== Partial parsing has become a standard means of integrating syntactic knowledge into high level applications such as information retrieval, machine translation, or question answering, for which efficiency and robustness is of importance. In comparison with chunking and deep parsing, partial parsing consists in finding structure that is richer than chunks but less exhaustive than full syntactico-semantic parses: partial parsing may involve constructing nested structures (unlike simple chunking) without creating the full parse of a sentence. However, partial parsing is not a single concept but rather an area ranging from chunking to almost full parsing. This workshop will bring together researcher who work on partial parsing in its different interpretations. SCOPE: ===== The main areas of interest of the workshop include (but are not restricted to): . linguistic richness of partial parsers for various applications: syntactic and semantic headedness, the degree of hierarchical structure, semantic information (anaphora, disambiguation); . development methodologies for partial parsers: manual, machine learning, hybrid; . the usability of language resources for the development of partial parsers; . multi-lingual development of partial parsers, etc.; . experience and utilization of existing tools for building partial parsers for new languages; . technical aspects of partial parsers: . robustness, scalability; . time and space complexity; . expressiveness of partial parsing formalisms (regular vs. context-free rules; unification; type hierarchies; etc.); . applications of partial parsers: information extraction, question answering, machine translation, web text mining, acquisition of lexical information, etc.; . evaluation methodologies for partial parsers: gold standards, application-specific, reusability of evaluation resources for different partial parsing tasks, etc.; . ways of combining multiple partial parsers; . comparsion (classification) of partial parsers. SUBMISSIONS: =========== Authors are invited to submit original research papers. Papers should indicate the state of completion of the reported results. In particular, any overlap with previously published work should be clearly mentioned. Submissions will be judged on correctness, novelty, technical strength, clarity of presentation, and significance/relevance to the workshop. Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages and they should follow the detailed guidelines at the LREC 2008 web page: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/-Submissions-.html. Submission is via the START system, a link to the submission page can be found at the workshop page. The publication of selected papers in a special issue of a journal is planned. IMPORTANT DATES: =============== Extended submission deadline: 9 March 2008 Notification of acceptance: 23 March 2008 Camera-ready version due: 3 April 2008 Workshop: 1 June 2008 ORGANISERS: ========== . Sandra Kübler (Indiana University) . Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Center, Europeaqn Commission) . Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: =================== . Salah Aït-Mokhtar (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) . Gosse Bouma (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) . António Branco (University of Lisbon) . Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tübingen) . Hannah Kermes (University of Stuttgart) . Sandra Kübler (Indiana University) . Vladislav Kuboň (Charles University, Prague) . Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University) . Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Center) . Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences) . Ulrich Schäfer (DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken) . Wojciech Skut (Google Inc., Mountain View) . Anssi Yli Jyrä (CSC -- Scientific Computing Ltd., Espoo) CONTACT: ======= PaPa2008 _at_ bach.ipipan.waw.pl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 4 21:13:35 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:13:35 +0100 Subject: Appel: QAst 2008 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:53:32 +0100 From: ELDA Message-ID: <47CC02DC.2090205 at elda.org> X-url: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast Dear All, We are pleased to announce the release of the development dataset for the CLEF-QA 2008 track "Question Answering on Speech Transcripts" (QAst). We take this opportunity to launch a first call for participation in this evaluation exercise. QAst is a CLEF-QA track that aims at providing an evaluation framework for QA technology on speech transcripts, both manual and automatic. A detailed description of this track is available at: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast It is the second evaluation for the QAst track. Last year (QAst 2007), factual questions had been generated for two distinct corpora (in English language only). This year, in addition to factual questions, some definition questions are generated, and five corpora covering three different languages are used (3 corpora in English, 1 in Spanish and 1 in French). Important dates: # 15 June 2008: evaluation set released # 30 June 2008: submission deadline The pilot track is organized jointly by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), the Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) and Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI). If you are interested in participating please send an email to Jordi Turmo (turmo_AT_lsi.upc.edu) with "QAst" in the subject line. Best regards, QAst organizers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 4 21:15:07 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:15:07 +0100 Subject: Appel: COLING workshop, Speech Translation for Medical and Other Safety-Critical Applications Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:46:42 +0100 From: Manny Rayner Message-id: <47CC3982.7090508 at issco.unige.ch> X-url: http://www.issco.unige.ch/slt4med08/ CALL FOR PAPERS Speech Translation for Medical and Other Safety-Critical Applications COLING conference workshop Manchester, England Saturday, August 23, 2008 *** Deadline: 5 May *** http://www.issco.unige.ch/slt4med08/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Medical applications have emerged as one of the most popular domains for speech translation. At the first workshop on medical speech translation, held at HLT 2006, several advanced prototype systems were demonstrated, and a measure of consensus emerged on at least some points: * The key issue that differentiates the medical domain from most other application areas for speech translation is its safety-critical nature. For this reason, we are broadening the scope of the second workshop to include other safety-critical tasks, such as emergency response. * The technology is mature enough that useful systems can realistically be field-deployed now or in the very near future. * Systems targeted on these kinds of applications are often more useful if they can be made available on mobile or wearable hardware platforms. * The basic communication model should be collaborative, and allow the client users (patients in the case of medical applications) to play an active role. Despite this, there is so far little agreement on many central questions, including choices of architectures, component technologies, and evaluation methodologies. In this second workshop, we would again like to create a forum where people interested in these types of systems can meet, exchange ideas and demo live systems. We hope that the concrete result of the meeting will be the definition of at least one shared task for the emerging medical/safety-critical speech translation community, which will include shared data sets and an agreed-on evaluation methodology appropriate to the special characteristics of the domain. SUBMISSION: Submissions may be of the following kinds: * Long papers (up to 8 pages) describing substantial work on speech translation for medical and other safety-critical applications. We particularly encourage papers describing user-centered system evaluations. * System demonstrations, accompanied by short papers (up to 4 pages). Submission of a long paper does NOT preclude submission of an accompanying demo paper. * Short papers (up to 4 pages) describing component systems, including ASR, MT and TTS, which are particularly relevant to medical and safety critical speech translation. * Position statements (up to 4 pages) suggesting definitions of a shared task. All submissions should use the style files available on the main COLING conference web site. Author information should be included in the papers, since reviewing will NOT be blind. The main workshop page will soon include a link for submissions. IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop paper submission deadline 5 May Notification of acceptance of workshop papers 6 June Camera-ready copy of papers due 1 July PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier U Grenoble, France Pierrette Bouillon (co-chair) U Geneva, Switzerland Mike Dillinger SpokenTranslation, US Farzad Ehsani (co-chair) Fluential, US Glenn Flores U Texas, US Robert Frederking (co-chair) CMU, US Hitoshi Isahara NICT, Japan Shri Narayanan USC, US Aarne Ranta U Gothenburg, Sweden Manny Rayner (co-chair) U Geneva, Switzerland Tanja Schultz U Karlsruhe, Germany Harold Somers U Manchester, UK Bowen Zhou IBM, US QUERIES: Please address queries to Manny Rayner (Emmanuel.Rayner at issco.unige.ch) or Pierrette Bouillon (Pierrette.Bouillon at issco.unige.ch) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 4 21:17:17 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:17:17 +0100 Subject: Job: Post-doc ou ingenieur, Formalisme unifi ant la représentation des ressources terminologiques et ontologiques Message-ID: Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:54:35 +0100 From: Laurent AUDIBERT Message-ID: <47CD468B.2040600 at lipn.univ-paris13.fr> Vers un formalisme unifiant la représentation des ressources terminologiques et ontologiques * Contexte scientifique L'équipe Représentation des Connaissances et Langue Naturelle (RCLN) du Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN) développe depuis plusieurs années des méthodes et des outils d'annotation de documents avec un effort important porté sur l'extraction et la projection de terminologies. Un autre axe fort de l'équipe est l'ingénierie des connaissances qui s'intéresse aux méthodes de représentation et aux outils de construction d'ontologies. L'équipe RCLN souhaite maintenant faire la synthèse de ces deux axes dans une perspective d'annotation sémantique. Il faut donc mener une réflexion sur un formalisme unifiant la représentation des ressources terminologiques et ontologiques. * Profil L'équipe RCLN cherche à recruter un candidat titulaire d'un doctorat, ou éventuellement d'un diplôme d'ingénieur, en informatique ou dans un domaine proche. Bien entendu, ce poste demande des connaissances dans les domaines du traitement automatique des langues ou de l'ingénierie des connaissances. La maîtrise de l'anglais est indispensable. * Lieu, Durée et Rémunération Contrat de 6 mois (possibilité de prolongation à 18 mois), à pourvoir dès que possible. Rémunération suivant qualification. Le poste est à pourvoir au LIPN (adresse ci-dessous) * Comment postuler Envoyer un CV et une lettre de motivation par courrier électronique aux adresses ci-dessous. * Contact Laurent AUDIBERT Adeline Nazarenko Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN) CNRS UMR 7030 et Université Paris 13 99, avenue Jean-Baptiste Clément 93430 Villetaneuse ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Towards a formalism unifying the representation of terminological and ontological resources * Scientific context The NLP team (RCLN) at Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN) in the North of Paris has been developing for several years NLP methods and tools for automatic document annotation particularly in the field of terminology extraction and projection. Another strong research field of the team focus on knowledge acquisition (knowledge representation and ontologies learning from texts). The RCLN team now wishes to make the synthesis of these two axes with a perspective of semantic annotation. It is thus necessary to study how to unify terminological representation and ontological resources. * Profile The RCLN team would like to hire a candidate preferably with a PhD, or an engineering degree, in Computer Science. Knowledge in natural language processing or ontologies are a plus. A good level in English is mandatory and French is a plus. * Place, Duration and Remuneration 6 months contract (with a possible extension of 12 months), with a start date as soon as possible. Salary depends on experience. The position requires working at LIPN (see address below). * How to apply Send CV and cover letter to the following emails (see contact) * Contact Laurent AUDIBERT Adeline Nazarenko Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN) CNRS UMR 7030 et Université Paris 13 99, avenue Jean-Baptiste Clément 93430 Villetaneuse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 4 21:18:38 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:18:38 +0100 Subject: These: Lucie Barque, Description et formalisation de la polysemie reguliere du francais Message-ID: Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:10:52 +0100 From: lucie.barque at free.fr Message-ID: <1204639852.47cd586c7fbdd at imp.free.fr> Bonjour, J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à la soutenance de ma thèse, intitulée "Description et formalisation de la polysémie régulière du français" ainsi qu'au pot qui suivra. La soutenance aura lieu le vendredi 14 Mars à partir de 14h, dans la salle des Thèses de l'Université Paris 7. Cette salle se trouve au cinquième étage de la Halle aux farines, 10 rue Françoise Dolto (13è arrondissement). Cordialement, Lucie Barque (LaTTiCe, Université Paris 7) Composition du Jury : Pierrette Bouillon, Université de Genève (rapporteur) Laurence Danlos, Université Paris 7 (examinateur) Sylvain Kahane, Université Paris 10 (directeur de thèse) Georges Kleiber, Université de Strasbourg (examinateur) Alain Polguère, Université de Montréal (co-directeur) Achim Stein, Université de Stuttgart (rapporteur) Résumé : La thèse propose une réflexion théorique sur la nature des liens de polysémie et sur leur rôle dans la structuration du lexique. Son apport principal est de préciser le concept de polysémie régulière et d'en proposer une formalisation en s'appuyant sur des descriptions lexicales riches et explicitement structurées produites dans le cadre de la Lexicologie Explicative et Combinatoire. La méthode adoptée consiste à décrire en parallèle des sens lexicaux (sous la forme de définitions lexicographiques structurées) et les liens de polysémie (sous la forme de paires de définitions sous-spécifiées appelées "patrons de polysémie"). Les sens TAUPE(animal)~TAUPE(espion), GORILLE(singe)~GORILLE(garde du corps), etc. sont, par exemple, décrits en même temps que le lien de polysémie "animal --> individu ayant une fonction" qui lient ces paires. Cette méthode a donné lieu à la production d'un fragment de lexique formalisé décrivant la polysémie active dans les champs sémantiques des "animaux" et des "sentiments". Il pourra servir de base au développement rapide et systématique d'un lexique sémantique du français plus étendu mettant en avant les régularités en matière de polysémie. Mots-clés : Sémantique lexicale, Polysémie régulière, définitions lexicographiques, patrons de polysémie, sous-spécification sémantique. Abstract : This dissertation is devoted to the description of polysemy links in the lexicon. Its main contribution is to specify the concept of regular polysemy and to formalize it by means of fine-grained and explicitly structured descriptions produced in the framework of Explanatory-Combinatorial Lexicology. Our method consists in the simultaneous description of lexical meanings (represented by lexicographic definitions) and polysemy links (represented by pairs of underspecified lexicographic definitions called "polysemy patterns"). For instance, the meanings of TAUPE(animal)~TAUPE(spy), GORILLE(monkey)~GORILLE(body guard), etc. are described together with the polysemy link "anima --> person with a function" that links these pairs of meanings. Our method has led to the construction of a piece of a formalized lexicon that describes polysemy patterns in the semantic fields of "animals" and "emotions". This could be used for the developpement of an extended semantic lexicon for French that concentrates on regular polysemy. Key words : lexical semantics, regular polysemy, lexicographic definitions, polysemy patterns, semantic underspecification. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 09:49:58 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:49:58 +0100 Subject: Livres: Nouveaux titres parus dans la Collec tion L'Essentiel Message-ID: Fran�ais Comments: To: ln at cines.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:09:23 +0100 From: "Annick DENIEL" Message-ID: <015501c87ea9$0f4df840$100101c0 at dellad> X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=379 X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=379 X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=379 X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=567 X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=567 X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/ Communiqu� de presse : Nous avons le plaisir d'attirer votre attention sur nos derni�res nouveaut�s parues aux Editions Ophrys dans la collection L'Essentiel Fran�ais, dirig�e par Catherine Fuchs : http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=379 Dictionnaire pratique de didactique du FLE http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=379 par Jean-Pierre Robert Les verbes modaux du fran�ais http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=567 par Xiaoquan Chu Vous trouverez ci-joint le prospectus descriptif de ces titres (ou cliquez sur le lien, de la couverture ou du titre, vers notre nouveau site internet). Nous sommes certains que ces ouvrages int�resseront vos lecteurs et vous serions reconnaissants si vous pouviez les annoncer dans la rubrique "bibliographie" de votre revue. Si vous d�sirez en faire para�tre une critique plus approfondie, nous sommes pr�ts � vous adresser un exemplaire des ouvrages en service de presse ( adeniel at editionstechnip.com). Nous vous demandons simplement de penser � nous envoyer les justificatifs de parution, indispensables � nos dossiers presse. Meilleures salutations, Annick DENIEL Responsable de la promotion adeniel at editionstechnip.com Ligne Directe : 01 45 78 33 87 Editions OPHRYS 25, rue Ginoux - 75015 Paris T�l : 33 (0)1 45 78 33 80 Fax : 33 (0)1 45 75 37 11 Site : www.ophrys.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 09:53:17 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:53:17 +0100 Subject: Conf: TOTh 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:19:13 +0100 From: Luc Damas Message-ID: <47CEB9F1.6050102 at univ-savoie.fr> X-url: http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Appel à communications ---------------------------------------------------------- TOTh : Terminologie & Ontologie : Théories et Applications Annecy - 5 & 6 juin 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Comment modéliser les connaissances métiers ? Les mutations technologiques et économiques ont modifié profondément nos structures sociétales. La notion de communauté est devenue centrale, rendant plus manifestes les besoins de communication et de partage de l'information. Information érigée au rang de connaissance qui constitue la véritable richesse de nos sociétés et qui pose les problèmes de leur capitalisation et de leur exploitation. Autant de besoins et de problèmes qui font des langues de spécialité, de la terminologie et de l'ingénierie des connaissances des disciplines incontournables. La société numérique, à travers les applications de traitement de l'information, milite pour une approche concertée de ces disciplines : importance des langues de spécialité et de la terminologie pour la communication et l'expression des connaissances, mais aussi impact de la représentation des connaissances et des modèles informatiques sur la terminologie et les langues de spécialité (parmi les principales questions abordées figure celle des ontologies). Les conférences TOTh se situent dans le prolongement des colloques annuels de la Société française de terminologie, organisés en décembre à l'Ecole normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm, afin d'approfondir et de diversifier les problématiques qui y sont abordées. Parmi les thèmes qui relèvent des conférences TOTh, citons (liste non exhaustive) : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Axe linguistique : - Les langues de spécialité, la socioterminologie en particulier en direction des entreprises, l'aménagement linguistique (prescription, normalisation), - Les dictionnaires, thésaurus, lexiques et produits terminologiques, - La construction et la maintenance de ressources terminologiques : théories du sens, importance et limite de la linguistique textuelle (traitement de corpus)... - Multilinguisme et traduction. Axe conceptuel : - Principes terminologiques pour la construction des systèmes notionnels, - La représentation et la gestion des connaissances : modélisation des concepts, construction d'ontologies, transmissibilité des ontologies ... - Apport de l'intelligence artificielle, de la linguistique, de l'épistémologie, des systèmes formels (logique des descriptions par exemple). Axe applicatif : - Les environnements logiciels : construction et maintenance des terminologies, thésaurus, dictionnaires, ontologies ... - Les applications informatiques mettant en jeu des ressources terminologiques et/ou des bases de connaissances : systèmes d'information, gestion documentaire (recherche d'information, classification), gestion des connaissances, web sémantique, ingénierie collaborative, etc. - L'évaluation des outils d'acquisition et de manipulation, l'évolution des normes et standards dans le domaine des ressources linguistiques et ontologiques. Publics & disciplines concernés: -------------------------------- Les conférences TOTh ont pour principal objectif de rassembler industriels, chercheurs, utilisateurs et formateurs dont les préoccupations relèvent des langues de spécialité, de la terminologie et de l'ingénierie des connaissances ; et de façon plus générale toutes personnes intéressées par la gestion de l'information où les dimensions liées à la langue et à la connaissance tiennent une place prépondérante. Elles se veulent un lieu d'échange et de partage où sont exposés problèmes, solutions et retours d'expériences tant sur le plan théorique qu'applicatif ; ainsi que les nouvelles tendances et perspectives des disciplines associées : terminologie, linguistique, sciences de l'information, intelligence artificielle, systèmes d'information, ingénierie collaborative, etc. Comité Scientifique : Responsable : Christophe Roche ------------------------------------------------------ * Comité de pilotage o Loïc Depecker Professeur, Université de Sorbonne nouvelle o André Manificat Directeur, GRETh o Christophe Roche Professeur, Université de Savoie o Philippe Thoiron Professeur émérite, Université de Lyon II * Comité de programme o Bruno de Bessé Professeur, Université de Genève o Pierre Blanc EDF SEPTEN o Danièle Bourcier CNRS, CERSA Paris o Marc van Campenhoudt Professeur, Institut supérieur d'interprétation et de Traduction de Bruxelles o Danielle Candel CNRS, Université Paris Diderot o Stéphane Chaudiron Professeur, Université de Lille III o Viviane Cohen Information System Enterprise Architecture & Anticipation, France Télécom o Rute Costa Professeur, Université de Lisbonne o Luc Damas MCF, Université de Savoie o Sylvie Desprès MCF, Université Paris XIII o Anne Dourgnon-Hanoune EDF R&D o François Gaudin Professeur, Université de Rouen o Jean-Yves Gresser ancien Directeur à la Banque de France o Ollivier Haemmerlé Professeur, Université de Toulouse o Jean-Paul Haton Professeur, Université de Nancy 1 o Michèle Hudon Professeur, Université de Montréal o John Humbley Professeur, Université Paris 7 o Michel IDA Directeur MINATEC, CEA o Hendrik Kockaert Professeur, Lessius Hogeschool (Anvers) o Michel Léonard Professeur, Université de Genève o Pierre Lerat Professeur honoraire, Université Paris XIII o Widad Mustafa Professeur, Université de Lille III o Jean Quirion Professeur, Université du Québec en Outaouais o Renato Reinau Suva, Lucerne o François Rousselot MCF, Université de Strasbourg o Gérard Sabah CNRS, Orsay o Michel Simonet CNRS Grenoble o Marcus Spies Professeur, Université de Munich o Dardo de Vecchi Professeur associé, Euro-Med Marseille Dates importantes : ------------------- - Date limite de soumission : 16 mars 2008 - Notification d'acceptation aux auteurs : 20 avril 2008 Soumissions : luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr Contacts : ---------- Christophe Roche : responsable scientifique christophe.roche at univ-savoie.fr - tél. : 04 79 75 87 79 Luc Damas : responsable de l'organisation luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr - tél. : 04 79 75 87 03 Joelle Pellet : secrétariat toth at porphyre.org tél. : 04 50 09 65 80 - fax : 04 50 09 65 59 Site : www.porphyre.org/toth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 09:55:18 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:55:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: Decembrettes 6 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:29:43 +0100 From: Nabil Hathout Message-ID: <47CEAE57.7070706 at univ-tlse2.fr> X-url: http://www.lingref.com/ X-url: http://w3.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/decembrettes2008/ Décembrettes 6 Colloque International de Morphologie International Morphology Conference « Morphologie et classes flexionnelles » "Inflectional classes in morphology" 4-5 décembre 2008 * December 4-5, 2008 Université de Bordeaux (France) Appel à communications Depuis 2002 les Décembrettes, organisées par le laboratoire CLLE-ERSS (CNRS & Université de Toulouse), réunissent des chercheurs en morphologie du monde entier. La 6e édition du colloque se tiendra à Bordeaux les 4 et 5 décembre 2008. Une des deux journées sera dédiée à des communications sur le thème « Morphologie et classes flexionnelles » ; la deuxième sera consacrée à des communications hors thème sur tout aspect de la morphologie linguistique. Les organisateurs appellent à contribuer avec des propositions de communications de 20 minutes ou de poster, dans tout domaine de la morphologie (morphophonologie, morphosyntaxe, sémantique, lexicologie, psycholinguistique, typologie morphologique, morphologie computationnelle...), s'inscrivant ou pas dans le thème principal du colloque. Toutes les perspectives théoriques sont bienvenues. Les communications pourront être présentées en anglais ou en français. Une sélection des présentations sera publiée dans le Cascadilla Proceedings Project (http://www.lingref.com/). Modalité de soumission Les propositions de communication, en anglais ou en français, devront être strictement anonymes et comporter au maximum 3 pages (bibliographie et annexes comprises). Les contributeurs devront indiquer, sur un document séparé, leur(s) nom(s), leur(s) affiliation(s) et l'adresse électronique à laquelle ils souhaitent être contactés. Les résumés devront être envoyés par courrier électronique en format PDF (préféré) ou RTF à l'adresse decembrettes at univ-tlse2.fr avant le 30 avril 2008. Conférenciers invités * Greville G. Corbett (Surrey) ; * Wolfgang U. Dressler (Vienne) ; * Gregory T. Stump (Kentucky) Comité de sélection * Dany Amiot (Artois) ; * Gilles Boyé (CNRS & Bordeaux 3) ; * Georgette Dal (CNRS & Lille III) ; * Bernard Fradin (CNRS & Paris 7) ; * Fabio Montermini (CNRS & Toulouse) ; * Michel Roché (CNRS & Toulouse) Comité de lecture * Paolo Acquaviva (University College Dublin) ; * Christian Bassac (CNRS & Bordeaux 3); * James P. Blevins (Cambridge) ; * Geert Booij (Leiden) ; * Olivier Bonami (CNRS & Paris 4) ; * Luigi Burzio (Johns Hopkins) ; * Patricia Cabredo-Hofherr (CNRS / Surrey) ; * Livio Gaeta (Federico II, Napoli) ; * Hélène Giraudo (CNRS & Toulouse) ; * Nicola Grandi (Milano Bicocca) ; * Nabil Hathout (CNRS & Toulouse) ; * Maria-Rosa Lloret (Barcelona) ; * Judith Meinschaefer (Würzburg) ; * Vito Pirrelli (CNR, Pisa) ; * Marc Plénat (CNRS & Toulouse) ; * Angela Ralli (Patras) ; * Christoph Schwarze (Konstanz) ; * Andrew Spencer (Essex) ; * Jesse Tseng (CNRS & Toulouse) Calendrier * février 2008 : premier appel à communications * 30 avril 2008 : date limite pour l'envoi des propositions * 1 juillet 2008 : notification des résultats * septembre 2008 : programme définitif * 4-5 décembre 2008 : colloque Comité d'organisation * Gilles Boyé ; * Christine Fèvre-Pernet ; * Hélène Giraudo ; * Nabil Hathout ; * Fabio Montermini Contact UMR 5263 CLLE-ERSS Maison de la Recherche Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail 5, allées Antonio Machado F-31058 - Toulouse Cedex 9 France Tél. +33 (0)5-61-50-36-02 Fax +33 (0)5-61-50-46-77 Web : http://w3.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/decembrettes2008/ Courriel : decembrettes at univ-tlse2.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 09:57:53 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:57:53 +0100 Subject: Appel: 2eme Colloque International en Traductologie et TAL, Oran 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:25:30 +0100 (CET) From: farouk bouhadiba Message-ID: <71357.38055.qm at web26108.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> 2ème Colloque International en Traductologie et TAL Site : Université Es-Sénia, Oran (17-18 mai 2008) LABO 022/200 LUCIEN TESNIERE ORGANISATEURS : Prof. BOUHADIBA Farouk (Labo022/2000, Université d'Oran, Algérie) Prof. CARDEY Sylviane (Centre TAL, Lucien Tesnière, France) PROBLEMATIQUE Le but de ce colloque serait de regrouper des chercheurs et universitaires nationaux et internationaux qui s'intéressent de près ou de loin aux différents aspects du transfert de la langue arabe vers d'autres langues telles que le français, l'anglais ou l'espagnol. Il s'intéresse à tout ce qui touche les domaines de la Traductologie / Traductibilité en général et le Traitement Automatique des Langues en particulier, plus spécialement le traitement de la langue arabe par rapport à d'autres langues. Ceci n'exclut nullement tout apport scientifique et recherches sur la langue arabe à tous les niveaux d'analyse linguistique, étymologique, sociologique, etc. Les échanges d'idées et de réalisation de travaux de recherche sur la langue arabe par comparaison à d'autres langues telles que le français, l'anglais ou l'espagnol dans des domaines aussi variés et complémentaires que la Phonétique, Phonologie, Morphologie et Syntaxe de la langue arabe, sa segmentation, les études linguistiques comparées arabe / français / arabe anglais / arabe espagnol, les ressources de la langue arabe en termes de dictionnaires électroniques, d'analyseurs morphosyntaxiques et autres, la modélisation de la langue arabe par rapport à la modélisation de la langue française et autres langues, le problème de la désambiguïsation, la lexicologie et la lexicographie, la traduction automatique, la traduction assistée de l'arabe, du français, de l'anglais et de l'espagnol, les modèles de traduction automatique arabe-français et/ou arabe /autres langues, les lexiques informatiques arabe / français et/ou arabe / autres langues, etc. L'autre aspect de ce colloque serait de lancer un débat sur l'importance et les enjeux du Traitement Automatique des Langues et celui de la langue arabe en particulier (TA de l'arabe vers d'autres langues) qui représente un élément de taille marqué par son absence dans le domaine des autoroutes de l'information et du transfert de technologie en ligne. Ce colloque vise enfin à sensibiliser étudiants, chercheurs et décideurs de l'importance d'une prise en charge de centres de recherche sur le TAL et la Langue Arabe en Algérie. Envoyer un résumé avec nom et prénom(s), adresse email, organisme de rattachement (15 lignes maximum) avant le 31 mars 2008 à : bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr // sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr Langues de travail du Colloque : arabe, français, anglais, espagnol LABO 022, LDLD, ex. ITE MARAVAL, 4 Rue MEKKI Khélifa, Maraval, Oran.. Tél .fax : 041.34-65-75 Tél. fax : 041.58.36-44 // e-mail : bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:01:19 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:01:19 +0100 Subject: Ecole: ICCL Summer School 2008 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:05:45 +0100 From: Bertram Fronhöfer Message-ID: <20080306100545.GA176 at janeway.inf.tu-dresden.de> X-url: http://www.computational-logic.org/iccl-ss-2008 Call for Participation ICCL Summer School 2008 COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE Technische Universität Dresden August 24 -- September 6, 2008 http://www.computational-logic.org/iccl-ss-2008 TOPIC The summer academy will focus on the long-lasting controversy of the relationship between modern formal logic (including its use for automated reasoning and computation) and, on the other hand, the rationality and common sense underlying human reasoning. Traditionally, a huge gap is perceived between the symbolic representation of knowledge used in modern logic and the sub-symbolic representation considered dominant in human reasoning. Psychological experiments of the past even suggested that people often don't reason logically and, in general, that logic seems to play only a minor role in human reasoning. However, recently, new ways of explaining human reasoning seem to revive its relatedness to logic. For this reason this summer academy attempts to bring together researchers from both sides for an exchange of views. REGISTRATION If you want to attend the summer school, we'd prefer that you register by April 1, 2008. (See the online registration on the web page mentioned above.) For all who want to apply for a grant, this deadline is obligatory. After April 1, 2008, registration will be possible as long as there are vacant places. (Since we intend to restrict participation to about 60 people, in case of excessive demand, we will have to close the registration to the summer school.) People applying until April 1, 2008, and applying for a grant will be informed about respective decisions on grants at latest by end of April 2008. FEES We ask for a participation fee of 200 EUR. GRANTS A limited number of grants may be available, please indicate in your application if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs (to be filled in the respective part of the online registration form). INTEGRATED WORKSHOP It will be possible for some participants to present their research work during a small workshop integrated in the summer school. If you would like to do so, please register by means of the online workshop registration form on the web page mentioned above: (The title of your proposed talk, and, in addition, an extended abstract or a full paper of at most 10 pages in postscript or pdf format must be submit by April 1, 2008.) A program committee consisting of the summer school lecturers will select among the submissions. Notification of acceptance of a talk at the integrated workshop will be at latest by end of April 2008. Please note that participation at the summer school is a prerequisite for participation at the workshop. COURSE PROGRAM COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: AN OVERVIEW Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, Helmar Gust (Universität Osnabrück) HUMAN REASONING AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Keith Stenning (Edinburgh University, UK) COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC AND CONNECTIONIST SYSTEMS Steffen Hölldobler (Technische Universität Dresden) COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC IN HUMAN REASONING Robert Kowalski (Imperial College, Department of Computing, UK) LOGIC-BASED AGENTS Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing, UK) THE LOGIC OF GENERALIZED TRUTH VALUES. A TOUR INTO PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC Heinrich Wansing (Fakultät für Philosophie, Technische Universität Dresden) COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC APPLICATIONS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES Luís Moniz Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) PEOPLE INVOLVED Chairs of the ICCL Summer School 2008 Steffen Hölldobler Heinrich Wansing Organizing Committee Julia Koppenhagen Bertram Fronhöfer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:02:42 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:02:42 +0100 Subject: Appel: DEFT'08 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:38:49 +0100 From: Martine Hurault-Plantet Message-Id: <200803061238.49918.Martine.Hurault-Plantet at limsi.fr> X-url: http://deft08.limsi.fr/ X-url: http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php ****************************************************************** DEFT'08 Appel à participation Atelier d'évaluation en fouille de textes : Classification de textes en thème et en genre http://deft08.limsi.fr/ Inscription : http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php ****************************************************************** Dates importantes : Inscription : à partir du 21 décembre 2007 Diffusion des corpus d'apprentissage : 14 janvier 2008 Test : 3 jours pris dans la dernière quinzaine de mars 2008 Atelier : 9-13 juin dans le cadre de TALN'08 ****************************************************************** Depuis 3 ans DEFT (http://deft.limsi.fr/) propose des campagnes d'évaluation dans le domaine de la Fouille de Textes en langue française. L'atelier DEFT'08 se tiendra cette année en Avignon dans le cadre de la conférence TALN. Le thème de cette édition 2008 de DEFT concerne la classification en thème et en genre de textes. La classification automatique a de multiples applications en fouille de textes. De l'orientation de courriels à la veille stratégique ou scientifique, de nombreux domaines d'application ont été explorés. Depuis quelques années une nouvelle problématique est apparue, celle de la classification en genre de textes. Au-delà de la reconnaissance du thème du document, la reconnaissance de son genre est utile pour guider l'utilisation qui sera faite du document. Mais comment reconnaître à la fois le thème et le genre d'un document ? La différence de genre influence-t-elle la reconnaissance de la catégorie thématique d'un document, et, inversement, la différence de thème influence-t-elle la reconnaissance du genre du document ? Pour évaluer des logiciels de classification dans cette perspective, nous allons confronter, sur un même ensemble de catégories pré-définies, deux corpus de genres différents, un corpus d'articles journalistiques issus du journal Le Monde, et un corpus d'articles encyclopédiques issus de l'encyclopédie libre sur Internet, Wikipédia. Ce que nous mettons ici sous le terme genre renvoie à un ensemble de textes partageant des propriétés liées au domaine d'activité, à des pratiques et au support utilisé pour ces textes. Un article de journal rend compte d'une actualité et un article encyclopédique diffuse un savoir, mais les deux ont en commun un certain nombre de catégories thématiques générales, appelées rubriques chez l'un et catégories chez l'autre. Il s'agira de tester sur ces corpus d'une part la robustesse d'un modèle de classification thématique soumis à des variations en genre de texte, et d'autre part les améliorations possibles d'une classification thématique par la reconnaissance du genre de texte. Description de la tâche *********************** Pour l'entraînement, nous fournirons 2 corpus : * un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikipédia d'un ensemble A de catégories thématiques avec un double étiquetage, l'un en genre et l'autre en catégorie thématique, * un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikipédia d'un ensemble B de catégories thématiques, différent de l'ensemble A, avec un simple étiquetage en catégorie thématique. Pour le test, nous fournirons deux corpus non étiquetés en genre ou en thème, avec une tâche différente pour chacun : * tâche 1 : reconnaissance du genre et de la catégorie thématique de chaque document d'un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikipédia appartenant à l'ensemble A de catégories thématiques, * tâche 2 : reconnaissance de la catégorie thématique de chaque document d'un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikipédia appartenant à l'ensemble B de catégories thématiques. Inscription ********** Les équipes participant à DEFT'08 devront s'inscrire à l'aide du formulaire en ligne (http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php), et signer les accords de restriction d'usage des corpus. Comités ******** Comité d'organisation : Co-responsables : Martine Hurault-Plantet (LIMSI) et Cyril Grouin (LIMSI) Membres : Sylvain Loiseau (LIMSI), Jean-Baptiste Berthelin (LIMSI), Sarra El Ayari (LIMSI) Comité de programme : Président : Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI) Membres : Catherine Berrut (CLIPS), Fabrice Clérot (France Telecom), Guillaume Cleuziou (LIFO), Matthieu Constant (IGM) Béatrice Daille (LINA), Halima Dahmani (CEA-LIST), Marc El-Bèze (LIA), Patrick Gallinari (LIP6), Éric Gaussier (Xerox Research), Thierry Hamon (LIPN), Fidélia Ibekwe-SanJuan (ELICO), Pascal Poncelet (LGI2P), Christophe Roche (LISTIC), Mathieu Roche (LIRMM), Bernard Rothenburger (IRIT - INRIA), Pascale Sébillot (IRISA), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA), François Yvon (LIMSI). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:04:46 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:04:46 +0100 Subject: Appel: KR 2008 (Updated Call for Papers) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:14:45 +0200 From: Tommie Meyer Message-Id: X-url: http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ X-url: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html X-url: http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage ``reports from the field" of building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only) http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2 additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted paper 11 pages in AAAI style will be allocated in the proceedings. Topics of interest include: - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics - Graphical representations for belief and preference - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics, - Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion - Description logics, Ontologies - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning about preference - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer Important Dates: Submission of title and abstract: April 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: June 16, 2008 KR-2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:07:10 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:07:10 +0100 Subject: Job: Ingenieur Linguiste-informaticien(ne) Sinequa Labs - Sinequa (Paris) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:22:41 +0100 From: Gaëlle Recourcé Message-ID: <47CFF021.7080400 at sinequa.com> X-url: http://www.sinequa.com/ X-url: http://www.sinequa.com/html-fr/fr-rdLabs.html Poste à pourvoir : Ingénieur de recherche en linguistique-informatique - Sinequa Labs Référence : OE-ILI-200803 Profil : Nous recherchons un(e) linguiste-informaticien(ne) avec 2-3 ans d'expérience dans le domaine du TAL et de la recherche d'information pour intégrer Sinequa Labs laboratoire privé doté d'une forte activité en TALN. Missions - Intégré(e) à l'équipe Sinequa Labs, vous participerez activement aux projets de recherche en cours (analyse de blogs, résumé multimédia, détection de plagiats, ...). - Vous assurerez le suivi administratif de projets nationaux aussi bien qu'européens. - Vous serez amené(e) à réaliser des prototypes variés en traitement de l'information (extraction d'information, fouille de texte, recherche d'information, structuration automatique de données, ..). - Vous participerez à l'enrichissement des composants linguistiques existants (lexique, grammaires d'extraction par automates,...) et au prototypage de nouveaux composants. - Vous rédigerez des spécifications, rapports de recherche, documentations, ..... - Vous serez encouragé(e) à proposer des publications et à participer à des conférences dans le domaine du TALN et de la gestion de l'information. Compétences - Excellente connaissance des composants de base du TALN : taggers, analyseurs, dictionnaires, .. - Aisance dans la production de scripts pour l'analyse et le formattage de données textuelle. - Spécifications et prototypage de composants TALN. - Une expérience dans la gestion de projets de recherche nationaux ou européens serait un plus. - La connaissance des problématiques d'indexation d'autres médias (images, videos, sons, ...) serait aussi un atout supplémentaire. Profil/Expérience - Diplôme en Traitement automatique des langues (Bac+5 ou doctorat) - 2 ou 3 ans d'expérience dans des projets ou en entreprise. - Anglais courant. La connaissance d'une ou plusieurs autres langues serait un atout supplémentaire. - Maîtrise d'un ou plusieurs langages de scripts (Perl, Python, ...). - La connaissance de Java ou C++ serait bienvenue. - Connaissance des standards et normes (XML, TEI, ...) Sinequa Rentable depuis cinq ans, avec quatre millions d'euros de chiffre d'affaires et une croissance de 80 %, Sinequa est le leader français des moteurs de recherche et de navigation. Notre avance technologique, en particulier en Traitement Automatique des Langues, vient en partie de Sinequa Labs, notre laboratoire de R&D interne. La mission de Sinequa Labs est de fournir des technologies innovantes pour enrichir la ligne de produits et solutions de Sinequa. Sinequa Labs fonctionne comme un laboratoire de recherche privé en publiant et en participant à de nombreux programmes de recherche nationaux et européens. http://www.sinequa.com/html-fr/fr-rdLabs.html. Merci d'envoyer votre mail avec la clé du poste dans l?objet « OE-ILI-200803 » avec CV et lettre de motivation à Gaëlle Recourcé : recource at sinequa.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:07:58 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:07:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: Language Diversity and the Acquisition of Linguistic Semantic Knowledge Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:20:57 -0500 (EST) From: Message-Id: <200803061620.LAA01356 at kamla.csi.UOttawa.CA> X-url: http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/MISSI2008/LDALSK/ X-url: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijiids Final Call for Papers Title of the workshop: Language Diversity and the Acquisition of Linguistic Semantic Knowledge The host conference: 6th International Conference on Multimedia and Network Information Systems, Wroclaw, Poland, September 18-19, 2008 Web site: http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/MISSI2008/LDALSK/ The proportion of Web pages written in English keeps decreasing, but a majority of text-handling tools and techniques have been developed for English and tested on English resources. Many languages have been reasonably well served by the existing systems, but large typological differences (complex morphology, rich inflection, freer-order syntax, not to mention cultural biases) tend to make those tools and resources less than fully adequate. This may be particularly true of deeper processing, including the acquisition of natural language semantics from text. The workshop seeks to explore methodologies developed from scratch for a variety of languages, and perhaps their reapplication to the processing of English texts. We invite submissions on the topics we list below, and on closely related topics in the general spirit of the workshop. We target the problem of automatic extraction of some form of natural language semantics from corpora and application of the knowledge extracted in that way in systems that deal with natural language. Work on any language is welcome; we particularly encourage submissions related to "less privileged" languages. The workshop will be held in English, to ensure the broadest dissemination of its contributions. We have room for up to 50 papers, including posters, so there will be ample opportunity to report on work in progress. To suit the host conference, papers on applications of the semantic knowledge extracted from text will also be considered; such applications include machine translation, parsing, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, information extraction, and text mining. All submissions must present original work. There will be a strict reviewing process. Formatting instructions appear on the workshop's Web site. The submission system is already open. Publication: The proceedings will be printed by IEEE. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijiids) dedicated to the MISSI'08 Conference, as well as in the International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA). A book devoted to the topics of the conference will be published after the conference. Those who have presented at the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers as book chapters. Topics: Distributional semantics, semantic relatedness, semantic similarity Extraction of lexico-semantic relations Extraction of logical models for natural language semantics Extraction of selectional restrictions Lexicon extraction from corpora Pattern-based methods in lexical knowledge acquisition Recognition of expressions of opinions and emotions in text Resources and tools for word-sense disambiguation Software support for lexical knowledge acquisition Thesaurus construction, extension and critique Schedule: submission March 27, 2008 reviews in April 30, 2008 acceptance May 7, 2008 camera-ready May 21-28, 2008 -- Stan Szpakowicz, PhD, Professor __ 613-562-5800/6687 SITE, Computer Science _______ szpak at site.uottawa.ca University of Ottawa ____ www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:10:05 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:10:05 +0100 Subject: Job: Poste MCF Universite de Tours (UFR Sciences - Blois) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:44:50 +0100 From: Denis MAUREL Message-Id: <20080307154457.0A0973C78160 at rabelais.univ-tours.fr> X-url: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/Tln_Poste.html X-url: http://www.univ-tours.fr/maurel X-url: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr X-url: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/BdTln.html X-url: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/ POSTE MCF UNIVERSITE DE TOURS (UFR SCIENCES - BLOIS) http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/Tln_Poste.html Le poste MCF Universite de Tours (UFR Sciences - Blois) : 1er octobre 2008, Blois, bases de donnees et traitement automatique des langues : 0307 S a pour profil recherche une integration dans le Laboratoire d'informatique de l'universite François Rabelais Tours (LI, EA 2101). Une priorite est donnee a l'equipe BdTln sur ce recrutement. Le LI est multi-composantes, multi-sites et multi-equipes. Il comprend quatre-vingts enseignants-chercheurs et chercheurs, dont une trentaine de doctorants. L'equipe BdTln (Bases de donnees et Traitement des langues naturelles) est donc fortement susceptible de recruter. Elle est actuellement composee de trois professeurs, sept maîtres de conference, huit doctorants et quatre docteurs. Elle est impliquee dans trois projets ANR (Emotirob, Epac, Variling) et un projet PHC (Polonium). Ses thematiques de recherche s'articulent autour de quatre axes : * Entrepôts et fouille de donnees (contact: Arnaud GIACOMETTI) * Donnees XML et services Web (contact: Mírian HALFELD FERRARI ALVES) * Lexiques computationnels (contact: Denis MAUREL) * Traitement automatique des langues et interaction (contact: Jean-Yves ANTOINE) Une qualification en 27e section est necessaire. Concernant l'enseignement, le candidat recrute devra s'investir dans l'ensemble des formations du Departement d'Informatique de l'UFR Sciences et Techniques de l'Universite François Rabelais de Tours. Toutes les formations de ce departement sont localisees sur le Campus de Blois ou est offert un cursus complet en informatique (de la licence au master, avec une licence generale, mention informatique, mais aussi une licence professionnelle "Qualite et Securite dans les Systemes d'Information"). Dans le cadre de la mise en place du nouveau contrat quadriennal 2008-2011, il est important de noter que le Departement d'Informatique proposera a la rentree 2008 une nouvelle specialite de master, intitulee "Systemes d'Information et Analyse Decisionnelle". Dans ce cadre, le candidat devra renforcer les competences de l'equipe pedagogique dans le domaine des systemes d'information (par exemple en web semantique, ingenierie des connaissances, recherche d'information, services web et XML, entrepôts et fouille de donnees). Pour finir, la personne recrutee devra s'investir en terme d'administration des formations du Departement d'Informatique. Elle sera notamment appelee a participer a la politique d'internationalisation des formations du departement, par exemple dans le cadre du projet europeen EMACS de mise en place d'un master europeen en informatique. Pour toute demande d'informations complementaires, les candidats peuvent prendre contact avec le responsable du Departement d'Informatique, Arnaud GIACOMETTI. Denis Maurel ____________________________________ Professeur Denis Maurel Universite Francois Rabelais Tours LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique) EPU-DI 64 avenue Jean-Portalis 37200 Tours France Tel. (33) 2.47.36.14.35 Telc. (33) 2.47.36.14.22 mailto:denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr http://www.univ-tours.fr/maurel http://www.li.univ-tours.fr http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/BdTln.html http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:11:28 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:11:28 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Symmetric calculi and Ludics for the semantic interpretation (deadline repoussee) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:18:58 +0100 From: Myriam Quatrini Message-Id: <08eb06c2314179dca0db00107e37ea92 at iml.univ-mrs.fr> X-url: http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~quatrini/ESSLLI2008.html X-url: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ DEADLINE EXTENDED : Avril 8th CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Symmetric calculi and Ludics for the semantic interpretation (http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~quatrini/ESSLLI2008.html) August 4-8, 2008 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany Workshop Organizers: Alain Lecomte (SFL - Paris 8), Alain.Lecomte at upmf-grenoble.fr Myriam Quatrini (IML Marseille), quatrini at iml.univ-mrs.fr Workshop Purpose and topics: In recent years there have been some important new developments of methods of dealing with semantic and pragmatic phenomena in Linguistics, inspired by developments in Logic and Theoretical Computer Science. Among these developments, Continuation Theory, Symmetric calculi and Ludics play an important role. Continuation theory dates back from the early seventies (cf. Reynolds, 93) and was at the heart of Programming Languages like Scheme. More recently, a logical account was given to it, by extending the Curry-Howard homomorphism (Griffin, 1990),. This led to several calculi like such as Parigot's lambda-mu-calculus, Curien-Herbelin's lambda-mu-mu-tilde-calculus, Wadler's dual calculus and so on. These calculi are based on the core idea that programs and contexts are dual entities and this is reflected in the symmetry of the "classical" sequents. These systems were prefigured by the so called Lambek-Grishin calculus (Grishin, 83), a calculus extending the Lambek calculus by taking classical sequents into account. Following Curien-Herbelin (Bernardi and Moortgat, 2007) focuses on the connection between Lambek-Grishin calculus with lambda-mu-tilde-calculus and hence with continuation semantics. Classical linear logic (Girard, 87, 95) gives another viewpoint, where the co-product is realized by an authentic parallelisation connective. Linguistic applications have been given since around 2000, particularly by C. Barker (Barker, 2002), K. Chung-chieh Shan (Chung-chieh Shan, 2002) and P. de Groote (de Groote, 2001) who exploited the advantages of these systems in the task of giving several readings of an ambiguous sentence. De Groote (de Groote, 2007) also shows that we gain a new dynamical logic which enables us to elegantly treat phenomena of discourse like anaphora resolution. M. Moortgat and R. Bernardi (Moortgat & Bernardi, 2007) shows how moving to a symmetric categorial grammar, namely Lambek Grishin calculus, helps accounting for discontinous phenomena that are not captured by the asymmetric Lambek calculus. Independently, linear logic was intensively studied in particular by Girard himself who invented "Ludics" as a new conception of logic, where the dualism between syntax and semantics is abolished : the meaning of rules is in the rules themselves. This conception has some similarities with more traditional "Game Semantics" (Lorenz, Lorenzen, Hintikka...) but it is dynamic, in the sense that "strategies" are replaced by interacting processes. Moreover, a new step in abstraction is provided, which consists in stating rule schemata which are only expressed in terms of loci (that we may see as memory cells). The two approaches in this workshop are connected, basically because of their common root : explorations in the meaning of Logics and in particular reflections on one of the symmetrical systems, namely linear logic. Linguistic applications of Ludics remain very embryonic, but some authors have already emphasized that it is suitable for giving a framework in which it is possible to study speech acts and dialogue (Livet, 2007, Troncon, 2006). Other authors have pointed out similarities of the Ludics' philosophy with Wittgenstein's views on language games (Pietarinen, 2006). This workshop will provide an opportunity to study these questions. It will accept several kinds of contributions : theoretical works on continuation theory, symmetric calculi and ludics, applied works of these theory concerning linguistic topics (semantics, pragmatics) and philosophical investigations. Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit an anonymous, extended abstract. Submissions should not exceed 7 pages, including references. Submissions should be in PDF format. Please send your submission electronically using the interface EasyChair with cc to Alain.Lecomte at upmf-grenoble.fr and quatrini at iml.univ-mrs.fr. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee. Workshop format: The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the first week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organisers will give an introduction to the topic. Invited Speakers: Philippe de Groote, LORIA, France. Additional invited speaker to be confirmed Workshop Programme Committee: Raffaella Bernardi (Bolzano) Claire Beyssade (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) Marie-Renée Fleury (IML - Marseille) Philippe de Groote (LORIA - Nancy) Hugo Herbelin (Paris) Jean-Baptiste Joinet (Paris 1) Greg Kobele (Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin) Alain Lecomte (SFL - Paris 8) Pierre Livet (Aix en Provence) Richard Moot (LABRI - Bordeaux) Sylvain Pogodalla (LORIA - Nancy) Carl Pollard (Ohio University) Myriam Quatrini (IML Marseille) Christian Retoré (LABRI - Bordeaux) Laurent Roussarie (SFL - Paris 8) Sylvain Salvati (LABRI - Bordeaux) Important Dates: Submission Deadline: April 8, 2008 Notification: May 9, 2008 Preliminary Program: May 12, 2008 ESSLLI Early Registration: May 1, 2008 Final Papers for Proceedings: June 6, 2008 Final Program: June 21, 2008 Workshop Dates: August 4-8, 2008 Local Arrangements: All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. 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La description formelle des hypothèses constituent une étape importante non seulement pour la vérification de ces hypothèses mais également pour la reconnaissance d'autres termes ayant les formes similaires à la description. Seulement, il n'existe presque pas de dictionnaires utilisables avec Unitex pour la langue malgache. Ainsi, une partie de l'exposé sera consacré à la technique de description (pré-traitement). Cette partie vient après la brève explication de la thèse et son état d'avancement en général. Quelques informations sur la thèse : thèse en linguistique (appliquée) spécialité : terminologie. thème : Étude des termes en langue malgache, cas du domaine de l'environnement. Lieu : Université Paris-Est, bâtiment Copernic 4ème étage, salle de séminaire URL : http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr Elsa Tolone ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 09:47:18 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:47:18 +0100 Subject: Job: Four (4) positions at the National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester Message-ID: Date: lundi 3 mars 2008 From: "Sophia Ananiadou" Message-Id: <200803042327.02678.pz at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.mib.ac.uk X-url: http://ondex.sourceforge.net/ X-url: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132461 X-url: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/managementandprofessionaljobs/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132593 X-url: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132594 X-url: http://www.nibhi.org.uk/default.aspx X-url: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132596 X-url: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/ The National Centre for Text Mining offers 4 positions: 2 for text mining engineers, 1 for a software engineer and 1 for a project manager. The successful candidates will be part of the growing team of text miners associated with both NaCTeM which is hosted by the School of Computer Science and the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre(http://www.mib.ac.uk). 1) Senior Researcher in Bio-text Mining – ONDEX project We are looking for one senior researcher in text mining to work for a new BBSRC funded project at the National Centre for Text Mining (www.nactem.ac.uk) in text mining for systems biology (ONDEX project http://ondex.sourceforge.net/). The post is available immediately. The project ends in March 2011. The successful candidate will be appointed at a Research Fellow level and will be part of the growing team of researchers associated with both NaCTeM as well as with several systems biology centres in the UK. Essential skills: a PhD and a good first degree in an area relevant to text mining as well as excellent software engineering skills. The ability to develop algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems and to produce experiments for text mining applications using large data sets. Excellent knowledge of natural language processing/text mining using machine learning techniques and in particular named entity recognition, parsing, information extraction; excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, Windows, Linux and Web Services. A strong publication record is a must. Experience with biomedical text mining is highly desirable. Further details are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132461 Please quote reference: EPS/80023 2) Project Manager for the National Centre for Text Mining The Project Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day organisation, documentation, planning and technical supervision of the activities of the National Centre for Text Mining as a whole. The post is available from 1st May 2008 for a duration of three years. There will also be additional duties of a similar nature relating to research projects NaCTeM is involved in. Applicants for this role should have: 1) A proven track record of expertise in production quality software project management, with experience of the full software development lifecycle. 2) A PhD in Computer Science or closely related discipline preferably with a specialization in text mining 3) Experience of working in a text mining or closely related project. 4) In-depth knowledge of software project management best practice and the ability to implement it. 5) Previous experience of co-ordinating and organising text mining or closely related projects Further details are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/managementandprofessionaljobs/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132593 Please quote reference: EPS/80094 3) Software engineer for the National Centre for Text Mining Applications are invited for a Software Engineer post for a period of three years. The post is available from 1st May 2008. The overall aim of NaCTeM is to provide robust and scalable text mining services. The candidate will support, maintain and upgrade the software infrastructure of the Centre, will integrate software programs and design and develop the Centre's user interfaces. Applicants should have an MSc and a good first degree (minimum 2:1) in Computer Science; they should have excellent software engineering skills and be able to develop algorithms and software for robust applications; excellent knowledge in developing interfaces; excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, PHD, Windows, databases, Linux and Web Services. Further particulars are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132594 Please quote reference: EPS/80096 4) Research Associate in Text Mining (clinical and medical applications) Applications are invited for a Research Associate in Text Mining for a period of 36 months. The post is available from 1st May 2008. The successful candidate will develop text mining tools and services for clinical and medical applications. The candidate will liaise closely with colleagues from the Northwest Institute for BioHealth Informatics (NIBHI) http://www.nibhi.org.uk/default.aspx Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science and they should also hold a good first degree (minimum 2:1) or equivalent in an area relevant to the job description; they should have excellent software engineering skills and be able to develop algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems. Excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, Windows, Linux and Web Services are all essential. A good publication record would be an advantage. Experience with clinical text mining is highly desirable. Further particulars are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132596 Please quote reference: EPS/80097 Closing date for all applications: 17 March 2008 Informal enquiries to Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk ========================================================= Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Reader in Text Mining, School of Computer Science Director, National Centre for Text Mining, www.nactem.ac.uk Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, www.mib.ac.uk, University of Manchester 131 Princess Street, M7 1DN http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/ sophia.ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk tel: +44 161 306 3092 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From leqdtmdirectsir at DTMDIRECT.NET Mon Mar 10 15:06:18 2008 From: leqdtmdirectsir at DTMDIRECT.NET (Tracy Bernal) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:06:18 +0200 Subject: Software Message-ID: Are you in search for the best cost in software discounts? 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 11 09:26:08 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:26:08 +0100 Subject: Appel: CogALex-08 (Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon) Coling Workshop held in conjunction with COLING-2008 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:22:22 +0100 From: Michael Zock Message-ID: <47D284FE.5060900 at lif.univ-mrs.fr> X-url: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/style.html X-url: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ CALL FOR PAPERS : CogALex-08 (Coling Workshop held in conjunction with COLING-2008) "Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon: Enhancing the Structure, Indexes and Entry Points of Electronic Dictionaries" CONTEXT : ======== What are people looking for when they use a dictionary? What strategies do they use for search? What do people know before they start? These questions concern the cognitive aspects of the lexicon, and their answers should guide the design of online dictionaries. Many people believe in the virtues of completeness. Yet, the quality of a dictionary depends not only on coverage (number of entries) and granularity, but also on accessibility of information. Access strategies vary with the task (text understanding vs. text production) and the knowledge available at the moment of consultation (word, concept, sound). Unlike readers who look for meanings, writers start from them, searching for the corresponding words. While paper dictionaries are static, permitting only limited strategies for accessing information, their electronic counterparts promise dynamic, proactive search via multiple criteria (meaning, sound, related word) and via diverse access routes. Navigation takes place in a huge conceptual-lexical space, and the results are displayable in a multitude of forms (as trees, as lists, as graphs, or sorted alphabetically, by topic, by frequency). Many lexicographers work nowadays with huge digital corpora, using language technology to build and to maintain the resource. But access to the potential wealth in dictionaries remains limited for the common user. Yet, the new possibilities of electronic media in terms of comfort, speed and flexibility (multiple inputs, polyform outputs) are enormous. We have not even realized their full potential yet. More than just allowing electronic versions of paper-bound dictionaries, computers provide a freedom for rethinking dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedia, etc., a distinction necessary in the past for economical reasons, but no longer justified anymore. The goal of this workshop is to perform the groundwork for the next generation of electronic dictionaries, that is, to study the possibility of integrating the different resources, as well as to explore the feasability of taking the user's needs, knowledge and access strategies into account. TOPICS : ======= For this workshop, we solicit papers addressing any of the following issues: 1. CONCEPTUAL INPUT of a dictionary user: what is present in speakers'/writers' minds when they are generating a message and looking for a (target) word? Does the user have in mind conceptual primitives, semantically related words, some type of partial definition, something like synsets, or something completely different? 2. ACCESS, NAVIGATION and SEARCH STRATEGIES: we would like to be able to access entries by word form but also by meaning and sounds (syllables). Even if input is given in an incomplete, imprecise or degraded form. The more precise the conceptual input, the less navigation should be needed and vice versa. How can we create local search spaces, and provide a user with the tools for navigating within them? 3. INDEXING words and ORGANIZING the lexicon: Words and concepts can be organized in many ways, varying according to typology and conceptual systems. For example, words are traditionally organized alphabetically in Western languages, but by semantic radicals and stroke counts in Chinese. The way how words and concepts are organized affects indexing and access. Indexing must robustly allow for multiple ways of navigation and access. What efficient organizational principles allow the greatest flexibility for access? What about lexical entry standardization? Are universal definitions possible? What about efforts such as the Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) and other global structures for the lexicon? Can ontologies be combined with standards for the lexicon? 4. NLP Applications: Contributors can also address the issue of how such enhanced dictionaries, once embedded in existing NLP applications, can boost performance and help solve lexical and textual-entailment problems such as those evaluated in SEMEVAL 2007, or, more generally, generation problems encountered in the context of summarization, question-answering, interactive paraphrasing or translation. Goal and target audience ======================== The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers involved in the building of electronic dictionaries to discuss modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs (i.e. how to capitalize on the advantages of the digital form). Given the breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many perspectives, including, but not limited to, linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics, language learning, and ergonomics. We request that contributions address computational aspects. Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Deadline: 5th May Notification of Acceptance: 6th June Camera-Ready Papers Due: 1st July Workshop: 24th August Submission Instructions ======================= Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work on the topic areas of the workshop. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, should be avoided. Submitted papers should be no longer than eight (8) pages, 4 in the case of project reports (including data, tables, figures, and references). Please include a one-paragraph abstract of the entire work (about 200 words) and use the Coling 2008 LaTeX or MS Word style sheets (http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/style.html). Submission will be electronic (pdf format only) via the START paper submission webpage: https://www.softconf.com/coling08/CAL08/submit.html Workshop Organizers ================ Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille) Churen Huang (Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) Programme Committee =================== * Slaven Bilac, Google-Tokyo, Japan * Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland * Dan Cristea, University of Iasi, Romania * Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton, USA * Olivier Ferret, CEA LIST, France * Thierry Fontenelle, Microsoft, Redmont * Gregory Grefenstette, CEA LIST, France * Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada * Ed Hovy, ISI, Los Angeles, USA * Chu-Ren Huang, Sinica, Taiwan * Terry Joyce, Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan * Adam Kilgarriff, Brighton, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK * Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal, Canada * Dekang Lin, Google, Mountain View, California, USA * Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA * Alain Polguère, University of Montreal, Canada * Reinhard Rapp, university of Tarragona, Spain * Sabine Schulte im Walde, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Gilles Serasset, Imag, Grenoble, France * Anna Sinopalnikova, FIT, BUT, Brno, Czech Republic * Takenobu Tokunaga, Titech, Tokyo, Japan * Dan Tufis, RACAI, Bucharest, Romania * Jean Véronis, University of Aix-Marseille, France * Yorick Wilks, Oxford Internet Institute, UK * Michael Zock LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France * Pierre Zweigenbaum, Limsi, Orsay, France Contact Person and workshop website =================================== Michael Zock (michael.zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr) http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 11 09:26:49 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:26:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:03:53 +0100 From: Jørgen Villadsen Message-ID: <20080310150353351.4F0640D361CE456A at nbjv> X-url: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ X-url: http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/ CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 27 MARCH 2008 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008) organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany Selected and extended papers will be included in a volume of Studies in Computational Intelligence published by Springer. 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:31:36 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:31:36 +0100 Subject: Seminaire: Alpage 7 Avril (Alexandros Tantos) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:20:16 +0100 From: Benoit Crabbé Message-Id: <68B2CD70-6954-43E1-BA9B-C3E0BAE977F9 at linguist.jussieu.fr> X-url: http://alpage.inria.fr/seminaire.fr.html X-url: http://li.linguist.jussieu.fr ****************** 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 7 avril, Alexandros Tantos nous parlera de : Interpreting Discourses based on Lexical Semantic Knowledge. Abstract: The aim of this talk is to investigate the enterprise of exploiting lexical semantic knowledge for discourse purposes. In the first part of the paper, I demonstrate that event-based approaches are unable to explain the ambiguous behavior of a whole class of verbs, those called lexical causative verbs in linguistics. Danlos (2000) Asher and Lascarides (2003) present a promising account of lexicalized causation that shows the dependence of verbs on the discourse context and the dependence of discourse inference on lexical knowledge. In the second part of the talk, I use the main tools of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (henceforth SDRT) to deal with the phenomena, improve SDRT's strategy to deal with lexical knowledge and avoid the previous pitfalls of the usual event-based theories. There are a lot of benefits out of the construction of an interface between both levels of linguistic analysis, namely lexical semantics and discourse semantics and these ideas can also very well be exploited for a system of discourse inference. ----------------------- Page web du séminaire : http://alpage.inria.fr/seminaire.fr.html Cursus Linguistique informatique de Paris 7 : http://li.linguist.jussieu.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:34:50 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:34:50 +0100 Subject: Appel: Bellagio 08, Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:41:41 +0000 From: Yorick Wilks Message-Id: X-url: http://icon.shef.ac.uk/meetings/bellagio/ X-url: http://www.villaserbelloni.com/ X-url: http://www.companions-project.org/downloads/Bellagio08_template.doc X-url: http://www.companions-project.org/events/ FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION CALL FOR PAPERS 6-7 October, 2008 Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio The purpose of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and industrialists concerned with all aspects of human- computer conversation and the associated research issues of emotion, relationships, companionship, embodiment, ECAs, memory, evaluation etc. that persistent, personalised computational agents will need solutions for if they are to exist, as they will, in the reasonably near future. The earlier workshops in this series (see the first at http://icon.shef.ac.uk/meetings/bellagio/) were highly successful at getting industry groups to display their interests and prototypes as did university and independent researchers. Since 2000, there has been a great upsurge in research funding, and another aim of the meeting will be to bring together members of currently active research consortia in the EU and US, such as CALLAS, CALO, COSY, AMIDA, INDIGO, SOPRANO and others; the workshop is being held under the auspices of the EU 6FP IP COMPANIONS (www. companions-project.org)(2006-2010). Bellagio and the Villa Serbelloni are among the finest spots in the world for thought and reflection: see http://www.villaserbelloni.com/ IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts due: 1 July 2008 Authors notified: 31 July 2008 Final papers due: 5 September 2008 Abstracts should use a simple template (modelled on two-column AISB format) at (Word version): http://www.companions-project.org/downloads/Bellagio08_template.doc Abstracts should not exceed two pages. Final papers should not exceed five pages. GENERAL CHAIR Yorick Wilks (U. Sheffield) PROGRAM COMMITTEE James Allen (U. West Florida) Ellizabeth Andre (U. Augsburg) David Benyon (Napier U.) Christopher Brewster (U. Sheffield) Harry Bunt ( U. Tilburg) Marc Cavazza (U. Teessside) Emmet Coin (ejTalk, USA) Oliver Lemon (U. Edinburgh) Bjorn Gamback (SICS, Stockholm) Louise Guthrie (U. Sheffield) Aravind Joshi (U. Pennsylvania) Anton Nijholt (U. Twente) Catherine Pelachaud (U. Paris) Steve Pulman (U. Oxford) Akira Shimazu (JAIST, Japan) Tomek Strzalkowski (U. Albany) Markku Turunen (U. Tampere) Mats Wiren (U. Stockholm) INVITED TALKS (not all yet confirmed) James Allen (U. West Florida) Aude Billard (EPFL, Geneva) Harry Bunt ( U. Tilburg) Marc Cavazza (U. Teessside) Oliver Lemon (U. Edinburgh) Tim Paek (Microsoft Research, Redmond) REGISTRATION Information and an online payment method will be posted on the project site http://www.companions-project.org/events/200810_bellagio.cfm and an email circular will tell you registration is open. At that time we shall also post travel and hotel information etc. Those wishing to ensure that they get rooms in the Villa Serbelloni itself should book now at the website above, mentioning the workshop and asking for the special price. The registration fee (under 400 euro and 200 euro for full-time students) will include a welcome reception in the Villa as well as a special lunch on the terrace over Lake Como. Registration will be limited to 100 participants. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:36:49 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:36:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: Atelier FOuille des Donnees d'OPinions (FODOP'08) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:37:14 +0100 (CET) From: Mathieu.Roche at lirmm.fr Message-ID: <28848.193.51.131.254.1205429834.squirrel at www.lirmm.fr> X-url: http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/FODOP08/ X-url: http://www.polytech.univ-nantes.fr/associationEGC *** Deuxième appel à communications *** ---------------------------------------------------------- Atelier FOuille des Données d'OPinions (FODOP'08) http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/FODOP08/ contact : fodop08 at lirmm.fr Conjointement à la conférence INFORSID 2008 27 mai 2008, Fontainebleau (France) ---------------------------------------------------------- == DESCRIPTION == Avec l'émergence du Web, de plus en plus de documents textuels contenant des informations exprimant des opinions ou des sentiments sont disponibles (e.g. commentaires ou évaluations de produits par des clients, forums, groupe de discussion, blogs). La détection ou l'extraction automatique d'opinions est un domaine de recherche en plein essor. Elle devient essentielle, par exemple pour le développement de tâches de veille (technologique, marketing, concurrentielle, sociétale) qui peuvent se révéler cruciales pour les entreprises et trouve de très nombreux domaines d'applications. Nous pouvons citer, par exemple, les clients qui souhaitent connaître comment évaluer un produit avant de l'acheter, l'image que les clients peuvent se faire d'une entreprise, la détection de rumeurs (buzz) sur le web. Cependant, les approches traditionnelles de fouilles de données ne sont plus adaptées à un contexte dans lequel il faut appréhender non seulement de gros volumes de données mais s'intéresser à la qualité des données : comment déterminer des avis négatifs dans des documents aussi divers que des blogs ou des journaux ? Comment valider/évaluer les résultats obtenus ? quel type de données utiliser ? Une approche pluridisciplinaire regroupant différentes communautés d'INFORSID (fouille de données, aide à la décision, modélisation des connaissances, TAL, Linguistique, etc) parait aujourd'hui essentielle au développement rigoureux de cette thématique. En 2007, le défi DEFT (DEfi Fouille de Textes) avait pour objectif la classification de textes en fonction du jugement favorable ou défavorable qu'ils expriment. Nous souhaitons, dans cet atelier, étendre cette problématique afin de proposer une réflexion globale sur les approches de traitement automatique des données d'opinion à mettre en oeuvre. Les défis internationaux tel que TREC Blog proposent également des tâches propres aux traitements de textes d'opinions. Ainsi, notre objectif est de rassembler les chercheurs intéressés par une telle thématique, de présenter les travaux réalisés dans ce domaine et de confronter les points de vue de différentes disciplines. == THEMES (liste non limitative) == - Catégorisation automatique de textes d'opinion - Ontologies et données d'opinion - Aide à la décision pour les données d'opinion - Visualisation pour une analyse des données d'opinion - Interrogation des données d'opinion - Acquisition de bases de données d'opinion - Veille technologique pour l'analyse des opinions - Détection de tendances dans les opinions - Fouille du Web pour acquérir et/ou analyser des textes d'opinion - TAL à partir de textes d'opinion - Analyse de discours == SOUMISSIONS == Les articles (soumis et en version finale) peuvent être rédigés en français ou en anglais, sur environ 12 pages incluant toutes les références et les figures. Les articles pourront être beaucoup plus courts, en particulier pour les articles présentant un travail qui débute. Les soumissions se feront au format PDF. Le format requis pour les actes de l'atelier FODOP 2008 est le même que celui de la conférence INFORSID'08 (format Hermès). Les soumissions devront être envoyées aux adresses ci-dessous avant le 31 mars 2008 : fodop08 at lirmm.fr == CALENDRIER == ------------------------------------------ 31 mars 2008 : Soumission des articles 30 avril 2008 : Notification aux auteurs 9 mai 2008 : Soumission de la version finale des articles 27 mai 2008 : Atelier FODOP'08 ------------------------------------------ == COMITE DE PROGRAMME == - N. Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT) - C. Berrut (LIG) - V. Claveau (IRISA) - G. Dray (LGI2P) - M. El-Bèze (LIA) - P. Gallinari (LIP6) - J.-G. Ganascia (LIP6) - M. Hurault-Plantet (LIMSI) - Y. Kodratoff (LRI) - A. Laurent (LIRMM) - E. Métais (CEDRIC) - J. Mothe (IRIT) - P. Paroubek (LIMSI) - M. Plantié (LGI2P) - V. Prince (LIRMM) - C. Roche (LISTIC) - M. Teisseire (LIRMM) == ORGANISATEURS == Mathieu Roche LIRMM, UMR 5506, Université Montpellier 2 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5 mroche at lirmm.fr Pascal Poncelet LGI2P - École des Mines d'Alès, Site EERIE, Nîmes Parc Scientifique Georges Besse, 30035 Nîmes Cedex 1 pascal.poncelet at ema.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:37:22 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:37:22 +0100 Subject: Conf: LREC 2008, Early-bird registration extended to March 18, 2008 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:59:20 +0100 From: ELDA Message-ID: <47D97988.4070908 at elda.org> **** EXTENDED DEADLINE **** The deadline for early registration has been moved to _*March, 18th*_. We take the occasion for reminding you that it is strongly advisable to complete the hotel reservation when registering to LREC. May is the high season in Marrakech. As of today, the following hotels are full: **Ryad Mogador Opéra, Amani, Oudaya and Jnan El Harti.** ** ** LREC2008 Organizing Committee Register online: www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Online-Registration.html Book a hotel room for the conference: www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Online-Booking.html Contact us: www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/-Contact-us-.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:39:12 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:39:12 +0100 Subject: Appel: APA Newsletter, Special issue on 'The Ontological Status of Web-Based Objects' Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:17:20 +0100 (CET) From: "Jean-Gabriel Ganascia" Message-ID: <16180.62.62.169.224.1205443040.squirrel at mailone.lip6.fr> X-url: http://www.apaonline.org/apa/publications/newsletters/v07n1/Computers.pdf X-url: http://webmail.uis.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.apaonline.org/apa/publications/newsletters/v07n1/Computers.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------- APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers organizes a special issue on 'The Ontological Status of Web-Based Objects'. Contributions of up to 3,000 words should be emailed to the editor by July 01/2008 Peter Boltuc, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza Philosophy Department, UHB 4026 Springfield, IL 62-703, USA University Professor on Online Learning, SGH pboltu at sgh.waw.pl Editor, APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers http://www.apaonline.org/apa/publications/newsletters/v07n1/Computers.pdf http://www.apaonline.org/apa/publications/newsletters/v06n2/Computers.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:42:09 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:42:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: Conference TOTh, extension de date limite Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:34:29 +0100 From: Luc Damas Message-ID: <47DA3895.9060506 at univ-savoie.fr> X-url: http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Appel à communications - EXTENSION DE DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION NOUVELLE DATE : 31 MARS 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- TOTh : Terminologie & Ontologie : Théories et Applications Annecy - 5 & 6 juin 2008 http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Comment modéliser les connaissances métiers ? Les mutations technologiques et économiques ont modifié profondément nos structures sociétales. La notion de communauté est devenue centrale, rendant plus manifestes les besoins de communication et de partage de l'information. Information érigée au rang de connaissance qui constitue la véritable richesse de nos sociétés et qui pose les problèmes de leur capitalisation et de leur exploitation. Autant de besoins et de problèmes qui font des langues de spécialité, de la terminologie et de l'ingénierie des connaissances des disciplines incontournables. La société numérique, à travers les applications de traitement de l'information, milite pour une approche concertée de ces disciplines : importance des langues de spécialité et de la terminologie pour la communication et l'expression des connaissances, mais aussi impact de la représentation des connaissances et des modèles informatiques sur la terminologie et les langues de spécialité (parmi les principales questions abordées figure celle des ontologies). Les conférences TOTh se situent dans le prolongement des colloques annuels de la Société française de terminologie, organisés en décembre à l'Ecole normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm, afin d'approfondir et de diversifier les problématiques qui y sont abordées. Parmi les thèmes qui relèvent des conférences TOTh, citons (liste non exhaustive) : Axe linguistique : - Les langues de spécialité, la socioterminologie en particulier en direction des entreprises, l'aménagement linguistique (prescription, normalisation), - Les dictionnaires, thésaurus, lexiques et produits terminologiques, - La construction et la maintenance de ressources terminologiques : théories du sens, importance et limite de la linguistique textuelle (traitement de corpus)... - Multilinguisme et traduction. Axe conceptuel : - Principes terminologiques pour la construction des systèmes notionnels, - La représentation et la gestion des connaissances : modélisation des concepts, construction d'ontologies, transmissibilité des ontologies... - Apport de l'intelligence artificielle, de la linguistique, de l'épistémologie, des systèmes formels (logique des descriptions par exemple). Axe applicatif : - Les environnements logiciels : construction et maintenance des terminologies, thésaurus, dictionnaires, ontologies... - Les applications informatiques mettant en jeu des ressources terminologiques et/ou des bases de connaissances : systèmes d'information, gestion documentaire (recherche d'information, classification), gestion des connaissances, web sémantique, ingénierie collaborative, etc. - L'évaluation des outils d'acquisition et de manipulation, l'évolution des normes et standards dans le domaine des ressources linguistiques et ontologiques. Publics & disciplines concernés: -------------------------------- Les conférences TOTh ont pour principal objectif de rassembler industriels, chercheurs, utilisateurs et formateurs dont les préoccupations relèvent des langues de spécialité, de la terminologie et de l'ingénierie des connaissances ; et de façon plus générale toutes personnes intéressées par la gestion de l'information où les dimensions liées à la langue et à la connaissance tiennent une place prépondérante. Elles se veulent un lieu d'échange et de partage où sont exposés problèmes, solutions et retours d'expériences tant sur le plan théorique qu'applicatif ; ainsi que les nouvelles tendances et perspectives des disciplines associées : terminologie, linguistique, sciences de l'information, intelligence artificielle, systèmes d'information, ingénierie collaborative, etc. Comité Scientifique : Responsable : Christophe Roche ------------------------------------------------------ * Comité de pilotage o Loïc Depecker Professeur, Université de Sorbonne nouvelle o André Manificat Directeur, GRETh o Christophe Roche Professeur, Université de Savoie o Philippe Thoiron Professeur émérite, Université de Lyon II * Comité de programme o Bruno de Bessé Professeur, Université de Genève o Pierre Blanc EDF SEPTEN o Danièle Bourcier CNRS, CERSA Paris o Marc van Campenhoudt Professeur, Institut supérieur d'interprétation et de Traduction de Bruxelles o Danielle Candel CNRS, Université Paris Diderot o Stéphane Chaudiron Professeur, Université de Lille III o Viviane Cohen Information System Enterprise Architecture & Anticipation, France Télécom o Rute Costa Professeur, Université de Lisbonne o Luc Damas MCF, Université de Savoie o Sylvie Desprès MCF, Université Paris XIII o Anne Dourgnon-Hanoune EDF R&D o François Gaudin Professeur, Université de Rouen o Jean-Yves Gresser ancien Directeur à la Banque de France o Ollivier Haemmerlé Professeur, Université de Toulouse o Jean-Paul Haton Professeur, Université de Nancy 1 o Michèle Hudon Professeur, Université de Montréal o John Humbley Professeur, Université Paris 7 o Michel IDA Directeur MINATEC, CEA o Hendrik Kockaert Professeur, Lessius Hogeschool (Anvers) o Michel Léonard Professeur, Université de Genève o Pierre Lerat Professeur honoraire, Université Paris XIII o Widad Mustafa Professeur, Université de Lille III o Jean Quirion Professeur, Université du Québec en Outaouais o Renato Reinau Suva, Lucerne o François Rousselot MCF, Université de Strasbourg o Gérard Sabah CNRS, Orsay o Michel Simonet CNRS Grenoble o Marcus Spies Professeur, Université de Munich o Dardo de Vecchi Professeur associé, Euro-Med Marseille Dates importantes : ------------------- - Date limite de soumission : 16 mars 2008 - Notification d'acceptation aux auteurs : 20 avril 2008 Soumissions : luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr Contacts : ---------- Christophe Roche : responsable scientifique christophe.roche at univ-savoie.fr - tél. : 04 79 75 87 79 Luc Damas : responsable de l'organisation luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr - tél. : 04 79 75 87 03 Joelle Pellet : secrétariat toth at porphyre.org tél. : 04 50 09 65 80 - fax : 04 50 09 65 59 Site : www.porphyre.org/toth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:43:19 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:43:19 +0100 Subject: Appel: MLMI 2008 (5th Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:20:19 +0100 From: Andrei Popescu-Belis Message-ID: <47DAA5C3.9040406 at idiap.ch> X-url: http://barracuda.idiap.ch:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-url: http://www.mlmi.info X-url: http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=special_session X-url: http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=ami_career_day X-url: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi08/ X-url: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 MLMI 2008 second call for papers (apologies for multiple postings): 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI 2008) 8-10 September 2008 Utrecht, The Netherlands http://www.mlmi.info The fifth MLMI workshop will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, following successful workshops in Martigny (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Washington (2006) and Brno (2007). The MLMI joint multi-disciplinary workshops bring together researchers from the different communities working on the common theme of advanced machine learning algorithms applied to multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction. MLMI 2008 will also feature a special session on user requirements and evaluation of meeting browsers, and the AMI Career Day. *Important dates* Submission of papers/posters: Monday, 31 March 2008 Acceptance notifications: Monday, 12 May 2008 Camera-ready versions of papers: Monday, 16 June 2008 Workshop: 8-10 September 2008 *Workshop topics* MLMI 2008 will feature talks (including a number of invited speakers), posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit proposals in the following areas of interest, related to machine learning and multimodal interaction: - human-human communication modeling - audio-visual perception of humans - human-computer interaction modeling - speech processing - image and video processing - multimodal processing, fusion and fission - multimodal discourse and dialogue modeling - multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization - annotation and browsing of multimodal data - machine learning algorithms and their applications to the topics above The special session on user requirements and evaluation of meeting assistants/browsers has a separate call for papers with additional topics and a later deadline (check http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=special_session). *Satellite events* MLMI 2008 will feature the AMI Career Day (http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=ami_career_day). To propose other special sessions or satellite events, please contact the special session chair. MLMI 2008 is broadly collocated with a number of events in related domains: Mobile HCI 2008, 2-5 September, in Amsterdam; FG 2008, 17-19 September, in Amsterdam; ECML 2008, 15-19 September, in Antwerp; and Measuring Behavior 2008, 26-29 August, in Maastricht. *Guidelines for submission* The workshop proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The first four editions of MLMI were published as LNCS 3361, 3869, 4299, and 4892. However, unlike previous MLMIs, the proceedings of MLMI 2008 will be printed before the workshop and will be already available onsite to MLMI 2008 participants. Submissions are invited either as long papers (12 pages) or as short papers (6 pages), and may include a demonstration proposal. Upon acceptance of a paper, the Program Committee will also assign to it a presentation format, oral or poster, taking into account: (a) the most suitable format given the content of the paper; (b) the length of the paper (long papers are more likely to be presented orally); (c) the preferences expressed by the authors. Please submit PDF files using the submission website at http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi08/, following the Springer LNCS format for proceedings and other multi-author volumes (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0).. Please indicate in the comments for the PC if a demo is intended, and if the paper is a special session submission. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, both long and short, are required to follow the LNCS guidelines and to take into account the reviewers' comments. Authors of accepted short papers are encouraged to turn them into long papers for the proceedings. *Venue* Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands, with historic roots back to the Roman Empire. Utrecht hosts one of the bigger universities in the country, and with its historic centre and the many students it provides an excellent atmosphere for social activities in- or outside the workshop community. Utrecht is centrally located in the Netherlands, and has direct train connections to the major cities and Schiphol International Airport. TNO, organizer of MLMI 2008, is a not-for-profit research organization. TNO speech technological research is carried out in Soesterberg, at TNO Human Factors, and has research areas in ASR, speaker and language recognition, and word and event spotting. The workshop will be held in "Ottone", a beautiful old building near the "Singel", the canal which encircles the city center. The conference hall combines a spacious setting with a warm and friendly ambiance. *Organizing Committee* David van Leeuwen, TNO (Organization Chair) Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (Special Sessions Chair) Andrei Popescu-Belis, IDIAP Research Institute (Programme Co-chair) Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe (Programme Co-chair) *Programme Committee* * Jan Alexandersson, DFKI * Tilman Becker, DFKI * Samy Bengio, Google Inc. * Herve Bourlard, IDIAP * Lukas Burget, Brno University of Technology * Nick Campbell, ATR * Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh * Rolf Carlson, KTH * Honza Cernocky, Brno University of Technology * Trevor Darrell, MIT * John Dines, IDIAP * Gerald Friedland, ICSI * Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology * John Garofolo, NIST * Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP * Thomas Hain, University of Sheffield * Mary Harper, University of Maryland * James Henderson, University of Geneva * Hynek Hermansky, IDIAP * Simon King, University of Edinburgh * Denis Lalanne, University of Fribourg * David van Leeuwen, TNO * Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas (Area Chair) * Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva * Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI * Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong * Ludek Muller, University of West Bohemia * Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (Area Chair) * Fabio Pianesi, FBK-IRST (Area Chair) * Andrei Popescu-Belis, IDIAP (Programme Co-chair) * Gerasimos Potamianos, IBM T.J. Watson (Area Chair) * Ganesh Ramaswamy, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center * Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh * Gerhard Sagerer, University of Bielefeld (Area Chair) * Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe and CMU * Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam * Jan Sedivy, Google Inc. * Elizabeth Shriberg, SRI and ICSI * Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe (Programme Co-chair) * Jean-Philippe Thiran, EPFL * Matthew Turk, UCSB * Enrique Vidal, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia * Jie Yang, CMU ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:46:01 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:46:01 +0100 Subject: Job: Stage, Moteur de recherche, EDF Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:58:49 +0100 From: Cecile GROS Message-ID: Stage Moteur de recherche � EDF ============================= Contexte Le D�partement Internet de la Direction Informatique et Telecom a en charge la promotion des nouvelles technologies au sein d�EDF. Afin de mener � bien cette mission il a la responsabilit� d�un certain nombre d�Etudes d�Inter�t G�n�ral dont l�objectif est d�avoir un regard sur les solutions qu�il sera pertinent d�inclure dans le catalogue des solutions r�f�renc�es de l�entreprise. Ces �tudes comportent g�n�ralement cinq phases � sp�cification fonctionnelle du besoin en collaboration avec une ma�trise d�ouvrage identifi�e, cette phase comprend si n�cessaire un maquettage, une �tude ergonomique � sp�cification technique : d�finition de l�architecture technique, choix des outils�.. � r�alisation : param�trage/d�veloppement � mise en �uvre pouvant aller jusquÕˆ un pilote repr�sentatif d�ploy� sur des utilisateurs. � retour d�exp�rience pour prise de d�cision. Le stage propos� ci-dessous s�inscrit dans cette dynamique, il est pr�vu pour une dur�e minimale de 3 mois extensibles � 6 mois. Le stagiaire sera int�gr� dans les �quipes du D�partement qui dispose de toutes les comp�tences pour guider le stagiaire dans son travail. Le stage d�bute d�s que possible � partir de mars 2008. Sujet de stage La disponibilit� d�un moteur de recherche pertinent, transverse, indexant tous les fonds documentaires utiles et respectant les droits d�acc�s est une n�cessit� dans l�entreprise d�aujourd�hui. Une solution sp�cifique pour la recherche des documents stock�s sur le poste local doit �tre trouv�e. Le moteur de recherche de Vista apportera en effet un premier niveau de services, mais ne permettra pas la recherche en mode d�connect� dans les bases Quickr (outil de travail collaboratif retenu par EDF) ni la recherche sur les bases Notes e-mail ou les bases documentaires personnelles des utilisateurs. EDF dispose dans son catalogue de solution de l�outil K2 (Verity) de la soci�t� Autonomy. Ce moteur de recherche est mis en place sur certains Intranet ou Internet de l�entreprise. 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:44:37 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:44:37 +0100 Subject: Appel: Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:07:57 +0100 From: Jakub.Piskorski at jrc.it Message-id: X-url: http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008 X-url: http://www.fastar.org X-url: http://forums.csc.fi/kitwiki/pilot/view/KitWiki/FsmReg X-url: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 X-url: http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008/m/submission.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing FSMNLP 2008 Seventh International Workshop SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 11-12 September 2008, Ispra, Italy http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008 contact: fsmnlp2008 [ad] jrc [dot] it ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This year FSMNLP is merged with the FASTAR (Finite Automata Systems - Theoretical and Applied Research) workshop (http://www.fastar.org). AIM AND SCOPE The aim of the FSMNLP 2008 is to bring together members of the research and industrial community working on finite-state based models in language technology, computational linguistics, web mining, linguistics, and cognitive science or on related theory and methods in fields such as computer science and mathematics. The workshop will be a forum for researchers and practicioners working * on NLP applications, * on the theoretical and implementation aspects, or * on their combination. The special theme of FSMNLP 2008 centers around high performance finite-state devices in large-scale natural language text processing systems and applications. We invite in particular novel high-quality papers related to the topics including: * practices and experience in deployment of finite-state techniques in real-world applications processing massive amount of natural language data * industrial-strength finite-state pattern engines for information retrieval, information extraction and related text-mining tasks * scalability issues in FS-based large-scale text processing systems * efficient finite-state methods in search engines * implementation, construction, compression and processing techniques for huge finite-state devices and networks * novel application and efficiency-oriented finite-state paradigms (compilation and processing), e.g., finite-state devices with rich label annotatations, unification-based finite-state devices * comparative studies of time and space efficient finite-state methods (vs. other techniques) utilized in NLP applications * novel appllication areas for finite-state devices in text processing and information management systems * design patterns for implementing finite-state devices and toolkits We also invite submissions that are related to the traditional FSMNLP themes including but not limited to: 1. NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods The topic includes but is not restricted to: * speech, sign language, phonology, hyphenation, prosody, * scripts, text normalization, segmentation, tokenization, indexing, * morphology, stemming, lemmatisation, information retrieval, web mining, spelling correction, * syntax, POS tagging, partial parsing, disambiguation, information extraction, question answering * machine translation, translation memories, glossing, dialect adaptation, * annotated corpora and treebanks, semi-automatic annotation, error mining, searching 2. Finite-state models of language With this more focused topic (inside 1) we invite papers on aspects that motivate sufficiency of finite-state methods or their subsets for capturing various requirements of natural language processing. The topic includes but is not restricted to: * performance, linguistic applicability, finite-state hypotheses * Zipf's law and coverage, model checking against finite corpora * regular approximations under parameterized complexity, limitations and definitions of relevant complexities such as ambiguity, recursion, crossings, rule applications, constraint violations, reduplication, exponents, discontinuity, path-width, and induction depth * similarity inferences, dissimilation, segmental length, counter-freeness, asynchronous machines * garden-path sentences, deterministic parsing, expected parses, Markov chains * incremental parsing, uncertainty, reliability/variance in stochastic parsing, linear sequential machines 3. Practices for building lexical transducers for the world's languages. The topic accounts for usability of finite-state methods in NLP. It includes but is not restricted to: * required user training and consultation, learning curve of non-specialists * questionnaires, discovery methods, adaptive computer-aided glossing and interlinearization * example-based grammars, unsupervised learning, semi-automatic learning, user-driven learning (see topic 5 too) * low literacy level and restricted availability of training data, writing systems/phonology under development, new non-Roman scripts, endangered languages * linguist's workbenches, stealth-to-wealth parser development * experiences of using existing tools (e.g. TWOL) for computational morphology and phonology 4. Specification and implementation of sets, relations and multiplicities in NLP using finite state devices The topic includes but is not restricted to: * regular rule formalisms, grammar systems, expressions, operations, closure properties, complexities * algorithms for compilation, approximation, manipulation, optimization, and lazy evaluation of finite machines * finite string and tree automata, transducers, morphisms and bimorphisms * weights, registers, multiple tapes, alphabets, state covers and partitions, representations * locality, constraint propagation, star-free languages, data vs. query complexity * logical specification, MSO(SLR,matches), FO(Str,<), LTL, generalized restriction, local grammars * multi-tape automata, same-length relations and partition-based morphology, Semitic morphology * autosegmental phonology, shuffle, trajectories, synchronization, segmental anchoring, alignment constraints, syllable structure, partial-order reductions * varieties of regular languages and relations, descriptive complexity of finite-state based grammars * automaton-based approaches to declarative constraint grammars, constraints in optimality theory * parallel corpus annotations, register automata, acyclic timed automata 5. Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language This topic includes but is not restricted to: * learning regular rule systems, learning topologies of finite automata and transducers * parameter estimation and smoothing, lexical openness * computer-driven grammar writing, user-driven grammar learning, discovery procedures * data scarcity, realistic variations of Gold's model, learnability and cognitive science * incompletely specified finite-state networks * model-theoretic grammars, gradient well/ill-formedness 6. Finite-state manipulation software (with relevance to the above themes) This topic includes but is not restricted to * regular expression pre-compilers such as regexopt, xfst2fsa, standards and interfaces for finite-state based software components, conversion tools * tools such as LEXC, Lextools, Intex, XFST, FSM, GRM, WFSC, FIRE Engine, FADD, FSA/UTR, SRILM, FIRE Station and Grail * free or almost free software such as MIT FST, Carmel, RWTH FSA, FSA Utilities, FSM<2.0>, Unitex, OpenFIRE, OpenFST, Vaucanson, SFST, PCKIMMO, MONA, Hopskip, ASTL, UCFSM, HaLeX, SML, and WFST (see http://forums.csc.fi/kitwiki/pilot/view/KitWiki/FsmReg for more examples) * results obtainable with such exploration tools as automata, Autographe, Amore, and TESTAS * visualization tools such as Graphviz and Vaucanson-G * language-specific resources and descriptions, freely available benchmarking resources The descriptions of the topics above are not meant to be complete, and should extend to cover all traditional FSMNLP topics. Submitted papers or abstracts may fall in several categories. SUBMISSION We expect three kinds of submissions: - full papers, - short papers, and - interactive software demos. Submissions are electronic and in PDF format via a web-based submission server. Authors are encouraged to use Springer LNCS style (Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes) for LaTeX in producing the PDF document. More information on this style can be found at: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 The page limit for full papers is 12 pages, whereas short papers and software demo descriptions are limited to 6 pages. The information about the author(s) should be omitted in the submitted papers since the review process wil be blind. More detailed information about submission is available on: http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008/m/submission.html PUBLICATION The papers and abstracts will be published in FSMNLP 2008 proceedings (paper version). We are currently negotiating publishing the postproceedings with a scientific press company. Publication of extended and revised versions of the papers in a special journal issue is planned too. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions due: 11 May Notification of acceptance: 11 June Camera-ready versions due: 30 June PROGRAM COMMITTEE Cyril Allauzen (Google Research, New York, USA) Francisco Casacuberta (Instituto Tecnologico De Informática, Valencia, Spain) Jean-Marc Champarnaud (Université de Rouen, France) Maxime Crochemore (Department of Computer Science, King's College London, U.K.) Jan Daciuk (GdaÅ„sk University of Technology, Poland) Karin Haenelt (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and University of Heidelberg, Germany) Thomas Hanneforth (University of Potsdam, Germany) Colin de la Higuera (Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France) André Kempe (Yahoo Search Technologies, Paris, France) Derrick Kourie (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Andras Kornai (Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary and MetaCarta, Cambridge, USA) Marcus Kracht (Univeristy of California, Los Angeles, USA) Hans-Ulrich Krieger (DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany) Eric Laporte (Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France) Stoyan Mihov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria) Herman Ney (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy) Michael Riley (Google Research, New York, USA) Strahil Ristov (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia) Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw University, Poland) Jacques Sakarovitch (Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France) Max Silberztein (Université de Franche-Comté, France) Wojciech Skut (Google Research, Mountain View, USA) Bruce Watson (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel) Atro Voutilainen (Connexor Oy, Finland) Anssi Yli Jyrä (University of Helsinki and CSC – Scientific Computing Ltd., Espoo, Finland) Sheng Yu (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:46:30 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:46:30 +0100 Subject: Appel: PSC 2008 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:37:26 +0100 (MET) From: holub at fel.cvut.cz Message-Id: <200803161637.m2GGbQ18018028 at sunray1.felk.cvut.cz> X-url: http://www.stringology.org X-url: http://www.stringology.org/event/2008 X-url: http://www.stringology.org/pscproc2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prague Stringology Conference 2008 13th event of the Prague Stringology Club http://www.stringology.org Call for Papers Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-3, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PSC'08 is the 13th event of the Prague Stringology Club. It is an international conference focusing on stringology and related areas. It is organized annually by the Prague Stringology Club, a research group in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. TOPICS: Stringology is a part of algorithmic research that deals with the processing of text strings. It has existed for at least thirty years and developed into a respected subfield of its own. The last fifteen years have produced an explosion of new results. This progress is due in part to the human genome effort, an area to which string algorithms make important contributions. The topics of the conference include but are not limited to: * algorithms for pattern matching in strings, images and trees * data structures (automata, trees etc.) for pattern matching in strings, images and trees * coding and data compression * bioinformatics * information retrieval * string processing algorithms in databases * searching for regularities * natural language processing SUBMISSION: Authors are cordially invited to submit their full papers (PostScript or PDF format, 10-15 pages, A4 page format) by May 12, 2008. The paper should start with the title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and a one-paragraph summary of the results and ideas. The paper should be submitted via submission server. For details see conference web page http://www.stringology.org/event/2008. For their final version the papers are required to be prepared using our new LaTeX style available at http://www.stringology.org/pscproc2 which has an interface compatible to LNCS style. IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission of Papers: May 12, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: June 26, 2008 * Registration: July 15, 2008 * Final Version Due: July 15, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * A. Amir, Bar Ilan University, Israel * G. Andrejkova, P. J. Safarik University, Slovakia * M. Crochemore, University of Marne-la-Vallee, France, and King's College London, UK * J. Holub (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * C. S. Iliopoulos, King's College London, UK * S. T. Klein, Bar Ilan University, Israel * T. Lecroq, University of Rouen, France * B. Melichar (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * Y. Pinzon, National University of Colombia, Colombia * M.-F. Sagot, Inria Rhone-Alpes, France * W. F. Smyth, McMaster University, Canada, and Curtin University of Technology, Australia * B. W. Watson, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: * M. Balik (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * J. Holub (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * B. Melichar, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * L. Vagner, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * M. Voracek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * J. Zdarek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic HISTORY: PSC'08 was preceded by Prague Stringology Workshops in 1996-2000 and by Prague Stringology Conferences in 2001-2006. Each year proceedings are prepared for the conference. They are published by Czech Technical University in Prague and are also available from the PSC web pages. Selected papers from the later workshops were also published in a special issue of the journal Kybernetika. Selected papers from the 2002-2006 conferences were then published in the Nordic Journal of Computing, Journal of Automata, Languages, and Combinatorics, and International Journal of Foundations in Computer Science. LOCATION: PSC'08 will be held in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague on September 1-3, 2008. The working language is English. As usual, accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by the Czech Technical University in Prague and distributed at the conference. After further refereeing, selected papers will then be published in an international journal. The conference venue is located in the historical center of Prague on which all cultural epochs left their mark and it is for centuries a political, social, and cultural center of European significance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:48:05 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:48:05 +0100 Subject: Sujet de these: CIFRE, cartographie de l'information technologique et strategique Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:05:23 +0100 From: Thibault ROY - TecKnowMetrix Message-Id: Titre de la thèse : Cartographie de l'information technologique et stratégique : Vers de nouveaux modèles et outils linguistiques et informatiques pour la gestion et l'accès à une base de documents scientifiques et de propriété intellectuelle Mots-clés : traitement automatique des langues, visualisation et cartographie de l'information, informatique documentaire, bibliométrie, veille, statistiques et analyses des données TecKnowMetrix est une jeune société innovante issue de l'université Pierre Mendès France et de l'INRA basée sur Voiron, à proximité de Grenoble. Elle conçoit et développe des méthodes et des outils d'analyse de l'information scientifique et technologique. De telles informations sont par exemple contenues dans des bases de données de brevets et publications, ainsi que sur différents documents issus de la Toile. L'objectif de TecKnowMetrix est de délivrer une vision synthétique, une cartographie, d'un environnement technologique complexe. Cette cartographie est destinée à des dirigeants d'entreprises, des responsables de R&D, des chercheurs, des investisseurs ou encore des élus de collectivités locales et elle est utile au pilotage de projets de recherche des laboratoires publics ou des groupes industriels innovants. Le sujet de cette thèse CIFRE est lié à la gestion et à l'accès à une grande base documentaire scientifique. Le point de départ sera l'extraction et la normalisation (requise par la dyslexie et la polygraphie) des entités nommées et des thèmes des documents. Ces termes s'agenceront au sein d'un réseau termino-ontologique dont le modèle devra être élaboré. La problématique de la représentation interne de ces connaissances est donc primordiale. Parallèlement, ces données devront être un point d'accès pour les utilisateurs, notamment par le biais de cartes de projections, amenant ainsi la seconde problématique fondamentale du projet : la représentation visuelle des connaissances, l'ergonomie linguistique et l'interaction avec l'utilisateur. Ces deux problématiques sont le point de rencontre scientifique entre la société TecKnowMetrix et le laboratoire LIDILEM (EA-609) de l'Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3. Seul l'objet applicatif diffère : pour la première la gestion de documents juridiques et scientifiques, pour la seconde l'accès au corpus littéraire et linguistique des Manuscrits de Stendhal. Ce travail de thèse sera réalisé au sein de l'équipe de Recherche et Développement de l'entreprise TecKnowMetrix. La thèse commencera en septembre 2008. La date limite de candidature pour cette thèse est fixée au lundi 31 mars 2008. Les candidats devront envoyer un dossier contenant un CV, une lettre de motivation, une lettre de recommandation du responsable de Master 2 et / ou de l'encadrant de stage de recherche, un relevé de notes de master 2 si possible à l'adresse suivante : Thibault Roy TecKnowMetrix Parc Work Center - ZA de Champfeuillet - Route des bois 38500 Voiron Pour plus d'information, n'hésitez pas à contacter : - Thibault Roy - Directeur Recherche et Développement Société TecKnowMetrix - tr at tkm.fr - Thomas Lebarbé - Maître de conférences LIDILEM / Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3 - thomaslebarbe at free.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:49:59 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:49:59 +0100 Subject: Appel: MMIES2: Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization Workshop Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:37:31 +0100 From: Thierry Poibeau Message-Id: X-url: http://www.coling2008.org.uk/ X-url: http://doremi.cs.helsinki.fi/mmies2/ X-url: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/ X-url: http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/mmies/index.html MMIES2: Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization Workshop Manchester, 23 August, 2008 Held in conjunction with COLING-2008 (http://www.coling2008.org.uk/), the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 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 handling 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. Workshop Web Site: http://doremi.cs.helsinki.fi/mmies2/ Organisers: * Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India) * Thierry Poibeau (CNRS / Universite Paris 13, France) * Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK) * Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finland) Call for Papers Information extraction (IE) and text summarization (TS) are key technologies aiming at extracting from texts information that is relevant to a user's interest, and presenting it to the user in concise form. The on-going information explosion makes IE and TS particularly critical for successful functioning within the information society. These technologies, however, face new challenges with the adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm (e.g. blogs, wikis) because of their inherent multi-source nature. These technologies must no longer only deal with isolated texts or single narratives, but with large-scale repositories or sources -- possibly in several languages -- containing a multiplicity of views, opinions, or commentaries on particular topics, entities or events. There is thus a need to adapt and/or develop new techniques to deal with these new phenomena. Recognising similar information across different sources and/or in different languages is of paramount importance in this multi-source, multi-lingual context. In information extraction, merging information from multiple sources can lead to increased accuracy as compared with extraction from a single source. In text summarization, similar facts found across sources can inform sentence scoring algorithms. In question answering, the distribution of answers in similar contexts can inform answer ranking components. Often, it is not the similarity of information that matters, but its complementary nature. In a multi-lingual context, information extraction and text summarization can provide solutions for cross-lingual access: key pieces of information can be extracted from different texts in one or many languages, merged, and then conveyed in many natural languages in concise form. Applications need to be able to cope with the idiosyncratic nature of the new Web 2.0 media: mixed input, new jargon, ungrammatical and mixed-language input, emotional discourse, etc. In this context, synthesizing or inferring opinions from multiple sources is a new and exciting challenge for NLP. On another level, profiling of individuals who engage in the new social Web, and identifying whether a particular opinion is appropriate/relevant in a given context are important topics to be addressed. It is therefore important that the research community address the following issues: - What methods are appropriate to detect similar/complementary/contradictory information? Are hand-crafted rules and knowledge-rich approaches convenient? - What methods are available to tackle cross-document and cross-lingual entity and event coreference? - What machine learning approaches are most appropriate for this task -- supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised? What type of corpora are -required for training and testing? - What techniques are appropriate to synthesize condensed synopses of the extracted information? What generation techniques are useful here? What kind of techniques can be used to cross domains and languages? - What techniques can improve opinion mining and sentiment analysis through multi-document analysis? How do information extraction and opinion mining connect? - What tools exist for supporting multi-lingual/multi-source access to information? What solutions exist beyond full document translation to produce cross-lingual summaries? Important Dates: * Paper submission deadline: *** 5 May *** * Notification of acceptance of Papers: 6 June * Camera-ready copy of papers due: 1 July * Workshop: *** 23 August *** Paper Submission: Papers should describe original work and should indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of the Coling 2008 LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference (http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/ style.html). Submission will be electronic (pdf format only), using the START submission webpage dedicated to the workshop https://www.softconf.com/coling08/MMIES2/. Programme Committee: Javier Artiles (UNED, Spain) Kalina Bontcheva (U. 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 (U. Montreal, Canada) Diana Maynard (U. Sheffield, UK) Jean-Luc Minel (Modyco-CNRS, France) Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Cecile Paris (CSIRO, Australia) Maria Teresa Pazienza (U. of Roma tor Vergata, Italy) Bruno Pouliquen (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy) Satoshi Sekine (NYU, USA) Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, France) Agnes Sandor (Xerox XRCE, France) Ralf Steinberger (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy) Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada) Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft Research, USA) Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Additional Information: Information about the previous MMIES Workshop, at RANLP-2007 in Borovets, Bulgaria can be found at (http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/mmies/index.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:51:38 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:51:38 +0100 Subject: Conf: Journees Semantique et Modelisation, 3-4 avril 2008, Toulouse, France Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:42:46 +0100 From: Laurent PREVOT Message-ID: X-url: http://www.semantique-gdr.net/-JSM-2008- Journées Sémantique et Modélisation, JSM 08 3-4 avril 2008 Toulouse, France http://www.semantique-gdr.net/-JSM-2008- Appel à participation Le GDR Sémantique et Modélisation (CNRS) et l'Université de Toulouse organisent la cinquième édition des Journées de Sémantique et Modélisation (JSM08). La conférence aura lieu les 3 et 4 avril 2008 à la maison de la recherche de l'université Toulouse-Le-Mirail. (Les Journées seront précédées d'une école Jeunes Chercheurs en sémantique formelle, d'une durée de trois jours, avec des cours en français.) Le but de cette manifestation est de promouvoir les recherches concernant la formalisation du sens et de l'interprétation linguistiques. Compte tenu du développement de l'exploitation de corpus en sémantique et dans les domaine connexes, les propositions qui articulent l'utilisation de corpus et les problèmes de représentation en sémantique et pragmatique seront les bienvenues. THÉMATIQUE Nous invitons toutes les personnes intéressées à soumettre des résumés qui portent sur un problème de modélisation du sens et de l'interprétation dans le cadre d'une analyse sémantique formelle. Cela inclut par exemple, mais sans s'y limiter, les problèmes de représentation qui touchent aux questions suivantes : - l'interface syntaxe sémantique, - la modélisation logique du sens, - le temps et l'aspect, - le sens lexical, - le sens grammatical, - la structure informationnelle, - les présuppositions et les implicatures, - les actes de langage, - les relations de discours dans les textes et dans les dialogues. LANGUES DES JOURNÉES Les langues des journées sont le français et l'anglais. CONFÉRENCIERS INVITÉS - David I. Beaver (U. Texas, Austin) - Louise McNally (Pompeu Fabra U., Barcelona) - Frank Veltman (U. Amsterdam) RESPONSABLES SCIENTIFIQUES - Nicholas Asher (CNRS, IRIT, Toulouse 3) - Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse 3) - Laurent Roussarie (UMR7023, U. Paris 8) COMITÉ DE SÉLECTION - Pascal Amsili (Paris VII, Lattice) - David I. Beaver (U. Texas, Austin) - Claire Beyssade (CNRS, IJN) - Patrick Blackburn (Loria) - Andrée Borillo (Toulouse 2, ERSS) - Joan Busquets (Bordeaux 3, ERSS) - Patrick Caudal (CNRS, LLF) - Ileana Comorovski (CNRS, UMR7023) - Bridget Copley (CNRS, UMR7023) - Francis Corblin (Paris IV, IJN) - Paul Egré (CNRS, IJN) - Evelyne Jacquey (CNRS, ATILF) - Brenda Laca (Paris 8, UMR7023) - Alex Lascarides (Edinburgh, HCRC) - Alain Lecomte (Paris 8, UMR7023) - Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS, LLF) - Alda Mari (CNRS, IJN) - Ora Matushansky (CNRS, UMR7023) - Louise McNally (Pompeu Fabra U., Barcelona) - David Nicolas (CNRS, IJN) - Laurent Prévot (CLLE-ERSS, CNRS, Toulouse 2) - Gabriel Sandu (IHPST) - Philippe Schlenker (UCLA & CNRS, IJN) - Benjamin Spector (Harvard) - Lucia Tovena (Paris VII, LLF) - Frank Veltman (U. Amsterdam) - Laure Vieu (CNRS, IRIT & LOA-CNR Trento) COMITÉ D'ORGANISATION - Laurent Prévot (CLLE-ERSS, CNRS, Toulouse 2) (Président) - Nicholas Asher (CNRS, IRIT, Toulouse 3) - Michel Aurnague (CNRS, CLLE-ERSS, Toulouse 2) - Myriam Bras (CLLE-ERSS, Toulouse 2) - Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse 3) - Laurent Roussarie (UMR 7023, Paris 8) Informations complémentaires et à jour sur : http://www.semantique-gdr.net/-JSM-2008- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:54:14 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:54:14 +0100 Subject: Appel: Colloque international de Namur Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:17:40 +0100 (CET) From: de La Taille Roberte Message-ID: <990068.40507.qm at web26213.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-url: http://www.revue-texto.net Appel à communications Linguistique des valeurs programmes de linguistique néo-saussurienne Colloque international organisé par L'Institut Ferdinand de Saussure et l'Université de Namur 16-18 juin 2008 Un livre retrouvé de F. de Saussure, De l'essence double du langage (dans Ecrits de linguistique générale, Gallimard, 2002) confirme que la pensée du linguiste genevois a été depuis un siècle l'objet de profonds malentendus. En particulier, le programme saussurien d'une linguistique des valeurs pures - conçue comme une écriture algébrique - est resté peu documenté jusqu'à la publication des manuscrits nouvellement découverts. Première rencontre internationale consacrée à cette question, le colloque entend faire le point sur ce programme énoncé avec netteté dans ces textes, comme sur sa portée présente. Organisé par l'université de Namur, où se tient depuis plusieurs années un séminaire de recherches néo-saussuriennes, et par l'Institut Ferdinand de Saussure, le colloque comprendra trois volets. A/ Le programme des valeurs pures Les positions théoriques et méthodologiques de Saussure ont fait l'objet de confusions si persistantes que des entreprises diversement associées à son nom contredisent les clauses épistémologiques de son programme. Regardant la question des valeurs pures, seule une lecture de l'ensemble du corpus saussurien, permet de les dissiper. L'objet des communications et des débats du colloque sera de préciser les modalités d'interprétation du corpus saussurien ainsi que les enjeux actuels du programme saussurien. B/ Des valeurs en général La sémantique de la valeur, développée en sémantique différentielle des textes et des corpus, a permis de rompre avec la tradition ontologique de la référence. Il lui faut cependant pouvoir articuler les valeurs de la langue et les conditions d'exercice de la parole. Comment s'articulent les valeurs pures de la langue fonctionnelle et le « chaos » apparent d'une langue historique ? Cette question n'a pas pu être véritablement posée, notamment en raison de la tripartition entre syntaxe, sémantique et pragmatique, qui divise encore le champ de la linguistique. Elle est cependant cruciale et de grande portée critique voire éthique (dans toute activité symbolique, le sujet est tout autant l'agent que l'enjeu). C/ Développements d'une linguistique néo-saussurienne Les débats du colloque témoigneront des développement d'une linguistique néo-saussurienne, notamment de grammaires et de sémantiques des valeurs, en présentant leurs méthodes, leurs résultats et leurs enjeux. Comité d'organisation : Jean-Marie Klinkenberg (ULg), Jean Giot (FUNDP), Sémir Badir (ULg/FNRS), Jacques Coursil (UAG/Cornell/Irvine), Simon Bouquet (Paris X - Nanterre), François Rastier (CNRS - INALCO) Comité scientifique : Jonathan Culler (Cornell), Marie-José Béguelin (Neuchâtel), Arild Utaker (Bergen), Hermann Parret (KUL/FWO), Laurence Meurant (FUNDP/FNRS), Jacques Coursil (UAG/Cornell/Irvine), Simon Bouquet (Paris X - Nanterre), François Rastier (CNRS - INALCO), Emmanuelle Danblon (ULB). Lieu : Université de Namur (Belgique). Date : Les 16 et 17 juin 2008 Communications. Les propositions (résumés détaillés de deux pages) seront soumis en format .doc ; et en outre en format .pdf si elles comportent des figures. On peut se référer à la feuille de style du site Texto ! : http://www.revue-texto.net (rubrique Espaces éditoriaux). Titres et résumés sont à adresser pour le 2 avril 2008 à Jacques Coursil jacques at coursil.com, à François Rastier lpe2 at ext.jussieu.fr, à Simon Bouquet bouquet at ext.jussieu.fr, à Jean Giot jean.giot at fundp..ac.be . Posters. À adresser aux mêmes pour le 2 avril 2008. Les communications, de 30 à 40 minutes, seront suivies d'un débat ; les posters seront présentés et discutés. L'évaluation des propositions sera close le 2 mai. Le programme sera diffusé immédiatement avec les bulletins d'inscription et les informations pratiques. Frais d'inscription : 40 euros Versement : FACULTES UNIVERSITAIRES NOTRE DAME DE LA PAIX Rue de Bruxelles 61 B-5000 NAMUR. (Belgique) Coordonnées bancaires : FORTIS BANQUE Agence de Namur Centre Rue Godefroid 6 B-5000 NAMUR. (Belgique) Numéro de compte bancaire : 250-0074027-04 Code Swift/BIC : GEBABEBB07A Code IBAN : BE10 2500 0740 2704 Code de la banque : 42 116.3 Nous vous remercions de préciser le motif précis de votre paiement : compte 92 22-colloque saussure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:57:12 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:57:12 +0100 Subject: Appel: Textgraphs-3: Graph-based methods for Natural Language Processing Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:42:32 -0700 From: TextGraphs08 Message-ID: <8b3a848a0803171642g49d5ce17u86fbaad26eaff179 at mail.gmail.com> X-url: http://lit.csci.unt.edu/~textgraphs/ws08/ This workshop is part of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008) Recent years have shown an increased interest in bringing the field of graph theory into natural language processing. Traditionally, these two areas of study have been perceived as distinct, with different algorithms, different applications, and different potential end-users. However, as recent research work has shown, these two disciplines are in fact intimately connected, with a large variety of natural language processing applications finding efficient solutions within graph-theoretical frameworks. In many NLP applications entities can be naturally represented as nodes in a graph and relations between them can be represented as edges. Recent research has shown that graph-based representations of linguistic units as diverse as words, sentences and documents give rise to novel and efficient solutions in a variety of NLP tasks, ranging from part of speech tagging, word sense disambiguation and parsing to information extraction, semantic role assignment, summarisation, sentiment analysis and up to the study of the evolutionary dynamics of language. The TextGraphs workshop addresses a broad spectrum of research areas and brings together researchers working on problems related to the use of graph-based algorithms for natural language processing as well as on the theory of graph-based methods. We are interested in looking at graph-based methods from the perspective of diverse applications to facilitate a discussion about the theory of graph-based methods and about the theoretical justification of the empirical results within the NLP community. Starting with TextGraphs-3 we would like to have one area of graph-based NLP research as the primary topic for discussion. This year's focus is on large scale lexical acquisition and representation. Efficient graph methods can help to alleviate the acquisition bottleneck for lexicon construction and resource building. They also provide smarter representation schemes for the lexicon that facilitate fast search and word retrieval. SIGLEX endorsed our workshop proposal for COLING-08. We invite submissions of papers on graph-based methods applied to NLP problems. Especially, we encourage submissions regarding *Large-scale lexical acquisition using graph representations *Graph-based representation schemes of the mental lexicon Other topics include, but are not limited to: *Graph representations for ontology learning *Graph labeling and edge labeling for semantic representations *Encoding semantic distances in graphs *Graph algorithms for word sense disambiguation *Graph methods for Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Text Mining and Understanding *Random walk graph methods *Spectral graph clustering *Small world graphs in natural language processing *Semi-supervised graph-based methods *Statistical network methods and analysis *Dynamic graph representations for NLP Organisation Committee Irina Matveeva, Accenture Technology Labs, matveeva AT cs.uchicago.edu Chris Biemann, Powerset, biem AT informatik.uni-leipzig.de Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research, monojit AT microsoft.com Mona Diab,Columbia University, mdiab AT cs.columbia.edu Program Committee Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country Edo Airoldi, Princeton University Regina Barzilay, MIT Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Montreal Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research Andrew Goldberg, University of Wisconsin Hany Hassan, IBM Egypt Samer Hassan, University of North Texas Gina Levow, University of Chicago Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan Uwe Quasthoff, University of Leipzig Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country Hans Friedrich Witschel, University of Leipzig Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Thorsten Zesch, University of Darmstadt Important Dates Regular paper submissions May 5, 2008 Short paper submissions May 19, 2008 Notification of acceptance June 6, 2008 Camera-ready papers July 1, 2008 Workshop August 24, 2008 Author Instructions Submissions will consist of regular full papers of max. 8 pages and short papers of max. 4 pages, formatted following the COLING 2008 formatting guidelines. Papers should be submitted using the online submission form. For any questions, please contact one of the organisers. Please, follow the instructions on the workshop website: http://lit.csci.unt.edu/~textgraphs/ws08/ -- Sincerely, Program Chairs TextGraphs 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From zifgirdwoodcop at GIRDWOOD.NET Tue Mar 18 22:18:29 2008 From: zifgirdwoodcop at GIRDWOOD.NET (Pierre Levine) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:18:29 +0100 Subject: Software Message-ID: In search for the better costs in discount software? 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Ruiz Miyares - Linguistica" Message-Id: <20080318114357.D9E314787E0 at mail.ciges.inf.cu> [To spread, please, thank you.] [Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once.] ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS SANTIAGO DE CUBA JANUARY 19-23, 2009 The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce the Eleventh International Symposium on Social Communication dedicated to the 60 anniversary of the large work in defense of the Spanish language of professors Eloina Miyares Bermudez and Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 19 through the 23, 2009. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore. The Symposium will be also sponsored by: .. University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. Provincial Branch of Ministry of Culture, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. Filial del Equipo de Servicios de Traductores e Interpretes de Santiago de Cuba .. University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands .. Semantic Technology Institute (STI), Innsbruck, Austria .. Basque Country University, Spain .. University of Valparaiso, Chile Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Linguistics: - Applied Linguistics - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Quantitative Linguistics - Morphology and Syntax - Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Sociolinguistics - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Terminology - Translations - Linguistics Rights - Linguistics Policy 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistics research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Electronic dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Related issues 3. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaryngology - Stomatology 4. Mass Media: - Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and electronic media articles 5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication Activities that will take place within the event are: - Pre-Symposium seminars - Discussion of papers in commissions - Keynote speechs - Round Tables - Books presentation - Cultural activities PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists. The seminars will take place Monday, January 19th, 2009. One of the courses will be: "Last trends and applications in Linguistics Engineering" Prof. Dr. Kepa Sarasola Basque Country University Basque Country, Spain The second course will be announce in March. Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 25.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. ROUND TABLE Two round tables will be held on the occasion of the 11th International Symposium on Social Communication. KEYNOTE SPEECHES During the symposium several keynote speeches will be delivered by: Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands Prof. Dra. Gloria Corpas University of Malaga Spain Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Austria Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton, United Kingdom PAPER PRESENTATIONS The deadline of submission of papers is July 1st, 2008. The papers should not exceed 5 pages. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 31th, 2008. PAPERS To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium's documentation -as we did in the 5th ('97), 6th ('99), 7th ('01), 8th ('03), 9th ('05) and 10th ('07) Symposiums-, accepted papers must be sent before August 31, 2008 if the Scientific Committee had done some observations. Requirements for papers: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium's Executive Secretary either via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing a 3½-inch diskette. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event's official languages: Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. 5. The pages of the text should be unnumered. Instructions for paper submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the authors' names should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address if available. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, Italics, 10 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9 points size and leaving one space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes. Authors must advise in advance if they will need a tape recorder, video set, computer or other kind of equipment for presentation. All mail or inquiries should be addressed to: Eloina Miyares Bermudez Secretaria Ejecutiva del Comite Organizador XI Simposio Internacional Comunicacion Social Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400 Telephones: 53-22-642760, 53-22-643507 E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 200.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos) Companions 100.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos) Payment must be in cash during registration and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event, speaker's certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities. Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the Proceedings. ACCOMODATION The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event. IMPORTANT REMINDERS - Papers submission deadline: July 1st, 2008 - Notification on paper's approval by Scientific Committee: by July 31, 2008 - Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail using 3½-inch diskette: August 31, 2008 - Pre-Symposium seminars: January 19, 2009 - 11th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 20 through 23, 2009 OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 kms from Havana, is Cuba's second largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the city's beauty and charm. SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Pedro Beaton Soler Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Santiago de Cuba Cuba Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary 11th International Symposium on Social Communication Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez Emeritus Academic Academy of Science of Cuba Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics President of the Organizing Committee 11th International Symposium on Social Communication Santiago de Cuba Cuba Nancy Cristina Alamo Suarez Researcher Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Celia Maria Perez Marques Researcher Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Celia Esther Alvarez Moreno Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Zaida Valdes Rector University of Oriente Ministry of Higher Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Ena Elsa Velazquez Cobiella Rector Pedagogical University "Frank Pais" Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher Twente University Enschede, Holland Iñaki Alegría Loinaz Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Xabier Artola Zubillaga Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Xabier Arregi Iparragirre Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Gloria Corpas Pastor Professor and Researcher University of Malaga Malaga, Spain Mercedes Cathcart Roca Professor and Researcher Faculty of Humanities University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Martha Cordies Jackson Director and Researcher African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Ercilia Estrada Estrada Scientific Council Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Yamile Haber Guerra Professor and Researcher University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Lucia Marconi Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Paola Cutugno Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Daniela Ratti Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy ***** ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION REGISTRATION FORM Mr./Ms. ___________________________ Organization: ________________________ Title: _________________________________________ Business address: __________________________________ City: ______________ Telefax: ____________ Phone: _______________ E-Mail:____________________ Home address: _________________________ City: ___________ Telephone: __________ Paper title: __________________________ Date: ________________ Signature: ___________ ///////////////////////////////////////////// Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Calle 9 Nr. 253 entre 10 y 12 Reparto Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba. CUBA. C.P. 90400 Telefonos: 53-22-643507, 53-22-646418, 53-22-642760 Correo electronico: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:44:38 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:44:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: Numero special "Web 2.0" de Documents numerique Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:49:56 +0100 From: Jean-Marie Pinon Message-ID: <47E000C4.2010506 at insa-lyon.fr> X-url: http://www.revuesonline.com/ X-url: http://www.revuesonline.com/ X-url: http://dn.revuesonline.com Appel � publication pour un num�ro sp�cial de la revue Document Num�rique sur le th�me de �Les documents et le web 2.0� Date limite de soumission : 30 juin 2008 Th�matique Le web 2.0 accompagn� des technologies de l�interop�rabilit� a rendu la toile plus accessible et acc�l�r� le d�veloppement de nouvelles applications riches tant par la nature des m�dia que par les fonctionnalit�s. Le document num�rique est enrichi � la lumi�re des avanc�es technologiques, et peut �tre compos� � partir de contenus distribu�s sur la toile. Les dimensions multilingues, multim�dia et ontologiques peuvent plus facilement �tre appr�hend�es � travers les mod�les et les architectures en vue de construire de nouvelles biblioth�ques digitales. La mise � disposition de l�utilisateur de nouvelles possibilit�s pour construire et acc�der � des contenus num�riques r�partis contribue � construire de nouveaux syst�mes dont le but est entre autres de favoriser l�acquisition de connaissances par un plus grand nombre de citoyens. Le web 2.0 va tr�s probablement faire �merger de nouveaux usages. D�j�, on constate que les blogs et les wiki par exemple occupent les cyber-espaces et sont per�us comme de nouvelles possibilit�s offertes pour am�liorer lÕŽchange collaboratif entre internautes.. Toutefois, si les potentialit�s du web 2.0 semblent ouvrir une nouvelle �re, nous n�en sommes qu�aux balbutiements et certainement � un stade � artisanal �. On est en droit de penser qu�une �volution plus structur�e va permettre de professionnaliser les usages et l�accessibilit�. Dans ce contexte, les contenus, au c�ur des ressources du web, n�cessitent de nouveaux outils pour prendre en compte les nouvelles technologies du web. Ces outils doivent �tre envisag�s aussi bien sur le plan th�orique en revisitant les mod�les actuels de la recherche d�information, de l�indexation et de l�acc�s aux contenus, que sur le plan technique en proposant de nouvelles architectures et de nouvelles fonctionnalit�s qui tireraient profit des technologies telles que les services web, Ajax, les techniques de balisage collaboratif, les techniques de syndication pour ne citer que celles-ci. Le web 2.0 doit �galement modifier en profondeur les usages car la participation � la production des contenus se fait de fa�on collaborative et n�cessite alors de nouveaux outils qui apportent une valeur ajout�e dans la chaine de production de contenus : cr�ation, gestion, acc�s, visualisation. Objectif NOTRE OBJECTIF dans ce num�ro sp�cial sera de faire le point sur les recherches relatives � la gestion, l�acc�s et la composition de contenus quelque soit leurs types dans un environnement web et plus particuli�rement en prenant en compte les sp�cificit�s du web 2.0. Les articles propos�s porteront sur les th�mes (liste non exhaustive) : * Technologies du web 2.0 et acc�s aux contenus * Services web et documents * Gestion de contenus * Outils de gestion et d�acc�s aux contenus * Visualisation de contenus * Interrogation et recherche de contenus sur le web * �. Comit� de r�daction du num�ro � Rachid Ahmed-Ouamer Universit� de Tizi-Ouzou � Youssef Amghar INSA de Lyon � Nadir Belkhiter Universit� Laval � Djamal Benslimane Universit� Claude Bernard de Lyon � Omar El Beqqali Universit� de F�s � Emmanuel Bruno Universit� du Var Toulon � Gilles Falquet Universit� de Gen�ve � Th�r�se Libourel Universit� de Montpellier II � Elisabeth Murisasco Universit� du Var Toulon � Fabrice Papy Universit� Paris VIII � Philippe Thiran Universit� de Namur � Agn�s Saunier INA, Bry sur Marne � Florence S�des IRIT Universit� Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 3 Calendrier � date limite remise contributions : 31/06/2008 � r�ponse aux auteurs : 15/11/2008 � parution du num�ro sp�cial : d�cembre 2008 LÕŽditeur et la revue *www.revuesonline.com * Recommandations aux auteurs � Les soumissions sont � envoyer � xxx (coordonn�es ci-dessous) et devront respecter la feuille de style de la revue disponible sur le serveur www.revuesonline.com ou http://dn.revuesonline.com (ou sur demande � l�assistante dÕŽdition en charge de la revue ; email : revues at lavoisier.fr) � Les articles ne devront pas d�passer x pages. Ils sont accept�s en fran�ais (ou en anglais pour les auteurs non francophones). � les soumissions peuvent �tre envoy�es sous forme de fichiers PDF (de pr�f�rence), word ou papier. � les versions finales sont accept�es au format word ou PDF. Dans ce dernier cas, les corrections ortho-typographiques seront faites par les auteurs � la demande de lÕŽditeur. Contact Youssef Amghar LIRIS-INSA de Lyon 7, avenue Jean Capelle 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex T�l : 04 72 43 88 92 E-mail : youssef.amghar at insa-lyon.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:45:31 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:45:31 +0100 Subject: Revue: CORELA, date-limite de soumission Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:42:54 +0100 From: Gilles Col Message-Id: X-url: http://www.revue-corela.org X-url: http://revue-corela.org Chers collègues La date-limite de soumission d'articles pour le numéro 6/2 (vol. 6, num. 2) de la revue CORELA - Cognition, Représentation, Langages (http://www.revue-corela.org) est fixée au 1er septembre 2008. Ce numéro sera publié en décembre 2008. Les propositions sont à envoyer à Gilles Col : col at ext.univ-poitiers.fr Bien cordialement Gilles Col Directeur de publication -- Gilles Col, Université François-Rabelais (Tours) et FORELL (Poitiers) Dir. Revue CORELA - Cognition, Représentation, Langages http://revue-corela.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:46:05 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:46:05 +0100 Subject: Appel: Revue TAL, Compte-rendu d'ouvrage (CHU) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:41:59 +0100 From: Denis MAUREL Message-Id: <20080319085017.6FD683C780F4 at rabelais.univ-tours.fr> X-url: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr X-url: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/ La revue TAL publie regulierement des comptes-rendus d'ouvrage. Nous recherchons un collegue souhaitant lire le livre: "Xiaoquan CHU, Les verbes modaux du français, Éditions OPHRYS, 2008, 168 pages" et pret a en faire un compte-rendu pour la revue TAL (cet ouvrage sera envoye gracieusement en echange du service rendu). Ce compte-rendu doit etre redige en francais (trois pages maximum, au format de la revue) et envoye en mai 2008. D'autres comptes rendus sont possibles si vous avez lu recemment un ouvrage qui vous a interesse et si vous etes pret a partager votre lecture avec la communaute... Denis Maurel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:47:57 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:47:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: KR2008 - Updated Call for Papers Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:14:45 +0200 From: Tommie Meyer Message-Id: X-url: http://infoserv.inist.fr/wws/arc/diglib X-url: http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ X-url: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html X-url: http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage ``reports from the field" of building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only) http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2 additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted paper 11 pages in AAAI style will be allocated in the proceedings. Topics of interest include: - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics - Graphical representations for belief and preference - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics, - Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion - Description logics, Ontologies - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning about preference - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer Important Dates: Submission of title and abstract: April 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: June 16, 2008 KR-2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:48:37 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:48:37 +0100 Subject: Job: Poste PR - Universite Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:29:58 +0100 From: François Trouilleux Message-ID: <47E22E96.6010302 at lrl.univ-bpclermont.fr> Merci de diffuser le message suivant. POSTE PR - Université Blaise-Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand) Un poste de professeur profil "LINGUISTIQUE ET INFORMATIQUE" (n° 0437) est ouvert à l'université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont II. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Profil Enseignement Filières de formation concernées : Le candidat recruté sera amené à dispenser des enseignements à tous les niveaux de la formation en sciences du langage (Licence, Master et Doctorat). Objectifs pédagogiques et besoin d'encadrement : Former les étudiants à la linguistique théorique et à ses applications pratiques tout particulièrement dans les domaines articulant la linguistique et l'informatique (linguistique computationnelle, traitement automatique du langage, environnements informatiques d'aide à l'apprentissage, ...). Encadrement de mémoires dans les Masters 1 et 2 de sciences du langage et de thèses de Doctorat. Contact: FOUCHER Anne-Laure foucher [a] lrl.univ-bpclermont.fr 04 73 34 65 62 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Profil Recherche Il est attendu du candidat qu'il s'intègre à une ou plusieurs des orientations de recherches du Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage (LRL) et encadre des doctorants. Laboratoire d'accueil Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage (EA999) L.R.L. Contact: POTHIER Maguy pothier [a] lrl.univ-bpclermont.fr 04 73 34 65 61 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:49:38 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:49:38 +0100 Subject: Job: Poste de MCF en informatique, Nancy Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:31 +0100 From: Guy Perrier Message-ID: <47E2874F.2050303 at loria.fr> X-url: http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/francais/news/docpostes/20082009/EnseCherch/ProfMCF/27MCF0454.pdf Un emploi de maître de conférences en 27ième section est offert au concours à l'université Nancy 2 à l'UFR Mathématiques et Informatique (poste MCF 0454). Ce poste est officiellement rattaché à l'INPL car c'est un poste de Nancy Université, le consortium des 3 universités de Nancy mais l'enseignement s'effectuera à l'UFR Mathématiques et Informatique de Nancy 2. Vous trouverez la fiche de profil enseignement et recherche à l'URL suivante : http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/francais/news/docpostes/20082009/EnseCherch/ProfMCF/27MCF0454.pdf Comme vous le constaterez en lisant la fiche, le TAL est un domaine intéressant le poste tant en enseignement qu'en recherche. Pour en savoir plus, vous pouvez contacter Guy Perrier (Guy.Perrier at loria.fr). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:51:18 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:51:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: GoTAL - deadline 4 April 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:21:42 +0100 From: Guy Perrier Message-ID: <47E36206.4000607 at loria.fr> X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gotall2008 X-url: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 GoTAL - 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing Final Call for Papers: deadline 4 April 2008 Gothenburg, Sweden 25-27 August 2008 www.cse.chalmers.se/gotal The GoTAL conference will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 25-27 August, 2008. The conference is hosted by Chalmers University of Technology jointly with Gothenburg University, as part of the activities of the Centre for Language Technology (CLT). GoTAL is the sixth in the series of the TAL conferences, following FracTAL (Besançon, France, 1997), VexTAL (Venice, Italy, 1999), PorTAL (Faro, Algarve, Portugal, 2002), EsTAL (Alicante, Spain, 2004), and FinTAL (Turku, Finland 2006). The main purpose of the TAL conference series is to bring together scientists representing linguistics, computer science and related fields, sharing a common interest in the advancement of computational linguistics and natural language processing. SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language and speech processing, including, but not limited to: - Pragmatics, Discourse, Semantics, Syntax, and the Lexicon - Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology - Speech Recognition - Speech Synthesis - Natural Language Generation - Ontologies, Semantic Networks, and Lexical Resources - Corpus Linguistics - Linguistic, Mathematical, and Psychological Models of Language - Anaphora Resolution - Word Sense Disambiguation - Corpus-based Language Modeling - Machine Translation and Translation Aids - Text and Speech Interfaces - Dialogue systems - Language Learning and Therapy - Simulation and Visualization - Knowledge Acquisition and Representation - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval - Question Answering - Text Summarization - Text and Speech Classification - Systems Evaluation PAPER SUBMISSION We welcome submissions both from academia and the industry on any topic that is of interest to the NLP community, particularly encouraging research emphasizing multidisciplinary aspects of NLP and the interplay between linguistics, computer science and application domains such as biomedicine, communication systems, public services, and educational technology. Submitted papers should describe original work, emphasizing completed or well advanced, rather than intended, research. The state of completion of the reported work must be clearly indicated. Where appropriate, results should be rigorously evaluated; the assessment of statistical significance for quantitative results is encouraged. Submissions should contain original material that has not been previously presented to the scientific community. A parallel submission to other publication fora as well as a significant overlap in contents with previously published work should be clearly indicated to the program committee. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. The submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, technical quality, and presentation. Papers can be submitted in two categories: - full papers , describing substantial research with well-evaluated results - short papers , typically describing ongoing research and preliminary results All accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference proceedings. At the conference, full papers will be presented as a talk and short papers will be presented as a poster. Submissions are made using EasyChair: Go to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gotall2008 and follow the instructions. The submissions should be sent anonymous, in PDF format. (final version format to be specified later). For the final version, authors should follow the LNCS instructions: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 The maximum length is 12pp for full papers and 5pp for short papers. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers of both categories will be published in the Conference Proceedings, in the LNCS/LNAI series of Springer. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS There will be three keynote speakers: - Johan Bos, University of Rome La Sapienza - Lori Lamel, LIMSI Paris - Joakim Nivre, Växjö University and Uppsala University PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair - Aarne Ranta, Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden Members - Olli Aaltonen, University of Helsinki, Finland - Walid El Abed, Nestle Corp., Switzerland - Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Germany - Jorge Baptista, University of Algarve, Portugal - Patricio Martinez Barco, University of Alicante, Spain - Tilman Becker, DFKI, Germany - Chris Biemann, Powerset, USA - Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine - Lars Borin, Gothenburg University, Sweden - Johan Bos, La Sapienza, Italy - Johan Boye, SpeechAct, Sweden - Caroline Brun, Xerox Corp., France - Sylviane Cardey, University of Franche-Comté, France - Rolf Carlson, KTH, Sweden - Lauri Carlson, University of Helsinki, Finland - Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway University of London, UK - Robin Cooper, Gothenburg University, Sweden - Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Rodolfo Delmonte, University of Venice, Italy - Elisabet Engdahl, Gothenburg University, Sweden - Jan van Eijck, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Filip Ginter, University of Turku, Finland - Peter Greenfield, University of Franche-Comté, France - Philippe de Groote, INRIA Lorraine, France - Øystein Haug Olsen, Fast, Norway - Viggo Kann, KTH, Sweden - Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland - Hans Leiss, LMU Munich, Germany - Oliver Lemon, University of Edinburgh, UK - José Luis Vicedo, University of Alicante, Spain - Adeline Nazarenko, University Paris-Nord, France - Joakim Nivre, Växjö University and Uppsala University, Sweden - Bengt Nordström, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Pierre Nugues, University of Lund, Sweden - Guy Perrier, INRIA Lorraine, France - Elisabete Ranchhod, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Manny Rayner, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Tapio Salakoski, University of Turku, Finland - Karl-Michael Schneider, Textkernel, The Netherlands - Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University, Australia - Laurent Spaggiari, Airbus, France - Izabella Thomas, Université de Franche-Comté, France - Simo Vihjanen, Lingsoft Ltd., Finland - Annie Zaenen, Palo Alto Research Center, USA IMPORTANT DATES - 4 April: submission deadline - 16 May: notification of acceptance - 1 June: early registration deadline - 25-27 August: conference LOCATION AND CONFERENCE FEES The conference will be held at the campus of Chalmers University of Technology. The fees, in the range of 300-400 EUR (senior participant, early registration until 1 June; reduced fees for students), will be announced later. They will cover the conference lectures, a copy of proceedings, lunches, coffee, two dinners, and an excursion to the Gothenburg archipelago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:52:41 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:52:41 +0100 Subject: Appel: 8th Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-08) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:46:58 +0100 From: A.Nijholt at ewi.utwente.nl Message-ID: X-url: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iva2008/ Third Call for Papers The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-08) NEWS: Authors of the best IVA-08 papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a special issue of the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems on Intelligent Virtual Agents. September 1-3, 2008 Tokyo, Japan http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iva2008/ Conference Chairs: Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA Mitsuru Ishizuka, The University of Tokyo, Japan IVA-08 is the major annual meeting of the intelligent virtual agents community, attracting interdisciplinary minded researchers and practitioners from embodied cognitive modeling, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, animation, virtual worlds, games, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. IVA topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multimodal interaction with intelligent virtual agents - Affective interaction and emotion models - Models of personality and culture - Conversational and non-verbal behavior - Architectures for virtual agents and robotic agents - Embodied cognitive modeling - Authoring tools for building intelligent virtual agents - Markup and representation languages - Agents and avatars in metaverse, virtual worlds, narrative, and games - Advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies - Applications and user studies The proceedings will appear in the Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series of Springer. We are inviting submissions of long and short papers, and posters. Authors of the best IVA-08 papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a special issue of the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Key Dates: Friday, April 11, 2008: Electronic submissions due Friday, May 16, 2008: Author notification Tuesday, June 10, 2008: Camera ready Senior Programme Committee: Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California, USA Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK Catherine Pelachaud, University of Paris 8, INRIA, France Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Best Paper Chair: W. Lewis Johnson, Alelo, Inc., USA Anton Nijholt University of Twente Publicity Chair of IVA-08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 25 11:10:22 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:10:22 +0100 Subject: Job: Poste PR 27eme section TAL, Universite d'Orleans Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:47:28 +0100 From: Denys Duchier Message-ID: <87prtokorj.fsf at univ-orleans.fr> X-url: http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/profils/Pub_27PR_Orleans.pdf un poste PR en 27ème section à été publié à l'université d'Orléans. le poste est non fléché, mais une coloration TAL serait bien venue. http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/profils/Pub_27PR_Orleans.pdf Amicalement, --Denys ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 25 11:11:53 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:11:53 +0100 Subject: Cursus: European Master in Computational Logic - scholarships for European students Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:42:40 +0100 From: Enrico Franconi Message-Id: <687B0397-1429-4064-858D-2BC110DD5ED9 at inf.unibz.it> X-url: http://www.computational-logic.eu *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.computational-logic.eu The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer (Laurea Specialistica). The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is an international distributed Master of Science course, in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities: * Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria * Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain This program, completely in English, involves studying one year at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and completing the second year with a stay in one of the partner universities. After this, the student will obtain, together with the European degree, two Master of Science degrees: the Laurea Specialistica degree from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, with legal value in Italy, and the respective Master of Science degree from the visited university, with legal value in its country. APPLICATION DEADLINES: - *** 31 May 2008 *** deadline for European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 June 2008) - 22 August 2008: last deadline only for European students starting at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (notification of acceptance: 5 September 2008) SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: European citizens can apply to scholarships which are granted purely on the basis of the yearly income of the applicant and of her/his parents or husband/wife. Scholarships may amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, plus support on the accommodation and total reimbursement of the enrolment fees. These scholarships are also available to non-European citizens with residence in Italy. European students will also get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study abroad, which is 330 EUR per month. NEW! Every year 10 students with European citizenship can visit Australia (Canberra, Sidney, Melbourne or Brisbane) up to 3 months to work on a research project, sponsored by the European Master. The study period in Australia is part of the study programme and it is fully recognised by the European Master's Program in Computational Logic. The guaranteed scholarship is of 3,100 EUR and it covers the travel and living expenses in Australia. The KRDB Research Centre offers the annual "IBM & KRDB" awards for the best thesis on a Computational Logic related topic, which is generously sponsored by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies; each winner will receive 500 EUR from IBM. In addition to that, the Italian site in Rome of the IBM Center for Advanced Studies supports scholarships of up to 2,400 EUR to work on a research project or on the thesis at their labs in Rome. Check the web page for detailed info on other available scholarships: http://www.computational-logic.eu THE STUDY PROGRAMME: The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, syntax directed semantics, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea triennale) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is part of the Master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica in Informatica) and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * Other specialisations with streams in the hottest Computer Science areas, such as Web Technologies, Information and Knowledge Management, Databases and Software Engineering. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is sponsored scientifically by the European Network of Excellence on Computational Logic (CoLogNET), the European Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA, member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications (AILA), and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multilingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and laboratory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportunities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium-sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen-Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen-Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen-Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. Bozen-Bolzano and its surroundings are an El Dorado for sports lovers: jogging on the grass alongside the River Talfer-Talvera, walks to Jenesien-S.Genesio and on the nearby Schlern-Sciliar plateau, excursions and mountain climbing in the Dolomites, swimming in the numerous nearby lakes and, last but not least, skiing and snowboarding in the surrounding ski areas. 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:10:25 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:10:25 +0100 Subject: Appel: KR 2008 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:55:22 +0200 From: Tommie Meyer Message-Id: X-url: http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ X-url: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html X-url: http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage ``reports from the field" of building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only) http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2 additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted paper 11 pages in AAAI style will be allocated in the proceedings. Topics of interest include: - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics - Graphical representations for belief and preference - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics, Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion - Description logics, Ontologies - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning about preference - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer Important Dates: Submission of title and abstract: April 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: June 16, 2008 KR-2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:08:32 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:08:32 +0100 Subject: Appel: Congres mondial sur la traduction specialisee, La Havane, Cuba Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:04:35 +0100 From: Adriana Lau Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.2.20080327120407.0214d810 at mail.unilat.org> X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/cmte2008/fr/convocatoria.htm X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/public/difusion/PDFs/FR/format%20A4/CMTE2008_triptique_FR.pdf X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/cmte2008/ X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/ Congrès mondial sur la traduction spécialisée La Havane, Cuba Du 8 au 13 décembre 2008 Dans le cadre de l'Année internationale des langues, le Réseau MAAYA et l'Union latine organisent, avec l'appui de l'Équipe de services de traducteurs et d'interprètes (ESTI), de l'Association cubaine des traducteurs et interprètes (ACTI) et du Conseil des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes du Canada (CTTIC), le Congrès mondial sur la traduction spécialisée. Le Congrès, qui aura lieu du 8 au 13 décembre 2008, cherche à souligner l'importance du travail du traducteur spécialisé, garant du multilinguisme et rempart contre toute intention de promotion d'un dialogue hégémonique unilingue. Réception de communications jusqu'au 15 mai: http://dtil.unilat.org/cmte2008/fr/convocatoria.htm Plus d'informations: http://dtil.unilat.org/public/difusion/PDFs/FR/format%20A4/CMTE2008_triptique_FR.pdf http://dtil.unilat.org/cmte2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:06:43 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:06:43 +0100 Subject: Seminaire: Etude de l'adjectif thai, 07/04/2008, Marne-la-Vallee Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:34:38 +0100 From: Elsa Tolone Message-ID: <1206610478.47eb6a2ee6a14 at www-igm.univ-mlv.fr> X-url: http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr Prochain séminaire interne de linguistique : Lundi 07/04/2008 à 10h30 Par: Wankawee PUANGKOR, Université Paris-Est Titre : Étude de l'adjectif thaï Résumé : On propose une étude de l'adjectif en français et en thaï. La première appartenant à la famille indo-européenne et la seconde à la famille taï-kadaï. L'adjectif thaï, traditionnellement classé avec l'adverbe dans la catégorie de « qualificatif » ou dans Unitex. On présente également la construction des adjectifs thaïs à la base verbale, nominale et adjectivale. En thaï, langue sans dérivation affixale, un grand nombre de mots sont composés, soit à l'aide de mots supports, soit par la juxtaposition de deux ou plusieurs mots, soit par plusieurs types de répétition : redoublement, réduplication et série adjectivale. En même temps, on fait une étude sur l'étiquetage des mots qui peuvent être, grammaticalement, un adjectif. Certains adjectifs ne peuvent pas être étiquetés comme . On peut dire que l'adjectif mérite d'être reconnu et classé à part, car outre ses traits sémantiques qui ne peuvent pourtant être négligés, son comportement syntaxique n'est pas toujours celui du nom, du verbe, ou de l'adverbe, malgré leur proximité dans certains cas. Même si l'adjectif thaï est très proche du verbe, il l'est aussi de l'adverbe, et dans certains cas du nom. Lieu : Université Paris-Est, bâtiment Copernic 4ème étage, salle de séminaire URL : http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr Elsa Tolone ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:14:20 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:14:20 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Constraints in Discourse 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:05:53 +0100 From: Peter Kuehnlein Message-ID: <47ECED31.1050405 at rug.nl> X-url: http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org/cid08 X-url: http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net Apologies for cross posting Workshop on Constraints in Discourse http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org/cid08 This is the third in a series of workshops entitled "Constraints in Discourse". It is a linguistic commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its sentences. But what exactly are the rules that govern its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? For a long time, the development of precise frameworks of discourse interpretation has been hampered by the lack of a deeper understanding of the dependencies between different discourse units. Recent years have seen a considerable advance in this field. A number of strong constraints have been proposed that restrict the sequencing and attaching of segments at various descriptive levels, as well as the interpretation of their interrelations. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting recent research on constraints in discourse. The target areas include the recognition of discourse structure as well as the interpretation and generation of discourse in a broad variety of domains. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from diverse formal approaches, including but not limited to: - Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) - Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) - Tree Adjoining Grammars - Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) - The QUD Modell - Plan Based Reasoning - Abductive Reasoning - Gricean Pragmatics - Speech Act Theory We invite talks that further our theoretical understanding of the role of constraints in discourse, as well as empirical studies that shed light on their empirical validity. The conference is explicitly intended for discussion and comparison of theoretical accounts that lay the ground for applications. It is not intended as a platform for system demonstrations. Specific topics might relate to - Anaphora Resolution - Co-reference - Dialogical vs. Monological Discourse - Questions and Answers - Lexicon and Discourse Relations - Cognitive Modeling - Underspecification and Nonmonotonic Inferences etc. The organisers are planning to publish a book based on the contributions to this workshop. Publication (and workshop) language is English. The workshop is endorsed by ACL's SIGDial, SIGGen and SIGSem. Invited Speakers ================ Laurence Danlos, Universite Paris 7 Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University Paul Piwek, Open University Bonnie Webber, U Edinburgh, UK Paper Submission ================ Researchers interested in contributing a paper to the workshop are invited to submit an abstract that spans not more than 3 pages in PDF or PS (single column, 10pt font size, a4 paper, including a bibliography) using the form at the workshop website (http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org/cid08). Reviews will be done blindly; the abstracts may accordingly not include explicit hints that allow the identification of the authors (such as "in paper (...) we show that"). Important Dates =============== Conf: July 30th-August, 1st, 2008 Deadline for Submissions: April 25th, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 17th, 2008 Final Abstracts due: July 12th, 2008 Program Committee ================= Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Laurence Danlos, Universite Paris 7, France Markus Egg, RU Groningen, Netherlands Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA Peter Kuehnlein, RU Groningen, Netherlands Paul Piwek, Open Univerity, UK Gisela Redeker, RU Groningen, Netherlands David Schlangen, U Potsdam, Germany Manfred Stede, U Potsdam, Germany Bonnie Webber, U Edinburgh, UK Organisation ============ Organisation Committee: Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Markus Egg, RU Groningen, Netherlands Peter Kuehnlein, RU Groningen, Netherlands Gisela Redeker, RU Groningen, Netherlands Manfred Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany Local Organisation: Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Manfred Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:12:24 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:12:24 +0100 Subject: Appel: RANLP-2009 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:07:49 +0200 (EET) From: galja at lml.bas.bg Message-ID: <4973.195.96.224.62.1206706069.squirrel at lml.bas.bg> X-url: http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009 Apologies for multiple postings PRELIMINARY ANNONCEMENT: RANLP-09 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Borovets, Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009 Pre-RANLP-09 tutorials: September 12-13, 2009 (Saturday -Sunday) International Conference RANLP-09: September 14-16, 2009 (Monday -Wednesday) Post-conference Workshops: September 17-18, 2009 (Thursday-Friday) RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the best-established and competitive European NLP conferences. It is held biennially in Bulgaria and grew out from the international summer schools "Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics" organised for many years in Bulgaria as international training events. The RANLP conferences in 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 had invited talks by leading names in NLP and accepted papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by an international Programme Committee of well-known experts. Most of the RANLP conferences published a volume with Selected papers in the John Benjamins series "Current trends of linguistic research". The conferences also featured tutorials on hot NLP topics delivered by leading researchers. RANLP 2007 was accompanied by nine international workshops. Submission deadline: End of April/beginning of May 2009 (the conference web site will have updated information) RANLP-09 will be held in the picturesque resort of Borovets. Located in the Rila mountains, it is one of the best known ski and tourist resorts in South-East Europe. Hotel Samokov, the conference venue, offers excellent study and leisure facilities. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-09 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair of the OC) Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (Chair of the PC) Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria Inc, USA (Editor of volume with selected papers) Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop coordinator) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:17:44 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:17:44 +0100 Subject: Seminaire: CLI, Evaluation de l'analyse syntaxique, A. Abeille / P. Paroubek, 7 avril 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:04:38 +0100 From: Thierry.Poibeau at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Message-ID: <20080328140438.nc20l8leq7swskog at intranet.lipn.univ-paris13.fr> X-url: http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/RCLN/Seminaire/ Les après-midi "Connaissances, Langue et Informatique" (Knowledge, language and computer science) Séminaires en duo entre Anne Abeillé (LLF) et Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI) sur "L'évaluation de l'analyse syntaxique : corpus, annotations et retours d'expérience" au Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (Institut Galilée, Université Paris 13) http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/RCLN/Seminaire/ Date : le lundi 7 avril 2008 Thème : L'évaluation de l'analyse syntaxique : corpus, annotations et retours d'expérience Horaire : 14h - 17h Amphi COPERNIC, LIPN, Institut Galilée Campus de Villetaneuse Accès : voir l'adresse http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/RCLN/Seminaire/ *** Les exposés *** Anne Abeillé (LLF, U. Paris 7) Le corpus arboré du français de Paris 7 Présentation du treebank du français élaboré à partir d'un choix d'articles du journal le Monde, des choix d'annotation et de certaines expériences d'extraction en cours en collaboration avec Ania Kupsc. Page web du Treebank de Paris 7 Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI) Evaluation de l'analyse syntaxique automatique Nous assistons dans le domaine du traitement automatique des langues à un retour du paradigme d'évaluation et l'analyse syntaxique automatique n'échappe pas au phénomène. Dans cette présentation, nous aborderons les différents aspects liés à la mise en place du paradigme d'évaluation dans ce domaine: * principes généraux du paradigme, * les méthodes comparatives quantitatives objectives de type boîte noire * la sélection des corpus * le formalisme pivot * définission de l'étalon (gold standard) * annoter les données de référence * le mot, la phrase et l'alignement des données * les mesures de performance * plateforme d'évaluation et service web * combiner pour améliorer * dynamique d'une campagne d'évaluation * l'évaluation comme pont entre les domaines, le cas de l'oral et de l'écrit. * évaluation de l'évaluation Contact : Thierry Poibeau (LIPN) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 16:50:41 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:50:41 +0100 Subject: Appel: BioNLP, special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:06:53 -0600 From: "Kevin B. Cohen" Message-ID: <952b23690803280906h1d2282dande3ce359a87fac62 at mail.gmail.com> X-url: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin X-url: http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi/ X-url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464 Call for Papers Special Issue on Biomedical Natural Language Processing: Journal of Biomedical Informatics Guest Editors: Wendy W. Chapman, PhD K. Bretonnel Cohen Submission deadline: May 27, 2008 ********************************************************************** BioNLP is biomedical natural language processing, or the application of natural language processing and text mining to the biomedical, clinical, and genomic domains. The goal of this special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) is to publish papers describing novel work at the forefront of the new challenges and possibilities that face the BioNLP community today. The last decade saw rapid growth in the area of BioNLP. This body of work has resulted in quantitative and qualitative differences in both the types of tasks we can undertake and the levels of performance on those tasks. There has been a recent resurgence of work in foundational, lower-level linguistic analysis tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, and semantic role labeling. There has also been a new emphasis on higher-level application-oriented work such as automated ICD9-CM code assignment, use of NLP in clinical decision support, and management of the rapid growth in the primary biomedical literature. These recent advances in foundational technologies and in application types and domains have created the possibility of a new era in biomedical text mining. The special issue is intended to help define and provide insights into that future. We solicit papers on new methodologies applied to text from biomedical, clinical, or genomic domains. In addition to original research papers, as is JBI's custom, we are soliciting one or more methodological review papers on BioNLP methodologies. Possible topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following subjects as applied to biomedical text: * Morphological processing * Part-of-speech tagging * Syntactic parsing * Tokenization * Coordination and conjunction processing * Negation and uncertainty identification * Word sense disambiguation * Reference resolution * Temporal modeling from text * Information retrieval * Information extraction and encoding * Text classification * Text summarization * Question-answering * Development and evaluation of annotation schemas * Corpus and test set generation and evaluation * Software testing and engineering for natural language processing applications In accordance with JBI's editorial policies, we are soliciting full-length article submissions that present and evaluate new methods rather than the application or evaluation of existing approaches (see editorial guidelines at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin). Any questions regarding the special issue may be sent to the guest editors at jbi-nlp at list.pitt.edu. We welcome advance notice of your intention to submit a paper. Inquiries about suitability should include the subject line "suitability inquiry" and a short paragraph describing the primary objective of the manuscript, emphasizing how the objective matches the JBI editorial guidelines cited above. Submissions: Manuscripts should be submitted to the JBI authors' gateway (http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi/) no later than May 27, 2008. Please be sure that your manuscript follows the JBI instructions for authors available on that web site. You will be offered an opportunity to specify the special issue ("Biomedical NLP") as the preferred venue when you submit your manuscript to the gateway. All appropriate submissions will be reviewed by at least two evaluators in addition to the editors. Papers returned for revisions should generally be revised and resubmitted within four weeks. Accepted manuscripts are immediately made available on the JBI web site in Science Direct (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464) and indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE. Thus they will become widely accessible even before the print version of the special issue is published. Papers judged inappropriate for the special issue may be referred to the JBI editor-in-chief to be considered for publication in a regular issue of the journal. ------------------------------------------------------------- K. B. 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 1 10:46:21 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:46:21 +0100 Subject: Appel: Ontolex'08, Deadline Extended To 1st March Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:12:07 +0100 From: Laurent PREVOT Message-ID: X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ ****************************************************** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS * ****************************************************** LAST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 1st March OntoLex 2008 - The role of ontolex resources in building the infrastructure of Web 3.0: vision and practice In Association with LREC2008 - 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION Palais des Congr?s Mansour Eddahbi Marrakech (Morocco) 31 May 2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ The integration of ontologies and lexical resources can be seen as a new route across which hybrid agents negotiate contents and exchange linguistic and ontological aspects of knowledge in shared environments. In this workshop we aim at investigating the role of ontolex resources across developing ideas and practice of Web 3.0, the connection of Web 2.0 (the ?social web?) with the Semantic Web infrastructure of ontology-based standards and technologies. The workshop will address the following specific topics of interest: ? Integrating multimedia into ontolex resources ? Cooperative construction of ontolex resources ? Linguistic interfaces for Semantic Web applications ? Exploiting ontolex resources in social networking ? Web-Corpus linguistics for OntoLex Resource building As well as the following general topics: ? Ontology-driven meta-models for multilingual lexica ? Evaluation of ontolex resources in NLP tasks ? Evaluation of ontologies for building ontolex resources ? Ontology-driven annotation of corpora for ontology learning ? Design principles for the integrated representation of lexical and ontological knowledge ? Open-source platforms for ontolex resources The workshop is addressed to researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds ? Semantic Web, AI, Machine Learning, NLP, Information Retrieval ? that are concerned with the representation and use of lexical knowledge in semantic annotation, ontology-based approaches to information extraction, ontology learning, ontology matching, etc. Originating in 2000 from a visionary initiative of Kiryakov and Simov, and ?historically? hosted by LREC (2002-2004-2006), OntoLex has recently turned into a yearly workshop (IJCNLP 2005, ISWC 2007) for a growing interdisciplinary community of lexicographers, ontologists and computational linguists who recognize it de facto as their common ?meeting room?. This years edition aims at raising the issue of ontolex resources in Web 3.0 to foster the discussion about next-generation ontolex tools, on the basis of state-of-the-art technologies and ongoing projects within the LREC community. Important dates 1 March 2008: Deadline for extended abstract submission 14 March 2008: Acceptance notifications 31 March 2008: Camera-ready papers 31 May 2008: Workshop Participants are invited to submit an extended abstract of max 1000 words related to one or more topics of interest to the following address: oltramari-at-loa-cnr.it. The final paper should not exceed 5000 words. Each accepted paper will receive a slot of 40 minutes for presentation (30 minutes talk and 10 minutes for discussion). Organising Committee Alessandro Oltramari (contact person) - Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), Italy Chu-Ren Huang - Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Laurent Pr?vot - CLLE-ERSS (CNRS), France Paul Buitelaar - DFKI GmbH, Germany Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Programme Committee Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany Luisa Bentivogli, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Povo (Trento), Italy Philipp Cimiano, Karlsruhe University, Germany Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (CNR), Rome, Italy Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext, Bulgaria Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy Sujian Li, Peking University, China Qin Lu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Andrea Schalley, University of New England, Australia Armando Stellato, Universit? di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy Tokunaga Takenobu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Paola Velardi, University of Rome, Italy Guido Vetere, IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Rome, Italy Johanna Voelker, Karlsruhe University, Germany Chris Welty, IBM, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 1 10:47:53 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:47:53 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journee Realiter 2008, La langue et le droit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:19:43 +0100 From: Adriana Lau Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.2.20080227171920.0210e7c0 at 212.37.192.23> X-url: http://www.realiter.net/ X-url: http://realiter.net/spip.php?rubrique103 X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/ X-url: http://www.terminometro.info/ Journ?e Realiter 2008 ? La langue et le droit ? Gatineau, Canada Le R?seau panlatin de terminologie (Realiter) est heureux de vous confirmer que la prochaine Journ?e scientifique aura lieu ? Gatineau (Canada), le lundi 6 octobre 2008. 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. Comme ce fut le cas lors des pr?c?dentes Journ?es scientifiques Realiter, chaque conf?rencier pr?sentera une communication de 20 minutes dans sa langue maternelle, et il n'y aura pas de service d'interpr?tation. Toute personne int?ress?e doit faire parvenir un r?sum? de sa communication avant le 28 mars 2008 ? Mme Francine Gosselin (francine.gosselin at tpsgc.gc.ca), membre du Comit? organisateur de la Journ?e scientifique Realiter. Nous vous prions d'inscrire Journ?e Realiter 2008 dans le champ Objet de votre courriel. Les r?sum?s re?us au-del? de cette date ne seront pas pris en compte. Les r?sum?s, d'un maximum de 350 mots, devront faire ?tat clairement des ?l?ments suivants : * Titre * Auteur(s) * Organisme * Sujet (th?me) et objectif(s) Le Comit? scientifique ?valuera les propositions de communications re?ues et informera les candidats concern?s de l'acceptation ou non de leur projet de communication. Pour rappel, Realiter veillera ? assurer une distribution g?olinguistique ?quitable. Voici les dates d'?ch?ance retenues : 28 mars 2008 (Membres Realiter) : Envoi des r?sum?s 30 mai 2008 (Comit? scientifique) : Confirmation de l'acceptation des communications. Une fois le choix des communications arr?t?, le Programme de la Journ?e Realiter sera finalis? et affich? sur le site Web du R?seau : www.realiter.net. Info en d'autres langues : http://realiter.net/spip.php?rubrique103 ______________________________________________________________________ Adriana Lau DTIL Uni? LLatina - Uni?n Latina - Union latine - Unione Latina - Uni?o Latina - Uniunea Latina 131, rue du Bac - 75007 Paris T. +33 (0) 1 45 49 60 62 F. +33 (0) 1 45 49 67 39 a.lau at unilat.org http://dtil.unilat.org/ Info terminologie/a : www.terminometro.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 1 10:51:49 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:51:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: TAG+9, Deadline extension Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:42:54 -0500 (EST) From: gardent at loria.fr (Claire Gardent) Message-Id: <20080229074254.023915763F at loria1.loria.fr> X-url: http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag9 *** Deadline extension : March 6, 2008 **** The Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+9) 7-8 June 2008 Tuebingen, Germany http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ CALL FOR PAPERS An important subfield of computational linguistics and natural language processing is research on the formal machinery for describing language. This covers a wide range of interdisciplinary work in the cognitive science of language, including the mathematical and algorithmic properties of this machinery, the grammatical description of natural language, and the mechanisms of parsing and human language use. This research is also applied to empirical areas leading to novel algorithms and models for machine learning. Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) is a prominent formalism in the study of natural language because of its attractive formal properties and its extended domain of locality. TAG has been studied extensively in the last three decades with respect to mathematical properties and computational applications, as well as its role in constructing grammatical theories, new models of language processing and applications. This workshop, the latest in a series that has been running successfully since 1990, aims at bringing together researchers interested in various aspects of the TAG formalism including relations to other grammar formalisms -- this is the reason for the "+" in the workshop's name. In the past, interaction between such formalisms has been productive, leading for example to the shared development of broad-coverage grammars, transfer of parsing and machine learning algorithms from one formalism to another and to new insights into properties of different formalisms. Such related formalisms would include minimalist syntax, categorial grammar, dependency grammars, HPSG, LFG, and others which share with TAG general properties such as lexicalization of syntactic structure, a simple notion of local grammatical dependency, and a formal system strictly more powerful than context-free but not fully context-sensitive. Invited speakers: * Uwe Moennich, University of Tuebingen * Stuart Shieber, Harvard University Topics: We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related systems including the following topics: * syntactic and semantic theory; * mathematical properties; * computational and algorithmic studies of parsing, interpretation and generation; * machine learning models for TAG; * corpus-based research and grammar development using TAG; * psycholinguistic modeling; and * applications to natural language processing or biological sequence modeling. Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two sorts of presentations at the workshop: spoken presentations and poster presentations. Poster presentations are particularly appropriate for brief descriptions of specialized implementations, resources under development and work in progress. Regardless of the type of submission, abstracts may not exceed two pages in length (not including data, figures and references). Both one-column or two-column abstracts are permissible. However do not use a font that is smaller than 11pt. If you are using LaTeX for document preparation, then any recent ACL style file can be used. The final camera ready will be in two-column format conforming to the most recent ACL style file. Contact Information: The workshop website is at http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ The electronic submission website is at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag9 Email contact: tagplus at sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de Important dates: * Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 6, 2008. (deadline extended) * Notification to authors of decision: April 10, 2008. * Deadline for camera-ready submission: April 28, 2008. * Workshop dates: June 7 to 8, 2008. Proceedings including full papers for accepted abstracts (including both oral presentations and poster presentations) will be available on-line and at the workshop. In addition, we will explore possibilities for subsequent publication of workshop articles, for example through a special issue of a journal. Organization: Local Arrangements Chair * Laura Kallmeyer, University of Tuebingen Program Committee * Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA Nancy, (France). Program Co-Chair * Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University, (Canada). Program Co-Chair * Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research (USA) * Tilman Becker, DKI Saarbruecken (Germany) * Pierre Boullier, INRIA Rocquencourt, Paris (France) * John Chen, Columbia University (USA) * Joan Chen-Main, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * David Chiang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA) * Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA (France) * Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins University (USA) * Chung-Hye Han, Simon Fraser University (Canada) * Karin Harbusch, University of Koblenz (Germany) * Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) * Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * Laura Kallmeyer, University of Tuebingen (Germany) * Marco Kuhlmann, University of the Saarland (Germany) * Alessandro Mazzei, University of Torino (Italy) * David McDonald, BBN Technologies (USA) * Martha Palmer, University of Colorado (USA) * Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA) * Frank Richter, University of Tuebingen (Germany) * James Rogers, Earlham College (USA) * Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz (Germany) * Tatjana Scheffler, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * Sylvain Schmitz, INRIA Nancy Grand Est (France) * Vijay K. Shanker, University of Delaware (USA) * Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh (UK) * Matthew Stone, Rutgers University (USA) * Naoki Yoshinaga, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan) * Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK) Previous TAG+ meetings have been held at: * Dagstuhl (1990) * Philadelphia (1992) * Paris (1994) * Philadelphia (1998) * Paris (2000) * Venice (2002) * Vancouver (2004) * Sydney (2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 1 10:45:01 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:45:01 +0100 Subject: Appel: CIAA 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:21:06 +0200 From: "Andrei Paun" Message-ID: <007001c87933$28127390$3201a8c0 at dime521> X-url: http://ciaa2008.cs.sonoma.edu CIAA 2008 Third Call for Papers =============================== The Thirteenth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA) will take place in San Francisco, California, USA on July 21-24, 2008. The conference is sponsored by the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Sonoma State University, a California State University campus. The URL for the CIAA 2008 web site is: http://ciaa2008.cs.sonoma.edu The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in the theory, implementation and application of automata and related structures. For a list of topics of the conference, please see the web site http://ciaa2008.cs.sonoma.edu Important dates *NEW* Deadline for submission: March 8, 2008 *NEW* The submission server is now OPEN! Notification of acceptance: April 11, 2008 Submission for open problems session: April 13, 2008 Camera-ready version: April 25, 2008 Conference: July 21-24, 2008 Please note that CIAA 2008 will be four days long. (In the past, CIAA conferences have been three days long.) As another new feature of next year's conference, there will be a session devoted to Open Problems. Details about this session will be posted later on the web site. On behalf of the CIAA 2008 organizing committee, Andrei Paun ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 4 21:11:58 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:11:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC 2008 Workshop on Partial Parsing, Extended deadline (9 March 2008) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:45:55 +0100 From: Jakub.Piskorski at jrc.it Message-id: X-url: http://langtech.jrc.it/PaPa2008/ X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/-Submissions-.html FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS LREC 2008 Workshop on PARTIAL PARSING Between Chunking and Deep Parsing Marrakech, Morocco 1 June 2008 http://langtech.jrc.it/PaPa2008/ *Extended* submission deadline: *9 March 2008* MOTIVATION ========== Partial parsing has become a standard means of integrating syntactic knowledge into high level applications such as information retrieval, machine translation, or question answering, for which efficiency and robustness is of importance. In comparison with chunking and deep parsing, partial parsing consists in finding structure that is richer than chunks but less exhaustive than full syntactico-semantic parses: partial parsing may involve constructing nested structures (unlike simple chunking) without creating the full parse of a sentence. However, partial parsing is not a single concept but rather an area ranging from chunking to almost full parsing. This workshop will bring together researcher who work on partial parsing in its different interpretations. SCOPE: ===== The main areas of interest of the workshop include (but are not restricted to): . linguistic richness of partial parsers for various applications: syntactic and semantic headedness, the degree of hierarchical structure, semantic information (anaphora, disambiguation); . development methodologies for partial parsers: manual, machine learning, hybrid; . the usability of language resources for the development of partial parsers; . multi-lingual development of partial parsers, etc.; . experience and utilization of existing tools for building partial parsers for new languages; . technical aspects of partial parsers: . robustness, scalability; . time and space complexity; . expressiveness of partial parsing formalisms (regular vs. context-free rules; unification; type hierarchies; etc.); . applications of partial parsers: information extraction, question answering, machine translation, web text mining, acquisition of lexical information, etc.; . evaluation methodologies for partial parsers: gold standards, application-specific, reusability of evaluation resources for different partial parsing tasks, etc.; . ways of combining multiple partial parsers; . comparsion (classification) of partial parsers. SUBMISSIONS: =========== Authors are invited to submit original research papers. Papers should indicate the state of completion of the reported results. In particular, any overlap with previously published work should be clearly mentioned. Submissions will be judged on correctness, novelty, technical strength, clarity of presentation, and significance/relevance to the workshop. Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages and they should follow the detailed guidelines at the LREC 2008 web page: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/-Submissions-.html. Submission is via the START system, a link to the submission page can be found at the workshop page. The publication of selected papers in a special issue of a journal is planned. IMPORTANT DATES: =============== Extended submission deadline: 9 March 2008 Notification of acceptance: 23 March 2008 Camera-ready version due: 3 April 2008 Workshop: 1 June 2008 ORGANISERS: ========== . Sandra K?bler (Indiana University) . Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Center, Europeaqn Commission) . Adam Przepi?rkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: =================== . Salah A?t-Mokhtar (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) . Gosse Bouma (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) . Ant?nio Branco (University of Lisbon) . Erhard Hinrichs (University of T?bingen) . Hannah Kermes (University of Stuttgart) . Sandra K?bler (Indiana University) . Vladislav Kubo? (Charles University, Prague) . Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University) . Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Center) . Adam Przepi?rkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences) . Ulrich Sch?fer (DFKI GmbH, Saarbr?cken) . Wojciech Skut (Google Inc., Mountain View) . Anssi Yli Jyr? (CSC -- Scientific Computing Ltd., Espoo) CONTACT: ======= PaPa2008 _at_ bach.ipipan.waw.pl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 4 21:13:35 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:13:35 +0100 Subject: Appel: QAst 2008 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:53:32 +0100 From: ELDA Message-ID: <47CC02DC.2090205 at elda.org> X-url: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast Dear All, We are pleased to announce the release of the development dataset for the CLEF-QA 2008 track "Question Answering on Speech Transcripts" (QAst). We take this opportunity to launch a first call for participation in this evaluation exercise. QAst is a CLEF-QA track that aims at providing an evaluation framework for QA technology on speech transcripts, both manual and automatic. A detailed description of this track is available at: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast It is the second evaluation for the QAst track. Last year (QAst 2007), factual questions had been generated for two distinct corpora (in English language only). This year, in addition to factual questions, some definition questions are generated, and five corpora covering three different languages are used (3 corpora in English, 1 in Spanish and 1 in French). Important dates: # 15 June 2008: evaluation set released # 30 June 2008: submission deadline The pilot track is organized jointly by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), the Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) and Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la M?canique et les Sciences de l'Ing?nieur (LIMSI). If you are interested in participating please send an email to Jordi Turmo (turmo_AT_lsi.upc.edu) with "QAst" in the subject line. Best regards, QAst organizers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 4 21:15:07 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:15:07 +0100 Subject: Appel: COLING workshop, Speech Translation for Medical and Other Safety-Critical Applications Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:46:42 +0100 From: Manny Rayner Message-id: <47CC3982.7090508 at issco.unige.ch> X-url: http://www.issco.unige.ch/slt4med08/ CALL FOR PAPERS Speech Translation for Medical and Other Safety-Critical Applications COLING conference workshop Manchester, England Saturday, August 23, 2008 *** Deadline: 5 May *** http://www.issco.unige.ch/slt4med08/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Medical applications have emerged as one of the most popular domains for speech translation. At the first workshop on medical speech translation, held at HLT 2006, several advanced prototype systems were demonstrated, and a measure of consensus emerged on at least some points: * The key issue that differentiates the medical domain from most other application areas for speech translation is its safety-critical nature. For this reason, we are broadening the scope of the second workshop to include other safety-critical tasks, such as emergency response. * The technology is mature enough that useful systems can realistically be field-deployed now or in the very near future. * Systems targeted on these kinds of applications are often more useful if they can be made available on mobile or wearable hardware platforms. * The basic communication model should be collaborative, and allow the client users (patients in the case of medical applications) to play an active role. Despite this, there is so far little agreement on many central questions, including choices of architectures, component technologies, and evaluation methodologies. In this second workshop, we would again like to create a forum where people interested in these types of systems can meet, exchange ideas and demo live systems. We hope that the concrete result of the meeting will be the definition of at least one shared task for the emerging medical/safety-critical speech translation community, which will include shared data sets and an agreed-on evaluation methodology appropriate to the special characteristics of the domain. SUBMISSION: Submissions may be of the following kinds: * Long papers (up to 8 pages) describing substantial work on speech translation for medical and other safety-critical applications. We particularly encourage papers describing user-centered system evaluations. * System demonstrations, accompanied by short papers (up to 4 pages). Submission of a long paper does NOT preclude submission of an accompanying demo paper. * Short papers (up to 4 pages) describing component systems, including ASR, MT and TTS, which are particularly relevant to medical and safety critical speech translation. * Position statements (up to 4 pages) suggesting definitions of a shared task. All submissions should use the style files available on the main COLING conference web site. Author information should be included in the papers, since reviewing will NOT be blind. The main workshop page will soon include a link for submissions. IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop paper submission deadline 5 May Notification of acceptance of workshop papers 6 June Camera-ready copy of papers due 1 July PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier U Grenoble, France Pierrette Bouillon (co-chair) U Geneva, Switzerland Mike Dillinger SpokenTranslation, US Farzad Ehsani (co-chair) Fluential, US Glenn Flores U Texas, US Robert Frederking (co-chair) CMU, US Hitoshi Isahara NICT, Japan Shri Narayanan USC, US Aarne Ranta U Gothenburg, Sweden Manny Rayner (co-chair) U Geneva, Switzerland Tanja Schultz U Karlsruhe, Germany Harold Somers U Manchester, UK Bowen Zhou IBM, US QUERIES: Please address queries to Manny Rayner (Emmanuel.Rayner at issco.unige.ch) or Pierrette Bouillon (Pierrette.Bouillon at issco.unige.ch) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 4 21:17:17 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:17:17 +0100 Subject: Job: Post-doc ou ingenieur, Formalisme unifi ant la représentation des ressources terminologiques et ontologiques Message-ID: Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:54:35 +0100 From: Laurent AUDIBERT Message-ID: <47CD468B.2040600 at lipn.univ-paris13.fr> Vers un formalisme unifiant la repr?sentation des ressources terminologiques et ontologiques * Contexte scientifique L'?quipe Repr?sentation des Connaissances et Langue Naturelle (RCLN) du Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN) d?veloppe depuis plusieurs ann?es des m?thodes et des outils d'annotation de documents avec un effort important port? sur l'extraction et la projection de terminologies. Un autre axe fort de l'?quipe est l'ing?nierie des connaissances qui s'int?resse aux m?thodes de repr?sentation et aux outils de construction d'ontologies. L'?quipe RCLN souhaite maintenant faire la synth?se de ces deux axes dans une perspective d'annotation s?mantique. Il faut donc mener une r?flexion sur un formalisme unifiant la repr?sentation des ressources terminologiques et ontologiques. * Profil L'?quipe RCLN cherche ? recruter un candidat titulaire d'un doctorat, ou ?ventuellement d'un dipl?me d'ing?nieur, en informatique ou dans un domaine proche. Bien entendu, ce poste demande des connaissances dans les domaines du traitement automatique des langues ou de l'ing?nierie des connaissances. La ma?trise de l'anglais est indispensable. * Lieu, Dur?e et R?mun?ration Contrat de 6 mois (possibilit? de prolongation ? 18 mois), ? pourvoir d?s que possible. R?mun?ration suivant qualification. Le poste est ? pourvoir au LIPN (adresse ci-dessous) * Comment postuler Envoyer un CV et une lettre de motivation par courrier ?lectronique aux adresses ci-dessous. * Contact Laurent AUDIBERT Adeline Nazarenko Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN) CNRS UMR 7030 et Universit? Paris 13 99, avenue Jean-Baptiste Cl?ment 93430 Villetaneuse ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Towards a formalism unifying the representation of terminological and ontological resources * Scientific context The NLP team (RCLN) at Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN) in the North of Paris has been developing for several years NLP methods and tools for automatic document annotation particularly in the field of terminology extraction and projection. Another strong research field of the team focus on knowledge acquisition (knowledge representation and ontologies learning from texts). The RCLN team now wishes to make the synthesis of these two axes with a perspective of semantic annotation. It is thus necessary to study how to unify terminological representation and ontological resources. * Profile The RCLN team would like to hire a candidate preferably with a PhD, or an engineering degree, in Computer Science. Knowledge in natural language processing or ontologies are a plus. A good level in English is mandatory and French is a plus. * Place, Duration and Remuneration 6 months contract (with a possible extension of 12 months), with a start date as soon as possible. Salary depends on experience. The position requires working at LIPN (see address below). * How to apply Send CV and cover letter to the following emails (see contact) * Contact Laurent AUDIBERT Adeline Nazarenko Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN) CNRS UMR 7030 et Universit? Paris 13 99, avenue Jean-Baptiste Cl?ment 93430 Villetaneuse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 4 21:18:38 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:18:38 +0100 Subject: These: Lucie Barque, Description et formalisation de la polysemie reguliere du francais Message-ID: Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:10:52 +0100 From: lucie.barque at free.fr Message-ID: <1204639852.47cd586c7fbdd at imp.free.fr> Bonjour, J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? la soutenance de ma th?se, intitul?e "Description et formalisation de la polys?mie r?guli?re du fran?ais" ainsi qu'au pot qui suivra. La soutenance aura lieu le vendredi 14 Mars ? partir de 14h, dans la salle des Th?ses de l'Universit? Paris 7. Cette salle se trouve au cinqui?me ?tage de la Halle aux farines, 10 rue Fran?oise Dolto (13? arrondissement). Cordialement, Lucie Barque (LaTTiCe, Universit? Paris 7) Composition du Jury : Pierrette Bouillon, Universit? de Gen?ve (rapporteur) Laurence Danlos, Universit? Paris 7 (examinateur) Sylvain Kahane, Universit? Paris 10 (directeur de th?se) Georges Kleiber, Universit? de Strasbourg (examinateur) Alain Polgu?re, Universit? de Montr?al (co-directeur) Achim Stein, Universit? de Stuttgart (rapporteur) R?sum? : La th?se propose une r?flexion th?orique sur la nature des liens de polys?mie et sur leur r?le dans la structuration du lexique. Son apport principal est de pr?ciser le concept de polys?mie r?guli?re et d'en proposer une formalisation en s'appuyant sur des descriptions lexicales riches et explicitement structur?es produites dans le cadre de la Lexicologie Explicative et Combinatoire. La m?thode adopt?e consiste ? d?crire en parall?le des sens lexicaux (sous la forme de d?finitions lexicographiques structur?es) et les liens de polys?mie (sous la forme de paires de d?finitions sous-sp?cifi?es appel?es "patrons de polys?mie"). Les sens TAUPE(animal)~TAUPE(espion), GORILLE(singe)~GORILLE(garde du corps), etc. sont, par exemple, d?crits en m?me temps que le lien de polys?mie "animal --> individu ayant une fonction" qui lient ces paires. Cette m?thode a donn? lieu ? la production d'un fragment de lexique formalis? d?crivant la polys?mie active dans les champs s?mantiques des "animaux" et des "sentiments". Il pourra servir de base au d?veloppement rapide et syst?matique d'un lexique s?mantique du fran?ais plus ?tendu mettant en avant les r?gularit?s en mati?re de polys?mie. Mots-cl?s : S?mantique lexicale, Polys?mie r?guli?re, d?finitions lexicographiques, patrons de polys?mie, sous-sp?cification s?mantique. Abstract : This dissertation is devoted to the description of polysemy links in the lexicon. Its main contribution is to specify the concept of regular polysemy and to formalize it by means of fine-grained and explicitly structured descriptions produced in the framework of Explanatory-Combinatorial Lexicology. Our method consists in the simultaneous description of lexical meanings (represented by lexicographic definitions) and polysemy links (represented by pairs of underspecified lexicographic definitions called "polysemy patterns"). For instance, the meanings of TAUPE(animal)~TAUPE(spy), GORILLE(monkey)~GORILLE(body guard), etc. are described together with the polysemy link "anima --> person with a function" that links these pairs of meanings. Our method has led to the construction of a piece of a formalized lexicon that describes polysemy patterns in the semantic fields of "animals" and "emotions". This could be used for the developpement of an extended semantic lexicon for French that concentrates on regular polysemy. Key words : lexical semantics, regular polysemy, lexicographic definitions, polysemy patterns, semantic underspecification. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 09:49:58 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:49:58 +0100 Subject: Livres: Nouveaux titres parus dans la Collec tion L'Essentiel Message-ID: Fran?ais Comments: To: ln at cines.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:09:23 +0100 From: "Annick DENIEL" Message-ID: <015501c87ea9$0f4df840$100101c0 at dellad> X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=379 X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=379 X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=379 X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=567 X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=567 X-url: http://www.ophrys.fr/ Communiqu? de presse : Nous avons le plaisir d'attirer votre attention sur nos derni?res nouveaut?s parues aux Editions Ophrys dans la collection L'Essentiel Fran?ais, dirig?e par Catherine Fuchs : http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=379 Dictionnaire pratique de didactique du FLE http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=379 par Jean-Pierre Robert Les verbes modaux du fran?ais http://www.ophrys.fr/detail.php?idOuvrage=567 par Xiaoquan Chu Vous trouverez ci-joint le prospectus descriptif de ces titres (ou cliquez sur le lien, de la couverture ou du titre, vers notre nouveau site internet). Nous sommes certains que ces ouvrages int?resseront vos lecteurs et vous serions reconnaissants si vous pouviez les annoncer dans la rubrique "bibliographie" de votre revue. Si vous d?sirez en faire para?tre une critique plus approfondie, nous sommes pr?ts ? vous adresser un exemplaire des ouvrages en service de presse ( adeniel at editionstechnip.com). Nous vous demandons simplement de penser ? nous envoyer les justificatifs de parution, indispensables ? nos dossiers presse. Meilleures salutations, Annick DENIEL Responsable de la promotion adeniel at editionstechnip.com Ligne Directe : 01 45 78 33 87 Editions OPHRYS 25, rue Ginoux - 75015 Paris T?l : 33 (0)1 45 78 33 80 Fax : 33 (0)1 45 75 37 11 Site : www.ophrys.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 09:53:17 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:53:17 +0100 Subject: Conf: TOTh 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:19:13 +0100 From: Luc Damas Message-ID: <47CEB9F1.6050102 at univ-savoie.fr> X-url: http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Appel ? communications ---------------------------------------------------------- TOTh : Terminologie & Ontologie : Th?ories et Applications Annecy - 5 & 6 juin 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Comment mod?liser les connaissances m?tiers ? Les mutations technologiques et ?conomiques ont modifi? profond?ment nos structures soci?tales. La notion de communaut? est devenue centrale, rendant plus manifestes les besoins de communication et de partage de l'information. Information ?rig?e au rang de connaissance qui constitue la v?ritable richesse de nos soci?t?s et qui pose les probl?mes de leur capitalisation et de leur exploitation. Autant de besoins et de probl?mes qui font des langues de sp?cialit?, de la terminologie et de l'ing?nierie des connaissances des disciplines incontournables. La soci?t? num?rique, ? travers les applications de traitement de l'information, milite pour une approche concert?e de ces disciplines : importance des langues de sp?cialit? et de la terminologie pour la communication et l'expression des connaissances, mais aussi impact de la repr?sentation des connaissances et des mod?les informatiques sur la terminologie et les langues de sp?cialit? (parmi les principales questions abord?es figure celle des ontologies). Les conf?rences TOTh se situent dans le prolongement des colloques annuels de la Soci?t? fran?aise de terminologie, organis?s en d?cembre ? l'Ecole normale sup?rieure de la rue d'Ulm, afin d'approfondir et de diversifier les probl?matiques qui y sont abord?es. Parmi les th?mes qui rel?vent des conf?rences TOTh, citons (liste non exhaustive) : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Axe linguistique : - Les langues de sp?cialit?, la socioterminologie en particulier en direction des entreprises, l'am?nagement linguistique (prescription, normalisation), - Les dictionnaires, th?saurus, lexiques et produits terminologiques, - La construction et la maintenance de ressources terminologiques : th?ories du sens, importance et limite de la linguistique textuelle (traitement de corpus)... - Multilinguisme et traduction. Axe conceptuel : - Principes terminologiques pour la construction des syst?mes notionnels, - La repr?sentation et la gestion des connaissances : mod?lisation des concepts, construction d'ontologies, transmissibilit? des ontologies ... - Apport de l'intelligence artificielle, de la linguistique, de l'?pist?mologie, des syst?mes formels (logique des descriptions par exemple). Axe applicatif : - Les environnements logiciels : construction et maintenance des terminologies, th?saurus, dictionnaires, ontologies ... - Les applications informatiques mettant en jeu des ressources terminologiques et/ou des bases de connaissances : syst?mes d'information, gestion documentaire (recherche d'information, classification), gestion des connaissances, web s?mantique, ing?nierie collaborative, etc. - L'?valuation des outils d'acquisition et de manipulation, l'?volution des normes et standards dans le domaine des ressources linguistiques et ontologiques. Publics & disciplines concern?s: -------------------------------- Les conf?rences TOTh ont pour principal objectif de rassembler industriels, chercheurs, utilisateurs et formateurs dont les pr?occupations rel?vent des langues de sp?cialit?, de la terminologie et de l'ing?nierie des connaissances ; et de fa?on plus g?n?rale toutes personnes int?ress?es par la gestion de l'information o? les dimensions li?es ? la langue et ? la connaissance tiennent une place pr?pond?rante. Elles se veulent un lieu d'?change et de partage o? sont expos?s probl?mes, solutions et retours d'exp?riences tant sur le plan th?orique qu'applicatif ; ainsi que les nouvelles tendances et perspectives des disciplines associ?es : terminologie, linguistique, sciences de l'information, intelligence artificielle, syst?mes d'information, ing?nierie collaborative, etc. Comit? Scientifique : Responsable : Christophe Roche ------------------------------------------------------ * Comit? de pilotage o Lo?c Depecker Professeur, Universit? de Sorbonne nouvelle o Andr? Manificat Directeur, GRETh o Christophe Roche Professeur, Universit? de Savoie o Philippe Thoiron Professeur ?m?rite, Universit? de Lyon II * Comit? de programme o Bruno de Bess? Professeur, Universit? de Gen?ve o Pierre Blanc EDF SEPTEN o Dani?le Bourcier CNRS, CERSA Paris o Marc van Campenhoudt Professeur, Institut sup?rieur d'interpr?tation et de Traduction de Bruxelles o Danielle Candel CNRS, Universit? Paris Diderot o St?phane Chaudiron Professeur, Universit? de Lille III o Viviane Cohen Information System Enterprise Architecture & Anticipation, France T?l?com o Rute Costa Professeur, Universit? de Lisbonne o Luc Damas MCF, Universit? de Savoie o Sylvie Despr?s MCF, Universit? Paris XIII o Anne Dourgnon-Hanoune EDF R&D o Fran?ois Gaudin Professeur, Universit? de Rouen o Jean-Yves Gresser ancien Directeur ? la Banque de France o Ollivier Haemmerl? Professeur, Universit? de Toulouse o Jean-Paul Haton Professeur, Universit? de Nancy 1 o Mich?le Hudon Professeur, Universit? de Montr?al o John Humbley Professeur, Universit? Paris 7 o Michel IDA Directeur MINATEC, CEA o Hendrik Kockaert Professeur, Lessius Hogeschool (Anvers) o Michel L?onard Professeur, Universit? de Gen?ve o Pierre Lerat Professeur honoraire, Universit? Paris XIII o Widad Mustafa Professeur, Universit? de Lille III o Jean Quirion Professeur, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais o Renato Reinau Suva, Lucerne o Fran?ois Rousselot MCF, Universit? de Strasbourg o G?rard Sabah CNRS, Orsay o Michel Simonet CNRS Grenoble o Marcus Spies Professeur, Universit? de Munich o Dardo de Vecchi Professeur associ?, Euro-Med Marseille Dates importantes : ------------------- - Date limite de soumission : 16 mars 2008 - Notification d'acceptation aux auteurs : 20 avril 2008 Soumissions : luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr Contacts : ---------- Christophe Roche : responsable scientifique christophe.roche at univ-savoie.fr - t?l. : 04 79 75 87 79 Luc Damas : responsable de l'organisation luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr - t?l. : 04 79 75 87 03 Joelle Pellet : secr?tariat toth at porphyre.org t?l. : 04 50 09 65 80 - fax : 04 50 09 65 59 Site : www.porphyre.org/toth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 09:55:18 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:55:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: Decembrettes 6 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:29:43 +0100 From: Nabil Hathout Message-ID: <47CEAE57.7070706 at univ-tlse2.fr> X-url: http://www.lingref.com/ X-url: http://w3.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/decembrettes2008/ D?cembrettes 6 Colloque International de Morphologie International Morphology Conference ? Morphologie et classes flexionnelles ? "Inflectional classes in morphology" 4-5 d?cembre 2008 * December 4-5, 2008 Universit? de Bordeaux (France) Appel ? communications Depuis 2002 les D?cembrettes, organis?es par le laboratoire CLLE-ERSS (CNRS & Universit? de Toulouse), r?unissent des chercheurs en morphologie du monde entier. La 6e ?dition du colloque se tiendra ? Bordeaux les 4 et 5 d?cembre 2008. Une des deux journ?es sera d?di?e ? des communications sur le th?me ? Morphologie et classes flexionnelles ? ; la deuxi?me sera consacr?e ? des communications hors th?me sur tout aspect de la morphologie linguistique. Les organisateurs appellent ? contribuer avec des propositions de communications de 20 minutes ou de poster, dans tout domaine de la morphologie (morphophonologie, morphosyntaxe, s?mantique, lexicologie, psycholinguistique, typologie morphologique, morphologie computationnelle...), s'inscrivant ou pas dans le th?me principal du colloque. Toutes les perspectives th?oriques sont bienvenues. Les communications pourront ?tre pr?sent?es en anglais ou en fran?ais. Une s?lection des pr?sentations sera publi?e dans le Cascadilla Proceedings Project (http://www.lingref.com/). Modalit? de soumission Les propositions de communication, en anglais ou en fran?ais, devront ?tre strictement anonymes et comporter au maximum 3 pages (bibliographie et annexes comprises). Les contributeurs devront indiquer, sur un document s?par?, leur(s) nom(s), leur(s) affiliation(s) et l'adresse ?lectronique ? laquelle ils souhaitent ?tre contact?s. Les r?sum?s devront ?tre envoy?s par courrier ?lectronique en format PDF (pr?f?r?) ou RTF ? l'adresse decembrettes at univ-tlse2.fr avant le 30 avril 2008. Conf?renciers invit?s * Greville G. Corbett (Surrey) ; * Wolfgang U. Dressler (Vienne) ; * Gregory T. Stump (Kentucky) Comit? de s?lection * Dany Amiot (Artois) ; * Gilles Boy? (CNRS & Bordeaux 3) ; * Georgette Dal (CNRS & Lille III) ; * Bernard Fradin (CNRS & Paris 7) ; * Fabio Montermini (CNRS & Toulouse) ; * Michel Roch? (CNRS & Toulouse) Comit? de lecture * Paolo Acquaviva (University College Dublin) ; * Christian Bassac (CNRS & Bordeaux 3); * James P. Blevins (Cambridge) ; * Geert Booij (Leiden) ; * Olivier Bonami (CNRS & Paris 4) ; * Luigi Burzio (Johns Hopkins) ; * Patricia Cabredo-Hofherr (CNRS / Surrey) ; * Livio Gaeta (Federico II, Napoli) ; * H?l?ne Giraudo (CNRS & Toulouse) ; * Nicola Grandi (Milano Bicocca) ; * Nabil Hathout (CNRS & Toulouse) ; * Maria-Rosa Lloret (Barcelona) ; * Judith Meinschaefer (W?rzburg) ; * Vito Pirrelli (CNR, Pisa) ; * Marc Pl?nat (CNRS & Toulouse) ; * Angela Ralli (Patras) ; * Christoph Schwarze (Konstanz) ; * Andrew Spencer (Essex) ; * Jesse Tseng (CNRS & Toulouse) Calendrier * f?vrier 2008 : premier appel ? communications * 30 avril 2008 : date limite pour l'envoi des propositions * 1 juillet 2008 : notification des r?sultats * septembre 2008 : programme d?finitif * 4-5 d?cembre 2008 : colloque Comit? d'organisation * Gilles Boy? ; * Christine F?vre-Pernet ; * H?l?ne Giraudo ; * Nabil Hathout ; * Fabio Montermini Contact UMR 5263 CLLE-ERSS Maison de la Recherche Universit? de Toulouse-Le Mirail 5, all?es Antonio Machado F-31058 - Toulouse Cedex 9 France T?l. +33 (0)5-61-50-36-02 Fax +33 (0)5-61-50-46-77 Web : http://w3.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/decembrettes2008/ Courriel : decembrettes at univ-tlse2.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 09:57:53 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:57:53 +0100 Subject: Appel: 2eme Colloque International en Traductologie et TAL, Oran 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:25:30 +0100 (CET) From: farouk bouhadiba Message-ID: <71357.38055.qm at web26108.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> 2?me Colloque International en Traductologie et TAL Site : Universit? Es-S?nia, Oran (17-18 mai 2008) LABO 022/200 LUCIEN TESNIERE ORGANISATEURS : Prof. BOUHADIBA Farouk (Labo022/2000, Universit? d'Oran, Alg?rie) Prof. CARDEY Sylviane (Centre TAL, Lucien Tesni?re, France) PROBLEMATIQUE Le but de ce colloque serait de regrouper des chercheurs et universitaires nationaux et internationaux qui s'int?ressent de pr?s ou de loin aux diff?rents aspects du transfert de la langue arabe vers d'autres langues telles que le fran?ais, l'anglais ou l'espagnol. Il s'int?resse ? tout ce qui touche les domaines de la Traductologie / Traductibilit? en g?n?ral et le Traitement Automatique des Langues en particulier, plus sp?cialement le traitement de la langue arabe par rapport ? d'autres langues. Ceci n'exclut nullement tout apport scientifique et recherches sur la langue arabe ? tous les niveaux d'analyse linguistique, ?tymologique, sociologique, etc. Les ?changes d'id?es et de r?alisation de travaux de recherche sur la langue arabe par comparaison ? d'autres langues telles que le fran?ais, l'anglais ou l'espagnol dans des domaines aussi vari?s et compl?mentaires que la Phon?tique, Phonologie, Morphologie et Syntaxe de la langue arabe, sa segmentation, les ?tudes linguistiques compar?es arabe / fran?ais / arabe anglais / arabe espagnol, les ressources de la langue arabe en termes de dictionnaires ?lectroniques, d'analyseurs morphosyntaxiques et autres, la mod?lisation de la langue arabe par rapport ? la mod?lisation de la langue fran?aise et autres langues, le probl?me de la d?sambigu?sation, la lexicologie et la lexicographie, la traduction automatique, la traduction assist?e de l'arabe, du fran?ais, de l'anglais et de l'espagnol, les mod?les de traduction automatique arabe-fran?ais et/ou arabe /autres langues, les lexiques informatiques arabe / fran?ais et/ou arabe / autres langues, etc. L'autre aspect de ce colloque serait de lancer un d?bat sur l'importance et les enjeux du Traitement Automatique des Langues et celui de la langue arabe en particulier (TA de l'arabe vers d'autres langues) qui repr?sente un ?l?ment de taille marqu? par son absence dans le domaine des autoroutes de l'information et du transfert de technologie en ligne. Ce colloque vise enfin ? sensibiliser ?tudiants, chercheurs et d?cideurs de l'importance d'une prise en charge de centres de recherche sur le TAL et la Langue Arabe en Alg?rie. Envoyer un r?sum? avec nom et pr?nom(s), adresse email, organisme de rattachement (15 lignes maximum) avant le 31 mars 2008 ? : bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr // sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr Langues de travail du Colloque : arabe, fran?ais, anglais, espagnol LABO 022, LDLD, ex. ITE MARAVAL, 4 Rue MEKKI Kh?lifa, Maraval, Oran.. T?l .fax : 041.34-65-75 T?l. fax : 041.58.36-44 // e-mail : bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:01:19 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:01:19 +0100 Subject: Ecole: ICCL Summer School 2008 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:05:45 +0100 From: Bertram Fronh??fer Message-ID: <20080306100545.GA176 at janeway.inf.tu-dresden.de> X-url: http://www.computational-logic.org/iccl-ss-2008 Call for Participation ICCL Summer School 2008 COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE Technische Universit?t Dresden August 24 -- September 6, 2008 http://www.computational-logic.org/iccl-ss-2008 TOPIC The summer academy will focus on the long-lasting controversy of the relationship between modern formal logic (including its use for automated reasoning and computation) and, on the other hand, the rationality and common sense underlying human reasoning. Traditionally, a huge gap is perceived between the symbolic representation of knowledge used in modern logic and the sub-symbolic representation considered dominant in human reasoning. Psychological experiments of the past even suggested that people often don't reason logically and, in general, that logic seems to play only a minor role in human reasoning. However, recently, new ways of explaining human reasoning seem to revive its relatedness to logic. For this reason this summer academy attempts to bring together researchers from both sides for an exchange of views. REGISTRATION If you want to attend the summer school, we'd prefer that you register by April 1, 2008. (See the online registration on the web page mentioned above.) For all who want to apply for a grant, this deadline is obligatory. After April 1, 2008, registration will be possible as long as there are vacant places. (Since we intend to restrict participation to about 60 people, in case of excessive demand, we will have to close the registration to the summer school.) People applying until April 1, 2008, and applying for a grant will be informed about respective decisions on grants at latest by end of April 2008. FEES We ask for a participation fee of 200 EUR. GRANTS A limited number of grants may be available, please indicate in your application if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs (to be filled in the respective part of the online registration form). INTEGRATED WORKSHOP It will be possible for some participants to present their research work during a small workshop integrated in the summer school. If you would like to do so, please register by means of the online workshop registration form on the web page mentioned above: (The title of your proposed talk, and, in addition, an extended abstract or a full paper of at most 10 pages in postscript or pdf format must be submit by April 1, 2008.) A program committee consisting of the summer school lecturers will select among the submissions. Notification of acceptance of a talk at the integrated workshop will be at latest by end of April 2008. Please note that participation at the summer school is a prerequisite for participation at the workshop. COURSE PROGRAM COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: AN OVERVIEW Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger, Helmar Gust (Universit?t Osnabr?ck) HUMAN REASONING AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Keith Stenning (Edinburgh University, UK) COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC AND CONNECTIONIST SYSTEMS Steffen H?lldobler (Technische Universit?t Dresden) COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC IN HUMAN REASONING Robert Kowalski (Imperial College, Department of Computing, UK) LOGIC-BASED AGENTS Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing, UK) THE LOGIC OF GENERALIZED TRUTH VALUES. A TOUR INTO PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC Heinrich Wansing (Fakult?t f?r Philosophie, Technische Universit?t Dresden) COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC APPLICATIONS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES Lu?s Moniz Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) PEOPLE INVOLVED Chairs of the ICCL Summer School 2008 Steffen H?lldobler Heinrich Wansing Organizing Committee Julia Koppenhagen Bertram Fronh?fer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:02:42 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:02:42 +0100 Subject: Appel: DEFT'08 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:38:49 +0100 From: Martine Hurault-Plantet Message-Id: <200803061238.49918.Martine.Hurault-Plantet at limsi.fr> X-url: http://deft08.limsi.fr/ X-url: http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php ****************************************************************** DEFT'08 Appel ? participation Atelier d'?valuation en fouille de textes : Classification de textes en th?me et en genre http://deft08.limsi.fr/ Inscription : http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php ****************************************************************** Dates importantes : Inscription : ? partir du 21 d?cembre 2007 Diffusion des corpus d'apprentissage : 14 janvier 2008 Test : 3 jours pris dans la derni?re quinzaine de mars 2008 Atelier : 9-13 juin dans le cadre de TALN'08 ****************************************************************** Depuis 3 ans DEFT (http://deft.limsi.fr/) propose des campagnes d'?valuation dans le domaine de la Fouille de Textes en langue fran?aise. L'atelier DEFT'08 se tiendra cette ann?e en Avignon dans le cadre de la conf?rence TALN. Le th?me de cette ?dition 2008 de DEFT concerne la classification en th?me et en genre de textes. La classification automatique a de multiples applications en fouille de textes. De l'orientation de courriels ? la veille strat?gique ou scientifique, de nombreux domaines d'application ont ?t? explor?s. Depuis quelques ann?es une nouvelle probl?matique est apparue, celle de la classification en genre de textes. Au-del? de la reconnaissance du th?me du document, la reconnaissance de son genre est utile pour guider l'utilisation qui sera faite du document. Mais comment reconna?tre ? la fois le th?me et le genre d'un document ? La diff?rence de genre influence-t-elle la reconnaissance de la cat?gorie th?matique d'un document, et, inversement, la diff?rence de th?me influence-t-elle la reconnaissance du genre du document ? Pour ?valuer des logiciels de classification dans cette perspective, nous allons confronter, sur un m?me ensemble de cat?gories pr?-d?finies, deux corpus de genres diff?rents, un corpus d'articles journalistiques issus du journal Le Monde, et un corpus d'articles encyclop?diques issus de l'encyclop?die libre sur Internet, Wikip?dia. Ce que nous mettons ici sous le terme genre renvoie ? un ensemble de textes partageant des propri?t?s li?es au domaine d'activit?, ? des pratiques et au support utilis? pour ces textes. Un article de journal rend compte d'une actualit? et un article encyclop?dique diffuse un savoir, mais les deux ont en commun un certain nombre de cat?gories th?matiques g?n?rales, appel?es rubriques chez l'un et cat?gories chez l'autre. Il s'agira de tester sur ces corpus d'une part la robustesse d'un mod?le de classification th?matique soumis ? des variations en genre de texte, et d'autre part les am?liorations possibles d'une classification th?matique par la reconnaissance du genre de texte. Description de la t?che *********************** Pour l'entra?nement, nous fournirons 2 corpus : * un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikip?dia d'un ensemble A de cat?gories th?matiques avec un double ?tiquetage, l'un en genre et l'autre en cat?gorie th?matique, * un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikip?dia d'un ensemble B de cat?gories th?matiques, diff?rent de l'ensemble A, avec un simple ?tiquetage en cat?gorie th?matique. Pour le test, nous fournirons deux corpus non ?tiquet?s en genre ou en th?me, avec une t?che diff?rente pour chacun : * t?che 1 : reconnaissance du genre et de la cat?gorie th?matique de chaque document d'un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikip?dia appartenant ? l'ensemble A de cat?gories th?matiques, * t?che 2 : reconnaissance de la cat?gorie th?matique de chaque document d'un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikip?dia appartenant ? l'ensemble B de cat?gories th?matiques. Inscription ********** Les ?quipes participant ? DEFT'08 devront s'inscrire ? l'aide du formulaire en ligne (http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php), et signer les accords de restriction d'usage des corpus. Comit?s ******** Comit? d'organisation : Co-responsables : Martine Hurault-Plantet (LIMSI) et Cyril Grouin (LIMSI) Membres : Sylvain Loiseau (LIMSI), Jean-Baptiste Berthelin (LIMSI), Sarra El Ayari (LIMSI) Comit? de programme : Pr?sident : Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI) Membres : Catherine Berrut (CLIPS), Fabrice Cl?rot (France Telecom), Guillaume Cleuziou (LIFO), Matthieu Constant (IGM) B?atrice Daille (LINA), Halima Dahmani (CEA-LIST), Marc El-B?ze (LIA), Patrick Gallinari (LIP6), ?ric Gaussier (Xerox Research), Thierry Hamon (LIPN), Fid?lia Ibekwe-SanJuan (ELICO), Pascal Poncelet (LGI2P), Christophe Roche (LISTIC), Mathieu Roche (LIRMM), Bernard Rothenburger (IRIT - INRIA), Pascale S?billot (IRISA), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA), Fran?ois Yvon (LIMSI). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:04:46 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:04:46 +0100 Subject: Appel: KR 2008 (Updated Call for Papers) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:14:45 +0200 From: Tommie Meyer Message-Id: X-url: http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ X-url: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html X-url: http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage ``reports from the field" of building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only) http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2 additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted paper 11 pages in AAAI style will be allocated in the proceedings. Topics of interest include: - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics - Graphical representations for belief and preference - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics, - Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion - Description logics, Ontologies - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning about preference - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer Important Dates: Submission of title and abstract: April 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: June 16, 2008 KR-2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:07:10 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:07:10 +0100 Subject: Job: Ingenieur Linguiste-informaticien(ne) Sinequa Labs - Sinequa (Paris) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:22:41 +0100 From: Ga?lle Recourc? Message-ID: <47CFF021.7080400 at sinequa.com> X-url: http://www.sinequa.com/ X-url: http://www.sinequa.com/html-fr/fr-rdLabs.html Poste ? pourvoir : Ing?nieur de recherche en linguistique-informatique - Sinequa Labs R?f?rence : OE-ILI-200803 Profil : Nous recherchons un(e) linguiste-informaticien(ne) avec 2-3 ans d'exp?rience dans le domaine du TAL et de la recherche d'information pour int?grer Sinequa Labs laboratoire priv? dot? d'une forte activit? en TALN. Missions - Int?gr?(e) ? l'?quipe Sinequa Labs, vous participerez activement aux projets de recherche en cours (analyse de blogs, r?sum? multim?dia, d?tection de plagiats, ...). - Vous assurerez le suivi administratif de projets nationaux aussi bien qu'europ?ens. - Vous serez amen?(e) ? r?aliser des prototypes vari?s en traitement de l'information (extraction d'information, fouille de texte, recherche d'information, structuration automatique de donn?es, ..). - Vous participerez ? l'enrichissement des composants linguistiques existants (lexique, grammaires d'extraction par automates,...) et au prototypage de nouveaux composants. - Vous r?digerez des sp?cifications, rapports de recherche, documentations, ..... - Vous serez encourag?(e) ? proposer des publications et ? participer ? des conf?rences dans le domaine du TALN et de la gestion de l'information. Comp?tences - Excellente connaissance des composants de base du TALN : taggers, analyseurs, dictionnaires, .. - Aisance dans la production de scripts pour l'analyse et le formattage de donn?es textuelle. - Sp?cifications et prototypage de composants TALN. - Une exp?rience dans la gestion de projets de recherche nationaux ou europ?ens serait un plus. - La connaissance des probl?matiques d'indexation d'autres m?dias (images, videos, sons, ...) serait aussi un atout suppl?mentaire. Profil/Exp?rience - Dipl?me en Traitement automatique des langues (Bac+5 ou doctorat) - 2 ou 3 ans d'exp?rience dans des projets ou en entreprise. - Anglais courant. La connaissance d'une ou plusieurs autres langues serait un atout suppl?mentaire. - Ma?trise d'un ou plusieurs langages de scripts (Perl, Python, ...). - La connaissance de Java ou C++ serait bienvenue. - Connaissance des standards et normes (XML, TEI, ...) Sinequa Rentable depuis cinq ans, avec quatre millions d'euros de chiffre d'affaires et une croissance de 80 %, Sinequa est le leader fran?ais des moteurs de recherche et de navigation. Notre avance technologique, en particulier en Traitement Automatique des Langues, vient en partie de Sinequa Labs, notre laboratoire de R&D interne. La mission de Sinequa Labs est de fournir des technologies innovantes pour enrichir la ligne de produits et solutions de Sinequa. Sinequa Labs fonctionne comme un laboratoire de recherche priv? en publiant et en participant ? de nombreux programmes de recherche nationaux et europ?ens. http://www.sinequa.com/html-fr/fr-rdLabs.html. Merci d'envoyer votre mail avec la cl? du poste dans l?objet ? OE-ILI-200803 ? avec CV et lettre de motivation ? Ga?lle Recourc? : recource at sinequa.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:07:58 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:07:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: Language Diversity and the Acquisition of Linguistic Semantic Knowledge Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:20:57 -0500 (EST) From: Message-Id: <200803061620.LAA01356 at kamla.csi.UOttawa.CA> X-url: http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/MISSI2008/LDALSK/ X-url: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijiids Final Call for Papers Title of the workshop: Language Diversity and the Acquisition of Linguistic Semantic Knowledge The host conference: 6th International Conference on Multimedia and Network Information Systems, Wroclaw, Poland, September 18-19, 2008 Web site: http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/MISSI2008/LDALSK/ The proportion of Web pages written in English keeps decreasing, but a majority of text-handling tools and techniques have been developed for English and tested on English resources. Many languages have been reasonably well served by the existing systems, but large typological differences (complex morphology, rich inflection, freer-order syntax, not to mention cultural biases) tend to make those tools and resources less than fully adequate. This may be particularly true of deeper processing, including the acquisition of natural language semantics from text. The workshop seeks to explore methodologies developed from scratch for a variety of languages, and perhaps their reapplication to the processing of English texts. We invite submissions on the topics we list below, and on closely related topics in the general spirit of the workshop. We target the problem of automatic extraction of some form of natural language semantics from corpora and application of the knowledge extracted in that way in systems that deal with natural language. Work on any language is welcome; we particularly encourage submissions related to "less privileged" languages. The workshop will be held in English, to ensure the broadest dissemination of its contributions. We have room for up to 50 papers, including posters, so there will be ample opportunity to report on work in progress. To suit the host conference, papers on applications of the semantic knowledge extracted from text will also be considered; such applications include machine translation, parsing, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, information extraction, and text mining. All submissions must present original work. There will be a strict reviewing process. Formatting instructions appear on the workshop's Web site. The submission system is already open. Publication: The proceedings will be printed by IEEE. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijiids) dedicated to the MISSI'08 Conference, as well as in the International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA). A book devoted to the topics of the conference will be published after the conference. Those who have presented at the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers as book chapters. Topics: Distributional semantics, semantic relatedness, semantic similarity Extraction of lexico-semantic relations Extraction of logical models for natural language semantics Extraction of selectional restrictions Lexicon extraction from corpora Pattern-based methods in lexical knowledge acquisition Recognition of expressions of opinions and emotions in text Resources and tools for word-sense disambiguation Software support for lexical knowledge acquisition Thesaurus construction, extension and critique Schedule: submission March 27, 2008 reviews in April 30, 2008 acceptance May 7, 2008 camera-ready May 21-28, 2008 -- Stan Szpakowicz, PhD, Professor __ 613-562-5800/6687 SITE, Computer Science _______ szpak at site.uottawa.ca University of Ottawa ____ www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:10:05 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:10:05 +0100 Subject: Job: Poste MCF Universite de Tours (UFR Sciences - Blois) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:44:50 +0100 From: Denis MAUREL Message-Id: <20080307154457.0A0973C78160 at rabelais.univ-tours.fr> X-url: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/Tln_Poste.html X-url: http://www.univ-tours.fr/maurel X-url: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr X-url: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/BdTln.html X-url: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/ POSTE MCF UNIVERSITE DE TOURS (UFR SCIENCES - BLOIS) http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/Tln_Poste.html Le poste MCF Universite de Tours (UFR Sciences - Blois) : 1er octobre 2008, Blois, bases de donnees et traitement automatique des langues : 0307 S a pour profil recherche une integration dans le Laboratoire d'informatique de l'universite Fran?ois Rabelais Tours (LI, EA 2101). Une priorite est donnee a l'equipe BdTln sur ce recrutement. Le LI est multi-composantes, multi-sites et multi-equipes. Il comprend quatre-vingts enseignants-chercheurs et chercheurs, dont une trentaine de doctorants. L'equipe BdTln (Bases de donnees et Traitement des langues naturelles) est donc fortement susceptible de recruter. Elle est actuellement composee de trois professeurs, sept ma?tres de conference, huit doctorants et quatre docteurs. Elle est impliquee dans trois projets ANR (Emotirob, Epac, Variling) et un projet PHC (Polonium). Ses thematiques de recherche s'articulent autour de quatre axes : * Entrep?ts et fouille de donnees (contact: Arnaud GIACOMETTI) * Donnees XML et services Web (contact: M?rian HALFELD FERRARI ALVES) * Lexiques computationnels (contact: Denis MAUREL) * Traitement automatique des langues et interaction (contact: Jean-Yves ANTOINE) Une qualification en 27e section est necessaire. Concernant l'enseignement, le candidat recrute devra s'investir dans l'ensemble des formations du Departement d'Informatique de l'UFR Sciences et Techniques de l'Universite Fran?ois Rabelais de Tours. Toutes les formations de ce departement sont localisees sur le Campus de Blois ou est offert un cursus complet en informatique (de la licence au master, avec une licence generale, mention informatique, mais aussi une licence professionnelle "Qualite et Securite dans les Systemes d'Information"). Dans le cadre de la mise en place du nouveau contrat quadriennal 2008-2011, il est important de noter que le Departement d'Informatique proposera a la rentree 2008 une nouvelle specialite de master, intitulee "Systemes d'Information et Analyse Decisionnelle". Dans ce cadre, le candidat devra renforcer les competences de l'equipe pedagogique dans le domaine des systemes d'information (par exemple en web semantique, ingenierie des connaissances, recherche d'information, services web et XML, entrep?ts et fouille de donnees). Pour finir, la personne recrutee devra s'investir en terme d'administration des formations du Departement d'Informatique. Elle sera notamment appelee a participer a la politique d'internationalisation des formations du departement, par exemple dans le cadre du projet europeen EMACS de mise en place d'un master europeen en informatique. Pour toute demande d'informations complementaires, les candidats peuvent prendre contact avec le responsable du Departement d'Informatique, Arnaud GIACOMETTI. Denis Maurel ____________________________________ Professeur Denis Maurel Universite Francois Rabelais Tours LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique) EPU-DI 64 avenue Jean-Portalis 37200 Tours France Tel. (33) 2.47.36.14.35 Telc. (33) 2.47.36.14.22 mailto:denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr http://www.univ-tours.fr/maurel http://www.li.univ-tours.fr http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/BdTln.html http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:11:28 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:11:28 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Symmetric calculi and Ludics for the semantic interpretation (deadline repoussee) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:18:58 +0100 From: Myriam Quatrini Message-Id: <08eb06c2314179dca0db00107e37ea92 at iml.univ-mrs.fr> X-url: http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~quatrini/ESSLLI2008.html X-url: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ DEADLINE EXTENDED : Avril 8th CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Symmetric calculi and Ludics for the semantic interpretation (http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~quatrini/ESSLLI2008.html) August 4-8, 2008 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany Workshop Organizers: Alain Lecomte (SFL - Paris 8), Alain.Lecomte at upmf-grenoble.fr Myriam Quatrini (IML Marseille), quatrini at iml.univ-mrs.fr Workshop Purpose and topics: In recent years there have been some important new developments of methods of dealing with semantic and pragmatic phenomena in Linguistics, inspired by developments in Logic and Theoretical Computer Science. Among these developments, Continuation Theory, Symmetric calculi and Ludics play an important role. Continuation theory dates back from the early seventies (cf. Reynolds, 93) and was at the heart of Programming Languages like Scheme. More recently, a logical account was given to it, by extending the Curry-Howard homomorphism (Griffin, 1990),. This led to several calculi like such as Parigot's lambda-mu-calculus, Curien-Herbelin's lambda-mu-mu-tilde-calculus, Wadler's dual calculus and so on. These calculi are based on the core idea that programs and contexts are dual entities and this is reflected in the symmetry of the "classical" sequents. These systems were prefigured by the so called Lambek-Grishin calculus (Grishin, 83), a calculus extending the Lambek calculus by taking classical sequents into account. Following Curien-Herbelin (Bernardi and Moortgat, 2007) focuses on the connection between Lambek-Grishin calculus with lambda-mu-tilde-calculus and hence with continuation semantics. Classical linear logic (Girard, 87, 95) gives another viewpoint, where the co-product is realized by an authentic parallelisation connective. Linguistic applications have been given since around 2000, particularly by C. Barker (Barker, 2002), K. Chung-chieh Shan (Chung-chieh Shan, 2002) and P. de Groote (de Groote, 2001) who exploited the advantages of these systems in the task of giving several readings of an ambiguous sentence. De Groote (de Groote, 2007) also shows that we gain a new dynamical logic which enables us to elegantly treat phenomena of discourse like anaphora resolution. M. Moortgat and R. Bernardi (Moortgat & Bernardi, 2007) shows how moving to a symmetric categorial grammar, namely Lambek Grishin calculus, helps accounting for discontinous phenomena that are not captured by the asymmetric Lambek calculus. Independently, linear logic was intensively studied in particular by Girard himself who invented "Ludics" as a new conception of logic, where the dualism between syntax and semantics is abolished : the meaning of rules is in the rules themselves. This conception has some similarities with more traditional "Game Semantics" (Lorenz, Lorenzen, Hintikka...) but it is dynamic, in the sense that "strategies" are replaced by interacting processes. Moreover, a new step in abstraction is provided, which consists in stating rule schemata which are only expressed in terms of loci (that we may see as memory cells). The two approaches in this workshop are connected, basically because of their common root : explorations in the meaning of Logics and in particular reflections on one of the symmetrical systems, namely linear logic. Linguistic applications of Ludics remain very embryonic, but some authors have already emphasized that it is suitable for giving a framework in which it is possible to study speech acts and dialogue (Livet, 2007, Troncon, 2006). Other authors have pointed out similarities of the Ludics' philosophy with Wittgenstein's views on language games (Pietarinen, 2006). This workshop will provide an opportunity to study these questions. It will accept several kinds of contributions : theoretical works on continuation theory, symmetric calculi and ludics, applied works of these theory concerning linguistic topics (semantics, pragmatics) and philosophical investigations. Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit an anonymous, extended abstract. Submissions should not exceed 7 pages, including references. Submissions should be in PDF format. Please send your submission electronically using the interface EasyChair with cc to Alain.Lecomte at upmf-grenoble.fr and quatrini at iml.univ-mrs.fr. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee. Workshop format: The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the first week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organisers will give an introduction to the topic. Invited Speakers: Philippe de Groote, LORIA, France. Additional invited speaker to be confirmed Workshop Programme Committee: Raffaella Bernardi (Bolzano) Claire Beyssade (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) Marie-Ren?e Fleury (IML - Marseille) Philippe de Groote (LORIA - Nancy) Hugo Herbelin (Paris) Jean-Baptiste Joinet (Paris 1) Greg Kobele (Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin) Alain Lecomte (SFL - Paris 8) Pierre Livet (Aix en Provence) Richard Moot (LABRI - Bordeaux) Sylvain Pogodalla (LORIA - Nancy) Carl Pollard (Ohio University) Myriam Quatrini (IML Marseille) Christian Retor? (LABRI - Bordeaux) Laurent Roussarie (SFL - Paris 8) Sylvain Salvati (LABRI - Bordeaux) Important Dates: Submission Deadline: April 8, 2008 Notification: May 9, 2008 Preliminary Program: May 12, 2008 ESSLLI Early Registration: May 1, 2008 Final Papers for Proceedings: June 6, 2008 Final Program: June 21, 2008 Workshop Dates: August 4-8, 2008 Local Arrangements: All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Further Information: About the workshop: http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~quatrini/ESSLLI2008.html About ESSLLI: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 10:12:33 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:12:33 +0100 Subject: Seminaire: Description formelle des termes malgaches avec Unitex, 31/03/2008, Marne-la-Vallee Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 17:50:01 +0100 From: Elsa Tolone Message-ID: <1204908601.47d1723960080 at www-igm.univ-mlv.fr> X-url: http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr Prochain s?minaire interne de linguistique : Lundi 31/03/2008 ? 10h30 Par: Tantely Harinjaka RAVELONJATOVO, Universit? d'Antananarivo, Madagascar Titre : Description formelle des termes malgaches avec Unitex R?sum? : Comme nous travaillons dans le cadre de la linguistique de corpus pour notre th?se, les hypoth?ses ressortant du corpus devraient ?tre v?rifi?es avec le m?me corpus. La description formelle des hypoth?ses constituent une ?tape importante non seulement pour la v?rification de ces hypoth?ses mais ?galement pour la reconnaissance d'autres termes ayant les formes similaires ? la description. Seulement, il n'existe presque pas de dictionnaires utilisables avec Unitex pour la langue malgache. Ainsi, une partie de l'expos? sera consacr? ? la technique de description (pr?-traitement). Cette partie vient apr?s la br?ve explication de la th?se et son ?tat d'avancement en g?n?ral. Quelques informations sur la th?se : th?se en linguistique (appliqu?e) sp?cialit? : terminologie. th?me : ?tude des termes en langue malgache, cas du domaine de l'environnement. Lieu : Universit? Paris-Est, b?timent Copernic 4?me ?tage, salle de s?minaire URL : http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr Elsa Tolone ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Mar 8 09:47:18 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:47:18 +0100 Subject: Job: Four (4) positions at the National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester Message-ID: Date: lundi 3 mars 2008 From: "Sophia Ananiadou" Message-Id: <200803042327.02678.pz at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.mib.ac.uk X-url: http://ondex.sourceforge.net/ X-url: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132461 X-url: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/managementandprofessionaljobs/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132593 X-url: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132594 X-url: http://www.nibhi.org.uk/default.aspx X-url: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132596 X-url: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/ The National Centre for Text Mining offers 4 positions: 2 for text mining engineers, 1 for a software engineer and 1 for a project manager. The successful candidates will be part of the growing team of text miners associated with both NaCTeM which is hosted by the School of Computer Science and the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre(http://www.mib.ac.uk). 1) Senior Researcher in Bio-text Mining ? ONDEX project We are looking for one senior researcher in text mining to work for a new BBSRC funded project at the National Centre for Text Mining (www.nactem.ac.uk) in text mining for systems biology (ONDEX project http://ondex.sourceforge.net/). The post is available immediately. The project ends in March 2011. The successful candidate will be appointed at a Research Fellow level and will be part of the growing team of researchers associated with both NaCTeM as well as with several systems biology centres in the UK. Essential skills: a PhD and a good first degree in an area relevant to text mining as well as excellent software engineering skills. The ability to develop algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems and to produce experiments for text mining applications using large data sets. Excellent knowledge of natural language processing/text mining using machine learning techniques and in particular named entity recognition, parsing, information extraction? excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, Windows, Linux and Web Services. A strong publication record is a must. Experience with biomedical text mining is highly desirable. Further details are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132461 Please quote reference: EPS/80023 2) Project Manager for the National Centre for Text Mining The Project Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day organisation, documentation, planning and technical supervision of the activities of the National Centre for Text Mining as a whole. The post is available from 1st May 2008 for a duration of three years. There will also be additional duties of a similar nature relating to research projects NaCTeM is involved in. Applicants for this role should have: 1) A proven track record of expertise in production quality software project management, with experience of the full software development lifecycle. 2) A PhD in Computer Science or closely related discipline preferably with a specialization in text mining 3) Experience of working in a text mining or closely related project. 4) In-depth knowledge of software project management best practice and the ability to implement it. 5) Previous experience of co-ordinating and organising text mining or closely related projects Further details are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/managementandprofessionaljobs/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132593 Please quote reference: EPS/80094 3) Software engineer for the National Centre for Text Mining Applications are invited for a Software Engineer post for a period of three years. The post is available from 1st May 2008. The overall aim of NaCTeM is to provide robust and scalable text mining services. The candidate will support, maintain and upgrade the software infrastructure of the Centre, will integrate software programs and design and develop the Centre's user interfaces. Applicants should have an MSc and a good first degree (minimum 2:1) in Computer Science; they should have excellent software engineering skills and be able to develop algorithms and software for robust applications; excellent knowledge in developing interfaces; excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, PHD, Windows, databases, Linux and Web Services. Further particulars are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132594 Please quote reference: EPS/80096 4) Research Associate in Text Mining (clinical and medical applications) Applications are invited for a Research Associate in Text Mining for a period of 36 months. The post is available from 1st May 2008. The successful candidate will develop text mining tools and services for clinical and medical applications. The candidate will liaise closely with colleagues from the Northwest Institute for BioHealth Informatics (NIBHI) http://www.nibhi.org.uk/default.aspx Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science and they should also hold a good first degree (minimum 2:1) or equivalent in an area relevant to the job description; they should have excellent software engineering skills and be able to develop algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems. Excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java, XML, Windows, Linux and Web Services are all essential. A good publication record would be an advantage. Experience with clinical text mining is highly desirable. Further particulars are available at: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=132596 Please quote reference: EPS/80097 Closing date for all applications: 17 March 2008 Informal enquiries to Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk ========================================================= Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Reader in Text Mining, School of Computer Science Director, National Centre for Text Mining, www.nactem.ac.uk Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, www.mib.ac.uk, University of Manchester 131 Princess Street, M7 1DN http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/ sophia.ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk tel: +44 161 306 3092 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From leqdtmdirectsir at DTMDIRECT.NET Mon Mar 10 15:06:18 2008 From: leqdtmdirectsir at DTMDIRECT.NET (Tracy Bernal) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:06:18 +0200 Subject: Software Message-ID: Are you in search for the best cost in software discounts? 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 11 09:26:08 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:26:08 +0100 Subject: Appel: CogALex-08 (Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon) Coling Workshop held in conjunction with COLING-2008 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:22:22 +0100 From: Michael Zock Message-ID: <47D284FE.5060900 at lif.univ-mrs.fr> X-url: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/style.html X-url: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ CALL FOR PAPERS : CogALex-08 (Coling Workshop held in conjunction with COLING-2008) "Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon: Enhancing the Structure, Indexes and Entry Points of Electronic Dictionaries" CONTEXT : ======== What are people looking for when they use a dictionary? What strategies do they use for search? What do people know before they start? These questions concern the cognitive aspects of the lexicon, and their answers should guide the design of online dictionaries. Many people believe in the virtues of completeness. Yet, the quality of a dictionary depends not only on coverage (number of entries) and granularity, but also on accessibility of information. Access strategies vary with the task (text understanding vs. text production) and the knowledge available at the moment of consultation (word, concept, sound). Unlike readers who look for meanings, writers start from them, searching for the corresponding words. While paper dictionaries are static, permitting only limited strategies for accessing information, their electronic counterparts promise dynamic, proactive search via multiple criteria (meaning, sound, related word) and via diverse access routes. Navigation takes place in a huge conceptual-lexical space, and the results are displayable in a multitude of forms (as trees, as lists, as graphs, or sorted alphabetically, by topic, by frequency). Many lexicographers work nowadays with huge digital corpora, using language technology to build and to maintain the resource. But access to the potential wealth in dictionaries remains limited for the common user. Yet, the new possibilities of electronic media in terms of comfort, speed and flexibility (multiple inputs, polyform outputs) are enormous. We have not even realized their full potential yet. More than just allowing electronic versions of paper-bound dictionaries, computers provide a freedom for rethinking dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedia, etc., a distinction necessary in the past for economical reasons, but no longer justified anymore. The goal of this workshop is to perform the groundwork for the next generation of electronic dictionaries, that is, to study the possibility of integrating the different resources, as well as to explore the feasability of taking the user's needs, knowledge and access strategies into account. TOPICS : ======= For this workshop, we solicit papers addressing any of the following issues: 1. CONCEPTUAL INPUT of a dictionary user: what is present in speakers'/writers' minds when they are generating a message and looking for a (target) word? Does the user have in mind conceptual primitives, semantically related words, some type of partial definition, something like synsets, or something completely different? 2. ACCESS, NAVIGATION and SEARCH STRATEGIES: we would like to be able to access entries by word form but also by meaning and sounds (syllables). Even if input is given in an incomplete, imprecise or degraded form. The more precise the conceptual input, the less navigation should be needed and vice versa. How can we create local search spaces, and provide a user with the tools for navigating within them? 3. INDEXING words and ORGANIZING the lexicon: Words and concepts can be organized in many ways, varying according to typology and conceptual systems. For example, words are traditionally organized alphabetically in Western languages, but by semantic radicals and stroke counts in Chinese. The way how words and concepts are organized affects indexing and access. Indexing must robustly allow for multiple ways of navigation and access. What efficient organizational principles allow the greatest flexibility for access? What about lexical entry standardization? Are universal definitions possible? What about efforts such as the Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) and other global structures for the lexicon? Can ontologies be combined with standards for the lexicon? 4. NLP Applications: Contributors can also address the issue of how such enhanced dictionaries, once embedded in existing NLP applications, can boost performance and help solve lexical and textual-entailment problems such as those evaluated in SEMEVAL 2007, or, more generally, generation problems encountered in the context of summarization, question-answering, interactive paraphrasing or translation. Goal and target audience ======================== The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers involved in the building of electronic dictionaries to discuss modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs (i.e. how to capitalize on the advantages of the digital form). Given the breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many perspectives, including, but not limited to, linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics, language learning, and ergonomics. We request that contributions address computational aspects. Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Deadline: 5th May Notification of Acceptance: 6th June Camera-Ready Papers Due: 1st July Workshop: 24th August Submission Instructions ======================= Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work on the topic areas of the workshop. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, should be avoided. Submitted papers should be no longer than eight (8) pages, 4 in the case of project reports (including data, tables, figures, and references). Please include a one-paragraph abstract of the entire work (about 200 words) and use the Coling 2008 LaTeX or MS Word style sheets (http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/style.html). Submission will be electronic (pdf format only) via the START paper submission webpage: https://www.softconf.com/coling08/CAL08/submit.html Workshop Organizers ================ Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille) Churen Huang (Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) Programme Committee =================== * Slaven Bilac, Google-Tokyo, Japan * Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland * Dan Cristea, University of Iasi, Romania * Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton, USA * Olivier Ferret, CEA LIST, France * Thierry Fontenelle, Microsoft, Redmont * Gregory Grefenstette, CEA LIST, France * Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada * Ed Hovy, ISI, Los Angeles, USA * Chu-Ren Huang, Sinica, Taiwan * Terry Joyce, Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan * Adam Kilgarriff, Brighton, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK * Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal, Canada * Dekang Lin, Google, Mountain View, California, USA * Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA * Alain Polgu?re, University of Montreal, Canada * Reinhard Rapp, university of Tarragona, Spain * Sabine Schulte im Walde, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Gilles Serasset, Imag, Grenoble, France * Anna Sinopalnikova, FIT, BUT, Brno, Czech Republic * Takenobu Tokunaga, Titech, Tokyo, Japan * Dan Tufis, RACAI, Bucharest, Romania * Jean V?ronis, University of Aix-Marseille, France * Yorick Wilks, Oxford Internet Institute, UK * Michael Zock LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France * Pierre Zweigenbaum, Limsi, Orsay, France Contact Person and workshop website =================================== Michael Zock (michael.zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr) http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 11 09:26:49 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:26:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:03:53 +0100 From: J?rgen Villadsen Message-ID: <20080310150353351.4F0640D361CE456A at nbjv> X-url: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ X-url: http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/ CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 27 MARCH 2008 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008) organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany Selected and extended papers will be included in a volume of Studies in Computational Intelligence published by Springer. 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Message-Id: <68B2CD70-6954-43E1-BA9B-C3E0BAE977F9 at linguist.jussieu.fr> X-url: http://alpage.inria.fr/seminaire.fr.html X-url: http://li.linguist.jussieu.fr ****************** 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 7 avril, Alexandros Tantos nous parlera de : Interpreting Discourses based on Lexical Semantic Knowledge. Abstract: The aim of this talk is to investigate the enterprise of exploiting lexical semantic knowledge for discourse purposes. In the first part of the paper, I demonstrate that event-based approaches are unable to explain the ambiguous behavior of a whole class of verbs, those called lexical causative verbs in linguistics. Danlos (2000) Asher and Lascarides (2003) present a promising account of lexicalized causation that shows the dependence of verbs on the discourse context and the dependence of discourse inference on lexical knowledge. 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The earlier workshops in this series (see the first at http://icon.shef.ac.uk/meetings/bellagio/) were highly successful at getting industry groups to display their interests and prototypes as did university and independent researchers. Since 2000, there has been a great upsurge in research funding, and another aim of the meeting will be to bring together members of currently active research consortia in the EU and US, such as CALLAS, CALO, COSY, AMIDA, INDIGO, SOPRANO and others; the workshop is being held under the auspices of the EU 6FP IP COMPANIONS (www. companions-project.org)(2006-2010). Bellagio and the Villa Serbelloni are among the finest spots in the world for thought and reflection: see http://www.villaserbelloni.com/ IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts due: 1 July 2008 Authors notified: 31 July 2008 Final papers due: 5 September 2008 Abstracts should use a simple template (modelled on two-column AISB format) at (Word version): http://www.companions-project.org/downloads/Bellagio08_template.doc Abstracts should not exceed two pages. Final papers should not exceed five pages. GENERAL CHAIR Yorick Wilks (U. Sheffield) PROGRAM COMMITTEE James Allen (U. West Florida) Ellizabeth Andre (U. Augsburg) David Benyon (Napier U.) Christopher Brewster (U. Sheffield) Harry Bunt ( U. Tilburg) Marc Cavazza (U. Teessside) Emmet Coin (ejTalk, USA) Oliver Lemon (U. Edinburgh) Bjorn Gamback (SICS, Stockholm) Louise Guthrie (U. Sheffield) Aravind Joshi (U. Pennsylvania) Anton Nijholt (U. Twente) Catherine Pelachaud (U. Paris) Steve Pulman (U. Oxford) Akira Shimazu (JAIST, Japan) Tomek Strzalkowski (U. Albany) Markku Turunen (U. Tampere) Mats Wiren (U. Stockholm) INVITED TALKS (not all yet confirmed) James Allen (U. West Florida) Aude Billard (EPFL, Geneva) Harry Bunt ( U. Tilburg) Marc Cavazza (U. Teessside) Oliver Lemon (U. Edinburgh) Tim Paek (Microsoft Research, Redmond) REGISTRATION Information and an online payment method will be posted on the project site http://www.companions-project.org/events/200810_bellagio.cfm and an email circular will tell you registration is open. At that time we shall also post travel and hotel information etc. Those wishing to ensure that they get rooms in the Villa Serbelloni itself should book now at the website above, mentioning the workshop and asking for the special price. The registration fee (under 400 euro and 200 euro for full-time students) will include a welcome reception in the Villa as well as a special lunch on the terrace over Lake Como. 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La d?tection ou l'extraction automatique d'opinions est un domaine de recherche en plein essor. Elle devient essentielle, par exemple pour le d?veloppement de t?ches de veille (technologique, marketing, concurrentielle, soci?tale) qui peuvent se r?v?ler cruciales pour les entreprises et trouve de tr?s nombreux domaines d'applications. Nous pouvons citer, par exemple, les clients qui souhaitent conna?tre comment ?valuer un produit avant de l'acheter, l'image que les clients peuvent se faire d'une entreprise, la d?tection de rumeurs (buzz) sur le web. Cependant, les approches traditionnelles de fouilles de donn?es ne sont plus adapt?es ? un contexte dans lequel il faut appr?hender non seulement de gros volumes de donn?es mais s'int?resser ? la qualit? des donn?es : comment d?terminer des avis n?gatifs dans des documents aussi divers que des blogs ou des journaux ? Comment valider/?valuer les r?sultats obtenus ? quel type de donn?es utiliser ? Une approche pluridisciplinaire regroupant diff?rentes communaut?s d'INFORSID (fouille de donn?es, aide ? la d?cision, mod?lisation des connaissances, TAL, Linguistique, etc) parait aujourd'hui essentielle au d?veloppement rigoureux de cette th?matique. En 2007, le d?fi DEFT (DEfi Fouille de Textes) avait pour objectif la classification de textes en fonction du jugement favorable ou d?favorable qu'ils expriment. Nous souhaitons, dans cet atelier, ?tendre cette probl?matique afin de proposer une r?flexion globale sur les approches de traitement automatique des donn?es d'opinion ? mettre en oeuvre. Les d?fis internationaux tel que TREC Blog proposent ?galement des t?ches propres aux traitements de textes d'opinions. Ainsi, notre objectif est de rassembler les chercheurs int?ress?s par une telle th?matique, de pr?senter les travaux r?alis?s dans ce domaine et de confronter les points de vue de diff?rentes disciplines. == THEMES (liste non limitative) == - Cat?gorisation automatique de textes d'opinion - Ontologies et donn?es d'opinion - Aide ? la d?cision pour les donn?es d'opinion - Visualisation pour une analyse des donn?es d'opinion - Interrogation des donn?es d'opinion - Acquisition de bases de donn?es d'opinion - Veille technologique pour l'analyse des opinions - D?tection de tendances dans les opinions - Fouille du Web pour acqu?rir et/ou analyser des textes d'opinion - TAL ? partir de textes d'opinion - Analyse de discours == SOUMISSIONS == Les articles (soumis et en version finale) peuvent ?tre r?dig?s en fran?ais ou en anglais, sur environ 12 pages incluant toutes les r?f?rences et les figures. Les articles pourront ?tre beaucoup plus courts, en particulier pour les articles pr?sentant un travail qui d?bute. Les soumissions se feront au format PDF. Le format requis pour les actes de l'atelier FODOP 2008 est le m?me que celui de la conf?rence INFORSID'08 (format Herm?s). Les soumissions devront ?tre envoy?es aux adresses ci-dessous avant le 31 mars 2008 : fodop08 at lirmm.fr == CALENDRIER == ------------------------------------------ 31 mars 2008 : Soumission des articles 30 avril 2008 : Notification aux auteurs 9 mai 2008 : Soumission de la version finale des articles 27 mai 2008 : Atelier FODOP'08 ------------------------------------------ == COMITE DE PROGRAMME == - N. Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT) - C. Berrut (LIG) - V. Claveau (IRISA) - G. Dray (LGI2P) - M. El-B?ze (LIA) - P. Gallinari (LIP6) - J.-G. Ganascia (LIP6) - M. Hurault-Plantet (LIMSI) - Y. Kodratoff (LRI) - A. Laurent (LIRMM) - E. M?tais (CEDRIC) - J. Mothe (IRIT) - P. Paroubek (LIMSI) - M. Planti? (LGI2P) - V. Prince (LIRMM) - C. Roche (LISTIC) - M. Teisseire (LIRMM) == ORGANISATEURS == Mathieu Roche LIRMM, UMR 5506, Universit? 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Contributions of up to 3,000 words should be emailed to the editor by July 01/2008 Peter Boltuc, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza Philosophy Department, UHB 4026 Springfield, IL 62-703, USA University Professor on Online Learning, SGH pboltu at sgh.waw.pl Editor, APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers http://www.apaonline.org/apa/publications/newsletters/v07n1/Computers.pdf http://www.apaonline.org/apa/publications/newsletters/v06n2/Computers.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:42:09 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:42:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: Conference TOTh, extension de date limite Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:34:29 +0100 From: Luc Damas Message-ID: <47DA3895.9060506 at univ-savoie.fr> X-url: http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Appel ? communications - EXTENSION DE DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION NOUVELLE DATE : 31 MARS 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- TOTh : Terminologie & Ontologie : Th?ories et Applications Annecy - 5 & 6 juin 2008 http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Comment mod?liser les connaissances m?tiers ? Les mutations technologiques et ?conomiques ont modifi? profond?ment nos structures soci?tales. La notion de communaut? est devenue centrale, rendant plus manifestes les besoins de communication et de partage de l'information. Information ?rig?e au rang de connaissance qui constitue la v?ritable richesse de nos soci?t?s et qui pose les probl?mes de leur capitalisation et de leur exploitation. Autant de besoins et de probl?mes qui font des langues de sp?cialit?, de la terminologie et de l'ing?nierie des connaissances des disciplines incontournables. La soci?t? num?rique, ? travers les applications de traitement de l'information, milite pour une approche concert?e de ces disciplines : importance des langues de sp?cialit? et de la terminologie pour la communication et l'expression des connaissances, mais aussi impact de la repr?sentation des connaissances et des mod?les informatiques sur la terminologie et les langues de sp?cialit? (parmi les principales questions abord?es figure celle des ontologies). Les conf?rences TOTh se situent dans le prolongement des colloques annuels de la Soci?t? fran?aise de terminologie, organis?s en d?cembre ? l'Ecole normale sup?rieure de la rue d'Ulm, afin d'approfondir et de diversifier les probl?matiques qui y sont abord?es. Parmi les th?mes qui rel?vent des conf?rences TOTh, citons (liste non exhaustive) : Axe linguistique : - Les langues de sp?cialit?, la socioterminologie en particulier en direction des entreprises, l'am?nagement linguistique (prescription, normalisation), - Les dictionnaires, th?saurus, lexiques et produits terminologiques, - La construction et la maintenance de ressources terminologiques : th?ories du sens, importance et limite de la linguistique textuelle (traitement de corpus)... - Multilinguisme et traduction. Axe conceptuel : - Principes terminologiques pour la construction des syst?mes notionnels, - La repr?sentation et la gestion des connaissances : mod?lisation des concepts, construction d'ontologies, transmissibilit? des ontologies... - Apport de l'intelligence artificielle, de la linguistique, de l'?pist?mologie, des syst?mes formels (logique des descriptions par exemple). Axe applicatif : - Les environnements logiciels : construction et maintenance des terminologies, th?saurus, dictionnaires, ontologies... - Les applications informatiques mettant en jeu des ressources terminologiques et/ou des bases de connaissances : syst?mes d'information, gestion documentaire (recherche d'information, classification), gestion des connaissances, web s?mantique, ing?nierie collaborative, etc. - L'?valuation des outils d'acquisition et de manipulation, l'?volution des normes et standards dans le domaine des ressources linguistiques et ontologiques. Publics & disciplines concern?s: -------------------------------- Les conf?rences TOTh ont pour principal objectif de rassembler industriels, chercheurs, utilisateurs et formateurs dont les pr?occupations rel?vent des langues de sp?cialit?, de la terminologie et de l'ing?nierie des connaissances ; et de fa?on plus g?n?rale toutes personnes int?ress?es par la gestion de l'information o? les dimensions li?es ? la langue et ? la connaissance tiennent une place pr?pond?rante. Elles se veulent un lieu d'?change et de partage o? sont expos?s probl?mes, solutions et retours d'exp?riences tant sur le plan th?orique qu'applicatif ; ainsi que les nouvelles tendances et perspectives des disciplines associ?es : terminologie, linguistique, sciences de l'information, intelligence artificielle, syst?mes d'information, ing?nierie collaborative, etc. Comit? Scientifique : Responsable : Christophe Roche ------------------------------------------------------ * Comit? de pilotage o Lo?c Depecker Professeur, Universit? de Sorbonne nouvelle o Andr? Manificat Directeur, GRETh o Christophe Roche Professeur, Universit? de Savoie o Philippe Thoiron Professeur ?m?rite, Universit? de Lyon II * Comit? de programme o Bruno de Bess? Professeur, Universit? de Gen?ve o Pierre Blanc EDF SEPTEN o Dani?le Bourcier CNRS, CERSA Paris o Marc van Campenhoudt Professeur, Institut sup?rieur d'interpr?tation et de Traduction de Bruxelles o Danielle Candel CNRS, Universit? Paris Diderot o St?phane Chaudiron Professeur, Universit? de Lille III o Viviane Cohen Information System Enterprise Architecture & Anticipation, France T?l?com o Rute Costa Professeur, Universit? de Lisbonne o Luc Damas MCF, Universit? de Savoie o Sylvie Despr?s MCF, Universit? Paris XIII o Anne Dourgnon-Hanoune EDF R&D o Fran?ois Gaudin Professeur, Universit? de Rouen o Jean-Yves Gresser ancien Directeur ? la Banque de France o Ollivier Haemmerl? Professeur, Universit? de Toulouse o Jean-Paul Haton Professeur, Universit? de Nancy 1 o Mich?le Hudon Professeur, Universit? de Montr?al o John Humbley Professeur, Universit? Paris 7 o Michel IDA Directeur MINATEC, CEA o Hendrik Kockaert Professeur, Lessius Hogeschool (Anvers) o Michel L?onard Professeur, Universit? de Gen?ve o Pierre Lerat Professeur honoraire, Universit? Paris XIII o Widad Mustafa Professeur, Universit? de Lille III o Jean Quirion Professeur, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais o Renato Reinau Suva, Lucerne o Fran?ois Rousselot MCF, Universit? de Strasbourg o G?rard Sabah CNRS, Orsay o Michel Simonet CNRS Grenoble o Marcus Spies Professeur, Universit? de Munich o Dardo de Vecchi Professeur associ?, Euro-Med Marseille Dates importantes : ------------------- - Date limite de soumission : 16 mars 2008 - Notification d'acceptation aux auteurs : 20 avril 2008 Soumissions : luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr Contacts : ---------- Christophe Roche : responsable scientifique christophe.roche at univ-savoie.fr - t?l. : 04 79 75 87 79 Luc Damas : responsable de l'organisation luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr - t?l. : 04 79 75 87 03 Joelle Pellet : secr?tariat toth at porphyre.org t?l. : 04 50 09 65 80 - fax : 04 50 09 65 59 Site : www.porphyre.org/toth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:43:19 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:43:19 +0100 Subject: Appel: MLMI 2008 (5th Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:20:19 +0100 From: Andrei Popescu-Belis Message-ID: <47DAA5C3.9040406 at idiap.ch> X-url: http://barracuda.idiap.ch:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-url: http://www.mlmi.info X-url: http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=special_session X-url: http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=ami_career_day X-url: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi08/ X-url: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 MLMI 2008 second call for papers (apologies for multiple postings): 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI 2008) 8-10 September 2008 Utrecht, The Netherlands http://www.mlmi.info The fifth MLMI workshop will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, following successful workshops in Martigny (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Washington (2006) and Brno (2007). The MLMI joint multi-disciplinary workshops bring together researchers from the different communities working on the common theme of advanced machine learning algorithms applied to multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction. MLMI 2008 will also feature a special session on user requirements and evaluation of meeting browsers, and the AMI Career Day. *Important dates* Submission of papers/posters: Monday, 31 March 2008 Acceptance notifications: Monday, 12 May 2008 Camera-ready versions of papers: Monday, 16 June 2008 Workshop: 8-10 September 2008 *Workshop topics* MLMI 2008 will feature talks (including a number of invited speakers), posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit proposals in the following areas of interest, related to machine learning and multimodal interaction: - human-human communication modeling - audio-visual perception of humans - human-computer interaction modeling - speech processing - image and video processing - multimodal processing, fusion and fission - multimodal discourse and dialogue modeling - multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization - annotation and browsing of multimodal data - machine learning algorithms and their applications to the topics above The special session on user requirements and evaluation of meeting assistants/browsers has a separate call for papers with additional topics and a later deadline (check http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=special_session). *Satellite events* MLMI 2008 will feature the AMI Career Day (http://www.mlmi.info/index.php?id=ami_career_day). To propose other special sessions or satellite events, please contact the special session chair. MLMI 2008 is broadly collocated with a number of events in related domains: Mobile HCI 2008, 2-5 September, in Amsterdam; FG 2008, 17-19 September, in Amsterdam; ECML 2008, 15-19 September, in Antwerp; and Measuring Behavior 2008, 26-29 August, in Maastricht. *Guidelines for submission* The workshop proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The first four editions of MLMI were published as LNCS 3361, 3869, 4299, and 4892. However, unlike previous MLMIs, the proceedings of MLMI 2008 will be printed before the workshop and will be already available onsite to MLMI 2008 participants. Submissions are invited either as long papers (12 pages) or as short papers (6 pages), and may include a demonstration proposal. Upon acceptance of a paper, the Program Committee will also assign to it a presentation format, oral or poster, taking into account: (a) the most suitable format given the content of the paper; (b) the length of the paper (long papers are more likely to be presented orally); (c) the preferences expressed by the authors. Please submit PDF files using the submission website at http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi08/, following the Springer LNCS format for proceedings and other multi-author volumes (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0).. Please indicate in the comments for the PC if a demo is intended, and if the paper is a special session submission. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, both long and short, are required to follow the LNCS guidelines and to take into account the reviewers' comments. Authors of accepted short papers are encouraged to turn them into long papers for the proceedings. *Venue* Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands, with historic roots back to the Roman Empire. Utrecht hosts one of the bigger universities in the country, and with its historic centre and the many students it provides an excellent atmosphere for social activities in- or outside the workshop community. Utrecht is centrally located in the Netherlands, and has direct train connections to the major cities and Schiphol International Airport. TNO, organizer of MLMI 2008, is a not-for-profit research organization. TNO speech technological research is carried out in Soesterberg, at TNO Human Factors, and has research areas in ASR, speaker and language recognition, and word and event spotting. The workshop will be held in "Ottone", a beautiful old building near the "Singel", the canal which encircles the city center. The conference hall combines a spacious setting with a warm and friendly ambiance. *Organizing Committee* David van Leeuwen, TNO (Organization Chair) Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (Special Sessions Chair) Andrei Popescu-Belis, IDIAP Research Institute (Programme Co-chair) Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe (Programme Co-chair) *Programme Committee* * Jan Alexandersson, DFKI * Tilman Becker, DFKI * Samy Bengio, Google Inc. * Herve Bourlard, IDIAP * Lukas Burget, Brno University of Technology * Nick Campbell, ATR * Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh * Rolf Carlson, KTH * Honza Cernocky, Brno University of Technology * Trevor Darrell, MIT * John Dines, IDIAP * Gerald Friedland, ICSI * Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology * John Garofolo, NIST * Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP * Thomas Hain, University of Sheffield * Mary Harper, University of Maryland * James Henderson, University of Geneva * Hynek Hermansky, IDIAP * Simon King, University of Edinburgh * Denis Lalanne, University of Fribourg * David van Leeuwen, TNO * Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas (Area Chair) * Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva * Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI * Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong * Ludek Muller, University of West Bohemia * Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (Area Chair) * Fabio Pianesi, FBK-IRST (Area Chair) * Andrei Popescu-Belis, IDIAP (Programme Co-chair) * Gerasimos Potamianos, IBM T.J. Watson (Area Chair) * Ganesh Ramaswamy, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center * Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh * Gerhard Sagerer, University of Bielefeld (Area Chair) * Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe and CMU * Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam * Jan Sedivy, Google Inc. * Elizabeth Shriberg, SRI and ICSI * Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe (Programme Co-chair) * Jean-Philippe Thiran, EPFL * Matthew Turk, UCSB * Enrique Vidal, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia * Jie Yang, CMU ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 14 20:46:01 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:46:01 +0100 Subject: Job: Stage, Moteur de recherche, EDF Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:58:49 +0100 From: Cecile GROS Message-ID: Stage Moteur de recherche ? EDF ============================= Contexte Le D?partement Internet de la Direction Informatique et Telecom a en charge la promotion des nouvelles technologies au sein d?EDF. Afin de mener ? bien cette mission il a la responsabilit? d?un certain nombre d?Etudes d?Inter?t G?n?ral dont l?objectif est d?avoir un regard sur les solutions qu?il sera pertinent d?inclure dans le catalogue des solutions r?f?renc?es de l?entreprise. Ces ?tudes comportent g?n?ralement cinq phases ? sp?cification fonctionnelle du besoin en collaboration avec une ma?trise d?ouvrage identifi?e, cette phase comprend si n?cessaire un maquettage, une ?tude ergonomique ? sp?cification technique : d?finition de l?architecture technique, choix des outils?.. ? r?alisation : param?trage/d?veloppement ? mise en ?uvre pouvant aller jusqu?? un pilote repr?sentatif d?ploy? sur des utilisateurs. ? retour d?exp?rience pour prise de d?cision. Le stage propos? ci-dessous s?inscrit dans cette dynamique, il est pr?vu pour une dur?e minimale de 3 mois extensibles ? 6 mois. Le stagiaire sera int?gr? dans les ?quipes du D?partement qui dispose de toutes les comp?tences pour guider le stagiaire dans son travail. Le stage d?bute d?s que possible ? partir de mars 2008. Sujet de stage La disponibilit? d?un moteur de recherche pertinent, transverse, indexant tous les fonds documentaires utiles et respectant les droits d?acc?s est une n?cessit? dans l?entreprise d?aujourd?hui. Une solution sp?cifique pour la recherche des documents stock?s sur le poste local doit ?tre trouv?e. Le moteur de recherche de Vista apportera en effet un premier niveau de services, mais ne permettra pas la recherche en mode d?connect? dans les bases Quickr (outil de travail collaboratif retenu par EDF) ni la recherche sur les bases Notes e-mail ou les bases documentaires personnelles des utilisateurs. EDF dispose dans son catalogue de solution de l?outil K2 (Verity) de la soci?t? Autonomy. Ce moteur de recherche est mis en place sur certains Intranet ou Internet de l?entreprise. Le stage consiste en : ? La v?rification de la pertinence de K2 sur les fonds actuellement index?, ? La possibilit? d??tendre K2 ? d?autres fonds (Quickr, bases Notes, poste local, ?) ? Une ?tude des nouvelles solutions disponibles sur le march? (Google, Sinequa, Exalead) ? la fois sur le poste de travail mais aussi au niveau serveur. Cette ?tude pourra aborder ?galement aborder des sujets connexes tels que la cat?gorisation automatique, la recherche de contenus non textuels, la recherche cross-langage, la veille technologique. Comp?tences requises ? Connaissance informatique g?n?raliste ? Bonne autonomie, aptitude ? rendre compte de son travail ? 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:44:37 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:44:37 +0100 Subject: Appel: Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:07:57 +0100 From: Jakub.Piskorski at jrc.it Message-id: X-url: http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008 X-url: http://www.fastar.org X-url: http://forums.csc.fi/kitwiki/pilot/view/KitWiki/FsmReg X-url: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 X-url: http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008/m/submission.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing FSMNLP 2008 Seventh International Workshop SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 11-12 September 2008, Ispra, Italy http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008 contact: fsmnlp2008 [ad] jrc [dot] it ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This year FSMNLP is merged with the FASTAR (Finite Automata Systems - Theoretical and Applied Research) workshop (http://www.fastar.org). AIM AND SCOPE The aim of the FSMNLP 2008 is to bring together members of the research and industrial community working on finite-state based models in language technology, computational linguistics, web mining, linguistics, and cognitive science or on related theory and methods in fields such as computer science and mathematics. The workshop will be a forum for researchers and practicioners working * on NLP applications, * on the theoretical and implementation aspects, or * on their combination. The special theme of FSMNLP 2008 centers around high performance finite-state devices in large-scale natural language text processing systems and applications. We invite in particular novel high-quality papers related to the topics including: * practices and experience in deployment of finite-state techniques in real-world applications processing massive amount of natural language data * industrial-strength finite-state pattern engines for information retrieval, information extraction and related text-mining tasks * scalability issues in FS-based large-scale text processing systems * efficient finite-state methods in search engines * implementation, construction, compression and processing techniques for huge finite-state devices and networks * novel application and efficiency-oriented finite-state paradigms (compilation and processing), e.g., finite-state devices with rich label annotatations, unification-based finite-state devices * comparative studies of time and space efficient finite-state methods (vs. other techniques) utilized in NLP applications * novel appllication areas for finite-state devices in text processing and information management systems * design patterns for implementing finite-state devices and toolkits We also invite submissions that are related to the traditional FSMNLP themes including but not limited to: 1. NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods The topic includes but is not restricted to: * speech, sign language, phonology, hyphenation, prosody, * scripts, text normalization, segmentation, tokenization, indexing, * morphology, stemming, lemmatisation, information retrieval, web mining, spelling correction, * syntax, POS tagging, partial parsing, disambiguation, information extraction, question answering * machine translation, translation memories, glossing, dialect adaptation, * annotated corpora and treebanks, semi-automatic annotation, error mining, searching 2. Finite-state models of language With this more focused topic (inside 1) we invite papers on aspects that motivate sufficiency of finite-state methods or their subsets for capturing various requirements of natural language processing. The topic includes but is not restricted to: * performance, linguistic applicability, finite-state hypotheses * Zipf's law and coverage, model checking against finite corpora * regular approximations under parameterized complexity, limitations and definitions of relevant complexities such as ambiguity, recursion, crossings, rule applications, constraint violations, reduplication, exponents, discontinuity, path-width, and induction depth * similarity inferences, dissimilation, segmental length, counter-freeness, asynchronous machines * garden-path sentences, deterministic parsing, expected parses, Markov chains * incremental parsing, uncertainty, reliability/variance in stochastic parsing, linear sequential machines 3. Practices for building lexical transducers for the world's languages. The topic accounts for usability of finite-state methods in NLP. It includes but is not restricted to: * required user training and consultation, learning curve of non-specialists * questionnaires, discovery methods, adaptive computer-aided glossing and interlinearization * example-based grammars, unsupervised learning, semi-automatic learning, user-driven learning (see topic 5 too) * low literacy level and restricted availability of training data, writing systems/phonology under development, new non-Roman scripts, endangered languages * linguist's workbenches, stealth-to-wealth parser development * experiences of using existing tools (e.g. TWOL) for computational morphology and phonology 4. Specification and implementation of sets, relations and multiplicities in NLP using finite state devices The topic includes but is not restricted to: * regular rule formalisms, grammar systems, expressions, operations, closure properties, complexities * algorithms for compilation, approximation, manipulation, optimization, and lazy evaluation of finite machines * finite string and tree automata, transducers, morphisms and bimorphisms * weights, registers, multiple tapes, alphabets, state covers and partitions, representations * locality, constraint propagation, star-free languages, data vs. query complexity * logical specification, MSO(SLR,matches), FO(Str,<), LTL, generalized restriction, local grammars * multi-tape automata, same-length relations and partition-based morphology, Semitic morphology * autosegmental phonology, shuffle, trajectories, synchronization, segmental anchoring, alignment constraints, syllable structure, partial-order reductions * varieties of regular languages and relations, descriptive complexity of finite-state based grammars * automaton-based approaches to declarative constraint grammars, constraints in optimality theory * parallel corpus annotations, register automata, acyclic timed automata 5. Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language This topic includes but is not restricted to: * learning regular rule systems, learning topologies of finite automata and transducers * parameter estimation and smoothing, lexical openness * computer-driven grammar writing, user-driven grammar learning, discovery procedures * data scarcity, realistic variations of Gold's model, learnability and cognitive science * incompletely specified finite-state networks * model-theoretic grammars, gradient well/ill-formedness 6. Finite-state manipulation software (with relevance to the above themes) This topic includes but is not restricted to * regular expression pre-compilers such as regexopt, xfst2fsa, standards and interfaces for finite-state based software components, conversion tools * tools such as LEXC, Lextools, Intex, XFST, FSM, GRM, WFSC, FIRE Engine, FADD, FSA/UTR, SRILM, FIRE Station and Grail * free or almost free software such as MIT FST, Carmel, RWTH FSA, FSA Utilities, FSM<2.0>, Unitex, OpenFIRE, OpenFST, Vaucanson, SFST, PCKIMMO, MONA, Hopskip, ASTL, UCFSM, HaLeX, SML, and WFST (see http://forums.csc.fi/kitwiki/pilot/view/KitWiki/FsmReg for more examples) * results obtainable with such exploration tools as automata, Autographe, Amore, and TESTAS * visualization tools such as Graphviz and Vaucanson-G * language-specific resources and descriptions, freely available benchmarking resources The descriptions of the topics above are not meant to be complete, and should extend to cover all traditional FSMNLP topics. Submitted papers or abstracts may fall in several categories. SUBMISSION We expect three kinds of submissions: - full papers, - short papers, and - interactive software demos. Submissions are electronic and in PDF format via a web-based submission server. Authors are encouraged to use Springer LNCS style (Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes) for LaTeX in producing the PDF document. More information on this style can be found at: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 The page limit for full papers is 12 pages, whereas short papers and software demo descriptions are limited to 6 pages. The information about the author(s) should be omitted in the submitted papers since the review process wil be blind. More detailed information about submission is available on: http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008/m/submission.html PUBLICATION The papers and abstracts will be published in FSMNLP 2008 proceedings (paper version). We are currently negotiating publishing the postproceedings with a scientific press company. Publication of extended and revised versions of the papers in a special journal issue is planned too. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions due: 11 May Notification of acceptance: 11 June Camera-ready versions due: 30 June PROGRAM COMMITTEE Cyril Allauzen (Google Research, New York, USA) Francisco Casacuberta (Instituto Tecnologico De Inform?tica, Valencia, Spain) Jean-Marc Champarnaud (Universit? de Rouen, France) Maxime Crochemore (Department of Computer Science, King's College London, U.K.) Jan Daciuk (Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland) Karin Haenelt (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and University of Heidelberg, Germany) Thomas Hanneforth (University of Potsdam, Germany) Colin de la Higuera (Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France) Andr? Kempe (Yahoo Search Technologies, Paris, France) Derrick Kourie (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Andras Kornai (Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary and MetaCarta, Cambridge, USA) Marcus Kracht (Univeristy of California, Los Angeles, USA) Hans-Ulrich Krieger (DFKI GmbH, Saarbr?cken, Germany) Eric Laporte (Universit? de Marne-la-Vall?e, France) Stoyan Mihov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria) Herman Ney (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy) Michael Riley (Google Research, New York, USA) Strahil Ristov (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia) Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw University, Poland) Jacques Sakarovitch (Ecole nationale sup?rieure des T?l?communications, Paris, France) Max Silberztein (Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France) Wojciech Skut (Google Research, Mountain View, USA) Bruce Watson (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel) Atro Voutilainen (Connexor Oy, Finland) Anssi Yli Jyr? 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Scientific Computing Ltd., Espoo, Finland) Sheng Yu (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:46:30 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:46:30 +0100 Subject: Appel: PSC 2008 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:37:26 +0100 (MET) From: holub at fel.cvut.cz Message-Id: <200803161637.m2GGbQ18018028 at sunray1.felk.cvut.cz> X-url: http://www.stringology.org X-url: http://www.stringology.org/event/2008 X-url: http://www.stringology.org/pscproc2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prague Stringology Conference 2008 13th event of the Prague Stringology Club http://www.stringology.org Call for Papers Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-3, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PSC'08 is the 13th event of the Prague Stringology Club. It is an international conference focusing on stringology and related areas. It is organized annually by the Prague Stringology Club, a research group in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. TOPICS: Stringology is a part of algorithmic research that deals with the processing of text strings. It has existed for at least thirty years and developed into a respected subfield of its own. The last fifteen years have produced an explosion of new results. This progress is due in part to the human genome effort, an area to which string algorithms make important contributions. The topics of the conference include but are not limited to: * algorithms for pattern matching in strings, images and trees * data structures (automata, trees etc.) for pattern matching in strings, images and trees * coding and data compression * bioinformatics * information retrieval * string processing algorithms in databases * searching for regularities * natural language processing SUBMISSION: Authors are cordially invited to submit their full papers (PostScript or PDF format, 10-15 pages, A4 page format) by May 12, 2008. The paper should start with the title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and a one-paragraph summary of the results and ideas. The paper should be submitted via submission server. For details see conference web page http://www.stringology.org/event/2008. For their final version the papers are required to be prepared using our new LaTeX style available at http://www.stringology.org/pscproc2 which has an interface compatible to LNCS style. IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission of Papers: May 12, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: June 26, 2008 * Registration: July 15, 2008 * Final Version Due: July 15, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * A. Amir, Bar Ilan University, Israel * G. Andrejkova, P. J. Safarik University, Slovakia * M. Crochemore, University of Marne-la-Vallee, France, and King's College London, UK * J. Holub (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * C. S. Iliopoulos, King's College London, UK * S. T. Klein, Bar Ilan University, Israel * T. Lecroq, University of Rouen, France * B. Melichar (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * Y. Pinzon, National University of Colombia, Colombia * M.-F. Sagot, Inria Rhone-Alpes, France * W. F. Smyth, McMaster University, Canada, and Curtin University of Technology, Australia * B. W. Watson, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: * M. Balik (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * J. Holub (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * B. Melichar, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * L. Vagner, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * M. Voracek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic * J. Zdarek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic HISTORY: PSC'08 was preceded by Prague Stringology Workshops in 1996-2000 and by Prague Stringology Conferences in 2001-2006. Each year proceedings are prepared for the conference. They are published by Czech Technical University in Prague and are also available from the PSC web pages. Selected papers from the later workshops were also published in a special issue of the journal Kybernetika. Selected papers from the 2002-2006 conferences were then published in the Nordic Journal of Computing, Journal of Automata, Languages, and Combinatorics, and International Journal of Foundations in Computer Science. LOCATION: PSC'08 will be held in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague on September 1-3, 2008. The working language is English. As usual, accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by the Czech Technical University in Prague and distributed at the conference. After further refereeing, selected papers will then be published in an international journal. The conference venue is located in the historical center of Prague on which all cultural epochs left their mark and it is for centuries a political, social, and cultural center of European significance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:48:05 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:48:05 +0100 Subject: Sujet de these: CIFRE, cartographie de l'information technologique et strategique Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:05:23 +0100 From: Thibault ROY - TecKnowMetrix Message-Id: Titre de la th?se : Cartographie de l'information technologique et strat?gique : Vers de nouveaux mod?les et outils linguistiques et informatiques pour la gestion et l'acc?s ? une base de documents scientifiques et de propri?t? intellectuelle Mots-cl?s : traitement automatique des langues, visualisation et cartographie de l'information, informatique documentaire, bibliom?trie, veille, statistiques et analyses des donn?es TecKnowMetrix est une jeune soci?t? innovante issue de l'universit? Pierre Mend?s France et de l'INRA bas?e sur Voiron, ? proximit? de Grenoble. Elle con?oit et d?veloppe des m?thodes et des outils d'analyse de l'information scientifique et technologique. De telles informations sont par exemple contenues dans des bases de donn?es de brevets et publications, ainsi que sur diff?rents documents issus de la Toile. L'objectif de TecKnowMetrix est de d?livrer une vision synth?tique, une cartographie, d'un environnement technologique complexe. Cette cartographie est destin?e ? des dirigeants d'entreprises, des responsables de R&D, des chercheurs, des investisseurs ou encore des ?lus de collectivit?s locales et elle est utile au pilotage de projets de recherche des laboratoires publics ou des groupes industriels innovants. Le sujet de cette th?se CIFRE est li? ? la gestion et ? l'acc?s ? une grande base documentaire scientifique. Le point de d?part sera l'extraction et la normalisation (requise par la dyslexie et la polygraphie) des entit?s nomm?es et des th?mes des documents. Ces termes s'agenceront au sein d'un r?seau termino-ontologique dont le mod?le devra ?tre ?labor?. La probl?matique de la repr?sentation interne de ces connaissances est donc primordiale. Parall?lement, ces donn?es devront ?tre un point d'acc?s pour les utilisateurs, notamment par le biais de cartes de projections, amenant ainsi la seconde probl?matique fondamentale du projet : la repr?sentation visuelle des connaissances, l'ergonomie linguistique et l'interaction avec l'utilisateur. Ces deux probl?matiques sont le point de rencontre scientifique entre la soci?t? TecKnowMetrix et le laboratoire LIDILEM (EA-609) de l'Universit? Stendhal - Grenoble 3. Seul l'objet applicatif diff?re : pour la premi?re la gestion de documents juridiques et scientifiques, pour la seconde l'acc?s au corpus litt?raire et linguistique des Manuscrits de Stendhal. Ce travail de th?se sera r?alis? au sein de l'?quipe de Recherche et D?veloppement de l'entreprise TecKnowMetrix. La th?se commencera en septembre 2008. La date limite de candidature pour cette th?se est fix?e au lundi 31 mars 2008. Les candidats devront envoyer un dossier contenant un CV, une lettre de motivation, une lettre de recommandation du responsable de Master 2 et / ou de l'encadrant de stage de recherche, un relev? de notes de master 2 si possible ? l'adresse suivante : Thibault Roy TecKnowMetrix Parc Work Center - ZA de Champfeuillet - Route des bois 38500 Voiron Pour plus d'information, n'h?sitez pas ? contacter : - Thibault Roy - Directeur Recherche et D?veloppement Soci?t? TecKnowMetrix - tr at tkm.fr - Thomas Lebarb? - Ma?tre de conf?rences LIDILEM / Universit? 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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 handling 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. Workshop Web Site: http://doremi.cs.helsinki.fi/mmies2/ Organisers: * Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India) * Thierry Poibeau (CNRS / Universite Paris 13, France) * Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK) * Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finland) Call for Papers Information extraction (IE) and text summarization (TS) are key technologies aiming at extracting from texts information that is relevant to a user's interest, and presenting it to the user in concise form. The on-going information explosion makes IE and TS particularly critical for successful functioning within the information society. These technologies, however, face new challenges with the adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm (e.g. blogs, wikis) because of their inherent multi-source nature. These technologies must no longer only deal with isolated texts or single narratives, but with large-scale repositories or sources -- possibly in several languages -- containing a multiplicity of views, opinions, or commentaries on particular topics, entities or events. There is thus a need to adapt and/or develop new techniques to deal with these new phenomena. Recognising similar information across different sources and/or in different languages is of paramount importance in this multi-source, multi-lingual context. In information extraction, merging information from multiple sources can lead to increased accuracy as compared with extraction from a single source. In text summarization, similar facts found across sources can inform sentence scoring algorithms. In question answering, the distribution of answers in similar contexts can inform answer ranking components. Often, it is not the similarity of information that matters, but its complementary nature. In a multi-lingual context, information extraction and text summarization can provide solutions for cross-lingual access: key pieces of information can be extracted from different texts in one or many languages, merged, and then conveyed in many natural languages in concise form. Applications need to be able to cope with the idiosyncratic nature of the new Web 2.0 media: mixed input, new jargon, ungrammatical and mixed-language input, emotional discourse, etc. In this context, synthesizing or inferring opinions from multiple sources is a new and exciting challenge for NLP. On another level, profiling of individuals who engage in the new social Web, and identifying whether a particular opinion is appropriate/relevant in a given context are important topics to be addressed. It is therefore important that the research community address the following issues: - What methods are appropriate to detect similar/complementary/contradictory information? Are hand-crafted rules and knowledge-rich approaches convenient? - What methods are available to tackle cross-document and cross-lingual entity and event coreference? - What machine learning approaches are most appropriate for this task -- supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised? What type of corpora are -required for training and testing? - What techniques are appropriate to synthesize condensed synopses of the extracted information? What generation techniques are useful here? What kind of techniques can be used to cross domains and languages? - What techniques can improve opinion mining and sentiment analysis through multi-document analysis? How do information extraction and opinion mining connect? - What tools exist for supporting multi-lingual/multi-source access to information? What solutions exist beyond full document translation to produce cross-lingual summaries? Important Dates: * Paper submission deadline: *** 5 May *** * Notification of acceptance of Papers: 6 June * Camera-ready copy of papers due: 1 July * Workshop: *** 23 August *** Paper Submission: Papers should describe original work and should indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of the Coling 2008 LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference (http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/ style.html). Submission will be electronic (pdf format only), using the START submission webpage dedicated to the workshop https://www.softconf.com/coling08/MMIES2/. Programme Committee: Javier Artiles (UNED, Spain) Kalina Bontcheva (U. 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 (U. Montreal, Canada) Diana Maynard (U. Sheffield, UK) Jean-Luc Minel (Modyco-CNRS, France) Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Cecile Paris (CSIRO, Australia) Maria Teresa Pazienza (U. of Roma tor Vergata, Italy) Bruno Pouliquen (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy) Satoshi Sekine (NYU, USA) Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, France) Agnes Sandor (Xerox XRCE, France) Ralf Steinberger (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy) Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada) Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft Research, USA) Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Additional Information: Information about the previous MMIES Workshop, at RANLP-2007 in Borovets, Bulgaria can be found at (http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/mmies/index.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:51:38 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:51:38 +0100 Subject: Conf: Journees Semantique et Modelisation, 3-4 avril 2008, Toulouse, France Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:42:46 +0100 From: Laurent PREVOT Message-ID: X-url: http://www.semantique-gdr.net/-JSM-2008- Journ?es S?mantique et Mod?lisation, JSM 08 3-4 avril 2008 Toulouse, France http://www.semantique-gdr.net/-JSM-2008- Appel ? participation Le GDR S?mantique et Mod?lisation (CNRS) et l'Universit? de Toulouse organisent la cinqui?me ?dition des Journ?es de S?mantique et Mod?lisation (JSM08). La conf?rence aura lieu les 3 et 4 avril 2008 ? la maison de la recherche de l'universit? Toulouse-Le-Mirail. (Les Journ?es seront pr?c?d?es d'une ?cole Jeunes Chercheurs en s?mantique formelle, d'une dur?e de trois jours, avec des cours en fran?ais.) Le but de cette manifestation est de promouvoir les recherches concernant la formalisation du sens et de l'interpr?tation linguistiques. Compte tenu du d?veloppement de l'exploitation de corpus en s?mantique et dans les domaine connexes, les propositions qui articulent l'utilisation de corpus et les probl?mes de repr?sentation en s?mantique et pragmatique seront les bienvenues. TH?MATIQUE Nous invitons toutes les personnes int?ress?es ? soumettre des r?sum?s qui portent sur un probl?me de mod?lisation du sens et de l'interpr?tation dans le cadre d'une analyse s?mantique formelle. Cela inclut par exemple, mais sans s'y limiter, les probl?mes de repr?sentation qui touchent aux questions suivantes : - l'interface syntaxe s?mantique, - la mod?lisation logique du sens, - le temps et l'aspect, - le sens lexical, - le sens grammatical, - la structure informationnelle, - les pr?suppositions et les implicatures, - les actes de langage, - les relations de discours dans les textes et dans les dialogues. LANGUES DES JOURN?ES Les langues des journ?es sont le fran?ais et l'anglais. CONF?RENCIERS INVIT?S - David I. Beaver (U. Texas, Austin) - Louise McNally (Pompeu Fabra U., Barcelona) - Frank Veltman (U. Amsterdam) RESPONSABLES SCIENTIFIQUES - Nicholas Asher (CNRS, IRIT, Toulouse 3) - Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse 3) - Laurent Roussarie (UMR7023, U. Paris 8) COMIT? DE S?LECTION - Pascal Amsili (Paris VII, Lattice) - David I. Beaver (U. Texas, Austin) - Claire Beyssade (CNRS, IJN) - Patrick Blackburn (Loria) - Andr?e Borillo (Toulouse 2, ERSS) - Joan Busquets (Bordeaux 3, ERSS) - Patrick Caudal (CNRS, LLF) - Ileana Comorovski (CNRS, UMR7023) - Bridget Copley (CNRS, UMR7023) - Francis Corblin (Paris IV, IJN) - Paul Egr? (CNRS, IJN) - Evelyne Jacquey (CNRS, ATILF) - Brenda Laca (Paris 8, UMR7023) - Alex Lascarides (Edinburgh, HCRC) - Alain Lecomte (Paris 8, UMR7023) - Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS, LLF) - Alda Mari (CNRS, IJN) - Ora Matushansky (CNRS, UMR7023) - Louise McNally (Pompeu Fabra U., Barcelona) - David Nicolas (CNRS, IJN) - Laurent Pr?vot (CLLE-ERSS, CNRS, Toulouse 2) - Gabriel Sandu (IHPST) - Philippe Schlenker (UCLA & CNRS, IJN) - Benjamin Spector (Harvard) - Lucia Tovena (Paris VII, LLF) - Frank Veltman (U. Amsterdam) - Laure Vieu (CNRS, IRIT & LOA-CNR Trento) COMIT? D'ORGANISATION - Laurent Pr?vot (CLLE-ERSS, CNRS, Toulouse 2) (Pr?sident) - Nicholas Asher (CNRS, IRIT, Toulouse 3) - Michel Aurnague (CNRS, CLLE-ERSS, Toulouse 2) - Myriam Bras (CLLE-ERSS, Toulouse 2) - Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse 3) - Laurent Roussarie (UMR 7023, Paris 8) Informations compl?mentaires et ? jour sur : http://www.semantique-gdr.net/-JSM-2008- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:54:14 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:54:14 +0100 Subject: Appel: Colloque international de Namur Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:17:40 +0100 (CET) From: de La Taille Roberte Message-ID: <990068.40507.qm at web26213.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-url: http://www.revue-texto.net Appel ? communications Linguistique des valeurs programmes de linguistique n?o-saussurienne Colloque international organis? par L'Institut Ferdinand de Saussure et l'Universit? de Namur 16-18 juin 2008 Un livre retrouv? de F. de Saussure, De l'essence double du langage (dans Ecrits de linguistique g?n?rale, Gallimard, 2002) confirme que la pens?e du linguiste genevois a ?t? depuis un si?cle l'objet de profonds malentendus. En particulier, le programme saussurien d'une linguistique des valeurs pures - con?ue comme une ?criture alg?brique - est rest? peu document? jusqu'? la publication des manuscrits nouvellement d?couverts. Premi?re rencontre internationale consacr?e ? cette question, le colloque entend faire le point sur ce programme ?nonc? avec nettet? dans ces textes, comme sur sa port?e pr?sente. Organis? par l'universit? de Namur, o? se tient depuis plusieurs ann?es un s?minaire de recherches n?o-saussuriennes, et par l'Institut Ferdinand de Saussure, le colloque comprendra trois volets. A/ Le programme des valeurs pures Les positions th?oriques et m?thodologiques de Saussure ont fait l'objet de confusions si persistantes que des entreprises diversement associ?es ? son nom contredisent les clauses ?pist?mologiques de son programme. Regardant la question des valeurs pures, seule une lecture de l'ensemble du corpus saussurien, permet de les dissiper. L'objet des communications et des d?bats du colloque sera de pr?ciser les modalit?s d'interpr?tation du corpus saussurien ainsi que les enjeux actuels du programme saussurien. B/ Des valeurs en g?n?ral La s?mantique de la valeur, d?velopp?e en s?mantique diff?rentielle des textes et des corpus, a permis de rompre avec la tradition ontologique de la r?f?rence. Il lui faut cependant pouvoir articuler les valeurs de la langue et les conditions d'exercice de la parole. Comment s'articulent les valeurs pures de la langue fonctionnelle et le ? chaos ? apparent d'une langue historique ? Cette question n'a pas pu ?tre v?ritablement pos?e, notamment en raison de la tripartition entre syntaxe, s?mantique et pragmatique, qui divise encore le champ de la linguistique. Elle est cependant cruciale et de grande port?e critique voire ?thique (dans toute activit? symbolique, le sujet est tout autant l'agent que l'enjeu). C/ D?veloppements d'une linguistique n?o-saussurienne Les d?bats du colloque t?moigneront des d?veloppement d'une linguistique n?o-saussurienne, notamment de grammaires et de s?mantiques des valeurs, en pr?sentant leurs m?thodes, leurs r?sultats et leurs enjeux. Comit? d'organisation : Jean-Marie Klinkenberg (ULg), Jean Giot (FUNDP), S?mir Badir (ULg/FNRS), Jacques Coursil (UAG/Cornell/Irvine), Simon Bouquet (Paris X - Nanterre), Fran?ois Rastier (CNRS - INALCO) Comit? scientifique : Jonathan Culler (Cornell), Marie-Jos? B?guelin (Neuch?tel), Arild Utaker (Bergen), Hermann Parret (KUL/FWO), Laurence Meurant (FUNDP/FNRS), Jacques Coursil (UAG/Cornell/Irvine), Simon Bouquet (Paris X - Nanterre), Fran?ois Rastier (CNRS - INALCO), Emmanuelle Danblon (ULB). Lieu : Universit? de Namur (Belgique). Date : Les 16 et 17 juin 2008 Communications. Les propositions (r?sum?s d?taill?s de deux pages) seront soumis en format .doc ; et en outre en format .pdf si elles comportent des figures. On peut se r?f?rer ? la feuille de style du site Texto ! : http://www.revue-texto.net (rubrique Espaces ?ditoriaux). Titres et r?sum?s sont ? adresser pour le 2 avril 2008 ? Jacques Coursil jacques at coursil.com, ? Fran?ois Rastier lpe2 at ext.jussieu.fr, ? Simon Bouquet bouquet at ext.jussieu.fr, ? Jean Giot jean.giot at fundp..ac.be . Posters. ? adresser aux m?mes pour le 2 avril 2008. Les communications, de 30 ? 40 minutes, seront suivies d'un d?bat ; les posters seront pr?sent?s et discut?s. L'?valuation des propositions sera close le 2 mai. Le programme sera diffus? imm?diatement avec les bulletins d'inscription et les informations pratiques. Frais d'inscription : 40 euros Versement : FACULTES UNIVERSITAIRES NOTRE DAME DE LA PAIX Rue de Bruxelles 61 B-5000 NAMUR. (Belgique) Coordonn?es bancaires : FORTIS BANQUE Agence de Namur Centre Rue Godefroid 6 B-5000 NAMUR. (Belgique) Num?ro de compte bancaire : 250-0074027-04 Code Swift/BIC : GEBABEBB07A Code IBAN : BE10 2500 0740 2704 Code de la banque : 42 116.3 Nous vous remercions de pr?ciser le motif pr?cis de votre paiement : compte 92 22-colloque saussure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 18 08:57:12 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:57:12 +0100 Subject: Appel: Textgraphs-3: Graph-based methods for Natural Language Processing Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:42:32 -0700 From: TextGraphs08 Message-ID: <8b3a848a0803171642g49d5ce17u86fbaad26eaff179 at mail.gmail.com> X-url: http://lit.csci.unt.edu/~textgraphs/ws08/ This workshop is part of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008) Recent years have shown an increased interest in bringing the field of graph theory into natural language processing. Traditionally, these two areas of study have been perceived as distinct, with different algorithms, different applications, and different potential end-users. However, as recent research work has shown, these two disciplines are in fact intimately connected, with a large variety of natural language processing applications finding efficient solutions within graph-theoretical frameworks. In many NLP applications entities can be naturally represented as nodes in a graph and relations between them can be represented as edges. Recent research has shown that graph-based representations of linguistic units as diverse as words, sentences and documents give rise to novel and efficient solutions in a variety of NLP tasks, ranging from part of speech tagging, word sense disambiguation and parsing to information extraction, semantic role assignment, summarisation, sentiment analysis and up to the study of the evolutionary dynamics of language. The TextGraphs workshop addresses a broad spectrum of research areas and brings together researchers working on problems related to the use of graph-based algorithms for natural language processing as well as on the theory of graph-based methods. We are interested in looking at graph-based methods from the perspective of diverse applications to facilitate a discussion about the theory of graph-based methods and about the theoretical justification of the empirical results within the NLP community. Starting with TextGraphs-3 we would like to have one area of graph-based NLP research as the primary topic for discussion. This year's focus is on large scale lexical acquisition and representation. Efficient graph methods can help to alleviate the acquisition bottleneck for lexicon construction and resource building. They also provide smarter representation schemes for the lexicon that facilitate fast search and word retrieval. SIGLEX endorsed our workshop proposal for COLING-08. We invite submissions of papers on graph-based methods applied to NLP problems. Especially, we encourage submissions regarding *Large-scale lexical acquisition using graph representations *Graph-based representation schemes of the mental lexicon Other topics include, but are not limited to: *Graph representations for ontology learning *Graph labeling and edge labeling for semantic representations *Encoding semantic distances in graphs *Graph algorithms for word sense disambiguation *Graph methods for Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Text Mining and Understanding *Random walk graph methods *Spectral graph clustering *Small world graphs in natural language processing *Semi-supervised graph-based methods *Statistical network methods and analysis *Dynamic graph representations for NLP Organisation Committee Irina Matveeva, Accenture Technology Labs, matveeva AT cs.uchicago.edu Chris Biemann, Powerset, biem AT informatik.uni-leipzig.de Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research, monojit AT microsoft.com Mona Diab,Columbia University, mdiab AT cs.columbia.edu Program Committee Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country Edo Airoldi, Princeton University Regina Barzilay, MIT Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Montreal Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research Andrew Goldberg, University of Wisconsin Hany Hassan, IBM Egypt Samer Hassan, University of North Texas Gina Levow, University of Chicago Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan Uwe Quasthoff, University of Leipzig Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country Hans Friedrich Witschel, University of Leipzig Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Thorsten Zesch, University of Darmstadt Important Dates Regular paper submissions May 5, 2008 Short paper submissions May 19, 2008 Notification of acceptance June 6, 2008 Camera-ready papers July 1, 2008 Workshop August 24, 2008 Author Instructions Submissions will consist of regular full papers of max. 8 pages and short papers of max. 4 pages, formatted following the COLING 2008 formatting guidelines. Papers should be submitted using the online submission form. For any questions, please contact one of the organisers. Please, follow the instructions on the workshop website: http://lit.csci.unt.edu/~textgraphs/ws08/ -- Sincerely, Program Chairs TextGraphs 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From zifgirdwoodcop at GIRDWOOD.NET Tue Mar 18 22:18:29 2008 From: zifgirdwoodcop at GIRDWOOD.NET (Pierre Levine) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:18:29 +0100 Subject: Software Message-ID: In search for the better costs in discount software? 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Ruiz Miyares - Linguistica" Message-Id: <20080318114357.D9E314787E0 at mail.ciges.inf.cu> [To spread, please, thank you.] [Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once.] ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS SANTIAGO DE CUBA JANUARY 19-23, 2009 The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce the Eleventh International Symposium on Social Communication dedicated to the 60 anniversary of the large work in defense of the Spanish language of professors Eloina Miyares Bermudez and Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 19 through the 23, 2009. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore. The Symposium will be also sponsored by: .. University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. Provincial Branch of Ministry of Culture, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. Filial del Equipo de Servicios de Traductores e Interpretes de Santiago de Cuba .. University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands .. Semantic Technology Institute (STI), Innsbruck, Austria .. Basque Country University, Spain .. University of Valparaiso, Chile Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Linguistics: - Applied Linguistics - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Quantitative Linguistics - Morphology and Syntax - Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Sociolinguistics - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Terminology - Translations - Linguistics Rights - Linguistics Policy 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistics research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Electronic dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Related issues 3. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaryngology - Stomatology 4. Mass Media: - Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and electronic media articles 5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication Activities that will take place within the event are: - Pre-Symposium seminars - Discussion of papers in commissions - Keynote speechs - Round Tables - Books presentation - Cultural activities PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists. The seminars will take place Monday, January 19th, 2009. One of the courses will be: "Last trends and applications in Linguistics Engineering" Prof. Dr. Kepa Sarasola Basque Country University Basque Country, Spain The second course will be announce in March. Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 25.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. ROUND TABLE Two round tables will be held on the occasion of the 11th International Symposium on Social Communication. KEYNOTE SPEECHES During the symposium several keynote speeches will be delivered by: Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands Prof. Dra. Gloria Corpas University of Malaga Spain Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Austria Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton, United Kingdom PAPER PRESENTATIONS The deadline of submission of papers is July 1st, 2008. The papers should not exceed 5 pages. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 31th, 2008. PAPERS To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium's documentation -as we did in the 5th ('97), 6th ('99), 7th ('01), 8th ('03), 9th ('05) and 10th ('07) Symposiums-, accepted papers must be sent before August 31, 2008 if the Scientific Committee had done some observations. Requirements for papers: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium's Executive Secretary either via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing a 3?-inch diskette. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event's official languages: Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. 5. The pages of the text should be unnumered. Instructions for paper submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the authors' names should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address if available. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, Italics, 10 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9 points size and leaving one space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes. Authors must advise in advance if they will need a tape recorder, video set, computer or other kind of equipment for presentation. All mail or inquiries should be addressed to: Eloina Miyares Bermudez Secretaria Ejecutiva del Comite Organizador XI Simposio Internacional Comunicacion Social Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400 Telephones: 53-22-642760, 53-22-643507 E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 200.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos) Companions 100.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos) Payment must be in cash during registration and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event, speaker's certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities. Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the Proceedings. ACCOMODATION The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event. IMPORTANT REMINDERS - Papers submission deadline: July 1st, 2008 - Notification on paper's approval by Scientific Committee: by July 31, 2008 - Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail using 3?-inch diskette: August 31, 2008 - Pre-Symposium seminars: January 19, 2009 - 11th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 20 through 23, 2009 OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 kms from Havana, is Cuba's second largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the city's beauty and charm. SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Pedro Beaton Soler Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Santiago de Cuba Cuba Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary 11th International Symposium on Social Communication Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez Emeritus Academic Academy of Science of Cuba Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics President of the Organizing Committee 11th International Symposium on Social Communication Santiago de Cuba Cuba Nancy Cristina Alamo Suarez Researcher Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Celia Maria Perez Marques Researcher Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Celia Esther Alvarez Moreno Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Zaida Valdes Rector University of Oriente Ministry of Higher Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Ena Elsa Velazquez Cobiella Rector Pedagogical University "Frank Pais" Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher Twente University Enschede, Holland I?aki Alegr?a Loinaz Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Xabier Artola Zubillaga Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Xabier Arregi Iparragirre Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Gloria Corpas Pastor Professor and Researcher University of Malaga Malaga, Spain Mercedes Cathcart Roca Professor and Researcher Faculty of Humanities University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Martha Cordies Jackson Director and Researcher African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Ercilia Estrada Estrada Scientific Council Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Yamile Haber Guerra Professor and Researcher University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Lucia Marconi Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Paola Cutugno Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Daniela Ratti Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy ***** ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION REGISTRATION FORM Mr./Ms. ___________________________ Organization: ________________________ Title: _________________________________________ Business address: __________________________________ City: ______________ Telefax: ____________ Phone: _______________ E-Mail:____________________ Home address: _________________________ City: ___________ Telephone: __________ Paper title: __________________________ Date: ________________ Signature: ___________ ///////////////////////////////////////////// Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Calle 9 Nr. 253 entre 10 y 12 Reparto Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba. 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Date limite de soumission : 30 juin 2008 Th?matique Le web 2.0 accompagn? des technologies de l?interop?rabilit? a rendu la toile plus accessible et acc?l?r? le d?veloppement de nouvelles applications riches tant par la nature des m?dia que par les fonctionnalit?s. Le document num?rique est enrichi ? la lumi?re des avanc?es technologiques, et peut ?tre compos? ? partir de contenus distribu?s sur la toile. Les dimensions multilingues, multim?dia et ontologiques peuvent plus facilement ?tre appr?hend?es ? travers les mod?les et les architectures en vue de construire de nouvelles biblioth?ques digitales. La mise ? disposition de l?utilisateur de nouvelles possibilit?s pour construire et acc?der ? des contenus num?riques r?partis contribue ? construire de nouveaux syst?mes dont le but est entre autres de favoriser l?acquisition de connaissances par un plus grand nombre de citoyens. Le web 2.0 va tr?s probablement faire ?merger de nouveaux usages. D?j?, on constate que les blogs et les wiki par exemple occupent les cyber-espaces et sont per?us comme de nouvelles possibilit?s offertes pour am?liorer l??change collaboratif entre internautes.. Toutefois, si les potentialit?s du web 2.0 semblent ouvrir une nouvelle ?re, nous n?en sommes qu?aux balbutiements et certainement ? un stade ? artisanal ?. On est en droit de penser qu?une ?volution plus structur?e va permettre de professionnaliser les usages et l?accessibilit?. Dans ce contexte, les contenus, au c?ur des ressources du web, n?cessitent de nouveaux outils pour prendre en compte les nouvelles technologies du web. Ces outils doivent ?tre envisag?s aussi bien sur le plan th?orique en revisitant les mod?les actuels de la recherche d?information, de l?indexation et de l?acc?s aux contenus, que sur le plan technique en proposant de nouvelles architectures et de nouvelles fonctionnalit?s qui tireraient profit des technologies telles que les services web, Ajax, les techniques de balisage collaboratif, les techniques de syndication pour ne citer que celles-ci. Le web 2.0 doit ?galement modifier en profondeur les usages car la participation ? la production des contenus se fait de fa?on collaborative et n?cessite alors de nouveaux outils qui apportent une valeur ajout?e dans la chaine de production de contenus : cr?ation, gestion, acc?s, visualisation. Objectif NOTRE OBJECTIF dans ce num?ro sp?cial sera de faire le point sur les recherches relatives ? la gestion, l?acc?s et la composition de contenus quelque soit leurs types dans un environnement web et plus particuli?rement en prenant en compte les sp?cificit?s du web 2.0. Les articles propos?s porteront sur les th?mes (liste non exhaustive) : * Technologies du web 2.0 et acc?s aux contenus * Services web et documents * Gestion de contenus * Outils de gestion et d?acc?s aux contenus * Visualisation de contenus * Interrogation et recherche de contenus sur le web * ?. Comit? de r?daction du num?ro ? Rachid Ahmed-Ouamer Universit? de Tizi-Ouzou ? Youssef Amghar INSA de Lyon ? Nadir Belkhiter Universit? Laval ? Djamal Benslimane Universit? Claude Bernard de Lyon ? Omar El Beqqali Universit? de F?s ? Emmanuel Bruno Universit? du Var Toulon ? Gilles Falquet Universit? de Gen?ve ? Th?r?se Libourel Universit? de Montpellier II ? Elisabeth Murisasco Universit? du Var Toulon ? Fabrice Papy Universit? Paris VIII ? Philippe Thiran Universit? de Namur ? Agn?s Saunier INA, Bry sur Marne ? Florence S?des IRIT Universit? Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 3 Calendrier ? date limite remise contributions : 31/06/2008 ? r?ponse aux auteurs : 15/11/2008 ? parution du num?ro sp?cial : d?cembre 2008 L??diteur et la revue *www.revuesonline.com * Recommandations aux auteurs ? Les soumissions sont ? envoyer ? xxx (coordonn?es ci-dessous) et devront respecter la feuille de style de la revue disponible sur le serveur www.revuesonline.com ou http://dn.revuesonline.com (ou sur demande ? l?assistante d??dition en charge de la revue ; email : revues at lavoisier.fr) ? Les articles ne devront pas d?passer x pages. Ils sont accept?s en fran?ais (ou en anglais pour les auteurs non francophones). ? les soumissions peuvent ?tre envoy?es sous forme de fichiers PDF (de pr?f?rence), word ou papier. ? les versions finales sont accept?es au format word ou PDF. Dans ce dernier cas, les corrections ortho-typographiques seront faites par les auteurs ? la demande de l??diteur. Contact Youssef Amghar LIRIS-INSA de Lyon 7, avenue Jean Capelle 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex T?l : 04 72 43 88 92 E-mail : youssef.amghar at insa-lyon.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:45:31 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:45:31 +0100 Subject: Revue: CORELA, date-limite de soumission Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:42:54 +0100 From: Gilles Col Message-Id: X-url: http://www.revue-corela.org X-url: http://revue-corela.org Chers coll?gues La date-limite de soumission d'articles pour le num?ro 6/2 (vol. 6, num. 2) de la revue CORELA - Cognition, Repr?sentation, Langages (http://www.revue-corela.org) est fix?e au 1er septembre 2008. Ce num?ro sera publi? en d?cembre 2008. Les propositions sont ? envoyer ? Gilles Col : col at ext.univ-poitiers.fr Bien cordialement Gilles Col Directeur de publication -- Gilles Col, Universit? Fran?ois-Rabelais (Tours) et FORELL (Poitiers) Dir. Revue CORELA - Cognition, Repr?sentation, Langages http://revue-corela.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:46:05 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:46:05 +0100 Subject: Appel: Revue TAL, Compte-rendu d'ouvrage (CHU) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:41:59 +0100 From: Denis MAUREL Message-Id: <20080319085017.6FD683C780F4 at rabelais.univ-tours.fr> X-url: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr X-url: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/ La revue TAL publie regulierement des comptes-rendus d'ouvrage. Nous recherchons un collegue souhaitant lire le livre: "Xiaoquan CHU, Les verbes modaux du fran?ais, ?ditions OPHRYS, 2008, 168 pages" et pret a en faire un compte-rendu pour la revue TAL (cet ouvrage sera envoye gracieusement en echange du service rendu). Ce compte-rendu doit etre redige en francais (trois pages maximum, au format de la revue) et envoye en mai 2008. D'autres comptes rendus sont possibles si vous avez lu recemment un ouvrage qui vous a interesse et si vous etes pret a partager votre lecture avec la communaute... Denis Maurel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:47:57 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:47:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: KR2008 - Updated Call for Papers Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:14:45 +0200 From: Tommie Meyer Message-Id: X-url: http://infoserv.inist.fr/wws/arc/diglib X-url: http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ X-url: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html X-url: http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage ``reports from the field" of building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only) http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2 additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted paper 11 pages in AAAI style will be allocated in the proceedings. Topics of interest include: - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics - Graphical representations for belief and preference - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics, - Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion - Description logics, Ontologies - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning about preference - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer Important Dates: Submission of title and abstract: April 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: June 16, 2008 KR-2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:48:37 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:48:37 +0100 Subject: Job: Poste PR - Universite Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:29:58 +0100 From: Fran?ois Trouilleux Message-ID: <47E22E96.6010302 at lrl.univ-bpclermont.fr> Merci de diffuser le message suivant. POSTE PR - Universit? Blaise-Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand) Un poste de professeur profil "LINGUISTIQUE ET INFORMATIQUE" (n? 0437) est ouvert ? l'universit? Blaise-Pascal, Clermont II. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Profil Enseignement Fili?res de formation concern?es : Le candidat recrut? sera amen? ? dispenser des enseignements ? tous les niveaux de la formation en sciences du langage (Licence, Master et Doctorat). Objectifs p?dagogiques et besoin d'encadrement : Former les ?tudiants ? la linguistique th?orique et ? ses applications pratiques tout particuli?rement dans les domaines articulant la linguistique et l'informatique (linguistique computationnelle, traitement automatique du langage, environnements informatiques d'aide ? l'apprentissage, ...). Encadrement de m?moires dans les Masters 1 et 2 de sciences du langage et de th?ses de Doctorat. Contact: FOUCHER Anne-Laure foucher [a] lrl.univ-bpclermont.fr 04 73 34 65 62 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Profil Recherche Il est attendu du candidat qu'il s'int?gre ? une ou plusieurs des orientations de recherches du Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage (LRL) et encadre des doctorants. Laboratoire d'accueil Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage (EA999) L.R.L. Contact: POTHIER Maguy pothier [a] lrl.univ-bpclermont.fr 04 73 34 65 61 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:49:38 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:49:38 +0100 Subject: Job: Poste de MCF en informatique, Nancy Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:31 +0100 From: Guy Perrier Message-ID: <47E2874F.2050303 at loria.fr> X-url: http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/francais/news/docpostes/20082009/EnseCherch/ProfMCF/27MCF0454.pdf Un emploi de ma?tre de conf?rences en 27i?me section est offert au concours ? l'universit? Nancy 2 ? l'UFR Math?matiques et Informatique (poste MCF 0454). Ce poste est officiellement rattach? ? l'INPL car c'est un poste de Nancy Universit?, le consortium des 3 universit?s de Nancy mais l'enseignement s'effectuera ? l'UFR Math?matiques et Informatique de Nancy 2. Vous trouverez la fiche de profil enseignement et recherche ? l'URL suivante : http://www.inpl-nancy.fr/francais/news/docpostes/20082009/EnseCherch/ProfMCF/27MCF0454.pdf Comme vous le constaterez en lisant la fiche, le TAL est un domaine int?ressant le poste tant en enseignement qu'en recherche. Pour en savoir plus, vous pouvez contacter Guy Perrier (Guy.Perrier at loria.fr). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:51:18 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:51:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: GoTAL - deadline 4 April 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:21:42 +0100 From: Guy Perrier Message-ID: <47E36206.4000607 at loria.fr> X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gotall2008 X-url: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 GoTAL - 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing Final Call for Papers: deadline 4 April 2008 Gothenburg, Sweden 25-27 August 2008 www.cse.chalmers.se/gotal The GoTAL conference will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 25-27 August, 2008. The conference is hosted by Chalmers University of Technology jointly with Gothenburg University, as part of the activities of the Centre for Language Technology (CLT). GoTAL is the sixth in the series of the TAL conferences, following FracTAL (Besan?on, France, 1997), VexTAL (Venice, Italy, 1999), PorTAL (Faro, Algarve, Portugal, 2002), EsTAL (Alicante, Spain, 2004), and FinTAL (Turku, Finland 2006). The main purpose of the TAL conference series is to bring together scientists representing linguistics, computer science and related fields, sharing a common interest in the advancement of computational linguistics and natural language processing. SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language and speech processing, including, but not limited to: - Pragmatics, Discourse, Semantics, Syntax, and the Lexicon - Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology - Speech Recognition - Speech Synthesis - Natural Language Generation - Ontologies, Semantic Networks, and Lexical Resources - Corpus Linguistics - Linguistic, Mathematical, and Psychological Models of Language - Anaphora Resolution - Word Sense Disambiguation - Corpus-based Language Modeling - Machine Translation and Translation Aids - Text and Speech Interfaces - Dialogue systems - Language Learning and Therapy - Simulation and Visualization - Knowledge Acquisition and Representation - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval - Question Answering - Text Summarization - Text and Speech Classification - Systems Evaluation PAPER SUBMISSION We welcome submissions both from academia and the industry on any topic that is of interest to the NLP community, particularly encouraging research emphasizing multidisciplinary aspects of NLP and the interplay between linguistics, computer science and application domains such as biomedicine, communication systems, public services, and educational technology. Submitted papers should describe original work, emphasizing completed or well advanced, rather than intended, research. The state of completion of the reported work must be clearly indicated. Where appropriate, results should be rigorously evaluated; the assessment of statistical significance for quantitative results is encouraged. Submissions should contain original material that has not been previously presented to the scientific community. A parallel submission to other publication fora as well as a significant overlap in contents with previously published work should be clearly indicated to the program committee. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. The submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, technical quality, and presentation. Papers can be submitted in two categories: - full papers , describing substantial research with well-evaluated results - short papers , typically describing ongoing research and preliminary results All accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference proceedings. At the conference, full papers will be presented as a talk and short papers will be presented as a poster. Submissions are made using EasyChair: Go to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gotall2008 and follow the instructions. The submissions should be sent anonymous, in PDF format. (final version format to be specified later). For the final version, authors should follow the LNCS instructions: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 The maximum length is 12pp for full papers and 5pp for short papers. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers of both categories will be published in the Conference Proceedings, in the LNCS/LNAI series of Springer. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS There will be three keynote speakers: - Johan Bos, University of Rome La Sapienza - Lori Lamel, LIMSI Paris - Joakim Nivre, V?xj? University and Uppsala University PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair - Aarne Ranta, Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden Members - Olli Aaltonen, University of Helsinki, Finland - Walid El Abed, Nestle Corp., Switzerland - Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Germany - Jorge Baptista, University of Algarve, Portugal - Patricio Martinez Barco, University of Alicante, Spain - Tilman Becker, DFKI, Germany - Chris Biemann, Powerset, USA - Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine - Lars Borin, Gothenburg University, Sweden - Johan Bos, La Sapienza, Italy - Johan Boye, SpeechAct, Sweden - Caroline Brun, Xerox Corp., France - Sylviane Cardey, University of Franche-Comt?, France - Rolf Carlson, KTH, Sweden - Lauri Carlson, University of Helsinki, Finland - Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway University of London, UK - Robin Cooper, Gothenburg University, Sweden - Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Rodolfo Delmonte, University of Venice, Italy - Elisabet Engdahl, Gothenburg University, Sweden - Jan van Eijck, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Filip Ginter, University of Turku, Finland - Peter Greenfield, University of Franche-Comt?, France - Philippe de Groote, INRIA Lorraine, France - ?ystein Haug Olsen, Fast, Norway - Viggo Kann, KTH, Sweden - Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland - Hans Leiss, LMU Munich, Germany - Oliver Lemon, University of Edinburgh, UK - Jos? Luis Vicedo, University of Alicante, Spain - Adeline Nazarenko, University Paris-Nord, France - Joakim Nivre, V?xj? University and Uppsala University, Sweden - Bengt Nordstr?m, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Pierre Nugues, University of Lund, Sweden - Guy Perrier, INRIA Lorraine, France - Elisabete Ranchhod, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Manny Rayner, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Tapio Salakoski, University of Turku, Finland - Karl-Michael Schneider, Textkernel, The Netherlands - Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University, Australia - Laurent Spaggiari, Airbus, France - Izabella Thomas, Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France - Simo Vihjanen, Lingsoft Ltd., Finland - Annie Zaenen, Palo Alto Research Center, USA IMPORTANT DATES - 4 April: submission deadline - 16 May: notification of acceptance - 1 June: early registration deadline - 25-27 August: conference LOCATION AND CONFERENCE FEES The conference will be held at the campus of Chalmers University of Technology. The fees, in the range of 300-400 EUR (senior participant, early registration until 1 June; reduced fees for students), will be announced later. They will cover the conference lectures, a copy of proceedings, lunches, coffee, two dinners, and an excursion to the Gothenburg archipelago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 21 15:52:41 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:52:41 +0100 Subject: Appel: 8th Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-08) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:46:58 +0100 From: A.Nijholt at ewi.utwente.nl Message-ID: X-url: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iva2008/ Third Call for Papers The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-08) NEWS: Authors of the best IVA-08 papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a special issue of the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems on Intelligent Virtual Agents. September 1-3, 2008 Tokyo, Japan http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iva2008/ Conference Chairs: Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA Mitsuru Ishizuka, The University of Tokyo, Japan IVA-08 is the major annual meeting of the intelligent virtual agents community, attracting interdisciplinary minded researchers and practitioners from embodied cognitive modeling, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, animation, virtual worlds, games, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. IVA topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multimodal interaction with intelligent virtual agents - Affective interaction and emotion models - Models of personality and culture - Conversational and non-verbal behavior - Architectures for virtual agents and robotic agents - Embodied cognitive modeling - Authoring tools for building intelligent virtual agents - Markup and representation languages - Agents and avatars in metaverse, virtual worlds, narrative, and games - Advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies - Applications and user studies The proceedings will appear in the Lecture Notes of Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series of Springer. We are inviting submissions of long and short papers, and posters. Authors of the best IVA-08 papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a special issue of the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Key Dates: Friday, April 11, 2008: Electronic submissions due Friday, May 16, 2008: Author notification Tuesday, June 10, 2008: Camera ready Senior Programme Committee: Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California, USA Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK Catherine Pelachaud, University of Paris 8, INRIA, France Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Best Paper Chair: W. Lewis Johnson, Alelo, Inc., USA Anton Nijholt University of Twente Publicity Chair of IVA-08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 25 11:10:22 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:10:22 +0100 Subject: Job: Poste PR 27eme section TAL, Universite d'Orleans Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:47:28 +0100 From: Denys Duchier Message-ID: <87prtokorj.fsf at univ-orleans.fr> X-url: http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/profils/Pub_27PR_Orleans.pdf un poste PR en 27?me section ? ?t? publi? ? l'universit? d'Orl?ans. le poste est non fl?ch?, mais une coloration TAL serait bien venue. http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/profils/Pub_27PR_Orleans.pdf Amicalement, --Denys ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Mar 25 11:11:53 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:11:53 +0100 Subject: Cursus: European Master in Computational Logic - scholarships for European students Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:42:40 +0100 From: Enrico Franconi Message-Id: <687B0397-1429-4064-858D-2BC110DD5ED9 at inf.unibz.it> X-url: http://www.computational-logic.eu *** EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC *** http://www.computational-logic.eu The Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano (FUB), in Italy (at the heart of the Dolomites mountains in South-Tyrol), is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Master of Science in Computer Science offer (Laurea Specialistica). The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is an international distributed Master of Science course, in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities: * Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany * Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria * Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain This program, completely in English, involves studying one year at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and completing the second year with a stay in one of the partner universities. After this, the student will obtain, together with the European degree, two Master of Science degrees: the Laurea Specialistica degree from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, with legal value in Italy, and the respective Master of Science degree from the visited university, with legal value in its country. APPLICATION DEADLINES: - *** 31 May 2008 *** deadline for European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 June 2008) - 22 August 2008: last deadline only for European students starting at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (notification of acceptance: 5 September 2008) SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT: European citizens can apply to scholarships which are granted purely on the basis of the yearly income of the applicant and of her/his parents or husband/wife. Scholarships may amount up to more than 6,000 EUR per academic year, plus support on the accommodation and total reimbursement of the enrolment fees. These scholarships are also available to non-European citizens with residence in Italy. European students will also get a LLP Socrates Erasmus scholarship for the second year of study abroad, which is 330 EUR per month. NEW! Every year 10 students with European citizenship can visit Australia (Canberra, Sidney, Melbourne or Brisbane) up to 3 months to work on a research project, sponsored by the European Master. The study period in Australia is part of the study programme and it is fully recognised by the European Master's Program in Computational Logic. The guaranteed scholarship is of 3,100 EUR and it covers the travel and living expenses in Australia. The KRDB Research Centre offers the annual "IBM & KRDB" awards for the best thesis on a Computational Logic related topic, which is generously sponsored by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies; each winner will receive 500 EUR from IBM. In addition to that, the Italian site in Rome of the IBM Center for Advanced Studies supports scholarships of up to 2,400 EUR to work on a research project or on the thesis at their labs in Rome. Check the web page for detailed info on other available scholarships: http://www.computational-logic.eu THE STUDY PROGRAMME: The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, syntax directed semantics, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills. Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Laurea triennale) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is part of the Master in Computer Science (Laurea Specialistica in Informatica) and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Italian and European universities: * Curriculum taught entirely in English: The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene. * Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum. * Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities. * Other specialisations with streams in the hottest Computer Science areas, such as Web Technologies, Information and Knowledge Management, Databases and Software Engineering. * International student community. * Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment. * Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations. The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is sponsored scientifically by the European Network of Excellence on Computational Logic (CoLogNET), the European Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA, member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications (AILA), and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO: The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, founded in 1997, boasts modern premises in the centre of Bozen-Bolzano. The environment is multilingual, South Tyrol being a region where three languages are spoken: German, Italian and Ladin. Studying in a multilingual area has shown that our students acquire the cutting edge needed in the international business world. Many of our teaching staff hails from abroad. Normal lectures are complemented with seminars, work placements and laboratory work, which give our students a vocational as well as theoretical training, preparing them for their subsequent professional careers. Studying at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano means, first and foremost, being guided all the way through the student's educational career. Bozen-Bolzano, due to its enviable geographical position in the centre of the Dolomites, also offers our students a multitude of opportunities for spending their free-time. The city unites the traditional with the modern. Young people and fashionable shops throng the city centre where ancient mercantile buildings are an attractive backdrop to a city that is in continual growth. To the south there is the industrial and manufacturing area with prosperous small and medium-sized businesses active in every economic sector. Back in the 17th century Bozen-Bolzano was already a flourishing mercantile city that, thanks to its particular geographic position, functioned as a kind of bridge between northern and southern Europe. As a multilingual town and a cultural centre Bozen-Bolzano still has a lot to offer today. Its plethora of theatres, concerts with special programmes, cinemas and museums, combined with a series of trendy night spots that create local colour make Bozen-Bolzano a city that is beginning to cater for its increasingly demanding student population. And if you fancy a very special experience, go and visit the city's favourite and most famous resident - "Oetzi", the Ice Man of Similaun, housed in his very own refrigerated room in the recently opened archaeological museum. 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URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:10:25 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:10:25 +0100 Subject: Appel: KR 2008 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:55:22 +0200 From: Tommie Meyer Message-Id: X-url: http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ X-url: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html X-url: http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html X-url: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: KR 2008 Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Sydney, Australia, September 16 - 19, 2008 Collocated with NMR-08, ICAPS-08, CP-08 The single registration fee includes attendance to most events for all conferences http://www.kr.org/KR2008/ Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2008 to be a forum for the exchange of new ideas, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage ``reports from the field" of building knowledge bases, applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers should be explicitly identified as reports from the field by the authors, to ensure appropriate reviewing, and should include a section on evaluation. Papers must be submitted in AAAI style (pdf only) http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php Paper length is 7 pages maximum including title, author information and references. Authors may add to the paper an optional, clearly marked Appendix containing technical material (such as proofs, evaluation results etc.) supporting claims made in the paper. The Appendix must not exceed 2 additional pages in AAAI style. The evaluation of the submission will be based on the quality of the paper. The optional Appendix will be used in case reviewers are in doubt about claimed results. Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=KR-2008 Conference proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. Final versions of papers will be considerably longer than the submissions: for each accepted paper 11 pages in AAAI style will be allocated in the proceedings. Topics of interest include: - Exception tolerant and inconsistency-tolerant reasoning, Paraconsistent logics - Nonmonotonic logics, Default logics, Conditional logics, Argumentation - Temporal and spatial reasoning - Causal reasoning, Abduction, Model-based diagnosis - Reasoning about action and change, Action languages, Situation calculus, Dynamic logic - Reasoning, planning, or decision making under uncertainty - Representations of vagueness, Many-valued and fuzzy logics - Graphical representations for belief and preference - Reasoning about belief and knowledge, Epistemic and doxastic logics, Multiagent logics of belief and knowledge - Logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming - Computational aspects of knowledge representation - Concept formation, Similarity-based reasoning - Belief revision and update, Belief merging, Information fusion - Description logics, Ontologies - Qualitative reasoning, Reasoning about physical systems - Decision theory, Preference modelling and representation, Reasoning about preference - KR & Autonomous Agents: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics - KR & Multiagent Systems: Negotiation, Group decision making, - Cooperation, Interaction, KR & game theory - Natural language processing, Summarization, Categorization - KR and machine learning, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge discovery and acquisition - WWW querying languages, Information retrieval and web mining, Website selection and configuration - Philosophical foundations and psychological evidence KR Workshops: Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop KROW 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/krow.html Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems KRAMAS 2008 @ KR 2008 http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/kramas2008/kramas.html Doctoral Consortium http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kr2008/doctoral.html Conference Chairs: General Chair: Patrick Doherty PC Chairs: Gerhard Brewka, Jerome Lang Local Chair: Maurice Pagnucco Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz Publicity Chair: Thomas Meyer Important Dates: Submission of title and abstract: April 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: June 16, 2008 KR-2008 Conference: September, 16-19, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:08:32 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:08:32 +0100 Subject: Appel: Congres mondial sur la traduction specialisee, La Havane, Cuba Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:04:35 +0100 From: Adriana Lau Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.2.20080327120407.0214d810 at mail.unilat.org> X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/cmte2008/fr/convocatoria.htm X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/public/difusion/PDFs/FR/format%20A4/CMTE2008_triptique_FR.pdf X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/cmte2008/ X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/ Congr?s mondial sur la traduction sp?cialis?e La Havane, Cuba Du 8 au 13 d?cembre 2008 Dans le cadre de l'Ann?e internationale des langues, le R?seau MAAYA et l'Union latine organisent, avec l'appui de l'?quipe de services de traducteurs et d'interpr?tes (ESTI), de l'Association cubaine des traducteurs et interpr?tes (ACTI) et du Conseil des traducteurs, terminologues et interpr?tes du Canada (CTTIC), le Congr?s mondial sur la traduction sp?cialis?e. Le Congr?s, qui aura lieu du 8 au 13 d?cembre 2008, cherche ? souligner l'importance du travail du traducteur sp?cialis?, garant du multilinguisme et rempart contre toute intention de promotion d'un dialogue h?g?monique unilingue. R?ception de communications jusqu'au 15 mai: http://dtil.unilat.org/cmte2008/fr/convocatoria.htm Plus d'informations: http://dtil.unilat.org/public/difusion/PDFs/FR/format%20A4/CMTE2008_triptique_FR.pdf http://dtil.unilat.org/cmte2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:06:43 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:06:43 +0100 Subject: Seminaire: Etude de l'adjectif thai, 07/04/2008, Marne-la-Vallee Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:34:38 +0100 From: Elsa Tolone Message-ID: <1206610478.47eb6a2ee6a14 at www-igm.univ-mlv.fr> X-url: http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr Prochain s?minaire interne de linguistique : Lundi 07/04/2008 ? 10h30 Par: Wankawee PUANGKOR, Universit? Paris-Est Titre : ?tude de l'adjectif tha? R?sum? : On propose une ?tude de l'adjectif en fran?ais et en tha?. La premi?re appartenant ? la famille indo-europ?enne et la seconde ? la famille ta?-kada?. L'adjectif tha?, traditionnellement class? avec l'adverbe dans la cat?gorie de ? qualificatif ? ou dans Unitex. On pr?sente ?galement la construction des adjectifs tha?s ? la base verbale, nominale et adjectivale. En tha?, langue sans d?rivation affixale, un grand nombre de mots sont compos?s, soit ? l'aide de mots supports, soit par la juxtaposition de deux ou plusieurs mots, soit par plusieurs types de r?p?tition : redoublement, r?duplication et s?rie adjectivale. En m?me temps, on fait une ?tude sur l'?tiquetage des mots qui peuvent ?tre, grammaticalement, un adjectif. Certains adjectifs ne peuvent pas ?tre ?tiquet?s comme . On peut dire que l'adjectif m?rite d'?tre reconnu et class? ? part, car outre ses traits s?mantiques qui ne peuvent pourtant ?tre n?glig?s, son comportement syntaxique n'est pas toujours celui du nom, du verbe, ou de l'adverbe, malgr? leur proximit? dans certains cas. M?me si l'adjectif tha? est tr?s proche du verbe, il l'est aussi de l'adverbe, et dans certains cas du nom. Lieu : Universit? Paris-Est, b?timent Copernic 4?me ?tage, salle de s?minaire URL : http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr Elsa Tolone ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:14:20 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:14:20 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Constraints in Discourse 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:05:53 +0100 From: Peter Kuehnlein Message-ID: <47ECED31.1050405 at rug.nl> X-url: http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org/cid08 X-url: http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net Apologies for cross posting Workshop on Constraints in Discourse http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org/cid08 This is the third in a series of workshops entitled "Constraints in Discourse". It is a linguistic commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its sentences. But what exactly are the rules that govern its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? For a long time, the development of precise frameworks of discourse interpretation has been hampered by the lack of a deeper understanding of the dependencies between different discourse units. Recent years have seen a considerable advance in this field. A number of strong constraints have been proposed that restrict the sequencing and attaching of segments at various descriptive levels, as well as the interpretation of their interrelations. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting recent research on constraints in discourse. The target areas include the recognition of discourse structure as well as the interpretation and generation of discourse in a broad variety of domains. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from diverse formal approaches, including but not limited to: - Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) - Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) - Tree Adjoining Grammars - Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) - The QUD Modell - Plan Based Reasoning - Abductive Reasoning - Gricean Pragmatics - Speech Act Theory We invite talks that further our theoretical understanding of the role of constraints in discourse, as well as empirical studies that shed light on their empirical validity. The conference is explicitly intended for discussion and comparison of theoretical accounts that lay the ground for applications. It is not intended as a platform for system demonstrations. Specific topics might relate to - Anaphora Resolution - Co-reference - Dialogical vs. Monological Discourse - Questions and Answers - Lexicon and Discourse Relations - Cognitive Modeling - Underspecification and Nonmonotonic Inferences etc. The organisers are planning to publish a book based on the contributions to this workshop. Publication (and workshop) language is English. The workshop is endorsed by ACL's SIGDial, SIGGen and SIGSem. Invited Speakers ================ Laurence Danlos, Universite Paris 7 Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University Paul Piwek, Open University Bonnie Webber, U Edinburgh, UK Paper Submission ================ Researchers interested in contributing a paper to the workshop are invited to submit an abstract that spans not more than 3 pages in PDF or PS (single column, 10pt font size, a4 paper, including a bibliography) using the form at the workshop website (http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org/cid08). Reviews will be done blindly; the abstracts may accordingly not include explicit hints that allow the identification of the authors (such as "in paper (...) we show that"). Important Dates =============== Conf: July 30th-August, 1st, 2008 Deadline for Submissions: April 25th, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 17th, 2008 Final Abstracts due: July 12th, 2008 Program Committee ================= Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Laurence Danlos, Universite Paris 7, France Markus Egg, RU Groningen, Netherlands Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA Peter Kuehnlein, RU Groningen, Netherlands Paul Piwek, Open Univerity, UK Gisela Redeker, RU Groningen, Netherlands David Schlangen, U Potsdam, Germany Manfred Stede, U Potsdam, Germany Bonnie Webber, U Edinburgh, UK Organisation ============ Organisation Committee: Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Markus Egg, RU Groningen, Netherlands Peter Kuehnlein, RU Groningen, Netherlands Gisela Redeker, RU Groningen, Netherlands Manfred Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany Local Organisation: Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Manfred Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:12:24 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:12:24 +0100 Subject: Appel: RANLP-2009 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:07:49 +0200 (EET) From: galja at lml.bas.bg Message-ID: <4973.195.96.224.62.1206706069.squirrel at lml.bas.bg> X-url: http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009 Apologies for multiple postings PRELIMINARY ANNONCEMENT: RANLP-09 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Borovets, Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009 Pre-RANLP-09 tutorials: September 12-13, 2009 (Saturday -Sunday) International Conference RANLP-09: September 14-16, 2009 (Monday -Wednesday) Post-conference Workshops: September 17-18, 2009 (Thursday-Friday) RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the best-established and competitive European NLP conferences. It is held biennially in Bulgaria and grew out from the international summer schools "Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics" organised for many years in Bulgaria as international training events. The RANLP conferences in 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 had invited talks by leading names in NLP and accepted papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by an international Programme Committee of well-known experts. Most of the RANLP conferences published a volume with Selected papers in the John Benjamins series "Current trends of linguistic research". The conferences also featured tutorials on hot NLP topics delivered by leading researchers. RANLP 2007 was accompanied by nine international workshops. Submission deadline: End of April/beginning of May 2009 (the conference web site will have updated information) RANLP-09 will be held in the picturesque resort of Borovets. Located in the Rila mountains, it is one of the best known ski and tourist resorts in South-East Europe. Hotel Samokov, the conference venue, offers excellent study and leisure facilities. THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-09 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair of the OC) Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (Chair of the PC) Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria Inc, USA (Editor of volume with selected papers) Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop coordinator) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 15:17:44 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:17:44 +0100 Subject: Seminaire: CLI, Evaluation de l'analyse syntaxique, A. Abeille / P. Paroubek, 7 avril 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:04:38 +0100 From: Thierry.Poibeau at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Message-ID: <20080328140438.nc20l8leq7swskog at intranet.lipn.univ-paris13.fr> X-url: http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/RCLN/Seminaire/ Les apr?s-midi "Connaissances, Langue et Informatique" (Knowledge, language and computer science) S?minaires en duo entre Anne Abeill? (LLF) et Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI) sur "L'?valuation de l'analyse syntaxique : corpus, annotations et retours d'exp?rience" au Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (Institut Galil?e, Universit? Paris 13) http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/RCLN/Seminaire/ Date : le lundi 7 avril 2008 Th?me : L'?valuation de l'analyse syntaxique : corpus, annotations et retours d'exp?rience Horaire : 14h - 17h Amphi COPERNIC, LIPN, Institut Galil?e Campus de Villetaneuse Acc?s : voir l'adresse http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/RCLN/Seminaire/ *** Les expos?s *** Anne Abeill? (LLF, U. Paris 7) Le corpus arbor? du fran?ais de Paris 7 Pr?sentation du treebank du fran?ais ?labor? ? partir d'un choix d'articles du journal le Monde, des choix d'annotation et de certaines exp?riences d'extraction en cours en collaboration avec Ania Kupsc. Page web du Treebank de Paris 7 Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI) Evaluation de l'analyse syntaxique automatique Nous assistons dans le domaine du traitement automatique des langues ? un retour du paradigme d'?valuation et l'analyse syntaxique automatique n'?chappe pas au ph?nom?ne. Dans cette pr?sentation, nous aborderons les diff?rents aspects li?s ? la mise en place du paradigme d'?valuation dans ce domaine: * principes g?n?raux du paradigme, * les m?thodes comparatives quantitatives objectives de type bo?te noire * la s?lection des corpus * le formalisme pivot * d?finission de l'?talon (gold standard) * annoter les donn?es de r?f?rence * le mot, la phrase et l'alignement des donn?es * les mesures de performance * plateforme d'?valuation et service web * combiner pour am?liorer * dynamique d'une campagne d'?valuation * l'?valuation comme pont entre les domaines, le cas de l'oral et de l'?crit. * ?valuation de l'?valuation Contact : Thierry Poibeau (LIPN) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Mar 28 16:50:41 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:50:41 +0100 Subject: Appel: BioNLP, special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:06:53 -0600 From: "Kevin B. Cohen" Message-ID: <952b23690803280906h1d2282dande3ce359a87fac62 at mail.gmail.com> X-url: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin X-url: http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi/ X-url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464 Call for Papers Special Issue on Biomedical Natural Language Processing: Journal of Biomedical Informatics Guest Editors: Wendy W. Chapman, PhD K. Bretonnel Cohen Submission deadline: May 27, 2008 ********************************************************************** BioNLP is biomedical natural language processing, or the application of natural language processing and text mining to the biomedical, clinical, and genomic domains. The goal of this special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) is to publish papers describing novel work at the forefront of the new challenges and possibilities that face the BioNLP community today. The last decade saw rapid growth in the area of BioNLP. This body of work has resulted in quantitative and qualitative differences in both the types of tasks we can undertake and the levels of performance on those tasks. There has been a recent resurgence of work in foundational, lower-level linguistic analysis tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, and semantic role labeling. There has also been a new emphasis on higher-level application-oriented work such as automated ICD9-CM code assignment, use of NLP in clinical decision support, and management of the rapid growth in the primary biomedical literature. These recent advances in foundational technologies and in application types and domains have created the possibility of a new era in biomedical text mining. The special issue is intended to help define and provide insights into that future. We solicit papers on new methodologies applied to text from biomedical, clinical, or genomic domains. In addition to original research papers, as is JBI's custom, we are soliciting one or more methodological review papers on BioNLP methodologies. Possible topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following subjects as applied to biomedical text: * Morphological processing * Part-of-speech tagging * Syntactic parsing * Tokenization * Coordination and conjunction processing * Negation and uncertainty identification * Word sense disambiguation * Reference resolution * Temporal modeling from text * Information retrieval * Information extraction and encoding * Text classification * Text summarization * Question-answering * Development and evaluation of annotation schemas * Corpus and test set generation and evaluation * Software testing and engineering for natural language processing applications In accordance with JBI's editorial policies, we are soliciting full-length article submissions that present and evaluate new methods rather than the application or evaluation of existing approaches (see editorial guidelines at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin). Any questions regarding the special issue may be sent to the guest editors at jbi-nlp at list.pitt.edu. We welcome advance notice of your intention to submit a paper. Inquiries about suitability should include the subject line "suitability inquiry" and a short paragraph describing the primary objective of the manuscript, emphasizing how the objective matches the JBI editorial guidelines cited above. Submissions: Manuscripts should be submitted to the JBI authors' gateway (http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi/) no later than May 27, 2008. Please be sure that your manuscript follows the JBI instructions for authors available on that web site. You will be offered an opportunity to specify the special issue ("Biomedical NLP") as the preferred venue when you submit your manuscript to the gateway. All appropriate submissions will be reviewed by at least two evaluators in addition to the editors. Papers returned for revisions should generally be revised and resubmitted within four weeks. Accepted manuscripts are immediately made available on the JBI web site in Science Direct (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464) and indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE. Thus they will become widely accessible even before the print version of the special issue is published. Papers judged inappropriate for the special issue may be referred to the JBI editor-in-chief to be considered for publication in a regular issue of the journal. ------------------------------------------------------------- K. B. 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