From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Mon Aug  1 08:22:13 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:22:13 +0200
Subject: Job: CDD, Evaluateur/evaluatrice de donnees linguistiques, France
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:53:54 +0200
From: Elixabete Murguia <dataopsman at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAN44i4xuuS65_2NVrwkWOhya0gfgwz2FjRsPgBZMwtbY-a=7=w at mail.gmail.com>


Recrutement d'évaluateurs/évaluatrices de données linguistiques pour
le français pour le projet de recherche Word Of Mouth.

Poste :
Evaluateur/évaluatrice de données linguistiques

Description du poste :
L'évaluateur/évaluatrice travaille à la production de ressources
linguistiques dans le domaine du traitement de la parole pour le
français : nettoyage de corpus, production de lexiques, écriture de
règles linguistiques.

Tâches à accomplir :

   - Relecture des phrases du corpus afin d'en corriger la typographie,
     l'orthographe et la grammaire, d'en améliorer le style et la
     lisibilité ;
   - Evaluer et maximiser la couverture phonétique du corpus ;
   - Classifier les mots dans une perspective de désambiguïsation ;
   - Transcrire des mots selon une notation phonétique.



Profil du candidat :

   - Locuteur natif ou équivalent du français, anglais courant ;
   - Sens du détail ;
   - Très bonne connaissance de l'orthographe et de la grammaire du
     français ;
   - Connaissances en linguistique (phonologie - phonétique)
     appréciées ;
   - Expérience en relecture et correction de textes appréciée ;
   - Aisance avec les outils informatiques, et capacité à comprendre
     rapidement des concepts techniques ;
   - Capacité à travailler de manière autonome ;
   - Sens de l'organisation.

Nous recherchons des candidats ayant de l'expérience et/ou une
formation dans les domaines suivants : linguistique (phonologie,
traitement automatique des langues), édition et correction,
traduction, enseignement du français, etc.

Le travail se fera à temps plein.
L'évaluateur travaillera à son domicile, après avoir reçu une
formation d'une semaine dans les locaux de la société, au cours de
laquelle il se familiarisera avec la société, le projet et les outils
de travail.

Durée du projet : 6 mois (avec possibilité de prolongation)

Si vous êtes intéressé, merci d'envoyer votre CV ainsi qu'une lettre
de motivation à l'adresse suivante :

Odile de Vismes
dataopsman at gmail.com

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Mon Aug  1 08:24:57 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:24:57 +0200
Subject: Appel: LTC 2011, Poznan, Poland,
 25-27/11/2011 - deadline extension
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:56:21 +0200 (CEST)
From: ltc at amu.edu.pl (Language and Technology Conference)
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Dear Colleagues,

Responding to numerous suggestions to extend the paper submission
deadline we have fixed the NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE to August 9, 2011
(Tuesday). As any further extension could compromise the correct
processing of the submissions, we may not be able to take into
consideration papers submitted after this date.

Best regards,
LTC Organizers

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Mon Aug  1 08:26:36 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:26:36 +0200
Subject: Ecole: SSLST 2011, August 29 =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?=96_?=September 2,
 2011, Tarragona, Spain
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:09:20 +0200
From: "Carlos Martín Vide"
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X-url: http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/


2011 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES
(SSLST 2011)

(formerly International PhD School in Language and Speech
Technologies)

Tarragona, Spain, August 29 – September 2, 2011

Organized by:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/

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

AIM:

SSLST 2011 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures on language
and speech technologies at different levels. The students choose their
preferred courses according to their interests and
background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The
School intends to help students initiate their career in research.

ADDRESSED TO:

Undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. Most
appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Linguistics. Other
students (for instance, from Mathematics, Electrical Engineering,
Philosophy, or Cognitive Science) are welcome too.

The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their
career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the
field.

There will be no overlap in the schedule of the courses.

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen), Computational Stylometry [advanced, 4
hours]
Robert Dale (Macquarie), Automated Writing Assistance: Grammar
Checking and Beyond [intermediate, 8 hours]
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton), Computational Lexical Semantics
[introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]
Ralph Grishman (New York), Information Extraction [intermediate, 8
hours]
Daniel Jurafsky (Stanford), Computational Extraction of Social and
Interactional Meaning [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]
Chin-Hui Lee (Georgia Tech), A Short Course on Digital Speech
Processing and Applications [intermediate, 8 hours]
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara), Syntax and Parsing: Phrase Structure and
Dependency Parsing [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]
Diana Maynard (Sheffield), Text Mining [introductory/intermediate, 8
hours]
Dan Roth (Urbana-Champaign), Predicting Structures in NLP: Constrained
Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming in NLP
[intermediate/advanced, 8 hours]


SCHOOL PAPER:

On a voluntary basis, within 6 months after the end of the School,
students will be expected to draft an individual or jointly-authored
research paper on a topic covered during the classes under the
guidance of the lecturing staff.

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done on line at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/Registration.php 

FEES:

They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student
takes. The rule is:

1 hour = 

- 10 euros (for payments until June 5, 2011), 
- 15 euros (for payments after June 5, 2011). 

The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: 

Uno-e Bank (Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain): IBAN:
ES3902270001820201823142 - Swift code: UNOEESM1 (account holder:
Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC; account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya, 35,
43002 Tarragona, Spain)

Please mention SSLST 2011 and your full name in the subject. A receipt
will be provided on site. Bank transfers should not involve any
expense for the School.

People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in
cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much
recommended to complete the registration process earlier.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation is available on the website of the
School.

CERTIFICATES:

Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended,
their contents, and their duration. Those participants who will choose
to be involved in a research paper will receive an additional
certificate at the end of the task, independently on whether the paper
will finally get published or not.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announcement of the programme: April 21, 2011
Starting of the registration: April 25, 2011
Early registration deadline: June 5, 2011
Starting of the School: August 29, 2011
End of the School: September 2, 2011 

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Florentina-Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

WEBSITE:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/ 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSLST 2011
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Aug  3 07:37:10 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 09:37:10 +0200
Subject: Info: ELRA joins INTERSPEECH 2011 as Bronze Sponsor and Exhibitor
Message-ID: <WED.3.AUG.2011.093710.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:39:51 +0200
From: info at elda.org
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X-url: http://www.isca-speech.org

[Apologies for cross-postings]

Press Release - Immediate
Paris, France, August 1st, 2011

*ELRA joins INTERSPEECH 2011 as Bronze Sponsor and Exhibitor*


ELRA, a world-wide leading player providing production services to the
speech language communities, sponsors the 12th Annual Conference of
the International Speech Communication Association to be held in
Firenze (Italy), on next August 28-30.

Through this sponsorship, ELRA and ISCA are continuing their long-term
collaboration.

ELRA will be exhibitor at the conference. You are very welcome to
visit us at Booth 14 from August 28 to 30.


*** About ELRA ***

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a world-wide
leading player in language resource distribution, sharing and
production. ELRA provides services to the speech language communities
related to production of resources, including production on demand,
technology evaluation and benchmarking. ELRA organizes LREC, the major
international conference devoted to language resources and evaluation
and the next edition will be held in Istanbul in 2012.

To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site:
http://www.elra.info


*** About INTERSPEECH ***

INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference
on issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language
processing (SLP) both in humans and in machines. INTERSPEECH 2011 will
cover all the scientific and technological aspects of speech and
language with a specific focus on "Speech science and technology for
real life".

To find out more about INTERSPEECH and ISCA, please visit:  
http://www.isca-speech.org



Contact : Helene Mazo, mazo at elda.org

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Aug  6 09:08:52 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:08:52 +0200
Subject: Conf: ENLG 2011, Sep. 28-30, 2011, Nancy, France
Message-ID: <SAT.6.AUG.2011.110852.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:35:23 +0200
From: Claire Gardent <claire.gardent at loria.fr>
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[English version below]


================= Appel à Inscription et Participation =================

Pour vous inscrire et participer à la conférence ENLG 2011 :

Site Web : http://talc.loria.fr/-ENLG-2011-.html

-----------------
Dates importantes
-----------------
Inscription : dès maintenant (tarif préférentiel jusqu'au 14 aout
inclus)

-----------------
Chercheurs invités
-----------------
    * Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
    * Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK
    * Jeff Orkin, MIT Media Lab, USA

-----------------
Programme
-----------------
La liste des articles sélectionnés et le programme de la conférence
sont disponibles sur le site de la conférence :

http://talc.loria.fr/-ENLG-2011-.html

Au plaisir de vous accueillir prochainement à Nancy.

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ENLG 2011, 13th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
================================================================

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

ENLG 2011 will take place in Nancy, France, Sep. 28-30, 2011.

Invited Speakers

- Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
- Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Jeff Orkin, MIT Media Lab, USA

Workshop aims
-------------

The ENLG 2011 workshop continues a biennial series of workshops on
natural language generation that has been running since 1987,
providing a regular forum for presentation of research in this
area. ENLG 2011 invites substantial, original, and unpublished
submissions on all topics related to natural language generation. This
includes research on core NLG issues as well as research in any area
of NLP that produces language output, such as dialog systems,
summarization, MT, etc.

ENLG 2011 will feature the following events:

- Main conference: Short and Long papers

- Generation Challenges 2011 Special Session: Presentation of Results
  from SR, HOO and GIVE; New Tasks and Status Reports for non-running
  tasks; Poster Session for all tasks and new tasks/status reports

- SimpleNLG User Group Meeting : There will be a one-hour user group
  meeting for the simplenlg package to discuss future developments of
  this software. If there is sufficient interest, we will also have a
  one-hour lab session where novice users learn how to use simplenlg
  (knowledge of Java is required), and experienced users can ask
  technical questions about the package

- Bird of a Feather sessions: Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions
  provide an environment for colleagues with similar interests to meet
  for an informal discussion to exchange ideas and share
  information. The proposers of a BoF session will serve as
  thdiscussion leader, but they are not expected to and, in fact,
  should not prepare a presentation.


And also: a bowling aperitif, a banquet in the Townhall Grand Salons
and a guided tour of the old town.

Registration
------------

Registration for the workshop should be done from the ENLG 2011
conference site ( http://talc.loria.fr/-ENLG-2011-.html).  Early
registration ends on 14th August 2011.


Workshop organisers
-------------------

- Alexandre Denis, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France
- Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France
- Alejandra Lorenzo, University of Nancy 1/LORIA, Nancy, France
- Shashi Narayan, University of Nancy 1/LORIA, Nancy, France
- Laura Perez-Beltrachini, University of Nancy 1/LORIA, Nancy, France


Workshop website
----------------

http://talc.loria.fr/-ENLG-2011-.html
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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Aug  6 09:24:57 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:24:57 +0200
Subject: Ecole: Introduction to Terminology Online Course (5th ed.),
 IULA/UPF
Message-ID: <SAT.6.AUG.2011.112457.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 13:42:58 +0200
From: IULA Documentació <iuladocum at upf.edu>
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Dear Colleagues,
 

We are pleased to announce that the 5th edition of the Introduction to
Terminology Online Course will start next October. This course,
offered by the IULATERM research group on Terminology, under the
direction of M. Teresa Cabré, is the first module of our Terminology
Distance Learning Programme.

The course deals with the basic principles of theory and practice in
Terminology and is intended for language professionals dealing with
special languages and terminology in their daily activities, such as
specialized translators. The course is taught in English and
completely online. Please see below for further details and do not
hesitate to write to us should you have further questions or doubts.

Best regards,

M. Teresa Cabré

Director of Iul at online

ECTS Credits: 10

Starting date: 5th October 2011

Further information: http://www.iula.upf.edu/teronlform0uk.htm
e-mail: iulaonline at upf.edu

Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
(UPF), Barcelona (Spain)

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Aug  6 09:27:56 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:27:56 +0200
Subject: Conf: CLA'11 Conference, 17-19 October 2011, Jachranka, Poland
Message-ID: <SAT.6.AUG.2011.112756.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:03:25 +0200
From: CLA Organizers <cla2011 at cla-conf.org>
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   DRAFT PROGRAM
        of

Computational Linguistics-Applications 
Conference - CLA'11
http://www.cla-conf-org/

17-19 October 2011
Warszawianka Hotel Wellness & Spa 
Jachranka (near Warsaw, Poland)

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Monday (October 17, 2011) - Wednesday (October 19, 2011)
--------------------------------------------------------
1)  Automatic Metatada Generation in an archaeological digital
library: semantic annotation of grey literature
    Andreas Vlachidis, Ceri Binding, Douglas Tudhope, Keith May        

2)  Expanding a Corpus of Closed-World Descriptions by Semantic Unit
Selection
    Marcus Uneson, Peter Juel Henrichsen        

3)  A Graph Based Approach for Identifying Hindi Derivational Variants
    Nikhil Kanuparthi, Nithin Dasari, Abhilash Inumella, Dipti Misra
    Sharma
       

4)  Infomat -- Text Clustering Visualization Based on the
Term-Document-Matrix
    Magnus Rosell        

5)  A System for Modularly Constructing Efficient Natural Language
Processors
    Rahmatullah Hafiz, Richard A. Frost        

6)  MUSE - A Multilingual Sentence Extractor
    Marina Litvak, Slava Kisilevich, Mark Last, Menahem Friedman        

7)  Natural Language Understanding for Grading Essay Questions in
Persian Language
    Iman Mokhtari-Fard        

8)  Sentiment Analysis for Hotel Reviews
    Walter Kasper, Mihaela Vela        

9)  Cross-Language Boosting in Pattern-based Semantic Relation
Extraction from Text
    Emiliano Giovannetti, Simone Marchi        

10) Automatic Prominence Detection Using Declination Reset Feature in
Russian
    Nina Volskaya, Daniil Kocharov, Pavel Skrelin        

11) Production of morphological dictionaries of multi-word units using
a multipurpose tool
    Ranka Stankovic, Ivan Obradovic, Cvetana Krstev, Dusko Vitas        

12) Improving Predictive Entry of Finnish Text Messages using IRC Logs
    Miikka Silfverberg, Mirka Hyvarinen, Tommi Pirinen        

13) An Automatic Tagger for Diacritizing and Analyzing Arabic Text
    Ramy Eskander, Amin Shoukry, Saleh Alshehaby        

14) Towards An Enhanced Semantic Approach For Automatic Usability
Evaluation
    Peter Steinnokel, Christian Scheel, Michael Quade, Sahin Albayrak      
 

15) Environmental Knowledge in EcoLexicon
    Pilar Leon Arauz, Arianne Reimerink, Pamela Faber        

16) Bootstrapping Events and Relations from Text
    Ting Liu, Tomek Strzalkowski        

17) A New Approach to HMM-Based Automatic Headline Generation
    Fahad Alotaiby, Salah Foda, Ibrahim Alkharashi        

18) Tools for better OCR results of the ancient Czech language and
better digital image quality
    Tomas Foltyn, Jiri Polisensky        

19) Hierarchical Text Clustering Based on ICA
    Julian Driver, Dominik Heider, Sascha Hauke, Martin Pyka        

20) Vocabulary Selection and Language Model Adaptation for
Simultaneous Lecture Translation
    Paul Maergner, Ian Lane, Alex Waibel



The program is also available here: 
http://2011.cla-conf.org/pg/451/339.

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   Your are welcome to register:
       http://www.papers2011.cla-conf.org/conf/

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USEFUL LINKS:
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* CLA '11 webpage: http://www.cla-conf.org
* REGISTRATION: http://www.papers2011.cla-conf.org/conf/
* Venue: http://www.cla-conf.org/pg/441/333


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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Aug  6 09:32:01 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:32:01 +0200
Subject: Appel: JNLE Special Issue on the Semantics of Noun Compounds
Message-ID: <SAT.6.AUG.2011.113201.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:35:12 -0400
From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak at site.uottawa.ca>
Message-ID: <4E3A9200.1040904 at site.uottawa.ca>


Journal of Natural Language Engineering
Special Issue on the Semantics of Noun Compounds
Third Call for Papers

The submission deadline is October 1, 2011. All details, including the 
real call for papers, can be found at

https://sites.google.com/site/jnlencsemantics2013/

Su, Francis, Preslav, Stan

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Aug  6 09:38:06 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:38:06 +0200
Subject: Job: Post-doc, Apprentissage pour entites nommees multilingues,
 LIMSI
Message-ID: <SAT.6.AUG.2011.113806.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 23:50:32 +0200
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
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[version française : voir plus bas]

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT LIMSI-CNRS

    Topic: New methods for learning Named Entity Recognition systems
    in a multilingual context.

The development of Natural Language Processing systems is impeded by
the absence of annotated data in some languages.  A possible solution
consists in transferring analyses available in one language to
comparable texts in another language.  This makes it possible to train
new systems based on these new annotations.

The proposed project will tackle more specifically the case of Named
Entity Recognition in a context where a "synchronous comparable
corpus" (or "noisy parallel corpus") is available: AFP news in French,
English, Spanish (German, Portuguese and Arabic are also available).

The goal is to take advantage of the parallelism of news written in
multiple languages to help recognize named entities:

 - in a language for which a Named Entity Recognition system is
   already available, strengthen recognition through entities found in
   parallel articles in other languages;

 - in a (target) language for which no NER system is available,
   transfer into that language the analyses obtained in a (source)
   language for which a NER system is available, and use them to train
   a system in that (target) language.

LIMSI has:

 - NER systems for French, English and Spanish (with varying levels of
   performance);

 - methods for detecting translation relations among news articles.

This work takes place in the context of the EDyLex project, funded by
the French National Research Agency, whose goal is to process unknown
words in texts (http://sites.google.com/site/projetedylex/).  The work
of the successful candidate will be focused on the detection and
categorization of named entities in a multilingual context.

The work will be performed at LIMSI-CNRS in Orsay
(http://www.limsi.fr/) on the campus of University Paris-South.  Two
teams at LIMSI are involved in the project: ILES (written and signed
language processing) and TLP (spoken language processing).


QUALIFICATIONS AND POSITION

The successful candidate will have a track record of Machine Learning
for Natural Language Processing research.  A strong preference will be
given to those candidates with experience in Named Entity Recognition
or Speech Language Understanding.  Fluency in one or more languages of
the project beyond English is mandatory.  Applicants should have
received (by the starting date) a PhD in Machine Learning,
Computational Linguistics or related areas.

This position is for 12 months and may begin as early as Oct 1st,
2011, or soon thereafter.  Salary follows CNRS scales and depends on
the candidate's experience (the minimum monthly net salary is about
2,000 €).

To apply, please send a cover letter, describing how the applicant's
knowledge and research background will contribute to the project, a
CV, and the names and contact information of two referees to:

  Pierre Zweigenbaum (pz at limsi.fr) and Sophie Rosset (rosset at limsi.fr)


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POST-DOCTORAT AU LIMSI-CNRS

Nouvelles méthodes pour l'apprentissage de systèmes de reconnaissances
d'entités nommées dans un contexte multilingue.

Le développement de systèmes de traitement automatique des langues est
gêné par l'absence de données annotées dans certaines langues. Une
solution possible consiste à transposer les analyses disponibles dans
une langue à des textes comparables dans une autre langue. Cela permet
d'entraîner de nouveaux systèmes à l'aide de ces nouvelles annotations.

Le projet proposé s'intéressera en particulier au cas des entités
nommées dans un contexte où l'on dispose d'un corpus « comparable
synchrone » (ou « parallèle bruité ») : des dépêches de l'AFP en
français, anglais, espagnol (l'allemand, l'arabe et le portugais sont
aussi disponibles).

L'objectif est de profiter du parallélisme entre dépêches écrites dans
plusieurs langues pour aider à la reconnaissance d'entités nommées :

 - dans une langue pour laquelle on dispose déjà d'un système de
   reconnaissance d'entités, renforcer la reconnaissance en s'appuyant
   sur les entités reconnues dans des articles parallèles d'autres
   langues ;

 - dans une langue (cible) pour laquelle on ne dispose pas d'un
   système de reconnaissance d'entités, transposer dans cette langue
   les analyses faites sur une langue (source) pour laquelle on
   dispose d'un système, et s'en servir pour entraîner un système dans
   cette langue (cible).

On dispose en outre :

 - de systèmes de reconnaissance d'entités nommées pour le français,
   l'anglais et l'espagnol (avec différents niveaux de performance);

 - de méthodes pour la détection des dépêches en relation de
   traduction.

Ce travail prend place dans le contexte du projet ANR EDyLex, dont
l'objectif principal est de traiter les mots inconnus dans des textes
(http://sites.google.com/site/projetedylex/). Le travail du candidat
porte plus précisément sur les entités nommées, leur détection et leur
typage, dans un contexte multilingue.

Le travail s'effectuera au LIMSI-CNRS à Orsay (http://www.limsi.fr/)
dans le département communication homme-machine. Deux équipes sont
concernées par les thématiques du projet : ILES (traitement de la
langue écrite et signée) et TLP (traitement de la langue parlée).

PROFIL ET POSTE

Le candidat devra maîtriser l'apprentissage automatique pour le
traitement automatique des langues. Une expérience en reconnaissance
d'entités nommées ou en compréhension de l'oral sera appréciée.
Une connaissance approfondie d'une ou plusieurs langues du projet
au-delà de l'anglais est nécessaire. Le candidat doit avoir soutenu
une thèse (à la date de début du contrat) en apprentissage
automatique, en traitement automatique des langues ou dans un domaine
proche.

Le poste est à pourvoir à partir du 1er octobre pour une durée de 12
mois. Le salaire correspond aux grilles CNRS et dépend de l'expérience
du candidat (le minimum est de l'ordre de 2000 € net par mois).

Envoyer un CV et une lettre de motivation à :
  Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr> et Sophie Rosset <rosset at limsi.fr>
en indiquant une liste d'au moins deux référents pouvant recommander
le candidat.


Pierre Zweigenbaum
----
LIMSI - CNRS
Groupe ILES / Dépt. Communication Homme-Machine
Tél : (+33) (0)1 69 85 80 04 ; Fax : (+33) (0)1 69 85 80 88
Mél : pz at limsi.fr ; Toile : http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/
Lieu : Bâtiment 508, Université Paris-Sud 11
Courrier : LIMSI, BP 133, 91403 ORSAY Cedex, France
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:41:40 +0200
Subject: Appel: FOIS 2012
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Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 18:08:19 -0400
From: Maureen Donnelly <md63 at buffalo.edu>
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X-url: http://purl.org/icbofois2012


apologies for cross-posting ... 


CALL FOR PAPERS

7th International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information
Systems (FOIS 2012)    
held together with the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical
Ontology (ICBO 2012), July, 24-27, 2012 in Graz, Austria
http://purl.org/icbofois2012

-----------------------------------
DEFINITION AND SCOPE
-----------------------------------

Ontology, originally a fundamental part of philosophical enquiry, is
concerned with the analysis and categorization of what exists. In
recent years, however, a complementary focus of ontological inquiry
gained significant momentum fueled by the advent of complex
information systems which rely on robust and coherent representations
of their subject matter.  The systematic study of such
representations, their reasoning techniques and their relations to
reality, are at the center of the modern discipline of formal
ontology.

Formal ontology in this modern sense is now a research focus in such
diverse domains as conceptual modeling, database design, software
engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence,
computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics,
geographic information science, knowledge engineering, information
retrieval, and the semantic web. Researchers in all these areas
increasingly recognize the need for serious engagement with ontology,
understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations
making up their respective domains of enquiry, in providing a solid
foundation for their work.

The FOIS conference is designed to provide a meeting point for
researchers >From all disciplines with an interest in formal
ontology. The conference encourages submission of high quality
articles on both theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in
previous years, FOIS 2012 is intended as a nexus of interdisciplinary
research and communication.

The FOIS conference series began with the first meeting in Trento,
Italy in June 1998 followed by meetings in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, and
2010.  The seventh FOIS conference will be held in Graz, Austria July
24-27, 2012, in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on
Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012).

FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for
Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), which is a non-profit
organization the purpose of which is to promote interdisciplinary
research and international collaboration at the intersection of
philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and
computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological
analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge
management, information-systems development, library and information
science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general.

------------------------------
TOPICS OF INTEREST
------------------------------

We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors
may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should
emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and
to information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other
of these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the
meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are:

Foundational Issues

* Kinds of entity: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents,
  abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural
  objects/artifacts
* Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence,
  constitution, subsumption, instantiation
* Vagueness and granularity
* Identity and change
* Formal comparison among ontologies
* Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...)
* Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms,
  ...)
* Ontology of artifacts, functions and roles
* Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions,
  emotions, ...)
* Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms,
  social relationships, artistic expressions, ...)
* Ontology of the information society (information, communication,
  meaning negotiation, ...)
* Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition

Methodologies and Applications

* Top-level vs application ontologies
* Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies
* Ontology-driven information systems design
* Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling
* Ontology-based application systems
* Requirements engineering
* Knowledge engineering
* Knowledge management and organization
* Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling
* Computational lexicons; Terminology
* Information retrieval; Question-answering
* Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing
* Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Biomedical science,
  E-business, Enterprise integration, Engineering, Geography, Law,
  Library science, Linguistics, ...

-----------------------------
IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------

We are calling for papers to be considered for inclusion in FOIS 2012.

Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2012
Notification: March 8, 2012
Camera-Ready Deadline for accepted papers: March 24, 2012
Conference Dates: July, 24-27, 2012

--------------------------------------------
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
--------------------------------------------

Conference chair: Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada)
Program chairs: Maureen Donnelly (University at Buffalo, USA) and 
Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Local organization: Stephan Schulz (Gratz University, Austria)

------------------------------------------------------
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TENTATIVE)
------------------------------------------------------

Achille Varzi (Columbia University, New York, USA)
Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) 
Albert Goldfain (University at Buffalo, USA)
Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK)
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, USA)
Bill Andersen (Highleet, Inc., USA)
Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds, UK)
Carola Eschenbach (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Chris Menzel (Texas A&M University, USA)
Chris Welty (IBM Research, Hawthorne, USA)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Claudio Masolo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Colin Batchelor  (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK)
David Mark (University at Buffalo, USA)
Decio Krause (Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil)
Fabian Neuhaus (NIST, USA) 
Florian Probst (SAP, Germany)
Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Fred Freitas (Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil)
Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University, USA)
Gerd Wagner (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany)
Heinrich Herre (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Jan Dietz (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Janna Hastings (University of Geneva, Switzerland) 
Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Jerome Euzenat (INRIA, Grenoble, France)
Jerry Hobbs (University of Southern California, USA)
Johanna Seibt (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany)
John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada)
John Sowa (Vivomind Intelligence Inc., USA)
Joost Breuker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Krzysztof Janowicz, (UCLA, USA)
Laure Vieu (CNRS-IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Leo Obrst (The Mitre Corporation, USA)
Leonardo Lesmo (University of Torino, Italy)
Maria Luiza Machado Campos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Mark Musen (Stanford University, USA)
Martin Doerr (Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece)
Mathias Brochhausen (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA)
Matteo Cristani (University of Verona, Italy)
Mauricio Barcelos de Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Michael F. Uschold (Semantic Arts, Canada)
Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada)
Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Michel Dumontier (Carleton University, Canada)
Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA)
Oscar Pastor (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Peter Rittgen (University College Boras, Sweden)
Pierdaniele Giaretta (University of Verona, Italy)
Pierre Grenon (Open University, UK)
Ricardo Falbo (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Riichiro Mizoguchi (University of Osaka, Japan)
Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK) 
Roberta Ferrario (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Roberto Casati (CNRS-EHSS, Paris, France)
Stefano Borgo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Terry Halpin  (LogicBlox, Australia)
Terry Langendoen (University of Arizona, USA)
Thomas Bittner (University at Buffalo, USA)
Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK)
Veda Storey (Georgia State University, USA)
Werner Ceusters (University at Buffalo, USA)
Werner Kuhn (University of Munster, Germany)
William McCarthy (Michigan State University, USA)
Yair Wand (University of British Columbia, Canada)

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Aug  6 09:46:19 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:46:19 +0200
Subject: Appel: IC-ININFO 2011,
 International Conference on integrated information, KOS, Greece
Message-ID: <SAT.6.AUG.2011.114619.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 15:36:12 +0930
From: Sue Myburgh <Sue.Myburgh at unisa.edu.au>
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DEAR COLLEAGUES

Apologies for cross-posting
Please circulate widely

IC-UNINFO 2011
International Conference on Integrated Information
September 29 – October 3, 2011.  Kos Island, Greece.

http://www.icininfo.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=27
SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 3, 2011, KOS ISLAND, GREECE


You are invited to submit a paper to this international
interdisciplinary conference covering research and development in the
field of information management and integration. The Conference aims
at creating a forum for further discussion for an Integrated
Information Field incorporating a series of issues and/or related
organizations that manage information in their everyday operations.
The call for papers is addressed to scholars and/ or professionals of
the fields of Library and Archives Science (including digital
libraries and electronic archives), Museum and Gallery Studies,
Information Science, Documentation, Information Management, Records
Management, Knowledge Management, Data management and Copyright
experts the latter with an emphasis on Electronic
Publications. Furthermore, papers focusing on issues of Cultural
Heritage Management and Conservation Management will also be welcomed
along with papers regarding the Management of nonprofit Organizations
such as libraries, archives and museums.


My colleague Anna Maria Tammaro and I are organising a session on
digital cultural memory institutions, the details of which appear
below.  Please note that virtual paper submission is also possible:
you do not necessarily have to travel to Kos if your paper has been
accepted.  I will be accepting abstracts/papers until 7th September,
2011.

Divergence and convergence: information work in digital cultural
memory institutions
Organizer: Dr Susan Myburgh
University of Parma, Digital Library Learning
Co-organizers: Dr Susan Myburgh, University of South Australia;  Dr
Anna Maria Tammaro, University of Parma

Description:
Cultural institutions, such as libraries, archives and museums, are
strongly influenced by their contexts and environments. As elements
within their environment change, they respond in various ways, whether
it is to modify their collections, facilitate or impede access, or
change staffing arrangements. Of all the possible phenomena or
entities that have had effects on such enterprises, information and
communication technologies (ICTs) have arguably been the most
significant. Language and writing were the first communication
technologies, followed by printing, the telegraph and telephone, and
the media, before the internet became predominant. There is no doubt
that each of these has played a prominent role in the creation and
expansion of the processes unique to the processes of information
work, including selection of documents, describing documents and their
contents for physical and intellectual access, organising materials,
conservation and preservation, copyright and other intellectual
property rights and so on.

While there is a considerable body of research which considers such
effects on organisations and institutions, there is a corresponding
paucity of work which considers how professional work has changed in
this field, and the directions in which this might move in the
future. Articulating information work, and describing how it is made
manifest, is seldom considered, apart perhaps from an emphasis on the
technical skills required. While this work is being done in different
ways, there now exists the possibility to do quite different work, as
ICTs open up opportunities that were impossible in a purely physical
analogue world. This seminar will provide a forum for discussion of
some of these, including new ways of considering human computer
interaction, making meaning from metadata, cross-cultural
interpretation and analysis, construction of information users in
quite different ways – for example as individuals, rather than
communities, and examination of the uses made with the information
obtained.


Topics may include, but are not restricted to:
# Intercultural semantics and making meaning online
# Using digital records and artefacts in teaching and learning (at all
  levels)
# Liaison between the information worker and the knowledge seeker
# Collaborative knowledge creation using digital tools and documents
# The increasing importance of interdisciplinarity to identify and
  seek solutions to problems
# Extending the reach of the institution
# Everywhere but nowhere: how does the general public know what is
  available, and how can they find it?
# Open Access, scholarly communication and education
# What information workers can do in the field of Digital Humanities

We invite professionals who work in any of the following areas:

1.     Library Science
2.     Archives Science
3.     Museum and Gallery Studies
4.     Information Science
5.     Documentation
6.     Digital Libraries
7.     Electronic Archives
8.     Information Management
9.     Records / Document Management
10.  Knowledge Management
11.  Data Management
12.  Copyright
13.  Electronic Publications
14.  Cultural Heritage Management
15.  Conservation Management
16.  Management of nonprofit Organizations
17.  History of Information
18.  History of Collections
19.  Health Information


All the best
Sue


Dr Susan Myburgh
School of Communication
University of South Australia
St Bernard's Road
Magill SA 5076
ADELAIDE

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:43:45 +0200
Subject: Appel: LRL 2011,
 Addressing the Gaps in Language Resources and Technologies
 (deadline September 5, 2011)
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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:20:14 +0200
From: Info <info at elda.org>
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[Apologies for cross-postings]

Dear Colleagues,

Please notice that the Call for Papers for the 2nd Less-Resourced
Languages Workshop: "Addressing the Gaps in Language Resources and
Technologies" (a jointJ LTC-ELRA-FLaReNet-META-NET event) is open until
September 5, 2011 (the LRL deadlines are independent from the general
LTC deadlines).

Covering the existing gaps in Language Resources (LR) and Technologies
(LT) is a challenging task not only for the so-called "Less-Resourced
Languages" (LRL) but also for the technologically more advanced
ones. Therefore we believe that this workshop will be of general
interest for all. Still, the needs of the less-resourced languages are
worth being specifically considered in order to reduce the unbalanced
situation among languages. The previous joint LTC-FLaReNet workshop on
"Getting Less-Resourced Languages on-Board!" (LTC 2009) aimed at drawing
a picture of the Language Resources (LR) and Language Technologies (LT)
availability and quality, especially for the less-resourced
languages. Following its success, this second workshop aims at adding
the novel topics of gap identification and their possible filling.

The workshop will draw on the inventories of all language technologies
and resources that are presently being carried out, such as the ones
conducted by FlaReNet, ELRA or META-NET (e.g. LRE Map, Program Surveys,
Language Matrixes, Language Gaps, META-SHARE infrastructure). These are
now available and help better understand the current landscape and work
out the possible solutions, for each individual language and
technology. The idea is to discuss availability, quality, maturity,
sustainability, and gaps of the LR and LT for a number of languages and
technologies. The importance of this confrontation and analysis will be
reflected by the way conclusions will be endorsed by the participants.

We kindly encourage all people interested in the workshop to bring their
contributions in form of regular papers or/and personal participation in
the workshop panels and debates (program under construction). For
submission details and other important information please do visit the
LTC web site:www.ltc.amu.edu.pl.

LRL 2011 co-chairs:
Khalid Choukri				
Joseph Mariani				
Zygmunt Vetulani

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:53:31 +0200
Subject: Livre: Li, Learning to Rank for IR and NLP
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:34:07 -0400
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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NEW BOOK

Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing
Hang Li
April 2011
PDF (3563 KB) | PDF Plus (1635 KB) 

Abstract
Learning to rank refers to machine learning techniques for training the
model in a ranking task. Learning to rank is useful for many
applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, and
data mining. Intensive studies have been conducted on the problem
recently and significant progress has been made. This lecture gives an
introduction to the area including the fundamental problems, existing
approaches, theories, applications, and future work.

The author begins by showing that various ranking problems in
information retrieval and natural language processing can be formalized
as two basic ranking tasks, namely ranking creation (or simply ranking)
and ranking aggregation. In ranking creation, given a request, one wants
to generate a ranking list of offerings based on the features derived
from the request and the offerings. In ranking aggregation, given a
request, as well as a number of ranking lists of offerings, one wants to
generate a new ranking list of the offerings.

Ranking creation (or ranking) is the major problem in learning to
rank. It is usually formalized as a supervised learning task. The author
gives detailed explanations on learning for ranking creation and ranking
aggregation, including training and testing, evaluation, feature
creation, and major approaches. Many methods have been proposed for
ranking creation. The methods can be categorized as the pointwise,
pairwise, and listwise approaches according to the loss functions they
employ. They can also be categorized according to the techniques they
employ, such as the SVM based, Boosting SVM, Neural Network based
approaches.

The author also introduces some popular learning to rank methods in
details. These include PRank, OC SVM, Ranking SVM, IR SVM, GBRank,
RankNet, LambdaRank, ListNet & ListMLE, AdaRank, SVM MAP, SoftRank,
Borda Count, Markov Chain, and CRanking.

The author explains several example applications of learning to rank
including web search, collaborative filtering, definition search,
keyphrase extraction, query dependent summarization, and re-ranking in
machine translation.

A formulation of learning for ranking creation is given in the
statistical learning framework. Ongoing and future research directions
for learning to rank are also discussed.

Table of Contents: Introduction / Learning for Ranking Creation /
Learning for Ranking Aggregation / Methods of Learning to Rank /
Applications of Learning to Rank / Theory of Learning to Rank / Ongoing
and Future Work

This title is available online free of charge to members of institutions
that that have licensed through the Synthesis Digital Library of
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:51:13 +0200
Subject: Livre: Alishahi,
 Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:34:05 -0400
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NEW BOOK

Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition

Afra Alishahi (University of the Saarland)

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #11 (Morgan & Claypool
Publishers), 2010, 107 pages

Human language acquisition has been studied for centuries, but using
computational modeling for such studies is a relatively recent
trend. However, computational approaches to language learning have
become increasingly popular, mainly due to advances in developing
machine learning techniques, and the availability of vast collections of
experimental data on child language learning and child-adult
interaction. Many of the existing computational models attempt to study
the complex task of learning a language under cognitive plausibility
criteria (such as memory and processing limitations that humans face),
and to explain the developmental stages observed in children. By
simulating the process of child language learning, computational models
can show us which linguistic representations are learnable from the
input that children have access to, and which mechanisms yield the same
patterns of behaviour that children exhibit during this process. In
doing so, computational modeling provides insight into the plausible
mechanisms involved in human language acquisition, and inspires the
development of better language models and techniques. This book provides
an overview of the main research questions in the field of human
language acquisition. It reviews the most commonly used computational
frameworks, methodologies and resources for modeling child language
learning, and the evaluation techniques used for assessing these
computational models. The book is aimed at cognitive scientists who want
to become familiar with the available computational methods for
investigating problems related to human language acquisition, as well as
computational linguists who are interested in applying their skills to
the study of child language acquisition.

Different aspects of language learning are discussed in separate
chapters, including the acquisition of the individual words, the general
regularities which govern word and sentence form, and the associations
between form and meaning. For each of these aspects, the challenges of
the task are discussed and the relevant empirical findings on children
are summarized. Furthermore, the existing computational models that
attempt to simulate the task under study are reviewed, and a number of
case studies are presented.

Table of Contents: Overview / Computational Models of Language Learning
/ Learning Words / Putting Words Together / Form--Meaning Associations /
Final Thoughts

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00304ED1V01Y201010HLT011

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Computer Science.  Members of licensing institutions have unlimited
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:54:37 +0200
Subject: Livre: Tiedemann, Bitext Alignment
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:34:12 -0400
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NEW BOOK

Bitext Alignment
Jörg Tiedemann
2011
PDF (3997 KB) | PDF Plus (2585 KB) 

Abstract
This book provides an overview of various techniques for the alignment
of bitexts. It describes general concepts and strategies that can be
applied to map corresponding parts in parallel documents on various
levels of granularity. Bitexts are valuable linguistic resources for
many different research fields and practical applications. The most
predominant application is machine translation, in particular,
statistical machine translation. However, there are various other
threads that can be followed which may be supported by the rich
linguistic knowledge implicitly stored in parallel resources. Bitexts
have been explored in lexicography, word sense disambiguation,
terminology extraction, computer-aided language learning and translation
studies to name just a few. The book covers the essential tasks that
have to be carried out when building parallel corpora starting from the
collection of translated documents up to sub-sentential alignments. In
particular, it describes various approaches to document alignment,
sentence alignment, word alignment and tree structure alignment. It also
includes a list of resources and a comprehensive review of the
literature on alignment techniques.

Table of Contents: Introduction / Basic Concepts and Terminology /
Building Parallel Corpora / Sentence Alignment / Word Alignment / Phrase
and Tree Alignment / Concluding Remarks

This title is available online free of charge to members of institutions
that that have licensed the content through the Synthesis Digital
Library of Engineering and Computer Science or the Synthesis Lectures on
Human Language Technologies.

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Subject: Livre: Smith, Linguistic Structure Prediction
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:34:14 -0400
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NEW BOOK

Linguistic Structure Prediction
Noah A. Smith
2011
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Abstract
A major part of natural language processing now depends on the use of
text data to build linguistic analyzers. We consider statistical,
computational approaches to modeling linguistic structure. We seek to
unify across many approaches and many kinds of linguistic
structures. Assuming a basic understanding of natural language
processing and/or machine learning, we seek to bridge the gap between
the two fields. Approaches to decoding (i.e., carrying out linguistic
structure prediction) and supervised and unsupervised learning of models
that predict discrete structures as outputs are the focus. We also
survey natural language processing problems to which these methods are
being applied, and we address related topics in probabilistic inference,
optimization, and experimental methodology.

Table of Contents: Representations and Linguistic Data / Decoding:
Making Predictions / Learning Structure from Annotated Data / Learning
Structure from Incomplete Data / Beyond Decoding: Inference

This title is available online free of charge to members of institutions
that that have licensed the content through theSynthesis Digital Library
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Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:10:22 +0200
Subject: Appel: Colloque TRADETAL Nov2011
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:55:14 +0100 (BST)
From: farouk bouhadiba <bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr>
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جــامعة وهرا ن LABO 022/200 LUCIEN TESNIERE

5ème Colloque International en Traductologie et TAL

(TRADETAL 2011)

Thème: Wordnet Arabic / Portail Web Arabe

Date de déroulement : 6, 7 novembre 2011
Lieu : Université d’Oran Es-Sénia 


ORGANISATEURS : Prof. BOUHADIBA Farouk (Labo022/2000, Université d’Oran,
                Algérie)

                Prof. CARDEY Sylviane (Centre TAL, Lucien Tesnière,
                France)

ARGUMENTAIRE
 
Le but de ce colloque serait de renforcer la pluridisciplinarité
actuelle dans la recherche en TAL sur la langue Arabe par rapport à
d’autres langues telles que le Français, l’Anglais, l’Espagnol ou le
Chinois. Il vise à développer les échanges de recherche intra et inter
universitaires (Nationaux et Internationaux) afin d’élaborer des corpus
linguistiques pour dictionnaires et traducteurs automatiques en lignes
de la langue arabe. L’objectif étant la mise en place d’une plateforme
pour intégrer et développer la place de la langue arabe dans les
autoroutes de l’information actuels: Wordnet Arabic et Portail Web
Arabe.

Cette cinquième édition du Colloque International en Traductologie et
TAL (TRADETAL 2011) s’intéresse particulièrement au Wordnet Arabic et
Portail Web Arabe. Elle vise principalement le renforcement des liens et
contacts entre chercheurs et universitaires nationaux et internationaux
qui s’intéressent à différents aspects du transfert de la langue arabe
vers d’autres langues telles que le Français, l’Anglais ou l’Espagnol,
le Chinois, entre autres. Ceci n’exclut nullement tous travaux sur la
langue arabe à tous les niveaux d’analyse linguistique et
extralinguistique.

Domaines et Axes retenus:
- Traitement Automatique des Langues, plus spécialement le traitement de
  la langue arabe par rapport à d’autres langues.
- Indexation sémantique de texte et analyse multi-lingue.
- Catégorisation  automatique et modélisation par  thème.
- Analyse automatique des textes arabes : élaboration et développement
  de systèmes de recherche intelligents sur le Web.
- Corpus et extraction terminologique bilingue français/arabe par
  spécialité.
- Corpus bilingues comparables.
- Bi-Textes et approches quantitatives d’extraction de ressources
  traductionnelles.
- Stemming du texte arabe et modèles d’allocation latente appliquée au
  contexte arabe.
- Approches dictionnairiques par le corpus.
- Arabic Machine Translation Systems.
- Dictionnaires en ligne et éditorial numérique.
- Etudes linguistiques comparées arabe-français, arabe-anglais,
  arabe-espagnol,...
- Lexiques informatiques arabe-français et/ou arabe-autres langues, etc. 
 
Langues de travail du Colloque : arabe, français, anglais, espagnol.
Envoyer un résumé avec nom et prénom(s), adresse email, organisme de
rattachement (15 lignes maximum) à : 

bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr // sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr

Date limite d’envoi des résumés : dimanche 31 juillet 2011 (Extended to
September 15th, 2011) LABO 022, LDLD, ex. ITE MARAVAL, 4 Rue MEKKI
Khélifa, Maraval, Oran.  Tél .fax : 041.51-31-73 Tél. fax : 041.58.36-44
// courriel: bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr

جــامعة وهرا ن  LABO  022/200 LUCIEN TESNIERE

5th International Conference on Traductology and NLP
 
(TRADETAL 2011)
 
Theme: Wordnet Arabic / Portail Web Arabe
 
Date : 6th and 7th November, 2011
Place: Université d’Oran Es-Sénia, Algeria

 
ORGANISORS : Prof. BOUHADIBA Farouk (Labo022/2000, Université d’Oran,
             Algérie)

             Prof. CARDEY Sylviane (Centre TAL, Lucien Tesnière, France)

The 5th International Conference on Traductology and NLP (TRADETAL 2011)
relates to the general topic of Wordnet Arabic / Portail Web Arabe.  The
goal being to develop research in NLP on the Arabic language compared to
other languages such as French, English, Spanish or Chinese. It offers
the opportunity for contacts and exchanges between national and
international researchers and scholars who are interested in various
aspects of the transfer of Arabic to other languages. It also includes
proposals on the Arabic language in linguistics and related areas.  The
objective of this conference is to set up a platform to integrate and
develop the place of the Arabic language in the current information
retrieval networks: Wordnet Arabic / Portail Web Arabe.

Main Topics (non restrictive list): 
 
- NLP with reference to the processing of Arabic compared to other
  languages. 
- Semantic indexing of texts and multilingual analyzes.  
- Text indexation and modeling by themes / topics. 
- Automatic Processing of Arabic texts: research and development systems
  on the Web.
- Corpus and bilingual (French / Arabic) terminological extraction by
  theme / topic
- Comparable bilingual corpora. 
- Bi-texts and quantitative approaches to extraction of translation
  resources.
- Stemming of the Arabic text and models of indexing applied to the
  Arabic context.
- Dictionnairy approaches by corpora. 
- Arabic Machine Translation Systems.  
- Online Dictionaries and digital editing. 
- Comparative Linguistic studies: Arabic-French, Arabic-English, 
  Arabic-Spanish… 
- Lexical data-processing and data mining: Arabic-French and/or
  Arabic-others languages.

 
Working languages of the Conference: Arabic, French, English, Spanish.
 
Summaries to be sent with name, email address and Institution (15 lines
maximum) to:

 
bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr // sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr
 
Deadline: Sunday, July 31st, 2011 (Extended to September 15th, 2011)
 
LABO 022, LDLD, ex. ITE MARAVAL, 4 Rue MEKKI Khélifa, Maraval, Oran.
Tel/Fax : (00213) 41.51-31-73 ; (00213) 41.58.36-44 // email:
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From: michel.plantie at MINES-ALES.FR (michel.plantie)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:49:47 +0200
Subject: WIMS'12 1st Call for Papers & Proposals
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CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'12)

June 13-15, 2012

Craiova, Romania

http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/

About WIMS'12:

The 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
(WIMS'12) will be organised under the auspices of University of Craiova,
Romania. The WIMS series of conferences concerned with intelligent approaches to
transform the World Wide Web into a global reasoning and semantics-driven
computing machine. The conference will provide an excellent international forum
for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Web
intelligence, Web mining and Web semantics.

The purpose of the WIMS'12 is:

- To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present
past and current research contributing to the state of the art of Web technology
research and applications.
- To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a
friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback.
- To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and
practitioners can meet.

Conference Venue:

The conference will be hosted by University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
(http://www.ucv.ro/).

Call for Papers/Tutorials/Posters/Workshop:

Authors are invited to submit full papers, tutorial proposals, posters on all
related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a thorough
and encouraging review. Areas of interest include, but not limited to:

Semantics-driven information retrieval
Semantic agent systems
Semantic data search
Collective Intelligence
Social Networking and Semantic Technologies
Interaction paradigms for semantic search
Evaluation of semantic search
User interfaces
Web mining
Ubiquitous computing
Semantic deep Web and intelligent e-Technology
Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge
Quality of Life Technology for Web Document Access
Rule markup languages and systems
Semantic 3D media and content
Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the Web

The detailed call for contributed papers, industrial track, tutorial/workshop
proposals, and posters can be found at:http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/cfp.html

How to submit:

The maximum length of

- research papers is at most 12 pages in ACM format
- tutorial/demonstration papers is 3 to 12 pages in ACM format
- poster is at most 2 pages in ACM format

Please note that the submission format is MS Word or PDF. The papers must be
written in English and formatted according to the ACM guidelines. Author
instructions and style files can be downloaded at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present
their work.

Tutorial/demonstration proposals, poster papers and full research paper
submissions must be made electronically in MS Word or PDF format through the
EasyChair submission system athttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims12

Publication:

Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated
through the ACM Digital Library.
Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issues of
reputed journals in the field and also in a book published by Elsevier.

Important Dates:

Electronic submission of research papers/proposals: November 5, 2011
Notifications: December 15, 2011
Registration opens: January 20, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers/tutorials: February 20, 2012
Conference: 13 - 15 June 2012

Organisation:http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/organization.html

Contact:

Software Engineering Department
University of Craiova
Bvd.Decebal 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania
Tel/Fax: +40251438198
E-mail:cbadica at software.ucv.ro

-- 

_________________________________________

Dr. Michel Plantié

Centre de recherche LGI2P

Ecole des Mines d'Alès, site EERIE

Parc Georges Besse - F 30035 Nîmes cedex 01

Tél.: + 33 4.66.38.70.35  Fax: +33 4.66.38.70.74

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:49:00 +0200
Subject: Job: Experts in Statistical Machine Translation, Sogeti,
 Luxembourg
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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:25:05 +0200
From: Laurent Marquis <laurent.marquis at sogeti.lu>
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We are looking for experts in statistical machine translation (SMT) for
an important project in the European Public Sector based in Luxembourg.

Required experience and qualifications:

- PhD or MSc/Diploma in computational linguistics or computer science
  with excellent knowledge of machine translation (MT) and/or machine
  learning for natural language processing

- Familiarity with recent developments in SMT and the motivation to
  apply novel approaches emanating from ongoing research to practical
  translation tasks in many languages and to systematically evaluate
  their suitability

- Ability to write scientific papers and technical documents in English

- Open-mindedness and the will to collaborate closely within an
  international, multidisciplinary team, motivation to work with a
  multilingual user community

- Experience in designing and running large-scale experiments, including
  the necessary skills to manage large data sets and long-running
  experiments in a distributed computational environment would be highly
  desirable, interest in developing such skills is mandatory

- Experience with both statistical and grammar-based approaches to MT
  would be highly desirable

- Good oral and written command of English is required; familiarity with
  additional EU languages (preferrably Eastern/Northern European) is a
  strong plus If you match with the profile, please send your CV to
  Laurent.marquis at sogeti.lu

Bien cordialement.

Laurent Marquis | HR Officer - Application Services Department | Sogeti
Luxembourg
Direct  +352 31 44 01 235
laurent.marquis at sogeti.lu

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:51:37 +0200
Subject: Appel: WIMS'12 1st, Call for Papers & Proposals
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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:49:47 +0200
From: "michel.plantie" <michel.plantie at mines-ales.fr>
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X-url: http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/

(Please accept our apologies for cross-posting)

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
(WIMS'12)

June 13-15, 2012

Craiova, Romania

http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/

About WIMS'12:

The 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and
Semantics (WIMS'12) will be organised under the auspices of University
of Craiova, Romania. The WIMS series of conferences concerned with
intelligent approaches to transform the World Wide Web into a global
reasoning and semantics-driven computing machine. The conference will
provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and
results in theory, methodology and applications of Web intelligence, Web
mining and Web semantics.

The purpose of the WIMS'12 is:

- To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to
  present past and current research contributing to the state of the art
  of Web technology research and applications.

- To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to
  a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback.

- To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers
  and practitioners can meet.

Conference Venue:

The conference will be hosted by University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
(http://www.ucv.ro/).

Call for Papers/Tutorials/Posters/Workshop:

Authors are invited to submit full papers, tutorial proposals, posters
on all related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will
receive a thorough and encouraging review. Areas of interest include,
but not limited to:

Semantics-driven information retrieval
Semantic agent systems
Semantic data search
Collective Intelligence
Social Networking and Semantic Technologies
Interaction paradigms for semantic search
Evaluation of semantic search
User interfaces
Web mining
Ubiquitous computing
Semantic deep Web and intelligent e-Technology
Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge
Quality of Life Technology for Web Document Access
Rule markup languages and systems
Semantic 3D media and content
Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the Web

The detailed call for contributed papers, industrial track,
tutorial/workshop proposals, and posters can be found
at:http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/cfp.html

How to submit:

The maximum length of

- research papers is at most 12 pages in ACM format
- tutorial/demonstration papers is 3 to 12 pages in ACM format
- poster is at most 2 pages in ACM format

Please note that the submission format is MS Word or PDF. The papers
must be written in English and formatted according to the ACM
guidelines. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present
their work.

Tutorial/demonstration proposals, poster papers and full research paper
submissions must be made electronically in MS Word or PDF format through
the EasyChair submission system
athttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims12

Publication:

Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and
disseminated through the ACM Digital Library.
Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issues
of reputed journals in the field and also in a book published by
Elsevier.

Important Dates:

Electronic submission of research papers/proposals: November 5, 2011
Notifications: December 15, 2011
Registration opens: January 20, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers/tutorials: February 20, 2012
Conference: 13 - 15 June 2012

Organisation:http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/organization.html

Contact:

Software Engineering Department
University of Craiova
Bvd.Decebal 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania
Tel/Fax: +40251438198
E-mail:cbadica at software.ucv.ro

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:46:00 +0200
Subject: Appel: Deadline extension, Special issue of Applied Ontology,
 Ontologies and Terminologies: Continuum or Dichotomy
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:28:33 +0200
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*** Deadline Extension: September 15th 2011 ***

Special issue of Applied Ontology

ONTOLOGIES AND TERMINOLOGIES: CONTINUUM OR DICHOTOMY

http://natalia.grabar.perso.sfr.fr/AO-CALL/

The semantic content of terminologies and ontologies is similar, and
so are their applicational contexts, which may introduce a confusion
between these two types of resources.

Usually, a terminology is defined as a set of terms, which represents
the system of concepts for an area and for an application.  These
terms remain linguistic entities and linguistic information may be
associated with them. Term organization is usually not constrained by
any formal logics or description, which may lead to problems like
cyclicity and redundancy within a terminology.

As for ontologies, they are built upon formal specification and
constraints and describe also a system of concepts and associated
properties for a specific area. They are intended to be used by
computers and automatic applications.

One may ask whether, in a specific situation, a terminology is
sufficient, or whether an ontology is always required.  In that
respect, terminology and ontology are two complementary
resources. However a weak definition of their similarities and
differences may confuse the users.


The objectives of this special issue is to address various issues
related to differences and similarities between ontologies and
terminologies, such as:

- What are the differences and similarities between ontologies and
  terminologies?

- How various (formal, structural and content) differences between
  terminologies and ontologies may impact their use, as well as the
  results provided by automatic systems?

- Are terminologies suitable for populating ontologies and to which
  extent?

- Are terminologies the first step when building ontologies?

- How should the reuse of terminologies be operated?

- What are the various kinds of semantic resources going from
  dictionaries and terminologies to ontologies, through taxonomies and
  classifications?

- How to decide whether a terminology or an ontology should be
  exploited in a given situation?

- How can multilingual terminologies contribute to the localization of
  ontologies?

- Whether the same approaches may be used for the building of
  terminologies and ontologies?

- Whether ontologies can be (re)used for improving the contents of a
  terminology and vice versa?

- What are model representations and algorithms for the best reuse of
  terminologies for ontology building?

- Are automated approaches suitable for this?

This Special Issue of AO addresses these various questions, but is not
limited to them.
Authors defending various positions and points of view are encouraged
to submit to this special issue.



IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions Deadline              *September 15th 2011* (entended)
Notification to Authors           December 15th 2011
Second Submission Deadline        February 15th 2012
Second Notification               March 15th 2012
Camera-ready Version              April 15th 2012
Special Issue Publication         Summer 2012



SUBMISSION PROCESS

Submissions should respect the AO format
(http://www.iospress.nl/authco/ao_template.zip)
Submission site http://mstracker.com/submit1.php
You can find there:
    * the templates and specifications for the submissions
    * the submission form

In the cover letter, please indicate that you submit to the special
issue ONTOLOGIES AND TERMINOLOGIES: CONTINUUM OR DICHOTOMY.


GUEST EDITORS
Natalia Grabar, CNRS STL UMR 8163, Lille, France
Thierry Hamon, LIM&BIO, University Paris 13, Bobigny, France 
Olivier Bodenreider, NLM/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITY
Nathalie Aussenac, University of Toulouse, France
Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Sylvie Després, University Paris 13, Bobigny, France
Christiane D. Fellbaum, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Marie-Claude l'Homme, OLST, Université de Montreal, Canada
Véronique Malaisé, Elsevier, Content Enrichment Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Psychology, USA
Chantal Reynaud, LRI Université Paris-Sud & INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, France
Stefan Schulz, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Dagobert Sörgel, Library and Information Studies, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
Rita Temmerman, Centre for Terminology and Communication, Departement of Applied Linguistics, Erasmus University College Brussels, Belgium
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Dept. of Enterprise Engineering/CERTIA, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Hanne E. Thomsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Susan Thomas, SAP, AG, Germany
Anna Tordai, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Karin Verspoor, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:42:11 +0200
Subject: Revue: Langages, Parution numero 182
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*	Langages, nº182 (2/2010) (JL Chiss, coord.)
*	Théories du langage et politiques des linguistes
*	Juillet 2011
*	EAN 13 : 9782200927059

*	PRÉSENTATION- Théories du langage et politique des linguistes
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8461
*	S. MORET : Antoine Meillet et le futur des empires après la Première
        guerre mondiale
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8460
*	V. SPAËTH Michel Bréal et Arsène Darmesteter : deux savants juifs
        face au langage, aux langues et au pouvoir
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8459
*	J. L. CHISS Les linguistes du XIXe siècle, l’« identité
nationale » et la question de la langue
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8458> 
*	J. E. JOSEPH Théories et politiques de Noam Chomsky
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8457
*	F. MATONTI Entre Moscou et Prague : les premières réceptions des
        formalistes russes par les intellectuels communistes français
        (1967-1971)
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8456
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http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8455
*	D. A. KIBBEE Les métaphores politico-juridiques dans l’histoire
de la linguistique prescriptive du français au XVIIe s.
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8454> 
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:45:31 +0200
Subject: Appel: MARAMI 2011
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======================= Appel à communication =========================

MARAMI 2011 :http://marami-2011.imag.fr/
Date limite de soumission : lundi 29 août 2011
Seconde conférence sur les Modèles et l′Analyse des Réseaux : Approches
Mathématiques et Informatique
Du 19 au 21 octobre 2011 à Grenoble

Conférence MARAMI

Le Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) organise
les deuxièmes rencontres MARAMI 2011, qui seront structurées autour de
conférences invitées ainsi que des présentations de chercheurs et
d′industriels du domaine.

Les réseaux constituent un modèle d′information et de connaissances de 
plus en plus exploité ces dernières années pour modéliser mais aussi 
pour simuler des comportements du vivant et celui de systèmes 
informatiques et sociaux. Leur efficacité dans les divers domaines 
d'application, tels que les réseaux en biologie, les réseaux sociaux ou 
les réseaux informatiques, est cependant tributaire de modèles et de 
méthodes formelles d′analyse de leur architecture, de leur 
fonctionnement et de leur évolution.

L′objectif de la conférence MARAMI est de fournir un cadre d′échanges et 
de diffusion des travaux scientifiques entre les communautés issues des 
mathématiques et de l′informatique, qui présentent une forte synergie, 
pour appréhender des problématiques communes ou complémentaires. Dans ce 
sens, cette conférence constitue une occasion privilégiée permettant 
d′échanger les expertises et les expériences capitalisées dans chacune 
des communautés sur l′analyse, la modélisation des réseaux et leur 
déploiement dans les nouvelles technologies, notamment de l′informatique 
et de la communication.

Les thématiques privilégiées de ces journées sont organisées en trois 
grands axes :

Analyse et visualisation de réseaux réels
    - recherche de communautés, classification,
    - recherche de motifs fréquents,
    - visualisation et exploration de grands graphes, ...
Modélisation dans les réseaux
    - simulations de phénomènes sur les réseaux,
    - évolutions de réseaux,
    - graphes aléatoires, ...
Applications
    - réseaux sociaux,
    - réseaux biologiques,
    - réseaux pair à pair,
    - systèmes de recommandation, filtrage collaboratif,
    - systèmes d'aide à la décision (marketing viral, épidémies),
    - systèmes multi-agents,
    - ontologies / web sémantique, ...

Dates importantes

Soumission des articles : lundi 29 aout 2011
Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 16 septembre 2011
Envoi de la version définitive : vendredi 30 septembre 2011

Format des soumissions

Les chercheurs, jeunes chercheurs et industriels s′intéressant aux
approches formelles de modélisation et d'analyse des réseaux ainsi qu'à
leurs applications aux technologies informatiques, sont invités à
soumettre des papiers en langue française ou anglaise. Dans le but de
faciliter la diffusion de travaux de différents niveaux de maturité,
nous proposons deux formats de soumission : papier long (12 pages
maximum) et papier court (6 pages maximum). Le fichiers de styles sont
sur le site de la conférence.

Comité de programme de MARAMI

Président : Boris Chidlovskii, Xerox Research Centre Europe

Membres du comité :

Frédéric Amblard, IRIT
Guillaume Cabanac, Universite Toulouse 3
Hidde de Jong, INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes
Patrick Gallinari,LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Antoine Girard, Université Joseph Fourier
Mirta Gordon, CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier
Rushed Kanawati, Université Paris 13
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA-Rennes
Pascale Kuntz, Université de Nantes
Sylvain Lamprier, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Christine Largeron, Universite St-Etienne
Lynda Lechani-Tamine,Université Toulouse 3
Amin Mantrach, Xerox Research Centre Europe
Jean-Michel Renders, Xerox Research Centre Europe
Céline Rouveirol, Université Paris Nord
Julien Velcin, Université de Lyon 2
Nathalie Villa-Vialaneix, Université de Perpignan
Jean-Benoît Zimmerman, GREQ d’Aix Marseille

Comité d'organisation :

Présidents : Gilles Bisson & Eric Gaussier (LIG)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:59:29 +0200
Subject: Appel: LATA 2012
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:41:52 +0200
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*********************************************************************
2nd Call for Papers

6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

LATA 2012

A Coruña, Spain

March 5‐9, 2012

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2012/
*********************************************************************

AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its
applications. Following the tradition of the International Schools in
Formal Languages and Applications developed at Rovira i Virgili
University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2012 will reserve significant
room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at
attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and
application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology,
artificial intelligence, etc.).

VENUE:

LATA 2012 will take place in A Coruña, at the northwest of Spain. The
venue will be the Faculty of Computer Science, University of A Coruña.

SCOPE:

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

‐ algebraic language theory
‐ algorithms for semi‐structured data mining
‐ algorithms on automata and words
‐ automata and logic
‐ automata for system analysis and programme verification
‐ automata, concurrency and Petri nets
‐ automatic structures
‐ cellular automata
‐ combinatorics on words
‐ computability
‐ computational complexity
‐ computational linguistics
‐ data and image compression
‐ decidability questions on words and languages
‐ descriptional complexity
‐ DNA and other models of bio‐inspired computing
‐ document engineering
‐ foundations of finite state technology
‐ foundations of XML
‐ fuzzy and rough languages
‐ grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional,
  unification, categorial, etc.)
‐ grammars and automata architectures
‐ grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
‐ graphs and graph transformation
‐ language varieties and semigroups
‐ language‐based cryptography
‐ language‐theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and
  artificial life
‐ parallel and regulated rewriting
‐ parsing
‐ pattern recognition
‐ patterns and codes
‐ power series
‐ quantum, chemical and optical computing
‐ semantics
‐ string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and
  bioinformatics
‐ string processing algorithms
‐ symbolic dynamics
‐ symbolic neural networks
‐ term rewriting
‐ transducers
‐ trees, tree languages and tree automata
‐ weighted automata

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2012 will consist of:

‐ 3 invited talks
‐ 2 invited tutorials
‐ peer‐reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Eugene Asarin (Paris 7)
Bernard Boigelot (Liège)
Gilles Dowek (INRIA), tutorial
Rodney Downey (Wellington), tutorial
Jack Lutz (Iowa State)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Eric Allender (Rutgers)
Miguel Á. Alonso (A Coruña)
Amihood Amir (Bar‐Ilan)
Dana Angluin (Yale)
Franz Baader (Dresden)
Patricia Bouyer (Cachan)
John Case (Delaware)
Volker Diekert (Stuttgart)
Paul Gastin (Cachan)
Reiko Heckel (Leicester)
Sanjay Jain (Singapore)
Janusz Kacprzyk (Warsaw)
Victor Khomenko (Newcastle)
Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland)
Claude Kirchner (Paris)
Maciej Koutny (Newcastle)
Gregory Kucherov (Marne‐la‐Vallée)
Salvador Lucas (Valencia)
Sebastian Maneth (Sydney)
Carlos Martín‐Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (Milano Bicocca)
Aart Middeldorp (Innsbruck)
Faron Moller (Swansea)
Angelo Montanari (Udine)
Joachim Niehren (Lille)
Mitsunori Ogihara (Miami)
Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm)
Dominique Perrin (Marne‐la‐Vallée)
Alberto Policriti (Udine)
Alexander Rabinovich (Tel Aviv)
Mathieu Raffinot (Paris)
Jörg Rothe (Düsseldorf)
Olivier H. Roux (Nantes)
Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio)
Eljas Soisalon‐Soininen (Aalto)
Frank Stephan (Singapore)
Jens Stoye (Bielefeld)
Howard Straubing (Boston)
Masayuki Takeda (Kyushu)
Wolfgang Thomas (Aachen)
Sophie Tison (Lille)
Jacobo Torán (Ulm)
Tayssir Touili (Paris)
Esko Ukkonen (Helsinki)
Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen)
Manuel Vilares (Vigo)
Todd Wareham (Newfoundland)
Pierre Wolper (Liège)
Hans Zantema (Eindhoven)
Thomas Zeugmann (Sapporo)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Miguel Á. Alonso (A Coruña, co‐chair)
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Gómez Rodríguez (A Coruña)
Jorge Graña (A Coruña)
Carlos Martín‐Vide (Tarragona, co‐chair)
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)
Jesús Vilares (A Coruña)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

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

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2012

PUBLICATIONS:

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

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer‐reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration will be open since July 16, 2011 until March
5, 2012. The registration form can be found at the website of the
conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2012/

Early registration fees: 500 Euro
Early registration fees (PhD students): 400 Euro
Late registration fees: 540 Euro
Late registration fees (PhD students): 440 Euro
On‐site registration fees: 580 Euro
On‐site registration fees (PhD students): 480 Euro

At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have a
registered author who paid the fees by December 5, 2011 will be excluded
from the proceedings.

Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings
volume, coffee breaks and lunches.  PhD students will need to prove
their status on site.

PAYMENT:

Early (resp. late) registration fees must be paid by bank transfer
before December 5, 2011 (resp.  February 24, 2012) to the conference
series account at Uno‐e Bank (Julián Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid,
Spain):

IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 – Swift/BIC code: UNOEESM1 (account
holder: Carlos Martin‐Vide – LATA 2012; account holder’s address:
Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain).

Please write the participant’s name in the subject of the bank
form. Transfers should not involve any expense for the
conference. People claiming early registration will be requested to
prove that they gave the bank transfer order by the deadline.

On‐site registration fees can be paid only in cash. A receipt for
payments will be provided on site.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the
registration form at the website of the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: October 7, 2011 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2011
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 27, 2011
Early registration: December 5, 2011
Late registration: February 24, 2012
Starting of the conference: March 5, 2012
Submission to the post‐conference special issue: June 9, 2012

FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

LATA 2012
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34‐977‐559543
Fax: +34‐977‐558386

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:05:28 +0200
Subject: Habilitation: Emmanuel Giguet,
 De l'analyse syntaxique automatique a l'analyse automatique de
 discours
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:24:40 +0200
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Bonjour,

J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer ma soutenance d'habilitation à diriger
des recherches à l’Université de Caen Basse-Normandie le mardi 13
septembre 2011 à 14h salle des thèses 1er étage bâtiment Sciences 3
Campus II Côte de nacre.

Le jury est composé des rapporteurs
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, LIP6, Université de Paris 6,
Éric Gaussier, LIG, Université de Grenoble 1,
Mathieu Valette, ERTIM, INALCO,
et des examinateurs
Éric Bruillard, STEF, ENS Cachan / INRP,
Patrick Constant, PERTIMM,
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS,
Nadine Lucas, GREYC, CNRS,
Jacques Vergne, GREYC, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie.

Je vous y convie ainsi qu’au pot qui suivra.

Le mémoire s'intitule "De l'analyse syntaxique automatique à l'analyse
automatique de discours dans les collections multilingues de documents
numériques composites".

Emmanuel Giguet
chargé de recherche CNRS, laboratoire GREYC

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:14:18 +0200
Subject: Appel: Extended Deadline CFP Special Issue Multidisciplinary
 Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation
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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:35:08 +0200
From: mad2010 at univ-tlse2.fr
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Due to the adoption of a new publication calendar by the electronic
journal Discours, the submission deadline for the special Issue on
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation is
extended to 17th October 2011.

*************
Call for papers - DISCOURS special issue MAD 2010

The interdisciplinary journal Discours (http://discours.revues.org/)
opens a call for papers for a special issue on Multidisciplinary
Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation, the theme of the MAD'10
workshop held in March 2010 in Moissac, France
(http://w3.workshop-mad2010.univ-tlse2.fr/). Workshop participants are
warmly invited to submit, but this call is open to anyone interested.

MAD stands for Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse. Accordingly,
this special issue seeks to bring together studies from different
disciplines interested in discourse and discourse processing:
linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, educational
and cognitive psychology, ergonomics and document design, semiotics,
information and communication sciences, typography, etc.

Important dates:

* 17 October 2011: submission of articles for evaluation ( .doc or
  .rtf), (articles will be subject to the usual blind-reviewing
  procedure).
* 20 December 2011: notification of acceptance.
* 27 February 2012: submission of final versions.
* June 2012: publication of special issue.

Signalling text organisation refers to the observation that within
texts, certain features or elements seem to have a special instructional
role with regard to text organisation. These text organisation
signalling devices have been described under a variety of names:
signals, structure indicators, advance organisers, discourse markers,
layout properties, surface structure features, organisational cues,
stylistic writing devices and so on. Their scope ranges from a very
local level to a more global one. Their nature is also very diverse:

- linguistic: words (e.g. connectives), phrases (e.g. emphasis phrases),
  sentences (meta-discourse sentences) and beyond (overviews,
  summaries);

- graphic: typographical and spatial variation (e.g. paragraph breaks,
  boldface);

- hybrid (e.g. enumerations, headings, tables of contents, links and
  pop-up windows in electronic documents);

- more elusively: textual position, first mention, length or repetition
  of particular text units, structural parallelism.

Different disciplines have taken an interest in these devices, either as
a core object of study or as an element to be taken into account.  As a
consequence, research concerned with the signalling of text organisation
is far from constituting a unified field. The notion of signal itself
may be associated with different key concepts according to discipline
and models: document structure, discourse organisation, layout
structure, text architecture, etc. As far as function is concerned, they
may be seen as discourse construction devices, traces of metalinguistic
segments, as reading or processing instructions, as traces of the
writer's cognitive processes, or as cues revealing the author's
intentions, etc.

Since the 1970?s, research into the signalling of text organisation has
produced considerable results. The environment for this research is at
present undergoing a twofold transformation: first, new methods are
appearing, linked to technological advances (corpus linguistics, natural
language processing, eye movement recording techniques for the analysis
of cognitive processes during reading, etc.); second, new fields of
application are opening (in connection with the expanding use of digital
documents in the professional and educational worlds). In this new
context, novel research questions open up, requiring the integration of
contributions from different disciplines or fields of study.

We invite contributions on topics and questions such as the following
(the list may be extended):

- What are text signals and what role do they play?
1. reader's viewpoint
2. writer's viewpoint
3. analyst's viewpoint

- What may be relevant theoretical models and methods of data collection
  and analysis to study the signalling of text organisation and its
  cognitive effects?
1. naturalist approaches and corpus studies
2. empirical approaches
3. micro vs. macro approaches
4. inter- and pluridisciplinary approaches

- Text signals and literacy
- Text signals in document design, natural language processing and
  language technologies

We welcome different types of contributions: literature reviews,
theoretical and methodological considerations, reports of empirical
data, corpus based-studies, etc.

Submission procedure:

Articles may be written in French or English; the expected length is
between 40,000 and 60,000 signs (punctuation and spaces included). For
more details, see http://discours.revues.org/index253.html (style sheet)
and http://discours.revues.org/index358.html (instructions for authors).
Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of around 1500 characters,
together with 5 to 8 key words, in English (and, if possible, also in
French).
Submissions should be sent to mad2010 at univ-tlse2.fr and specify 'MAD  
publication' in the title of the message.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:17:58 +0200
Subject: Livre: La Mesure et le Grain - Semantique de corpus
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Date: 27 août 2011 18:52
From: François Rastier <frastier at gmail.com>
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Vient de paraître

François Rastier

La Mesure et le Grain
- Sémantique de corpus

Comment passer de la quantité (la mesure) à la qualité (le grain), bref,
des méthodes quantitatives aux évaluations ?  Informé par la
linguistique de corpus, cet ouvrage aborde les problèmes philologiques
et herméneutiques que pose l’étude des corpus numériques. Il s’attache
ainsi à la typologie des genres et des discours, à la description de
formes et de fonds sémantiques, au repérage de thèmes, à la
caractérisation et à l’évolution de concepts, à l’étude des corrélations
entre contenu et expression. Épistémologie, méthodologie, descriptions
empiriques et applications vont ici de pair. Les analyses présentées
décrivent des textes littéraires, philosophiques et scientifiques.

Alors que les sciences de la culture font l’objet de nouvelles demandes
sociales, la linguistique de corpus fait ses preuves en recherche
d’information, en représentation des connaissances, en analyse de sites
web : cet ouvrage présente et détaille des exemples d’applications.



Editions Champion
Collection Lettres Numériques
http://www.honorechampion.com/cgi/run?wwfrset+3+0+1+2+cccdegtv1+08532230+1
ISBN 978-2-7453-2230-2
......................................
François Rastier
Directeur de recherche
frastier at gmail.com
http://www.revue-texto.net

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 30 20:26:18 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:26:18 +0200
Subject: Job: CDD Ingenieur java, technos web, Universite de Savoie
Message-ID: <TUE.30.AUG.2011.222618.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:39:56 +0200
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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Université de Savoie – Laboratoire LISTIC – Equipe Condillac
Septembre 2011

OFFRE D’EMPLOI
INGENIEUR DE RECHERCHE
CDD 9 Mois
Contexte :

L’équipe Condillac du laboratoire LISTIC intervient de manière
importante dans plusieurs lots du projet européen Linked Heritage
(http://www.linkedheritage.org/).  Le travail à réaliser porte sur un
environnement terminologique qui devra proposer différents services :
création et modification de thesauri/terminologies, conversions dans des
standards existants (dialectes XML : RDF, SKOS…), alignement de
thesauri/terminologies (outil semi-automatique ou manuel),
interopérabilié avec d’autres lots techniques (services web, api…)…

Le projet dure 2 ans et a débuté en avril 2011. Ses aspects techniques
débuteront à l’automne 2011.

Le candidat sera amené à se déplacer ponctuellement à Paris et en
Europe. Le travail s’effectuera dans les locaux de l’équipe Condillac au
Bourget-du-Lac

Profil :

Le candidat devra être titulaire d’un M2 ou d’un diplôme d’ingénieur en
informatique.

Le candidat sera formé sur les aspects spécifiques au projet :
terminologie, ontologie, technologies sémantiques et devra s’auto-former
sur certains aspects techniques (Services Web, …)

Compétences :
- Compétences techniques :
   o	Programmation Objet, Java en particulier sous eclipse
   o	Technologies WEB
      - XML
      - Services Web (si possible)
   o	Technologies sémantiques (si possible)
      - RDF/SPARQL
      - SKOS
- Compétences humaines
    o	Autonomie
    o	Curiosité
    o	Ouverture d’esprit
    o	Anglais

Contacts
- Christophe Roche
- Luc Damas : luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr (Envoyez CV et lettre de
  motivation à cette adresse)

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Mon Aug  1 08:22:13 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:22:13 +0200
Subject: Job: CDD, Evaluateur/evaluatrice de donnees linguistiques, France
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:53:54 +0200
From: Elixabete Murguia <dataopsman at gmail.com>
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Recrutement d'?valuateurs/?valuatrices de donn?es linguistiques pour
le fran?ais pour le projet de recherche Word Of Mouth.

Poste :
Evaluateur/?valuatrice de donn?es linguistiques

Description du poste :
L'?valuateur/?valuatrice travaille ? la production de ressources
linguistiques dans le domaine du traitement de la parole pour le
fran?ais : nettoyage de corpus, production de lexiques, ?criture de
r?gles linguistiques.

T?ches ? accomplir :

   - Relecture des phrases du corpus afin d'en corriger la typographie,
     l'orthographe et la grammaire, d'en am?liorer le style et la
     lisibilit? ;
   - Evaluer et maximiser la couverture phon?tique du corpus ;
   - Classifier les mots dans une perspective de d?sambigu?sation ;
   - Transcrire des mots selon une notation phon?tique.



Profil du candidat :

   - Locuteur natif ou ?quivalent du fran?ais, anglais courant ;
   - Sens du d?tail ;
   - Tr?s bonne connaissance de l'orthographe et de la grammaire du
     fran?ais ;
   - Connaissances en linguistique (phonologie - phon?tique)
     appr?ci?es ;
   - Exp?rience en relecture et correction de textes appr?ci?e ;
   - Aisance avec les outils informatiques, et capacit? ? comprendre
     rapidement des concepts techniques ;
   - Capacit? ? travailler de mani?re autonome ;
   - Sens de l'organisation.

Nous recherchons des candidats ayant de l'exp?rience et/ou une
formation dans les domaines suivants : linguistique (phonologie,
traitement automatique des langues), ?dition et correction,
traduction, enseignement du fran?ais, etc.

Le travail se fera ? temps plein.
L'?valuateur travaillera ? son domicile, apr?s avoir re?u une
formation d'une semaine dans les locaux de la soci?t?, au cours de
laquelle il se familiarisera avec la soci?t?, le projet et les outils
de travail.

Dur?e du projet : 6 mois (avec possibilit? de prolongation)

Si vous ?tes int?ress?, merci d'envoyer votre CV ainsi qu'une lettre
de motivation ? l'adresse suivante :

Odile de Vismes
dataopsman at gmail.com

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:24:57 +0200
Subject: Appel: LTC 2011, Poznan, Poland,
 25-27/11/2011 - deadline extension
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:56:21 +0200 (CEST)
From: ltc at amu.edu.pl (Language and Technology Conference)
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Dear Colleagues,

Responding to numerous suggestions to extend the paper submission
deadline we have fixed the NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE to August 9, 2011
(Tuesday). As any further extension could compromise the correct
processing of the submissions, we may not be able to take into
consideration papers submitted after this date.

Best regards,
LTC Organizers

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:26:36 +0200
Subject: Ecole: SSLST 2011, August 29 =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?=96_?=September 2,
 2011, Tarragona, Spain
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:09:20 +0200
From: "Carlos Mart?n Vide"
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2011 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES
(SSLST 2011)

(formerly International PhD School in Language and Speech
Technologies)

Tarragona, Spain, August 29 ? September 2, 2011

Organized by:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/

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

AIM:

SSLST 2011 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures on language
and speech technologies at different levels. The students choose their
preferred courses according to their interests and
background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The
School intends to help students initiate their career in research.

ADDRESSED TO:

Undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. Most
appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Linguistics. Other
students (for instance, from Mathematics, Electrical Engineering,
Philosophy, or Cognitive Science) are welcome too.

The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their
career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the
field.

There will be no overlap in the schedule of the courses.

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen), Computational Stylometry [advanced, 4
hours]
Robert Dale (Macquarie), Automated Writing Assistance: Grammar
Checking and Beyond [intermediate, 8 hours]
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton), Computational Lexical Semantics
[introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]
Ralph Grishman (New York), Information Extraction [intermediate, 8
hours]
Daniel Jurafsky (Stanford), Computational Extraction of Social and
Interactional Meaning [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]
Chin-Hui Lee (Georgia Tech), A Short Course on Digital Speech
Processing and Applications [intermediate, 8 hours]
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara), Syntax and Parsing: Phrase Structure and
Dependency Parsing [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]
Diana Maynard (Sheffield), Text Mining [introductory/intermediate, 8
hours]
Dan Roth (Urbana-Champaign), Predicting Structures in NLP: Constrained
Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming in NLP
[intermediate/advanced, 8 hours]


SCHOOL PAPER:

On a voluntary basis, within 6 months after the end of the School,
students will be expected to draft an individual or jointly-authored
research paper on a topic covered during the classes under the
guidance of the lecturing staff.

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done on line at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/Registration.php 

FEES:

They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student
takes. The rule is:

1 hour = 

- 10 euros (for payments until June 5, 2011), 
- 15 euros (for payments after June 5, 2011). 

The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: 

Uno-e Bank (Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain): IBAN:
ES3902270001820201823142 - Swift code: UNOEESM1 (account holder:
Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC; account holder?s address: Av. Catalunya, 35,
43002 Tarragona, Spain)

Please mention SSLST 2011 and your full name in the subject. A receipt
will be provided on site. Bank transfers should not involve any
expense for the School.

People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in
cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much
recommended to complete the registration process earlier.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation is available on the website of the
School.

CERTIFICATES:

Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended,
their contents, and their duration. Those participants who will choose
to be involved in a research paper will receive an additional
certificate at the end of the task, independently on whether the paper
will finally get published or not.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announcement of the programme: April 21, 2011
Starting of the registration: April 25, 2011
Early registration deadline: June 5, 2011
Starting of the School: August 29, 2011
End of the School: September 2, 2011 

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Florentina-Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

WEBSITE:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/ 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSLST 2011
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 09:37:10 +0200
Subject: Info: ELRA joins INTERSPEECH 2011 as Bronze Sponsor and Exhibitor
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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:39:51 +0200
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[Apologies for cross-postings]

Press Release - Immediate
Paris, France, August 1st, 2011

*ELRA joins INTERSPEECH 2011 as Bronze Sponsor and Exhibitor*


ELRA, a world-wide leading player providing production services to the
speech language communities, sponsors the 12th Annual Conference of
the International Speech Communication Association to be held in
Firenze (Italy), on next August 28-30.

Through this sponsorship, ELRA and ISCA are continuing their long-term
collaboration.

ELRA will be exhibitor at the conference. You are very welcome to
visit us at Booth 14 from August 28 to 30.


*** About ELRA ***

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a world-wide
leading player in language resource distribution, sharing and
production. ELRA provides services to the speech language communities
related to production of resources, including production on demand,
technology evaluation and benchmarking. ELRA organizes LREC, the major
international conference devoted to language resources and evaluation
and the next edition will be held in Istanbul in 2012.

To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site:
http://www.elra.info


*** About INTERSPEECH ***

INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference
on issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language
processing (SLP) both in humans and in machines. INTERSPEECH 2011 will
cover all the scientific and technological aspects of speech and
language with a specific focus on "Speech science and technology for
real life".

To find out more about INTERSPEECH and ISCA, please visit:  
http://www.isca-speech.org



Contact : Helene Mazo, mazo at elda.org

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:08:52 +0200
Subject: Conf: ENLG 2011, Sep. 28-30, 2011, Nancy, France
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:35:23 +0200
From: Claire Gardent <claire.gardent at loria.fr>
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================= Appel ? Inscription et Participation =================

Pour vous inscrire et participer ? la conf?rence ENLG 2011 :

Site Web : http://talc.loria.fr/-ENLG-2011-.html

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Dates importantes
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Inscription : d?s maintenant (tarif pr?f?rentiel jusqu'au 14 aout
inclus)

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Chercheurs invit?s
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    * Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
    * Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK
    * Jeff Orkin, MIT Media Lab, USA

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Programme
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La liste des articles s?lectionn?s et le programme de la conf?rence
sont disponibles sur le site de la conf?rence :

http://talc.loria.fr/-ENLG-2011-.html

Au plaisir de vous accueillir prochainement ? Nancy.

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ENLG 2011, 13th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

ENLG 2011 will take place in Nancy, France, Sep. 28-30, 2011.

Invited Speakers

- Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
- Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Jeff Orkin, MIT Media Lab, USA

Workshop aims
-------------

The ENLG 2011 workshop continues a biennial series of workshops on
natural language generation that has been running since 1987,
providing a regular forum for presentation of research in this
area. ENLG 2011 invites substantial, original, and unpublished
submissions on all topics related to natural language generation. This
includes research on core NLG issues as well as research in any area
of NLP that produces language output, such as dialog systems,
summarization, MT, etc.

ENLG 2011 will feature the following events:

- Main conference: Short and Long papers

- Generation Challenges 2011 Special Session: Presentation of Results
  from SR, HOO and GIVE; New Tasks and Status Reports for non-running
  tasks; Poster Session for all tasks and new tasks/status reports

- SimpleNLG User Group Meeting : There will be a one-hour user group
  meeting for the simplenlg package to discuss future developments of
  this software. If there is sufficient interest, we will also have a
  one-hour lab session where novice users learn how to use simplenlg
  (knowledge of Java is required), and experienced users can ask
  technical questions about the package

- Bird of a Feather sessions: Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions
  provide an environment for colleagues with similar interests to meet
  for an informal discussion to exchange ideas and share
  information. The proposers of a BoF session will serve as
  thdiscussion leader, but they are not expected to and, in fact,
  should not prepare a presentation.


And also: a bowling aperitif, a banquet in the Townhall Grand Salons
and a guided tour of the old town.

Registration
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Registration for the workshop should be done from the ENLG 2011
conference site ( http://talc.loria.fr/-ENLG-2011-.html).  Early
registration ends on 14th August 2011.


Workshop organisers
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- Alexandre Denis, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France
- Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France
- Alejandra Lorenzo, University of Nancy 1/LORIA, Nancy, France
- Shashi Narayan, University of Nancy 1/LORIA, Nancy, France
- Laura Perez-Beltrachini, University of Nancy 1/LORIA, Nancy, France


Workshop website
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http://talc.loria.fr/-ENLG-2011-.html
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:24:57 +0200
Subject: Ecole: Introduction to Terminology Online Course (5th ed.),
 IULA/UPF
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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 13:42:58 +0200
From: IULA Documentaci? <iuladocum at upf.edu>
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Dear Colleagues,
 

We are pleased to announce that the 5th edition of the Introduction to
Terminology Online Course will start next October. This course,
offered by the IULATERM research group on Terminology, under the
direction of M. Teresa Cabr?, is the first module of our Terminology
Distance Learning Programme.

The course deals with the basic principles of theory and practice in
Terminology and is intended for language professionals dealing with
special languages and terminology in their daily activities, such as
specialized translators. The course is taught in English and
completely online. Please see below for further details and do not
hesitate to write to us should you have further questions or doubts.

Best regards,

M. Teresa Cabr?

Director of Iul at online

ECTS Credits: 10

Starting date: 5th October 2011

Further information: http://www.iula.upf.edu/teronlform0uk.htm
e-mail: iulaonline at upf.edu

Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra
(UPF), Barcelona (Spain)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:27:56 +0200
Subject: Conf: CLA'11 Conference, 17-19 October 2011, Jachranka, Poland
Message-ID: <SAT.6.AUG.2011.112756.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:03:25 +0200
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   DRAFT PROGRAM
        of

Computational Linguistics-Applications 
Conference - CLA'11
http://www.cla-conf-org/

17-19 October 2011
Warszawianka Hotel Wellness & Spa 
Jachranka (near Warsaw, Poland)

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Monday (October 17, 2011) - Wednesday (October 19, 2011)
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1)  Automatic Metatada Generation in an archaeological digital
library: semantic annotation of grey literature
    Andreas Vlachidis, Ceri Binding, Douglas Tudhope, Keith May        

2)  Expanding a Corpus of Closed-World Descriptions by Semantic Unit
Selection
    Marcus Uneson, Peter Juel Henrichsen        

3)  A Graph Based Approach for Identifying Hindi Derivational Variants
    Nikhil Kanuparthi, Nithin Dasari, Abhilash Inumella, Dipti Misra
    Sharma
       

4)  Infomat -- Text Clustering Visualization Based on the
Term-Document-Matrix
    Magnus Rosell        

5)  A System for Modularly Constructing Efficient Natural Language
Processors
    Rahmatullah Hafiz, Richard A. Frost        

6)  MUSE - A Multilingual Sentence Extractor
    Marina Litvak, Slava Kisilevich, Mark Last, Menahem Friedman        

7)  Natural Language Understanding for Grading Essay Questions in
Persian Language
    Iman Mokhtari-Fard        

8)  Sentiment Analysis for Hotel Reviews
    Walter Kasper, Mihaela Vela        

9)  Cross-Language Boosting in Pattern-based Semantic Relation
Extraction from Text
    Emiliano Giovannetti, Simone Marchi        

10) Automatic Prominence Detection Using Declination Reset Feature in
Russian
    Nina Volskaya, Daniil Kocharov, Pavel Skrelin        

11) Production of morphological dictionaries of multi-word units using
a multipurpose tool
    Ranka Stankovic, Ivan Obradovic, Cvetana Krstev, Dusko Vitas        

12) Improving Predictive Entry of Finnish Text Messages using IRC Logs
    Miikka Silfverberg, Mirka Hyvarinen, Tommi Pirinen        

13) An Automatic Tagger for Diacritizing and Analyzing Arabic Text
    Ramy Eskander, Amin Shoukry, Saleh Alshehaby        

14) Towards An Enhanced Semantic Approach For Automatic Usability
Evaluation
    Peter Steinnokel, Christian Scheel, Michael Quade, Sahin Albayrak      
 

15) Environmental Knowledge in EcoLexicon
    Pilar Leon Arauz, Arianne Reimerink, Pamela Faber        

16) Bootstrapping Events and Relations from Text
    Ting Liu, Tomek Strzalkowski        

17) A New Approach to HMM-Based Automatic Headline Generation
    Fahad Alotaiby, Salah Foda, Ibrahim Alkharashi        

18) Tools for better OCR results of the ancient Czech language and
better digital image quality
    Tomas Foltyn, Jiri Polisensky        

19) Hierarchical Text Clustering Based on ICA
    Julian Driver, Dominik Heider, Sascha Hauke, Martin Pyka        

20) Vocabulary Selection and Language Model Adaptation for
Simultaneous Lecture Translation
    Paul Maergner, Ian Lane, Alex Waibel



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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:32:01 +0200
Subject: Appel: JNLE Special Issue on the Semantics of Noun Compounds
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Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:35:12 -0400
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Journal of Natural Language Engineering
Special Issue on the Semantics of Noun Compounds
Third Call for Papers

The submission deadline is October 1, 2011. All details, including the 
real call for papers, can be found at

https://sites.google.com/site/jnlencsemantics2013/

Su, Francis, Preslav, Stan

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Aug  6 09:38:06 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:38:06 +0200
Subject: Job: Post-doc, Apprentissage pour entites nommees multilingues,
 LIMSI
Message-ID: <SAT.6.AUG.2011.113806.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 23:50:32 +0200
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
Message-Id: <201108042350.32508.pz at limsi.fr>
X-url: http://sites.google.com/site/projetedylex/
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[version fran?aise : voir plus bas]

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT LIMSI-CNRS

    Topic: New methods for learning Named Entity Recognition systems
    in a multilingual context.

The development of Natural Language Processing systems is impeded by
the absence of annotated data in some languages.  A possible solution
consists in transferring analyses available in one language to
comparable texts in another language.  This makes it possible to train
new systems based on these new annotations.

The proposed project will tackle more specifically the case of Named
Entity Recognition in a context where a "synchronous comparable
corpus" (or "noisy parallel corpus") is available: AFP news in French,
English, Spanish (German, Portuguese and Arabic are also available).

The goal is to take advantage of the parallelism of news written in
multiple languages to help recognize named entities:

 - in a language for which a Named Entity Recognition system is
   already available, strengthen recognition through entities found in
   parallel articles in other languages;

 - in a (target) language for which no NER system is available,
   transfer into that language the analyses obtained in a (source)
   language for which a NER system is available, and use them to train
   a system in that (target) language.

LIMSI has:

 - NER systems for French, English and Spanish (with varying levels of
   performance);

 - methods for detecting translation relations among news articles.

This work takes place in the context of the EDyLex project, funded by
the French National Research Agency, whose goal is to process unknown
words in texts (http://sites.google.com/site/projetedylex/).  The work
of the successful candidate will be focused on the detection and
categorization of named entities in a multilingual context.

The work will be performed at LIMSI-CNRS in Orsay
(http://www.limsi.fr/) on the campus of University Paris-South.  Two
teams at LIMSI are involved in the project: ILES (written and signed
language processing) and TLP (spoken language processing).


QUALIFICATIONS AND POSITION

The successful candidate will have a track record of Machine Learning
for Natural Language Processing research.  A strong preference will be
given to those candidates with experience in Named Entity Recognition
or Speech Language Understanding.  Fluency in one or more languages of
the project beyond English is mandatory.  Applicants should have
received (by the starting date) a PhD in Machine Learning,
Computational Linguistics or related areas.

This position is for 12 months and may begin as early as Oct 1st,
2011, or soon thereafter.  Salary follows CNRS scales and depends on
the candidate's experience (the minimum monthly net salary is about
2,000 ?).

To apply, please send a cover letter, describing how the applicant's
knowledge and research background will contribute to the project, a
CV, and the names and contact information of two referees to:

  Pierre Zweigenbaum (pz at limsi.fr) and Sophie Rosset (rosset at limsi.fr)


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POST-DOCTORAT AU LIMSI-CNRS

Nouvelles m?thodes pour l'apprentissage de syst?mes de reconnaissances
d'entit?s nomm?es dans un contexte multilingue.

Le d?veloppement de syst?mes de traitement automatique des langues est
g?n? par l'absence de donn?es annot?es dans certaines langues. Une
solution possible consiste ? transposer les analyses disponibles dans
une langue ? des textes comparables dans une autre langue. Cela permet
d'entra?ner de nouveaux syst?mes ? l'aide de ces nouvelles annotations.

Le projet propos? s'int?ressera en particulier au cas des entit?s
nomm?es dans un contexte o? l'on dispose d'un corpus ? comparable
synchrone ? (ou ? parall?le bruit? ?) : des d?p?ches de l'AFP en
fran?ais, anglais, espagnol (l'allemand, l'arabe et le portugais sont
aussi disponibles).

L'objectif est de profiter du parall?lisme entre d?p?ches ?crites dans
plusieurs langues pour aider ? la reconnaissance d'entit?s nomm?es :

 - dans une langue pour laquelle on dispose d?j? d'un syst?me de
   reconnaissance d'entit?s, renforcer la reconnaissance en s'appuyant
   sur les entit?s reconnues dans des articles parall?les d'autres
   langues ;

 - dans une langue (cible) pour laquelle on ne dispose pas d'un
   syst?me de reconnaissance d'entit?s, transposer dans cette langue
   les analyses faites sur une langue (source) pour laquelle on
   dispose d'un syst?me, et s'en servir pour entra?ner un syst?me dans
   cette langue (cible).

On dispose en outre :

 - de syst?mes de reconnaissance d'entit?s nomm?es pour le fran?ais,
   l'anglais et l'espagnol (avec diff?rents niveaux de performance);

 - de m?thodes pour la d?tection des d?p?ches en relation de
   traduction.

Ce travail prend place dans le contexte du projet ANR EDyLex, dont
l'objectif principal est de traiter les mots inconnus dans des textes
(http://sites.google.com/site/projetedylex/). Le travail du candidat
porte plus pr?cis?ment sur les entit?s nomm?es, leur d?tection et leur
typage, dans un contexte multilingue.

Le travail s'effectuera au LIMSI-CNRS ? Orsay (http://www.limsi.fr/)
dans le d?partement communication homme-machine. Deux ?quipes sont
concern?es par les th?matiques du projet : ILES (traitement de la
langue ?crite et sign?e) et TLP (traitement de la langue parl?e).

PROFIL ET POSTE

Le candidat devra ma?triser l'apprentissage automatique pour le
traitement automatique des langues. Une exp?rience en reconnaissance
d'entit?s nomm?es ou en compr?hension de l'oral sera appr?ci?e.
Une connaissance approfondie d'une ou plusieurs langues du projet
au-del? de l'anglais est n?cessaire. Le candidat doit avoir soutenu
une th?se (? la date de d?but du contrat) en apprentissage
automatique, en traitement automatique des langues ou dans un domaine
proche.

Le poste est ? pourvoir ? partir du 1er octobre pour une dur?e de 12
mois. Le salaire correspond aux grilles CNRS et d?pend de l'exp?rience
du candidat (le minimum est de l'ordre de 2000 ? net par mois).

Envoyer un CV et une lettre de motivation ? :
  Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr> et Sophie Rosset <rosset at limsi.fr>
en indiquant une liste d'au moins deux r?f?rents pouvant recommander
le candidat.


Pierre Zweigenbaum
----
LIMSI - CNRS
Groupe ILES / D?pt. Communication Homme-Machine
T?l : (+33) (0)1 69 85 80 04 ; Fax : (+33) (0)1 69 85 80 88
M?l : pz at limsi.fr ; Toile : http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/
Lieu : B?timent 508, Universit? Paris-Sud 11
Courrier : LIMSI, BP 133, 91403 ORSAY Cedex, France
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:41:40 +0200
Subject: Appel: FOIS 2012
Message-ID: <SAT.6.AUG.2011.114140.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 18:08:19 -0400
From: Maureen Donnelly <md63 at buffalo.edu>
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apologies for cross-posting ... 


CALL FOR PAPERS

7th International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information
Systems (FOIS 2012)    
held together with the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical
Ontology (ICBO 2012), July, 24-27, 2012 in Graz, Austria
http://purl.org/icbofois2012

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DEFINITION AND SCOPE
-----------------------------------

Ontology, originally a fundamental part of philosophical enquiry, is
concerned with the analysis and categorization of what exists. In
recent years, however, a complementary focus of ontological inquiry
gained significant momentum fueled by the advent of complex
information systems which rely on robust and coherent representations
of their subject matter.  The systematic study of such
representations, their reasoning techniques and their relations to
reality, are at the center of the modern discipline of formal
ontology.

Formal ontology in this modern sense is now a research focus in such
diverse domains as conceptual modeling, database design, software
engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence,
computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics,
geographic information science, knowledge engineering, information
retrieval, and the semantic web. Researchers in all these areas
increasingly recognize the need for serious engagement with ontology,
understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations
making up their respective domains of enquiry, in providing a solid
foundation for their work.

The FOIS conference is designed to provide a meeting point for
researchers >From all disciplines with an interest in formal
ontology. The conference encourages submission of high quality
articles on both theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in
previous years, FOIS 2012 is intended as a nexus of interdisciplinary
research and communication.

The FOIS conference series began with the first meeting in Trento,
Italy in June 1998 followed by meetings in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, and
2010.  The seventh FOIS conference will be held in Graz, Austria July
24-27, 2012, in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on
Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012).

FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for
Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), which is a non-profit
organization the purpose of which is to promote interdisciplinary
research and international collaboration at the intersection of
philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and
computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological
analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge
management, information-systems development, library and information
science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
------------------------------

We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors
may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should
emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and
to information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other
of these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the
meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are:

Foundational Issues

* Kinds of entity: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents,
  abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural
  objects/artifacts
* Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence,
  constitution, subsumption, instantiation
* Vagueness and granularity
* Identity and change
* Formal comparison among ontologies
* Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...)
* Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms,
  ...)
* Ontology of artifacts, functions and roles
* Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions,
  emotions, ...)
* Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms,
  social relationships, artistic expressions, ...)
* Ontology of the information society (information, communication,
  meaning negotiation, ...)
* Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition

Methodologies and Applications

* Top-level vs application ontologies
* Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies
* Ontology-driven information systems design
* Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling
* Ontology-based application systems
* Requirements engineering
* Knowledge engineering
* Knowledge management and organization
* Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling
* Computational lexicons; Terminology
* Information retrieval; Question-answering
* Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing
* Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Biomedical science,
  E-business, Enterprise integration, Engineering, Geography, Law,
  Library science, Linguistics, ...

-----------------------------
IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------

We are calling for papers to be considered for inclusion in FOIS 2012.

Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2012
Notification: March 8, 2012
Camera-Ready Deadline for accepted papers: March 24, 2012
Conference Dates: July, 24-27, 2012

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CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
--------------------------------------------

Conference chair: Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada)
Program chairs: Maureen Donnelly (University at Buffalo, USA) and 
Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil)
Local organization: Stephan Schulz (Gratz University, Austria)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TENTATIVE)
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Achille Varzi (Columbia University, New York, USA)
Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK) 
Albert Goldfain (University at Buffalo, USA)
Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK)
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, USA)
Bill Andersen (Highleet, Inc., USA)
Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds, UK)
Carola Eschenbach (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Chris Menzel (Texas A&M University, USA)
Chris Welty (IBM Research, Hawthorne, USA)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Claudio Masolo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Colin Batchelor  (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK)
David Mark (University at Buffalo, USA)
Decio Krause (Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil)
Fabian Neuhaus (NIST, USA) 
Florian Probst (SAP, Germany)
Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Fred Freitas (Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil)
Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University, USA)
Gerd Wagner (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany)
Heinrich Herre (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Jan Dietz (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Janna Hastings (University of Geneva, Switzerland) 
Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Jerome Euzenat (INRIA, Grenoble, France)
Jerry Hobbs (University of Southern California, USA)
Johanna Seibt (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany)
John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada)
John Sowa (Vivomind Intelligence Inc., USA)
Joost Breuker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Krzysztof Janowicz, (UCLA, USA)
Laure Vieu (CNRS-IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Leo Obrst (The Mitre Corporation, USA)
Leonardo Lesmo (University of Torino, Italy)
Maria Luiza Machado Campos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Mark Musen (Stanford University, USA)
Martin Doerr (Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece)
Mathias Brochhausen (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA)
Matteo Cristani (University of Verona, Italy)
Mauricio Barcelos de Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Michael F. Uschold (Semantic Arts, Canada)
Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada)
Michael Sintek (DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Michel Dumontier (Carleton University, Canada)
Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA)
Oscar Pastor (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Peter Rittgen (University College Boras, Sweden)
Pierdaniele Giaretta (University of Verona, Italy)
Pierre Grenon (Open University, UK)
Ricardo Falbo (Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil)
Riichiro Mizoguchi (University of Osaka, Japan)
Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK) 
Roberta Ferrario (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Roberto Casati (CNRS-EHSS, Paris, France)
Stefano Borgo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Terry Halpin  (LogicBlox, Australia)
Terry Langendoen (University of Arizona, USA)
Thomas Bittner (University at Buffalo, USA)
Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK)
Veda Storey (Georgia State University, USA)
Werner Ceusters (University at Buffalo, USA)
Werner Kuhn (University of Munster, Germany)
William McCarthy (Michigan State University, USA)
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:46:19 +0200
Subject: Appel: IC-ININFO 2011,
 International Conference on integrated information, KOS, Greece
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Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 15:36:12 +0930
From: Sue Myburgh <Sue.Myburgh at unisa.edu.au>
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DEAR COLLEAGUES

Apologies for cross-posting
Please circulate widely

IC-UNINFO 2011
International Conference on Integrated Information
September 29 ? October 3, 2011.  Kos Island, Greece.

http://www.icininfo.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=27
SEPTEMBER 29 ? OCTOBER 3, 2011, KOS ISLAND, GREECE


You are invited to submit a paper to this international
interdisciplinary conference covering research and development in the
field of information management and integration. The Conference aims
at creating a forum for further discussion for an Integrated
Information Field incorporating a series of issues and/or related
organizations that manage information in their everyday operations.
The call for papers is addressed to scholars and/ or professionals of
the fields of Library and Archives Science (including digital
libraries and electronic archives), Museum and Gallery Studies,
Information Science, Documentation, Information Management, Records
Management, Knowledge Management, Data management and Copyright
experts the latter with an emphasis on Electronic
Publications. Furthermore, papers focusing on issues of Cultural
Heritage Management and Conservation Management will also be welcomed
along with papers regarding the Management of nonprofit Organizations
such as libraries, archives and museums.


My colleague Anna Maria Tammaro and I are organising a session on
digital cultural memory institutions, the details of which appear
below.  Please note that virtual paper submission is also possible:
you do not necessarily have to travel to Kos if your paper has been
accepted.  I will be accepting abstracts/papers until 7th September,
2011.

Divergence and convergence: information work in digital cultural
memory institutions
Organizer: Dr Susan Myburgh
University of Parma, Digital Library Learning
Co-organizers: Dr Susan Myburgh, University of South Australia;  Dr
Anna Maria Tammaro, University of Parma

Description:
Cultural institutions, such as libraries, archives and museums, are
strongly influenced by their contexts and environments. As elements
within their environment change, they respond in various ways, whether
it is to modify their collections, facilitate or impede access, or
change staffing arrangements. Of all the possible phenomena or
entities that have had effects on such enterprises, information and
communication technologies (ICTs) have arguably been the most
significant. Language and writing were the first communication
technologies, followed by printing, the telegraph and telephone, and
the media, before the internet became predominant. There is no doubt
that each of these has played a prominent role in the creation and
expansion of the processes unique to the processes of information
work, including selection of documents, describing documents and their
contents for physical and intellectual access, organising materials,
conservation and preservation, copyright and other intellectual
property rights and so on.

While there is a considerable body of research which considers such
effects on organisations and institutions, there is a corresponding
paucity of work which considers how professional work has changed in
this field, and the directions in which this might move in the
future. Articulating information work, and describing how it is made
manifest, is seldom considered, apart perhaps from an emphasis on the
technical skills required. While this work is being done in different
ways, there now exists the possibility to do quite different work, as
ICTs open up opportunities that were impossible in a purely physical
analogue world. This seminar will provide a forum for discussion of
some of these, including new ways of considering human computer
interaction, making meaning from metadata, cross-cultural
interpretation and analysis, construction of information users in
quite different ways ? for example as individuals, rather than
communities, and examination of the uses made with the information
obtained.


Topics may include, but are not restricted to:
# Intercultural semantics and making meaning online
# Using digital records and artefacts in teaching and learning (at all
  levels)
# Liaison between the information worker and the knowledge seeker
# Collaborative knowledge creation using digital tools and documents
# The increasing importance of interdisciplinarity to identify and
  seek solutions to problems
# Extending the reach of the institution
# Everywhere but nowhere: how does the general public know what is
  available, and how can they find it?
# Open Access, scholarly communication and education
# What information workers can do in the field of Digital Humanities

We invite professionals who work in any of the following areas:

1.     Library Science
2.     Archives Science
3.     Museum and Gallery Studies
4.     Information Science
5.     Documentation
6.     Digital Libraries
7.     Electronic Archives
8.     Information Management
9.     Records / Document Management
10.  Knowledge Management
11.  Data Management
12.  Copyright
13.  Electronic Publications
14.  Cultural Heritage Management
15.  Conservation Management
16.  Management of nonprofit Organizations
17.  History of Information
18.  History of Collections
19.  Health Information


All the best
Sue


Dr Susan Myburgh
School of Communication
University of South Australia
St Bernard's Road
Magill SA 5076
ADELAIDE

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:43:45 +0200
Subject: Appel: LRL 2011,
 Addressing the Gaps in Language Resources and Technologies
 (deadline September 5, 2011)
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[Apologies for cross-postings]

Dear Colleagues,

Please notice that the Call for Papers for the 2nd Less-Resourced
Languages Workshop: "Addressing the Gaps in Language Resources and
Technologies" (a jointJ LTC-ELRA-FLaReNet-META-NET event) is open until
September 5, 2011 (the LRL deadlines are independent from the general
LTC deadlines).

Covering the existing gaps in Language Resources (LR) and Technologies
(LT) is a challenging task not only for the so-called "Less-Resourced
Languages" (LRL) but also for the technologically more advanced
ones. Therefore we believe that this workshop will be of general
interest for all. Still, the needs of the less-resourced languages are
worth being specifically considered in order to reduce the unbalanced
situation among languages. The previous joint LTC-FLaReNet workshop on
"Getting Less-Resourced Languages on-Board!" (LTC 2009) aimed at drawing
a picture of the Language Resources (LR) and Language Technologies (LT)
availability and quality, especially for the less-resourced
languages. Following its success, this second workshop aims at adding
the novel topics of gap identification and their possible filling.

The workshop will draw on the inventories of all language technologies
and resources that are presently being carried out, such as the ones
conducted by FlaReNet, ELRA or META-NET (e.g. LRE Map, Program Surveys,
Language Matrixes, Language Gaps, META-SHARE infrastructure). These are
now available and help better understand the current landscape and work
out the possible solutions, for each individual language and
technology. The idea is to discuss availability, quality, maturity,
sustainability, and gaps of the LR and LT for a number of languages and
technologies. The importance of this confrontation and analysis will be
reflected by the way conclusions will be endorsed by the participants.

We kindly encourage all people interested in the workshop to bring their
contributions in form of regular papers or/and personal participation in
the workshop panels and debates (program under construction). For
submission details and other important information please do visit the
LTC web site:www.ltc.amu.edu.pl.

LRL 2011 co-chairs:
Khalid Choukri				
Joseph Mariani				
Zygmunt Vetulani

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:53:31 +0200
Subject: Livre: Li, Learning to Rank for IR and NLP
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:34:07 -0400
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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NEW BOOK

Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing
Hang Li
April 2011
PDF (3563 KB) | PDF Plus (1635 KB) 

Abstract
Learning to rank refers to machine learning techniques for training the
model in a ranking task. Learning to rank is useful for many
applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, and
data mining. Intensive studies have been conducted on the problem
recently and significant progress has been made. This lecture gives an
introduction to the area including the fundamental problems, existing
approaches, theories, applications, and future work.

The author begins by showing that various ranking problems in
information retrieval and natural language processing can be formalized
as two basic ranking tasks, namely ranking creation (or simply ranking)
and ranking aggregation. In ranking creation, given a request, one wants
to generate a ranking list of offerings based on the features derived
from the request and the offerings. In ranking aggregation, given a
request, as well as a number of ranking lists of offerings, one wants to
generate a new ranking list of the offerings.

Ranking creation (or ranking) is the major problem in learning to
rank. It is usually formalized as a supervised learning task. The author
gives detailed explanations on learning for ranking creation and ranking
aggregation, including training and testing, evaluation, feature
creation, and major approaches. Many methods have been proposed for
ranking creation. The methods can be categorized as the pointwise,
pairwise, and listwise approaches according to the loss functions they
employ. They can also be categorized according to the techniques they
employ, such as the SVM based, Boosting SVM, Neural Network based
approaches.

The author also introduces some popular learning to rank methods in
details. These include PRank, OC SVM, Ranking SVM, IR SVM, GBRank,
RankNet, LambdaRank, ListNet & ListMLE, AdaRank, SVM MAP, SoftRank,
Borda Count, Markov Chain, and CRanking.

The author explains several example applications of learning to rank
including web search, collaborative filtering, definition search,
keyphrase extraction, query dependent summarization, and re-ranking in
machine translation.

A formulation of learning for ranking creation is given in the
statistical learning framework. Ongoing and future research directions
for learning to rank are also discussed.

Table of Contents: Introduction / Learning for Ranking Creation /
Learning for Ranking Aggregation / Methods of Learning to Rank /
Applications of Learning to Rank / Theory of Learning to Rank / Ongoing
and Future Work

This title is available online free of charge to members of institutions
that that have licensed through the Synthesis Digital Library of
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:51:13 +0200
Subject: Livre: Alishahi,
 Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition
Message-ID: <FRI.12.AUG.2011.205113.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:34:05 -0400
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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X-url: http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00304ED1V01Y201010HLT011

NEW BOOK

Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition

Afra Alishahi (University of the Saarland)

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #11 (Morgan & Claypool
Publishers), 2010, 107 pages

Human language acquisition has been studied for centuries, but using
computational modeling for such studies is a relatively recent
trend. However, computational approaches to language learning have
become increasingly popular, mainly due to advances in developing
machine learning techniques, and the availability of vast collections of
experimental data on child language learning and child-adult
interaction. Many of the existing computational models attempt to study
the complex task of learning a language under cognitive plausibility
criteria (such as memory and processing limitations that humans face),
and to explain the developmental stages observed in children. By
simulating the process of child language learning, computational models
can show us which linguistic representations are learnable from the
input that children have access to, and which mechanisms yield the same
patterns of behaviour that children exhibit during this process. In
doing so, computational modeling provides insight into the plausible
mechanisms involved in human language acquisition, and inspires the
development of better language models and techniques. This book provides
an overview of the main research questions in the field of human
language acquisition. It reviews the most commonly used computational
frameworks, methodologies and resources for modeling child language
learning, and the evaluation techniques used for assessing these
computational models. The book is aimed at cognitive scientists who want
to become familiar with the available computational methods for
investigating problems related to human language acquisition, as well as
computational linguists who are interested in applying their skills to
the study of child language acquisition.

Different aspects of language learning are discussed in separate
chapters, including the acquisition of the individual words, the general
regularities which govern word and sentence form, and the associations
between form and meaning. For each of these aspects, the challenges of
the task are discussed and the relevant empirical findings on children
are summarized. Furthermore, the existing computational models that
attempt to simulate the task under study are reviewed, and a number of
case studies are presented.

Table of Contents: Overview / Computational Models of Language Learning
/ Learning Words / Putting Words Together / Form--Meaning Associations /
Final Thoughts

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00304ED1V01Y201010HLT011

This title is available online without charge to members of institutions
that have licensed the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and
Computer Science.  Members of licensing institutions have unlimited
access to download, save, and print the PDF without restriction; use of
the book as a course text is encouraged.  To find out whether your
institution is a subscriber, visit
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URL above from an institutional IP address and attempt to download the
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US$30 or in print for US$40.  Printed copies are also available from
Amazon and from booksellers worldwide at approximately US$40 or local
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:54:37 +0200
Subject: Livre: Tiedemann, Bitext Alignment
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:34:12 -0400
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NEW BOOK

Bitext Alignment
J?rg Tiedemann
2011
PDF (3997 KB) | PDF Plus (2585 KB) 

Abstract
This book provides an overview of various techniques for the alignment
of bitexts. It describes general concepts and strategies that can be
applied to map corresponding parts in parallel documents on various
levels of granularity. Bitexts are valuable linguistic resources for
many different research fields and practical applications. The most
predominant application is machine translation, in particular,
statistical machine translation. However, there are various other
threads that can be followed which may be supported by the rich
linguistic knowledge implicitly stored in parallel resources. Bitexts
have been explored in lexicography, word sense disambiguation,
terminology extraction, computer-aided language learning and translation
studies to name just a few. The book covers the essential tasks that
have to be carried out when building parallel corpora starting from the
collection of translated documents up to sub-sentential alignments. In
particular, it describes various approaches to document alignment,
sentence alignment, word alignment and tree structure alignment. It also
includes a list of resources and a comprehensive review of the
literature on alignment techniques.

Table of Contents: Introduction / Basic Concepts and Terminology /
Building Parallel Corpora / Sentence Alignment / Word Alignment / Phrase
and Tree Alignment / Concluding Remarks

This title is available online free of charge to members of institutions
that that have licensed the content through the Synthesis Digital
Library of Engineering and Computer Science or the Synthesis Lectures on
Human Language Technologies.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:56:01 +0200
Subject: Livre: Smith, Linguistic Structure Prediction
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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:34:14 -0400
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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NEW BOOK

Linguistic Structure Prediction
Noah A. Smith
2011
PDF (2766 KB) | PDF Plus (2767 KB) 

Abstract
A major part of natural language processing now depends on the use of
text data to build linguistic analyzers. We consider statistical,
computational approaches to modeling linguistic structure. We seek to
unify across many approaches and many kinds of linguistic
structures. Assuming a basic understanding of natural language
processing and/or machine learning, we seek to bridge the gap between
the two fields. Approaches to decoding (i.e., carrying out linguistic
structure prediction) and supervised and unsupervised learning of models
that predict discrete structures as outputs are the focus. We also
survey natural language processing problems to which these methods are
being applied, and we address related topics in probabilistic inference,
optimization, and experimental methodology.

Table of Contents: Representations and Linguistic Data / Decoding:
Making Predictions / Learning Structure from Annotated Data / Learning
Structure from Incomplete Data / Beyond Decoding: Inference

This title is available online free of charge to members of institutions
that that have licensed the content through theSynthesis Digital Library
of Engineering and Computer Science or the Synthesis Lectures on Human
Language Technologies.

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Aug 13 19:10:22 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:10:22 +0200
Subject: Appel: Colloque TRADETAL Nov2011
Message-ID: <SAT.13.AUG.2011.211022.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:55:14 +0100 (BST)
From: farouk bouhadiba <bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr>
Message-ID: <1313182514.92847.YahooMailRC at web28516.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


??????? ???? ? LABO 022/200 LUCIEN TESNIERE

5?me Colloque International en Traductologie et TAL

(TRADETAL 2011)

Th?me: Wordnet Arabic / Portail Web Arabe

Date de d?roulement?: 6, 7 novembre 2011
Lieu : Universit? d?Oran Es-S?nia 


ORGANISATEURS : Prof. BOUHADIBA Farouk (Labo022/2000, Universit? d?Oran,
                Alg?rie)

                Prof. CARDEY Sylviane (Centre TAL, Lucien Tesni?re,
                France)

ARGUMENTAIRE
 
Le but de ce colloque serait de renforcer la pluridisciplinarit?
actuelle dans la recherche en TAL sur la langue Arabe par rapport ?
d?autres langues telles que le Fran?ais, l?Anglais, l?Espagnol ou le
Chinois. Il vise ? d?velopper les ?changes de recherche intra et inter
universitaires (Nationaux et Internationaux) afin d??laborer des corpus
linguistiques pour dictionnaires et traducteurs automatiques en lignes
de la langue arabe. L?objectif ?tant la mise en place d?une plateforme
pour int?grer et d?velopper la place de la langue arabe dans les
autoroutes de l?information actuels: Wordnet Arabic et Portail Web
Arabe.

Cette cinqui?me ?dition du Colloque International en Traductologie et
TAL (TRADETAL 2011) s?int?resse particuli?rement au Wordnet Arabic et
Portail Web Arabe. Elle vise principalement le renforcement des liens et
contacts entre chercheurs et universitaires nationaux et internationaux
qui s?int?ressent ? diff?rents aspects du transfert de la langue arabe
vers d?autres langues telles que le Fran?ais, l?Anglais ou l?Espagnol,
le Chinois, entre autres. Ceci n?exclut nullement tous travaux sur la
langue arabe ? tous les niveaux d?analyse linguistique et
extralinguistique.

Domaines et Axes retenus:
- Traitement Automatique des Langues, plus sp?cialement le traitement de
  la langue arabe par rapport ? d?autres langues.
- Indexation s?mantique de texte et analyse multi-lingue.
- Cat?gorisation  automatique et mod?lisation par  th?me.
- Analyse automatique des textes arabes : ?laboration et d?veloppement
  de syst?mes de recherche intelligents sur le Web.
- Corpus et extraction terminologique bilingue fran?ais/arabe par
  sp?cialit?.
- Corpus bilingues comparables.
- Bi-Textes et approches quantitatives d?extraction de ressources
  traductionnelles.
- Stemming du texte arabe et mod?les d?allocation latente appliqu?e au
  contexte arabe.
- Approches dictionnairiques par le corpus.
- Arabic Machine Translation Systems.
- Dictionnaires en ligne et ?ditorial num?rique.
- Etudes linguistiques compar?es arabe-fran?ais, arabe-anglais,
  arabe-espagnol,...
- Lexiques informatiques arabe-fran?ais et/ou arabe-autres langues, etc. 
 
Langues de travail du Colloque : arabe, fran?ais, anglais, espagnol.
Envoyer un r?sum? avec nom et pr?nom(s), adresse email, organisme de
rattachement (15 lignes maximum) ? : 

bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr // sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr

Date limite d?envoi des r?sum?s : dimanche 31 juillet 2011 (Extended to
September 15th, 2011) LABO 022, LDLD, ex. ITE MARAVAL, 4 Rue MEKKI
Kh?lifa, Maraval, Oran.  T?l .fax : 041.51-31-73 T?l. fax : 041.58.36-44
// courriel: bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr

??????? ???? ?  LABO  022/200 LUCIEN TESNIERE

5th International Conference on Traductology and NLP
 
(TRADETAL 2011)
 
Theme: Wordnet Arabic / Portail Web Arabe
 
Date : 6th and 7th November, 2011
Place: Universit? d?Oran Es-S?nia, Algeria

 
ORGANISORS : Prof. BOUHADIBA Farouk (Labo022/2000, Universit? d?Oran,
             Alg?rie)

             Prof. CARDEY Sylviane (Centre TAL, Lucien Tesni?re, France)

The 5th International Conference on Traductology and NLP (TRADETAL 2011)
relates to the general topic of Wordnet Arabic / Portail Web Arabe.  The
goal being to develop research in NLP on the Arabic language compared to
other languages such as French, English, Spanish or Chinese. It offers
the opportunity for contacts and exchanges between national and
international researchers and scholars who are interested in various
aspects of the transfer of Arabic to other languages. It also includes
proposals on the Arabic language in linguistics and related areas.  The
objective of this conference is to set up a platform to integrate and
develop the place of the Arabic language in the current information
retrieval networks: Wordnet Arabic / Portail Web Arabe.

Main Topics (non restrictive list): 
 
- NLP with reference to the processing of Arabic compared to other
  languages. 
- Semantic indexing of texts and multilingual analyzes.  
- Text indexation and modeling by themes / topics. 
- Automatic Processing of Arabic texts: research and development systems
  on the Web.
- Corpus and bilingual (French / Arabic) terminological extraction by
  theme / topic
- Comparable bilingual corpora. 
- Bi-texts and quantitative approaches to extraction of translation
  resources.
- Stemming of the Arabic text and models of indexing applied to the
  Arabic context.
- Dictionnairy approaches by corpora. 
- Arabic Machine Translation Systems.  
- Online Dictionaries and digital editing. 
- Comparative Linguistic studies: Arabic-French, Arabic-English, 
  Arabic-Spanish? 
- Lexical data-processing and data mining: Arabic-French and/or
  Arabic-others languages.

 
Working languages of the Conference: Arabic, French, English, Spanish.
 
Summaries to be sent with name, email address and Institution (15 lines
maximum) to:

 
bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr // sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr
 
Deadline: Sunday, July 31st, 2011 (Extended to September 15th, 2011)
 
LABO 022, LDLD, ex. ITE MARAVAL, 4 Rue MEKKI Kh?lifa, Maraval, Oran.
Tel/Fax : (00213) 41.51-31-73 ; (00213) 41.58.36-44 // email:
bouhadibaf at yahoo.fr

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From: michel.plantie at MINES-ALES.FR (michel.plantie)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:49:47 +0200
Subject: WIMS'12 1st Call for Papers & Proposals
Message-ID: <WED.17.AUG.2011.134947.0200.MICHEL.PLANTIE@MINESALES.FR>

(Please accept our apologies for cross-posting)

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'12)

June 13-15, 2012

Craiova, Romania

http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/

About WIMS'12:

The 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
(WIMS'12) will be organised under the auspices of University of Craiova,
Romania. The WIMS series of conferences concerned with intelligent approaches to
transform the World Wide Web into a global reasoning and semantics-driven
computing machine. The conference will provide an excellent international forum
for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Web
intelligence, Web mining and Web semantics.

The purpose of the WIMS'12 is:

- To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present
past and current research contributing to the state of the art of Web technology
research and applications.
- To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to a
friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback.
- To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers and
practitioners can meet.

Conference Venue:

The conference will be hosted by University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
(http://www.ucv.ro/).

Call for Papers/Tutorials/Posters/Workshop:

Authors are invited to submit full papers, tutorial proposals, posters on all
related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a thorough
and encouraging review. Areas of interest include, but not limited to:

Semantics-driven information retrieval
Semantic agent systems
Semantic data search
Collective Intelligence
Social Networking and Semantic Technologies
Interaction paradigms for semantic search
Evaluation of semantic search
User interfaces
Web mining
Ubiquitous computing
Semantic deep Web and intelligent e-Technology
Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge
Quality of Life Technology for Web Document Access
Rule markup languages and systems
Semantic 3D media and content
Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the Web

The detailed call for contributed papers, industrial track, tutorial/workshop
proposals, and posters can be found at:http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/cfp.html

How to submit:

The maximum length of

- research papers is at most 12 pages in ACM format
- tutorial/demonstration papers is 3 to 12 pages in ACM format
- poster is at most 2 pages in ACM format

Please note that the submission format is MS Word or PDF. The papers must be
written in English and formatted according to the ACM guidelines. Author
instructions and style files can be downloaded at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present
their work.

Tutorial/demonstration proposals, poster papers and full research paper
submissions must be made electronically in MS Word or PDF format through the
EasyChair submission system athttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims12

Publication:

Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and disseminated
through the ACM Digital Library.
Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issues of
reputed journals in the field and also in a book published by Elsevier.

Important Dates:

Electronic submission of research papers/proposals: November 5, 2011
Notifications: December 15, 2011
Registration opens: January 20, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers/tutorials: February 20, 2012
Conference: 13 - 15 June 2012

Organisation:http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/organization.html

Contact:

Software Engineering Department
University of Craiova
Bvd.Decebal 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania
Tel/Fax: +40251438198
E-mail:cbadica at software.ucv.ro

-- 

_________________________________________

Dr. Michel Planti?

Centre de recherche LGI2P

Ecole des Mines d'Al?s, site EERIE

Parc Georges Besse - F 30035 N?mes cedex 01

T?l.: + 33 4.66.38.70.35  Fax: +33 4.66.38.70.74

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Fri Aug 19 19:49:00 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:49:00 +0200
Subject: Job: Experts in Statistical Machine Translation, Sogeti,
 Luxembourg
Message-ID: <FRI.19.AUG.2011.214900.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:25:05 +0200
From: Laurent Marquis <laurent.marquis at sogeti.lu>
Message-ID: <3E122C4CD6894944A90C5A4D82AD1D3F2C1BC3F1AA at CCRMBX.sogeti.be>


We are looking for experts in statistical machine translation (SMT) for
an important project in the European Public Sector based in Luxembourg.

Required experience and qualifications:

- PhD or MSc/Diploma in computational linguistics or computer science
  with excellent knowledge of machine translation (MT) and/or machine
  learning for natural language processing

- Familiarity with recent developments in SMT and the motivation to
  apply novel approaches emanating from ongoing research to practical
  translation tasks in many languages and to systematically evaluate
  their suitability

- Ability to write scientific papers and technical documents in English

- Open-mindedness and the will to collaborate closely within an
  international, multidisciplinary team, motivation to work with a
  multilingual user community

- Experience in designing and running large-scale experiments, including
  the necessary skills to manage large data sets and long-running
  experiments in a distributed computational environment would be highly
  desirable, interest in developing such skills is mandatory

- Experience with both statistical and grammar-based approaches to MT
  would be highly desirable

- Good oral and written command of English is required; familiarity with
  additional EU languages (preferrably Eastern/Northern European) is a
  strong plus If you match with the profile, please send your CV to
  Laurent.marquis at sogeti.lu

Bien cordialement.

Laurent Marquis | HR Officer - Application Services Department | Sogeti
Luxembourg
Direct  +352 31 44 01 235
laurent.marquis at sogeti.lu

36, route de Longwy | 8080 Bertrange | Luxembourg
Office  +352 31 44 01 | Fax. +352 26 31 12 92
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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Fri Aug 19 19:51:37 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:51:37 +0200
Subject: Appel: WIMS'12 1st, Call for Papers & Proposals
Message-ID: <FRI.19.AUG.2011.215137.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:49:47 +0200
From: "michel.plantie" <michel.plantie at mines-ales.fr>
Message-ID: <4E4BAADB.60101 at mines-ales.fr>
X-url: http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/

(Please accept our apologies for cross-posting)

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
(WIMS'12)

June 13-15, 2012

Craiova, Romania

http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/

About WIMS'12:

The 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and
Semantics (WIMS'12) will be organised under the auspices of University
of Craiova, Romania. The WIMS series of conferences concerned with
intelligent approaches to transform the World Wide Web into a global
reasoning and semantics-driven computing machine. The conference will
provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and
results in theory, methodology and applications of Web intelligence, Web
mining and Web semantics.

The purpose of the WIMS'12 is:

- To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to
  present past and current research contributing to the state of the art
  of Web technology research and applications.

- To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research to
  a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback.

- To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers
  and practitioners can meet.

Conference Venue:

The conference will be hosted by University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
(http://www.ucv.ro/).

Call for Papers/Tutorials/Posters/Workshop:

Authors are invited to submit full papers, tutorial proposals, posters
on all related areas. Papers exploring new directions or areas will
receive a thorough and encouraging review. Areas of interest include,
but not limited to:

Semantics-driven information retrieval
Semantic agent systems
Semantic data search
Collective Intelligence
Social Networking and Semantic Technologies
Interaction paradigms for semantic search
Evaluation of semantic search
User interfaces
Web mining
Ubiquitous computing
Semantic deep Web and intelligent e-Technology
Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge
Quality of Life Technology for Web Document Access
Rule markup languages and systems
Semantic 3D media and content
Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the Web

The detailed call for contributed papers, industrial track,
tutorial/workshop proposals, and posters can be found
at:http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/cfp.html

How to submit:

The maximum length of

- research papers is at most 12 pages in ACM format
- tutorial/demonstration papers is 3 to 12 pages in ACM format
- poster is at most 2 pages in ACM format

Please note that the submission format is MS Word or PDF. The papers
must be written in English and formatted according to the ACM
guidelines. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present
their work.

Tutorial/demonstration proposals, poster papers and full research paper
submissions must be made electronically in MS Word or PDF format through
the EasyChair submission system
athttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims12

Publication:

Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and
disseminated through the ACM Digital Library.
Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issues
of reputed journals in the field and also in a book published by
Elsevier.

Important Dates:

Electronic submission of research papers/proposals: November 5, 2011
Notifications: December 15, 2011
Registration opens: January 20, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers/tutorials: February 20, 2012
Conference: 13 - 15 June 2012

Organisation:http://software.ucv.ro/Wims12/organization.html

Contact:

Software Engineering Department
University of Craiova
Bvd.Decebal 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania
Tel/Fax: +40251438198
E-mail:cbadica at software.ucv.ro

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Fri Aug 19 19:46:00 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:46:00 +0200
Subject: Appel: Deadline extension, Special issue of Applied Ontology,
 Ontologies and Terminologies: Continuum or Dichotomy
Message-ID: <FRI.19.AUG.2011.214600.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:28:33 +0200
From: Thierry Hamon <thierry.hamon at univ-paris13.fr>
Message-ID: <kny5ypegb2.fsf at metis.limbio.smbh.univ-paris13.fr>
X-url: http://natalia.grabar.perso.sfr.fr/AO-CALL/

*** Deadline Extension: September 15th 2011 ***

Special issue of Applied Ontology

ONTOLOGIES AND TERMINOLOGIES: CONTINUUM OR DICHOTOMY

http://natalia.grabar.perso.sfr.fr/AO-CALL/

The semantic content of terminologies and ontologies is similar, and
so are their applicational contexts, which may introduce a confusion
between these two types of resources.

Usually, a terminology is defined as a set of terms, which represents
the system of concepts for an area and for an application.  These
terms remain linguistic entities and linguistic information may be
associated with them. Term organization is usually not constrained by
any formal logics or description, which may lead to problems like
cyclicity and redundancy within a terminology.

As for ontologies, they are built upon formal specification and
constraints and describe also a system of concepts and associated
properties for a specific area. They are intended to be used by
computers and automatic applications.

One may ask whether, in a specific situation, a terminology is
sufficient, or whether an ontology is always required.  In that
respect, terminology and ontology are two complementary
resources. However a weak definition of their similarities and
differences may confuse the users.


The objectives of this special issue is to address various issues
related to differences and similarities between ontologies and
terminologies, such as:

- What are the differences and similarities between ontologies and
  terminologies?

- How various (formal, structural and content) differences between
  terminologies and ontologies may impact their use, as well as the
  results provided by automatic systems?

- Are terminologies suitable for populating ontologies and to which
  extent?

- Are terminologies the first step when building ontologies?

- How should the reuse of terminologies be operated?

- What are the various kinds of semantic resources going from
  dictionaries and terminologies to ontologies, through taxonomies and
  classifications?

- How to decide whether a terminology or an ontology should be
  exploited in a given situation?

- How can multilingual terminologies contribute to the localization of
  ontologies?

- Whether the same approaches may be used for the building of
  terminologies and ontologies?

- Whether ontologies can be (re)used for improving the contents of a
  terminology and vice versa?

- What are model representations and algorithms for the best reuse of
  terminologies for ontology building?

- Are automated approaches suitable for this?

This Special Issue of AO addresses these various questions, but is not
limited to them.
Authors defending various positions and points of view are encouraged
to submit to this special issue.



IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions Deadline              *September 15th 2011* (entended)
Notification to Authors           December 15th 2011
Second Submission Deadline        February 15th 2012
Second Notification               March 15th 2012
Camera-ready Version              April 15th 2012
Special Issue Publication         Summer 2012



SUBMISSION PROCESS

Submissions should respect the AO format
(http://www.iospress.nl/authco/ao_template.zip)
Submission site http://mstracker.com/submit1.php
You can find there:
    * the templates and specifications for the submissions
    * the submission form

In the cover letter, please indicate that you submit to the special
issue ONTOLOGIES AND TERMINOLOGIES: CONTINUUM OR DICHOTOMY.


GUEST EDITORS
Natalia Grabar, CNRS STL UMR 8163, Lille, France
Thierry Hamon, LIM&BIO, University Paris 13, Bobigny, France 
Olivier Bodenreider, NLM/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITY
Nathalie Aussenac, University of Toulouse, France
Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Sylvie Despr?s, University Paris 13, Bobigny, France
Christiane D. Fellbaum, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Marie-Claude l'Homme, OLST, Universit? de Montreal, Canada
V?ronique Malais?, Elsevier, Content Enrichment Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Psychology, USA
Chantal Reynaud, LRI Universit? Paris-Sud & INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, France
Stefan Schulz, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Dagobert S?rgel, Library and Information Studies, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
Rita Temmerman, Centre for Terminology and Communication, Departement of Applied Linguistics, Erasmus University College Brussels, Belgium
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Dept. of Enterprise Engineering/CERTIA, Universit? degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Hanne E. Thomsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Susan Thomas, SAP, AG, Germany
Anna Tordai, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Karin Verspoor, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:42:11 +0200
Subject: Revue: Langages, Parution numero 182
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:37:02 +0200
From: "Catherine Schnedecker" <cschnede at club-internet.fr>
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*	Langages, n?182 (2/2010) (JL Chiss, coord.)
*	Th?ories du langage et politiques des linguistes
*	Juillet 2011
*	EAN 13 : 9782200927059

*	PR?SENTATION- Th?ories du langage et politique des linguistes
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8461
*	S. MORET : Antoine Meillet et le futur des empires apr?s la Premi?re
        guerre mondiale
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8460
*	V. SPA?TH Michel Br?al et Ars?ne Darmesteter : deux savants juifs
        face au langage, aux langues et au pouvoir
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8459
*	J. L. CHISS Les linguistes du XIXe si?cle, l?? identit?
nationale ? et la question de la langue
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8458> 
*	J. E. JOSEPH Th?ories et politiques de Noam Chomsky
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8457
*	F. MATONTI Entre Moscou et Prague : les premi?res r?ceptions des
        formalistes russes par les intellectuels communistes fran?ais
        (1967-1971)
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8456
*	P. S?RIOT Volosinov, la philosophie du langage et le marxisme
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8455
*	D. A. KIBBEE Les m?taphores politico-juridiques dans l?histoire
de la linguistique prescriptive du fran?ais au XVIIe s.
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8454> 
*	H. MERLIN-KAJMAN Vaugelas politique
http://www.armand-colin.com/revues_article_info.php?idr=20&idnum=397691&idart=8453

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:45:31 +0200
Subject: Appel: MARAMI 2011
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:10:03 +0200
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======================= Appel ? communication =========================

MARAMI 2011 :http://marami-2011.imag.fr/
Date limite de soumission : lundi 29 ao?t 2011
Seconde conf?rence sur les Mod?les et l?Analyse des R?seaux : Approches
Math?matiques et Informatique
Du 19 au 21 octobre 2011 ? Grenoble

Conf?rence MARAMI

Le Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) organise
les deuxi?mes rencontres MARAMI 2011, qui seront structur?es autour de
conf?rences invit?es ainsi que des pr?sentations de chercheurs et
d?industriels du domaine.

Les r?seaux constituent un mod?le d?information et de connaissances de 
plus en plus exploit? ces derni?res ann?es pour mod?liser mais aussi 
pour simuler des comportements du vivant et celui de syst?mes 
informatiques et sociaux. Leur efficacit? dans les divers domaines 
d'application, tels que les r?seaux en biologie, les r?seaux sociaux ou 
les r?seaux informatiques, est cependant tributaire de mod?les et de 
m?thodes formelles d?analyse de leur architecture, de leur 
fonctionnement et de leur ?volution.

L?objectif de la conf?rence MARAMI est de fournir un cadre d??changes et 
de diffusion des travaux scientifiques entre les communaut?s issues des 
math?matiques et de l?informatique, qui pr?sentent une forte synergie, 
pour appr?hender des probl?matiques communes ou compl?mentaires. Dans ce 
sens, cette conf?rence constitue une occasion privil?gi?e permettant 
d??changer les expertises et les exp?riences capitalis?es dans chacune 
des communaut?s sur l?analyse, la mod?lisation des r?seaux et leur 
d?ploiement dans les nouvelles technologies, notamment de l?informatique 
et de la communication.

Les th?matiques privil?gi?es de ces journ?es sont organis?es en trois 
grands axes :

Analyse et visualisation de r?seaux r?els
    - recherche de communaut?s, classification,
    - recherche de motifs fr?quents,
    - visualisation et exploration de grands graphes, ...
Mod?lisation dans les r?seaux
    - simulations de ph?nom?nes sur les r?seaux,
    - ?volutions de r?seaux,
    - graphes al?atoires, ...
Applications
    - r?seaux sociaux,
    - r?seaux biologiques,
    - r?seaux pair ? pair,
    - syst?mes de recommandation, filtrage collaboratif,
    - syst?mes d'aide ? la d?cision (marketing viral, ?pid?mies),
    - syst?mes multi-agents,
    - ontologies / web s?mantique, ...

Dates importantes

Soumission des articles : lundi 29 aout 2011
Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 16 septembre 2011
Envoi de la version d?finitive : vendredi 30 septembre 2011

Format des soumissions

Les chercheurs, jeunes chercheurs et industriels s?int?ressant aux
approches formelles de mod?lisation et d'analyse des r?seaux ainsi qu'?
leurs applications aux technologies informatiques, sont invit?s ?
soumettre des papiers en langue fran?aise ou anglaise. Dans le but de
faciliter la diffusion de travaux de diff?rents niveaux de maturit?,
nous proposons deux formats de soumission : papier long (12 pages
maximum) et papier court (6 pages maximum). Le fichiers de styles sont
sur le site de la conf?rence.

Comit? de programme de MARAMI

Pr?sident : Boris Chidlovskii, Xerox Research Centre Europe

Membres du comit? :

Fr?d?ric Amblard, IRIT
Guillaume Cabanac, Universite Toulouse 3
Hidde de Jong, INRIA Grenoble - Rh?ne-Alpes
Patrick Gallinari,LIP6, Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie
Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Antoine Girard, Universit? Joseph Fourier
Mirta Gordon, CNRS-Universit? Joseph Fourier
Rushed Kanawati, Universit? Paris 13
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA-Rennes
Pascale Kuntz, Universit? de Nantes
Sylvain Lamprier, LIP6, Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie
Christine Largeron, Universite St-Etienne
Lynda Lechani-Tamine,Universit? Toulouse 3
Amin Mantrach, Xerox Research Centre Europe
Jean-Michel Renders, Xerox Research Centre Europe
C?line Rouveirol, Universit? Paris Nord
Julien Velcin, Universit? de Lyon 2
Nathalie Villa-Vialaneix, Universit? de Perpignan
Jean-Beno?t Zimmerman, GREQ d?Aix Marseille

Comit? d'organisation :

Pr?sidents : Gilles Bisson & Eric Gaussier (LIG)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:59:29 +0200
Subject: Appel: LATA 2012
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:41:52 +0200
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*********************************************************************
2nd Call for Papers

6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

LATA 2012

A Coru?a, Spain

March 5?9, 2012

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2012/
*********************************************************************

AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its
applications. Following the tradition of the International Schools in
Formal Languages and Applications developed at Rovira i Virgili
University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2012 will reserve significant
room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at
attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and
application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology,
artificial intelligence, etc.).

VENUE:

LATA 2012 will take place in A Coru?a, at the northwest of Spain. The
venue will be the Faculty of Computer Science, University of A Coru?a.

SCOPE:

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

? algebraic language theory
? algorithms for semi?structured data mining
? algorithms on automata and words
? automata and logic
? automata for system analysis and programme verification
? automata, concurrency and Petri nets
? automatic structures
? cellular automata
? combinatorics on words
? computability
? computational complexity
? computational linguistics
? data and image compression
? decidability questions on words and languages
? descriptional complexity
? DNA and other models of bio?inspired computing
? document engineering
? foundations of finite state technology
? foundations of XML
? fuzzy and rough languages
? grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional,
  unification, categorial, etc.)
? grammars and automata architectures
? grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
? graphs and graph transformation
? language varieties and semigroups
? language?based cryptography
? language?theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and
  artificial life
? parallel and regulated rewriting
? parsing
? pattern recognition
? patterns and codes
? power series
? quantum, chemical and optical computing
? semantics
? string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and
  bioinformatics
? string processing algorithms
? symbolic dynamics
? symbolic neural networks
? term rewriting
? transducers
? trees, tree languages and tree automata
? weighted automata

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2012 will consist of:

? 3 invited talks
? 2 invited tutorials
? peer?reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Eugene Asarin (Paris 7)
Bernard Boigelot (Li?ge)
Gilles Dowek (INRIA), tutorial
Rodney Downey (Wellington), tutorial
Jack Lutz (Iowa State)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Eric Allender (Rutgers)
Miguel ?. Alonso (A Coru?a)
Amihood Amir (Bar?Ilan)
Dana Angluin (Yale)
Franz Baader (Dresden)
Patricia Bouyer (Cachan)
John Case (Delaware)
Volker Diekert (Stuttgart)
Paul Gastin (Cachan)
Reiko Heckel (Leicester)
Sanjay Jain (Singapore)
Janusz Kacprzyk (Warsaw)
Victor Khomenko (Newcastle)
Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland)
Claude Kirchner (Paris)
Maciej Koutny (Newcastle)
Gregory Kucherov (Marne?la?Vall?e)
Salvador Lucas (Valencia)
Sebastian Maneth (Sydney)
Carlos Mart?n?Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (Milano Bicocca)
Aart Middeldorp (Innsbruck)
Faron Moller (Swansea)
Angelo Montanari (Udine)
Joachim Niehren (Lille)
Mitsunori Ogihara (Miami)
Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm)
Dominique Perrin (Marne?la?Vall?e)
Alberto Policriti (Udine)
Alexander Rabinovich (Tel Aviv)
Mathieu Raffinot (Paris)
J?rg Rothe (D?sseldorf)
Olivier H. Roux (Nantes)
Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio)
Eljas Soisalon?Soininen (Aalto)
Frank Stephan (Singapore)
Jens Stoye (Bielefeld)
Howard Straubing (Boston)
Masayuki Takeda (Kyushu)
Wolfgang Thomas (Aachen)
Sophie Tison (Lille)
Jacobo Tor?n (Ulm)
Tayssir Touili (Paris)
Esko Ukkonen (Helsinki)
Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen)
Manuel Vilares (Vigo)
Todd Wareham (Newfoundland)
Pierre Wolper (Li?ge)
Hans Zantema (Eindhoven)
Thomas Zeugmann (Sapporo)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Miguel ?. Alonso (A Coru?a, co?chair)
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos G?mez Rodr?guez (A Coru?a)
Jorge Gra?a (A Coru?a)
Carlos Mart?n?Vide (Tarragona, co?chair)
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)
Jes?s Vilares (A Coru?a)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

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

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2012

PUBLICATIONS:

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

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer?reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration will be open since July 16, 2011 until March
5, 2012. The registration form can be found at the website of the
conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2012/

Early registration fees: 500 Euro
Early registration fees (PhD students): 400 Euro
Late registration fees: 540 Euro
Late registration fees (PhD students): 440 Euro
On?site registration fees: 580 Euro
On?site registration fees (PhD students): 480 Euro

At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have a
registered author who paid the fees by December 5, 2011 will be excluded
from the proceedings.

Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings
volume, coffee breaks and lunches.  PhD students will need to prove
their status on site.

PAYMENT:

Early (resp. late) registration fees must be paid by bank transfer
before December 5, 2011 (resp.  February 24, 2012) to the conference
series account at Uno?e Bank (Juli?n Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid,
Spain):

IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 ? Swift/BIC code: UNOEESM1 (account
holder: Carlos Martin?Vide ? LATA 2012; account holder?s address:
Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain).

Please write the participant?s name in the subject of the bank
form. Transfers should not involve any expense for the
conference. People claiming early registration will be requested to
prove that they gave the bank transfer order by the deadline.

On?site registration fees can be paid only in cash. A receipt for
payments will be provided on site.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the
registration form at the website of the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: October 7, 2011 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2011
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 27, 2011
Early registration: December 5, 2011
Late registration: February 24, 2012
Starting of the conference: March 5, 2012
Submission to the post?conference special issue: June 9, 2012

FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

LATA 2012
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34?977?559543
Fax: +34?977?558386

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Aug 27 20:05:28 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:05:28 +0200
Subject: Habilitation: Emmanuel Giguet,
 De l'analyse syntaxique automatique a l'analyse automatique de
 discours
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:24:40 +0200
From: Archives <Emmanuel.Giguet at unicaen.fr>
Message-ID: <4E56A178.7080102 at unicaen.fr>



Bonjour,

J?ai le plaisir de vous annoncer ma soutenance d'habilitation ? diriger
des recherches ? l?Universit? de Caen Basse-Normandie le mardi 13
septembre 2011 ? 14h salle des th?ses 1er ?tage b?timent Sciences 3
Campus II C?te de nacre.

Le jury est compos? des rapporteurs
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, LIP6, Universit? de Paris 6,
?ric Gaussier, LIG, Universit? de Grenoble 1,
Mathieu Valette, ERTIM, INALCO,
et des examinateurs
?ric Bruillard, STEF, ENS Cachan / INRP,
Patrick Constant, PERTIMM,
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS,
Nadine Lucas, GREYC, CNRS,
Jacques Vergne, GREYC, Universit? de Caen Basse-Normandie.

Je vous y convie ainsi qu?au pot qui suivra.

Le m?moire s'intitule "De l'analyse syntaxique automatique ? l'analyse
automatique de discours dans les collections multilingues de documents
num?riques composites".

Emmanuel Giguet
charg? de recherche CNRS, laboratoire GREYC

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:14:18 +0200
Subject: Appel: Extended Deadline CFP Special Issue Multidisciplinary
 Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation
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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:35:08 +0200
From: mad2010 at univ-tlse2.fr
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Due to the adoption of a new publication calendar by the electronic
journal Discours, the submission deadline for the special Issue on
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation is
extended to 17th October 2011.

*************
Call for papers - DISCOURS special issue MAD 2010

The interdisciplinary journal Discours (http://discours.revues.org/)
opens a call for papers for a special issue on Multidisciplinary
Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation, the theme of the MAD'10
workshop held in March 2010 in Moissac, France
(http://w3.workshop-mad2010.univ-tlse2.fr/). Workshop participants are
warmly invited to submit, but this call is open to anyone interested.

MAD stands for Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse. Accordingly,
this special issue seeks to bring together studies from different
disciplines interested in discourse and discourse processing:
linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, educational
and cognitive psychology, ergonomics and document design, semiotics,
information and communication sciences, typography, etc.

Important dates:

* 17 October 2011: submission of articles for evaluation ( .doc or
  .rtf), (articles will be subject to the usual blind-reviewing
  procedure).
* 20 December 2011: notification of acceptance.
* 27 February 2012: submission of final versions.
* June 2012: publication of special issue.

Signalling text organisation refers to the observation that within
texts, certain features or elements seem to have a special instructional
role with regard to text organisation. These text organisation
signalling devices have been described under a variety of names:
signals, structure indicators, advance organisers, discourse markers,
layout properties, surface structure features, organisational cues,
stylistic writing devices and so on. Their scope ranges from a very
local level to a more global one. Their nature is also very diverse:

- linguistic: words (e.g. connectives), phrases (e.g. emphasis phrases),
  sentences (meta-discourse sentences) and beyond (overviews,
  summaries);

- graphic: typographical and spatial variation (e.g. paragraph breaks,
  boldface);

- hybrid (e.g. enumerations, headings, tables of contents, links and
  pop-up windows in electronic documents);

- more elusively: textual position, first mention, length or repetition
  of particular text units, structural parallelism.

Different disciplines have taken an interest in these devices, either as
a core object of study or as an element to be taken into account.  As a
consequence, research concerned with the signalling of text organisation
is far from constituting a unified field. The notion of signal itself
may be associated with different key concepts according to discipline
and models: document structure, discourse organisation, layout
structure, text architecture, etc. As far as function is concerned, they
may be seen as discourse construction devices, traces of metalinguistic
segments, as reading or processing instructions, as traces of the
writer's cognitive processes, or as cues revealing the author's
intentions, etc.

Since the 1970?s, research into the signalling of text organisation has
produced considerable results. The environment for this research is at
present undergoing a twofold transformation: first, new methods are
appearing, linked to technological advances (corpus linguistics, natural
language processing, eye movement recording techniques for the analysis
of cognitive processes during reading, etc.); second, new fields of
application are opening (in connection with the expanding use of digital
documents in the professional and educational worlds). In this new
context, novel research questions open up, requiring the integration of
contributions from different disciplines or fields of study.

We invite contributions on topics and questions such as the following
(the list may be extended):

- What are text signals and what role do they play?
1. reader's viewpoint
2. writer's viewpoint
3. analyst's viewpoint

- What may be relevant theoretical models and methods of data collection
  and analysis to study the signalling of text organisation and its
  cognitive effects?
1. naturalist approaches and corpus studies
2. empirical approaches
3. micro vs. macro approaches
4. inter- and pluridisciplinary approaches

- Text signals and literacy
- Text signals in document design, natural language processing and
  language technologies

We welcome different types of contributions: literature reviews,
theoretical and methodological considerations, reports of empirical
data, corpus based-studies, etc.

Submission procedure:

Articles may be written in French or English; the expected length is
between 40,000 and 60,000 signs (punctuation and spaces included). For
more details, see http://discours.revues.org/index253.html (style sheet)
and http://discours.revues.org/index358.html (instructions for authors).
Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of around 1500 characters,
together with 5 to 8 key words, in English (and, if possible, also in
French).
Submissions should be sent to mad2010 at univ-tlse2.fr and specify 'MAD  
publication' in the title of the message.

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Aug 27 20:17:58 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:17:58 +0200
Subject: Livre: La Mesure et le Grain - Semantique de corpus
Message-ID: <SAT.27.AUG.2011.221758.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: 27 ao?t 2011 18:52
From: Fran?ois Rastier <frastier at gmail.com>
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Vient de para?tre

Fran?ois Rastier

La Mesure et le Grain
- S?mantique de corpus

Comment passer de la quantit? (la mesure) ? la qualit? (le grain), bref,
des m?thodes quantitatives aux ?valuations ?  Inform? par la
linguistique de corpus, cet ouvrage aborde les probl?mes philologiques
et herm?neutiques que pose l??tude des corpus num?riques. Il s?attache
ainsi ? la typologie des genres et des discours, ? la description de
formes et de fonds s?mantiques, au rep?rage de th?mes, ? la
caract?risation et ? l??volution de concepts, ? l??tude des corr?lations
entre contenu et expression. ?pist?mologie, m?thodologie, descriptions
empiriques et applications vont ici de pair. Les analyses pr?sent?es
d?crivent des textes litt?raires, philosophiques et scientifiques.

Alors que les sciences de la culture font l?objet de nouvelles demandes
sociales, la linguistique de corpus fait ses preuves en recherche
d?information, en repr?sentation des connaissances, en analyse de sites
web : cet ouvrage pr?sente et d?taille des exemples d?applications.



Editions Champion
Collection Lettres Num?riques
http://www.honorechampion.com/cgi/run?wwfrset+3+0+1+2+cccdegtv1+08532230+1
ISBN 978-2-7453-2230-2
......................................
Fran?ois Rastier
Directeur de recherche
frastier at gmail.com
http://www.revue-texto.net

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Aug 30 20:26:18 2011
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:26:18 +0200
Subject: Job: CDD Ingenieur java, technos web, Universite de Savoie
Message-ID: <TUE.30.AUG.2011.222618.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:39:56 +0200
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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Universit? de Savoie ? Laboratoire LISTIC ? Equipe Condillac
Septembre 2011

OFFRE D?EMPLOI
INGENIEUR DE RECHERCHE
CDD 9 Mois
Contexte :

L??quipe Condillac du laboratoire LISTIC intervient de mani?re
importante dans plusieurs lots du projet europ?en Linked Heritage
(http://www.linkedheritage.org/).  Le travail ? r?aliser porte sur un
environnement terminologique qui devra proposer diff?rents services :
cr?ation et modification de thesauri/terminologies, conversions dans des
standards existants (dialectes XML : RDF, SKOS?), alignement de
thesauri/terminologies (outil semi-automatique ou manuel),
interop?rabili? avec d?autres lots techniques (services web, api?)?

Le projet dure 2 ans et a d?but? en avril 2011. Ses aspects techniques
d?buteront ? l?automne 2011.

Le candidat sera amen? ? se d?placer ponctuellement ? Paris et en
Europe. Le travail s?effectuera dans les locaux de l??quipe Condillac au
Bourget-du-Lac

Profil :

Le candidat devra ?tre titulaire d?un M2 ou d?un dipl?me d?ing?nieur en
informatique.

Le candidat sera form? sur les aspects sp?cifiques au projet :
terminologie, ontologie, technologies s?mantiques et devra s?auto-former
sur certains aspects techniques (Services Web, ?)

Comp?tences :
- Comp?tences techniques :
   o	Programmation Objet, Java en particulier sous eclipse
   o	Technologies WEB
      - XML
      - Services Web (si possible)
   o	Technologies s?mantiques (si possible)
      - RDF/SPARQL
      - SKOS
- Comp?tences humaines
    o	Autonomie
    o	Curiosit?
    o	Ouverture d?esprit
    o	Anglais

Contacts
- Christophe Roche
- Luc Damas : luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr (Envoyez CV et lettre de
  motivation ? cette adresse)

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