5.0873 COLING '92: Information in English (1/421)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 30 Apr 1992 21:55:55 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0873. Thursday, 30 Apr 1992.
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 11:26:06 +0200
From: Ch. Boitet <boitet@imag.fr>
Subject: COLING-92: scientific programme & other information
Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME and VARIOUS INFORMATION
(English version for e-mail)
20-28 July 1992
NANTES, FRANCE
Organized on behalf of the ICCL
(International Committee on Computational Linguistics)
sponsored by
Ministe`re de la recherche et de la technologie
ACL, AFCET, ATALA, CNRS, IMAG, SITE
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chair
Antonio ZAMPOLLI
Secretariat
Christian BOITET, Nicoletta CALZOLARI, Sergio ROSSI
Coordinators of the reviewing committee
Eva HAJICOVA
Marc LIBERMAN
Martin KAY
Makoto NAGAO
Antoine OGONOWSKY
Stephen G. PULMAN
Candy SIDNER
Hans USZKOREIT
Don WALKER
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
COMITE D'ORGANISATION
Chair : Franc,ois PECCOUD
Universite's de Grenoble - IMAG : Christian BOITET, Jacques COURTIN
Universite' de Nantes : Jacques-Henri JAYEZ
Palais des Congre`s de Nantes : Michel GILLET, Florence MENARD
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ICCL)
Martin Kay, Palo Alto (President),
Eva Hajicova, Prague (Vice President),
Donald E. Walker, Morristown (Secretary General),
Christian Boitet, Grenoble; Nicoletta Calzolari, Pisa;
Brian Harris, Ottawa; David Hays, New York (Honorary);
Kolbjorn Heggstadt, Bergen; Hans Karlgren, Stockholm;
Olga Kulagina, Moscow; Winfried Lenders, Bonn; Makoto Nagao, Kyoto;
Helmut Schnelle, Bochum; Petr Sgall, Prague;
Hiroshi Wada, Tokyo (Honorary); Yorick Wilks, Las Cruces;
Antonio Zampolli, Pisa.
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List of Contents
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Welcome
Overall Schedule
General information
Scientific Programme
Announced presentations ==> sent in a separate message ("comm")
PreCOLING Tutorials
Excursion day
Accompanying persons' programme
Accomodation form ==> sent in a separate message ("forms")
Fiche de re'servation hotelie`re ==> sent in a separate message ("forms")
Registration form ==> sent in a separate message ("forms")
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WELCOME TO COLING-92
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We are happy to invite you to participate in the fourteenth COLING. COLING
conferences take place every two years, each time in a new location.
COLING is organized in France for the second time (the first was at
Grenoble in 1967).
Nantes is a very beautiful city located on the Loire and Erdre rivers, in
a region famous for its architectural treasures, its wineyards, its
cuisine, and its modern industries. Nantes University is also actively
pursuing several research themes in computational linguistics.
All topics in Computational Linguistics were acceptable. Papers concerning
real applications have been especially welcome. About 120 topical papers
and 90 project notes will be presented, 60 of them with demos.
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OVERALL SCHEDULE - PROGRAMME GENERAL
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Monday 20/7 9:00 -- Wednesday 22/7 12:30: PreCOLING tutorials
Wednesday 22/7 16:00 -- 20:00 & Thursday 23/7 8:00 -- 9:15:
registration & issue of documents
Thursday 23/7 8:45 -- Saturday 25/7 18:30: congress + exhibition
24/7 20:45: organ concert at the cathedral -- concert d'orgues
Sunday 26/7: excursion day
Monday 27/7 8:45 -- Tuesday 28/7 18:30: congress
Tuesday 28/7 20:00: banquet
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COLING-92 GENERAL INFORMATION
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VENUE
CITE DES CONGRES DE NANTES
1, RUE de VALMY
440041 NANTES CEDEX 01 - FRANCE
Tel : 33/ 51 88 20 00 - Fax : 33/ 51 88 20 20
The Cite' des Congre`s is located in the centre of Nantes, 5 minutes walk
from the TGV Atlantique Train Station (South Exit), 15 minutes by car from
the International Airport Nantes-Atlantique. The Cite' des Congre`s has
parking for 500 cars. Registration and issue of documents to the
participants will start on 22 July from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and
continue on 23 July from 8:00 a.m.
LANGUAGES
The main languages of COLING-92 are French and English. However, all,
other languages are welcome. Simultaneous translation will not be
provided.
PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings will be available during the Congress. Their cost is
included in the registration fees.
LUNCHES AND DINNERS
Lunches and dinners are not included in the registration fees. A list of
restaurants close to the Cite' des Congre`s will be provided. It will also
be possible to have lunch on site.
LOCKERS
Lockers will be available for participants throughout the Congress.
PLANE AND TRAIN TRAVEL DISCOUNTS
Participants may benefit from a special discount on AIR INTER "blue" and
"white" return flights (35% average discount depending on flight
schedules) and on return rail journeys within France (20% off).
Corresponding discount coupons must be requested from the administrative
secretariat (please see registration form). On site, ask the secretariat
to validate your discount by stamping your return tickets with the
official congress stamp.
ACCOMODATION
In the centre of Nantes, within 10 minutes walk from the Cite' des
Congre`s, there are more than 1,000 rooms rated from 1* to 3*. About 60
rooms in a workers' hostel will be available for students and eventually
for members of the teaching profession, in the limit of the number of
rooms available.
for REGISTRATION, ACCOMODATION, TOURS
contact
CITE DES CONGRES DE NANTES
1, Rue de Valmy
44 041 NANTES CEDEX 01 - FRANCE
Tel : 33/ 51 88 20 00 - Fax : 33/ 51 88 20 20
for COMMUNICATIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS
contact
GETA, IMAG-campus
COLING-92
BP 53X
38041 GRENOBLE Cedex
FRANCE
Tel : 33/ 76 51 48 17 - Fax : 33/ 76 51 44 05
COLING-92 REGISTRATION FEES
(inc.taxes) Before Between 1 June
1 June 1992 and 15 July 1992 On site
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Student 900 FF 1,100 FF 1,400 FF
University staff 1,900 FF 2,300 FF 3,000 FF
Other 3,000 FF 3,600 FF 4,500 FF
The participants' registration fees include participation to all sessions,
one copy of the proceedings, the official reception by the mayor of
Nantes, the gala dinner, and the organs concert on 24 July 1992.
Pre-COLING TUTORIALS
The tutorials will take place from 20 to 22 July at the University of
Nantes. Registration and issue of documents for the tutorials will take
place on 19 July from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Cite' des Congre`s and
on 20 July from 8:00 a.m. at the University.
REGISTRATION FEES FOR THE TUTORIALS
(inc.taxes) Before Between 1 June
1 June 1992 and 15 July 1992 On site
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Student 600 FF 700 FF 900 FF
University staff 1,200 FF 1,500 FF 1,800 FF
Other 1,800 FF 2,200 FF 2,700 FF
All registration must be made using the registration form or the photocopy
of the form (one form per participant). No registration form will be
accepted unless accompanied by evidence of payment (check or photocopy of
a bank transfer).
PAYMENT
All payment must be made in French Francs
- either by bank check or eurocheck
payable in France, to the order of :
COLING-92
- or by bank transfer, made out to the following order :
COLING-92
CIO NANTES
Account number 30047 00020 0000064881H46
Avenue Bonduelle
F-44000 NANTES
The duplicate or photocopy of the transfer should be sent along with the
registration form to :
Cite' des Congre`s de Nantes
COLING-92
1 rue de Valmy
F-44041 NANTES CEDEX 01
The name and the address of the sender should be clearly indicated as well
as the details of payment (transfer fee charged to sender). On site, all
payments will also have to be made in French Francs only (cash,
eurocheques, cheque payable in France).
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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
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Topical papers and project notes without demonstrations will be presented
in 3 parallel sessions (8:45-9:15, 9:20-9:50, 9:55-10:25, pause, 10:45-
11:15, 11:20-11:50, 11:55-12:25, lunch pause & demos, 14:45-15:15, 15:20-
15:50, 15:55-16:25, pause, 16:45-17:15, 17:20-17:50, 17:55-18:25). The
project notes without demos will be presented in 2 sessions on Monday 27,
in parallel with the session on large international projects.
Project notes with demonstrations (as well as a few demos accompanying
topical papers) will be presented in 12 parallel sessions (12:45-13:15,
13:20-13:50, 13:55-14:25). Each presentation will be repeated 3 times.
Presentators will have time to set up their demo from 8:45 to 12:45, and
may keep their allocated room until 18:25. It should be possible to have
lunch and to watch 2 or 3 demos between 12:25 and 14:45.
Any presentation (topical paper or project note) will have 30 minutes,
including 10 minutes for discussion.
SPECIAL EVENTS
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Thursday 23
Opening session
9:15--9:45 Opening ceremony, official greetings, last minute information
9:45-10:25: Invited lecture by Prof Dr W. Wahlster (DFKI, Saarbru"cken):
"Computational Models of Face-to-Face Dialogs:
Multimodality, Negotiation and Translation".
Panel of representants of organizations funding NLP research
16-45-18:25 (for all 3 sessions)
Saturday 25
Panel on language industry
16-45-18:25 (in parallel with the two other sessions)
Monday 27
Project day
Sessions 1 & 2: project notes without demos
Session 3: presentation of results of large international projects
Tuesday 28
Panel of the coordinators of the reviewing committee
16-45-18:25 (for all 3 sessions)
Closing session
18:30-18:45
PreCOLING-92 TUTORIALS (Nantes, 20-22/7/92)
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These tutorials (given in English) will be centered on MULTILINGUAL
PORTABILITY. While that topic is an important issue for developers and
investors in language industry as well as in computer industry, and offers
many interesting aspects to researchers in NLP, it is rarely addressed
specifically.
Three aspects will be covered: multilingual portability of software, of
documents, and of dictionaries. They will be covered in ten 1 1/2 hours
lectures.
PROGRAMME
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A. Multilingual software engineering
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I. Basic notions on writing systems & computerization problems
Handling several writing systems at the same time in a computer
application can not be reduced to the definition of collections of atomic
characters and associated fonts. The presentation, by Ch.Boitet (GETA-IMAG
& Esprit project Multilex) will address the definition and use of
character sets, transcriptions of various types, orderings of characters
and strings, correspondence with existing norms, and usages.
II. Multilingual or localizable applications under "monolingual"
O/S
Editors, text-processors and formaters are the first targets for
multilingualization. However, almost all current applications running
under "monolingual" operating systems are at best "localized" to one
writing system besides the English one. M.Fanton (CERTAL, Paris) will give
a lecture on the specific problems in the arabization of TEX as well as on
more general related questions.
III. Towards truly multilingual or easily localizable O/S
K.Gaddas (WinSoft) is a specialist for writing multilingual software for
the Macintosh. His lecture will present current techniques for
localization offered by the operating system MacOS itself, and probable
future evolution towards true multilinguality at the OS level.
B. Multilingual documents
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IV-V. Structured documents (SGML, Grif)
These two lectures will be given by V.Quint (INRIA & Bull-IMAG, Grenoble),
the main author of Grif, a commercially available wysiwyg editor of
structured documents running under Unix/X11. A research version of Grif
has recently been extended to offer multilingual facilities.
VI-VII. TEI
The "Text Encoding Initiative" is a large project co-sponsored by
ACH, ALLC & ACL. The TEI builds over SGML to propose a set of
normalized tags, attributes and "entities" to obtain portable computer
representations of texts and dictionaries, possibly showing several
independent structural levels and annotations or results of various
processes.
L.Burnard (Oxford) is one of the editors of the TEI Guidelines. His
lectures will present the basics of these guidelines, the current
solutions to the representation of writing systems, and future
perspectives:
(a) basic notions of the TEI -- encoding for interchange -- design
principles for extensibility -- basic notions of SGML
(b) applications of TEI in corpus markup and linguistic analysis.
C. Multilingual dictionaries
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VIII-IX. Lexicons (standards for exchanging terminology)
These lectures concern standards for the representation and exchange of
multilingual terminological information. A.Melby (BYU, Provo) is one
initiator of the Micro-MATER format for PC-based applications such as
Mercury/Termex. These standards are developed in close relation with the
TEI. Multilingual aspects of terminological data bases will also be
addressed.
X. Dictionaries
Multilingual dictionaries must contain much more information than
terminological data bases. G.Thurmair (SNI, Munich) participates in
Esprit project Multilex, which aims at producing standards for
multilingual data bases. He will present the current results of that
project, and discuss related work.
Further information
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Provisional planning: From Monday 20th July at 9:00 until Wednesday 22nd
July at 12:30.
Lectures: 9:00-10:30, 11:00-12:30, 15:00-16:30, 17:00-18:30.
Location : IUT (University Institute of Technology) of Nantes University,
down-town, withing walking distance of the railway station and the Palais
des Congre`s.
Attendance is limited to 100 participants, the maximal capacity of the
auditorium.
Almost all lecturers will be able to present demonstrations.
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[A complete version of this announcement is now available through the
fileserver, s.v. COLING92 ENGLISH. The registration materials are
available on the filleserver under the name COLING92 REGSTRTN.
The list of papers to be presented at COLING92 are available through the
fileserver, s.v. COLING92 PAPERS. You may obtain a copy by issuing
the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or
as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system,
you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype
HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to
ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For
more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported
to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and
tried all appropriate alternatives.]