[1] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (88)
Subject: Workshop Announcement: Computerm'98
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (120)
Subject: Workshop announcement
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (113)
Subject: ESSLLI'98 Student Session - 2nd CFP
[4] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (65)
Subject: Re: Workshop on Databases of Central and Eastern
European Languages
[5] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (98)
Subject: Machine Translation: Special issue on anaphora
resolution
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:33:46 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Workshop Announcement: Computerm'98
>> From: kyo@rd.nacsis.ac.jp (Kageura Kyo)
(We deeply apologize if you recive multiple copies of this announcement)
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ACL/COLING-98 COMPUTERM Workshop
First Workshop on Computational Terminology
August 15, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98)
University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
DESCRIPTION
The workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers from
the fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated
translation, information retrieval and lexicography who share an
interest in computational aspects of terminology processing:
acquisition, extraction, indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building,
dictionary construction, etc. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate
the exchange of innovative ideas and results of diverse aspects of
automatic term processing in order to bridge the gap between these
fields.
TOPICS
The topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):
- Construction of terminology resources
- Semi- or automatic acquisition of terms
- Semi- or automatic acquisition of conceptual knowledge
- Thesaurus construction and maintenance
- Use of terminology resources (term banks, thesauri,
specialized lexicons,...)
- Terms in information retrieval (stemming, automatic indexing,
query expansion, ...)
- Multi-lingual terminological resources for cross-language IR
- Terminology management in machine-aided translation
- Terminology and NLP (parsing, tagging, text understanding,
generation,...)
- Terminology processing for other applications
SUBMISSIONS
Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should
submit six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-5000 words).
Submissions should be sent:
Didier Bourigault
Laboratoire de Linguistique Informatique
Universite Paris XIII
Avenue J.-B. Clement
F-93430 Villetaneuse
France
Style Files and Templates for Preparing Submissions
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html
The official language of the Conference is English. However, papers
can also be submitted in French. The final version of the papers will
be accompanied by two long abstracts in two different languages.
All the presentation at the workshop will be given in English.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submission Deadline: March 23, 1998
Notification Date: May 15, 1998
Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, UK)
Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK)
Peter Anick (Digital Equipment Corporation, USA)
Teresa Cabre (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelone, Spain)
Ken Church (AT&T Labs Research, USA)
Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse, France)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Beatrice Daille (IRIN Nantes, France)
Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong
Kong)
Eric Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Stephanie Haas (University of North Carolina, USA)
Benoit Habert (LIMSI & ENS Fontenay-St Cloud, France)
Ulrich Heid (Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany)
Kyo Kageura (NACSIS, Tokyo, Japan)
Judith Klavans (Columbia Univesity, USA)
Robert Krovetz (NEC Research Institute, USA)
Robert Losee (University of North Carolina, USA)
Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada)
Padmini Srinivasan (The University of Iowa, USA)
Tomek Strzalkowski (General Electric Company, USA)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Labs Innovations, Lucent Technologies, USA)
Richard Wojcik (Boeing Company, USA)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP & Universite Paris 6, France)
ORGANIZERS
Didier Bourigault (CNRS and Universite Paris XIII, Paris, France)
Christian Jacquemin (IUT de Nantes, France)
Marie-Claude L'Homme (Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada)
EMAIL CONTACT
mailto:db@lli.univ-paris13.fr,
Christian.Jacquemin@iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr,
lhommem@ere.umontreal.ca
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:34:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Workshop announcement
>> From: Wim Peters <W.Peters@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
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Call for papers
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Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources
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Workshop immediately before the First International Conference on
language Resources and Evaluation (LREC),
May 27 1998
Granada, Spain
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html
Short description:
This workshop will discuss ways to increase the efficacy of linguistic
resource distribution and programmatic access, and work towards the
definition of a new method for these tasks based on distributed processing
and object-oriented modelling with deployment on the WWW.
Organizers: Yorick Wilks, Hamish Cunningham, Wim Peters, Remi Zajac
Workshop Scope and Aims
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In general the reuse of of NLP data resources (such as lexicons or corpora)
has exceeded that of algorithmic resources (such as lemmatisers or parsers).
However, there are still two barriers to data resource reuse:
1) each resource has its own representation syntax and corresponding
programmatic access mode (e.g. SQL for CELEX, C or Prolog for Wordnet,
SGML for the BNC);
2) resources must generally be installed locally to be usable (and of
course precisely how this happens, what operating systems are supported
etc. varies from case to case).
The consequences of 1) are that although resources share some structure in
common (lexicons are organised around words, for example) this commonality
is wasted when it comes to using a new resource (the developer has to learn
everything afresh each time) and that work which seeks to investigate or
exploit commonalities between resources (e.g. to link several lexicons to an
ontology) has to first build a layer of access routines on top of each
resources. So, for example, if we wish to do task-based evaluation of lexicons
by measuring the relative performance of an information extraction system
with different instantiations of lexical resource, we might end up writing
code to translate several different resources into SQL or SGML.
The consequence of 2) is that there is no way to "try before you buy": no
way to examine a data resource for its suitability for your needs before
licencing it. Correspondingly there is no way for a resource provider to
expose limitted access to their products for advertising purposes, or gain
revenue through piecemeal supply of sections of a resource.
This workshop will discuss ways to overcome these barriers. The proposers
will discuss a new method for distributing and accessing language resources
involving the development of a common programmatic model of the various
resources types, implemented in CORBA IDL and/or Java, along with a
distributed server for non-local access. This model is being designed as
part of the GATE project (General Architecture for Text Engineering:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/gate/) and goes under the
provisional title of an Active CREOLE Server. (CREOLE: Collection of REusable
Objects for Language Engineering. Currently CREOLE supports only algortihmic
objects, but will be extended to data objects.)
A common model of language data resources would be a set of inheritance
hierarchies making up a forest or set of graphs. At the top of the hierarchies
would be very general abstractions from resources (e.g. lexicons are about
words); at the leaves would be data items that were specific to individual
resources. Programmatic access would be available at all levels, allowing
the developer to select an appropriate level of commonality for each
application.
Note that although an exciting element of the work could be to provide
algorithms to dynamically merge common resources (e.g. connect WordNet to
Celex), what we're suggesting initially is not to develop anything
substantively new, but simply to improve access to existing resources. This
is NOT a new standards initiative, but a way to build on previous initiatives.
Of course, the production of a common model that fully expressed all the
subtleties of all resources would be a large undertaking, but we believe
that it can be done incrementally, with useful results at each stage. Early
versions will stop decomposing the object structure of resources at a fairly
high level, leaving the developer to handle the data structures native to
the resources at the leaves of the forest. There should still be a
substantial benefit in uniform access to higher level strucures.
Draft Program Committee
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Yorick Wilks
Hamish Cunningham
Wim Peters
Remi Zajac
Roberta Catizone
Paola Velardi
Maria Teresa Pazienza
Louise Guthrie
Roberto Basili
Bran Boguraev
Sergei Nirenburg
James Pustejowsky
Ralph Grishman
Christiane Fellbaum
Paper Submission
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FORMATTING GUIDELINES:
Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages.
HARD COPIES:
Three hard copies should be sent to:
Gill Callaghan, FAO Yorick Wilks
Dept. Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello St.,
Sheffield S1 4DP
UK
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION:
Electronic submission will be allowed in Poscript or HTML.
An ftp site will be available on demand.
Authors should send an info email to (Yorick Wilks) even
if they submit in paper form. An electronic submission should be
accompanied by a plain ascii text.
# NAME : Name of first author
# TITLE: Title of the paper
# PAGES: Number of pages
# FILES: Name of file (if also submitted electronically)
# NOTE : Anything you'd like to add
# KEYS : Keywords
# EMAIL: Email of the first author
# ABSTR: Abstract of the paper
# . . . . . .
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline (Hard Copy/Electronic) February 15th 1998
Paper Notification April 1st
Camera-Ready Papers Due May 1st
DALR workshop May 27st
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:32:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: ESSLLI'98 Student Session - 2nd CFP
From: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova <korbay@ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
!!!!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!!!!
!!!!! Please circulate and post as much as possible !!!!!
We apologize if you've received this message more than once.
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
THE ESSLLI'98 STUDENT SESSION
August 17-28, 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany
Deadline: February 15th, 1998
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/
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We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 10th European Summer
School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'98) organized by DFKI and
the University of Saarbruecken, Germany. and taking place at the
University of Saarbruecken in August 17-28, 1998. We welcome submissions of
papers for presentation at the ESSLLI'98 Student Session and to appear in
the proceedings.
PURPOSE:
This is going to be the third ESSLLI Student Session and as before, it will
provide an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present
their own WORK IN PROGRESS and get valuable feedback from other researchers
and fellow-students. Presentation of creative and innovative ideas is
encouraged.
The ESSLLI'98 Student Session welcomes submissions from students at any
level, that is, from undergraduates (before completion of Master degree) as
well as postgraduates (before completion of PhD degree). Note also that
all authors of ESSLLI'98 papers have to be students, papers co-authored by
non-students cannot be accepted.
As in the previous years, the ESSLLI'98 Student Session will consist of
paper presentations. The ESSLLI'98 Student Session has its own timeslot in
the ESSLLI'98 schedule: 60 minutes every day for two weeks, provided that a
sufficient number of good quality papers is accepted. Each presentation
will last 30 minutes (including 10 minutes of discussion).
REQUIREMENTS:
The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work,
completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and
promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. All topics
within the usual six ESSLLI subject areas are of interest, without further
restrictions. The areas are as follows: Logic, Linguistics, Computation,
Logic & Linguistics, Logic & Computation, and Linguistics & Computation.
The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI'98 Student Session
proceedings, which will be made available along with the readers for the
ESSLLI'98 courses.
FORMAT OF SUBMISSION:
Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the
paper title, not to exceed 4 pages of length exclusive of references and a
separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full
papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages.
Since reviewing will be "blind", the body of the abstract should omit
author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
authors' identity (e.g., ``We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'') should
be avoided. Instead, use references like ``Smith (1991) previously showed
.....''.
To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied
containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), the author(s)'
affiliation(s) and complete addresse(s) a short (5 line) summary and a
specification of the subject area into which the paper belongs. The
subject areas considered are: Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic &
Linguistics, Logic & Computation, and Linguistics & Computation.
MEDIA OF SUBMISSION AND FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS:
The student authors should submit their papers electronically to:
korbay@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
For any kind of submission a plain ascii text version of the identification
page should be sent separately by email, using the following format:
title: <title>
author: <name of first author>
address: <affiliation and address of first author>
...
author: <name of last author>
address: <affiliation and address of last author>
short summary (5 lines): <summary>
subject area (one of):
[ Logic | Linguistics | Computation | Logic&Linguistics |
Logic&Computation | Linguistics&Computation ]
Please always submit the identification page in a separate message.
The submissions should be in one of the following formats:
- self-contained LaTeX source (the most encouraged)
- PostScript
- ASCII text
ESSLLI'98 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION:
In order to present a paper at the ESSLLI'98 Student Session, every student
author has to register as a participant at ESSLLI'98. However, authors of
accepted papers will be eligible for a reduced registration fee.
For all information concerning ESSLLI'98, please consult the ESSLLI'98 web
site : http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/
If you have specific questions about the student session please contact the
chair.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 1998
Notifications: April 15, 1998
Final version due: May 15, 1998
ESSLLI'98 Student Session: August 17-28, 1998
PROGRAM COMITTEE FOR THE ESSLLI'98 STUDENT SESSION:
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (chair)
korbay@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
UFAL MFF UK
Malostranske nam. 25
118 35 Praha 1
Czech Republic
tel: (+420-2) 2191 4288
fax: (+420-2) 2191 4309
Area co-chairs:
Language and Computation: Kordula de Kuthy (University of Saarbruecken)
Computation: Michal Soch (Czech Technical University)
Logic: Carlos Areces (University of Warwick)
Language: Berthold Crysmann (University of Saarbruecken)
Logic & Computation: Jaime Ramos (Technical University of Lisabon)
Logic and Language: - to be confirmed
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:36:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Workshop on Databases of Central and Eastern European Languages
>> From: P.J.Roach@reading.ac.uk (Peter Roach)
First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
Granada, May 28-30 1998
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
(((( WE APOLOGISE TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS ))))
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SPEECH DATABASE DEVELOPMENT FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
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Wednesday, May 27th, 14.30 - 19.00
This workshop, which is held in conjunction with the First International
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain, will
be concerned with the design, production and transcription standards
required for the construction of speech databases for languages of Central
and Eastern Europe.
Speech databases have been produced for a number of the world's
major languages, but most languages of Central and Eastern Europe have
received little attention in international terms until recently, though
they are of major importance for the future of European speech science.
There are special issues which arise in the production of representative
samples of these languages, and this workshop will attempt to address
these issues. The BABEL project (funded by the European Union under the
COPERNICUS programme, project #1304) has been working on these issues
since 1995, and will soon complete a database of Bulgarian, Estonian,
Hungarian, Polish and Romanian. The work of the project will be reported
at the workshop, and aspects of the project will be the subject of
practical demonstrations, but it is hoped that papers will be contributed
by other interested researchers who are not associated with the project.
Information about BABEL can be read on its WWW pages:
http://www.linguistics.rdg.ac.uk/speechlab/research/babel
Information about the main conference can be read at:
http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Peter Roach, University of Reading, UK (BABEL Project Coordinator)
Klara Vicsi, Technical University, Budapest
Lori Lamel, LIMSI, Paris
CONTACT PERSON
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Peter Roach, Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading,
Reading RG6 6AA, UK.
Tel: (+44) 118 931 8138 Fax: (+44) 118 9753365
email: p.j.roach@reading.ac.uk
WORKSHOP TOPICS
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We hope that the following topics can be considered in the workshop; this
list is not exclusive, however.
(1) Recording techniques and standards
(2) Available software tools
(3) Annotation, transcription and labelling
(4) Automated time-alignment of labels
(5) Phonetic problems of specific languages of Central and Eastern Europe
(6) Quality control
(7) RequirementS for larger-scale databases
(8) Dissemination of data; recording further languages; possibilities for
future collaboration.
THE WORKSHOP WILL CONCLUDE WITH A DISCUSSION OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
FORMING AN INFORMAL ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCHERS SPECIALISING IN THE
SPOKEN FORMS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES.
SUBMITTING A PAPER
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You are invited to send an abstract of around 250 words to Peter Roach
at the above address, before February 27th. You will be notified within
two weeks if the offer of a paper has been accepted.
The limit on papers is 4000 words or 10 pages. Details of the required
format will be sent with notification of acceptance.
The deadline for submission of the completed paper is Friday, April 10th.
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:49:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Machine Translation: Special issue on anaphora resolution
>> From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk>
We apologise if you get multiple copies of this call for papers.
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE MACHINE TRANSLATION JOURNAL
SPECIAL ISSUE ON ANAPHORA RESOLUTION IN MACHINE TRANSLATION
Guest editor: Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
The interpretation of anaphora is crucial for the successful operation
of a Machine Translation system. In particular, it is essential to
resolve the anaphoric relation when translating into languages which
mark the gender of pronouns. Unfortunately, the majority of MT systems
developed in the seventies and eighties did not adequately address the
problems of identifying the antecedents of anaphors in the source
language and producing the anaphoric "equivalents" in the target
language. As a consequence, only a limited number of MT systems have
been successful in translating discourse, rather than isolated
sentences. One reason for this situation is that in addition to anaphora
resolution being itself a very complicated task, translation adds a
further dimension to the problem in that the reference to a discourse
entity encoded by a source language anaphor by the speaker (or writer)
has not only to be identified by the hearer (translator or translation
system) but also re-encoded in a coreferential expression in a different
language.
The nineties have seen an intensification of research efforts in
anaphora resolution in Machine Translation. This can be seen in the
growing number of related projects which have reported promising new
results (e.g.Wada 1990; Leass & Schwall 1991; Nakaiwa & Ikehara 1992;=20
Chen 1992; Saggion & Carvalho 1994; Preu=DF et al. 1994; Nakaiwa et
al. 1994; Nakaiwa et al. 1995; Nakaiwa & Ikehara 1995; Mitkov et al.
1995; Mitkov et al. 1997).
However, we still feel that additional work is needed to highlight and
further explore the specifics of the problem in operational MT
environments, including fully automatic Machine Translation and Machine-
aided Translation.
We are inviting high-quality, original research papers describing recent
advances in anaphora resolution in Machine Translation. Topics to be
addressed include (but are not limited to)
- operational anaphora resolution components in Machine Translation
- resolution of zero pronouns in MT environments
- lexical transfer of anaphors across languages
- to what extent have the latest trends towards knowledge-poor, corpus-
driven and robust approaches in anaphora resolution, been called upon
in Machine Translation?
- what are the most scalable contributory factors /resolution
strategies in MT?
- what makes anaphora resolution a more complex task in Machine
Translation?
SUBMISSION AND FORMAT
Articles should be submitted directly to the publishers, either by
e-mail to Ellen.Klink@wkap.nl, with the Subject header "Submission to
COAT Anaphora special issue", or in hard-copy to
Machine Translation Editorial Office
Kluwer Academic Publishers
P.O. Box 990
3300 AZ Dordrecht
The Netherlands
or
Machine Translation Editorial Office
Kluwer Academic Publishers
P.O. Box 230
Accord, MA 02018-023
U.S.A.
The SUBMISSION DEADLINE is 15 May 1997.
The journal is typeset using LaTeX, so the preferred medium for
submission of articles in electronic format is LaTeX source (using the
Kluwer style file) or gzipped postscript. For more details, please
consult the journal's web pages:
Home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0922-6567
Instructions for Authors:
http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA0922-6567
LaTeX style files: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnlstyle.htm/0922-6567
If submitting hard-copy, four copies of the paper are required.
The length of the papers should be approximately 10-20 pages if using
the Kluwer style file (around 20k words).
Authors are also requested to send a copy of an abstract of not more
than 200 words to the guest editor R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk or in hard-copy to
Ruslan Mitkov, School of Languages and European Studies, University of
Wolverhampton, Stafford St., Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, United Kingdom.
GUEST EDITOR:
Ruslan Mitkov
School of Languages and European Studies
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
Telephone (44-1902) 322471
Fax (44-1902) 322739
Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk
GUEST EDITORIAL BOARD:
Breck Baldwin (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
David Carter (SRI International, Cambridge)
Guenter Goerz (University of Nuernberg/Erlangen)
Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, McLean)
Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal)
Susan LuperFoy (MITRE, McLean)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Frederique Segond (Ranx Xerox, Grenoble)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
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