[1] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (101)
Subject: WORKSHOPS
[2] From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> (126)
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS : ACL Workshop on Translingual
Information Management
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (113)
Subject: ECAI-98 #6: CALL FOR YOUNG RESEARCHER PAPERS
[4] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (79)
Subject: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS / CALL FOR PAPERS
[5] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (36)
Subject: Extended Deadline! LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT:
CORPUS, INFERENCE AND DISCOURSE
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:22:22 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: WORKSHOPS
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
February 9, 1998
WORKSHOPS
1. METADATA INSTITUTE
"MANAGING METADATA FOR THE DIGITAL LIBRARY:
CROSSWALKS OR CHAOS"
Washington DC: May 4-5, 1998
<http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/institutes/metadata.html>
2. Society of American Archivists:
Workshops Spring/Summer 1998
ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION
DIGITAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY
DESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS INSTITUTE
COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE FOR ARCHIVISTS
ARCHIVES IN CYBERSPACE
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1. METADATA INSTITUTE
"MANAGING METADATA FOR THE DIGITAL LIBRARY:
CROSSWALKS OR CHAOS"
Washington DC: May 4-5, 1998
<http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/institutes/metadata.html>
"Managing Metadata for The Digital Library: Crosswalks or Chaos," an
institute cosponsored by the Association for Library Collections &
Technical Services (ALCTS) and the Library and Information Technology
Association (LITA), will be held on May 4-5, 1998, in Washington, D.C.,
at the Georgetown University Conference Center. The registration
deadline is April 17, 1998. ALCTS and LITA are divisions of the American
Library Association.
Part of the challenge of building digital libraries is developing the metadata
infrastructure needed to manage, maintain, and deliver digital materials.
Metadata for the digital library encompasses not only traditional
cataloging information, but also all of the information necessary to
construct, preserve, and control the access to and presentation of digital
content. This institute brings together experts in the metadata and digital
library fields to present the latest developments, standards, and tools,
and to explore the impact of digital library development on our existing
catalogs and processes.
For additional information or to register, visit
http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/institutes/metadata.html
or contact Valerie Edmonds at vedmonds@ala.org or call 312 280-4269.
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2. Society of American Archivists:
Workshops Spring/Summer 1998
ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION
DIGITAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY
DESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS INSTITUTE
COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE FOR ARCHIVISTS
ARCHIVES IN CYBERSPACE
>Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:52:33 -0600
>Reply-To: Archives & Archivists <ARCHIVES@MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU>
>>From: Joan Sander <jsander@archivists.org>
>
The following is a complete listing of SAA courses scheduled for
Spring/Summer 1998. Registration materials are in the mail to members of
SAA. We hope that you will be able to join us for one of these exciting
educational opportunities!
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ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION ($342; SAA Members: $269)
1. Workshop #9801; University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
March 12-13, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: Feb. 13)
2. Workshop #9810: New York University
May 21-22, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: April 22)
Instructors: Kris Kiesling and Michael J. Fox
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DIGITAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY ($235; SAA Members: $189)
1. Workshop #9802; Smithsonian Institution, DC
March 26, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: Feb. 26)
2. Workshop #9808; Yale University, New Haven, CT
May 15, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: April 15)
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DESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS INSTITUTE
Lowell, Massachusetts
Co-sponsor: New England Archivists
April 20-24, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: March 20).
1. Archival Cataloging as a Component of Description ($342; SAA Members: $269)
Workshop #9803
April 20-21, 1998
Instructors: Kris Kiesling and Steven Hensen
2. Application of the USMARC Format ($215; SAA Members: $169)
Workshop #9804
April 22, 1998
Instructor: David Carmicheal
3. Access Points ($342; SAA Members: $269)
Workshop #9805
April 23-24, 1998
Instructors: Susanne Warren and Peter Wilkerson
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COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE FOR ARCHIVISTS ($215; SAA Members: $169)
Workshop #9806: Chicago, Illinois
April 29, 1998 (Reg. Deadline: March 30)
Instructor: Peter Jaszi
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ARCHIVES IN CYBERSPACE: Applying Techniques to Improve the Business of Archives
Workshop #9809: Pocatello, Idaho
May 20, 1998 (Deadline: April 20)
($215; SAA Members: $169)
Instructor: Tom Ruller
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For further information, contact:
Joan E. Sander
<jsander@archivists.org>
<www.archivists.org>
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:16:23 -0500
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS : ACL Workshop on Translingual Information Management
[ Part 2: "Included Message" ]
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu>
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ACL/COLING-98
Workshop on
TRANSLINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
CURRENT LEVELS AND FUTURE ABILITIES
August 16, 1998 (following ACL/COLING-98)
University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
CALL FOR PAPERS
DESCRIPTION
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The development of natural language applications which handle
multi-lingual and multi-modal information is the next major challenge
facing the field of computational linguistics. Over the past 50 years,
a variety of language-related capabilities has been developed in areas
such as machine translation, information retrieval, and speech
recognition, together with core capabilities such as information
extraction, summarization, parsing, generation, multimedia planning
and integration, statistics-based methods, ontologies, lexicon
construction and lexical representations, and grammar. The next few
years will require the extension of these technologies to encompass
multi-lingual and multi-modal information.
Extending current technologies will require integration of the various
capabilities into multi-functional natural language systems. However,
there is today no clear vision of how these technologies could or
should be assembled into a coherent framework. What would be involved
in connecting a speech recognition system to an information retrieval
engine, and then using machine translation and summarization software
to process the retrieved text? How can traditional parsing and
generation be enhanced with statistical techniques? What would be the
effect of carefully crafted lexicons on traditional information
retrieval?
This workshop is a follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in
conjunction with the First International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain (May 1998), at which an
international panel of invited experts will consider these questions
in an attempt to identify the most effective future directions of
computational linguistics research--especially in the context of the
need to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information. The
follow-on ACL workshop is intended to open the discussion to the
computational inguistics community as a whole. The workshop will
include ample time for discussion. A report summarizing the
discussions at Granada will be available before the ACL workshop.
TOPICS
------
The workshop will focus on the following fundamental questions:
1. What is the current level of capability in each of the major areas
of the field dealing with language and related media of human
communication?
2. How can (some of) these functions be integrated in the near future,
and what kind of systems will result?
3. What are the major considerations for extending these functions to
handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information, particularly in
integrated systems of the type envisioned in (2)?
In particular, we will consider these questions in relation to the
following areas:
o multi-lingual resources (lexicons, ontologies, corpora, etc.)
o information retrieval, especially cross-lingual and cross-modal
o machine translation
o automated (cross-lingual) summarization and information
extraction
o multimedia communication, in conjunction with text
o evaluation and assessment techniques for each of these areas
o methods and techniques (both statistics-based and linguistics-
based) of pre-parsing, parsing, generation, information
acquisition, etc.
We invite submissions which report on work in these areas. All papers
should clearly identify how the work addresses the issues and
questions outlined above.
SUBMISSIONS
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Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six
(6) copies of the full-length paper (3500-5000 words).
Submissions should be sent to:
Nancy Ide
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520
USA
Style files and templates for preparing submissions can be found at
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html
The official language of the conference is English.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
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Submission Deadline: March 23, 1998
Notification Date: May 15, 1998
Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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Charles Fillmore University of California Berkeley, USA
Robert Frederking Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ulrich Heid (tentative) University of Stuttgart, Germany
Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute, USA
Nancy Ide Vassar College, USA
Lauri Karttunen (tentative) Rank Xerox Research, France
Kimmo Koskenniemi (tentative) University of Helsinki, Finland
Mun Kew Leong National University of Singapore
Joseph Mariani LIMSI/CNRS, France
Mark Maybury The Mitre Corporation, USA
Sergei Nirenburg (tentative) New Mexico State University, USA
Akitoshi Okumura (tentative) NEC, Japan
Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA
James Pustejovsky Brandeis University, USA
Peter Schaueble ETH, Switzerland
Oliviero Stock IRST, Italy
Felisa Verdejo UNED, Spain
Piek Vossen University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI, Germany
ORGANIZERS
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Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
INFORMATION
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Information on the workshop can be found at
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/translingual.html
Inquiries may be addressed to the organizers:
Robert Frederking <ref@nl.cs.cmu.edu>
Eduard Hovy <hovy@isi.edu>
Nancy Ide <ide@cs.vassar.edu>
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:43:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: ECAI-98 #6: CALL FOR YOUNG RESEARCHER PAPERS
>> From: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk
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AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-'
CALL FOR YOUNG RESEARCHER PAPERS
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/youngrescall.html
The ECAI-98 Programme Committee is pleased to announce a special
programme of short papers for young researchers.
IMPORTANT DATES
--------------------------------
6 Mar 1998 Deadline for abstracts
11 Mar 1998 Deadline for papers
15 Apr 1998 Notification of acceptance
15 May 1998 Camera-ready copies of papers
26-28 Aug 1998 Student programme at ECAI-98
The aim is to encourage younger AI researchers to attend ECAI-98 and to
present their on-going work, in the form of short (2 page) papers, which
will appear in the conference proceedings. A short paper may either
report on the innovative points of work in progress, or on a particular
result of special interest.
The call is open to researchers who satisfy at least one of the
following criteria on 11 March 1998:
- they are under 28 years old
- they are currently studying for a PhD or other degree
qualification in AI (or a related topic)
- they received a PhD in AI (or a related topic) within the past
two years.
Submissions are invited on original and previously unpublished research
in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to:
Abduction, Temporal, Causal Reasoning, and Diagnosis; Automated
Reasoning; Application and Enabling Technologies; Belief Revision and
Nonmonotonic Reasoning; Case-Based Reasoning; Cognitive Modelling and
Philosophical Foundations; Computational Linguistics; Constraint-Based
Reasoning and Constraint Programming; Distributed AI and Multiagent
Systems; Fuzzy Logic; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Representation;
Logic Programming, and Theorem Proving; Machine Learning, Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining; Natural Language and Intelligent User
Interfaces; Neural Networks in AI; Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning
about Actions; Probabilistic Networks; Qualitative Preferences and
Decision in AI; Qualitative and Spatial Reasoning; Reasoning under
Uncertainty; Robotics, Vision, and Signal Understanding; Search and
Meta-Heuristics for AI; Verification, Validation and Testing of
Knowledge-Based Systems.
Submissions should be two pages long using the format described on
the ECAI-98 Style Guide web page:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/style.html
A latex style file is available on the website (or on request. to
ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk). Accepted papers will be required to conform
more strictly to the publishers' formatting requirements, which will be
broadly in line with the present formatting guidelines.
Submission procedure
Submission is a two stage process, similar to the process for long
papers. An electronic abstract should be sent to ecai98@irit.fr by 6
March 1998. This summary should include the title, author, contact
address and abstract for the paper, plus keywords drawn from the above
list (plus other keywords if appropriate). A web-based summary
submission form is available to make this easier. This summary
information should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate
sheet of paper.
Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, electronic
submissions will not be accepted. Four copies of the paper (each
including the summary sheet), should be sent by post to the ECAI-98
Programme Chair, Henri Prade, at the address below. The title page
should include a statement indicating which of the above eligibility
criteria the author satisfies and that the paper has not been submitted
elsewhere. The deadline for receipt of papers is 11 March 1998. Papers
received after this date will not be reviewed.
ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION
----------------------
Henri Prade, ECAI-98 Programme Chair
IRIT
Universite Paul Sabatier
118 route de Narbonne
31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4
France
Email: Henri.Prade@irit.fr
Tel: +33(0)561 55 65 79
Fax: +33(0)561 55 62 39
Multiple submissions policy
ECAI-98 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is under
review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a
journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their
papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions apply only to
journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialised
meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement
that the paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another
conference or journal.
However, if a young researcher has already submitted a regular paper
to ECAI-98, a new submission on the same topic in the form of a short
paper is permitted provided that the author declares it on submission.
If the regular paper is accepted, the short paper will be considered to
have been withdrawn. However such a double submission is not encouraged.
The review process
The short papers will be reviewed under the control of the ECAI-98
Program Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI-98 Programme Chair.
The ECAI-98 Programme Chair has final authority over the review process
and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers.
Accepted papers will be allocated 15 minutes for oral presentation and 2
pages in the official ECAI-98 proceedings.
Note: as is usual at ECAI conferences, students will be able to register
for the conference at a significantly reduced and subsidised rate.
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ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448
Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320
University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98
ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial
Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex
on behalf of AISB.
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:50:01 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS / CALL FOR PAPERS
>> From: Patrice Bonhomme <Patrice.Bonhomme@loria.fr>
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.]
APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS / CALL FOR PAPERS
Revue LANGUES / Journal LANGUES
CALL FOR PAPERS
We have the pleasure to announce the setting up of a new journal, LANGUES
This publication, which will mainly publish papers in French and which is
partly financed by AUPELF-UREF, aims to facilitate the dialogue between
all the people who work on or with language, researchers, teachers of
French, etc.
It will thus publish papers on various subjects having to do with all the
domains or disciplines related to language: linguistics (phonology,
morphology, lexical semantics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics),
sociolinguistics (social and cultural aspects of language and language use,
linguistic variations, creole studies), applied linguistics (teaching French
as a second language, learning to read), psycholinguistics, language
engineering (automatic understanding, automatic translation, man-machine
dialogue, production, speech analysis, information retrieval, corpus
processing). This is not an exhaustive list.
LANGUE will be accompanied by an online web server where one or more
paper(s) per volume will be accessible, as well as some services, conference
announcements, table of contents for other scientific journals, new
publications, theses, etc. It will also be accompanied by an electronic
mailing list, which will encourage discussions about papers published in
the journal and will allow exchanges on other subjects as well.
LANGUE will issue two volumes in 1998, one in September and one in December.
You will find below two calls for papers for the first and second
volumes. The journal will be published in French, but submitting papers in
English is possible. Papers submitted in English and accepted will be
translated in French.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts of at most 2 pages long (3 000 characters) in the domains mentioned
above or in related domains can be submitted before the 20th of February
1998. These abstracts can be either in French or in English.
CALL FOR PAPERS N=B0 2
Papers of 20 pages (30 000 characters) at most in the domains mentioned above
or in related domains can be submitted before the 20th of may 1998. Papers in
French should respect the instructions to authors which are available on the
web at <http://www.john-libey-eurotext.fr> or which can be obtained through
Catherine Lavau ((33) 01 46 73 06 65, fax: (33) 01 47 46 81 06 or (33) 0140
84 09 99) after the 15th of february. Illustrations or schemas are welcome.
MAIN INFORMATIONS
Abstract size: 2 pages (3 000 characters)
Electronic format: Word 6 or less, or ascii (for other formats, contact us)
Deadline for the reception of abstracts: 20 february 1998
Notification of acceptance by: 20 march 1998
Final versions of complete papers due on: 30 june 1998
Email addresses: <Anne.Reboul@loria.fr> or <Laurent.Romary@loria.fr>
Snail mail address: =
LANGUES
LORIA-CNRS
BP 239
54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy
FRANCE
Tel: (33) 03 83 59 20 37
Fax: (33) 03 83 41 30 79
N=B02
Papers size: 20 pages (30 000 characters)
Electronic format: Word 6 or lower, or ascii (for other formats, please
contact us)
Deadline for paper reception: 20 may 1998
Notification of acceptance: 1 september 1998
Final version due on: 15 october 1998
Email addresses: <Anne.Reboul@loria.fr> or <Laurent.Romary@loria.fr>
Snail mail address: =
LANGUES
LORIA-CNRS
BP 239
54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy
FRANCE
Tel: (33) 03 83 59 20 37
Fax: (33) 03 83 41 30 79
Submission of abstracts or papers by Email is possible at the adresses =
indicated above.
-- =
bonhomme@loria.fr | Office : B.228
http://www.loria.fr/~bonhomme | Phone : 03 83 59 20 37
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* Projet Aquarelle : http://aqua.inria.fr
* Serveur Silfide : http://www.loria.fr/Projet/Silfide
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:19:35 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Extended Deadline! LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT: CORPUS, INFERENCE AND DISCOURSE
>> From: Paul Buitelaar <paulb@cs.brandeis.edu>
ESSLLI-98 Workshop on
LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT: CORPUS, INFERENCE AND DISCOURSE
August 17 - 21, 1998
A workshop held as part of the
10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI-98)
August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany
** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS **
** EXTENDED DEADLINE : March 2, 1998 **
ORGANIZERS: Johan Bos (Saarbruecken) and Paul Buitelaar (Brandeis University)
The workshop aims at bringing together research in two complementary fields of
semantic analysis that are still too far apart. In order to achieve both a
broad and a deep understanding of any given text document, a system needs both
advanced acquisition of corpus specific lexical semantic knowledge and powerful
inference mechanisms that utilize that knowledge in discourse analysis.
Given the still relatively limited results within both areas there has been
little impetus to combine them. Corpus-based extraction of lexical semantic
knowledge has only recently become a more feasible task, because of the growing
availibility of on-line text documents; robust corpus processing technologies,
such as broad coverage part-of-speech tagging and shallow parsing; and readily
available statistical methods. The various approaches to discourse analysis,
originating in such diverse fields as formal semantics, psychology and AI, are
in the process of converging into a unified approach to the analysis and
representation of the cohesive structure of natural language documents.
The intersection between these two fields lies in the application of lexical
semantic knowledge to such problems in discourse analysis as anaphora
resolution and discourse segmentation. In fact, the benefit will be mutual,
because knowledge of discourse structure is helpful to lexical knowledge
extraction as well.
In summary, large scale domain specific lexical semantic knowledge acquisition
can assist in analyzing discourse structures, which in turn can assist in
acquiring even more accurate lexical semantic representations for the relevant
terms in the domain.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
To obtain further information please visit the workshop home page at
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~paulb/esslli98.html
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