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Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:42:16 +0100 (BST)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 528.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

[1] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (45)
Subject: BISCA-99

[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (12)
Subject: FASSBL3 Conference - Plovdiv'99

[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (76)
Subject: Call for Papers

[4] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (5)
Subject: ACL'99 Call for Demos

[5] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (19)
Subject: esslli99 - deadline early registration

[6] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (13)
Subject: Virtual Agents 99 - CFP

[7] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (70)
Subject: MT Summit VII Workshop

[8] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (13)
Subject: Workshop on Language Technologies

[9] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (37)
Subject: Conference: Understanding the Digital Economy

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:33:55 +0100
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: BISCA-99

>> From: Roberto Poli <roberto.poli@soc.unitn.it>

Apologies if you receive this more than once
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BISCA-99
BOLZANO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS IN COGNITIVE ANALYSIS

ADVANCES IN COGNITIVE SEMANTICS

BOLZANO, 6-10 September 1999

Speakers:

DAVID CRUSE=20

GEORGE LAKOFF

RON LANGACKER

LEN TALMY

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General information:

1. Attendance to the school will be limited to about 30 participants.
2. A hotel list will be sent upon notification of acceptance. Hotel costs
in Bolzano range between 70,000 and 250,000 Italian Liras per day, full=
board.
3. Each speaker will give 4 lectures, with ample time for discussion.
4. All lectures will be in English.
5. The lectures will be given at Castel Maretsch, downtown, starting
September 6, at 9 a.m.
6. A small number of boursaries are available to qualified students to meet
the costs of participation.

People wishing to participate should write to Liliana Albertazzi,
Department of Sociology and Social Research, 26 Verdi st., 38100 Trento,
Italy (call: (++39) 461 881 403; fax: (++39) 461 881 348), or send an
e-mail message to: liliana.albertazzi@soc.gemini.unitn.it
_________________________________________________________
For information on the initiatives of the Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura
Mitteleurop=E4isches Kulturinstitut see

http: //www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm
_________________________________________________________
BISCA's board of directors includes: L. Albertazzi (Trento), R. Langacker
(La Jolla), J. Petitot (Paris), R. Poli (Trento) and L. Talmy (Buffalo)=20
_________________________________________________________

*************************************
Roberto Poli
Department of Sociology and Social Research
26, Verdi street
38100 Trento -- Italy
Tel. ++39-461-881-403
Fax: ++39-461-881-348
e-mail: roberto.poli@soc.unitn.it
Axiomathes: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/Axiomathes/Axiomathes.htm
IMC: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:34:13 +0100
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: FASSBL3 Conference - Plovdiv'99

>> From: Dinko Georgiev <dinko@ulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg>

Dear Colleagues,

It's announced the

Third Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan
Languages

Plovdiv, 24 - 26 September, 1999

The conference will be hosted by the Linguistics and Slavic Languages
Department at the University of Plovdiv.

Visit the site of thy conference for details:

http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3

Regards,
Dinko Georgiev
mailto:dinko@uni-plovdiv.bg

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:34:41 +0100
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers

>> From: ren@its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp

International Symposium on Machine Translation &
Computer Language Information Processing (ISMT&CLIP)
Beijing, China, June 26-28, 1999

Call for Papers

You are invited to participate in the International Symposium on
Machine Translation & Computer Language Information Processing
(ISMT&CLIP), which will be held on June 26-28, 1999 at Beijing, China.

ISMT&CLIP is a international symposium on machine translation and
computer language information processing. The symposium will provide a
forum for the researchers, developers and participates to exchange
their ideas and discuss the future direction of machine translation
and computer language information processing.

Sponsored by
Natural Language Processing Scientific Committee (NLPSC) of Chinese
Information Association of China (CIAC)

Undertaken by
Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Supported by
Chinese National Natural Science Found
Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Topics
Suggested topics include (but not limited to):
Machine Translation Grammar
Machine Translation System Design and Practical Technology
On-line Machine Translation
Machine Translation Evaluation
Multi-Language Knowledge Base
Corpus and Processing
Natural Language Processing
Dictionary Regimentation and Language Engineering
Information Retrieval & Information Extraction
Natural Language Understanding
Speech Recognition & Synthesis
Intelligent Input Methodologies
Pattern Recognition and Handwriting Recognition
Network Information Processing and Communication
Artificial Intelligent Technologies Application
Computer-aided Instruction
Natural Language Human-machine Interface

Information for Authors
Original unpublished papers of no more then six pages of A4 by laser
printer are invited. The paper can be written in English or Chinese.
All the papers must include following parts: title (subtitle), author
information (address, postcode, author name, email), abstract,
keywords, text and reference.
The telephone number, fax number and detail address for contact if
needed.

Important Dates
April 15, 1999 Paper of camera ready manuscript submission due
May 15, 1999 Notification of acceptance

Contact
Zhou Xiaojun
Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of Chinese
Academy of Sciences
Kequn Building (West), No.30, Xueyuan Rd., Haidian District, Beijing,
P.R China 100083
Tel: (010) 62333652-207 Fax: (010) 62312212
Email$B#:(Bxiaojunzhou@yahoo.com

Authors also can contact with Co-Chair of the Program Committee of
the ISMT & CLIP:

Prof.& Dr. Fuji Ren
Faculty of Information Sciences
Hiroshima City University
3-4-1, Ozuka-Higasi, Asa-Minami-Ku
Hiroshima, 731-3194, Japan
Tel:+81-82-830-1584
Fax:+81-82-830-1584 or +81-82-830-1792
Email:ren@its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp

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Fuji Ren
Faculty of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University
3-4-1,Ozuka-Higashi,Asa-Minami-Ku,Hiroshima,731-3194,Japan
Tel&Fax:+81-82-830-1584 Email:ren@its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp
http://www.nlp.its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/~ren

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:35:09 +0100
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: ACL'99 Call for Demos

>> From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>

Call for Proposals:
ACL-99 Software Demonstrations Program

[You may find it easier to read this information on the Web at
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/traum/ACLDemo/acl99demo.html]

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:35:38 +0100
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: esslli99 - deadline early registration

>> From: ESSLLI 1999 <esslli99@let.uu.nl>

**************************************************************************
11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

ESSLLI 1999

August 9-20, 1999

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

DEADLINE EARLY REGISTRATION: April 30

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The ESSLLI programme offers courses, workshops, and a student
session in the areas of:

Language
Logic
Computation
Logic & Language
Language & Computation
Logic & Computation

For detailed information on courses, instructors, applications, housing,
etc. please visit our web site:
http://esslli.let.uu.nl/

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:36:09 +0100
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Virtual Agents 99 - CFP

>> From: "Virtual Agents 99" <d.ballin@iti.salford.ac.uk>

**********************************************************************
Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents (Virtual Agents 99)

http://www.salford.ac.uk/cve/va99/
**********************************************************************

One day workshop prior to and in Association with the UK VR SIG 99 Confere=
nce

The Centre for Virtual Environments
University of Salford,
Salford, United Kingdom

13th September 1999

Preliminary Call for Papers
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:37:36 +0100
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: MT Summit VII Workshop

>> From: "Megumi Kiya" <aamt0002@infotokyo.ne.jp>

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Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval
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Introduction

The goal of this workshop is to explore the role of MT in the context of
CLIR. Undoubtedly searching, extracting and summarising information from the
Web is a major challenge demanding multilingual solutions. Despite the fact
that currently much textual WWW information is in English, the situation is
radically changing. In addition, there is an increased amount of users who
would prefer to use sites and/or query in their native language. There are
different strategies for CLIR involving document translation, query
translation, use of dictionaries. The adoption of a strategy depends on
the user profile, the level of user interaction intended in the search
process, the targeted use of the documents retrieved and the availability of
linguistic resources, among others.

We invite papers on topics which link advances in Machine Translation or
related technologies to CLIR. Are existing MT solutions sufficient for the
information access demands of today? What type of MT linguistic analysis
would be useful for CLIR? How can we identify the proper translations of
query terms? How can we improve on existing techniques to improve precision
and recall? A non-exhaustive list, which should serve as a starting point,
follows:

* Issues in query translation and query expansion
* Alignment techniques for dictionary building
* Level and type of linguistic MT analysis for CLIR (shallow, chunking,
.....)
* Type of multilingual resources (corpora, dictionaries, terminologies)
used in CLIR
* Role of terminology and ontologies in CLIR
* Translation Memories in CLIR
* Translation of index terms and descriptors
* CLIR involving Asian languages (problems and challenges)

Participation and Submission of Papers

Participation is limited to 30 persons. Participants will be selected by the
organizing committee, based on submitted papers. Participants will be
expected to contribute to the workshop by either presenting a talk or
taking part in the discussions.

Researchers interested in participating in the workshop are invited to
submit long abstracts (up to three pages) on the listed research topics.
Submissions may be sent by e-mail (PostScript files) or as hardcopies
(in triplicate) to the workshop organiser. In the case where you use
non-Roman fonts, hardcopies are preferred.

The submissions will be reviewed and the accepted papers will be published
in the workshop proceedings. Participants selected for giving a talk, will
have
to submit a full paper (up to 8 pages) for the workshop proceedings.
For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop
Organiser.

Important Dates

Abstracts due by: May 31, 1999.
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 1999.
Camera-ready version of Final Paper due: August 2, 1999.
Main MT Summit: September 13-17, 1999.
Date of the Workshop: September 17,1999

Organising Committee
* Sophia Ananiadou, European Media Lab, Germany
* Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI, France
* Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT Cyberspace Labs, Japan
* Mun Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
* Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea
* Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Workshop Organiser
Please send abstracts / papers to:
Sophia Ananiadou
European Media Lab (EML)
Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33
D-69118 Heidelberg
Germany
Fax: +49-6221-533-298
Email: Sophia.Ananiadou@eml.villa-bosch.org

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:38:00 +0100
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Workshop on Language Technologies

From: Spela Vintar <spela.vintar@guest.arnes.si>

LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES - MULTILINGUAL ASPECTS

CALL FOR PAPERS

(http://www2.arnes.si/~svinta/workshop.htm)

Workshop in the framework of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the SOCIETAS
LINGUISTICA EUROPAEA,
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 8-11 July, 1999

This workshop is intended for linguists, computational linguists,
translators and other experts who are actively involved or
interested in the field of language technologies. We especially wish to
focus on multilingual technologies, which are gaining
relevance for the Slovenian community in view of the accession to the
multilingual Europe.

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:39:20 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Conference: Understanding the Digital Economy

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
March 30 1999

"UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: Data, Tools, Research"
May 25-26, US Commerce Dept., Washington, DC
<http://www.digitaleconomy.gov/>

Although there is no specific consideration of developing digital economic
structures within the cultural community, this conference offers a point at
which these considerations might be raised. One of the chief goals of the
conference is the creation of a research agenda into the digital economy.

David Green
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>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:05:27 -0800
>From: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
>>
>
>I wanted to bring to your attention a conference that is being planned,
>under the sponsorship of a number of federal government organizations, for
>May 25-26, titled "Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools,
>Research". You can find information about this, and also some background
>papers ,at
>
>http://www.digitaleconomy.gov/
>
>Clifford
>
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