5.0299 Conference Announcement: QUALICO (1/502)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 1 Sep 1991 14:33:05 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0299. Sunday, 1 Sep 1991.
Conference Announcement: QUALICO
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 10:18:12 MSZ
From: <qualico@utrurt.uucp>
Subject: QUALICO - Invitation Program
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Q U A L I C O
First Quantitative Linguistics Conference
(Invitation Program)
University of Trier, Germany
September 23-27, 1991
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chair: Burghard B. Rieger, University of Trier
Moisei Boroda, Tbilisy State Conservatory
Baron Brainerd, University of Toronto
Sheila Embleton, University of Calgary
Daffyd Gibbon, University of Bielefeld
Ruediger Grotjahn, University of Bochum
Hans Haller, University of Saarbruecken
Peter Hellwig, University of Heidelberg
Edward Hopkins, University of Bochum
Joerg Kindermann, GMD Bonn-St.Augustin
Ursula Klenk, University of Goettingen
Reinhard Koehler, University of Trier
Jens-Peter Koester, University of Trier
Juergen Krause, University of Regensburg
Werner Lehfeldt, University of Konstanz
Christoph Lischka, GMD Bonn-St. Augustin
Wolfhart Matthaeus, University of Bochum
Raimund G. Piotrovskij, University of Leningrad
Dietmar Roesner, FAW Ulm
Gerda Ruge, Siemens AG, Munich
Burkhard Schaeder, University of Siegen
Helmut Schnelle, University of Bochum
Jadwiga Sambor, University of Warsaw
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Chair: Reinhard Koehler, University of Trier
Juergen Schrepp, University of Trier
OVERVIEW
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| Monday, | Tuesday, | Wednesday, | Thursday, | Friday,
| September 23| September 24| September 25| September 26| September 27
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9.00 | Registration| Invited | Invited | Invited | GLDV-Session
| (all day) | Speaker: | Speaker: | Speaker: | Papers: Uni-
| | John S. Ni- | Michail V. | Hans Goebl, | fication
------| | colis, Uni- | Arapov, So- | University | based Gram-
9.30 | Opening | versity of | viet Academy| of Salzburg,| mars and
| | Patras, | of Sciences,| Austria | Models
| | Greece | Moscow, So- | |
| | | viet Union | |
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10.00 | Invited | Models and | Process | Dialecto- |
| Speaker: | Explanation | Dynamics and| metrics |
| Gabriel Alt-| I | Semiotics I | |
------| mann, Uni- |-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------
10.30 | vers ty of | Coffee Break| Coffee Break| Coffee Break| Coffee Break
| Bochum, | | | |
| Germany | | | |
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11.00 | Coffee Break| Models and | Process | Textual | GLDV-Session
------|-------------| Explanation | Dynamics | Structures | Papers: Na-
11.30 | Quantifi- | II | and | and Pro- | tural Lan-
| cation and | | Semiotics II| cessing III | guage Pro-
| Measurement | |*************|*************| cessing and
------| | | Reports, | Reports, | Tools
12.00 | | | Projects | Projects |
| | | and Results | and Results |
| | | I | II |
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12.30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch
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13.00 | | | | |
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13.30 | | | | |
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14.00 | Textual | Textual | | 14.00: | GLDV Working
------| Structures | Structures | | GLDV | Group
14.30 | and Pro- | and Pro- | | Executive | Meeting
------| cessing I | cessing II | | Board |
15.00 | | | | Meeting |
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15.30 | Coffee Break| Coffee Break| | 15.00: |
------|-------------|-------------| | GLDV General|
16.00 | Phonetics | Statistical | | Assembly |
------| and | Studies | Excursion |*************|
16.30 | Phonemics | | afternoon: | 16.00: |
------|-------------|-------------| Boat Trip | Guided City |-------------
17.00 | Invited | Invited | to the City | Tour through|
| Speaker: | Speaker: | of Saarburg | ancient and |
| Mildred L.G.| Kenneth W. | and Dinner | historical |
| Shaw, Uni- | Church, Uni-| | Trier ("2000|
------| versity of | versity of | | Years by |
17.30 | Calgary, | Southern | | 2000 Steps")|
| Canada | California, | | |
| | United | | |
| | States of | | |
| | America | | |
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20.00 | Reception | Visit of | | |
| by the City | Winery with | | |
| of Trier | Wine Tasting| | |
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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Monday, September 23rd
9:30-10:00 Opening
10:00-11:00 Invited Speaker: Gabriel Altmann, University of Bochum,Germany:
"Science and Linguistics".
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Quantification and Measurement:
Chair: Reinhard Koehler
Ruediger Grotjahn: "Messen und statistische Datenanalyse
in der Linguistik"
Peter Schmidt: "The Measurement of Morphosyntactic Properties:
A first Attempt"
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Textual Structures and Processing I:
Chair: Burghard Rieger
E. Dermatas, G. Kokkinakis: "An Algorithm for Automatic
Grammatical Classes Definition"
Jan Kralik: "Probabilistic Scaling of Texts"
Christa Womser-Hacker: "Tests of Hypotheses Concerning
Phenomena of 'Computer Talk'"
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Phonemics and Phonetics:
Chair: Jens-Peter Koester
Walter F. Sendlmeier: "Phonetisch/phonologische Ausbalanciertheit
von Testmaterialien zur Sprachguetebeurteilung"
P. Rentzpopoulos, A. Tsopanoglou, G. Kokkinakis: "A Statistical
Approach for Phoneme to Grapheme Conversion"
17:00-18:00 Invited Speaker: Mildred L.G. Shaw, University of Calgary,
Canada: "A Methodology for Analyzing Terminological and
Conceptual Differences in Language Use across Communities"
20:00 Reception by the City of Trier
Tuesday, September 24th
9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: John S. Nicolis, University of Patras, Greece:
"Chaotic Dynamics of the Linguistic Processes: At the
Syntactical, Semantic and Pragmatic Levels"
10:00-10:30 Models and Explanation I:
Chair: Gabriel Altmann
Ludek Hrebicek: "Text as a Construct of Aggregations"
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Models and Explanation II:
Chair: Gabriel Altmann
Reinhard Koehler: "Synergetic Linguistics"
Rolf Hammerl: "Ein Modell zur Beschreibung multivariater
Relationen lexikalischer Einheiten"
August Fenk, Gertrud Fenk-Oczlon: "Das Menzerathsche Gesetz und
das Prinzip des konstanten Informationsflusses"
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Textual Structures and Processing II:
Chair: Burghard Rieger
M. Refice, M. Savino: "Quantitative Evaluation of Language
Independent Models"
Reinhard Kneser, Hermann Ney: "Forming Word Classes by
Statistical Clustering for Statistical Language Modelling"
Ute Essen, Hermann Ney: "Statistical Language Modelling using
Cache Memory"
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Statistical Studies:
Chair: Ruediger Grotjahn
Mark Olsen: "Quantitative Linguistics and 'Histoire des
mentalites': Gender Representation in the 'Tresor de la
langue francaise'"
17:00-18:00 Invited Speaker: Kenneth W. Church, University of Southern
California, United States of America:"Using Statistics in
Lexical Analysis"
20:00 Visiting Winery and Wine Tasting
Wednesday, September 25th
9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Michail V. Arapov, Soviet Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Soviet Union: "Word Values"
10:00-10:30 Process Dynamics and Semiotics I:
Chair: Reinhard Koehler
Burghard Rieger, Constantin Thiopoulos: "A self-organizing
lexical system in hypertext"
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Process Dynamics and Semiotics II:
Chair: Reinhard Koehler
Robert B. Allen: "Knowledge Representation with Simple Recurrent
Neural Networks"
Jurij K. Krylov: "Wave Theory of Coherent Text Generation
and Prospects for its Development"
A.A. Polikarpov: "On the hypothesis of world life cycle"
Reports, Projects and Results I:
Chair: Jadwiga Sambor
Wolf Paprott: "SEMDAC - Semantic Disambiguation of Verbs and
Automatic Classification of Nouns in a Large Corpus
of German Texts"
Qian Feng: "About Some Theoretical and Computational
Interpretations of Chinese Phrase Structure Grammar (CPSG)"
Marek Swidzinski: "Verb patterns in the Polish vocabulary
and texts"
George Silnitzky: "Correlational Analysis and Clusterization
of Verbal Features in English and German"
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Excursion
Thursday, September 26th
9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Hans Goebl, University of Salzburg, Austria:
"Computational Dialectometrics"
10:00-10:30 Dialectometrics:
Chair: Ludek Hrebicek
Sheila Embleton: "Multidimensional Scaling as a Dialectometrical
Technique"
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Textual Structures and Processing III:
Chair: Sheila Embleton
Koichi Ejiri, Adolph E. Smith: "Proposal 'Constraint Measure'
for Various Kinds of Texts"
Fernande Depuis, Daniel Gosselin: "Methodological Aspects of the
Categorization of a Middle French Corpus with a
Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Software (SATO)"
Chao-Huang Chang, Gilbert K. Krulee: "Paraphrasing before
Translation: On Machine Translatability and Sentence
Complexity"
Reports, Projects and Results II:
Chair: Jadwiga Sambor
Jadwiga Sambor, Rolf Hammerl: "Polnische Arbeiten im Rahmen des
Forschungsprojektes 'Sprachliche Synergetik': Materialien
und Ergebnisse"
Pauli Saukkonen: "Main trends and results of quantitative
linguistics in Finland"
Jogchum Reitsma: "A parallel approach in statistical analysis of
unrestricted corpora of human language"
Stefan Schierholz, Eric Windisch: "Quantitative Analysen von
Bedeutungswoerterbuechern"
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00 Guided City Tour through ancient and historical
Trier ("2000 Years by 2000 Steps")
14:00-15:00 GLDV Executive Board Meeting
15:00-18:00 GLDV General Assembly
Friday, September 27th
9:00-10:30 GLDV-Session Papers: "Unification Based Grammars and Models"
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 GLDV-Session Papers: "Natural Language Processing and Tools"
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-17:00 GLDV Working Group Meetings:
Arbeitskreise:
AK Ausbildung und Berufsperspektiven
AK LDV und Nachbarn
AK LDV/CL-Studiengaenge
AK Lexikographie
AK Maschinelle Uebersetzung
AK Spracherkennung, Sprachgenerierung und phonetische
Datenbanken
AK Textanalyse
AK Forensische Linguistik
AK Quantitative Linguistik
GENERAL INFORMATION
The oldest city in Germany, founded 16 b.C., by the Romans as Augusta
Treverorum in the Mosel valley is situated in the most Western
region of Germany near both the French and Luxembourgian borders.
In the center of Europe this ancient city will host the participants
of QUALICO at the University of Trier, surrounded by the vineyards
of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer wine district at vintage beginning.
The site of the conference will be the Campus of the University of
Trier, situated on the South-Eastern slopes of the valley mountains
overlooking the city. Conference languages will be English and German.
All conference sessions will be held in the lecture halls and seminar
rooms of Building C, with the conference information desk located
in its lobby where coffee will be served during session breaks. Meals
during lunch time will be offered by the Mensa Academica under
special arrangement for conference participants in the mensa building
next door.
TRAVEL
When planning your flight to Germany it might be advisable to consider
the possibility to fly to Luxemburg Airport which is only about 40
miles from Trier. Although there is a bus transfer from the Airport
to the City of Trier (Airport Liner: approx. 50 minutes; frequency:
every 20-40 minutes; price: DM 17.- per person), it might be necessary
to take a taxi (approx. DM 85.- or equivalent Lux.-Frs.). The more
common alternative will be to fly to Frankfurt/Main and take the fast
Airport train from the airport underground railway station to Koblenz
where to change train to Trier along the scenic valley of the river
Mosel.
Timetable: Frankfurt/M. -> via Koblenz -> Trier
Ffm Train Trier Annotations Ffm Train Trier Annotations
A 3.34 D 202 7.21 C Koblenz 13.03 IC 620 15.37 C Koblenz
W 3.34 D 202 8.26 C Koblenz 14.03 EC 128 16.37 C Koblenz
3.34 D 202 8.37 C Koblenz 15.03 IC 520 17.37 C Koblenz
F 7.03 IC 639 9.37 C Koblenz 16.03 EC 28 18.37 C Koblenz
8.03 IC 826 10.37 C Koblenz 17.03 IC 724 19.37 C Koblenz
9.03 IC 526 11.37 C Koblenz 18.03 EC 26 20.37 C Koblenz
10.03 IC 822 12.37 C Koblenz 19.03 IC 726 21.37 C Koblenz
11.03 IC 524 13.37 C Koblenz 20.03 EC 24 22.37 C Koblenz
12.03 IC 522 14.37 C Koblenz B 21.03 IC 722 23.37 C Koblenz
A: workdaily (except Sat.) B: daily (except Sat.)
F: daily (except Sun.) W: workdaily
C: change trains
REGISTRATION
Please fill in the registration form, make sure that your
way of payment is correctly marked and mail it to:
QUALICO
University of Trier
P.O.Box 3825
W-5500 Trier
Germany
e-mail: qualico@utrurt.uucp.de Tel. 049-651-201-2270
When you choose Bank Order we require a copy which should be enclosed.
CONFERENCE FEES
Conference fees include: proceedings (to be published after the conference),
social program, luncheons, and coffee during session breaks
Members of supporting organizations: DM 250.-
Non-Members: DM 300.-
Students (without proceedings): DM 150.-
ACCOMODATION
As students' hostels and dormatories on Campus will not
be available for conference participants, immediate hotel
reservation is highly recommended as the month of September
is vintage beginning and high season for tourists visiting Trier.
TRANSPORT
The University Campus can easily be reached from the Center of Trier
by public transport within 15 to 20 minutes. Buses leave from Porta
Nigra Bus Station all day frequently (Line 1: every 7 minutes; Line
6: every 20 minutes) and will take you to the University Bus Stops
either on "Kohlen-Str." or on "Gustav-Heinemann-Str.".
SOCIAL PROGRAM
Due to the limited number of seats available for some of the following
events, participants will be registered on a "first-come-first-serve"
basis:
- On Monday evening the Mayor of the City of Trier will
give a reception for conference participants.
- On Tuesday evening there will be a visit to the wine
cellars of one of the well-known wineries in town.
- On Wednesday afternoon the excursion will take the
participants by boat from Trier (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bridge) up the rivers
Mosel and Saar to the picturesque City of Saarburg. There will be
time for a stroll before the dinner after which buses will be waiting
to take the party back to Trier.
- On Thursday afternoon, there will be the opportunity
to join several small groups for a guided City Tour "2000 Years by
2000 Steps" around the ancient Roman, medieval, and historic points
of interest in the city of Trier.
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FIRST QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE
QUALICO - September 23-27, 1991 - University of Trier, Germany
REGISTRATION FORM
Mr.-Ms.-Dr.-Prof.
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Affiliation: ...............................................................
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Social Program:
Events are free of charge and covered by the conference fee. However, due
to limited numbers of seats available for some events, we are forced to
register participants on a 'first-come-first-serve' basis. Please tick the
activities you plan to join:
__| Guided tour __| Excursion __| Winery
Notice:
! Registration is necessary also for participants who have submitted a
paper.
! Remember that Trier has a shortage of hotelrooms!
Payment:
Conference fees:
Before August 15, 1991: DM 250,-
Members of supporting organizations DM 200,-
Students DM 100,-
After August 15, 1991: DM 300,-
Members of supporting organizations DM 250,-
Students DM 150,-
Payment should be made in DM (Deutsche Mark), payable to Universitaet Trier,
FB II - LDV (QUALICO)
__| by International Bank Order to account No. 794 347, Stadtsparkasse
Trier, BLZ 585 500 80. Total DM ............................
Please, make sure to indicate your name and "QUALICO 91".
__| by Credit Card. Please charge my card no. ..........................
Expiring date ................ Total DM ............................
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__| Eurocard/Mastercard __| Visa
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