[1] From: David Green <david@cni.org> (77)
Subject: Preservation Microfilming/Digital scanning Wksp
[2] From: Scott Stebelman <scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> (27)
Subject: Symposium on Electronic Publishing
[3] From: "Joe F. Zhou" <joez@lexis-nexis.com> (117)
Subject: THE 2ND CFP FOR WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA
[4] From: Milena Dobreva <dobreva@math.acad.bg> (47)
Subject:
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 09:46:47 -0500
From: David Green <david@cni.org>
Subject: Preservation Microfilming/Digital scanning Wksp
NINCH ANNOUNCMENET
February 27, 1997
RE-FORMATTING FOR PRESERVATION IN A DIGITAL WORLD:To Scan or To Film
A Workshop on Preservation Microfilming and Digital Scanning
These workshops offered by the Northeast Document Conservation Center seem
an interesting East Coast complement in many ways to the School for
Scanning.
David Green
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The Northeast Document Conservation Center presents
Reformatting for Preservation in a Digital World: To Scan or To Film
A Workshop on Preservation Microfilming and Digital Scanning
May 6-8, 1997
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA II)
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740
Funded in part by The Pew Charitable Trusts, The H.W. Wilson Foundation and
the National Endowment for Humanities
As we approach and enter the 21st century, digital technologies will have a
profound impact on the way institutions provide access to information. But
will digitization also become a tool of the preservation community? NEDCC's
reformatting workshop will address this question.
The workshop is designed to train project administrators in institutions to
plan, implement, and manage reformatting projects. Instruction will focus
on decision making skills. Compliance with national standards and RLG
guidelines for preservation microfilming will be emphasized and the "best
practice" for
digital projects will be discussed. It is not a technician training
program.
The program includes hands-on experience and teaches skills for:
* planning reformatting projects
* selecting and preparing materials
* selecting and evaluating a vendor
* microfilm and imaging technology
* inspection and quality control
* evaluating digital imaging for preservation
The sessions will introduce preservation microfilming and digital imaging
technologies and compare their commonalties and differences.
Presented by:
* Susan Wrynn, Director of Reprographic Services, Northeast
Document Conservation Center;
* Lisa Fox, Preservation Consultant;
* Bob Mottice, President, Mottice Micrographics, Inc.; and
* Andrew Raymond, Regional Advisory Officer, New York State Archives.
Registration must be received by April 15, 1997.
Attendance is limited to 15 participants accepted on a
first-come-first-served basis. The number of applicants from one
institution will be limited. NEDCC will confirm acceptance. The price of
the workshop is $225. It includes the cost of "Preservation Microfilming:
A Guide for Librarians and Archivists," 2nd ed., edited by Lisa Fox,
Preservation Consultant. Speakers will refer to the book throughout the
workshop, however if you do not wish to order the book, the cost of the
workshop is $160.
For information about this workshop contact Susan Wrynn at NEDCC at 508/
470-1010 or <wrynn@nedcc.org>. To request an flier and application contact
Gay Tracy at <tracy@nedcc.org> or call 508 470-1010.
Gay S. Tracy
Public Relations Coordinator
Northeast Document Conservation Center
100 Brickstone Square
Andover MA 01810-1494
Tel 508 470-1010
Fax 508 475-6021
<tracy@nedcc.org>
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Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 07:25:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Scott Stebelman <scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
Subject: Symposium on Electronic Publishing
Faculty, librarians, and publishers will be interested in the following
symposium:
"Electronic Publishing and Its Implications for Higher Education"
A Symposium Sponsored by The Gelman Library
The George Washington University
Date: March 6, 1997
Time: 4:00-6:00
Location: Gelman Library 202
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Glenn Ricart
Chief Technology Officer for Novell, Inc.
Formerly Director of the Computer Science Center and
Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Academic Information Technology
University of Maryland, College Park
Additional Speakers:
Adam Eisgrau, Legislative Counsel, American Library Association
Topic: Intellectual Property and Copyright on the Internet
Ellen Meserow Sauer, Electronic Publishing Manager and Director, Project Muse,
The Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Issues Affecting the Publication of Electronic Journals
Dr. Donald Lehman, Vice-President for Academic Affairs,
The George Washington University
Topic: Evaluating Electronic Publications for Promotion/Tenure Decisions
Open to the public. No registration required.
Reception to follow.
For more information, contact Dr. Scott Stebelman at
scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:14:15 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joe F. Zhou" <joez@lexis-nexis.com>
Subject: THE 2ND CFP FOR WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA
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APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE POSTS
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The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its special
interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to
NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the
FIFTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-5)
THE SECOND CALL FOR PAPER
WHEN: August 18-20, 1997
WHERE: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (August 18, 1997)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (August 20, 1997)
WVLC5 will immediately precede ROCLING '97 (Aug 22-24, Taiwan)
and IJCAI '97 (Aug 24-29, Nagoya, Japan).
This workshop will take place in two consecutive sessions sharing a
common program committee and proceedings. Authors may specify at
which session(s) they wish to present their papers.
The first session in Beijing will be held in conjunction with the
Fourth Joint Symposium of Computational Linguistics of China (JSCL'97).
This symposium is a biennial event organized by the Chinese Information
Processing Society of China, the Computer Society of China, the
Artificial intelligence Society of China, and the Beijing Society of
Linguistics. JSCL'97 will be held August 15 - 17 1997. The organizing
committee of JSCL'97 has decided the use of English as the working
language on the last day of the symposium. Therefore, the early
arrivers for WVLC-5 from other countries will be encouraged to attend.
In addition, immediately before and after WVLC-5, city tours and
sightseeings will be arranged for participants from other countries.
SPONSORED BY:
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
LEXIS-NEXIS, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
AT&T Labs - Research
National Natural Science Foundation of China
State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, China
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
City University of Hong Kong
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This workshop, like preceding ones in the series, will offer a
general international forum for the presentation of new advances
and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural
language processing.
The fifth workshop will focus on the theme of:
Innovative and practical uses of large corpora in real-world
applications
Gigabytes and terabytes of on-line unrestricted natural language text
have become commonplace today. How are these resources actually being
used in commercial as well as research applications? What robust and
efficient techniques exist for analyzing and organizing these resources?
The workshop encourages contributions that demonstrate innovative
applications of corpus-based NLP to problems of practical commercial
importance.
The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer
a focus for discussion and debate between academic researchers and
industrial practitioners. We also expect and will welcome a diverse set
of submissions in all areas of statistical and corpus-based NLP, including
(but not limited to)
Text Analysis Techniques:
- part of speech tagging
- term and name identification
- morphological analysis
- robust parsing
- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
- sense disambiguation
- anaphora resolution
- event categorization
- discourse structure
Applications:
- information retrieval
- information extraction
- text categorization and summarization
- lexicography
- machine translation
- spelling and grammar correction
- recognition: speech, OCR, handwriting, etc.
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Huang Changning - Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)
Ken Church - AT&T Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
Joe Zhou - LEXIS-NEXIS (Dayton, OH, USA)
LOCAL ORGANIZERS:
For the Beijing session:
Jai Peifa, the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology
and Systems, China
For the Hong Kong session:
Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Susan Armstrong, ISSO, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Key-sun Choi, KAIST, Korea
Ido Dagan, Bar Llan University, Isreal
Pernilla Danielsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Marti Hearst, Xeros Research Park, USA
Chu-ren Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Claudia Leacock, Princeton University, USA
Sun Maosong, Tsinghua University, China
Dan Pliske, LEXIS-NEXIS, USA
Benjamin Tsou, City University of Hong Kong
Paul Wu, Institute of Systems Science, Singapore
Masaaki Yasuta, NTT information Communication Systems Labs, Japan
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper
(3500-8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic
submissions should be mailed to "WVLC5@lexis-nexis.com" and must either
be (a) plain ascii text or (b) a single postscript file. (If the
postscript doesn't print properly, you may eventually have to submit a
hardcopy, so please budget enough time for that.) Hard copy submissions
should be mailed to Ken Church (address below), and should include four
(4) copies of the paper.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted
for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any
other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered,
as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission.
SCHEDULE:
Submission Deadline: April 7, 1997
Notification Date: May 20, 1997
Camera ready copy due: July 1, 1997
CONTACT:
Ken Church Joe Zhou
Room 2B-421 LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier
AT&T Laboratories 9555 Springboro Pike
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA Dayton, OH 45342 USA
e-mail: kwc@research.att.com email: joez@lexis-nexis.com
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:11:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Milena Dobreva <dobreva@math.acad.bg>
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
An International Workshop supported by UNESCO
Text Variety in the Witnesses of Medieval Texts:
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Study from Co-operative Writing Perspective
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will be held in September 20-24th 1997 in the
vicinity of Sofia, Bulgaria.
The basic aims of the workshop are to serve as a
first forum for discussion on issues in the fields of:
* basic types of variety in the Slavic written tradition;
* existing solutions to modelling variety in the Medieval
written tradition;
and
* to propose methodological framework for computer modelling of
variety in Medieval Slavic manuscripts, and especially from
co-operative writing perspective.
The basic topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
# Types of variety in Medieval texts
# Computer tools for modelling variety
# Types of variety in Medieval Slavic manuscripts
# Orthographic variety
# Lexical variety
# Grammatical variety
# Structural variety
# Macro-structural variety
# Co-operative writing perspective and its applications
to modelling witnesses of Medieval texts
# Learning from history
Abstracts dedicated to computer modelling of textual variety
not longer than 2 pages are welcome till April 30, 1997.
E-mail submissions are preferred.
Workshop co-ordinator: Milena Dobreva
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
bl. 8, Acad. G. Bonchev St.
1113 Sofia, BULGARIA
fax: (00359-2) 971 3649
e-mail: dobreva@math.acad.bg; dobreva@bgearn.acad.bg
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Milena P. Dobreva
Research Fellow
Telecommunications Dept.
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science
bl. 8, Acad. G. Bonchev St.
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
tel: ++359-2 713 2809, ++359-2 713 2846
fax: ++359-2 971 3649
e-mail: dobreva@math.acad.bg