[1] From: David Green <david@cni.org> (58)
Subject: "Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship"
Online
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> (126)
Subject: CL School: Contemporary Topics in Computational
Linguistics
[3] From: David Green <david@cni.org> (91)
Subject: ICHIM WORKSHOPS; METADATA REPORTS
[4] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> (138)
Subject: Sixth International Summer School
[5] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> (295)
Subject: RANLP '97 Programme
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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 18:10:21 -0400
From: David Green <david@cni.org>
Subject: "Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship" Online
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
August 6, 1997
Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship:
Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges--
The United States Focus
by Pamela Pavliscak, Seamus Ross, and Charles Henry
(ACLS Occasional Paper No. 37)
NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
The American Council on Learned Societies has just announced that its
recently published Occasional Paper No. 37, "Information Technology in
Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges--The United
States Focus," is now available on-line in a hypertext version at
<http://www.acls.org/op37.htm>.
To introduce this report I can do no better than to quote its Preface:
"This report surveys the various applications of information technology to
research in the humanities. In the course of our investigations we came
across a variety of innovative research that could have a profound impact
on the humanities. However, the incidence of such work is uneven, and the
widespread adoption of information technology in the humanities is being
hindered by a number of significant obstacles. We also examine the
challenges that must be overcome if such applications are to become the
norm among scholars.
"We present only a selective view of current activities, focusing primarily
on work by American scholars, with some references to international
projects of relevance to the humanities, since computer technology now
makes scholarship a genuinely global enterprise. This overview is intended
for scholars in the humanities who are not yet aware of what has been
accomplished, as well as for those who direct and fund research and higher
education. Their cooperation and understanding are needed for these
obstacles to be overcome and for the potential of information technology in
humanities scholarship to be realized.
The report comprises five sections
I: A Background essay
II: Information Technology and Scholarship--a survey of work and
achievements in a variety of media (text, data, images, multimedia), an
examination of retroconversion projects and of the creation of original
works, electronic publication and a look at available tools for scholars.
III: New Developments and Change
IV: To Challenge and Invigorate Future Scholarship--a look at what is
needed to fully prepare faculty, researchers and institutions to take full
advantage of the electronic medium
V: Principal Recommendations and Follow-up Activities
The report concludes with a useful list of links to exemplary projects and
services <http://www.acls.org/op37-app.htm>.
An expanded version of this report will be available later this year on the
American Arts & Letters Network <http://www.rice.edu/aaln/>
===============================================================
David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@cni.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax
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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:08:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Subject: CL School: Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics
>> From: nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Nicolas Nicolov)
******************************************************************
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
"CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS"
Hotel Orpheus, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
7-9 Sept'97
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html [Summer School]
******************************************************************
The sixth summer school "Contemporary Topics in Computational
Linguistics" immediately precedes the international conference
"Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)"
(11-13 Sept'97, same location). The school will continue its
tradition of offering both introductory and advanced courses.
The programme will consist of tutorials and short courses.
LECTURERS_________________________________________________________
* Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
Information Extraction
* Sergei Nirenburg (New Mexico State University)
Multi-Engine Machine Translation Environments
* Pieter Seuren (Nijmegen University)
Semantic Syntax
* Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino)
Linguistically Intensive Content Characterisation
* Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS)
Natural Language Generation
* Harald Trost (Austrian Institute for AI)
Computational morphology
* Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Corpus Linguistics
* Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Recent Developments in Anaphora resolution
* Carlos Martin-Vide (University of Tarragona)
Natural Computation for Natural Language
* Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong)
Automatic Abstracting
Course descriptions are available at:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html [Summer School]
LOCATION__________________________________________________________
Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on
the shores of Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia,
the capital of Bulgaria. A minibus will provide reasonably-priced
transport between Sofia airport and the summer school's hotel.
REGISTRATION FEES_________________________________________________
Industrial participants 150 USD
Academic staff 110 USD
Students 80 USD
ACCOMMODATION AND HALF-BOARD PRICES_______________________________
* OPTION 1
Hotel Orpheus
Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch)
40 USD a day (single room)
30 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room)
* OPTION 2
Guest house belonging to the Higher Medical Institute (VMI)
Plovdiv. 2-3 minutes walking distance from the Hotel Orpheus
amidst beautiful fir trees.
Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch)
20 USD a day (single room)
15 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room)
* OPTION 3
Accommodation at VMI Guest house, half-board at Hotel Orpheus
30 USD a day (single room)
25 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room)
Option 2: two years ago the guest house had fixed times for meals
which clashed with the programme. The local organisers are trying to
sort this out.
If you would like to share a room, please let us know; would
you please also specify if you wish to share the room with
someone in particular.
REGISTRATION____________________________________________________
All participants are requested to complete the following registration
form and send it to Victoria Arranz <victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk>
We regret to inform you that the local organisers have difficulties
in processing cheques, bank transfers and credit card payments. You
are kindly requested to pay the registration fees and accommodation/
half-board on site in cash. Any major currency will be accepted;
US dollars, German marks & British pounds are preferable.
! REGISTRATION FORM_______________________________________________
!
!
! Names . . . :
! Organisation:
! Country . . :
! Fax . . . . :
! Telephone . :
! Email . . . :
!
!
! * Accommodation and half-board
!
! [ ] Option 1
! [ ] Option 2
! [ ] Option 3
!
! [ ] Single room
! [ ] Double room (to be shared with another participant)
!
! I'd like to share the room with: _________________ (specify name)
!
! For the period (delete as appropriate)
!
! [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] September 1997
! <-school--> <--RANLP'97-->
!
!
! Amount to be paid on site in cash:
!
! Accommodation + half board: ___ USD / DM / GBP
! Registration fee: ___ USD / DM / GBP
!
! (please specify the amount you are going to pay in USD or
! the equivalent in German Marks or British Pounds)
!
! _______________<mailto: victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk>_________________
Please reserve your accommodation as soon as possible. Accommodation
capacity in both "Hotel Orpheus" and VMI guest house are limited: all
reservations will be dealt with on a first-come, first-served basis.
SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION_________________________________________
For further information, if you wish to participate please contact:
- Victoria Arranz <victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk> or
- Malgorzata Stys <m.stys@cl.cam.ac.uk>
If you wish to exhibit books/software:
- Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
RELATED EVENTS____________________________________________________
The summer school will be followed by the International Conference
"Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)".
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html
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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:12:20 -0400
From: David Green <david@cni.org>
Subject: ICHIM WORKSHOPS; METADATA REPORTS
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
August 7, 1997
1. ICHIM 97 WORKSHOPS
2. AHDS/UKOLN DISCOVERY & RETRIEVAL ISSUE WORKSHOPS REPORTS
3. RLG REPORT ON "METADATA SUMMIT MEETING"
1. ICHIM 97 WORKSHOPS
Held by Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe, in partnership with le musee
du Louvre, and in association with l'ecole du Louvre, the fourth
International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity takes place
September 1-5, 1997.
Full details for an exciting series of pre-conference workshops are now
available on the ICHIM97 Web site <www.archimuse.com/ichim97>. Two days of
pre-conference workshops, September 1-2, 1997 offer opportunities for
professional development in the following areas:
September 1, 1997
1. Systematic Design of Hypermedia Applications
Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and
Paolo Paolini (University of Lecce, Italy)
2. Looking at new software architectures and their
application to digital images.
Brieuc Segalen (Directeur de la societe Briq,
specialisee en Realite Virtuelle, France)
3. Current State of Museum Information Standards
Alain Michard (Aquarelle, France)
4. Issues in Multilingual Terminology Work Theory and Practice
Murtha Baca and Pat Young (Getty Information Institute, USA)
5. Copyright and other IPR concerns: What Progress?
Jeremy Rees (IVAIN, UK) and
Emanuella Giavarra (European Copyright User Platform, ECUP)
September 2, 1997
6. Strategies for Museum Multimedia Delivery
Peter Samis (SFMOMA, USA),
Larry Friedlander (Stanford University, USA) and
Xavier Perrot (AMIE, France)
7. Mapping Web Sites
Paul Kahn (Dynamic Diagrams, USA)
8. Systematic Evaluation of Hypermedia Applications
Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and
Paolo Paolini (University of Lecce, Italy)
9. Designing for Humans: big and small
Slavko Milekic (Hampshire College, USA)
10. Multimedia Tools
Katherine Jones Garmil (Peabody Museum, Harvard University, USA)
Pre-registration is necessary for all workshops. Please return the
registration form, available at: <www.archimuse.com/ichim97>
For further information, and full program details, visit the conference web
site, or contact Archives & Museum Informatics at info@archimuse.com
See you in Paris!
jt
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J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com
Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com
Archives & Museums Informatics
5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775
Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366
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2. AHDS/UKOLN FINAL WORKSHOP REPORTS ON HUMANITIES RESOURCE DISCOVERY ISSUES
The Arts and Humanities Data Service and the UK Office for Library and
Information Networking have organised a series of workshops to explore
metadata, Dublin Core, and resource discovery issues. Between March and May
1997 six workshops were organised to cover the subject areas of
archaeology; digital sound; electronic texts; history; moving images; and
the visual arts, museums and cultural heritage. Each workshop has now
produced a final report which is available online. Details and links to
these reports are available from:
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/metareps.htm >
************************************************************************
Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076
Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080
The Executive
Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk
King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
************************************************************************
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FR: Willy Cromwell-Kessler (bl.kes@rlg.org)
RE: Metadata Summit Meeting Report
On July 1, 1997, the Research Libraries Group hosted an invitational
"summit" meeting on metadata issues. This meeting was an outgrowth of the
work of the Task Force on Meta Access of the Association of Library
Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). The participants represented a
variety of research information projects, standards groups and related
communities.
The goal of the Summit was to identify metadata issues that have special
relevance for the research community in order to identify, if possible, a
common action agenda. Much of the discussion centered on the potential
role of the Dublin Core elements as a mechanism for discovery of
information resources available via the Internet, but which are not static
html-Web pages. A full report on the meeting is available on the RLG Web
site: <http://www.rlg.org/meta9707.html>
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:00:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Subject: Sixth International Summer School
>> From: Malgorzata Stys <Malgorzata.Stys@cl.cam.ac.uk>
________________________________________________________________
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
"CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS"
Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
7-9 Sept'97
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html [Summer School]
________________________________________________________________
The sixth summer school "Contemporary Topics in Computational
Linguistics" immediately precedes the international conference
"Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)"
(11-13 Sept'97, same location). The school will continue its
tradition of offering both introductory and advanced courses.
The programme will consist of tutorials and short courses.
LECTURERS
* Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
Information extraction
* Sergei Nirenburg (University of New Mexico)
Multi-Engine Machine Translation Environments
* Pieter Seuren (Nijmegen University)
Semantic Syntax
* Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino)
Linguistically intensive content characterisation
* Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS)
Natural Language Generation
* Harald Trost (Austrian Institute for AI)
Computational morphology
* Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Corpus Linguistics
* Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Recent Developments in Anaphora resolution
* Carlos Martin-Vide (University of Tarragona)
Natural computation for natural language
* Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong)
Automatic abstracting
For more information on the courses please check
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html
LOCATION
Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on
the shores of Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia,
the capital of Bulgaria. A minibus will provide reasonably-priced
transport between Sofia airport and the conference hotel.
SUMMER SCHOOL VENUE
The summer school will be held at the "Hotel Orpheus", Tzigov
Chark.
REGISTRATION FEES
150 USD for industrial participants
110 USD for academic staff
80 USD for students
ACCOMMODATION AND HALF-BOARD PRICES
The following options are available:
*Option 1
Hotel Orpheus
Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch)
40 USD a day (single room)
30 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room)
*Option 2
Guest house belonging to the Higher Medical Institute (VMI)
Plovdiv (will be referred to in future correspondence as the
VMI Guest House). The Guest House is within 2-3 minutes
walking distance (amidst beautiful fir trees) from the "Hotel
Orpheus".
Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch)
20 USD a day (single room)
15 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room)
*Option 3
Accommodation at VMI Guest house, half-board at "Hotel Orpheus"
30 USD a day (single room)
25 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room)
Option 2 is contingent on the flexibility of the VMI guest
house staff - two years ago they had fixed times for their
meals which clashed with the conference programme. The local
organisers are trying to sort this out: we shall inform you
on this matter soon.
If you would like to share a room, please let us know; would
you please also specify if you wish to share the room with
someone in particular.
Accommodation capacity in both "Hotel Orpheus" and VMI guest
house are limited: all reservations will be dealt with on a
first-come, first-served basis.
REGISTRATION
We regret to inform you that the local organisers have
difficulties in processing cheques and bank transfers.
Neither can they accept credit card payments. You are
therefore kindly requested to pay your registration
fees and accommodation/half-board in cash on site.
Any major currency will be accepted but preferably
US dollars, German marks or British pounds.
All participants are requested to complete the following
registration form and send it to Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk).
-------------------------------------------------------
REGISTRATION FORM
* Personal details
Names:
Organisation:
Country:
Fax:
Telephone:
Email:
* Accommodation and half-board
Accommodation requested:
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
(please delete as appropriate)
Single room
Double room (to be shared with another participant)
(please delete as appropriate)
I would like to share the room with
(please delete as appropriate or specify name)
For the period
[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
(please delete dates as appropriate)
Amount (accommodation + half board) to be paid on site in cash
USD / DM / GBP
(please specify the amount you are going to pay in USD or
the equivalent in German Marks or British Pounds)
* Registration Fee
Registration fee(s) applicable:
USD for the conference
USD for the summer school
(please specify which registration fee(s) will be applicable
in your case and delete if appropriate)
Amount to be paid on site in cash
USD / DM / GBP
(please specify the amount you are going to pay in USD or
the equivalent in German Marks or British Pounds)
-----------------------------------------------------------
Please reserve your accommodation as soon as possible.
SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION
For further information, if you wish to participate or exhibit
books/software, please contact:
- Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk) or
- Malgorzata Stys (m.stys@cl.cam.ac.uk)
RELATED EVENTS
The summer school will be followed by the International Conference
"Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)"
(same location). For more information on the conference, visit
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html
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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:23:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Subject: RANLP '97 Programme
>> From: "R. Mitkov" <R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk>
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RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (RANLP'97)
11-13 September 1997, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
Co-organised by:
* University of Wolverhampton
* University of Sussex
* University of Hamburg
* Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics
Sponsored by:
* The European Commission, DG XIII
* Evrika Foundation
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
11 SEPTEMBER
___________________________________________________________________
9.00-9.40 INVITED TALK: YORICK WILKS
Combining Independent Knowledge Sources for Word Sense
Disambiguation
Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson
(Univ of Sheffield)
STATISTICAL TAGGING -----------------------------------------------
9.40-10.10 Extending N-gram Tagging to Word Graphs
Christer Samuelsson
(Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)
10.10-10.40 Automatically Acquiring a Language Model for POS
Tagging Using Decision Trees
Lluis Marquez, Horacio Rodriguez
(Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
10.40-11.10 Coffee break
LEXICON -----------------------------------------------------------
11.10-11.40 Designing a Dictionary of Derived Nominals
Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers,
Ralph Grishman, Leslie Barrett, Ruth Reeves
(New York University)
11.40-12.10 Partial Evaluation for Efficient Access to Inheritance
Lexicons
Sven Hartrumpf (Univ of Hagen)
12.10-12.40 Lexicon Filtering
Frederique Segond, Max Copperman
(Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble)
12.40-3.00 Lunch break
DISCOURSE ---------------------------------------------------------
3.00-3.30 Segmentation of Expository Texts by Hierarchical
Agglomerative Clustering
Yaakov Yaari (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
3.30-4.00 Information Structure and Machine Translation:
Generating Danish Existential Sentences
Patrizia Paggio,
(Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen)
4.00-4.30 Robust Reference Resolution with Limited Knowledge:
High Precision Genre-Specific Approach for English
and Polish
Ruslan Mitkov (Univ of Wolverhampton)
Malgorzata Stys (Univ of Cambridge)
4.30-5.00 Coffee break
CORPORA, TOOLS (parallel session) ---------------------------------
5.00-5.20 Can we Improve Part-of-Speech Tagging by Inducing
Probabilistic Part-of-Speech Annotated Lexicons from
Large Corpora?
Nicolas Smith, Tony McEnery
(Lancaster University)
5.20-5.40 An Internet Agent for Language Model Construction
Peter Wyard (BT Laboratories, Ipswich)
Tony Rose (Canon Research Centre Europe, Surrey)
5.40-6.00 Term Weight Learning for an Automatic Text Categorization
Fumiyo Fukumoto, Hiroyasu Yamada, Atsumi Imamiya
(Yamanashi University, Japan)
6.20-6.40 Using the TOPSIS Multicriteria Method to Direct an
Agreement Error Correction Process: an Application to Arabic
Belguith Hadrich Lamia, Ben Hamadou
Abdelmajid, Aloulou Chafik
(Faculti des Sciences Economiques et
de Gestion de Sfax)
MACHINE TRANSLATION & TRANSLATION AIDS (parallel session) ---------
5.00-5.20 Gaijin: A Bootstrapping, Template-Driven Approach to
Example-Based MT
Tony Veale, Andy Way
(Dublin City University)
5.20-5.40 Aspect Calculation in MIROSLAV: a German-Russian MT System
Bernhard Staudinger, Nancy Smith
5.40-6.00 Verb Instantiation by Concept Coherence and Refinement
Abolfazl Fatholahzadeh (Ecole Superieure d'Electricite)
H. Altay Guvenir (Bilkent University Turkey)
6.20-6.40 Refining Domain Ontologies for Flexible Explanation
Generation
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Kalina Bontcheva (Univ of Sheffield)
12 SEPTEMBER
___________________________________________________________________
9.00-9.40 INVITED TALK: SERGEI NIRENBURG
If You Have It, Flaunt It: Using Full Ontological
Knowledge for Word Sense Disambiguation
Kavi Mahesh, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale
(New Mexico State University)
TOOLS -------------------------------------------------------------
9.40-10.10 Efficiency and Elegance in NLP: The EPISTEME Approach
J. Gabriel Amores (Universidad de Sevilla)
Jose F. Quesada (CICA, Spain)
10.10-10.40 Linguistic Processing using ALEP
Andrew Bredenkamp & F.Fouvry (Univ of Essex)
Thierry Declerk (DFKI Saarbruecken)
B.Music (CST, Copenhagen)
A.Theofilidis (IAI, Saarbruecken)
10.40-11.10 Coffee break
MACHINE TRANSLATION -----------------------------------------------
11.10-11.40 Using Hybrid Methods and Resources in Semantic-based Transfer
Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf, Michael Dorna
(IMS-CL Univ of Stuttgart)
11.40-12.10 Inflectional Information in Transfer for Lexicalist MT
Davide Turcato, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge,
Fred Popowich
(Simon Fraser University, Canada)
12.10-12.40 Lexical Ambiguity in Machine Translation: Using Frame
Semantics for Expressing Systemacies in Polysemy
Bolette Sandford Pedersen
(Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen)
12.40-3.00 Lunch break
GENERATION --------------------------------------------------------
3.00-3.30 Aggregative Utterance Planning for Interactive Instruction
Tsuneaki Kato, Yukiko I. Nakano
(NTT Information & Communication Systems Labs, Japan)
3.30-4.00 A Question/Answer Explanation based Approach for
Customizable Text Expansion vs Summarization
Yllias Chali
(Institut de Recherche en Informatique
de Toulouse)
4.00-4.30 AMALIA - A Unified Platform for Parsing and Generation
Shuly Wintner (Univ of Thuebingen)
Evgeniy Gabrilovich & Nissim Francez
(Israel Institute of Technology, Technion)
4.30-5.00 Coffee break
NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION, PARSING (parallel session) -----------
5.00-5.20 Validation of STEP/EXPRESS Specifications by Automatic
Natural Language Generation
Hercules Dalianis, Anders Hedman, Paul Johannesson
Department of computer and Systems Sciences
(Royal Institute of Technology &
Stockholm University)
5.20-5.40 A generation algorithm for f-structure representations
Toni Tuells
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
5.40-6.00 Memory-based Deep Syntactic Analysis of Unrestricted French
Emmanuel Giguet, Jacques Vergne
(Universiti de Caen)
6.20-6.40 Morphosyntactic Disambiguation for Basque Based on the
Constraint Grammar Formalism
Aduriz I., Arriola J.M., Artola X.,
Diaz de Illarraza A., Gojenola K., Maritxalar M.
(University of the Basque Country)
DISCOURSE (parallel session) --------------------------------------
5.00-5.20 Subject Ellipsis in Chinese News Headlines
Chi-on Chin, Benjamin K.Y. Tsou
(City University of Hong Kong)
5.20-5.40 Slot Unification Grammar and Anaphora Resolution
A. Ferrandez, M.Palomar, L.Moreno
(Alicante University)
5.40-6.00 Reference Analysis of Deicitic Expressions to Visual
Objects
Hiroyasu Yamada, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Atsumi Imamiya
(Yamanashi University, Japan)
6.20-6.40 Word Spotting of Radio News based on Topic
Identification for Speech Recognition
Yoshimi Suzuki, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshihiro Sekiguchi
(Yamanashi University, Japan)
13 SEPTEMBER
___________________________________________________________________
SEMANTICS ---------------------------------------------------------
9.00-9.30 Combining Multiple Methods for the Automatic
Construction of Multilingual Wordnets
Jordi Atserias, Salvador Climent, Xavier Farreres,
German Rigau, Horacio Rodriguez
(Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya)
9.30-10.00 Using Wordnet to Complement Training Information in
Text Categorization
Manuel de Buenaga Rodrmguez,
Josi Marma Gsmez Hidalgo,
Belin Dmaz Agudo
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
10.00-10.30 Probabilistic Word-Sense Disambiguation: a Portable
Approach Using Minimum Knowledge
Edward Teo, Christopher Ting, Hian-Beng Lee
Li-Shiuan Peh
(DSO National Laboratories, Singapore)
10.30-11.00 Probabilistic Event Categorization
Janyce Wiebe, Rebecca Bruce, Lei Duan
(New Mexico State University)
11.00-11.30 coffee break
PARSING, INFORMATION EXTRACTION, EVENT CATEGORISATION -------------
11.30-12.00 A New Approach to the Construction of Generalized LR
Parsing Algorithms
Miguel A. Alonso, David Cabrero, Manuel Vilares
(Universidade de Coruna, Spain)
12.00-12.30 Statistical Ambiguity Resolution for Principle-Based Parsing
Cathy Berthouzoz, Paola Merlo
(Univ of Geneva)
12.30-1.00 MILK: a Hybrid system for Multilingual Indexing and
Information Extraction
A. Bolioli, L. Dini, V. Di Tomaso, A. Goy, D. Sestero
(Centro per l'Elaborazione del
Linguaggio e dell'Informazione;
Torino-Vercelli-Pisa)
1.00-3.30 Lunch break
INFORMATION FILTERING, TEXT CLASSIFICATION, SEMANTIC CONSTRUCTION
3.30-3.50 Using Supertags in Document Filtering: The Effect of
Increased Context on Information Retrieval Effectiveness
R. Chandrasekar, B. Srinivas
(University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
3.50-4.10 Exploiting Thesaurus Knowledge in Rule Induction for
Text Classification
Markus Junker, A. Abecker
(DFKI, Kaiserlautern)
4.10-4.30 Constructing Compact Representations of Ambiguous Language
Kurt Eberle, Carl Vogel
(IMS-CL, Univ of Stuttgart)
4.30-5.00 Coffee break
SEMANTIC PROCESSING, DISAMBIGUATION (parallel session) ------------
5.00-5.20 Word Class Functions for Syntactic-Semantic Analysis
Hermann Helbig, Sven Hartrumpf
(FernUniversitaet Hagen)
5.20-5.40 Extraction of Predicate-Argument Structures from Texts
Sylvain Delisle (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres)
Stan Szpakowicz (Univ of Ottawa)
5.40-6.00 Estimating Similarity of Word Senses by a Fuzzy
Relation on a Large Dictionary
YoungJa Park, ManSuk Song
(Yonsei University, Korea)
6.20-6.40 An Alternative Approach to Lexical Categorical Disambiguation
Joao Luis Tavares da Silva, Vera Lucia Strube de Lima
(Pontificia Universidade Catolica
do Rio Grande do Sul)
LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING (parallel session) -------
5.00-5.20 SVENSK: A Toolbox of Swedish Language Processing Resources
Mikael Eriksson & Bjoern.Gambaeck
(Royal Institute of Technology/KTH, Stockholm)
5.20-5.40 Reusability of NLP Tools for Detecting Rules and
Contexts When Modelling Language Learners' Knowledge
Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Montse Maritxalar,
Maite Oronoz Anchordoqui
(Univ of the Basque Country)
5.40-6.00 Learning Terminology in a Foreigh Language
Vania Dimitrova (Univ of Shoumen, Bulgaria)
Darina Dicheva (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
6.20-6.40 A Syllable-Based Extraction Method of Kana-Kanji Pairs
from Japanese Sentences
Hisahiro Adachi
(Utsunomiya University, Japan)
RESERVE PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------
Computation of the Preference in the Interpretation of Anaphors
Soo-Yeon Kim (George Washington University)
Encoding Danish Verbs in the PAROLE Model
Costanza Navarretta (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen)
Cautious Steps towards Hybrid Connectionist Bilingual Phrase Alignment
Stefan Wermter, Joseph Chen (Univ of Hamburg)
Bilingual parallel text segmentation and tagging for specialized
documentation
Raquel Martinez Unanue (U. Complutense de Madrid)
Arantza Casillas Rubio (U. Alcala de Henares)
Joseba Abaitua Odriozola (U. Deusto)
Building of Semantico-Cognitive Representation of Different Types of
Narratives in French
Delphine Battistelli (Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne)
Nikolay Vazov (Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne & LIMSI)
LOCATION
Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains
on the shores of Lake Batak. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia,
the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily
shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference
location at an inexpensive rate.
REGISTRATION
Due to the limited conference facilities, registration will be carried
out on a first-come, first-served basis. For further details and to
check if there are still places available, contact Victoria Arranz
(victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk).
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Visit RANLP'97 home page at:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html
RELATED EVENTS
Conference participants are also invited to take part in the
International Summer School "Contemporary Topics in Computational
Linguistics", which will take place just before the conference in
the same location. Further information on the summer school can be
obtained from Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk) and
Malgorzata Stys (m.stys@cl.cam.ac.uk) or through the conference
web site: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html.
INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPANTS/ PUBLISHING COMPANIES/ DEMOS/EXHIBITS
Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP-related
products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books
on NLP. All wishing to demonstrate/exhibit software, please contact
Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas@cogs.sussex.ac.uk). Publishers wishing to
exhibit/promote books please contact Ruslan Mitkov (r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk).
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