[1] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (24)
Subject: MW 98: Call for Papers
[2] From: "R.G. Siemens" <Raymond.Siemens@UALBERTA.CA> (34)
Subject: CFP: Computing Technology and Renaissance Studies
[3] From: Simone Saint Laurent <lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it> (473)
Subject: Corpora: FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE
RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:38:17 -0400
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: MW 98: Call for Papers
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
October 21, 1997
MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 1998
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
April 22-25, 1998
CALL for PAPERS DEADLINE: October 31, 1997
Submissions are invited from those actively involved in shaping what the
museum will look like on the World Wide Web. Suggested broard topics include:
1. Moving Museum Programs to the Web
2. Adapting Museum Structures for the Web
3. Evaluating Museums' Presence on the Web
Fuller details can be found at http://www.archimuse.com/mw98
We are particularly interested in proposals for non-traditional
presentations and workshops.
Send your abstract, full personal contact details [including job title,
phone, fax, email and URL] along with AV requirements for your presentation
to:
David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
MW98 Conference Co-Chairs
dbear@archimuse.com or jtrant@archimuse.com
J. Trant
Partner and Principal Consultant
Archives & Museum Informatics
jtrant@archimuse.com
www.archimuse.com
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 21:43:19 +0100
From: "R.G. Siemens" <Raymond.Siemens@UALBERTA.CA>
Subject: CFP: Computing Technology and Renaissance Studies
[please excuse x-posting]
"Computing Technology and Renaissance Studies"
A joint session of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and the
Consortium for Computers in the Humanities at the 1998 Congress of the
Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa (May 28-30, 1998).
Reflecting larger societal trends, the past several years have seen a rise
in the importance of computing technology to our work; they have also seen
an increased recognition of the body of scholarly approaches and tools,
influenced by the electronic medium, that aid in one's teaching, study, and
research. The New Humanism, Project Gutenberg, the Electronic Renaissance:
nominal allusions abound that suggestively ally this late twentieth-century
movement with the print-oriented technological revolution in the period of
our study; urging that such comparison may not be not ill-founded are a
large number of valuable computing tools and resources available today to
Renaissance academics (and, of course, far beyond this group).
This session seeks to explore ways in which computing technology has added
and can add to the field of Renaissance studies. Paper proposals assisting
in this exploration -- critical and scholarly work, discussions and
presentations of resources, and so forth -- may be sent (before November 15)
for consideration in this joint session to
Raymond Siemens
Department of English
University of Alberta
3-5 Humanities Centre
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2E5
Electronic Mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca
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R.G. Siemens
Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5.
Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html
wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142
e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca
www homepage: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:07:35 +0100
From: Simone Saint Laurent <lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it>
Subject: Corpora: FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
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****CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS****
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998
Hosted by
THE UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación
Departamento de Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores
With the support of
DG-XIII of the European Commission and Fundación Banco Central-Hispano (Spain)
The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has
been initiated by ELRA and is organized in cooperation with other
Associations and Consortia, including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR,
ELSNET, ESCA, EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with major
national and international organizations, including the European Commission
- DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 Project (China), the ICSP Permanent
Committee (Korea) and the Japanese Project for International Coordination in
Corpora, Assessment and Labeling. Cooperation and support from other
institutions are currently being sought.
CONFERENCE AIMS
In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of
language technologies and their relevance to practically all the fields of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been widely recognized.
Two issues are currently considered particularly relevant: the availability
of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources,
technologies and products. Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from
addressing these issues through international cooperation.
The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and
descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building and
evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems, for the
software localization industries and language services, for language enabled
information and communication services, for electronic commerce, electronic
publishing, language studies, subject-area specialists and end users.
Examples of linguistic resources are written and spoken corpora,
computational lexicons, grammars, terminology databases, basic software
tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management,
customization and use of these and other resources.
The relevance of evaluation in Language Engineering is increasingly
recognized. This involves assessment of the state-of-the-art for a given
technology, measuring the progress achieved within a program, comparing
different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution,
knowing its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of
technologies for a given application, product benchmarking, and assessment
of the user satisfaction.
Language engineering and research and development in language technologies
has driven important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both
written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm
has been studied and used in large national and international programs,
including the US ARPA HLT program, EU Language Engineering projects, the
Francophone Aupelf-Uref program and others, particularly in the localization
industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unresolved basic
research problems.
The aim of this Conference is to provide an overview of the
state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information
regarding ongoing and planned activities, language resources and their
applications, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation
tools, explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international
cooperation in the areas mentioned above.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could
be addressed by papers submitted to the Conference:
Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages Resources (LR)
(theoretical & best practice)
Guidelines, standards, specifications, models for LR.
Organizational issues in the construction, distribution and use of LR
Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management,
access, distribution, use of LR
Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access and use of LR
Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR
Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g., terms,
lexical information, language modeling) from LR
Monolingual vs. multilingual LR
LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural
industry
Industrial production of LR
Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language)
Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (language technology,
information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce, etc..)
Industrial LR requirements and the community's response
Analysis of user needs for LR
Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing
Economics of LRs
Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation
Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR
Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking
and evaluation
Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology
extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine
translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging,
text understanding, summarization, localization, etc.)
Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and
understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis,
speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc.)
Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line
and off-line machine and handwritten character recognition, etc.)
Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems
Evaluation of multimodal systems
Qualitative and perceptive evaluation
Evaluation of products and applications
Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems
Situated evaluation of applications
Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
General issues
National and international activities and projects
LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia
cultural industry
Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national
and international policies
Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation
PROGRAM
The Scientific Program will include invited talks, presentations of accepted
papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations, and panels.
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
Submission of summaries for proposed papers and posters should consist of
about 800 words.
Demonstration of LR and related tools will be reviewed as well. Please send
an outline of about 400 words. If a demo is connected to a paper, please
attach the outline to the paper summary.
A limited number of panels is foreseen. Proposals are welcomed and will be
reviewed. Please send a brief description, including an outline of the
intended structure (topic, organizer, panel moderator (if different),
tentative list of panelists).
All the submissions should include a separate title page, providing the
following information: the type of proposal (paper, poster, demo, paper
plus demo, panel); the title to be printed in the program of the
Conference; names and affiliations of the authors or proposers; the full
address of the first author (or a contact person), including phone, fax,
email, URL; the required facilities (overhead projector, data display;
other hardware, platforms, communications); and 5 keywords.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
Electronic submission should be in ASCII file format. This file should be
sent to:
lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it
Attn: Antonio Zampolli - LREC
SUBMISSION IN HARD COPY
You may also submit hard copies. Please send five hard copies to:
Antonio Zampolli - LREC
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR
via della Faggiola, 32
56126, Pisa, ITALY
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos, panels and
workshops:
1 December 1997
Notification of acceptance of workshop and panels proposals:
20 December 1997
Notification of acceptance of papers, posters and referenced demos:
15 February 1998
Final version of the paper:
20 April 1998
The accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings.
Conference dates:
28-30 May 1998
LANGUAGE RESOURCES, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS DEMONSTRATIONS
Internet connections and various computer platforms and facilities will be
available at the Conference site. In addition to referenced demos
concerning LR and related tools, it will be possible to run unreferenced
demos of language engineering products, systems and tools . Those
interested should contact the organiser of the demonstrations, Antonio
Rubio, directly.
WORKSHOPS
May 27 will be dedicated to Pre-Conference Workshops.
How to propose a workshop:
Proposals for workshops should be two to three pages in length and should
contain:
- A brief technical description of the specific technical issues that the
workshop will address
- The reasons why the workshop is of interest this time.
- The names, postal address, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of
the Workshop Organising Committee, which should consist of at least three
people knowledgeable in the field but not all at the same institution..
- The name of one member of the Workshop Organising Committee who is
designated as the contact person.
- A schedule for organising the workshop and a preliminary agenda.
- A summary of the intended workshop Call for Participation.
- A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room
requirements.
The workshop proposers will be responsible for the organizational aspects
(e.g. Workshop Call preparation and distribution, review of papers,
notification of acceptance, etc.). Further details will be sent to the
proposers.
CONSORTIA AND PROJECT MEETINGS
Consortia or projects wishing to take this opportunity for organizing
meetings, should contact the Conference Secretariat for assistance in
arranging meeting facilities.
VENUE
Granada has lived under and been influenced by many cultures: Iberian, Roman
and then Jewish and Islamic. It was the last "piece" in the making of modern
day Spain, thereby opening the way to the discovery of America and to the
embrace of European and American cultures. Granada has remained a cultural
center and has lost little of its original splendor providing a perfect
environment for humanities and arts.
Granada lies at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the Autonomous
Region of Andalusia. It has a wonderful climate, with over 2795 hours of
sunshine (average max. temperature 23 C, min. 8 C).
CONFERENCE ADDRESSES
The Conference Chair is Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica
Computazionale del CNR and President of ELRA).
Antonio Zampolli - LREC
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR
via della Faggiola, 32
56126 Pisa, ITALY
+39 50 560 481 tel.
+39 50 555 013 fax
pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it
The Secretariat of the Conference, who will provide general information on
the Conference, is:
LREC Secretariat
Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación
Dpto. de Traducción e Interpretación
C/ Puentezuelas, 55
18002 Granada, SPAIN
+34 58 24 41 00 tel.
+34 58 24 41 04 fax
reli98@goliat.ugr.es
The demonstration organizer is Prof. Antonio Rubio:
Antonio J. Rubio Ayuso - LREC
Grupo de Investigación
Procesamiento de Señales y Comunicaciones
Dpto. Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores
Universidad de Granada
18071 Granada, SPAIN
+34 58 24 31 93 tel.
+34 58 24 32 30 fax
rubio@hal.ugr.es
Information on travel, accommodation and general information on Granada can
be obtained from:
Carmen CANO
El Corte Inglés
C/ Arabial, 97, 1
18003 Granada, SPAIN
+34 58 28 26 12 tel.
+34 58 20 30 90 fax
REGISTRATION FEES, PAYMENT, SOCIAL EVENTS
The registration fees will be 25.000 pesetas (about 150 ECU) per
participant, with reduced fees of 20.000 pesetas (about 120 ECU) for early
registration by March 1, 1998, and 12.000 pesetas (about 70 ECU) for
students. The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings,
welcome reception, social events, coffee breaks and refreshments.
Advance registration payment can be made using the Registration Form
included at the end of the Announcement.
Registration fees can be paid on-site in cash, using pesetas.
A social dinner, as well as a visit to Granada and an entertainment show,
will be organized. For accompanying persons, the social dinner will be
6.000 pesetas (about 35 ECU).
CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Harald Hoege, Siemens, Munich, Germany
Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
Angel Martin Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain
Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Souguil Ann, Seoul National University, Korea
Roberto Cencioni, Commission of the EU, DGXIII, Luxembourg
Feng Zhiwei, The State Language Commission of China, Beijing, China
Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
Lynette Hirschman, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Bernard Quemada, Conseil Supérieur de la Langue Française (Premiere Ministre),
Paris, France
Allen Sears, ARPA, Washington, D.C., USA
Gary Strong, NSF, Washington, D.C., USA
Piet G.J. Van Sterkenburg, International Permanent Committee of Linguists,
Leiden, The Netherlands
Jialu Zhang, Academia Sinica, Institute of Acoustics, Beijing, China
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Niels Ole Bernsen, Odense University, Denmark
Robin Bonthrone, Fry & Bonthrone Partnerschaft, Language Consultancy Services,
Mainz-Kastel, Germany
Louis Boves, SPEX (Center for Speech Processing Expertise), Leidschendam,
The Netherlands
Maria Teresa Cabré, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy
Nick Campbell, ATR, Kyoto, Japan
George Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
Giuseppe Castagneri, CSELT, Torino, Italy
Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France
Ron Cole, OGI, Portland, Oregon, USA
Christian Delcourt, BELTEXT-Université de Liège, Belgium
Pamela-Blanchard Faber, University of Granada, Spain
Christian Fluhr, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Christian Galinski, Infoterm (International Information Centre for Terminology),
Wien, Austria
Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK
Dafydd Gibbon, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Annelise Grinsted, Handelshøjskole Syd, Kolding, Denmark
Ralph Grishman, New York University, New York, USA
Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Ulrich Heid, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California, USA
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Shuichi Itahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Norbert Kalfon, CL Servicios Lingüísticos S.A., Madrid, Spain
Margaret King, ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Steven Krauwer, ELSNET Coordinator, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University, UK
Mark Libermann, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Joaquim Llisterri, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain
Jock McNaught, UMIST, Manchester, UK
J. Bruce Millar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Roger Moore, Defense Research Agency, Worchester, UK
Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
Ole Norling-Christensen, DSL, Copenhagen, Denmark
Brian Oakley, IT World Consultancy, London, UK
David S. Pallett, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Louis Pols, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands
Antonio Rubio, University of Granada, Spain
Antonio Sanfilippo, SHARP Laboratories of Europe, Oxford, UK
Thomas Schneider, Munich, Germany
Harold Short, King's College London, UK
Herman J.M. Steeneken, TNO Human Factors Research Institute, Soesterberg,
The Netherlands
Wolfgang Teubert, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany
Hans G. Tillmann, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation der
Universität München, Germany
Giovanni Varile, Commission of the EU, DGXIII, Luxembourg
Victor Zue, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
LOCAL COMMITTEE
Lorenzo Morillas Cuevas, Rector of the University of Granada, Spain
Angel Martín Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain
Rosa Castro Prieto, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting,
University of Granada, Spain
Antonio J. Rubio, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Technology,
University of Granada, Spain
Presentación Padilla Benítez, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting,
University of Granada, Spain
Natividad Gallardo San Salvador, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting,
University of Granada, Spain
ELRA
For more information about ELRA (the European Language Resources
Association), please contact:
Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO
87, avenue d^ÒItalie
75013 PARIS, FRANCE
Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 - Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88
E-mail: elra@calva.net
Web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION FORMS
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998
E-MAIL OR FAX TO:
LREC Secretariat
Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación
Dpto. de Traducción e Interpretación
C/ Puentezuelas, 55
18002 GRANADA, SPAIN
+34 58 24 41 00 tel.
+34 58 24 41 04 fax
reli98@goliat.ugr.es
Name:
________________________________________________
Affiliation:
________________________________________________
Address:
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
City:
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State/Province:
________________________________________________
Country:
________________________________________________
Postal/Zip Code:
________________________________________________
Phone:
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Fax:
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E-mail:
________________________________________________
Web:
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I intend to:
______ attend the conference as a
____ full participant
____ student
(If you are paying the registration fees now, please complete payment form
below)
______ submit a paper
Tentative title or topic:
____________________________________________________________
______ propose a demo
Short description:
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
______ propose the organization of a workshop/panel
Topic:
____________________________________________________________
Short description:
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
REGISTRATION PAYMENT FORM
REGISTRATION FEES
Full participant*
By March 1, 1998 20.000 pesetas (about 120 ECU)
After March 1, 1998 25.000 pesetas (about 150 ECU)
sub total: __________
Student*
12.000 pesetas (about 70 ECU)
sub total: __________
Social Dinner for accompanying persons
6.000 pesetas (about 35 ECU)
sub total: __________
Total: __________
* Registration fees include one copy of the proceedings, welcome reception,
social events, coffee breaks and refreshments.
METHOD OF PAYMENT
You may pay by credit card (VISA, MasterCard or Eurocard only; we cannot
accept American Express, Diners Club, etc.). You may also pay by Banker^Òs
Cheque, bank transfer or by Eurocheque. All payments must be in Spanish
pesetas.
If payment is by Banker^Òs Cheque, bank transfer or by Eurocheque, please
send it by regular mail. If payment is by credit card, it may be faxed.
Please DO NOT e-mail credit card numbers, as we cannot guarantee the
security of our e-mail system, and because we require signatures.
Please indicate (X) one of the following four payment options:
____ I enclose a Banker^Òs Cheque in Spanish pesetas payable to
"First International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation".
____ I have transferred the full fees by bank transfer to your account at:
Banco Central Hispano, c/ Recogidas, 13, 18002 Granada.
Account Name:
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Account Number: 0049 - 0372 - 18 - 2210856078.
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"First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation"
will receive the full fees. I enclose a copy of the bank transfer papers
with the person(s) name written on the transfer.
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Eurocheque number on the back of each Eurocheque.
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Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación
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C/ Puentezuelas, 55
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