[1] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (70)
Subject: 2nd CFP - COLING WORKSHOP
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (162)
Subject: 2 more Coling-ACL'98 Workshop Announcements
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (34)
Subject: Invitation to EXHIBITION at LREC
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:38:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: 2nd CFP - COLING WORKSHOP
>> From: mros@cs.um.edu.mt (Mike Rosner)
Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
COLING-ACL98
Sunday August 16, 1998, University of Montreal
Second Call for Papers
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Although there exists a considerable body of CL research specifically
targeted to Semitic languages, much of the work to date has been the result
of initiatives undertaken by individual researchers or research
establishments. A direct consequence is that there is comparatively little
awareness amongst practitioners of either the state of the art as practiced
outside their own locality, the common challenges faced by all
practitioners, or the potential for developing a coordinated approach. The
aims of this workshop are therefore:
* To provide a forum where current work in a broad range of subfields can
be presented, collected and diffused.
* To assess the state of the art with a view to identifying promising
areas for future collaborative research.
* To set up initiatives to explore the possibilities of supporting such
research through national and international funding agencies.
SUBTOPICS
Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Educational Applications
* Empirical Methods
* Orthographic Represention
* Language Modelling
* Language Resources
* Lexicon and Lexical Represention
* Machine Translation
* Morphology and Phonology
* Multilinguality
* Syntax, Parsing and Generation
* Speech Applications
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (coordinator)
Mohamed Abd-Elsalam, Sakr Software, Egypt
SPONSOR
Mid-Med Bank, Malta
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Deadlines
* Submission Deadline: April 6, 1998
Format
* Electronic submissions only, Postscript format.
CONTACT
Michael Rosner: mros@cs.um.edu.mt
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>> From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
Call for papers
Coling-ACL '98 workshop
"Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers"
August 15, 1998
(See also: http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html)
The notion of discourse relation has received many different
The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on
o What are sound methodologies for comparing similar discourse markers
o What are sound methodologies for relating discourse relations with
o Are there discourse relations that are always lexically signalled?
o What non-lexical (i.e., syntactic or prosodic) means are used to
o In production, how does one decide whether to signal a relation at
o In production, how does one motivate a choice among candidate
o In production, how does the choice of signal interact with other
o In analysis, is it possible to reliably infer discourse relations
o In analysis, how can one disambiguate polysemous signals such as
o What are useful lexical representations of discourse markers, for
o What are useful representations of discourse relations (and the
o Are there significant differences between realizations in spoken and
o How do individual languages differ in terms of any of the above
Organizing committee
The workshop is organized by
Manfred Stede (TU Berlin)
Requirements for submission
Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above.
Submissions from North America should be sent to:
Eduard Hovy
Submissions from elsewhere should be sent to either of the following:
Manfred Stede Leo Wanner
Timetable
Deadline for electronic submissions: March 10, 1998
Program committee
Sandra Carberry (U Delaware)
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CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS
ACL/COLING-98
Workshop on
PARTIALLY AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSCRIBING
August 16, 1998 (following ACL/COLING-98)
CALL FOR PAPERS
DESCRIPTION
The development of robust systems for speech analysis and synthesis
This workshop will be devoted to the presentation and discussion
SUBMISSIONS
Only email submissions in LaTeX or Ascii will be accepted.
trans98@cs.concordia.ca
Style files and templates for LaTeX submissions can be
http://colingacl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html
The official language of the conference is English.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submission Deadline: April 15, 1998
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Nancy Belmore Concordia University, Canada
ORGANIZERS
Nancy Belmore Concordia University, Canada
REGISTRATION
There is a discounted workshop fee for participants of
INFORMATION
Any requests for information should be sent to
trans98@cs.concordia.ca
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>> From: elra-elda@calva.net (Malin Nilsson)
Invitation to participate at the
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EXHIBITION
at the
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998
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The European Language Resources Association, ELRA, is organising an
The exhibition is open to companies wishing to promote, present and
The number of accepted papers to be presented at the conference is well over
To benefit from this remarkable opportunity and for further details and
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Please note that the deadline for registration is the 15th of March.
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Mamoun Hattab, Arabic Textware, Amman, Jordan
George Kiraz, Bell Labs, USA
Chadia Moghrabi, Univerity of Moncton, Canada
Mori Rimon, Hebrew University, Israel
* Notification Date: June 1, 1998
* Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998
* Provide a list of keywords and indicate the best fitting subtopic from
the above list.
* LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL:
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty
* Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references.
* Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies
within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm).
* Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12
points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title.
* Please submit papers to mros@cs.um.edu.mt. All submissions will be
acknowledged.
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Mike Rosner (mros@cs.um.edu.mt)
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:46:06 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: 2 more Coling-ACL'98 Workshop Announcements
Universiti de Montrial
Montrial/Canada
interpretations, some of which are hardly compatible with one
another. Nonetheless, there is a consensus among researchers that
intersegment relations hold between adjacent portions of a text and
that these relations may be signalled by linguistic means, including
so-called cue phrases, aspect and mood shifts, theme inversions, and
other markers.
discourse relations and discourse markers in different linguistic
traditions and different NLP applications. The particular focus of the
workshop is the issue of discourse relations from the viewpoint of
linguistic realization. Specifically, contributions should address one
or more of the following questions:
(contrastive studies, distribution analyses, etc.)?
potential realizations?
Are there any that are never lexically signalled?
signal a relation?
all?
signals for a given relation?
decisions (in particular, those of linearizing some tree or graph
structure)?
from surface cues?
"and", "since" (temporal or causal) etc.?
both analysis and production?
entities they relate), such that they facilitate the realization
decision? What features would one like to have handy in a
representation so that choices can be made easily?
written language?
issues?
Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart)
Eduard Hovy (ISI/USC, Marina del Rey)
Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references.
Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the
text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm).
Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11
to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title.
LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by
ACL: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty Papers
can be submitted either electronically in PostScript format, or
as hardcopies.
Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
U.S.A.
hovy@isi.edu
TU Berlin Computer Science Department
KIT Project Group Intelligent Systems Group
Sekr. FR 6-10 University of Stuttgart
Franklinstr. 28/29 Breitwiesenstr. 20-22
D-10587 Berlin D-70565 Stuttgart
Germany Germany
stede@cs.tu-berlin.de wannerlo@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Deadline for hardcopy submissions: March 13 (arrival date)
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1998
Final manuscripts due: June 12, 1998
Barbara DiEugenio (U Pittsburgh)
Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI)
Alistair Knott (U Edinburgh)
Alex Lascarides (U Edinburgh)
Owen Rambow (Cogentex Inc.)
Ted Sanders (U Utrecht)
Donia Scott (U Brighton)
Wilbert Spooren (U Tilburg)
Manfred Stede (TU Berlin)
Keith Vander Linden (Calvin College)
Marilyn Walker (ATT Labs)
Leo Wanner (U Stuttgart)
NATURALLY OCCURRING, CONTINUOUS SPEECH
University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
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depends crucially on the availability of well-annotated corpora of
naturally occurring, continuous speech. Yet existing speech corpora
are rarely well-annotated. A key to proper annotation is the
availability of partially automated systems for linking selected
portions of a visual display of speech to the corresponding
transcriptions. To be of practical use, such systems must be able to
handle large files of digitized speech and they should permit
transcriptions at different levels of analysis.
of papers and software demonstrations which reflect the current state
of the art. We invite proposals of up to 800 words which address the
development, use, evaluation, or potential commercial application of
such systems.
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Authors should submit an abstract of no more than 800
words to:
found at
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Notification Date: May 15, 1998
Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998
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Sabine Bergler Concordia University, Canada
John Esling Univ. of Victoria, Canada
Eric Keller Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland
Roland Kuhn Panasonic Technologies, Inc., U.S.A.
Douglas O'Shaughnessy INRS-Telecommunications, Canada
Ching Y. Suen Concordia University, Canada
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Sabine Bergler Concordia University, Canada
Douglas O'Shaughnessy INRS-Telecommunications, Canada
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Coling/ACL. Participants who are not registered for Coling/ACL will
have to pay the full workshop fee (to be announced shortly).
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:47:46 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Invitation to EXHIBITION at LREC
LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
(LREC)
Exhibition at the First International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation in Granada, Spain.
demonstrate their products and prototypes, to the wide range of experts and
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You will have an excellent opportunity to meet with all of the major players
in the area of Language Engineering, both from main international and
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200, and we are expecting more than 350 participants, balanced between
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programmes in comparison.
registration, please contact the ELRA secretariat in Paris:
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