[1] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (78)
Subject: Conference: Assessing New Technologies in the Arts and
Humanities
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (161)
Subject: Coling/ACL Workshop on MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT: report
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (56)
Subject: Special Offer: EU Workshop
[4] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (332)
Subject: NLP+IA 98 /TAL+AI 98 Registration Info + timetable for
posters
[5] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (53)
Subject: CFP - Special issue of CL Journal- Finite State
Methods in NLP
[6] From: Ari Kambouris <aristotl@interport.net> (45)
Subject: Call For Papers and Projects for Assessing New
Tchnologies in Arts and Humanities
[7] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (185)
Subject: REMINDERS: DRH Registration; LC/Ameritech Deadline
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:37:19 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Conference: Assessing New Technologies in the Arts and
Humanities
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
July 29, 1998
ASSESSING NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES
October 9-11: New York University
<http://www.nyu.edu/education/cahe/caheconf.html>
CALL FOR PROPOSALS DEADLINE Sept. 1
A particularly ambitious and wide-ranging conference that includes, apart
from plenary and break-out sessions, "mini-sessions, critiques, and
exhibits...for special presentations in the various disciplines (visual
arts, music therapy, dance therapy, literature, dance, music, etc.) along
with scheduled critiques of selected media artworks.)" There is al;so a
program of related performances around the city during the conference. I
encourage those interested to explore the conference website.
David Green
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:46:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Coling/ACL Workshop on MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT: report
From: Eduard Hovy <hovy@ISI.EDU>
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Coling-ACL '98 Workshop
MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT:
CURRENT LEVELS AND FUTURE ABILITIES
August 16, 1998
Universite de Montreal
Montreal/Canada
The Coling/ACL workshop on Multilingual Information Management is a
follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in conjunction with the
First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in
Granada, Spain (May 1998). The goal of the workshop was to consider the
recent history and likely near-term future of a number of research areas
pertaining to language that are related (but still semi-independent at
present). The conclusions have been gathered into a report, to be
submitted to the NSF, LE, and other funding agencies in Europe and North
America, for their consideration in setting funding policies and goals.
THE DRAFT REPORT IS NOW AVAILABLE AT
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/mlim/
At the Granada workshop, an international panel of invited experts
focused on a set of questions in an attempt to identify the most likely
and most effective future directions of computational linguistics research
--especially in the context of the need to handle multi-lingual and multi-
modal information.
The COLING workshop, a follow-on, has the aim of opening the discussion
to the computational linguistics community as a whole, to solicit the
comments, additions, feedback, and contributions of everyone.
TO REGISTER, CONSULT THE COLING/ACL HOME PAGE AT
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:48:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Special Offer: EU Workshop
>> From: uszkoreit@dfki.de (Hans Uszkoreit)
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* ESSLLI 98 NOVELTY *
For the first time the European Summer School in Logic,
Language and Information to be held from August 17 - 28,
1998 in Saarbruecken, Germany, offers a special EU workshop:
"Preparation and Management of EU-Funded Projects"
Transnational R&D funded by the European Commission has
become one of the foremost sources for advanced technology
and application development in information technology.
For the participating research centers such projects offer
a unique opportunity for joint R&D in international
consortia bringing together partners from industry, academia,
contract research, and public administration.
Our workshop will provide the participants
with information, advice and guidelines for the
definition, application and management of EU-projects,
both on the administrative and technical level.
We will discuss concrete questions concerning available
funding programmes, hints for finding or building consortia,
advice on the structuring of projects, rules for handling
many types of forms, and an overview of relevant financial
regulations.
A special section will be dedicated to a preview of upcoming
opportunities and challenges in the Fifth Framework Program
(first call for proposals in January 1999).
The speakers of the workshop are highly experienced
managers of EU-projects and a representative of the EU
Language Engineering Programme, Giovanni B. Varile,
DG XIII of the European Commission.
There is NO EXTRA CHARGE for this workshop once you have
registered for ESSLLI 98.
[material deleted; for more information see]
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/
or contact Sabine Klingner, ESSLLI 98 organization:
klingner@dfki.de
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:49:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: NLP+IA 98 /TAL+AI 98 Registration Info + timetable for
posters
>> From: nlp+ia-98@imag.fr (Chadia Moghrabi)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
NLP+IA 98
>>> Special accent on Computer assisted language learning <<<
Conference internationale
sur le traitement automatique des langues et
ses applications industrielles
TAL+AI 98
>>> Attention speciale portee a l'enseignement de la langue <<<
AUGUST / aout 18-21, 1998
Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA
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for more information, see also :
http://www.sciences.umoncton.ca/infoque/dinfo.htm
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:52:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: CFP - Special issue of CL Journal- Finite State Methods in
NLP
>> From: Kemal Oflazer <ko@CS.Bilkent.Edu.TR>
CALL FOR PAPERS
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
SPECIAL ISSUE =
ON =
FINITE STATE METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Recent years has seen a substantial increase in the use of finite state
techniques in many aspects of natural language processing as mature
tools
for building large scale finite-state systems from various research
laboratories and universities become available. This trend was by no
means
foreseen as late as ten years ago given the well-known demonstration by
Noam Chomsky in 1957 that finite-state methods are inherently incapable
of
representing the full richness of constructions in a natural language.
Nevertheless, it is evident now that there are many subsets of natural
language that are adequately covered by finite-state means and that
there
are many other areas where finite-state approximations of more powerful
formalisms are of great practical benefit.
As a follow-up to the FSMNLP'98, International Workshop on Finite
State Methods in Natural Language Processing, it was proposed that a
collection of papers in this area be published as a special issue of
the Computational Linguistics journal. We would to encourage authors
of the papers presented at this workshop, as well as all others who
would like to contribute, to submit full versions of their papers for
consideration for this special issue. =
Guest Editors: =
Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Centre Europe,France)
Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Guest Editorial Board
Eric Brill (Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA) =
Eva Ejerhed (Umea University, Sweden) =
Ronald M. Kaplan (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA) =
Martin Kay (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA) =
George Kiraz (Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA) =
Andr=E1s Kornai (BBN, MA, USA) =
Mehryar Mohri (AT&T Labs Research, NJ, USA) =
Mark-Jan Nederhof (DFKI, Germany) =
Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) =
Submission Details
Please submit 6 copies of your hard-copy manuscript to
Lauri Karttunen
Xerox Research Centre Europe
6 Chemin de Maupertuis
Meylan, 38240, France
by Monday, October 19, 1998. =
The format of the submission should follow the general submission
requirements of the Journal. Manuscripts for Computational Linguistics
should be submitted on letter-size paper (8.5 by 11 inches, or A4),
double-spaced throughout, including footnotes and references. The
paper should begin with an informative abstract of approximately
150-250 words. Manuscripts must be written in English.
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:39:49 -0400
From: Ari Kambouris <aristotl@interport.net>
Subject: Call For Papers and Projects for Assessing New Tchnologies
in Arts and Humanities
THE FOLLOWING CALL FOR PAPER AND PROJECTS HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED EARLIER IN
SEVERAL ADS AND MAILINGS. PLEASE PUT THIS MESSAGE ON ANY APPROPRIATE
LISTSERVE SO THAT PEOPLE WHO ALREADY HAVE SUCH PROJECTS UNDERWAY CAN SUBMIT
FOR INCLUSION IN THE CONFERENCE.
FALL 1998 Conference at New York University --- October 9 -11
Call for Projects and Papers in "Assessing New Tecvhnologies in Arts and
Humanities: New Renaissance or Dark Ages?"
(http://www.nyu.edu/education/cahe/caheconf.html)
Deadline: September 1, 1998.
A written one-page abstract of your project including a description
of its contents, implementation, the results, and the URL (if
applicable). Papers and projects can range from research projects,
criticism and evaluation, development projects of hardware and/or
software, and creative works which have been produced with the
new technologies. Participants whose projects are selected will
receive free admission to the conference.
Mail abstracts to:
Commission on Arts and Humanities
c/o Helen J. Kelly, Director of Special Programs
Office of Program Development, School of Education
New York University
Press Building, Room 62
32 Washington Place
New York, N.Y. 10003-6644
FAX: 212 995 4923
telephone: (212) 998-5090 (FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION)
Abstracts may also be submitted by e-mail: jg12@is2.nyu.edu
John V. Gilbert, Director of Doctoral Studies
Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions
New York University, School of Education
35 West Fourth Street, Suite 777
New York, Ny 10012
(212) 998-5424 FAX (212) 995-4043
Webmaster
http://www.nyu.edu/education/cahe (Commission on Arts and Humanities in
Education)
http://www.nyu.edu/education/music (NYU Dept. of Music and Performing Arts)
http://pages.nyu.edu/~jg12 (personal workshop on the web)
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/gilbert (class outlines and course materials)
_________________________________________
Ari Kambouris
Metaphor Group, Inc.
Information Architecture and Project Management
tel. 212.740.6306
pager 917.243.1548
e-mail <aristotl@interport.net>
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:18:29 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: REMINDERS: DRH Registration; LC/Ameritech Deadline
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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
July 29, 1998
REMINDERS:
LC/AMERITECH COMPETITION: AUGUST 13 WORKSHOP; NOVEMBER 2 DEADLINE
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/>
* * *
DIGITAL RESOURCES IN HUMANITIES CONFERENCE (DRH)
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 1
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Registration.htm>
DETAILED PROGRAM AVAILABLE
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Programme/default.htm>
Details on NINCH-Sponsored Session
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LC/AMERITECH COMPETITION: AUGUST 13 WORKSHOP; NOVEMBER 2 DEADLINE
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/>
>Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 17:42:02 -0400
>From: "Paulson, Barbara" <BPaulson@NEH.GOV>
Library of Congress/ Ameritech National Digital Library Competition
The 1998/99 guidelines are now available to view or download from the
Competition Web page (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/). The
deadline for this year is November 2, 1998 (postmark).
On August 13th, a one day workshop at the Library of Congress
will be given on proposal preparation and technical requirements.
The workshop is free but seating is limited to 55 and advance registration
is required. For reservations, call (202) 707-1087 or use the registration
form accessed through the competition's web site. In addition, LC/Ameritech
staff will be available to answer questions at the Society of American
Archivists Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL on September 3-4, 1998.
Open office hours will be held on September 3rd from 1-2 p.m. and
individual consultations on September 3-4 by appointment, call (202) 707-1087.
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DIGITAL RESOURCES IN HUMANITIES CONFERENCE (DRH)
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 1
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Registration.htm>
DETAILED PROGRAM AVAILABLE
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Programme/default.htm>
Details on NINCH-Sponsored Session
A detailed program for the DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES Conference
(Sept9-11, 1998, Glasgow, UK) is now available at
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Programme/default.htm>.
The Registration Deadline (to guarantee accommodation and meals) is August
1, 1998. Online registration is available at:
<http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Registration.htm>.
NINCH has organized one session at DRH: Details and an abstract follow:
Coming Together: Three Comparative U. S. Approaches to Networking Cultural
Heritage
* AMERICAN HERITAGE VIRTUAL ARCHIVE PROJECT, Daniel Pitti, Institute for
Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville.
* AMERICAN STRATEGY, Kathleen McDonnell, Getty Information Institute.
* ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM, Kenneth Hamma, Getty Museum
Session Chair: David Green, National initiative for a Networked Cultural
Heritage
This session will report on three exemplary projects from different domains
at different stages of development and with different economic, technical
and organizational strategies for integrating and providing access to
cultural heritage materials in the U.S. Strategies include decisions about
centralized versus decentralized delivery systems, SGML against HTML
encoding, defining different primary audiences and different funding
mechanisms.
The American Heritage Virtual Archive Project brings together four
university archives to create a shared test-bed database of EAD-encoded
finding aids describing and providing access to collections documenting
American history and culture. AMICO is a consortium of 23 art museums
across North America currently building a testbed library of 20,000 digital
images and metadata for licensing to educational institutions. American
Strategy is organizing unified access to cultural heritage collections in
diverse U.S. Government federal agencies (from the National Park Service to
the Department of Defense).
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American Heritage Virtual Archive Project
The American Heritage Virtual Archive (AHVA) Project was a collaborative
project involving the University of Virginia, Stanford University, Duke
University, and the University of California, Berkeley. AHVA was funded by
the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities from June 1996 to December
1997.
The major objective of AHVA was exploring the intellectual, political, and
technical challenges of building a centralized database of archival finding
aids providing access to dispersed primary resources documenting the
history and culture of the United States. Among the intellectual issues
explored were the potential impact of new kinds of users on archival
description, and extending and developing descriptive and technical
apparatus for linking dispersed but related archival materials. All digital
collaborative projects and programs have political dimensions that need to
be taken into account if they are to be successful. The AHVA, from this
perspective, can be looked upon as an exercise in "community building." A
central component of the "community building" was the development of "an
acceptable range of uniform practice" in the application of Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) in converting a large body of diverse archival
finding aids that are mounted in one database. While acknowledging that it
would be desirable to base the AHVA on distributed client-server
architecture, the project instead focused on centralized publishing of the
finding aids at Berkeley, with the creation and maintenance of the finding
aids distributed among the collaborators. This approach was taken to allow
participants to focus on the complex technical and intellectual issues
involved in uniform encoding without being distracted by the more general
problems of client-server architecture.
AHVA has had a major impact on the University of California Encoded
Archival Description Project, and its successor, the Online Archive of
California (OAC), as well as on other emerging international, national, and
regional archival description projects. The OAC is a cooperative program
administered by the California Digital Library in the University of
California System. There are now more than 25 archives, libraries, and
museums in the OAC, representing all nine campuses in the University of
California System, the California State Library, the California State
Historical Society, several campuses in the California State Colleges and
Universities System, and several private universities and museums. The
Research Libraries Group (RLG) is planning to make "Archival Resources"
available for subscription early this September. "Archival Resources" will
provide union access to finding aids from repositories throughout the
world. Rather than mounting all finding aids on its own server, RLG intends
to provide a union index to finding aids distributed around the Internet.
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Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
The Art Museum Image Consortium <http://www.amn.org/AMICO/> is one
outgrowth of the very fruitful Museum Educational Site Licensing project,
sponsored by the Getty Information Institute
<http://www.gii.getty.edu/index/mesl.html>. AMICO is a new nonprofit
subscription-based organization currently consisting of 23 major art
museums in North America, formed with the intent of providing educational
institutions with a library of digital images accompanied by rich
documenting and contextualizing metadata. Some works will also be
accompanied by additional images, audio clips, and moving images. The AMICO
Library will grow over time to represent the full range of materials in the
collections of member institutions. A preliminary library of 20,000 images
and metadata is currently being prepared for a test-bed year (1998-99)
working with 22 colleges and universities and full implementation will be
available to any higher-education institution for the following academic
year. Licenses for public library use are also being developed. In
consultation with the academic community, AMICO has developed a license for
the use of its digital library that supports traditional academic uses and
expands the potential for uses that take advantage of new technology. This
license addresses concerns voiced by academic users to enable "electronic
reserves", remote access, faculty assemblage of specific materials for
student review, and the incorporation of licensed materials into student
projects, portfolios and theses.
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American Strategy
American Strategy is a visionary partnership initiative joining
federal collecting departments and agencies, including the Smithsonian
Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the
National Park Service, the National Archives and Records
Administration, and the Department of Defense, with the Institute of
Museum and Library Services, the American Association of Museums, and
the Getty Information Institute in a collaborative approach to:
* improve communication among the federal repositories about their
cultural collections;
* define and share best practices for providing access to such
information on the Internet;
* coordinate the development and implementation of information
standards; and
* initiate unified public-private strategies to develop on-line access
to cultural information.
The vision of the American Strategy initiative is to extend public
service to provide a broad, global audience with deeper, meaningful
access to cultural heritage resources held in American federal
collections. The Strategy's objectives are to:
* demonstrate federal agencies' commitment to develop access to
America's cultural resources, realizing the public's right to access
their collections;
* increase ease of information sharing among agencies;
* extend federal cultural technology initiatives beyond wiring and
hardware to content and context, and
* improve evaluation and audience feedback mechanisms, quality controls,
and standards.
American Strategy has already begun to meet its objectives. During
Summer 1998 more than two dozen federal agencies and museums began
participation in a collective gateway to offer access to their
digitized collections on the Internet. In conjunction with this,
American Strategy participants contributed information and staff
expertise to an on-line demonstration project, led by the Getty
Information Institute, that will illustrate American ideals, American
places, and American accomplishments. Through this proof-of-concept
project American Strategy will consider how best to support searching
across multiple databases, how sophisticated search methods can be
applied to meet a wide range of research needs, how new technologies
can use images to seek similar images, and how information might be
thematically compiled to create educational resources.
The public's demand for more and better quality information will be
the continuing impetus for the federal agencies as they work together
to integrate their offerings, provide additional context, seek
partnerships with technology corporations to develop sophisticated
navigation and retrieval tools, and work with teachers to improve
educational offerings for the elementary school student to the
life-long learner.
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