Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 762.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (51)
Subject: workshop on temporal and spatial processing
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (26)
Subject: FINAL CFP: ACL-2001 Workshop on Human Language
Technology
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (31)
Subject: Beyond the Museum: Working with Collections in the
Digital Age
[4] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (27)
Subject: CFP: ACL-2001 Workshop on Data-Driven Machine
Translation
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:44:25 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: workshop on temporal and spatial processing
>> From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP ON
TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL
INFORMATION PROCESSING
http://epsilon3.georgetown.edu/~discours/spacetime.html
ACL-2001 Conference
Toulouse, France
July 7, 2001
Temporal and spatial information is ubiquitous in natural language, yet
many challenging computational issues are relatively unexplored. This
workshop will bring together researchers working on a variety of tasks
that depend on representing spatial and temporal information in natural
language.
We invite papers on any topic dealing with automatic processing of
spatial or temporal information in natural language. We welcome papers
describing theoretical or practical work addressing issues in this area.
As a special theme of this workshop, we would also like to encourage the
discussion of common issues across spatial and temporal domains. For
example, systems that process temporal or spatial information need to
deal with *absolute* references ("November 18, 1999", "Toulouse"), as well as
relative references ("now", "here", "two weeks ago", "thirty miles north
of Paris"), and vague references ("some time in June", "a town in
Provence", "nearly a year ago", "near Dusseldorf", "Tuesday morning", "southern
England"). There are also many parallels between the way events are
characterized in time and objects are characterized in space. For
example, events can be described relative to some point or interval in time
(e.g., "I met John yesterday", "he was crossing the street") while objects in
space can be described in relation to some place, object, or in terms of
movement (e.g., "the cup was on top of that", "it fell off").
Topics
The topics covered will include corpus-based, knowledge-based, and
hybrid approaches to:
* resolution of temporal and spatial references, especially
discourse-dependent ones
* standards for encoding the values of temporal and spatial
expressions in natural language
* temporal and spatial characterization of events
* establishing coreference, ordering and inclusion relations in spatial
or temporal information
* computational analysis of tense and aspect
* semantics of indeterminate or vague temporal and spatial references
* semantics and pragmatics of spatial and temporal prepositions
* leveraging of ontologies for spatial and temporal information
* reasoning about modals, i.e., possible events, necessary events,
counterfactual events, etc.
* application of logics for spatial and temporal reasoning
* analysis of temporal and spatial aspects of narrative structure
* generation of temporal and spatial references
* linguistic and graphical representations
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:45:20 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: FINAL CFP: ACL-2001 Workshop on Human Language Technology
>> From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
**** FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ****
WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
ACL/EACL 2001 Conference
Toulouse, France
July 6-7, 2001
Human language technologies promise solutions to challenges in human
computer interaction, information access, and knowledge management.
Advances in technology areas such as indexing, retrieval, transcription,
extraction, translation, and summarization offer new capabilities for
learning, playing and conducting business. This includes enhanced
awareness, creation and dissemination of enterprise expertise and know-how.
This workshop aims to bring together the community of computational
linguists working in a range of areas (e.g., speech and language
processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation, content
extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human language
technology, their application to knowledge management and to establish a
road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade. The road
map will comprise an analysis of the present situation, a vision of where
we want to be in ten years from now, and a number of intermediate
milestones that would help in setting intermediate goals and in measuring
our progress towards our goals.
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WEBSITE
A Workshop web site has been set up at
http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html.
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:48:43 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Beyond the Museum: Working with Collections in the
Digital Age
>> From: Stuart Lee <stuart.lee@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Beyond the Museum: Working with Collections in the Digital Age
Friday 20 April 2001
The Oxford Union Debating Chamber
Organised jointly by: Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford, and
the MDA
<META>Cultural Heritage, Museums, Libraries, Archives, Collections,
Dumbing Down</META>
****DRAFT PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE****
Speakers include: Lynne Brindley, British Library; Christopher Brown,
Ashmolean Museum; Stephen Hepple, Ultralab; Chris Yapp, ICL Fellow; Mike
Houlihan, Ulster Museum; Shirley Collier, Imperial War Museum; Josie
Appleton, Spiked On-Line; John Wilson, BBC Radio 4; Ross Parry, Leicester
University; and Bamber Gascoigne, Broadcaster and HistoryWorld.
Is the new digital age the answer to the prayers of museums, archives, and
libraries? Does it free up collections allowing unprecedented access
facilities for scholars and the public? Or is it all built on a house of
cards? Do the new technologies really offer us anything, and are they
sidetracking the holders of the nation's heritage into areas that really
have unproven benefits? Is funding being diverted away from more needy
services? Can the museum, or similar institution, actually survive in such
a fast-changing culture?
These questions and many more will be answered in the one-day colloquium
'Beyond the Museum'. For the last six years the Humanities Computing Unit
(HCU) has organised a series of successful events which have discussed the
place of technology in the spheres of literature, learning, and our
cultural resources. In 2000 we brought together a number of illustrious
speakers in the Oxford Union to discuss whether the Internet was 'Beyond
Control' (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/). This year the HCU is teaming
up with the MDA (http://www.mda.org.uk) to present a discussion focusing
on the nature of our cultural heritage in the digital age.
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:50:15 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: CFP: ACL-2001 Workshop on Data-Driven Machine Translation
>> From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
WORKSHOP ON DATA-DRIVEN MACHINE TRANSLATION
7 July 2001
Toulouse, France
http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/MT.html
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With the increased availability of online corpora, data-driven
approaches have become central to the NL community. A variety of
data-driven approaches have been used to help build Machine
Translation systems -- example-based, statistical MT, and other
machine learning approaches -- and there are all sorts of
possibilities for hybrid systems. We wish to bring together proponents
of as many techniques as possible to engage in a discussion of which
combinations will yield maximal success in translation.
We propose to center the workshop on Data Driven MT, by which we mean
all approaches which develop algorithms and programs to exploit data
in the development of MT, primarily the use of large bilingual corpora
created by human translators, and serving as a source of training data
for MT systems. The workshop will focus on the following topics:
- statistical machine translation (modeling, training, search)
- machine-learning in translation
- example-based machine translation
- acquisition of multilingual training data
- evaluation of data driven methods (also with rule-based methods)
- combination of various translation systems; integration of classical
rule-based and data driven approaches
- word/sentence alignment
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