Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 593.
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[1] From: Paul Dekker <dekker@HUM.UVA.NL> (10)
Subject: 14-the Amsterdam Colloquium, First CfP
[2] From: Patrick SAINT-DIZIER <stdizier@irit.fr> (69)
Subject: workshop on prepositions
[3] From: "OESI Informa" <informaoesi@cervantes.es> (121)
Subject: Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
[4] From: "NASSLLI'03 Bloomington, Indiana" (17)
<nasslli@INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: NASSLLI 2003. Registration is open now.
[5] From: Evolab <cfp@evolab.ece.nus.edu.sg> (29)
Subject: Call for Papers: Evolutionary Scheduling Session in
CEC'2003
[6] From: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org> (88)
Subject: NINCH SYMPOSIUM: The Price of Digitization: April 8,
New York City
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:26:40 +0100
From: Paul Dekker <dekker@HUM.UVA.NL>
Subject: 14-the Amsterdam Colloquium, First CfP
First Call for Papers for the Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium
Amsterdam, December 19 --- 21, 2003
[The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers,
logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study
of the semantics of natural and formal languages.]
The call for papers for the 14-th Amsterdam Colloquium is now available at:
With kind regards,
Paul Dekker, on behalf of the Organizing Committee,
14-th Amsterdam Colloquium
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:27:42 +0100
From: Patrick SAINT-DIZIER <stdizier@irit.fr>
Subject: workshop on prepositions
<<< NEW DEADLINE: April 25th !! >>>>
Call for Papers :
ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on
The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and
their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications.
September 4-6, 2003, Toulouse, France
Endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL's Special Interest Group in Computational
Semantics.
A great deal of attention has been devoted in the past ten years in
the linguistic and computational linguistics communities to the syntax
and the semantics of nouns, verbs and also, but to a lesser extent, to
adjectives. Related phenomena such as quantification or tense and
aspect have motivated a number of in-depth studies and projects. In
contrast, prepositions have received less attention. The reasons are
quite clear: prepositions are probably the most polysemic category,
possibly more so than adjectives, and linguistic realizations are
extremely difficult to predict, not to mention the difficulty of
identifying cross-linguistic regularities.
Let us mention, however, several projects devoted to prepositions
expressing space, time and movement in AI and in NLP, and also the
development of formalisms and heuristics to handle PP attachment
ambiguities. Let us also mention the large number of studies in
psycholinguistics and in ethnolinguistics around specific preposition
senses. Finally, prepositions seem to reach a very deep level in the
cognitive-semantic structure of the brain: cognitive grammar
developers often use prepositions in their metalanguage, in order to
express very primitive notions. An important and difficult question to
address, is whether these notions are really primitive or can be
decomposed and lexically analysed
In argument structure, prepositions often play the crucial role of a
mediator between the verb's expectations and the semantics of the
nominal argument. The verb-preposition-noun semantic interactions are
very subtle, but totally crucial for the development of an accurate
semantics of the proposition. Let us note that a number of languages
have postpositions or other markers like case instead of prepositions
that play a quite similar role. Finally, languages like English have
verbal compounds that integrate prepositions (compositionally or as
collocations) while others, like Romance languages or Hindi either
incorporate the preposition or include it in the prepositional
phrase. All these configurations are semantically as well as
syntactically of much interest.
Prepositions turn out to be a very useful category in a number of
applications such as indexing and knowledge extraction since they
convey basic meanings of much interest like instruments, means,
comparisons, amounts, approximations, localizations, etc. They must
necessarily be taken into account---and rendered accurately---for
effective machine translation and lexical choice in language
generation.
Prepositions are also closely related to semantic structures such as
thematic roles, semantic templates or frames. From a linguistic
perspective, several investigations have been carried out on quite
diverse languages, emphasizing e.g., monolingual and cross-linguistic
contrasts or the role of prepositions in syntactic alternations. These
observations cover in general a small group of closely related
prepositions. The semantic characterization of prepositions has also
motivated the emergence of a few dedicated logical frameworks and
reasoning procedures.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together linguists, NLP
researchers and practitioners, and AI people in order to define a
common ground, to advance the state-of-the-art, to identify the
primary issues and bottlenecks, and to promote future
collaborations. If appropriate, the workshop will also establish a
working group and the development of projects and resources.
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Contacts :
Submissions and inquiries : stdizier@irit.fr and submissions also to :
patrick_saintdizier@yahoo.fr
Local organizing committee : Farah Benamara, Patrick Saint-Dizier
WEB site: www.irit.fr/cgi-bin/voir-congres
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:30:06 +0100
From: "OESI Informa" <informaoesi@cervantes.es>
Subject: Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
SEPLN 2003
Second Call for Proposals
SEPLN 2003
XIX CONGRESO DE
LA SOCIEDAD ESPAOLA PARA EL PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL (SEPLN)
(19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing SEPLN)
September 10-12, 2003
Universidad de Alcal de Henares
Alcal de Henares (Madrid)
<http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln>http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln
Introduction
The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
(SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcal de Henares
(Madrid, Spain). As in previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this
Conference is to promote the dissemination of research, development and
innovation activities conducted by Spanish and foreign researchers in the
field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will provide a
forum for discussion and communication to facilitate an effective exchange
of knowledge and scientific materials that are necessary for promoting the
publication of relevant work and the establishment of means of
collaboration with national and international Institutions that are active
in this field.
Objectives
The main motivation of this conference is to provide the business and
scientific communities with an ideal forum for presenting their latest
research work and developments in the field of Natural Language Processing,
as well as to demonstrate the possibilities offered by these solutions and
to know about new projects. Consequently, the 19th SEPLN Conference is a
meeting place for presenting results and exchanging ideas concerning the
present state of development in this field of knowledge.
Furthermore, there is the intention of meeting the goal, achieved in
previous editions, of identifying future paths for basic research and
foreseen software applications, in order to compare them against the market
needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in
helping new professionals to become active members in this field.
Topics
Researchers and businesses are encouraged to send communications, project
abstracts or demonstrations related to any of the following topics:
Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language
Corpus linguistics
Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval
Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis
Computational Lexicography
Monolingual and multilingual text generation
Machine translation
Speech synthesis and recognition
Semantics, pragmatics and discourse
Word sense disambiguation
NLP industrial applications
Automatic textual content analysis
Structure of the Conference
The Conference will last three days, with sessions dedicated to presenting
papers, ongoing research projects, prototype product demonstrations or
products connected with topics addressed in the conference. Scientific
activities will be complemented by social and tourist activities, allowing
attendants to gain a better understanding about the social and cultural
dimensions of Alcal de Henares.
Communications
Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or system-related proposals, to
be presented at the demonstration sessions, earlier than May 16, 2003.
Proposals must meet certain format and style requirements
Both the delivery and revision of proposals will be done exclusively in
electronic format (PostScript or PDF). Proposals will include a title, the
complete names of the authors, their address, telephone, fax and e-mail.
Proposals will meet the following requirements (concerning the final
version, please check the publication formatsection):
The proposals will be presented in Spanish or English
Inclusion of an abstract (maximum 150 words)
Related topic
Overall maximum length will be 3,500 words (including the abstract)
The proposals will be anonymously revised. Therefore, two separate files
will be submitted, one will only include the title and author details, the
other will only include the title and the rest of the proposal
Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will follow the style
requirements that are described in the publication format section in this
website
Authors will submit their proposals through the following web system:
<https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html>https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html
Projects and Demos
As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give oral
presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of
oral presentations, any session may be reserved to this purpose. Proposals
must meet certain format and style requirements for presentations.
For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information
must be included:
- Project title
- Funding institution
- Participant groups in the project
- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the project director
- Abstract (2 pages maximum)
- If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be
included, as indicated below
For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory:
- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors
- Abstract (2 pages maximum)
- Time estimation for the whole presentation
- This information must be received by June 10, 2003
Publication Format
The final version of the article will be sent before June 27, 2003 through
a web system:
<https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html>https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html
- Documents must not include headers or footings
- Maximum length will be 8 pages DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm), included references
and figures.
- In the case of demonstrations and projects, maximum length will be 2 pages.
Articles will be sent in Postscript or PDF format.
LaTeX format
Authors using LaTeX format may download from the Conference website the
following style package zip file: latex_new.zip which contains document and
bibliography styles, as well as an example showing existing possibilities.
Word format
Authors using Microsoft Word or compatible may download from the Conference
website the following zip file: word_new.zip which includes a pattern file
in RTF format and an example showing existing editing possibilities.
Important Dates
Dates for submission and notifications of acceptance:
- Deadline for submitting abstracts: May 16, 2003
- Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2003
- Deadline for submitting the final version: June 27, 2003
- Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 10, 2003
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:33:30 +0100
From: "NASSLLI'03 Bloomington, Indiana" <nasslli@INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: NASSLLI 2003. Registration is open now.
Registration for NASSLLI 2003 is now open.
For details, please visit
http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/registration.html
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NASSLLI 2003
http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli
The main focus of NASSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic,
and computation, broadly conceived, and on related fields. NASSLLI is a
week-long summer school featuring courses on many topics of interest to
students and researchers. Some of the course topics are introductory,
while others are advanced courses that bring students to areas of active
research.
The instructors are leading researchers who like teaching in
interdisciplinary settings. Three of the courses involve work in computer
labs as well.
Please join us for a week of learning!
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:30:53 +0100
From: Evolab <cfp@evolab.ece.nus.edu.sg>
Subject: Call for Papers: Evolutionary Scheduling Session in CEC'2003
Dear Researcher,
The Congress on Evolutionary Computation, co-sponsored by the IEEE
Neural Networks Society, the Evolutionary Programming Society, the
IEAust, and the IEE, is the leading international conference in the
field. The 2003 Congress will be held in Canberra, Australia, from
8-12th December, 2003.
Prof. Edmund K. Burke, Dr Graham Kendall and Dr Kay Chen Tan are
co-organizing a special session on Evolutionary Scheduling within the
CEC'2003 (http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/cec_2003/index.html). The session
will cover all aspects of evolutionary scheduling and related issues. It
hopes to attract a balance of applied and theoretical papers from across
the evolutionary computing and meta-heuristic research communities.
Typical examples of such problems include rostering, machine scheduling,
timetabling, vehicle routing, resource assignment, planning, etc.
All papers (Microsoft Word or PDF files) should be submitted to Prof.
Edmund K. Burke (ekb@Cs.Nott.AC.UK), Dr Graham Kendall
(gxk@Cs.Nott.AC.UK) or Dr Kay Chen Tan (eletankc@nus.edu.sg) with the
following schedule:
Submission of papers: 14th June 2003
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 9th August 2003
Camera-ready paper: 9th September 2003
Format of the paper could be obtained from
http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/cec_2003/index.html. Papers will be
peer-reviewed following the same procedure as regular papers submitted
to CEC'2003.
Evolutionary Scheduling Session Co-Organizers:
Prof. Edmund K. Burke
Dr Graham Kendall
Dr Kay Chen Tan
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:36:09 +0100
From: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH SYMPOSIUM: The Price of Digitization: April 8, New
York City
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
April 1, 2003
REGISTRATION STILL OPEN
NINCH SYMPOSIUM
The Price of Digitization:
New Cost Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions
http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.html
* Tuesday, April 8, 2003 *
9:00am - 5pm
New York Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City
A Digitization Symposium Presented by the
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
and
Innodata
Co-sponsored by the New York Public Library
and New York University
Free to the Public: Registration Required
http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.register.html
* * * *
Given the very strong response to the initial announcement of this
NINCH-Innodata Symposium, a larger room has been found and registration is
still open. See the web page for all confirmed speakers, speaker
information and a growing resource page. Registration closes 1pm (Eastern)
Friday April 4.
* * * *
How does an institution begin to cost a digitization project? What are the
elements to be included? Are there available models that can assist? What
are the budgetary and structural ramifications for an institution when it
moves from producing digitization projects to implementing a digitization
program that is core to the future of the organization and its offerings to
its public? When and how does an institution figure out how and what to
charge for its digital resources?
These are some of the questions to be answered in a free, one-day symposium
organized by NINCH in collaboration with Innodata, a NINCH Corporate
Council Member.
The meeting will feature a keynote address by Donald Waters, Program
Officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has encouraged the
development of economic models of digital sustainability that include cost
and charging models. A panel of speakers, representing commercial vendors
and nonprofit projects will report on how costs are determined in text,
image digitization and scholarly publishing projects.
How does digital preservation fit into this? A panel will examine the cost
considerations of various digital preservation strategies.
These panels will be followed by a discussion of the institutional changes
that are being wrought as digitization projects are gathered into
sustainable programs that are becoming core to the organization.
Participants also will hear from those who have been engaged in determining
pricing strategies for distributing digital resources in various markets.
Confirmed speakers include:
* Jack Abuhoff, Innodata
* Carrie Bickner New York Public Library
* Maria Bonn, Making of America, University of Michigan
* Stephen Chapman, Harvard University
* Nancy Harm, Luna Imaging
* Michael Lesk, The Internet Archive
* Tom Moritz, American Museum of Natural History
* Dan Pence, Systems Integration Group
* Steven Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration
* Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
* Christie Stephenson Digital Conversion Services University of Michigan
Library
* Donald Waters, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
* Eli Willner, Innodata
* Kate Wittenberg, Electronic Publishing Initiative, Columbia University
This symposium has been organized partly in support of the First Edition of
the "NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation &
Management of Cultural Heritage Materials," (http://www.ninch.org/guide).
"The Price of Digitization" should prove particularly useful in further
developing and updating the information and advice given in the NINCH
Guide's sections on cost models and workflow - see the Guide's chapter on
"Project Planning" (http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/II/).
The meeting is free but registration is required. Please register at
http://www.ninch/forum/price.register.html. If there is a problem with
registration please send your details to <mailto:ninch@ninch.org>.
Registration will close at 1pm (Eastern) Friday April 4.
--David L. Green, Ph.D. Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org tel: 202.296.5346 fax: 202.872.0886
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