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               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 408.
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   [1] From: "J. Trant" <jtrant_at_archimuse.com> (62)
         Subject: Museums and the Web 2005: Preliminary Program and
                 Registration On-line

   [2] From: "Spenader J.K." <j.k.spenader_at_let.rug.nl> (83)
         Subject: CFP: Cross modular approaches to ellipsis; ESSLLI
                 workshop

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         Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:31:45 +0000
         From: "J. Trant" <jtrant_at_archimuse.com>
         Subject: Museums and the Web 2005: Preliminary Program and
Registration On-line

          Museums and the Web 2005
          Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
          April 13 - April 16, 2005
          http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/

Join hundreds of your professional colleagues from around the world for the
international conference devoted to culture and heritage on-line: the ninth
annual Museums and the Web.

** Preliminary Program Available **
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Full details of the MW2005 program are now on-line. Descriptions of 11
pre-conference workshops, over 50 papers, 25 mini-workshops and 4
professional fora, a usability lab, and the Crit Rooms will help you choose
what to attend. The program for MW2005 was peer-reviewed by an
International Program Committee.

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2004 to propose to demonstrate your Web site. See
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are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Our thanks to the Government of Canada for their contributions to MW2005
through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian
Culture Online (CCO) initiatives of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

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We hope to see you there!

jennifer and David

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David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2005
April 13-16, 2005, Vancouver BC Archives & Museum Informatics
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         Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:32:39 +0000
         From: "Spenader J.K." <j.k.spenader_at_let.rug.nl>
         Subject: CFP: Cross modular approaches to ellipsis; ESSLLI workshop
Call for Papers
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Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis
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   Workshop August 8-12, and organized as part of the 17th European Summer
School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) August 8-19, 2005,
Edinburgh, Scotland
Workshop Organizers:
   Jennifer Spenader (j.spenader(a)gmail.com)
   Petra Hendriks (p.hendriks(a)let.rug.nl)
Workshop Purpose
The area of ellipsis resolution and generation has long been neglected in work
on natural language processing, and there are few examples of systems or
computational algorithms. However, the misuse or non-use of ellipsis in
highly preferred contexts can make a dialogue difficult to understand similar
to the way inappropriate referential expressions can impede comprehension.
This workshop will provide a forum for researchers to present data that give
insights into the nature and function of ellipsis from a discourse
perspective as well as present methods to deal with ellipsis in NLP
applications.
   Additionally, we encourage discussion about how information from several
knowledge sources (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, world knowledge) can be
used to resolve and generate elliptical expressions, emphasizing approaches
that draw on empirical results or have been tested in actual implementations.
   More specifically, we encourage contributions related to :
* implemented ellipsis resolution algorithms that incorporate information from
more than one linguistic module
* appropriate generation of ellipsis
* studies of ellipsis in dialogue and the relation of ellipsis to discourse
structure
* formalized treatments of ellipsis that incorporate semantic, pragmatic and
discourse structural information
* corpus studies of ellipitical phenomena
* elicitation tasks that give insights into interpretation or generation of
elliptical phenomena
Submission details:
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract. Submissions should not
exceed 6 pages. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS, ASCII text.
Please send your submission by email to j.spenader(a)gmail.com by the
deadline listed below. As reviewing will be blind, please refrain from
including identifying information on submitted abstracts. Instead the
accompanying email should contain contact information about the author(s).
The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's Program Committee and
additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings published by ESSLLI. The final versions will be done and latex
and more information will be given later to accepted authors.
Workshop format:
   The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It
will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in
the first or second week (not yet determined) of ESSLLI. There will be two
slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the
workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic.
Invited speakers
   Dan Hardt (Copenhagen Business School)
   Gerhard Jaeger (University of Bielefield)
Important Dates
   Submissions: March 9, 2005
   Notification: April 18, 2005
   Preliminary programme: April 23, 2005
   ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2005
   Final papers for proceedings: May 18, 2005
   Final programme: June 22, 2005
   Workshop dates: August 8-12, 2005
Program Committee
   Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)
   Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen)
   Oesten Dahl (Stockholm University)
   Dan Hardt (Copenhagen Business School)
   Jack Hoeksema (University of Groningen)
   Gerhard Jaeger (University of Bielefield)
Jason Merchant (University of Chicago)
   Mariet Theune (University of Twente)
Local Arrangements:
   All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to
register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will
correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. Moreover,
a number of additional fee waiver grants will be made available by the OC on
a competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for
those. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation.
Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the
local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant.
Further information:
   About ESSLLI 2005: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/
   About the workshop: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/giveabs.php?16