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[1] From: Soraj Hongladarom <hsoraj_at_chula.ac.th> (70)
Subject: Call: World Congress on the Power of Language
[2] From: saggion <h.saggion_at_dcs.shef.ac.uk> (78)
Subject: Last CPF: Summarization Workshop/RANLP 2005
[3] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI)" <cfp2005_at_micai.org> (18)
Subject: CFP: MICAI-2005 Artificial Intelligence, Springer
LNAI: one week submission reminder and CFP
[4] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (NWeSP)" <nwesp_at_micai.org> (40)
Subject: CFP: NWeSP-2005 Web Services conference, IEEE:
submission reminder and CFP
[5] From: Helen Ashman <hla_at_CS.NOTT.AC.UK> (39)
Subject: CW2005: submission dateline 25 May
[6] From: Helen Ashman <hla_at_CS.NOTT.AC.UK> (17)
Subject: WDA 2005 Deadline Extension
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Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:36:27 +0100
From: Soraj Hongladarom <hsoraj_at_chula.ac.th>
Subject: Call: World Congress on the Power of Language
ANNOUNCEMENT
1st World Congress on the Power of Language:
Theory, Practice and Performance
Date: March 6 - 10, 2006
Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.poweroflanguage.org/
(Information on how to register and how to send abstracts can be found in
the website.)
Abstract Sumission Deadline: October 31, 2005
On this very auspicious occasion, Thai people will join hands with
linguists and scholars around the world to organize an international
conference entitled "The Power of Language: Theory, Practice and
Performance" to celebrate the 50th Birthday Anniversary of the beloved
H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, a world linguist scholar, for her
dedication to languages.
A World Forgotten Fact: The Power of Language
As the world becomes more globalized, language is unquestionably an
international issue as well as a national agenda that requires attention
from all. Language is a success key to social, economic, political, and
cultural development. Inventions will not be utilized widely at the fullest
extent; national development ideas cannot be immersed into and implemented
in communities unless they are well communicated to create local
understanding through appropriate languages. Conflicts and their
resolutions within and among countries are examples to prove how great an
impact language could bring to the world at large. The power of Language
goes beyond spoken or written words. Unless we are able to really
understand each other, and learn more about the world and people through
language, it is not possible to have sustainable development and peace.
To know the power of language is thus essential for global
socio-economic, cultural and academic development, community capacity
building, transfer of technology, international trade, international
relations, laws and legal interactions, human relationships and people,
quality of life, esthetics, and world existence.
The attempt to understand each other is prerequisite if we are to live
and interact in the world. Through language, when information is
transferred for various purposes, what we get in addition is to understand
each other. In this context, translation and interpretation are unique
human ability subsuming the most effective discipline to fulfill world
communication and understanding where the plethora of languages is used
which is beyond one's ability to learn.
Many research studies on languages have been undertaken worldwide;
nevertheless, a few have been effectively put beyond practice into real
performance including reaching the application in societal development.
This is further confirmed by the paradox of knowledge-based society in that
limited existing effective research findings have been distributed even
though there are unlimited available channels. This leads to a serious
deficit in communication and cultural understanding in the world today.
We fully share the rationale behind the U.S. and Europe Year of Languages
Projects, and further consider that language is an essential indicator of
success, not only of a nation but also the whole world at large. With our
intervention, support, promotion, and management as scholars, linguists,
development advocates, language specialists, translators, interpreters,
writers, teachers, students, all language users, the power of language
would no longer be underestimated.
We would like to invite multidisciplinary scholars, experts, and
researchers, multidisciplinary professionals, government officials,
politicians, development advocates, NGO members, private sector,
academicians, educators, linguists, writers, translators, interpreters,
technologists, teachers, students around the world to share knowledge,
findings and experiences on this world forgotten fact.
-- Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, Thailand Tel. +66(0)22 18 47 56; Fax +66(0)22 18 47 55 ASEAN-EU LEMLIFE Project: http://www.asean-eu-lemlife.org/ The 2nd Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference: http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/CAP/AP-CAP.html Personal: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:38:37 +0100 From: saggion <h.saggion_at_dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: Last CPF: Summarization Workshop/RANLP 2005 Crossing Barriers in Text Summarization Research Workshop to be help in conjunction with *** RANLP 2005 *** Borovets - Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005 *** 24th of September 2005 *** Third and Last Call for Papers *** Submission: 3 June 2005 *** An abstract or summary is a text of a recognisable genre with a very specific purpose: to give the reader an exact and concise knowledge of the contents of a source document. In most cases, summaries are written by humans, but nowadays, the overwhelming quantity of information and the need to access the essential content of documents accurately to satisfy users' demands has made of Automatic Text Summarization a major research field. Most summarization solutions developed today perform sentence extraction, a useful, yet sometimes inadequate technique. In order to move from the sentence extraction paradigm to a more challenging, semantically and linguistically motivated 'abstracting' paradigm, significant linguistic (i.e., lexicons, grammars, etc.) as well as non-linguistic knowledge (i.e., ontologies, scripts, etc.) will be required. Some 'abstracting' problems like 'headline generation', have been recently addressed using language models that rely on little semantic information, what are the limits of these approaches when trying to generate multi-sentence discourses? What tools are there to support 'text abstraction'? What type of natural language generation techniques are appropriate in this context? Are general purpose natural language generation systems appropriate in this task? Professional abstractors play a mayor role in dissemination of information through abstract writing, and their work has many times inspired research on automatic text summarization, they are certainly one of the keys in the understanding of the summarization process. Therefore, what tools are there to support Computer-Assisted Summarization and more specifically how these tools can be used to capture 'professional summarization' knowledge? In a multi-lingual context, summaries are useful instruments in overcoming the language barrier: cross-lingual summaries help users assess the relevance of the source, before deciding to obtain a good human translation of the source. This topic is particularly important in a context where the relevant information only exists in a language different from that of the user. What techniques are there to attack this new and challenging issue? What corpora would be appropriate for the study of this task? The ``news'' has been a traditional concern of summarization research, but we have seen, in the past few years, an increasing interest for summarization applications on technical and scientific texts, patient records, sport events, legal texts, educative material, e-mails, web pages, etc. The question then, is how to adapt summarization algorithms to new domains and genres. Machine learning algorithms over superficial features have been used in the past to decide upon a number of indicators of content relevance, but when the feature space is huge or when more ``linguistically'' motivated features are required, and as a consequence the data sparseness problem appears, what learning tools are more appropriate for training our summarization algorithms? What types of models should be learned (e.g., macrostructures, scripts, thematic structures, etc.)? Text summarization, information retrieval, and question answering support humans in gathering vital information in everyday activities. How these tools can be effectively integrated in practical applications? and how such applications can be evaluated in a practical context? We call for contributions on any aspect of the summarization problem, but we would like the workshop to give the research community the opportunity for discussion of the following research problems: * Crossing the language barrier: cross-lingual summarization; corpora to support this summarization enterprise; * Crossing the extractive barrier: non-extractive summarization (i.e., text abstraction); resources for capturing abstraction knowledge or expertise; * Crossing genres, domains, and media: adaptation of summarization to new genres, domains, media, and tasks. * Crossing technological barriers: integration of summarization with other NLP technologies such as Question Answering and Information Retrieval. The workshop will be organized around paper presentations, panel discussions, and one invited talk. [...] *** For any further information please contact Horacio Saggion at h.saggion_at_dcs.shef.ac.uk --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:39:29 +0100 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI)" <cfp2005_at_micai.org> Subject: CFP: MICAI-2005 Artificial Intelligence, Springer LNAI: one week submission reminder and CFP 4th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MICAI 2005 November 14-18, 2005 Monterrey, Mexico www.MICAI.org/2005 Proceedings: Springer LNAI. Keynote speakers: John McCarthy, Tom Mitchell, Erick Cantu, Jaime Sichman; more to be announced. Submission: May 22 abstract; then full paper May 29. LAST CALL FOR PAPERS *** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** John McCarthy of Stanford is a pioneer of AI, creator of Lisp. Tom Mitchell of CMU is ex-President of AAAI. Erick Cantu of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Jaime Sichman of University of Sao Paulo. More speakers to be announces on webpage. [...] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:40:04 +0100 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (NWeSP)" <nwesp_at_micai.org> Subject: CFP: NWeSP-2005 Web Services conference, IEEE: submission reminder and CFP International Conference NWeSP-2005: Next Generation Web Services Practices August 23-27, 2005, Seoul, Korea www.NWeSP.org Submission deadline: June 1. Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press, USA. WeSP authors will have publishing opportunities in several special issues. Keynote speakers: - Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California at Irvine, - Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Research Division, USA, - Shim Yoon, Web Services Advance Force, Samsung, - David Du, University of Minnesota. In cooperation with: - IEEE Computer Society, - Task force on Electronic Commerce, - Technical Committee on Internet, - Technical Committee on Scaleable Computing, - The International World-Wide Web Conference Committee, IW3C2, - Microsoft, Korea. International Conference on Next generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'05) is a forum which brings together researchers and practitioners specializing on different aspects of Web based information systems. It will bring together the world's most respected authorities on semantic web, Web-based services, Web applications, Web enhanced business information systems, e-education specialists, Information security, and other Web related technologies. TOPICS: - Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design, - Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation, merging, linking, reconciliation), - Database Technologies for Web Services, - Customization, Reusability, Enhancements, - Information Security Issues, - Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance, - User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling, - Web Services Standards, - Autonomic Computing Paradigms, - Web Based e-Commerce, e-learning applications, - Grid Based Web Services. [...] --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:40:42 +0100 From: Helen Ashman <hla_at_CS.NOTT.AC.UK> Subject: CW2005: submission dateline 25 May 2005 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS 23-25 November 2005, Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore. _http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/cw2005_ organized by: School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in cooperation with: EUROGRAPHICS, ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGWEB, SIGecom, SIGART, SIGGRAPH (Singapore) CALL FOR PAPERS Paper submission: 25 May 2005 Cyberworlds are information worlds created on cyberspaces either intentionally or spontaneously, with or without visual design. Cyberworlds are closely related to the real world and have a serious impact on it. The conference will have four parallel tracks including but not limited to the following topics: A1: Shared Virtual Worlds A2: Distributed Virtual Environments A3: Collaborative Design and Manufacturing B1: Information Retrieval and Information Security B2: Data Mining and Warehousing in Cyberworlds B3: HCI and Humanised Interfaces in Cyberworlds C1: Philosophy, Evolution, and Ethics of Cyberworlds C2: Business Models in Cyberworlds D1: Cyberlearning D2: Cyberculture and Cyberarts CW2005 will provide an opportunity for scientists and engineers from around the world to share the latest research, ideas, and developments in these fields. The conference will consist of full paper sessions, short presentations, panels, tutorials, cyber art exhibition, industrial seminars, and hands-on demonstrations where research groups, vendors, and artists will show the state-of-the-art in the field. There will be also 3 workshops organised in parallel with the main conference program: - 1st International Workshop on Cultural Heritage and Edutainment in Virtual Environments (CHEVE 2005) _http://www.camtech.ntu.edu.sg/cyberworlds2005/index.html_ - 2nd International Workshop on Web Computing in Cyberworlds (WCCW 2005) _http://cse.seu.edu.cn/people/bwxu/chinese/main/Materials/CallForPapers/wccw2005cfp.htm_ - 2nd International Workshop on Language Understanding and Agents for Real World Interaction (LUAR 2005) _http://titech.serveftp.com/index.htm_ [...] --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:41:09 +0100 From: Helen Ashman <hla_at_CS.NOTT.AC.UK> Subject: WDA 2005 Deadline Extension WDA 2005 Third International Workshop on Web Document Analysis Seoul Olympic Parktel, Seoul, Korea August 28, 2005 Paper submission deadline: June 5, 2005 **extended** WDA 2005 home page: http://wda2005.blogspot.com/ In response to a number of requests, the deadline for submissions to WDA 2005 has been extended to June 5, 2005. Authors are encouraged to submit short papers related to any aspect of document analysis on the Web. Because we seek to foster discussion and interaction among researchers, we encourage authors to submit papers that describe work in progress. A complete listing of possible topics can be found in the Call For Papers on the WDA 2005 home page. Description of the venue can be found on the ICDAR 2005 home page: http://image.korea.ac.kr/icdar2005/ Workshop Co-Chairs Matthew Hurst Ethan MunsonReceived on Mon May 23 2005 - 03:10:29 EDT
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