LINGUIST List 10.181

Fri Feb 5 1999

Calls: Natural Lang Processing, Endangered Languages

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Marie Helene Candito, Natural Language Processing
2. rblight, Endangered Languages/Student Conference

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* Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese (Corse) *
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 TALN'99
 Cargese (Corse)
 du 12 au 17 juillet 1999


 DERNIER APPEL a COMMUNICATIONS ET EXTENSION DE DELAIS

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* NOUVELLE DATE LIMITE : 21 FEVRIER 1999 *
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 La sixieme edition de la conference sur le Traitement Automatique
des Langues Naturelles (TALN'99) se tiendra, du 12 au 17 juillet 1999,
a l'Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, Corse. Etendue cette
annee a une semaine, la conference comprendra des tutoriels et des
ateliers thematiques. TALN'99 est organisee sous l'egide de l'ATALA
(Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra
conjointement avec la conference RECITAL'99 (appel a communications a
paraitre separement).

 Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et
l'anglais.

THEMES

 Les communications, d'une duree de trente minutes, questions
comprises, pourront porter sur tous les themes habituels du TALN,
incluant, de facon non limitative:

 lexique morphologie syntaxe semantique
 pragmatique discours analyse generation
 resume dialogue traduction automatique
 approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques

 TALN'99 souhaite egalement accueillir des contributions de domaines
proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, tels que :

 aspects cognitifs
 terminologie, acquisition de connaissances a partir de textes
 extraction d'information
 recherche documentaire
 linguistique de corpus
 utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modelisation linguistique
 enseignement assiste par ordinateur
 linguistique mathematique

 Enfin, sont aussi attendus des travaux sur des applications du
TALN, specifiques, implementees et evaluees, faisant ressortir leurs
aspects scientifiques et les enseignements tires.

Des demonstrations de systemes pourront etre proposees, en complement
d'articles scientifiques. L'emploi du temps de la conference
comprendra une session pour ces demonstrations.

 En outre, le comite de programme selectionnera parmi les
communications acceptees deux articles pour publication (dans une
version etendue) dans la revue Traitement automatique des langues
(T.A.L.).


CALENDRIER

Nouvelle date limite de soumission : 21 fevrier 1999 
Notification aux auteurs : 12 avril 1999
Version finale : 10 mai 1999
Conference : 12-17 juillet 1999


CRITERES DE SELECTION

 Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre des travaux de recherche
originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications anterieures. Les
soumissions seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du
domaine. Seront considerees en particulier :

 - l'importance et l'originalite de la contribution,
 - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,
 - la discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par
 rapport aux autres travaux du domaine,
 - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
 internationale,
 - l'organisation et la clarte de la presentation,
 - l'adequation aux themes de la conference.

 Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la
conference.

MODALITES DE SOUMISSION

 Les soumissions seront anonymes ; elles ne devront donc comporter
aucun nom d'auteur ni auto-citation. Les articles soumis ne devront
pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ
3000 mots, figures, exemples et references compris. Une feuille de
style LaTeX et un modele Word sont ou seront tres bientot disponibles
sur le site web de la conference
(http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/). Les articles doivent
parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 21 fevrier 1999, en trois
exemplaires papier, et peuvent etre accompagnes d'une version
electronique.

LES ARTICLES DOIVENT MENTIONNER UN OU PLUSIEURS THEMES PARMI CEUX
PROPOSES DANS CET APPEL, AINSI QU'UNE LISTE DE MOTS-CLES, DONT LE
CHOIX EST LIBRE.

Adresse electronique: taln99linguist.jussieu.fr
Adresse postale: TALaNa - UFRL - Universite Paris 7
 Case 7003 - 2, place Jussieu
 75251 Paris Cedex 05 - France

Formats des soumissions electroniques :

 Les soumissions electroniques DOIVENT etre accompagnees d'une
soumission papier. Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission en
document attache a un courrier electronique adresse a
taln99linguist.jussieu.fr, avec pour titre "TALN submission". Une
page d'identification separee (contenant le titre de la communication,
le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale et electronique, le numero de
telephone et de fax de l'auteur) devra egalement etre attachee. L'un
des formats suivants doit IMPERATIVEMENT etre employe :

 - source LaTeX auto-suffisant (les styles non standards ou differents de 
ceux fournis pour taln'99 devront etre inclus dans le fichier source) ET 
PostScript

 OU

 - RTF (Word) ET PostScript

IMPORTANT : les versions PostScript doivent etre au format A4, et non
Lettre US.

INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES

Les informations pratiques seront precisees ulterieurement, notamment
sur le site web de la conference
(http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/)

Une reduction sera consentie aux membres de l'ATALA. L'inscription a
l'ATALA sera proposee conjointement a l'inscription a TALN'99.

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 TALN'99
 Cargese (Corsica, France)
 12 - 17 July 1999

 LAST CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEADLINE EXTENSION

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 The Sixth Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN'99) will
be held at the Institute for Scientific Studies at Cargese, Corsica,
France, 12. - 17. July, 1999. TALN'99 will last a whole week, and
will include both workshops and tutorials. TALN'99 is organized under
the auspices of ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des
Langues, Association for NLP) and will take place jointly with the
RECITAL'99 conference (call for papers to be issued separately).

 The official languages of the conference are French and English.
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 Papers are invited for thirty minute talks, question period
included, in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to) :

 lexicon morphology syntax semantics
 pragmatics discourse parsing text generation
 abstraction/summarization dialogue machine translation
 logical,symbolical and statistical approaches

TALN'99 also welcomes submissions from fields for which NLP plays an important 
role, as long as those submissions emphasize their NLP dimension.

 cognitive aspects
 terminology, knowledge acquisition
 information extraction
 documentary retrieval
 corpus linguistics
 management and acquisition of linguistic resources
 computer assisted learning
 mathematical linguistics
 NLP tools for linguistic modelization

 Also, TALN'99 invites submissions focusing on NLP applications
which have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasizing the
scientific aspects and conclusions drawn.

Demos can also be proposed, in addition to a standard paper. A
scheduled session for these demos is planned as part of the
conference.

 Moreover, the programme committee will select two papers among the
papers accepted. An extended version of these two papers will be
published in the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues"
(T.A.L.).

CALENDAR

extended submission deadline : February, 21 1999
notification to authors : April, 12 1999
final version due : May, 10 1999
conference: July, 12-17 1999


SELECTION

 Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished
research work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two
specialists of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following
criteria :

 - importance and originality of the paper
 - soundness of the scientific and technical content
 - comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work
 - clarity of the exposition
 - relevance to the topics of the conference

 Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the
conference.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

 Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the
author's name, nor any self-reference. Their maximum length is ten
pages, in Times 12, single spaced (approx. 3000 words), including
figures, examples and references. A LaTeX style file and a Word
template are or will be shortly available on the web site of the conference
(http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/).

 Three hard-copies of the paper must be received by February, 21 1999. 
Authors are also encouraged to send an electronic version of
their paper.

AUTHORS ARE ASKED TO SPECIFY ONE OR SEVERAL THEMES, TO BE CHOSEN AMONG
THE THEMES CITED ABOVE, AND A LIST OF KEY WORDS.

email address : taln99linguist.jussieu.fr postal
address : TALaNa - UFRL - Universite de Paris 7
 case 7003 - 2, pl. Jussieu
 75251 Paris Cedex 05 - France

Guidelines for electronic submission :

 Electronic submissions MUST be accompanied by a standard, mail
submission. Authors should send their submission (neither compressed
nor encoded) via email as an attached file to
taln99linguist.jussieu.fr, specifying "TALN submission" as the
subject. A separate identification page (with the following
information : title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address, fax and telephone number) should also be
attached. Papers MUST be sent in one of the following formats :

 - self-contained LaTeX source (including non standard or non
TALN'99 styles) AND PostScript version.

 OR

 - RTF (Word) document AND PostScript version.

IMPORTANT :
All the PostScript versions must be in A4 format, and not US Letter.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Practical information will be detailed shortly on the conference web
site (http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/) and in a further call.
Please note that members of the ATALA
association will benefit from reduced registration fees.

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COMITE DE PROGRAMME / PROGRAMME COMMITTEE :


Pascal Amsili, TALaNa (Paris) (president/chairman) 

Anne Abeille, TALaNa (Paris)
Nicholas Asher, University of Texas (Austin)
Philippe Blache, LPL (Aix-en-Provence, France)
Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA (Grenoble)
Andree Borillo, ERSS (Toulouse)
Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO (Geneve)
Myriam Bras, IRIT (Toulouse)
Jo Calder, CCS & HCRC (University of Edinburgh)
Beatrice Daille, IRIN (Nantes)
Laurence Danlos, TALaNa (Paris)
Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne
Claire Gardent, Universitat des Saarlandes (Saarbruecken)
Damien Genthial, CLIPS-TRILAN (Grenoble)
Benoit Habert, ENS Fontenay (Fontenay-aux-Roses, France)
Pierre Isabelle, DIRO (Montreal)
Christian Jacquemin, IUT de Nantes
Daniel Kayser, LIPN (Paris) 
Geert-Jan Kruijff, Univerzita Karlova (Praha)
Eric Laporte, CERIL, Universite de Marne-la-Vallie
Piet Mertens, CCL K.U. Leuven
Detmar Meurers, Universitat Tuebingen 
Georges Moracchini, Universite de Corse, Corte
Fiammetta Namer, Universite de Nancy II (France)
Cecile Paris, CSIRO (Sidney)
Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI (Paris) 
Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA (Nancy, France) 
Alain Polguere, Universite de Montreal
Owen Rambow, Cogentex (Ithaca, NY)
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
Gerard Sabah, LIMSI (Paris)
Louisa Sadler, University Essex (Colchester, UK)
Max Silberztein, GRELIS (Besancon)
Evelyne Tzoukermann, Bell-Labs (Murray Hill, NJ)
Jacques Vergne, GREYC (Caen, France)
Jean Veronis, LPL (Aix-en-Provence)
Bernard Victorri, ELSAP (Caen, France)
Eric Wehrli, LATL (Geneve)
Annie Zaenen, XRCE (Grenoble)
Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University
Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM (Paris)

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 COMITE D'ORGANISATION/ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 Anne Abeille 
 Pascal Amsili (President/President)
 Marie-Helene Candito 
 Patrick Caudal 
 Lionel Clement
 Laurence Danlos 
 Veronika Gendner
 Kim Gerdes
 Sylvain Kahane 
 Alexandra Kinyon
 Manuela Leahu
 Laurent Roussarie
 
 et les autres membres de l'equipe TALaNa
 and the other members of the TALaNa team


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* TALN'99 *
* mailto:taln99linguist.jussieu.fr *
* http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99 *
* TALaNa - UFRL - Universite Paris 7 *
* case 7003 - 2, place Jussieu Til. : (33) 1 44 27 53 70 *
* 75251 Paris Cedex 05 - France Fax : (33) 1 44 27 79 19 *
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SCIL 11
The University of Texas at Austin
May 8-9, 1999

Special Theme: Endangered Languages
Keynote: Jonathan David Bobaljik - Dept. of Linguistics, McGill University

Call For Papers

The 11th annual Student Conference in Linguistics will be held at The
University of Texas at Austin in May 1999. SCIL is a student-run conference
which aims to bring together graduate students from around the world to
present their research and build connections with other students. The
proceedings are published in the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

We invite original, unpublished work in any area of linguistics. We would
particularly like to encourage submissions which focus on endangered or
underdescribed languages, in keeping with the conference theme.


Guidelines for Submission:

Please submit ten copies of a one-page, 500-word, anonymous abstract for a
twenty minute paper (optionally, one additional page for data and/or
references may be appended), along with a 3" by 5" card with:

(1) your name,
(2) your affiliation,
(3) your address, phone number, and e-mail address,
(4) the title of the paper, and
(5) an indication of which subdivision of linguistics best describes the
topic (e.g., Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics,
Anthropological Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics,
etc.)

The abstract should be as specific as possible, and it should clearly
indicate the data covered, outline the arguments presented, and include any
broader implications of the work.


The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 5:00 PM, February 15, 1999.

Send Abstracts to:

SCIL 11 Abstract Committee
501 Calhoun Hall
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712

Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered. Fax
submissions will not be accepted. For instructions regarding email
submissions, click here. An individual may submit at most one single and
one co-authored paper. Accepted presenters will be notified by March 15,
1999.

For further information, contact:
scilccwf.cc.utexas.edu

- Ralph C. Blight
Department of Linguistics,
The University of Texas at Austin
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~gizzmo/index.html