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dfki.de>WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Impacts in Natural Language Generation NLG Between Technology and Applications July 24-28, 2000 Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany - immediately preceding COLING 2000 - Homepage: http://impacts.dfki.de The tension between theoretical work and its implementation has often been considered fruitful. In the field of Natural Language Generation, it is now complemented by another tension, the one between technologies and applications: "I have invented a new technique for NLG!" - "What is its impact on applications?" "I have built a new NLG application!" - "What is its impact on the technology?" Much of NLG technology is based on a theoretical understanding of the process of language generation, whereas the applications strongly rely on practical requirements. There are not many theoretically well-motivated technologies that can straightforwardly be employed within specific applications. For this workshop, we adopt a broad notion of application by including pieces of software containing NLG technology that currently are used by others in order to solve real-world tasks. Some NLG application developers find it preferable to not reuse existing technology. This is often due to the lack of solutions for the knowledge bottleneck and for the input formation bottleneck: NLG technology lacks the power of dealing with external conceptual lexical knowledge bases, and it also lacks standards of representing inputs at a suitable specificity. The "IMPACTS" workshop aims at studying, discussing, and clarifying the relationships between NLG technologies and applications. The workshop addresses - researchers and developers in NLG, - current and potential users of NLG applications, - providers of large conceptual lexicons usable by NLG, and - developers of systems that deal with the input specificity problem. We invite original and unpublished contributions from all areas of NL generation, either from the technological side or from the applications point of view. They must state clearly how they relate to the respective counterpart, hence addressing one of the above questions. "IMPACTS" will take place from July 24-28, 2000 at International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl. It immediately precedes the events of COLING 2000 taking place in Luxembourg, Saarbr�cken, and Nancy. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated in the Saarland, allowing participants to reach the COLING tutorials on July 29 conveniently. Dates: 24.-28. July 2000: Workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl 15. June 2000: Camera-ready copies 20. May 2000: Notification of acceptance 01. April 2000: Deadline for submissions Programme Committee John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbr�cken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Stephan Busemann, DFKI Saarbr�cken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Robert Dale, Microsoft Research Institute, Macquarie University, Australia Laurence Danlos, LORIA, France Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Richard Kittredge, CoGenTex Inc., USA Inderjeet Mani, Mitre Corporation, USA David D. McDonald, Gensym Corporation, USA Cecile Paris, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia Owen Rambow, AT&T, USA Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK Donia Scott, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK More information can be found at the Workshop homepage, which is located at http://impacts.dfki.de and which will be extended during the next months. - Dr. Stephan Busemann, DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken phone: (+49 681) 302-5286, fax: (+49 681) 302-5338 web: http://www.dfki.de/~busemannMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>COLING 2000 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (http://www.coling.org) COLING 2000 will take place in three countries in the heart of Europe - Nancy (Tutorials 29/30 July, 2000) - Saarbr|cken (Conference 31 July - 4 August, 2000) - Luxembourg (Workshops 5/6 August 2000) Transportation between the three almost neighboring sites will be provided. COLING 2000 will be the ideal place to - present your latest results at the conference and workshops - demo your systems to colleagues - study new trends and techniques in the tutorials - exhibit your language technologies for the 21st century - hire needed specialists before somebody else does Check out the calls for - papers (http://www.coling.org/call.html) - workshop proposals (http://www.coling.org/workshops.html) - tutorial proposals (http://www.coling.org/tutorials.html) - demos/exhibits (http://www.coling.org/exhibition.html) At the conference, we will provide space for announcing job openings, as well as a sign-up desk and rooms for job interviews Check out our low conference fees: (http://www.coling.org/reg.html). To increase student participation, we have decided on very favorable conference fees for bona fide students. Students who would still not be able to attend for financial reasons, please contact us at: orgMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue