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enssibhp.enssib.fr>Omar LAROUK (Universiti de DIJON, SII-enssib) ====================================== ISKO-FRANCE '99 INDEXING IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET Lyon 21-22 october 1999 Organizers : * Enssib * Universiti Jean- Moulin Lyon3 * Isko-france SCOPE: Gathered around the French section of ISKO (International Society of Knowledge Organisation), the French-speaking community of academics doing research in this field has been organizing meetings since 1997. The purpose of the 1999 conference, jointly convened by ENSSIB and ERSICO- LYON 3, (in Lyon, France) is to give academics the opportunity to get information on the most recent findings and exchange viewpoints on research dealing with the latest developments in the area of models, tools and research carried out in the field of indexing. This field of expertise is definitely bound to develop significantly because of the impact of the internet. The wealth of available materials means that it is not possible to choose any form of indexing but automatic indexing; moreover the abundance of documents means that one needs to be able to use a powerful tool to select information. To this, one must add the fact that more and more information present on the web is in multimedia form. Indexing languages and their semantic aspects have to be seen in a new perspective. Vocabulary control and the descriptive role of metadata play a new important role. The various solutions that have been brought up (Dublin core, EAD, MCF, GILS, etc.) regarding document structuring such as the web pages or more complex documents (for example geography or space-related documents) mean that it is time to take stock of research and practices within the French-speaking community as these aspects are more and more key elements in research in information science. This conference is interdisciplinary and brings together academics and experts in computer science, information science (information scientists, librarians and archivists), in ergonomics, in linguistics or cognitive science. TOPICS Topics suitable for presentation papers include, but are not limited to: * Metadata * Traditional indexing and classification tools * Multimedia and hypermedia documents * Natural language processing * Indexing and multilingual information retrieval * Indexing and image retrieval * Pattern recognition techniques * Theoretical and formal aspects of indexing * Indexing and its context: intranet, virtual libraries, online catalogs, search engines, etc. * Indexing and users studies Local Arrangement Commitee Jean Paul Metzger (ERSICO - Universiti Jean Moulin Lyon 3): Chair Members : * Dalbin Sylvie (ATD, Paris) * Hassoun Mohamed (ENSSIB, villeurbanne) * Dalhoumi salah ( enssib, villeurbanne) * Larouk Omar (Universiti de Bourgogne) * Palermity Rosalba (Universiti Pierre Mendis France Grenoble 2) * Rey Jacqueline (Universiti Jean Moulin Lyon 3) * Ihadjadene madjid ( Universiti de Nanterre Paris 10) Scientific Committee Bouchi Richard (Enssib) : Scientific Commitee Chair * Berrut Catherine (Universiti Jean Fourrier - Grenoble 1) * Bruandet Marie France (Universiti Jean Fourrier - Grenoble 1) * Chaudiron Stiphane (Universiti Paris 10) * Dachelet Roland (Universiti Strasbourg 2) * David Amos (Universiti Nancy 2) * Ducloy Jacques (Loria - Nancy) * Emptoz Hubert (INSA - Lyon) * Fluhr Christian (CEA) * Guimiers Sorbet Anne Marie (Universiti de Paris 10) * Hassoun Mohamed (ENSSIB) * Hudon Michhle (Universiti de Montrial) * Jouis Christophe (Universiti Charles de Gaule - Lille 3) * Lardy Jean Pierre (Universiti Claude Bernard - Lyon 1) * Larouk Omar (Universiti de Bourgogne) * Laini-Cruzel Sylvie (Universiti Claude Bernard - Lyon1) * Maniez Jacques (ISKO - France) * Mustafa El Hadi Widad ( Universiti Lille 3) * Polanco Xavier (INIST - Nancy) * Polity Yolande (Universiti Pierre Mendis France - Grenoble 2) * Vidalenc Isabelle (Universiti Jean Moulin Lyon 3) IMPORTANT DATES * 15 March 1999 : Submission deadline (abstract) * 30 April 1999 : Notification of acceptance * 1 July 1999 : Camera-ready copies * 21-22 October 1999: Conference SUBMISSIONS DETAILS Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, unpublished work. Submitted papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation * Abstracts: Please send 500 word abstracts to the convenors before 15 March 1999. Either by email to: iskoMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
infoiasi.ro>***************************** Call for participation ***************************** The 4th EUROLAN Summer School on Human Language Technology "Lexical Semantics and Multilinguality" 19-31 July 1999 Iai/Duru - Romania http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan99/ The theme reflects the growing international interest on lexical semantics in correlation with the current approach of the modern information society for stimulating technological bases that would allow minor languages to have equal access to information. It aims at approaching problems related to the deep understanding of texts, WordNet, discourse interpretation and intelligent web browsers based on language interpretation. It is also our desire to stimulate West/East and East/East collaboration in this domain. It has become a tradition that, within the main topic of the Eurolan Schools, related directions are approached that could also house workshops aimed at stimulating discussions and further collaboration. Three thematic tracks are planned for Eurolan'99: I. Lexical Semantics - the structure of WordNet, its building principles, how much experience from English can be borrowed in order to apply to other languages, how WordNet can be used for word sense disambiguation, anaphora resolution, textual summarization and machine translation. 1. Semantics in Lexicons and Corpora: a few European initiatives by Nicoletta Calzolari - Institute of Computational Linguistics Pisa 2. Motivation, History, and Design of WordNet by Christiane Fellbaum - Princeton University 3. Cross-lingual sense determination by Nancy Ide - Vassar College 4. Probabilistic methods in the context of a taxonomy and methods for obtaining and using parallel text by Philip Resnik - University of Maryland 5. Printed dictionaries, from lexical databases to lexical ontologies. A view from CONCEDE. by Dan Tufi, RACAI - Romanian Academy, Bucharest 6. Developing Multi-purpose LKBs for NLP by Evelyne Viegas - New Mexico State University 7. Wordnets and ontologies in NLP by Piek Vossen - University of Amsterdam II. Discourse and Summarization - recent advances on Discourse Theory and Text Summarization, discourse structure and the relation with anaphora, how can discourse structure influence summarization, are discourse interpretation and summarization techniques dependent on language? 1. Introduction to Computational Semantics by Johan Bos - University of Saarlandes, Saarbrcken 2. Linguistic Foundations for Summary Generation from Corpora by Rodolfo Delmonte - University of Venice 3. Topics in Discourse Interpretation by Jerry Hobbs - Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California 4. Automated Text Summarization by Eduard Hovy and Daniel Marcu - USC Institute for Science of Information, Marina del Rey 5. Discourse structure and reference by Nancy Ide, Vassar College and Dan Cristea, University "Alexandru I. Cuza", Iai 6. Discourse: Theories, Parsing, Generation. by Daniel Marcu and Eduard Hovy - USC Institute for Science of Information, Marina del Rey 7. Knowledge Processing on an Extended WordNet by Dan Moldovan - Southern Methodist University, Dallas III. Applications of WordNet and Discourse - the state of the art in information extraction and retrieval, intelligent Internet browsing and help from Natural Language Processing domains, with particular emphasis on WordNet and Discourse applications. 1. Concepts in Multilingual Information Retrieval by Paul Buitelaar - DFKI Saarbrcken 2. Romanian WordNet by Sanda Harabagiu - Southern Methodist University, Dallas 3. Word Sense Disambiguation and an Application to Information Retrieval from the Internet by Dan Moldovan - Southern Methodist University, Dallas 4. Title to be announced by Gbor Prszky - MorphoLogic Budapest 5. Title to be announced by Laurent Romary - Loria/CNRS Nancy 6. Queering through Web by Franois Rousselot - LIIA-ENSAIS, Strasbourg 7. Title to be announced by Hans Uszkoreit - DFKI and University of Saarbrcken Call for Workshops and round tables We welcome workshops and round tables proposals within the EUROLAN'99 School topics. Proposals for workshops should contain:a title and a content description, a budget proposal proving self-support, any special requirements for technical needs. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text no later than 15 March, 1999. Important dates Workshop proposals deadline: 15 March. Early school registration deadline: 10 May. Late school registration deadline: 14 June. School period: 19-31 July. Program Committee Dan Cristea University "Alexandru I. Cuza" of Iai Sanda Harabagiu Southern Methodist University Nancy Ide Vassar College Daniel Marcu - USC Institute for Science of Information Dan Moldovan Southern Methodist University Dan Tufi RACAI, Romanian Academy Hans Uszkoreit DFKI and University of Saarbrcken Organizing Committee Ctlina Barbu - University "Alexandru I. Cuza" of Iai Sabin-Corneliu Buraga - University "Alexandru I. Cuza" of Iai Dan Cristea - University "Alexandru I. Cuza" of Iai Radu Negrescu - University "Alexandru I. Cuza" of Iai Cristina Peti - University "Politehnica", Bucharest Valentin Tablan - University "Alexandru I. Cuza" of Iai Amalia Todiracu - University "Alexandru I. Cuza" of Iai and University of Strasbourg Dan Tufi Romanian Academy Claus Unger - ACM and University of Hagen To contact the Organizing Committee, please send an e-mail to dcristeaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue