LINGUIST List 10.750

Mon May 17 1999

Calls: Ling Interpreted Corpora, Corpora & NLP

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Thorsten Brants, LINC-99 call for participation
2. BELGUITH Lamia, "Corpora and NLP" ACIDCA'2000 session Call for papers

 EACL-99 Post-Conference Workshop on


 LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-99)


 June 12th, 1999, Bergen, Norway


 ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAM **


 URL: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc99/


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Hans Uszkoreit, Saarbruecken (chair)
Thorsten Brants, Saarbruecken (chair)
Brigitte Krenn, Wien (chair)
Rens Bod, Leeds
Pierrette Bouillon, Geneva
Tomaz Erjavec, Ljubljana
Jan Hajic, Prag
Veronique Hoste, Antwerp
Wojciech Skut, Saarbruecken
Atro Voutilainen, Helsinki


BACKGROUND:
The need for large linguistically interpreted (annotated) corpora
keeps growing in an increasing number of applications and research
tasks in the field of computational linguistics. Many groups have
started to create corpus resources for a variety of languages and
domains. These corpora are used for a broad range of different
applications and theoretical investigations. This workshop aims at
bringing together these activities in order to facilitate advanced and
efficient corpus annotation providing re-usable resources.


CONTRIBUTED PAPERS:

Jose Mari Arriola, Xabier Artola, Aitor Maritxalar, Aitor Soroa
"Methodology for the Analysis of Verb Usage Examples in a Context of Lexical 
 Knowledge Acquisition from Dictionary Entries"

Tamaz Varadi, Csaba Oravecz
"Morpho-syntactic ambiguity and tagset design for Hungarian"

Anne Abeille, Lionel Clement
"A tagged reference Corpus for French"

Massimo Poesio, Renate Henschel, Janet Hitzeman, Roger Kibble, 
 Shane Montague, Kees van Deemter
"Towards An Annotation Scheme For Noun Phrase Generation"

Kemal Oflazer, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur
"Design for a Turkish Treebank"

John Carroll, Guido Minnen, Ted Briscoe
"Corpus Annotation for Parser Evaluation"

Ian Lewin, Pierrette Bouillon, Sabine Lehmann, David Milward, 
 Ludovic Tanguy
"Discourse Data in DiET"

Chris Brew
"An extensible visualization tool to aid treebank exploration"

Frank Keller, Martin Corley, Steffan Corley, Matthew Crocker, 
 Shari Trewin
"Gsearch: A Tool for Syntactic Investigation of Unparsed Corpora"

Tomaz Erjavec
"A TEI Encoding of Aligned Corpora as Translation Memories"

Josef van Genabith, Louisa Sadler, Andy Way
"Data-Driven Compilation of LFG Semantic Forms"


CONTACT:
 Thorsten Brants
 Saarland University
 Computational Linguistics, Geb. 17
 P.O.Box 151150
 D-66041 Saarbruecken
 GERMANY
 email: thorstencoli.uni-sb.de
 URL: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc99/

REGISTRATION:
 URL: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/howtoregister.html

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 "Corpora and NLP"

 ACIDCA'2000 session

 Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000


 Organised by:

 University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)

 Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)


 Sponsored by:

 IEEE SMC

 			 co-sponsored by:

 TSS

 Supported by:

 Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific 

 Research and Technology (SERST)


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General

The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in
a number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis
for the design, development and optimisation of various NLP
applications but also for their evaluation.

"Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part
of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational
Intelligence for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and
Industrial Systems (ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000,
visit http://www.chez.com/acidca2000 . The session "Corpora and NLP"
will be organised as a workshop with its own Proceedings and Programme
Committee.

The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken
corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP.



Main Topics

We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following
topics:


* Lexicography
* Lexical knowledge acquisition
* Part of Speech Tagging
* Unknown word guessing
* Term recognition
* Morphological Analysis
* Robust Parsing
* Word Sense Disambiguation
* Anaphora Resolution
* Discourse segmentation
* Machine Translation
* Agreement Error Correction
* Spelling and Grammar Correction
* Information Extraction
* Automatic Abstracting
* Text Categorisation
* Speech processing
* Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications
* Corpus annotation
* Evaluation

Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus processing
techniques are welcome.



Honorary Chairs

Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific 
 and Technological Research

Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)

Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley



General Chairs

Adel Alimi, 
National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)

Lamia Belguith Hadrich,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science 
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)

Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science 
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)


Programme Committee

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair
Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom) 
Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence) 
Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble) 
Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble) 
Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis) 
Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris)
Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon)
Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen)
Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble)
Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York)
Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble) 
Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) 
Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal) 
Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh) 
Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona) 
Mike Rosner (University of Malta) 
Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille) 
Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen) 
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei) 
Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill) 
Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki)


Local Organising Committee

Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs
H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax),
Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax),
Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes), 
Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax), 
Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax), 
Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax), 
Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis),
Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)


International Organising Committee

Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray 
(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs
Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan), 
Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),
Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France),
Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University),
Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA)
Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA)
Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France)
Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain)


Submission Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be
written in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures,
tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
title, author's name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by
keywords and an abstract.


Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following
address :

ACIDCA'2000 (Corpora & NLP Session)
Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe, 
BP 120, 3049 Sfax
Tunisia

In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of
keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkovwlv.ac.uk and
copied to l.belguithfsegs.rnu.tn


The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme
Committee.

Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce the
camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings.


Schedule

Paper Submission Due: 1 October 1999
Notification of Acceptance : 10 December 1999
Camera-ready Paper Due : 10 January 1999
"Corpora and NLP" Session : 22-24 March 2000



Further information

Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants
to attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as
the exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call
for Papers.

There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials
will be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are
finalised.

ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories:
Best Paper, Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper.

The social programme will be announced in the second call for papers.



For any Information

Please contact :

Lamia Belguith
e-mail: l.belguithfsegs.rnu.tn
Fax: (216) 4 296 229