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lip6.fr>2nd Call for Papers EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE : 10th of July 2000. PKDD'2000 Workshop : MACHINE LEARNING AND TEXTUAL INFORMATION ACCESS September 12, 2000. Lyon, France. Preceding the Fourth European Conference on Principles and Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'2000). PKDD'200 : http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~pkdd2000/ WORKSHOP : http://www-connex.lip6.fr/mltia2000.htlm CALL FOR PAPERS DESCRIPTION: - ---------- Until recently, the exploitation of large textual collections was mainly limited to sorting and retrieving documents. On the other hand, systems capable of extracting meaningful document fragments dealt only with small domain dependent tasks and models. On-line information is becoming widely available and utilized, and demand for tools capable of harnessing this information increases rapidly. As this information is inherently structured and complex, classic models are insufficient. New technological challenges arise, the solution of which require the cooperation of several research domains. By the term "Textual Information Access" we denote here an emerging interdisciplinary community of researchers from different fields sharing an interest on textual data objects, and Machine or Statistical Learning techniques to develop automatic text analysis systems. Among the new important challenges we will mention the need for automatically parametrizable systems (since hand-crafted models cannot cope with the heterogeneous nature of data and tasks), the exploitation of new structure formalisms for documents and collections (e.g. XML), the relations between textual and not textual data, and more generally the emerging text-mining and web-mining tasks. In order to solve these challenges, a combined approach is needed, exploiting technologies from different domains. TOPICS OF RELEVANCE: - ------------------ Textual Information Access models and applications relating to: Information Retrieval and Filtering Information Extraction Multi-media Information Access Knowledge Acquisition Topic Detection and Tracking Text Summarization Representation techniques of: Textual Information Structure Semantics User-feedback models and applications User-modeling models and applications Clustering methods and applications Large corpus, scalability and performance issues Evaluation techniques SOLICITED CONTRIBUTIONS - --------------------- Long papers (up to 12 pages), reporting original completed research, development activities, original state of the art surveys, etc. Short papers (from 4 to 6 pages), reporting ongoing research, promising new approaches, position papers. All papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will presented during the Workshop and will appear in the Workshop Proceedings. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - ------------------ Jean-C�dric Chappelier, EPFL, Switzerland, Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK, Patrick Gallinari, LIP6, Universit� de Paris 6, France, Thorsten Joachims, Universitaet Dortmun, Germany, Martin Rajman, EPFL, Switzerland, Hugo Zaragoza, Universit� de Paris 6, France (Chairman). SUBMISSION - -------- Submissions should include a short abstract (200 words) and comply with the following format: A4, 1 column, 2.5cm margins, Times New Roman 12point font, single spacing. Postscript is preferred but other standard formats will be accepted (Word, latex, etc.) Submissions should be done electronically by e-mail to Hugo Zaragoza (Hugo.ZaragozaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
indiana.edu>Call for Submission JOURNAL OF JAPANESE LINGUISTICS http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/journals/jjl/ The East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University is happy to announce the publication of Journal of Japanese Linguistics under a new editorial board (Natsuko Tsujimura, Editor-in-chief). JJL seeks to sustain and enhance an intellectually stimulating discussion forum. The journal publishes original research that deals with issues in Japanese linguistics from both theoretical and descriptive perspectives and from a wide range of areas including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, acquisition, and historical linguistics as well as discussion of pedagogical implications. It is intended to provide linguists an opportunity for discussions of research and exchange of ideas and solutions. JJL also promotes interaction and collaboration between theoretical and descriptive camps so that together they may lead to a better understanding and treatment of Japanese linguistic phenomena. Under these objectives we would like to invite submissions to JJL that fall under the following categories: (i) empirically oriented, descriptive work that includes original observations of linguistic phenomena (ii) theoretical application to empirical work (iii) discussion of linguistic issues problematic to language pedagogy and/or pedagogical implications of (i) or (ii) JJL also plans to publish abstracts of recent dissertations. Recent Ph.Ds who have completed dissertations since 1997 are encouraged to send abstracts of their thesis, following the guidelines stated below. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines The editor assumes that a manuscript submitted for publication has not previously been published, and that it is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere. At the time of submission, the contributor should indicate if a modified version of the manuscript is being considered for publication elsewhere. Copyright will be held by the Journal of Japanese Linguistics. Manuscripts intended for publication should conform to the Linguistic Society of America Style Sheet, except for certain conventions specified below. The author's name should not appear under the title on page 1, and any wordings elsewhere that would identify the author should be avoided. Please attach a separate sheet of paper that specifies the title and the author's name, affiliation, and mailing address. A 200-word abstract of the article should be provided on this sheet. Areas of study to which the article may be of particular interest (such as formal syntax or conversational analysis) should be listed at the end of the abstract. Manuscripts should be written in English and typed on one side of letter-size or A4 paper. Endnotes, not footnotes, should follow on a new page, labeled "Notes." References should begin on a new page following the endnotes. All text, including notes, must be double-spaced. Example sentences should be accompanied by a word-for-word gloss and a free translation. Any abbreviation should be explained on first use in a note. Isolated words or phrases in Japanese that appear in the text should be italicized or underlined. Glosses of individual Japanese words should follow that word in quotations, e.g., sensei "teacher." For all Japanese citations, please use one of the commonly used Romanization systems. The editor reserves the right to return manuscripts for retyping if the proper conventions are not followed. 4 copies of manuscript should be sent to: Natsuko Tsujimura Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Goodbody Hall 248 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Ph.D dissertation abstracts should include the following information: Title of dissertation Year awarded Name of institution Author's name and current affiliation Abstract - no more than 500 words Information on how to obtain a copy (i.e., in monograph form, circulated through IULC, Dissertation Abstracts, University Microfilms, directly from the author, etc.) Send dissertation abstract to the Editor at the address in #6 above. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- East Asian Studies Center Indiana University Memorial Hall West 207 1021 East Third Street Bloomington, IN 47405-7005 Tel: (812)855-3765 Fax: (812)855-7762 E-mail: eascMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue