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fesnet.net.ma>CALL FOR PAPERS The Generative Grammar Research Group at the University of Fes (Morocco) is organising a two-day conference on March 20-21, 2000 on "Aspects of the morphology and syntax of Chamito-semitic Languages" Abstracts are welcome in all areas of descriptive and theoretical linguistics concerned with Chamito-semitic languages. Papers will be forty minutes long followed by fifteen minutes discussion. Suggested topics to be discussed during the conference : -Morphology: inflection and derivation paradigms -Word order and syntactic variation -The morpho-syntax of tense, aspect, negation, adverbs, complementisers,etc -comparative studies - Minimalist approaches to chamito-semitic languages: movement, control, case checking, etc Abstracts should be sent by 29 February 2000 (NEW DEADLINE), preferably by e-mail. The name and contact address (e-mail), plus affiliation should be placed at the top of the message. The body of the abstract should follow after 6 blank lines. The author's name and contacts will be omitted before sending the abstract to reviewers. If submitted by air-mail, a hard copy of the abstract as well as a disk copy should be dispatched to the address below. Papers will be in English, French and Arabic. Please note that the University will be able to pay only for participants' board and lodging, but not for transportation. Moha Ennaji Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Grammaire Generative ===================== Dept of English Faculte des Lettres 1 BP 50 Fes 30 000 Morocco Fax: +212 5 64 08 44 Tel: +212 5 61 09 10 E-mail: estryMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
CS.BGU.AC.IL>International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG'2000 Mitzpe Ramon, Israel Workshops: 12 June 2000 Main conference: 13-16 June 2000 Call For Papers The First International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'2000) will be held June 13 to 16, 2000 in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel. This conference continues in the tradition of the nine biennial workshops on natural language generation that have been held from 1980 to 1998. INLG'2000 will offer the opportunity to a larger audience to participate in the main meeting of researchers in the field. For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished contributions to natural language generation are solicited. A separate track will be offered for Student Papers. Submissions for all tracks are due by 6 February 2000. The INLG'2000 program committee invites papers describing original research on the following topics: * Generation and summarization * Multimodal and multimedia generation * Multilingual generation * Concept to speech, models of intonation * Strategic generation for text and dialogue * Text planning, discourse models, argumentation strategies, content selection and organization * Tactical generation, formalisms and models of grammar, sentence aggregation, lexical choice * Architecture of generators * Knowledge acquisition and resources for generation and summarization * User-customized generation and summarization * Psychological modelling of discourse production * Learning methods for generation * Evaluation methodologies for generation and summarization * Applications of: generation, concept-to-speech, information extraction, information retrieval techniques to summarization, report generation, explanation. The conference will be organized in four tracks: 1. Main session 2. Student session 3. Workshops 4. Special session on evaluation in generation We plan to hold all presentations in the plenary hall with no parallel tracks. The special session on evaluation will be held the day before the main session, on Monday 12 June 2000. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG'2000 must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Submission to other conferences should be indicated on the paper. Submission to the main session should describe completed work. Submission to the student session should describe work in progress. Submission to the evaluation session should describe statements on methodology, reports on actual evaluation work and proposals for evaluation benchmarks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dates * 6 February 2000: Papers submission deadline * 14 April 2000: Notification of acceptance * 7 May 2000: Final copy due for all contributions * 12 June 2000: Special Session on Evaluation in NLG, Mitzpe Ramon * 13-16 June: INLG'2000 Conference, Mitzpe Ramon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Instructions http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlg2000/submission.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Programme Committee * Michael Elhadad, Ben Gurion University, Israel (Chair) * Stephan Buseman, DFKI, Germany * Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada * James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA * Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation, USA * Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware, USA * David McDonald, Gensym Corp, USA * Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA * Jacques Robin, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil * Donia Scott, University of Brighton, UK * Manfred Stede, Technical University, Berlin, Germany * Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA * Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia Student Session * Irene Langkilde, University of South California - ISI * Charles Brendan Callaway, North Carolina State University * James Shaw, Columbia University Call For Workshops Proposals The Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops. To be considered, please submit a formal proposal to the address shown below by January 1, 2000. Decisions will be made by January 8, 2000. http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlg2000/cfw.html Dragomir R. Radev http://www.si.umich.edu/~radev Special Session on Evaluation For additional information, please contact: * Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation Software Demo Proposals for software or project demonstrations are invited. Proposals should indicate the type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is accepted. Equipment Availability Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a slide projector, a data projector (Barco) which will display from laptops, and a VHS (PAL) videocassette recorder. NTSC format may be available; if you anticipate needing NTSC, please note this information in your proposal. Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizers; requests for special equipment should be directed to the local organizers no later than May 15, 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Local Arrangements * Michael Elhadad elhadadMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue