LINGUIST List 11.1722

Wed Aug 9 2000

Calls: Computational Semantics, Language Engineering

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

Directory

1. Harry Bunt, Computational Semantics, 4th Int. Workshop
2. Teresa L. Soto, I Meeting on Language Engineering

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 Fourth International Workshop on

 COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

 (IWCS-4)

 January 10-12, 2001, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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 Sponsored by SIGSEM, 
 the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics

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 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Unit at
Tilburg University will host the Fourth International Workshop on
Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), that will take place from 10-12
January 2001. The aim of the workshop is to bring together
researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of
meaning in natural language or in language-based multimedia
objects.


 TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest for the workshop will be computational aspects
of formal semantic theories as well as theoretical issues in
building natural language understanding systems, including systens
where language is used in a multimedia setting. Papers are invited
in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following
specific topics:

 * working with underspecified representations of meaning
 * modelling and using context for interpretation
 * the relations between semantics and pragmatics
 * dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue
 * interpretation and games
 * computational lexical semantics
 * interpretation and inference
 * meaning in multimedia objects
 * interpretation and optimality
 * speech acts and interpretation
 * incrementality and monotonicity in interpretation
 * knowledge representation and reasoning in meaning computation


 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 5000
words by September 15, 2000, by email in Postscript form. All
submitted papers that are received in time will be refereed by the
programme committee and may be accepted for full presentation at
the workshop and publication in the proceedings, or for a
short/poster presentation and publication of a 2-page abstract. We
also aim at publishing a selection of accepted papers in book
form. Accepted papers should be submitted in final form in LaTeX;
guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts will soon be
available at the IWCS web pages:

 http://pi0239.kub.nl/~sigsem/iwcs4.html

For initial submission email a Postscript version of the paper to:
Computational.Semanticskub.nl by September 15, 2000.


 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

 David Beaver Martha Palmer
 Patrick Blackburn Manfred Pinkal
 Harry Bunt (chair) Steve Pulman
 Robin Cooper James Pustejovsky
 Jan van Eijck Allan Ramsay
 Giacomo Ferrari Patrick Saint Dizier
 Jerry Hobbs Mark Steedman
 Daniel Kayser Enric Vallduvi
 Paul Mc Kevitt Wlodek Zadrozny
 Reinhard Muskens Henk Zeevat
 John Nerbonne


 ORGANISING COMMITTEE

 Harry Bunt Reinhard Muskens Huub Prust
 Ielka van der Sluis Elias Thijsse


 IMPORTANT DATES

 15 September 2000 Submission of papers
 15 October 2000 Notification of acceptance
 15 November 2000 Final papers due
 10-12 January 2001 Workshop


 FURTHER INFORMATION

 Conference Secretariat:
 Anne Adriaensen
 Department of Linguistics
 Tilburg University
 PO Box 90153,
 5000 LE Tilburg
 The Netherlands

 Email: Computational.Semanticskub.nl
 Phone: +31-13 466 30 60
 Fax: +31-13 466 31 10

 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm

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 Harry C. Bunt
 Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
 Tilburg University 
 P.O. Box 90153 
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
 2568 (Dean's office)
 2653 (office, room B 310)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
 Harry.Buntkub.nl
 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
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I MEETING ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING

6-10 November 2000
Universidad de Sevilla and Universidad de Granada
Sevilla
SPAIN

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The I MEETING ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING will take place at the University of
Seville from Monday 6th to Friday 10th November 2000.

Oral presentations, posters and demos are invited on any topic concerned
with the following related areas:

- Phonetics and Phonology
- Discourse Analysis
- Language Modelling
- Signal Processing and Analysis
- Speech Recognition
- Speech Processing
- Speaker Recognition
- Speech Synthesis
- Language Generation
- Dialogue Systems
- Signal Coding
- Resources, Assessment and Evaluation
- Applications
- Education
- Development
- Machine Translation
- Parsing
- Information Retrieval
- Others

An abstract of a maximum of 300 words must reach us by 1st October 2000.


INFORMATION:

UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE
Teresa L. Soto
Dpto. Lengua Inglesa
Palos de la Frontera, s/n
41004 Sevilla
SPAIN
Tel: +34 954 551 588
Fax: +34 954 551 516
email: teresafing.us.es

UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado
Dpto. Electronica y Tecnologia de Computadores
Avda. Severo Ochoa, s/n
18071 Granada
SPAIN
Tel: +34 958 243 271
Fax: +34 958 243 230
email: rlopezcugr.es

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I JORNADAS EN TECNOLOGIA DEL HABLA

Universidad de Sevilla y Universidad de Granada
6-10 noviembre 2000
Sevilla
ESPANA

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Con el fin de impulsar el intercambio tecnologico y favorecer el
encuentro entre los investigadores y empresas de nuestro pais dedicados a
la tecnologia del habla, la Universidad de Sevilla y la Universidad de
Granada organizan las I JORNADAS EN TECNOLOGIA DEL HABLA.

Se invita a los interesados a presentar una comunicacion oral, poster o
demostracion de sistema antes del 1 de octubre de 2000. En cualquier caso
deberan presentar un resumen de la actividad a desarrollar que no exceda
300 palabras.

Los trabajos presentados podran adscribirse a cualquiera de las siguientes
areas tematicas:

- Fonetica y fonologia
- Analisis del discurso
- Modelado del lenguaje
- Procesamiento y analisis de senal
- Reconocimiento del habla
- Procesamiento del habla
- Reconocimiento de locutores
- Sintesis del habla
- Generacion del lenguaje
- Sistemas de dialogo
- Codificacion de la senal
- Recursos y evaluacion
- Aplicaciones
- Herramientas didacticas y de desarrollo
- Traduccion automatica
- Tecnicas de parsing
- Recuperacion de informacion
- Otros


INFORMACION:

UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
Teresa L. Soto
Dpto. Lengua Inglesa
Palos de la Frontera, s/n
41004 Sevilla
SPAIN
Tel: +34 954 551 588
Fax: +34 954 551 516
email: teresafing.us.es

UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado
Dpto. Electronica y Tecnologia de Computadores
Avda. Severo Ochoa, s/n
18071 Granada
SPAIN
Tel: +34 958 243 271
Fax: +34 958 243 230
email: rlopezcugr.es

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