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philol.msu.ru>Lomonosov Moscow State University American Council of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (ACTR) - ------------------------------------------------- Russian Language: its Historical Destiny and Present State - ------------------------------------------------ International Congress of Russian Language Researchers Moscow, Philological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University March 13-16, 2001 - ------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues! The Lomonosov Moscow State University in collaboration with American Council of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature organizes The International Congress of Russian Language Researchers "Russian Language: its Historical Destiny and Present State" The Congress will be held on March 13-16, 2001 at the Philological Faculty of Moscow Lomonosov State University Chairman of Organizing Committee of the Congress - Rector of Moscow University, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences Victor A. Sadovnichi Vice-Chairman of Organizing Committee, Chairman of Program Committee of the Congress - Dean of Philological Faculty of Moscow University, Chair of Russian Language Department, Professor Marina L. Remniova Vice-Chairman of the Organizing Committee - President of American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS), Professor Dan E. Davidson Learned Secretary of the Organizing Committee - Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor of Philological faculty of MSU Anatoliy A. Polikarpov The preliminary program of the Congress contains the following groups of problems: * Russian in its history and prehistory; * Dynamic picture of modern Russian language synchrony; * Actual aspects of the theory and methodology of Russian linguistics; * Applied Rusistics and problems of the computer analysis of Russian language; * Russian as a means of the international and interethnic dialogue and intercultural communications; * Problems of Russian language in high and higher education; * Russian linguistics in a spectrum of scientific paradigms. The Preliminary Program of the Congress in details you can see at our site http://www.ruslangcongress.newmail.ru For participation in work of the Congress it is necessary to send the theses up to 2 pages of the text (size 12, the font Times New Roman). Requirements for the theses format in details see at the site of the Congress. The theses should be sent to e-mail address: ruscongrMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cse.unsw.edu.au>Due to popular request the submission deadline was extended by a week until 5th of September. Guest Speakers: Brian Gaines and Mildred Shaw Selected papers from PKAW2000 are planned to be invited for an edited volume on knowledge acquisition to be published in 2001. Negotiations with scientific publishers are underway. Call for Papers PKAW 2000: The 2000 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop Venue: Holiday Inn, Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia Date : Sydney, December 11-13, 2000 Co-located with ALT 2000 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~achim/PKAW2000 Registration Fees: Regular: AUS $ 400 Student: AUS $ 200 Registration fee includes proceedings, coffee and meals during the workshop. Paper submission DEADLINE: 5 September 2000. (Send email with the URL of your paper.) Contents Introduction Topics of Interest Participation and Submission of Papers Important Dates Instructions for Paper Submission Workshop Organisers Program Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction The objective of this workshop is to assemble theoreticians and practitioners concerned with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge acquisition process and assessing the suitability of such methods. Thus, the workshop includes all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems. Knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge based system. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge acquisition from human experts. The advent of the age of digital information has brought the problem of data overload. Our ability to analyze and understand massive datasets lags far behind our ability to gather and store the data. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to support the acquisition of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of data. All of these are to be discussed in this workshop. This workshop offers an opportunity to draw together both aspects of dealing with the situated nature of human knowledge and expertise and of developing methods that depend more on their algorithmic adequacy than on the expertise of the knowledge engineer. Topics of Interest Papers are invited in all aspects of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted to): * Fundamental views on knowledge that affect the knowledge acquisition process and the use of knowledge in knowledge engineering * Algorithmic approaches to knowledge acquisition * Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge maintenance and knowledge validation * Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques, tools and methods * Knowledge acquisition, machine learning and knowledge discovery * Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modeling * Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques with wider information systems or decision support systems * Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge * Distributed knowledge acquisition through infrastructures such as the Internet Participation and Submission of Papers Despite the more open nature of this workshop the major goal remains to encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of ideas. Consequently, the workshop participation will be kept small - less than 40 participants. Persons not submitting papers can also request to participate. Authors are invited to formulate an issue that would be useful to discuss. Software demonstrations related to presented papers are also encouraged. The submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and distributed at the workshop as well as on the WWW. Authors will retain copyright of their papers. For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Chairs. Important Dates * Papers due by: August 28, 2000 * Notification of Acceptance: October 20, 2000 * Camera-ready version of Final paper due: November 20, 2000 * Date of Workshop: December 11-13, 2000 Instructions for Paper Submission Papers describing original research or practical experiences from building knowledge-based systems should be submitted in Postscript or pdf format. We expect papers to be between 10 and 20 pages of length. They should be printed in 12pt font for normal text. The text area should be 22cm x 16cm and centered on each page. For submission, authors should send an e-mail to Achim Hoffmann with the paper title, name of all authors and a URL from which the paper can be accessed. The subject should be: "PKAW2000 submission". The e-mail must be received by 28 August 2000. Workshop and Program Committee Chairs: Paul Compton (University of New South Wales, Australia) E-mail: comptonMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue