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t-online.de>********************************************************** Attention: workshop DEADLINE EXTENDED C A L L F O R P A P E R S Why care for cognitive modeling when building NLG systems ? Workshop to be held in conjunction with INLG 2000 International Conference on Natural Language Generation Workshop home page: http://pc03.idf.uni-heidelberg.de/~ralf/wkshop WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Natural Language Generation (NLG) exists now for many years as a subdiscipline of computational linguistics. Many systems have been built with different goals and from different perspectives. While some approaches are strongly driven by engineering concerns, others are more concerned with insights in human language production. By organizing this workshop we pursue three goals: (a) to show that cognitive and engineering approaches, rather then being mutually exclusive, are highly complementary; (b) to identify some of the loci where the human factor should be taken into account; (c) to discuss then what methods could be used in order to enhance current systems or architectures by means of cognitive models of human language generation. While there is no doubt that cognitive modeling is useful for testing theories of human behavior, it is probably also quite useful in cognitive engineering, that is, as a complementary methodology for building systems. If the engineering point of view is overemphasised, designers will be more concerned with the machine than with their final users: people. In order to build truly user-friendly NL-generators, i.e. systems which adapt themselves to users rather than the other way around, we need a deeper understanding of the knowledge and the processes that people use when producing language. These kinds of insights can profitably be used when building systems, especially if they are meant to be used by people. At present, we observe a strong tendency towards an engineering approach. While many researchers in the field have based their systems on empirical research, their approach still remains more motivated by engineering considerations (efficiency) then by psycho-linguistic factors (the problems people face). Yet we do believe, that integrating the human factor into the engineering approach would greatly enhance the overall quality (adequacy, flexibility, scope) of the existing systems. To approach these goals, the workshop invites full papers that deal with any aspect of the following topics: - ARCHITECTURE (flexibility, decomposition and control of the process) - CONTENT DETERMINATION / CONCEPTUALIZATION - NATURE OF THE INPUT (proximity to language) - OUTLINE PLANNING - NP-GENERATION (the problem of reference) - LEXICAL ACCESS For more information on the workshop and its topics have a look at the workshop homepage. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Gerard Kempen, University of Leiden, The Netherlands kempenMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
korterm.kaist.ac.kr>* The terminology resources and computation workshop's due date is 31/March. * ========================================================== " Terminology Resources and Computation " Held in conjunction with the 2nd Int'l Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000) Athens, Greece 29th May 2000 ========================================================= -- Call for Papers -- Paper submission due: March 31, 2000 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In the knowledge society in 21st century, knowledge and information have to be utilized by every person. Terminology has to be one of language resources and their application is extended from the language engineering application like information retrieval, machine translation, to the multi-lingual marketing of enterprise and the education in each country. Terminology in each domain is growing up every day. Information and Knowledge management needs the precise conceptual definition of terminology and harmonization. The technical processes for terminology study are as follows: - To extract terms and additional data from the real usage of corpus automatically or semi-automatically, - To consistently define while harmonization with already existing terms, - To test in applications like information retrieval, machine translation, and language service, - To unify, standardize or harmonize by investigating the major usage of terms and social norms, - To synchronize by multi-lingual terminology database alignment, - To study how to distribute the multi-lingual terminology most efficiently, - To customize for each application and for each user, - To collaborate with terminology organizations at regional and international levels. Papers are solicited in the area of the terminology study, the current state-of-art in terminology databank, computational method of terminology extraction, application of terminology, thesaurus, ontology, and languages in special domain, etc. ## Method of submission ## Papers should not contain more than 2000 words. The title page must contain the title of the paper, author information (Full name, Full address, Telephone number, Fax number, E-mail), paper length in words, and up to 5 keywords paired with English and your mother language. The main pages should not contain the author information. The authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their papers (ps, rtf, or pdf) or three hard copies. The final version should not be longer than 4,000 words. Instructions for formatting and presentation of the final version will be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance. Electronic submissions should be made to wtrcMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue