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mx.iki.rssi.ru>DIALOG'00 International Workshop on linguistics and its applications Tarusa(Russia), June 1 - 5, 2000 http://www.aha.ru/~artint/dialog.html **** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS **** Dear Colleagues, The DIALOG workshop series is an annual meeting place for a dialog: a) between researchers from different fields that are related to computational linguistics (linguists, computer and cognitive scientists, psychologists, researchers in the artificial intelligence and speech processing); b) between researchers from the former USSR and the international community. This year we plan to make an additional accent at various kinds of speech phenomena: voice understanding and synthesis, prosody, rhyme, etc. Other topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * theoretical and cognitive linguistics * syntax, semantics, pragmatics and their interaction * multilingual natural language processing * systems for natural language processing * text, dialog and speech act in the computational framework * knowledge representation and processing DIALOG'00 is the sixth international workshop reviving the tradition of the interdisciplinary DIALOG seminars which were regular events in the former USSR during 70s-80s. Previous workshops (starting from 1995) significantly increased the number of participants and scope of research interests and became the major annual national event, which attracts leading researchers from the former USSR as well as other countries. We hope that DIALOG'00 will continue this tradition. Tarusa is located 120 km sou from Moscow in a picturesque place on the bank of Oka river. The number of participants is expected about 100. Every prospective attendee is required to submit a short research summary including relevant recent publications, regular and e-mail address, fax and phone numbers. Participants who wish to present their work are additionally required to submit a poster (1-3 double-spaced pages) or a full paper (not exceeding 12 double-spaced pages) preferably via e-mail (in plain ASCII or uuencoded Winword files) to the address of the Program Committee. Because of some additional organizing difficulties which postponed this letter the Committee decided to add two weeks to the time-table of formation of the Workshop's program: *** Deadline for submission: February 1, 2000 *** Notification of acceptance: February 29, 2000 Please send submissions in Russian or English, papers in Russian should be accompanied with a short summary in English (approximately 100-200 words). We plan to organize selected English-to-Russian and Russian-to-English translation of talks. Addresses for all correspondence: e-mail: dialog2Mail 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