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dc.fi.udc.es>====================================================================== Final CALL FOR PAPERS - -------------------------------------------------------------------- TAPD 2000 2nd Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction' - -------------------------------------------------------------------- September 19-21 2000 Vigo, Spain Sponsored by University of Vigo with the support of Caixa Vigo e Ourense Logic Programing Associates http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/ Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France) next TAPD event will be held in Vigo (Spain) in September, 2000. The conference will be previous to SEPLN 2000 http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/ , the conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing. MOTIVATIONS: Tabulation techniques are becoming a common way to deal with highly redundant computations occurring, for instance, in Natural Language Processing, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, or Abstract Interpretation, and related to phenomena such as ambiguity, non-determinism or domain ordering. Different approaches, including for example Chart Parsing, Magic-Set rewriting, Memoization, and Dynamic Programming, have been proposed whose key idea is to keep traces of computations to achieve computation sharing and loop detection. Tabulation also offers more flexibility to investigate new parsing or proof strategies and to represent ambiguity by shared structures. The first objective of this workshop is to compare and discuss these different approaches. The second objective is to present tabulation and tabular systems to potential users in different application areas such as natural language processing, picture parsing, genome analysis, or complete deduction techniques. TOPICS (not exclusive): -- Tabulation Techniques: Chart Parsing, Tabling, Memoization, Dynamic Programming, Magic Set, Generic Fix-Point Algorithms -- Applications: Parsing, Generation, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, Abstract Interpretation, Deduction in Knowledge Bases, Theorem Proving -- Static Analysis: Improving tabular evaluation -- Parsing or resolution strategies. -- Efficiency issues: Dealing with large tables (structure sharing, term indexing), Execution models, Exploiting the domain ordering (subsumption). -- Shared structures (parse or proof forest): Formal analysis, representation and processing. WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as group discussions. INVITED SPEAKERS: Bharat Jayaraman -- Univ. of New York at Buffalo, US I.V. Ramakrishnan -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit before April 28 a 4-page position paper or abstract concerning a theoretical contribution or a system to be presented. Due to tight time constraints, submission and reviewing will be handled exclusively electronically (LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or ascii format). Submission should include the title, authors' names, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail. The submissions must be sent to David S. Warren (warrenMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
limsi.fr>RIAO 2000 6th Conference on "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access" College de France (Paris, France) April 12-14, 2000 _______________ Final Announcement _______________ Organized by: C.I.D. (France) and C.A.S.I.S. (USA) Under the sponsorship of the European Commission, the French Ministry of Education, Research and Technology, the DGA, the CEA, ELRA and ELSNET With the collaboration of AII, ASIS, ESCA and AUF/Francil _______________ For the Final Conference Program and Registration, please visit the Web site: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO ______________ The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access". The conference scope will range from the traditional processing of text documents to the rapidly growing field of automatic indexing and retrieval of images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of audio-visual and multimedia information on various distribution venues, including the Net. The conference is of interest for several scientific communities, including Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Spoken Language Processing, Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve as a forum for cross-discipline initiatives and innovative applications. RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific progress, demonstrations of prototypes resulting from this research as well as the most innovative products now appearing on the market. The Conference Advance Program is highlighted by contributions of authors from 26 countries. The program includes 2 invited speakers, 3 panel sessions, 3 plenary sessions, 8 poster sessions and 16 oral sessions. Among all sessions are 145 papers (75 oral and 70 poster presentations), providing a unique opportunity to present and discuss in depth the state-of-the-art in this rapidly growing scientific and technological field. There will also be many innovative application demonstrations presented by companies from different countries. The application committee has already selected about 20 of them covering various applications such as crosslingual English-Arabic Internet search, recognition of printed and handwritten texts, television archives retrieval, sign language indexing, machine translation, etc. For more information on the program, conference location and registration, please visit the Web site : http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO or contact us at: - For all scientific matters: riao2000Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue