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CS.BGU.AC.IL>International Natural Language Generation INLG'2000 Mitzpe Ramon, Israel Workshops: 12 June 2000 Main conference: 13-16 June 2000 First Call For Participation The First International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG'2000) will be held June 12 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. Following the tradition of previous INLG meetings, the conference will be held in an isolated and stunning natural environment: the Ramon Inn hotel, in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel. The hotel is located on the edge of the Ramon Crater, in the middle of the Negev Desert. Conference Main 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 modeling 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 is organized in four tracks: 1. Main session 2. Student session 3. Workshops 4. Special session on evaluation in generation Registration form for the main conference is available at our homepage: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlg2000 Registration form for the workshops will be available soon, as well as the full program. Registration will be accepted until May 15th. After this date, a late registration fee will be required. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Special Session on Evaluation * Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation 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
skiff.cs.vu.nl>Final Call for Papers --------------------- LOPSTR 2000 Tenth International Workshop on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation Program Development Stream of CL 2000 First International Conference on Computational Logic 24-28 July 2000 Imperial College, London, UK http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~kung-kiu/lopstr2000 LOPSTR 2000, The Tenth International Workshop on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation will be held on 24-28 July 2000 at Imperial College, London, UK, as the Program Development Stream at CL2000, the First International Conference on Computational Logic. The aim of LOPSTR ( http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~kung-kiu/lopstr ) is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development, and the workshop is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any paradigm. Past workshops were held in Manchester, UK (1991, 1992, 1998), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (1993), Pisa, Italy (1994), Arnhem, the Netherlands (1995), Stockholm, Sweden (1996), Leuven, Belgium (1997), Venice, Italy (1999). LOPSTR also aims to be a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, so it is a real workshop in the sense that it is intended to provide useful feedback to authors on their preliminary research. Formal proceedings of the workshop are produced only after the workshop, in order that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. LOPSTR 2000 will be run as follows: - Authors submit extended abstracts (8 pages) describing work in progress. - Promising abstracts relevant to the scope of LOPSTR are selected for presentation at the workshop. - At the workshop, only informal pre-proceedings of the selected abstracts are available (usually in the form of a technical report). - After the workshop, authors of the best abstracts are invited to submit full papers. These are reviewed, and accepted papers then form the formal (fully refereed) proceedings of the workshop, currently published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, by Springer-Verlag. Topics ------ We solicit extended abstracts describing work in progress. Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. For programming-in-the-small, the following is a non-exhaustive list: - specification - analysis - synthesis - optimisation - verification - composition - transformation - reuse - specialisation - applications For programming-in-the-large, the above topics are particularly of current interest in the context of: - component-based software development - software architectures - design patterns and frameworks. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Extended abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages in llncs format ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the submission form ( http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~kung-kiu/lopstr2000/subm ). Submission deadline: 21 April 2000 Notification: 26 May 2000 Programme Chair --------------- Kung-Kiu Lau, Manchester, UK Programme Committee ------------------- David Basin Freiburg, Germany Annalisa Bossi Venice, Italy Antonio Brogi Pisa, Italy Maurice Bruynooghe Leuven, Belgium Mireille Ducasse IRISA/INSA, France Sandro Etalle Maastricht, The Netherlands Pierre Flener Uppsala, Sweden Michael Hanus Kiel, Germany Ian Hayes Queensland, Australia Manuel Hermenegildo Madrid, Spain Patricia Hill Leeds, UK Kung-Kiu Lau Manchester, UK Baudouin Le Charlier Namur, Belgium Michael Leuschel Southampton, UK Michael Lowry NASA Ames, USA Ali Mili West Virginia, USA Torben Mogensen Copenhagen, Denmark Alberto Pettorossi Rome, Italy Don Sannella Edinburgh, UK Doug Smith Kestrel Institute, USA Zoltan Somogyi Melbourne, Australia CL 2000 ------- As the Program Development Stream at CL2000, LOPSTR 2000 will also include CL 2000 full papers on program development (the submission deadline for these is past), and LOPSTR 2000 participants will be able to attend all CL 2000 sessions. CL 2000 Invited Speakers ------------------------ Keynote Speaker: J. Alan Robinson Invited Speakers: Krzysztof Apt Melvin Fitting David Page David Poole Leslie Valiant (plus 2 more to be advised) Tutorial Speakers: Peter Flach "Knowledge Representation for Inductive Logic Programming" Michael Hanus "Functional Logic Programming" Manuel Hermenegildo "Ciao Development System" Michael Kohlhase "Deduction in Natural Language Understanding" Aart Middeldorp "Term Rewriting and Narrowing" Stephen Muggleton "Applications of Inductive Logic Programming" Ilkka Niemela "Stable Model Semantics: From Theory to Implementations and Applications" Andreas Podelski "Constraints for Program Analysis and Model Checking" Vitor Santos Costa "High Performance Logic Programming Systems" Pascal Van Hentenryck "Optimization Programming Language" Toby Walsh "Phase Transition Behaviour" Michael Wooldridge "The Logic of Rational Agency"Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue