LINGUIST List 14.137

Wed Jan 15 2003

Calls: HPSG/Langues Naturelles

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Borsley R D, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, MI USA
2. Beatrice Daille, Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, France

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

HPSG-2003 
10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
East Lansing, Michigan, USA
July 18-20, 2003

The 10th International Conference on HPSG will take place on 18-20
July 2003 at Michigan State University, East Lansing (held in
conjunction with the 2003 Linguistic Institute).

The invited speakers will be:

Jeannette Gundel (University of Minnesota)
Rob Malouf (San Diego State University)
Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester)

Abstracts are solicited for 30 minute presentations (followed by 10
minutes of discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, or
computational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts, to consist of two parts

1) a separate information page in plain text format, containing 
- author name(s) 
- affiliation(s) 
- e-mail and postal address(es) 
- title of paper 

2) An extended abstract with title, not more than 5 (five) pages long,
including all figures and references. Abstracts may be either in plain
ASCII, PostScript, or PDF format. A successful abstract clearly describes
the issues, presents an analysis (if appropriate) and presents evidence
for any proposals made, including samples of data. 
If your mailer allows attachments, then please send part (1) in the
message body, and part (2) as an attachment. 

Abstracts should contain the subject heading 'HPSG-03 abstract' and should
be sent to: 

rborsleyessex.ac.uk

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, so authors are asked to avoid
obvious self-references in their abstracts. 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

 15 February 2003

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE:

 15 April 2003

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Bob Borsley, chair
Doug Arnold
Elisabet Engdahl
Erhard Hinrichs
Ton Hukari
Andreas Kathol
Jean-Pierre Koenig
Shalom Lappin
Detmar Meurers
Adam Przepirkowski
Tsuneko Nakazawa
Ivan Sag
Gert Webelhuth
Shuichi Yatabe

Bob Borsley
Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
rborsleyessex.ac.uk
Tel: 44-1206-873762

Questions on abstract submittal: Bob Borsley, rborsleymail.utexas.edu

Questions on conference arrangements: Ivan Sag, sagcsli.Stanford.EDU


Website: http://hpsg.stanford.edu/2003


Prof. Robert D. Borsley
Department of Language and Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ, UK

rborsleyessex.ac.uk
tel: +44 1206 873762
fax: +44 1206 872198
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~rborsley

********************************************************************
 TALN 2003
 Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

 Batz-sur-Mer (44) - France
 June 11-14 2003

organised by IRIN, Universit� de Nantes
in collaboration with the laboratories ACIDORE and VALORIA of the
Universit� de Bretagne and IRISA, INRIA Rennes and under the aegis
of ATALA (French Association for Computational Linguistics).

http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/
mailto:taln2003irin.univ-nantes.fr


********** TALN 2003: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS **********

- --> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, February 7th 2003 <----

The 10th annual conference TALN 2003 will be held at Batz-sur-Mer (44)
France on June 11 - 14 2003, organized by IRIN (Computer Sciences
Institute of University of Nantes) in collaboration with the
laboratories ACIDORE and VALORIA of the University of Bretagne-Sud and
IRISA, INRIA, Rennes and under the aegis of ATALA (French Association
for Computational Linguistics).

TALN 2003 is organized under the aegis of ATALA (French Association
for Computational Linguistics) and will be held jointly with the young
researcher conference RECITAL 2003. The conference includes paper
presentations, invited speakers, tutorials and software
demonstrations.

The official conference languages are French and English.

********** TOPICS **********

Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to):
 lexicon
 morphology
 syntax
 semantics
 pragmatics
 discourse
 parsing
 generation
 abstraction/summarisation
 dialogue
 translation
 logical, symbolic and statistical approaches

TALN 2003 also invites contributions in fields for which NLP plays an
important role, as long as these contributions emphasize their NLP
dimension:
 text processing
 cognition
 terminology
 knowledge acquisition
 information extraction
 information retrievial
 corpus-based linguistics
 mathematical linguistics
 management and acquisition of linguistic resources
 computer assisted learning
 NLP tools for linguistic modelization

TALN 2003 also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that
have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasizing the
scientific aspects and conclusions drawn. Software demonstrations can
be proposed, either independently or in connection with a paper
proposal. Specific sessions for the demos will be scheduled in the
conference.


********** CALENDAR **********

- --> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, February 7th 2003 <----
Notification to authors: April 7th 2003
Final version due (camera-ready): April 30th 2003
Conference: June 11-14, 2003

********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE **********

The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced,
including figures, examples and references.

Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before
February, 7th 2003, sent to: taln2003irin.univ-nantes.fr

If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper
must reach the organizing committee at the following address:

TALN 2003
Béatrice Daille
IRIN
2, rue de la Houssinière
BP 92208
F-44322 NANTES Cedex 3

********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS **********

Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail
(rtf, ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing
the following informations: submission title and author's names. The
formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference web site:
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/

********** SELECTION CRITERIA **********

Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work.
Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain.
Decisions will be based on the following criteria :
 Importance and originality of the paper
 Accuracy of the scientific and technical content
 Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work
 Layout and clarity of the paper
 Relevance to the topics of the conference

Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference.

********** DEMOS AND POSTERS **********

One or two specific sessions for the demos and the posters (85 x 120
cm) will be scheduled in the conference. The demo or poster
submissions accord to the same rules of paper submission, BUT they
should not exceed 6 pages.

********** TALKS **********

Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. 10 minutes will be left for
questions. It will be possible to use a overhead projector or a
video-projector.

********* PROCEEDINGS **********

The conference proceedings will be given to all participants.

The editorial board of the international journal "Traitement
Automatique des Langues" (TAL) will select two papers for publication.

********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE **********

(the program committee will be supervised by a broad reviewing
committee)


Jean-Yves Antoine, VALORIA, Universit� de Bretagne Sud
Philippe Blache, LPL-CNRS Aix en Provence
Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA Universit� de Grenoble
B�atrice Daille, IRIN, Universit� de Nantes (Pr�sidente)
Alexandre Dikovsky, IRIN, Universit� de Nantes
Brigitte Grau, CNRS-LIMSI, Paris
Pierre Isabelle, Xerox
Daniel Kayser, LIPN, Universit� de Paris-Nord
Philippe Langlais, RALI/DIRO, Universit� de Montr�al
Dominique Laurent, Synapse Toulouse
Denis Maurel, LI Universit� de Tours
Jean-Marie Pierrel, ATILF & LORIA UHP Nancy 1
Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne
Pascale Sebillot, IRISA
Jean Veronis, DELIC Universit� de Provence
Leo Wanner, Universit� de Stuttgart
Fran�ois Yvon, ENST
Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM Paris



****LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (Common with RECITAL) ********

Jean-Pierre Angoujard (AAI/Universit� de Nantes)
Jean-Yves Antoine (VALORIA/Universit� de Bretagne-Sud)
Denis Bechet (IRISA)
B�atrice Daille (IRIN/Universit� de Nantes)
Alexande Dikovsky (IRIN/Universit� de Nantes)
Chantal Enguehard (IRIN/Universit� de Nantes)
Fabrice Even (IRIN/Universit� de Nantes)
Annie Foret (IRISA/Universit� de Rennes 1)
Nordine Fourour (IRIN/Universit� de Nantes)
Olga Galatanu (CALD/Universit� de Nantes)
J�rome Goulian (VALORIA/Universit� de Bretagne-Sud)
Erwan Moreau (IRIN/Universit� de Nantes)
Emmanuel Morin (IRIN/Universit� de Nantes)
Freddy Perraud (IRIN/Universit� de Nantes)
Frank Poirier (VALORIA/Universit� de Bretagne-Sud)
Igor Schadle (VALORIA/Universit� de Bretagne-Sud)
Pascale S�billot (IRISA/Universit� de Rennes 1)
Annie Tartier (IRIN/Universit� de Nantes)
Geoffrey Williams (ACIDORE/Universit� de Bretagne-Sud)