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ims.uni-stuttgart.de>The (preliminary) program of the Fourth ACL Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ACL Applied, ANLP), which will be held from 13. - 15. October 1994 in Stuttgart, Germany, is available via WWW at the URL http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/ANLP or http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/ANLP/ANLP.html We are looking forward to seeing you in Stuttgart! Best regards, Oli Oliver Christ Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart, Germany oliMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ai.sri.com>INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INC. *** Call for Nominations for IJCAI-95 Awards *** THE IJCAI AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at an IJCAI to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality yielding several substantial results. If the research program has been carried out collaboratively, the Award may be made jointly to the research team. Past recipients of this award are John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell (1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), and Ray Reiter (1993). The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of US$ 2,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The recipient will be invited to deliver an address on the nature and significance of the results achieved and write a paper for the conference proceedings. Primarily, however, the Award carries the honour of having one's work selected by one's peers as an exemplar of sustained research in Artificial Intelligence. We hereby call for nominations for The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, which will be presented at IJCAI-95 in Montreal, Canada, 20 August - 25 August 1995. The accompanying note on Selection Procedures provides the relevant details. THE COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD The Computers and Thought Lectures are presented at IJCAI conferences by outstanding young scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Past recipients of this honour have been Terry Winograd (1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975), Douglas Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom Mitchell (1983), Hector Levesque (1985), Johan de Kleer (1987), Henry Kautz (1989), Rodney Brooks (1991), Martha Pollack (1991), and Hiroaki Kitano (1993). The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of US$ 2,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The lecture is given one evening during the conference, and the public is invited to attend. The lecturer is encouraged to publish the lecture in the conference proceedings. The lectureship was established with royalties received from the book Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman; it is currently supported by income from IJCAII funds. We hereby call for nominations for the Computers and Thought Award, which will be presented at IJCAI-95 in Montreal, Canada, 20 August - 25 August 1995. The accompanying note on Selection Procedures provides the relevant details. SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR IJCAI AWARDS Nominations for the IJCAI Research Excellence Award and the Computers and Thought Award are invited from everyone in the international Artificial Intelligence community. There should be a nominator and a seconder, at least one of whom must not be from the same institution as the nominee. Nominees for the Computers and Thought Award cannot be older than 35 at the start of the conference. There are no other restrictions on nominees, nominators or seconders. Nominating and seconding statements for an award should be submitted on the Nomination and Reference Forms for the award. The forms are available via http, gopher, or anonymous FTP at the following addresses, or directly from the Conference Chair at the address below. http://ijcai.org/awards/forms.txt gopher://ijcai.org/0/awards/forms ftp://ijcai.org/pub/ijcai/awards/forms An IJCAI Awards Committee has been established to encourage high quality nominations for IJCAI Awards and to propose winners to the Board of Trustees. It consists of five members: the three most recent past IJCAI conference chairs (Wolfgang Bibel (convenor), Barbara Grosz and Wolfgang Wahlster), and two senior members of the AI community. The IJCAI Awards Committee will be advised by the IJCAI Award Review Committee, which is the union of the former Trustees of IJCAII, the Advisory Committee of IJCAI-95, the program chairs of the last three IJCAI conferences, and the past recipients of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award, with nominees excluded. Nominations should be sent to the Conference Chair for IJCAI-95 at the address below. The deadline for nominations is 25 November 1994. To avoid duplication of effort, nominators are requested to submit the name of the person they are nominating by 1 November 1994 so that people who propose to nominate the same individual may be so informed and can coordinate their efforts. C. Raymond Perrault Conference Chair, IJCAI-95 Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415) 859-6470 Fax: (415) 859-3735 email: perraultMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cranfield.ac.uk>International Conference MACHINE TRANSLATION TEN YEARS ON 12-14 November 1994 Organised by Cranfield University in conjunction with the Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (BCS-NLTSG) Programme The Conference The first Cranfield International Conference on Machine Translation, jointly organised by the BCS-NLTSG and Cranfield, was held in 1984. In view of the success of that conference, we are marking its tenth anniversary at Cranfield by holding another, similarly jointly-sponsored, international conference on Machine Translation. The title for the Conference is: Machine Translation: Ten Years On Papers centre on what has been achieved in Machine Translation (MT) and Machine Assisted Translation (MAT) in the ten years on from 1984, and also what is expected to happen in R & D of MT and MAT in the next ten years. It is expected that the Conference will help to give an impetus for further research and development in MT and MAT in the coming ten years. We think everyone agreed how successful and enjoyable the '84 Cranfield Conference was. We are expecting the '94 Cranfield Conference to be even better. Conference Programme Saturday 12th November 9.00 - 10.00 Coffee and Reception Session A Fundamental Issues 10.00 - 11.00 1 Yorick Wilks: Sheffield University Keynote Address:- Some notes on the state of the art: Where are we now in MT? What works and what doesn't and the relevance of MT as an international collaborative activity. 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee 11.30 - 12.00 2 Jo"rg Schutz : IAI, Saarbru"cken Terminological knowledge in multilingual language processing 12.00 - 12.30 3 Dieter Huber : University of Mainz Prosodic information in automatic spoken language interpretation. 12.30 - 13.00 4 Horacio Saggion and Ariadne Carvalho : UNICAMP, Brazil Anaphora resolution in a machine translation system 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Session B Review 14.00 - 14.45 5 John Hutchins : University of East Anglia Research methods and system designs in machine translation; a ten-year review 1984-1994. 14.45 - 15.15 6 Angeliki Petrits : EC The current state of the European Commission's Systran MT system. 15.15 - 15.45 7 R Garigliano, R Morgan, M Smith and S Short Durham University Translation by meaning and style in LOLITA 15.45 - 16.15 Tea 16.15 - 16.45 8 M Y Al-Hafez, A D Vella and D Clarke Damascus and Cranfield University A semantic knowledge-based computational dictionary. 16.45 - 17.15 9 Terence Lewis : Hook and Hatton Ltd, Northampton An empirical approach to language processing 20.00 - 21.00 Debate Sunday 13th November Session C Applications 9.00 - 9.45 10 Peter Wheeler : Antler Translation Services NJ The errant avocado returns- A personal Odyssey 9.45 - 10.15 11 Walther v.Hahn and Galja Angelova : University of Hamburg and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Providing factual information in MAT. 10.15 - 10.45 12 Wilhelm Weisweber : Technical University, Berlin The experimental MT system of the project KIT-FAST- complementary research for Eurotra-D. 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee 11.15 - 11.45 13 Anthony M McEnery and Michael P Oakes : Lancaster University The use of approximate string matching techniques in the alignment of sentences in parallel corpora. 11.45 - 12.15 14 Chadia Moghrabi : Universite de Moncton, Canada On parameterising the choice of words in text generation and its usefulness in machine translation. 12.15 - 12.45 15 Raj Gunawardana : Texas Instruments, Bedford Speech coding from annotation to text; Why is it slow in happening? 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Session D Systems 14.00 - 14.45 16 M Blekhman : Lingvistica, Kharkov, Ukraine Through the Looking Glass to the PARS land. (Description of an English-Russian-English MT system using an IBM PC.) 14.45 - 15.15 17 Svetlana Sokolova : PROject MT Ltd, St Petersburg STYLUS - the MT product line for Russian: current state. 15.15 - 15.45 18 Iris Ho"ser and Barbera Ru"diger : GMSmbH, Berlin Some difficulties of Russian-German machine translation. 15.45 - 16.15 Tea 16.15 - 16.45 19 Scott McGlashan : University of Saarbru"cken The role of semantics in spoken dialogue translation systems. 16.45 - 17.15 20 Ba"rbel Ripplinger : IAI, Saarbru"cken Concept-based machine translation and interpretation. 20.00 - late Conference Dinner Monday 14th November Session E MT in use 9.00 - 9.45 21 Veronica Lawson : London The survey of users performed by the International Association for Machine Translation. 9.45 - 10.15 22 Ursula Bernhard : GMDmbH, Sankt Augustin, Germany Machine translation: Ten years on - Where are the users? 10.15 - 10.45 23 Susanne Heizmann : University of Hildesheim Human strategies in translation and interpretation: What MT can learn from translators. 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee 11.15 - 11.45 24 Christian Boitet Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France Dialogue-Based MT and self-explaining documents as an alternative to the TAMT of controlled languages. 11.45 - 12.15 25 Ruslan Mitkov : IAI, Saarbru"cken Machine Translation, 10 Years On: Discourse has yet to make a breakthrough 12.15 - 12.45 26 Lorna Balkan : University of Essex Test suites: Some issues in their use and design. 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Session F Developments 14.00 - 14.30 27 Gijoo Yang and Youngkuk Hong : Korea Telecom Machine translation systems in Korean-Japanese automatic interpreting telephony. 14.30 - 15.00 28 Boh Wasyliw and Doug Clarke : De Montfort University and Cranfield University Natural language analysis and machine translation in pilot-ATC communication. 15.00 - 15.30 Discussion/Summary 15.30 - 16.00 Tea Close of conference Fees (GBP = Pounds Sterling) Conference: 300 GBP BCS members 255 GBP (covering attendance at sessions and exhibition, and receipt of proceedings) Conference (one day attendance): 125 GBP BCS members 110 GBP Residential accommodation: 120 GBP (covering meals and accommodation for duration of Conference, ie. two nights and three days. This includes the special Conference Dinner) Notes: 1 These prices are VAT exempt. 2 Non-residential delegates may pay for individual meals separately. Organising Committee Douglas Clarke, Cranfield University. John Hutchins, University of East Anglia. Ian Kelly, GSI France, Conference Chair. Veronica Lawson, Translation Consultant, London. Monique L'Huillier, Royal Holloway College, University of London, Secretary BCS-NLTSG. Ulla Magnusson Murray, Translation Consultant. Alfred Vella, Cranfield University. Boh Wasyliw, De Montfort University. David Wigg, South Bank University, Chairman BCS-NLTSG. Further Information For further information, please contact members of the Technological Applications of Linguistic Knowledge (TALK) Group at Cranfield: Douglas Clarke Alfred Vella SME SIMS (Bldg.50) TALK Group TALK Group Cranfield University Cranfield University Cranfield Cranfield Bedford MK43 0AL Bedford MK43 0AL England England Telephone: +44 (0)234 750111 Fax: +44 (0)234 750728 Telex: 825072 CRNUN G E-Mail: a.vellaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue