LINGUIST List 7.1338

Fri Sep 27 1996

Calls: Cross lg text/speech retrieval, Portuguese conf on AI

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdartam2000.tamu.edu>

Directory

1. David Hull, CFP: AAAI Spring Symposium - Cross Language Text and Speech Retrieval
2. Gabriel Pereira Lopes, cfp: 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence

			Call for Participation
		Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval
			AAAI Spring Symposium
			 March 24-26, 1997
		 Stanford University, USA

With the spread of electronic networks around the globe, there is an
increasing need for language technology and information retrieval
techniques which work in a multilingual domain. This symposium is
designed to bring together researchers from Information Retrieval,
Knowledge Organization, Computational Linguistics, Machine
Translation, Speech Processing, and related fields to address the
problem of constructing search and retrieval systems that can operate
across languages boundaries. The goal of the symposium is to foster
the development of interdisciplinary approaches to this task. Some
examples of research problems which could be addressed include:

o Corpus-based vs. knowledge-based approaches.
o Interlingual vs. language-pair oriented approaches.
o Knowledge extraction, text summarization, and automated indexing.
o Exploiting multilingual knowledge structures (such as thesauri).
o Using machine translation for cross-language text retrieval.
o Achieving broad domain coverage.
o Evaluation of multilingual retrieval systems.

The symposium will begin with introductory talks to provide a shared
background to all participants. This will be followed by a mixture of
presentation and discussion sessions. The presentations will focus on
innovative techniques and interesting practical applications.
Substantial time will be allocated for commentary, questions, and
discussion of the material. The discussion sessions will address
important and controversial topics of timely interest to the
participants. Some of the discussion sessions may be run in parallel
to create smaller groups and encourage more participation in a
collaborative environment. There may also be joint sessions with the
symposia: Natural Language Processing and the World Wide Web and/or
Intelligent Integration and Use of Text, Image, Video and Audio
Corpora, if there is sufficient common interest.

Submission Information

Interested participants should submit an extended abstract or a brief
statement of background and interest (a few paragraphs is sufficient)
by October 25, 1996. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to
submit a short working paper (two to eight pages) by January 17,
1997. They will also be asked to prepare either an oral or a poster
presentation. Other participants may be asked to prepare a short
verbal critique of a specific working paper and to introduce the
discussion of that paper. Graduate students are encouraged to
participate.

Working papers and up to date information regarding the symposium will
be made available on the following web site:
	http://www.ee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/sss
Potential participants are encouraged to join an electronic mailing
list for pre-conference discussion. This can be done in advance by
sending email to majordomoglue.umd.edu with the following in the body
of the message: "subscribe sss email_address" where email_address is
your email address. In the months following the October deadline, the
format and topics for the symposium discussion sessions will be worked
out in this forum.

Potential participants in Europe Other potential participants
should address submissions to: should address submissions to:

David A. Hull (co-chair) Douglas W. Oard (co-chair)
e-mail: hullxerox.fr e-mail: oardglue.umd.edu
phone: +33-76-61-50-74 phone: (301)405-7590
fax: +33-76-61-50-99 fax: (301)314-9145

Electronic mail submission (ASCII, PDF, or postscript) is strongly
preferred. If you do not wish to be added to the electronic mailing
list, please indicate this along with your submission. Up to date
information regarding the symposium can be found at the web site
(http://www.ee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/sss).

Organizing Committee

Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, hovyisi.edu
David Hull, Rank Xerox Research Centre, hullxerox.fr
Doug Oard, University of Maryland College Park, oardglue.umd.edu
Peter Schauble, ETH Zurich, schaubleinf.ethz.ch
Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland College Park, ds52umail.umd.edu

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 EPIA'97
 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
 Coimbra, Portugal
 October 6-9, 1997

 Under the auspices of the
 Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence


The EPIA'97 Program Committee invites submissions of technical papers
for the 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence which is
to be held in Coimbra, Portugal, by October 6-9, 1997. As in previous
issues ('89, '91, '93 and '95), EPIA'97 will be run as an
international conference, English being the official language. The
scientific program encompasses tutorials, invited lectures, parallel
workshops, and paper presentations. Four well-known researchers will
present invited lectures. The conference is devoted to all areas of
Artificial Intelligence and will cover both theoretical and
foundational issues and applications as well.


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 INVITED LECTURES

 Francisco Varela Luis Moniz Pereira
 (CNRS - France) (UNL - Portugal)

 Oskar Dressler Tom Mitchell
 (OCC'M Software GmbH - Germany) (CMU - USA)

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 TUTORIAL PROGRAM (Provisional)

 At the time of this CfP, the following tutorials are
 already confirmed:

 Daniel O'Leary (USC - USA), on AI and Finance
 Pedro Barahona (UNL - Portugal), on Constraint Programming
 Felix Costa (UL - Portugal), on Neurocomputing

 The final program will soon be announced.

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CONTENT AREAS

Original papers are solicited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence,
including but not limited to:

o Agent-Oriented Programming o Automated Reasoning
o Artificial Life o Belief Revision
o Case-Based Reasoning o Common Sense Reasoning
o Constraint Programming o Distributed AI
o Expert Systems o Genetic Algorithms
o Hybrid Systems o Intelligent Tutoring Systems
o Knowledge Representation o Logic Programming
o Machine Learning o Model-Based Reasoning
o Natural Language Understanding o Neural Networks
o Nonmonotonic Reasoning o Planning and Scheduling
o Qualitative Reasoning o Robotics
o Spatial Reasoning o Temporal Reasoning
o Theorem Proving o Theory of Computation


PROCEEDINGS
As with previous conferences, proceedings will be published by
Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Series and will be available to participants.


TIMETABLE
Submission Deadline: March 17, 1997
Notification of Acceptance or Rejection: May 19, 1997
Camera-Ready Copy: June 16, 1997


SUBMISSIONS
Authors must submit five (5) completed printed copies of their papers
to the EPIA'97 Submission Address (see below). Fax or electronic
submissions will not be accepted. Detailed instructions on the
procedure and on the format are available at the EPIA'97 Web site.


ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT
In addition to submitting the paper copies, authors should send a
short (200 words) electronic abstract of their paper to aid the
reviewing process. Detailed instructions on the procedure and on the
format are available at the EPIA'97 Web site.


REVIEW OF PAPERS
Submissions will be judged on significance, originality, quality and
clarity. Each paper will be cross-reviewed by three referees. Papers
will be subject to blind peer review: reviewers will not be aware of
the identities of the authors. This requires that authors exercise
some care not to identify themselves in their papers. Detailed
instructions are available at the EPIA'97 Web site. Submitted papers
must report original and previously unpublished work.


MAILING LIST
We have set up an automated mailing list facility to easily distribute
up to date information to those who wish to submit papers and/or
attend the conference. You may find instructions on how to add
yourself to the mailing list at the EPIA'97 Web site.


CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS, PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Ernesto Costa (ernestodei.uc.pt)
Amilcar Cardoso (amilcardei.uc.pt)
 Universidade de Coimbra - Portugal


LOCAL CHAIR
Jose Luis Ferreira (jlfdei.uc.pt)
 Universidade de Coimbra - Portugal


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Bernardete Ribeiro (Portugal) Carlos Bento (Portugal)
Carlos Pinto-Ferreira (Portugal) Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy)
Ernesto Morgado (Portugal) Eugenio Oliveira (Portugal)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Portugal) Helder Araujo (Portugal)
Helder Coelho (Portugal) John Self (UK)
Larry Medsker (USA) Luis Moniz Pereira (Portugal)
Luis Monteiro (Portugal) Manuela Veloso (USA)
Miguel Filgueiras (Portugal) Nuno Mamede (Portugal)
Oskar Dressler (Germany) Pavel Brazdil (Portugal)
Pedro Barahona (Portugal) Philippe Dague (France)
Ramon de Mantaras (Spain) Rosa Vicari (Brazil)
Stefano Nolfi (Italy) Stuart Shapiro (USA)
Takeo Kanade (USA) Xue Mei Wang (USA)
Yves Kodratoff (France)


WORKSHOPS
A Call For Workshops Proposals will be available at September 23, 1996.


SUBMISSION ADDRESS
INQUIRES ADDRESS
 EPIA'97
 Dep. Eng. Informatica
 Universidade de Coimbra - Polo II
 Pinhal de Marrocos
 3030 Coimbra, Portugal
 Voice: +351 (39) 7000004
 Fax: +351 (39) 701266
 Email: epia97alma.uc.pt
 URL: http://alma.uc.pt:80/~epia97


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
English

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 WE ENVITE YOU TO VISIT THE EPIA'97 WEB SITE AT
 http://alma.uc.pt:80/~epia97
 TO FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE CONFERENCE AND ON
 COIMBRA AND ITS HISTORICAL UNIVERSITY.
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Dep. Eng. Informatica tel: + 351 39 7000 000
Universidade de Coimbra, Polo II fax: + 351 39 701 266
Pinhal de Marrocos email: amilcardei.uc.pt
3030 Coimbra - PORTUGAL