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CS.Stanford.EDU>- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Participants and Poster Papers for GP- 97 PhD Student Workshop (Deadline: Wednesday, February 26, 1997) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a call for participants for a one-day PhD student workshop to be held on Saturday July 12, 1997 at Stanford University (just before the start of GP-97 conference on Sunday July 13). The GP-97 PhD workshop is intended to give the presenting PhD students an opportunity to describe their ongoing research work to a faculty panel, other students, and other participants of the workshop. It is expected that there will be feedback on each presenter's current progress as well as suggestions and advice for future research directions from the faculty panel, other student presenters, and other attendees of the workshop. This call is the result of the recent discovery that there are around 50 theses involving genetic programming in the works at the present time. The proposed GP-97 PhD workshop will bring together four distinct groups: (1) A faculty panel, consisting of (at least) the following three faculty members who have agreed so far to participate if there is sufficient interest: - ---- David Goldberg, University of Illinois - Urbana - ---- Nils Nilsson, Stanford University - ---- John Koza, Stanford University (2) Approximately 12 students selected as "presenters." These students will have been selected from among students submitting a one-page poster paper describing their thesis work involving genetic programming. The group of presenting students will be selected from the submissions on the basis of creating a diverse group of students working on a wide range of topic areas. In most cases, the presentations will be from students whose thesis topic has already approved by their university and who been working on their thesis for at least several months. (3) Additional students (PhD, masters, bachelors) who may be working on, or planning to work on, a thesis involving genetic programming at the PhD, masters, or bachelors level. (4) Other interested GP-97 conference attendees (including both students or non-students). The details of the workshop are unsettled at this time, but based on the number and mix of submissions. The workshop will probably be run along approximately the following lines: The workshop will consist of 4 successive 1/2 hour segments, each consisting of a group of 3 short presentations (probably about 15 minutes each, totaling 45 minutes) followed by about 45 minutes of questions, comments, and suggestions from the faculty panel and the audience. The 4 successive 1 1/2 hour segments during the day would cover the 12 presenting students. In general, the workshop would be patterned along the lines of the PhD workshop held in summer 1996 by the AAAI in Portland, Oregon. The intent is to keep the workshop fairly small, so attendance may be limited to students who submitted a one-page poster paper (whether or not they were selected as presenters) and/or other students working on PhD, masters, bachelors theses. The deadline for arrival of submissions is Wednesday, February 26, 1997. Students interested in presenting their work at the workshop should submit 5 physical copies of a one-page camera-ready paper in the style of a poster paper briefly describing their work and any existing intermediate results of their research. The paper should follow the style for papers for GP-97. See the one-page poster papers contained in the GP-96 conference proceedings for samples. For details of the camera- ready copies, see the GP-96 WWW page. It is anticipated that most or all the one-page papers submitted by students who participate in the workshop will be printed either in the GP-97 conference proceedings book or the GP-97 late-breaking papers book (depending on not-yet-settled timing and logistics). Submissions should be sent to GP-97 PhD Workshop, c/o American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Selection of the presenting students and final decisions concerning the workshop will be made shortly after submission. It is anticipated that at least some of the one-page submissions will require revisions and a second deadline will be subsequently announced for the revised versions. The workshop has been scheduled to occur on the day before the regular GP-97 conference to allow students to meet each other and encourage subsequent meetings with their fellow students, if they so choose, during the conference. In addition to the activity at the workshop, at some point during the regular GP-97 conference as a whole (perhaps for 2 hours on Monday afternoon July 14), there will be one parallel track of the regular GP-97 conference provided so that the 12 presenting students can give very brief 10-minute thumbnail sketches of their work. These presentations will give the presenting students an opportunity to present their work to the larger conference audience and will allow attendees of the GP-97 conference to learn about this ongoing PhD research work. Please send your questions or comments concerning this PhD workshop to kozaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
let.uva.nl>Call for ACL/EACL Workshop Submissions/Participation Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic= Resources for NLP Applications Organized under the auspices of the Language Engineering section of the European Commission, Directorale General XIII Luxembourg, by three recently launched projects: EuroWordNet(LE2 4003), Sparkle (LE1 2111) and Ecran Madrid, July 12th 1997 (in conjunction with ACL-97/EACL-97) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Workshop Information * What the Workshop is About * Submission Details * Workshop Participation * Important Dates * Organizing Committee * Program Committee - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - What the Workshop is About In the past years the development of high-quality and overall language resources has been the focus of many research groups. More recently also= the corpus-based extraction of such resources has gained a wider interest. EuroWordNet, Sparkle and Ecran try to package some of this know-how and expertise into state- of-the-art tools and resources that can directly be applied in NLP-based services. In the EuroWordNet project a multilingual database is developed with wordnets for four European Languages linked to the existing Princeton WordNet (version 1.5). Such a database can be used= in multilingual retrieval applications but it can also be seen as a starting point for automatic-translation aids, inferencing systems, and information extraction systems. Sparkle and Ecran both address the creation of language resources and technologies for real-world NLP applications in parallel.= This objective is carried out through the development of software tools in the areas of shallow parsing and lexical acquisition. These tools are used to induce linguistic knowledge from text corpora and are progressively= enriched by the information acquired. In all three projects the current limits of Linguistic Technology are being explored for their practical benefits. Whereas EuroWordNet aims at the broadening and extension of the Princeton WordNet to a generic multilingual resource which is the first in its kind, Sparkle and Ecran aim at the dynamic anchoring of resources and information to the data and corpora that are of a user=E2s interest. The availability of these resources and tools= is essential for the new generation of applications and products dealing with information in electronic form. The projects have finished their specification phase and are in the process of generating the results. In this workshop we want to discuss the scope and formats of semantic= resources and information acquisition tools with scholars in the field and= researchers from commercial R&D departments who have experience in developing and using them. We therefore specifically welcome papers on the following topics: 1. compatibility and standards of multilingual semantic resources and lexical acquisition tools. 2. the validation of multilingual semantic resources and lexical acquisition tools. 3. performances of semantic resources and lexical acquisition tools in= NLP tasks. 4. partial or phrasal parsing of text. 5. linking text with lexical databases: sense-differentiation, sense-tagging and sense-disambiguation tasks, domain-differentiation= of text and lexical resources. The workshop will be a full-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations (about 30 minutes each) and discussions. At the end of day there will be room for demos. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - SUBMISSION DETAILS: Full papers should be submitted in electronic format: either RTF or postscript. Papers should not exceed 8 pages or 4000 words. The deadline= for submission is the 17th of March. The formatting should be as follows: Subject: EWN/SPARKLE/ECRAN 97-WORKSHOP Submission - text follows this line-- title: <title of submission authors: <authors as they appear on the title page word count: <n email: <email address of author to whom correspondence should be directed - ----------------- <Body of submission Submissions should be sent to: Piek Vossen Computer Centrum Letteren University of Amsterdam Spuistraat 134 1012 VB Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31 20 525 4669 Fax: +31 20 525 4429 Email: Piek.VossenMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue