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ist.flinders.edu.au>Paradigms and Grounding in Language Learning Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd January Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide (part of the Australian NLP Fortnight) (NOTE CORRECTED SUBMISSION ADDRESS) This workshop is focussed on alternatives to the statistical and learning methodologies based on tagged or bracketed corpora. Such learning has the advantage that fast training can be performed and highly effective systems can be developed for the type of text on which it has trained and the grammatical formalism with which the corpus was prepared. On the other hand, it has several disadvantages: it assumes the very formalism which it is trying to learn, it depends on statistics to choose between ambiguous parses, it offers no opportunity to learn a grounded semantics. This workshop is interested in techniques which automatically propose segmentations, classifications and parses based on plain text or speech corpora, whether syntactic, semantic, phonological or morphological. We are particulary interested in language learning in embedded environments where syntactic, semantic and pragmatic information can be learned in a way comparable with the way in which children learn language. We are also interested in theoretical issues relating to the learning situation or paradigm, and approaches which adopt an interdisciplinary approach using models from in psycholinguistics or cognitive linguistics or cognitive science. Submissions should be in the ANLPF conference submission format and may be two to four pages in length. All submissions will be reviewed. Longer papers will be considered at the discretion of the organizers. Papers should be submitted in final format in PostScript. Topics may include but are not limited to: Unsupervised paradigms language learning Algorithms for unsupervised language learning Statistical methods for unsupervised language learning Self-organizing neural nets for language learning Segmentation and Classification models Grounded models of language and ontology Learning or evolution/emergence of robot communication Learning of taxonomies and semantic networks Timetable Deadline for papers (camera-ready PostScript): 24th November 1997 Acceptances will be notified by: 28th November 1997 Organizer David Powers Dept of Computer Science Flinders University Address for correspondence and postscript submissions: conllMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.bham.ac.uk>EUROGP'98 FIRST EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON GENETIC PROGRAMMING PARIS, 14-15 April, 1998 Genetic Programming (GP) is a new branch of Evolutionary Computation in which the structures in the population being evolved are computer programs. GP has been applied successfully to a large number of difficult problems like automatic design, pattern recognition, robotic control, synthesis of neural networks, symbolic regression, music and picture generation, etc. EUROGP'98 is the first event entirely devoted to Genetic Programming to be held in Europe. The aims are to give European and non-European researchers in the area of genetic programming as well as people from industry an opportunity to present their latest research and discuss current developments and applications. The event will be held, Tuesday and Wednesday in the week following Easter, in the center of Paris, Quartier Latin, a 5 minute walking distance from Notre-Dame. The workshop is sponsored by the EvoNet, the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation, and is one of the activities of EvoGP, the working group on Genetic Programming of EvoNet. It will be held in conjunction with EVOROBOT'98, the first European event on evolutionary robotics, organised by EvoRob, the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Robotics. EVOROBOT'98 will be held on April 16-17 at the same site as EUROGP'98. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Theoretical developments Experimental results on performance and behaviour of GP runs New algorithms, representations and operators Novel applications of GP to real-life problems Hybrid architectures including GP components Comparisons with other machine learning or program-induction techniques New libraries and implementations Venue: Ministere de l'Education Nationale, de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche, 1 rue Descartes, Paris, France. Submissions: To submit, send your manuscript (max 10 A4 pages) to one of the co-chairs, Wolfgang Banzhaf or Riccardo Poli, in PostScript (preferably compressed and uuencoded) BY EMAIL (see addresses below) not later than December 1, 1997. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by January 10, 1998. The authors of accepted papers will have three weeks to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts in LNCS format (12 pages recommended, 15 pages max) by January 31st, 1998. The papers accepted will appear in the workshop proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, which will be available at the workshop. Organising Committee: Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany (Program co-chair) Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK (Program co-chair) Terry Fogarty, Napier University, UK (Publication chair) Marc Schoenauer, Ecole Polytechnique, France (Local chair) Programme Committee: Peter Angeline, Natural Selection, New York, USA Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany Tobias Blickle, Saarbruecken, Germany Marco Dorigo, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Gusz Eiben, University of Leiden, The Netherlands Terry Fogarty, Napier University, UK Frederic Gruau, Center Voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands Hitoshi Iba, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan W.B. Langdon, The University of Birmingham, UK Jean-Arcady Meyer, Ecole Normale Superieure, France Peter Nordin, DaCapo, Sweden Una-May O'Reilly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK Marc Schoenauer, Ecole Polytechnique, France Michele Sebag, Ecole Polytechnique, France Andrea Tettamanzi, Genetica, Italy Marco Tomassini, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland Hans-Michael Voigt, Center for Applied Computer Science, Berlin, Germany Byoung-Tak Zhang, Seoul National University, Korea Timetable: Submission deadline: 1 December 1997 Notification of acceptance: 10 January 1998 Camera ready papers for workshop: 31 January 1998 Workshop: 14-15 April 1998 URLs: Workshop: http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/www.EvoGP/EuroGP98.html 1-page flyer: http://blanche.polytechnique.fr/www.EvoGP/eurogp98.ps.gz EvoGP Wrk Grp: http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/www.EvoGP/ Contacts: Wolfgang Banzhaf email: banzhafMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue