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taikeila.kokken.go.jp>CALL FOR PAPERS LANGUAGE STUDY AND THESAURUS: Session 1 of the 5th International Symposium of National Language Research Institute 27 & 28, AUGUST 1997 Tokyo,JAPAN The National Language Research Institute will hold the 5th International Symposium this August titled "Language Study and Thesaurus of the World." Preceding symposium we have an open session about thesaurus. The needs for thesaurus is increasing in many fields of science today. Not only terminologists and lexicologists, researchers of language processing, psychology, library science have been making good use of thesaurus. Foreign language teachers also have a great interest for thesaurus for the practical use. The purpose of this session (and symposium) is to make a general view of the study of thesaurus today and to help us find the new direction of the the study of langauge. The two day session is open to interested researchers. We wait for the original and unpublished papers. Recommended fields(but not restriced to) Linguistics; Lexicology,Dialect,Contrastive Study,Grammar,Semantics,etc. Terminology, Language Teaching, Library Science, Psychology, Natural Language Processing. About the Session At the beginning of the session we have some invited lectures. Each author has 20 minutes of presentation followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Presentation language must be Japanese or English. SUBMISSIONS Send your abstract to the secretariat below by e-mail. Language : Japanese or English Deadline of Abstract : March 31,1997 Abstrct should include papers's title, author's name, job, postal & e-mail address, and telephone or fax number. Abstract must be within 300 words or 400 kanji letters and must be simple text file if e-mailed. This abstract will be reviewed by session's committee. Acceptance Notification: April 30, 1997 Deadline of Final Version : June 30,1997 Final version must be camera ready. This verison will be published as the session's proceedings in early 1998. Sumbmit to : nakanoMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
austerlitz.devinci.fr>CALL FOR PAPERS 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTICS 26th - 27th May, 1997 Ptle Universitaire Lionard de Vinci PARIS - LA DEFENSE - FRANCE TOPICS SEMIOTICS OF TEXT : Suzanne Bertrand-Gastaldy, University of Montreal Computers are increasingly used to assist text analysis for cognitive, literary, anthropological, sociological, documentary, etc. research. The workshop will focus on actual realisations, on the possibilities and limits of methodologies and existing tools to take into account the complex and multidimensional nature of texts, allowing multiple points of views for a variety of user needs. Issues such as desirable features of text analysis software, robustness and conviviality of implantations, interaction between corpora and users, constraints that actual tools put upon kinds of analyses and coding choices, the ability to elaborate models of electronic analytical tools suited to different semiotic theories, semiotical foundations of markup languages are examples of possible debates. SEMIOMETHODOLOGY : Claude Vogel, Lionard de Vinci University Several genres are currently under investigation for semiotic studies : electronic mail, news, corporate information, Web publishing. The flood of full text is overflowing semantic analysis, and this major paradigm break leads us to reconsider our approach of text processing. The size of these new corpora, the lack of consistency of information, the physical scattering of the basic units of texts, make the classical documentary solutions very uncomfortable. Instead, the semiotic based analysis seems to be a highly compelling perspective. It is focused on chronology; it provides a way to build transitive narratives throughout large amounts of data, and it does not require the understanding of the details of each local grammatical sentence in order for a global plot to be elaborated. This promising trend may give a second wind to ethnomethodology. For this reason, it is more appropriate to use the term "semiomethodology" when evoking this attempt to rationalize the computational approach of the symbolic dynamics which underlie collaborative production. ORGANIZATIONAL SEMIOTICS : Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University Organizational semiotics is the semiotics of organizations and organizational dimensions of textual semiotics. The objective of this workshop is to define the boundaries of this new specialty. Specifically, we will address the issue of : "How can semiotic analysis of interpersonal and corporate exchanges be used to reveal, evaluate, and contrast the underlying organizational logics and changes in these logics over time ?" Recent advances in textual analysis are facilitating this endeavor and creating new opportunities for understanding organizational behavior. Critical issues in the area of organizational semiotics include : 1) how to quickly and reliably analyze large quantities of texts, 2) how to reduce textual data to an empirical form that can be combined with other types of data and analyzed statistically, 3) how to identify corporate texts (those representing the "view" of the organization as an entity) and address issues of authorship, and 4) how to identify institutional constraints on the production and maintenance of corporate texts. New and innovative computational methods for empirically analyzing texts are being developed to address these and related concerns. These techniques have the potential to move textual analysis beyond counting words or locating a few themes or concepts. This section will focus on the issues involved in performing organizational semiotics with particular attention to the new computationally based techniques for facilitating organizational analysis that increase the ease, speed or reliability of coding texts and generate information that can be analyzed statistically. BIOSEMIOTICS : Jean-Claude Heudin, Lionard de Vinci University Recently, algorithms and architectures based on models derived from biological systems have been receiving an increasing amount of interest. This section will explore how such new approaches and techniques could be used for managing large amount of information exchanges on Internet or Intranet. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, applications of agent-based systems, autonomous and evolving agents, genetic algorithms and programming, neural networks, cellular automata etc. to text stream analysis and in the more general framework of semiotics analysis. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Send four copies of an abstract (approximately 500 words) in english or email it to : Irhne Ludman - IWCS'97 Ptle Universitaire Lionard de Vinci 92916 PARIS-LA DEFENSE-CEDEX, FRANCE Phone: (33) 01 41 16 73 05 Fax : (33) 01 41 16 73 35 Email : irene.ludmannMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue