LINGUIST List 9.1484

Fri Oct 23 1998

Calls: Ling. in Technology, Natural Lang. Processing

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. PETER SANDRINI, Terminology and Knowledge Engineering
2. Rodolfo Delmonte, Natural Language Processing

Last Call for Papers
(deadline for submissions: 30 November 1998)

5th International Congress
on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering
TKE 99
Innsbruck (Austria)
23-27 August 1999
organized by
Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW)
International Information Centre for Terminology (Infoterm)
International Network for Terminology (TermNet)

http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html


General considerations

On behalf of the Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer -
Gesellschaft fr Terminologie und Wissenstransfer (GTW) - we are
pleased to announce the 5th International Congress on Terminology and
Knowledge Engineering TKE '99 which will be held on the campus of the
University of Innsbruck, Austria, between 23-27 August, 1999.

In continuation of the first four TKE Congresses in Trier (1987 and
1990), Cologne (1993) and Vienna (1996), TKE '99 will address
world-wide interests in the interdisciplinary methods of Terminology
Science, Information Science, Computer Science. It should furthermore
help achieve the "universal availability of information and knowledge"
via computerized methods, multimedia content-oriented net applications
and other tools, open new horizons for more efficient applications
based upon this integration of methodologies and elicit the interest
and participation of experts working in the fields that are gradually
drawing nearer from the point of theory and methodology such as

* Knowledge engineering 
* Language engineering 
* Computational philosophy 
* Classification theory 
* Information & documentation 
* Computer-assisted instruction/learning 
* Computerised terminography 
* Specialized translation 
* Technical writing 
* Culture-related aspects of terminology 

TKE '99 will address world-wide interests in the interdisciplinary
methods of Terminology Studies, Information Science and Computer
Science. It will help achieve the "universal availability of
information and knowledge" via computerized methods, multimedia
content-oriented net applications and other tools as well as open new
horizons for more efficient applications based upon this integration
of methodologies. TKE 99 will also elicit the interest and
participation of experts working in the fields that are gradually
drawing nearer from the point of theory and methodology.

General schedule

While Monday and Tuesday are reserved for workshops, the main
conference with parallel sections and the exhibition will be held from
Wednesday to Friday. The conference starts with a general opening on
Wednesday morning. The keynote address "Conceptual navigation in
Multimedia Knowledge Spaces" will be held by Prof. Kim Veltman from
the renowned European McLuhan Institute for Digital Culture in
Maastricht. The second International Infoterm Award for Applied
Research and Development in the field of Terminology (Terminology ARD
Award 1999) will be awarded in conjunction with the TKE 99. There
will also be the 13th GTW general assembly, meetings of the IITF,
TermNet and a TDCNet presentation. A high-ranking Multimedia Summit is
planned for the day after the TKE.

Sections

The conference is subdivided into sections and workshops. The first
will address theoretical problems and questions regarding each topic
whereas the workshops cater for more application-oriented issues. The
following sections are planned for TKE '99; the persons mentioned are
organizers and members of the reviewing panel. The keywords (KEY)
should help to define the topics of each section.

Section 1: Philosophy of Science and Terminology Studies
E. Oeser, G. Budin
KEY:	knowledge theory, logic, epistemology, ontology, cognitive
science, semiotics, fundamentals of computational philosophy

Section 2: Knowledge Resource Management
KD. Schmitz, S.E. Wright, I. Meyer
KEY: knowledge data modelling, information management, knowledge rich
terminology data bases, terminology and other data interchange,
encyclopedic knowledge, reference tools, copyright issues, terminology
and knowledge data extraction

Section 3: Knowledge Transfer by Specialist Communication
H. Picht, S. Shelov, J. Graham
KEY:	specialized languages, knowledge and technology transfer

Section 4: Terminology in Multimedia, Education and Training
C Galinski, K. Prochazka, T. Cabr i Castellvi, H. Sonneveld
KEY: multi/hypermedia teaching and training, CALL, re-usability of
language resources for textbooks and other teaching materials,
scientific and technical writing, tele- and online teaching, new media
and WWW didactics

Section 5: Terminology, Localisation and Internationalization
A. Melby, S.E. Wright, K.H. Freigang
KEY: software localisation, technical documentation, user interfaces,
usability validation and testing, liability issues, distributed
cooperative authoring via the Internet, UNICODE and WWW, language data
in non-European scripts, interface between product data in TD and
CAD/CAM as well as inventory control, new technologies (e.g. thin film
displays, 'intelligent' textiles etc.), quality management and
terminology

Section 6: Terminology in new World Wide Web applications 
K. Ahmad, F. Mayer, C. Plested Alvarez
KEY: preparation, representation and distribution of terminology and
knowledge through the WWW, e-commerce, database and online publishing,
global engineering networks (GEN), IPR issues, liability issues,
knowledge management in virtual enterprises, definition of smallest
knowledge units (for accounting etc.)

Section 7: Terminology in the Multilingual Information Society
C. Lauren, Y. Arsky, J. Myking
KEY: Human translation, terminology in plurilingual settings,
multilingualism policies/strategies, language policies in enterprises,
internationalization and globalisation, terminology documentation
networks, European multilingual information society, Global
Information Alliance.

Section 8: Culture in the Multimedia Information Society
H. Benking, A. Goppold, G. Budin
KEY: multimodality of contents, indexing of cultural information,
multidimensional classification of culture information, distribution
and marketing of cultural information through the Internet, culture
and Multimedia technology: bidirectional impacts, influence of
esthetics on MM technology and database modelling, terminology in
cultural information systems, culture-specific concepts in
cross-culture communication, terminological methodology for
multilingual culture encyclopedia design and publishing


Submitted Papers

The overall time for presentations including time for discussion will
be 30 minutes. The papers may be presented in English, German or
French while the submitted written version for the proceedings should
be in English.

According to the time schedule above some 50 papers (including the
keynote speech at the general opening and the second keynote address
on Thursday morning) will be presented at TKE '99.

The abstracts should be sent preferably by e-mail
(peter.sandriniuibk.ac.at), a submission form is available on the TKE
home page at http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html, by mail or by fax.

Authors are asked to provide an abstract of their papers to the
organizer by 30 November 1998, at the latest. The abstract undergoes a
reviewing process carried out by the Programming Committee and the
section organizers. By the end of January 1999 the authors will be
informed about the acceptance of their papers. They will have time
until 30 March 1999 to submit the full version, which will be
processed for publication in the proceedings and printed prior to the
Congress.

Proceedings

The Proceedings of TKE '99 will be published in advance by TermNet.
There will be one volume of the Proceedings including all papers in
topic order. The proceedings will be available for the participants at
the beginning of the Congress.

Workshops

Workshops within the framework of the Congress are held on Monday and
Tuesday. Several workshops in correspondence with the section topics
either with a more application-oriented or research-oriented emphasis
are planned.

Exhibition

Within the framework of the general TKE Conference an exhibition /
fair will be organized from Wednesday through Friday and coordinated
by TermNet. The conditions for exhibitors will be available from
TermNet.

Location

The workshops on Monday and Tuesday as well as the congress itself are
planned to be held in the rooms of the University of Innsbruck.
Detailed plans for venues, lunches, exhibition etc. will be given
later.

TKE Youth Forum

Students and young graduates interested in terminology and knowledge
engineering will be welcome to the TKE conference and a special
package (TKE Youth Forum) will be available which comprises: reduced
congress fee reduced workshop fee admission to the Youth Forum

This special package applies to students and graduates with a degree
not older than three years. A photocopy of the student ID or passport
is required. 

Congress fees

Detailed information on Congress fees will be given in the program to
be printed and distributed at the beginning of 1999. For the speakers
accepted, a reduction of 50% will be allowed. Conference participants
requesting a reduced fee will have to provide adequate proof. 


Programming Committee:

Khurshid Ahmad, University of Surrey (Great Britain)
Yuri Arsky, VINITI (Russia)
Heiner Benking, Universitt Ulm (Germany)
Gerhard Budin, Universitt Wien (Austria)
Teresa Cabr i Castellvi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)
Karl-Heinz Freigang, Universitt des Saarlandes, Saarbrcken (Germany)
Christian Galinski, Infoterm, Vienna (Austria) Andreas Goppold,
Universitt Ulm (Germany) John D. Graham, Deutscher Terminologietag
e.V. (Germany) Jiao Yunqi, CSICCI (China) Christer Lauren, University
of Vasa (Finland) Felix Mayer, Europische Akademie Bozen (Italy) Alan
K. Melby, Brigham Young University, Provo (USA) Ingrid Meyer,
University of Ottawa (Canada) Johan Myking, Bergen (Norway) Erhard
Oeser, Universitt Wien, Vienna (Austria) Heribert Picht,
Handelshojskolen i Kobenhavn, Copenhagen (Denmark) Cecilia Plested
Alvarez, Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) Kurt Prochazka, TGM
(Austria) Peter Sandrini, Universitt Innsbruck (Austria) Klaus-Dirk
Schmitz, Fachhochschule Kln, Cologne (Germany) Sergey D. Shelov,
Committee for Scientific Terminology in Fundamental Research (Russia)
Helmi Sonneveld, EAFT (Netherlands) Sue Ellen Wright,
Kent-State-University, Ohio (USA)

Organizing Committee

Christian Galinski, Infoterm, Vienna (Austria)
Klaus-Dirk Schmitz, Fachhochschule Kln, Cologne (Germany)
Peter Sandrini, Universitt Innsbruck (Austria)
Hideshiro Nakamoto, IRIS, Tokyo (Japan)
Irmgard Rieder, Universitt Innsbruck (Austria)
Roberta Schwarz, TermNet (Austria)


Supporting Organisations:

International Institute for Terminology Research (IITF)
German Terminology Society (DTT)
European Association for Terminology (EAFT)
TDC-Net Consortium

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Pre-registrations:

Tyrol Congress GmbH
Rennweg 3, A-6020 Innsbruck
Tel. +43+512/575600
Fax: +43+512/575607
email: tyrol.congresstirol.com

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Contributions and Abstracts:

Gesellschaft fr Terminologie und Wissenstransfer (GTW)
Universitt Innsbruck
Fischnalerstr. 4 A-6020 Innsbruck (Austria)
Tel. +43 512 507 4261
Fax +43 512 507 2966
http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at
email: Peter.Sandriniuibk.ac.at


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PETER SANDRINI Institut fuer Uebersetzen und Dolmetschen
TEL +43 0512 507 4261 der Universitaet Innsbruck (Austria)
Fax " 2966 

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(see English version below)

 VExTAL

 PRIMO ANNUNCIO
 (prima scadenza: 6 marzo 1999)

 Venezia
 dal 20 al 22 settembre 1999


 Il Convegno Vextal si terra' a Venezia, nell'Auditorium S.Margherita
 dell'Universita' Ca' Foscari ed e' rivolto a linguisti che usano metodi
 computazionali e quantitativo/statistici nello studio delle lingue. Il
 Convegno Vextal e' stato preceduto lo scorso anno da Fractal, tenutosi
 a Besancon - Francia.

 Le lingue ufficiali del Convegno sono l'italiano, il francese e
 l'inglese.

 TEMATICHE

 Le comunicazioni, della durata di 20 minuti, domande incluse, potranno
 trattare i temi piu' noti del TAL:
 lessico morfologia sintassi semantica
 pragmatica discorso analisi generazione
 riassunto dialogo traduzione automatica
 approcci logici, quantitativi, statistici, simbolici

 Altri domini di interesse per Vextal sono i seguenti:
 aspetti cognitivi
 terminologia, acquisizione di conoscenza dai testi
 estrazione d'informazione
 linguistica dei corpora
 correttori grammaticali, style-checkers
 insegnamento delle lingue assistito dall'elaboratore
 linguistica matematica e quantitativa

Si accettano lavori su applicazioni implementate e verificate nel campo
del TAL. Sono incoraggiate le dimostrazioni come complemento della
presentazione di lavori scientifici.

I lavori verranno pubblicati negli Atti della Conferenza.

DATE DA RICORDARE

Scadenza per l'invio proposta : 6 marzo 1999
Notificazione di accettazione : 15 maggio 1999
Versione finale : 10 giugno 1999
Conferenza : 20-22 settembre 1999

MODALITA' DI INVIO
Le proposte dovranno essere anonime, cioe' non dovra' apparire ne' il nome
dell'autore ne' una sua citazione. Gli articoli non dovranno superare le 9
pagine, spaziatura singola, Times 10, 6000 parole massimo. Gli articoli devono
essere inviati in forma cartacea, formato A4, o in forma elettronica,
formato .rtf di Word o .ps al seguente indirizzo:

Indirizzo elettronico: vextalbyron.cgm.unive.it
Indirizzo postale: VEXTAL - Ca' Garzoni-Moro
 San Marco 3417
 Universita' Ca' Foscari
 30124 - V E N E Z I A (It)

Formato dell'invio elettronico:

L'invio elettronico deve essere indirizzato all'indirizzo indicato piu'
sopra, vextalcgm.unive.it, con il "Subject", "VEXTAL-relazione", per
l'articolo e "VEXTAL-autore" per la pagina contenente titolo, nome autore,
affiliazione, indirizzo postale ed elettronico, numero di telefono, fax e
pagina web. I formati possono essere solo

 - RTF (Word) e PostScript

IMPORTANTE: tutti i lavori .ps devono essere in formato A4.

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 VEXTAL

 FIRST CALL FOR PROPOSALS
 (deadline: 6 March 1999)

 Venice (Italy)
 20 - 22 September 1999
 For more information look at the web page:
 http://byron.cgm.unive.it/eventi/VEXTAL

The VEXTAL Conference will be held in the Auditorium S.Margherita of the
University Ca' Foscari - Venice(It), 20 - 22 September, 1999. It is directed
to research people working in the area of computational linguistics,
mathematical and quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics and language
engineering. It is the follow-up of FRACTAL held in Besancon (France), last
year.

The official languages of the conference are Italian, French and English.

THEMES

Papers are invited for twenty minute talks, questions included,
in all areas of natural language processing, including (but not limited to) :

 lexicon morphology syntax semantics
 pragmatics discourse parsing text generation
 abstraction/summarization dialogue machine translation
 quantitative, logical, symbolical and statistical approaches

VEXTAL also welcomes submissions from fields for which NLP plays an
important role, which are more application oriented:

 cognitive aspects
 terminology, knowledge acquisition
 information extraction
 documentary retrieval
 corpus linguistics
 grammar and style-checkers and NLP tools
 computer assisted language learning
 mathematical & quantitative linguistics

VEXTAL invites submissions focusing on NLP applications already implemented,
tested and evaluated. Demos are strongly encouraged, in addition to a standard
paper.
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

CALENDAR

submission deadline : 6 March 1999
notification to authors : 15 May 1999
final version due : 10 June 1999
conference : 20 - 22 September 1999


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the
author's name, nor any self-reference. The maximum length is nine
pages, single spaced, Times 10, (approx. 6000 words).
Hard-copies of the paper must be in A4 format. Authors are encouraged
to send an electronic version of their paper.

E-mail address : vextalbyron.cgm.unive.it
Address : VEXTAL - Ca' Garzoni-Moro
 San Marco 3417
 Universita' Ca' Foscari
 30124 - V E N E Z I A (It)

Guidelines for electronic submission :

Authors should send their submission (neither compressed
nor encoded) via E-mail as an attached file to the address above,
specifying "VEXTAL-submission" as the Subject.
A separate identification page (with the following
information : title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal
address, E-mail address, fax and telephone number) should also be
send specifying "VEXTAL-author". Papers MUST be sent in one of the following
formats :

 - RTF (Word) document AND PostScript version.

IMPORTANT : all PostScript versions must be in A4 format.

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