LINGUIST List 9.1546

Wed Nov 4 1998

Calls: Language Technology, Negation/Slavic Languages

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

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1. Djoerd Hiemstra, Language Technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval
2. Adam Przepiorkowski, Negation in Slavic Languages

 14TH TWENTE WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
 LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY IN MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
 December 7-8 1998, University of Twente, The Netherlands
 PROGRAM AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

On 7 and 8 December 1998, the fourteenth international Twente Workshop on
Language Technology (TWLT14) will take place at the University of Twente,
Enschede, The Netherlands. The topic of this workshop will be

 "Language Technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval"

TWLT14 will focus on the increasingly important role of human language
technology in the indexing and accessing of written and spoken documents,
video material and/or images, and on the role of language technology for
cross-language retrieval and information extraction. The workshop will
address the role of language and speech processing both in terms of
existing approaches and implementations, in terms of theoretical
foundations, and/or emerging directions of research.

 http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences/twlt14.html

Program:

Monday 7 December

09:00 Registration
10:00 Opening

Session 1: Cross-language IR

10:15 Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI
 "Cross-language information retrieval: from naive concepts to 
 advanced applications"
10:45 Paul Buitelaar, Klaus Netter and Feiyu Xu, DFKI 
 "Integrating Different Strategies for Cross-Language Retrieval"

11:15 Break

11:30 Franciska de Jong and Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
 "Cross-language Retrieval: from design to implementation."
12:00 David Hull, XEROX Grenoble
 "Information Extraction from Bilingual Corpora and its application
 to Machine-aided Translation"

12:30 Lunch

Session 2: NLP, IE/IR and Multimedia

14:00 Arjen de Vries, University of Twente
 "Mirror: Multimedia Query Processing in Extensible Databases"
14:30 Doug Appelt, SRI International
 "An Overview of Information Extraction and its Applications to
 Information Retrieval"

15:00 Break + Demos

16:00 Paul van der Vet, University of Twente
 "Combining Linguistic and Knowledge-based Engineering for
 Information Retrieval and Information Extraction"
16:30 Karen Sparck-Jones, Cambridge University (NL+IR)
 "Information retrieval: how far will *really* simple methods take
 you?"

17:30 Drinks

Tuesday 8 December

Session 3: Video and Image Processing

09:00 Stanley Peters, Stanford University
 "Methods and Tools"
09:30 Andres Salway and Khursid Ahmad, University of Surrey
 "Talking Pictures: Indexing and Representing Video with Collateral
 Text"
10:00 Wim van Bruxvoort, VDA informatiebeheersing
 "Pop-Eye: language technology for video retrieval"

10:30 Break

11:00 Istar Buscher, SWR
 "Going digital at TV-archives: new dimensions of information
 management for professional and public demands"
11:30 Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam
 "Vision and language, the impossible connection"
12:00 Kees van Deemter, University of Brighton (Picture Retrieval)
 "Retrieving Pictures for Document Generation"

12:30 Lunch

Session 4: Speech retrieval

14:00 Steve Renals, University of Sheffield
 "The THISL Spoken Document Retrieval System"
14:30 Wessel Kraaij / Joop van Gent, TNO-TPD
 "Phoneme Based Spoken Document Retrieval"

15:00 Break

Closing Session

15:30 Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University
 "Information novelty and the MMR Metric in Retrieval and 
 Summarization"
16:00 Discussion

16:30 Closing


The regular workshop fee is Dfl. 175,- and covers a copy of the
proceedings, lunches, coffee and tea during the breaks, and an informal
reception. Students may apply for a reduced fee.

The workshop secratariat can make hotel reservations.

More information on the workshop as well as a registration form can be
found at 
http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences/twlt14.html

TWLT14 is organised in cooperation with the PARLEVINK-
project of the University of Twente by:
Klaus Netter - DFKI, Germany
 email: netterdfki.de
Franciska de Jong - University of Twente, Computer Science
 Department
 email: fdejongcs.utwente.nl
Djoerd Hiemstra - University of Twente, Computer Science
 Department
 email: hiemstracs.utwente.nl

For further information please contact the organisers, or the workshop 
secretariat:

Department of Computer Science/PARLEVINK
University of Twente Phone: +31 53 4893680
P.O. Box 217, Fax: +31 53 4893503
7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands
email: twlt14cs.utwente.nl

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 
 Workshop on

 THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF SLAVIC NEGATION

 May 1-2, 1999

 during
 32nd Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM'99)
 Poznan, Poland
 April 30 - May 2, 1999

 

INVITED SPEAKERS (to be confirmed): 

Eva HAJICOVA, Charles University, Prague
Maria Luisa RIVERO, University of Ottawa


Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks on all aspects of
(morpho)syntax and semantics of negation in Slavic languages (also
comparing Slavic negation to that in other languages) from any
theoretical perspective. The official language of the workshop will
be English.

We have tentatively arranged with Slavica Publishers for publishing a
volume of selected papers presented at the workshop. Further details
will be announced at the workshop.


ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS:

Abstracts should be no more than one standard size page in length with
the option of including an additional page for data and references.
Abstracts should be in at least 10-point type with 1-inch margins,
single-spaced. They should be anonymous.

The PREFERRED WAY of submitting an abstract is via email. Abstracts
should be sent to the following address:

adampsfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

Acceptable formats are: pure ASCII, PostScript, TeX, LaTeX, LaTeX2e,
RTF, also gzipped uuencoded versions thereof. Please, send in a
separate email the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), address
for correspondence, and the title of the paper.

Alternatively, 3 copies of the abstract, accompanied by a separate
card stating the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, address, and
the title of the paper, should be sent to:

Adam Przepiorkowski
IPI PAN
ul. Ordona 21
01-237 Warszawa
Poland

Abstracts should be received not later than on February 12, 1999.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: 12th February 1999
Acceptance notification: 14th March 1999
Programme announcement: 1st April 1999
Workshop: 1st -- 2nd May 1999


PARTICIPATION:

Anybody intending to participate (including the speakers) should
register for the Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM'99). The first
circular will be sent separately by the organizers of PLM'99.


Any inquiries should be sent to the address below.


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ADAM PRZEPIORKOWSKI
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