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cs.vassar.edu>!!!! SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 23 !!!! COLING-ACL998 Workshop on TRANSLINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CURRENT LEVELS AND FUTURE ABILITIES August 16, 1998 (following ACL/COLING-98) University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) CALL FOR PAPERS DESCRIPTION - --------- The development of natural language applications which handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information is the next major challenge facing the field of computational linguistics. Over the past 50 years, a variety of language-related capabilities has been developed in areas such as machine translation, information retrieval, and speech recognition, together with core capabilities such as information extraction, summarization, parsing, generation, multimedia planning and integration, statistics-based methods, ontologies, lexicon construction and lexical representations, and grammar. The next few years will require the extension of these technologies to encompass multi-lingual and multi-modal information. Extending current technologies will require integration of the various capabilities into multi-functional natural language systems. However, there is today no clear vision of how these technologies could or should be assembled into a coherent framework. What would be involved in connecting a speech recognition system to an information retrieval engine, and then using machine translation and summarization software to process the retrieved text? How can traditional parsing and generation be enhanced with statistical techniques? What would be the effect of carefully crafted lexicons on traditional information retrieval? This workshop is a follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in conjunction with the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain (May 1998), at which an international panel of invited experts will consider these questions in an attempt to identify the most effective future directions of computational linguistics research--especially in the context of the need to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information. The follow-on ACL workshop is intended to open the discussion to the computational inguistics community as a whole. The workshop will include ample time for discussion. A report summarizing the discussions at Granada will be available before the ACL workshop. TOPICS - ---- The workshop will focus on the following fundamental questions: 1. What is the current level of capability in each of the major areas of the field dealing with language and related media of human communication? 2. How can (some of) these functions be integrated in the near future, and what kind of systems will result? 3. What are the major considerations for extending these functions to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information, particularly in integrated systems of the type envisioned in (2)? In particular, we will consider these questions in relation to the following areas: o multi-lingual resources (lexicons, ontologies, corpora, etc.) o information retrieval, especially cross-lingual and cross-modal o machine translation o automated (cross-lingual) summarization and information extraction o multimedia communication, in conjunction with text o evaluation and assessment techniques for each of these areas o methods and techniques (both statistics-based and linguistics- based) of pre-parsing, parsing, generation, information acquisition, etc. We invite submissions which report on work in these areas. All papers should clearly identify how the work addresses the issues and questions outlined above. SUBMISSIONS - --------- Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six (6) copies of the full-length paper (3500-5000 words). Submissions should be sent to: Nancy Ide Department of Computer Science Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA Style files and templates for preparing submissions can be found at http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html The official language of the conference is English. IMPORTANT DEADLINES - ----------------- Submission Deadline: March 23, 1998 Notification Date: May 15, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE - ------------------ Charles Fillmore University of California Berkeley, USA Robert Frederking Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ulrich Heid University of Stuttgart, Germany Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute, USA Nancy Ide Vassar College, USA Lauri Karttunen (tentative) Rank Xerox Research, France Kimmo Koskenniemi University of Helsinki, Finland Mun Kew Leong National University of Singapore Joseph Mariani LIMSI/CNRS, France Mark Maybury The Mitre Corporation, USA Sergei Nirenburg New Mexico State University, USA Akitoshi Okumura NEC, Japan Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA James Pustejovsky Brandeis University, USA Peter Schaueble ETH, Switzerland Oliviero Stock IRST, Italy Felisa Verdejo UNED, Spain Piek Vossen University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI, Germany ORGANIZERS - -------- Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA INFORMATION - --------- Information on the workshop can be found at http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/translingual.html Inquiries may be addressed to the organizers: Robert Frederking <refMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ling.ohio-state.edu>ANNOUNCING: an Interdisciplinary Conference "When Languages Collide: Sociocultural and Geopolitical Implications Of Language Conflict and Language Coexistence" November 13-15, 1998 Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Rationale for Conference: To discuss issues relating to language or dialect hegemony within societies including, but not limited to, language planning, designation of national or official languages, orthographic reform, dialect and language prestige, language endangerment and death, minority language status, gender or race-based linguistic hegemony, and the spread of English as the international language of science, business, etc., and the reaction of non-English speaking peoples to this. In other words, we seek a discussion of all areas in which conflict or disputes arise as the result of competition between different languages or between dialects within a single language. Moreover, our interest is in the social, political, historical, and linguistic dimensions of these issues, with a broad geographic coverage that is global in scope. Conference Themes: State-imposed linguistic unity and its implications; the linguistic legacy of colonialism; international languages, their positive and negative consequences; contentious issues regarding national or local languages; race-, ethnic-, gender-, and class-based dialects under siege by the dominant linguistic paradigm; diglossia; orthographies in competition; conflicting romanizations of languages. Featured Plenary Speakers: Joshua Fishman, Stanford University Victor A. Friedman, University of Chicago Featured Panelists: S. Robert Ramsey, University of Maryland, College Park Yona Sabar, University of California at Los Angeles Lachman Kubchandani, Center for Communication Studies, Pune (India) Other invited speakers may be added in the next few weeks. Call for Papers: Please send five copies of a one-page anonymous abstract (no more than 500 words) with a second page allowable for references and data, together with a 3"x 5" file card with your name, title of paper, address (plus summer address, if different), phone number, fax, and e-mail address by May 15, 1998 to: Office of International Studies For more information, call: Attn: Language Conference 614-292-8770 300 Oxley Hall or write to: 1712 Neil Avenue wolf.5Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue