LINGUIST List 13.2856

Tue Nov 5 2002

Calls: Technologies of Information/NLP

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  • hanene.fr, Technologies of Information
  • steven.krauwer, European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

    Message 1: Technologies of Information

     Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 08:40:18 +0000
    From: hanene.fr <hanene.frvoila.fr>
    Subject: Technologies of Information


    International Conference: Sciences of Electronic,Technologies of Information and Telecommunication Short Title: SETIT 2003 Location: Mahdia, TUNISIA Date: 17-Mar-2003 - 21-Mar-2003

    Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2002

    Web Site: http://www-setit.enst-bretagne.fr Contact Person: Hanene TRICHILI Meeting Email: setit2003voila.fr Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics

    Meeting Description: You are concerned with the filed of electrnic, Information technology and telecommunications. You are also interested to be up-to-date. Join us in Tunisia for SETIT 2003 : http://www-setit.enst-bretagne.fr in March 17-21, 2003. SETIT 2003 has the ambition to promote a technological reference frame, to give answers and original innovating ideas and to contribute for a common language around the information processing and the Telecommunications. This conference will allow, in one hand, sharing experiences to make a state of the art of the theory, the research, the telecommunication applications and the Information processing. On the other hand, SETIT will present future innovations.

    Conference topics:

    Information Processing Information Fusion, Neuronal Networks and Fuzzy Logic, Rationing Methods, Data mining, Signal Processing Statistical Analysis, Signal Processing, Speech Processing, Speech Compression and coding, Image et Video Image Compression and coding, Image Processing Technology, Cryptology and Watermarking, Image 3D, Multimedia Management and Diffusion of Multimedia Applications, Multimedia Data Base, Documents Modelisation and Interpretation, Telecommunication's Computer Science, Networks Networks and telecommunications, communication Protocoles, Algorithmes'Architecture Adequation, Transmission Techniques, Electronic Systems on chip, Electronic Integration, Radiofrequence Circuits and systems, Telecommunications's Circuits and systems, Applications Telemedicine, Industrial Applications, distance Teaching, Handicap and Telecommunication,

    Around tables will be organized to allow for different participants sharing their experiences on scoops related to the research end teaching in the telecommunication field

    Important Dates :

    30 Novembre 2002 Submission of Abstracts and Invited Session 26 Décembre 2003 Acceptance/ Rejection Notification. 27 Janvier 2003 Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form 17 - 21 Mars 2003 Conference SETIT 2003.

    Submission Modality

    Authors are requested to submit their abstracts and tutorials in electronic format, Before November 30, 2002 (at the adress : setitenst-bretagne.fr). French is the official langue of the conference , submissions and presentations can be done either in french or in english. Selected papers, will be considered for possible publication in special issues of international journals will be effectuated in order to be published in international journals. Information and Contact :Hanne TRICHILI Laboratory: LETI / ENIS; PB W, 3038 Sfax Tel. +216 74 27 40 88 Email : hanene.tnvoila.fr

    Web Site: http://www-setit.enst-bretagne.fr

    TUNISAIR (Official Transporter of the Conference) offered for the participants and their accompaniers a reduction of 50 % for their tickets.

    Message 2: European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

     Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 18:45:46 +0100 (MET)
    From: steven.krauwer <steven.krauwerelsnet.org>
    Subject: European Workshop on Natural Language Generation


    Call for Papers

    9th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION (in conjunction with EACL2003)

    13-14 April 2003 Budapest, Hungary

    (http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~horacek/EACL-EWNLG03.html)

    Natural language generation (NLG) is a subfield of natural language processing that focuses on the generation of written texts in English or other human languages, generally from some non-linguistic data or knowledge. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media.

    This workshop is part of a biennial series of workshops about natural language generation that has been running since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse.

    The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. A substantial amount of time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. The workshop will focus on the following topics:

    - Formal semantics and NLG In several subareas of NLG (generation of referring expressions, lexicalization, among others) methods of formal semantics have already been used successfully. By focusing on this topic, we hope to strengthen the theoretical basis of NLG, complementing the application-oriented emphasis that has become dominant recently.

    - Evaluation of NLG systems Evaluation is an important factor for all NL systems, which is notoriously underrepresented in the generation field. By focusing on this topic, we hope to strengthen the empirical basis of NLG, preparing the ground for dedicated activities on this topic.

    We are considering organizing an invited talk on the first and a panel on the second topic. Substantial and original submissions on all subfields of NLG, especially on the two special topics, are welcome. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation. Since this is a workshop, we encourage papers that describe speculative ideas, work in progress, and discussions of important issues.

    WORKSHOP CHAIRS

    Ehud Reiter, Univ. of Aberdeen Helmut Horacek, Univ. of the Saarland Kees van Deemter, Univ. of Brighton

    PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

    John Bateman, Univ. of Bremen, Germany Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Germany Jo Calder, Fourth Person LtD, UK Charles Callaway, IRST, Italy John Carroll, Univ. of Sussex, UK Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia Claire Gardent, CNRS Nancy, France Pamela Jordan, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA Rodger Kibble, Univ. of London, UK Emiel Krahmer, Univ. of Tilburg, The Netherlands Chris Mellish, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Owen Rambow, Columbia Univ., USA Leo Wanner, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany

    SUBMISSIONS

    Papers describing original work in all areas of NLG, in particular related to the workshop focus topics above, should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 4-8 pages long in PDF format following the guidelines at the EACL site (http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~hajic/eacl03/submission.html). Send your submission to Ehud Reiter (ereitercsd.abdn.ac.uk).

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Paper submissions: 7 January 2003 Notification of acceptance: 28 January 2003 Camera-ready copies due: 13 February 2003 Registration deadline: as ACL Workshop dates: 13-14 April 2003

    REGISTRATION

    The registration fees include attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the EACL site (http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03) and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop.

    PARTICIPATION WITHOUT SUBMISSION

    People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This information will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive workshop.

    CONTACT INFO

    Notifications of attendance should be sent to Ehud Reiter (ereitercsd.abdn.ac.uk).