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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 42
NL-KR Digest Wed Jul 12 20:31:35 PDT 1995 Volume 14 No. 42
Today's Topics:
CFP: ICCC96 Chinese Computing - Language Proc., Jun 96, Singapore
Announcement: LC'96, Assn. for Symb. Logic, Jul 96, Donostia
Query: NL Generation in Spanish, descriptions of situations
Position: Research Position, NL Proc., at SEU, UC London
Program: RANLP: Advances in NL Proc., Sep 95, Tzigov Chark
CFP: TARK VI Rationality and Knowledge, Mar 96, De Zeeuwse Stromen
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From: guojin@iss.nus.sg
To: empiricists@unagi.cis.upenn.edu, corpora@hd.uib.no,
Subject: CFP: ICCC96 Chinese Computing - Language Proc., Jun 96, Singapore
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 95 13:58:17 +0800
International Conference on Chinese Computing'96 (ICCC96)
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The Latest Technological Advancement and Applications
June 4-7 (Tues. - Fri.)
Jointly Organized by
Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (Singapore)
Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Chinese Information Processing Society (China)
Theme:
The theme of this conference is the application of advanced
technologies and knowledge to the processing of Chinese,
Japanese, Korean and other oriental languages. Recent
advances and developments in methodologies, systems and
software and hardware will be emphasized.
Papers:
Suggested topics included but are not limited to the
following:
Large-scale lexical database construction
Syntactic and semantic analysis
New input methods and their applications
Natural language interface
Machine(-aided) translation
Intelligent information retrieval
Application of corpus and statistics
Text classification and abstraction
Discourse understanding
Knowledge acquisition and representation
Speech I/O and OCR (printed / handwriting)
Chinese Internet (WWW) and E-mail
Font generations and Typesetting
Localization (Han Hua)
Submission:
Send 3 copies of full paper of not more than 8000 words to:
Prof. Dong Zheng Dong
Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore
Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge
Singapore 0511
FAX: (65) 774 4998
Email: zddong@iss.nus.sg
Prof. Huang Chang Ning
Department of Computer Science
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China 100084
FAX: (86 10) 256 2768
Correspondences:
It is encouraged to communicate electronically with the conference's
organizing committee at:
email: iccc96@iss.nus.sg
fax: (65) 774 4998
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline Dec. 1 1995
Notification Mar. 1 1996
Final manuscript Apr. 1 1996
Official Languag:
English and Chinese.
An English abstract must be provided if the paper is written
in Chinese.
Tutorial:
Proposals for tutorial should be submitted by 1 Oct. 1995 to:
Dr. Lua Kim Teng
Department of Information Systems & Computer Science,
National University of Singapore
Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511
Fax 65-7722782, email luakt@iscs.nus.sg
Venue:
Institute of Systems Science, National University of
Singapore, Singapore 0511
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:11:23 +0000 (WET)
From: "ilcli@sf.ehu.es" <sfrilcli@sf.ehu.es>
Subject: Announcement: LC'96, Assn. for Symb. Logic, Jul 96, Donostia
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Preliminary Announcement
Logic Colloquium'96
European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic
Donostia - San Sebastian, July 9-15, 1996
LC'96 is organized by the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and
Information (ILCLI) and the Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science of
the University of the Basque Country. It will take place in the Faculty
of Philosophy of the Univ. of the Basque Country at Donostia - San Sebastian.
MAIN TOPICS:
1. Model Theory (4 lectures)
2. Proof Theory (4 lectures)
3. Recursion and Complexity (4 lectures)
4. Models of Arithmetic (3 lectures)
5. Logic for Artificial Intelligence (4 lectures)
6. Formal Semantics of Natural Language (3 lectures)
7. Philosophy of Contemporary Logic (2 lectures)
There will be 6 Tutorials. Contributed Papers are invited from all areas
of Logic. Abstracts should be double spaced and not more than one page
long (about 300 words). Deadline: April 1st, 1996.
The registration fee is 28,000 ptas. (35,000 ptas. after 1st April.)
(14,000 ptas. for students and accompanying persons; 18,000 ptas. after
1st April.)
Program Committee
K. Ambos Spies (Heidelberg), J.L. Balcazar (Barcelona), J. E. Fenstad
(Oslo), D. Israel (Stanford), H. Kamp (Stuttgart), R. Kaye (Birmingham),
J.M. Larrazabal (San Sebastian), D. Lascar (Paris, Chair), A. Marcja
(Firenze), G. Mints (Stanford), M. Otero (Madrid), S. Ronchi della Rocca
(Torino), K. Segerberg (Uppsala), L. Vega (Madrid).
Organizing Committee
X. Arrazola (San Sebastian), A. Arrieta (San Sebastian), R. Beneyto
(Valencia), B. Carrascal (San Sebastian), K. Korta (San Sebastian), J.M.
Larrazabal (San Sebastian, Chair), J.C. Martinez (Barcelona), J.M. Mendez
(Salamanca), F. Migura (Vitoria), J. Perez (Vitoria).
Further information: Prof. Jesus M. Larrazabal
Logic Colloquium'96
ILCLI, Univ. of the Basque Country
Apdo. 220. 20080 DONOSTIA - SAN SEBASTIAN
Spain
Tel.: 34 43 320940. Fax: 34 43 293677.
E.mail: ilcli@sf.ehu.es
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From: dcampos@trauco.dis.udec.cl (Daniel Campos)
Subject: Query: NL Generation in Spanish, descriptions of situations
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 16:26:17 GMT
We are looking for experiences in NL Generation for Spanish speakers.
In particular, we are trying to deal with descriptions of situations.
We'll appreciate all suggestions and pointers.
Daniel Campos
dcampos@quintrala.dis.udec.cl
http://uconce.inf.udec.cl/dcampos.html
PMUC - DIICC
Comp Eng./Comp Sci Department
Univ. of Concepcion - Chile
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 16:03:59 +0000
To: empiricists@unagi.cis.upenn.edu, comp-speech@cs.utexas.edu,
From: ucleseu@ucl.ac.uk (Survey of English Usage)
Subject: Position: Research Position, NL Proc., at SEU, UC London
Research Position
Survey of English Usage
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Post: Computer programmer in natural language processing
Period: Two years
Salary: Up to L22,811 as starting salary
Starting date: Sept 1995, or as soon after as possible
Requirements:
Formal training in computer science;
Experience in Windows programming in C and C++;
Experience in programming for natural language processing;
Knowledge of "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English
Language" (1985) an advantage.
Interested applicants should send their full CV to
Professor Sidney Greenbaum
Survey of English Usage
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
e-mail: ucleseu@ucl.ac.uk
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:32:16 +0000
From: Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Program: RANLP: Advances in NL Proc., Sep 95, Tzigov Chark
To: nlpeople@aisb.ed.ac.uk, nlpeople@cogsci.ed.ac.uk,
International Conference
"RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING"
______________________________________________________________________
Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
14 - 16 Sept 1995
LOCATION:
Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on the
shore of Batak Lake. Tzigov Chark is 150km from Sofia, the capital
of Bulgaria.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:
PAPERS:
Kuang-hua Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen (Taiwan)
A corpus-based approach to text partition
Allan Ramsay, Reinhard Schaeler (Ireland)
Case and word order in English and German
Marcel Cori, Michel de Fornel, J.M. Marandin (France)
Parsing Repairs
Christer Samuelsson (Germany)
Example-Based Optimization of Surface-Generation Tables
Ivan Bretan, Maans Engstedt and Bjoern Gambaeck (Sweden)
A Multimodal Environment for Telecommunication Specifications
Inaki Alegria, Xabier Artola, Kepa Sarasola (Spain)
Improving a robust morphological analyzer using lexical
transducers
Daniel Jones, Harold Somers (UK)
Bilingual vocabulary estimation from noisy parallel corpora
using variable bag estimation
Harris Papageorgiou (Greece)
Clause recognition in the framework of alignment
Tadashi Nomoto (Japan)
Effects of Grammatical Annotation on a Topic Identification Task
Wiebke Ramm and Claudia Villiger (Germany)
Global Text Organization and Sentence-Grammatical Realization: Towards
a Discourse-Level Control of Grammatical Selections
Olivier Ferret and Brigitte Grau (France)
An Episodic Memory for Understanding and Learning
David D. Palmer (USA)
Experiments in Multilingual Sentence Boundary Recognition
Marie Owens, P.O'Boyle, F.J. Smith (UK)
A missing-word evaluation of statistical language model
performance using human subjects
Khalil Sima'an (Holland)
An Optimized Algorithm for Data Oriented Parsing
Jan Schaake and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff (Holland)
Discerning relevant information in discourses using TFA
Hideki Kozima, Akira Ito (Japan)
Context-sensitive measurement of word distance by adaptive
scaling of a semantic space
Akito Nagai, Ishikawa Yasushi, Nakajima Kunio (Japan)
Concept-Driven Search Algorithm Incorporating Semantic
Interpretation and Speech Recognition
Shinsuke Mori and Makoto Nagao (Japan)
Grammar extraction and parsing a natural language using N-gram statistics
Mihoko Kitamura, Yuji Matsumoto (Japan)
A MT system based on translation rules acquired from parallel corpora
Udo Hahn, Michael Strube (Germany)
ParseTalk about textual ellipsis
Victoria Arranz, Ian Radford, Sofia Ananiadou, Jan-ichi Tsujii (UK)
Towards a sublanguage-based semantic clustering algorithm
Jung H. Shin, Young S. Han, Young C. Park, Key S. Choi (Korea)
A HMM Part-of-Speech Tagger for Korean With Wordphrasal Relations
Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Waibel (USA)
Connectionist Transfer in Machine Translation
Malgorzata Stys (UK), Stefan Zemke (Sweden)
Incorporating Discourse Aspects in Polish -- English MT:
Towards Robust Implementation:
Kalina Boncheva (Bulgaria)
Generation of Multilingual Explanations from Conceptual Graphs
R. Basili, M. Della Rocca, Maria Pazienza, P. Velardi (Italy)
Contexts and categories: tuning a general purpose verb
classification to sublanguages
Ruslan Mitkov (Germany)
Two engines are better than one:
generating more power and confidence in the search for the antecedent
Ching Long Yeh, Chris Mellish (UK)
An empirical study on the generation of descriptions for
nominal anaphors in Chinese
Ismail Biskri, Jean Pierre Descles (France)
Applicative and combinatory categorial grammar
from syntax to functional semantics)
Hang Li and Naoki Abe (Japan)
Generalizing Case Frames Using a Thesaurus and the MDL Principle
PROJECT NOTES:
Fuji Ren, Lixin Fan (Japan)
Reservable Structural Ambiguities and Its Application
in Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation
Jawad Berri,Dominique le Roux,Denise Malrieu,Jean-Luc Minel (France)
SERAPHIN, an automatic system for main sentences extraction
Matthew Hurst (UK)
Parsing for Targeted Errors in Controlled Languages
Franklin Cho (USA)
Implementing Scrambling in Korean: A Principles and Parameters Approach
Akira Utsumi (Japan)
How to Interpret Irony by Computer: A Comprehensive Framework for Irony
Martin Simon Ulmann (Switzerland)
Decomposing German Compound Nouns
Jan Schaake and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff (Holland)
Information states based analysis of dialogues
Galja Angelova (Bulgaria), Walter von Hahn (Germany)
Naive Lexicon or Cryptic Formalismus?
User support in Machine Aided Translation
German Rigau Claramunt and Eneko Agirre (Spain)
A Proposal for Word Sense Disambiguation using Conceptual Distance
Chadia Moghrabi, L. Girard, M.S. Eid (Canada)
Chemistry: a new domain for a portable text generation system
Manfred Kudlek (Germany)
Some formal aspects of time, tense and aspect
Zaharin Yusoff (Malaysia)
Unification-like attribute operations in the string-tree
correspondence grammar
RESERVE PROJECT NOTES:
Marie Christine Villain, Philippe Trigano, Jean Deloire (France)
Intelligent textual database and automatic aquisition of word
associations
Nigel Collier (UK)
Contextual meta-knowledge acquisition from corpora
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Ruslan Mitkov IAI Saarbruecken/Univ. of Hamburg /Inst. of Mathematics-Sofia
Manfred Kudlek University of Hamburg, Germany
Michael Zock LIMSI, Orsay, France
Nikolai Nikolov Incoma, Bulgaria
Victoria Arranz CCL, UMIST, Manchester, UK
Nicolas Nicolov Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, UK
CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
For further information please contact:
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov <mitkov@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> or
Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@edinburgh.aisb.ac.uk>
CONFERENCE VENUE:
The conference will take place in Hotel "Orpheus", Tzigov Chark,
which accomodates up to 50 participants. We have chosen a small and cosy
conference hotel to create a better and friendlier working and social
environment: however this implies restrictions on the availability of
single rooms and participants will be normally offered to share 2-bed
rooms. Those interested in attending the conference are encouraged
to register as early as possible.
LOCATION AND TRANSPORTATION:
Tzigov Chark is situated on the shore of the beautiful Batak Lake in
the Western Rhodope mountains and is 150km from Sofia, the capital
of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily shuttle bus/
conference taxi from Sofia airport to the summer school location
at an inexpensive rate. Sofia is easily accessible by plane from most
major European cities (e.g. daily flights or several flights per week
from London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Vienna and other European
cities). There are also direct flights to Sofia from North America
(New York, Toronto) and Asia (Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur).
In order to enable the local organisers to plan the shuttle service
efficiently, please contact Victoria Arranz <victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk>
with details about your journey (arrival/departure time and date) at
least 2 weeks before you leave for the summer school.
RELATED EVENTS:
Conference participants are also invited to take part in the
Int. Summer School "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS",
which will take place immediately before the conference in the
same hotel. Further information about the conference can be
obtained from: Prof. R. Mitkov <mitkov@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> or
Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk> or you can have a
look at the summer school WWW page at URL:
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/misc/NLP_Conf.html
REGISTRATION FOR THE CONFERENCE:
Kindly note that bank processing charges are at the expense of the
participants and that registration after 1st August will incur a
surcharge of 30 USD.
International Conference
"RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING"
______________________________________________________________________
REGISTRATION FORM
Name: ________________________________________________
Affiliation: ________________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________________
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
Telephone: ______________________________
Fax: ______________________________
e-mail: ______________________________
Registration Fee . . . . . : ___________ 180 USD for industrial participants
140 USD for academic staff
100 USD for students
Accommodation + half-board : ___________
(30 USD per day per person)
Specify days - Sept 1995 . : [ ] 13, [ ] 14, [ ] 15, [ ] 16, [ ] 17
Additional charge for
late registration . . . . : 30 USD (after 1 August)
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TOTAL Amount in USD sent . : ___________
Date of bank transfer. . . : 1995
Bank transfer reference No : ___________
To bank account (tick one) :
[ ] BANK . . . .: AMEX
ACCOUNT NO .: 00710 756 of First Private Bank PLS, Bulgaria
INSTRUCTIONS: for onward credit to First Private Bank,
Shoumen branch - Nikolai Nikolov
Account in USD: 95079620 4 1 00 2560 1 4
*OR*
[ ] BANK . . . .: CITIBANK New York
ACCOUNT NO .: 36015 992 of First Private Bank PLS, Bulgaria
INSTRUCTIONS: for onward credit to First Private Bank,
Shoumen branch - Nikolai Nikolov
Account in USD: 95079620 4 1 00 2560 1 4
____________________________________________________________________
Send your registration forms to:
Nicolas Nicolov
Dept of Artificial Intelligence
University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN, UK
Fax : +44-131 650 6516
Phone : +44-131 650 2727
E-mail: nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk
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From: Margje Punt <margje@cs.ruu.nl>
Subject: CFP: TARK VI Rationality and Knowledge, Mar 96, De Zeeuwse Stromen
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 13:37:49 +0200 (METDST)
Sixth conference on
THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF RATIONALITY AND KNOWLEDGE
TARK VI
(previously: Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge)
March 17 - 20, 1996
De Zeeuwse Stromen (a seaside resort), The Netherlands
About the conference
====================
The mission of the bi-annual TARK conferences is to bring together
researchers from a wide variety of fields -- including Artificial
Intelligence, Cryptography, Distributed Computing, Economics and Game
Theory, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology -- in order to further
our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving formal reasoning
about rationality and knowledge. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to, semantic models for knowledge, for belief, and for
uncertainty, bounded rationality and resource-bounded reasoning,
commonsense epistemic reasoning, knowledge and action, applications of
reasoning about knowledge and other mental states, and belief revision.
Previously a by-invitation-only conference, TARK is now open to all
interested attendees. TARK-VI is the first to be held outside the United
States.
Information for Authors
=======================
Submissions are now invited to TARK-VI. Please submit 12 copies of a
detailed abstract (not a full paper) to the program chair (address
below). Two types of submission are invited -- papers reporting on
novel research, and expository papers. Each submission should be clearly
identified as belonging to one category or the other. In both
categories, strong preference will be given to papers whose topic is of
interest to an interdisciplinary audience, and all papers should be
written so that they are accessible to such an audience. Novel research
abstracts will be held to the usual high standards of novel research
publications. In particular, they should 1) contain enough information
to enable the program committee to identify the main contribution of the
work; 2) explain the significance of the work---its novelty and its
practical or theoretical implications; and 3) include comparisons with
and references to relevant literature. Expository abstracts, which will
be held to similarly high standards, may survey an area or report on a
more specific previously published work; the abstract should make clear
the relevance to the TARK audience.
Abstracts should be no longer than ten double-spaced pages (4,000 words).
If possible, an email address for the contact author should be included.
Papers arriving late or departing significantly from these guidelines
risk immediate rejection.
Economists should be aware that special arrangements are being made with
certain economics journals (in particular, with the Journal of Economic
Theory and with Games and Economic Behavior) so that publication of an
extended abstract in TARK will not prejudice publication of a full
journal version.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 10, 1995.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by December 15, 1995.
Camera-ready copies of the accepted papers will be due by January 15,
1996. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the
paper at the conference. The conference proceedings will be published.
Program Committee
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Barbara Grosz (Harvard University, AI / computational linguistics)
Peter G"ardenfors (Lund University, Philosophy)
Sergiu Hart (Hebrew University, Economics / Mathematics)
Hans Kamp (Stuttgart University, Linguistics)
Daphne Koller (U.C. Berkeley, Computer Science)
Stephen Morris (University of Pennsylvania, Economics)
Gil Neiger (Georgia Institute of Technology, Computer Science)
Christos Papadimitriou (U.C. San Diego, Computer Science)
Krister Segerberg (Uppsala University, Philosophy)
Yoav Shoham, Chair (Stanford University, AI)
Moshe Tenneholtz (Technion, Management)
Michael Wellman (University of Michigan, AI).
Conference Chair
* * * *
Johan van Benthem
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ILLC, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of
Amsterdam
Plantage Muidergracht 24, NL-1018 TV Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
fax: +31 20 525 5206,
email: johan@fwi.uva.nl
Program Chair
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Yoav Shoham
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Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305,
USA
phone: +415-723-3432, fax: +415-725-1449,
email: shoham@cs.stanford.edu
Local Arrangements
* * * ***
Peter van Emde Boas (University of Amsterdam)
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John-Jules Charles Meyer (University of Utrecht)
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Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science, Utrecht University
Padualaan 14, De Uithof, 3508 TB
Utrecht, The Netherlands
tel: +31-(0)30-534117, fax: +31-(0)30-513791,
email: peter@fwi.uva.nl/jj@cs.ruu.nl
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