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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 15
NL-KR Digest Thu Mar 2 22:42:13 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 15
Today's Topics:
Program: EACL SIGDAT Workshop in Multilingual Analysis, Mar 95, Dublin
CFP: Relevance - Issue of Artificial Intelligence
CFP: 19th BU Conference on Language Development '95, Nov 95, Boston
CFP: UM-96 Fifth Intl Conference on User Modeling, Jan 96, Hawaii
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From: evelyne@research.att.com
To: dg@ai.uga.edu, lantra-l%finhutc.BITNET@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu,
Reply-To: evelyne@research.att.com
Subject: Program: EACL SIGDAT Workshop in Multilingual Analysis, Mar 95, Dublin
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:18:19 -0500
From: Evelyne Tzoukermann
FROM TEXTS TO TAGS: ISSUES IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS
Dublin, Ireland - March 27, 1995
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:10 Welcome
9:10-9:35: D. Elworthy
Tagset Design and Inflected Languages
9:35-10:00 J. Hughes, C. Souter & E. Atwell
Automatic Extraction of Tagset Mappings from Parallel-Annotated Corpora
10:00-10:25 K. Gojenola
Different Issues in the Design of a Lemmatizer/Tagger for Basque
10:25-10:55 COFFEE
10:55-11:35 G. Leech (invited speaker)
11:35-12:00 S. Teufel
A Support Tool for Tagset Mappping
12:00-12:25 S. Armstrong, G. Russell, D. Petitpierre, G. Robert
An Open Architecture for Multilingual Text Processing
12:25-12:55 C. Thielen
An Approach to Proper Name Tagging for German
12:55-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-14:25 H. Feldweg
Implementation and Evaluation of a New German HMM
Model for POS Disambiguation
14:25-14:50 H. Schmid
Improvements in Part-of-Speech Tagging with an Application to German
14:50-15:15 E. Tzoukerman, D. R. Radev & W. A. Gale
Combining Linguistic Knowledge and Statistical Learning in French
15:15-15:40 J.-P. Chanod & P. Tapanainen
Creating a Tagset, Lexicon and Guesser for a French Tagger
15:40-16:00 TEA
16:00-16:25 R. Sproat
A Finite-State Architecture for Tokenization and Grapheme-to-Phoneme
Conversion in Multilingual Text Analysis
16:25-16:50 E. Giguet
Multilingual Sentence Categorization According to Language
16:50-17:15 T. McEnery & Oates
Cognate Extraction in the Crater Project: Methods and Assessment
17:15-17:30 Conclusion/Discussion
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Registration Information for EACL-95 is available from the ftp file server:
<ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/Eacl95/registration.txt.Z>
$ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu
Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous
Password: yourname@address [not echoed]
cd acl-l/Eacl95
ftp> get registration.txt.Z
ftp> quit
$ uncompress registration.txt.Z
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ATTENTION REGISTRATION:
Registration fees are 27 Irish pounds (or the equivalent in US dollars)
for participants who register by March 1rst 1995. Late registration will
be 33 Irish pounds (or the equivalent in US dollars); it includes a copy
of the proceedings, lunch, and refreshments during the day.
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* ALL PAYMENTS IN US DOLLARS ARE TO BE SENT ONLY TO EVELYNE TZOUKERMANN;*
* ALL PAYMENTS IN OTHER CURRENCIES SHOULD BE SENT TO SUSAN ARMSTRONG. *
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- US DOLLARS: acceptable forms of payment are US$ checks payable to "ACL"
or credit card (VISA/Mastercard) payment.
- OTHER CURRENCIES: checks payable to "ACL" can be send to Susan Armstrong;
no credit card payment is acceptable in this case.
Evelyne Tzoukermann; Susan Armstrong
AT&T Bell Laboratories ISSCO University of Geneva
Room 2D-448, P.O. Box 636 54 route des Acacias
600 Mountain Avenue CH-1227 Geneve
Murray Hill, NJ, 07944-0636 Switzerland
Please submit the following form along with payment:
name:_________________________________________________________________
institution: (for name tag)___________________________________________
address: (postal address)_____________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
email:________________________________________________________________
payment: (specify cheque or credit card)______________________________
credit card info: (name on card, card number, expiration date)________
______________________________________________________________________
dietary requirements: (if they can be met by the organizers)__________
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:41:37 -0500
From: Russell Greiner <greiner@scr.siemens.com>
To: ai-stats@watstat.uwaterloo.ca, colt@cs.uiuc.edu, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu,
Subject: CFP: Relevance - Issue of Artificial Intelligence
Special Issue on RELEVANCE
Journal: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Guest Editors: Russell Greiner, Devika Subramanian, Judea Pearl
With too little information, reasoning and learning systems cannot work
effectively. Surprisingly, too much information can also cause the
performance of these systems to degrade, in terms of both accuracy and
efficiency. It is therefore important to determine what information must be
preserved, i.e., what information is "relevant". There has been a recent
flurry of interest in explicitly reasoning about relevance in a number of
different disciplines, including the AI fields of knowledge representation,
probabilistic reasoning, machine learning and neural computation, as well as
communities that range from statistics and operations research to database
and information retrieval to cognitive science. Members of these diverse
communities met at the 1994 AAAI Fall Symposium on Relevance, to seek a better
understanding of the various senses of the term "relevance", with a focus on
finding techniques for improving the performance of embedded agents by
ignoring or de-emphasizing irrelevant and superfluous information. Such
techniques will clearly be of increasing importance as knowledge bases,
and learning systems, become more comprehensive to accommodate real-world
applications.
To help consolidate leading research on relevance, the "Artificial
Intelligence" journal is devoting a special issue to this topic.
We are now seeking papers on (but not restricted to) the following
topics:
[Representing and reasoning with relevance:]
reasoning about the relevance of distinctions to speed up
computation, relevance reasoning in real-world KR tasks
including design, diagnosis and common-sense reasoning,
use of relevant causal information for planning, theories of discrete
approximations.
[Learning in the presence of irrelevant information:]
removing irrelevant attributes and/or irrelevant training
examples, to make feasible induction from very large datasets;
methods for learning action policies for embedded agents
in large state spaces by explicit construction of
approximations and abstractions.
[Relevance and probabilistic reasoning:]
simplifying/approximating Bayesian nets (both topology and values)
to permit real-time reasoning; axiomatic bases for constructing
abstractions and approximations of Bayesian nets and other
probabilistic reasoning models.
[Relevance in neural computational models:]
methods for evolving computations that ignore aspects of the
environment to make certain classes of decisions, automated
design of topologies of neural models guided by relevance
reasoning based on task class.
[Applications of relevance reasoning:]
Applications that require explicit reasoning about relevance
in the context of IVHS, exploring and understanding large
information repositories, etc.
We are especially interested in papers that have strong
theoretical analyses complemented by experimental evidence
from non-trivial applications.
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts conforming to the AIJ
submission requirements by 11 Sept 1995 to
Russell Greiner or Devika Subramanian
Siemens Corporate Research Department of Computer Science
755 College Road East 5141 Upson Hall, Cornell University
Princeton, NJ 08540-6632 Ithaca, New York 14853
(609) 734-3627 (607) 255-9189
Papers will be a subject to a standard peer review. The first round of
reviews will be completed and decisions mailed by 11 December 1995. The
authors of accepted and conditionally accepted manuscripts will be required
to send revised versions by 1 March 1996. The special issue is tentatively
scheduled to appear sometime in 1996. We also plan to publish this issue as
a book.
Finally, to help us select appropriate reviewers in advance, authors
should email us a title, set of keywords and a short abstract, to arrive
by 4 September.
To recap the significant dates:
4/Sep/95: Emailed titles, keywords and abstracts due
11/Sep/95: Manuscripts dues
11/Dec/95: First round decisions
1/Mar/96: revised manuscripts due
?? /96: special issue appears (tentative)
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 95 23:53:40 -0500
From: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development)
To: langconf-announce@louis-xiv.bu.edu
Subject: CFP: 19th BU Conference on Language Development '95, Nov 95, Boston
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 20th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
November 3, 4 and 5, 1995
Keynote Speaker: Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania
Plenary Speaker: Lydia White, McGill University
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FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
All topics in the field of language acquisition will be fully considered,
including:
Bilingualism Literacy
Cognition & Language Narrative
Creoles & Pidgins Neurolinguistics
Discourse Pragmatics
Exceptional Language Pre-linguistic Development
Input & Interaction Signed Languages
Language Disorders Sociolinguistics
Lexicon Speech Perception & Production
Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology)
Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.
Presentations will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions.
PLEASE SUBMIT:
1) six copies of an anonymous, clearly titled 450-word
summary for review
2) one copy of a 150-word abstract for use in conference
program book if abstract is accepted; (if your paper is
accepted, you will be asked to resubmit your 150-word
abstract in electronic form, either on diskette or by
e-mail. Requests for these program abstracts will be
sent with acceptance letters.)
3) one 3 x 5 card stating:
i) title, ii) topic area, iii) audiovisual requests, and
iv) for EACH author:
a) Full name & affiliation d) Summer address & phone
b) Current address & phone e) Summer e-mail address
c) E-mail address f) Fax number
Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for acknowledgment
of receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by
late July. Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will
be available in late August 1995.
All authors who present papers at the conference will be invited to
contribute their papers to the Proceedings Volumes. Those papers will
be due in January, 1996.
Note: All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts
submitted. Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we will
attempt to honor requests to schedule accepted papers together in group
sessions.
DEADLINE: All submissions must be RECEIVED by May 1, 1995.
Send submissions to:
Boston University
Conference on Language Development
138 Mountfort Street
Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 353-3085
E-mail: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu
info@louis-xiv.bu.edu (automated reply)
(WE REGRET THAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS BY FAX OR E-MAIL.)
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We are pleased to announce that Cascadilla Press will be publishing
the proceedings of the 19th annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development, which was held this past November, 1994. The
proceedings will be published in two volumes in March 1995, and will
contain 58 papers, including the keynote address by Andrew Radford and
the plenary address by Jill de Villiers. A portion of the revenues will
go to help the conference.
e-mail: sales@cascadilla.com
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: Sandra Carberry <carberry@eecis.udel.edu>
Subject: CFP: UM-96 Fifth Intl Conference on User Modeling, Jan 96, Hawaii
Date: 3 Mar 1995 02:41:19 GMT
UM-96: CALL FOR PAPERS AND SIG MEETING PROPOSALS
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING
Kailua-Kona on the Island of Hawaii
January 2-5, 1996
Research in the field of user modeling and user-adapted
interaction provides crucial foundations for improving the usa-
bility of interactive software systems and technical devices in
many application areas. UM-96, the Fifth International Conference
on User Modeling, will provide a forum for presenting the results
of academic and industrial research in this field to an interna-
tional audience. UM-96 follows the very successful Fourth Inter-
national Conference on User Modeling (UM-94) that was held in
Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1994. UM-96 will have the same format
as UM-94 and will consist of tutorials, technical presentations,
special interest group meetings, and system presentations, while
encouraging close interaction among the participants. Tutorials
will be held on Jan. 2, with the technical program on Jan. 3-5.
Submissions are invited on original and substantial academic
or industrial research on all aspects of user modeling and user-
adapted interaction, including (but not limited to) the following
topic areas: user model acquisition, plan and intention recogni-
tion, user stereotypes, representation and inferencing techniques
for user models, consistency of user models, user modeling shell
systems, explanation generation, intelligent/adaptive user inter-
faces, adaptation to users with special needs, student modeling
and intelligent tutoring systems, navigational aids, adaptive
hypertext and hypermedia, information retrieval and information
filtering, knowledge-based information presentation, natural-
language systems, and other applications.
Accepted submissions will be published in a proceedings
volume. Kluwer is sponsoring a $500 Best Paper Award. Extended
versions of high-quality papers should be submitted to the inter-
national journal User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction after
the conference.
GENERAL CHAIR LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
David Chin Martha Crosby
University of Hawaii University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
PROGRAM CHAIRPERSONS
Sandra Carberry Ingrid Zukerman
University of Delaware Monash University
Newark, Delaware, USA Clayton, Victoria, Australia
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Mathias Bauer, DFKI, Germany
Alan Biermann, Duke Univ., USA
Mark Elsom-Cook, EBC, Great Britain
Gerhard Fischer, Univ. of Colorado, USA
Brad Goodman, MITRE, USA
Hitoshi Iida, ATR Labs, Japan
Anthony Jameson, Univ. of Saarbruecken, Germany
Judy Kay, Sydney Univ., Australia
Alfred Kobsa, GMD, Germany
Kurt Konolige, SRI, USA
Diane Litman, AT&T Bell Labs, USA
Mark Maybury, MITRE, USA
Gordon McCalla, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada
Kathy McCoy, Univ. of Delaware, USA
Cecile Paris, Univ. of Brighton, Great Britain
John Self, Lancaster Univ., Great Britain
Peter van Beek, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Julita Vassileva, Univ. der Bundeswehr, Germany
Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI, Germany
Marilyn Walker, Mitsubishi Electric, USA
Bonnie Webber, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Bev Woolf, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Submissions should be no longer than 12 pages single spaced
(excluding title page and references), and should use a font no
smaller than 12-point. The title page should include the title of
the paper, a short abstract (150 words), a list of keywords,
and the authors' postal and email addresses and fax and
phone numbers. Questions about submissions should be sent to
um96-pc@cis.udel.edu.
[1] An ASCII copy of the title page should be sent electroni-
cally to um96-abstracts@cis.udel.edu.
(This will significantly aid the reviewing process by help-
ing direct the papers to the most appropriate reviewers.)
[2] If at all possible, authors should transfer via anonymous
ftp a Postscript version of their papers to the directory
/pub/conferences/um96/incoming on the ftp server
ftp.udel.edu.
The name of the file should be the first author's last and
first names, such as Carberry-Sandra.ps --- the directory
is unreadable for anonymous ftp users.
[3] In addition, unless waived by Sandra Carberry on July 18, a
follow-up hardcopy MUST be sent to:
Sandra Carberry (UM-96)
Department of Computer Science
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716
USA
Phone: (302) 831-1954
Fax: (302) 831-8458
We will try and print each paper immediately upon receipt
and will waive the hardcopy follow-up requirement if we can
successfully print it.
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS FOR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS
Proposals of not more than one page should be submitted via
email to um96-sigs@cis.udel.edu. The proposals should include the
proposed topic, an abstract, reasons for the usefulness of the
meeting, and the names of several other people who have agreed
to participate in the proposed meeting.
REGISTRATION OF SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS
Various platforms will be available for unrefereed system
demonstrations. Prospective presenters should contact David Chin
(chin@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu) and specify their hardware and
software requirements.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
July 17, 1995: Electronic abstracts and submissions received.
July 18, 1995: Authors notified by email if hard-copy requirement
is waived
July 21, 1995: Hardcopy of submissions must be received by
Sandra Carberry unless waived by email on July 18.
Sept. 11, 1995: Proposals for special interest group meetings
received.
Sept. 25, 1995: Notification of authors about acceptance or rejection
Nov. 15, 1995: Final camera-ready copy received by David Chin.
Nov. 30, 1995: System demonstrations registered with David Chin.
CONFERENCE SITE
Kona Surf Resort & Country Club
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Phone: (800) 367-8011 toll-free from the USA
(808) 322-3411 elsewhere
Fax: (808) 322-3245
Attendees should contact the hotel directly for reservations and
should mention UM96 to get the conference rates.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information on the conference, including questions
about hotel and travel information, can be obtained from David
Chin (chin@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu) and Martha Crosby
(crosby@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu). In addition, a Mosaic page
(http://www.ics.hawaii.edu/um-96) will contain updated informa-
tion on the conference and hotels as it becomes available.
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