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NL-KR Digest Tue Apr 25 19:56:47 PDT 1995 Volume 14 No. 25
Today's Topics:
Program: EWNLG 5 NL Generation, May 95, Leiden
Query: Seeking the International Assoc. of Know. Eng.
CFP: IJES Mar 96 spec. issue on KR and Inference for NL Proc.
Program: SIGIR-95 Information Retrieval, Jul 9, Seattle
Position: Chinese Language Processing and Comp. Ling., Taipei
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Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 16:14:22 +0200
From: deSmedt@alf.uib.no
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
Subject: Program: EWNLG 5 NL Generation, May 95, Leiden
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
5th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
20-22 May 1995
Leiden, The Netherlands
This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in Natural
Language Generation from such different perspectives as linguistics,
artificial intelligence, psychology, and engineering. The meeting
continues the tradition of a series of workshops held biannually in
Europe (Royaumont, 1987; Edinburgh, 1989; Judenstein, 1991 and Pisa,
1993) but open to researchers from all over the world.
The workshop is supported by the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW).
Preliminary Programme
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The Programme Committee consists of:
Koenraad de Smedt (University of Bergen; chair)
Chris Mellish (University of Edinburgh)
Hans Joachim Novak (IBM Deutschland).
SATURDAY 20 MAY
4-6pm registration
6pm dinner
8pm opening & invited talk (to be confirmed)
SUNDAY 21 MAY
9:00-10:00 Ma(r)king concessions in English and German
Brigitte Grote, Nils Lenke, Manfred Stede
10:00-10:30 Interaction between syntax and semantics: The case of gerund
translation
Stephan Mehl
10:30-11:00 break
11:00-12:00 More on generating referring expressions
Helmut Horacek
12:00-14:00 lunch
14:00-14:30 Personalised explanations for patient education
Alison Cawsey, Kim Binsted, Ray Jones
14:30-15:00 The IDAS user trials: Quantitative evaluation of an applied
natural language generation system
John Levine, Chris Mellish
15:00-15:30 NLG vs. templates
Ehud Reiter
15:30-16:00 panel discussion on applied NLG
16:00-16:30 break
16:30-17:30 Presenting punctuation.
Michael White.
17:30-18:00 A tactical generator for German combining HPSG and FUF
Johannes Matiasek, Ernst Buchberger
18:00 dinner; evening free
MONDAY 22 MAY
9:00-9:30 Generating explanations across several user models: Maximizing
belief while avoiding boredom and overload
Ingrid Zukerman, Richard McConachy
9:30-10:30 Employing user attitudes in text planning
Matthias Koelln
10:30-11:00 break
11:00-12:00 Incremental computation of information structure and its
empirical foundation
Carsten Guenther, Andrea Schopp, Soenke Ziesche
12:00-12:30 Choosing rhetorical relations in instructional texts: The case
of effects and guidances
Leila Kosseim, Guy Lapalme
12:30-14:00 lunch
14:30-16:30 demos (at Leiden University)
Demo: KPML: The KOMET-Penman multilingual linguistic resource
development environment
John Bateman
Demo: The grammar of the English cardinal numbers
Robin Fawcett
Demo: Interfacing knowledge: Text generation from knowledge systems
Sabine Geldof
Demo: Sentence generation using the systemic workbench
Michael O'Donnell
Demo: Drafter: A drafting tool for the production of multilingual
instructions
Cecile Paris, Keith Vander Linden, Markus Fischer, Anthony
Hartley, Lyn Pemberton, Richard Power, Donia Scott
During the whole workshop:
Poster: Aggregation in the generation of argumentative texts
Armin Fiedler, Xiaorong Huang
Venue and Local arrangements
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Local arrangements are handled by Gerard Kempen (Leiden University),
contact through secretary Mrs. Burgel (burgel@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl).
The meeting will be held from the afternoon of Saturday May 20, 1995
through the afternoon of Monday 22, in Conference Centre Oud-Poelgeest
in Leiden. The estate consists of a hotel, meeting rooms, restaurant,
sauna, and a 17th century castle with a bar, situated in a 25 acre
park, 5 min. by taxi from the centre of Leiden. The city of Leiden,
where Rembrandt was born, has the oldest university in The Netherlands.
Leiden is 15 min. by train from Amsterdam (Schiphol) airport.
More detailed information will be sent out to registered participants.
Registration form
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N.B.: Please edit this form and send it back by e-mail to
desmedt@foli.uib.no.
ALSO send a signed hardcopy with payment BEFORE 30 APRIL to:
EWNLG 5 c/o Mrs. Marijke Burgel
Leiden University
Dept. of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB Leiden
The Netherlands
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I will attend the 5th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
to be held in Leiden from 20 to 22 May 1995.
Name:
Institution:
Full address:
E-mail:
Telephone:
Fax:
Signature:
Accommodation and meals details:
The fee for the workshop, including registration, preprints,
accommodation, meals, coffee, tea and refreshments from
dinner on 20 May until lunch on 22 May (inclusive) is dependent
on the chosen accommodation (see below). No reductions are
possible for people using only part of the services provided.
[ ] Single room: DFL 490 (number restricted)
[ ] Double room: DFL 390; I wish to share with: ...
[ ] I do not need a room: DFL 175
[ ] I require special meals (please indicate): ...
For those who want more:
[ ] Additional night before the workshop in single room: + DFL 110
[ ] Additional night after the workshop in single room: + DFL 110
[ ] Additional night before the workshop in double room: + DFL 75
[ ] Additional night after the workshop in double room: + DFL 75
(applicable when the person sharing the room also stays)
[ ] Additional copy of the preprints: + DFL 15
(a limited number are also available for people not attending)
Payment details:
Total amount to be paid: ...
[ ] I transfer money to:
Bank: POSTBANK, The Netherlands
Swift code: INGBNL2A
Account number: 72828
Beneficiary: Leiden University, Faculty of Social Sciences
Address: Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, The Netherlands
Reason of payment: please write 'FAS 6-48032' and your name
[ ] I enclose a cheque
[ ] I will pay cash in Dutch guilders on the first day of the workshop
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: "Richard L. Shelby" <76350.305@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Query: Seeking the International Assoc. of Know. Eng.
Date: 10 Apr 1995 15:10:17 GMT
I am searching for the current address of an organization called
the International Association of Knowledge Engineers (IAKE). I
have an address in Washington, DC, from about 6 years ago. At
that time they had a newsletter and offered a Certificate in
Knowledge Engineering. If you know the current address of IAKE,
or have any information as to it's currnet existence (or
non-existence), please e-mail me. TIA
Richard Shelby
Consolidated Health Systems
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 11:16:38 -0400
From: Lucja Iwanska <lucja@CS.Wayne.EDU>
To: al@ai.sunnyside.com, weltyc@sigart.acm.org
Subject: CFP: IJES Mar 96 spec. issue on KR and Inference for NL Proc.
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND INFERENCE FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Call for papers for a special issue of International Journal of Expert Systems
to appear in March 1996
Guest editors:
Syed S. Ali Southwest Missouri State University syali@sy.smsu.edu
Lucja Iwanska Wayne State University lucja@cs.wayne.edu
Stuart C. Shapiro State Universtity of New York at Buffalo shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu
Knowledge is necessary for interpreting and generating natural
language. A crucial problem in designing a general (as oppose to
domain specific or task specific) natural language processing (NLP)
system is the choice of representational language for:
World knowledge (domain knowledge etc),
Meaning of natural language utterances, and
Knowledge about language.
Existing approaches fall into one of the two major categories:
(1) Non-uniform
Multiple different representational languages,
e.g.,
knowledge representation (KR) systems such as Classic for
representing world knowledge,
and a unification-based formalism for representing natural language;
(2) Uniform
The same KR language for every component;
e.g., some extension of first-order logic.
The main problem with non-uniform approaches is the need to translate
between the two representational languages. This translation task can
be very difficult, in part, because semantics of the representations
(if available at all) and inference engines are often quite different,
and because these KR languages often have different formal power (one
language with modalities, lambda expressions and other higher-order
constructs, generalized quantifiers, etc, and the other something more
or less equivalent to first-order logic, or even more restricted vivid
representation like a relational database).
The main problem with uniform approaches is that currently available
KR systems do not reflect well important characteristics of natural
language. Such systems are representationally impoverished, relative
to natural language.
This special issue addresses the problem of representating knowledge
and reasoning for general NLP, focusing on the choice between uniform
versus non-uniform approaches in the knowledge representation
language.
Papers should discuss the following:
1. Subset of language handled
Authors should discuss the subset of natural language handled in terms
of its complexities, such as handling various constructions and
sentence- versus text-level processing. Authors should be explicit
about the quantity of the development and test data as well as their
sources. Papers should contain detailed examples ilustrating the
subset of language handled and facilitating understanding technical
details of the representation and computed inferences.
2. Assumptions, idealizations
Authors should be specific about their assumptions and idealizations
such as availability of correct parsing or sentence-level only
processing.
3. Interaction with a larger system
If the NLP system is part of a larger system, authors should discuss
the representational and inferential division of labor between the NLP
and that larger system.
We are primarly interested in papers addressing theoretical problems
in a manner that directly facilitates processing natural language, as
demonstrated by the performance of an implemented NLP system. Papers
should clearly indicate how uniform/nonuniform KR aids/hinders their
NLP task.
However, we are also interested in mainly theoretically motivated
papers, as well as papers proposing a general approach that emerged
from addressing a task or domain specific problem.
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The special issue will be published in one or two volumes, depending
on the quality of the received papers. Early declaration of the
intent to submit a paper is strongly encouraged.
SUBMISSIONS:
Five hard copies of the paper should be mailed to
Lucja Iwanska
Department of Computer Science
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202, USA
lucja@cs.wayne.edu
(313) 577-1667 (phone)
(313) 577-2477 (secretary)
(313) 577-6868 (fax)
PAPER FORMAT:
12 pt article latex style, with 1 inch margin on each side
30 pages maximum, including title, abstract, figures, but excluding references
The first page must include:
title
author's name(s)
affiliation
complete mailing address
e-mail address
phone/fax number(s)
abstract of 200 or so words
keywords
SCHEDULE/DEADLINES:
5.15.95
Intent to submit
7.15.95
Submission deadline
9.15.95
Acceptance notification
10.15.95
Final versions of the accepted papers due
3.96
Special issue of Expert Systems appears
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 09:37:52 PDT
From: ene@argo.gslis.ucla.edu (Efthimis N. Efthimiadis)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Program: SIGIR-95 Information Retrieval, Jul 9, Seattle
revised April 3, 1995
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SIGIR '95
18th International Conference
on Research and Development
in Information Retrieval
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Seattle, WA, USA
July 9 - July 13, 1995
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR in cooperation with
DD (Denmark)
CEPIS-EIRSG (Europe)
GI (Germany)
AICA-GLIR (Italy)
IPSJ (Japan)
BCS-IRSG (UK)
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NOTE: What follows is an abbreviated version of the
conference program and registration information. FULL
information, including descriptions of tutorials and workshops
and all technical sessions, is available via anonymous ftp
from: ftp.u.washington.edu (\public\sigir95\program) or via
WWW at URL: http://info.sigir.acm.org/sigir/conferences/
SIGIR_95_adv.pgm.txt; or contact sigir95@u.washington.edu to
request a copy of the program by mail.
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SIGIR'95 is an international research conference on
information retrieval theory, systems, practice and
applications. IR groups within the computing societies of
Denmark, Europe, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom
are cooperating sponsors. The conference will be valuable to
those interested in the theory of information retrieval as
well as those responsible for system design, testing and
evaluation. Topics include distributed IR and the Internet,
efficiency techniques, text summarization, natural language
processing, fusion strategies, user studies, search
interfaces, and education in IR. Attendees will learn about
the underlying foundations for the emerging Global Information
Infrastructure, which depends upon searching, browsing,
publishing, indexing and other processing of text and
multimedia information collections.
Six pre-conference tutorials will cover both beginning and
advanced topics. The main program consists of 40 contributed
papers as well as two panel discussions, poster sessions, and
demonstrations. The conference will be followed by five
post-conference research workshops on topics of great current
and general interest: visual information retrieval interfaces;
Z39.50; IR and databases; curriculum development for IR; and
automatic construction of hypermedia.
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SIGIR'95 PROGRAM SYNOPSIS
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SATURDAY July 8
A tour to Mount Rainier
SUNDAY July 9
Tutorials:
Introduction to Information Retrieval (Peter Willett
and Peter Ingwersen)
Query-Document Symmetry and Duality (Stephen
Robertson)
What Differences Are Significant? Statistical
Analysis of IR Tests (Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, James
Blustein, Paul Kantor)
Evaluation of IR Systems (William Hersh, Micheline
Hancock-Beaulieu)
Designing Information for the Computer Screen (Paul
Kahn)
Data Fusion in IR (Paul Kantor)
Welcome reception
MONDAY July 10
Newcomers breakfast
Opening session (Chair: Raya Fidel)
Opening remarks: Edward Fox
Keynote address: Terry Winograd
Six sessions of contributed papers:
Distributed IR and the Internet (Chair: Paul
Lindner)
Efficiency Techniques (Chair: Peter Willett)
Advanced Systems (Chair: IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg)
Text Summarization (Chair: Karen Sparck-Jones)
Integrating Structured and Unstructured Information
(Chair: E. J. Yannakoudakis)
Natural Language Processing (Chair: Haruo Kimoto)
Poster session and demonstrations
Evening reception
TUESDAY July 11
Keynote address: Tefko Saracevic
Panel session: Funding for IR Research
(Chair: Efthimis Efthimiadis)
Five sessions of contributed papers
User Studies (Chair: Phil Smith)
Fusion Strategies (Chair: Richard Tong)
Search Interfaces (Chair: Maristella Agosti)
Cognition and Association (Chair: Rik Belew)
Automatic Classification (Chair: Ray Larson)
Banquet at Microsoft campus
WEDNESDAY July 12
Panel session: Education for IR (Chair: Kazem Taghva)
Four sessions of contributed papers
Text Categorization (Chair: Elizabeth D. Liddy)
Retrieval Logic (Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani)
Term Statistics (Chair: Donna Harman)
Feedback Methods (Chair: Howard Turtle)
ACM Sigir Annual General Meeting
A tour and dinner at Tillicum Village
THURSDAY July 13
Post-conference research workshops:
VIRI: Visual Information Retrieval Interfaces
Z39.50 and the IR Research Community
Information Retrieval and Databases
Curriculum Development in Computer Information
Science
IR and Automatic Construction of Hypermedia
A tour to the University of Washington
FRIDAY July 14
A tour to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
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Conference Chair:
Raya Fidel <fidelr@u.washington.edu> Graduate School of
Library and Information Science, FM-30, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Program Chairs:
(N and S America, Asia):
Edward A. Fox <fox@fox.cs.vt.edu> Department of Computer
Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106, USA.
(Europe, Africa, Australia):
Peter Ingwersen <biskpi@unidhp.uni-c.dk> Royal School of
Librarianship, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark.
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SIGIR'95 IN SEATTLE
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CONFERENCE HOTEL
All sessions will be held at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel &
Towers, 1400 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101. The hotel
offered a special conference rate:
Single occupancy $119.00
Double occupancy $139.00
Additional person $ 25.00
Room tax is 15.2%
Reservations can be made by calling 1-800-204-6100 (or
1-206-621-9000) within the U.S., or by faxing a request for
reservation to 1-206-621-8441. Reservation should be made by
June 17 for the ACM/SIGIR'95 group rate. Reservations made
after the deadline are subject to availability and may be
billed at a higher rate. Cancellations made less than 48
hours prior to arrival will incur a charge for one night's
lodging. Reservations need to be guaranteed by sending a
first night's deposit or by a credit card.
AIR TRAVEL TO SEATTLE
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is served by most major
international airlines. Bus transportation and taxi service
from the airport to the Seattle Sheraton are readily
available.
SIGIR'95 has secured a special discount agreement with United
Airlines unavailable to the general public. An additional 5%
discount off the lowest applicable fare for domestic flights
will be offered when you or your travel agent call
1-800-521-4041 and refer to the Meeting ID Number 590TR. A
10% discount off the unrestricted mid-week coach fares is
available when purchased 7 days in advance. The same
discounts apply on "Shuttle by United." Reservations clerks
are on duty 7 days a week, 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. EST. These
convention discounts are valid between July 6 and July 16,
1995.
GROUND TRANSPORTATION FROM SEATTLE-TACOMA INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT
Readily available taxi service to the Seattle Sheraton costs
approximately $30.00. Gray Line Airport shuttle costs $7.00
one way and $12.00 round-trip. The shuttle departs from the
north and south end of the Baggage Claim level, approximately
every 15 minutes, from 5:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight daily.
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SIGIR'95 REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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REGISTRATION FEES
Conference Before May 29 After May 29
ACM or SIGIR Members $275.00 $325.00
Non Members (*) $330.00 $380.00
Full Time Student $110.00 $150.00
One Day Registration $125.00 $150.00
___________________________________________________________
Tutorials
ACM Members One tutorial $150.00 $225.00
Two tutorials $250.00 $440.00
Non Members One tutorial $200.00 $275.00
Two Tutorials $350.00 $500.00
Full Time Student One tutorial $100.00 $150.00
Two tutorials $150.00 $250.00
____________________________________________________________
Workshops $ 45.00 $ 55.00
____________________________________________________________
Additional Banquet Ticket $ 50.00 $ 50.00
____________________________________________________________
Student Banquet Ticket $ 25.00 $ 25.00
____________________________________________________________
Mount Rainier Tour $ 48.00 $ 48.00
____________________________________________________________
Tillicum Village Tour and Dinner $ 52.00 $ 52.00
____________________________________________________________
Victoria, BC Tour $ 98.00 $ 98.00
____________________________________________________________
(*) You may join ACM and/or SIGIR now and receive the member
registration rate. This will reduce your registration fee and
make you a member for a year. Just add in the appropriate
membership dues on the SIGIR'95 Registration Form
_____________________________________________________________
Membership Dues
ACM members:
To add SIGIR to membership $ 20.00
Non members:
To join ACM only (as an associate member) $ 82.00
To join SIGIR only $ 65.00
To join both ACM and SIGIR $102.00
Students:
To join ACM only $ 25.00
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
-- Full Conference Registration (ACM Members, SIGIR members
or Non Members) includes attendance at all technical
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$50.00. A limited number of banquet tickets are
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Additional copies of the proceedings and the tutorial
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-- Conference registration does not include tours.
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-- The ACM member rate is available to members of ACM,
SIGIR, and the European and Japanese co-operating
societies. The student rate is available to full-time
students only.
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Visa, MasterCard or American Express.
-- No refunds for cancellations after June 9. A $25.00
handling fee will be charged for cancellations received
before June 9.
-- Hotel reservations should be made directly with the
Seattle Sheraton Hotel & Towers. Details are provided
above.
Cut here:
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SIGIR'95 REGISTRATION FORM
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18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Seattle, July 9 - July 13
Please use block letters or type, and tick where appropriate
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TUTORIALS: $ ________________
Workshops:
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WORKSHOPS: $ ________________
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Registration queries to: +1 206-292-9198 (Ask for Sarah
Amendola)
______________________________________________________________
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
Assistant Professor
Department of Library and Information Science
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
University of California at Los Angeles
241 GSE&IS Building, 152003
405 Hilgard Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
tel: 310-825-8975; fax: 310-206-4460; email: efthimis@gslis.ucla.edu
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From: Phang Nyit Yin <pny@hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw>
Subject: Position: Chinese Language Processing and Comp. Ling., Taipei
To: CMP-LG@XXX.LANL.GOV, zzlsa@gallua.BITNET, weischedel@bbn.com,
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 16:54:13 EAT
Post-doctoral Position (Chinese Language Processing and
Computational Linguistics)
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Research Projects: I. Lexical Knowledge Base
II. Modern and Classical Chinese Corpora
III. Chinese Parser
Primary Fields: I. Linguistics (Syntax/Semantics/Morphology)
II. Computer Science (NLP)
Subfields: Corpus Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Lexicography,
Classical Chinese Grammar
Openings: 1 Or 2 [pending approval]
Term: July/August 1995 to June 1997
(renewable pending budgetary approval and performance)
Salary: U.S. $25,000-30,000/year
(estimated, actual pay depends on qualifications and exchange
rate fluctuation.)
Requirements: (1) Ph. D. in Linguistics/C.S. (before August 1995
and after August 1991)
(2) (near) Native Fluency in Mandarin Chinese
Location: Chinese Knowledge Information Processing (CKIP) Group
Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Application:
I. BY May 6 (Saturday): Email (1) cover letter (2) C.V. (including
list of publications), and (3)research interests and proposed
research areas
TO: churen@iis.sinica.edu.tw
II. BY May 27 (Saturday) [If Short-listed]
Send (1), (2), (3) research proposal,
(4) Thesis (draft), (5) proof of a valid
doctorate (received after August 1991 and
before August 1995), (6) relevant publications,
(7) three letters of recommendation, and
(8) additional material attesting to your
research ability
TO: Chinese Knowledge Information Processing
Institute of Information Science
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei
Taiwan 115
III. Enquiries:
1. Send to the above email and/or snail mail addresses
OR 2. Call 886-2-7883799 ext. 2111 Dr. Chu-Ren Huang
ext. 2211 Dr. Keh-jiann Chen
The CKIP group is a on-going long-term research project on
Chinese computational linguistics. The project started in 1986
and has already built an electronic lexicon, a parser, a
classical Chinese corpus, and a Modern Mandarin corpus. The
project is funded by Academia Sinica (Institute of Information
Science and Institute of History and Philology) as well as
outside agencies (such as the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the
National Science Council of R.O.C.). We are now inviting
candidates to compete for post-doctoral fellowships from Academia
Sinica. Successful candidates must be affiliated with one of the
research projects listed above. Both previous post-doctoral
fellows with CKIP now hold tenure-track positions with national
universities in Taiwan.
End of NL-KR Digest
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