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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 49
NL-KR Digest Tue Aug 8 06:26:36 PDT 1995 Volume 14 No. 49
Today's Topics:
Program: Intl. Summer school, Comp. Ling., Sep 95, Tzigov Chark
CFP: FLAIRS '96 Track on Information Interchange, May 96, Key West
Announcement: two MSc degrees in NL, Speech, Sheffield
Position: Research Associate in NL Eng., Sheffield
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From: "Ruslan Mitkov" <ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de>
Subject: Program: Intl. Summer school, Comp. Ling., Sep 95, Tzigov Chark
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 16:36:50 +0200 (MET DST)
* Please post:
International Summer School
"CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS"
____________________________________________________________________
Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
DATES: 9 - 12 Sept 1995 (arrival 8 Sept)
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.
PROGRAMME:
9 SEPT
9.15-13.00 J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
Knowledge acquisition from corpora
15.00-18.15 J. Hutchins (University of East Anglia, UK)
Machine translation: history, current status and
possible future developments
10 SEPT
9.00-12.45 A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Lexicalized grammars
15.00-16.00 Panel discussion: What is language engineering?
Panelists: J. Tsujii, Y. Matsumoto, J. Schuetz,
K.S.Choi, Z. Yusoff, C.M. Vide, R. Mitkov
16.30-18.15 Zaharin Yusoff (University Sains Malaysia)
Language Engineering in South-East Asia
11 SEPT
9.00-12.45 Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Lexical knowledge acquisition
14.15-16.00 Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon, Korea)
English-to-Korean Machine Translation
16.15-18.00 R. Mitkov (IAI Saarbruecken/University of Hamburg/
Institute of Mathematics-Sofia)
Anaphora resolution in Natural Language Processing and
Machine Translation
12 SEPT
9.00-11.45 A. Ramsey (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
Interpretation in context
12.00-13.00 M. Kudlek (University of Hamburg)
Mathematical models of pronouns
14.30-16.30 W.von Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Knowledge-based Machine Aided Translation
16.45-18.30 C. Martin-Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgilli,Tarragona,Spain)
Grammar systems
SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION:
For further information please contact:
Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@edinburgh.aisb.ac.uk> or
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov <ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de>
ACCOMMODATION:
The summer school 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 summer school
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:
The summer school participants are also invited to take part in the
Int. Conference "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING",
which will take place immediately after the summer school in the
same hotel. Further information about the conference can be
obtained from: Prof. R. Mitkov <ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de> or
Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk> or you can have a
look at the conference WWW page at URL:
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/misc/NLP_Conf.html
REGISTRATION FOR THE SUMMER SCHOOL:
Kindly note that the bank processing charges are at the expense of the
participants.
International Summer School
"CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS"
____________________________________________________________________
REGISTRATION FORM
Name: ________________________________________________
Affiliation: ________________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________________
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
Telephone: ______________________________
Fax: ______________________________
e-mail: ______________________________
Registration Fee . . . . . : ___________ 150 USD for industrial participants
110 USD for academic staff
80 USD for students
Accommodation + half-board : ___________
(30 USD per day per person)
Specify days - Sept 1995 . : [ ] 8, [ ] 9, [ ] 10, [ ] 11, [ ] 12, [ ] 13
=========================== ===========
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
____________________________________________________________________
Email your registration forms to:
Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk>
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 13:43:01 -0500
From: Sy Ali <syali@sy.smsu.edu>
To: nl-kr@snyside1.sunnyside.com
Subject: CFP: FLAIRS '96 Track on Information Interchange, May 96, Key West
FLAIRS-96 TRACK ON INFORMATION INTERCHANGE
CALL FOR PAPERS
Key West, FL, May 20-22, 1996
INFORMATION INTERCHANGE
An issue that arises in using Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR)
systems with other real-world applications is how to have a KRR system
communicate and share information with one or more other information
sources, including other KRR systems.
The historical approach to the problem of information interchange has
been to connect two information sources, e.g., databases, agents, expert
systems, KRR systems, Bayesian Networks, etc.) in an ad hoc manner,
designing a custom interface for each of specialized information sources.
A better approach is to find common methodologies by which information and
knowledge can be shared across several heterogeneous sources.
This problem area is often called the problem of knowledge sharing, or
information interchange. It falls under several research areas including
but not limited to those listed below.
o Languages (Interlingua, content knowledge representation languages,
protocol languages, database query languages)
o Integrated User Interfaces
o Reasoning (hybrid reasoning, ontological reasoning, analogical reasoning)
o Agent Mediators, Data Mining, WWW Searching Agents
o Architectures for knowledge sharing (multi-level knowledge systems,
wrappers, data flow hierarchies)
o Knowledge Translation and Integration (Heterogeneous source
integration, reasoning with conflicting knowledge)
o Ontologies (taxonomy and constraint systems, large ``common-knowledge''
ontologies, e.g., Penman, CYC, Wordnet, etc., Representation and Reasoning
with Ontologies)
Without restricting focus to any specific language or protocol, this
session will be concerned with the common underlying theories, formalisms,
etc. which explore and define the area, and ultimately enable the sharing
of information between implemented systems.
We solicit papers which explore these issues as well as those which discuss
implementations of solutions to the problems of information interchange and
knowledge sharing.
Additional topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
o Experience(s) integrating disparate knowledge sources,
for example, a case history.
o Languages (e.g., KIF, KQML) and theories of knowledge interchange
(e.g., First Order Predicate Calculus, semantic networks).
o Descriptions of practical experience(s) with KRR systems(s),
for example, a critique of the utility of a particular
KRR system for knowledge interchange.
o Issues that arise in exchanging different kinds of knowledge,
for example visual knowledge and propositional knowledge.
We are interested in information interchange in its broadest sense, so the
range of appropriate topics is deliberately wide. The distinguishing
characteristic of this session is the theme of knowledge interchange. Papers
submitted to this session should address this topic explicitly, preferably
in the context of a concrete application.
SESSION ORGANIZERS:
Syed S. Ali
Southwest Missouri State University
http://www.cs.smsu.edu/~syali
Susan Haller
University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Alistair E. Campbell
State University of New York at Buffalo
Tim Finin
University of Maryland-Baltimore County
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~finin
Hans Chalupsky
State University of New York at Buffalo
SUBMISSIONS:
Submissions should not exceed 15 pages, 12 point, double spaced text,
with one-inch margins.
We strongly encourage electronic submissions, either plain text or postscript.
Emailed submissions should be emailed to info-int-submission@sy.smsu.edu.
In the event that electronic submission is not possible, send 6 copies to:
SEND HARDCOPY SUBMISSIONS TO:
Syed S. Ali
ATTN: FLAIRS-96 Information Interchange
Computer Science Department
Southwest Missouri State University
901 South National Avenue
Springfield, MO 65804
E-mail: syali@sy.smsu.edu
Tel.: (417) 836-5773
FAX.: (417) 836-6659
All accepted papers will be published in the FLAIRS-96 proceedings.
ONLINE INFORMATION
This call for papers is available on the web at the URL:
http://www.cs.smsu.edu/~syali/FLAIRS96/info-int.html
Up-to-date information (including final schedule) will appear here
as it becomes available.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Submission Deadline: October 16, 1995
Author Notification: December, 1995
Camera Ready Copy Due: March 18, 1996
Conference Dates: May 20 - 22, 1996
ABOUT FLAIRS 96:
Florida AI Research Symposium, Key West, FL, May 20-22, 1996
The Ninth Annual Florida AI Research Symposium seeks high quality
international submissions in all areas of AI. We are especially interested
in papers describing knowledge-based approaches to the construction of
intelligent systems. We construe a system to be "knowledge-based" when
its behavior depends largely on accessing or encoding information. The
symposium will strive for a balance between theory and applications. All
accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings.
For more information, visit the FLAIRS-96 home page at:
http://www.cis.ufl.edu/~ddd/FLAIRS/FLAIRS-96
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 17:59:10 -0600
From: yorick@crl.nmsu.edu (Yorick Wilks)
To: aisb@cogs.susx.ac.uk, elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl, nl-kr@snyside1.sunnyside.com,
Subject: Announcement: two MSc degrees in NL, Speech, Sheffield
The Department of Computer Science,
University of Sheffield, in association with the
Department of Informatiuon Studies and the
Institute of Language Speech and Hearing,
offers two taught MSc degrees in:
* Natural Language, Speech and Auditory Processing
* Textual Computing
There are places available for 1995 entry.
Details of these degrees, including full module descriptions and
information on how to apply, may be found at:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/teaching/postgrad/TEXTUAL.html
and
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/teaching/postgrad/LSAP.html
The Department's WWW address is:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/
and ILASH is at:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/
Those interested in admission forms or general course
arrangements may contact (mentioning the MSc of interest):
Dr Siobhan North
PG Admissions Tutor
s.north@dcs.shef.ac.uk
+44 (0)114 2825571
Anyone wanting more information on course content may
contact Professor Yorick Wilks or Dr. Phil Green:
{yorick, p.green}@dcs.shef.ac.uk
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 95 09:47:53 BST
From: Vanessa Allsop <V.Allsop@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
To: salt@cstr.ed.ac.uk, elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl, nl-kr@snyside1.sunnyside.com
Subject: Position: Research Associate in NL Eng., Sheffield
The University of Sheffield
Department of Computer Science
ONE RESEARCH POST IN
NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING
A research associate post is available in the Natural Language Processing
research group from October 1995. This post is associated with a grant from
the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council on the induction
of grammars from corpora by novel methods and will be for 36 months.
The candiate should have already have a relevant PhD in computing or
computational linguistics and some research experience in this or a related
area of NLP or computational linguistics along with good Unix/Internet skills.
The post will be on the UK RA1b scale, with a salary of around 20K pounds p/a.
Informal enquiries to Yorick Wilks (y.wilks@dcs.shef.ac.uk) or Mark Hepple
(m.hepple@dcs.shef.ac.uk). The Department's WWW address is:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/
Further particulars from:
Director of Human Resource Management,
The University of Sheffield,
Western Bank,
Sheffield S10 2TN
Tel: +44 (0)1142 824144
Closing date for applications: 29 September 1995 Ref: R710
An Equal Opportunity Employer
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