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NL-KR Digest Wed Dec 6 07:41:32 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 78
Today's Topics:
CFP: NLP+IA 96/ TAL+AI 96 Industrial Apps, Jun 96, Moncton
CFP: IWCH'96 Humor Workshop, Sep 96, Twente
Announcement: 4th European Language Summer School, Jul 96, Budapest
Position: Using AI to Build Educational Software
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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 19:38:50 -0300 (ADT)
From: Chadia Moghrabi <moghrac@Umoncton.CA>
Reply-To: Chadia Moghrabi <moghrac@Umoncton.CA>
Subject: CFP: NLP+IA 96/ TAL+AI 96 Industrial Apps, Jun 96, Moncton
To: diffusion <acl-l@cs.columbia.edu>, acl@cs.columbia.edu,
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT / Premiere diffusion
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
NLP+IA 96
Conference internationale
sur le traitement automatique des langues et
ses applications industrielles
TAL+AI 96
JUNE/juin 4 - 6, 1996
Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Universite de Moncton is organizing
an international conference on NLP with industrial applications as its focus.
The conference will address a number of issues: What are NLP's recent
developments from a theoretical and a practical angle, what kinds of
challenges it faces, how could it help to improve productivity,
how could it help to improve quality of products and services? What
quality control criteria should it be adopting?
Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing, including,
but not limited to,
* natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken and
hand-written language,
* natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial
applications
* machine translation, computer aided translation, translation
aids,
* syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology,
* computer assisted language learning,
* dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources
* multimodality
* multilinguality
* NLP industrial applications
* papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and
practice of NLP.
LANGUAGE:
Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their
papers not exceeding 1000 words (exclusive of references) either in
English or in French, the two official languages of the conference.
Proceedings would be published in the language of the submitted
texts. Simultaneous translation of the presentations would be available
at the conference.
SUBMISSION:
1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title,
the first author's name, affiliation, address, a five (5) line summary and
a five (5) keyword list specifying the subject area.
2) Papers, 1000 words in length, should be submitted preferably by e-mail in
Postscript or in 4 hard copies (A4 page size, 12 pt, times roman, 2.5 cm
(1 inch) margins all around) to:
NLP+IA 96 / TAL+AI 96
Dr. Chadia Moghrabi, professeure
GRETAL
Departement d'informatique
Universite' de Moncton
Moncton, N. B.
CANADA
E1A 3E9
Phone: (506) 858-4521
Fax: (506) 858-4541
E-mail: nlp-ia@umoncton.ca
3) For both kinds of submissions, a plain text version of the identification
page should be sent separately by electronic mail, using the single
word: SUBMISSION/soumission in the subject line.
TITLE/Titre:
FIRST AUTHOR/ Premier auteur:
ADDRESS/Adresse:
KEYWORDS/Mots clefs:
ABSTRACT/Resume:
REFEREEING:
All extended abstracts shall be refereed by three members of the program
committee.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Lars Ahrenberg (Linkoeping U., Sweden)
Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, U. Geneva, Switzerland)
Christian Boitet (U. Grenoble, France)
Pierrette Bouillon (U. Geneva, Switzerland)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Inst, of Comp. Ling., Pisa, Italy)
Jaime Carbonell (Carnegie-Mellon U., USA)
Veronica Dahl (Simon-Fraser U., Canada)
Chrysanne DiMarco (U. Waterloo, Canada)
Gerard Ellis (Royal Melbourne Inst. of Tech., Australia)
Pierre Isabelle (CITI, Canada)
Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague)
Susan Haller (U. Wisconsin, USA)
Eduard Hovy (ISI, USA)
John Hutchins (East-Anglia, UK)
Margaret King (ISSCO, U. Geneva, Switzerland)
Richard Kittredge (U. Montreal, Canada)
Guy Lapalme (U. Montreal, Canada)
Gudrun Magnusdottir (U. Gothenburg, Sweden)
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Inst. of Sc.& Tech., Japan)
Marie Meteer (BBN, USA)
Chadia Moghrabi (U. Moncton, Canada)
Johanna Moore (U. Pittsburgh, USA)
Allan Ramsay (UMIST, UK)
Geoffrey Sampson (U. Sussex, UK)
Joerg Schuetz (U. Saarbrucken, Germany)
Manfred Stede (TU Berlin, Germany)
Thierry van Steenberghe (U. Louvain, Belgium)
Junichi Tsujii (U. Tokyo, Japan)
SCHEDULE:
Extended abstracts are to be submitted by the 31st of january 1996.
Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author soon after receipt.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 March 1996. Camera-ready
copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of May 1996 along
with registration fees.
Authors are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in
the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the
single word INTENTION in the subject line.
EXHIBITS:
Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should
send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical
requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs,
etc.) to the same address with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line.
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Accompanying persons can enjoy the lovely outdoor living in New-Brunswick
and visit the highest tides in the world. Moncton is only 20km
away from the sandy beaches of Shediac, la Capitale mondiale du homard.
The lobster season would be open, so everybody can indulge in delicious
meals of the famous Atlantic lobster.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
The conference is organized by GRETAL, Groupe d'etude sur le traitement
automatique des langues at the Universite' de Moncton. The members of the
organizing committee are:
Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair
Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, director Manufacturing
Technology Centre, and Conference co-chair
Jalal Almhana, Professor of Computer Science
Louise Bosi, Professor of French Studies
Julien Chiasson, Director & professor of Computer Science
Gaston Losier, Ad. director, Centre d'innovation scientifique et
technologique en industrie
Charles Zama, Ad. director, Centre de traduction et de terminologie
juridique
Paul Tarau, Professor of Computer Science
DEADLINES:
Intention to participate as soon as possible
Extended abstract submission January 31, 1996
Notification of acceptance March 15, 1996
Camera-ready & registration May 1 , 1996
Next call for papers in about a month...
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: you@somehost.somedomain (A. Nijholt)
Subject: CFP: IWCH'96 Humor Workshop, Sep 96, Twente
Date: 4 Dec 1995 13:46:28 GMT
==ANNOUNCEMENT==ANNOUNCEMENT==ANNOUNCEMENT==
IWCH '96
International Workshop on Computational Humor
"Automatic Interpretation & Generation of
Verbal Humor"
Enschede, The Netherlands
Department of Computer Science
University of Twente
September 11-14, 1996
Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
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IWCH'96 aims at bringing together research
results in the area of computational humor, with
an emphasis on the computational interpretation
and generation of verbal humor. There are two
main reasons to have a workshop in this
research area.
One of the obvious reasons is that there are
aspects of human behaviour that more or less
seem to evade a computational treatment.
Creativity has been given some treatment, but
mostly in an artificial context of problem
solving, not of behavior or language use. Other
aspects of human behavior, e.g. emotions, have
only found superficial (computational) attention,
for example in research projects in which facial
expressions are interpreted or generated. One
may ask what 'intelligence' is required for skilful
use of humor and how attempts to model humor
can contribute to modelling intelligence. One
may also ask what role humor can play in
making systems look more intelligent, for
example in a Turing test.
A second reason is that in artificial
intelligence and natural language research
modest results emerge in modelling co-
operative behaviour, disagreement and ironic
language use. In recent years we also have seen
a number of research results on humor that
make starts to a computational treatment or that
will probably underlie a future computational
treatment of the topic. Especially in (non-
computational) linguistics and cognitive
psychology work is becoming more and more
formal and it makes sense to attempt to
implement the proposed models, with the hope
of experimenting with them computationally.
One assumption that underlies the
organisation of this workshop is that in future
human-machine interaction, humans will
demand a naturalness and effectiveness that
requires also the incorporation of models of
probably all human cognitive capabilities,
including the handling of humor. Stimulating the
interaction between computer science (language
technology) and computational humor research
is one of the aims of this workshop. Apart from
human-machine communication, robotics,
automatic text interpretation and machine
translation are other areas that also will profit
from research on computational humor.
In addition to some invited papers there will
be presentations of a selected number of
submitted papers. The Workshop Organizers
invite submissions of original papers and panel
or demonstration outlines to this workshop.
Topics
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Major topics of interest include, but are not
restricted, to the following:
- (computational) theories of humor, irony and sarcasm
- the (possible) role of humor in human-machine interaction
- machine translation and verbal humor
- discourse analysis and humorous exchanges
- semantics and pragmatics of humorous language
- semiotics of humor
- connectionist approaches to humor
Program Committee:
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Chairman: Anton Nijholt,
University of Twente,
The Netherlands
Salvatore Attardo Youngstown, USA
Douglas Hofstadter Indiana University, USA
Franciska de Jong Twente, Netherlands
Victor Raskin Purdue University, USA
Graeme Ritchie Edinburgh, Scotland
Oliviero Stock Italy; chairman ACL
Akira Utsumi Yokohama, Japan
Invited Papers will be given by:
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Salvatore Attardo (Youngstown, USA)
Carmen Curco (London, UK)
Mlchal Ephrat (Haifa, Israel)
Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Douglas Hofstadter (Bloomington, USA)
Bruce Katz (Sussex, UK)
Victor Raskin (W. Lafayette, USA)
Graeme Ritchie/Kim Binsted (Edinburgh, UK)
Akira Utsumi (Yokohama, Japan)
Judith Weiner (USA)
Proceedings:
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The proceedings of the workshop will be
available at the workshop. It is planned to have
a selection of the papers (after a second process
of reviewing) in a book published by a major
publishing company.
Workshop Format:
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The workshop will be four days long, from
Wednesday to Saturday, September 11-14, and
will include invited talks and paper
presentations. Some special events, including a
panel discussion and an evening program, are in
preparation.
Instruction to Authors:
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The Workshop Organizers invite submission of
original papers (4 copies with a maximum of 15
pages) and panel proposals to IWCH'96. Papers
will be reviewed by the members of the program
committee. After the reviewing process authors
of accepted papers will receive an 'Instruction
for Authors'. To contribute, please submit to the
program committee chairman:
prof.dr. A. Nijholt
University of Twente
Department of Computer Science
PO Box 217
7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands
tel: +31-53-4893740
fax: +31-53-4893503
Important Dates in 1996:
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April 15: Deadline for paper submission
May 15: Notification of acceptance
July 15: Final paper due
Registration:
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Full details of registration will become available
in the Spring of 1996. Announcements will
appear in newsgroups, mailing lists and
(electronic) newsletters. IWCH will also
maintain WWW pages with up to date
information about the workshop. For further
information contact anijholt@cs.utwente.nl.
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From: "Summer School e-mail" <SCHOOL@khmk.bme.hu>
To: jcamen@iti.upv.es, agrol@iberiapac.ge, amtrup@informatik.uni-hamburg.de,
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 16:34:53 GMT+100
Subject: Announcement: 4th European Language Summer School, Jul 96, Budapest
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
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THE FOURTH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
COMMUNICATION
DIALOGUE SYSTEMS
* * * **
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, 8-19 JULY, 1996
The European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication has become one
of the most successful up-to-date annual training courses in Europe. The
School presents a high quality program for two weeks, with pre-eminent
teachers, with hands-on experience for participants in practical courses, and
with an enjoyable social program. Characteristic of the school is its small
scale (up to 90 participants), and its selection of a topic which has
interest and relevance for both the speech and the computational linguistics
communities. Previous Summer Schools have been organized in London 1993 (on
prosody), Utrecht 1994 (on corpus-based methods), and Edinburgh 1995 (on
multilinguality).
The Fourth European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication will be
organized in Budapest between July 8-19, 1996. The topic will be Dialogue
Systems. The main sponsors and supporters are the European Network in Language
and Speech (ELSNET), the Copernicus-LRE project ELSNET goes East, the European
Speech Communication Association (ESCA) and the European Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Local support is provided by
SUN Europe and the Technical University of Budapest.
The Summer School is open to undergraduate students, PhD students, postdocs,
and staff members from academic and industrial sites. A limited number of
grants can be made available for participants from Central and Eastern Europe.
DIALOGUE SYSTEMS
There has been a growing interest over recent years in the theoretical and
practical issues associated with the design and use of computer systems which
are able to participate in spoken or written language dialogues. Just some of
the questions which have occupied researchers include the following:
* what information should be included in a dialogue model?
* what does it mean to "co-operate" in dialogue?
* is it necessary to model the beliefs of the other party?
* how much planning is required in dialogue?
* how should a dialogue system be specified?
* is there any benefit in simulating systems before building them?
* how do people react to dialogue systems?
* what happens in multimodal dialogues?
* what is the relationship between human-human and human-computer dialogue?
* what is the effect of task domain on dialogue structure?
* how can dialogue failures be recognised and repaired
* how should dialogue systems be evaluated?
* what practical applications exist for dialogue technology?
These, and many other, questions relating to dialogue systems will be addressed
in the Summer School in courses which will be taught by leading practitioners
in the field. Courses will include the following topics:
* speech input and output in dialogue
* empirical foundations for dialogue design
* multimodal systems
* natural language input and output in dialogue
* dialogue modelling
* human factors in dialogue design
* architectures and systems design
* historical overview
* types of dialogue
* prosody in spoken dialogue
* evaluation of dialogue systems
* practical applications
The courses will be a mixture of short plenary sessions on particularly
difficult or controversial topics or providing surveys, and weekly courses of
5x2 hours or 5x1 hours held in plenary or in parallel. Several of the courses
will set practical exercises, and there will be ample opportunities for
students to present their own work. As is fitting in a Summer School on
dialogue, participants will be encouraged to play an active part in the
learning process. Background knowledge in a relevant area such as
linguistics, speech processing, artificial intelligence, computer science or
psychology would be useful, but no prior experience in the area of dialogue
systems will be assumed.
PARTICIPATION FEES
Fees: for students 100 ECU, for academic scolars 200 ECU and for industrial
participants 400 ECU.
ACCOMMODATION COSTS
- Youth Hostel at 15 USD/night/person (breakfast included). 2-3 persons/room and showers
at each floor, in the University Campus
- Low category Hotel-two stars at 50 USD/person/night (breakfast included). 1-2
persons/romm with shower in each room, at 15 minutes from the University (by tram).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Niels Ole Bernsen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Norman Fraser (Vocalis, United Kingdom)
Klara Vicsi (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary)
REGISTRATION
Formal registration will be open from January 15, 1996, and registration forms
(and more information concerning the programme) will be distributed by that time.
Registration deadline will be arround 15 April - 1 May, 1996.
FOR INFORMATION
Expressions of interest may be sent to:
Klara Vicsi
e-mail: school@khmk.bme.hu
The Second Announcement will be available on WWW.
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: forbus@ils.nwu.edu (Kenneth D. Forbus)
Subject: Position: Using AI to Build Educational Software
Date: 5 Dec 1995 17:45:46 GMT
Job title: PROGRAMMER ANALYST
(Entry Level Position)
LOCATION: Qualitative Reasoning Group, The Institute for the
Learning Sciences Northwestern University
The Institute for the Learning Sciences is a leading Artificial
Intelligence research institute developing innovative computer
implementations of new ideas in areas of training and education.
STATUS: Full-Time, 40 hours per week
DESCRIPTION: I am looking for two programmers to work with my
group on two new projects which have recently been funded. Both
projects involve using qualitative reasoning and analogical
reasoning techniques to develop new kinds of educational
software. This software will be used and evaluated with students
both at universities and in K-12 education. Both projects
require:
* Dedication to creating robust, efficient,
and friendly software.
* A solid Computer Science background
* Substantial Lisp experience (preferably Common Lisp)
The following kinds of experience would also be beneficial:
* C++ and/or Delphi
* Artificial Intelligence
* Interface design
* Windows programming
The first project involves developing ``articulate virtual
laboratories'' for teaching thermodynamics and feedback. The
target student populations are engineering undergraduates and
high school students.
The second project involves developing software that helps
students learn to model. The target student population for this
project are K-12 students, with the domains likely to be motion
and simple fluid/thermal phenomena.
Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or already have permanent
resident status. Both positions are available immediately.
Northwestern University is an equal opportunity, affirmative
action employer. Employment eligibility verification required
upon hire.
If you are interested, please send vitae/resume with salary
history to:
Dept.E95 -- KDF
Administrative Services
Institute for the Learning Sciences
1890 Maple Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Resumes/vitaes can be emailed to forbus@ils.nwu.edu or faxed
to 708-491-5258, attention Prof. K. Forbus
=========================================Prof. Kenneth D. Forbus
Qualitative Reasoning Group
The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Northwestern University
1890 Maple Avenue
Evanston, Illinois, 60201, USA
email: forbus@ils.nwu.edu
voice: (708) 491-7699
fax: (708) 491-5258
http://www.qrg.ils.nwu.edu/
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