LINGUIST List 11.1059

Wed May 10 2000

Calls: Artificial Intelligence, MT/Multilingual NLP

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>



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  • SBIA/IBERAMIA 2000, Artificial Intelligence (SBIA/IBERAMIA 2000)
  • Roger Harris, Machine Translation/Multilingual NLP (MT 2000)

    Message 1: Artificial Intelligence (SBIA/IBERAMIA 2000)

     Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:29:53 -0300 (EST)
    From: SBIA/IBERAMIA 2000 <sbia2000pcs.usp.br>
    Subject: Artificial Intelligence (SBIA/IBERAMIA 2000)




    Due to problems caused by recent computer virus, the Conference Comittee has decided to extend the final deadline in one week:

    =========================================================== ** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS **

    ** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: MAY 19 2000 ** ============================================================

    International Joint Conference IBERAMIA'2000 (7th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence) SBIA'2000 (15th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence) November 19-22, 2000 Atibaia, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    http://www.pcs.usp.br/~sbia2000 http://www.pcs.usp.br/~iberamia2000 - -------- Deadlines - -------- For papers

    19 May 2000 - Deadline for paper submission 30 Jun 2000 - Notification of paper acceptance 28 Jul 2000 - Deadline for camera-ready papers

    For workshops

    19 May 2000 - Deadline for workshop proposals 26 May 2000 - Notification of workshop acceptance For tutorials

    19 May 2000 - Deadline for tutorial proposals 30 Jun 2000 - Notification of tutorial acceptance 20 Oct 2000 - Deadline for tutorial hand-outs

    =========================================================== ***> For more details please consult the IBERAMIA/SBIA 2000 home page: http://www.pcs.usp.br/~sbia2000 http://www.pcs.usp.br/~iberamia2000 ===========================================================

    Message 2: Machine Translation/Multilingual NLP (MT 2000)

     Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:33:28 +0100
    From: Roger Harris <rwshdircon.co.uk>
    Subject: Machine Translation/Multilingual NLP (MT 2000)


    British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm

    **************************** EXTENDED DEADLINE 19 June 2000 *****************************

    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MT AND MULTILINGUAL NLP

    MT 2000: MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

    Exeter, United Kingdom 20-22 November 2000

    The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG) of the British Computer Society (BCS) and the University of Exeter announce an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter (UK) on 20-22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful conference "Machine Translation: 10 Years On" held in 1994 in Cranfield.

    Against the backdrop of increasingly multilingual society, MT2000 will look at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only recent machine translation research and products, but latest multilingual developments in general. The organisers aim to attract a wide range of contributions from researchers, users, educationalists and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering.

    The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection of papers will be published in book form soon after the conference. There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity to hold poster sessions.

    * Topics

    We invite papers covering multilingual aspects of any NLP task/application. We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas; the following list of possible topics is not exhaustive and is intended to indicate areas of probable interest.

    Machine translation (developments, techniques, applications) Translation aids Controlled Languages Computer-assisted language learning Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation) Evaluation Part-of-speech tagging Parsing Information retrieval Information extraction Automatic abstracting Word-sense disambiguation Lexical knowledge acquisition Anaphora resolution Text categorisation Dialogues systems Web-based NLP applications NL generation Speech processing Translation studies Terminology Lexicography Syntax Semantics Discourse Pragmatics

    * Invited speakers

    Martin Kay (Xerox Parc) Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)

    * Programme Committee

    Mona Baker (UMIST, Manchester) Christian Boitet (Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble) Francis Bond (NTT, Kyoto) Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp) Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney) Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice) Laurie Gerber (Systran Software Inc.) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble) Changning Huang (Microsoft, China) John Hutchins (University of Anglia) Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Labs) Gareth Jones (University of Exeter) Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto) Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton) Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht) Tara O'Leary (TRADOS Ireland) Derek Lewis (University of Exeter), Co-Chair Gabriel Lopez (New Lisbon University) Bente Maegard (Center of Language Technology, Copenhagen) Chris Manning (Stanford University) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Co-Chair Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton) Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante) Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University) Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens) Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge) Lucia Rino (Federal University of Sao Carlos) Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University Barcelona) Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex, Brighton) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon) Arturo Trujillo (Vocalis plc, Cambridge) Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo) Agnes Tutin (Stendahl University Grenoble) Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) Lotfi Zadeh (University of California)

    * Submission Guidelines

    Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be written in English and should not exceed 7 single-column pages (preferred font: Times New Roman 12) including figures, tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature the title of the paper, the author's name(s), the author's surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Electronic submissions (attached postscript files, pdf, rtf or Word files) are encouraged.

    The address for e-mail paper submissions is: D.R.Lewisexeter.ac.uk In addition, the abstracts of the papers should be separately emailed to Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkovwlv.ac.uk).

    The papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines on how to produce the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings.

    * Schedule

    Paper Submission Due: 19 June 2000 Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2000 Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 2000 Conference: 20-22 November 2000

    * Venue

    The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport is a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links to London, Birmingham and other UK cities.

    * Exhibitions

    The conference will host exhibitions of software products and books related to multilingual NLP. Companies/organisations interested in exhibiting their products should contact Derek Lewis (see below).

    * Call for participation

    A call for participation, including the conference program and attendance fees, will be posted in August.

    * Further information

    Further information can be obtained from

    Derek Lewis Queen's Building University of Exeter Exeter United Kingdom EX4 4QH Telephone/fax: ++44 (0)1392 264296 / 264306 E-mail: D.R.Lewisexeter.ac.uk

    or from

    David Wigg, NLTSG Telephone: +44 (0) 1732 455446 E-mail: wiggjdbcs.org.uk

    Conference web site: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/index.htm Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk