II. JOBS
1.
La Jolla, CA: Encyclopedia
Britannica
2. Western Michigan U.: Assistant
Professor: CS
3. U. Washington: SLIS: Tenure Track
Positions
III. NOTICES
A. Publications
1.
New Publication: Knowledge Discovery
in Bibliographic
Databases
2. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] October 18,
1999
3. Knowledge and Information
Systems: 1:4 (1999): ToC
B.
Meetings
1.
LREC 2000: CFPapers
2. ECAI 2000: CFTutorial
Proposals
3. ECAI 2000: CFWorkshop
Proposals
4. Evolution of Language 2000:
CFPapers
5. NLP 2000: CFPapers
6. ANLP/NAACL2000: CFPapers
Reminder
C.
Miscellaneous
1.
Briefing on Release of Report on
Intellectual Property and
the
Net
IV. PROJECTS
C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, &
Scholarships
1.
1999 ECCAI AI Dissertation
Award
II.1.
Fr: Amy Steier <steier@eb.com>
Re: La Jolla, CA: Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica is one of the premier providers of reference
materials (online, on disk, and in print) in the world. Our La Jolla
Research Lab is seeking innovative people in the area of Information
Retrieval, Text Classification, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Bases,
Data Mining and Information Visualization. Our lab's mission is to tap on
what's unique about Britannica's exhaustive and rich knowledge bases to
push technology in each of the above focus areas.
Position responsibilities include applied research, software development,
and collaboration with product development engineers.
The La Jolla Research Lab is located directly across from U.C. San Diego,
as well as one of the most beautiful coastlines in Southern California.
Encyclopaedia Britannica offers an excellent salary/benefits package.
Applicants should have an MS or PhD in computer science (or related
field) with an emphasis in one or more of the above focus areas. Strong
programming skills in C/C++, Java, Perl on a Unix/Sun Solaris platform is
also desired.
Send resume or CV in electronic form to: LJRL_Jobs@eb.com
The Department of Computer Science at Western Michigan University
(www.cs.wmich.edu)
seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in
computer science beginning August 2000, pending budgetary approval. A
Ph.D. in computer science or a closely related field is required. The
development of externally funded research and participation in the
department's doctoral program, as well as teaching at all levels, are
expected. Applications from persons with research interests in all areas
of computer science will be considered. Candidates with research
interests in networks, multimedia and web technologies are especially
encouraged to apply. Western Michigan University, a Carnegie
Classification Doctoral I institution which has recently met the criteria
to be classified at the Research II level is an equal opportunity
employer and has an affirmative action program which encourages
applications from underrepresented groups.
Send letter of application, vita, transcripts, statement of research
plans and three letters of reference to: Ajay Gupta, Chair, Department of
Computer Science, Western Michigan University, 1201 Oliver St.,
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5021. Fax: (616) 387-3999; Email:
ajay.gupta@wmich.edu.
Review of applications will begin November 1, 1999, and applications will
be accepted until the position is filled.
Ajay Gupta
Chairman and Professor
http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~gupta
Computer Science Department Email: ajay.gupta@wmich.edu
Western Michigan University Phone: (616) 387-5645/5646
Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Fax: (616) 387-3999
USA
The University of Washington continues to engage in a major
transformation and expansion of its School of Library and Information
Science. We are committed to creating one of the top information schools
in the world. As part of this effort, we are seeking a number of
outstanding individuals to
join us as tenure-track faculty members for the coming academic year.
Successful candidates should possess both excellent research and teaching
skills in one or more of the following areas:
· Systems: the conceptualization, design and implementation of
information systems, including but not limited to: information retrieval,
database creation and development, networking and telecommunications,
client/server applications, information visualization.
· Organization: the organization of information and knowledge including
classification, indexing, navigation and the application of principles of
organization to emerging technologies.
· Management: including but not limited to management of the information
function in organizations, management of information organizations,
knowledge management, project management, organizational strategy
development.
· Services and Resources: the design, development, and evaluation of
information collections, content, and services to meet users' needs,
information literacy.
The School is particularly interested in candidates who are
human-centered and have strong skills and knowledge related to
information technologies, including incorporating information
technologies into research and course content and delivery as
appropriate.
The School is committed to an active and growing research and development
program that involves both faculty and students. Our new colleagues will
join a faculty eager to transform the School into a broad-based,
inclusive information school with academic programs on the bachelors,
masters and doctoral levels. The School is building on its strong library
tradition while expanding into new dimensions of the information science
and technology fields. We are particularly interested in candidates at
the junior ranks; however we will consider more senior colleagues as
well.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree by date of
appointment.
The University of Washington is one of the oldest state-supported
institutions of higher education on the Pacific coast with close
proximity to world-class cultural and recreational attractions. In
addition, Seattle is home to some of the most important companies in the
information economy.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the
positions are filled. We will invite select candidates for campus visits
beginning in January 2000. The University of Washington is building a
culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from
women and minority candidates. The University of Washington is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
Applicants can find further information about the School at our web site:
www.ischool.washington.edu
. Applicants should mail, fax or email their curriculum vitae, a letter
of intent (including your research and teaching interests) and the names
of three references to:
Joseph Janes, Chair, Search Committee
School of Library and Information Science
University of Washington
Box 352930
Seattle, WA 98195-2930
fax 206/616-3152
search@ischool.washington.edu
III.A.1.
Fr: Publications Office <puboff@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
Re: New Publication: Knowledge Discovery in Bibliographic Databases
A New Publication from the University of Illinois Graduate School of
Library and Information Science: Knowledge Discovery in Bibliographic
Databases, edited by Jian Qin and M. Jay Norton Library Trends, 48(1),
Summer 1999.
In the past few years, a number of research journals in library and
information science have published review articles or special issues on
knowledge discovery and data mining (Raghavan et al., 1998; Trybula,
1997; Vickery, 1997). These publications have primarily discussed
background, scope and terminology, methods and techniques, and tools
related to the topic from orientations other than library and information
science. Research publications in library and information science have
been implicitly related to knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) in
terms of methods and techniques, though many of them did not use the
terminology "knowledge discovery in databases" explicitly. This
issue is devoted to aspects of KDD that are relevant or reflective of the
field of library and information science.
Knowledge discovery in databases uses a variety of methods to evaluate
data for relevant relationships that could yield new knowledge. According
to Fayyad et al. (1996): "KDD refers to the overall process of
discovering useful knowledge from data, and data mining refers to a
particular step in this process" (p. 39). Data mining essentially
focuses on identifying patterns previously not recognized and is
considered only one component of the discovery process. KDD encompasses a
growing collection of techniques, from a variety of disciplines, for
investigating data to extract knowledge. The methods employ a broad
combination and application of human expertise and information
technology. "KDD comprises many steps, which involve data
preparation, search for patterns, knowledge evaluation, and refinement,
all repeated in multiple iterations" (Fayyad et al., 1996, p. 41).
KDD investigates databases to identify patterns of association, clusters,
and rules but it requires significant rigornot all patterns are real or
meaningful. The presence of patterns may be meaningless and statistically
insignificant. The successful use of data mining in KDD involves
"data preparation, data selection, data cleaning, incorporation of
appropriate prior knowledge, and proper interpretation of results of
mining" (Fayyad et al., 1996, p. 39).
The thirteen articles included in this issue characterize a combination
of the knowledge discovery in data process components; the emerging
information technology; and the established information methods such as
classification, citation analysis, and indexing and abstracting.
Order single copies or subscriptions from the University of Illinois
Press, Journals Department, 1325 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820. ISSN
0024-2594
For complete information, contact:
The Publications Office of the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(217) 333-1359 phone, (217) 244-7329 FAX
puboff@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff
**********
III.A.2.
Fr: EDUCAUSE <EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] October 18, 1999
FEDERAL FUNDING FOR IT RESEARCH:
* Congress Passes Full Funding for NSF IT Research
* NSF Announces Beta Grid Project
* 1999 TIIAP Grant Awards Announced
DATABASE PROTECTION LEGISLATION
* Education & Library Communities Scramble To Block Passage of
Sweeping
Database Protection Bill
E-COMMERCE
* House Judiciary Committee Approves Anti-Cybersquatting Bill
* Committee Democrats Amend Digital Signature Bill By Narrow Margin
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington
Update" is a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit
association dedicated to transforming higher education through
information technologies.
Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to
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III.A.3.
Fr: Xindong Wu <xwu@gauss.Mines.EDU>
Re: Knowledge and Information Systems: 1:4 (1999): ToC
Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal
ISSN 0219-1377
by Springer-Verlag
Home Page:
http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/
Volume 1 Number 4 (November 1999): Table of Contents
Regular Papers
- Exploration of Ordinal Data With Association Rules by Oliver Buchter
and
Rudiger Wirth
- An Axiom Foundation for Uncertain Reasonings in Rule-Based Expert
Systems:
NT-Algebra by Xudong Luo and Chengqi Zhang
- Run Placement Policies for Concurrent Mergesorts Using Parallel
Prefetching
by Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu and James Z. Teng
- Imprecise Reliability of General Structures by Lev V. Utkin and Sergey
V.
Gurov
- Efficient Join Processing Using Partial Precomputation by Kian-Lee
Tan,
Cheng Hian Goh, Mong Li Lee and Beng Chin Ooi
Call for Papers
- ICCI '2000: The 10th International Conference on Computing and
Information,
Kuwait, November 18-21, 2000
- MICAI-2000: Mexican International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence
2000, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, April 10-14, 2000
**********
III.B.1
Fr: Jeff Allen <jeff@elda.fr>
Re: LREC 2000: CFPapers
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute for
Language and Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and the National
Technical University of Athens, Greece are pleased to announce:
The 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC2000)
The Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
has been initiated by ELRA and is organised in cooperation with other
Associations and Consortia, including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA, ORIENTAL
COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA, EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE,
TELRI, etc., and with major national and international organisations,
including the European Commission - DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 HTRDP
Project (China), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the
ICSP Permanent Committee (Korea), The Natural Language Technical
committee of JEIDA (Japan), and the Japanese Project for International
Coordination in Corpora, Assessment and Labelling. Cooperation and
support from other institutions is currently being sought.
CONFERENCE AIMS
In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of
human language technologies (HLT) and their relevance to all the fields
of Information Society Technologies (IST) has been widely
recognised.
Two issues are currently considered to be particularly relevant:
1) the availability of language resources and
2) the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and
products.
Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing these issues
through international cooperation.
The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and
descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building and
evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems, for
software localisation industries and language services, for language
enabled information and communication services, for electronic commerce,
electronic publishing, language studies, subject-area specialists and end
users.
Examples of language resources are written and spoken corpora,
computational lexica, grammars, terminology databases, and basic software
tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management,
customisation and use of these and other resources.
The relevance of evaluation for Language Engineering is increasingly
recognised. This involves assessment of the state of the art for a given
technology, measuring the progress achieved within a programme, comparing
different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution,
knowing its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of
technologies for a given application, product benchmarking, and
assessment of user satisfaction.
Language engineering and R&D in language technologies have made
important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both written
and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been
studied and used in large national and international programmes,
including the US ARPA HLT programme, the EU LE programme Francophone
Aupelf-Uref programme and others, and in the localisation industry (LISA
and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unresolved basic research
problems.
The aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the state of the
art, to discuss problems and opportunities, and to exchange information
regarding ongoing and planned activities, language resources and their
applications. We also intend to discuss evaluation methodologies and
demonstrate evaluation tools, and explore possibilities and promote
initiatives for international cooperation in the areas mentioned
above.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which
could be addressed by papers submitted to LREC2000:
I. Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages
Resources (LR) (theoretical & best practice):
* Guidelines, standards, specifications, and models for LR
* Organisational issues in the construction, distribution, and use
of
LR
* Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, annotation,
management, access, distribution, and use of LR
* Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access, and use of LR
* Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR
* Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g.
terms,
lexical information, language modelling) from LR
* Monolingual and multilingual LR
* Multimodal and multimedia LR
* LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia
cultural
industry
* Industrial production and use of LR
* Integration of various modalities in LR (spoken, visual, gestual,
textual)
* Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (language
technology,
information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce,
etc.)
* Industrial LR requirements and the community's response
* Analysis of user needs for LR
* Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing
* Economics of LR
* Customisation and use of LR
* Research issues relevant for LR
II. Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation:
* Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR
* Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking
and
evaluation
* Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval,
terminology
extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine
translation,
morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, word
sense
disambiguation, text understanding, summarisation,
localisation,
etc.)
* Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and
understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis,
speech
coding, speaker and language recognition, etc.)
* Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line
and
off-line machine and hand-written character recognition, etc.)
* Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems
* Evaluation of multimodal systems
* Qualitative and perceptive evaluation
* Evaluation of products and applications
* Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems
* Situated evaluation of applications
* Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
* From evaluation to standardisation of LR
* Research issues relevant to evaluation
III. General issues:
* National and international activities and projects
* LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia
cultural
industry
* Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national
and
international policies
* Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international
cooperation
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, presentations of
accepted papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations and panels.
Pre-Conference Workshops will be organized on the 29th and 30th of May
and post-Conference Workshops on the 3rd and 4th of June 2000. Please
consult the conference Web site
(http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html)
for complete information about submission guidelines, contact people,
submission dates, various conference committees and members, and other
general information.
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
* 20 NOVEMBER 1999:
Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos, panels and
workshops
* 10 DECEMBER 1999:
Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals
* 2 FEBRUARY 2000:
Notification of acceptance of papers, posters, referenced demos
* 2 APRIL 2000:
Final version of the articles for the proceedings
* 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000:
Conference
For general information about the conference, please contact:
LREC Secretariat: Ms. Despina Scutari
Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str.
15125 Marousi, Athens, GREECE
Tel: +301 6800959 ; Fax: +301 6854270
e-mail: LREC2000@ilsp.gr
LREC2000 website: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html
For general information about ELRA,
please contact:
Khalid CHOUKRI
55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris FRANCE
Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
e-mail: choukri@elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS -- Deadline 1 Nov 1999
The ECAI-2000 Organising Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be
held in conjunction with the conference. The tutorials will be held on
21-22 August 2000, immediately prior to the start of the main
conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
1 Nov 1999 Deadline for proposals
1 Dec 1999 Notification of acceptance
15 Dec 1999 Deadline for tutorial summaries
7 Jan 2000 Publication of ECAI-2000 tutorial programme
1 May 2000 Camera-ready tutorial notes
21-22 Aug 2000 Tutorials at ECAI-2000
We invite proposals for four-hour tutorials on topics relating to
theoretical and applied AI. The aim is to offer conference delegates both
tutorials on up-to-date AI technologies, and case study tutorials on the
application of the AI technologies to real-world problems.
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -- Deadline 1 Nov 1999
The ECAI-2000 Organising Committee invites proposals for workshops to be
held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops will be held on
21-22 August 2000, immediately prior to the start of the main
conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
1 Nov 1999 Deadline for proposals
1 Dec 1999 Notification of acceptance
15 Dec 1999 Deadline for workshop summaries
7 Jan 2000 Publication of ECAI-2000 workshop programme
15 June 2000 Camera-ready workshop notes and other information
21-22 Aug 2000 Workshops at ECAI-2000
ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University),
Dr. Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Professor Jim Hurford
(Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh),
Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of
East London), Professor Luc Steels (Sony CSL and Vrije
Universiteit Brussel).
This will be the third conference in a series concerned with the
evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we
seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives with
those of modern Darwinism. The aim is to bring together linguists,
computer scientists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists,
geneticists, neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with
the question of the origin and evolution of language.
CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
Frans B. M. de Waal (Emory University), Bernd Heine (Universitat zu
Koln), Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis University), Paul A. Mellars (University
of Cambridge), Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Georgia State University), Herbert
Terrace (Columbia University), Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology).
Some of the issues that will be discussed are:
origin of language
. origin of phonetic abilities
. origin of syntax
. origin of symbolic representation semantic abilities
. evolutionary significance of language, compatibility with natural
selection
. language and the origin of culture
. chronology of the spread of mankind, and its relationship to
language
. the continuity/discontinuity of the language faculty with
nonhuman
communication systems.
dynamics of language evolution
. evolution of phonetic systems
. evolution of the lexicon
. evolution of grammar structures
Submission Instructions
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or short
papers (from 1 to 4 pages, max. 2000 words). Submitted papers will be
refereed and selected for oral presentation (25/30 min) on the basis of
quality and relevance to the Conference topics. Accepted abstracts and
papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings and will be made
accessible through the web. Copies of the proceedings will be available
at the Conference. Authors of accepted contributions will be asked to
submit full length papers for a volume to be published after the
Conference by an international publisher.
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically (MS
Word preferred, but most formats will be recognised). Please email your
submission to evolang@infres.enst.fr.
Don't forget to include the submission form (see below) in your message.
If you are planning to submit a paper or abstract, or if you simply plan
to attend the Conference, please send a mail to
evolang@infres.enst.fr
You will be kept informed through e-mail of further useful
information.
If you cannot send your submission through email, please send four copies
(and the submission form) to:
J-L Dessalles
ENST / Dep. InfRes
46 rue Barrault
F-75013 Paris - France
Submission Form
[The first author should fill in the submission form and e-mail it to
evolang@infres.enst.fr]
Last NAME :
First Name :
Laboratory :
Organization/Affiliation :
Street Address :
City :
Postal code:
State/Province :
Country :
E-mail address for correspondence :
Fax :
Paper title :
III.B.5.
Fr: Dimitris N. Christodoulakis <dxri@cti.gr>
Re: NLP 2000: CFPapers
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing
NLP 2000: Filling the gap between theory and practice
2, 3 & 4 June 2000, Samos Island - Greece
URL:
http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000
OBJECTIVES
We feel that this is the most opportune time for a critical view of the
achievements both in theory and in practice, and for developing bridges
in order to build emerging advanced systems and services that will
provide the breadth of information envisaged. The aim is to fill the gap
between theory and practice so that developments and needs in theory to
take advantage and give insights for new developments in technological
methods and applications, and visa-versa. The goal is to bring together
people that will attest to the progress of the field and disseminate it
to a wider audience.
The conference will provide a forum to bring together researchers from
the fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated
translation, information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest
in computational aspects of terminology processing: acquisition,
extraction, indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary
construction, etc. We also hope that researchers in all areas of NLP will
participate, to discuss ways in which their own work could contribute,
even if they are not currently working on these applications.
Specific themes of the conference include
Linguistic Models in NLP
Language Engineering Techniques and Applications
INVITED TALKS
Berwick Bob (MIT), USA
Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France
Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Center Europe), France
Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Université du Québec a Montréal), Canada
Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland
Morin Jean Yves (University of Montreal), Canada
Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA
Theologitis Dimitris (Commission of the European Union), Luxemburg
Wehrli Eric (University of Geneva), Switzerland
Wilks Yorik (University of Sheffield), England
Dimitris Christodoulakis (University of Patras), Greece
Program Committee Chairman
http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000 Language Technology Joint
Conference
Applied Natural Language Processing
and the
North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
General Conference Chair: Marie Meteer, BBN Technologies
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to
announce that the 2000 Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
conference and the first conference of the new North American Chapter of
the ACL (NAACL) will be held jointly 29 April to 3 May 2000 in Seattle,
Washington.
The joint conferences will offer a unique opportunity to bring industry
and researchers together to explore the full spectrum of computational
linguistics and natural language processing, from theory and methodology
to their application in commercial software.
For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished
contributions to computational linguistics are solicited. (See the
separate Call for Student Papers to be announced soon for requirements
for submissions to the student sessions.) Submissions are due by 17
November 1999. See submission details at
http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000.
The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language
processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and
standardization; tools, techniques, and resources contributing to the
development of complete end-to-end applications of NLP; evaluation of
system performance and related issues. In particular, submissions should
be directed to one of the following subject areas:
* Monolingual text processing systems
* Multilingual text processing systems
* Spoken language and multimodal systems
* Integrated NLP systems
* Tools and resources for developing NLP systems
* Evaluation of performance of complete NLP systems
The NAACL program committee invites papers on methodology, approaches,
algorithms, models, analyses and experiments in computational
linguistics. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main
areas:
* Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
* Semantics and the Lexicon
* Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology
* Generation and Summarization
* Spoken Language
* Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing
* Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction
* Multilingual Natural Language Processing
There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and
ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP,
authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the
methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a
particular problem.
A paper accepted for presentation at either meeting must not be or have
been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings.
A paper may not be submitted to both NAACL 2000 and ANLP 2000, but may be
submitted to other conferences provided that, if accepted, it is
withdrawn from all but one. Submission to other conferences should be
indicated on the paper.
Papers will not be exchanged between the two program committees. However,
in the final program, papers may be grouped or juxtaposed in related
sessions to highlight similarities and downplay artificial
distinctions.
We also appreciate that it can be advantageous to view the same work from
both a theoretical/methodological perspective and an applied perspective;
we welcome paired submissions to NAACL and ANLP, though each submission
needs to make a significant contribution on its own.
Please acknowledge the related submissions and include their abstracts
with your submission, though decisions will be made independently and
acceptance of one does not guarantee acceptance of the other.
Original papers that do not easily fall within one of the suggested areas
are also invited. The submission should be directed to the chair of the
respective program committee, with the topic area slot in the submission
template empty.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline October 28, 1999
Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline November 1, 1999
Paper Submissions Deadline November 17, 1999
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III.C.1.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Re: Briefing on Release of Report on Intellectual Property and the Net
THE DIGITAL DILEMMA: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE INFORMATION AGE
The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board will release this major
new report at a public briefing and symposium on Wednesday, November 3,
1999, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Georgetown facilities of the
National Research Council in Washington, DC.
Computer technology and networks confound intellectual property thinking,
which is evolving in a legal context that began with the Constitution.
Thanks to these technologies, more intellectual property is possible,
from more sources and in more places, than ever before; so, too, are more
approaches to controlling the supply and use of intellectual property.
How does it all add up for citizens, businesses, schools, libraries, and
government? What can we learn from today's MP3 craze in digital music
distribution? Does the new "information economy" make the legal
tradition of intellectual property obsolete?
The Digital Dilemma discusses the complex of technology, law, economics,
social science, and public policy that shapes digital intellectual
property, with an emphasis on copyright. Acknowledging and describing
profound differences in outlook among stakeholders, it illuminates the
major policy issues relating to intellectual property in the networked
environment, describes the principal differences in opinion on those
issues, distinguishes among the more and less tractable issues, and
offers recommendations. Specific issues examined include the implications
of digital intellectual property for fair use, private use, public access
and archiving, technical protection mechanisms, business models, and much
more.
The November 3 event is designed to stimulate discussion of intellectual
property issues associated with the networked environment. The issues,
the politics, and the policies will evolve over the next few years, and
the conversation must be seen as a continuing one. Beginning with a
presentation of the new report, The Digital Dilemma, it will expand into
a broader discussion of the issues. Additional details concerning the
agenda and logistics for this event will be forthcoming soon. In the
meantime, please save the date on your calendars. Information will be
posted on
<http://www.cstb.org/>.
Confirmation of your attendance and specific questions on meeting
logistics should be directed to Margaret Marsh at the CSTB
(mmarsh@nas.edu or 202-334-2605).
The Digital Dilemma is sponsored by the National Science
Foundation.
OVERVIEW OF THE NOVEMBER 3 PROGRAM
Public Briefing--The study chair (Professor Randall (Randy) Davis of
M.I.T.) and members of the committee will present the key findings and
recommendations of The Digital Dilemma and respond to questions from the
audience.
Symposium--
Panel 1: Protecting Digital Intellectual Property: What is the Role of
Technical Protection Mechanisms and Business Models?
Panel 2: Public Access and the Digital Dilemma: Ensuring the Collection,
Preservation and Access to the Social, Cultural, and Scientific Heritage
of the Nation
For each panel, committee members will provide a brief summary of the
relevant findings and conclusions from The Digital Dilemma. Invited
experts will discuss their reactions to these conclusions and
recommendations, which will lead to a general discussion that includes
questions from the audience.
COMMITTEE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND
THE EMERGING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
RANDALL DAVIS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair
SHELTON ALEXANDER, The Pennsylvania State University
JOEY ANUFF, Wired Ventures
HOWARD BESSER, University of California at Los Angeles
SCOTT BRADNER, Harvard University
JOAN FEIGENBAUM, AT&T Labs-Research
HENRY GLADNEY, IBM Almaden Research Center
KAREN HUNTER, Elsevier Science, Inc.
CLIFFORD LYNCH, Coalition for Networked Information
CHRISTOPHER MURRAY, O'Melveny & Myers LLC
ROGER NOLL, Stanford University
DAVID REED, Cable Television Laboratories Inc.
JAMES N. ROSSE, Freedom Communications Inc.
PAMELA SAMUELSON, University of California at Berkeley
STUART SHIEBER, Harvard University
BERNARD SORKIN, Time Warner Inc.
GARY E. STRONG, Queens Borough Public Library
JONATHAN TASINI, National Writers Union/UAW Local 1981
Staff
ALAN S. INOUYE, Program Officer
JERRY SHEEHAN, Senior Program Officer
MARJORY S. BLUMENTHAL, Executive Director
MARGARET MARSH, Project Assistant.
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Re: 1999 ECCAI AI Dissertation Award
Nominations are invited for the 1999 AI Dissertation Award sponsored by
ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.
This Award includes a certificate signed by the ECCAI Chair and 1.500
Euros (which include the travel grant for the Award ceremony). Eligible
doctoral dissertations are those defended after December 1, 1998 in the
general area of Artificial Intelligence. The dissertation must have been
defended at an European university and the author must be a personal
member of an ECCAI member society. Multiple submissions of the same
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* if the thesis was not written in English the nomination must include
an
English paper describing the core ideas of the thesis that has
been
submitted for publication in an international journal. The nominee
must be
the first author of this paper.
* nomination letters from two referees selected by the dissertation
supervisor, supporting the submission and stating their assessment
of why
the thesis should win the award.
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The deadline for receipt of
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ECAI 2000 conference in Berlin.
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