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IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
November 8, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 42
Issue 478

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 II. JOBS
     1. U. Sheffield, UK: RA: Information Studies
III. NOTICES
     B. Meetings
        1. IRSG 2000 (correction): CFPapers
        2. ECAI 2000 and PAIS 2000: CFPapers
        3. ANLP-NAACL2000: Submission Notification Form Now Available
        4. CLAW2000: 3rd CFPapers
        5. Evolution of Language 2000: Final CFPapers
        6. IASSIST 2000: Conference Announcement/CFPapers
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. ALA to Promote Democracy in Cyberspace
        2. NRC Report The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property
           and the Net
        3. jake-0.2.2

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II. JOBS

II.1.
Fr: Mark Sanderson <m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk> 
Re: U. Sheffield, UK: RA: Information Retrieval 

University of Sheffield Department of Information Studies
Information Retrieval Research Post

The Computational Information Systems Research Group is seeking a
researcher to
work on a three year demonstrator project CiQuest (Concept-based Interactive
Query Expansion Support Tool), which will encourage users of searching systems
to use more expansive queries. The project funded by the Library and
Information Commission will further develop an existing method based on the
automatic hierarchical organisation of words and phrases (concepts) which
occur
in documents. The work will involve optimising the generation and presentation
of concepts for assisting query expansion as well as conducting evaluations
and
user testing.

The successful candidate will have a higher degree in one or more of the
following areas: information retrieval or extraction, natural language
processing, human-computer interaction. Programming in Java would be
desirable.

The post, available immediately, will be on the RA1A scale with salary range
£18,185-£19,869 per annum.

Informal inquiry contact: Prof. Micheline Beaulieu (0114-22 22440 or
m.beaulieu@sheffield.ac.uk) or Dr. Mark Sanderson (0114-22 22648 or
m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk) or see the CiQuest project page 
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/ciquest/.

Closing date for applications: Monday 22nd November
Further particulars, quoting the reference number, from:
Director of Human Resource Management, 
The University of Sheffield, 
Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, 
Tel: 0114-22 21631 (24 hr)
Email: jobs@sheffield.ac.uk. 
Web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/

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III. NOTICES

III.B.1.
Fr: Ayse S Goker-Arslan <asga@scms.rgu.ac.uk> 
Re: IRSG 2000 (correction): CFPapers 

Due to an administrative error the year at the top of the announcement has
appeared as 1999 instead of 2000. Apologies for cross-posting and the error
above.

IRSG2000 
2nd Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research (BCS-IRSG, CEPIS) 
5-7 April, 2000 
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 
CALL FOR PAPERS 
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/colloq2000/cfp.html

Papers are due 10 December, 1999. 
For further details please see above mentioned Web page.

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III.B.2.
Fr: Joscha Bach <bach@informatik.hu-berlin.de> 
Re: ECAI 2000 and PAIS 2000: CFPapers 
 
Call for Papers
ECAI 2000
14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Berlin, Humboldt University
August 20-25, 2000

Organized by GI (German Informatics Society) and ECCAI (European 
Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) 
Hosted by Humboldt University Berlin

We invite you to celebrate ECAI 2000 in Berlin.

In the tradition of previous ECAIs the conference will bring together
researchers and developers from academy and industry in order to present the
state of the art in AI both in research and in applications. 

The technical program will have a scientific track (paper presentations,
invited talks, panel discussions), workshops, and tutorials. For the first
time
ECAI comprises the "Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems
(PAIS-2000)" sub-conference. The purpose of this event is to provide a forum
for industry practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of
selected intelligent systems techniques and share experience on the
applicability, development and deployment of intelligent systems in industry.
This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real application using
intelligent systems technology and the ideal place to meet with those working
to make successful applications. 

ECAI 2000 differs from previous ECAIs in that we plan a very special
conference. Among the programs thought to realize this purpose is an
exhibition
concept that reflects the AI's history and its gaining grounds in the 20th
century and its progress paths envisioned into the 21st century. Furthermore,
we plan to have a rather unusual sidetrack meant to attract layman such that
ECAI 2000 becomes an event in Berlin and not only one of diverse scientific
congresses hardly noticed by the public. In so far, we aim at presenting AI on
ECAI 2000 in a very broad scope in order to show its relation to other
classical and advanced IT-themes (e.g. databases, distributed computing,
robotics, operations research, artificial life, neuro sciences, virtual
reality, and multimedia).

You find further information on the web pages of ECAI 2000: 
www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de

ECAI 2000 CALL FOR PAPERS
The ECAI-2000 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the
Technical Programme of the 14th biennial European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI-2000).

IMPORTANT DATES
2 Feb 2000 Deadline for paper summaries 
4 Feb 2000 Deadline for papers 
28 Apr 2000 Notification of acceptance 
29 May 2000 Camera-ready copies of papers 
23-25 Aug 2000 Technical programme at ECAI-2000

Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished
research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited
to:
Abduction 
AI and Creativity 
Adaptive Systems 
Affective Computation 
Art and Music 
Automated Reasoning 
Autonomous Agents 
Bayesian Learning 
Belief Revision 
Case-Based Reasoning 
Causal Reasoning 
Cognitive Modelling 
Cognitive Robotics 
Conceptual Graphs 
Constraint Programming 
Constraint Satisfaction 
Constraint-Based Reasoning 
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 
Deduction 
Description Logics 
Diagnosis 
Distributed AI 
Genetic Algorithms 
Human Language Technology 
Inductive Logic Programming 
Information Retrieval and Presentation 
Intelligent User Interfaces 
Knowledge Acquisition 
Knowledge Representation 
Lifelike and Believable Characters 
Logic Programming 
Machine Learning 
Meta-Heuristics for AI 
Model-Based Reasoning 
Multi-Agent Systems 
Natural Language Processing 
Neural Networks 
Nonmonotonic Reasoning 
Ontologies 
Perception 
Philosophical Foundations 
Planning 
Probabilistic Networks 
Qualitative Reasoning 
Reactive Control 
Real-time Systems 
Reasoning about Actions and Change 
Reinforcement Learning 
Resource-Bounded Reasoning 
Reuse of Knowledge 
Robotics 
Scheduling 
Search 
Signal Understanding 
Spatial Reasoning 
Speech Processing 
Temporal Reasoning 
Text Mining 
Theorem Proving 
Uncertainty in AI 
User Modeling 
Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems 
Virtual and Augmented Reality 
Vision

Formatting guidelines
It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready
formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready
format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including
footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each
half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some
papers five camera- ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in
practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. Authors
submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Latex
style files to support formatting of submissions will be available. Final
versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the
formatting requirements specified in the ECAI-2000 Style Guide (not available
yet). Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings.

Submission procedure
Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary
of their paper by 2 February 2000. The strongly preferred submission method is
to use the web-based summary submission form. Submitted summaries will be
assigned a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper
submission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including
the title, authors, contact address and abstract for the paper (maximum 200
words), plus keywords drawn from the above list (plus other keywords if
appropriate) to the ECAI-2000 Programme Chair (by email or postal mail). The
summary information and the tracking number should also be included with the
paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. (Authors not able to use the web-
based submission form may omit the tracking number).

Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or electronic
submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each including the
summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the
ECAI-2000 Programme Chair, Werner Horn, at the address below. The deadline for
receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Papers received after this date will not
be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the
corresponding author soon after receipt.

ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION
Werner Horn, ECAI-2000 Programme Chair 
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) 
Schottengasse 3 
A-1010 Vienna 
Austria

Summary form: 
http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/summary.html (not available yet)

Multiple submissions policy
ECAI-2000 will not accept any paper that at the time of submission is under
review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a
journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their
papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions apply only to
journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialized meetings
with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that the
paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or
journal.

The review process
All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI-2000
Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI-2000 Programme
Committee
Chair. The ECAI-2000 Programme Committee Chair has final authority over the
review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review
criteria include originality of ideas, technical soundness, significance of
results, and quality of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection
of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 28 April
2000.

Conference proceedings
The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS Press. The
authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers,
conforming to the ECAI-2000 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the
proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 29 May 2000.
Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
conference to present the paper. ECAI-2000 is organised by the European
Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by HU
Berlin on behalf of Gesellschaft für Informatik. 

CALL FOR PAPERS
Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems
PAIS-2000

ECAI is pleased to announce its "Prestigious Applications of Intelligent
Systems (PAIS-2000)" sub-conference. The PAIS-2000 Programme Committee invites
authors to submit application papers.

This event, associated with ECAI-2000 is created to specifically highlight
significant successful applications of Intelligent Systems technology. The
purpose of the event is to provide a forum for industry practitioners to learn
about the power and applicability of selected IS techniques and share
experience on the applicability, development and deployment of intelligent
systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real
application using Intelligent Systems (IS) technology and the ideal place to
meet with those working to make successful IS based applications. 
The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems event will present papers
describing successful applications of intelligent systems. Papers are selected
to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the
benefits and lessons of value to other developers. Submitted papers should
make
these points clear. Papers should contain sections covering the following
information:

Descriptive Title and Abstract: These should convey clearly and simply what
the
application is and its operational status. Do use a title that makes it clear
to a reader what the application is. Don't use a clever, but obscure title. 

Problem description: This should describe the problem that the application
solves, stating the objectives of the application and explaining why an
Intelligent Systems (IS) solution was required. If other solutions were tried
and failed, briefly outline these solutions with reasons for failure. 

Application description: This should describe the solution to the problem,
with
technical details on design and implementation. It should describe any
methodological approach used, detail the key IS techniques used and if
appropriate show how they were integrated with conventional techniques. If
commercial tools were used they should be identified and reasons for their
selection given. 

Application building: This should describe the size and skill make-up of the
project team, how long is took to build and the costs involved. How it
was/will
be installed and introduced to the users, with details of any training
required. Describe any plans for maintenance, in particular how the knowledge
is expected to change over time, and any features to aid the updating of
knowledge, etc. 

Application benefits: Were potential benefits identified before building the
application and have these been realised or are likely to be realised? Has the
application been in use and, if so, how often has it been used and by how many
users? What further long term benefits are expected? What future plans have
been made for its enhancement and use? 

For PAIS-2000, a paper is acceptable even if it describes a system that has
not
yet been installed, PROVIDED the application is original AND the paper
discusses the aspects and issues that would help someone thinking of
implementing a similar system in their own organisation. It must concisely
describe and scope the problem tackled, saying why it is hard, and why IS
techniques are needed. It should also make clear the status of the system, and
should discuss such things as the project duration and effort, how the project
was justified and the expected benefits estimated, any problems encountered,
the performance of the final system and the reactions of users. 
The Review process is different and separate from the ECAI technical
conference. Papers will be evaluated by experienced application developers,
based on the above criterion. Accepted papers will be published in the ECAI
proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
2 Feb 2000 Deadline for PAIS paper summaries 
4 Feb 2000 Deadline for papers 
28 Apr 2000 Notification of acceptance 
29 May 2000 Camera-ready copies of papers 
23-25 Aug 2000 PAIS-2000

Formatting guidelines
It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready
formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready
format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including
footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each
half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some
papers five camera- ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in
practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. Authors
submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Latex
style files to support formatting of submissions will be available. Final
versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the
formatting requirements specified in the ECAI-2000 Style Guide. Each accepted
paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings.

Submission procedure
Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary
of their paper by 2 February 2000. The strongly preferred submission method is
to use the web-based PAIS summary submission form. Submitted summaries will be
assigned a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper
submission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including
the title, authors, contact address and abstract for the paper (maximum 200
words), plus a set if indicative keywords to the ECAI-2000 Programme Chair (by
email or postal mail). The summary information and the tracking number should
also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. (Authors
not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the tracking number).

Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or electronic
submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each including the
summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the
ECAI-2000 Programme Chair, Werner Horn, at the address below. 

The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Papers received after
this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be
mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt.

ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION
Werner Horn, PAIS-2000 
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) 
Schottengasse 3 
A-1010 Vienna 
Austria
Email: pais2000@ai.univie.ac.at
Tel: +43-1-4277-63114 
Fax: +43-1-4277-9631

The review process
All submissions will be subject to review by a team of experienced application
developers in the PAIS-2000 Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the
PAIS-2000 Programme Committee Chair, Rob Milne. The PAIS-2000 Programme
Committee Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions
relating to acceptance of papers. Notification of acceptance or rejection of
submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 28 April 2000.

Conference proceedings
Accepted PAIS-2000 papers will appear in a special section of the ECAI
conference proceedings and will be published and distributed by IOS Press. The
authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers,
conforming to the ECAI-2000 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the
proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 29 May 2000.
Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
conference to present the paper. 

PAIS-2000 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial 
Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Humboldt University on behalf of 
Gesellschaft für Informatik.

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III.B.3.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> 
Re: ANLP-NAACL2000: Submission Notification Form Now Available 

The ANLP-NAACL 2000 Submission Notification Form is now available on the
conference Web site: http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000. This form should be
filled out by November 10, one week before the paper submission deadline of
November 17.

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 
ANLP Program Committee Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, NMSU 
NAACL Program Committee Chair: Janyce Wiebe, NMSU

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Contents:
1. Overview 
2. ANLP Call for Papers 
3. NAACL Call for Papers 
4. Format for Submissions 
5. Deadlines

1. Overview
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
below.

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.

2. ANLP Call for Papers
ANLP Call for Papers 
Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference 
29 April to 3 May 2000 
Seattle, Washington 
Program Committee Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University

The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language
processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and
standardization; tools and resources contributing to the development of
complete 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. 
Area Chair: Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento Italy 
Systems devoted to information retrieval, text data mining, information
extraction, text summarization and related applications.

Multilingual Text Processing Systems. 
Area Chair: Richard Kittredge, University of Montreal, Canada 
Systems devoted to machine translation, human-aided machine translation,
machine-aided human translation, cross-lingual information retrieval,
multi-document multilingual information extraction and summarization, text
data
mining and related applications.

Spoken Language and Multimodal Systems. 
Area Chair: Susann Luperfoy, IET Inc. and Georgetown University, USA 
Text and dialog processing on telephony, workstation, and PDA platforms.

Integrated NLP Systems. 
Area Chair: Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information 
Sciences Institute, USA 
Combinations of multiple NLP applications; multimodal and multimedia systems;
adaptation and standardization of existing NLP systems, embedded 

NLP systems and integration of legacy systems.
Tools and Resources for Developing NLP Systems. 
Area Chair: Lynn Carlson, Department of Defense, USA 
Development and content of descriptive resources, such as grammars and
lexicons
of particular languages or sets of languages, ontologies, processed corpora
and
others; the acquisition and quick ramp-up tools for NLP systems; and
methodologies for development and knowledge acquisition for NLP systems and
environments and tools for training developers of NLP systems.

Evaluation of Performance of Complete NLP Systems. 
Area Chair: John White, Lytton/PRC, USA 
Methodologies, case studies and tools.

3. NAACL Call for Papers
NAACL Call for Papers 
1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for 
Computational Linguistics 
29 April to 3 May 2000 
Seattle, Washington 
Program Committee Chair: Janyce Wiebe, New Mexico State University
For the general sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, and
unpublished research contributions on all aspects of computational linguistics
methodology, enabling technologies, approaches, algorithms, models, analyses,
and experiments. See the separate Call for Student Papers (to be announced)
for
requirements for submissions to the student sessions. Program subcommittees
will be organized around eight main areas, as follows.

Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics. 
Area Chair: Diane Litman, AT&T Research. 
Empirical and knowledge-based approaches to discourse and dialogue; Dialogue
management in spoken dialogue systems; Discourse segmentation; Anaphora
resolution; Discourse parsing; Narrative understanding; Design, evaluation,
and
use of discourse annotation schemes; Topic detection and tracking; Intentional
and relational discourse analysis; Robust discourse processing; Methods for
evaluating dialogue/discourse systems and their components; Integration with
other levels of linguistic processing.

Semantics and the Lexicon. 
Area Chair: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto. 
Semantic formalisms; Ontologies; Word-sense disambiguation; Event recognition
and categorization; Logics for natural language; Extracting information from
on-line dictionaries; Refining sense inventories; Computational lexicography;
Lexical resource development.

Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology. 
Area Chair: Michael Collins, AT&T Research. 
Grammar formalisms; Theoretical and empirical studies of parsing algorithms;
Finite-state methods; Representation of syntactic, morphological, and
phonological aspects of the lexicon; Robust and shallow parsing; Syntax
annotation schemes; Grammar induction; Formal properties of symbolic and
weighted/stochastic grammars.

Generation and Summarization. 
Area Chair: Nancy Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 
Strategic generation for text and dialogue (text planning, argumentation
strategies, etc.); Tactical generation (sentence aggregation, lexical choice,
etc.); Multimodal and multimedia generation; Knowledge acquisition and
resources for generation and summarization; User-customized generation and
summarization; Evaluation methodologies for generation and summarization;
Application of generation, information extraction, and information retrieval
techniques to summarization.

Spoken Language. 
Area Chair: Andreas Stolcke, SRI International. 
Language modeling; Prosody; Speech annotation; Speech synthesis; Modeling of
spontaneous speech phenomena (disfluencies, discourse markers, etc.);
Comparative analyses of spoken and written language; Robust NLP for speech
recognition output; Higher-level knowledge sources (e.g., dialogue) for speech
recognition; Automatic segmentation of speech into sentences, topics,
discourse
units, etc.; Integration of speech with other modalities such as text and
gesture; Methods for speech-to-speech translation.

Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing. 
Area Chair: Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba. 
Annotation, including automatic and semi-automatic methods, mapping between
schemes, analyzing and improving agreement, minimizing costs; Induction of
patterns and structures such as selectional frames and concept hierarchies;
Extraction of terms and collocations; Text mining and knowledge discovery from
text; Distributional similarity; Learning applied to NLP, including
bootstrapping, smoothing, and multi-strategy learning.

Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction. 
Area Chair: Philip Resnik, University of Maryland. 
Computational psycholinguistics; Models of human sentence processing, language
understanding, language generation, and language acquisition; Use of natural
language in human-computer interaction; Evaluation of interfaces that use
natural language (including multimodal and multimedia interfaces), by field
studies, laboratory experimentation, or analytical methods.

Multilingual Natural Language Processing. 
Area Chair: Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute. 
Methods addressing the research challenges of multilingual environments,
including cross-language divergences, producing fluent text, and dealing with
non-literal translation equivalents; Methods for machine translation (direct,
transfer, example-based, knowledge-based, interlingual, statistical, etc.);
Design of interlinguas; Multilingual lexicons; Lexical acquisition for machine
translation and cross-language information retrieval; Machine-assisted
translation; Multilingual generation; Alignment of multilingual texts; Methods
for exploiting parallel or comparable corpora for natural language processing
tasks. 

Authors will be asked to identify the area or areas to which their submission
corresponds. Relevant papers not fitting precisely into any of these areas are
also welcome. All papers will be reviewed by at least three experts.

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.

4. Format for Submissions
Submissions must use the ACL latex style aclsub.sty or Microsoft Word style
ACL-submission.doc (both available from the conference web page) and may be no
more than 3,200 words in total length, exclusive of title page and references.
If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly, a description of the
required format will be available on the conference web page. If you cannot
access the conference web page, send email to anlp-naacl2000@bbn.com with
subject SUBSTYLE.

Reviewing will be blind. Thus, separate identification and title pages are
required.

The identification page should include the following. It should be sent in a
separate e-mail message from the body of the paper itself.
* Title 
* Paper ID Code: see below 
* Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses 
* Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission 
* Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area 
* Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP) 
* Word Count, excluding title page and references 
* Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list 
* Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary

The title page should include:
* Title 
* Paper ID Code: see below 
* Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission 
* Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area 
* Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP) 
* Word Count, excluding title page and references 
* Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list 
* Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary

Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted from the paper itself.
Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... ") should be avoided. Instead, use
citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)....".

Papers that do not conform to these requirements are subject to being rejected
without review.

SUBMISSION QUESTIONS
NAACL submission questions should be sent to: 
naacl2000-program@nmsu.edu
Program Chair, NAACL 2000 
Computing Research Laboratory 
BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL 
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
ANLP submission questions should be sent to: 
anlp2000-program@nmsu.edu
Program Chair, ANLP 2000 
Computing Research Laboratory 
BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL 
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

The calls for papers, style files, and information about tutorials, workshops,
and the student session will be available on the conference web site. The
conference web site will be reachable from the ACL Home Page,
www.aclweb.org, in
the near future.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
1) Submission notification: You must submit a notification of submission by
filling out a form on the conference web page at least one week before the
submission deadline. This will return to you an email with an ID number that
should be included on the identification page, the title page and the
header of
every page of the paper. Also, please use it on all correspondence with the
program committee chair. The form will be available on the web after
October 1.

2) Electronic submission: send the postscript or MS Word form of your
submission to: naacl2000-program@nmsu.edu or anlp2000-program@nmsu.edu

The Subject line should contain conference.submission_id.format, e.g.,
"naacl.100.ps" or "anlp.100.pdf" or "naacl.100.doc".

Please submit the identification page in a separate email.
Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be
e-mailed
to the first author shortly after receipt.

In extreme cases, an author unable to comply with the above submission
procedure should contact the program chair sufficiently before the submission
deadline so alternative arrangements can be made.

5. Deadlines
Submission notification deadline: 10-Nov-99 
Paper submission deadline: 17-Nov-99 
Notification of acceptance for papers: 01-Feb-00 
Camera ready papers due: 12-Mar-00 
Regular sessions begin: 01-May-00 
A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final
version.

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III.B.4.
Fr: Jeff Allen <jeff@elda.fr> 
Re: CLAW2000: 3rd CFPapers 

CLAW 2000: 
3rd International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
29-30 April 2000

CLAW2000 is a 2-day pre-conference Workshop in conjunction with the joint
meeting of the ANLP (Applied Natural Language Processing) / NACLA (North
American Computational Linguistics Association) conferences.

The submission deadline for demo proposals and for the full version of
papers/posters/panel sessions to present at CLAW2000 is 30 November 1999. All
updated relevant information can be found at: 

http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000

For information on the past two CLAWs see: 
CLAW96 http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/CLAW/programme.html 
CLAW98 http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/CLAW98/

For more information on Controlled Languages in general, see: 
http://salto.let.uu.nl/www/Controlled-languages/HOME.html

Best,
Jeff Allen

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III.B.5.
Fr: evolang@inf.enst.fr 
Re: Evolution of Language 2000: Final CFPapers 

Final Call for Papers [deadline: November 15, 1999]
THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
Paris April 3-6, 2000
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
Paris - France
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/cfp.html

Submission Instructions 
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or short papers
(from 1 to 4 pages, max. 2000 words). 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
Please include the submission form (see web site) in your message.

Conference web site: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ 
Call for papers: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/cfp.html 
EMAIL: evolang@infres.enst.fr

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III.B.6.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org> 
Re: IASSIST 2000: Conference Announcement/CFPapers 

Call for Papers
IASSIST 2000
Data in the Digital Library:
social, spatial, and government data services

The International Association for Social Science Information Services and
Technology (IASSIST) invites submissions for paper presentations, panel
discussions, poster/demonstration sessions, and workshops for its 26th annual
conference to be held in the Chicago metropolitan area at Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois on June 7-10, 2000.

IASSIST conferences bring together data professionals, data producers, and
data
analysts from around the world who are engaged in the creation, acquisition,
processing, maintenance, distribution, preservation, and use of numeric social
science data for research and instruction.

CONFERENCE THEMES
Over the last four decades, data archives and data libraries have managed,
preserved, and provided access to "digital collections" of numeric data. We
are
at a historic crossroad in the development of standards, technological
capability, and innovation in data delivery. This year's theme emphasizes this
rich past and looks at innovation in data services operations and current
digital library and archive initiatives that will shape access and services in
the 21st century. The conference is an opportunity to explore service models
for data, government information, and mapping.

Invited plenary speakers include Kenneth Prewitt, director, U.S. Bureau of the
Census; William Kruskal, emeritus professor of statistics, University of
Chicago; and a plenary panel organized by Diane Garner, Librarian for the
Social Sciences, Harvard University.

Proposals for papers and poster/demonstration sessions in the following areas
are particularly welcome:
Innovative Services and the Effective Use of Technology 
Administering and providing data services in an academic library 
Innovations in data delivery and access methods 
Implications of Web-based data distribution and access models 
Integrating GIS and spatial data in the digital library 
Bringing numeric and spatial data into the classroom 
Expanding and preserving multi-media resources 
Developing support services for qualitative analysis 
Promoting statistical literacy 
Data warehousing
Promoting Preservation and Standards 
Preserving our (numeric) digital heritage 
Archival challenges of the digital government 
Promoting metadata and documentation standards for data 
Exploring XML, RDF, GILS, FGDC, and Dublin Core applications for data 
Data quality and authentication

PROPOSALS DUE BY DECEMBER 24, 1999
The deadline for paper and poster/demonstration proposals is December 24,
1999.
The Conference Program Committee will send notifications of the acceptance of
proposals by February 1, 2000. Please send submissions, including proposed
title and abstract, to: ia2000@src.uchicago.edu

INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
The IASSIST International Outreach Action Group provides support for data
professionals from developing economies to attend the annual IASSIST
conference. Full application information is available from the conference web
site.

CONFERENCE DETAILS
Three days of plenaries, concurrent sessions, poster/demonstration sessions,
and social events on June 7-9, 2000 will be followed by a full day of
workshops
on Saturday, June 10, 2000. The conference will be held at Northwestern
University in Evanston. Located north of Chicago along the shores of Lake
Michigan, Northwestern is one of the Midwest's most beautiful campuses.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Visit the IASSIST website at http://datalib.library.ualberta.ca/iassist/
For the most current information check the IASSIST 2000 conference website at:
http://www.src.uchicago.edu/DATALIB/ia2000 
or contact:
Fay Booker, Data Librarian 
Social Science Research Computing, University of Chicago 
booke@src.uchicago.edu 
(773) 834-0150/FAX (773) 702-2101

Diane Geraci, Data Services Librarian 
University Libraries, Binghamton University 
dgeraci@binghamton.edu 
(607) 777-2181/FAX (607) 777-4848

Ann Janda, Data Consultant 
University Library, Northwestern University 
a-janda@nwu.edu 
(847) 491-4090/FAX (847)491-8306

IMPORTANT DATES
December 24, 1999 Deadline for conference proposals 
February 1, 2000 Notification of proposal acceptance 
May 8, 2000 Registration deadline 
June 7-10, 2000 IASSIST 2000

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III.C.1.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org> 
Re: ALA to Promote Democracy in Cyberspace 

Note: The following is a November 3 press release from the ALA 
Public Information Office. For more information contact OITP 
Director Rick Weingarten at 202-628-8421 or rww@alawash.org.

CHICAGO -- The American Library Association (ALA) will launch a project to
promote democracy in cyberspace with support from the Markle Foundation as
part
of a $1 million initiative to educate and involve the general public in
Internet governance issues. "The American Library Association welcomes this
investment by the Markle Foundation. Public libraries -- the most
democratic of
institutions -- are the perfect venue for discussion, participation and
education about the issues of Internet democracy," said ALA President Sarah
Ann
Long. "This grant places libraries and librarians at the heart of the key
information age issues -- right where we belong."

The outreach project was announced November 2 at a meeting of the board of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), established last
year by the U.S. Department of Commerce as a private, self-governing
institution to manage the addressing scheme that directs messages that flow
through the Internet.

The first phase of the project will be in connection with the upcoming
elections for at-large board members of ICANN. The election will be the first
global public vote that directly affects the emerging "government" of
cyberspace. Other participating organizations include the Carter Center,
Common
Cause, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the Berkman 
Center for Internet and Society.

As part of the outreach project, "Cybercitizens" (Internet users) will be
encouraged to go to libraries to learn about ICANN, register as members and
vote in the board elections at the library. ALA will create a Web site and
work
to involve public libraries in educating the public about democracy and
governance in cyberspace. The ALA Office for Information Technology Policy
(OITP), based at its Washington, D.C. office, will administer the project. For
more information, contact OITP Director Rick Weingarten, at 202-628-8421 or
rww@alawash.org.

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III.C.2.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org> 
Re: NRC Report The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property and the Net 

The National Research Council committee on Intellectual Property in the
Emerging Information Infrastructure (on which I served) held a well-attended
public briefing this week and released prepublication copies of their report,
The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property and the Emerging Information
Infrastructure.

The printed book will come out from the National Academy Press around the end
of the year. You can find materials from the briefing and a summary of the
report at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board web site,
<http://www.cstb.org/>, or at <http://www.nas.edu/>. I am told that the full
text of the report will be online within a week or so.

I'd urge you to have a look at these materials; I think that there's a great
deal of valuable and useful material in the report.

Clifford

Clifford Lynch 
Executive Director 
Coalition for Networked Information

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III.C.3.
Fr: Daniel Chudnov <daniel.chudnov@yale.edu>
Re: jake-0.2.2 

We've made a number of improvements to the jake (formerly gnujake, see below
for explanation) project. Please take it for a spin and tell us what you
think!

jake-0.2.2 is now available for searching and download at:
http://jake.med.yale.edu/

New or improved features include:
* several fulltext dbs added (Adam)

* gj.xsl and details.xsl updated to include links to fulltext issue lists when
possible and show coverage dates more cleanly (Dan)

* all table and fields renamed to conform with Some_Table_Name and
some_field_name naming scheme (Adam)

* project renamed to jake (was gnujake): the GNU folks like the project but
believe it is something outside of GNU scope. note that this 43% reduction in
acronym letters results in a 67% decrease in syllabic pronouncement
requirements.

These changes should result in better looking, more complete searches and
easier access to some fulltext resources. Even though we are still in the
early
stages of this project and have much work yet to do, hopefully you will agree
that jake is already a quite useful reference resource.

We are working to add as many title lists and rulesets for url construction as
possible. For resource providers whose products are not yet included in jake,
please consider the Call For Participation:
http://jake.med.yale.edu/cfp.html

About jake
jake supports the management of and linking between online resources and
descriptions thereof. jake consists of a database containing information about
e-resources (including online journals, databases, search interfaces, and
textbooks) and how they relate to each other. These relationships include a
functional but minimal amount of title authority control, listing of indexing
and fulltext coverage, and resource evolution. jake is free for anyone to use,
modify, copy, or redistribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
License
(GPL). For more information, including technical details, download
information,
and instructions for joining the mailing lists, please
see:http://jake.med.yale.edu/about.html

Regards,
-Dan
Daniel Chudnov 
Systems Architect 
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library 
Yale University School of Medicine 
(203) 785-4347

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