IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.48, Issue 484

[Nancy Gusack Crawford <nancy.gusack@ucop.edu>]

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
December 20, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 48
Issue 484
           This is the last issue of 1999. See you in 2000!
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  I. QUERIES
        1. Languages for Information Retrieval
III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. JSASL: CFPapers
        2. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] December 17, 1999
     B. Meetings
        1. IEEE Vis 2000: CFParticipation
        2. ANLP/NAACL 2000 Workshop: CFPapers
        3. ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000: 2nd CFPapers
        4. CoopIS'2000: 2nd CFPapers
        5. ASIS 2000: CFParticipation
        6. ACL 2000: Preliminary CFPapers
        7. 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies:
           CFParticipation
        8. Workshop on Information Extraction meets
           Corpus Linguistics at LREC 2000
        9. TAG+5: 2nd CFPapers
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. Free ESL Conversion Software

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I. QUERIES

I.1.
Fr: Maria Salet F. Novellino <salet@nitnet.com.br> 
Re: Languages for Information Retrieval 
 
I'm doing a PhD in information science and my thesis is about language for
information access. I'm studying about the possibility of building a language
based not in the subjects of a domain but on the activities developed inside
the domain and their different discourses. 

I'd like to exchange impressions and oppinions with colleagues interested in
the subject. 

Thanks, 
Salet

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: Paul Haschak <phaschak@selu.edu> 
Re: JSASL: CFPapers 

Hello,

The current issue of The Journal of Southern Academic and Special
Librarianship
(JSASL) is now available on the web at:

http://www.icaap.org/SouthernLibrarianship/

JSASL is an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal
dedicated to
advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special
librarianship. It is published three times a year--in February, June, and
October--and is distibuted by the International Consortium for Alternative
Academic Publication (ICAAP), in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada.

ICAAP is "dedicated to the development of an international alternative
scholarly communication system outside of the commercial mainstream." ICAAP
promotes "a model of high quality scholarly communication free from the heavy
costs of printing, distribution, and administration associated with the
publication of print and commercial journals."

With the cost of journals skyrocketing, we have to ask ourselves, why should
librarians keep paying increasing subscription prices for the research we
do on
our own campuses? JSASL is, and always will be, free to the individual.

Strongly consider publishing your research in our scholarly alternative to
costly commercial publications. JSASL continually accepts journal article
manuscripts for publication consideration. The guidelines are posted at our
web
site.  

Just in case you were wondering about the "Southern" in our name, it reflects
our geographic roots in the Southern United States. While our roots are in the
South, our focus and our interests are global in nature. Thus, we are
committed
to covering all aspects of academic and special librarianship without
regard to
region--or country.  

We are looking for a few good manuscripts.  You don’t have to be from the
South
to submit an article for consideration; and the article doesn’t have to be
about the South. Think global! We look forward to seeing your manuscript!

Sincerely, Paul Haschak, Co-Founder, Executive Editor, and Publisher of The
Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship.

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III.A.2.
Fr: EDUCAUSE <EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU> 
Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] December 17, 1999

EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education through Information Technologies 

http://www.educause.edu

IN THIS ISSUE:

COMMERCE HOSTS SUMMIT ON DIGITAL DIVIDE; PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES NEW INITIATIVES
"THE TWELVE DAYS OF BROADBAND"

WHITE HOUSE DELAYS RELEASE OF ENCRYPTION PLAN
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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
listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname" in
the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update" command to
the
same address. If you would like more information about the Update or would
like
to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at
gsern@educause.edu.

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III.B.1.
Fr: vis2000@gris.uni-tuebingen.de (IEEE Visualization 2000) 
Re: IEEE Vis 2000: CFParticipation 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
IEEE Visualization 2000
October 8 - October 13, 2000
Doubletree Hotel
Salt Lake City, Utah
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Visualization and Graphics
In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH

Visualization is a vital research and applications frontier shared by a
variety
of science, medical, engineering, business, and entertainment fields. IEEE
Visualization 2000 focuses on interdisciplinary methods and collaboration
among
developers and users of visualization methods across all of science,
engineering, medicine, and commerce. Sunday through Tuesday of Conference Week
will include tutorials, symposia, and mini-workshops. Papers, panels, case
studies, and works in progress will be presented Wednesday through Friday. We
invite you to participate in IEEE Visualization 2000 by submitting your
original research through papers, panels, case studies, work in progress, and
demonstrations. Share your perspectives through panels and workshops, or your
experience through tutorials. Please select the forum appropriate to your
submission, where it will be considered by your peers for presentation.
Particular focus on volume visualization and information visualization are
addressed in special two-day symposia. For further information on the
conference or symposia contact: 
Charles Hansen, Conference Co-Chair, University of Utah 
+1 801.581.3154 Fax: +1 801.581.5843 hansen@cs.utah.edu 
Chris Johnson, Conference Co-Chair, University of Utah 
+1 801.581.7705 Fax: +1 801.585.6513 crj@cs.utah.edu 
Steve Bryson, Conference Co-Chair, NASA Ames Research Center 
+1 650.604.4524 Fax: +1 650.604.3957 bryson@nas.nasa.gov

See the conference web page for complete up-to-date information at 
http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/vis2000

Conference Papers (due March 31, 2000) 
Papers are solicited that present research results related to all areas of
visualization. Original papers are limited to 5,000 words. The submission of
NTSC VHS video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is strongly
recommended. This year we will begin accepting electronic submissions of
papers. If you choose to submit electronically, please submit in the PDF or
postscript format. If you chose to submit hardcopy, please submit 7 hardcopies
of all materials. Regardless of whether you submit your paper
electronically or
in the hardcopy format, a complete paper submission form including the
abstract
must be sent through the conference website for each submission. Details for
electronic submission are available at
http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/vis2000/. 

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings; the videos
will
be included in the conference video proceedings.

Hard copy paper submissions should be sent to:
Vis2000, 
Center for Scientific Computing and Imaging, 
University of Utah, 
50 S. Central Campus Dr.,Room 3440 MEB 
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 
+1 801-581-3154

Panel Proposals (due March 31, 2000)
Panels should address the most important issues in visualization today.
Panelists should be experts in their fields who can discuss the challenges of
visualization, and engage the audience and fellow panel members in a
stimulating, interactive debate. Panel proposals should describe the topic to
be addressed and identify the prospective panelists. Each panelist should
include a position statement on the topic and a short biography, the total of
which should be limited to 500 words. The statements will be included in the
conference proceedings. 

Panel proposals should be sent to Jamie Painter - jamie@acl.lanl.gov

Case Study Papers (due March 31, 2000)
Case studies are reports on how visualization has contributed to the analysis
of data in actual applications or studies of the visualization process. A
short
paper limited to 2500 words (maximum 4 pages B/W plus 1 page color) will be
included in the conference proceedings. Images and/or NTSC VHS video to
accompany the paper are recommended; the video will be included in the
conference video proceedings. This year we are encouraging electronic
submissions.

For more detailed information concerning submission, see the web site, or
contact Robert van Liere - robertl@cwi.nl

Work in Progress (due June 15, 2000)
Submissions are solicited for Works In Progress sessions that pertain to all
areas of Visualization. These submissions must be original abstracts, must
describe work in progress by the authors and their collaborators, and may not
exceed 500 words or a maximum of 1 page. Images and/or NTSC VHS video to
accompany the abstract are recommended. Authors of accepted abstracts will
have
an opportunity to submit a revised and extended abstract, as well as
presenting
the work at the conference. These extended abstracts may not exceed 1000 words
or a maximum of 2 pages including images. All accepted abstracts will be
distributed at the conference but not published in the conference proceedings.
Videos associated with accepted abstracts may be included in the conference
video proceedings. All submissions will be done electronically. Submission
details can be found at the conference web site. 

For further information, contact Sam Uselton - uselton1@llnl.gov

Tutorial Proposals (due March 31, 2000)
Half-day and full-day course proposals are invited for visualization systems,
methods, and application areas. Tutorials will be offered Sunday, Monday, and
Tuesday.

For more detailed information concerning submission and format content, see
the
web site, or 
Contact Penny Rheingans - rheingan@cs.umbc.edu

Mini-Workshop and Birds-of-a-Feather Proposals (due March 31, 2000)
Proposals may be submitted for Mini-Workshops and evening Birds-Of-A-Feather
(BOF) gatherings on visualization methods or application areas. They should
deal with state-of-the-art topics and involve experts in the field.
Discipline-focused proposals devoted to a particular discipline's methods and
needs are encouraged.

Mini-Workshop and Birds-of-a-Feather Proposals should be sent to 
Rob Erbacher - erbacher@cs.albany.edu

Demonstration Proposals
Visualization 2000 is a unique opportunity to present your products or
research
to visualization experts from a wide variety of fields. We invite
demonstrations of commercial hardware, software, integrated systems
peripherals, and literature, as well as academic research. We encourage
demonstrators to have technical representatives in attendance.

For more information on participating in Visualization 2000 demonstrations,
contact Eric Greenwade - leg@inel.gov

Creative Applications Lab
The Creative Applications Lab (CAL) is designed to let presenters interact
with
conference attendees on an individual basis. The CAL will have a variety of
computers on which the contributors can install their materials for attendees'
experimentation and enjoyment. The CAL will be open in conjunction with the
demonstrations at Visualization 2000. 

For details on participating in the CAL see the web site or contact 
Russell Taylor - taylor@cs.unc.edu 

IEEE/SIGGRAPH 2000 Symposium on Volume Visualization (VolVis 2000) (submission
deadline March 31, 2000)

Papers in all areas of volume visualization and volume graphics are solicited
for the 2000 Volume Visualization Symposium.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/volviz/volviz00.html

IEEE 2000 Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2000) (submission
deadline March 31, 2000)

Papers, panels and case studies concentrating on issues specific to abstract
information visualization. 
http://www.infovis.org/infovis2000

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III.B.2.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> 
Re: ANLP/NAACL 2000 Workshop: CFPapers 

Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in Natural Language Processing Systems

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION 
The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the development of
robust natural language processing systems. A common methodology used in
building these systems has been to analyze a sample of the data available
(either manually, or automatically for training statistical systems), build
statistical/heuristical schemas based upon the analysis, and test the
system on
a blind sample of the data. Due to this commonly used paradigm, an important
area of research that has not been given the attention it deserves is the
estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity faced by these systems in the
tasks they perform.

At the AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Question Answering Systems, the problem of
semantic complexity, a topic of a 90 minutes panel, motivated a lot of
interest
and discussion. To continue the investigation of this important issue, in this
workshop, we will address the question of complexity as it pertains to the
syntax and semantics of natural language. In particular, the workshop will
seek
to address the following areas:
1) How can we model syntactic and semantic complexity for formal models of
natural language? 
2) How does complexity impact acquisition of semantic and conceptual
information? 
3) How does syntactic and semantic complexity impact document
classification in
information and text retrieval tasks? 
4) How do statistical clustering approaches compare to knowledge-based
approaches at partitioning and quantifying the semantic space in a document
set? 
5) Concerning NLP systems that are deployed in the field, how can we quantify
the information extraction task and QA task in ways similar to what is
currently done with IR tasks and algorithms? 
6) How does the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity impact the
evaluation of such systems? 
7) Can syntactic and semantic complexity coupled with a history of the past
performance of a system be used to predict future performance of the system on
a different data set?

The workshop invites short papers, full-length papers, proposals for panel
discussions, and position statements that deal with any aspect of syntactic
and/or semantic complexity of NLP systems. In particular, the workshop is
interested in addressing the following topics: 
- estimation of the syntactic and semantic complexity of specific NLP tasks 
- semantic complexity and world knowledge 
- role of syntactic and semantic complexity in system design and testing 
- syntactic and semantic complexity and its role in the evaluation of NLP
systems 
- use of syntactic and semantic complexity as a performance predictor 
- relationship between syntactic and semantic complexity

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
Paper submissions should consist of either a short paper (2000 words or less,
including references), a position statement (2000 words or less, including
references), or a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Each
submission should include a separate title page providing the following
information: the title, the type of paper (short/position/full), the word
count, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full
address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone,
fax, and email. Proposals for panels should consist of a short (upto 500
words)
description of the proposed panel along with the names of the proposed
panelists.

Papers and proposals for panel discussions may be submitted by submitting
three
hard copies or one soft copy (ASCII, or PS) to:

Amit Bagga 
General Electric CRD 
Room K1-5C38B 
1 Research Circle 
Niskayuna, NY 12309. USA 
phone: 1-518-387-7077 
email: bagga@crd.ge.com

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline:             February 7 
Notification of acceptance of panels : February 21 
Notification of acceptance of papers : February 28 
Camera ready papers due:               March 13

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 
Co-Chairs: 
Amit Bagga 
General Electric Corporate Research and Development 
P.O. Box 8 
Schenectady, NY 12301 
bagga@crd.ge.com 
518-387-7077 (voice) 
518-387-6845 (fax)
James Pustejovsky 
Computer Science Department and Volen Center for Complex Systems 
Brandeis University 
Waltham, MA 02254-9110 
jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu 
781-736-2709 (voice) 
781-736-2741 (fax)
Wlodek Zadrozny 
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 
30 Saw Mill River Road 
Hawthorne, NY 10532 
wlodz@us.ibm.com 
914-784-7835 (voice) 
914-784-7455 (fax)

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III.B.3.
Fr: Markus Hannebauer <hannebau@first.gmd.de> 
Re: ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000: 2nd CFPapers 

ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000
14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems
Berlin, Humboldt University
August 20-25, 2000

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

In this special turn of the century 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.

Since the year 2000 is a special year, we will make ECAI 2000 a very special
conference. Among the programs thought to realize this purpose is an
exhibition
concept that reflects AI's history, 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-topics (e. g. databases, distributed computing, robotics,
operations research, artificial life, neuro sciences, virtual reality, and
multimedia).

For the first time, ECAI comprises the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent
Systems sub-conference (PAIS 2000). 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
application, development and deployment of intelligent systems in industry.
This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real applications using
intelligent systems technology and the ideal place to meet with those working
to make successful applications.

On behalf of the conference officials
Kurt Sundermeyer 
DaimlerChrysler AG 
Local Chair ECAI 2000
"At the change of ages we will make ECAI 2000 in Berlin a special conference"

FURTHER GENERAL INFORMATION
http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de

ECAI 2000 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 
The ECAI 2000 Program Committee invites submission of papers for the technical
program 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 program 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.) Over-length submissions will be rejected without re- view. 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 Program 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 Program Chair 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 Program Chair 
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) 
Schottengasse 3 
A-1010 Vienna 
Austria
Email: ecai2000@ai.univie.ac.at 
Tel: +43-1-4277-63114 
Fax: +43-1-4277-9631

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.

REVIEW PROCEDURE
All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI 2000
Program Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI 2000 Program Chair. The
ECAI 2000 Program Chair has final authority over the review process and all
decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review criteria include
originality
of ideas, technical soudness, 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
Humboldt University Berlin on behalf of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).

PAIS 2000 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 

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

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

This event, associated with ECAI 2000 is created to specifically highlight
significant successful applications of Intelligent Systems (IS) 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 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 or an 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 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 which 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 procedure 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.

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 re- view. 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 sub-
mission. 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 of indicative keywords to the ECAI 2000 Program 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 Program Chair 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

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

REVIEW PROCEDURE
All submissions will be subject to review by a team of experienced application
developers in the PAIS 2000 Program Committee under the chairmanship of the
PAIS 2000 Program Chair, Rob Milne. The PAIS 2000 Program 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
Humboldt University on behalf of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).

ECAI 2000 Publicity Office 
c/o Markus Hannebauer eMail: hannebau@first.gmd.de 
GMD FIRST phone: +49-30-6392 1866  
Kekulestr. 7 fax: +49-30-6392 1805 
12489 Berlin  
GERMANY  

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III.B.4.
Fr: David Carmel <carmel@il.ibm.com> 
Re: CoopIS'2000: 2nd CFPapers 

Call for Papers - CoopIS'2000
Fifth IFCIS International Conference on
Cooperative Information Systems
In Cooperation with VLDB'2000
Neptune Hotel
Eilat, Israel, September 6-8, 2000
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/coopis2000.html

What is CoopIS ?
CoopIS is the leading conference for system cooperation. Cooperation among
systems has gained substantial importance in recent years: electronic
commerce,
virtual enterprises, and the middleware paradigm are just some examples of
this
area. Several levels of cooperation are present:
* The subject matter is the foundation and implementation of cooperation among
systems. 
* The CoopIS area is a meeting of disciplines that provide concepts and
techniques. The relevant disciplines are: collaborative work, distributed
databases, distributed computing, electronic commerce, human-computer
interaction, multi-agent systems, information retrieval, and workflow
systems. 
* The CoopIS series provides a forum for well-known researchers, that are
drawn
from the stature and the tradition of these conference series, and has a
leading role in shaping the future of the cooperative information systems
area.
Opportunities for informal meetings between the conference delegates will be
enhanced with a series of social events, including pre-conference exploration
of Eilat, in-conference tour of the surrounding desert, and post-conference
excursion that will enable easy connection for those continuing to
VLDB'2000 in
Cairo.

CoopIS'2000 is the seventh conference in the series and the fifth conference
organized by the International Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems
(IFCIS). It is sponsored by the International Foundation in Cooperative
Information Systems (IFCIS), and the IBM Research 
Laboratory in Haifa (other sponsors pending). It replaces the erstwhile
international workshops on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems 
(IMS) and the conference series on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 
& ICICIS).

The conference will be held in Eilat, A resort town and bustling port,
combining sea and desert, Eilat lies at Israel's southernmost tip. Sixty
minutes by plane from Tel-Aviv, Eilat is situated between the wondrous scenery
of the deep azure Red Sea and the multitude Edom Mountains and is a paradise
for sea-sports fans.

Important dates:
Submission Intention Notice Deadline March 13, 2000 
Paper Submission Deadline            March 27, 2000 
Acceptance Notification              May 29, 2000 
Final Version Due                    June 26, 2000 
Early registration deadline          July 31, 2000 
The Conference                       September 6-8, 2000

Who should submit papers ?
Papers are solicited in two categories: regular research papers and industrial
experience papers. The category should be clearly identified. Regular research
papers should contain original research concepts and results in one or more
technologies relevant to cooperative information systems. Industrial
experience
papers should describe technical or key business issues and lessons learned in
developing, applying, and deploying relevant technologies, highlighting
aspects
of cooperation and interoperation. Submitted papers should not be longer than
5000 words. 

Submissions should be unpublished and should not be under consideration by
another conference or journal. A few papers will be selected for publication,
after appropriate expansion and review, in the International Journal of
Cooperative Information Systems. One of the main themes will be information
services in the 21st century, and we particularly welcome papers related to
this theme. We also encourage the submission of all topics related to
cooperative information systems, including (but not limited to) the following:
* Agent Technology * Business Intelligence Frameworks * Business Process
Modeling * Communication infrastructure for collaboration * Computer-supported
Cooperative work * Cooperative Information System Architectures * Cooperative
Information System foundations * Cooperative Transactions * Cooperative
Transactions * Digital Libraries * Distributed Problem Solving * Distributed
GIS * Distributed Multimedia Systems * Distributed Object Management *
Distributed Warehousing and mining * Electronic Commerce * Enterprise
Knowledge
management * Event Based Systems * Engineering Distributed systems * Federated
and Multi-database systems * Human-Computer Interaction for cooperation *
Information Filtering * Information Resource Discovery * Information Retrieval
* Information, Data and knowledge Modeling * Integration and
Interoperability *
Legacy Data Access and Management * Mediators, Wrappers * Middleware
Technology
* Meta-data and Repositories * Multi-agent Systems * Mobile Computing for
Cooperation * Organizational Aspects of Cooperative * Semantic
Interoperability
Systems (including virtual organizations) * Web-based Information Systems *
Web-based Services * Workflow Systems

Papers Submission
Papers will be submitted in an electronic fashion (Postscript or PDF files) to
both program chairs. A pre-submission intention notice to both program chairs
with the paper's authors, title, and classification is requested.

The CoopIS'2000 team:
General Chairs 
Avigdor Gal Michele Missikoff 
Rutgers University, USA IASI-CNR, 
Italy 
E-mail: avigal@rci.rutgers.edu E-mail: 
missikoff@iasi.rm.cnr.it

Program Chairs 
Opher Etzion Peter Scheuermann 
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Northwestern 
University, USA 
Israel 
E-mail: opher@il.ibm.com E-mail: 
peters@ece.nwu.edu

Publicity and Proceedings Chair 
David Carmel 
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel 
E-mail: carmel@il.ibm.com

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III.B.5.
Fr: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org> 
Re: ASIS 2000: CFParticipation 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Knowledge Innovations:
Celebrating Our Heritage, Designing Our Future
ASIS 2000 Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois
November 13-16, 2000
 
Poised on the edge of the new millennium, ASIS finds itself at an exciting
point in the evolution of information science and technology. We have made
enormous strides in collecting, organizing, and dissemination information, but
the increased potentialities only underscore the need for continued
developments. At this meeting, we will look at where we are today, how we got
here, and where we are going. We will celebrate our rich information heritage
and our decades of accomplishment and consider how best to use the first
principles of information science to guide our work in the century ahead. Our
ability to transform data into information, and then into usable knowledge,
can
change the face of work, education, and life. We have increasing capacity to
generate or gather, model, represent and retrieve more complex and cross
disciplinary data and ideas from new sources and at varying scales. The
transformational power of information can only be capitalized upon through
knowledge acquisition, classification, utilization and dissemination research,
tools and techniques. "Knowledge management" has a substantial and growing
body
of theory and practice. This conference will look at current (and imminent)
knowledge creation, acquisition, navigation, retrieval, management and
dissemination practicalities and potentialities, their implementation and
impact, and the theories behind developments. We will review the processes,
technologies and tools. We will also look at the appropriate or necessary
operational policies, relevant legal issues (laws, legislation and the EU
Directive), and international and domestic policies and regulations. Following
the successful topical arrangement for the 1999 meeting, the 2000 conference
will again feature five tracks: 

* Knowledge Discovery, Capture and Creation (track coordinators Don Kraft and
Bonnie Lawlor)- capturing tacit knowledge, data mining, collaboration, expert
directories, intelligent systems employing usage patterns (e.g. search
strategies) etc. 
* Classification and Representation (coordinators Merri Beth Lavagnino and
Gary
Marchionini) - interface design, metadata, information visualization,
taxonomies, clustering, indexing, vocabularies and automatic indexing, etc. 
* Information Retrieval (coordinators Bill Hersh and Louise Su) - search
engines, intelligent agents, browsing v. searching, navigation,
knowledge/information architecture, data mining, etc. 
* Knowledge Dissemination (coordinators Julie Hurd and Bob Willard) -
communication, publishing (including internet vs. intranet vs. Extranet), push
v. pull, etc. 
* Social, Behavioral, Ethical, and Legal Aspects (coordinators Bonnie Carroll
and Barbara Wildemuth) - information acceptance vs. rejection, behavior
modifications, policies and politics, value assessments, corporate and
national
information cultures, knowledge seeking behavior, training for effective
utilization, managing knowledge management, legislative and judicial issues.

The bulk of the conference sessions will be arranged into these tracks, but
additional topics may be proposed and will be incorporated in the meeting as
special sessions. For more information on individual tracks, contact the track
coordinators by sending a message to ASIS00@asis.org [zero, zero] with the
subject line indicating "contact 'track name' ".

TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS:
We are soliciting three types of submissions - contributed papers, technical
sessions, and special sessions. In all three categories, electronic
submissions
are strongly encouraged and should be submitted to AM00@asis.org [zero, zero].
If electronic submission is not possible two paper copies should be sent to
each address below.

Contributed Papers 
To submit a paper, submit the title and a draft of the proposed paper.
Submissions must include the name, position, complete address, telephone and
fax numbers, and email address of the author(s). All proposals are due by
January 15, 2000. Papers will be reviewed, and notification of acceptance will
be made no later than March 15, 2000. Camera-ready copy for the Proceedings
will be due by May 15, 2000.

Note that this is a change in procedures, and that a full draft of the
paper is
required as the initial submission. This allows time for a more rigorous
review
of papers.

Contributed papers will be grouped by topic and presented in sessions of 3-4
papers. Contributed papers may be combined into technical sessions at the
discretion of the track coordinators.

Technical Sessions 
Technical sessions can be developed by individuals, by ASIS Special Interest
Groups (SIGs), by outside organizations, or collaboratively among different
individuals or groups. To submit a proposal, send the following information: 

* Title 
* Sponsor(s) 
* Name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address of the contact
person who coordinate the session 
* Names, positions, and affiliations of presenters and other session
participants such as moderators, reactors, etc. 
* 500 word descriptive abstract of the session 
* Track or tracks that the session fits into
* Proposals for technical sessions must be received by February 1, 2000. 

Notification of acceptance will be made no later than March 15, 2000. 

Information for the technical program will be due by May 15, and camera-ready
copy for the proceedings will be due by July 1, 2000. 

Individual technical session papers may be submitted to be refereed for
inclusion in the Proceedings in full text rather than as abstracts, and if
this
is desired the deadline for submission of the paper is May 1, 2000.

Special Sessions
The program committee welcomes submissions from individuals or organizations
for innovative types of sessions - debates, group participation sessions,
demonstrations, tutorials, historical reenactments or other elements that
would
add to the celebration of our heritage and consideration of our future. To
submit a proposal, send in a session title, a 500-word descriptive abstract,
and information about the contact person (name, address, phone and fax
numbers,
email address).

Proposals for special sessions must be received by       February 1, 2000. 
Notification of acceptance will be made no later than    March 15, 2000. 
Information for the technical program will be due by     May 15, and 
camera-ready copy for the proceedings will be due by     July 1, 2000.

WHERE TO SUBMIT
Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged and should be submitted to
AM00@asis.org. If electronic submission is not possible, two paper copies
should be sent to:

Nancy K. Roderer             Richard Hill, Executive Director 
National Library of Medicine American Society for Information Science 
8600 Rockville Pike          8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 
Bethesda MD 20894            Silver Spring, MD 20910 
Nancy_roderer@nlm.nih,gov    rhill@asis.org 

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III.B.6.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> 
Re: ACL 2000: Preliminary CFPapers 

38th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
3--6 October, 2000
Hong Kong
 
1. Paper Sessions
1.1 Topics of Interest
As was the case with last year's ACL conference, the technical sessions of the
conference will be of two kinds. There will be General Sessions as well as a
number of special Thematic Sessions organized around themes proposed by
members
of the computational linguistics community. The Thematic Sessions will run as
parallel sessions, resulting in smaller and more focussed audiences. 

When you submit a paper to the conference, you will need to consider whether
you want to present the paper in the General Sessions or in one of the
Thematic
Sessions, which will be listed in the final call for papers (due to come out
around January 20, 2000).

The conference will also feature a student workshop, tutorials, workshops, and
demos. Separate calls for these will be issued shortly. For the General
Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished
research
on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to:
pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology
and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language;
language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction;
corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids;
natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating
the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message 
and narrative understanding systems.

1.2 Requirements
Requirements are the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to
the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions; a separate Call for Student
Workshop papers will provide the information on requirements for papers
submitted to the Student Sessions. Papers should describe original work; they
should emphasize completed work rather than intended work and they should
indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever
appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted
for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented
at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers
that
are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this immediately after
the title material on the first page. 

1.3 Submission and Reviewing Procedure 
The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether you are submitting
a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions. Authors should
submit
preliminary versions of their papers for review, not to exceed 3200 words
(exclusive of references). The submission procedure will be the same
regardless
of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic
Sessions. Electronic submissions can not be accepted. Further details on the
submission procedure will be provided in the final call for papers (due to
come
out around January 20th, 2000). See the separate Call for Student Workshop
Papers for information on submission details for papers submitted to the
Student Workshop.

Reviewing of papers submitted to the General Sessions will, as in previous
years, be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting
of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a team of reviewers.
Reviewing of papers for the Thematic Sessions will be managed by the chairs of
the Thematic Sessions, with the assistance of teams of reviewers; final
decisions on the technical program content (both General Sessions and Thematic
Sessions) will be made by the Program Committee. Note that reviewing of papers
will be blind. 

1.4 Schedule 
Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000. Electronic submissions will
not be accepted. Late submissions (those arriving on or after April 8th) will
be returned. Acknowledgements will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification
of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on June 15, 2000. Detailed
formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will
be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. 

2. Venue and Local Organization 
The conference will be held in Hong Kong from October 3rd through 6th, 2000.
The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by Dekai Wu; the local
arrangements
information will be posted soon. 

3. Timetable 
The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic sessions: see
the separate Calls for Student Workshop Papers, Tutorial Proposals and
Workshops for the timetable associated with those elements of the conference.

Preliminary Call issued:      December 15, 1999 
Final Call for Papers issued: January 20, 2000 
Paper submissions deadline:   April 7, 2000 
Notification of acceptance:   June 15, 2000 
ACL 2000 Conference:          October 3--6, 2000

All queries regarding the General Sessions and Thematic sessions of ACL-2000
should be sent to acl2k@cis.udel.edu; this forwards to both PC co-chairs. 

Chang-Ning Huang (PC Co-Chair) K. Vijay-Shanker (PC Co-Chair) 
Microsoft Research, China Dept. of Computer Science 
5F, Beijing Sigma Center University of Delaware 
No.49, Zhichun Road Newark, DE 19716, USA 
Beijing 100080, P.R.C
cnhuang@microsoft.com vijay@cis.udel.edu 
Tel: (86-10)6261-7711 -5760 Tel: +1 302 831 1952 
Fax: (86-10)8809-7305 Fax: +1 302 831 8458

Hitoshi Iida (General Chair) Aravind K. Joshi (Honorary Chair)
Speech and Language Information Department of Computer and 
Processing Lab Information Sciences 
SONY Computer Science Labs, Inc. University of Pennsylvania 
Tokyo 141-0022, Japan Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
iida@csl.sony.co.jp joshi@linc.cis.upenn.edu 
Tel: +81 3 5448 4380 Tel: +1 215 898 0359 
Fax: +81 3 5447 1942 Fax: +1 215 573 9247

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III.B.7.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> 
Re: 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies:
    CFParticipation 

IWPT 2000
6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000.html
Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE
23-25 February, 2000
Trento, Italy

INVITED SPEAKERS 
* Eric Brill (Microsoft Research - NLP group) Automatic Grammar Induction:
  Combining, Reducing and Doing Nothing 

* Martin Kay (Xerox PARC) Guides and Oracles for Linear-Time Parsing 

* Giorgio Satta (University of Padua) Parsing Techniques for Lexicalized
  Context-Free Grammar Models

IWPT 2000 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology
organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the
Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by
Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley,
was
followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and
Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995;
and
Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION 
To register, use the registration form available on the IWPT 2000 web pages at
the URL http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000/registration.html and send it to the
IWPT 2000 secretariat (whose address is on the web page above) by fax or
regular mail.

FURTHER INFORMATION
Further details about the workshop (accommodation, tourist information, etc)
can be found on the web pages of IWPT 2000 at the URL
http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000.html.

The list of accepted papers is available at the URL 
http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000/accepted.html.

For questions about the workshop programme email iwpt2000@cogs.susx.ac.uk; for
questions about the local arrangements email iwpt2000@itc.it.

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III.B.8.
Fr: John McNaught <jock@ccl.umist.ac.uk> 
Re: Workshop on Information Extraction meets
    Corpus Linguistics at LREC 2000 

Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC 2000)
Athens, Greece
Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation
INFORMATION EXTRACTION MEETS CORPUS LINGUISTICS
Tuesday, 30th May 2000

FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/iemcorp.html

Workshop description (summary) 
This workshop seeks to explore how Information Extraction and 
Corpus Linguistics can each benefit from the techniques of the other. The
goals
of information extraction and of corpus linguistics have thus far had
little in
common. However, both are concerned with processing large bodies of text.
It is
timely to explore how one can contribute to the other.

Key topics (indicative list) 
* How much can IE help corpus linguistics? 
* How much can corpus linguistics help IE? 
* What techniques are shared? What techniques from one field can be turned to
use in the other? 
* Is IE-type partial annotation in corpus linguistics useful? 
* How feasible is it to offer different customised views over large-scale
corpora with IE techniques? 
* What needs to be done in standardising IE annotations to enable reuse by
corpus linguists? 
* How can corpus evidence help to guide IE systems?

Important dates 
Deadline for workshop abstract submission:      22nd January 2000 
Notification of acceptance:                     25th February 2000 
Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: 9th April 2000 
Workshop:                                       30th May 2000

Organising Committee 
John McNaught (UMIST, UK) 
Bill Black (UMIST, UK) 
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Italy) 
Luca Gilardoni (Quinary SpA, Italy) 
Tony McEnery (University of Lancaster, UK)

Contact person for the workshop 
John McNaught 
Department of Language Engineering 
UMIST 
PO Box 88 
Sackville Street 
Manchester M60 1QD 
UK
E-mail: jock@ccl.umist.ac.uk 
Tel: +44.161.200.3100 
Fax: +44.161.200.3099
Submissions 

An 800 word abstract in English should be submitted by e-mail to McNaught
(jock@ccl.umist.ac.uk), in plain ASCII text format. Each submission should
show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address,
postal address, telephone and fax numbers.

FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/iemcorp.html

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III.B.9.
Fr: Lionel Clement <lionel.clement@linguist.jussieu.fr> 
Re: TAG+5: 2nd CFPapers

TAG+5
International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms
May 25 - 27, 2000
Jussieu, Paris, France

The fifth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks (hence
the
+ after TAG) will be held at the University of Paris 7, from May 25 to May 27
2000, sponsored by ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des
Langues).Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992), Univ.
Paris 7 (1994) and UPenn (1998).

Original submissions on all aspects of TAGs (linguistic, mathematical,
computational, and applicational) are invited, as well as those relating TAGs
to other frameworks, lexicalized (dependency grammars, categorial
grammars...),
tree-based (DTG, TFG, GB...) or feature-based (LFG, HPSG...).

As in the past, there will be some invited talks on other grammar formalisms
which have interesting relationships to TAGs.

ABSTRACTS: 
You can submit papers for three kinds of presentations: long talks (25 minutes
+ 5 min for discussion), short talks (10 min + 5) and/or tool demonstrations. 

Please note that an author (or a given set of co-authors) should not submit
more than one paper.

Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the author's
name, nor any self-reference. Abstracts should be no longer than 4 pages. 2
hardcopies should be sent by surface mail to: 
TAG+5 
UFRL, Université Paris 7 
TALaNa, case 7003 
2, place Jussieu 
F-75251 Paris cedex 05 

A separate identification page (with the following information : title of the
paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, email address, fax and
telephone number) should also be included. Please also indicate if you
submitted your abstract to other conferences. Also a postcript file should be
sent to tag+@linguist.jussieu.fr. Please indicate "tag+5 submission" in the
subject field.

Important : all postcript files MUST be in an A4 format 

Proceedings including extended versions of accepted abstracts will be
available
at the workshop.

Languages of the workshop: English and French

If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend, we would
appreciate if you could send a message. If you would like to present a demo,
please let us know as soon as possible, including information about required
hardware and software.

DATES:
Deadline for submissions:                    January 22 
Notification of acceptance:                  March 3 
Deadline for camera-ready extended abstract: April 15 
Workshop Dates:                              May 25 to May 27

CONTACT ADDRESS 
TAG+5 
UFRL, Université Paris 7 
TALaNa, case 7003 
2, place Jussieu 
F-75251 Paris cedex 05
phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70 
fax: +33 1 44 27 79 19 
email: tag+@linguist.jussieu.fr 
web: http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/~alex/TAGPLUS/

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III.C.1.
Fr: Philip A. Bralich <bralich@hawaii.edu> 
Re: Free ESL Conversion Software 

The following is an announcement concerning new ITS (interactive tutoring
system) software for conversational English as a Second Language. As such
software is important for researchers who participate in these lists we are
making it available for free to all those who would contact us with a request
for the software and a 3 or 4 sentence description of the research interests
that would be benefited by using this software.  

Until now there have been no ESL software products to help students practice
their CONVERSATION skills. But now, based on a patented new theory of grammar,
it is possible for students to practice their ESL conversation skills with a
3-D tutor. His name is "Roswell" and the program is called "Roswell Teaches
English". He is a cute alien from outer space and he offers six chapters of
six
lessons each in tasks and skills that are targeted to high basic and low
intermediate students. Just two examples are lessons on ordering at a fast
food
restaurant and going through customs. It's a great supplement for classroom
work or a great tool to practice with on your own. Roswell can actively engage
the student in question and answer exchanges based on the material in the
students workbook. He can both ask and answer questions within the lessons.
The
workbook/manual provides plenty of guidance for the students to get involved.
The student types in questions and answers and Roswell responds with a
generated voice and synchronized lip movements. A great practice environment
for all students. Roswell's knowledge base and grammar skills will be updated
every six months. 
 
In addition, the technology in Roswell Teaches English can be used for a
variety of educational programs in fields of study that are based on factual
information such as the sciences, history, and geography. Try this new
software
and enter the latest era in interactive computing. 

Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. 
President and CEO 
Ergo Linguistic Technologies 
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808)539-3920 
Fax: (808)539-3924 
bralich@hawaii.edu 
http://www.ergo-ling.com

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