II Jobs *

III Notices *

Metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts, US location
Please Send Resume and Cover Letter To
Careers@wordstream.com
Or
Joanne Samuelson
WordStream Inc.
48 Grove St. #201
Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144

Application's dead line is June 5th, 2001.
Contact for the ERSS:
Marc Plénat: plenat@univ-tlse2.fr
ERSS' WWW Site:
http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/
CNRS' WWW Site (for practical details concerning application)
http://sg-val.dsi.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/agenda2001.htm

Assistant /College Lecturers
Department of Computer Science
University College Dublin
Closing Date: Not later than 5:00p.m on Friday 1 June, 2001
Joe Carthy
Department of Computer Science
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
E-mail: joe.carthy@ucd.ie
http://www.cs.ucd.ie/
Tel. +353 1 706 2481 or 706 2469
Fax. +353 1 269 7262

Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST
The closing date is 30 June 2001.
Informal enquiries can be addressed to
Harold.Somers@umist.ac.uk.
Harold Somers
Professor of Language Engineering
Director, Centre for Computational Linguistics
UMIST, Manchester
Preferred email address for all correspondence:
Harold.Somers@umist.ac.uk

Co-ordination of Internet Agents:
Models, Technologies, And Applications
Omicini, F. Zambonelli, M. Klusch, R. Tolksdorf (Eds.)
2001, 523 pp., 89 figs, Hardcover, ISBN 3-540-41613-7, DM 98
http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-41613-7

Announce the release of three resources to support research in Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) and information retrieval:
1. TDT2 Multilanguage Text Corpus, version 4.0
LDC2001T57, isbn 1-58563-183-3, 1 CD-ROM
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001T57.html
2. TDT3 Multilanguage Text Corpus, version 2.0
LDC2001T58, isbn 1-58563-193-0, 1 CD-ROM
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001T58.html
3. TDT3 English Audio Corpus
LDC2001S94, isbn 1-58563-185-x, 55 CD-ROMs
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001S94.html
You may refer to the LDC's online catalog pages for full documentation: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/

Special Track of the 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002)
March 10-14, 2002
Call for Papers
Madrid (Spain), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Important dates
September 1, 2001 Paper Submission
October 15, 2001 Author Notification
November 1, 2001 Camera-Ready Copy (PDF format)
March 10-14, 2002 SAC 2002 takes place
Visit the SAC 2002 home page for further information
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2002

Announce a new resource available via ELRA:
ELRA S0106 Dutch SpeechDat(II) MDB-250
For further information, please contact:
ELRA/ELDA
Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33
55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin
Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30
F-75013 Paris, France
E-mail mapelli@elda.fr
Or visit the online catalogue on our Web site:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
Or
http://www.elda.fr

Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data
Call for Papers
Special Issue's guest editors:
Afzal Ballim.
Vincenzo Pallotta.
Department of Computer Science.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.
Important Dates:
Papers due: 30 June 2001
Acceptance notice: 30 October 2001
Final version due: 31 January 2002
Journal publication: (after March 2002)
For More Information:
http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2000/nle.html

ACM SIGIR'01 Workshop
New Orleans, Louisiana, September 13, 2001
Call For Papers
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: June 18, 2001
Acceptance: July 16, 2001
Final Versions: July 30, 2001
Further Information can be found on the SIGIR 2001 Web pages
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~sigir01

On Mathematical/Formal Methods in Information Retrieval
MF/IR 2001
September 13, 2001
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
Correspondence:
Direct correspondence inquires and submissions relating to this workshop should be addressed to: Sandor Dominich,
E-mail: dominich@dcs.vein.hu Or sdomin01@bcuc.ac.uk
Important Dates
Submission (paper, summary): June 10, 2001
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2001
Final submission: July 15, 2001
Workshop: September 13, 2001
Further information can be found on the SIGIR 2001 Web pages http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~sigir01

Roanoke, VA USA
June 24-28, 2001
Is available at the conference web site http://www.jcdl.org
Online registration is now available from http://www.jcdl.org
Last Day For Early Registration Is May 15, 2001

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
September 13, 2001
Call for Participation
http://www.DavidDLewis.com/events/otc2001
otc2001info@DavidDLewis.com
In conjunction with
ACM SIGIR 2001
September 9-13, 2001
http://www.sigir2001.org

November 5 -10, 2001
DoubleTree Hotel, Buckhead, Atlanta, GA, USA
ACM CIKM 2001 Final Call For Papers
http://www.cikm.org/2001
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS
Important Dates:
May 21, 2001 electronic abstract due
May 28, 2001 Full paper submission due
Aug. 1, 2001 Notification of acceptance
Aug. 30, 2001 Camera ready copy due

Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
June 2-7, 2001
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Final Call For Participation And Early Registration
Registration Schedule:
Early--by May 7
Late--by May 25
On-site--after May 25
Web Site:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

Sponsored by the Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI)
(A joint Cornell University/Air Force Research Laboratory institute)
Call For Participation in EMNLP 2001
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html
Registration: see
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl/registration-forms.html
Early registration: by May 7 (lower registration fee)
Late registration: May 8-26
On site registration also available

8-11 November 2001
Bansko, Bulgaria.
Call For Papers
Pernilla Danielsson
Centre for Corpus Linguistics
Department of English
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 121 414 56 88
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 60 53
Email: pernilla@clg.bham.ac.uk

http://www.online-information.co.uk/online/speaker.asp
The search is on for over 200 international speakers - academics, business leaders, information professionals, industry commentators, publishers, vendors and end users - to offer proposals for this year's special 25th anniversary Online Information conference programme.
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html

Euro Conference RANLP-2001
5-7 September 2001
Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
Final Call for Papers
(Submission due May 15)
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/

Date: 23rd May 2001
Venue: TFPL Ltd. 17-18 Britton Street,
London EC1M 5TL (near Farringdon underground station)
Price: GBP275 + VAT (£323.13)
There are a few places left on this course.
For further information:
Web site:
http://www.tfpl.com/

4th International Conference
June 27 - 29, 2001
Le Croisic (on the ocean coast, nearby Nantes), France
Call for Participation
Deadline for early registration: June 1^st
Practical information, schedule, on-line registration:
http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001
http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2001/LACL2001

October 15-17, 2001
Indiana University Bloomington
Call For Participation
New Deadline: MAY 21ST, 2001
http://ismir2001.indiana.edu/

18 to 20 June 2001, Dublin City
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/delos/

27 - 29 November, 2001
NLPRS 2001 Second Call For Papers
National Centre of Science
Tokyo, Japan
Important Dates
Paper registration deadline: July 10th, 2001
Paper submissions deadline: July 16th, 2001
Notification of acceptance: August 26th, 2001
Camera ready papers due: September 26th, 2001
NLPRS 2001 Conference: November 27-29, 2001
URL: http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html

Toulouse, July 5-11
Call for participation
Online registration for ACL-2001 is now working. For more information consult:
www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html
Or send e-mail to:
acl@irit.fr
Note that early registration closes on May 24th at 12 PM and late registration ends on June 25th.

Language Technologies 2001:
June 2-7, 2001
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Registration Schedule:
Early--by May 7
Late--by May 25
On-site--after May 25
On-Line Registration Is Now Available
Web Site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, USA
November 29 - December 2, 2001
Call for Papers
Important Dates
June 15, 2001 Paper submissions.
July 31, 2001 Acceptance notices.
August 31, 2001 Final camera-readies.
Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2001 Conference.
All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference home page at:
http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html