II Jobs *

Chair in Artificial Intelligence *

Senior Search Engineer at LingoMotors Inc. *

Scientific Fellowships at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (EC'sJRC) *

III Notices *

III.1 Publications *

Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2001) *

Version 2 of NEGRA Corpus *

III.2 Meetings *

Workshop on Location Modeling for Ubiquitous Computing *

IHM-HCI 2001 Conference *

IV Projects *

Research Studentship at Sheffield University, UK *

The Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining KDD-2001 *

Update on SIGIR2001 Conference Hotel Rate *

SIGIR 2001 Workshop on Recommender Systems *

Workshop on Multiple User Interfaces over the Internet: Engineering and Applications Trends *

II Jobs

 

Chair in Artificial Intelligence

Department of Computer Science
University of York, UK
The closing date for applications is Monday 1 October 2001.
Informal enquiries about this post may be made to:
Professor Alan Burns, Head of the Department of Computer Science.
Telephone +44 (0) 1904-432779
E-mail
alan.burns@cs.york.ac.uk.
General information about the University, Department and AI Group is available on the web at
www.york.ac.uk.
For further information and details of how to apply, please write to the Personnel Office, Univ. of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
Or e-mail
jobs@york.ac.uk, quoting reference number /1003 or see
www.york.ac.uk/admin/persnl/jobs/1003.htm.

 

Senior Search Engineer at LingoMotors Inc.

More information about the company can be found at
http://www.lingomotors.com/.
If you are interested in a LingoMotors position, send your resume and cover letter to:
LingoMotors, Inc., HR Dept.,
585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
E-mail:
jobs@lingomotors.com
Fax: 617-492-7399

 

Full Professor in General Linguistics

Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Applications should be sent with the usual documents (CV, list of publications, list of classes held, copies of academic documents) by 31 August 2001 to:
Der Dekan,
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft,
Universität Bielefeld,
Postfach 10 01 31,
D-33501 Bielefeld.

 

Scientific Fellowships at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (EC'sJRC)

Ispra near the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy.
For fellowships to work specifically on Language Technology (LT) applications
Call For Interest
More information on this subject at the site
http://www.jrc.it

 

III Notices

III.1 Publications

 

Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2001)

The proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2001)
Toulouse, France
Are available online now at:
http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/proceedings.html

 

Version 2 of NEGRA Corpus

The Computational Linguistics Department
Saarland University, Germany, is pleased to announce the availability of version 2 of the NEGRA corpus
The corpus is available free of charge for research purposes.
For more information, please visit our web site at
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/sfb378/negra-corpus

 

III.2 Meetings

 

Workshop on Location Modeling for Ubiquitous Computing

September 30 - October 2, 2001
Atlanta, Georgia
Call for Papers
Important Dates:
13 August 2001 (Papers Due)
27 August 2001 (Notification of Acceptance)
http://www.teco.edu/locationws

 

IHM-HCI 2001 Conference

10-14 September 2001
Lille
The full programme for the conference is now available at
http://www.ihm-hci2001.org

 

IV Projects

 

Research Studentship at Sheffield University, UK

Maximum Entropy Modelling for the Summarisation of Spoken Language
Available from October 2001.
Duration 3 years subject to satisfactory progress.
The studentship will be part of a new EPSRC project
For more details see:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/projects/s3l

 

The Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining KDD-2001

August 26-29, 2001
San Francisco, CA, USA
Call for Participation
For Registration, Conference schedule and full details see:
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2001/

 

Update on SIGIR2001 Conference Hotel Rate

The room rate at the conference hotel, the Radisson Hotel New Orleans, during the SIGIR '01 conference (Sept. 9-13) has been lowered from $129/night to $99/night, single or double. Reservations information is available at the conference web site, http://www.sigir2001.org/, or contact the hotel at the address/phone number given below:
Radisson Hotel New Orleans
1500 Canal Street
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112
Telephone (504) 522-4500
Fax (504) 523-9617
Toll Free Reservations: 800-333-3333
The deadline for hotel reservations at the SIGIR rate is August 1.

 

SIGIR 2001 Workshop on Recommender Systems

Thursday, September 13th
New Orleans, LA - USA
Call for Participation
Deadlines
For attendees & who's who contributors
Submissions due: Monday, August 20th, 2001
For potential presenters:
Submissions due: Friday, July 27th, 2001
Notification of presenters: Friday, August 10th, 2001
Camera ready copy due: Friday, August 24th, 2001
http://www.cs.orst.edu/~herlock/rsw2001/

 

Workshop on Multiple User Interfaces over the Internet: Engineering and Applications Trends

In conjunction with HCI-IHM
10-14 September 2001
Lille, France
Workshop site:
http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/seffah/ihm2001/index.shtml
Conference site:
http://www.ihm-hci2001.org