II Jobs. 1

5 –Years Research Fellowship. 1

Professor of Linguistics. 2

Readership or Lectureship in Speech Technology and Statistical NLP. 2

III Notices. 2

III.1 Publications. 2

[ML] RFCT 3.0 for Temporal /Casual Rule Discovery. 2

WSD Software Available. 4

The ELRA Web site. 4

Evolution Of Clustering And Classification Research. 4

Information Processing and Management Vol. 38 No.er3 (2002) 6

IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Information Customisation Systems. 7

III.2 Meetings. 8

Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning. 8

ACL-02 Workshop. 9

Language Resources For Translation Work And Research. 9

Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications. 9

Semantic Web Workshop at the 2002 World Wide Web Conference. 10

Tenth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2002) 10

HLT 2002, Human Language Technology Conference. 10

Deadline Extended For Submission Of ASIST Annual 10

24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research. 11

The 3rd Annual Information Architecture Summit 11

Effective Tools And Methodologies For Teaching NLP And CL. 11

International Workshop On Computational Approaches To Collocations. 11

Language Resources For Translation Work And Research. 11

Towards a Roadmap for Multimodal Language Resources and Evaluation. 12

Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2002) 12

MT Roadmap Workshop (March 16) 12

LREC 2002 Workshop. 13

PAKDD2002 Workshop. 13

Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization. 13

Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering. 14

WWW2002: Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference. 14

The Challenge Of Image And Video Retrieval (CIVR 2002) 14

ACL-2002 Workshop On Automatic Summarization. 14

II Jobs

 

5 –Years Research Fellowship


University Research Fellowship
School of Computing, University of Leeds, England.
URF/02/2 Computational Modelling of Complex Adaptive Systems
Closing date: by noon, 1 March 2002.

University Research Fellowships:
Are normally offered on Research Grade II (£24,435 - £32,537 p.a), but may be more senior for particularly outstanding applicants;
Will concentrate on research for three to five years, normally leading to a permanent academic appointment;
Are exempt from teaching and administrative duties in the early stages.
May be supported by development grants of up to £30,000

Appointees will have an excellent record of research achievement and will be expected to make a significant contribution to the research profile of their department and the University. Full support for career development will be provided.

Closing date for applications is noon on 1st March 2002. For further information and details of how to apply please contact Human Resources (Research Fellows),
University of Leeds,
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK;
Or
Telephone: 0113 233 4153; or
E-mail: urf@leeds.ac.uk ; or see
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts
Please quote the reference number URF/02/2.


Professor of Linguistics


Macquarie University
Sydney
Division of Linguistics and Psychology Department of Linguistics

Position available: Professor of Linguistics (Full-time (continuing)) Ref. 19233

Enquiries and further information about the University, conditions of appointment and the method of application may be obtained from
Collette Ryan:
Phone +61 2 9850 8774
Fax +61 2 9850 9352
Email
collette.ryan@mq.edu.au

 

Readership or Lectureship in Speech Technology and Statistical NLP


University of Edinburgh
The Division of Informatics invites applications from highly-qualified candidates for an appointment to either a Readership or a Lectureship in Speech Technology and Statistical Natural Language Processing. Candidates with expertise in speech systems are strongly preferred, but outstanding candidates with accomplishments in statistically-based written language processing will be considered.

Candidates should demonstrate a world-class research record and both interest and ability in teaching. Appointment to a Readership will entail the successful candidate taking on a key research leadership role in the internationally acclaimed Centre for Speech Technology Research, which is a collaborative activity of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and the Division of Informatics.

Closing date: 22 February 2002

Informal enquiries to:
Professor Mark Steedman, 0131 650 4631
steedman@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Or to Professor Johanna Moore,
0131 651 1336
jmoore@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Further information can be found at:
http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/uploads/311076FPS.htm





 

 

III Notices

III.1 Publications

 

 

[ML] RFCT 3.0 for Temporal /Casual Rule Discovery


Hi everybody,
RFCT is a tool based on C4.5 and written in Java. It uses C4.5 to discover temporal and causal rules, and has the following features:
Has a graphical user interface.
Handles temporal data, both in input and output.
Can function in an unsupervised manner
Outputs temporal/causal rules in a useful manner, so the user can have a good understanding of what influences the result.
Handles continuous values (can discretize real-valued variables).
Can output rules in Prolog, thus the rules are readily executable.

More information about RFCT follows.
RFCT 3.0 is a tool for the unsupervised discovery of temporal rules. It is based on C4.5 and extends its abilities by allowing it to understand and respect temporal order among the input data. RFCT's different methods of presentating the results help the user discover relationships among the variables. The user can experiment with different scenarios concerning the passage of time between the variable observations, and thus see if the value of one variable is not only determined by other variables observed at the same time, but also by variables observed before. The rules generated by C4.5 can also be converted into Prolog statements.
The package, including full source code, example files, and online help, is available freely from http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~karimi/downloads.html.

RFCT is written in Java, and is runnable any where with a java interpreter and a graphical user interface. This includes Microsoft Windows and X Window. There is no special installation necessary. Use software such as WinZip under windows and (gzip -d rfct.tgz; tar -xf rfct.tar) under UNIX to unpack the package. In the resulting rfct-3.0 directory, just type rfct.bat to start the program.

You will need a properly installed C4.5 package for RFCT to function. To fully use RFCT's abilities, you need to patch C4.5 Release 8 and recompile it. Microsoft Windows users can download patched and compiled C4.5 files from the same page as the RFCT package. For others, the patch file is included in the package, and you can get C4.5's sources freely from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~quinlan   
RFCT can still be used as a graphical user interface for C4.5 if you don't patch it.
Once the application in running, use the online help and follow the "sample session" link to get started with the program.

Kamran Karimi
karimi@cs.uregina.ca
http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~karimi


Journal: Information Processing and Management
ISSN: 0306-4573
Volume: 38
Issue: 3
Date: May-2002

Visit the journal at
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00244

Support vector machines: relevance feedback and information retrieval
H. Drucker, B. Shahrary, D.C. Gibbon
pp 305-323

An experimental study on the iso-content-based angle similarity measure
J. Zhang, E.M. Rasmussen
pp 325-342

Text classification using ESC-based stochastic decision lists
H. Li, K. Yamanishi
pp 343-361

Exemplary documents: a foundation for information retrieval design
D.C. Blair, S.O. Kimbrough
pp 363-379

The cascade of interactions in the digital library interface
M.J. Bates
pp 381-400

A user-centered approach to evaluating human interaction with Web search engines: an exploratory study
A. Spink
pp 401-426

Gender differences in collaborative Web searching behavior: an elementary school study
A. Large, J. Beheshti, T. Rahman
pp 427-443

Some thoughts on the reported results of TREC
D.C. Blair
pp 445-451
______________________________________________________

Copyright Elsevier Science Ltd, 2001

 

WSD Software Available


We are happy to announce the availability of the complete source code distribution for the Duluth systems that participated in the Senseval-2 comparative exercise among word sense disambiguation systems. This is free software, distributed under the GNU CopyLeft.

This includes a number of components:
SenseTools (v0.1), a suite of Perl programs that convert sense-tagged text into a feature vector representation suitable for use with the Weka machine learning system. Users may specify features to be identified in the text using regular expressions, or features may be automatically identified using the Bigram Statistics Package (v0.4 or better), which is also available.

Duluth-Shell, a set of C-shell scripts that tie together the Bigram Statistics Package, SenseTools, and Weka and should allow a user to easily replicate the Duluth systems from Senseval-2, and provide a convenient starting point for further experimentation with corpus-based, machine learning oriented methods.

You can find SenseTools, Duluth-Shell, the Bigram Statistics Package, and a pointer to Weka (which was developed at the University of Waikato) at
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/senseval2.html

Please let us know if you have any questions.
Enjoy!
Ted

http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
tpederse@d.umn.edu

Ted Pedersen                           
Department of Computer Science
University of Minnesota, Duluth                                       
Duluth, MN 55812                                       
(218) 726-8770


The ELRA Web site


The ELRA Web site has been completely redesigned, its content has been updated and re-organised.
ELRA is pleased to announce the availability of its new Web site at the following address:
http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/


Evolution Of Clustering And Classification Research


How often cited are references in the broad area of clustering and classification, including machine learning, neural networks, pattern recognition, spatial statistics, and information retrieval?  How is this evolving over time?
The "Classification Literature Automatic Search Service", now in its 30th year, is provided on CD with the first issue each year of the Journal of Classification.  From a "profile" of 90 journal articles or books, in 2001 there were 3268 citations to one or more of them.
List (abbreviated) of "profile" literature references follows.
First three columns give number of citations in the Science and
Social Science Citation Indexes (SCI, SSCI), provided by ISI.

   1999 2000 2001 AUTHOR            JOURNAL/BOOK TITLE    VOL P. YR.
  [  4][  2][  5] ADAMS EN          SYST ZOOL             21  390 72
  [ 78][ 72][ 58] ANDERBERG MR      CLUSTER ANAL APPLICA          73
  [  9][  5][  3] ARABIE P          3 WAY SCALING CLUSTE          87
  [  7][  4][  7] AVISE JC          SYST ZOOL             23  465 74
  [ 43][ 51][ 30] BENZECRI JP       ANAL DONNEES                  73
  [126][ 97][112] BEZDEK JC         PATTERN RECOGNITION           81
  [ NA][ NA][ 10] BISHOP CM         NEURAL NETWORKS PATT          95
  [  8][  4][  5] BLASHFIELD RK     PSYCHOL B             83  377 76
  [226][223][223] BREIMAN L         CLASSIFICATION REGRE          84
  [  8][  1][  8] CARROLL JD        ANN R PSYCH           31  607 80
  [ 33][ 26][ 32] CARROLL JD        PSYCHOMETRI           35  283 70
  [  7][  5][  4] CORMACK RM        J ROYAL STA A        134  321 71
  [ 30][ 28][ 31] COVER TM          IEEE INFO T           13   21 67
  [ 37][ 32][ 43] DEVIJVER PA       PATTERN RECOGNITION           82
  [ 49][ 56][ 51] DIGGLE PJ         STATISTICAL ANAL SPA          83
  [309][289][324] DUDA RO           PATTERN CLASSIFICATI          73
  [ 29][ 32][ 26] EFRON B           J AM STAT A           78  316 83
  [ 19][ 15][ 16] ELDREDGE N        PHYLOGENETIC PATTERN          80
  [  3][  5][  4] EVERITT BS        BIOMETRICS            35  169 79
  [ 36][ 32][ 37] EVERITT BS        CLUSTER ANAL                  80
  [ 21][ 12][ 20] FARRIS JS         AM NATURAL           106  646 72
  [ 13][  6][ 16] FELSENSTEIN J     Q REV BIOL            57  379 82
  [ 68][ 59][ 67] FISHER RA         ANN EUGENICS 2         7  179 36
  [ 79][110][ 75] FITCH WM          SCIENCE              155  279 67
  [ 17][ 18][ 12] FRIEDMAN JH       ACM T MATH             3  209 77
  [  5][  2][  2] FU KS             SYNTACTIC METHODS PA          74
  [ 27][ 20][ 21] FU KS             SYNTACTIC PATTERN RE          82
  [ 34][ 29][ 31] FUKUNAGA K        INTRO STATISTICAL PA          72
  [104][ 77][ 91] GAUCH HG          MULTIVARIATE ANAL CO          82
  [ 17][ 19][ 12] GNANADESIKAN      METHODS STATISTICAL           77
  [ 12][ 20][ 15] GORDON AD         CLASSIFICATION                81
  [ 32][ 34][ 33] GOWER JC          BIOMETRIKA            53  325 66
  [ 71][ 51][ 52] GREENACRE MJ      THEORY APPLICATION C          84
  [ 13][ 14][ 15] GUTTMAN L         PSYCHOMETRI           33  469 68
  [ 32][ 19][ 15] HAND DJ           DISCRIMINATION CLASS          81
  [ 72][ 78][ 87] HARTIGAN JA       CLUSTERING ALGORITHM          75
  [ 76][ 81][ 72] HENNIG W          PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMA          66
  [ 10][ 11][ 11] HILL MO           APPL STAT             23  340 74
  [ 37][ 18][ 27] HUBER PJ          ANN STATIST           13  435 85
  [  6][  4][ 12] HUBERT L          BR J MATH S           29  190 76
  [ 12][  3][ 10] HUBERT LJ         J CLASSIF              2  193 85
  [ 78][ 68][ 79] JAIN AK           ALGORITHMS CLUSTERIN          88
  [  4][  5][  8] JARDINE N         MATH TAXONOMY                 71
  [ 13][  7][  7] JOHNSON SC        PSYCHOMETRI           32  241 67
  [ 61][ 78][ 93] KLUGE AG          SYST ZOOL             18    1 69
  [ 49][ 86][ 80] KOHONEN T         SELF ORG MAPS                 95
  [ 58][ 71][ 73] KRUSKAL JB        MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCA          78
  [ 45][ 45][ 48] KRUSKAL JB        PSYCHOMETRI           29    1 64
  [ 22][  8][ 18] LANCE GN          COMPUTER J             9  373 67
  [ 25][ 33][ 24] LEGENDRE L        NUMERICAL ECOLOGY             83
  [  8][  5][  7] LORR M            CLUSTER ANAL SOCIAL           83
  [ 50][ 46][ 34] MADDISON WP       SYST ZOOL             33   83 84
  [138][145][185] MANTEL N          CANCER RES            27  209 67
  [ 25][ 26][ 21] MAYR E            PRINCIPLES SYSTEMATI          69
  [ NA][ NA][  1] MCLACHLAN GJ      DISCRIMINANT ANAL ST          92
  [ NA][ NA][  1] MCLACHLAN GJ      EM ALGORITHM EXTENSI          97
  [ 28][ 34][ 48] MCLACHLAN GJ      MIXTURE MODELS INFER          88
  [ 38][ 31][ 21] MICHALSKI RS      MACHINE LEARNING              83
  [  1][  3][  2] MILLIGAN GW       MULTIV B R            16  379 81
  [ 14][ 11][ 10] MILLIGAN GW       PSYCHOMETRI           45  325 80
  [ 23][ 17][ 27] MILLIGAN GW       PSYCHOMETRI           50  159 85
  [169][185][172] NEI M             AM NATURAL           106  283 72
  [ 32][ 34][ 38] NELSON G          SYSTEMATICS BIOGEOGR          81
  [  9][ 12][  9] NOSOFSKY RM       J EXP PSY L           10  104 84
  [ 10][ 13][ 10] ORLOCI L          MULTIVARIATE ANAL VE          78
  [ 21][  7][  8] PAVLIDIS T        STRUCTURAL PATTERN R          77
  [ 12][  9][  8] PUNJ G            J MARKET RES          20  134 83
  [ 11][ 12][ 14] RAMMAL R          REV M PHYS            58  765 86
  [  3][  2][ 11] RAND WM           J AM STAT A           66  846 71
  [ 11][  8][  4] REYMENT RA        MULTIVARIATE MORPHOM          84
  [ 63][ 60][ 63] RIPLEY BD         SPATIAL STATISTICS            81
  [  3][  5][  4] ROHLF FJ          MATH BIOSCI           59  131 82
  [ 47][ 45][ 47] SAMMON JW         IEEE COMPUT           18  401 69
  [ 28][ 35][ 27] SANKOFF D         TIME WARPS STRING ED          83
  [  8][ 12][ 16] SATTATH S         PSYCHOMETRI           42  319 77
  [ 21][ 20][ 28] SCHIFFMAN SS      INTRO MULTIDIMENSION          81
  [192][172][158] SILVERMAN BW      DENSITY ESTIMATION S          86
  [387][367][360] SNEATH PHA        NUMERICAL TAXONOMY P          73
  [ 34][ 43][ 43] SOKAL RR          PRINCIPLES NUMERICAL          63
  [  6][ 10][ 12] SPATH H           CLUSTER ANAL ALGORIT          80
  [  2][  2][  4] SPITZER RL        BRIT J PSYCHI        125  341 74
  [127][125][115] SWOFFORD DL       J HEREDITY            72  281 81
  [ 81][ 74][ 70] TVERSKY A         PSYCHOL REV           84  327 77
  [ 42][ 48][ 44] VANLAARHOVEN      SIMULATED ANNEALING           87
  [ NA][ 44][ 54] VANRIJSBERGEN     INFORMATION RETRIEVA          79
  [ 94][109][115] WARD JH           J AM STAT A           58  236 63
  [ 54][ 58][ 52] WILEY EO          PHYLOGENETICS                 81
  [  4][  9][  7] WISHART D         CLUSTAN USER MANUAL           87
  [ 11][  8][  8] WOLFE JH          MULTIV B R             5  329 70
  [  5][ 10][  8] ZAHN CT           IEEE COMPUT           20   68 71

Classification Society of North America, http://www.pitt.edu/~csna
Fionn Murtagh, Editor, Classification Literature Automated Search Service.
http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~F.Murtagh


Information Processing and Management Vol. 38 No.er3 (2002)


Table of Contents:

Record 1.
TI: Support vector machines: relevance feedback and information retrieval
AU: Drucker, H; Shahrary, B; Gibbon, DC
JN: Information Processing and Management
PD: 2002
VO: 38
NO: ER3
PG: 305-323
PB: Elsevier Science
IS: 0306-4573

Record 2.
TI: An experimental study on the iso-content-based angle similarity measure
AU: Zhang, J; Rasmussen, EM
JN: Information Processing and Management
PD: 2002
VO: 38
NO: ER3
PG: 325-342
PB: Elsevier Science
IS: 0306-4573

Record 3.
TI: Text classification using ESC-based stochastic decision lists
AU: Li, H; Yamanishi, K
JN: Information Processing and Management
PD: 2002
VO: 38
NO: ER3
PG: 343-361
PB: Elsevier Science
IS: 0306-4573

Record 4.
TI: Exemplary documents: a foundation for information retrieval design
AU: Blair, DC; Kimbrough, SO
JN: Information Processing and Management
PD: 2002
VO: 38
NO: ER3
PG: 363-379
PB: Elsevier Science
IS: 0306-4573

Record 5.
TI: The cascade of interactions in the digital library interface
AU: Bates, MJ
JN: Information Processing and Management
PD: 2002
VO: 38
NO: ER3
PG: 381-400
PB: Elsevier Science
IS: 0306-4573

Record 6.
TI: A user-centered approach to evaluating human interaction with Web
search engines: an exploratory study
AU: Spink, A
JN: Information Processing and Management
PD: 2002
VO: 38
NO: ER3
PG: 401-426
PB: Elsevier Science
IS: 0306-4573

Record 7.
TI: Gender differences in collaborative Web searching behavior: an
elementary school study
AU: Large, A; Beheshti, J; Rahman, T
JN: Information Processing and Management
PD: 2002
VO: 38
NO: ER3
PG: 427-443
PB: Elsevier Science
IS: 0306-4573

Record 8.
TI: Some thoughts on the reported results of TREC
AU: Blair, DC
JN: Information Processing and Management
PD: 2002
VO: 38
NO: ER3
PG: 445-451
PB: Elsevier Science
IS: 0306-4573

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copyright  2002 ingenta


IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Information Customisation Systems


Submissions due 11 July 2002
Call For Papers

Motivation and background

With the rapid increase in the number of online resources, the promise of information customization systems (if not their actual utility) is becoming highly attractive. We envision that IC system users will be able to log on to their favorite information devices (wired or wireless) and receive a customized presentation of current information culled from diverse resources. These systems will continuously update this presentation as new information becomes available. They will gracefully adapt to users over time, demonstrating increased accuracy and robustness in relation to users' changing interests. IC systems are different from conventional search engines or database
systems. The basic problem IC systems address is identification of relevant information from dynamic resources (resources that are updated frequently) with little or no user intervention. IC systems combine techniques from information retrieval, machine learning, and user-computer interaction, and they perform many of their key functions autonomously (sometimes referred to as agent-driven operations). In a typical IC system, a key operation is learning and modeling the user's interest and task context. On the basis of the user and task models, IC systems take various proactive actions involving resource identification, query formulation and refinement, retrieval, and information organization for their users. Implemented IC systems provide a broad range of services, including information filtering, recommendation, and personalization. Certain key applications, such as recommenders in
e-commerce sites, have demonstrated strong utility and have grown in popularity. For certain other applications, such as personalized "My services" in portals (for example, My Yahoo, My Lycos, My Schwab, and so on), the outcome is less clear. The challenges to designing effective IC systems are many. They arise primarily from balancing the demands of modeling the user and task with the demands users place on the system.

The research challenges can be grouped under three broad categories: representation, interaction, and usability. Each has specific challenges:

Representation
Interest model capture and representation
User interest shift detection and model adjustment
Task and situation modeling
Interest modeling during rapid domain changes
Interest modeling over multiple domains
Interest modeling for user groups or user communities

Interaction
System autonomy versus user control
Transparency and comprehensibility of user and task models
The relationship between interaction and model accuracy
Multimodal interaction and interaction with handheld IC systems

Usability
New metaphors and visualizations for user-IC agent communication
The impact of privacy protection functions on IC
Evaluation methodologies for IC systems

This special issue will bring together research on the above topics and other closely related topics. The goal is to attract contributions from academic and industrial IC researchers that present recent findings and point to novel and promising solutions.

Submission guidelines

We highly encourage treatment of new theoretical and technological directions. Survey articles are welcome; however, authors must attempt synthesis and present major themes, trends, or abstracted models. IEEE
Intelligent Systems is aimed at a broad community of researchers and practitioners. Authors should adopt a lively and direct writing style while maintaining technical and logical rigor. Content must be original and not under consideration for publication in other forums.
Manuscripts must be from 4 to 10 pages long (from 3,000 to 7,500 words; each figure or table counts as 250 words). For non-survey articles, limit citations to 10 items. For additional details, please refer to the
Intelligent Systems author guidelines at:
http://computer.org/intelligent/author.htm

Submit a PostScript or PDF file of the manuscript by 11 July 2002 to Javed Mostafa, jm@indiana.edu.

Guest editors

Javed Mostafa
Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science
Associate Professor of Informatics
Indiana Univ.
jm@indiana.edu
 
Snehasis Mukhopadhyay
Associate Professor of Computer & Information Science
Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis

Wai Lam
Associate Professor of Systems Eng. & Eng. Management
Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

 

III.2 Meetings

 

 

Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning


Sixth Meeting of the
ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology in cooperation with
ACL Special Interest Group in Natural Language Learning
Philadelphia, PA
12 July 2002
Call for Papers
The workshop web site, with further information, is
http://morph.ldc.upenn.edu/maxwell/MorphologyLearning.html.


ACL-02 Workshop


Natural Language Processing in the Biomedical Domain
July 11 - 12
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA),
Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing (NLP-SIG).

Timetable:
Paper Submission Deadline Mar 15
Acceptance Notification Apr 19
Final Version Deadline May 17

Format for Submission
Authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their papers OR four hardcopies. Please submit hardcopies only if electronic submission is impossible. Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. Please conform to the traditional two-column ACL Proceedings format.  Style files can be downloaded from
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/acl02/style/
Email submissions should be sent to: sbj2@columbia.edu

Hard copy submissions should be sent to:
Stephen Johnson
Department of Medical Informatics
Columbia University
622 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032

 

Language Resources For Translation Work And Research


An International Workshop preceding LREC 2002,
3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
28th May 2002

Important dates:
Deadline for workshop submission: 4th February, 2002
Notification of acceptance: Mid March 2002 (date to be confirmed)
Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: Early April 2002 (date to be confirmed)
Workshop: 28th May 2002
For up-to-date information on LREC 2002, see the conference site at
www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html

For any further questions relating the Workshop itself, visit the workshop
Website at
www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LREC/LR4Trans.html
Or e-mail Ms Elia Yuste, Workshop Chair: yuste@ifi.unizh.ch.

 

Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications


Deadline Extension
Call for Papers
Organized by the Working Group 8 of EFMI on Natural Language Understanding
Held in conjunction with the MIE Special Topics Spring Conference
http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/CFP.html
8-9 March 2002
Nicosia, Cyprus

Important Deadlines:
Submission deadline: January 22, 2002 (extended)
Notification Date: February 10, 2002
Camera-ready copy due: February 26, 2002
Workshop date: March 8-9, 2002
Website: http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/

Semantic Web Workshop at the 2002 World Wide Web Conference


Call for Participation
Important dates
Submission of papers: March 1st
Notification of acceptance: April 1st
Submission of camera-ready copy: April 15th
For additional information about the workshop, visit
http://semanticweb2002.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
For additional information about WWW-2002, visit
http://www2002.org

Tenth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2002)


October 30 - November 1,
Irvine, California
Call for Paper
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2002
Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2002
Final Version Due: August 20, 2002
Conference: October 30 - November 1, 2002
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2002
Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2002
Final Version Due: August 20, 2002
Conference: October 30 - November 1, 2002
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/coopis/2002

 

HLT 2002, Human Language Technology Conference


March 24-27, 2002
Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, California
First Call For Attendance
Important Dates (all dates are in 2002)
NOW: Reserve space to attend
February 11: Authors informed of reviewing decisions)
February 15: Registration will officially begin
March 24-27: HLT 2002 Conference, San Diego
July 20: Proceedings published (target date)

Further Information:
Up-to-date information about the Conference and registration will be posted at:
http://hlt2002.org.


Deadline Extended For Submission Of ASIST Annual


The deadline for submission of contributed papers and panels (technical and special sessions) for the ASIST 2002 Annual Meeting has been extended to February 18, 2002.

ASIST 2002 will be held November 18-21, 2002 in Philadelphia, PA. The Call for Participation with full details and submission instructions can be found on the ASIST web site at:
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM2002/index.



24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research


March 25-27, 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Call For Participation
Further Details
For further details regarding registration, travel, programme of social events, etc., see http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/ECIR02/
               

The 3rd Annual Information Architecture Summit


IA Summit '02
2002 IA Summit: "REFINING OUR CRAFT"
The 3rd Annual Information Architecture Summit
Sponsored by ASIS&T
March 15th-17th, 2002
Marriott Baltimore Waterfront

The early registration deadline is February 22. Discounts are available for students, unemployed and members of related professions societies. Further details and registration information can be found at:
http://www.asist-events.org/IASummit2002/

 

Effective Tools And Methodologies For Teaching NLP And CL

 

An ACL 2002 Workshop
July 7, 2002 (the day before the main conference)
Philadelphia, PA, USA
First Call For Papers

Important Dates:
Papers due: March 29, 2002
Acceptance or rejection notification: April 22, 2002
Camera-ready versions due: May   17, 2002
Workshop: July 07, 2002

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~radev/TeachingNLP

 

International Workshop On Computational Approaches To Collocations


22., 23. July 2002
Vienna, Austria
2nd Call for Papers
The scope of the
workshop will cover computational models and strategies for collocation identification and their use in computational linguistic applications. For more information see:
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/colloc02/index.html.
Important Dates:
25th February 2002: Deadline for submitted papers.
8th April 2002: Notification of acceptance.
6th May 2002: Camera-ready copy.
22nd, 23rd July 2002: Workshop.


Language Resources For Translation Work And Research


An International Workshop to be held in conjunction with LREC 2002
Palacio de Congresos Alfredo Kraus
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
28th May 2002
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LREC/LR4Trans.html

This is a final Call for Papers to inform potential authors that submissions will be welcome till this Thursday, 7th February.
For further details, visit the Workshop (see above) and the Conference sites (http://www.lrec-conf.org), or contact the Chair, Ms Elia Yuste (yuste@ifi.unizh.ch).


 

Towards a Roadmap for Multimodal Language Resources and Evaluation


An ELSNET workshop at LREC 2002
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
June 2, 2002
Call For Papers
Calendar:
Submission deadline: 20 February 2002
Notification: 8 March
Camera ready papers due: 2 April
Workshop date: 2 June
URLs:
Workshop: http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-lrec2002.html
Conference: http://www.lrec-conf.org


Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2002)


9-12 September 2002
Brno, Czech Republic

Important Dates
Submission of full papers and short papers (submitting a paper is considered as preliminary registration):
March 15, 2002

Notification of acceptance sent to the authors:
April 30, 2002

Final papers (camera ready) and registration:
May 31, 2002

Submission of demonstration papers:
July 31, 2002

Conference date:
September 9-12, 2002

The official TSD 2002 homepage is:
http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/

 

 

 

MT Roadmap Workshop (March 16)


At TMI2002 (March 13-17)
Keihanna (near Kyoto), Japan
Organized by ELSNET
Call for Papers

Reminder
DEADLINE is Wednesday Feb 13!
Last chance to present your MT visions and challenges!!

Important dates:
Submission deadline: 13 February
Notification: 22 February
Final papers due: 5 March
Workshop: 16 March
URLs:
Main conference: http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/events/tmi/
This workshop: http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-tmi2002.html



LREC 2002 Workshop


Learning for Advanced HLT Applications: from Language Resources to Processes
2nd June 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands – Spain
Call for Papers
Important Dates:
Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 22nd of February 2002
Notification of acceptance: 15th of March 2002
Final version of paper for proceedings: 15th of April 2002
Workshop: 2nd of June 2002

Contact person:
Roberta Catizone
University of Sheffield
211 Portobello Street, Regent Court, S1 4DP Sheffield (UK)
Phone: +44 114 2221897
Fax +44 114 2221810
r.catizone@dcs.shef.ac.uk

PAKDD2002 Workshop


Theme: Toward the Foundation of Data Mining
Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/tylin/pakdd_workshop.html
Important Dates:
Workshop day:    May 6, 2002
Paper submission:  February 28  (Acceptance March 5)
Camera Ready March 31 (Very Firm)
Workshop only registration $90

Submission:
Electronic submissions only, send either MS word, PDF, PS files to tylin@cs.sjsu.edu
IEEE-Computer Society Format:
http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm
 

 

Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization


Workshop on Wordnet Structures and Standardization and how
these affect Wordnet Applications and Evaluation
Workshop held in conjunction with the
Third Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2002)
in Las Palmas, Spain
May 28, 2002
Second Call For Papers

Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: 10th of February 2002
Notification of acceptance: 10th of March 2002
Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: 5th of April 2002
Pre-conference Workshop:  28th of May 2002

To obtain further information about the workshop please visit
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html  
Or
http://www.cti.gr/nlp/


 

Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering


State of the Art and Future Research
Las Palmas,
Canary Islands - Spain
2nd of June 2002
Held in conjunction with the
Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
 (LREC 2002)
Second call for papers

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: February 15th 2002
Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 15th, 2002
Camera ready papers due: April 8th, 2002
Workshop: June 2nd, 2002

Conference Information
General information on LREC: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html
Information on travel, accommodation and general information on Las Palmas and the Canary Islands can be obtained from:

     

WWW2002: Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference


7-11 May 2002
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel
Honolulu, Hawaii USA
Call For Posters
http://www2002.org/cfp-posters.html

Important Dates:
Poster Submission Deadline: February 15, 2002  (extended from Jan. 15)
Notification to Authors: March 18, 2002 (extend from Mar. 1)
Poster Set Up: May 6-7, 2002
Poster Presentation: May 8-10, 2002
Poster Reception: May 8, 2002
http://www2002.org

 

The Challenge Of Image And Video Retrieval (CIVR 2002)


International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval
July 18-19, 2002, British Library, London, UK
Second Call For Papers
Important dates:
March 4, 2002: Submission of full paper
April 10, 2002: Notification of acceptance
May 1, 2002: Camera-ready full paper
http://www.civr2002.org/

 

ACL-2002 Workshop On Automatic Summarization


Including DUC 2002
Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA
July 11-13, 2002
Call for Participation
http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/duc2002/Acl02SummarizationWorkshop.html

Deadlines
Full papers for day 1: March 15, 2002
DUC extended abstracts for day 2: April 12, 2002
Notification of acceptance for papers: April 19, 2002
Camera-ready papers for day 1 (volume 1): May 20, 2002
Camera-ready notebook papers for day 2: June 23, 2002
Workshop date: July 11, 12, and 13, 2002