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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:40:02 +1100
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] Help for ALTA-Announce mailing list
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From sb@cs.mu.oz.au  Fri May 30 11:17:25 2003
From: sb@cs.mu.oz.au (Steven Bird)
Date: 30 May 2003 21:17:25 +1000
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] Australasian Language Technology Summer School and Workshop
Message-ID: <1054293448.23312.1213.camel@59>

Australasian Language Technology Summer School
and Australasian Language Technology Workshop

8-12 December 2003, University of Melbourne
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Australasian Language Technology Association
http://www.alta.asn.au/

Most human knowledge, and most human communication, is represented and
expressed using language, both in written and spoken forms.  Language
technologies permit computers to process human language, providing
more natural human-machine interfaces, and more sophisticated access
to stored information.  Language technologies will play a central role
in the multilingual information society of the future.

The Australasian Language Technology Summer School will consist of
about 10 short courses, targetted at postgraduate students and
researchers in academia and industry.  There will be introductory
courses on text technologies, speech technologies, statistical
language processing and data-intensive linguistics.  Advanced courses
will be offered on a selection of the following topics: parsing,
generation, dialogue systems, information extraction, question
answering, agents, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.
Courses will take place on 8-9 and 11-12 December.

The Australasian Language Technology Workshop will be held on
Wednesday 10 December, and will provide a forum for the presentation
and discussion of new research in language technology.  Alistair Knott
(Otago) will be the program chair, and will circulate a call for
papers in June.  The workshop proceedings will be published with ISBN.
Note that this event continues the previous ANLP series, e.g.
[http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Events/Conferences/anlp2002/]).

We are exploring the possibility of hosting an industry night on 10
December, and invite expressions of interest.  We hope to create a
forum where language technology developers from industry and academia
can present their technologies to the language technology community,
and also to specially invited senior figures from industry, education
and government.





From alik@cs.otago.ac.nz  Fri Jun 20 01:38:32 2003
From: alik@cs.otago.ac.nz (Alistair Knott)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:38:32 +1200 (NZST)
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] Call for papers: 2003 Australasian Language Technology Workshop
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.44.0306201330200.455867-100000@atlas.otago.ac.nz>

2003 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2003)
Melbourne, Australia

Workshop:         10th December 2003
Submissions due:  30th August 2003
Workshop website: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/

A one-day workshop on Natural Language Technology will be organised by the
Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA).

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Australasian Language
Technology Summer School in Melbourne:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/lt/ALTSS2003/

The goals of the workshop are:

    * to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community in
      Australia and New Zealand;
    * to encourage interactions between this community and the
      international LT community;
    * to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence
      community to become aware of local LT research;
    * to provide a forum for discussion of new research;
    * to foster interaction between academic and industrial research.

Our hope is to get as many Australasian LTers together as possible to
encourage dialogue between those working on similar topics and between
areas with a - perhaps as yet untapped - potential to interact.

We would also like to encourage non-Australasian LTers to submit papers,
and to participate in the workshop.

Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by an international
programme committee, and the workshop proceedings will be published with
an ISBN number.

We invite the submission of papers on substantial, original, and
unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing,
including, but not limited to:

    * speech understanding and generation;
    * phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse;
    * interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
    * linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;
    * language-oriented information extraction and retrieval;
    * corpus-based and statistical language modeling;
    * machine translation and translation aids;
    * natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
    * message and narrative understanding systems;
    * computational lexicography.

We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT
community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the
scope of our community through the consideration of practical LT
applications. We especially invite people from industry working on LT to
send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss and
demonstrate their latest applications in front of an informed audience.

Program Committee

    * Alistair Knott, University of Otago (NZ) (Co-chair)
    * Dominique Estival, DSTO (AU) (Co-chair)
    * Steven Bird, University of Melbourne (AU)
    * Robert Dale, Macquarie University (AU)
    * Michael Dukes, University of Stanford (USA)
    * Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto (CA)
    * Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne (AU)
    * Diego Molla-Aliod, Macquarie University (AU)
    * Cecile Paris, CSIRO (AU)
    * Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA)
    * Tony Smith, University of Waikato (NZ)
    * Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University (AU)

For information about submission of papers, see the workshop website:

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/





From sb@cs.mu.oz.au  Fri Jul 11 02:30:46 2003
From: sb@cs.mu.oz.au (Steven Bird)
Date: 11 Jul 2003 12:30:46 +1000
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] ALTA Summer School: Provisional Course List
Message-ID: <1057890646.3485.39.camel@dynamic-lingorg-msu>

Australasian Language Technology Summer School
University of Melbourne, December 8-12, 2003
http://www.alta.asn.au/

To be held in conjunction with the Australasian Language Technology
Workshop [http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/].

Provisional Course List

The following list is provisional, and subject to modification.
(TBC = to be confirmed)

INTRODUCTORY COURSES (four 1.5-hour lectures and lab sessions)
Practical NLP using Python (lecturer TBC)
Speech processing (David Grayden, Melbourne)
Statistical parsing (lecturer TBC)
Linguistic annotation (Steven Bird, Melbourne)

ADVANCED COURSES (four 1.5-hour lectures and lab sessions)
Machine translation (Harold Somers, UMIST, UK)
SVMs and kernel methods in NLP (Jim Hogan, QUT)
Validation and evaluation in NLP and IR (David Powers, Flinders)
Information extraction and question answering (Diego Molla, Macquarie)
Dialogue systems (lecturer TBC)

ADVANCED LECTURES (one-two 1.5-hour lectures)
Topics in statistical NLP (Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA - TBC)
Discourse Representation Theory (Alistair Knott, Otago)
Text planning (Robert Dale, Macquarie)
Language technologies and HCI (Cecile Paris)
MML learning methods in NLP (Ingrid Zukerman, Monash - TBC)
Agent-oriented NLP (Peter Wallis, Melbourne)

A revised list of courses and registration details will be announced in
August.

Steven Bird (ALTA President)
on behalf of the ALTA Executive Committee




From sb@cs.mu.oz.au  Mon Aug  4 08:03:36 2003
From: sb@cs.mu.oz.au (Steven Bird)
Date: 04 Aug 2003 18:03:36 +1000
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] Australasian Language Technology Summer School and Workshop
Message-ID: <1059984219.30641.77.camel@aviary>

Australasian Language Technology Summer School
and Australasian Language Technology Workshop

8-12 December 2003, University of Melbourne
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering


ALTW SUBMISSIONS DUE 30/8

Australasian Language Technology Workshop will be held on Wednesday
10th December 2003.  Submissions are due at the end of August.  For
further details see: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/


ALTSS PROVISIONAL COURSE OFFERINGS

INTRODUCTORY COURSES (four 1.5-hour lectures and lab sessions each)
I1: Practical NLP using Python (Trevor Cohn and Steven Bird, Melbourne)
I2: Speech processing (David Grayden, Melbourne)
I3: Dialogue systems (Robert Dale, Macquarie, and Dominique Estival,
DSTO)
I4: Information extraction and question answering (Diego Molla,
Macquarie)

ADVANCED COURSES (four 1.5-hour lectures and lab sessions each)
A1: Machine translation (Harold Somers, UMIST, UK)
A2: Validation and evaluation in NLP and IR (David Powers, Flinders)
A3: Statistical parsing (Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA)
A4: SVMs and kernel methods in NLP (Jim Hogan, QUT)

LECTURES (one or two 1-hour lectures each)
* Discourse Representation Theory (Alistair Knott, Otago)
* Text planning (Robert Dale, Macquarie)
* Language technologies and HCI (Cecile Paris, CSIRO)
* Linguistic annotation (Steven Bird, Melbourne, and Steve Cassidy,
Macquarie)
* Agent-oriented NLP (Peter Wallis, Melbourne)

PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE

+-------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|             |  Mon  |  Tue  |  Wed  |  Thu  |  Fri  |
+-------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|  8:30-10:00 | I1,A1 | I1,A1 |       | I3,A3 | I3,A3 |
| 10:30-12:00 |       |       |       |       |       |
===============================       =================
|  1:30-2:30  |   Lectures    | ALTW  |   Lectures    |
+-------------+-------+-------+       +-------+-------+
|  2:30-4:00  | 12,A2 | I2,A2 |       | I4,A4 | I4,A4 |
|  4:30-6:00  |       |       |       |       |       |
+-------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

REGISTRATION

Full details about registration will be posted here next week.

--
Australasian Language Technology Association
http://www.alta.asn.au/



From alik@cs.otago.ac.nz  Sun Aug 10 00:57:46 2003
From: alik@cs.otago.ac.nz (Alistair Knott)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 12:57:46 +1200 (NZST)
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] 2nd Call for papers: 2003 Australasian Language Technology Workshop
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.44.0308101253470.342484-100000@atlas.otago.ac.nz>

2003 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2003)
Melbourne, Australia

Workshop:         10th December 2003
Submissions due:  30th August 2003
Workshop website: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/

A one-day workshop on Natural Language Technology will be organised by the
Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA).

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Australasian Language
Technology Summer School in Melbourne:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/lt/ALTSS2003/

The goals of the workshop are:

    * to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community in
      Australia and New Zealand;
    * to encourage interactions between this community and the
      international LT community;
    * to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence
      community to become aware of local LT research;
    * to provide a forum for discussion of new research;
    * to foster interaction between academic and industrial research.

Our hope is to get as many Australasian LTers together as possible to
encourage dialogue between those working on similar topics and between
areas with a - perhaps as yet untapped - potential to interact.

We would also like to encourage non-Australasian LTers to submit papers,
and to participate in the workshop.

Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by an international
programme committee, and the workshop proceedings will be published with
an ISBN number.

We invite the submission of papers on substantial, original, and
unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing,
including, but not limited to:

    * speech understanding and generation;
    * phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse;
    * interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
    * linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;
    * language-oriented information extraction and retrieval;
    * corpus-based and statistical language modeling;
    * machine translation and translation aids;
    * natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
    * message and narrative understanding systems;
    * computational lexicography.

We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT
community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the
scope of our community through the consideration of practical LT
applications. We especially invite people from industry working on LT to
send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss and
demonstrate their latest applications in front of an informed audience.

Program Committee

    * Alistair Knott, University of Otago (NZ) (Co-chair)
    * Dominique Estival, DSTO (AU) (Co-chair)
    * Steven Bird, University of Melbourne (AU)
    * Robert Dale, Macquarie University (AU)
    * Michael Dukes, University of Stanford (USA)
    * Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto (CA)
    * Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne (AU)
    * Diego Molla-Aliod, Macquarie University (AU)
    * Cecile Paris, CSIRO (AU)
    * Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA)
    * Tony Smith, University of Waikato (NZ)
    * Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University (AU)

For information about submission of papers, see the workshop website:

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/






From sb@cs.mu.oz.au  Mon Aug 18 07:13:30 2003
From: sb@cs.mu.oz.au (Steven Bird)
Date: 18 Aug 2003 17:13:30 +1000
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] ALTA Summer School and Workshop: Registration Open
Message-ID: <1061190813.14870.685.camel@aviary>

Australasian Language Technology Summer School
and Australasian Language Technology Workshop

8-12 December 2003, University of Melbourne
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Registration is now open.  Please visit:

    http://www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/alta/


--
Australasian Language Technology Association
http://www.alta.asn.au/



From alik@cs.otago.ac.nz  Sun Aug 24 10:10:20 2003
From: alik@cs.otago.ac.nz (Alistair Knott)
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:10:20 +1200 (NZST)
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] Final call for papers: 2003 Australasian Language Technology Workshop
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.44.0308242207360.137472-100000@atlas.otago.ac.nz>

2003 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2003)
Melbourne, Australia

Workshop:         10th December 2003
Submissions due:  **30TH AUGUST 2003**
Workshop website: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/

A one-day workshop on Natural Language Technology will be organised by the
Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA).

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Australasian Language
Technology Summer School in Melbourne:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/lt/ALTSS2003/

The goals of the workshop are:

    * to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community in
      Australia and New Zealand;
    * to encourage interactions between this community and the
      international LT community;
    * to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence
      community to become aware of local LT research;
    * to provide a forum for discussion of new research;
    * to foster interaction between academic and industrial research.

Our hope is to get as many Australasian LTers together as possible to
encourage dialogue between those working on similar topics and between
areas with a - perhaps as yet untapped - potential to interact.

We would also like to encourage non-Australasian LTers to submit papers,
and to participate in the workshop.

Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by an international
programme committee, and the workshop proceedings will be published with
an ISBN number.

We invite the submission of papers on substantial, original, and
unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing,
including, but not limited to:

    * speech understanding and generation;
    * phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse;
    * interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
    * linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;
    * language-oriented information extraction and retrieval;
    * corpus-based and statistical language modeling;
    * machine translation and translation aids;
    * natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
    * message and narrative understanding systems;
    * computational lexicography.

We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT
community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the
scope of our community through the consideration of practical LT
applications. We especially invite people from industry working on LT to
send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss and
demonstrate their latest applications in front of an informed audience.

Program Committee

    * Alistair Knott, University of Otago (NZ) (Co-chair)
    * Dominique Estival, DSTO (AU) (Co-chair)
    * Steven Bird, University of Melbourne (AU)
    * Robert Dale, Macquarie University (AU)
    * Michael Dukes, University of Stanford (USA)
    * Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto (CA)
    * Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne (AU)
    * Diego Molla-Aliod, Macquarie University (AU)
    * Cecile Paris, CSIRO (AU)
    * Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA)
    * Tony Smith, University of Waikato (NZ)
    * Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University (AU)

For information about submission of papers, see the workshop website:

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/







From Stephen.Wan@csiro.au  Mon Sep 29 21:28:23 2003
From: Stephen.Wan@csiro.au (Stephen.Wan@csiro.au)
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:28:23 +1000
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] Upcoming 2003 Summer Vacation Scholarships
Message-ID: <FC026A0F0EE43E42A6EE465E2C7FFF780183F348@coxs-nh.nsw.cmis.CSIRO.AU>

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Dear ALTA members,

I'm in the midst of compiling a list of Vacation Scholarship/Internship
programs for the 2003-2004 summer break for the student website.  

http://www.alta.asn.au/student_pages/index.html#ALTSS

If you are organising such a program, could you send me the relevant
information to put on the ALTA student webpages please?  Links to existing
webpages with the relevant information about the scholarships/internships
are preferable.

thanks,
Stephen Wan

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From sb@cs.mu.oz.au  Mon Oct  6 12:14:10 2003
From: sb@cs.mu.oz.au (Steven Bird)
Date: 06 Oct 2003 22:14:10 +1000
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] Early registration deadline this Friday; Workshop programme
 available
Message-ID: <1065442453.3378.46.camel@aviary>

Australasian Language Technology Summer School
and Australasian Language Technology Workshop

8-12 December 2003, University of Melbourne
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY:
  http://www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/alta/registration.htm
  Take advantage of the early registration discounts this week.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE:
  http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/
  Sessions: parsing, discourse and anaphora, lexical semantics,
  document encoding, word-sense disambiguation, POS-tagging,
  document summarization, and question answering.




From sb@cs.mu.oz.au  Fri Nov  7 05:33:00 2003
From: sb@cs.mu.oz.au (Steven Bird)
Date: 07 Nov 2003 15:33:00 +1100
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] Call for Participation: Australasian Language Technology Summer
 School and Workshop
Message-ID: <1068179589.6004.1821.camel@aviary>

Australasian Language Technology Summer School
and Australasian Language Technology Workshop

8-12 December 2003, University of Melbourne
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering


Please register for all events at:
http://www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/alta/


AUSTRALASIAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL
8-12 December

INTRODUCTORY COURSES
* Practical NLP using Python (T Cohn and S Bird, Melbourne)
* Speech processing (D Grayden, Melbourne)
* Dialogue systems (R Dale, Macquarie, and D Estival, DSTO)
* Information extraction and question answering (D Molla, Macquarie)

ADVANCED COURSES
* Machine translation (H Somers, UMIST, UK)
* Validation and evaluation in NLP and IR (D Powers, Flinders)
* Statistical parsing (M Johnson, Brown University, USA)
* SVMs and kernel methods in NLP (J Hogan, QUT)

LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY FORUM
* Mark Johnson, Brown University:
  The Broader Implications of Computational Linguistics
* Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
  Machine Translation: Challenges and Applications for Minority Communities

PUBLIC LECTURES
* Approximate string matching (R Baeza-Yates, University of Chile)
* Discourse Representation Theory (A Knott, University of Otago)
* Text planning (R Dale, Macquarie University)
* Language technologies and HCI (Cecile Paris, CSIRO)
* Deep Lexical Acquisition (T Baldwin, Stanford University)
* Agent-oriented NLP: (P Wallis, Melbourne University)


AUSTRALASIAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP
Wednesday 10 December
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/research/ai/ALTW2003/
Workshop proceedings to be distributed in hardcopy and on the web

PARSING
R Schwitter (Macquarie)
  Incremental chart parsing with predictive hints
T Matsumoto, D Powers and G Jarrad (Flinders / CSIRO)
  Application of search algorithms to natural language processing
M-Y Kim and J-H Lee (Pohang Uni)
  S-clause segmentation for efficient syntactic analysis using
  decision trees

DISCOURSE AND ANAPHORA
R Dale (Macquarie)
  'One'-anaphora and the case for discourse-driven referring
  expression generation
J-E Roh and J-H Lee (Pohang Uni)
  An empirical study for generating zero pronoun in Korean based on
  Cost-based centering model
A Knott and P Vlugter (Otago)
  Syntactic disambiguation using presupposition resolution

LEXICAL SEMANTICS
T Baldwin and L van den Beek (Stanford / Groningen)
  The Ins and Outs of Dutch noun countability classification
R Munro (Sydney Uni)
  A queueing-theory model of word frequency distributions

DOCUMENT ENCODING
B Hughes, S Bird and C Bow (Melbourne)
  Encoding and presenting interlinear text using XML technologies
J Yaghi, M Titchener, and S Yagi (Auckland / Sharjah)
  T-code compression for Arabic computational morphology

WORD-SENSE DISAMBIGUATION AND POS TAGGING
T Cohn (Melbourne)
  Performance metrics for word sense disambiguation
Y-J Chung and J-H Lee (Pohang Uni)
  Resolving Sense Ambiguity of Korean Nouns Based on Concept
  Co-occurrence Information
T Gaustad (Univ of Groningen)
  The importance of high-quality input for WSD: an application-
  oriented comparison of part-of-speech taggers
O Carr and D Estival (DSTO)
  Document classification in structured military messages

DOCUMENT SUMMARISATION & QUESTION-ANSWERING
S Wan, M Dras, C Paris and R Dale (Macquarie / CSIRO)
  Straight to the point: Discovering themes for summary generation
D Molla (Macquarie)
  Towards semantic-based overlap measures for question-answering
I-S Kang and J-H Lee (Pohang Uni)
  Conceptual Schema Approach to Natural Language Database Access
M Herke-Couchman and C Whitelaw (Sydney)
  Identifying interpersonal distance using systemic features



From rdale@ics.mq.edu.au  Wed Nov 12 01:54:43 2003
From: rdale@ics.mq.edu.au (rdale@ics.mq.edu.au)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:54:43 -0000
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] (no subject)
Message-ID: <twig.1068598483.54442@ics.mq.edu.au>

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PLEASE NOTE DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR 

      PAPERS SUBMISSIONS TO MID DAY (JST) NOVEMBER, 17 TH

                                        FROM  NOVEMBER 15 TH 
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*********** IJCNLP-04 Newsletter No.3 (6th of Nov. 2003)***************

The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
         organized by the Asia Federation of NLP associations (AFNLP)

   http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04
   http://www.colips.org/conference/ijcnlp04/ (mirror site in Singapore)

   http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ijcnlp04 (mirror site at USC)

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[Date]
       Main Conference: March 22-24, 2004
       Workshops/symposium: March 25-26, 2004

[Venue]
       Resort Golden Palm http://www.resortgp.com.cn/
       Sanya, Hainan island, China 
       ***Land's End - Hainan is so remote on the sea that ancient people,
          while believing that earth is square, really thought it is where
          the land ends*** 
       http://www.regenttour.com/chinaplanner/hainan/

[Sponsoring Organizations]

Association for Natural Language Processing of Japan (ANLP), Tokyo 
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Philadelphia Association for 
Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
   Processing (ACLCLP), Taipei    
Korea NLP society, Seoul
Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CLISC), Beijing   
(more to be added)

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This issue contains

[1] Publication Policy
[2] Donation 
[3] Merger of two thematic sessions
[4] The electronic submission site is now UP
[5] Workshops and Satellite Symposium

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[1] Publication Policy

We are very glad to announce that:

   1.  Springer Verlag has agreed to publish a selection of IJCNLP-2004 
   papers as a book in its wellknown LNAI series. The editorial committee
   will make all efforts to include every worthwhile paper in this
   publication, which will have benefited from revision following
   discussions and comments at the conference.

   2. The proceedings of IJCNLP-2004 will be archived in the ACL anthology
   site for future reference.

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[2] LATEST DONATION TO AFNLP FOR ITS INAUGURAL CONFERENCE IN HAINAN

We are very grateful to our colleagues from the Association for Computational 
Linguistics and Chinese Langauge Processing in Taipei for joining the ranks 
of others in their generous support of the inaugaural conference of AFNLP in 
Hainan next march in spirit and in monetary terms. 

The contributions we will receive will go a long way towards helping 
promoting better cross-fertilization among NLP efforts in asia beyond the 
conference, especially with respect to colleagues working on languages not 
yet on centre stage.  Thus far we have support pledged from the following 
organizations:


Association for Natural Language Processing of Japan (ANLP), Tokyo 
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Philadelphia Association for 
Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
   Processing (ACLCLP), Taipei    
Korea NLP society, Seoul
Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CLISC), Beijing   

We would very much welcome similar reponse from other like minded 
organizations, which are in a position to add to the material support as well.

Professors Kam-Fai Wong and Tom Lai are the chair and vice chair of the 
Finance committee for IJCNLP-04 and will be happy to follow up on any 
specific queries.

We thank our colleagues in Taipei again and with all best wishes,

Benjamin Tsou
General Co-chair

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[3] Merger of two thematic sessions

Following two original Thematic Sessions have been merged into a new
one:

[Original TS-2] Natural Language Technology in the Text Processing
   User Interface (organized by Michael Kuehn and Kumiko TANAKA-Ishii)

[Original TS-3] Mobile Information Retrieval (organized by Mun-Kew
   Leong) 

New Thematic Sessions after merge:              

[TS-1] Natural Language Learning using Both Labeled and Unlabeled Data
   (organized by: Hang Li)

[New TS-2] Natural Language Technologies in Mobile Information
   Retrieval and Text Processing User Interfaces (organized by: Michael
   Kuehn, Mun-Kew Leong, and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii) 

[New TS-3] Text mining in Biomedicine (organized by: Sophia Ananiadou
   and Jong C. Park) 

The procedure for submitting papers to those Thematic Sessions would be 
exactly the same as that for submitting papers to other general areas 
(http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submitijc.html).

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[4] The electronic submission site is now UP

You can get information necessary for submission from 
[Submission Information Web Site]: 
   http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submission.html

And the submission site is:
[Submission Web Site]: 
   http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submitijc.html

The submission deadline for both the general areas and thematic sessions
are: 

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[Deadline of Submission] 12 a.m. (mid day, JST), November 17 (Mon)

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[5] Workshops and Satellite Symposium

We will have the following four workshops and one satellite symposium on 
March 25 and/or 26, following the main conference. You find the details of 
these events in our web site. Another one or two workshops are now being 
planned and will be announced soon.  

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[W1] Asian Language Resources

(Organiziers) 
Chair: 
Virach Sornlertlamvanich 
(Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL, Bangkok)
Co-chairs:
Chu-Ren Huang (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo)

Paper submission deadline: December 12, 2003

***
[W2] Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering - Towards
   Systematizing and Automatic Evaluation 

(Organizers)
Chin-Yew Lin (USC/ISI, Los Angeles)
Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing)

Paper submission deadline: December 12, 2003

***
[W3] Beyond shallow analyses - Formalisms and statistical modeling for
   deep analyses 

(Organizers)
R. Kaplan (Parc, Palo Alto)
M. Johnson (Brown University, Rhode Island)
A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
D. McAllester (Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago)
Y. Miyao (University of Tokyo, Tokyo) 
S. Oepen (University of Oslo, Oslo and Stanford Univ., Palo Alto) 
S. Riezler (Parc, Palo Alto)
J. Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Tokyo) 
H. Uszkoreit (DFKI and Saarbrueken University, Saarbrueken)

Paper submission deadline: January 31, 2004 

***
[W4] Named Entity Recognition for Natural Language Processing
   Applications 

(Organizer)
Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Paper submission deadline: 8 December 2003

***Satellite Symposium***
[SS1] Asian Symposium on Natural Language Processing to Overcome
   Language Barriers  

(Organizers)
ISAHARA Hitoshi (Co-chair) - Communications Research Laboratory NITTA 
Yoshihiko (Co-chair) - Nihon University AKIBA Tomoyoshi - National Institute 
of Advanced Industrial Science
                   and Technology 
INUI Kentaro - Nara Institute of Science and Technology
UTSURO Takehito - Kyoto University
FUKUMOTO Jun'ichi - Ritsumeikan University
NAKANO Mikio - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Submission of Extended Abstracts:  December 2, 2003




From sb@cs.mu.oz.au  Tue Dec 16 08:31:16 2003
From: sb@cs.mu.oz.au (Steven Bird)
Date: 16 Dec 2003 18:31:16 +1100
Subject: [ALTA-Announce] ALTA Summer School and Workshop
Message-ID: <1071559896.1663.4246.camel@aviary>

Thanks to all those who participated in the ALTA Summer School and
Workshop last week.  Feedback from delegates was overwhelmingly 
positive, and we were delighted with how it all went.  Special 
thanks to our Summer School presenters (Harold Somers, Mark Johnson,
Robert Dale, Dominique Estival, Jim Hogan, David Grayden, David Powers,
Diego Molla, Trevor Cohn), our guest lecturers (Ricardo Baeza-Yates,
Cecile Paris, Peter Wallis, Timothy Baldwin) and all Workshop
presenters (too numerous to mention), to Alistair Knott and Dominique
Estival for chairing the Workshop, to our sponsors: Appen and DSTO,
to Bronwen, Jen and all at Conference Management at Melbourne University,
to our student helpers, and to Professor Rao and the Department of
Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne
for hosting the events.

For those who didn't receive the email address list of participants, 
please contact Cathy Bow (cbow@unimelb.edu.au), and those who didn't 
fill out the questionnaire, it can be downloaded from the website 
http://www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/alta/.

We still have some extra copies of the published proceedings from the 
Workshop, as well as the CD-ROM of the Summer School.  They can be 
bought for $25 each, or $40 together.  Please contact Cathy to order
these.

Updated and additional slides from the presentations will be available 
on the ALTA website (www.alta.asn.au) some time in January.  Any 
presenters who wish to add content should contact Diego Molla after 
January 12.

Thanks again, and best wishes for the New Year,
Cathy Bow and Steven Bird.