Other Events in August: IWNLG August 5-7 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Coling-ACL August 10-14 in Montreal

The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Université de Moncton is organizing its second international conference onNLP and industrial applications. This year a special attention is given to Computer assisted language learning.

Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to,

- computer assisted language learning,
- natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken and
  hand-written language,
- natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial
  applications
- machine translation, computer aided translation, translation
  aids,
- syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology,
- dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources
- multimodality
- multilinguality
- NLP industrial applications
- papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and
  practice of NLP in general and Language learning in particular.

1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title, the authors' names, affiliations, addresses, a five (5) keyword list specifying the subject area, a five (5) line summary, and the name and address of the contact person.

2) Abstracts should not exceed 400 words in length excluding references (12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4 please keep text within 19cm x 25,5 cm).

3) The identification page and the abstract should be submitted in 4 HARD COPIES (12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4 please keep text within 19cm x 25,5 cm) to:

4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text.

HOTEL & LODGING:

Hotel fees and reservations are not included in the conference fees and are
to be arranged separately by the participants, the information cited here
is for convenience, you have to contact them yourself and confirm the prices.

Hotel Beausejour:

  750 Main street, Moncton.
  115 C$ (including taxes) for one or two people per room, one or two beds
  23C$ (including taxes) per additional person (max 4 per room), two beds.
  * The hotel's restaurant has won a 4 diamond award...
  * Fax: (506) 858-0957, Tel: (506) 854-4344.
  Toll free number: 1 800 441-1414

  1005 Main street, Moncton.
  92 C$ including taxes one person one bed
  105 C$    "       "    for one person one bed
  115 C$    "       "    for two persons two beds
  * Fax: (506) 382-8923, Tel: (506) 854-6340.

  434 Main street, Moncton.
  75 C$ including taxes for one double bed.
  85 CS    "       "    for two double beds.
  * Prices were given by bed and not by person
  * Fax: (506) 855-9494, Tel (506) 382-1664

  46 Archibald street, Moncton.
  75 C$ including taxes per room
  * Tel: (506) 382-1054

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Anne De Roeck (Essex, UK)
Arnold Smith (NRC, Canada)
Chadia Moghrabi (Moncton, Canada)
Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France)
Chrysanne DiMarco (Logos, Waterloo, Canada)
Eric Wehrli (Geneva, Switzerland)
Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague)
Genvieve Caelen-Haumont (GEOD, Grenoble, France)
Graeme Hirst (Toronto, Canada)
Harry Bunt (Tilburg, Netherlands)
Henry Hamburger (George Mason, USA)
Howard Hamilton (Regina, Canada)
John Hutchins (East Anglia, UK)
John Tait (Sunderland, UK)
Junichi Tsujii (UMIST, UK)
Manfred Stede (TU-Berlin, Germany)
Marcel Cori (Paris-7, France)
Mark Seligman (GETA-CLIPS & Red Pepper, USA)
Michael Levison (Queens, Canada)
Nocoletta Calzolari (Pisa, Italy)
Pierre Isabelle (RALI, Montreal, Canada)
Pierrette Bouillon (Geneva, Switzerland)
Paul Tarau (Moncton, Canada)
Remi Chadel (Inxight, Xerox, France)
Roberto Basili (Roma, Italy)
Ruddy Lelouche (Laval, Canada)
Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
Thierry Chanier (Franche-Comte, France)
Thierry Van Steenberghe (Leuven, Belgium)
Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser, Canada)
Yael Ravin (IBM, USA)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, UK)

Some more to be confirmed...

Margaret King: ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland
TALKK ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION/
Ressources et evaluation linguistiques

Thierry Chanier: Universite Franche-Comte, France
Presentation sur le lien entre l'enseignement de la langue et le TAL /
TALK ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CALL and NLP

Submissions are due on April 28th 1998. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the contact person soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 June 1998. Camera-ready copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of August 1998 along with registration fees.

Authors are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the single word INTENTION in the subject line.

Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration can still
send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical
requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs,
etc.) to nlp+ia-98@imag.fr with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line.

Accompanying persons can enjoy the lovely outdoor living in New-Brunswick
and visit the highest tides in the world. Moncton is only 20km away from the sandy beaches of Shediac,
"La Capitale Mondiale du Homard".

The conference is organized by GRETAL, Groupe d'étude sur le traitement automatique des langues at the Universite' de Moncton in cooperation with GETA-CLIPS at l'Universite' Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. The members of the organizing committee are:

The registration fees are 475 Canadian dollars per participant. They include:

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All payments must be made in Canadian dollars and paid to:
Universite de Moncton, c/o NLP+IA /TAL+AI 98. All transfer fees are the
participant's responsibility. Payments must be remitted as follows (choose
one option):

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                            account#: 00007-25
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      be Faxed to us for reference/claims puposes. If you have an accepted
      submission, you can send it with your camera-ready version of your paper.
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Modeles humains dans un systeme multi-agents orientes apprentissage
et detection-correction d'erreurs.
        Jacques Menezo; France

Multilingual Lexical Resources for large-scale Text Generation.
        Cornelia M. Verspoor, Vicente Uceda and Cecile Paris; Australia

Speech and Language Interaction in a (Virtual) Cultural Theatre.
        A. van Hessen, A. Nijholt, et al.; Netherlands

Un système d'apprentissage assisté par ordinateur de la génération
de phrases en Arabe.
        Riadh ZAAFRANI; France

Structuring a network of lexical cooccurrences into topic
representations by analyzing texts.
        Olivier Ferret and Brigitte Grau; France

Producing NLP-based On-line Contentware.
        Francis Wolinski, Frantz Vichot, Olivier Grémont; France

Integration of NLP Tools in an Intelligent Computer Assisted Language
Learning Environment for Basque: IDAZKIDE.
        DÌaz de Ilarraza, A. Maritxalar, M. Maritxalar & M. Oronoz; Spain

Using constraints for suppressing dead ends in grammars.
        Cyril Garde & Claude Lai; France

Improving Tagging Accuracy by Using Voting Taggers.
        L. Màrquez, L. Padró, H. Rodríguez; Catalonia, Spain

Translation examples browser: Japanese to English translation aid for
news articles.
        Tadashi Kumano, Hideki Tanaka,
        Noriyoshi Uratani & Terumasa Ehara; Japan

A Statistics-based Approach to Chinese Prepositional Phrase Disambiguation.
        Kam-Fai WONG & Wen-Jie LI; Hong Kong

Minori-Fra: Logiciel d'enseignement du Francais en milieu minoritaire.
        Chadia Moghrabi; Canada

SAFRAN-Grammaire.
        Marie-Josee Hamel & Anne Vandeventer; UK & Suisse

Learning Spanish and Catalan verbs Through EuroWordnet.
        M. Antonia Marti & Roser Morante; Spain

Error Diagnosis for Language Learning Systems.
        Wolfgang Menzel & Ingo Schroeder; Germany

Computer-Assisted Writing System:  Improving Readability with Respect to
Information Structure.
        Nobo Komagata; USA

Élimination de la redondance dans la génération automatique de descriptions
de comportement de systèmes dynamiques.
        Nicole TOURIGNY et Laurence CAPUS; Canada

Un Système Automatique de diagnostic d'Erreurs pour l'ELAO.
        Anne Vandeventer; Suisse

Générer De Façon Automatique Des Résumés Grâce À Des Expériences Similaires.
        Laurence CAPUS et Nicole TOURIGNY; Canada

A syntactic verification system for arabic texts  based on a robust parser
and using a large compressed lexicon.
        Riadh Ouersighni; France

Natural Language Technology in Precision Content Retrieval.
        Jacek Ambroziak and William A. Woods

Ficus - un agent dictionaire coopératif extensible.
        Mathieu LAFOURCADE & Jacques CHAUCHE; France

A Two-Stage Model for Robust Parsing.
        Erik Oltmans; Netherlands

Analyse morphologique et voyellation assistée  par ordinateur de la langue arabe.
        Malek GHENIMA

Ontologies-based relevant information retrieval.
        F.-Y. Villemin; France

Delegating Actions from Texts in a Virtual Environment.
        Fabrice Tabordet , Fabrice Pied , and Pierre Nugues; France

An autonomous, web-based, multilingual corpus collection tool.
        Jim Cowie, Eugene Ludovik & Ron Zacharski; USA

Problèmes scientifiques intéressants en traduction de parole.
        Christian Boitet; France

Centering Theory and Resolving It in Business Texts.
        Gregory F. Roberts; USA

TR-AID : A Memory-based translation aid framework.
        Stelios Piperidis, Christos Malavazos, Ioannis Triantafyllou; Greece

A Transformational Approach to NL Understanding in Dialogue Systems.
        Danny Lie, Joris Hulstijn, Rieks op den Akker, Anton Nijholt; Netherlands

Reluctantly Paraphrasing Text.
         Mark Dras; Australia

Improving robust domain independent summarization.
        Jim Cowie,  Eugene Ludovik,  & Hugo Molijna-Salgado; USA

Language Learning Data: Online Confusion.
        Lisa Harper and Florence Reeder; USA

NLP and Radiology reports.
        Gees C Stein & Tomek Strzalkowski; USA

BLAK, un assistant de découverte des caractères chinois, fonctionnement
par accès dynamique à des ressources lexicales variées.
        L. Fischer, G. Fafiotte; France

Text Expansion Using Temporal and Causal Relations.
        Yllias Chali; Canada

Automatic Generation of On-Line Help: A Practical Approcah.
        Cecile Paris and Keith Vander Linden; Australia &USA

To Integrate Your Language web Tools - CALL Web CT.
        Sabine Siekmann; USA

 L'édition lexicographique dans un système générique de gestion
de bases lexicales multilingues.
        G. Sérasset, M. Mangeot; France

How the construction of a Computer System may influence language
teaching practices: the communication situation variables.
        R. Lelouche, D. Huot; Canada

Concordances avancées sur corpus spécialisé pour l'enseignement de
l'anglais technique.
        P.-Y. Foucou & N. Kübler; France

Cross-linguistic Resources for MT Evaluation and Language Training.
        Lisa Hale Decrozant, Dr Clare R. Voss; USA

NLP for text classification: the TREVI experience.
        R.Basili, M. V. Marabello, L. Mazzucchelli, & M. T. Pazienza; Italy

Dictionnaires électroniques et analyse morphologique.
        Jerzy Sitko; France

Integrating language generation and prosody control.
        Pierre Larey, Nadine bigouroux, & Guy PÈrennou; France

MULINEX Multilingual web search and anvigation.
        Joanne Capstick, Abdel Kader Diagne, Gregor Erbach, &
        Hans Uszkoreit; Germany, Italy, France & Belgium

Kurdish Language Technology and Planning.
        Siamak Rezaei Durroei; UK

Intonation, vowel length, and 'well': Thhe intersection of phonology and
discourse analysis and its effects on meaning interpretation in conversation.
        Jason Miller; USA

Représentation Sémantique Orientée-Objets de Requètes en Langage Naturel.
        Abdelmajid Benhamadou; Tunisia

Who will be presenting the articles?
        Only the co-authors already announced.

If I have two accepted publications, do I have to pay twice?
        No, unless more than one author plans on paricipating.

If the number of participants is not sufficient, will you cancel the outing or will the prices go up?
        We will ask you what you want to do at the time being.