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NL-KR Digest (Thu Nov 15 13:18:35 1990) Volume 7 No. 22 Today's Topics: Machine Translation Information on new book on speech recognition Post-Doc Position Available at DOC, Ottawa, CANADA CFP: conference on literary, humanities, and linguistic computing CFP: The journal of Computers and the Humanities UCSD faculty position in Linguistics Date Change for Malaysian Computational Linguistics Conference Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.5.17] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPIECS and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPIECS. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: Tony McEnery <mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: Machine Translation Date: 4 Oct 90 15:33:50 GMT Reply-To: Tony McEnery <mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk> NEW JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT Applied Computer Translation Keep Up To Date With Machine Translation And Computer Aided Language Learning Applied Computer Translation (ACT) aims to encourage an inter-disciplinary perspective on this all important issue, by bringing together concepts from linguistics, computer science and related fields, in an easily understandable form. Topics covered include knowledge based and probabilistic machine translation, computer aided language learning and corpus based applications. News and reviews provide informed insight into developments in the field, as well as providing a useful channel for information. Applications from the mainframe to the micro are covered, ranging from research projects at an international level, to activities in the classroom. The journal gives high quality academic and industrial opinion in a digestible form - articles and features will work together to provide not only new information, but also background to areas already covered, to facilitate wider understanding. Within the journal, language professionals, linguists, computer scientists, industrialists and those with any interest in machines and language can find a forum for active, intelligent discussion on this important topic. CONTRIBUTIONS INCLUDE : Research Papers at the very forefront of technology. Application Reports - short papers covering a wide area, from personal comments to positional papers to previews of forthcoming work. Case Studies - reviews of major applications of computer translation in any environment. (All Above REFEREED) Reviews of books, software and new equipment. EDITORS : General Editor : Tony McEnery, UCREL, Department Of Computing, Engineering Building, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, ENGLAND. email mcenery@uk.ac.lancs.comp Far East Editor : Professor Jun-Ichi Tsujii, c/o Motojiro Tsujii, 78 Un'rin'in cho, Kita-Ku, Kyoto, Japan 603. (Visiting Professor at UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, ENGLAND) email : tsujii@uk.ac.umist.ccl North American Editor : Dr. Ezra Black, Continuous Speech Recognition Group, Research Division, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, PO Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA. email : BLACK@almaden.ibm.com General Board : Dr. D. Arnold (Linguistics, University Of Essex, UK) Dr. W. Black (Computational Linguistics, UMIST, UK) Prof. J Durand (Linguistics, Salford University, UK) John Higgins (School Of Education, Bristol University,UK) Ian Kelly (Chairman, British Computer Society Special Interest Group On Natural Language Translation) Prof. F. Knowles (Modern Languages, Aston University, UK) Tom Routen (Dept. Maths Stats & Computing, Leicester Polytechnic, UK) Prof. W. Skala (Department Of Informatics And Computing, Pilzen Institute Of Technology, Czechoslovakia) SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Volume 1 : Personal 22.50 pounds (45 dollars) Library/Corporate 45 pounds (90 dollars) Volume Two Onwards : Personal 30 pounds (60 dollars) Library/Corporate 60 pounds (120 dollars) Prices Include Postage/Airmail Send Cheques/PO's/Money Orders OR MASTERCARD/EUROCARD/VISA/ACCESS (number, expiry date & signature) To : Sigma Press, 1 South Oak Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 6AR, UK. SUBMISSIONS : You are invited to submit contributions to the editors. The normal length of an article is 7,00 words, though longer articles may be accepted. You should write concisely but not at the expense of clarity, bearing in mind that the referees report will be based on a contributions length relative to its content. An acknowledgement of receipt will normally be sent within seven days. A publication decision should be made within six weeks of the receipt of a contribution. Our policy is to ensure rapid publication of accepted contributions so that their currency is maintained. It is imperative that all articles are either sent in ascii format by electronic mail, or on a 5.25/3.5 inch disk in a PC format. Several word processor formats are acceptable though straight ascii is simplest. Under extenuating circumstances manually typed articles will be accepted. Each article must be accompanied by an abstract. Please note that electronic submissions save the waste of paper. More detailed notes on guidance for contributors and a style sheet are available from the publishers on request. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: morgan@unix.sri.com (Morgan Kaufmann) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: Information on new book on speech recognition Keywords: speech,natural language,books Date: 4 Oct 90 20:52:16 GMT [ Technically, this is an advertisement. I am including it because it is an announcement that some may find useful, just like any journal announcement. If you care one way or another, let me know whether you think future digests should include such messages - CW ] Morgan Kaufmann Publishers announces the publication of a new title in our series of "Readings" books: READINGS IN SPEECH RECOGNITION edited by Alex Waibel and Kai-Fu Lee (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) After two decades of considerable activity, speech recognition is beginning to show promise as a practical technology and interest in the field is growing dramatically. READINGS IN SPEECH RECOGNITION provides a collection of key, seminal papers that have influenced or redirected the field and that illustrate the central insights that have emerged over the years. The editors provide an introduction to the field, its concerns and research problems. Subsequent chapters are devoted to the main schools of thought and design philosophies that have motivated different approaches to speech recognition system design. Each chapter includes an introduction to the papers that highlights the major insights or needs that have motivated an approach to a problem and describes the commonalities and differences of that approach to others in the book. ISBN: 1-55860-124-4 Price: $38.95 629 pages, softbound ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep >From: andrew@dgbt.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick DGBT/DBR) Subject: Post-Doc Position Available at DOC, Ottawa, CANADA Date: Fri, 5 Oct 90 15:11:32 GMT The Division of Behavioural Research in the federal Department of Communications will have an opening for one NSERC Visiting Fellow in 1991/92 (subject to budgetary approval). This position requires completion of a Ph.D. and would be of interest to psychologists (and others) who have concentrated their studies in one of the areas listed below. I would appreciate it if you would alert eligible graduate students in your department to this opening by posting or circulating this letter. The Division of Behavioural Research is a group of psychologists at the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa who study the human response to new communications and information technologies. This research covers a broad range of topics in perception, cognitive psychology, social psychology and artificial intelligence. It is anticipated that the Visiting Fellow would work in the Interactive Dialogues laboratory. This lab is developing natural language systems for browsing through electronic databases. These systems are being used in advanced interactive television design, electronic telephone and government directories, public education services about AIDS, and employment search skills training. This research provides an exciting opportunity to work on the development of natural language information systems, and to evaluate them in real-world tests with the general public. This fellowship is offered for one year with a possible renewal for a second year. Currently, the fellowship has an annual value of $32,239. Any person who will have defended a doctoral thesis in experimental psychology (or related fields) by the Summer of 1991 is eligible. An interest in computers or computer usage would be an asset. Specific knowledge about communications technologies or communications research is not required. Interested persons should request an Application for the Visiting Fellowships Program immediately from: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Research Manpower Program 200 Kent Street Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 1H5 (613) 996-4363 This application must be completed and returned to NSERC before 15 November 1990. As well, people who have expressed an interest in working at the Division of Behavioural Research in the Department of Communications on their NSERC application should forward a copy of their application to: Thomas Whalen Division of Behavioural Research Communications Research Centre Department of Communications 3701 Carling Avenue Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2H 8S2 (613) 990-4683 thom@dgbt.doc.ca Further information about the Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories Program may be obtained directly from NSERC. For further information about the Division of Behavioural Research, I may be contacted directly. - - Andrew Patrick, Ph.D. Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA andrew@dgbt.doc.CA andrew@doccrc.BITNET HDTV: higher resolution, improved colour, wider screen, "sit-com" reruns. What's wrong with this picture? ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Sun, 7 Oct 90 17:42 EDT >From: IDE%vassar.bitnet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU Reply-To: IDE%vassar.bitnet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU X-Envelope-To: nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu Subject: CFP: conference on literary, humanities, and linguistic computing Association for Computers and the Humanities Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing 1991 JOINT CONFERENCE 18-21 March 1991 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, USA TOPICS: Papers are invited on research in the areas of literary and linguistic computing, including, but not limited to, computational lexicography, corpora, text encoding, text representation (e.g., hypertext), statistical models and methods of text analysis, and syntactic, semantic, and content analysis; also computer applications in philosophy, music, history, art, etc. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe substantial and original work, especially new methodologies and applications. They should empahsize completed rather than intended work. FORMAT: Abstracts should be 1500-2000 words in length. Send hard copy or electronic copy by OCTOBER 15, 1990 to: Daniel Brink Department of English Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 (602) 965-2679 ATDXB@ASUACAD.BITNET CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Tempe is immediate adjacent to Phoenix, AZ, and less than one hour by air from Los Angeles. The weather in March is dry, with the temperature in the mid-70s to mid-80s (25-30 C), making swimming, tennis, and golf popular extracurricular activities. Tempe is close to a number of Native American towns (and archeological sites), as well as early mining camp ghost towns, and not too distant from a number of famous attractions, including Grand Canyon. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Donald Ross, University of Minnesota, chair Daniel Brink, Arizona State University, local host Tom Corns, University of Wales Paul Fortier, University of Manitoba Jacqueline Hamesse, Universite Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve Susan Hockey, Oxford University Computing Service Nancy Ide, Vassar College Randall Jones, Brigham Young University Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Sun, 7 Oct 90 22:22 EDT >From: IDE%vassar.bitnet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU Reply-To: IDE%vassar.bitnet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU X-Envelope-To: nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu Subject: CFP: The journal of Computers and the Humanities CALL FOR PAPERS The journal of Computers and the Humanities Special Issue on Common Methologies in Computational Linguistics and Humanities Computing edited by Nancy M. Ide and Donald E. Walker Recently, panels and sessions at COLING, and conferences of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing have addressed the increasing merging of methodologies in the fields of computational linguistics and humanities computing. On the one hand, computational linguists are devoting considerable attention to statistical and other quantitative measures traditionally used in humanities computing. Also, work with large text corpora, long the central activity in humanities computing, is also becoming an important area for computational linguistics. Computational linguists are now beginning to consider texts, and even literary texts, as an object of study and a rich source of information about the phenomena of language and discourse. On the other hand, humanists are turning to methods for morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis developed by computational linguists to enhance their strategies for literary and linguistic studies. A special issue of Computers and the Humanities will be devoted to papers that describe work which falls at the intersection of the fields of computational linguistics and humanities computing, either in methodology or use of materials. Papers dealing with computational lexicology and lexicography, corpora and corpus linguistics, statistical models and methods for language and text analysis, and syntactic, semantic, and content analytic methods are invited. All papers should be submitted by May 1, 1991. The special issue is expected to appear in late spring, 1992. Papers and requests for information should be sent to: Nancy M. Ide Department of Computer Science Box 520 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, USA ide@vassar.bitnet (+1 914) 437-5988 (+1 914) 437-7187 fax or Donald E. Walker Bellcore, MRE 2A379 445 South Street, Box 1910 Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA walker@flash.bellcore.com (+1 201) 829-4312 (+1 201) 455-1931 fax ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: elman%crl@ucsd.edu (Jeff Elman) Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: UCSD faculty position in Linguistics Date: 9 Oct 90 04:26:05 GMT Followup-To: elman@crl.ucsd.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: crl.ucsd.edu FACULTY POSITION University of California, San Diego Department of Linguistics The Department of Linguistics at the University of Califor- nia, San Diego has a tenure-track opening at the Assistant Professor level beginning September 1991. A linguistics Ph.D. is required. We seek a linguist with major interests in language processing and experimental approaches to the investigation of linguistic structure, combined with a strong background in theoretical and descriptive linguis- tics. Expertise in psycholinguistics or computational methods is especially desirable. The annual salary for an Assistant Professor is $33,900-$42,700. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of 3 referees, and one representative publication, to: University of California, San Diego Search Committee Department of Linguistics, 0108-E 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0108 Application materials must be received no later than December 1, 1990. The University of California is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 19 Oct 90 13:51:31 -0400 >From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: Date Change for Malaysian Computational Linguistics Conference INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CURRENT ISSUES IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Tutorials: 10-11 June 1991 Conference: 12-14 June 1991 The above conference will be held in the university campus on the given dates. Please note the change of dates with respect to our previous announcement, which has been made specifically to allow those wishing to attend the 1991 ACL annual meeting to return in time. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: syntax, semantics, discourse, formal models, grammar formalisms, language analysis and generation, understanding and knowledge representation, lexical issues, machine translation, etc., with the main objectives of the conference being: (i) bringing awareness of the state-of-the-art of the various subfields, and (ii) highlighting the most recent developments and implementation. About 45 papers will be presented, including 8 from our invited speakers (who will also conduct the tutorials, as well as form the program committee for the selection of papers), namely: Makato NAGAO (Computational Linguistics - in general), Lauri KARTUNNEN (Morphology), Eva HAJICOVA (Syntax), Petr SGALL (Semantics), Martin KAY (Formal Models), Christian BOITET (Machine Translation), Yorick WILKS (Artificial Intelligence), with the program committee to be chaired by Makato NAGAO. Those wishing to submit papers are reminded that 4 copies (of length not exceeding 15 pages) are to be sent to the Program Chairman strictly before 1 December 1990, the address being: Prof. Makato Nagao, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo, Kyoto 606, JAPAN [FAX: +81-75-751-1576]. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 15 March 1991, together with the formatting instructions for the final copies. Camera ready copies of accepted papers will have to be in Penang by 15 April 1991. The final announcement containing detailed information as well as the registration form should be going out to selected addresses by the middle of October 1990. All those who are interested but have not indicated their interest to attend the conference/tutorials are invited to write to the Secretariat: Josephine Ong, Pusat Pengajian Luar Kampus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia [FAX: 60-4-871526, Telex: MA 40254]. Academic matters are handled by Zaharin Yusoff, Projek Terjemahan Melalui Komputer, PPS Matematik & S Komputer, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia [FAX: 60-4-871526, Telex: MA 40254, Tel: 60-4-874125]. Registration fees are set at M$300 for the conference and M$200 for the tutorials, with a 50% discount given to students. The approximate exchange rate is US$1 = M$2.70 or M$1 = US$0.37. The fees include conference/tutorial material, coffee, tea, lunch, conference dinner, and transport to and from assigned hotels. Registration forms and full remittance are due in by 15 April 1991. ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************