Subject: ranlp : call for participation

international conference " recent advances in natural language processing " _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ tzigov chark , bulgaria 14 - 16 sept 1995 location : tzigov chark is a beautiful resort in the rhodope mountains on the shore of batak lake . tzigov chark is 150km from sofia , the capital of bulgaria . preliminary program : papers : kuang - hua chen , hsin - hsi chen ( taiwan ) a corpus-based approach to text partition allan ramsay , reinhard schaeler ( ireland ) case and word order in english and german marcel cori , michel de fornel , j . m . marandin ( france ) parsing repairs christer samuelsson ( germany ) example - based optimization of surface - generation tables ivan bretan , maans engstedt and bjoern gambaeck ( sweden ) a multimodal environment for telecommunication specifications inaki alegria , xabier artola , kepa sarasola ( spain ) improving a robust morphological analyzer using lexical transducers daniel jones , harold somers ( uk ) bilingual vocabulary estimation from noisy parallel corpora using variable bag estimation harris papageorgiou ( greece ) clause recognition in the framework of alignment tadashi nomoto ( japan ) effects of grammatical annotation on a topic identification task wiebke ramm and claudia villiger ( germany ) global text organization and sentence - grammatical realization : towards a discourse - level control of grammatical selections olivier ferret and brigitte grau ( france ) an episodic memory for understanding and learning david d . palmer ( usa ) experiments in multilingual sentence boundary recognition marie owens , p . o'boyle , f . j . smith ( uk ) a missing-word evaluation of statistical language model performance using human subjects khalil sima ' an ( holland ) an optimized algorithm for data oriented parsing jan schaake and geert - jan m . kruijff ( holland ) discerning relevant information in discourses using tfa hideki kozima , akira ito ( japan ) context - sensitive measurement of word distance by adaptive scaling of a semantic space akito nagai , ishikawa yasushi , nakajima kunio ( japan ) concept - driven search algorithm incorporating semantic interpretation and speech recognition shinsuke mori and makoto nagao ( japan ) grammar extraction and parsing a natural language using n - gram statistics mihoko kitamura , yuji matsumoto ( japan ) a mt system based on translation rules acquired from parallel corpora udo hahn , michael strube ( germany ) parsetalk about textual ellipsis victoria arranz , ian radford , sofia ananiadou , jan - ichi tsujii ( uk ) towards a sublanguage-based semantic clustering algorithm jung h . shin , young s . han , young c . park , key s . choi ( korea ) a hmm part - of - speech tagger for korean with wordphrasal relations ye - yi wang and alex waibel ( usa ) connectionist transfer in machine translation malgorzata stys ( uk ) , stefan zemke ( sweden ) incorporating discourse aspects in polish - - english mt : towards robust implementation : kalina boncheva ( bulgaria ) generation of multilingual explanations from conceptual graphs r . basili , m . della rocca , maria pazienza , p . velardi ( italy ) contexts and categories : tuning a general purpose verb classification to sublanguages ruslan mitkov ( germany ) two engines are better than one : generating more power and confidence in the search for the antecedent ching long yeh , chris mellish ( uk ) an empirical study on the generation of descriptions for nominal anaphors in chinese ismail biskri , jean pierre descles ( france ) applicative and combinatory categorial grammar from syntax to functional semantics ) hang li and naoki abe ( japan ) generalizing case frames using a thesaurus and the mdl principle project notes : fuji ren , lixin fan ( japan ) reservable structural ambiguities and its application in japanese - chinese machine translation jawad berri , dominique le roux , denise malrieu , jean - luc minel ( france ) seraphin , an automatic system for main sentences extraction matthew hurst ( uk ) parsing for targeted errors in controlled languages franklin cho ( usa ) implementing scrambling in korean : a principles and parameters approach akira utsumi ( japan ) how to interpret irony by computer : a comprehensive framework for irony martin simon ulmann ( switzerland ) decomposing german compound nouns jan schaake and geert - jan m . kruijff ( holland ) information states based analysis of dialogues galja angelova ( bulgaria ) , walter von hahn ( germany ) naive lexicon or cryptic formalismus ? user support in machine aided translation german rigau claramunt and eneko agirre ( spain ) a proposal for word sense disambiguation using conceptual distance chadia moghrabi , l . girard , m . s . eid ( canada ) chemistry : a new domain for a portable text generation system manfred kudlek ( germany ) some formal aspects of time , tense and aspect zaharin yusoff ( malaysia ) unification - like attribute operations in the string-tree correspondence grammar reserve project notes : marie christine villain , philippe trigano , jean deloire ( france ) intelligent textual database and automatic aquisition of word associations nigel collier ( uk ) contextual meta-knowledge acquisition from corpora organizing committee : ruslan mitkov iai saarbruecken / univ . of hamburg / inst . of mathematics - sofia manfred kudlek university of hamburg , germany michael zock limsi , orsay , france nikolai nikolov incoma , bulgaria victoria arranz ccl , umist , manchester , uk nicolas nicolov dept . of artificial intelligence , university of edinburgh , uk conference information : for further information please contact : prof . ruslan mitkov < mitkov @ informatik . uni-hamburg . de > or nicolas nicolov < nicolas @ edinburgh . aisb . ac . uk > conference venue : the conference will take place in hotel " orpheus " , tzigov chark , which accomodates up to 50 participants . we have chosen a small and cosy conference hotel to create a better and friendlier working and social environment : however this implies restrictions on the availability of single rooms and participants will be normally offered to share 2 - bed rooms . those interested in attending the conference are encouraged to register as early as possible . location and transportation : tzigov chark is situated on the shore of the beautiful batak lake in the western rhodope mountains and is 150km from sofia , the capital of bulgaria . the local organisers will provide a daily shuttle bus / conference taxi from sofia airport to the summer school location at an inexpensive rate . sofia is easily accessible by plane from most major european cities ( e . g . daily flights or several flights per week from london , frankfurt , paris , zurich , vienna and other european cities ) . there are also direct flights to sofia from north america ( new york , toronto ) and asia ( singapore , bangkok , kuala lumpur ) . in order to enable the local organisers to plan the shuttle service efficiently , please contact victoria arranz < victoria @ ccl . umist . ac . uk > with details about your journey ( arrival / departure time and date ) at least 2 weeks before you leave for the summer school . related events : conference participants are also invited to take part in the int . summer school " contemporary topics in computational linguistics " , which will take place immediately before the conference in the same hotel . further information about the conference can be obtained from : prof . r . mitkov < mitkov @ informatik . uni-hamburg . de > or nicolas nicolov < nicolas @ aisb . edinburgh . ac . uk > or you can have a look at the summer school www page at url : http : / / www . dai . ed . ac . uk / misc / nlp _ conf . html registration for the conference : kindly note that bank processing charges are at the expense of the participants and that registration after 1st august will incur a surcharge of 30 usd . international conference " recent advances in natural language processing " _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ registration form name : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ affiliation : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ address : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ telephone : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ fax : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ e-mail : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ registration fee . . . . . : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 180 usd for industrial participants 140 usd for academic staff 100 usd for students accommodation + half-board : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ( 30 usd per day per person ) specify days - 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mail : nicolas @ aisb . edinburgh . ac . uk
