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Real signs in real establishments:
*** Polish Restaurant: As for the tripe served you at the
Hotel Monopol, you will be singing its praises to your
grandchildren on your deathbed.
*** Paris Restaurant: We serve five o'clock tea at all
hours.
*** Bangkok Bar: The Shadiest Cocktail Bar in Bangkok.
*** Swimming pool on the French Riviera: Swimming is
forbidden in the absence of a savior.
*** Sri Lanka Swimming Pool: Do not use the diving board
when the swimming pool is empty.
*** Hotel on the Ionian Sea: In order to prevent shoes
from mislaying, please don't corridor them. The
management cannot be held.
*** Tel Aviv Hotel: If you wish breakfast, lift the
telephone and our waitress will arrive. This
will be enough to bring up your food.
*** Istanbul Hotel: To call Room Service, please open the
door and call Room Service.
*** Beirut Hotel: Ladies are kindly requested not to have
their babies in the cocktail bar.
*** Mexico City: We sorry to advise you that by a electric
disperfect in the generator master of the elevator we have
the necessity that don't give service at our
distinguishable guests.
*** Gaspe Peninsula: No dancing in the bathrooms!
*** Madrid Hotel: If you wish disinfection enacted in your
presence, cry out for the chambermaid.
*** Tokyo Hotel: Keep your hands away from unnecessary
buttons for you.
*** Paris Hotel: A sports jacket may be worn to dinner, but
not trousers.
*** Paris Hotel: Tea in a bag, just like mother.
*** Chinese Road Sign: Go soothingly on the greasy mud, for
therein lies the skid demon.
*** Barcelona Travel Agency Sign: Go Away.
*** Amusement Ride Sign in Saudi Arabia: For your safety
this game is not allowed for those who suffer from
hearts, diabetics, nerves, high pressure and pregnants.
*** Zanzibar Barbershop: Gentlemen's throats cut with nice
sharp razors.
*** Israeli Butcher Shop: I slaughter myself twice daily.
*** Highway Signs in India:
- Avoid Overspeeding.
- Always Avoid Accidents.
*** A collection of various signs, packages, T-Shirts and
shopping bags in Japan:
- Just Fit For You, King King
- Fancy Pimple
- Persistent Pursuit of Dainty
- Vigorous Throw-up
- A drop of sweat is the precious gift for your guts
*** Mexico City Hotel: Broken English spoken perfectly.
-\-/-\ LOOK WHO'S TALKING \-/-\-
-- Arnold Zwicky will present the UCDavis linguistics colloquium next
Friday, January 17, on: 'The key to Auxiliary Reduction: Prosodic
features licensed by syntactic rules.'
-/-\-/ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM /-\-/-
Friday, January 10, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (460), Room 146
Anne Abeille
IUF & University Paris 7 Denis Diderot
abeille@linguist.jussieu.fr
csli visitor until 1/24
Cordura 125 abeille@csli.stanford.edu
French Word Order and the Word Phrase Distinction
Word order phenomena are the results of the interaction of
several linguistic and extralinguistic factors. I focus here on some
syntactic constraints French word order, and propose a treatment which
relies on underspecification and not on movement. As SVO languages in
general, lexical heads come before any other constituent in
French. Contrary to English, the order between phrasal constituents is
free (modulo discursive effects):
(i) Marie dit `a Jean de partir/ dit de partir `a Jean
('M told J to leave.')
(ii) Marie donne (gentiment) des fleurs (gentiment) `a Paul (gentiment)
('M kindly gives flowers to J.')
Differences between phrasal and lexical elements have been noted in English
(Pollard and Sag 1987, Arnold and Sadler 1992) and Korean (Sells 1994); I
show here that in French, lexical constituents are the only constituents
which exhibit a fixed order:
1) they precede all phrasal constituents, as shown with bare nominal
complements or degree adverbs:
(iii) La course donne soif `a Marie/ * donne `a Marie soif
('Running gives thirst to M.= makes M. thirsty.')
(iv) Marie mange bien sa soupe / * mange sa soupe bien
('M eats her soup well.')
2) lexical complements are ordered among themselves, according to the
obliqueness hierarchy :
(v) La course donne bien soif `a Marie / * donne soif bien `a Marie
('Running gives well thirst to Mary.')
3) lexical modifiers must adjoin to the lexical head, and precede all
complements.
Lexical constituents are lexical items that fail to project phrases on
their own, such as negative or degree adverbs, bare quantifiers, bare
common nouns in light verbs constructions, prenominal adjectives and
certain verbal forms in complex predicate constructions.
I assume a feature [LEX {+,-}] (Pollard and Sag 1987, Arnold and Sadler 1992),
which is not reducible to the word/phrase distinction. There are words that
behave as [LEX -] items (proper names, manner adverbs...). Moreover, I
analyze some left adjunctions (tr`es bien = very well) and some
coordinations (bien ou mal = well or badly) as phrases (built in the
syntax) which are underspecified for [LEX ].
If time permits, I will show how this account of word order
interacts nicely with an HPSG grammar for French (Abeille, Godard,
Miller and Sag in progress) and especially with the flat structures we
propose for auxiliary and causative constructions.
There is a paper available on this subject by Daniele Godard
and myself called "Lexicality and French word order", to appear in B.
Borsley (ed) Syntactic categories, Syntax and semantics, Academic
Press. Please email me for a copy.
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Reception follows.
For directions and a complete list of colloquia, see
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/Linguistics/colloq/colloq.html
-/-\-/ PHONOLOGY WORKSHOP /-\-/-
Margaret Jacks Hall, Seminar Rm 146
Thursday, January 9, 1997, 7:30 pm
KOREAN PHRASING: AN OPTIMALITY-THEORETIC APPROACH
Young-mee Yu Cho
Rutgers University
There have been a number of insightful instrumental studies of Korean
intonation (Koo 1986, Silva 1992, Jun 1993, Kenstowicz & Sohn 1996).
Recent interpretation of the data seems to suggest that Standard Korean is
a deprived pitch-accent system where an underlying tonal melody is not
associated with a lexical item (except for the set of interrogative
pronouns), but is mapped onto the phonological phrase as defined by the
theory of Prosodic Hierarchy (Cho 1990).
An Optimality-Theoretic investigation of Korean phrasing promises
to be especially fruitful since diverse constraints reflecting syntactic
constituency, weight, speech rate, and focus interact intricately to
produce the surface patterns of intonation and rhythm. This is
particularly true in light of the fact that phrasing in many cases
exhibits top-down effects rather than is constructed in a bottom-up
fashion, adjoining phonological words directly.
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
All are welcome for pizza before the talk. Please come at 7:00 pm
(Rm 146) for pizza. R.S.V.P so that we know how much to order.
-/-\-/ SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM /-\-/-
The Linguistic Construction of Social Meaning
by
Penny Eckert
Department of Linguistics and
Institute for Research on Learning
on Thursday, January 9
4:15 p.m., Bldg. 460:146 (Margaret Jacks Hall)
Refreshments will be served at the forum.
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Adolescents are linguistic movers and shakers, leading other age groups in
linguistic innovation and in the use of local and vernacular linguistic
features. This can be attributed to the intense collaborative construction
of identity (or social meaning) within the adolescent cohort. This talk
will show how phonological variables (in this case, variables that
constitute what we hear as a midwestern accent) serve as resources in the
construction of social meaning within an adolescent cohort in the Detroit
suburban area. Based on ethnographic and quantitative sociolinguistic
research in and around several high schools, but focusing on a graduating
class in one of these schools, the talk explores the nature of social
meaning on the basis of correlations between the use of urban and suburban
linguistic variables, and engagement in key aspects of local adolescent
social practice.
-/-\-/ CALL FOR PAPERS /-\-/-
-- HPSG-97: 4th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar. Cornell University, July 18-20, 1997. The 4th
International Conference on HPSG will be held at the 1997 LSA
Linguistic Institute at Cornell University on July 18-20,
1997. Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute presentations (followed by
10 minutes of discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, or
computation issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar. Selected papers from the conference will be
published. To submit, send eight (8) copies of your abstract.
Abstracts should not exceed 5 pages in length (single-spaced; minimum
12 pt font), including all examples, diagrams, and references. Please
include a 3x5 card or a title page with (i) the title of your
abstract, (ii) your name and affiliation, (iii) your address, email
address, phone and fax numbers. Abstracts should be received at the
address below by FEBRUARY 15, 1997. Electronic submissions are
possible in either postscript or ASCII format. Fax submissions will
NOT be accepted. Address submissions to
HPSG-4
c/o Gert Webelhuth
Department of Linguistics
318 Dey Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155
or (for electronic submission) to:
webelhut@mindspring.com
Queries can be addressed to the above address, or via fax
or email:
Fax: (919) 962-3708
Email: webelhut@mindspring.com
jpkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu
-- ACL-97/EACL-97: Joint Conference. 35th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the
European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain,
July 7-10, 1997. ACL and EACL would like to encourage the submission
of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on ALL
aspects of computational linguistics. ACL has decided this year to
organize the program committee hierarchically, with five Area Chairs,
and six to nine program committee members assigned to each area. The
five areas are 1). Morphology, Lexicon, and Finite State Technologies
2). Grammar and Formalisms for Parsing and Tactical Generation 3).
Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse 4). Uses of Language Processing
(including, but not limited to: analysis and generation of spoken
language, language-oriented information retrieval, text processing,
natural language and multimodal interfaces, message and narrative
understanding, machine translation, user modeling) 5). Statistical
Language Processing. Papers not fitting into these areas are also
welcomed! Appropriate reviewers will be obtained. When submitting
your paper, you will be asked to target your paper to at most two
areas. However, papers will be reviewed by a minimum of three experts,
even if they are not in the targeted area. Additional reviewers will
be obtained by the Area Chairs whenever a paper cannot be reviewed by
at least three experts on the PC. It is fully expected that papers may
overlap areas. Theoretical, practical, and empirical papers are
requested on all the topics above, as well as any others related to
computational linguistics. Applications papers are welcome and will
be reviewed according to the standards of the Applied Natural Language
Processing conference. Papers should describe unique work; they
should emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they
should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported
results. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot
be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other
conferences must reflect this fact on the title page and the
identification page.
GENERAL SUBMISSION QUESTIONS: ACL97-questions@cse.ogi.edu Papers must
not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Hard copy or
electronic submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty)
retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described
below) which requires TeX 3.14 or LaTeX 2.09. Papers outside the
specified length and formatting requirements will be rejected without
review. Since reviewing will be blind, a title page and a separate
identification page are required. The title page should include paper
title, summary, word count and at most two topic area specifications
(author names and addresses are omitted) and should be affixed to the
paper. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity
(e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be
avoided. Instead use references like "Smith previously showed (Smith,
1991)..." The identification page should include the paper title,
author(s) name(s),complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, a word
count, a specification of the topic area, document type (LaTeX or
ascii; hardcopy or electronic), and whether it has been submitted to
other conferences. A model submission (modelsub.tex) and a model
identification page (idpage.tex) are also provided on the ACL LISTSERV
server, as well as fullname.bst/fullname.sty system to be used for the
bibliography. (Note however that the bibliography for a submission
cannot be submitted as a separate .bib file; the actual bibliography
entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file.)
Postscript figures following psfig.sty may be included.
Information on ACL-97 is also available on the ACL Homepage on the
World Wide Web at the following address:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/
Electronic submissions may consist of simple ascii text, a uuencoded
LaTeX file, or the package produced by "aclpkg.script", which is
available on the ACL LISTSERV server. Submissions that include
(possibly) separate postscript figure files must be packaged using the
aclpkg.script. Electronic paper submissions should be sent to
ACL97-submission@cse.ogi.edu, with the subject field as "ACL-97 LaTeX
submission" or "ACL-97 ascii submission". THE TEXT OF YOUR MESSAGE
SHOULD INCLUDE ONLY THE UUENCODED LATEX FILE, THE ASCII FILE, OR THE
OUTPUT OF aclpkg.script, AND NO OTHER INFORMATION. The identification
page should be sent to ACL97-idpage@cse.ogi.edu, with the subject
field as "ACL-97 Identification Page".
HARD COPY SUBMISSION: Six copies of the paper and one copy of the
identification page (no fax submissions) should be sent to one of the
following locations:
ACL-97/EACL-97 Submission
Professor Philip R. Cohen
Center for Human-Computer Communication
Oregon Graduate Institute
20000 NW Walker Rd
Beaverton, OR 97006 USA
Or
ACL-97/EACL-97 Submission
Professor Wolfgang Wahlster
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
Electronic submissions must be received by JANUARY 8, 1997. Electronic
submissions will be will be accepted only if they can be printed. If
the authors want feedback on the printability of their documents, they
must be sent two days ahead of the deadline, JANUARY 8, 1997. Hard
copy submission must be received by JANUARY 10, 1997. Late papers will
be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the
first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will
be notified of acceptance by MARCH 20,1997. Camera-ready copies of
final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a
laser printer, must be received by MAY 1, 1997, along with a signed
copyright release statement.
TUTORIALS: Tutorials will be held July 7. Please send your
suggestions for tutorials to the tutorial chair:
Dr. Megumi Kameyama
Artificial Intelligence Center
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA
Email: megumi@ai.sri.com
Telephone: +1 415-859-2037
WORKSHOPS: ACL-97/EACL-97 will be sponsoring workshops on July 11 (and
perhaps July 12, by special arrangement). Please send your workshop
proposals to the workshop chair:
Professor Harald Trost
Austrian Research Institute for AI
Schottengasse 3
A-1010 Wien
Austria
Email: harald@ai.univie.ac.at
Web: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~harald
Telephone: +43 1 535 32 810
Fax: +43 1 532 06 52
-- Student Sessions at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, and 8th Conference of the European Chapter
of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Universidad
Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain, July 7-10,
1997. The goal of these sessions is to provide a forum for student
members to present WORK IN PROGRESS and receive feedback from other
members of the computational linguistics community. This year, the
sessions will consist of poster presentations by student authors. The
accepted papers will be published in a special section of the
conference proceedings. Note that the student sessions in no way
influence the treatment of student-written papers submitted to the
main conference. Rather, the student sessions will provide an
entirely separate track emphasizing students' work in progress rather
than completed work. Papers should describe original, unpublished
work in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise.
Topics of interest are the same as for the main conference. All
authors must have ACL Student Membership (or be students even though
paying the regular member rate because they earn a regular income) at
the time of the conference. For membership information, see the
section on the ACL LISTSERV below. Papers submitted to the main
conference cannot be considered for the student sessions. Students
may, of course, submit DIFFERENT papers to the main conference and the
student sessions, or papers on different aspects of a particular
problem or project. Information about ACL97 and about the student
session can be also found on the ACL homepage, at
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl.
Student authors should submit preliminary versions of their
papers, not to exceed 1800 words (exclusive of references). Authors
should submit using the ACL submissions style file (aclsub.sty),
available by ftp from the ACL server (see below). This is equivalent
to the length of the final papers, which is three double-column pages.
Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are
subject to rejection without review. Papers should be headed by a
title page containing the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a
specification of the subject area(s). Since reviewing will be
``blind'', the title page and the paper should omit author names and
addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors'
identity (e.g., ``We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'') should be
avoided. Instead, use references like ``Smith (1991) previously
showed ...'' To identify each paper, a separate identification page
should be supplied, containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the
author(s), complete addresses, the short (5 line) summary, a word
count, and the specification of the subject area(s). Authors may
submit their papers electronically or in hard copy. Electronic
submission is strongly preferred. Electronic submissions should be
either self-contained LaTeX source, PostScript, or ASCII text (we
encourage LaTeX submissions). PostScript submissions must use a
standard font and 8.5"x11" (``letter'') size pages; please submit the
identification page in a separate message and avoid the default A4
page size if submitting from Europe. LaTeX submissions should use the
the ACL LaTeX submissions style file, aclsub.sty; they should not
refer to any other external files or styles except for the standard
styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. The bibliography for a LaTeX
submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual
bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source
file. The style file aclsub.sty is retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV
server or the ftp site. Electronic submission should be sent to BOTH
jordan@pogo.isp.pitt.edu and bos@coli.uni-sb.de. Hard copy
submissions should consist of six (6) copies of the paper and one (1)
copy of the identification page. Hard copies submissions should be
sent to one of the two student session chairs at the addresses below.
Student ACL/EACL '97
c/o Ms. Pamela Jordan
ISP
901CL
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
Email: jordan@isp.pitt.edu
Telephone: +1 412-624-7573
Fax: +1 412-624-6089 [addressed to P. Jordan at ISP]
Student ACL/EACL '97
c/o Johan Bos
Computerlinguistik
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Im Stadtwald
D-66041 Saarbruecken
Germany
Email: bos@coli.uni-sb.de
Telephone: +681 3024680
Fax: +681 3024351
For both kinds of submissions, if at all possible, a plain text
version of the identification page should be sent separately by email,
using the following format:
title: <title>
author: <name of first author>
address: <address of first author>
...
author: <name of last author>
address: <address of last author>
abstract: <abstract>
word count: <word count>
subject areas: <first area>, ..., <last area>
STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: If you have questions about the student
sessions, contact Pamela Jordan or Johan Bos by post, e-mail or phone (cf.
above).
SCHEDULE: Submissions in either format must be received by Monday,
February 3, 1997. Late papers will not be considered. Authors
will be notified of acceptance by March 17, 1997. Authors will
then have time to revise their papers, taking the reviews into
account. Camera-ready copies of final papers for inclusion in the
proceedings, prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a
laser printer, must be received by May 1, 1997, along with a
signed copyright release statement.
-- FIFTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-5):
WHEN: August 18-20, 1997
WHERE: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (August 18, 1997)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (August 20, 1997)
WVLC5 will immediately precede ROCLING '97 (Aug 22-24, Taiwan)
and IJCAI '97 (Aug 24-29, Nagoya, Japan).
This workshop will take place in two consecutive sessions sharing a
common program committee and proceedings. Authors may specify at
which session they wish to present their papers.
This workshop, like preceding ones in the series, will offer a
general international forum for the presentation of new advances
and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural
language processing.
The fifth workshop will focus on the theme of:
Innovative and practical uses of large corpora in real-world
applications
Gigabytes and terabytes of on-line unrestricted natural language text
have become commonplace today. How are these resources actually being
used in commercial as well as research applications? What robust and
efficient techniques exist for analyzing and organizing these resources?
The workshop encourages contributions that demonstrate innovative
applications of corpus-based NLP to problems of practical commercial
importance.
The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer
a focus for discussion and debate between academic researchers and
industrial practitioners. We also expect and will welcome a diverse set
of submissions in all areas of statistical and corpus-based NLP, including
(but not limited to)
Text Analysis Techniques:
- part of speech tagging
- term and name identification
- morphological analysis
- robust parsing
- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
- sense disambiguation
- anaphora resolution
- event categorization
- discourse structure
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper
(3500-8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic
submissions should be mailed to "WVLC5@lexis-nexis.com" and must either
be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file, or (c) a single
latex file following the ACL-97 stylesheet (no separate figures or .bib
files). Hard copy submissions should be mailed to Ken Church (address
below), and should include four (4) copies of the paper.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted
for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any
other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered,
as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission.
Submission Deadline: April 7, 1997
Notification Date: May 20, 1997
Camera ready copy due: July 1, 1997
CONTACT:
Ken Church Joe Zhou
Room 2B-421 LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier
AT&T Laboratories 9555 Springboro Pike
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA Dayton, OH 45342 USA
e-mail: kwc@research.att.com email: joez@lexis-nexis.com
-- EMNLP-2: Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing. August 1-2, 1997 (Immediately following AAAI-97), Brown
University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. In the spirit of SIGDAT
events, this conference will offer a general forum for novel research
in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of
interest include (but are not limited to):
- robust parsing, phrase structure analysis
- part of speech tagging
- term and name identification
- word sense disambiguation
- morphological analysis
- anaphora resolution
- event categorization
- discourse structure identification
- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
- language modelling
- lexicography
- machine translation
- spelling and grammar correction
SPECIAL SESSIONS: INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL In
addition, we encourage submissions that describe and evaluate the
strengths, weaknesses, and recent advances in corpus-based NLP as
applied to INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR). In
recent years a number of corpus-based techniques for the automatic
linguistic annotation of text have been developed. How well do these
techniques for lexical tagging, parsing, anaphora resolution, etc.,
handle the specific problems encountered in practical language
processing tasks like information extraction and information
retrieval? When and how do current techniques fail? What new methods
have been developed to address the deficiencies of existing algorithms
for these tasks or to address problems specific to information
extraction? What problems still lack an adequate empirical solution?
How can data-driven NLP methods be used to improve the performance of
IR systems? Conversely, how can feedback from an IR system
effectively inform empirical techniques for natural language
understanding?
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper
(3500-8000 words) either electronically or in hardcopy. Electronic
submissions should be mailed to "cardie@cs.cornell.edu" and must
either be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file (US
letter format), or (c) a LaTex file. In the latter case, please use
the aclsub style file and include only .EPS (encapsulated postscript)
figures. The aclsub style file is available at
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty or via
ftp from ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty. Hardcopy
submissions should be mailed to Claire Cardie (address below), and
should include six (6) copies of the paper.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted
for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any
other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be
considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the
submission.
Submission deadline: March 3, 1997
Notification date: April 21, 1997
Camera-ready copy due: June 10, 1997
Conference dates: August 1-2, 1997
CONTACTS:
Claire Cardie Ralph Weischedel
Cornell University BBN Systems and Technologies
Department of Computer Science 70 Fawcett Street
4142 Upson Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA USA
cardie@cs.cornell.edu weischedel@bbn.com
(607)255-9206 (617)873-3496
-/-\-/ FELLOWSHIPS/ASSISTANTSHIPS /-\-/-
-- POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS IN HCI & MULTIMODAL SYSTEMS: Applications
are invited from recent PhD's for two different postodoctoral
positions in human-computer interaction and multimodal
systems. Postdocs will be participating in a new 3-year research
project, funded by corporate and federal sources, that is
investigating people's spoken and multimodal input to interactive
portable devices. This work is being conducted in a new
state-of-the-art laboratory facility in the Center for Human-Computer
Communication at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and
Technology (OGI), which is located in the Portland metropolitan area
10-15 minutes west of the city. Postdoctoral salary range and benefits
are competitive, and positions are for 1-2 years with renewals
possible.
Position #1: Applicants with a background in linguistics, especially
phonetics and phonology, and experience working with human subjects,
scoring and analyzing language-oriented behavior, and using WAVES software
to analyze acoustic/prosodic and phonological aspects of speech are
encouraged to apply. This postdoctoral position involves research on how
users adapt their speech and language when correcting system recognition
errors, with the aim of developing more robust future spoken language
systems. Applicants are especially encouraged who have a broad interest in
issues related to cognitive science and the computational processing of
spoken language, in addition to empirical and theoretical aspects of
linguistics. Applicants with an interest in human-computer interaction and
user-centered design, multimodal/multimedia systems, speech and pen
technology, and participation in multidisciplinary team-oriented research
are especially encouraged.
Position #2: Applicants with a PhD in computer science, strong programming
skills and 2+ years of graphics, visualization, or other interface
programming experience are especially encouraged to apply. This
postdoctoral position involves developing prototypes and conducting
research on the design of wireless portable devices for use in natural
field settings. Postdoctoral applicants should be able to engage in
team-oriented multidisciplinary research, and to work with others in
solving novel design and programmatic problems related to this topic.
Candidates also should have substantial experience in programming with the
Windows 95 and Windows NT apis, and with Visual Basic and Visual C++ on
PC's. A working knowledge of Microsoft's ActiveX and COM/DCOM distributed
programming systems also would be helpful, as would experience and interest
in speech and pen technology, distributed computation, and interface design
and testing.
To apply, submit a resume, xerox copy of graduate transcripts,
names and contact information for 3 references, a brief statement of
research/career interests, and date of availability. Positions will
start spring term 1997 or later, and applications received by February
15th will receive priority. Please forward applications to:
Gloria McCauley, Center Administrator
Center for Human-Computer Communication
Department of Computer Science
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology
P. O. Box 91000
Portland, Oregon 97291
FAX: (503) 690-1548
For FEDEX, please use shipping address at:
Department of Computer Science
20000 N.W. Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon 97006
For general information & publications, see: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~oviatt/
For further information or to apply via email, contact: mccauley@cse.ogi.edu
Women and minority applicants are encouraged to apply.
-- NSF-FUNDED INTERNSHIPS IN HCI & MULTIMODAL SYSTEMS: Applications
are invited from outstanding upper-level undergraduate and graduate
students for 10-week full-time spring or summer internship positions
in human-computer interaction and multimodal systems. Funding for
these internships primarily is sponsored by the National Science
Foundation, and is part of a larger NSF project entitled ``Interactive
Multimodal Interfaces: Designing for Human Performance." Students
selected will participate in an interdisciplinary, team-oriented
research project investigating people's spoken, pen-based, and
multimodal input to interactive computer systems. One aim of this
research is the design of successful interfaces for multimodal systems
and portable devices. This work is being conducted in a new
state-of-the-art laboratory facility in the Center for Human-Computer
Communication at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and
Technology (OGI), which is located in the Portland metropolitan area
10-15 minutes west of the city. Applicants with a background in
computer science, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, or human
factors are encouraged to apply. Interests in the following areas are
preferred: human-computer interaction and user-centered design,
multimodal/multimedia systems, speech and pen technology, human
communication and behavior, linguistics and natural language
processing, phonology, interactive graphics and visualization
techniques, research design and statistics. Experience working with
human subjects, scoring and analyzing language-oriented behavior,
using WAVES software, using data analysis/statistics software,
programming in C++ and X-windows, or in computer graphics would be
most relevant to the project. To apply, submit a resume, xerox copy
of course transcripts, names and contact information for 3 references,
and a brief statement of research/career interests by February 28th
to
Gloria McCauley, Center Administrator
Center for Human-Computer Communication
Department of Computer Science
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology
P. O. Box 91000
Portland, Oregon 97291
FAX: (503) 690-1548
For FEDEX, please use shipping address at:
Department of Computer Science
20000 N.W. Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon 97006
For general project information & publications, see:
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~oviatt/
For further information or to apply via email, contact: mccauley@cse.ogi.edu
Women and minority applicants are encouraged to apply.
-- The Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University
of Pennsylvania provides opportunities for several postdoctoral
fellows in Cognitive Science. These fellows pursue their own research,
collaborate with IRCS faculty and students, and act as a bridge across
the various disciplines represented in Cognitive Science. To apply
for a postdoctoral fellowship, please visit the IRCS Postdoctoral
Fellow Application website at:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/positions/ircs_postdoc.html
We are currently accepting applications for fellowships beginning
September 1, 1997. The deadline for applications is February 1,
1997. The University of Pennsylvania is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity Employer.
-- TRAVEL GRANTS FOR SWEDEN: The American Women's Club Scholarship
Foundation announces that a travel grant is awarded for study and
research in Sweden. The amount of the grant is equivalent to the cost
of an APEX round trip ticket between the US and Sweden. To qualify,
you must be (1) an American citizen, (2) female, age 18 or over, (3)
accepted for a period of study or research at a Swedish educational
institution or agency, and (4) show evidence of need. For an
application form and detailed instructions, please send a
self-addressed envelope to
American Women's Club in Sweden
Scholarship Foundation
P.O. Box 12054
S 102 22 Stockholm, Sweden
Deadline date for requesting the application package is March 15,
1997. The completed application and all supporting documents must be
received by April 15, 1997. The postmark is NOT the determining
factor. Applications received after the deadline of April 15, 1997
are not accepted. Notification of the award is made by the end of May
1997.
-- G. RICHARD TUCKER SUMMER FELLOWSHIP 1997: The Center for Applied
Linguistics in Washington DC invites applications for the G. Richard
Tucker Summer Fellowship. Graduate students in any field which is
concerned with language issues are invited to apply. Minorities are
especially encouraged to apply. Applicants must be currently enrolled
in a masters or doctoral program in the US or Canada and must have
completed the equivalent of at least one year of full-time study
toward the degree. One fellow will be selected to work with CAL
senior staff members on one of CAL's existing research projects or a
suitable project suggested by the applicant. Priority will be given
to proposals that focus on language issues related to minorities in
the US or Canada. The Fellow will have access to all of CAL's staff,
databases and resource collections, as well as the library at
Georgetown University. Thirty days after completing the residency,
the fellow will submit a proposal for a paper presenting the research
conducted at CAL. The fellow and his or her CAL mentor will agree on
a date for submission of the final paper. The residency will be an
eight-week period beginning and ending during June, July, and August
1997. The fellowship will pay round trip travel expenses up to $1000
plus a $2400 stipend for the eight-week period (the fellow is
responsible for housing arrangements). To apply, write a letter
(three to five pages) of application describing a topic you would like
to research. The letter should clearly indicate how working with CAL
staff and resources would facilitate your research. Include two
letters of recommendation from professors, one of whom must be from
your discipline. Enclose a copy of graduate academic transcript, and
submit a writing sample. Applications must be received on or before
April 25, 1997. All applicants will be notified of CAL's decision
beginning May 19, 1997. Submit application to
Center for Applied Linguistics
1118 22nd Street NW
Washington DC 20037
phone: 202 429 9292
internet: grace@cal.org
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-- The Department of English at Hebrew Univesrity of Jerusalem is
seeking a Theoretical Linguist for a tenure track
position. Availability of position pending approval. Send CV +
references + research program to:
Yael Ziv
Dept. of English
The Hebrew University
Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem
Israel 91905
e-mail: ziv@hum.huji.ac.il
Fax: 972-2-5322545 (Dept. of English)
-- University of Arkansas: This is an informal request for inquiries
from people interested in the tenure track position offered by our
dept. starting next September. Feel free to spread the word. If you
are interested in teaching two software related courses per semester
(typically one undergrad, one grad) and in doing research in empirical
NLP, text processing, information retrieval from full text,
data/knowledge mining from full text, etc., AND you have a formal
qualification in engineering (Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree
with the word "engineering" in it or issued by a dept., college,
campus, or university with the word "engineering" in its name, or you
are a P.E., etc.), please email me to discuss applying.
If you don't think you have an engineering degree, check - maybe
you'll be surprised!
I am very interested in promoting applications from people in the
above mentioned areas and look forward to your casual inquiry.
Best Regards,
Daniel Berleant, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Phone: (501) 575-5590
Fax: (501) 575-5339
Email: djb@engr.uark.edu
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