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Final Call for Papers
Extended submission deadline : February 22
ISDD 06 - International Symposium: DISCOURSE and DOCUMENT
Caen (France) 15-17 June 2006
http://discours2006.info.unicaen.fr/
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OBJECTIVES
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In connection with the development of digital documents, discourse
linguistics, document engineering and NLP are increasingly
converging: a) applying corpus analysis methods to discourse calls
for greater use of NLP techniques; b) new modes of access to
documents’ contents place more emphasis on exploiting discourse
structure. This convergence is manifest in a number of joint studies,
and results in cross fertilisation between text and discourse
linguistics on the one hand, document engineering and NLP on the other.
The Discourse and Document Symposium will bring together researchers
interested in what can be termed the “document level” in discourse
linguistics, in computational linguistics, and in document
engineering, according to the following (preliminary) postulates:
The document is envisaged as a functional unit, situated in a
specific setting, and actualised in a medium (whatever its nature)
which confers on it material characteristics which are an integral
part of the use and sense made of it;
The expression “document level” signals a marked interest in coarse
grain structures, or “global” structures (so-called “logical”
structure, organisation in sections…), or in the interaction between
local and global structures (reference chains, topical chains, inter-
propositional relations, etc.). It indicates a specific interest in
“top down” approaches based on the exploitation of surface cues or
markers.
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TOPICS (non-exhaustive list)
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- Analysis of discourse structures; the setting-up of automatic
procedures for these analyses;
- Analysis of the structure of composite documents (text-images, text-
graphics); automatic procedures for these analyses;
- Impact of hypertextual or hyperdocument organisation on the way
documents are apprehended. Hypertext formatting, computational tools
based on NLP procedures;
- Reading models, discourse organisation models;
- Computational experimentation as a means of testing hypotheses on
corpora;
- Preliminary corpus studies: identification and annotation of
discourse structures;
- Computational devices for such experimental approaches (formalising
linguistic knowledge, ensuring re-usability of resources,
articulating levels of processing, visualising annotations);
- Articulating approaches using linguistic markers, domain knowledge,
statistical techniques;
- Applications: intra-document information retrieval, browsing aids,
document summarisation or synthesis, etc.
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ORGANISATION
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The Symposium will include:
- A plenary conference (submitted and invited papers).
- A “young researchers’ session
- An NLP demonstration workshop
Symposium languages: English and French
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SUBMISSION
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Plenary conference:
Declaration of intention to submit: 200-word abstract + key words
indicating the themes of the proposed paper. Full papers will not
exceed 10 pages (in accordance with the style sheets provided).
Presentation of full papers will conform to that for final versions.
Young researchers’ session:
A two-page abstract and keywords.
NLP Demonstration workshop:
A two-page abstract and keywords. References to existing on-line
demonstrations will be welcome. Authors will be contacted by the
organising committee on practical questions of hardware and software
installation on the Symposium’s site.
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PUBLICATION
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The proceedeedings of the symposium will be published by Caen
University Press / Presses Universitaires de Caen , both in
electronic and printed form.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- As soon as possible : declaration of intention to submit (optional,
200 word abstract)
- February 22nd 2006: submission of papers
- April 15th 2006: notification of acceptance
- May 15th 2006: final versions
Full details for submission and registration on the Symposium
website : http://discours2006.info.unicaen.fr/
Email (information) : discours2006@info.unicaen.fr
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Symposium’s chairpersons: Marie-Paule Péry Woodley (U. Toulouse),
Patrice Enjalbert (U. Caen) , Mauro Gaio (U,Pau et Pays de l’Adour)
Plenary conference:
J. Bateman (U. Bremen, Germany), D. Battistelli (U. Paris 4, France),
Y. Bestgen (U. C. Louvain, Belgium), B. Boguraev (IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center, USA), A. Borillo (U. Toulouse 2, France), N. Bouayad-
Agha (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), F. Cerbah (Dassault
Aviation, France), M. Charolles (U. Paris 3, France), D. Cristea (U.
Iasi, Romania), L. Degand (U. C. Louvain, Belgium), D. Dutoit
(Memodata, France), P. Enjalbert (U. Caen, France), S. Ferrari (U.
Caen, France), O. Ferret (CEA, France), M. Gaio (U. Pau, France), B.
Grau (U. Paris-Sud, France), N. Hernandez (U. Caen, France), G.
Lapalme (U. Montréal, Québec, Canada), A. Le Draoulec (U. Toulouse 2,
France), A. Lehmam (Pertinence Mining.com, France), D. Legallois (U.
Caen, France), N. Lucas (U. Caen and CNRS, France), F. Maurel (U.
Caen, France), A. Max (U. Paris-Sud, France), J.-L. Minel (U. Paris
4, France), M. Mojahid (U. Toulouse 3, France), M.-P. Péry Woodley
(U. Toulouse 2, France), H. Saggion (U. Sheffield, England), L. Sarda
(CNRS, LATTICE, France), I. Saleh (U. Paris 8, France), S. Salmon Alt
(ATILF-CNRS, France), D. Scott (Open University, England).
Young researchers’ session (in addition to the plenary conference
committe)
Frédéric Bilhaut (U. Caen), Nicolas Hernandez (U. Caen), Mai Ho-Dac
(U. Toulouse 2), Marion Laignelet (U. Toulouse 2), Christophe Pimm
(U. Toulouse 2), Antoine Widlöcher (U. Caen)
NLP workshop :
Frédéric Bilhaut, Antoine Widlöcher (U. Caen)
Organising Committee
S. Ferrari (chair), F. Bilhaut, N. Hernandez, A. Widlöcher
--Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley
ERSS (UMR 5610) CNRS & Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail Maison de la Recherche. F-31058 Toulouse cedex 9 Tél. (+33) 561-50-36-09(-46 76) Fax (+33) 561-50-46-77(-42 12) email : pery@univ-tlse2.fr http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/
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