[Corpora-List] Second CFP: Intex/NooJ Workshop

From: Dusko Vitas (vitas@poincare.matf.bg.ac.yu)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 15:21:11 MET

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    SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

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       DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 22 MARCH 2006
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    9th INTEX/NooJ 2006 conference
    Belgrade, Serbia
    June 1 - June 3, 2006
    http://nooj.matf.bg.ac.yu

    We invite the submission of papers for the forthcoming ninth INTEX/NooJ
    workshop, to be held in Belgrade, Serbia, June 1 - June 3, 2006 at the
    Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade.

    NooJ is a linguistic development environment that includes tools to
    construct and maintain large-coverage lexical resources, morphological and
    syntactic grammars. Dictionaries and grammars are applied to texts in
    order to locate morphological, lexical and syntactic patterns, remove
    ambiguities, tag words and extract semantic entities.

    NooJ can build lemmatized concordances of large texts from Finite-State
    Automata and Transducers, Context-Free grammars and Recursive Transition
    Networks, and can accordingly perform transformation operations on texts
    in cascade to recusively annotate texts, which gives it the power of a
    Turing machine. INTEX/NooJ is used as a linguistic development platform,
    an information retrieval system, a terminological extractor, as well as to
    teach linguistics and computational linguistics to students.

    NooJ is the latest version of INTEX, now completely redesigned and built
    in the Object Oriented "Component Programming" .NET framework. NooJ's main
    improvements over INTEX are:

    - its new dictionary architecture: all previous DELA-type dictionaries and
    lexicon-grammars are now unified,
    - NooJ linguistic parsers are non destructive: NooJ uses an annotation
    system synchronized to the text, that allows transducers to be applied to
    texts in cascade without ever destroying the original text,
    - its integration of its inflection & derivation engine into its syntactic
    engine that allows linguists to program Harris-type transformations,
    - its addition of a number of tools inspired by Software Engineering
    techniques, that make the development of large linguistic resources more
    robust over time.

    Finally, NooJ includes a number of technical improvements: NooJ processes
    texts and corpora in over 100+ file formats, including all variants of
    UNICODE, ASCII, HTML, MS-WORD, etc. ; NooJ's linguistic engine is
    multilingual ; NooJ can import information from, and export its
    annotations back to XML documents ; NooJ command-line programs and direct
    Object Oriented API makes it much easier to integrate any of its
    functionalities into other applications, etc. To learn more about NooJ:
    www.nooj4nlp.net.

    As in the previous workshops, this meeting will be the opportunity for
    INTEX and NooJ users, as well as other researchers interested in NLP, to
    meet and to exchange their experience of development, research or
    teaching, including computational morphology, lexicon and quantitative
    linguistics. It will also be the occasion to present and discover the
    recent developments of NooJ.

    Send before March 22, 2006 a one-page abstract to nooj_at_matf.bg.ac.yu.

    The abstract, in French or in English, should contain the title of the
    article, the name, affiliation, surface mail and electronic address of
    each co-author.

    All papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Authors will be
    notified whether their papers are accepted or rejected by April 8th, 2006.
    The timeslot is 30 minutes for presentations (including 5 minutes for
    discussions). After the conference, authors selected for publishing by the
    program committee will be invited to send a definitive version of their
    papers for publication.

    Further informations on the conference web site: http://nooj.matf.bg.ac.yu

          Program Committee:
            Xavier Blanco (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
            Gisle Chevalier (Universit de Moncton, Canada)
            Annibale Elia (University of Salerne, Italy)
            Tomaz Erjavec (IJS, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
            Peter Grzybek (Graz University, Austria)
            Svetla Koeva (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
            Denis Maurel (LI, Universit de Tours, France)
            Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic (MATF, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
            Jean Royaut (LIF, France)
            Henrik Selsoe Sorensen (Copenhagen Business School, Danemark)
            Max Silberztein (LASELDI, Universit de Franche-Comt, France)
            Tamas Varadi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
            Dusko Vitas (MATF, University of Belgrade, Serbia)

          Organizers:
            Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbie &
    Montenegro
            LAboratoire de SEmioLinguistique, Didactique et Informatique
    (LASELDI,
            Univ. de Franche-Comt), France
            Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Claude Ledoux, France

          Important dates:
            Submission due date: March 22, 2006 (Deadline extension)
            Notification date: April 8, 2006
            Registration: May 1, 2006

          NooJ tutorials (by Max Silberztein):
            Initiation Tutorial, 20 persons maximum
            Processing XML documents with NooJ, 20 persons maximum

          Registration fee:
          The registration fee for the workshop is 30 euros for researchers,
    15
          euros for students and 40 euros for other categories.

    The conference will begin on Thursday morning and last till Saturday
    evening. During the Conference there will be a reception on Thursday
    evening and an optional excursion on Friday afternoon.

          Contacts:
            nooj@matf.bg.ac.yu
            max.silberztein@univ-fcomte.fr



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