Final Announcement VEXTAL
The VEXTAL Conference will be held at the Venice International University - University Ca' Foscari - Venice(It), 22 - 24 November, 1999. It is directed to research people working in the area of computational linguistics, mathematical and quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics and language engineering. It is the follow-up of FRACTAL held in Besancon (France), last year.
The official languages of the conference are Italian, French and English.
THEMES
Papers are invited for twenty minute talks, questions included, in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to) :lexicon morphology syntax semantics
pragmatics discourse parsing text generation
abstraction/summarization dialogue machine translation
quantitative, logical, symbolical and statistical approaches
VEXTAL also welcomes submissions from fields for which NLP plays an important role, which are more application oriented:
cognitive aspects
terminology, knowledge acquisition
information extraction
documentary retrieval
corpus linguistics
grammar and style-checkers and NLP tools
computer assisted language learning
mathematical & quantitative linguistics
VEXTAL invites submissions focusing on NLP applications already implemented, tested and evaluated. Demos are strongly encouraged, in addition to a standard paper.
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
The Conference is organized with the contribution of :
Observatoir Linguistique, ParisMinistero delle Comunicazioni, Roma
Universita' Ca' Foscari, Venezia
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Universita' di Venezia
Universite' de Besancon
Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Rinaldo Giuseppe - Ministero Poste e Telecomunicazioni, Roma
Stephane Chaudiron - Ministere de l'Education Nationale, de la Recherche et de la Technologie - Paris
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Sylviane Cardey - Universite' de Besancon
Peter Greenfield - Universite' de Besancon
Pierre-Andre Buvet - Universite' de Besancon
Henri Madec - Universite' de Besancon
Andre Clas - Universite' de Montreal
Gaston Gross - Universite' de Paris XIII
Maurice Gross - Universite' de Paris VII
Igor Mel'cuk - Universite' de Montreal
Dan Cristea - University of Iasi
Krzysztof Bogacki - Universita' di Varsavia
Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh
Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton
Alex Monaghan - Dublin City University
Hans Uszkoreit - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI & University of Saarbrucken
Yorick Wilks - ILSH - University of Sheffield (UK)
Dario Bianchi - Universita' di Parma
Rodolfo Delmonte - Universita' di Venezia
Carlo Minnaja - Universita' di Padova
Maria Teresa Pazienza - Universita' di Roma
Oliviero Stock - IRST, Povo (Trento)
Giorgio Satta - Universita' di Padova
Leonardo Lesmo - Universita' di Torino
Vincenzo Lombardo - Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Giacomo Ferrari - Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Andrea Di Carlo - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Andrea Paoloni - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Irina Prodanoff - ILC, Pisa
Nicoletta Calzolari - ILC, Pisa
Antonio Zampolli - ILC & Universita' di Pisa
PRESIDENT
Rodolfo Delmonte - Universita' di Venezia
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the author's name, nor any self-reference. The maximum length is nine pages, single spaced, Times 10, (approx. 6000 words). Hard-copies of the paper must be in A4 format. Authors are encouraged to send an electronic version of their paper.E-mail address :
vextal@byron.cgm.unive.it
Postal address :
VEXTAL - Ca' Garzoni-Moro
San Marco 3417
Universita' Ca' Foscari
30124 - V E N E Z I A (It)
Guidelines for electronic submission :
Authors should send their submission (neither compressed nor encoded) via E-mail as an attached file to the address above, specifying "VEXTAL-submission" as the Subject. A separate identification page (with the following information : title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, fax and telephone number) should also be send specifying "VEXTAL-author". Papers MUST be sent in one of the following formats :- RTF (Word) document OR PostScript version.
IMPORTANT : all PostScript versions must be in A4 format.
SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL SESSION
A special session will be devoted to industrial applications of NLP, be they prototypes or full-fledged commercial products. This session will be partially covered by invited speakers.
POSTER AND DEMO SESSION
Poster parallel sessions will be organized: speakers are encouraged to couple their presentation with a demo. Demos are strongly encouraged, even when prototypes or simply preliminary results are shown. All speakers are invited to present a demo in the Demo Session.
VENUE AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
We strongly encourage all those interested in joining the conference to proceed to an early booking since Venice hotels are always very crowded.
HOTEL RESERVATION
Here below we include a list of hotels and resorts which have agreed a special discount rate with the Conference organization. Call the hotels directly specifying your identity and the name of the conference Vextal you intend to participate as the reason of your stay. The list is from the cheapest to the dearest ones.
Prices are expressed in Euro for S(ingle) and D(ouble) room
Hotel Fondazione Levi
Accademia
Tel:041-786711; Fax.: 041786766;
35 per person for Single/Double/Triple Rooms (rooms for 40 people)
Hotel FALIER **
Salizzada S.Pantalon
Tel.:041710882
S. 65; D. 75
Hotel SAN GIORGIO **
San Marco - Rio Tera' della Mandola 3781 Tel.:0415235835; Fax:0415228072
S. 40-75; D. 70-110
Hotel AL SOLE ***
S.Croce Tolentini, 136
Tel.:041710844; Fax:041714398
S. 50; D. 74
Hotel ALA ***
S.Marco 2494
Tel.:0415208333; Fax:0415206390
S. 95; D. 140
Hotel GRASPO DE UVA ***
S.Marco 5094
Tel.:0415205644; Fax:0415227322
S. 95; D. 140
Hotel SOFITEL ****
S.Croce 245
Tel.:041710400; Fax:041710394
S. 125; D. 175
HOTEL IN INTERNET
www.venicehotel.com
list of Venice hotels
www.venicehotels.com
list of Lido hotels
www.eurohotels.com
www.eurolocate.com
list of 14 Venice hotels and more hotels on the outskirts of Venice
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
To register: use the registration form and send it back to the mail address of the Conference.
vextal@byron.cgm.unive.it
You are kindly requested to bring a copy of this form together with a copy of the bank transfer documents to the conference secretariat at your arrival.
To register early for the conference (see fees) your registration form and payment reach us by 15 July 1999.
The conference registration fee includes: conference fee, conference package, welcoming party (Sunday), reception, 6 coffee breaks, and Proceedings.
| Normal Fee | Lit. 300.000 | $ 180 | Euro 150 |
| Student Fee | Lit. 100.000 | $ 60 | Euro 50 |
| Industrial Session Fee | Lit. 500.000 | $ 300 | Euro 260 |
Cancellation of conference participation must be sent to the conference secretariat. For cancellations before September 1999 there will be a 90% refund; after 1 September 1999 no refund is possible.
Please pay the conference fee to the:
Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia Orientale
on the c/c n. 218460
at the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro S.p.A.
Filiale di Venezia, Tesoriere dell'Universita' Ca' Foscari,
with the subject "Quota di iscrizione VEXTAL" and your name.
REGISTRATION FORM
Before filling this form read the information on registration and hotel accomodation.
Name & Surname:___________________________________________
Mailing Address: _________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Affiliation: _____________________________________________
E-mail: __________________________________________________
Phone & fax: _____________________________________________
Do you intend to submit a paper to the workshop?
Yes_________No_________
Are you a student? Yes_________No_________
ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS
I am interested in buying discount meal tickets
at the local University Canteen Yes____ No_____
______ Single-occupancy room
______ Double-occupancy room
______ Travelling with family?
Special needs?
_________________________________________________________
Travelling with family? _________________________________
Date of arrival __________________________
Date of leaving ________________________
Ist Announcement VEXTAL
The VEXTAL Conference will be held in the Auditorium S.Margherita of the University Ca' Foscari - Venice(It), 22 - 24 November, 1999. It is directed to research people working in the area of computational linguistics, mathematical and quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics and language engineering. It is the follow-up of FRACTAL held in Besancon (France), last year.
The official languages of the conference are Italian, French and English.
THEMES
Papers are invited for twenty minute talks, questions included, in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to) :lexicon morphology syntax semantics
pragmatics discourse parsing text generation
abstraction/summarization dialogue machine translation
quantitative, logical, symbolical and statistical approaches
VEXTAL also welcomes submissions from fields for which NLP plays an important role, which are more application oriented:
cognitive aspects
terminology, knowledge acquisition
information extraction
documentary retrieval
corpus linguistics
grammar and style-checkers and NLP tools
computer assisted language learning
mathematical & quantitative linguistics
VEXTAL invites submissions focusing on NLP applications already implemented, tested and evaluated. Demos are strongly encouraged, in addition to a standard paper.
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the author's name, nor any self-reference. The maximum length is nine pages, single spaced, Times 10, (approx. 6000 words). Hard-copies of the paper must be in A4 format. Authors are encouraged to send an electronic version of their paper.E-mail address :
vextal@byron.cgm.unive.it
Postal address :
VEXTAL - Ca' Garzoni-Moro
San Marco 3417
Universita' Ca' Foscari
30124 - V E N E Z I A (It)
Guidelines for electronic submission :
Authors should send their submission (neither compressed nor encoded) via E-mail as an attached file to the address above, specifying "VEXTAL-submission" as the Subject. A separate identification page (with the following information : title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, fax and telephone number) should also be send specifying "VEXTAL-author". Papers MUST be sent in one of the following formats :- RTF (Word) document OR PostScript version.
IMPORTANT : all PostScript versions must be in A4 format.
