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Doctoral Consortium at the 8th EUROLAN Summer School
* Last Call for Participation *
http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2007/DC/
July 30 - August 2, 2007, Iasi, Romania
Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: May 14, 2007
1. General Information
The Doctoral Consortium at EUROLAN-2007 will provide an opportunity for
graduate students (PhD and MSc heading towards PhD studies)
investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing to present their current work and receive constructive
feedback and guidance on future research, both from the general audience
and the invited lecturers at the Summer School.
The Doctoral Consortium will be held as a workshop during 3 or 4
consecutive evenings (1.5 hour slots) in the second week of the EUROLAN
2007 Summer School, July 30 - August 2, 2007. The final version of the
accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the EUROLAN 2007
Doctoral Consortium, at the University Al. I. Cuza Publishing House.
During the Summer School the students will present their work, will
receive constructive comments wrt. to current and future research
directions from a panel of established researchers, and will benefit
from the collaborative climate established among all participants, thus
enhancing future joint work among them. Students will also prepare a
poster which will be on display throughout the Summer School.
We invite all interested graduate students to submit their work to the
Consortium. As the main goal of the Consortium is for the authors to
receive feedback, the emphasis is on work in progress.
The research being presented can be from any topic area within
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, including but
not limited to:
* phonetics, phonology, and morphology;
* pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon;
* text understanding and generation;
* computational semantics;
* ontology enriched NLP applications;
* multilingual NLP;
* multilingual question answering;
* machine translation;
* corpus-based language processing;
* electronic dictionaries;
* written and spoken natural language interfaces;
* knowledge acquisition;
* terminology;
* text summarisation;
* text classification;
* computer-aided language learning;
* human computer interaction;
* language resources;
* evaluation, assessment and standards in language engineering;
* theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of
every kind.
Well-known researchers from these areas will be invited lecturers of the
school and therefore available for interesting discussions.
2. Submission Requirements
The submissions should describe original work, still in progress. The
submissions may have more than one author; however, all of them MUST be
students (PhD and MSc heading towards PhD).
The paper should include:
* the problem(s) that the proposed research is addressing;
* the main contribution(s) of the research to the CL & NLP field;
* the proposed solution(s), including a brief description of the
methodology adopted;
* the future research plan.
3. Submission Procedure
Submission must be electronic. The only format acceptable is PDF (.pdf).
Submissions should not exceed 8 pages, including references and annexes
and should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. The papers
will be uploaded on a special page,
http://www.easychair.org/EUROLAN2007DC/ , announced on the web page of
the Doctoral Consortium, where more submission guidelines are available.
4. Important Dates
* Paper submissions deadline: May 14, 2007
* Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2007
* Camera ready papers due: June 25, 2007
* Doctoral Consortium: July 30 - August 2, 2007
* Summer School dates: July 23 - August 3, 2007
5. Registration
Authors of accepted papers must register for the Summer School and
present their work at the EUROLAN 2007 Doctoral Consortium. No
supplementary fee will be required above the EUROLAN fee. The authors
will benefit of early registration fee regardless of the date they
register. Participation in the Doctoral Consortium is open to all
EUROLAN 2007 attendants.
6. Travel Grants
A limited number of registration and accommodation discounts/waivers
will be available. The authors of accepted papers with reduced
possibilities to support their participation to the Doctoral Consortium
and the Summer School will have to send a motivation letter, a CV and a
recommendation letter from their Ph.D./research advisor to the
organizers. More details will be posted at the appropriate time on the
webpage of the event.
7. Program Committee
* Galia Angelova, Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
* Carlos Areces, LORIA, INRIA, Nancy, France
* Patrick Blackburn, LORIA, INRIA, Nancy, France
* Antonio Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Dan Cristea, University Al.I. Cuza of Iasi, Romania
* Corina Forascu, University Al.I. Cuza of Iasi, Romania
* Claire Gardent, LORIA, CNRS, Nancy, France
* Maria Georgescul, ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva, Switzerland
* Udo Hahn, Jena University Language & Information Engineering Lab,
Germany
* Jerry Hobbs, ISI – University of Southern California, US
* Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
* Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada
* Alex Killing, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich,
Switzerland
* Zornitsa Kozareva, University of Alicante, Spain
* Lothar Lemnitzer, Tübingen University, Department of Linguistics,
Germany
* Rada Mihalcea, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ.
of North Texas, US
* Paola Monachesi, Uil-OTS, Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands
* Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, Milton
Keynes, UK
* Vivi Nastase, EML Research GmbH, Germany
* Nicolas Nicolov , Umbria Inc., Boulder, US
* Constantin Orasan, Research Group in Computational Linguistics,
University of Wolverhampton, UK
* Petya Osenova, Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
* Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota in Duluth, US
* Livia Polanyi, Powerset Inc., US
* Oana Postolache, ISI – University of Southern California, US
* Adam Przepiorkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish
Academy of Sciences, Poland
* Georgiana Puscasu, University of Wolverhampton, UK
* Mike Rosner, University of Malta, CSAI and Institute of
Linguistics, Malta
* Violeta Seretan, University of Geneva, Switzerland
* Kiril Simov, Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, Bulgaria
* Oliviero Stock, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e
Tecnologica, Trento, Italy
* Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e
Tecnologica, Trento, Italy
* Amalia Todirascu, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France
* Dan Tufis, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
* Dusko Vitas, University of Belgrade, Serbia
* Cristina Vertan, University of Hamburg, Germany
* Walter von Hahn, University of Hamburg, Germany
* Jan Wiebe, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Pittsburgh, US
* Mickael Zock, Computer Science Laboratory, University of
Provence, Marseille, France
8. Contact Information
If you need to contact the organizers of the Doctoral Consortium, please
use the e-mail: eurolan-dc-oc AT info DOT uaic DOT ro. An e-mail sent to
this address will be forwarded to all organizers of the Doctoral Consortium.
9. Organizing Committee
* Corina Forascu, University Al.I. Cuza of Iasi, Romania
* Oana Postolache, ISI – University of Southern California, USA
* Georgiana Puscasu, University of Wolverhampton, UK
* Cristina Vertan, University of Hamburg, Germany
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INRIA Researcher fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest
Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf
14 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3)
Tihamer Margitay
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Hogyan lehetseges szabadsag? Egy masfajta kompatibilizmus
(How is freedom possible? Another kind of compatibilism)
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#2
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The Forum is open to everyone, including students,visitors, and faculty
members from all departments and institutes!
Format: 60 minute lecture, 10 minute coffee break, followed by a 30-60
minute discussion. The language of presentation is English or Hungarian.
A printable poster is available from here:
http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)philosophy.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
http://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest
Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf
Change of program:
Due to other obligations, Hajnal Andreka and Istvan Nemeti had to cancel
their seminar talk originally scheduled for 21 May. Their lecture is
postponed to June 4th, and Peter Fazekas' lecture will be held on 21 May:
21 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3)
Peter Fazekas
Department of Philosophy, King's College London
Department of Philosophy and History of Science, BUTE
The physical story behind Phenomenal Concept Strategy
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#3
Laszlo E. Szabo
the organizer of the Forum
(leszabo(a)philosophy.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
http://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo
Dear Dr. Qwerty,
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expertise, and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS.
TITLE: Animal innovation defined and operationalized
AUTHOR: Grant Ramsey, Meredith L. Bastian, and Carel van Schaik
ABSTRACT: Innovation is a key component of most definitions of culture and intelligence.
Additionally, innovations may affect a speciesÂ’ ecology and evolution. Nonetheless,
conceptual and empirical work on innovation has only recently begun. In particular, largely
because the existing operational definition (first occurrence in a population) requires
long-term studies of populations, there has been no systematic study of innovation in wild
animals. To facilitate such study, we have produced a new definition of innovation:
Innovation is the process generates in an individual a novel learned behavior that is not
simply a consequence of social learning or environmental induction. Using this definition, we
propose a new operational approach for distinguishing innovations in the field. The
operational criteria employ information from the following sources: (1) the behaviorÂ’s
geographic and local prevalence and individual frequency; (2) properties of the behavior,
such as the social role of the behavior, the context in which the behavior is exhibited, and
its similarity to other behaviors; (3) changes in the occurrence of the behavior over time;
and (4) knowledge of spontaneous or experimentally induced behavior in captivity. These
criteria do not require long-term studies at a single site, but information from multiple
populations of a species will generally be needed. These criteria are systematized into a
dichotomous key that can be used to assess whether a behavior observed in the field is likely
to be an innovation.
KEYWORDS: behavior, culture, improvisation, innovation, invention, operational definition,
social learning.
FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ramsey-08242006/Referees/
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biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a
BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below:
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NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is an international, interdisciplinary journal
providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the
biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a
BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below:
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to nominate themselves for formal commentary invitation. Please DO NOT write a commentary
until you receive a formal invitation. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a
copyedited, corrected version of this paper will be posted in the invitation letter. The
commentary invitation list is compiled by the Editors so as to balance proposals, areas of
expertise, and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS.
TITLE: Animal innovation defined and operationalized
AUTHOR: Grant Ramsey, Meredith L. Bastian, and Carel van Schaik
ABSTRACT: Innovation is a key component of most definitions of culture and intelligence.
Additionally, innovations may affect a speciesÂ’ ecology and evolution. Nonetheless,
conceptual and empirical work on innovation has only recently begun. In particular, largely
because the existing operational definition (first occurrence in a population) requires
long-term studies of populations, there has been no systematic study of innovation in wild
animals. To facilitate such study, we have produced a new definition of innovation:
Innovation is the process generates in an individual a novel learned behavior that is not
simply a consequence of social learning or environmental induction. Using this definition, we
propose a new operational approach for distinguishing innovations in the field. The
operational criteria employ information from the following sources: (1) the behaviorÂ’s
geographic and local prevalence and individual frequency; (2) properties of the behavior,
such as the social role of the behavior, the context in which the behavior is exhibited, and
its similarity to other behaviors; (3) changes in the occurrence of the behavior over time;
and (4) knowledge of spontaneous or experimentally induced behavior in captivity. These
criteria do not require long-term studies at a single site, but information from multiple
populations of a species will generally be needed. These criteria are systematized into a
dichotomous key that can be used to assess whether a behavior observed in the field is likely
to be an innovation.
KEYWORDS: behavior, culture, improvisation, innovation, invention, operational definition,
social learning.
FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ramsey-08242006/Referees/
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* If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org.
* Please respond to this Call no later than May 17, 2007
NOTE: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) is an international, interdisciplinary journal
providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the
biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a
BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below:
http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html
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Paul Bloom - Editor
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest
Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf
Another change of program:
I am sorry for ignoring the fact that 28 May is another non-working day
in Hungary ... so, unfortunately, we have to cancel Marta Bilkova's
lecture. So the May program will be the following:
7 May
There will be no seminar session! Reason:
Bruno Latour
Making Things Public: A New Space for Democracy?
5:30pm, Popper Room
CEU (Nador u. 9)
For further details, see: http://www.ceu.hu/news_events.jsp
14 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3)
Tihamer Margitay
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Hogyan lehetseges szabadsag? Egy masfajta kompatibilizmus
(How is freedom possible? Another kind of compatibilism)
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#2
21 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3)
Hajnal Andreka & Istvan Nemeti
Algebraic Logic, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
Relativistic computing and the Turing barrier
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#3
With my apologies,
Laszlo E. Szabo
the organizer of the Forum
(leszabo(a)philosophy.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
http://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest
Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf
This is just to remind you that there will be no seminar session on 30
April.(30 April is a non-working day; the campus will be closed.) Peter
Fazekas' lecture "The physical story behind Phenomenal Concept Strategy"
is moved to 4th June.
The next seminar session:
14 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3)
Tihamer Margitay
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Hogyan lehetseges szabadsag? Egy masfajta kompatibilizmus
(How is freedom possible? Another kind of compatibilism)
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#2
Finally, let me call your attention to the following lecture:
Bruno Latour
Making Things Public: A New Space for Democracy?
5:30pm, Popper Room, CEU (Nador u. 9)
For further details, see: http://www.ceu.hu/news_events.jsp
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)philosophy.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
http://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Puskin u. 3, Budapest
Web site: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf
Program: May
7 May
There will be no seminar session! Reason:
Bruno Latour
Making Things Public: A New Space for Democracy?
5:30pm, Popper Room
CEU (Nador u. 9)
For further details, see: http://www.ceu.hu/news_events.jsp
14 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3)
Tihamer Margitay
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Hogyan lehetseges szabadsag? Egy masfajta kompatibilizmus
(How is freedom possible? Another kind of compatibilism)
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#2
21 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3)
Hajnal Andreka & Istvan Nemeti
Algebraic Logic, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
Relativistic computing and the Turing barrier
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#3
28 May 4:00 PM Room 208 (Puskin u. 3)
Marta Bilkova
Department of Logic, Charles University, Prague
Modal logic in computer science
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/#4
___________________________________
The Forum is open to everyone, including students,visitors, and faculty
members from all departments and institutes!
Format: 60 minute lecture, 10 minute coffee break, followed by a 30-60
minute discussion. The language of presentation is English or Hungarian.
A printable poster is available from here:
http://philosophy.elte.hu/tpf/2007/May/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)philosophy.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
http://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo