Information Retrieval List Digest 083 (September 11, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-083 IRLIST Digest September 11, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 40 Issue 83 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. QUALICO: 1st Quantitative Linguistics Conference ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: QUALICO@UTRURT.UUCP Re: QUALICO: 1st Quantitative Linguistics Conference University of Trier, Germany; September 23-27, 1991 Q U A L I C O First Quantitative Linguistics Conference (Invitation Program) University of Trier, Germany September 23-27, 1991 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Burghard B. Rieger, University of Trier; Moisei Boroda, Tbilisy State Conservatory; Baron Brainerd, University of Toronto; Sheila Embleton, University of Calgary; Daffyd Gibbon, University of Bielefeld; Ruediger Grotjahn, University of Bochum; Hans Haller, University of Saarbruecken; Peter Hellwig, University of Heidelberg; Edward Hopkins, University of Bochum; Joerg Kindermann, GMD Bonn-St.Augustin; Ursula Klenk, University of Goettingen; Reinhard Koehler, University of Trier; Jens-Peter Koester, University of Trier; Juergen Krause, University of Regensburg; Werner Lehfeldt, University of Konstanz; Christoph Lischka, GMD Bonn-St. Augustin; Wolfhart Matthaeus, University of Bochum; Raimund G. Piotrovskij, University of Leningrad; Dietmar Roesner, FAW Ulm; Gerda Ruge, Siemens AG, Munich; Burkhard Schaeder, University of Siegen; Helmut Schnelle, University of Bochum; Jadwiga Sambor, University of Warsaw ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: Chair: Reinhard Koehler, University of Trier; Juergen Schrepp, University of Trier OVERVIEW ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Monday, | Tuesday, | Wednesday, | Thursday, | Friday, | September 23| September 24| September 25| September 26| September 27 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.00 | Registration| Invited | Invited | Invited | GLDV-Session | (all day) | Speaker: | Speaker: | Speaker: | Papers: Uni- | | John S. Ni- | Michail V. | Hans Goebl, | fication ------| | colis, Uni- | Arapov, So- | University | based Gram- 9.30 | Opening | versity of | viet Academy| of Salzburg,| mars and | | Patras, | of Sciences,| Austria | Models | | Greece | Moscow, So- | | | | | viet Union | | ------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| 10.00 | Invited | Models and | Process | Dialecto- | | Speaker: | Explanation | Dynamics and| metrics | | Gabriel Alt-| I | Semiotics I | | ------| mann, Uni- |-------------|-------------|-------------|------------- 10.30 | vers ty of | Coffee Break| Coffee Break| Coffee Break| Coffee Break | Bochum, | | | | | Germany | | | | ------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|------------- 11.00 | Coffee Break| Models and | Process | Textual | GLDV-Session ------|-------------| Explanation | Dynamics | Structures | Papers: Na- 11.30 | Quantifi- | II | and | and Pro- | tural Lan- | cation and | | Semiotics II| cessing III | guage Pro- | Measurement | |*************|*************| cessing and ------| | | Reports, | Reports, | Tools 12.00 | | | Projects | Projects | | | | and Results | and Results | | | | I | II | ------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|------------- 12.30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch ------| | | | | 13.00 | | | | | ------| | | | | 13.30 | | | | | ------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|------------- 14.00 | Textual | Textual | | 14.00: | GLDV Working ------| Structures | Structures | | GLDV | Group 14.30 | and Pro- | and Pro- | | Executive | Meeting ------| cessing I | cessing II | | Board | 15.00 | | | | Meeting | ------|-------------|-------------| | | 15.30 | Coffee Break| Coffee Break| | 15.00: | ------|-------------|-------------| | GLDV General| 16.00 | Phonetics | Statistical | | Assembly | ------| and | Studies | Excursion |*************| 16.30 | Phonemics | | afternoon: | 16.00: | ------|-------------|-------------| Boat Trip | Guided City |------------- 17.00 | Invited | Invited | to the City | Tour through| | Speaker: | Speaker: | of Saarburg | ancient and | | Mildred L.G.| Kenneth W. | and Dinner | historical | | Shaw, Uni- | Church, Uni-| | Trier ("2000| ------| versity of | versity of | | Years by | 17.30 | Calgary, | Southern | | 2000 Steps")| | Canada | California, | | | | | United | | | | | States of | | | | | America | | | ------|-------------|-------------| | | 20.00 | Reception | Visit of | | | | by the City | Winery with | | | | of Trier | Wine Tasting| | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Monday, September 23rd 9:30-10:00 Opening 10:00-11:00 Invited Speaker: Gabriel Altmann, University of Bochum,Germany: "Science and Linguistics". 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Quantification and Measurement: Chair: Reinhard Koehler Ruediger Grotjahn: "Messen und statistische Datenanalyse in der Linguistik" Peter Schmidt: "The Measurement of Morphosyntactic Properties: A first Attempt" 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Textual Structures and Processing I: Chair: Burghard Rieger E. Dermatas, G. Kokkinakis: "An Algorithm for Automatic Grammatical Classes Definition" Jan Kralik: "Probabilistic Scaling of Texts" Christa Womser-Hacker: "Tests of Hypotheses Concerning Phenomena of 'Computer Talk'" 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Phonemics and Phonetics: Chair: Jens-Peter Koester Walter F. Sendlmeier: "Phonetisch/phonologische Ausbalanciertheit von Testmaterialien zur Sprachguetebeurteilung" P. Rentzpopoulos, A. Tsopanoglou, G. Kokkinakis: "A Statistical Approach for Phoneme to Grapheme Conversion" 17:00-18:00 Invited Speaker: Mildred L.G. Shaw, University of Calgary, Canada: "A Methodology for Analyzing Terminological and Conceptual Differences in Language Use across Communities" 20:00 Reception by the City of Trier Tuesday, September 24th 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: John S. Nicolis, University of Patras, Greece: "Chaotic Dynamics of the Linguistic Processes: At the Syntactical, Semantic and Pragmatic Levels" 10:00-10:30 Models and Explanation I: Chair: Gabriel Altmann Ludek Hrebicek: "Text as a Construct of Aggregations" 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Models and Explanation II: Chair: Gabriel Altmann Reinhard Koehler: "Synergetic Linguistics" Rolf Hammerl: "Ein Modell zur Beschreibung multivariater Relationen lexikalischer Einheiten" August Fenk, Gertrud Fenk-Oczlon: "Das Menzerathsche Gesetz und das Prinzip des konstanten Informationsflusses" 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Textual Structures and Processing II: Chair: Burghard Rieger M. Refice, M. Savino: "Quantitative Evaluation of Language Independent Models" Reinhard Kneser, Hermann Ney: "Forming Word Classes by Statistical Clustering for Statistical Language Modelling" Ute Essen, Hermann Ney: "Statistical Language Modelling using Cache Memory" 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Statistical Studies: Chair: Ruediger Grotjahn Mark Olsen: "Quantitative Linguistics and 'Histoire des mentalites': Gender Representation in the 'Tresor de la langue francaise'" 17:00-18:00 Invited Speaker: Kenneth W. Church, University of Southern California, United States of America:"Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis" 20:00 Visiting Winery and Wine Tasting Wednesday, September 25th 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Michail V. Arapov, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Soviet Union: "Word Values" 10:00-10:30 Process Dynamics and Semiotics I: Chair: Reinhard Koehler Burghard Rieger, Constantin Thiopoulos: "A self-organizing lexical system in hypertext" 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Process Dynamics and Semiotics II: Chair: Reinhard Koehler Robert B. Allen: "Knowledge Representation with Simple Recurrent Neural Networks" Jurij K. Krylov: "Wave Theory of Coherent Text Generation and Prospects for its Development" A.A. Polikarpov: "On the hypothesis of world life cycle" Reports, Projects and Results I: Chair: Jadwiga Sambor Wolf Paprott: "SEMDAC - Semantic Disambiguation of Verbs and Automatic Classification of Nouns in a Large Corpus of German Texts" Qian Feng: "About Some Theoretical and Computational Interpretations of Chinese Phrase Structure Grammar (CPSG)" Marek Swidzinski: "Verb patterns in the Polish vocabulary and texts" George Silnitzky: "Correlational Analysis and Clusterization of Verbal Features in English and German" 12:30-14:00 Lunch Excursion Thursday, September 26th 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Hans Goebl, University of Salzburg, Austria: "Computational Dialectometrics" 10:00-10:30 Dialectometrics: Chair: Ludek Hrebicek Sheila Embleton: "Multidimensional Scaling as a Dialectometrical Technique" 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Textual Structures and Processing III: Chair: Sheila Embleton Koichi Ejiri, Adolph E. Smith: "Proposal 'Constraint Measure' for Various Kinds of Texts" Fernande Depuis, Daniel Gosselin: "Methodological Aspects of the Categorization of a Middle French Corpus with a Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Software (SATO)" Chao-Huang Chang, Gilbert K. Krulee: "Paraphrasing before Translation: On Machine Translatability and Sentence Complexity" Reports, Projects and Results II: Chair: Jadwiga Sambor Jadwiga Sambor, Rolf Hammerl: "Polnische Arbeiten im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes 'Sprachliche Synergetik': Materialien und Ergebnisse" Pauli Saukkonen: "Main trends and results of quantitative linguistics in Finland" Jogchum Reitsma: "A parallel approach in statistical analysis of unrestricted corpora of human language" Stefan Schierholz, Eric Windisch: "Quantitative Analysen von Bedeutungswoerterbuechern" 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00 Guided City Tour through ancient and historical Trier ("2000 Years by 2000 Steps") 14:00-15:00 GLDV Executive Board Meeting 15:00-18:00 GLDV General Assembly Friday, September 27th 9:00-10:30 GLDV-Session Papers: "Unification Based Grammars and Models" 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 GLDV-Session Papers: "Natural Language Processing and Tools" 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-17:00 GLDV Working Group Meetings: Arbeitskreise: AK Ausbildung und Berufsperspektiven AK LDV und Nachbarn AK LDV/CL-Studiengaenge AK Lexikographie AK Maschinelle Uebersetzung AK Spracherkennung, Sprachgenerierung und phonetische Datenbanken AK Textanalyse AK Forensische Linguistik AK Quantitative Linguistik GENERAL INFORMATION: The oldest city in Germany, founded 16 b.C., by the Romans as Augusta Treverorum in the Mosel valley is situated in the most Western region of Germany near both the French and Luxembourgian borders. In the center of Europe this ancient city will host the participants of QUALICO at the University of Trier, surrounded by the vineyards of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer wine district at vintage beginning. The site of the conference will be the Campus of the University of Trier, situated on the South-Eastern slopes of the valley mountains overlooking the city. Conference languages will be English and German. All conference sessions will be held in the lecture halls and seminar rooms of Building C, with the conference information desk located in its lobby where coffee will be served during session breaks. Meals during lunch time will be offered by the Mensa Academica under special arrangement for conference participants in the mensa building next door. TRAVEL: When planning your flight to Germany it might be advisable to consider the possibility to fly to Luxemburg Airport which is only about 40 miles from Trier. Although there is a bus transfer from the Airport to the City of Trier (Airport Liner: approx. 50 minutes; frequency: every 20-40 minutes; price: DM 17.- per person), it might be necessary to take a taxi (approx. DM 85.- or equivalent Lux.-Frs.). The more common alternative will be to fly to Frankfurt/Main and take the fast Airport train from the airport underground railway station to Koblenz where to change train to Trier along the scenic valley of the river Mosel. Timetable: Frankfurt/M. -> via Koblenz -> Trier Ffm Train Trier Annotations Ffm Train Trier Annotations A 3.34 D 202 7.21 C Koblenz 13.03 IC 620 15.37 C Koblenz W 3.34 D 202 8.26 C Koblenz 14.03 EC 128 16.37 C Koblenz 3.34 D 202 8.37 C Koblenz 15.03 IC 520 17.37 C Koblenz F 7.03 IC 639 9.37 C Koblenz 16.03 EC 28 18.37 C Koblenz 8.03 IC 826 10.37 C Koblenz 17.03 IC 724 19.37 C Koblenz 9.03 IC 526 11.37 C Koblenz 18.03 EC 26 20.37 C Koblenz 10.03 IC 822 12.37 C Koblenz 19.03 IC 726 21.37 C Koblenz 11.03 IC 524 13.37 C Koblenz 20.03 EC 24 22.37 C Koblenz 12.03 IC 522 14.37 C Koblenz B 21.03 IC 722 23.37 C Koblenz A: workdaily (except Sat.) B: daily (except Sat.) F: daily (except Sun.) W: workdaily C: change trains REGISTRATION: Please fill in the registration form, make sure that your way of payment is correctly marked and mail it to: QUALICO University of Trier P.O.Box 3825 W-5500 Trier Germany e-mail: qualico@utrurt.uucp.de Tel. 049-651-201-2270 When you choose Bank Order we require a copy which should be enclosed. CONFERENCE FEES: Conference fees include: proceedings (to be published after the conference), social program, luncheons, and coffee during session breaks Members of supporting organizations: DM 250.- Non-Members: DM 300.- Students (without proceedings): DM 150.- ACCOMODATION: As students' hostels and dormatories on Campus will not be available for conference participants, immediate hotel reservation is highly recommended as the month of September is vintage beginning and high season for tourists visiting Trier. TRANSPORT: The University Campus can easily be reached from the Center of Trier by public transport within 15 to 20 minutes. Buses leave from Porta Nigra Bus Station all day frequently (Line 1: every 7 minutes; Line 6: every 20 minutes) and will take you to the University Bus Stops either on "Kohlen-Str." or on "Gustav-Heinemann-Str.". SOCIAL PROGRAM: Due to the limited number of seats available for some of the following events, participants will be registered on a "first-come-first-serve" basis: - On Monday evening the Mayor of the City of Trier will give a reception for conference participants. - On Tuesday evening there will be a visit to the wine cellars of one of the well-known wineries in town. - On Wednesday afternoon the excursion will take the participants by boat from Trier (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bridge) up the rivers Mosel and Saar to the picturesque City of Saarburg. There will be time for a stroll before the dinner after which buses will be waiting to take the party back to Trier. - On Thursday afternoon, there will be the opportunity to join several small groups for a guided City Tour "2000 Years by 2000 Steps" around the ancient Roman, medieval, and historic points of interest in the city of Trier. REGISTRATION FORM Mr.-Ms.-Dr.-Prof. Family Name: ............................................................... First Name: ................................................................ Affiliation: ............................................................... Address: ................................................................... City: ...................................................................... Country/State: ............................................................. Postal/Zip Code: __| __| __| __| __| __| __| E-mail: .................................................................... Telephone: ................................................................. Social Program:: Events are free of charge and covered by the conference fee. However, due to limited numbers of seats available for some events, we are forced to register participants on a 'first-come-first-serve' basis. Please tick the activities you plan to join: __| Guided tour __| Excursion __| Winery Notice: ! Registration is necessary also for participants who have submitted a paper. ! Remember that Trier has a shortage of hotelrooms! Payment: Conference fees: Before August 15, 1991: DM 250,- Members of supporting organizations DM 200,- Students DM 100,- After August 15, 1991: DM 300,- Members of supporting organizations DM 250,- Students DM 150,- Payment should be made in DM (Deutsche Mark), payable to Universitaet Trier, FB II - LDV (QUALICO) __| by International Bank Order to account No. 794 347, Stadtsparkasse Trier, BLZ 585 500 80. Total DM ............................ 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