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Fri Apr 11 1997

Confs: Chicago Linguistic Society, RIAO'97

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  • Kora Singer, Chicago Linguistic Society 33 conference schedule
  • Abdellatif Saoudi, RIAO'97: Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet

    Message 1: Chicago Linguistic Society 33 conference schedule

     Date: Mon, 7 Apr 97 15:41:50 CDT
    From: Kora Singer <ksingermidway.uchicago.edu>
    Subject: Chicago Linguistic Society 33 conference schedule


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    ANNOUNCING:



    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< CLS 33 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    April 17 - 19

    University of Chicago Judd Hall 5835 S. Kimbark Avenue Chicago, Illinois

    Registration begins April 17, 8:30 a.m.



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    For more information please contact Chicago Linguistic Society:

    E-mail: CLStuna.uchicago.edu Phone: (773) 702-8529 Web site: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/humanities/cls

    Persons with disabilities who believe they may need assistance, please contact CLS in advance.

    **** CLS 33 Schedule ****

    Please note that the Panel Sessions run parallel to the Main Session. Speakers with a * preceding their names are invited speakers. The schedule may be subject to change.



    **Thursday, April 17, 1997**

    Main Session Panel on Linguistic Ideologies

    9:00 Mika Kizu, McGill U Jason Pontius, U of Chicago Sluicing in Wh-in-situ Language Codification and Languages the Perception of Otherness

    9:30 Gunsoo Lee, U of Missouri- Mary R Bachvarova, U of St. Louis Chicago Referentiality as a Non-Binary Literary Use of Dialect and Notion Language in Indic,Ancient Greek, Hittite and Sumerian

    10:00 Takashi Toyoshima, Cornell U Wataru Koyama, U of Chicago 'Long' Head Movement or Wrong Dishonorable Honorifics: 'Head Movement' Changes in Japanese Verbal Honorifics and the Linguistic and Cultural Ideologies of "Standard Average European" Speech Communities

    10:30 Eun Cho, Cornell U David E. Tavarez, U of Chicago The Dual Nature of Contrastive Naming the Holy Trinity: Topic and LF Movement Linguistic Ideology and Prescriptive Reference in Classical Nahuatl

    11:00 Simin Karimi, U of Arizona H. Paul Manning, U of Chicago Persian Complex Predicates and LF The Geology of Railway Embank- Incorporation ments: Oxford Welsh and the 'Abnormal Sentence'.

    11:30 B. Need & E. Schiller, U of Chic. Edward A. Miner, U of Illinois, & Linguistics Unlimited Urbana-Champaign Ellipsis in Autolexical Theory Kiswahili 'Illiteracy' and the AK-47 in the Ugandan Political Imaginary

    12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH BREAK

    1:00 Jennifer DeSimone, U of Cal, S.D. Emily C. McEwan, U of Chicago Alternations in Korean Causatives From 'the Rude Speech of a Barbarous People' to 'Scotland's Celtic Legacy': Ideologies of Revival and Revitalization in Gaelic-English Contact

    1:30 M. Broman Olsen & P. Resnik, U Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain, U of Mich of Maryland 'No Way! We Speak Standard Implicit Object Constructions in German!' the (In)Transitivity Continuum

    2:00 Hana Filip, U of Rochester Gregory D. Anderson, U of Chic. Constraint Based Approach to On the Evolution of Aspect Shift and Coercion Ethnolinguistic Identity in Xakassia

    2:30 - 3:00 COFFEE BREAK

    3:00 ------- *Victor Friedman, U of Chicago One Grammar, Three Lexicons: Ideological Overtones and Under- pinnings in the Balkan Sprachbund

    4:00 Grant Goodall, U of Texas, DISCUSSION El Paso Theta-Alignment and the by-Phrase

    4:30 Victor Sanchez-Valencia, U of Groningen Scalar Quantitative Implicatures and Monotonicity

    5:00 - 7:00 DINNER BREAK

    7:00 Costas Canakis, Princeton U Jon F. Pressman, U of Iowa Pragmatics vs. Cognitive Grammaticalization of Honorifics Semantics in Antillean French Creole

    7:30 Kazue Watanabe, SUNY Buffalo Susan Duncan, U of Chicago Focus, Presupposition Function, Clues from Speech-Accompanying and Underspecified Meaning Gesture to a Process of Grammaticalization Under Way

    8:00 *Larry Horn, Yale U ----- All John's Children Are As Bald As the King of France: Existential Import and the Geometry of Opposition

    **Friday, April 18, 1997**

    Main Session Panel on Universal Grammar, Parameters and Typology

    9:00 Paul Hagstrom, MIT Craig Kopris, SUNY Buffalo Contextual Metrical The Grammatical Relations Invisibility and Weak Vowels Hierarchy In Split Intransitive Languages

    9:30 I-Ping Wan, SUNY Buffalo Kumiko Murasugi, Carleton U & U The Status of Prenuclear Glides of Ottawa in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence Is There an Ergative Parameter? from Speech Errors

    10:00 Maria M. Carreira, Cal. State U P. E. Hook, B. Modi, O. N. Koul, The Spanish Plural Marker: It U of Mich, M.S. U of Baroda, Takes Two (Moras) Central Inst. of Indian Lgs Fluid Ergativity in Gujarati and the Notion of Suspension

    10:30 C. Golston & W. Kehrein, CSU K. Lambrecht & M. Polinsky, U Fresno & Philipps U Marburg Texas, Austin & USC/UCSD (Germany) Inversion, Subject Mazatec Syllable Structure Incorporation, and Theticity

    11:00 ----- *Susan Steele, U of Arizona The Future of Typology

    12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH BREAK

    1:00 Marie-Helene Cote, MIT ----- Phonetic Saliency and Consonant Cluster Simplification

    1:30 Hui-chuan (Jennifer) Huang, Maria Polinsky, USC/UCSD U of Minnesota SO/OS Languages Assimilation as the Result of Sequence Constraint Violation: The Case of Warlpiri

    2:00 Sung-A Kim & Scott Myers, Mark Honegger, U of Illinois, U of Texas, Austin Urbana-Champ. Positional Effect on Tonal A Unified Account of Word Order Alternation in Chichewa: for Configurational and Non- Phonological Rule vs. Phonetic Configurational Languages Timing

    2:30 - 3:00 COFFEE BREAK

    3:00 ----- *Edith Moravcsik, U of Wisonsin-Milw. Principles and Parameters of the Metalanguage of Linguistic Typology

    4:00 Mieko Banno, U of Cal, Santa B. Lust, S. Flynn, S. Epstein, Barbara Cornell/MIT, MIT, Harvard Prosodic Units in Japanese L2 Solves the Paradox of UG in Discourse: Acoustic Analysis Acquisition of Intonational Structure & Pragmatics

    4:30 ----- Benjamin Shaer, U of Stuttgart (Germany) Universal Grammar and the Parametrization of Temporal Marking

    5:00 - 7:00 DINNER BREAK

    7:00 ----- *Matthew Dryer, SUNY Buffalo Why Statistical Universals are Better Than Absolute Universals

    8:00 B. Saravanan, SUNY Stony Brook DISCUSSION Information Content of Morpho- logical Operations in Tamil

    8:30 Ida Toivonen, Stanford U The Possessive Suffixes in Finnish

    **Saturday, April 19, 1997**

    Main Session Panel on The Perception of Speech and Other Acoustic Signals

    8:45 Panel Welcome

    9:00 ----- *Robert Fox, Jeanne Gokcen, & Sheri Wagner, Ohio State U, Lucent Technologies, Ohio State U Neurological Evidence for a Speech Module?

    10:00 A. Seidl & A. Dimitriadis, U H. Nusbaum, A. Francis, & T. Luks, of Pennsylvania U of Chicago The Discourse Function of Speech Perception: A Special Object Marking in Swahili Mechanism or a Specialized Cognitive Process?

    10:30 Alexandre Kimenyi, Cal State U Terrence M. Nearey, U of Alberta Ditransitive Verbs in Modularity and Tractability in Kinyarwanda: The Semantics of Speech Perception Double Object Verbs and the Dative Shift Revisited

    11:00 E. Anagnostopoulou & A. K. Landahl & E. Hamp, U of Chic. Alexiadou U of Tilburg & ZAS Gravity without Levity Berlin Dative Morphology in Double Object Constructions

    11:30 Almerindo Ojeda, U of Cal-Davis Ho-hsien Pan, Natl. Chiao Tung U How to Define Number Categories: The Salience of Nasal Cues to A Lesson from Semitic Perception of Taiwanese Voiced Stops and Nasals

    12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH BREAK

    1:00 ----- *Peter MacNeilage, U Texas, Austin The Relation Between Speech Perception and Production in Phylogeny and Ontogeny

    2:00 Ilana Mushin, SUNY Buffalo A.J. Lotto, K.R. Kluender, L.L Maintaining an Epistemological Holt, U of Wisconsin Stance: Direct Speech and Animal Models of Speech Evidentiality in Macedonian Perception Phenomena

    2:30 COFFEE BREAK Dan Margoliash, U of Chicago Linkages Between Production Perception in Animals: The Motor Theory of Birdsong Perception Revisited

    3:00 Holger Diessel, SUNY Buffalo BREAK The Diachronic Reanalysis of Demonstratives in Cross- linguistic Perspective

    3:30 Cheng Luo, Brock U R. Hemphill, Y. Hirata, K. Iconicity or Economy? Polysemy Landahl, J. Lowenstein, A. between Demonstratives, Dainora, U of chicago Copulas and Contrastive Focus Questioning the Continuum: The Markers Use of V[r/l] [d/g]V Evidence in Gestural theories of Speech Perception

    4:00 Eve Ng, SUNY Buffalo Douglas H. Whalen, Haskins Labs A Role and Reference Grammar What Duplex Perception Tells Us Analysis of Mandarin de About Speech Perception sentences

    4:30 Haj Ross, U of North Texas Mark Randolph, Motorala Corporation THERE, there On the Role of Phonetic Knowledge in Automatic Speech Perception

    5:00 - 7:00 DINNER BREAK DISCUSSION (5:00-6:00) DINNER (6:00-7:00)

    7:00 Hisami Suzuki, Microsoft and F.C. van der Leek, U of Amsterdam U of Chicago The Logic of HIT and STRIKE: A A Corpus-Based,Computational Difference in Event Semantics Approach to Information Content of Japanese Comparatives

    7:30 Felicia A. Lee, UCLA T. Fretheim, W. van Dommelen, K. The Predicative Structure of Borthen, U of Trondheim, Norway Clefts: Evidence from Zapotec Linguistic Constraints on Relevance in Reference Resolution

    8:00 *Brian Joseph, Ohio State U ----- On the Linguistics of Marginality: The Centrality of the Periphery

    9:00 PARTY









    Message 2: RIAO'97: Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet

     Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:03:59 -0300
    From: Abdellatif Saoudi <Abdellatif.Saoudiirin.univ-nantes.fr>
    Subject: RIAO'97: Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet


    (Apologies if you receive this call more than once)

    Call For Participation

    RIAO'97 CONFERENCE Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet June 25-27, 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS]



    Brief Description : - -------------------

    Every three years the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various international affiliates, organizes an RIAO conference (RIAO is the French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval). RIAO97 will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO88 at MIT; RIAO91 in Barcelona; and RIAO94 at Rockefeller University in New York.

    RIAO conferences have the special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a rigorous selection process. The mix of scientific expertise and state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical examination of both aspects, stimulating both new product development, ecnouraging sponsorship of start-ups, as well as initiating lines of further, critical research investigations.

    RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering, and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions of networks. In particular, RIAO97 brings together search specialists and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be accomplished in the context of the proliferation of web sites, content formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of user accesses.

    ------------------------------------------ FINAL PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE

    GENERAL SESSION June 25, 1997 ------------------------------------------

    9:00-9:15 a.m WELCOMING STATEMENT Dr B. Robaire Vice Principal, Research McGill University, Canada

    9:15-9:30 a.m RIAO97' Introduction J. Thuiller Professor at the College de France President of the C.I.D.

    9:30-10:00 a.m Invited Speaker GILS Projet N. Brodie National Library of Ottawa, Canada --------------------------------- SESSION 1: INFORMATION DISCOVERY --------------------------------- Chairman: L. Devroye, McGill University

    10:00-10:25 a.m "The Do-I-Care Agent: Effective Social Discovery and Filtering on the Web" M.S. Ackerman, B. Starr, M. Pazzani University of California, USA

    10:25-10:50 a.m "Mining Information In Order To Extract Hidden And Strategical Information" T.Dkaki, B. Dousset, J. Mothe Universite P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France

    10:50-11:20 a.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------------------------- SESSION 2: VISUALISATION TOOLS FOR INFORMATION NAVIGATION ---------------------------------------------------------- Chairman: S. Tohme, ENST France

    11:20-11:45 a.m "Design Issues for World Wide Web Navigation Visualisation Tools" A. Cockburn, S. Jones University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, New Zealand

    11:45-12:10 a.m "Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing" A. Wexelblat, P. Maes Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    12:10-12:35 p.m "Using terminological base for Term-based information retrieval" J-Y Nie, Universite de Montreal, Canada

    12:35-2:05 p.m LUNCH ------------------------------------------------ SESSION 3: AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING, REPOSITORIES ------------------------------------------------ Chairman: G. Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre

    2:05-2:30 p.m "Development of a Document Summarization System for Effective Information Services" D. H. Jang, S. H. Myaeng Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea

    2:30-2:55 p.m "Automatic summarization on the Web? RAFI: A system for summarizing using indicating fragments" A. Lehmam, Universite de Nancy II, France

    2:55-3:20 p.m "Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories" B. Chidlovskii, U. M. Borghoff, P.Y. Chevalier Rank Xerox Research Centre, France

    3:20-3:45 p.m "Annotating the World Wide Web using Natural Language" B. Katz, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA

    3:45-4:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations --------------------------------------------------------- SESSION 4: LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL --------------------------------------------------------- Chairman: R. Cencioni, European Community

    4:15-4:40 p.m "IRENA: Information Retrieval Engine based on Natural Language Analysis" A.T. Arampatzis ,T. Tsoris, C.H.A. Koster. Patras, Greece and Netherlands

    4:40-5:05 p.m "The Effect of Syntactic Phrase Indexing on Retrieval Performance for Dutch Texts" R. Pohlmann , W. Kraaij Utrecht University, TNO-TPD, Netherlands

    5:05-5:30 p.m "Using Simulated Annealing to Understand Natural Language Texts" S.A. Laribi, G. Desrocques, A. Laribi, J.C. Bassano Universite d'Orleans, France. Geneva Univeristy, Switzerland

    5:30-5:55 p.m "An Analysis of Statistical and Syntactic Phrases" M. Mitra, C. Buckley, A. Singhal, C. Cardie Cornell University, USA ----------------------------------- June 26, 1997 SESSION 5: MULTILINGUAL APPROACH ---------------------------------- Chairman: C. Fluhr, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique. France

    9:00-9:25 a.m "Multi-Language Text Indexing for Internet Retrieval" M.Wechsler, P. Sheridan, P. Schauble Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

    9:25-9:50 a.m "Adaptative Filtering of Multilingual Document Streams" D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA

    9:50-10:15 a.m "A domain Specific Lexicon Acquisition Tool for Cross-Language Information Retrieval" D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong, W. Kraaij CTIT, Twente University, Netherlands

    10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations

    ---------------------------- SESSION 6: IRS ARCHITECTURE ---------------------------- Chairman: R. Marcus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)

    10:45-11:10 a.m "EAGLE: An Extensible Architecture for General Linguistic Engineering" B. Baldwin , C. Doran, J.C. Reynar

    11:10-11:35 a.m "Information Retrieval On The Word Wide Web using a Decision Making System" F. Corvaisier, A. Mille, J.M. Pinon, INSA, Lyon, France

    11:35-12:00 a.m "A Multiagent Architecture for Information Retrieval on the World-Wide Web" V.N. Gudivada, S.P. Tolety Wayne State University, University of Missouri. USA

    12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH --------------------------------- SESSION 7: INFORMATION EXTRACTION ---------------------------------

    Chairman: C. Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes. France

    1:30-2:45 p.m Panel TREC in Many Languages * TREC-5: English D. Harman National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA * TREC-5: Spanish and Chinese A. Smeaton Dublin City University, Ireland *The Amaryllis Project C. Fluhr Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France

    2:45-3:10 p.m "Integrated text categorisation and information extraction using pattern matching and linguistic processing" W. J. Black, L. Gilardoni, F. Rinaldi, R Dressel UMIST, UK. Quinary Spa, Italy

    3:10-3:35 p.m "On-Line Resource Discovery using Natural Language" O.R. Zaine , A. Fall, S. Rochefort, V. Dahl, P. Tarau Simon Fraser University, Canada

    3:35-4:00 p.m "Coupling information retrieval and information extraction: A new text technology for gathering information from the web" R. Gaizauskas, A.M. Robertson University of Sheffield, UK

    4:00-4:30 p.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------- SESSION 8: DOCUMENT / RELEVANCE RANKING ---------------------------------------- Chairman: D.J. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.

    4:30-4:55 p.m "Summarizing Similarities and differences Among Related Documents" I. Mani , E. Bloedorn The MITRE Corporation, USA

    4:55-5:20 p.m "Relevance Ranking for One to Three Term Queries" C.L.A. Clarke , G.V. Cormack, E.A. Tudhope University of Toronto. Canada

    5:20-5:45 p.m "Space Optimizations for Total Ranking" D.R. Cutting, J.O. Pedersen Excite Inc., USA

    5:45-6:10 p.m "A Similarity-Based Agent for Internet Searching" T.G. Rose, P. J. Wyard, Canon, UK ------------------------------- June 27, 1997 SESSION 9: IRS ARCHITECTURE- II ------------------------------- Chairman: U. Heid, Stuttgart University, Germany

    9:00-9:25 a.m "ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery" F. Menczer , R.K. Belew University of California, USA

    9:25-9:50 a.m "Cobra: A new approach to IR System design" T. Mills, K. Moody, K. Rodden University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. UK

    9:50-10:15 a.m "Interactive Image Retrieval by Means of Abductive Inference" A. Muller, A. Everts GMD. Germany

    10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations --------------------------------- SESSION 10: QUERY REFORMULATION --------------------------------- Chairman: J.C. Bassano, Universite d'Orleans France.

    10:45-11:10 a.m "Query modification based on relevance backpropagation" M. Boughanem, C. Soule-Dupuy MSI, Universite de Limoges, France

    11:10-11:35 a.m "Query ReFormulation on the Internet: Empirical Data and the Hyperindex Search Engine" P.D. Bruza , S. Dennis Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    11:35-12:00 a.m SQLET: Short Query Linguistic Expansion Techniques: Palliating One or Two-word Queries by Providing Intermediate Structure to WWW Pages G. Grefenstette Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France

    12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH --------------------------------- SESSION 11: INFORMATION FILTERING --------------------------------- Chairman: V. Semenova, ANALIT, Moscow

    1:30-1:55 p.m "Probabilistic Learning for Information Filtering" G. Amati , F. Crestani, F. Ubaldini, S. de Nardis Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Universita di Padova, Universita di Roma, Italy

    1:55-2:20 p.m "Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering: A Comparative Study of Part-of-speech Tagging and Supertagging" R. Chandrasekar , B. Srinivas University of Pennsylvania, USA

    2:20-2:45 p.m "Querying Hierarchical Text and Acyclic Hypertext with Generalized Context-Free Grammars" Y. Marcoux, M. Sevigny Universite de Montreal, Canada

    2:45-3:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations ------------------------------------- SESSION 12: INFORMATION EXTRACTION II ------------------------------------- Chairman: J.P. Haton, Universite Henri-Poincare, Nancy I, France

    3:15-3:40 p.m "A probabilistic model of Passage Categorization" M. Iwayama, T. Tokunaga Advanced Research Laboratory, Japan

    3:40-4:05 p.m "Knowledge Discovery From Natural Language Texts" U. Hahn, K. Schnattinger Freiburg University, Germany

    4:05-4:30 p.m "Extraction of Index Words from Manuals" H. Nakagawa Yokohama National University, Japan

    -------------------------------- SESSION 13: JUDICIAL PROBLEMS -------------------------------- Chairman: J. Perriere, C.I.D. France

    4:30-4:55 p.m "Limits of Using Data" Maitre Feral-Schuhl Ordre Des Avocats du Barreau de Paris, France.

    4:55-5:20 p.m "Data Security" Maitre G. Arendt President of Computer Commission of the International Union of Lawyers, Luxemburg

    5:20-5:45 p.m "Security Concerns On The Intranet" Maitre Landry Montreal, Canada. Union Internationale des Avocats.

    5:45-6:15 p.m Conclusions

    Cooperation program between France and Quebec Linguistic and knowledge engineering

    --------------------------- Special Session Cooperation program between France and Quebec Linguistic and knowledge engineering

    Thursday 26th June 1997 Presentation languages: French and English ---------------------------------------------

    Chairman: Stephane Chaudiron, Program Coordinator for France (Ministry for Education and Research, DISTNB)

    9.00 a.m: Presentation of the program, Antoine Mynard, Attache pour la Science et la Technologie 9.15 a.m: Tools for Lexicographers: Applications of Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicography, Alain Polguere (Department of linguistics and translation - University of Montreal), Gilles Serasset (GETA-CLIPS,IMAG, University Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I) 9.45 a.m: Automatic Processing Of Synonymy, Gaston Gross (Laboratoire de linguistique et informatique-UMR 195, University Paris 13), Andre Clas (GRESLET, University of Montreal). 10.15 a.m: The Semantics of Spatial Expressions and the Voronoi Model, Agnes Gryl(LIMSI, University of Paris Sud), Geoffrey Edwards (Centre de Recherche en geomatique, University Laval). 10.45 a.m: Emergentist Classifiers and Computationnally Enhanced Cognition: Applications to Text Analysis and Diagnosis, Vincent Rialle (Laboratoire TIMC, IMAG, University Joseph Fourier), Jean-Guy Meunier (Laboratoire d'analyse cognitive de l'information, University of Quebec in Montreal).

    10.45 a.m - 11.00 a.m Coffee break

    Chairman: Claude Fleury, program coordinator for Quebec, Ministere des relations internationales du Quebec 11.00 a.m: Connecting "What to say?" and "How to say it?" Components in a Text Generation System, Laurence Danlos (TALANA, University Paris 7) et Guy Lapalme (DIRO, University of Montreal).

    11.30 a.m: Recycling the Results of Robust Parsers to Identify Term Variants, Benoit Habert (ENS Fontenay), Suzanne Bertrand-Gastaldy (University of Montreal), Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN), Fernande Dupuis (UQAM), Elie Naulleau (ENS Fontenay et DER/EDF), Monique Lemieux (UQAM).

    12.00 p.m: The Integration of French Language Processing and Users Features in an Information Retrieval System, Jean-Pierre Chevallet (CLIPS-IMAG, University Joseph Fourier) Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal).

    12.30 p.m: Text retrieval and filtering using conceptual-based clustering metho", Jacques Guizol (Laboratoire d'informatique de Marseille, University of Mediterranee) Ruben Gonzalez Rubio (University of Sherbrooke).

    ------------------------ CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ------------------------ Registration via the WWW at http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 or by e-mail: riao97irin.univ-nantes.fr or by fax at the CID: (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45 or by surface mail: CID, 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France CID, c/o Constantin and co., 575 Madison Ave, 25th Floor, NY, NY 10022, USA ------------------ Registration Fees ------------------ (before June 1, 1997): US$ 475 or CA$ 650 or 415 ECUS (from June 1, 1997): US$ 530 or CA$ 725 or 460 ECUS

    Students (presenting valid Student ID): (before June 1, 1997): US$ 315 or CA$ 435 or 275 ECUS (from June 1, 1997): US$ 390 or CA$ 530 or 340 ECUS

    Registration fees can be made by bank transfer:

    in US dollars: CID/CASIS No: 02 050 25 061 2 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France or CASIS No: 15 39 90 34 City Bank, 460 Park Avenue and 57th Street, NY, NY 10022 USA

    in Canadian dollars: CID No: 035 500 65 48 1 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France

    in ECUs: CID No: 055 500 65 48 1 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France

    For Credit Card payments, only VISA Card can be accepted in writing or by faxing request to C.I.D. 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France, fax (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45.

    Registration includes access to all presentations and sessions, including the Working Group,Thursday morning, June 26th, and a copy of the proceedings. On-Site Registration will take place on Tuesday June 24 from 5 pm, and on Wednesday June 25, from 8 am on.

    Telephones accepting credit cards are available throughout the University. Lunches can be taken at the University Cafeteria, 3840 McTavish Street. Lunch tickets will be available at the Registration Desk for $10 (Canadian) per ticket.

    McGill University is located in the center of Montreal and numerous other restaurants are available nearby. An optional visit and dinner will be organized for RIAO'97 participants June 26th at 7 p.m.

    ------------------- AIRFARE AND HOTELS -------------------- Reductions in air fare will be possible for flights leaving from France. Contact the CID before June 1, 1997. A block of rooms have been reserved at several hotels in Montreal at a special rate for RIAO97 participants. When you make your reservation, please indicate that you are a participant of RIAO97 Conference. In most cases, rooms will only be held at a special rate until one month before the conference.

    For more information: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97