By many, I mean something like 1500 academics in the control field!
With best wishes,
Professor Ron J Patton
School of Engineering,
The University of Hull,
Cottingham Road,
HULL Hu6 7RX,
UK
On
Fri, 12 Mar 1999, SCIE99 wrote:
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> Call for Participation<br>
> Second School on Information Extraction SCIE99<br>
> Frascati(Rome), June 28, July 3, 1999 <br>
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> </a></font></u><font color="#000000">The Artificial Intelligence group of
> the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production of the
> University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), in cooperation with the Italian
> Association of Artifical Intelligence (AI*IA), is pleased to announce the
> second Second School on Information Extraction (SCIE99), to be held in
> Frascati (Roma), Italy, from June 28 to July 3, 1999 .<br>
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> OBJECTIVES<br>
> Information Extraction (IE) is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary area
> drawing upon concepts and techniques from artificial intelligence,
> information retrieval, data bases, machine learning, statistics. As a
> matter of fact natural language processing and computational linguistics
> are playing an important role in supporting systems for information
> extraction from documents. Information extraction aims to derive
> structures and various levels of linguistic generalization from the large
> volumes of textual data that users and machines can now access and
> manipulate through networks. <br>
> If at the first edition of the school the international scenario was
> including mainly sacademic/research oriented systems for IE, the current
> situation shows an increasung maturity. This can be considered as a side
> effect of sa deeper technological insite as welll as a stronger
> industrial awareness. sThis also emerges from the successful results sof
> different european community language engineering projects ( FACILE,
> SPARKLE, ECRAN among others) <br>
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> The school provides a forum for researchers and practitioners with
> different background and expertise, to discuss ideas and describe
> experiences in defining and implementing IE systems. <br>
> To maximize interaction among SCIE-99 participants, the attendance will
> be limited to 80 persons.<br>
> CONTENTS<br>
> The school is organized as a set of lectures held by internationally
> renown expers from the different disciplines concerning IE themes. These
> lectures are axplicitly meant to address interdisciplinary issues and
> will introduce common goals, needs and problems of the different
> approaches. Demo sessions on current IE technologies and systems will be
> also held at the school. Specific workshops are planned to favor the
> cooperative discussion among specialists and fellows.<br>
> A preliminary list of invited speakers and covered topics follows: <br>
> Jean Pierre CHANOD (XEROX Research Centre Europe, FR) <br>
> "Finite-state linguistic components: the case of digital
> libreries"<br>
> Veronica DAHL (Simon Fraser Univ. CA) <br>
> "From Assumptions to Speech"<br>
> Maria Teresa PAZIENZA (Univ. Rome Tor Vergata, IT) <br>
> "Software architectures for engineering IE systems"<br>
> Harold SOMERS (UMIST, UK) <br>
> "Statistical methods for knowledge extraction from
> corpora"<br>
> John SOWA (Westchester Polytechnic Univ. USA) <br>
> "Conceptual modeling and linguistic knowledge"<br>
> Marc VILAIN (The MITRE Corporation, MA, USA) <br>
> "Multilingual IE systems"<br>
> Ellen VOORHEES (NIST, MD, USA) <br>
> "Contribution of NLP to improve retrieval in very large documents
> collection"<br>
> Yorick WILKS (Univ. of Sheffield, UK) <br>
> "Hybrid statistical-semantic models of IE"<br>
> The speakers contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
> Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.<br>
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> GRANTS<br>
> Thanks to the support of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial
> Intelligence) and some of the sponsors, grants will be available for
> advanced students and young researchers. Details are in the SCIE99 web
> site.<br>
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> SCHOOL VENUE<br>
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> The School will be held in the pleasant atmosphere of the historic city
> of Frascati (near Rome, Italy) <br>
> Frascati is famous for its high quality wines, exquisite cuisine, cordial
> hospitality, many villas and parks distributed throughout its territory,
> and for its pleasant summer weather. <br>
> The school will be hosted by the European Space Agency at ESRIN
> establishment. Thanks to this hospitality, we hope to reach a friendly
> atmosphere as in the past edition of the school, which enabled fruitful
> exchanges of ideas among participants.<br>
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> All information for SCIE-99 participation (registration fees,
> accommodation, lectures, timeschedule, social events, ...) may be found
> in the school web page <br>
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> SCIE-99 Program Commettee:<br>
> * Luigia Carlucci Aiello (Univ. of Roma La Sapienza) <br>
> * Elisa Bertino (Univ. of Milano) <br>
> * Maria Teresa Pazienza (Univ. of Roma, Tor Vergata) (chair) <br>
> * Domenico Sacca' (Univ. of Calabria) <br>
> * Lorenza Saitta (Univ. of Torino)<br>
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> SCIE-99 Organizing Committee:<br>
> - R. Basili (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) (chair) <br>
> - C. Cardani (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) <br>
> - M. Di Nanni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) <br>
> - M. Vindigni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) <br>
> - F. Zanzotto (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)<br>
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> School e-mail: scie99@info.uniroma2.it<br>
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> For more information contact:<br>
> prof. Maria Teresa Pazienza <br>
> Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production <br>
> University of Roma, Tor Vergata <br>
> Via di Tor Vergata <br>
> 00133 ROMA (ITALY) <br>
> tel: +39 06 72597378 (office); fax +39 06 72597460; <br>
> e_mail: pazienza@info.uniroma2.it <br>
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