I am very sorry but you have chosen a BAD time! Many of us are travelling to Beijing at the end of June for the IFAC World Congress! 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: > <html> > ********************** ********************** > **********************<br> > Apologies if you get this call more than once via mailing lists<br> > ********************** ********************** ********************** > <br> > Call for Participation<br> > Second School on Information Extraction SCIE99<br> > Frascati(Rome), June 28, July 3, 1999 <br> > <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it/" >eudora="autourl">http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it<br> > <br> > </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> > <br> > 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> > . <br> > 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> > <br> > 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> > <br> > SCHOOL VENUE<br> > <br> > 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> > <br> > ______________________________________________________________________________ > <br> > All information for SCIE-99 participation (registration fees, > accommodation, lectures, timeschedule, social events, ...) may be found > in the school web page <br> > </font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it/" >eudora="autourl">http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it</a></font></u><font color="#000000"> > <br> > <br> > 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> > <br> > 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> > <br> > School e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<br> > --------------------------------------------------<br> > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <br> > --------------------------------------------------<br> > </font> > <BR> > </html> >
