***************************************************************** Second call for papers TIA-2001 4th meeting "Terminology and Artificial Intelligence" 3-4 May 2001, Nancy, France ***************************************************************** Due to the availability of ever-increasing amount of information institutions, companies and laboratories are facing new problems related in particular to scale effects and the diversity of technical texts. A full range of tasks, from accessing text corpora to processing lexical data, is now being entrusted to terminology. As a result, terminology has to enrich and strengthen its links with related disciplines, including linguistics, knowledge engineering and information sciences. Thus, terminological work makes use of linguistic and /or numeric techniques to process natural language items (especially terms) and of artificial intelligence techniques for their formalization. These techniques share a number of methods and objec tives as well as a common goal: - the same starting point: corpus-based data acquistion; - the same objectives: corpus-based domain modeling with or without formalization, depending on the type of application (artificial intelligence or not); - the same goal: production of terminological resources (machine-readable dictionaries for machine translation, indexing, filtering); ontologies, knowledge-based systems, corporate memories. The TIA Conference aims at promoting convergence and synergy among such disciplines in order to develop and evaluate corpus-processing methodologies, requiring refined natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques. The end results of those investigations should help build relevant terminological data for specific applications on a systematic basis. The 4th TIA Conference will be an opportunity to explore some of the unsolved problems raised in corpus-based acquisition of terminological data, in the analysis of lexical behavior in specialized corpora, in knowledge modeling and formalization of the resulting data. You are invited to propose a paper in the following topics: - Meaning theories and the question of specialized texts; - Terminology and ontologies; - Exploitation of corpus-based term extraction; - Terminology and knowledge modeling / formalization - Terminological knowledge bases; - Terminological resources for information retrieval; - Problems of multilingual terminology; - Reusability in linguistics and knowledge engineering - Tools and applications. This TIA Conference, which follows TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) and TIA'99 (Nantes), is organized by the TIA Working Group (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/). This group gathers researchers in linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. It was created to allow a confrontation between the theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as between the practices developed in each discipline. Submitted papers (in French or in English) will be reviewed by an international program committee composed of members of the TIA Working Group and of invited experts. INVITED LECTURES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminology and industrial applications" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) "Multi-linguism and linguistic ingineering" PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (University of Roma) Brigitte Biébow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Stéphane Chaudiron (Ministère de la Recherche, Université Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Benoît Habert (LIMSI/CNRS & Université Paris 10) Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Université de Dublin) François Rastier (INALF, Paris) François Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royauté (INIST, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Université Louis Lumière, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jean Royauté (Organizing chair), Dominique Besagni, Claire François, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, CNRS-INIST), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Université Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) The conference will take place at INIST, the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in Nancy, and will also offer the opportunity to highlight the convergence between documentation and terminology. DEADLINES Submission due date: January 15, 2001 Notification date: February 25, 2001 Camera ready date: March 15, 2001 SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers submitted, in French or English, should not exceed 10 pages of text in Times 12 with single line-spacing, i.e. approximately 3000 words, figures, examples and references included. Soumissions should include on an additional page : Author name(s) Affiliation(s) Address(es) (fax and e-mail) Title of soumission Key-words (5-10) Abstract (300 words max.) Papers should be sent by regular mail to: Monique SLODZIAN CRIM-INALCO Program Committee of TIA-2001 2, rue de Lille - 75343 PARIS cedex 07 E-mail submission should be sent to or Details concerning the conference organization will be given later on the conferences websites: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm and http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA and on various lists. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royauté - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex Tel.: +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001@inist.fr