DM: SCIE99-second announcement

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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

Call for Participation 
School on Information Extraction SCIE99 
Frascati(Rome), June 28, July 3, 1999  


http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it/ 

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IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration deadline: May 15
Grant application deadline: May 15
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The Artificial Intelligence research 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 edition of the School on Information Extraction (SCIE99), to be held in Frascati (Roma), Italy, from June 28 to July 3, 1999 .

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. To maximize interaction among SCIE-99 participants, the attendance will be limited to 80 persons.

CONTENTS

The school is organized as a set of lectures held by internationally renown experts from the different disciplines concerning IE themes. These lectures are explicitly 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.

INVITED SPEAKERS
-Jean Pierre CHANOD (XEROX Research Centre Europe, FR)  "Finite-state
linguistic components: the case of digital libreries" 
-Veronica DAHL (Simon Fraser Univ. Ca)  "From Speech to Knowledge" 
-Maria Teresa PAZIENZA (Univ. Rome Tor Vergata, IT)  "Engineering IE
systems: an Object Oriented perspective"
-Harold SOMERS (UMIST, UK)  "Knowledge extraction from bilingual 
corpora" 
-John SOWA (Westchester Polytechnic Univ. USA)  "Relating Templates to
Language and Logic" 
-Marc VILAIN (The MITRE Corporation, MA, USA)  "Multilingual IE 
systems" 
-Ellen VOORHEES (NIST, MD, USA)  "Natural Language Processing and
Information Retrieval" 
-Yorick WILKS (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)  "Can we make Information 
Extraction more adaptive?"

GRANTS

Thanks to the support of the AI*IA (Italian Association of Artificial Intelligence) and some of the sponsors, grants will be available for advanced students and young researchers. Details at the SCIE99 web site.

SCHOOL VENUE

The School will be held in the pleasant atmosphere of the historic city of Frascati (near Rome, Italy). 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.

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Any information for SCIE-99 participation (registration fees, grants,
lectures, accommodation, ...) may be found at the school web page


http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it
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SCIE-99 Program Commettee: 
* Luigia Carlucci Aiello (Univ. of Roma La Sapienza)  
* Elisa Bertino (Univ. of Milano)  
* Maria Teresa Pazienza (Univ. of Roma, Tor Vergata) (chair)  
* Domenico Sacca' (Univ. of Calabria)  
* Lorenza Saitta (Univ. of Torino)  

SCIE-99 Organizing Committee: 
- R. Basili (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) (chair) 
- C. Cardani (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)  
- M. Di Nanni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)  
- M. Vindigni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)  
- F. Zanzotto (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)  

School e-mail: scie99@info.uniroma2.it 
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For more details, please contact: 
prof. Maria Teresa Pazienza  
Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production  
University of Roma, Tor Vergata  
Via di Tor Vergata  00133 ROMA (ITALY)  
tel: +39 06 72597378 (office); 
fax +39 06 72597460;  
e_mail: pazienza@info.uniroma2.it 
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