DM: SCIE99-Final-Call-for-Participation

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FINAL CALL 

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 NEWS

EXTENDED registration deadline: June 28

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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 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)  "Natural 
Language Processing and Digital Libraries"

Veronica DAHL (Simon Fraser Univ. CA)  "From Speech to Knowledge" 

Maria Teresa PAZIENZA (Univ. Rome Tor Vergata, IT)  "Engineering IE
systems: an Object Oriented approach"

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)  "Inferential Information
Extraction" 

Ellen VOORHEES (NIST, MD, USA)  "Natural Language Processing and
Information Retrieval" 

Yorick WILKS (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)  "Can we make Information
Extraction more adaptive?" 

The speakers contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.  
SCHOOL VENUE

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

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Any information for SCIE-99 participation (registration fees,
accommodation, lectures, demos, ...) 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 information 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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SCIE99
Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Management
University of Roma Tor Vergata
Via di Tor Vergata
00133 Roma (ITALY)
Phone: +39 06 72597378
FAX: +39 06 72597460
Web site:http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it
e-mail: scie99@info.uniroma2.it