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 linguistic 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. Program Committee: Chair : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (European Media Laboratory,Germany) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Bruno Bachimond (INA, Bry sur Marne, France) Roberto Basili (University of Rome, Italy) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse, France) Brigitte Biebow (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM AP-HP, Paris, France) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM AP-HP, Paris, France) Stephane Chaudiron (Ministry of Research, University Paris 10, France) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse, France) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes, France) Gregory Greffenstette (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France) Benoit Habert (UMR 9952, ENS Fontenay St Cloud, France) Udo Hahn (Freiburg University, Germany) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse, France) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France) Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa, France) Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University, Ireland ) Francois Rastier (INALF, Paris, France) Francois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg, France) Jean Royaute (INIST, Nancy, France) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France) Philippe Thoiron (Louis Lumiere University, Lyon, France) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Brussels, Belgium) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM AP-HP, Paris, France) Organizing Committee: Jean Royaute (Organizing chair), Dominique Besagni, Claire Francois, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, CNRS-INIST), Filelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Universite 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 Details concerning paper submission and 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 Royaute - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 allee du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex FRANCE Tel : +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001@inist.fr ************************************************************