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Fwd: Third CALL FOR PAPERS CEC-TAL'13
by FU Zhe March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mohamed Mahdi Boudabous <mehdiboudabous(a)gmail.com> Date: 2013/3/3 Subject: Third CALL FOR PAPERS CEC-TAL'13 To: fu.zhe(a)courrier.uqam.ca *Third CALL FOR PAPERS CEC-TAL'13* *International Colloquium for students Researchers in Natural Language Processing and its Applications* *September 5-6, 2013, Montréal, Canada ************* http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/index.htm ************ * ** *Call for papers* The first Colloquium for Students Researchers in Natural Language Processing and its Applications (CEC-TAL'13). The first colloquium for Students Researchers in Natural Language Processing and its Applications (CEC-TAL'13) will be held in Montreal from September 5th to September 6th 2013. The goal of this colloquium is to bring together researchers from related disciplines (language resources development, analysis and generation, natural language processing and NLP application) and experts from industry and companies that deploy extraction methods and knowledge management to provide quality work and to exchange and fertilize new ideas. *Types of communication* Authors are invited to submit three types of communications: 1) Articles presenting original research. 2) Articles presenting a point of view on the state of research in NLP, based on a solid experience in the field. 3) Articles presenting a dissertation ongoing work. Accepted papers will be presented as an oral communication. Communication (in English or French) will be for 20 minutes, followed by 10 minute for questions. *Authors who, exceptionally, can not attend the conference must apply for a live conference video call with a valid excuse, their application will be reviewed and they maybe granted an exception by the program **committee. Otherwise, their papers will not appear in the conference proceedings.* *Terms of submission* Articles should be submitted in pdf format only without a mention of the author (s) or its affiliate and will absolutely use the format available at: ************** *http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/FormatCEC-TAL .doc* ************** ** Submissions that do not exceed 4 pages will be considered as short papers. Submissions between 4 and 8 pages will be considered as long papers. Articles must be submitted by EasyChair : ************** *https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cectal13* **************** *Important dates* - *Paper submission deadline* : 31 Mars 2013 23:59 (Heure de l'est)* * - *Notification of acceptance* : 28 Mai 2013 - *Soumission de la version finale* : Camera-ready deadline - *Conference* : 5-6 Septembre 2013 *Selection criteria* ** Authors must be PhD student(s), Master student(s) or young doctor(s) who defended their thesis within the last three years. Authors are invited to submit original research that has not been published previously. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field. We considered in particular: - The importance and originality of the contribution. - Correcting the scientific and technical content. - Critical discussion of the results, particularly in relation to other work in the field. - The status of work in the context of international research. - The organization and clarity of presentation. - The adequacy of the conference themes. Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Following the opinion of the program, presentations will be made only in oral form. *Terms of publication* Authors of accepted papers will subsequently be invited to submit their articles for publication in the Proceedings of CEC-TAL'13. Authors can write their articles in both official languages of Canada (English or French). *Program commitee* - Mona Diab (George Washington University) - Lynne Da Silva (University of Montreal) - Philippe Langlais (University of Montreal) - Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal) - Marie Claude L'Homme (University of Montreal) - Abdelaati Hawwari (Columbia University) - Houda Bouamor (Carnegie Mellon University) - Lamia Hadrich Belguith (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Nadi Tomeh (Columbia University) - Bilel Gargouri (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Maher Jaoua (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Faiez Gargouri (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Mariem Ellouze Khemakhem (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (University of Sfax-Tunisia) - Ludovic Jean-Louis (University of Montreal) - Asma Ben Abacha (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg ) - Wajdi Zaghouani (Carnegie Mellon University) - Adel Jebali (Concordia University) - Fatiha Sadat (UQAM) - Mohamed Mahdi Boudabous (University of Safx-Tinisia) - Rahma Sallemi (University of Safx-Tinisia) - Béatrice Arnulphy (IRSIA) -- ************************************************************* Mohamed Mahdi BOUDABOUS PhD Computer Science Student Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax http://www.fsegs.rnu.tn/ ANLP Research Group http://sites.google.com/site/anlprg MIRACL Laboratory www.miracl.rnu.tn Page Web: https://sites.google.com/site/mehdiboudabous/ Email: mehdiboudabous(a)gmail.com Adress: Route de Gremda Km 4, Sidi abbess - CP : 3062 - Sfax - TUNISIE. Gsm: +216 99505634 ************************************************************* -- Doctorat en Informatique Cognitive Département informatique cognitive (DIC) Université du Québec à Montréal

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Re: [Esug-list] [sbe] Re: [ANN] Writing books with Gutemberg
by Damien Cassou March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Oscar Nierstrasz <oscar(a)iam.unibe.ch> wrote: > Cool, but why is called "Gutemberg" and not "Gutenberg"? that's a feature -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

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[ANN] Writing books with Gutemberg
by Damien Cassou March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013

Hi, Stéphane and I have been working on Gutemberg, a tool that converts books written using the Pier syntax to PDF documents and HTML pages. http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~DamienCassou/Pier-Gutemberg This project is partially supported by ESUG http://www.esug.org/. We are proud to announce the first alpha version of Gutemberg. This alpha version has a nearly-complete PDF exporter and a basically-working HTML exporter. We use Inria infrastructure to build one example book: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/. The long term goal is to facilitate collaborative book editing. We don't want to impose a web browser and an active Internet connection. -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

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SPLASH-13 CfPs: OOPSLA | Onward! | DLS | Wavefront
by Robert Hirschfeld March 5, 2013

March 5, 2013

ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity SPLASH-13 Indiana, Indianapolis October 26-31, 2013 http://www.splashcon.org http://twitter.com/splashcon http://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon http://www.linkedin.com/groups/SPLASH-Conference-2487082 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /************************************************************** * COMBINED CALL FOR PAPERS * **************************************************************/ * Overview http://splashcon.org/2013/cfp * OOPSLA research papers http://splashcon.org/2013/cfp/618 Abstracts due: March 22, 2013 Submissions due: March 28, 2013 * Onward! research papers http://onward-conference.org http://splashcon.org/2013/cfp/647 Abstracts due: March 29, 2013 Submissions due: April 5, 2013 * Onward! essays http://splashcon.org/2013/cfp/662 Submissions due: April 10, 2013 * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) http://www.splashcon.org/2013/cfp/651 http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-13/cfp/ Submissions due: June 8, 2013 * Wavefront papers and experience reports http://splashcon.org/2013/cfp/656 Submissions due: April 5, 2013 /*************************************************************/ -- Robert Hirschfeld hirschfeld(a)acm.org www.hirschfeld.org

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[ANN] Moose 4.7
by Tudor Girba March 3, 2013

March 3, 2013

We are happy to announce the Moose Suite version 4.7: http://moosetechnology.org/download What is new: • Integration of the Roassal visualization engine • New PetitParser browser with integrated refactorings • Improved Glamorous Toolkit for Pharo including the Glamorous Inspector and Debugger • Several features in Glamour including Watcher support (similar to OS X preview) • Significant improvements in FAMIX • Improved external VerveineJ parser for Java • Based on Pharo 1.4 A list of issues addressed in this release can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/list?can=1&q=status=Fixed%… Have fun, The Moose Team

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Release of the Pharo consortium web site
by Stéphane Ducasse March 1, 2013

March 1, 2013

Hi guys After some efforts, we are proud to announce the consortium around Pharo. http://consortium.pharo.org With such consortium, companies and academic partners will be able to collaborate and sustain the development of the Pharo environment and ecosystem. Today we announce the release of the beta version of the official consortium website. Invest in your future, participate to the consortium! Our goal is to be able to pay a couple of full-time engineers to build a bright future for everyone. Thanks Esteban for the effort, lusy for the design, and our first members: Inria, VMWare, yesplan, 2denker, madEnvironment, BetaNine, Versus for their trust We wish you a lot of business and success! The Pharo Team

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Join ESUG for GSOC 2013
by Malintha Adikari Feb. 28, 2013

Feb. 28, 2013

Hi, I am final year computer engineering undergraduate from University of Peradeniya. I would like to join ESUG for GSOC 2013. I am interesting about your organization & projects. Could you please tell me more details about the available projects if any Thanks & regards, Malintha Adikari

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Call for papers for Dyla'13: 7th Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications @ ECOOP
by Alexandre Bergel Feb. 26, 2013

Feb. 26, 2013

Dyla'13, 7th Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications Colocated with ECOOP, ECMFA and ECSA 1–5 July, Montpellier, France http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/Events/Dyla13 !! Important dates - Submission deadline: April 19th - Notification: mid-May - Workshop: July 1st - Ecoop early registration: mid-May !! Abstract The advent of Java and C# has been a major breakthrough in the adoption of some important object-oriented language characteristics. This breakthrough turned academic features like interfaces, garbage collection, and meta-programming into technologies generally accepted by industry. Nevertheless, the massive adoption of these languages now also gives rise to a growing awareness of their limitations. A number of reactions from industry testify this: invokedynamic bytecode instruction has been included in latest Java virtual machine release; the dynamic language runtime (DLR) is gaining popularity; C# adopted dynamic as a valid static type. Gartner prognoses further growth (http://blogs.gartner.com/mark_driver/2008/12/10) of dynamic languages. Researchers and practitioners struggle with static type systems, overly complex abstract grammars, simplistic concurrency mechanisms, limited reflection capabilities, and the absence of higher-order language constructs such as delegation, closures and continuations. Dynamic languages such as Ruby, Python, JavaScript and Lua are a step forward in addressing these problems while getting more and more popular. Making these languages mainstream requires practitioners to look back and pick mechanisms up in existing dynamic languages such as Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk and Self. Practitioners also need to further explore discover new dynamic approaches in the context of new challenging fields such as pervasive computing. The goal of this workshop is to act as a forum where practitioners can discuss new advances in the design, implementation and application of dynamically typed languages that, sometimes radically, diverge from the statically typed class-based mainstream. Another objective is to discuss new as well as older "forgotten" languages and features in this context. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - programming language extensions - programming environment extensions - executing environments - static and dynamic analyses - optional type-checking - meta-object protocols - reserve engineering - domain-specific languages/tooling - testing environments - live programming !! Targeted audience The expected audience of this workshop is practitioners and researchers sharing the same interest in dynamically typed languages. Lua, Python, Ruby, Scheme and Smalltalk are gaining a significant popularity both in industry and academia. Nevertheless, each community has the tendency to only look at what it produces. Broadening the scope of each community is the goal of the workshop. To achieve this goal we will form a PC with leading persons from all languages mentioned above, fostering participation from all targeted communities. !! Workshop Format and Submission Information The workshop will have a demo-oriented style. The idea is to allow participants to demonstrate new and interesting features and discuss what they feel is relevant for the dynamic-language community. To participate to the workshop, you can either - submit (before __April 19th 2013__) an article (ACM Tighter Alternate style http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) describing your presentation and/or tool. Articles whose length ranges from 2 to 15 pages will be carefully reviewed by a program committee including but not limited to the organizers. Each accepted paper will be presented for 20 to 30 minutes and be published to the ACM Digital Library (at the option of each author) and the workshop's web site. The submission website is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dyla2013. - or give a 10-minute lightning demo of your work. A dedicated session will be allocated for this, provided there is ample time available. A session on pair programming is also planned. People will then get a chance to share their technologies by interacting with other participants. !! Program committee - Carl Friedrich Bolz, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany (http://cfbolz.de) - Camillo Bruni, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France (http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/team/bruni) - Adrian Kuhn, University of British Columbia, Canada (https://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/adrian-kuhn) - Lukas Renggli, Google, Switzerland (http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/) - Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer, University of Chile (http://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~jsandova/) - Bastian Steinert, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany (http://www.bastiansteinert.org) - Veronica Uquillas Gomez, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (http://soft.vub.ac.be/~vuquilla/) - Simon Urli, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (http://www.simonurli.fr/) - Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France (http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier) - the 4 workshop organizers !! Workshop Organizers - Alexandre Bergel (http://bergel.eu) - Damien Cassou (http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st) - Jorge Ressia (http://www.jorgeressia.com) - Serge Stinckwich (http://www.doesnotunderstand.org) !! News feed Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/dyla2013 For further information: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/Events/Dyla13 -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.

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[JOB][Research] 16 month Postdoc "Architectural Design Exploration"
by Marcus Denker Feb. 25, 2013

Feb. 25, 2013

Architectural Design Exploration ================================ About Inria and the job ----------------------- Inria, with its academic, institutional and industrial partners, is commited to major research and innovation projects in the field of computational sciences. The institute disseminates across France thanks to its eight research centres. The Inria Lille - Nord Europe research centre, inaugurated in 2008, employs 357 people, including 250 scientists, in its seventeen research teams. Recognised for its significant contribution to the social and economic development of the Nord - Pas-de-Calais region, the Inria Lille - Nord Europe research centre promotes a policy of close cooperation with major businesses and small enterprises. By encouraging synergies between researchers and industrial partners, Inria contributes to the transfer of skills and expertise in computational technologies and provides access to top-level European and international research in order to support innovation and businesses, particularly in the region of Lille. Whether designing innovative software for business or logistics, modelling living cells or fusion plasma, or developing medical simulators or interfaces to facilitate human-computer interaction, our research opens up new possibilities that can revolutionise common practice and contribute to a better understanding of the natural phenomena which surround us. The postdoc is hosted by Team-Project RMoD. The goal of RMoD is to support remodularization of object-oriented applications. This objective is tackled from two complementary perspectives: reengineering and modularity constructs for programming languages. In the reengineering perspective we will propose new analyses to understand and restructure existing large applications (specialized package metrics, adapted visualizations, layer identification) on top of Moose [Duca08a], [Bhat12b]. http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/ Mission -------- Changes in the architecture may occur during the entire lifecycle of a system. Some of them might only affect local parts of a system, while others have more systemic impact. In general, we distinguish three types of approaches for handling change systematically, listed in an order of increasing severity: - Refactoring. They correspond to improvements and concern only certain components and connectors. They do not alter the offered functionality of the system. - Renovating. Sometimes, parts of the architecture are in such a bad condition that refactoring cannot work anymore. In such contexts, renovating the architecture – by restoring its fundamental principles or refreshing essential components – may be the better choice. Renovating also deals with only parts of the system. - Re-architecting. When an architecture is subject to significant changes, refactoring or renovating may not suffice. This might be the case if for example the technology platform is to be replaced by a new one, if there is a large change in business scope, or if the architecture is in such a bad shape that errors keep emerging. In such cases, re-architecting is required. The re-architecting process usually analyzes the existing architecture (e.g., using a SWOT analysis) and results in a new architecture by: a) reusing those components worthwhile to keep, b) modifying some of the existing components (refactoring) and c) re-building the rest of the components (renovating).[Ieee13] Because software engineers do not have a full understanding of the complete source code, each kind of changes may solve some problems (e.g. reduce some cycle between package), while creating new problems (e.g. creating new cycles). In this situation it would be profitable to have a tool that allows to test a possible new configuration (refactored, renovated or re-architectured) of the source code to see if the abstract property one wishes to improve, first actually improved, and second, did not improve at the expense of another equally important one. For this several alternatives new configurations have to be considered. In the RMoD team, we developed Orion [Lava10b], a tool that uses models as abstract representations of the program and enables the definition of several possible alternative versions of this program. Each version differentiates from the others by a set of refactoring operations. Currently, once an adequate version is selected, the user has to manually perform the operations on the code. Job offer description ---------------------- In this postdoc, we would like to enhance Orion in order to automatically generate code or modify the existing one once a version is chosen. Thus, it would be possible to study various alternatives of possible refactoring or restructuring of an existing program, using metrics [Abde12a], [Mord12b] or some other means [Hema12] to check the improvement in the "quality" of the code, and then ask the tool to perform the changes of the selected final solution onto the source code. The used metamodel enables a representation where code details are abstracted. A new metamodel for example AST metamodel, representing code will be introduced and the links between the two models will have to be maintained. Skills and profile -------------------- The candidate should : - hold a PhD degree in Computer Science - be fluent in English (French is an advantage but not required) - be knowledgeable in the domains of Software Engineering, maintenance, code analysis - have good programming skills in Smalltalk or be able to acquire them in a short amount of time Benefits --------- - Possibility of French courses - Help for housing - Participation for transportation - Scientific Resident card and help for husband/wife visa Additional information ----------------------- - Duration : 16 months - Salary: 2 620,84 € gross/month - Monthly salary after taxes : around 2 138€ (medical insurance included). - Before applying, please contact the scientist advisor: nicolas.anquetil(a)inria.fr - For the first selections, please apply before March 2013, 22nd Security and defense procedure ------------------------------- In the interests of protecting its scientific and technological assets, Inria is a restricted-access establishment. Consequently, it follows special regulations for welcoming any person who wishes to work with the institute. The final acceptance of each candidate thus depends on applying this security and defense procedure. More information: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/blog/2013-02-22-2

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[ANN] Minecraft Bindings
by Bert Freudenberg Feb. 24, 2013

Feb. 24, 2013

I'm happy to announce my Smalltalk bindings for "Minecraft: Pi Edition": Find out more at http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2013/02/smalltalk-bindings-for-minecraft-pi… - Bert -

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