From errors@Sunnyside.COM Mon Apr 8 10:34:41 1996 Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:27:38 -0700 From: Al Whaley Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 15 No. 17 NL-KR Digest Sun Apr 7 19:01:34 PDT 1996 Volume 15 No. 17 Today's Topics: Position: ELRA Language Resources, Technical assistant Program: SDAIR'96 Document Analysis, Apr 96, Las Vegas CFP: BU Conf. on Language Dev., Nov 96, Boston Query: Persian Parser sought Announcement: ESSLLI'96, 8th SSc. Log/Lang/Info, Aug 96, Prague Announcement: New Spanish News Release from the LDC Announcement: Studentship in Lang. Eng. Univ. of Wolverhampton Announcement: book on language learning * * * Subcriptions: listserv-style administrative requests to nl-kr-request@ai.sunnyside.com. 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ELRA was established in February 1995, with the encouragement of the European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LR). Language Resources include all data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology. The role of the non-profit Association is to promote the production of LR and to collect, validate, and make them available to users. It will gather information on market needs and encourage the Commission and other funding bodies to support the development of the LR most urgently needed. The Association has members drawn from every country in the European Union and expects to attract subscribers from throughout the world. At present, ELRA is financed from membership fees and grants; in the future the Association will derive income from the sale of licences to users world wide. After an initial start-up period of four years, it is planned that the Association will be financially independent and self-supporting. The Association appointed Dr. Khalid CHOUKRI as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to manage the activities of the Association. The CEO is recruiting a small team to help him run the technical and contractual activities of the association. The CEO first task consisted of setting up the Main Central Distribution Unit (CDU) in its initial configuration. In order to allow the association to enter, more easily, in =AB commercial =BB agreements, the CEO established a small company called European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), in Paris, construed and controlled by the French Laws. It consists of an SARL (Soci=E9t=E9 =E0 responsabilit=E9 limit=E9e), having its place of business at: 87, Avenue d=92ITALIE 75013, PARIS FRANCE Tel. +33 1 45 86 53 00 Fax. +33 1 45 86 44 88 Email: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr ELDA has immediate opportunities for a Technical assistant position. He will help manage the activities of the Association contributing to the work of the small support team, establishing an infrastructure for the collection, validation, and licensing of LR. This yields excellent opportunities for young, creative, and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in establishing/building the European Union Language Engineering field. Responsibilities Under the supervision of the CEO, the technical assistant responsibilities will cover: * Contribution to the work of a small support team and creation of an infrastructure for the collection, validation, and licensing of LR. * Implemention and negociation of licensing agreements for Language Resources * Interaction with the relevant players (i.e.: producers, owners and users of LR who may be in the industrial, commercial or academic world; and governmental and non-governmental agencies) for technical/contractual issues. Qualifications The successful candidate will have: =B7 Excellent record in Language Engineering and related fields =B7 Technical , commercial and/or marketing experience in design and development of Language Engineering solutions (preference for candidats with experience in the fields of written text and/or Terminology). =B7 Demonstrated experience in collecting, validating, and marketing language resources, software or other forms of intellectual property is desired. =B7 Experience in packaging language resources for distribution using CD-ROM, ftp facilities, etc.. will be a plus. =B7 Candidat will need to negotiate contracts in the field of Language Engineering, at an international level, previous practical experience is desirable, as well as knowledge of and experience with intellectual property issues. =B7 Citizenship of, or residency papers for an EU country =B7 Ability to work in at least two European languages is essential/ Terms and conditions of employment will be subject to negotiation but will be commensurate with the responsibilities of the post, and will include performance-based incentives. The position is based in Paris and offer career opportunities for ambitious candidates. This is a one year appointment in the first instance, with the strong likelihood of a further 2 years of employment or permanent position. Further information is available about the Technical Assistant post and the Association from the CEO. Application Applicants should send a cover letter addressing the points listed above, together with a current Curriculum Vitae, to: ELRA - Distribution Agency (ELDA) Dr. Khalid CHOUKRI Executive Director 87, Avenue d'Italie, F-75013, PARIS, FRANCE (Emails and faxes accepted but with follow up by post). Closing date for applications: April, 08, 1996. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Program: SDAIR'96 Document Analysis, Apr 96, Las Vegas Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 18:05:43 -0800 From: Debra Wallace Fifth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval April 15 - 17, 1996 Alexis Park Resort Las Vegas, Nevada Sponsored by the Information Science Research Institute and The Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas Symposium Chair Henry S. Baird, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Invited Speakers Information Retrieval - From Academic Research to Practical Applications Hans-Peter Frei; Union Bank of Switzerland Substituting Images for Books: Library Economics, Technology, and Politics Michael Lesk; Bellcore Text Recognition - From Pixels to Meaning Juergen Schuermann; Daimler Benz Research Center Team Debate "Defect Models are Important to Advance the State-of-the-Art of Optical Character Recognition" Affirmative Team: Henry S. Baird; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Robert Haralick; University of Washington Negative Team: Daniel Lopresti; Panasonic Technologies, Inc. George Nagy; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Document Analysis Committee Andreas Dengel, Chair, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Norbert Bartneck, Daimler Benz Research Center Hiromichi Fujisawa, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory Jonathan Hull, Ricoh California Research Center Junichi Kanai, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Larry Spitz, Daimler Benz Research and Technology Center Suzanne Liebowitz Taylor, Loral Defense Systems Karl Tombre, INRIA Lorraine Information Retrieval Committee Jan Pedersen, Chair, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Susan Dumais, Bellcore Stephen Gallant, Belmont Research Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards & Technology Marti Hearst, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center David Lewis, AT&T Research Peter Schauble, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Kazem Taghva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Yiming Yang, Mayo Clinic/Foundation Papers Presented Maximum Spanning Trees for Text Segmentation Antonio P. Dias; Harvard University In-house Mail Distribution by Automatic Address and Content Interpretation Thomas Bruckner, Peter Suda, Hans Ulrich Block, Gerd Maderlechner; Siemens AG, Corporate Research and Development USeg: A Retargetable Word Segmentation Procedure for Information Retrieval Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft; University of Massachusetts Text Categorization: A Symbolic Approach Isabelle Moulinier, *Gailius Raskinis, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia; University of Paris, *Vtautas Magnus University Support Tools for Visual Information Management Gokhan Kutlu, Bruce A. Draper, Eliot B. Moss, Edward M. Riseman; University of Massachusetts Edit Distance of Regular Languages Horst Bunke; University of Bern Language Identification: Examining the Issues Penelope Sibun, *Jeffrey C. Reynar; Northwestern University, *University of Pennsylvania Fast Decision Tree Ensembles for Optical Character Recognition Harris Drucker; AT&T Bell Laboratories Length Normalization in Degraded Text Collections Amit Singhal, Gerard Salton, Chris Buckley; Cornell University Extraction of Thematically Relevant Text from Images Francine R. Chen, Dan S. Bloomberg; Xerox PARC Measuring the Effects of Data Corruption on Information Retrieval Elke Mittendorf, Peter Schauble; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Keyword-Based Browsing and Analysis of Large Document Sets Ido Dagan, Ronen Feldman, *Haym Hirsh; Bar-Ilan University, *Rutgers University Tailoring a Retrieval System for Naive Users Adrienne J. Kleiboemer, Manette B. Lazear, *Jan O. Pedersen; MITRE Corporation, *Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Improving Full-Text Precision on Short Queries using Simple Constraints Marti A. Hearst; Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Degraded Character Image Restoration John D. Hobby, Henry S. Baird; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Automatically-Generated High-Reliability Features for Dichotomies of Printed Characters George Nagy, Xiaoyin Wang; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Retrieval Strategies for Noisy Text Daniel Lopresti, Jiangying Zhou; Panasonic Technologies, Inc. A General-Purpose Japanese Optical Character Recognition System Sargur N. Srihari, Geetha Srikantan, Tao Hong, Brian Grom; State University of New York at Buffalo, Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition OCR and Voting Shell Fulfilling Specific Text Analysis Requirements Thorsten Jager; German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Logotype Detection in Compressed Images using Alignment Signatures A. Lawrence Spitz; Daimler Benz Research and Technology Center Reliable Recognition of Handwritten Marks in Checkboxes B. Latanzio, A. Garzotto; Swiss Life Information Systems Research Generalized Form Registration Using Structure-Based Techniques Michael D. Garris, Patrick J. Grother; National Institute of Standards and Technology Registration Pre-Registration: before March 15, 1996 On-site Registration: Sunday, April 14, 7:00pm to 10:00pm Monday, April 15, 7:00am to 11:00am Tuesday, April 16, 7:30am to 11:00am Location: Alexis Park Resort Cost: $425.00 before March 15, 1996 $500.00 after March 15, 1996 Hotel Accommodations Alexis Park Resort, located near the center of the Las Vegas strip, is the host hotel for the 1996 Symposium. If you choose to stay at the Alexis Park Resort, please make hotel reservations no later than March 14 to ensure room availability. A reservation form is included in this advance program for your convenience. Due to convention season in Las Vegas, ROOMS WILL FILL UP QUICKLY AT ALL HOTELS. Please make hotel reservations as soon as possible. Should you choose to stay at a hotel other than the host hotel, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority can give hotel information and make all hotel room reservations throughout the city of Las Vegas. For more information please call the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority 1-800-332-5333. Alexis Park Resort Hotel Registration Form P.O. Box 95698 Las Vegas, NV 89193-5698 Rooms reserved under the name: SDAIR '96 Mail your reservation directly to Alexis Park Resort or call Room Reservations: (800)582-2228 Fax: (702)796-4334 Reservations received after March 14, 1996 will be accepted on a space available basis only. Please reserve accommodations for: Name: Home Address: City: State/Country: Zip : Company Name: Business Address: City: State/Country: Zip: Business Phone: SINGLE OCCUPANCY - $100.00 (+8% tax) TRIPLE OCCUPANCY - $115.00 (+8% tax) DOUBLE OCCUPANCY - $100.00 (+8% tax) QUAD OCCUPANCY - $130.00 (+8% tax) Will Arrive: Time: Will Depart: Time: Enclosed is my deposit payable by (check one): Check _____ Mastercard _____ JCB _____ Visa _____ Am Express _____ Carte Blanche _____ Discover _____ Diners Club _____ Credit Card Number: Expiration Date: Print name as it appears on card: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- Fifth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE University of Nevada, Las Vegas April 15-17, 1996 Conference Registration Form Name: Title: Company: Address: City: State/Country: Zip: Telephone: Fax: E-mail Address: Registration Fees Pre-Reg Regular Amount before 3/15/96 after 3/15/96 Conference Registration $425.00 $500.00 $____________ (Includes lunch 4/15/96 and 4/16/96) Monday Dinner (per person) $ 20.00 $____________ Conference Proceedings (Extra Proceedings) $ 50.00 $____________ (One Proceedings is included as part of the registration fee) 1995 CD-ROM $100.00 $____________ (1995 Conference Proceedings and Annual Report) 1992, 1993 and 1994 CD-ROM $100.00 $____________ (1992, 1993 and 1994 Conference Proceedings and 1993 and 1994 Annual Report) TOTAL AMOUNT DUE: $____________ Enclosed is my payment payable by (check one): Check/Money Order _____ Mastercard _____ VISA _____ Discover _____ American Express _____ Make checks/money orders payable to: UNLV Board of Regents. All checks must be in U.S. Dollars and drawn on a U.S. Bank. For payment by credit card please fill out the following information: Credit Card Number: Expiration Date: Please Print Name (as it appears on card): I authorize ISRI/UNLV to debit my account for the TOTAL AMOUNT DUE: signature: ___________________________________ Mail, fax, or email completed conference registration form and payment to: Symposium Manager Information Science Research Institute Telephone (702)895-4571 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Fax (702)895-1183 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454021 Email sdair@isri.unlv.edu Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 For a complete advance program: ftp site: ftp.isri.unlv.edu, directory:/pub/SDAIR96/AdvanceProgram.txt or send email to sdair@isri.unlv.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 01:24:32 -0500 From: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development) To: langconf-announce@louis-xiv.bu.edu Subject: CFP: BU Conf. on Language Dev., Nov 96, Boston * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *** The 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development November 1, 2, and 3, 1996 Keynote Speaker: Eve Clark, Stanford University Plenary Speaker: Luigi Rizzi, University of Geneva * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *** FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION All topics in the field of language acquisition will be fully considered, including: Bilingualism Literacy Cognition & Language Narrative Creoles & Pidgins Neurolinguistics Discourse Pragmatics Exceptional Language Pre-linguistic Development Input & Interaction Signed Languages Language Disorders Sociolinguistics Lexicon Speech Perception & Production Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology) Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research. Presentations will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions. PLEASE SUBMIT: 1) six copies of an anonymous, clearly titled 450-word summary for review 2) one copy of a 150-word abstract for use in conference program book if abstract is accepted; (if your paper is accepted, you will be asked to resubmit your 150-word abstract in electronic form, either on diskette or by e-mail. Requests for these program abstracts will be sent with acceptance letters.) 3) one 3 x 5 card stating: i) title, ii) topic area, iii) audiovisual requests, and iv) for EACH author: a) Full name & affiliation d) Summer address & phone b) Current address & phone e) Summer e-mail address c) E-mail address f) Fax number g) please tell us how you received this call (paper copy or e-mail) and whether you would be willing to receive future calls for papers by e-mail only. 4) To accomodate as many papers as possible, we have begun the practice of selecting alternates to fill in slots created by cancellations. The status of alternate is inconvenient for some contributors, but welcomed by others. Please indicate whether, if your paper is not one of the 90 initially selectd for presentation, you would be willing to be considered as an alternate. (If you indicate that you are willing to be considered, this does not commit you to accepting alternate status if it should be offered to you.) Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for acknowledgment of receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by late July. Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will be available in late August 1996. All authors who present papers at the conference will be invited to contribute their papers to the Proceedings Volumes. Those papers will be due in January, 1997. Note: All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts submitted. Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor requests to schedule accepted papers together in group sessions. Submissions must be received by May 10, 1995. Send submissions to: Boston University Conference on Language Development 2 Cummington Street Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. Telephone: 617-353-3085 E-mail: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu info@louis-xiv.bu.edu (automated reply) (WE REGRET THAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS BY FAX OR E-MAIL.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: siamakr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Siamak Rezaei) Subject: Query: Persian Parser sought Reply-To: siamakr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:34:58 GMT Hi, I am looking for the documentation of PERSIS system for parsing Persian. Does anybody out there have access to the documenation of PERSIS or the email of the people who have implemented it. Here is the reference. PERSIS: A Natural-Language Analyzer for Persian Mohammad Ali Sanamrad and Haruya Matsumoto (Kobe univ., Japan) Journal of Information Processing Vol. 8, No 4, p. 271-279 March 1985 Thanks Siamak ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marco@fwi.uva.nl Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:41:04 +0100 (MET) To: LINGUIST@TAMSUN.TAMU.EDU, linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu, zzlsa@gallua.BITNET, From: marco@fwi.uva.nl (Marco W. de Vries) Subject: Announcement: ESSLLI'96, 8th SSc. Log/Lang/Info, Aug 96, Prague ESSLLI'96 The Eighth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information to be held August 12-23, 1996 in Prague, Czech Republic DEADLINE EARLY REGISTRATION: MARCH 31st 1996 URL:http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz After summerschools in Groningen (1989), Saarbruecken (1990), Leuven (1991), Colchester (1992), Lisbon (1993), Copenhagen (1994), and Barcelona (1995), the next summerschool will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 12 until August 23, 1996. Alike the other summerschools, the main focus will be the interface between logic, linguistics, and computation, particularly where it concerns the modelling of human linguistic and cognitive abilities. As such, the programme includes courses, workshops and symposia covering a variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Language, Computation, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. ESSLLI'96 is organized under auspices of FoLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. Alike previous years, there will be organized a symposium on formal grammar right before ESSLLI'96. A new event at ESSLLI'96 is the Student Session, a great opportunity for students at MSc/MA or PhD level to present work in progress. Students are encouraged to submit papers that show creativity, innovative ideas and promise. A limited number of grants for students from Central and Eastern Europe is available. Early registration fees are ensuing (in Czech Crowns). The deadline for early registration fees is MARCH 31st, 1996 (your registration form should be mailed before, or on, that date). For late registration fees, add 15%. Student Kc 5500 (approx. USD 203) Visiting Scholar Kc 9200 (approx. USD 339) Industrial partner Kc 18000 (approx. USD 663) Accommodation for the period of the summer school is available in the range of Kc 2470 to Kc 5330 (for 13 nights). For more information, please visit the ESSLLI'96 WebSite, where the latest (and completest) information on the Summer School is available: URL: http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz or send a message to the ESSLLI'96 secretariat: ESSLLI'96, UFAL MFF UK, Malostranske' na'm. 25, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic Telephone: ++42-2-2191-4-255 Fax: ++42-2-2191-4-309 ----> EMail: esslli@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Registration forms are available at the WebSite, in various formats (postscript, RTF, text). Plain-text versions of the program, accommodation information, and the registration-form can be send to you by email upon request. __________________________________________________________________________ Marco W. de Vries For more information: http://turing.wins.uva.nl/~marco/ Bureau of: Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) * GRANTS available at ILLC, go to our WWW page for more information: http://www.fwi.uva.nl/research/illc/grant.html European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Dutch Graduate School in Logic (OzsL) University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 (20) 5256051, fax: +31 (20) 5255206, e-mail: marco@fwi.uva.nl _________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@snyside.sunnyside.com (NL-KR) Subject: Announcement: New Spanish News Release from the LDC Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:35:50 EST From: LDC Office Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM SPANISH NEWS TEXT COLLECTION The Spanish News Corpus consists of journalistic text data from one newspaper (El Norte, Mexico) and from the Spanish-language services of three newswire sources: Agence France Presse, Associated Press Worldstream, and Reuters. (The Reuters collection comprises two distinct services: Reuters Spanish Language News Service and Reuters Latin American Business Report.) All text data are stored on one CD-ROM, in a standard compressed form. The fours sets of newswire data (AFP, APWS, and two Reuters services) are each organized as one data file per day of collection. The period covered by these collections runs from December 1993 (for APWS and Reuters) or May 1994 (APWS) through December 1995. (The El Norte data, provided to us by INFOSEL Mexico, are arbitrarily grouped into files of about 1 megabyte in size when uncompressed; date information is not available for individual articles, but the general period of the collection is 1993.) The approximate amounts of data per source (when uncompressed) is indicated below (in total megabytes and millions of words of text): Source MB MW ------------------- AFP 345 44 APWS 253 33 REUSL 333 41 REULA 233 23 INFOSEL 209 31 The presentation of text data in these collections is modeled on the TIPSTER corpus. Within each data file, SGML tagging is used (1) to mark article boundaries, (2) to delimit the text portion within each article, and (3) to label various pieces of information about the article that are external to the text content (e.g. headlines, bylines, and so on). The copyright holders of this text have requested that it be made available to LDC members only. Due to the release date this corpus is available to 1995 and 1996 members. In order to obtain this corpus, current LDC members must submit a signed User Agreement Form. Inquiries about the corpus or requests for it, or information about becoming members should be directed to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc. Information is also available via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use "anonymous" as your login name, and give your email address when asked for password. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 18:58:45 0000 (GMT) To: llsfonet@cms.am.rdg.ac.uk From: Ruslan Mitkov Subject: Announcement: Studentship in Lang. Eng. Univ. of Wolverhampton University of Wolverhampton School of Languages and European Studies Research studentship in Language Engineering Proposed project Language Engineering approaches to anaphora resolution The project Against the background of prevaling knowledge-dependent linguistic approaches, this PhD research is expected to produce a new, highly practical and typical language engineering approach to anaphora resolution which will be reliable in terms of accuracy and will be implemented as a computer program. It will serve as a module in future robust NLP programs which require identification of referential links. Prerequisites Applicants should possess a good honours degree (or an equivalent degree if not obtained in a UK university) and will be expected to register for a higher degree (MPhil/PhD). Overseas candidates must have a good command of English. The successful candidate will ideally have a mixed background of linguistics and computer science and s/he will be expected to be sufficiently computer literate to be able to implement the model and approaches developed into an operational anaphora resolution system. Therefore knowledge of (computational) linguistics and programming skills are essential. If short-listed, the applicants should be able to provide evidence of extended independent research of good quality. The appointment of a research student is part of the expansion of the Division of Linguistics and is in line with the research policy of the school which has designated Language Engineering as an area of research excellence. Application and deadline Application forms are available (please cite reference RS138) from The Research Support Unit, University of Wolverhampton, Dudley Campus, Castle View, Dudley, DY1 3HR. Tel (01902) 323317, Email L.Barlow@wlv.ac.uk. Completed application forms should be received by 19 April 1996. Bursary The current value of the bursary is # 5, 500. In addition, teaching hours up to six a week (in consultation with the supervisor and depending on the appropriateness of the various modules on offer) would be possible. Further information Informal inquires may be directed to Dr. Ruslan Mitkov Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net From: wermter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Stefan Wermter) Subject: Announcement: book on language learning Date: 26 Mar 1996 12:47:06 GMT > The correct URL seems to be > http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/Arbeitsbereiche/NATS/staff/wermter.html Yes, this is the correct URL address. An additional letter from the surrounding box may have caused the confusion. Thank you for the hint, Peter. End of NL-KR Digest *******************