[Corpora-List] NODALIDA 2007 Newsletter No. 1

[Joakim Nivre]

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             NODALIDA 2007 NEWSLETTER NO. 1
                   (January 31, 2007)

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Important Dates
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Student paper submission deadline:	February 9, 2007
Poster submission deadline:		February 9, 2007

Workshops:          May 24, 2007
Main conference:    May 25-26, 2007


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Table of Contents
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1. NODALIDA 2007 in Tartu, Estonia
2. Committees
3. Call for Papers (student papers and posters)
4. Workshops
5. Invited Speakers
6. Language Tutorial: Estonian
7. Newsletter No. 2


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1. NODALIDA 2007 in Tartu, Estonia
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NODALIDA 2007, the 16th Nordic Conference of 
Computational Linguistics, will take place 24-26 May 2007 
in Tartu, Estonia. 

Tartu is a little wooden town in the southern part of 
Estonia. The oldest in Estonia (established 1030), second 
by the number of inhabitants (100 000) and widely known 
by the University of Tartu (established 1632).

The conference will be held in the heart of the city at 
the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the 
University Library.

Tartu is accessible from Tallinn by coach. The coaches 
run very frequently (1-2 departures per hour) and the 
ride takes 2.5 hrs.

There are direct flights to Tallinn from Amsterdam, 
Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dublin, 
Dubrovnik, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kiev, London, 
Milan, Moscow, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Riga, Sharm El 
Sheikh, Simferopol, Stockholm, Vilnius and Warsaw.

Find out more on http://math.ut.ee/nodalida2007/


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2. Committees
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Joakim Nivre (chair), Växjö University and Uppsala University
Helena Ahonen-Myka, University of Helsinki
Daniel Hardt, Copenhagen Business School
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki
Pierre Nugues, Lund University
Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo, NTNU Trondheim and Stanford University
Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen
Torbjørn Svendsen, NTNU Trondheim

LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Mare Koit (co-chair), University of Tartu
Tiit Roosmaa (co-chair), University of Tartu
Urve Talvik, University of Tartu
Heli Uibo, University of Tartu
Kadri Vider, University of Tartu


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3. Call for Papers
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***** The deadline for submission of regular papers *****
***** papers has expired. The deadline for student  *****
***** papers and posters is February 9, 2007.       *****

The Program Committee of the 16th Nordic Conference of 
Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2007), to be held in 
Tartu, Estonia, May 25-26, 2007, invites papers on 
substantial, original, and unpublished research on all 
aspects of language technology, including, but not 
limited to:

phonetics, phonology, and morphology;
speech recognition and speech synthesis;
word segmentation, tagging, and chunking;
syntax, semantics, and grammars;
pragmatics, discourse, and dialogue;
the lexicon and ontologies;
parsing and grammatical formalisms;
generation, text planning, and summarization;
language modeling, spoken language recognition, and understanding;
linguistic, psychological, and mathematical models of language;
information retrieval, text categorization, question answering, and information extraction;
paraphrasing and textual entailment;
machine learning for natural language;
multilingual processing, machine translation, and translation aids;
multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
language-oriented applications, tools, and resources;
evaluation methodology.

More information at http://math.ut.ee/nodalida2007/.


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4. Workshops
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The following workshops will be held in conjunction with 
NODALIDA 2007, May 24, 2007:

- The 2nd International Workshop on Typed Feature Structure Grammars 
  http://cst.dk/anders/tfsg/tfsg07.html

- Building Frame Semantics Resources for Scandinavian and Baltic Languages
  http://nlp.cs.lth.se/frame2007/

- Workshop on Semantic Content Acquisition and Representation
  http://www.sics.se/~mange/scar2007/

- New Developments in Constraint Grammar
  http://giellatekno.uit.no/cg/ee07/

More information about the workshops is available at 
their respective websites.


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5. Invited Speakers
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Keynote speakers at NODALIDA 2007 are

- Diana F. McCarthy (May 25)
- Walter Daelemans (May 26)


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6. Language Tutorial: Estonian
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In the hope of establishing a new tradition (suggested by 
Koenraad de Smedt), NODALIDA 2007 will feature a tutorial 
on Estonian in the afternoon of May 24, immediately 
preceding the welcome reception. The tutorial will be 
free of charge for everyone who has registered for 
NODALIDA 2007.


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7. Newsletter No. 2
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NODALIDA 2007 Newsletter No. 2 will be published in late
March, giving among other things more information on 
registration and accomodation.

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Joakim Nivre

Växjö University		Uppsala University
School of Mathematics		Department of Linguistics
and Systems Engineering		and Philology
SE-35195 Växjö			Box 635, SE-75126 Uppsala

Tel: +46 470 708992		Tel: +46 18 4717009
Fax: +46 470 84004		Fax: +46 18 4711094
E-mail: nivre at msi.vxu.se	E-mail: joakim.nivre at lingfil.uu.se

URL: http://www.msi.vxu.se/users/nivre
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