Apologies for multiple postings ...<br><br>==== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: <br><br> TLSX Texas Linguistics Society 10 <br> Computational Linguistics for Less-Studied Languages<br><br> Austin, Texas 3-5 November 2006<br>
<br> <a href="http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Etls/2006tls" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2006tls</a><br><br>==== DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRAION: <br><br>
20 October<br> Registration info: <br> <a href="http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Etls/2006tls/registration.php" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2006tls/registration.php</a><br><br>==== SCOPE:<br> The past decade has seen great developments at the intersection of<br> computational linguistics and language documentation, particularly
<br> in the focus areas of speech and video recording and<br> transcription, best practices for data collection and archiving,<br> and ontology development. TLSX aims to highlight the application<br> of techniques from computational linguistics to the management and
<br> analysis of language data as well as to less-studied languages or<br> less-studied varieties of well-studied languages.<br><br> The goal of TLSX is to further the state of computational<br> linguistics for less-studied languages by bringing together
<br> researchers working at this frontier and providing a forum for the<br> presentation of original research. We anticipate work both from<br> documentary and descriptive linguists interested in improving<br> technologies for linguistic analysis and from computational
<br> linguists interested in theoretical issues such as the application<br> of data-driven natural language processing (NLP) techniques to<br> languages for which there exists relatively little<br> digitally-available data.
<br><br>==== INVITED SPEAKERS:<br> * Jason Baldridge, University of Texas at Austin<br> * Emily Bender, University of Washington<br> * Steven Bird, University of Melbourne<br> * Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
<br> * Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania<br> * Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin<br><br>==== PROGRAM:<br><br>== Friday, November 3, 2006<br>8:30 - 9:15 Registration / Coffee and refreshments<br>
9:15 - 9:30 Opening remarks
<br><br>9:30 - 10:45 <br> Keynote address<br> Linguistic Data Management with the Natural Language Toolkit<br> Steven Bird, University of Melbourne, University of Pennsylvania<br><br>10:50 - 11:20 <br> Annotating and archiving natural language paradigms online
<br> Dorothee Beerman & Atle Prange<br><br>11:20 - 11:50 <br> The SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer Approach to Morphological Parsing<br> H. Andrew Black & Gary F. Simons<br><br>1:00 - 1:30 <br> A Method for Enhancing Search Using Transliteration of Mandarin Chinese
<br> Vijay John<br><br>1:30 - 2:00 <br> Inflectional Vocalization of Arabic Text: A MaxEnt Tagging Approach<br> Frederick M. Hoyt<br><br>2:10 - 3:35 <br> Keynote address<br> Cutting Corpus Costs: Machine Learning and Annotation
<br> Jason Baldridge , University of Texas at Austin<br><br>3:50 - 5:30 <br> Panel Discussion<br><br> Understanding needs of documentary and descriptive linguistics,<br> gaps in the current tool set, problems of current technologies,
<br> issues involved in doing work on less-studied languages <br> Tony Woodbury, moderator<br><br>== Saturday, November 4, 2006<br>9:00 - 10:15 <br> Keynote address<br> TBA<br> Emily Bender, University of Washington
<br><br>10:20 - 10:50 <br> Two Approaches to Mayan Grammar Development in CCG<br> Elias Ponvert<br><br>10:50 - 11:20 <br> A Combinatory Categorial Grammar of a Fragment of American Sign Language<br> Tony Wright
<br><br>11:20 - 11:50 <br> A Morphological Analyzer for Verbal Aspect in American Sign Language<br> Aaron Shield & Jason Baldridge<br><br>1:00 - 2:15 <br> Keynote address<br> Detecting outliers: useful for word sense assignment - and for
<br> aiding manual annotation?<br> Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin<br><br>2:20 - 2:50 <br> Affix Discovery based on Entropy and Economy Measurements<br> Alfonso Medina-Urrea<br><br>2:50 - 3:20
<br> Enriching Language Data through Projected Structures<br> William Lewis, Fei Xia, & Dan Jinguji<br><br>3:20 - 3:50 <br> Finite State Methods for Bantu Verb Morphology<br> Robert Elwell<br><br>4:05 - 5:20
<br> Keynote address<br> TBA<br> Ray Mooney, University of Texas at Austin<br><br>== Sunday, November 5, 2006<br><br>9:00 - 10:15 <br> Keynote address<br> TBA<br> Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
<br><br>10:30 - 12:30 <br> Panel Discussion<br> How can computational linguistics address the needs of documentary<br> and descriptive linguistics, and how will doing so further the<br> state of research in the field of computational linguistics? What
<br> are fruitful directions for future research? Where do we go from<br> here?<br><br>==== PROGRAM COMMITTEE:<br> * Steven Abney -- University of Michigan<br> * Jason Baldridge -- University of Texas at Austin
<br> * Emily Bender -- University of Washington<br> * Steven Bird -- University of Melbourne<br> * Cem Bozsahin -- Middle East Technical University<br> * Katrin Erk -- University of Texas at Austin<br> * Daffyd Gibbon -- Universitaet Bielefeld
<br> * Jeff Good -- McMaster University<br> * Ed Hovy -- University of Southern California<br> * Fred Hoyt -- University of Texas at Austin<br> * Heidi Johnson -- University of Texas at Austin<br> * Jonas Kuhn -- Saarland University
<br> * Terry Langendoen -- University of Arizona, NSF<br> * William Lewis -- University of Washington<br> * Mark Liberman -- University of Pennsylvania<br> * Liberty Lidz -- University of Texas at Austin<br> * Chris Manning -- Stanford Univeristy
<br> * Ray Mooney -- University of Texas at Austin<br> * Martha Palmer -- University of Colorado<br> * James Pustejovsky -- Brandeis University<br> * Alexandré Sevigny -- McMaster University<br> * Gary Simons -- SIL
<br> * Mark Steedman -- University of Edinburgh<br> * Tony Woodbury -- University of Texas at Austin<br><br>==== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:<br> * Stephen Hilderbrand<br> * Heeyoung Lyu<br> * Alexis Palmer<br> * Elias Ponvert
<br><br> The organizing committee members are all members of the Department<br> of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin.<br><br> Please contact <a href="mailto:tls@uts.cc.utexas.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
tls@uts.cc.utexas.edu
</a> with any questions or concerns.<br><br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Elias Ponvert<br><a href="http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/ponvert/">http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/ponvert/</a>