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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Saad, you might want to contact Peyton Mason ktmason@email.msn.com about stance analysis, which is computer-supported coding of text for various stances: see Stance-shifting in language used by sex offenders: Five case studies, by: Lord, Vivian, Davis, Boyd, Mason, Peyton. Psychology, Crime and Law, Vol. 14, No. 4. (August 2008), pp. 357-379.<BR>
Boyd Davis<BR>
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Subject: Corpora Digest, Vol 23, Issue 26<BR>
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Today's Topics:<BR>
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1. Extended Deadline Cfp: 11th International Conference on<BR>
Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09) (DJamé Seddah)<BR>
2. PASSAGE 2nd French Parsing Evaluation Campaign (Paroubek)<BR>
3. Analysing Parent-Medical Corpora? (Saad Mahamood)<BR>
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Message: 1<BR>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:02:44 +0200<BR>
From: DJamé Seddah <djame.seddah@free.fr><BR>
Subject: [Corpora-List] Extended Deadline Cfp: 11th International<BR>
Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09)<BR>
To: elsnet-list@elsnet.org<BR>
Cc: corpora@uib.no<BR>
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C a l l f o r P a p e r s<BR>
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IWPT 2009<BR>
<BR>
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11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies<BR>
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<BR>
Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE<BR>
<BR>
October 7 - 9, 2009<BR>
<BR>
Paris, France<BR>
<BR>
~~~<BR>
<A HREF="http://alpage.inria.fr/iwpt09">http://alpage.inria.fr/iwpt09</A><BR>
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<BR>
ACL/SIGPARSE will host the 11th International Conference on Parsing<BR>
Technologies (IWPT'09) on October 7 - 9, 2009 in Paris, France, at<BR>
the University of Paris 7.<BR>
<BR>
IWPT'09 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing<BR>
technology organized by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on<BR>
Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The<BR>
first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by<BR>
workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy<BR>
(Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995;<BR>
Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; Trento (Italy) in 2000;<BR>
Beijing (China) in 2001; in Nancy (France) in 2003; in Vancouver<BR>
(Canada) (2005); and in Prague (Czech Republic) in 2007.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Topics of interest for IWPT'09<BR>
------------------------------<BR>
Topics of interest for IWPT'09 include, but are not limited to:<BR>
<BR>
theoretical and practical studies of parsing and transduction<BR>
algorithms for natural language sentences, texts, fragments,<BR>
dialogues, ill-formed sentences, speech input, multi-dimensional<BR>
(pictorial) or signed languages, multimedia (web) documents; parsing<BR>
issues arising or viewed in a multimodal and multilingual context;<BR>
parsing in relation to semantic and pragmatic information and<BR>
communication; cognitive aspects of grammar and their impact on<BR>
parsing.<BR>
Knowledge-based and data-driven approaches are equally welcome.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Time schedule: (full paper deadline has been extended to the 29 May)<BR>
--------------<BR>
Deadline for full paper submission: 29 May, 2009<BR>
Full papers notification of acceptance: 1 July, 2009<BR>
Deadline for short paper submission: 8 July, 2009<BR>
Short papers notification of acceptance: 15 July, 2009<BR>
Final papers due: 15 August, 2009<BR>
Conference: 7 - 9 October, 2009<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Submitting Papers<BR>
-----------------<BR>
Two types of submissions are invited:<BR>
- full papers, to be presented as such during the conference and to<BR>
be published in the conference proceedings (maximally 12 pages);<BR>
- short papers, to be presented at the conference in the form of a<BR>
poster plus a summary oral presentation in a short-paper session;<BR>
four-page summaries will be published in the conference proceedings.<BR>
<BR>
Submissions of either type should describe original work. Full papers<BR>
should be concerned with completed work or intermediate results of<BR>
ongoing work, rather than with intended work, and should indicate<BR>
clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Short papers<BR>
may describe planned or starting research or untested ideas.<BR>
<BR>
A paper accepted for presentation at IWPT 2009 cannot be presented or<BR>
have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available<BR>
published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other<BR>
conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as must<BR>
papers that contain significant overlap with previously published<BR>
work.<BR>
<BR>
The reviewing of the papers will be blind. The paper should not<BR>
include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,<BR>
self-citations and other references (e.g. to projects, corpora, or<BR>
software) that could reveal the author's identity should be<BR>
avoided. For example, instead of "We previously showed (Smith, 1991)<BR>
...", write "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Instructions for authors<BR>
------------------------<BR>
Prospective authors are invited to send their submissions<BR>
through the electronic submission page of the conference. The only<BR>
accepted format for submitted papers is PDF. Full papers should not<BR>
exceed 12 pages; short papers should not exceed 8 pages.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Detailed formatting and submission instructions for authors will be<BR>
available through the IWPT'09 home page at:<BR>
<BR>
<A HREF="http://alpage.inria.fr/iwpt09">http://alpage.inria.fr/iwpt09</A><BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Inquiries:<BR>
----------<BR>
For all inquiries send mail to eric.de_la_clergerie@inria.fr or to<BR>
harry.bunt@uvt.nl<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Programme Committee<BR>
---------------------------<BR>
All submitted papers will be reviewed by (or under the supervision of)<BR>
the international IWPT'09 Programme Committee, consisting of the<BR>
following members:<BR>
<BR>
Philippe Blache (CNRS/Provence University, Aix-en-Provence, France)<BR>
Harry Bunt (TiCC, Tilburg University, Netherlands)<BR>
David Chiang(USC/ISI, Marina del Rey, USA)<BR>
John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)<BR>
Stephen Clarck (Oxford Unniversity, UK)<BR>
Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, Rocquencourt, France) (chair)<BR>
Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)<BR>
James Henderson (University of Edinburgh,UK)<BR>
Julia Hockenmaier (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)<BR>
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)<BR>
Ronald Kaplan (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)<BR>
Martin Kay (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)<BR>
Dan Klein (UC Berkeley, USA)<BR>
Sadao Kurohashi (University of Kyoto, Japan)<BR>
Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)<BR>
Rob Malouf (San Diego State University, USA)<BR>
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)<BR>
Bob Moore (Microsoft, Redmond, USA)<BR>
Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)<BR>
Joakim Nivre (University of Uppsala, Sweden)<BR>
Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, Netherlands)<BR>
Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)<BR>
Stefan Riezler (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)<BR>
Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy)<BR>
Kenji Sagae (Institute for Creative Technologies, Marina del Rey, USA)<BR>
Khalil Sima'an (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)<BR>
Hozumi Tanaka (Chukyo University, Japan)<BR>
K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, USA)<BR>
Eric Wehrli (LATL, University of Geneva, Switzerland)<BR>
David Weir (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)<BR>
Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)<BR>
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Organization<BR>
-----------------<BR>
General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)<BR>
<BR>
Program Chair: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, Rocqencourt, <BR>
France)<BR>
<BR>
Logistic Arrangements Chair: Laurence Danlos (University of Paris 7, <BR>
France)<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Further information<BR>
---------------------------<BR>
Additional information about IWPT'07 is available at the URL:<BR>
<BR>
<A HREF="http://alpage.inria.fr/iwpt09/">http://alpage.inria.fr/iwpt09/</A><BR>
<BR>
At the site <A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/grasp-1/Grasp/SIGParse/">http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/grasp-1/Grasp/SIGParse/</A><BR>
there is also<BR>
information about previous IWPTs, proceedings, books based on IWPTs,<BR>
and SIGPARSE related activities.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
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Message: 2<BR>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 20:19:10 +0200 (CEST)<BR>
From: pap@limsi.fr (Paroubek)<BR>
Subject: [Corpora-List] PASSAGE 2nd French Parsing Evaluation Campaign<BR>
To: corpora@uib.no<BR>
<BR>
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Call for Participation to the Second PASSAGE French Parsing Evaluation<BR>
Campaign<BR>
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<BR>
We invite the developers of parsers for French both from academia and<BR>
industry to participate to the second PASSAGE evaluation campaign. In<BR>
the course of achieving the two main objectives of the PASSAGE<BR>
project (http://atoll.inria.fr/passage):<BR>
<BR>
1. building a large sized Treebank for French and making it available<BR>
to the community<BR>
<BR>
2. and investigating lexical acquisition for Parser improvement by<BR>
parser outputs merging,<BR>
<BR>
we offer to parser developers the opportunity to test and compare<BR>
their system on the PASSAGE corpus. Historically this evaluation<BR>
campaign comes after the first evaluation campaign of PASSAGE that<BR>
took place in 2007 and the EASY evaluation campaign (2006) of EVALDA<BR>
project in the TECHNOLANGUE program.<BR>
<BR>
Participation is free (after registering, see below) on a voluntary<BR>
basis and gives access to all the resources that PASSAGE has built<BR>
(corpora, annotation editors, evaluation toolkits). To have a look at<BR>
the PASSAGE annotations, you can test EasyRef<BR>
(<A HREF="http://atoll.inria.fr/easyrefpub/">http://atoll.inria.fr/easyrefpub/</A>), the WEB interactive annotation<BR>
editor now freely open to all potential participants.<BR>
<BR>
--------<BR>
The data<BR>
--------<BR>
The corpus that we propose you to parse is a 100 Million words<BR>
collection of material freely available from the WEB completed with a<BR>
small amount of copyrighted newspaper material. Word and sentence<BR>
segmentations are not imposed. The participant data will be mapped<BR>
onto the reference data using a dynamic programming algorithm.<BR>
<BR>
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Syntactic Annotations<BR>
---------------------<BR>
The syntactic annotations that we used in PASSAGE are derived from the<BR>
one used during the EASY campaign. The annotations are described in<BR>
various papers<BR>
(<A HREF="http://atoll.inria.fr/passage/articles.en.html">http://atoll.inria.fr/passage/articles.en.html</A>). Documentation and<BR>
software support is available on the PASSAGE site along with EasyRef<BR>
(<A HREF="http://atoll.inria.fr/easyrefpub/">http://atoll.inria.fr/easyrefpub/</A>), an open WEB annotation editor and<BR>
an evaluation server enabling an automatic comparison of one's parser<BR>
against the PASSAGE development data (app. 85,600 words) issued from<BR>
previous PASSAGE campaign and the EASY campaign.<BR>
<BR>
--------<BR>
Schedule<BR>
--------<BR>
Both the development corpus resulting from the EASY evaluation<BR>
campaign and the PASSAGE-2 test corpus of 100 million words are now<BR>
available. They will be communicated to the participants as soon as<BR>
they are registered. Participants to PASSAGE-2 are expected to return<BR>
the PASSAGE-2 corpus completely parsed with the PASSAGE annotations<BR>
between August 31 2009 and October 15 2009.<BR>
<BR>
-----------------<BR>
Evaluation Tracks<BR>
-----------------<BR>
PASSAGE-2 will have 2 evaluation tracks:<BR>
<BR>
1. the manual reference track with its gold standard of 400,000 words<BR>
that have been hand-annotated<BR>
<BR>
2. the automatic reference track, where the gold standard will be the<BR>
results of combining the ouputs of the participating parsers.<BR>
<BR>
For all registered participants, performance results of the first<BR>
track will be published with the participant identified, while<BR>
performance results of the second track will be published anonymously<BR>
because of the exploratory nature of the reference data.<BR>
<BR>
-----------------------------------------<BR>
Link with EVALITA dependency parsing task<BR>
-----------------------------------------<BR>
For exploring possible links with Parsing evaluation for other<BR>
languages, PASSAGE-2 campaign has a tiny development and test corpus<BR>
shared with the EVALITA (<A HREF="http://evalita.fbk.eu/">http://evalita.fbk.eu/</A>) campaign on<BR>
dependency parsing (<A HREF="http://evalita.fbk.eu/parsing.html">http://evalita.fbk.eu/parsing.html</A>) . Aligned data<BR>
both in French and Italian have been hand-annotated (200 sentences of<BR>
developement and 50 sentences for test) both with PASSAGE annotations<BR>
for the French part and the TUT annotations for the Italian one.<BR>
<BR>
----------------------------<BR>
Conditions for participation<BR>
----------------------------<BR>
Registration is now open and necessitates signing a participation<BR>
agreement available at ELDA. Participants are required to return the<BR>
test corpus parsed according to the schedule above and agree to the<BR>
publication of their identified performance results by the PASSAGE-2<BR>
organizer. Please contact Olivier Hamon at ELDA for obtaining the<BR>
participation agreement.<BR>
<BR>
--------<BR>
Contacts<BR>
--------<BR>
PASSAGE-2 is organized by:<BR>
<BR>
* ILES (Information Langues Écrites et Signées) of LIMSI-CNRS (Patrick<BR>
Paroubek pap@limsi.fr, or Anne Vilnat anne.vilnat@limsi.fr)<BR>
<BR>
* ELDA (Olivier Hamon, hamon@elda.org)<BR>
<BR>
* INRIA-ALPAGE (Eric de la Clergerie, Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr).<BR>
<BR>
with the help of all the PASSAGE participants.<BR>
<BR>
PASSAGE (ANR-06-MDCA-013) is funded by ANR<BR>
(<A HREF="http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr">http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr</A>).<BR>
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Patrick Paroubek / LIR Group / Human-Machine Communication Dept.<BR>
LIMSI - CNRS, Batiment 508 Universite Paris XI, BP 133 - 91403 ORSAY Cedex - France<BR>
phone: (33) (0)1 69 85 80 04 fax: (33) (0)1 69 85 80 88 email:pap@limsi.fr<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
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Message: 3<BR>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:34:03 +0100<BR>
From: Saad Mahamood <saad.mahamood@abdn.ac.uk><BR>
Subject: [Corpora-List] Analysing Parent-Medical Corpora?<BR>
To: "corpora@uib.no" <corpora@uib.no><BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Dear members,<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
I'm currently trying to undertake an analysis of medical texts written<BR>
for and about the interactions between parents of a premature child in<BR>
neonatal care and medical staff (Nurses and Consultants). In<BR>
particular, there are four sets of corpora I'm trying to analyse. The<BR>
first is text written by medical consultants that is usually written<BR>
for the parents about prior verbal consultations that the two parties<BR>
have had. The other three corpora sets are that written by nurse about<BR>
their interactions with parents and their observations of the<BR>
parents. What I have noticed informally is that the nature of text<BR>
written by both consultants and nurses changes if the condition of the<BR>
premature in neonatal care deteriorates and/or if the parents are<BR>
emotionally distressed. In particular, the most noticeable result is<BR>
that the simplification of the language used and the increasing use of<BR>
phrases to build reassurance. However, I was wondering what tools are<BR>
available for me to observe aspects of this phenomena in a<BR>
quantitative manner? I have used readability metrics such as Fog,<BR>
Flesch, and Flesch-Kincaid scores. Is there any other metrics that I<BR>
should be exploring?<BR>
<BR>
Many Thanks,<BR>
<BR>
Saad Mahamood.<BR>
<BR>
Research Student,<BR>
Department of Computing Science,<BR>
Room 244, Meston Building,<BR>
King's College, University of Aberdeen,<BR>
Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom,<BR>
AB24 3UE<BR>
<BR>
Tel: +44 (0) 1224 274173<BR>
E-mail: saad.mahamood@abdn.ac.uk<BR>
Webpage: <A HREF="http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~smahamoo/">http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~smahamoo/</A><BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.<BR>
<BR>
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