LFG Community,<br><br>We would like to bring the following conference and deadline extension to your attention. Apologies for the multiple postings.<br><br>Elias Ponvert<br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
<br><div>Extended deadline: 15 August 2006<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br>TLSX: Texas Linguistics Society 10 <br><br>Computational Linguistics for Less-Studied Languages <br>
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November 3–5, 2006 <br>University of Texas at Austin<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Description <br> <br>The
past decade has seen great developments at the intersection of
computational linguistics and language documentation, particularly in
the focus areas of speech and video recording and transcription, best
practices for data collection and archiving, and ontology development.
TLSX aims to highlight the application of techniques from computational
linguistics to the management and analysis of language data as well as
to less-studied languages or less-studied varieties of well-studied
languages. <br><br>The goal of TLSX is to further the state of computational
linguistics for less-studied languages by bringing together researchers
working at this frontier and providing a forum for the presentation of
original research. We anticipate work both from documentary and
descriptive linguists interested in improving technologies for
linguistic analysis and from computational linguists interested in
theoretical issues such as the application of data-driven natural
language processing (NLP) techniques to languages for which there
exists relatively little digitally-available data. <br><br>To that end, we invite submissions in the areas of
computational analysis and management of linguistic data from
less-studied languages. We also welcome submissions relating to the
development of computational tools to facilitate such analysis.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to): <br><br>- machine learning in scarce data situations<br>- multilingual grammar and lexicon development<br>- cross-linguistic applicability of NLP methods<br>- active learning
<br>- transfer learning<br>- bootstrapping semi-automated annotation
<br>- challenges posed by particular languages, or phenomena to current NLP methods <br><br>Invited Speakers <br><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>Submissions <br><br>Submitted papers must be no longer than 10 pages and are expected to follow the CSLI format for Collected Volumes:
<br><a href="http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/authors.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/authors.html</a> <br><br>LaTeX2e package
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http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/cslipubscollection.tar.gz</a><br><br>MS Word template and style guide <br><a href="http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/style_edited_vol_part2.doc" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/style_edited_vol_part2.doc
</a> <br><br>Submissions due: August 15, 2006 (Extended)<br>Notification: September 1, 2006 <br><br>Meeting URL: <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>E-mail 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><br><br>Organizing Committee <br><br>Stephen Hilderbrand, Heeyoung Lyu, Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert (all of UT Austin)
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