calls: Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics II

[Harold Schiffman]

Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics II



Full Title: Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics II
Short Title: LULCL II

Date: 13-Nov-2008 - 14-Nov-2008
Location: Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Contact Person: Verena Lyding
Meeting Email: communication.multilingualismeurac.edu
Web Site:
http://www.eurac.edu/Org/LanguageLaw/Multilingualism/Projects/LULCL_II.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 22-Sep-2008

Meeting Description:

LULCL II

Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics (LULCL) II
'Combining efforts to foster computational support of minority languages'

13th - 14th of November 2008
European Academy Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

LULCL II - Call for posters

Following up on the ''Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics (LULCL)''
conference in 2005, the Institute for Specialised Communication and
Multilingualism at the European Academy Bozen/Bolzano is pleased to announce a
second scientific meeting on computational approaches for lesser used, lesser
standardised and lesser resourced languages. LULCL II will take place the 13th
and 14th of November 2008 at the Convention Center of the European Academy
Bozen/Bolzano. The aim of the colloquium is to provide an overview of ongoing
research activities and to strengthen the research community and its practices.

This year's LULCL colloquium puts a special focus on bringing together efforts
from several related research communities, in order to join best practices,
approaches and techniques and to add value to individual initiatives. In
addition to lesser used languages, other types of language, including language
varieties, sign languages, learner language and spoken language pose similar
issues for researchers, having to do with sparse resources, little
standardisation, and challenges with automatic processing and building up of
computational resources.

The colloquium will provide an opportunity to learn what tasks are
analogous and
shared among the different research communities, what practices and resources
could be exchanged and generally how the groups could gain from
working together
and how they can bring forward lesser used languages.

The research communities of interest for this colloquium are:
- Lesser used / minority languages
- Language varieties
- Sign languages
- Learner languages
- Spoken language

During the two-day event invited researchers of each field will present ongoing
research activities by pointing out challenges inherent to the automatic
processing of a particular lesser resourced / lesser standardised language and
relating it to the broader picture of working with lesser resourced / lesser
standardised languages in general. The emerging dialogue should give particular
consideration to smaller projects and thus help them to disseminate their
objectives and to enter the international research community.

Call for Posters:
In addition to presentations by invited speakers this call for posters is open
to all researchers working with lesser used, lesser resourced and lesser
standardised languages.

Topics of particular interest include:
- Corpora
- Lexicographic resources
- Terminological resources
- Computer assisted language teaching and learning
- Tools and resources for translation
- Language tools
- Multimedia and internet
- Representation and access of non-written language
- Impact of computational approaches to support/strengthen a language
- Transferability of approaches developed for major world languages

Posters may range from theoretical work to descriptions of resources and
applications. We encourage PhD students to submit their research.
The colloquium's language is English. Reviewing is non blind.
Please submit an abstract (including relevant bibliography) of no more
than 1000
words to: communication.multilingualismeurac.edu

Important Dates:
September 22nd 2008: Deadline for submitting abstracts
October 20th 2008: Notification of acceptance
November 13th and 14th 2008: Colloquium at the Convention Center of
the European
Academy of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

Keynote Speakers:
Karin Aijmer, Göteborg University, Sweden
Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany

Scientific Committee:
Andrea Abel, Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Stefanie Anstein, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Christopher Culy, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany
Christer Laurén, Vaasa University, Finland
Marcello Soffritti, University of Bologna
Chiara Vettori, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Paul Videsott, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

Contact:
Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism,
European Academy Bozen/Bolzano
Viale Druso 1,
39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Organiser: Verena Lyding
Email: communication.multilingualismeurac.edu
Tel: 0471-055127
Fax: 0471-055199

LULCL II is co-financed by the ''Autonome Region Trentino-Südtirol / Regione
Autonoma Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Abteilung III Sprachminderheiten und
Europäische Integration / Ripartizione III - Minoranze linguistiche ed
integrazione europea, Amt für Sprachminderheiten / Ufficio per le minoranze
linguistiche''.

http://www.regione.taa.it/Minoranze/default_d.aspx
http://www.regione.taa.it/moduli/431_logo%20regione.pdf

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