7.299, Calls: Romance Lgs, Romanian, Computational ling

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-299. Tue Feb 27 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  225
 
Subject: 7.299, Calls: Romance Lgs, Romanian, Computational ling
 
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Date:  Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:05:29 +0100
From:  FULLANA at skywalker.udg.es ("Olga Fullana (DFSCC)")
Subject:  Central Romance Languages
 
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Date:  Mon, 26 Feb 1996 21:36:40 -0300
From:  MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject:   workshop on Comparative issues in Romanian syntax
 
3)
Date:  Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:29:10 GMT
From:  bernie at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Subject:  Computational Linguistics
 
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Date:  Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:05:29 +0100
From:  FULLANA at skywalker.udg.es ("Olga Fullana (DFSCC)")
Subject:  Central Romance Languages
 
                           CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 
 
    THIRD WORKSHOP ON THE SYNTAX OF CENTRAL ROMANCE LANGUAGES
 
                        Universitat de Girona
                    Girona, November 15th-16th, 1996
 
 
The First Workshop on the Syntax of The Central Romance Languages was
held in Geneva in July 1990 and the second one in Barcelona in May
1993. The First Workshop was an important forum for researchers
working on the syntax of those Romance languages and dialects that
have not traditionally occupied a central position in the Romance
linguistic literature. The syntactic phenomena displayed by these
varieties are of great theoretical relevance, but they are not as
easily available to linguists as data from other better-known Romance
languages. The second edition also focused on some aspects of
morphology. The Workshop included papers on Catalan, Franco-
Provencal, Galician, Genoese, Italian, Ligurian, Occitan, Padovan,
Sardinian, Spanish, Trentino, Veneto and Walloon,
 
The Third Workshop will continue the line initiated in Geneva and
followed in Barcelona. We request papers on syntactic aspects of any
Romance languages and dialects that have so far received little
attention in the linguistic literature. We are also interested in
papers on the interfaces between syntax and other components of
grammar (morphology, phonology, semantics, etc.). Preference will be
given to contributions focusing on poorly-described varieties,
describing new data or phenomena, or having a significant comparative
slant.
 
 
                            Invited Speaker
 
                            IGNACIO BOSQUE
                    (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
 
Six hard copies of an anonymous abstract describing the contents of
the paper (two pages maximum including references) should be sent
plus a camera ready original containing author's name, address,
affiliaton and e-mail address to the WSCRL program committee by June
15th 1996.
 
For further information contact the organising commitee: Francesc
Roca, Olga Fullana and Joan Rafel.
 
Dept. de Filologia i Filosofia
Universitat de Girona
Pl. Ferrater Mora, 1
E-17071 Girona
Spain
Tel.:  +34-72-418106        Fax.: +34-72-418230
e-mail: roca at skywalker.udg.es
 
UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA
DEPT. FILOLOGIA I FILOSOFIA
 
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Date:  Mon, 26 Feb 1996 21:36:40 -0300
From:  MOTA at admin1.csd.unbsj.ca ("VIRGINIA MOTAPANYANE")
Subject:   workshop on Comparative issues in Romanian syntax
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
 
WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE ISSUES IN ROMANIAN SYNTAX
 
Place: University of New Brunswick - Saint John
Date : 30 August 1996
 (the workshop precedes ESCOL 96, to be held at the same location)
 
Papers approaching Romanian syntax from a comparative perspective
are solicited. Send abstracts (1 page, including name and
affiliation) through e-mail or snail-mail to:
Virginia Motapanyane
University of New Brunswick
P.O.Box 5050
Saint John, NB
Canada E2L 4L5
mota at unbsj.ca
 
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 1996
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Date:  Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:29:10 GMT
From:  bernie at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Subject:  Computational Linguistics
 
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 		  	  SIGPARSE 96
 
 
International Workshop on PUNCTUATION IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
 
	             Friday, June 28, 1996
 
      	  in conjunction with the 34th Annual Meeting of the
              Association for Computational Linguistics
                 University of California, Santa Cruz
		      Santa Cruz, California, USA
 
 
FOCUS OF THE WORKSHOP
 
Surprisingly, most research in Computational Linguistics over the
years has almost completely ignored the (ortho)graphical facet of
language, punctuation. This has mainly been due to the overall
complexity of that field, but also due to the lack of a good
theoretical description of the problem.
 
However, interest in punctuation in the fields of `straight' and
computational linguistics has greatly increased in the last five
years. This is partially due to the publication, in 1990, of Geoffrey
Nunberg's book "The Linguistics of Punctuation", but also due to the
fact that it has been recognised that true understanding and
processing of written language will be almost impossible if
punctuation is not taken into account.
 
Almost any structure-giving, or graphical, device in text could be
described as punctuation - this means that punctuation falls into
roughly three categories:
 
    Within word: marks like hyphens and apostrophes
 
    Between word: what we conventionally think of as punctuation,
                  e.g. commas, full-stops, colons.
 
    Higher-level graphical punctuation: paragraphing, indentation,
                                        underlining, font changes etc...
 
Although most research on punctuation seems to have focussed on the
narrow, second definition, and its role in parsing and syntax,
punctuation has a far wider nature and application, and there is
interest in fields as diverse as semantics, discourse, automatic
editing, conversation analysis, intonation and psycholinguistics.
 
The time is therefore ripe for a workshop in the general field of
punctuation, to bring together all those researchers who have been
working on various aspects of the problem, or who have an interest in
it, to share ideas and maybe establish some standard approach to what
is a novel and highly interesting area.
 
WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
 
The workshop will be a full-day event consisting of about 12 half-hour
papers, including some time for discussion. There will be an invited
talk given by the `Father of Modern Punctuation Research', Geoff
Nunberg of Xerox PARC.
 
SUBMISSIONS
 
Submissions are invited that address the issue of punctuation in all
areas of CL, including, but not limited to, the following:
 
Parsing                Syntax                 Generation
Discourse processing   Semantics              Machine translation
Phonetics              Phonology              Corpus-based work
Psycholinguistics      Message understanding  Editorial assistants
Information retrieval  Statistical methods    Automated tagging
 
Papers should not exceed 3,200 words and should include an abstract of
not more than 15 lines. The title page should include title, authors,
addresses, email, telephone numbers and the abstract. Electronic
submissions are strongly prefered and encouraged, and should be in
postscript, self-contained LaTeX or (if nothing else is available) in
ASCII.
 
Submissions and any questions should be sent to:
 
Bernie Jones                     Centre for Cognitive Science,
                                 2 Buccleuch Place,
bernie at cogsci.ed.ac.uk           Edinburgh EH8 9LW, United Kingdom
 
DEADLINES
 
Submissions should reach Bernie Jones by Friday 12th April 1996.
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