8.356, Calls: English, Computational, Dialogue

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-356. Thu Mar 13 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.356, Calls: English, Computational, Dialogue

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Date:    Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:31:36 +0200 (EET)
From:  Brita =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?W=E5rvik?= <warvik at utu.fi>
Subject:  Nordic Conference for English Studies

2)
Date:  Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:21:45 +0000
From:  T M Ellison <marke at cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject:  Computational Natural Lg Learning Meeting (CoNLL97)

3)
Date:  Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:04:25 +0900
From:  Kristiina Jokinen <kjokinen at itl.atr.co.jp>
Subject:  Dialogue Systems

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:31:36 +0200 (EET)
From:  Brita =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?W=E5rvik?= <warvik at utu.fi>
Subject:  Nordic Conference for English Studies

The 7th Nordic Conference for English Studies will be organized in Turku,
Finland 28-31 May, 1998. Plenary speakers include Jean Aitchison (Oxford),
Steven Connor (London) and Judit Molnar (Debrecen).

Papers are invited on topics related to all aspects of English Studies.

More information at URL http://www.utu.fi/hum/engfil/naes98.html


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:21:45 +0000
From:  T M Ellison <marke at cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject:  Computational Natural Lg Learning Meeting (CoNLL97)



		------------------------------------
		CALL FOR PAPERS

		COMPUTATIONAL NATURAL LANGUAGE LEARNING (CoNLL97)
		Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group
		in Natural Language Learning

		In conjunction with
		ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference
		Madrid, Spain, 11-12th July 1997
		------------------------------------


Up-to-the-minute information available at:
	http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~conll97/


THE WORKSHOP
============

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area
of the machine learning of natural language.

(ACL attendees who are interested in attending CoNLL but are uncertain
as to whether they have adequate background are advised that the
following ACL-97/EACL-97 tutorials programmed to take place on July 7
will provided useful background and are accordingly recommended:
Machine Learning of Natural Language (David Powers) and Maximum
Entropy Modeling (Eric Sven Ristad). The two tutorials are intended to
complement each other and are specifically aimed at providing the
requisite background for effective participation in CoNLL.)

Papers should present heretofore unpublished research addressing any
topic on the application of machine-learning methods to natural
language or the computer implementation of linguistic or
psycholinguistic models of language acquisition. Such topics may occur
in (but are not restricted to) the fields of:
        * grammar acquisition for NLP applications
        * acquisition of phonology and/or morphology
        * acquisition of semantic and ontological relations
        * computational models of language acquisition
        * computational models in cognitive linguistics
        * computational models of universal grammar
        * comparative evaluation of different learning techniques
        * theoretical models in formal lingusitics and learning theory
        * statistical and information-theoretic classification
        * adaptive and optimizing NLP systems
        * computational lexicon acquisition
        * automatic tagging
	* linguistic knowledge discovery


Papers are equally sought on applied and theoretical topics and are not
limited to any particular area, level or application of language
technolgoy..

The workshop is a two-day event with approximately 20 papers plus time
for discussion.


ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES
=================================

The organizing committee is:

	Mark Ellison (Edinburgh University)
	David Powers (Flinders University)
	Walter Daelemans (KUB Tilburg, Antwerp University)

The program committee is the organizing committee plus others needed
to broaden the interests of the committee and accommodate the full
range of papers solicited.

Correspondence should be sent to:

	T Mark Ellison
	Centre for Cognitive Science
	Edinburgh University
	2 Buccleuch Place
	Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK
	Tel. +44 (131) 650-4416
	Fax. +44 (131) 650-6626
	email: conll97 at cogsci.ed.ac.uk

PAPER SUBMISSION
================

What:	  original research, not published elsewhere
	  a completed study is prefered to proposals and progress reports
	  originality, topicality and clarity will be the assessment
	  criteria.

How Much: no more than 10 (A4) pages.

How:   	  initial submissions can be in ASCII or postscript
	  submission wrapper SHOULD identify the authors
	  submitted texts SHOULD NOT identify the author(s)
	  submissions must be sent by email to conll97 at cogsci.ed.ac.uk

	  final manuscripts should use LaTeX using the ACL submissions
            style (aclsub.sty) available from the ACL LISTSERV

When:     submissions due by            APRIL 7, 1997
          acceptance notification by    MAY 2,   1997
          final (accepted) versions due MAY 30,  1997


REGISTRATION
============

Registration is open only to those registered for the main ACL/EACL
conference (see http://horacio.ieec.uned.ed/cl97/). There will be an
additional fee for the workshop (yet to be determined).

Further information will be posted on
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~conll97/ as it comes to hand.

ACL/EACL reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the number of
participants is below 25 persons.


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:04:25 +0900
From:  Kristiina Jokinen <kjokinen at itl.atr.co.jp>
Subject:  Dialogue Systems

Please notice the extension of the submission deadline.
Apologies if you get this multiple times!

******************************************************************
Reminder		CALL FOR PAPERS                   Reminder
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                     IJCAI-97 Workshop on
		
   COLLABORATION, COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

              Nagoya, Japan, August 25, 1997


This workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss the ideas of
collaboration, cooperation and conflict in dialogue management, and
exchange experiences developing computational models intended to
integrate these aspects into a unified framework. The emphasis is on
human-human and human-computer communication, and on the ways
collaboration is manifested in these situations: how the partners
jointly construct dialogue acts, infer non-explicitly expressed
intentions, negotiate appropriate references, generate cooperative
answers, co-produce utterances, give feedback, help each other in task
achievement, etc.

More information on the workshop and the submission of papers is
available via the workshop home page:

                http://www.cs.umd.edu/~traum/CCCinDS/


Important deadlines:

March 20 1997   Deadline for submission of papers <------ extended
April 15        Notification of acceptance
May 1           Papers for the working notes


Organizing Committee

   Kristiina Jokinen (ATR, Japan): kjokinen at itl.atr.co.jp
   David Sadek (CNET, France): sadek at lannion.cnet.fr
   David R. Traum (University of Maryland, USA): traum at cs.umd.edu

Programme Committee

  Jens Allwood (Sweden)
  Michael Baker (France)
  Cecile Balkanski (France)
  Jennifer Chu-Carroll (USA)
  Graeme Hirst (Canada)
  Hitoshi Iida (Japan)
  Masato Ishizaki (Japan)
  Chuck Rich (USA)

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