8.1631, Calls: Lang.Learning,GenerativeGrammar,AppliedLing.

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1631. Thu Nov 13 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1631, Calls: Lang.Learning,GenerativeGrammar,AppliedLing.

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1)
Date:  Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:16:09 +0930
From:  David Powers <powers at ist.flinders.edu.au>
Subject:  Paradigms & Grounding in Language Learning

2)
Date:  Wed, 12 Nov 1997 23:25:20 -0800
From:  Joao Costa <a.j.costa at mail.telepac.pt>
Subject:  Generative Grammar

3)
Date:  Thu, 13 Nov 1997 09:48:01 +1000 (EST)
From:  peterw at cltr.uq.edu.au (Peter White)
Subject:  Applied Ling. Association of Australia 98

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

Date:  Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:16:09 +0930
From:  David Powers <powers at ist.flinders.edu.au>
Subject:  Paradigms & Grounding in Language Learning

Paradigms and Grounding in Language Learning

        Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd January
        Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide
	          (part of the Australian NLP Fortnight)

This workshop is focussed on alternatives to the statistical
and learning methodologies based on tagged or bracketed corpora.
Such learning has the advantage that fast training can be performed
and highly effective systems can be developed for the type of
text on which it has trained and the grammatical formalism with
which the corpus was prepared.  On the other hand, it has several
disadvantages: it assumes the very formalism which it is trying
to learn, it depends on statistics to choose between ambiguous
parses, it offers no opportunity to learn a grounded semantics.

This workshop is interested in techniques which automatically
propose segmentations, classifications and parses based on plain
text or speech corpora, whether syntactic, semantic, phonological or
morphological.  We are particulary interested in language learning in
embedded environments where syntactic, semantic and pragmatic
information can be learned in a way comparable with the way in
which children learn language.  We are also interested in theoretical
issues relating to the learning situation or paradigm, and approaches
which adopt an interdisciplinary approach using models from
in psycholinguistics or cognitive linguistics or cognitive science.

Submissions should be in the ANLPF conference submission format and
may be two to four pages in length.  All submissions will be reviewed.
Longer papers will be considered at the discretion of the organizers.
Papers should be submitted in final format in PostScript

Topics may include but are not limited to:

        Unsupervised paradigms language learning
        Algorithms for unsupervised language learning
        Statistical methods for unsupervised language learning
        Self-organizing neural nets for language learning
        Segmentation and Classification models
        Grounded models of language and ontology
        Learning or evolution/emergence of robot communication
        Learning of taxonomies and semantic networks

Deadline for papers:

14th November 1997

Acceptances will be notified by:

28th Novebmer 1997

Organizer:

David Powers
Loebner Prize Committee
Flinders University

Address for correspondence and postscript submissions:

conll at ai.cs.flinders.edu.au

For further details of the Australian Natural Language Processing
Fortnight and paper submission format see:

http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/ANLPF/

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Date:  Wed, 12 Nov 1997 23:25:20 -0800
From:  Joao Costa <a.j.costa at mail.telepac.pt>
Subject:  Generative Grammar

EIGHTH COLLOQUIUM ON GENERATIVE GRAMMAR

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

	Following the tradition of the last seven years, we are
pleased to announce the Eighth Colloquium on Generative Grammar,
organised by the Universidade de Lisboa and the Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, which will take place from the 19th to the 22nd of April 1998.
	We invite all linguists working in the framework of Generative
Grammar to submit their contributions on any topic in the field. The
talks, with the duration of thirty minutes, will be followed by ten
minutes discussion.
	The Colloquium will have only plenary sections, during which
about thirty talks will be presented and discussed.

CALL FOR PAPERS

	The linguists interested in participating in the colloquium
should send ten copies of an abstract in A4 format, with font size 12
and line space 1.5.
	The abstract must be anonymous, written in English or in any
Romance language, and cannot exceed three pages (two for text and one
for references or graphics). The author's name, as well as his/her
identification (affiliation, address, email or fax), must be sent in a
separate sheet.
	The deadline for the reception of abstracts, which will have
to be sent by post, is the 15th of January 1998.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

	Manuela Ambar (UL), Ernesto d'Andrade (UL), Ignacio Bosque
(UCM), Violeta Demonte (UAM), Ines Duarte (UL), Maria Luisa Hernanz
(UAB), Itziar Laka (UPB), Joan Mascara (UAB), Gabriela Matos (UL),
Jon Ortiz de Urbina (Deusto), Gemma Rigau (UAB), Maria Francisca
Xavier (UNL)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

	Violeta Demonte, Maria Helena Mateus, Ines Duarte, Manuela
Ambar, Maria Francisca Xavier, Gabriela Matos, Jose Costa, Maria
Jose Freitas, Maria Sousa Lobo, Matilde Miguel, =CDris Pereira, Rita
Veloso, Cristina Vieira da Silva

FEES AND LODGING

	The colloquium fees is PTE 7 500$00 (about US$42), from which
the participants presenting talks are exempted. The Organising
Committee is trying to raise funds to give grants to such
participants.
	The colloquium will take place in Pousada de Palmela, located
in a castle which once belonged to the military Order of Santiago,
about 40 kms away from Lisbon. As the Pousada only has 25 rooms
available, participants wishing to be lodged there are strongly
recommended to make an early booking. Alternative lodging will be
available in a hotel in Setubal, about 7 kms away from the
Pousada; the Organising Committee will provide transportation between
Setubal and the Pousada in the morning and late in the afternoon.

	Participants wishing to book their accommodation and meals through the
Organising Committee may choose one of the following packages:

Package 1:	Lodging in a double room and breakfast at the Pousada
		de Palmela (19-20, 20-21, 21-22) + Dinner (19) + Lunches 		(20,21) +
Coffee-break (5) + Registration fee
		=3D	PTE	46 500$00

Package 2:	Lodging in a single room and breakfast at the Pousada
		de Palmela (19-20, 20-21, 21-22) + Dinner (19) + Lunches (20, 		21)+
Coffee-break (5) + Registration fee	=3D PTE	74 000$00

 Package 3: Lodging in a double room and breakfast at the Albergaria
            Laitau, Setubal (19-20, 20-21, 21-22) + Dinner (19) +
            Lunches (20, 21) + Coffee-break (5) + Registration fee
            =3D PTE 32 500$00

Package 4:	Lodging in a single room and breakfast at the Albergaria
		Laitau, Setubal (19-20, 20-21, 21-22) + Dinner (19) +
                Lunches (20, 21) + Coffee-break (5) + Registration fee
                =3D PTE 42 500$00

Package 5:	Dinner (19) + Lunches (20, 21) + Coffee-break (5)
		+ Registration fee	=3D PTE	22 500$00

	In the second announcement, a list of alternative
accommodations for those who prefer to make their own arrangements
will be provided.

COLLOQUIUM SECRETARIAT

	All mail should be sent to:
1.	Gabriela Matos
	DLGR, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
	Alameda da Universidade
	1699 LISBOA CODEX
	PORTUGAL
	Fax: 351-1-7960063
or
2.	manuela.ambar at fl.ul.pt


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

Date:  Thu, 13 Nov 1997 09:48:01 +1000 (EST)
From:  peterw at cltr.uq.edu.au (Peter White)
Subject:  Applied Ling. Association of Australia 98

			  CALL FOR PAPERS

     The 23rd Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of
                         Australia (ALAA).

		  STRATEGIES FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM

A major event within "Language and Linguistics in Brisbane" 1998.

30 June - 3 July 1998

Griffith University
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

You are invited to participate in the 23rd Annual Congress of the Applied
Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA).  Strategies for the New
Millenium, the theme of the Congress, reflects our focus on advances in
practical and theoretical knowledge in applied linguistics as we define
future goals and develop strategies to meet the challenges which we face.

Invited Plenary Speakers include:

* Merril Swain:  The Output Hypothesis and beyond.
* Anna Uhl Chamot: Language learning strategies instruction:
	Promises & Pitfalls.
* Diane Larsen-Freeman: On chaos and complexity in applied linguistics.
* Michael Clyne: Managing and harnessing linguistic diversity in the
	21st Century.
* Geoffrey Williams: The logic of a pedagogic standard: Partnership and
	preclusion in early literacy pedagogy.
* Peter Freebody & Des Power: Literacy education and young deaf adults:
	Life histories and classroom experiences.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS:  January 31, 1998.

For further details, go to our Web site on
	http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/alaa/alaa98.html

Contact:  Margaret Fletcher
	  Education Faculty
	  Griffith University
	  Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
	  Tel: +61 7 3875 6869; Fax: +61 7 3875 5965
	  Email: M.Fletcher at edn.gu.edu.au

Please pass this notice to any relevant people.
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Please note that ALAA 98 is one of a number of linguistic and applied
linguistic events taking place in Brisbane mid year:

ALI 98:  Australian Linguistics Institute.
	http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/ali98

ALS 98: Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society
	http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/als98

LFG-98: The 1998 Conference for Lexical Functional Grammar
	http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98

AUSTRALEX 98: The 1988 Conference for Australian Lexicography
	http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/alex/

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