11.360, Calls: Variation/British Isles, Language Resources
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Subject: 11.360, Calls: Variation/British Isles, Language Resources
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:31:47 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From: Peter L Patrick <patrickp at essex.ac.uk>
Subject: VIEW 2000 - Variation in the British Isles
2)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:09:25 +0200
From: "Marianne Katsoyannou" <marianna at ilsp.gr>
Subject: Workshop on LR and Educational Technology
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:31:47 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From: Peter L Patrick <patrickp at essex.ac.uk>
Subject: VIEW 2000 - Variation in the British Isles
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
VIEW 2000: Variation Is EveryWhere
14-16 September, 2000
University of Essex
Colchester, England
INTRODUCTION
VIEW is newly organized to provide a regular forum in the British Isles
for scholars concerned with language variation. The regional emphasis
is on the British Isles -- either because scholars are part of the
British variationist community, or because their work concerns
variation in the British Isles. (Not restricted to varieties of
English.)
VIEW 2000 is the second in a series of meetings organized to strengthen
this research community. (It is the follow-up to the First UK Language
Variation Workshop, held April 1997 in Reading.) There is a VIEW
Standing Committee whose members will participate in the conference,
review abstracts, and meet during the conference to plan future events.
THE COMMITTEES
VIEW Standing Committee:
Enam Al-Wer (Essex), David Britain (Essex), Deborah Cameron (London),
Jenny Cheshire (Queen Mary Westfield), Karen Corrigan (Newcastle),
Aidan Coveney (Exeter), Gerry Docherty (Newcastle), Paul Foulkes
(Leeds/York), Paul Kerswill (Reading), Ronald Macaulay (Pitzer), Lesley
Milroy (Michigan), Peter Patrick (Essex), Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow),
Sali Tagliamonte (York), Peter Trudgill (Fribourg), Dominic Watt
(Leeds/York), and Ann Williams (Reading).
VIEW 2000 Organizing Committee:
Enam Al-Wer, David Britain, Peter Patrick (chair).
THE CONFERENCE
VIEW 2000 will be a small- to medium-sized conference with no parallel
sessions. Our hope is to give presenters enough time to talk freely,
and other participants enough space to interact with them, so that the
conference will not merely display the state-of-the-art, but advance
it. VIEW is open to post-graduate students presenting their own or
collaborative research as well as to established scholars, and
encourages submission of preliminary results or work in progress, esp.
as posters.
We invite colleagues to submit papers on any aspect of language
variation, including but not limited to contemporary social
dialectology (rural or urban areas), quantitative variationist
sociolinguistics, geolinguistics, variation in discourse,
sociophonetics, dialect contact, creolistics, historical variation and
linguistic change, theoretical models of variation and change,
instrumental phonetic research, grammatic(al)ization, perceptual
dialectology, and sociolinguistic studies of language and social
class, status, sex, gender, age, ethnicity and other social factors.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Submission deadline: 30 April 2000.
Colleagues wishing to present a paper/poster should send ONE
camera-ready copy of their abstract (150-250 words, no more than 1 side
of A4, 12-point type), indicating the title of the paper/poster,
author's full name, name and address of institution, and email; and
THREE copies of their abstract with no identifying information. Mail
to:
Prof. Peter L. Patrick, VIEW Organizing Committee
Dept. of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K.
[No faxed abstracts, please.]
IN ADDITION, send an identical e-mail version of abstract and author
info to: patrickp at essex.ac.uk
with "VIEW 2000 abstract submission" in the "Subject:" line.
This email abstract should be sent in plain text, not as an attachment
of any kind, from the email address at which you wish to receive
acknowledgement of receipt.
Finally, in addition to the abstract text and author info, please list
up to 5 key-words or phrases representing significant themes or
elements your submission addresses. This will help us create
thematically coherent sessions and conference.
ACCEPTANCE AND ATTENDANCE
Because of constraints on the number of presentations and the need for
discussion time to exchange ideas, we anticipate that not all the
high-quality papers submitted will be accepted. Abstracts will be
reviewed and rated by the Standing Committee. The Organizing Committee
will then select appropriate papers from among the well-rated
abstracts, attempting to organize sessions around prominent themes and
strands of research.
We hope all those submitting will make every effort to attend and
participate in discussions. We plan to provide time and space for
poster display as well, and will all encourage submissions not
accepted for talks to be displayed in poster sessions, as the authors
find appropriate. These will be eligible to be considered for
publication (see below).
FURTHER INFORMATION is forthcoming on all of the following:
The draft timetable includes morning registration on Thursday 14
September with a possible workshop 10 to 12 noon; papers and discussion
between 1.30 to 6pm Thurs, 9.00am and 6.00pm Friday, and 9.00am and
1.00pm Saturday. Accommodation and meals will be available on campus.
Costs to follow. Registration forms will be made available in the near
future. Selected papers will be published in the Essex Research Reports
series of working papers; papers derived from all conference talks and
posters will be eligible. A website will be mounted with conference
information. For a link to it, please consult the following site in the
near future:
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/
CONFERENCE EMAIL LIST:
This initial message is being widely sent. If you do not think this
message is properly directed to you -- or if for any other reason you
wish to have an address removed from this mailing list -- please
accept our apologies and contact
patrickp at essex.ac.uk
with a message including "remove" in the subject title, and indicating
clearly what address you wish to remove.
We have included several addresses for some people, either in error or
through uncertainty. If you want to receive further messages at only
one, or at a different address, please contact the above with a
message including "change" in the subject title. Indicate which
address(es) you want removed from the list, and which address(es) you
want used in future.
Thanks.
Prof. Peter L. Patrick
Dept. of Language & Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ
U.K.
Tel: (from within UK) 01206.87.2088
(from outside UK) +44.1206.87.2088
Fax: (as above) 1206.87.2198
Email: patrickp at essex.ac.uk
Web: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp
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Prof. Peter L. Patrick
Dept. of Language & Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ
U.K.
Tel: (from within UK) 01206.87.2088
(from outside UK) +44.1206.87.2088
Fax: (as above) 1206.87.2198
Email: patrickp at essex.ac.uk
Web: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:09:25 +0200
From: "Marianne Katsoyannou" <marianna at ilsp.gr>
Subject: Workshop on LR and Educational Technology
Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC-2000)
Athens, Greece
Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation
LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND TOOLS IN EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS
May 30, 2000 (morning session)
http://www.ilsp.gr/lrec/educreslrec.html
WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS
The key concepts for Language Resource infrastructure have been
Reusability and Standardization. In NLP, where the requirement not
only for large scale lexicons but also for large scale corpora has
been established, they have both found fruitful ground. The emerging
multimedia cultural industry has established new needs and use
conditions of Language Resources in respect to industrial production.
The constant increase of demand for electronic educational tools and
aids either in the INTERNET/INTRANET or in the CD-ROM environment
raises the question of whether language resources and tools developed
for the Human Language Technology (HLT) sector may be (re)used also
for educational application purposes. LREC-2000 focuses in many
respects on the importance of this new multimedia cultural industry
and the connection between industrial production and use of Language
Resources and Tools. The workshop aims at bringing together
specialists from the areas of language engineering and multimedia
technologies with experience in CALL (Computer Aided Language
Learning). Issues related to innovative and reflective approaches in
the exploitation, integration and evaluation of language resources in
CALL will be addressed.
TOPICS
Papers are invited in the following topics:
- Internet/Intranet and CD-ROM applications demanding HLT tools
- Distance learning applications
- Integration of language resources in multimedia educational environments
- Evaluation of language resources for educational applications
- Development of language tools based on language resources
- Legal aspects and problems in the access and use of available language
resources
- Customization of language resources for multimedia educational products
- Electronic books and HLT tools
SUBMISSION
Submissions should address one or more of the listed topics.
Descriptions of planned or existing tools are acceptable, but they
should be situated in the larger context of the issues the workshop
addresses. A maximally 1000 word abstract in English should be
submitted to Eleni Efthimiou by e-mail at
"<mailto:eleni_e at ilsp.gr>eleni_e at ilsp.gr" in poscript or rtf format
with the indication "LREC WORKSHOP SUBMISSION" in the subject
line.
Each submission should include title; author(s); affiliation(s); and
contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax
numbers.
Final papers should not exceed 6 pages.
Final paper style format will be announced by LREC on 2 February 2000
and will also be available at
http://www.ilsp.gr/lrec/educreslrec.html
Audio-visual or other technical requirements must be indicated by the
authors.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 1, 2000 : Submissions due
March 15, 2000 : Results transmitted to authors
April 15, 2000 : Final papers due
May 30, 2000 : Workshop
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Khurshid Ahmad, Department of Artificial Intelligence
Computing, School of Electronic Eng., IT and Mathematics, University of Surrey.
Eleni Efthimiou, Department of Educational Technologies,
ILSP-Institute for language and Speech Processing.
Maria Poulou-Tzevelekou, University of Athens and
ILSP-Institute for Language and Speech Processing.
LREC2000 CONFERENCE INFORMATION
31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece
General information about the main conference is at:
http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html
Specific queries about the conference should be directed to:
LREC Secretariat
Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str.
15125 Marousi
Athens
GREECE
Tel: +301 6800959
Fax: +301 6854270
e-mail: <mailto:LREC2000 at ilsp.gr>LREC2000 at ilsp.gr
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Marianne Katsoyannou
Institute for Language and Speech Processing
Artemidos 6 & Epidaurou, 15125 Maroussi
Phone: +301-6875346, 6875300 Fax: +301-6854270
email: marianna at ilsp.gr
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