11.2482, Calls: Undergrad Essay Prize, Semantic Web Workshop
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Subject: 11.2482, Calls: Undergrad Essay Prize, Semantic Web Workshop
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:49:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Philip Resnik <resnik at umiacs.umd.edu>
Subject: University of Maryland Undergraduate Essay Prize in Linguistics
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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:32:27 +0100
From: Steffen Staab <sst at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Subject: Semantic Web 2001 Workshop at WWW10
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:49:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Philip Resnik <resnik at umiacs.umd.edu>
Subject: University of Maryland Undergraduate Essay Prize in Linguistics
How often does an undergraduate get a chance to make a thousand bucks
for a well written paper?
The answer: Annually! (See last year's results below.)
Now in its third year, competition for the University of Maryland
Undergraduate Essay Prize in Linguistics is officially underway
- the formal announcement is below and on the Web at
http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/prize2000/ . Submissions can be papers
written last year, or, since there's a December 15, 2000 deadline,
students can write something new for the competition -- yes, they can
even polish up and submit a term paper written for a course this fall.
Faculty, please encourage your students to submit papers!
Students, please submit those papers you're about to be working on!
And everyone, please feel free to forward this announcement to other
bulletin boards or mailing lists where there might be interest.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Resnik, Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
1401 Marie Mount Hall UMIACS phone: (301) 405-6760
University of Maryland Linguistics phone: (301) 405-8903
College Park, MD 20742 USA Fax : (301) 405-7104
http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik E-mail: resnik at umiacs.umd.edu
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The University of Maryland Undergraduate Essay Prize in Linguistics
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The University of Maryland Department of Linguistics is pleased to
announce the 2000/2001 University of Maryland Undergraduate Essay
Prize in Linguistics, an international competition now in its third
year.
The prize of $1000 will be awarded for the best undergraduate student
essay on a topic in linguistics, and the winning essay will be
published in the 2001 University of Maryland Working Papers in
Linguistics.
Submissions may be in the areas of computational linguistics, formal
semantics, language acquisition, language change, lexical semantics,
neurolinguistics, phonology, psycholinguistics, and formal syntax.
* Eligibility. Applicants must at the time of submission be enrolled at
least half time in an undergraduate program of study leading to a
bachelor's degree or equivalent, and must not already possess any
degree in linguistics. Essays should have been written within the
previous or current academic year, and must represent the original work
of the applicant. Previously published essays will not be considered
for the award. Current and former students of the University of
Maryland, College Park are ineligible.
* Deadline. Applicants must submit three (3) copies of the essay to the
address listed below, to be received no later than December 15, 2000.
Late submissions will not be considered.
* Length and format. Essays must be submitted in English, typed or
word-processed in no smaller than 10-point font, single-sided,
double-spaced, and on white paper, with at least 1-inch margins on all
sides. Applicants should use single-spaced endnotes rather than
footnotes, and follow style guidelines of either the Modern Language
Association (MLA) or the American Psychological Association (APA).
Essays must be no longer than twenty pages, excluding bibliography,
including at most two pages of endnotes. Essays not conforming to these
instructions will not be considered.
The applicant's name must not be included on the essay, since reviewing
is anonymous. Instead, include a cover sheet listing the title of the
essay, applicant's name, address, telephone number, e-mail address (if
available), school and program attending, year in the program, and the
topic area or areas of the essay (taken from the list above).
* Judging. All essays will be judged anonymously by the Faculty in
Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
* Award. The Essay Prize of $1000 will be awarded in February 2001, and
the winning essay included in the 2001 Maryland Working Papers in
Linguistics. The Department reserves the right not to award the prize
in a given year and may change the terms of the award for future
competitions.
Submissions should be sent to:
Undergraduate Essay Prize
Department of Linguistics
1401 Marie Mount Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7505 USA
Inquiries should be directed to the above address, or to the Undergraduate
Essay Prize Coordinator: Philip Resnik, resnik at benjamin.umd.edu,
(301) 405-8903.
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Last year's results
Winner: Jason Kandybowicz, Rutgers
The reiterated numeral construction
Honorable Mention: Cliff Crawford, Cornell
A condition on wh-extraction and what it reveals about the syntactic
structure of Tagalog
Honorable Mention: Janet Eisenband, UPenn
The use of gender information in pronoun resolution
Honorable Mention: Rebecca Hanson, Calgary
Fusion and the acquisition of S-nasal clusters
Honorable Mention: Peter J. Vasquez, UCLA
Linguistic ability in the right hemisphere: evidence from
language development in two left hemispherectomies
Honorable Mention: Lynsey Kay Wolter, Swarthmore
The case of predicates: questions of control and binding
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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:32:27 +0100
From: Steffen Staab <sst at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Subject: Semantic Web 2001 Workshop at WWW10
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Call for Papers
Semantic Web
WWW-10 Workshop
May 1, 2001
Hongkong
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Comprehensive information to be found at
http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Workshop Outline
The "Semantic Web", a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, is used to
denote the next evolution step of the Web. Associating meaning with
content or establishing a layer of machine understandable data would
allow automated agents, sophisticated search engines and interoperable
services, will enable higher degree of automation and more intelligent
applications. The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to allow machines
the sharing and exploitation of knowledge in the Web way, i.e. without
central authority, with few basic rules, in a scalable, adaptable,
extensible manner. With RDF as the basic platform for the Semantic Web,
a multitude of tools, methods and systems have just appeared on the
horizon. The goal of the workshop is to share experiences about these
systems, exchange ideas about improvements of existing tools and
creation of new systems, principles and applications. Also an important
goal is to develop a cooperation model among Semantic Web developers,
and to develop a common vision about the future developments.
Relevant workshop topics include (non-exhaustive list):
· Language and Representation issues
· Semantic Web infrastructure and architectures
· Metadata and conceptual models for annotating content, resources,
and portals
· Automatic annotation/tagging/metadata creation and recommendation
· Tools, systems and methodologies for Semantic Web
· Application of semantic web technology
· Migrating information to semantic formats & Information Filtering
· Trust in the Semantic Web
· Query languages for the Semantic Web
· Information correlation, integration, mediation and brokering on
the Web
· Resource discovery
· Distributed inference services
· Semantic Web mining
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission 1 Jan 2001
Notification of acceptance 1 Feb 2001
Deadline final contributions 1 Apr 2001
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
In addition, a few selected best papers will be considered for
publication in a special issue of the ETAI Semantic Web Journal
http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ .
Submission Information
We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics
related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in
participating should submit either a technical paper or a position
paper addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals
for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for
the semantic web. Submit by e-mail before January 1, 2001 following the
format instructions at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de to
staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Organizing Committee
Stefan Decker, Database Group, Stanford University
Database Group, Stanford University
Gates Hall 4A, Room 425
Stanford, CA 94305-9040, USA
email: stefan at db.stanford.edu
phone: +1 650-723-1422
fax: +1 650-725-2588
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~stefan/
Dieter Fensel, VU Amsterdam
Division of Mathematics & Computer Science,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, NL
The Netherlands
Email: dieter at cs.vu.nl
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dieter
Amit Sheth, Univ. of Georgia
Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, Computer Sc.,
415 GSRC, University of Georgia, Athens GA 30602-7404 USA
Also, Taalee Inc.
Email: amit at cs.uga.edu
http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu, http://www.taalee.com
Steffen Staab (Contact),
AIFB, Karlsruhe University,
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Also, Ontoprise GmbH
email: staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de,staab at ontoprise.de
phone: +49-721-608 4751
fax: +49-721-693 717
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst
Programm Committee
Dan Brickley, Univ. of Bristol (UK)
Vassilis Christophides, ICS-FORTH (Greece)
Peter Eklund, Griffith University (Australia)
Jim Hendler, Univ. of Maryland (USA)
Rick Hull, Bell Labs, Lucent Tech. (USA)
Manolis Koubarakis, Techn. Univ. of Crete (Greece)
Fred Lochovsky, HKUST (Hong Kong)
Alain Michard, INRIA (France)
John Mylopoulos, Univ. of Toronto (Canada)
Claire Nedellec, LRI (France)
Dimitris Plexousakis, Univ. of Crete (Greece)
Louiqa Raschid, Univ. of Maryland (USA)
Marie-Christine Rousset, Univ. of ORSAY (France)
Guus Schreiber, VU Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Tarcisio de Souza Lima, Federal Univ. of Juiz de Fora (Brazil)
Katia Sycara, CMU (USA)
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