12.2613, Calls: Writing Systems, Portugal/NLP

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Subject: 12.2613, Calls: Writing Systems, Portugal/NLP

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1)
Date:  Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:34:50 -0600
From:  Andrea Krott <akrott at ualberta.ca>
Subject:  Workshop on Writing Systems

2)
Date:  Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:45:43 +0100
From:  Cristina Mota <cristina at label2.ist.utl.pt>
Subject:  Portugal for Natural Language Processing (PorTAL)

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

Date:  Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:34:50 -0600
From:  Andrea Krott <akrott at ualberta.ca>
Subject:  Workshop on Writing Systems

                       FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                           "From Letter to Sound"

            Third International Workshop on Writing Systems
         University of Cologne, Germany, September 23-24, 2002.


This workshop is the third in a row of international meetings dealing with
questions of writing systems. The two predecessors took place at the Max
Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (Netherlands) under the
titles 'What Spelling Changes' (1997) and 'Writing Language' (2000). The
workshops offer a forum of discussion between researchers from different
fields of writing research like theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics,
computational linguistics or language education, coming from different
countries and working on different languages.
The aim of this workshop is to focus on the letter-to-sound-perspective.
Especially welcome are contributions to the following subjects:

- How does a theory of orthography have to look like that takes written
forms as basic (as opposed to a theory that derives written forms from
spoken forms)?

- Which aspects of the psycholinguistics of reading are capable of
explaining the form of writing systems?

- Which aspects of learning to read are informative for a theory of
orthography?

- How can reading be modelled? Both psycholinguistic models and
computational models for text-to-speech-synthesis may reveal the exact
relation between reading and writing.

Submission deadline: March 28, 2002
Notice of acceptance: May 17, 2002


INVITED SPEAKERS:
Charles Perfetti (University of Pittsburgh) (sponsored by the Flemish
Funding Agency for        Scientific Research, Scientific Research
Community on the theme         'Psycholinguistics: the Processes of Reading
and Writing')
         Richard Venezky (University of Delaware)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Martin Neef (German Department, University of Cologne)
Anneke Neijt (Dutch Department, University of Nijmegen)
Beatrice Primus (German Department, University of Cologne)
Dominiek Sandra (Dutch Department, University of Antwerp)


FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS:
Authors should submit abstracts of max. 2 pages for 30 minute
presentations, with 15 minutes discussion. Please submit abstracts
electronically (rtf, pdf or Word) to neef at uni-koeln.de


PARTICIPATION:
In addition to the speakers, we kindly invite researchers who want to
attend the workshop without presenting a paper themselves. The latter
participants should register for the workshop at the address above.
Information on lodging and travel directions, the program and the abstracts
of the accepted papers will be circulated among the participants
electronically well before the workshop.


FURTHER INFORMATION:    Martin Neef: neef at uni-koeln.de
                                 Anneke Neijt: a.neijt at let.kun.nl


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

Date:  Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:45:43 +0100
From:  Cristina Mota <cristina at label2.ist.utl.pt>
Subject:  Portugal for Natural Language Processing (PorTAL)

                    CALL FOR PAPERS

    PorTAL - PORTUGAL for NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

          URL: http://label.ist.utl.pt/portal

                     Faro, Portugal

                  June 23rd-26th, 2002


PorTAL - PORTUGAL for NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING will be
held at FARO (Algarve, Portugal), in June 23-26, 2002.
PorTAL follows the FracTAL conference, held in  Besançon
(France), December 1997, and VexTAL held in Venice (Italy),
November 1999.


SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Papers  are  invited  on  substantial, original,  and
unpublished research on  all aspects of  natural language
processing related areas, including, but not limited to:

   * spoken and written language analysis and generation;
   * pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, morphology
     and lexical acquisition;
   * linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of
     language;
   * language-oriented information retrieval and
     information
     extraction;
   * knowledge acquisition;
   * corpus-based and statistical language modelling;
   * machine translation and translation aids;
   * natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
   * message and narrative understanding systems;
   * computational lexicography;
   * Internet applications;
   * evaluation of systems.

We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to
the NLP community, but we particularly encourage
submissions that broaden the scope of our community through
the  consideration of practical NLP applications. We also
invite people from industry working on NLP to send us their
submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss and
demonstrate their latest applications.


ORGANISATION

- Laboratório de Engenharia da Linguagem (CAUTL-IST)
- Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (INESC-ID Lisboa - IST)
- Universidade do Algarve
- Departamento de Linguística (FLUL)
- Centre Lucien Tesnière (Université Franche-Comté)


Program Chairs:
  Elisabete Ranchhod
    (Universidade de Lisboa / CAUTL-IST)
  Nuno J. Mamede
    (Technical University of Lisbon and
     Spoken Language ystems Laboratory at INESC-ID Lisboa)

Local Organization Chair:
  Jorge Baptista (Universidade do Algarve)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alex Monaghan (Ireland)
Caroline Hagège (France)
Claire Gardent (France)
Diamantino Freitas (Portugal)
Fernando Martins (Portugal)
Franz Gunthener (Germany)
Gabriel Bès (France)
Graça Nunes (Brasil)
Hans Uszkoreit (Germany)
Inês Duarte (Portugal)
Irene Rodrigues (Portugal)
Isabel Trancoso (Portugal)
Jacqueline Léon (France)
João Paulo Neto (Portugal)
Jorge Bapista (Portugal)
Julia Pazj (Hungary)
Krzysztof Bogacki (Poland)
Lauri Karttunen (USA)
Luís Caldas Oliveira (Portugal)
M. Céu Viana (Portugal)
Maurice Gross (France)
Max Silberztein (USA)
Peter Greenfield (France)
Pierre-Andre Buvet (France)
Richard Sproat (USA)
Rodolfo Demonte (Italy)
Ruslan Mitkov (U.K.)
Stéphane Chaudiron (France)
Steve Abney (USA)
Sylviane Cardey (France)
Tony Berber Sardinha (Brasil)
Xavier Blanco (Spain)
Yorick Wilks (U.K.)


GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submitted papers should describe original work, completed or
in progress, rather than merely planned, and clearly
indicate the current state of advancement of the work. No
previously  published papers should be submitted.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed
provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification
page.

1. Papers should not exceed 3000 words(including
   references), must contain a 5 lines abstract, and must be
   submitted in PDF format. All papers will be submitted
   electronically. Authors are requested to first register
   their submission by January 15, 2002 (details coming soon
   on the Submission Procedure Web page).

2. The reviewing of papers will be blind. Hence the paper
   should not include the authors' names and affiliations.
   Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
   identity should be avoided.

3. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program
   committee and published both in print and electronically
   in the conference proceedings.  All accepted papers must
   be presented at the conference by at least one of their
   authors.

4. Identification information will be put in a separate file
   consisting of:
    Title of the paper:
    Author(s):
    Affiliation(s):
    E-mail(s):
    Abstract:
    Keywords (5):

5. Submission Procedure

You are requested to first register your submission by
January 15, 2002. This can be done by filling out an
electronic form that will be soon accessible at the Paper
Submission Web page.

Submitted papers and identification information must be sent
by January 21st 2002 (details coming soon).

Accepted papers will be notified by March 1st, together with
the comments of the reviewers.

The final version of the papers will be prepared in LaTeX by
April 1st, for publication in  the Workshop proceedings. The
stylesheet will be circulated in due time.

Note that all workshop participants must register as
participants of PORTAL. The early registration fees apply to
authors of accepted papers.


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IMPORTANT DATES

January 15th 2002 - Paper Registration
January 21st 2002 - Deadline for submitting papers
March   1st  2002 - Notification of acceptance
April   1st  2002 - Preparation of the final version of the
                    paper
May     31st 2002 - Final program of the workshop
June    23rd 2002 - The workshop begins
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Elisabete Ranchhod                Nuno J. Mamede
Universidade de Lisboa            Technical University of
Lisbon
e CAUTL (IST)                     INESC ID Lisboa/L2F / IST
Av Rovisco Pais                   Av Rovisco Pais
1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal         1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Voice: +351 218417171             Voice: +351 213100367
Fax:   +351 218417167             Fax:   +351 213145843
Email: elisabet at label.ist.utl.pt  Email: Nuno.Mamede at acm.org
http://label2.ist.utl.pt/label   http://l2f.inesc-id.pt/~njm

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