13.246, Calls: General Ling, Semiotics
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Subject: 12.2699, Calls: General&Field Ling/Asian Lang, Natural Lang
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:42:54 -0800
From: "Mary Paster" <paster at socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Berkeley Linguistics Society - BLS 28
2)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:00:24 +0800 (CST)
From: Jing-Shin Chang <jshin at csie.ncnu.edu.tw>
Subject: [NLPRS-01]: 3rd Call For Participation
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:42:54 -0800
From: "Mary Paster" <paster at socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Berkeley Linguistics Society - BLS 28
BLS 28 CALL FOR PAPERS
The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its
Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting, to be held February 15-18, 2002. The
conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession, and a
Special Session on Southeast Asian linguistics to be dedicated to Jim
Matisoff, who is retiring at the end of the academic year.
General Session
The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic
interest. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical
frameworks and also welcome papers on language-related
topics from disciplines such as Anthropology, Cognitive
Science, Literature, Neuroscience, and Psychology.
Invited Speakers:
JOHN KINGSTON, University of Massachusetts
LESLEY MILROY, University of Michigan
DOUGLAS PULLEYBLANK, University of British Columbia
Parasession: Field Linguistics
The Parasession invites papers on linguistics in the field,
including (but not limited to) methodology, the use of
technology in the field, and results of recent fieldwork
in any area of linguistics.
Invited Speakers:
IAN MADDIESON, University of California, Berkeley
PAMELA MUNRO, University of California, Los Angeles
JORGEN RISCHEL, University of Copenhagen
Special Session: Tibeto-Burman/Southeast Asian Linguistics
The Special Session invites papers on Southeast Asian
languages (especially Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, Mon-Khmer,
Hmong-Mien) in any area of linguistics.
Invited Speakers:
JEROLD EDMONDSON, University of Texas, Arlington
GRAHAM THURGOOD, California State University, Chico
SCOTT DELANCEY, University of Oregon
Abstract Submission Guidelines
Papers presented at the conference will be published in the
Society's Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree
to provide camera-ready copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by
May 15, 2002. Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes
with 10 minutes for questions.
An author may submit at most one single and one joint
abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should
be designated for communication with BLS. Your abstract
should be as specific as possible, including a statement of
your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions.
Please send ten (10) copies of an anonymous one-page (8.5"
x 11") abstract. Abstracts may be at most four hundred
(400) words. The reverse side of the single page may be
used for data and references only. Along with the abstracts
send a 3" x 5" card listing:
(1) Paper title
(2) Session (General Session/Parasession/Special Session)
(3) Name(s) of author(s)
(4) Affiliation(s) of author(s)
(5) Address to which notification of acceptance or
rejection should be mailed (November-December)
(6) Contact phone number for each author
(7) E-mail address for each author
(8) **For General Session submissions only: subfield
(phonology, syntax, etc.)
(9) **For Para- and Special Session submissions only:
indication of whether you wish to have your abstract
considered for the General Session if the organizers
determine that your paper will not fit into either of
the other sessions
Send abstracts:
Via post
BLS 28 Abstracts Committee
University of California
Department of Linguistics
1203 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650
Via e-mail
bls at socrates.berkeley.edu
(Only those abstracts formatted as ASCII text or as a Word attachment
will be considered. The text of the message must contain the
information requested in 1-9 above.)
Abstracts must be received in our office (NOT postmarked) by 4:00 pm,
November 26, 2001.
Registration Information
All attendees, including presenters, are expected to register for the
meeting. For advance registration, we can only accept checks or money
orders drawn on US banks in US dollars. Please make checks payable to
Berkeley Linguistics Society. Send advance registration to:
BLS 28 Registration
University of California
Department of Linguistics
1203 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650
On-site, we will accept cash, US checks, and money orders.
Registration fees
Before February 1, 2002: $20 students, $40 non-students
After February 1, 2002: $25 students, $50 non-students
**BLS will arrange for ASL interpretation if services are requested
through bls at socrates.berkeley.edu before December 1, 2001.**
Updates and information regarding transportation, hotels, and
restaurants in Berkeley and San Francisco will be posted at
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/.
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:00:24 +0800 (CST)
From: Jing-Shin Chang <jshin at csie.ncnu.edu.tw>
Subject: [NLPRS-01]: 3rd Call For Participation
3rd C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n
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* NLPRS-2001 *
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6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium
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Sponsored by NLPRS Organization, Japan
Co-Sponsored by The Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan
Supported by SIG-NL of Information Processing Society of Japan, Japan
27-30 November, 2001
Tokyo, Japan
http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html
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6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS-2001)
will be held at National Center of Sciences located in the central
part of Tokyo from 27th to 30th November, 2001.
Four excellent invited talks and 45 highly qualified technical papers,
etc. will be presented. You can find the newest academic and
technological results of natural language processing and its future
direction by attending NLPRS-2001.
November is a little bit cold but one of the pleasant time of the year
in Tokyo, with average daytime temperatures of around 15 degrees
Centigrade and average nighttime low of 7 degrees C.
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INVITED SPEAKERS:
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* Julia Hirschberg (AT&T Labs-Research)
"Audio Browsing and Search in the Voicemail Domain"
* Benjamin K. Tsou (City University of Hong Kong, HongKong)
"Corpus, Information Mining and the New Global Village"
* Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
"From Read Speech Recognition to
Spontaneous Speech Understanding"
* Sanda M. Harabagiu (University of Texas, Austin)
"Just-in-Time Question Answering"
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Panel discussion
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"Are NLP technologies really ready for application?"
Co-Ordinator : Junichi TSUJII (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Panelist : Robert Dale (Centre for Language Technology,
Macquarie University, Australia)
Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
Joe Zhou (Intel, China Research, China)
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Program:
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Three days of: - four invited talks ( shown above )
- 45 papers of oral presentations
- 26 posters
- 21 project note ( 6 with demo )
- one panel discussion ( shown above )
One day of the following four workshops.
* The Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks
* Workshop on Language Resources in Asia
* Automatic Paraphrasing: Theories and Applications
* NLP and XML
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Exhibition and Demonstrations of NLP technologies during 27th - 29th November
- - List of Demonstrations/Exhibitions ---
1. "A Korean Language Processing Workbench"
by K. -S. Choi
(KORTERM, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
2. "SummaryBIFF: An E-mail Summarizer for Mobile Phones"
by T. Hasegawa, T. Yamazaki and Y. Hayashi
(NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, NTT Corporation)
3. "Kura: A Lexico-Structural Paraphrasing Engine"
by R. Iida, K. Inui, T. Iwakura, A. Fujita and T. Takahashi
(Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology)
4. "XML Transformation-based three-stage pipelined Natural Language
Generation System" by Y. Seki
(Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio Univ.)
5. "Collaborative Translation Environment `Yakushite.Net'"
by T. Sukehiro, M. Kitamura, and T. Murata
(Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.)
6. "Associative Information Access using DualNAVI"
by A. Takano (National Institute of Informatics),
Y. Niwa, S. Nishioka, T. Hisamitsu, M. Iwayama, O. Imaichi
(Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.)
7. "Text Mining and Site Outlining Projects"
by K. Takeda, H. Nomiyama, T. Nasukawa, M. Kobayashi, T. Sakairi,
H. Matsuzawa, T. Nagano, A. Murakami, H. Takeuchi
(Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research)
8. "JSPS project: Natural Language Understanding and Action Control"
by H. Tanaka
(Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
9. "AZALEA: A KE-Free ICALL (intelligent computer assisted language
learning)
System for Japanese-English Translation " by N. Tokuda, L. Chen and Q.
Zhong
(R&D Center, Sunflare Co. Ltd)
10. "LiLFeS/GENIA Project --- NLP Tools and A Biology Domain Corpus ---"
by J. Tsujii
(CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation and
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of
Tokyo)
11. "Tools for exploring natural language"
by M. Utiyama and H. Isahara
(Communications Research Laboratory)
12. "Text Entry/Conversion Systems for Mobile Phones"
by T. Watanabe, Y. Inutsuka, K. Tanaka-Ishii, and H. Nakagawa
(The University of Tokyo)
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* See the Program page at *
* http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html*
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Registration and Accomodation:
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Registration fee of NLPRS-2001 conference (excluding workshops) is
22,000yen (almost 200 USD).
After that date the registration fee will be higher. Registration fee
for one workshop is 3,000yen (almost 27 USD).
Please register online using web pages at
http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html
At the web site you can also find information about accomodation and
other relevant information. Since hotel capacity is limited, please
make reservation soon.
NLPRS-2001 Organization:
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General Chair:
Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Programme Chair:
Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corperation, Taiwan)
Program Co-Chairs:
Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Nara, Japan)
Tian-Shun Yao (Northeastern University, China)
Local Organizing Committee Chair:
Hiroshi Nakagawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Programme Committee:
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Ananiadou, Sophia (University of Salford, UK)
Asanee, Kawtrakul (Kasetsart Univ., Thailand)
Boitet, Christian (CLIPS-GETA, France)
Chang, Jason S. (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Chang, Jing-Shin (National Chi-Nan Univ., Taiwan)
Chen, Hsin-Hsi (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Chen, Keh-Jiann (IIS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Church, Kenneth (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)
Dale, Robert (Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Australia)
Dong, Zhendong (Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China)
Estival, Dominique (Syrinx Speech Systems, Australia)
Hovy, Eduard (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Huang, Chu-Ren (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Inui, Kentaro (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Ishizaki, Masato (Japan Advanced Inst. of Science & Technology, Japan)
Kageura, Kyo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Kashioka, Hideki (ATR-SLT / NAIST, Japan)
Kurohashi, Sadao (Kyoto University, Japan)
Lee, Gary Geunbae (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Lee, Yong-seok (Conbuk National University, Korea)
Li, Hang (Microsoft Research China, China)
Lin, Dekang (University of Alberta, Canada)
Lua, Kim-Teng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Macklovitch, Elliott (Universite de Montreal, Canada)
Molla Aliod, Diego (Macquarie University, Australia)
Myaeng, Sung Hyon (Chungnam National University, Korea)
Nagata, Masaaki (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Japan)
Ng, Hwee Tou (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore)
Ock, Cheol-Young (Univ. of Ulsan, Korea)
Okumura, Manabu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Palmer, Martha (Univ. Penn, USA)
Park, Jong Cheol (KAIST, Korea)
Park, Sangkyu (Linguistic Engineering Department, ETRI, Korea)
Pustejovsky, James (Brandeis Univ., USA)
Ra, Dong-Yul (Yonsei University, Korea)
Resnik, Philip (University of Maryland, USA)
Rim, Hae-Chang (Korea University, Korea)
Riza, Hammam (BPP Teknologi, Indonesia)
Sangal, Rajeev (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India)
Sarkar, Anoop (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Seo, Jungyun (DiQuest.com Inc., Korea)
Sornlertlamvanich, Virach (NECTEC, Thailand)
Sproat, Richard (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)
Sun, Maosong (Tsinghua University, China)
Swen, Bing (ICL, Peking University, China)
Tanaka, Kumiko (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tokunaga, Takenobu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Tsou, Benjamin K. (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Uchimoto, Kiyotaka (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)
Uszkoreit, Hans (University of Saarbruecken, Germany)
Vossen, Piek (Irion, Netherlands)
Wilks, Yorick (University of Sheffield, UK)
Wu, Dekai (HKUST, Human Language Technology Center, Hong Kong)
Wu, Lide (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Yusoff, Zaharin (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
Zhou, Joe F (Intel China Research Center, Beijing, China)
Zhou, Ming (Microsoft Research, Beijing, China)
Local Organization Commitee:
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Hiroshi Nakagawa (University of Tokyo)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo)
Kyo Kageura (National Institue of Informatics)
Koh-ich Takeuchi (National Institue of Informatics)
Kumiko Tanaka (University of Tokyo)
Sadao Kurohashi (University of Tokyo)
Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Tatsunori Mori (Yokohama National University)
Yoshihiko Hayashi (NTT)
Toru Hisamitsu (Hitachi)
Fumihito Nishino (Fujitsu)
Koh-ichi Takeda (IBM Japan)
Akitoshi Okumura (NEC)
Naoyuki Nomura (Hosei University and Justsystem)
Hidetaka Masuda (Tokyo Denki University)
Takashi Ninomiya (University of Tokyo)
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Hirosi Nakagawa
Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
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