15.3569, Calls: Computational Ling/Finland; General Ling/UK

Wed Dec 22 22:35:32 UTC 2004

LINGUIST List: Vol-15-3569. Wed Dec 22 2004. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 15.3569, Calls: Computational Ling/Finland; General Ling/UK

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1)
Date: 19-Dec-2004
From: Stefan Werner < stefan.werner at joensuu.fi >
Subject: 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics 

2)
Date: 21-Dec-2004
From: Anna McNay < anna.mcnay at st-hildas.ox.ac.uk >
Subject: Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:06:31
From: Stefan Werner < stefan.werner at joensuu.fi >
Subject: 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics 

Full Title: 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics 
Short Title: NODALIDA 2005 

Date: 20-May-2005 - 21-May-2005
Location: Joensuu, Finland 
Contact Person: Stefan Werner
Meeting Email: nodalida2005 at joensuu.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonetics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2005 

Meeting Description:

15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics 

NODALIDA 2005
Joensuu, Finland, May 20-21, 2005
Second call for participation

NODALIDA 2005, the 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics,
will be held at the University of Joensuu, on Friday and Saturday, May
20-21, 2005. In connection with NODALIDA, the following events will be
organized on May 18-19 (and possibly May 22):

* Seminar of the NorFA Language Technology research program, May 18-19
* Special Session on Treebanks for Spoken Language and Discourse,
  organized by the Nordic Treebank Network, May 19 (please visit 
  http://www.hf.uio.no/tekstlab/treebank_workshop)
* Workshop on reference (to be confirmed)

INVITED SPEAKERS

The following keynote speakers are confirmed:

    * John Local, York
    * Merle Horne, Lund
    * Kimmo Koskenniemi, Helsinki

2ND CALL FOR PAPERS

NODALIDA 2005 welcomes papers from all branches of computational
linguistics and all linguistially relevant topics in language and speech
technology.

Participants who wish to present a paper are requested to submit an
abstract no later than January 31, 2005. The time allotted to each paper is
30 minutes, including discussion.

Abstracts should be written in English, and be no longer than 1000
words. Please submit your plain-text (the HTML tags < tt >< p >< /tt > and
< tt >< em >< /tt > may be used to indicate new paragraphs and emphasis)
abstract through the NODALIDA web site at

              http://ling.joensuu.fi/nodalida2005/

for review by the conference committees.
Participants will be notified about acceptance by February 28, 2005.

We also intend to offer a dedicated student session. Only papers written
exclusively by students will be eligible for presentation in this session.

REGISTRATION

The conference fee is 100 EUR, for full-time students 50 EUR (120/60 EUR
after April 15). Please register through our web site.

COMMITTEES

International Program Committee

    * Jussi Niemi, Joensuu (Chair)
    * Lauri Carlson, Helsinki
    * Björn Granström, Stockholm
    * Henrik Holmboe, Århus
    * Einar Meister, Tallinn
    * Torbjørn Nordgård, Trondheim
    * Hanne Ruus, Copenhagen
    * Anna Sågvall Hein, Uppsala
    * Eero Sormunen, Tampere

Local Organizing Committee

    * Stefan Werner, Language Technology, Joensuu (Chair)
    * Pasi Fränti, Computer Science, Joensuu
    * Jussi Niemi, Linguistics, Joensuu
    * Alexandre Nikolaev, Linguistics, Joensuu
    * Erkki Sutinen, Computer Science, Joensuu

WEB SITE

              http://ling.joensuu.fi/nodalida2005/

Welcome!

On behalf of the Organizing Committee
Stefan Werner

Language Technology
University of Joensuu
P.O. Box 111
FI-80101 Joensuu
Tel. +358-2514334
Fax  +358-2514211
stefan.werner at joensuu.fi

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:06:36
From: Anna McNay < anna.mcnay at st-hildas.ox.ac.uk >
Subject: Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference 

Full Title: Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference 
Short Title: LingO 

Date: 23-Sep-2005 - 24-Sep-2005
Location: Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Anna McNay
Meeting Email: anna.mcnay at st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/events/lingo

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-Apr-2005 

Meeting Description:

LingO - Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference
Mansfield College, Oxford
23rd-24th September 2005

First Call for Abstracts

Deadline for abstracts: 18th April 2005
Notification of acceptance: 1st July 2005 

We are pleased to announce that the first ever Oxford Linguistics
Postgraduate Conference - LingO - will take place at the University of
Oxford, Mansfield College, on 23rd-24th September 2005. The purpose of the
conference is to provide postgraduates with an opportunity to present their
research.

Abstracts are invited from any linguistic subfield, especially the fields
of syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology, morphology and computational
linguistics.

Please see the Presentation Guidelines on our website
(http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/events/lingo) for further information and to
submit an abstract.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts for talks or poster presentations.
Talks will be allotted 30 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for
discussion. Speakers will also be invited to submit their papers or posters
for publication in our online conference proceedings.

When submitting, please:
*	Indicate clearly whether you are applying to give a talk or a poster
presentation.
*	Send 2 copies of your abstract (one with your name and affiliation and
one without).
*	Name the files according to the following convention:
user at domain_named.doc and user at domain_anon.doc where user at domain is your contact
email address.
*	The abstract must conform with the Word template provided on the website
(http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/events/lingo). To use the Word template,
download and save the file to your desktop. To write the abstract, double
click the template which will open Word with a new document based on the
template. 
*	If you use graphics, special formatting or symbols that may appear
differently when we open the files, please include ps or pdf versions
against which we can check the formatting. Instructions for making pdf
files using free utilities can be found on http://kenchiro.tripod.com/PDFHowTo.pdf
In Step 21, instead of -sPAPERSIZE=letter, use -sPAPERSIZE=a4 to produce a4
sized documents.
*	Use a ZIP utility to package the files together and submit them using the
form on our website. Windows XP
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306531), other
versions (http://www.powerarchiver.com/) or (http://www.winzip.com/), Linux and
OS X (using the Terminal application) (http://www.fluidthoughts.com/howto/tar-gzip/)

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