15.3133, Calls: Psycholing/France; Computational Ling/UK

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Subject: 15.3133, Calls: Psycholing/France; Computational Ling/UK                                                                                                                                                                

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1)
Date: 05-Nov-2004
From: Barbara Köpke < bkopke at univ-tlse2.fr >
Subject: Cognitive Aspects of Simultaneous Interpreting / Aspects cognitifs de l'interprétation simultanée 

2)
Date: 05-Nov-2004
From: Valia Kordoni < kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de >
Subject: Workshop on the Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions 
 

	
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Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:33:27
From: Barbara Köpke < bkopke at univ-tlse2.fr >
Subject: Cognitive Aspects of Simultaneous Interpreting / Aspects cognitifs de l'interprétation simultanée 
 

Full Title: Cognitive Aspects of Simultaneous Interpreting / Aspects cognitifs
de l'interprétation simultanée

Date: 20-May-2005 - 21-May-2005
Location: Toulouse, France
Contact Person: Barbara Köpke
Meeting Email: bkopke at univ-tlse2.fr
Web Site: http://acoustic31.univ-tlse2.fr/lordat/colloques/JBK/Call-for-papers.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2005 

Meeting Description:

The workshop focusses on psycholinguistic aspects of simultaneous interpreting. 

Journée d'étude / Workshop

"Aspects cognitifs de l'interprétation simultanée"
"Cognitive aspects of simultaneous interpreting"

20-21 mai 2005 / May, 20-21, 2005
Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail

organisée par / organized by

Barbara Köpke - Laboratoire Jacques Lordat EA 1941 (Toulouse-Le Mirail)
Myriam Piccaluga - Institut de Linguistique (Mons-Hainaut)
Groupe International de Traductologie de l'Interprétation (GITI)

Depuis les premières recherches sur l'interprétation, la nécessité de
procéder à des études psycholinguistiques prenant en compte tant les
capacités cognitives transversales comme la mémoire et l'attention que les
contraintes de la tâche a été soulignée à maintes reprises. Malgré un
certain nombre de contributions théoriques adoptant une telle approche
(issues par exemple des discussions initiées par les ASCONA Workshops et
les rencontres du GITI), les études expérimentales se situant dans cette
perspective sont demeurées peu nombreuses et le plus souvent isolées. Le
but de la présente journée d'étude est de rassembler des chercheurs de
disciplines différentes et des professionnels afin de confronter données et
expériences.

Since the beginnings of research on interpreting, the need of
psycholinguistic research taking into account transversal cognitive skills
like memory and attention as well as task constraints has been emphasized.
Despite a number of theoretical papers adopting such an approach (issue of
discussions initiated for example by the ASCONA Workshops and the meetings
of the GITI), the few experimental studies adopting such an approach have
been rather isolated. The present workshop is aimed at gathering together
researchers from different backgrounds and professionals in order to
confront data and experience.

Conférence invitée/ Invited talk:

Barbara Moser-Mercer (ETI, Genève)

Calendriers / important dates:
Premier appel à communications / first call for papers: 01/11/2004
Deuxième appel à communications / second call for papers: 01/01/2005
Date limite pour la soumission / deadline for abstract submission: 31/01/2005
Notification d'acceptation / notification of acceptance: 10/03/2005
Préinscription / preregistration: 01/04/2005

Envoi des résumés (max 300 mots) à / send 300 words abstracts to:
bkopke at univ-tlse2.fr
Myriam.Piccaluga at umh.ac.be

Langues de communication / working languages: français et anglais / French
and English

Comité scientifique / advisory board : Bernard Harmegnies (Université de
Mons-Hainaut), Barbara Köpke (Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail), Barbara
Moser-Mercer (Université de Genève), Jean-Luc Nespoulous (Université de
Toulouse-Le Mirail), Myriam Piccaluga (Université de Mons-Hainaut).



	
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Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:33:33
From: Valia Kordoni < kordoni at coli.uni-sb.de >
Subject: Workshop on the Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions 

	

Full Title: Workshop on the Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions 

Date: 19-Apr-2005 - 21-Apr-2005
Location: University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Aline Villavicencio
Meeting Email: prep05 at essex.ac.uk
Web Site: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~avill/Prep05.html

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2005 

Meeting Description:

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on
prepositions from a variety of backgrounds, such as linguistics, NLP, AI and
psycholinguistics, providing a forum for discussing, among others, the syntax,
semantics, description, representation and computational applications of
prepositions, with the ultimate aim to advance the state-of-the-art, identify
challenges, and promote future collaborations among researchers interested in
the different aspects of prepositions. 

Second ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on
The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and
their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications.

April 19th-21st, 2005, University of Essex, UK

Endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL's Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics.

In the linguistic and computational linguistic communities,  much of the effort
has been devoted to the understanding of  the syntax and semantics of verbs and
nouns. On the other hand, prepositions, partly due to their very  polysemic 
nature and the difficulty of identifying (cross-)linguistic regularities, have
received much less attention.

Recently, however, there has been a growing awareness of the difficulties posed
by prepositions and the importance of providing adequate means of capturing
them, for many different applications. Several projects have now focused on the
understanding of certain aspects of prepositions from perspectives such as
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP),
psycholinguistics and ethnolinguistics. For instance, some research has
concentrated on spatial or temporal aspects of prepositions, and their
cross-linguistic differences. Several investigations have also been carried out
on quite diverse languages, emphasizing, for example, monolingual and
cross-linguistic contrasts or the role of prepositions in syntactic
alternations. These observations cover in general a small group of closely
related prepositions. The semantic characterization of prepositions has also
motivated the emergence of a few dedicated logical frameworks and reasoning
procedures.

Languages like English have phrasal verbs, and these combinations of verbs and
prepositions (in prepositional verbs or verb-particle constructions), have also
been the subject of considerable effort, going from techniques for their
automatic extraction from corpora, to methods for the determination of their
semantics.  Other languages, like Romance languages or Hindi, either incorporate
the preposition or include it in the prepositional phrase. All these
configurations are semantically as well as syntactically of much interest. In
NLP, PP attachment ambiguities have attracted a lot of attention, with different
machine learning techniques having been employed with varying degrees of success.

In this context, a successful workshop on prepositions was held in Toulouse, in
September 2003, with papers presenting research in a wide variety of topics,
examining prepositions in languages like French, English, German and Japanese,
some from a more computational approach and others more linguistic.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on
prepositions from a variety of backgrounds, such as linguistics, NLP, AI and
psycholinguistics, providing a forum for discussing, among others, the syntax,
semantics, description, representation and computational applications of
prepositions, with the ultimate aim to advance the state-of-the-art, identify
challenges, and promote future collaborations among researchers interested in
the different aspects of prepositions.

Submissions

We welcome papers describing original work on prepositions, preferably that can
inform computational applications. We especially encourage submissions on the
following topics:

-Aspects of the syntax and semantics of prepositions: prepositions in
alternations, syntactic and semantic restrictions. General syntactic-semantic
principles. Postpositions or other equivalent markers (e.g. case). Prepositions
in constructions (phrasal verbs, determinerless PPs, etc)

-Polysemy of prepositions, identification and classification of preposition
senses, contrastive uses, metaphorical uses, semantic and cognitive foundations
for prepositions.

-Descriptions: prepositions in lexical resources (WordNet, Framenet), productive
versus collocations uses, multi-lingual descriptions (mismatches, incorporation,
divergences), prepositions and thematic roles.

-Applications: dealing with prepositions in applications e.g. for Machine
Translation, Information extraction, Language Generation.

-Representation of Prepositions: prepositions in knowledge bases, cognitive or
logic-based formalisms for the description of the semantics of prepositions (in
isolation, and in composition/confrontation with the verb and the NP),
compositional semantics. Implications for AI, KR.

-Prepositions in reasoning procedures: how different kinds of preposition
provide distinct challenges to a reasoning system and how they can be handled.

-Cognitive dimensions of prepositions: how different kinds of prepositions are
acquired/interpreted/represented, in terms of human and/or computational processing.

Submissions should not exceed 8 pages and they must be in .ps or .pdf formats.
The 12 point Times New Roman font is preferred, leave about 2.5 cm margins on
both sides. More precise formatting instructions will be given for final
versions, since a book publication is under preparation. Papers must be sent in
electronic form to: prep05 at essex.ac.uk.

Deadlines

Submission deadline:  January 10th, 2005
Notification to authors:  Feb 15th, 2005
Final paper due:  March 19th, 2005

Registration:

Registration fees will be kept as low as possible.

Programme Committee:

Anne Abeille (Université Paris 7, France)
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
Markus Egg (Saarland University, Germany)
Sonja Eisenbeiss (University of Essex, UK)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany)
Daniele Godard (Université Paris 7, France)
Tracy King (PARC, USA)
Valia Kordoni (Saarland University, Germany)
Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware, USA)
Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Louisa Sadler (University of Essex, UK)
Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, France)
Hidetosi Sirai (Chukyo University, Japan)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex, UK) - Workshop Chair
Clare Voss (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Tom Wasow (Stanford University, USA)
Emile van der Zee (University of Lincoln, UK)
Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 

Contacts:

Submissions and inquiries : prep05 at essex.ac.uk

Local organizing committee :
Aline Villavicencio (workshop chair)
Louisa Sadler 
Valia Kordoni

WEB site:  http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~avill/Prep05.html


 


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