16.3677, Calls: General Ling/Isreal;Computational Ling/Bulgaria

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-3677. Fri Dec 23 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.3677, Calls: General Ling/Isreal;Computational Ling/Bulgaria

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1)
Date: 19-Dec-2005
From: Ariel Cohen < arikc at bgu.ac.il >
Subject: The 22nd Annual Meeting - Isreal Association for Theoretical 
Linguistics

2)
Date: 19-Dec-2005
From: Svetla Koeva < svetla at ibl.bas.bg >
Subject: Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:13:18
From: Ariel Cohen < arikc at bgu.ac.il >
Subject: The 22nd Annual Meeting - Isreal Association for Theoretical 
Linguistics

Full Title: The 22nd Annual Meeting - Isreal Association for Theoretical
Linguistics Short Title: IATL 22

Date: 02-Jul-2006 - 03-Jul-2006
Location: Jerusalem, Israel Contact Person: Ariel Cohen
Meeting Email: arikc at bgu.ac.il

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 05-Mar-2006

Meeting Description:

THE 22ND ANNUAL MEETING - ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS

July 2-3 (Sunday-Monday), 2006
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Further information: arikc at bgu.ac.il

THE 22ND ANNUAL MEETING - ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS

CALL FOR PAPERS

July 2-3 (Sunday-Monday), 2006
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Adele Goldberg, Princeton

IATL 22, the 22nd annual meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical
Linguistics, will be held at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, on July 2-3,
2006.  The meeting this year will be celebrating the 80th birthday of our
colleague, Anita Mittwoch, founding member of IATL and past president of the
association.  Submissions that relate to her work will be especially 
welcome. Pending budgetary approval the conference will be held in 
conjunction with a
workshop on Syntax, Lexicon and Event Structure.

Submissions are invited for papers presenting high quality, previously
unpublished research in all areas of theoretical linguistics (interpreted
broadly to include psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics).

IATL publishes on-line proceedings in which all accepted and alternate papers
appear.

Please send abstracts EITHER by snail-mail OR by e-mail:

SNAIL-MAIL: 7 copies of an anonymous abstract (maximum length 2 pages, 
including
references) accompanied by a card with author's name, affiliation,
e-/snail-mail, and title of paper to:

Ariel Cohen                           Department of Foreign Literatures 
and Linguistics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva 84105
ISRAEL

E-MAIL: arikc.bgu.ac.il

Anonymous abstract as attachment and subject header ''abstract''. Author
information listed above in body of e-mail. Acceptable formats: PDF 
(preferred),
RTF, MS Word, PS.  File name of attachment must be the same as the 
title of the
abstract or a shortened version of it. For any unusual fonts, please 
attach font
file.

DEADLINE (for both snail- and e-mail): March 5TH, 2006. Submissions received
after this date will be returned unopened.

Not more than one single-authored abstract per person, plus one      
co-authored abstract.

IMPORTANT DATES:
March 5th, 2006:  abstract submission deadline
Mid April, 2006:  notification of acceptance to authors
July 2-3, 2006:  IATL22 conference

Further information: arikc at bgu.ac.il

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:13:23
From: Svetla Koeva < svetla at ibl.bas.bg >
Subject: Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages

Full Title: Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages 
Short Title: FASSBL-5

Date: 18-Oct-2006 - 20-Oct-2006
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Contact Person: Mila Vulchanova
Meeting Email: mila.vulchanova at hf.ntnu.no
Web Site: http://dcl.bas.bg/Conference/home.html

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Linguistic
Theories; Morphology; Phonetics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics;
Translation

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2026

Meeting Description:

Fifth International Conference Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan
Languages (FASSBL-5)

Sofia, Bulgaria, 18-20 October 2006 The conference is dedicated to the 
75th Anniversary of Prof. Jordan Penchev.
http://dcl.bas.bg/Conference/home.html

Fifth International Conference Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan
Languages (FASSBL-5)
Sofia, Bulgaria, 18-20 October 2006

The conference is dedicated to the 75th Anniversary of Prof. Jordan Penchev.
http://dcl.bas.bg/Conference/home.html

The conference is organized by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

TOPICS

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all
aspects of South-Slavic & Balkan linguistics and computational linguistics,
including, but not limited to:

phonetics, phonology and morphology;
word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
syntax, semantics and grammars;
pragmatics, discourse and dialogue;
the lexicon and ontologies;
parsing and grammatical formalisms;
generation, text planning and summarization;
language modeling, spoken language recognition and understanding;
mathematical models of language; information retrieval, text 
categorisation, question answering, and information
extraction; machine learning for natural language;
multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
language-oriented applications, tools and resources.

Comparative works is specifically and encouraged.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Giuliana Giusti (Venice University)
Meri Lakova (The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Svetla Koeva (The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Iliana Krapova (Venice University)
Stelios Peperidis (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens)
Melita Stavrou (Aristoteles University, Thessaloniki)
Olga Tomic (Leiden University/Skopje)
Dan Tufis (The Romanian Academy of Sciences)
Mila Vulchanova - chair (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Valentin Vulchanov (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Dushko Vitas (University of Belgrade)
Chris Wilder (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral
presentations, and a poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be 
presented in
plenary or topic oriented sessions.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of proposals for oral and poster papers - 31 March 2006 
Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters - 30 June 2006 Final 
versions for the proceedings - 15 September 2006

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will
be made available to participants at the time of the conference.

SUBMISSION

The submission should be of 1500 words maximum. The duration of the paper
presentation should be estimated at 20-25 minutes. The electronic 
submission is
open: http://dcl.bas.bg/Conference/submission.html

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
    Prof. Mila Vulchanova mila.vulchanova at hf.ntnu.no Prof. Svetla Koeva 
svetla at ibl.bas.bg

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