16.333, Calls: Socioling/Mexico; Computational Ling/Discourse

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Subject: 16.333, Calls: Socioling/Mexico; Computational Ling/Discourse

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1)
Date: 31-Jan-2005
From: Roland Terborg < rterborg at servidor.unam.mx >
Subject: 1st Congress on Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language 

2)
Date: 31-Jan-2005
From: Henk Zeevat < henk.zeevat at uva.nl >
Subject: Formal and Computational Approaches to Discourse Particles 

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:28:05
From: Roland Terborg < rterborg at servidor.unam.mx >
Subject: 1st Congress on Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language 

Full Title: 1st Congress on Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language 

Date: 10-Aug-2005 - 12-Aug-2005
Location: Mexico City, Mexico 
Contact Person: Roland Terborg
Meeting Email: rterborg at servidor.unam.mx, garlan at servidor.unam.mx , 
pfleger at servidor.unam.mx
Web Site: http://comenius.cele.unam.mx/cele/pruebas/politleng2.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2005 

Meeting Description:

INTERIM CONFERENCE RC 25
International Sociological Association (ISA)

"Glocalization and language use: Joining the global 
and the local"

and

SECOND SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE POLICY
'Language Policy in Mexico and Latin America'

The purpose of the symposium is to identify and 
analyze the various related to language policy and 
planning. We invite researchers who are working on these or 
related areas to share there research experiences within 
the following topics:

    * Educational planning
    * Identity and power
    * Intercultural communication
    * Micro-level language planning
    * Language rights
    * Language shift, maintenance and revitalization
    * Media

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:28:38
From: Henk Zeevat < henk.zeevat at uva.nl >
Subject: Formal and Computational Approaches to Discourse Particles 

Full Title: Formal and Computational Approaches to Discourse Particles 

Date: 07-Apr-2005 - 08-Apr-2005
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Henk Zeevat
Meeting Email: henk.zeevat at uva.nl
Web Site: http://www.ub.edu/ling/discourse_particles/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 06-Feb-2005 

Meeting Description:

The workshop proposes to collect contributions to the
theory and implementation of discourse particles and
similar devices (tags, modal auxiliaries) with the aim
of building a common understanding of the current
possibilities and of contributing to better natural
langauge processing and a deeper understanding of
discourse particles and their function in indicating
speech acts and discourse structure. 

REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Formal and Computational Approaches to
Discourse Particles

Barcelona, 7-8 April 2005

Discourse particles form an important borderline case
in semantics, pragmatics and syntax and can be the
source of new insights in these areas. Formal
descriptions of their meaning and use are difficult and
controversial and seem to involve more dimensions than
are usually taken into account in semantics and
pragmatics. Historical linguistics and linguistic
typology provide insightful data and may contribute
significantly to the understanding of discourse particles.

>From the perspective of computational linguistics,
discourse particles are both a promise and a challenge.
A promise because they seem to be functioning in
communication between humans as devices that indicate
discourse relations and other coherence relations in
text and dialogue and so it would seem that their
treatment would help natural language processing
systems to get a better grasp on the intentions of the
user and to achieve more natural and comprehensible
output. A challenge, because their analysis seems to
involve concepts that are beyond current levels of
sophistication in either natural language processing or
in natural language semantics.

Aim and scope of the workshop

In succession to the workshop at the ESSLLI Summer
School in Vienna in 2002, a new workshop will be held
in Barcelona on 7-8 April 2005.

The workshop proposes to collect contributions to the
theory and implementation of discourse particles and
similar devices (tag questions, modal auxiliaries,
etc.) with the aim of building a common understanding
of the current possibilities and of contributing to
better natural language processing and a deeper
understanding of the nature of discourse particles and
their function in indicating speech acts and discourse
structure.

We seek papers that contribute to the semantic and
pragmatic understanding of discourse particles,
including historical and cross-linguistic aspects, as
well as computational papers in which particles play a
major role.

The workshop aims at connecting the informal
understanding of particles with formal approaches to
their meaning and use that have a potential for use in
practical systems. A special topic of the workshop will
be the use of particles for generating natural language
in dialogue systems.

Important Dates

 submission deadline: 6 February
 notification deadline: 6 March
 revised abstracts for proceedings: 20 March
 workshop date: 7-8 April 2005

Submission Details

We invite you to send 4 page anonymous abstracts in pdf
or ps format to henk.zeevat at uva.nl by the submission
deadline, attached to an email containing your name and
affiliation.

Website

 http://www.ub.edu/ling/discourse_particles/

Publication

The editors of Sprache und Datenverarbeitung (SDV) have
expressed interest in another special issue to be drawn
from the workshop papers. Check Volume 28.1/2004 for
the papers from the 2003 workshop.

Invited Speakers

 Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam)
 Enric Vallduví (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) 

Programme Committee 

 Kristina Striegnitz (University of Saarbrücken)
 Enric Vallduví (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
 Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam)
 Elena Karagjosova (University of Oslo)
 Laura Alonso i Alemany (University of Barcelona)
 Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam)
 Hans-Christian Schmitz (University of Bonn)
 Estrella Montolío (Universitat de Barcelona)

Organization

 Laura Alonso i Alemany (Universitat de Barcelona) 
 Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam)

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