16.372, Calls: General Ling/Canada; Computational Ling/Croatia

Mon Feb 7 16:12:42 UTC 2005

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Subject: 16.372, Calls: General Ling/Canada; Computational Ling/Croatia

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1)
Date: 06-Feb-2005
From: Danielle Thomas < danielle.thomas at utoronto.ca >
Subject: Levy-Wasteney's 25th Annual Graduate Symposium: Beyond Quijote--400 Years of Luso-Hispanic Iconography

2)
Date: 06-Feb-2005
From: Malgorzata Cavar < mcavar at indiana.edu >
Subject: Workshop on Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition

-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:10:42
From: Danielle Thomas < danielle.thomas at utoronto.ca >
Subject: Levy-Wasteney's 25th Annual Graduate Symposium: Beyond Quijote--400 Years of Luso-Hispanic Iconography

Full Title: Levy-Wasteney's 25th Annual Graduate Symposium: Beyond Quijote--400 Years of Luso-Hispanic Iconography

Date: 01-Apr-2005 - 02-Apr-2005
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Contact Person: Diana Rodriguez-Garcia
Meeting Email: d.rodriguez.garcia at utoronto.ca
Web Site: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/spanish_portuguese/lwsymposium/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (POR)
                     Spanish (SPN)

Call Deadline: 21-Feb-2005

Meeting Description:

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of 'El ingenioso hidalgo Don
Quijote de la Mancha', we welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations on the literature,
linguistics, philosophy, history, politics, culture, cinema and visual art of the Spanish and
Portuguese speaking world.  Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes in duration,
that is, 7-9 pages double-spaced.

Some suggested, but not exclusive, themes include:
-The Introduction of Neologisms in the Study of Icons
-Language as Icon
-Diachronic Linguistics
-Syntax-Semantics Interface
-Narrative Structures
etc.

Proposals in Spanish, Portuguese, English or French must not exceed 500 words and
should be accompanied by a short CV.

Submit proposals to the Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Students' Association (SPGSA)
c/o Diana Rodriguez-Garcia in plain text, Microsoft Word, RTF or PDF formats.

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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:10:48
From: Malgorzata Cavar < mcavar at indiana.edu >
Subject: Workshop on Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition

Full Title: Workshop on Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition
Short Title: CMLA

Date: 25-Jul-2005 - 28-Jul-2005
Location: Split, Croatia
Contact Person: Organizing Committee
Meeting Email: cpala at ohz.unist.hr
Web Site: http://www.ohz.unist.hr/cpala/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Lexicography; Morphology; Phonology; Psycholinguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2005

Meeting Description:

The inaugural meeting of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics held in Split, Croatia,
focusing on the topic of 'Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition'.

The Croatian Language Technologies Society (CLTS) and the University of Split are pleased
to sponsor the inaugural meeting of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics held in Split,
Croatia, focusing on the topic of ''Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition''. We will
build on the topics in formal-theoretical and computational linguistics, in particular on issues
in learnability, complexity and modeling of lexical knowledge.

This workshop is especially intended to provide a forum for the presentation of unique and
original research on computational linguistic topics in the domain of learning of lexical
properties, i.e. lexical acquisition, including but not limited to the following topics:

a. machine learning methods for lexical acquisition
- speech and language segmentation into lexical units
- induction and learning of phonological and morphological structure
- inducing formal grammars from discovered structural properties
- learning lexical semantic properties and lexical disambiguation
- computational models of psycholinguistic aspects of lexical acquisition

b. corpora, evaluation and applications
- induction of part-of-speech information for tagging and automatic annotation (via e.g.
clustering and classification, using Vector Space Modeling or other strategies)
- corpora for learning phonological and morphological regularities and a
common gold standard
- applications using machine learning and automatic lexical acquisition
(e.g. tagger, ontologies, textmining)
- evaluation strategies and methods for learning approaches.

This workshop will expand into a fixed annual event organized by the Croatian Language
Technologies Society (CLTS) to be hosted, in turn, and shared among all interested and
committed Croatian Universities.

Time: 25.-28. July 2005
Location: University of Split, Croatia

Abstract Deadline: 15th of March, 2005
Acceptance Information: 1st of April, 2005

Draft paper submission deadline: 1st of June 2005

Final paper submission deadline: 1st of August 2005

Registration and accommodation:
We will provide limited space for participants in the University guesthouse, hotel Spinut in
Split. Early registration is required to reserve the space. The price for a room per night can
be in the range of 150-250 Croatian Kuna (approx. 25-35 EURO, $ 30-40 US).

For accommodation reservation please contact the organizing committee asap, at:
cpala at ohz.unist.hr

Detailed instructions on abstract submission and registration can be found on
the following web page:

http://www.ohz.unist.hr/cpala/

Organizing Committee:

Bozo Bekavac, Uni. of Zagreb
Dunja Brozovic-Roncevic, IHJJ Zagreb
Damir Cavar, Indiana Uni.
Malgorzata Cavar, Indiana Uni.
Morten Christiansen, Cornell Uni.
Zdravko Dovedan, Uni. of Zagreb
Hans-Martin Gaertner, ZAS, Berlin
John Goldsmith, Chicago Uni.
Thomas Hanneforth, Uni. of Potsdam
Joshua Herring, Indiana Uni.
Toshikazu Ikuta, Indiana Uni.
Gerhard Jaeger, Uni. of Bielefeld
Ivo-Pavao Jazbec, Uni. of Zagreb
Bryan Jurish, Potsdam Uni.
Marcus Kracht, UCLA
Hagen Langer, Uni. of Bremen
Roland Meyer, Uni. of Regensburg
Jens Michaelis, Uni. of Potsdam
Adam Przepiorkowski, Polish Academy of Science
Paul Rodrigues, Indiana Uni.
William G. Sakas, CUNY
Giancarlo Schrementi, Indiana Uni.
Tomislav Stojanov, Uni. of Zagreb
Marko Tadic, Uni. of Zagreb
Kristina Vuckovic, Uni. of Zagreb
Menno van Zaanen, Macquarie Uni.
Alexander Geyken, BBAW

Sponsoring Institutions:

University of Split
Hrvatsko Drustvo za Jezicne Tehnologije (Croatian Language Technologies Society (CLTS))
Institut za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, Zagreb

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