16.28, Calls: Endangered Langs/USA; Comp Ling/Netherlands

Tue Jan 11 06:16:45 UTC 2005

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Subject: 16.28, Calls: Endangered Langs/USA; Comp Ling/Netherlands

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1)
Date: 11-Jan-2005
From: Lyle Campbell < lyle.campbell at linguistics.utah.edu >
Subject: Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America 

2)
Date: 31-Dec-2004
From: Claudia Sassen < claudia.sassen at uni-dortmund.de >
Subject: Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:05:32
From: Lyle Campbell < lyle.campbell at linguistics.utah.edu >
Subject:  Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America 

Full Title: Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America 
Short Title: CELCNA 

Date: 08-Apr-2005 - 09-Apr-2005
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America 
Contact Person: Lyle Campbell
Meeting Email: Phatmandu7 at aol.com
Web Site: http://www.hum.utah.edu/linguistics

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; General
Linguistics; Language Description 

Call Deadline: 14-Jan-2005 

Meeting Description:

Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (April
8-9, 2005), dedicated to discussion of the documentation and revitalization
of endangered American Indian languages.  Sponsored by the Center for
American Indian Languages (U of Utah,  Salt Lake City, Utah) and
Smithsonian Institution's Dept of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural
History. 

Papers are invited on any aspect of endangered Native American languages,
in particular on documentation or revitalization.  Papers are 20 minutes
each in length, with 10 minutes for discussion. ABSTRACTS MUST BE RECEIVED
by Jan 14, 2005. The program committee will notify  of acceptance by Jan. 21.

Keynote speaker, Dr. Leanne Hinton (University of California, Berkeley).  

Abstract submission guidelines: 

--The abstract should be no more than 500 words in length, and should 
include  title of the paper, name(s) of author(s), and affiliation.

--Abstracts are to be submitted electronically. 

--Please include with your abstract appropriate contact details.

--Address abstracts to:  lyle.campbell at linguistics.utah.edu (Lyle
Campbell), no later than Jan. 14, 2005.  

Accommodations:  University Guest House  (short walk to conference rooms),
$69 / night (includes breakfast) (Please arrange your own accommodations
with them):

University Guest House
University of Utah
110 South Fort Douglas Blvd.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84113-5036
Toll free:  1-888-416-4075 (or 801-587-1000), Fax 801-587-1001
Website  http://www.guesthouse.utah.edu

Additional information:  for further information write to:
Phatmandu7 at aol.com (Jen Mitchell) or lyle.campbell at linguistics.utah.edu.  

Pre-conference event: Fourth Annual University of Utah Student Conference
in Linguistics takes place immediately before the CELCNA meeting, on April
7.  Leanne Hinton, keynote speaker (Additional information at 
http://www.hum.utah.edu/linguistics.)

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:05:38
From: Claudia Sassen < claudia.sassen at uni-dortmund.de >
Subject: Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation 

Full Title: Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation 
Short Title: DMG 

Date: 06-Jul-2005 - 06-Jul-2005
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Claudia Sassen
Meeting Email: claudia.sassen at uni-dortmund.de
Web Site: http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Philosophy
of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2005 

Meeting Description:

2nd Call for Papers for the

                       Symposium on
	     Dialogue Modelling and Generation
         http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG
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                    Vrije Universiteit
                  Amsterdam, Netherlands
                      July 6, 2005

to be held as part of the annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse 
(ST&D) July 6-9, 2005 as announced at http://www.let.vu.nl/conference/std2005/

This symposium is intended to tackle issues in the semantics and pragmatics of
dialogue and dialogue generation. It aims at bringing together the dialogue
modelling and language generation/production communities and will provide an
opportunity for researchers from a variety of disciplines, including
linguistics, computer science and psycholinguistics, to exchange ideas.

We invite talks elaborating on important theoretical notions in dialogue
modelling -such as constraints (Asher & Lascarides, 2003, and many other recent
papers), the role of domain knowledge (e.g., Ludwig, 2003, and, again, many
more) and the influence of social relations between interlocutors on dialogue
behaviour (going back to the seminal work by Brown and Levinson, 1978)- and ask
presenters to shed light on these or other theoretically fruitful notions in
dialogue
modelling by:

- relating them to issues in language generation/production
  or
- drawing out similarities and differences between applications of such notions
in discourse generation versus interpretation or
- describing computational/implemented models, in particular, for
generation/production or
- comparing psycholinguistic with linguistic or engineering approaches to
dialogue modelling.

The symposium will thus be a natural complement to ones that deal with NL
interpretation or structural properties of discourse.

Participants have to register for the main meeting.

The Symposium is endorsed by SIGGen and by SIGDial.

We are currently in conversation with a publisher regarding publication of
selected symposium papers as book after the meeting.

Program Committee:
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Anton Benz, Syddansk Univ., Denmark
Harry Bunt, Tilburg Univ., Netherlands
Simon Garrod, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Univ. des Saarlandes, Germany
Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany
Colin Matheson, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
Daniel Paiva, Univ. of Sussex, UK
Paul Piwek, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
Richard Power, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
Matthew Purver, CSLI, USA
Alison Sanford, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK
Claudia Sassen, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany
Donia Scott, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
Marilyn Walker, Univ. of Sheffield, UK

Organizers:
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Claudia Sassen, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany
Paul Piwek, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany

Submissions:
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Please submit an abstract of your talk to claudia.sassen at uni-dortmund.de by
February 1, 2005, clearly indicating that it is a proposal, i.e., by including
in the
subject line of the email the word ''proposal''. Proposals should include a
cover page with the following:

   1. The title of the presentation
   2. Names and institutional affiliations all authors,
      including email addresses of all authors 
   3. Contact Address for presenting author
   4. A 75-word abstract of the presentation for publication
      in the abstracts booklet and on the website.

In addition to the cover page, please include a 2-3 page summary of the
presentation with a title but no author information (max. 1000 words, including
bibliographic references).

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