16.1832, Calls: Computational Ling/Australia; Forensic Ling/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-1832. Thu Jun 09 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.1832, Calls: Computational Ling/Australia; Forensic Ling/France

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Date: 07-Jun-2005
From: Menno van Zaanen < menno at ics.mq.edu.au >
Subject: Australasian Language Technology Workshop 

2)
Date: 07-Jun-2005
From: wagner anne < valwagnerfr at yahoo.com >
Subject: 5th International Round Tables for the Semiotics of Law 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:02:27
From: Menno van Zaanen < menno at ics.mq.edu.au >
Subject: Australasian Language Technology Workshop 

Full Title: Australasian Language Technology Workshop 
Short Title: ALTW 

Date: 10-Dec-2005 - 11-Dec-2005
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia 
Contact Person: Menno van Zaanen
Meeting Email: workshop at alta.asn.au
Web Site: http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2005/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2005 

Meeting Description:

2005 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2005)
First Call for Papers

University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

10 and 11 December 2005
Submissions due: 15 September 2005
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2005
Workshop contact email: workshop at alta.asn.au

PURPOSE

A two-day workshop on Natural Language Technology will be organised by the
Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA).  This event will be the
third annual installment of the workshop in its most-recent incarnation, and the
continuation of an annual workshop series that has existed under various guises
since the early 90s.

It will be held in conjunction with a tutorial day, also at the University of
Sydney, on 9 December, 2005.

The goals of the workshop are:

- to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community in Australia
and New Zealand and encourage interactions;
- to encourage interactions between this community and the international LT
community
- to foster interaction between academic and industrial researchers
- to encourage dissemination of research results
- to provide a forum for the discussion of new and ongoing research and projects
- to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence community to
become aware of local LT research
- to increase visibility of LT research in Australia, New Zealand and overseas.

An innovation in this year's Australasian Language Technology Workshop will be
the introduction of poster presentations in addition to the regular talks, in
order to encourage more interactive discussion of research-in-progress.  In this
vein, we encourage submissions from students describing their thesis work and
any preliminary results. Note that both publication types will have the same
status in the proceedings.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Ash Asudeh (University of Canterbury)
- Eric Atwell (Leeds University)
- Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne)
- Steven Bird (University of Melbourne)
- James Curran (Sydney University)
- Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
- Robert Dale (Macquarie University)
- Dominique Estival (Defence Science and Technology Organisation)
- Dan Flickinger (Stanford University)
- Tanja Gaustad (Appen)
- Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto)
- Ben Hutchinson (University of Edinburgh)
- Jong-bok Kim (Kyung Hee University)
- Alistair Knott (University of Otago)
- Valia Kordoni (University of Saarland)
- Hang Li (Microsoft Research)
- Diana McCarthy (University of Sussex)
- Diego Molla (Macquarie University)
- Ajeet Parhar (Telstra Research Laboratories)
- Cécile Paris (CSIRO ICT Centre)
- Jon Patrick (University of Sydney)
- David Powers (Flinders University)
- Tony Smith (Waikato University)
- Nicola Stokes (NICTA Victoria)
- Takaaki Tanaka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
- Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex)
- Menno van Zaanen (Macquarie University)
- Simon Zwarts (Macquarie University)

ORGANISERS

- Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne - co-chair)
- James Curran (University of Sydney - local organiser)
- Menno van Zaanen (Macquarie University - co-chair)

TOPICS

We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all
aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to:

- speech understanding and generation
- phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
- interpreting and generating spoken and written language
- linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language
- language-oriented information extraction and retrieval
- corpus-based and statistical language modelling
- summarisation
- machine translation and translation aids
- natural language interfaces and dialogue systems
- natural language and multimodal systems
- message and narrative understanding systems
- evaluations of language systems
- computational lexicography

We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT community, and
particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community
through the consideration of practical LT applications and through
multi-disciplinary research.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Submissions should follow the two-column format of the ACL proceedings and
should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references.  We strongly recommend
the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this
year's conference.  The style files and example documents are available as a
tarball on the homepage.  We reserve the right to reject submissions that do not
conform to these styles including font and page size restrictions.

The preferred submission format is PDF.  If this introduces problems, please
contact the organisers beforehand.

If we cannot print your file by the submission date it will be rejected without
being reviewed.  Therefore you are encouraged to send an early version with the
typographical complexity of your final intended version so that we can check it
is printable.

The workshop will adopt a ''single-blind'' refereeing process: the reviewers
will be made aware of the identity of the authors of submitted papers, but the
identity of the reviewers will not be revealed to the authors.  As such, all
papers should include the full authors' names and affiliations.  Note that this
diverges from the submission guidelines adopted for ACL conferences.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission: 15 September 2005
- Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2005
- Camera-ready copy: 1 November 2005
- Workshop: 10 - 11 December 2005

MORE INFORMATION

A web page for ALTW2005 can be found on the ALTA web page:
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2005

You can contact the workshop organisers for further information:
workshop at alta.asn.au

The Australasian Language Technology Workshop is being organised by ALTA, the
Australasian Language Technology Association.

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:02:32
From: wagner anne < valwagnerfr at yahoo.com >
Subject: 5th International Round Tables for the Semiotics of Law 

Full Title: 5th International Round Tables for the Semiotics of Law 
Short Title: IRSL2006 

Date: 17-May-2006 - 20-May-2006
Location: Boulogne sur Mer, France 
Contact Person: Catherine Wadoux
Meeting Email: IRSL2006 at univ-littoral.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 27-Feb-2006 

Meeting Description:

5th INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLES FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW

17-20 May, 2006

Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (France)

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: French and English
Organised under the auspices of CERCLE, équipe VolTer (Vocabulaire, Lexique et
Terminologie) and of LARJ (Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Recherche Juridiques) -
Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale in collaboration with International Journal
for the Semiotics of Law.

Comité organisateur / Organising Committee

Anne Wagner
Senior Lecturer
Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale
France

Dragan Milovanovic
Professor
Justice Studies
Northeastern Illinois University
U.S.A

Wouter Werner
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Public International Law
Utrecht University
Pays-Bas

Phillip Chong Ho Shon
Assistant Professor
Indiana State University
Department of Criminology
U.S.A

Rick Mohr
Senior Lecturer
University of Wollongong
Australia

Bureau de la conférence / Conference Office : 
Catherine Wadoux et Monique Randon 
34 Grande Rue 
B.P. 751 
62321 Boulogne-sur-Mer Cedex 
Tél. : 03 21 99 43 00 
Fax : 03 21 99 43 91
E-mail : IRSL2006 at univ-littoral.fr

THE URL SHOULD BE POSTED WITHIN 3 MONTHS 

Call for Papers

LAW, TOLERANCE AND DIVERSITY
The other's otherness (L'altérité de l'autre)

''Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our
world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human. It is
fostered by knowledge, openness, communication, and freedom of thought,
conscience and belief. Tolerance is harmony in difference.'' 
Unesco's Declaration of Principles on Tolerance

Religious, cultural and ethnic diversity together with international, political,
and economic integration bring issues of tolerance and diversity to the
forefront; and raise important questions for the semiotic analysis of law.
Recent events have shown that tolerance and diversity remain under threat
despite the best efforts of the international community, which has attempted
through international conventions, treaties and national statutes, to stem the
march of intolerance. 

The 5th International Round Tables for the Semiotics of Law invites contributors
to reflect on the growing importance of Tolerance and Diversity in our
international community and why attacks upon it have become so prolific.
Contributors may choose to explore semiotic, rhetorical, pragmatic,
sociolinguistic, psychological, philosophical and/or visual perspectives on the
Law, Tolerance and Diversity.

Papers that examine the ways 'actors' in our society (legislators, politicians,
activists, movie producers, singers, painters, graffiti artists, photographers
etc.) have provoked public discourse to confront intolerance, racism,
nationalism and anti-Semitism are particularly welcome. 

The Round Table will provide an opportunity for a general discussion of issues
in the semiotics of law as well as open discussion  to increase our knowledge
about our ''other's otherness'' with respect to Law, Tolerance and Diversity. 

ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS 
1. Abstract should be no longer than 400 words. They can include references but
should not contain a bibliography. 
2. Abstracts should be sent in English or in French
3. Abstracts should contain : 
a - Title of the presentation 
b - Name(s) of the author(s) 
c - Affiliation of the author(s) 
d - Both e-mail and postal addresses.
4. Only abstracts meeting the above criteria will be considered.
5. Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to Anne WAGNER (valwagnerfr at yahoo.com).

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