16.1833, Calls: Comp Ling/Chinese/Korea;General Ling/Altaic/Russia

Fri Jun 10 02:34:57 UTC 2005

LINGUIST List: Vol-16-1833. Thu Jun 09 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.1833, Calls: Comp Ling/Chinese/Korea;General Ling/Altaic/Russia

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Date: 07-Jun-2005
From: Gina-Anne Levow < levow at cs.uchicago.edu >
Subject: 4th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

2)
Date: 08-Jun-2005
From: Sergei Tatevosov < tatevos at philol.msu.ru >
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics

-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:27:42
From: Gina-Anne Levow < levow at cs.uchicago.edu >
Subject: 4th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

Full Title: 4th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing
Short Title: SIGHAN4

Date: 14-Oct-2005 - 15-Oct-2005
Location: Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Contact Person: Gina-Anne Levow
Meeting Email: levow at cs.uchicago.edu
Web Site: http://www.sighan.org/swclp4/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (CHN)

Call Deadline: 10-Jun-2005

Meeting Description:

* EXTENDED DEADLINE: June 10, 2005 *

Call for Papers

Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

http://www.sighan.org/swclp4/

IJCNLP-05 Workshop

October 14-15, 2005
Jeju Island, Korea

Background and Goals

Growing interest in Chinese Language Processing is leading to the development of
resources such as annotated corpora, automatic word segmenters, part-of-speech
taggers and parsers. As more resources have become available recently, it is
crucial to create a platform that allows easy exchange of information and data
and the comparison of different approaches to various NLP tasks. The SIGHAN
workshops provide a forum where the latest research in these areas can be shared.

The Second SIGHAN Workshop held in Sapporo  with ACL2003 included the First
International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff, where 12 systems from Industry
and Academia from six countries  and regions were evaluated, generating
significant interest.  The Third SIGHAN Workshop held in Barcelona followed on
with wide-ranging technical presentations and began planning a Fourth SIGHAN
workshop with a new bakeoff.

IJCNLP-05 in Korea will provide an opportunity to bring  together again
influential as well as aspiring researchers from Hong Kong, Mainland China,
Singapore, and Taiwan  and other interested Chinese language researchers from
around the world, to deliberate and interact on a range of NLP issues.

The first day of the workshop will consist of papers on all aspects of Chinese
language processing, including but not limited to:

- word segmentation,
- POS tagging,
- parsing,
- lexical semantics,
- word sense disambiguation,
- lexicon acquisition,
- corpus development,
- discourse processing,
- generation,
- cross-lingual information retrieval, and
- machine translation.

The second half-day of the workshop will present results from the Second
International Chinese Segmentation Bakeoff to be held in the summer of 2005.
Participants will choose from five training and testing corpora. The bakeoff is
being organized by Tom Emerson (Basis Technology, Corp.) and Jianfeng Gao
(Microsoft Research). Information, including information on the task, important
dates, and submission of working papers will be made available on the SIGHAN
website.

(http://www.sighan.org/bakeoff2005/).

A SIGHAN business meeting will discuss lessons learned and future plans.

Important dates:
* Extended Submission Deadline: *
Paper submissions due: June 10, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 8, 2005
Camera-ready due: August 6, 2005
Workshop dates: October 14-15, 2005

Submission Information

Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages including
references, figures, etc. Authors are required to follow the guidelines of
IJCNLP-05 workshop style, by hopefully using either the LaTeX style file or the
MS Word document template shown in the IJCNLP-05 style file page. Only
electronic submissions will be accepted. Please upload your submission in PDF
(preferred), PostScript, or MS Word to the following address:

http://www.sighan.org/swclp4/submit/

Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address and title as requested on the upload site. For more
information, contact the workshop organizers by using the e-mail address below.

Email: levow at cs.uchicago.edu

Workshop website
http://www.sighan.org/swclp4/

Program committee:

Gina-Anne Levow - University of Chicago, USA (co-chair)
Chu-ren Huang - Academia Sinica, Taiwan (co-chair)
Joyce Chai - Michigan State Univ, USA
Keh-Jian Chen - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Tom Emerson - Basis Technology Corp, U.S.A.
Pascale Fung - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
K.L.Kwok - Queens College, USA
Tom Lai - City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Qin Lu - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Qing Ma - Ryukoku University, Japan
Sun Maosong - Tsinghua University, China
Masaki Murata - Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
Shimei Pan - IBM, USA
Richard Sproat - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Masaki Murata - Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
Shimei Pan - IBM, USA
Richard Sproat - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Keh-Yih Su -  Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
Benjamin Tsou - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dekai Wu  - Hong Kong Science and Technology University, Hong Kong
Nianwen Xue - Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Qiang Zhou -  Tsinghua University, China

Contact person:
Gina-Anne Levow
University of Chicago
1100 E 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
Email: levow at cs.uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-702-5680
Fax:   +1-773-702-8487

-------------------------Message 2 ----------------------------------
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:27:48
From: Sergei Tatevosov < tatevos at philol.msu.ru >
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics

Full Title: 3rd Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics
Short Title: WAFL3

Date: 22-May-2006 - 24-May-2006
Location: Moscow, Russia
Contact Person: Sergei Tatevosov
Meeting Email: mail at wafl3.org.ru
Web Site: http://wafl3.org.ru

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Syntax

Language Family(ies): Altaic

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2005

Meeting Description:

The Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Moscow State University
is pleased to announce the Third Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics
(WAFL3) on May 22-24, 2006. Along with a General Session, there will be a
Special Session on Comparative Altaic Syntax and talks by invited speakers.

General Session:
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion)
on topics dealing with formal aspects of any area of theoretical Altaic
linguistics, including syntax, phonology, morphology, and semantics. Deadline
for receipt of abstracts is December 15, 2005.

Detailed information about abstract submission will be given in the Second
Announcement in September 2005.
Special Session: Comparative Altaic Syntax
Details will be given in the Second Announcement.

Invited Speakers:  TBA

Contact:  	Sergei Tatevosov, mail at wafl3.org.ru

Website: 	http://wafl3.org.ru

WAFL3 Organizing Committee
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Moscow State University
1 Uchebnyj Korpus,
Leninskije Gory,
119899 Moscow
Russia

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