17.258, Calls: General Ling/Italy;Computational Ling/India
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Subject: 17.258, Calls: General Ling/Italy;Computational Ling/India
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1)
Date: 25-Jan-2006
From: Silvia Dal Negro < linglab at lett.unipmn.it >
Subject: Linguistics and Technological Models - 40th Conference of the Society of Italian Linguistics
2)
Date: 25-Jan-2006
From: Rajat Kumar Mohanty < rkm at cse.iitb.ac.in >
Subject: The First National Symposium on Modelling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:31:10
From: Silvia Dal Negro < linglab at lett.unipmn.it >
Subject: Linguistics and Technological Models - 40th Conference of the Society of Italian Linguistics
Full Title: Linguistics and Technological Models - 40th Conference of the Society of Italian Linguistics
Short Title: SLI 2006
Date: 21-Sep-2006 - 23-Sep-2006
Location: Vercelli, Italy
Contact Person: Giacomo Ferrari
Meeting Email: sli2006 at lett.unipmn.it
Web Site: http://www.lett.unipmn.it/sli2006
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 24-Feb-2006
Meeting Description:
The annual conference meeting of the Society of Italian Linguistics (SLI) will take place at the Università del Piemonte Orientale. The topic of the 2006 Conference is: Linguistica e modelli tecnologici di ricerca (Linguistics and Technological Models of Research). The objective of the conference is to bring into light and discuss the impact of recent technological tools on the main reaserch trends in linguistic research and theories.
Scientific Committee: Giacomo Ferrari (Università Piemonte Orientale - Vercelli, Coordinator), Roberto Ajello (Pisa), Piero Beltrami (Pisa, OVI - Firenze), Rodolfo Delmonte (Venezia Ca' Foscari), Annibale Elia (Salerno), Carla Marello (Torino), Giovanna Marotta (Pisa), Rema Rossini Favretti(Bologna), Raffaele Simone (Roma 3).
Submissions are welcome within the following thematic areas
a. computation as scientific paradigm
b. computers and technologies as tools for the processing of linguistic data
c. new tools for data collection and analysis (e.g phonetics neuro-imaging ? )
d. innovative applications in linguistics
The deadline for submitting an abstract, not exceding 1000 words, is February 24th 2006.
Contributions will fall in two categories:
- full papers: devoted to the discussion of theoretical issues
- posters: devoted to the description of single projects
Both types of contributions will be printed in the Proceedings.
Abstracts (written in Italian or English) are to be submitted to the following website: www.lett.unipmn.it/sli2006
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:31:14
From: Rajat Kumar Mohanty < rkm at cse.iitb.ac.in >
Subject: The First National Symposium on Modelling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages
Full Title: The First National Symposium on Modelling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages
Short Title: MSPIL-06
Date: 31-Mar-2006 - 04-Apr-2006
Location: IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Contact Person: Rajat Kumar Mohanty
Meeting Email: rkm at cse.iitb.ac.in
Web Site: http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/~mspil-06
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Hindi (hin)
Language Family(ies): Indo-European
Call Deadline: 24-Feb-2006
Meeting Description:
IIT Bombay, CIIL Mysore, C-DAC INDIA are pleased to announce the hosting of THE FIRST NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MODELING AND SHALLOW PARSING OF INDIAN LANGUAGES (MSPIL-06 : an event of the NLP Association of India) to be held at IIT Bombay from 31 March 2006 to 4 April 2006. The event is motivated by the international trend of going deeper and deeper in shallow processing of natural languages and the fact that Indian languages show unique and richly complex behavior in morphology, word-order, compounding, etc. The symposium intends to focus on challenges in modeling and shallow parsing of Indian Languages. The objective of the symposium is to bring the linguists, computational linguists and the computer scientists together who are working on Indian languages in different parts of India and its neighboring countries. Researchers are expected to present an overview of their ongoing activities, demonstrate NLP tools and systems, and discuss significant results and future directions of Indian Language Processing.
The first two days (31March-1April 2006) will be devoted for NLP tools/systems demonstration and informal interactions for local participants only. The sessions for invited speeches and the focused papers will be held from 2 April to 4 April, 2006.
Structure of the Symposium:
The symposium will be conducted in the mode of intense discussions centered around invited and focused paper presentations. There will be a panel discussion to chart out the future course of action in Indian Language processing. Demonstrations of actual systems are highly encouraged. Student-speakers, who will be fully supported, are the part and parcel of this event. The symposium will be enriched by the experience of researchers from academia, industry and the government bodies.
Theme of the Symposium:
In Natural language Processing, Parsing is considered to be a very important component that involves a number of issues concerning grammatical formalisms, algorithmic complexities, ambiguity resolution, and so on. There are many approaches adopted by the Parsing community, such as stochastic parsing or classical deep/full parsing. The task is at hand range from segmentation into chunks to deep parsing based on wide coverage grammars, including shallow and/or robust parsing.
In deep/full parsing, sentences are assigned a complete syntactic structure. However, not all natural language applications demand a complete syntactic analysis. A deep parse often provides more information than actual requirement, and sometimes less. Shallow/partial parsing, on the other hand, is a task of recovering only a limited amount of syntactic information from natural language sentences. Key parts of the syntactic structure or key pieces of semantic information are identified or extracted in shallow parsing, instead of producing a detailed syntactic or semantic analysis of each sentence. In particular, such tasks include identifying the noun phrases in a text and extracting non-overlapping chunks, the subject, the main verb and the object from a sentence. Typical modules in a shallow parser include Parts-of-speech tagging (given a word and its context, the correct morphosyntactic class of that word is determined), chunking (given the words and their morphosyntactic class, a chunk is determined) and morphosyntactic tagging (given the chunks of a sentence, the syntactic relationships among the chunks are determined).
Shallow parsers are used to reduce the search space for full blown deep parsers. These have been proved to be useful in the application domains like Information Retrieval, Summarization, Question-Answering, etc. Other applications of shallow parsing include data mining from unstructured textual material from the web, automated annotation of linguistic corpora and the preprocessing of data for high level linguistic tasks.
Like any other NLP tasks, shallow/partial parsing of Indian languages is also a challenge. Over the last decade there has been an increased interest in Parts-of-speech tagging and chunking of Indian languages. The stress is now put on shallow parsing, which, in turn, will be a push for deep/full parsing of Indian languages.
Original and unpublished research papers are solicited from academia and industry which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to Shallow Parsing in the context of Indian Languages Processing, including but not limited to:
- morphology, syntax, morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics
- linguistic and mathematical models for Indian languages
- text segmentation and preprocessing
- morphological processing
- parts-of-speech tagging
- morphosyntactic tagging
- designing principles for shallow-parsed large corpora
- chunking and partial parsing of large amounts of texts in Indian Languages
- corpus-based language modeling
- language-oriented machine learning
- software systems for management and accessibility to shallow-parsed large corpora
- applications of shallow-parsed large Indian language corpora.
-interpreting and generating written Indian languages
-multi-lingual processing and machine translation
-shallow processing in NLP Applications
Confirmed Invited Speakers: (Incremental!)
Amba Kulkarni (Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetham, Tirupati)
Ayesha Kidwai (JNU, New Delhi)
Gautam Sengupta (University of Hyderabad)
Malhar Kulkarni (IIT Bombay)
Niladri Dash (ISI, Kolkata)
P. Madhavan (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
Tanmoy Bhattacharyya (University of Delhi)
Vaijayanthi M. Sarma (IIT Bombay)
Important Dates:
Paper registration deadline: 24 February, 2006
Paper submissions deadline: 06 March, 2006
Notification of acceptance: 15 March, 2006
Camera ready papers due: 24 March, 2006
Submission Details:
We invite only electronic submissions of full papers, containing title of the paper, name of the author(s), E-mail address(es) and affiliation(s). Papers should include an abstract of 200 words, and the total length of the paper should not exceed 5000 words, including all figures and references. Papers may be either in PostScript, or PDF format, but it must be in the prescribed template (download? will be soon!). For paper registration and submission, please visit: http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/~mspil-06. Papers can also be mailed to mspil06[*at]cse[dot]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in / rkm[*at]cse[dot]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in with the subject heading 'MSPIL-06 Paper'. All completed papers that are received positively before 24 March 2006 will be included in the Proceedings of the Symposium.
Reviewing:
All focused papers will be reviewed by the experts in the concerned field, and the final decision will be made by the MSPIL-06 Program Committee.
Symposium Registration Details:
All the participants are requested to register for MSPIL-06. The registration fee details are given below:
Student Participants : 200 INR
Non-Student Academic Participants: 500 INR
Participants from Industry : 1500 INR
Foreign Nationals : 2500 INR
Support:
The MSPIL-06 organizing committee will provide free local hospitality including local accommodation to the outstation speakers during the main symposium period (i.e., 2-4 April 06). All outstation student-speakers will be supported for their travel (i.e., SL class Railway fare in the shortest route). Efforts are being made to provide travel support (i.e., II-AC Railway fare) to the other non-local speakers who do not have any institutional support. It may be noted that through well-informed planning sufficiently in advance, one could avail of airfares that are sometimes less than II-AC railway fare. We cannot provide travel support to the participants coming from abroad.
Questions and queries
For any clarification, please visit: http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/~mspil-06 or mail to:
mspil06[*at]cse[dot]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in /
rkm[*at]cse[dot]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in
pb[*at]cse[dot]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in
Advisory Committee:
Ashok Misra (IIT Bombay)
M. G. K. Menon (Ex-chairman, BOG, IIT Bombay)
Kartik Khillar (IIT Bombay)
Arvind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
Om Vikas (DIT, Delhi)
A.B. Pandey (Government of Maharashtra)
R.M.K. Sinha (IIT Kanpur)
Rajeev Sangal (IIIT Hyderabad)
U.N. Singh (CIIL, Mysore)
P.V.S. Rao (TIL, Mumbai)
Kapil Kapur (JNU, Delhi)
V. Chaitanya (Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetham, Tirupati)
B.B. Chaudhuri (ISI, Kolkata)
C.N.Krishnan (Anna University, Chennai)
Anupam Basu (IIT Kharagpur)
Gautam Barua (IIT Guwahati)
P. Anandan (Microsoft Research India)
N.J.Rao (IISc, Bangalore)
S. Ramani (HP Labs India)
Inderjeet Mani (Georgetown University Washington, DC )
Rohini K. Srihari(University at Buffalo, New York)
B. Yegnanarayana (IIT Madras)
K. Ramamritham (IIT Bombay)
G. Sivakumar (IIT Bombay)
Program Chair:
Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay)
Program Committee:
B.Mallikarjun (CIIL, Mysore)
V.N.Shukla (C-DAC, Noida)
A.B.Saha (C-DAC, Kolkata)
Jitendra Shah (Government of Maharashtra)
Gautam Sengupta (University of Hyderabad)
P. Madhavan (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
M. Hariprasad (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
Tanmoy Bhattacharyya (University of Delhi)
Ayesha Kidwai (JNU, New Delhi)
Sobha L. Nair (Anna University, Chennai)
Sudeshna Sarkar (IIT Kharagpur)
Niladri Chatterjee(IIT Delhi)
K.Narayana Murthy (University of Hyderabad)
K. Anjaneyelu (HP Labs India)
M. Sasikumar (C-DAC, Mumbai)
Niladri Das (ISI, Kolkata)
Mandar Mitra (ISI, Kolkata)
Dipti Mishra Sarma(IIIT Hyderabad)
Kentaro Toyoma (Microsoft Research India)
A. Kumaran (Microsoft Research India)
Vineet Gupta (Google India)
Hemant Darbari (C-DAC, Pune)
Mahesh Kulkarni (C-DAC, Pune)
Amitabha Mukherjee(IIT Kanpur)
Sanghamitra Mohanty (Utkal University, Bhubaneswar)
Amba Kulkarni (Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetham, Tirupati)
Sivaji Bandyopadhyaya (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
Raghu Krishnapuram (IBM India Research Lab)
Ganesh Ramakrishnan(IBM India Research Lab)
Vaijayanthi Sarma (IIT Bombay)
Malhar Kulkarni (IIT Bombay)
R. K. Joshi (IIT Bombay)
Milind Malshe (IIT Bombay)
Rajat Kumar Mohanty(IIT Bombay)
Conveners:
Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay)
B. Mallikarjun (CIIL, Mysore)
V. N. Shukla (C-DAC, Noida)
A. B. Saha (C-DAC, Kolkata)
Organizing Committee:
(CFILT RESEARCH TEAM)
Rajat Kumar Mohanty (IIT Bombay)
Vasant Zende (IIT Bombay)
Sachin Burange (IIT Bombay)
Ronny Melz (University of Leipzig and IIT Bombay)
Debasri Chakrabarty (IIT Bombay)
Ashish F. Almeida (IIT Bombay)
Sushant S. Devlekar (IIT Bombay)
Shraddha Kalele (IIT Bombay)
Gajanan Rane (IIT Bombay)
Salil Badodekar (IIT Bombay)
Jaya Saraswati (IIT Bombay)
Laxmi Kashyap (IIT Bombay)
Prabhakar Pandey (IIT Bombay)
Madhura Bapat (IIT Bombay)
Lata Popale (IIT Bombay)
Vidyadhar P. Kulkarni(IIT Bombay)
Deepak Jagtap (IIT Bombay)
Manish Shrivastava (IIT Bombay)
Smriti Singh (IIT Bombay)
Kuhoo Gupta (IIT Bombay)
Ananthakrishnan R. (IIT Bombay)
Manoj Chinnakotla (IIT Bombay)
Sanjeet Khaitan (IIT Bombay)
Address:
Centre for Indian Language Technology (CFILT)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai-400076, India
Phone: +91-22-2576 7718/ 4729
Fax: +91-22-25720290 /25723480
http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in
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