18.1164, Calls: Computational Ling/Australia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-1164. Mon Apr 16 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.1164, Calls: Computational Ling/Australia

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Date: 16-Apr-2007
From: Francis Bond < bond at ieee.org >
Subject: Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics

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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:21:51
From: Francis Bond < bond at ieee.org >
Subject: Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics 

Full Title: Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics 
Short Title: PACLING-2007 

Date: 19-Sep-2007 - 21-Sep-2007
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
Contact Person: Francis Bond
Meeting Email: pacling-2007 at unimelb.edu.au
Web Site: http://mandrake.csse.unimelb.edu.au/pacling2007/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2007 

Meeting Description
The Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational
Linguistics (PACLING-2007 ) will be held in Melbourne, Australia 
from 2007-09-19 to 2007-09-22.  The theme is 'Deep processing: 
Abstracting away from the Surface', but substantial, original, 
unpublished research is welcome on any topic in computational linguistics. 

Third Call for Papers
Pacling-2007
Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Australia
September 19-21, 2007
http://mandrake.csse.unimelb.edu.au/pacling2007/

News
- submission deadline extended to Apr 30, 2007
- submissions now open

Schedule
Submission deadline: Apr 30, 2007  extended
Notification of acceptance: Jun 15, 2007
Camera-ready copy due: Jul 22, 2007
Conference dates: Sep 19-21, 2007

Aims
Pacling 2007 is a high-quality, workshop-style conference whose aim is to
promote friendly scientific interaction relating to computational linguistics
among Pacific Rim countries. The emphasis of the conference is on
interdisciplinary scientific exchange demonstrating openness towards
high-quality research falling outside current dominant schools of thought, and
on technological transfer within the Pacific region. The conference represents a
unique forum for scientific and technological exchange, being smaller than ACL
and COLING, and more regional with extensive representation from the Pacific region.

Theme and Invited Speakers
In addition to general computational linguistics, Pacling-2007 will
have a major theme:

Deep processing: Abstracting away from the surface

We are delighted to announce that three invited speakers will address
this theme:

- Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Topics
Submissions relevant to the theme of deep processing are encouraged.  However,
substantial, original, and unpublished research is welcome on any topic in
computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following:

- Phonology and Phonetics
- Morphology and Morphological Analysis
- Syntax and Syntactic Analysis
- Semantics and Semantic Analysis
- Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
- Spoken Language and Dialogue
- Corpora and Corpus-based Language Processing
- Text and Message Understanding
- Text and Message Generation
- Machine Translation
- Text Summarization
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval and Question-Answering
- Language Learning
- Natural Language Interfaces
- Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri and Ontologies

Submission of Papers
Authors should prepare anonymous submissions, in English, of up to 8 pages
including references.  Guidelines and style sheets (based on the ACL styles) are
available at the web site:

http://mandrake.csse.unimelb.edu.au/pacling2007/

Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether verbatim or in
essence must declare this fact. If a paper appears at another conference, it
must be withdrawn from Pacling-2007. Papers that violate these requirements
are subject to rejection without review.

All papers will be submitted electronically in PDF format, through a web-based
submission system available at:

http://www.softconf.com/start/pacling07/

Organization
President: Shun Ishizaki (Keio University, Japan)
Programme Chair: Francis Bond (NICT, Japan)
Local Chairs:  Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
                        David Martinez (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Programme Committee Members
Emily Bender (University of Washington, USA)
Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware, USA)
Lawrence Cavedon (NICTA, Australia)
Nick Cercone (York University, Canada)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Australia)
Tsutomu Endo (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)
Satoru Ikehara (Tottori University, Japan)
Kentaro Inui (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Pierre Isabelle (University of Quebec, Canada)
Shun Ishizaki (Keio University, Japan)
Daisuke Kawahara (NICT, Japan)
Ali Knott (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Kiyoshi Kogure (ATR, Japan)
Rob Malouf (San Diego State University, USA)
Yuval Marom (GAPbuster Worldwide, Australia)
Hiroshi Masuichi (Fuji Xerox, Japan)
Paul McFetridge (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Robert Mercer (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Diego Molla (Macquarie University, Australia)
Hiromi Nakaiwa (NTT Corp., Japan)
Shigeko Nariyama (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Hwee-Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Yoshihiko Nitta (Nihon University, Japan)
Cecile Paris (CSIRO, Australia)
David Powers (Flinders University, Australia)
Hiroshi Sakaki (Meisei University, Japan)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NICT, Thailand)
Nicola Stokes (NICTA, Australia)
Thepchai Supnithi (NECTEC, Thailand)
Hisami Suzuki (Microsoft Research, USA)
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Enya-Kong Tan (Penang University, Malaysia)

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