18.3866, Calls: General Ling/Russia; Computational Ling/Sweden

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Subject: 18.3866, Calls: General Ling/Russia; Computational Ling/Sweden

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1)
Date: 20-Dec-2007
From: Philip Dudchuk < dudchuk at mail.ru >
Subject: 3rd Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics 

2)
Date: 20-Dec-2007
From: Harald Hammarström < harald2 at cs.chalmers.se >
Subject: 6th International Conference on Natural Language

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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:54:07
From: Philip Dudchuk [dudchuk at mail.ru]
Subject: 3rd Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics
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Full Title: 3rd Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics 
Short Title: MSCL 3 

Date: 17-Apr-2008 - 18-Apr-2008
Location: Moscow, Russia 
Contact Person: Philip Dudchuk
Meeting Email: mscl.organizers at mail.ru
Web Site: http://www.philol.msu.ru/~otipl/new/mscl 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Jan-2008 

Meeting Description

The annual MSCL was first held in 2006. The aim of the conference is to give
young researchers an opportunity to present their work, exchange ideas and
receive feedback from more experienced colleagues. 

Abstracts are solicited from all areas of formal linguistics including but not
limited to Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. The main topic of this
year's conference is Perspectives on the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Although
submissions on the conference's main topic are especially encouraged, all other
abstracts will be given equal consideration.

Abstracts should be anonymous and may not exceed two pages, including data,
references and diagrams. Abstracts should be typed in at least 11-point font,
with one-inch margins. Only abstracts from students (i.e., those not having
defended a PhD by January 28, 2008) will be considered. Accepted papers will be
allotted 20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion.

The deadline for submissions is January 25, 2008. Note that submissions are
limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or 2 joint abstracts
per author. To submit an abstract send an e-mail to mscl.organizers at mail.ru with
a PDF-copy of your abstract attached to the message. In the body of the message
specify the following information:

title of the paper
name(s) of author(s)
affiliation

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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:54:12
From: Harald Hammarström [harald2 at cs.chalmers.se]
Subject: 6th International Conference on Natural Language 
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Full Title: 6th International Conference on Natural Languag 
Short Title: GoTal 

Date: 25-Aug-2008 - 27-Aug-2008
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden 
Contact Person: Aarne Ranta
Meeting Email: aarne at cs.chalmers.se
Web Site: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/gotal.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 04-Apr-2008 

Meeting Description

Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research 
on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language and speech
processing, including, but not limited to:
- Pragmatics, Discourse, Semantics, Syntax, and the Lexicon
- Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
- Speech Recognition
- Speech Synthesis
- Natural Language Generation
- Ontologies, Semantic Networks, and Lexical Resources
- Corpus Linguistics
- Linguistic, Mathematical, and Psychological Models of Language
- Anaphora Resolution
- Word Sense Disambiguation
- Corpus-based Language Modeling
- Machine Translation and Translation Aids
- Text and Speech Interfaces
- Dialogue systems
- Language Learning and Therapy
- Simulation and Visualization
- Knowledge Acquisition and Representation
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval
- Question Answering
- Text Summarization
- Text and Speech Classification
- Systems Evaluation 

We welcome submissions both from academia and the industry on any topic that is
of interest to the NLP community, particularly encouraging research 
emphasizing multidisciplinary aspects of NLP and the interplay between 
linguistics, computer science and application domains such as biomedicine, 
communication systems, public services, and educational technology.

Submitted papers should describe original work, emphasizing completed or 
well advanced, rather than intended, research. The state of completion of 
the reported work must be clearly indicated. Where appropriate, results 
should be rigorously evaluated; the assessment of statistical significance 
for quantitative results is encouraged. Submissions should contain original 
material that has not been previously presented to the scientific community. 
A parallel submission to other publication fora as well as a significant 
overlap in contents with previously published work should be clearly 
indicated to the program committee.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. 
The submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, technical quality, 
and presentation. Papers can be submitted in two categories: 
- full papers, describing substantial research with well-evaluated results 
- short papers, typically describing ongoing research and preliminary results

All accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference 
proceedings. At the conference, full papers will be presented as a talk 
and short papers will be presented as a poster.

Submissions will be made using EasyChair. The URL will be given here as soon as
the GoTAL submission service opens (in January). Also the lengths and styles of
submissions will be specified then.

Proceedings

The previous three TAL conferences had proceedings published in LNCS/LNAI.
For GoTAL, this has not yet been confirmed (as of 20 December 2007).

Keynote Speakers

There will be three keynote speakers, whose names will be announced here
later.

Program Committee

Chair
- Aarne Ranta, Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden

Members
- Olli Aaltonen, University of Turku, Finland
- Walid El Abed, Nestle Corp., Switzerland
- Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Germany
- Jorge Baptista, University of Algarve, Portugal
- Patricio Martinez Barco, University of Alicante, Spain
- Tilman Becker, DFKI, Germany
- Chris Biemann, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine
- Lars Borin, Gothenburg University, Sweden
- Johan Bos, La Sapienza, Italy
- Johan Boye, TeliaSonera, Sweden
- Caroline Brun, Xerox Corp., France
- Sylviane Cardey, University of Franche-Comté, France
- Rolf Carlson, KTH, Sweden
- Lauri Carlson, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
- Robin Cooper, Gothenburg University, Sweden
- Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Rodolfo Delmonte, University of Venice, Italy
- Elisabet Engdahl, Gothenburg University, Sweden
- Jan van Eijck, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Filip Ginter, University of Turku, Finland
- Peter Greenfield, University of Franche-Comté, France
- Philippe de Groote, INRIA Lorraine, France
- Øystein Haug Olsen, Fast, Norway
- Viggo Kann, KTH, Sweden
- Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Hans Leiss, LMU Munich, Germany
- Oliver Lemon, University of Edinburgh, UK
- José Luis Vicedo, University of Alicante, Spain
- Adeline Nazarenko, University Paris-Nord, France
- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala and Växjö University, Sweden
- Bengt Nordström, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Pierre Nugues, University of Lund, Sweden
- Guy Perrier, INRIA Lorraine, France
- Elisabete Ranchhod, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Manny Rayner, Powerset Inc, USA
- Tapio Salakoski, University of Turku, Finland
- Karl-Michael Schneider, Textkernel
- Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University, Australia
- Laurent Spaggiari, Airbus, France
- Izabella Thomas, Université de Franche-Comté, France
- Simo Vihjanen, Lingsoft Ltd., Finland
- Annie Zaenen, Palo Alto Research Center, USA

Important Dates

- 4 April: submission deadline
- 16 May: notification of acceptance
- 25-27 August: conference

Location and Conference Fees

The conference will be held on the campus of Chalmers University of
Technology. The fees, appr. 300 EUR 
(senior participant, early registration until 1 June),
will be announced later. They will cover the conference lectures, 
a copy of proceedings, lunches, coffee, two dinners, and an excursion
to the Gothenburg archipelago.

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