18.2853, Calls: General Ling/France; Computational Ling/USA

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Subject: 18.2853, Calls: General Ling/France; Computational Ling/USA

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1)
Date: 01-Oct-2007
From: Amr Helmy Ibrahim < amr.ibrahim1 at libertysurf.fr >
Subject: Prédicats, prédication et structures prédicatives 

2)
Date: 01-Oct-2007
From: Evie Guo < wikicfp at gmail.com >
Subject: 46th Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics

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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:24:12
From: Amr Helmy Ibrahim [amr.ibrahim1 at libertysurf.fr]
Subject: Prédicats, prédication et structures prédicatives
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Full Title: Prédicats, prédication et structures prédicatives 

Date: 15-Mar-2008 - 15-Mar-2008
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Amr Helmy Ibrahim
Meeting Email: cellulerecherchelinguistique at gmail.com
Web Site: http://crl.exen.fr 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Oct-2007 

Meeting Description

Quatre questions divisent linguistes et grammairiens depuis l'importation dans
leurs disciplines de la notion, à l'origine exclusivement logique, de prédicat:

(1) Quelle est ou quelles sont les catégories linguistiques qui ont vocation à
être prédicatives?
(2) La prédication est-elle une propriété intrinsèque d'un constituant de la
langue, une fonction ou un type de relation?
(3) Existe-t-il un lien entre la perception d'une prédication dans un énoncé et
la construction ou la structure de cet énoncé? Si oui, peut-on dresser une liste
de structures toujours prédicatives ou ayant vocation à l'être?
(4) Y a-t-il un compromis entre la conception de la prédication en logique et
les conceptions linguistiques de cette notion? Ce compromis est-il souhaitable?
Est-il nécessaire d'avoir une conception unifiée de la prédication? 

Appel à contribution 
Call for papers 

La Cellule de Recherche en Linguistique (CRL - Association loi 1901) 
vous invite à lui soumettre une proposition d'intervention à la journée qu'elle
organise à la Sorbonne le samedi 15 mars 2008 sur le thème:

Prédicats, prédications et structures prédicatives

Nous proposons à ceux pour qui cette notion a un sens ainsi qu'à ceux qui
estiment pouvoir démontrer qu'elle n'en a pas, d'en débattre au cours d'une
journée scientifique qui se tiendra le samedi 15 mars 2008 de 9h00 à 18h30 à la
Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne.  

Nous avons prévu 8 interventions. Chaque intervenant disposera de 45 minutes
discussion comprise.

Les propositions doivent parvenir à

cellulerecherchelinguistique at gmail.com

avant le 30 octobre 2007 sous la forme d'un texte n'excédant pas, bibliographie
éventuelle comprise, une page en double interligne (Times 12). La notificaiton
d'acceptation ou de refus (motivé) se fera à réception. Les intervenants retenus
s'engagent à soumettre avant le 31 janvier 2008 un texte de deux pages - (Times
12 - interligne 1,5), bibliographie comprise - qui sera remis aux participants
ou publié sur le site de l'association. Ils s'engagent également à assister à la
totalité de la journée, à participer aux débats et à soumettre pour publication
le texte de leur intervention avant le 15 avril 2008.

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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:24:36
From: Evie Guo [wikicfp at gmail.com]
Subject: 46th Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics
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Full Title: 46th Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics 
Short Title: ACL 

Date: 15-Jun-2008 - 20-Jun-2008
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA 
Contact Person: Chris Brew
Web Site: http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=362 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2008 

Meeting Description

ACL 08: HLT combines the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL) with the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) of the
North American Chapter of the ACL. The conference covers a broad spectrum of
disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans
using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through
services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information
retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction. ACL 08: HLT will
feature full papers, short papers, posters, demonstrations, and a doctoral
consortium, as well as pre- and post-conference tutorials and workshops. The
conference is organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics, in
cooperation with The North American Chapter of the ACL. 

Important Dates

Jan 10, 2008 Full paper submissions due
Feb 28, 2008 Full paper notification of acceptance
Mar 14, 2008 Short paper submissions due
Apr 14, 2008 Short Paper notification of acceptance
Apr 21, 2008 Camera-ready full/short papers due
Jun 15-20, 2008 ACL 08: HLT Conference

Topics of Interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Intelligent systems for natural language interaction, including
- Dialogue systems for collaboration, tutoring and behavioral intervention
- Embodied conversational agents, virtual humans and human-robot conversation
- Language-enhanced platforms for interactive narrative and digital entertainment

Information retrieval
- Speech/MT-oriented information retrieval
- NLP-oriented information retrieval
- General information retrieval

Information retrieval/NLP applications
- Text Data Mining, Information Extraction, Filtering, Recommendation
- Question Answering
- Topic/text classification and clustering
- Sentiment/attribution/genre analysis

Language Generation

Summarization

Machine Translation and Multilingual processing, including
- Cross-language information retrieval
- Machine translation of speech and text
- Multi-lingual speech recognition and language identification

Multimodal representations and processing, including speech and gesture

Speech processing
- Speech recognition
- Speech generation and synthesis
- Rich transcription (automatic annotation of information structure and sources
in speech)

Phonology/Morphology, POS tagging, word segmentation

Syntax and Parsing
- Grammar induction/development
- Corpus-based parsers and evaluation
- Mathematical Linguistics, Formal Grammar, and algorithms

Semantics
- lexical semantics
- formal semantics & logic
- textual entailment & paraphrasing
- word sense disambiguation

Discourse and Pragmatics

Statistical and machine learning techniques for language processing, including
- Corpus-based language modeling
- Lexical and knowledge acquisition
- Formalisms and Metrics

Development of language resources, including
- Lexicons and ontologies
- Treebanks, proposition banks, and frame banks

Evaluation
- Glass-box evaluation of systems and system components
- Black-box evaluation of systems in application settings
- User studies

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