19.1100, Calls: Morphology,Syntax/Italy; Computational Ling/Sweden

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Subject: 19.1100, Calls: Morphology,Syntax/Italy; Computational Ling/Sweden

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1)
Date: 02-Apr-2008
From: Roberta D'Alessandro < r.dalessandro at let.leidenuniv.nl >
Subject: Morpho-Syntax of Italian Dialects/CIDSM in Italy 

2)
Date: 02-Apr-2008
From: Harald Hammarström < harald2 at cs.chalmers.se >
Subject: 6th International Conference on Natural Language

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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:45:33
From: Roberta D'Alessandro [r.dalessandro at let.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Morpho-Syntax of Italian Dialects/CIDSM in Italy
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Full Title: Morpho-Syntax of Italian Dialects/CIDSM in Italy 
Short Title: CIDSM in Italy 

Date: 04-Jul-2008 - 06-Jul-2008
Location: Pescara, Italy 
Contact Person: Roberta D'Alessandro
Meeting Email: r.dalessandro at let.leidenuniv.nl
Web Site: http://www.robertadalessandro.it/CISDID/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Syntax 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2008 

Meeting Description:

Morpho-Syntax of Italian Dialects/Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting
(CIDSM) in Italy 

Call for Papers -- Extended Deadline!

CIDSM in Italy -- Morpho-syntax of Italian dialects

Pescara (Italy), 4-6 July 2008

Morpho-syntax of Italian dialects - CIDSM in Italy aims at bringing together
scholars working on Italian dialects, to set a common ground for discussion and
encourage a true exchange among Italian dialectologists. CIDSM has slowly become
a traditional meeting point for Italian dialectologists and linguists interested
in the morpho-syntax of Italian dialects.

Invited Speakers:
- Cecilia Poletto
- Jean-Yves Pollock
- Leonardo Savoia
- Raffaella Zanuttini

There will be a selection with call for papers for this workshop (guidelines
below). Those interested in participating should send an abstract to:
r.dalessandro at let.leidenuniv.nl

Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion) on
any aspect of morphology or syntax of Italian dialects. The conference languages
are English and Italian. We strongly encourage electronic submissions.

Deadline:
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to April 15, 2008.
Speakers will be notified of the results of their abstract review by April 30, 2008.

Abstract Guidelines:
Authors are asked to submit their anonymous abstracts as e-mail attachments
(.pdf or .rtf formats are preferred, .doc is also acceptable). Abstracts should
include the title, but not the author's name(s). The title of the paper, name of
the author(s), affiliation(s), address, phone number, and e-mail address should
be included in the e-mail message. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages
(including examples and references), in 12-point type.

If you are unable to send your abstract via e-mail, please submit 1 anonymous
printed copy plus a separate card giving the title of the abstract, author
name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information. Mailed abstracts should be
sent to:

Roberta D'Alessandro 
Department of Italian, Faculty of Arts
Universiteit Leiden
Van Wijkplaats 3, room 104c
P.O. Box 9500
NL-2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands

Registration Details:
Those who are interested in attending the conference (or only one of the
workshops), whether presenting a paper or not, should also send an e-mail to
r.dalessandro at let.leidenuniv.nl to register (there is no registration fee) and
be included in the mailing list. Further information (including accommodation)
will be provided in due course through our mailing list and on our (forthcoming)
website

Conference Organizing Committee:
Roberta D'Alessandro
Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Marilena Giammarco
Adam Ledgeway
Mario Saltarelli
Antonio Sorella

Il worshop 'Morfo-sintassi dei dialetti italiani'-CIDSM in Italy vuole riunire
studiosi di morfologia e sintassi dei dialetti italiani di ogni quadro teorico,
per incoraggiare una sana e proficua discussione sui fenomeni morfo-sintattici
dei dialetti italiani. I relatori invitati sono:

Cecilia Poletto
Jean-Yves Pollock
Leonardo Savoia
Raffaella Zanuttini

Gli aspiranti relatori sono invitati ad inviare riassunti in forma anonima come
allegati e-mail (preferibilmente .pdf o .rtf) a r.dalessandro at let.leidenuniv.nl
entro il 15 aprile 2008 (la scadenza per la presentazione degli abstract è stata
spostata!!!). Le lingue della conferenza sono l'inglese e l'italiano. Il titolo
della relazione, il nome dell'autore, l'affiliazione, l'indirizzo postale e
l'indirizzo elettronico, dovranno essere inclusi nel testo della e-mail. I
riassunti non dovranno superare le 2 pagine (12pt), compresi esempi e
riferimenti bibliografici. Ogni relatore avrà  a disposizione 20 minuti per la
presentazione più 10 minuti per le domande. La notifica dell'accettazione verrà
data entro 30 aprile 2008.

Nel caso in cui un autore fosse impossibilitato ad inviare il suo riassunto via
e-mail, potrà inviarne una copia (anonima) con un foglio a parte contenente le
informazioni sulla relazione e sull'autore a questo indirizzo:

Roberta D'Alessandro 
Department of Italian, Faculty of Arts
Universiteit Leiden
Van Wijkplaats 3, room 104c
P.O. Box 9500
NL-2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands

Coloro che desiderassero assistere al workshop o alla conferenza (con o senza
intenzione di presentare una comunicazione) sono pregati di inviare un'e-mail a
r.dalessandro at let.leidenuniv.nl (non ci sono tasse d'iscrizione). Ulteriori
informazioni (direzioni, alloggio) saranno presto disponibili sul nostro sito web. 

Il comitato organizzatore
Roberta D'Alessandro
Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Marilena Giammarco
Adam Ledgeway
Mario Saltarelli
Antonio Sorella

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:45:43
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 Language 
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: 09-Apr-2008 

Meeting Description:

The GoTAL conference will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 25-27 August, 2008.  

The conference is hosted by Chalmers University of Technology jointly with 
Gothenburg University, as part of the activities of the Centre for Language
Technology (CLT). GoTAL is the sixth in the series of the TAL conferences, 
following FracTAL (Besançon, France, 1997), VexTAL (Venice, Italy, 1999), PorTAL
(Faro, Algarve, Portugal, 2002), EsTAL (Alicante, Spain, 2004), and 
FinTAL (Turku, Finland 2006). The main purpose of the TAL conference series is
to bring together scientists representing linguistics, computer science and
related fields, sharing a common interest in the advancement of computational
linguistics and natural language processing. 

Call for Papers

Deadline extended to 9 April 2008

GoTAL - 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing

Gothenburg, Sweden

25-27 August 2008

www.cse.chalmers.se/gotal

Scope of the Conference

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

Paper Submission

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 are made using EasyChair: Go to 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gotall2008 

and follow the instructions.

The submissions should be sent anonymous, in PDF format.
(final version format to be specified later). 
For the final version, authors should follow the LNCS instructions:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

The maximum length is 12pp for full papers and 5pp for short papers.

Proceedings:
Accepted papers of both categories will be published in the Conference 
Proceedings, in the LNCS/LNAI series of Springer.

Keynote Speakers:
- Johan Bos, University of Rome La Sapienza
- Lori Lamel, LIMSI Paris
- Joakim Nivre, Växjö University and Uppsala University

Program Committee

Chair:
- Aarne Ranta, Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden

Members:
- Olli Aaltonen, University of Helsinki, 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, Powerset, USA
- Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine
- Lars Borin, Gothenburg University, Sweden
- Johan Bos, La Sapienza, Italy
- Johan Boye, SpeechAct, 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, Växjö University and Uppsala 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, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Tapio Salakoski, University of Turku, Finland
- Karl-Michael Schneider, Textkernel, The Netherlands
- 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)
- 9 April Extended submission deadline
- 16 May: notification of acceptance
- 1 June: early registration deadline
- 25-27 August: conference

Location and Conference Fees:
The conference will be held at the campus of Chalmers University of Technology.
The fees, in the range of 300-400 EUR (senior participant, early registration
until 1 June; reduced fees for students), 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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