19.946, Calls: Computational Ling/USA; General Ling/Australia

Thu Mar 20 17:32:34 UTC 2008

LINGUIST List: Vol-19-946. Thu Mar 20 2008. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 19.946, Calls: Computational Ling/USA; General Ling/Australia

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Randall Eggert, U of Utah  
         <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, 
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: F. Okki Kurniawan <okki at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

As a matter of policy, LINGUIST discourages the use of abbreviations
or acronyms in conference announcements unless they are explained in
the text.

To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at 
http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html. 

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 19-Mar-2008
From: Sandra Kuebler < skuebler at indiana.edu >
Subject: ACL-08 Workshop on Parsing German 

2)
Date: 19-Mar-2008
From: Mel Gallagher < m.gallagher at uws.edu.au >
Subject: Interspeech 2008

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:30:37
From: Sandra Kuebler [skuebler at indiana.edu]
Subject: ACL-08 Workshop on Parsing German
E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=19-946.html&submissionid=172741&topicid=3&msgnumber=1  

Full Title: ACL-08 Workshop on Parsing German 

Date: 19-Jun-2008 - 20-Jun-2008
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA 
Contact Person: Gerald Penn
Meeting Email: gpenn at cs.toronto.edu
Web Site: http://https://www.softconf.com/acl08/ACL08-WS11/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 24-Mar-2008 

Meeting Description:

ACL-08 Workshop on Parsing German 

Final Call for Papers

ACL 2008
Workshop on Parsing German (PaGe 08)
June 20, 2008
Columbus, Ohio

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/acl08parsinggerman/

Extended Deadline: March 24

German possesses an interesting set of configurational properties on the syntactic level which make it far less flexible with respect to word order than other free word order languages. Analyses of these properties, which have formed a part of the traditional syntax of German since the early 19th century, only re-entered the mainstream of generative linguistics research within the last twenty years or so. In computational linguistics, however, their realization has varied quite widely: ''topological fields'' in HPSG-style analyses, multiple
parse trees, special constraints on liberation in constraint-based dependency-style analyses, various hybrid ''deep/shallow'' approaches, and agnostic parameter estimation over graphs. This variation can also acutely be felt in the annotation of German treebanks. Many corpora have historically elected to annotate only a few of the different senses of the term ''constituent'' inherent to German syntax, resulting in standards that make German appear either more like English or more like Czech.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for theoretical discussion as well as a shared task, based on the TIGER and TueBa-D/Z German treebanks, for these various approaches to make their case on empirical grounds. This combination we believe to be essential to balancing the considerations of what structure merits learning versus the ease with which it can be learned. Both treebanks are annotated collections of German newspaper text on similar topics. They are annotated with POS, morphology, phrase structure, and grammatical functions. TueBa-D/Z additionally uses topological fields to describe fundamental word order restrictions in German clauses. The treebanks differ significantly in their annotation schemes, however: while TIGER relies on crossing branches to describe long distance relationships, TueBa-D/Z uses pure tree structures with designated labels for long distance relationships. Additionally, the annotation is TIGER is flat
on the phrasal level while TueBa-D/Z annotates phrasal structure more hierarchically.

Participation in the shared task is optional.

Topics:
- constituent based approaches to parsing German
- dependency based approaches to parsing German
- treatment of long-distance relationships in German
- comparisons of parsing results for German to other free word order languages

Shared Task:
The workshop will feature a shared task on parsing German. We will
provide the following data sets:
- TIGER in constituent structure
- TIGER in dependency structure
- TueBa-D/Z in constituent structure
- TueBa-D/Z in dependency structure

The task will be to parse both treebanks using one structural encoding. The final ranking of systems will be based on averages computed between both treebanks. The data sets will be made available free of charge for the shared task, but they do require a license. 

In order to take part in the shared task, participants should register their intent to participate by sending an email to skuebler at indiana.edu. More information will be made available to registered participants.

Important Dates:
Workshop Paper Submission deadline: March 24, 2008
Notifications sent to authors: April 4, 2008
Camera ready due: April18, 2008
Workshop Dates: June 20, 2008

Paper Submission Information:
Submissions will consist of regular full papers of max. 8 pages, formatted following the ACL 2008 main session guidelines. In addition, shared task participants will be invited to submit short papers describing their systems and/or their evaluation metrics. Both submission and review processes will be handled via the START system:

https://www.softconf.com/acl08/ACL08-WS11/

Program Committee:
Berthold Crysmann, Bonn
Amit Dubey, Edinburgh
Anette Frank, Heidelberg
Erhard Hinrichs, Tuebingen
Julia Hockenmaier, Illinois
Laura Kallmeyer, Tuebingen
Frank Keller, Edinburgh
Sandra Kuebler (co-chair)
Wolfgang Menzel, Hamburg 
Stefan Mueller, Berlin
Stephan Oepen, Oslo
Gerald Penn (co-chair)
Helmut Schmid, Stuttgart
Gerold Schneider, Zuerich
Hans Uszkoreit, Saarbruecken
Josef van Genabith, Dublin

Workshop Organizers:
Sandra Kuebler					
Indiana University
skuebler at indiana.edu

Gerald Penn
University of Toronto
gpenn at cs.toronto.edu

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:30:50
From: Mel Gallagher [m.gallagher at uws.edu.au]
Subject: Interspeech 2008
E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=19-946.html&submissionid=172661&topicid=3&msgnumber=2 

Full Title: Interspeech 2008 

Date: 22-Sep-2008 - 26-Sep-2008
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 
Contact Person: Denis Burnham
Meeting Email: d.burnham at uws.edu.au
Web Site: http://www.interspeech.org 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Apr-2007 

Meeting Description:

Interspeech 2008 (22-26 September) is the ninth conference in the annual series of Interspeech events. It will be held in Brisbane, Australia, under the sponsorship of the Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Interspeech 2008 will cover all the scientific and technological aspects of speech science and technology. 

Call for Papers

Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 08 
September 22-26, 2008
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Brisbane, Australia
http://www.interspeech2008.org/

Paper Submission Due: 7 April 2008

Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on Speech Science and Speech Technology. We invite original papers in any related area, including (but not limited to):
- Human Speech Production, Perception and Communication; 
- Speech and Language Technology; 
- Spoken Language Systems; and 
- Applications, Resources, Standardisation and Evaluation.

In addition, a number of Special Sessions on selected topics have been organised and we invite you to submit for these also (see website for a complete list).

Interspeech 2008 has two types of submission formats: Full 4-page Papers and Short 1-page Papers. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in either format via the conference website by 7 April 2008. 

Important Dates 
- Paper Submission: Monday, 7 April 2008, 3pm GMT
- Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: Monday, 16 June 2008, 3pm GMT 
- Early Registration Deadline: Monday, 7 July 2008, 3pm GMT 
- Tutorial Day: Monday, 22 September 2008 
- Main conference: 23-26 September 2008 

For more information please visit the website http://www.interspeech2008.org/

Denis Burnham
Conference Chair
Interspeech 2008

-----------------------------------------------------------

This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $60,000. This money will go to help keep 
the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year.

See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out our Fund Drive 
2008 LINGUIST List Circus and join us on our many shows!

http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2008/

There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST!

You can donate right now using our secure credit card form at  
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later. To do so, go to:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/pledge/pledge1.cfm

For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to 
donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit:
http://linguistlist.org/donate.html

The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as such 
can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is a registered 501(c) 
Non Profit organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These donations 
can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax 
payers only). For more information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your 
financial advisor.

Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match any 
gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your contacting 
your human resources department and sending us a form that the EMU Foundation fills 
in and returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative procedure 
that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. 
Please take a moment to check if your company operates such a program.

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-19-946	