19.3113, Calls: Computational Ling/USA; General Ling/USA

Tue Oct 14 15:24:36 UTC 2008

LINGUIST List: Vol-19-3113. Tue Oct 14 2008. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 19.3113, Calls: Computational Ling/USA; General Ling/USA

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1)
Date: 13-Oct-2008
From: shahram latifi < latifi at itng.info >
Subject: 6th International Conference on Information Technology 

2)
Date: 13-Oct-2008
From: Chicago Linguistic Society < chicagolinguisticsociety at gmail.com >
Subject: Chicago Linguistic Society 45

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:20:08
From: shahram latifi [latifi at itng.info]
Subject: 6th International Conference on Information Technology

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Full Title: 6th International Conference on Information Technology 
Short Title: ITNG 2009 

Date: 27-Apr-2009 - 29-Apr-2009
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 
Contact Person: Shahram Latifi
Meeting Email: latifi at itng.info
Web Site: http://www.itng.info 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Nov-2008 

Meeting Description:

The International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (ITNG)
is an annual event focusing on state of the art technologies pertaining to
digital information and communications. The applications of advanced information
technology to such domains as astronomy, biology, education, geosciences,
security and health care are among topics of relevance to ITNG. Visionary ideas,
theoretical and experimental results, as well as prototypes, designs, and tools
that help the information readily flow to the user are of special interest. High
Performance Computing, Computing Architectures, and Innovative Methods of
Computing are examples of the related topics. The conference features keynote
speakers, the best student award, poster award, service award and a technical
open panel, and workshops/exhibits from industry, government and academia. 

Call for Papers

Authors should submit a 6-page version of their original and unpublished work
including 5 keywords in the IEEE format to their respective track/session chair.
Papers that do not fit the scope of any of the existing sessions, should be
submitted to the ITNG General Track. Electronic submission in the PDF format or
Word document is strongly encouraged. Per ITNG policy, except for invited
papers, all papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the
IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers presented in the conference will be
considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal.

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:20:15
From: Chicago Linguistic Society [chicagolinguisticsociety at gmail.com]
Subject: Chicago Linguistic Society 45

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Full Title: Chicago Linguistic Society 45 
Short Title: CLS 45 

Date: 16-Apr-2009 - 18-Apr-2009
Location: Chicago, IL, USA 
Contact Person: CLS 45 Officers
Web Site: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Jan-2009 

Meeting Description:

The 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society will be held April
16-18, 2009 at the University of Chicago.  The theme of this year's conference
is 'Locality in Language.'  The conference will include a general session as
well as a parasession devoted to the theme. 

Call for Papers

Main Session

Invited Speakers:
Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam
Lenore Grenoble, University of Chicago
Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware

We welcome papers from all major linguistic subfields and frameworks as well as
from related cross-disciplinary areas.  Papers relating to the theme will be
given preference.

Parasession: Locality in Language

Invited Speakers:
Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts
Ivan Sag, Stanford University
Rachel Walker, University of Southern California

The panels in this parasession will explore issues of locality in various areas
of linguistics, including but not limited to phonology, syntax, semantics, and
processing.

Presentation Format:
Each talk will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for
questions. Presented papers will be published in the CLS Proceedings. 

Submission Guidelines:
Anyone may submit one abstract as the sole author and a second as co-author, or
two as co-author. All abstracts must be submitted online at:

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/abstracts.html

Abstracts should conform to the following specifications: 
- PDF format, with filename "Lastname - Paper Title" (e.g., Asimov - The
Morphophonemics of Robojibwe.pdf). 
- 12-point font, 1-inch margins. 
- Include title and keywords (i.e., CLS session title, language, language
family, linguistics subfield). 
- Abstract should be no more than 500 words in length. Data, keywords, and
references are not included in the final count, but please interleave data with
the main body of the abstract if possible.  Total abstract (including data and
references) should not exceed 2 pages. 
- Author name(s) should not appear on the abstract! Only in the filename. 

Please note that abstracts submitted to CLS 45 will be evaluated under a
two-tiered review system involving both external and internal reviewers. 

Deadline:
All abstracts must be submitted by 11:59 PM CST on Friday, January 16, 2009. The
authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by late February 2009. 

For questions not answered in this call, please visit:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/
or contact us at:
chicagolinguisticsociety at gmail.com

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