26.4026, Calls: Applied Ling, Computational Ling, Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, Writing Systems/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-4026. Fri Sep 11 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.4026, Calls: Applied Ling, Computational Ling, Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, Writing Systems/USA

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:43:02
From: Yudong Liu [yudong.liu at wwu.edu]
Subject: FLAIRS-2016 Special Track of AI and NLP of Ancient Languages

Full Title: FLAIRS-2016 Special Track of AI and NLP of Ancient Languages 
Short Title: FLAIRS 29 

Date: 16-May-2016 - 18-May-2016
Location: Key Largo, Florida, USA 
Contact Person: Yudong Liu
Meeting Email: yudong.liu at wwu.edu
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/flairs2016stnlpal/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Writing Systems 

Call Deadline: 16-Nov-2015 

Meeting Description:

The track of Natural Language Processing of Ancient Languages is a forum for researchers who develop technology for improved information access to ancient languages including Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Greek, and Classical Chinese, etc.. Applications in these languages are rapidly emerging, while they typically entail new challenges with respect to NLP resources and workflows. Noisy textual or multimodal input, coupled with the scarcity of available digital resources require the adaptation of existing, or the creation of novel approaches to (semi-)automatic processing tools and
structured resources. It is of mutual benefit that NLP experts and Historians working in and across these areas get involved in this AI forum and present their fundamental or applied R&D results.

FLAIRS in 2016 continues a 29-year tradition of presenting and discussing state of the art artificial intelligence and related research in a sociable atmosphere within a beautiful setting. Events will include invited speakers, special tracks, discussion panels, and presentations of papers, posters, and awards. Traditionally, FLAIRS features not only some of the world’s leading researchers but also quality submissions from students.

FLAIRS takes the conference to the Hilton Key Largo Resort, located on 12.5 acres of tropical forest on the edge of the Florida Everglades, just a short drive from Miami. Relax in a spacious sun-filled guest room and on a private balcony. Enjoy a full range of water sports, including jet skiing, para-sailing, and wave runners, all offered on-site, or arrange world-class diving and fishing opportunities on local waters. You can also relax near the pool with your favorite drink and enjoy a light lunch or dinner from the Splashes Pool Bar. Or, adventure just 6 miles away to the first undersea park in the United States: John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.  Located on 70 nautical square miles, enjoy the largest coral reef in the U.S. Popular activities in the park are viewing the reef from a glass-bottom boat, scuba diving, or snorkeling. Canoeing and kayaking through the park's waters are also popular activities, and the Visitor Center has a 30,000-gallon saltwater aquarium!

Call for Papers:

Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished work in the form of long, short, or demo papers. For technical details, please see http://www.flairs-29.info/.

Topic list:

- Adaptation of NLP tools to ancient languages
- Automatic creation of digital resources of ancient languages
- Automatic error detection and cleaning
- Complex annotation tools and interfaces
- Linguistic variation, non-standard or historical use of language
- Linking and retrieving information across different sources, media, and domains
- Standardization efforts in research infrastructure and research data
- Text mining and text analytics (named entities, events, sentiment, discourse, narration)
- Grammar induction applied to ancient languages
- Decipherment

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI and Journal of Innovation in Digital Ecosystems by Elsevier.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: November 16, 2015
Notification of acceptance: January 18, 2015
Camera-ready paper due: February 22, 2016
Conference date: May 16-18, 2016, Key Largo, Florida, U.S.A.

Information for Authors:

Submission Guidelines:

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 16, 2015. All FLAIRS papers are reviewed using a double blind process. Fake author names and affiliations must be used on submitted papers. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-29.info/). Note: do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers. Authors should indicate the AI and Cyber Security special track for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full author registration per paper.

Please, check the website http://www.flairs-29.info/ for further information.

Track co-chairs: 

Yudong Liu, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA (yudong.liu at wwu.edu)

James Hearne, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA (james.hearne at wwu.edu)

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