[Corpora-List] Meeting vs Symposium vs Conference

[Eric Atwell]

I'm surprised no-one has offered an answer which seems obvious to me:

you should not have to assess the "ranking" of a 
conference/journal yourself,  you should 
(i) ask your PhD Supervisor - they are paid to advise you, after all!
and (ii) check out some of the journal/conference rankings used by
research ranking exercises such as RAE/REF in UK, eg see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_ranking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Excellence_Framework

  ... then start by submitting a paper to a low-ranking publication,
and ramp up to higher-ranking outlets as your PhD proceeds.

I strongly encourage all my PhD supervisees to publish a stream of
papers as material towards the final Thesis.


Eric Atwell, Associate Professor, Language research group,
  I-AIBS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems
  School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
  Leeds LS2 9JT, England.        TEL: 0113-3435430  FAX: 0113-3435468
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Krishnamurthy, Ramesh wrote:

> Hi Majid - "I should see the characteristics of the events in the websites not their name!"
>
> Absolutely! :)
>
> ...and if you are still in any doubt, contact the organisers of the event, to make sure it is appropriate
>
> for your purpose!
>
> best
>
> Ramesh
>
> ________________________________
> From: Majid Laali [mjlaali at gmail.com]
> Sent: 12 October 2012 08:52
> To: Krishnamurthy, Ramesh
> Cc: corpora at uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Meeting vs Symposium vs Conference
>
> Dear Krishnamurthy,
>
> There is a misunderstanding about what I mean. Actually, I do not want to know the meaning of these words or usage of the words.As an student, I would like to submit a paper to a conference/symposium/meeting. I thought as differences among workshops, conferences and journal, there might be some different between the events too.
> To make it more clear, I believe that for a thesis as an example, we can schedule as follows: basic idea of a research can be submitted to a workshop and more elaborate studies on this subject can lead to several conference papers. Finally, all the works can be summarized in a journal article.
> With regard to your answer, I find out there is no fundamental differences among conferences, symposium, or meetings for targeting an event for a paper. For this purpose, I should see the characteristics of the events in the websites not their name!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Majid,
>
> /******************************
> Majid Laali,
> Natural Language and text Processing Laboratory(http://ece.ut.ac.ir/NLP),
> School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
> College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
> m.laali at ut.ac.ir<mailto:m.laali at ut.ac.ir>
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>
> On Oct 9, 2012, at 6:01 PM, "Krishnamurthy, Ramesh" <r.krishnamurthy at aston.ac.uk<mailto:r.krishnamurthy at aston.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
> Hi Jernej
>
> No need to apologise - it's me who should say sorry! :)
>
> As usual, a quick discussion-list posting can be easily misunderstood! :)
> What I meant to say was - search the archives to see which organisations
> called their events meetings, conferences, or symposia, and look at the characteristics
> of those organisations and those events.
>
> For example, if Majid is organising such an event in the field of corpus linguistics,
> and wants to know what to call it, this would be a good way to decide?
>
> best
> Ramesh
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Jernej Vicic [jernej.vicic at upr.si<mailto:jernej.vicic at upr.si>]
> Sent: 09 October 2012 13:14
> To: Krishnamurthy, Ramesh
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Meeting vs Symposium vs Conference
>
> Dear Mr. Krishnamurthy!
>
> I apologise myself in advance but I just had to answer this, it made me
> laugh:)
>
>
> On 10/09/2012 02:07 PM, Krishnamurthy, Ramesh wrote:
> Hi
>
> A discussion-list is not the best place to find defintions of words -
>
> as you will see from the many postings about the meaning of 'corpus'! :)
>
> I agree as I followed the discussion in the last two weeks and it still
> did not converge to a "simple answer".
>
> But, if a discussion is not the best place ...
> If you want to know the usage within a particular technical field, look within
>
> that field. For example, if you want to know the usage within corpus linguistics,
>
> you could go to the searchable archives of corpora-list, listed at
>
> http://www.hit.uib.no/corpora/
>
> and search each of the terms.
>
>
> ... you should not use the discussion list:)
>
> Sorry, but I just had to do it:)
>
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  I-AIBS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems
  School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
  Leeds LS2 9JT, England.        TEL: 0113-3435430  FAX: 0113-3435468
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