From webelhuth at uni-goettingen.de Wed Jan 18 09:01:06 2006 From: webelhuth at uni-goettingen.de (Gert Webelhuth) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:01:06 +0100 Subject: HPSG 2006 Message-ID: Dear Members of the HPSG Community, due to an unexpected (and successful!) hospital stay of mine in the fall, the preparations for HPSG 2006 got a late start. I am sorry about this! This year's conference will take place in Varna on July 24 -27, hosted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. Additional plans are in the works for two days of tutorials and workshops before the conference. A first call for papers will probably be ready by next week and will be posted to the usual places. So, you can start working on your abstracts ... Cheers, Gert From aoife.cahill at computing.dcu.ie Thu Jan 19 11:55:47 2006 From: aoife.cahill at computing.dcu.ie (Aoife Cahill) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:55:47 +0000 Subject: LFG 2006 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for Multiple Postings] Final Call for Papers: LFG 2006 ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE DATES 10 - 13 July 2006 Konstanz, Germany Conference website: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/lfg06/ Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2006 Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee (see addresses below) The 11th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be hosted by the University of Konstanz, Germany from July 10th to 13th 2006. Pre-conference activities are planned for July 8th and 9th. LFG 2006 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse. Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the following sites: SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. + 15 min. discussion), and poster/system presentations. Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the contents of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. The International LFG Association (ILFGA) will pay the conference fees for the students presenting at the student session. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS LFG06 will include a Workshop on South Asian Languages. The workshop will give special emphasis to the interaction between case and semantics, in particular, the interaction between case and aspect. Please watch the conference website for more information. TIMETABLE Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2006 Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2006 Conference: 10 - 13 July 2006 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation session must be received by February 15, 2005. All abstracts should be sent to the program committee at the addresses given below. For further site information, or offers of organisational help, contact the local organiser at: lfg06 at uni-konstanz.de Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to two A4 pages in 10pt or larger type and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self-reference. Note: we no longer ask for a separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and related structures). They can be included in the text of the abstract, obeying the overall two-page limit. Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail. Email submission is preferred. The following information should be provided separately: PAPER TITLE: __________________________________________ (for each author:) NAME: _______________________________ AFFILIATION: _______________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS: _______________________________ IS AUTHOR A STUDENT? (Y/N) ___ (for dissertation session submissions:) UNIVERSITY: _______________________________ ADVISOR(S): _______________________________ (EXPECTED) DATE OF SUBMISSION: _______________________ SESSION TYPE: _________________________ (Should submission be considered for: (1) talk or poster, (2) talk only, (3) poster/demonstration only, (4) dissertation session.) (Note: In the absence of session type specification, submissions will be considered for both the talk and the poster sessions, and the program co-chairs may decide that certain submissions are better as poster presentations than as read papers.) Regular Mail: Include: - Eight copies of the abstract/paper. - A card or cover sheet with author information. Email: Include the author information in the body of your email message. Include or preferably attach your abstract. The preferred file formats are PDF or plain ASCII. (If you cannot create PDF, HTML and postscript will be accepted too. Postscript files require special care to avoid problems: make sure your system is set to include all fonts, or at least all but the standard 13; if using a recent version of Word, make sure you click the printer Properties button and then the Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for Portability; on all platforms make sure the system is not asking for a particular paper size or other device-specific configuration. It is your responsibility to send us a file that us and our reviewers can print. You can often test this by trying to look at the file in a screen previewer such as Ghostview.) All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume published by CSLI Publications. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to: Program Committee Email: Kersti Börjars Aoife Cahill Mail: LFG 2006 c/o Aoife Cahill or c/o Kersti Börjars School of Computing School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures Dublin City University University of Manchester Dublin 9 Manchester M13 9PL Ireland UK Local conference organiser: Miriam Butt INFORMATION about Konstanz, as well as accommodation and registration details, are available on the conference website: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/lfg06/. There is now an on-line form for the reservation of hotel rooms available. If you know you are going to be coming to the conference for sure, it is best if you reserve a room as early as possible. From sag at csli.stanford.edu Fri Jan 20 11:44:24 2006 From: sag at csli.stanford.edu (Ivan A. Sag) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:44:24 -0800 Subject: 2007 Summer Institute, Call for Course Proposals Message-ID: CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS Final deadline for receipt of proposals: March 15, 2006. 2007 Summer Linguistic Institute Stanford University Stanford, CA, July 2-27, 2007 Overview The theme of the 2007 Linguistic Society of America summer institute, 'Empirical Foundations for Theories of Language', takes its inspiration from Weinreich, Labov and Herzog (1968) 'Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Language Change'. The institute will be organized around emerging directions of linguistic research, showcasing new methodologies which complement or enhance existing ones, with the goal of enhancing the grounding of linguistic theory in all parts of the field. The curricular content of the institute aims to inspire the broadening and clarification of the empirical basis of our field, leading directly to the refinement of existing theoretical models or the development of new ones. We are also interested in offering courses which cross the boundaries of traditional subfields of linguistics, many of which have been drawn because of historical accident or technological limitations. As research refocuses itself around new core areas, a redefinition of some of the main theoretical issues within the field is to be expected. For these reasons, we especially seek courses aimed at opening up new lines of inquiry, rather than surveying the generally-accepted state of the art in the field. In addition to courses taught by faculty invited by the institute's organizing committee, we will also include courses obtained by the proposal solicitation process described below. The proposal evaluation committee (see below) includes scholars from diverse academic institutions. The institute will take place from July 2nd to July 27th, 2007 at Stanford University; there will be 4 teaching weeks, and most classes will consist of 8 105-minute meetings. Faculty who teach at the 2007 institute will each receive a living stipend, and reasonable travel costs. To supplement these, we are seeking additional funds to provide a modest honorarium, per course. We therefore solicit proposals for courses, in any area of the field, conforming to these guidelines: Course Descriptions Please provide the following information. Each submission should be a single pdf file. (1) Title of course. (2) Instructor(s): name, current affiliation, current title, year and institution of Ph.D. (3) Brief CV(s), including description of teaching experience (noting, where relevant, connection to the proposed course). An explicit rationale should be provided if more than 2 instructors are proposed. (4) Description of course content (1-2 pages), including a statement of the course's relevance to the theme of the institute. An additional 1-page reading list is desirable. (5) Tentative outline of course schedule (8 x 105-minute sessions). (6) Prerequisites for students in the course (these must be explicitly given in every course proposal). (7) Maximum enrollment (if relevant). (see below) (8) Ideal companion courses or synergistic activities. (see below) FINAL DEADLINE for receipt of proposals: March 15, 2006. We anticipate notification in early summer 2006. Additional Information Some courses may be limited in size due to technical needs (e.g., available lab space) or inherent content (e.g., being labor-intensive for the instructor). The last category above, `ideal companion courses or synergistic activities' is for planning purposes - certain courses would naturally complement other ones, for example, or certain courses may naturally lead to a workshop, or one-day presentation session, which would enhance the intellectual activity of the institute. Please send enquiries and proposals to: linginst07prop at stanford.edu. Institute website: http://linginst07.stanford.edu Institute Director: Peter Sells The committee to evaluate proposals has the following members: (AD = Institute Associate Director.) Mary Beckman (The Ohio State University) Juliette Blevins (AD; University of Leipzig) Kay Bock (University of Illinois) Lyle Campbell (University of Utah) Eve V. Clark (AD; Stanford University) Kai von Fintel (MIT) Jeanette Gundel (University of Minnesota) Larry Horn (Yale University) Dan Jurafsky (AD; Stanford University) Beth Levin (AD; Stanford University) Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of Arizona) Ivan A. Sag (AD; Stanford University) Paul Smolensky (John Hopkins University) Donca Steriade (MIT) Raffaella Zanuttini (Georgetown University) From jp.soehn at uni-tuebingen.de Sun Jan 29 11:34:31 2006 From: jp.soehn at uni-tuebingen.de (Jan-Philipp Soehn) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:34:31 +0100 Subject: HPSG 2006 -- First Call for Papers Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS HPSG 2006 The 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Varna, Bulgaria July 24 - 27, 2006 Conference website: http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/ The 13th International Conference on HPSG will take place in Varna on July 24 -27, 2006, hosted by the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The conference will include a tutorial (July 24) and a workshop on "Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language" (July 25). MAIN CONFERENCE July 26 - 27 Abstracts are solicited for 20 minute presentations (followed by 10 minutes of discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. INVITED SPEAKERS To be announced WORKSHOP "Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language" (announcement) July 25 The workshops associated with HPSG conferences typically address topics that are relevant to any grammatical framework. Contributions to the workshop from other frameworks are as welcome as abstract submissions from the HPSG community! The relationship between regularity and irregularity in language has always been a central research theme in linguistic theorizing. Contemporary grammatical frameworks in the generative tradition are no exception in this regard, with research dating back at least as far as George Lakoff's 1967 dissertation. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar is particularly well-suited to address such issues, due to its lexicalist orientation and to its extensive use of types and inheritance hierarchies. Consequently, HPSG researchers have made significant contributions to the study of regularity and irregularity in the areas of morphology, syntax and semantics. To name only a few examples: Morphology and morphology-syntax interface: Flickinger's dissertation on lexical rules and the structure of the lexicon (Flickinger 1987); Nerbonne and Krieger's work on the organization of the lexicon and on inflectional morphology (Nerbonne and Krieger 1993); Riehemann's corpus-based study of derivational morphology (Riehemann 1998); Malouf's constructional approach to English gerunds. Syntax and syntax-semantics interface: Przepiorkowski's account of case assigmnment in Polish (Przepiorkowski 1999); Sag's papers on assignment rules and exceptions in the English auxiliary system (Sag 2001); Ginzburg and Sag's constructional approach to the syntax and semantics of questions (Ginzburg and Sag 2001). Semantics: research on licensing of special elements, including idioms (Riehemann 2001, Soehn 2006), n-words and negative polarity items (Przepiorkowski and Kupsc 1999; Sailer/Richter 1999; De Swart and Sag 2002). We invite contributions that address issues related to the above research topics, that discuss theoretical issues in the treatment of regularity and irregularity in language, or that present empirical studies that pose interesting challenges to existing accounts. The format of submission and the deadlines for the workshop will be identical to that of the main conference. SUBMISSION DETAILS For both the main conference and the workshop, we invite online submissions of abstracts for presentations which should consist of two parts: 1. a separate information page in plain text format, containing - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - e-mail and postal address(es) - title of paper 2. an extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including all figures and references. Abstracts should be in PDF format. We use an online subscription system. All abstracts should be submitted via http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006 (If you have any questions: jp.soehn at uni-tuebingen.de). Abstracts for the main conference should mention 'HPSG-06' and abstracts for the workshop should mention 'Workshop-06' in the subject line. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Authors are asked to avoid self-references in the abstracts. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2005 Tutorial, Workshop, and Conference: July 24 - 27, 2006 PUBLICATION The proceedings of the conference will be published on-line by CSLI publications. A call for papers for contributions will be issued after the conference. On-line proceedings of previous conferences are available at http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE for the CONFERENCE To be announced Program chairs: Erhard Hinrichs (Tuebingen) Jan-Philipp Soehn (Tuebingen) LOCAL ORGANIZATION Chair: Kiril Simov (Sofia) FURTHER INFORMATION local organization: Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova programm and submissions: Jan-Philipp Soehn conference web site: http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/ submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech-to-speech translation: * speech and language translation * speech recognition * speech synthesis * evaluation and system aspects: performance measures, integration of recognition and translation, combination of system outputs, ... Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. Further details on the submission guidelines can be found on the workshop web site www.elda.org/tcstar-workshop. INVITED SPEAKERS: F. Och, Google Research, USA: Machine Translation M. Gales, U Cambridge, UK: Speech Recognition N. Campbell, ATR, Japan: Speech Synthesis IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of full papers (6 pages) March 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance April 17, 2006 "Camera-ready" paper submission May 22, 2006 Registration June 2, 2006 Workshop June 19-21, 2006 ORGANIZING COMITTEE: A. Bonafonte, UP Catalunya, Spain K. Choukri, ELDA, France J.-L. Gauvain, LIMSI, France J. Kunzmann, IBM, Germany G. Lazzari, ITC-IRST, Italy H. Ney (Workshop Chair), RWTH Aachen, Germany H. van den Heuvel, U Nijmegen, Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE: A. Black, CMU, USA B. Byrne, U Cambridge, UK N. Campbell, ATR, Japan F. Casacuberta, UP Valencia, Spain T. Ciloglu, METU Ankara, Turkey L. Deng, Microsoft Research, USA M. Federico, ITC-IRST, Italy G. Foster, NRC-IIT Ottawa, Canada T. Hain, U Sheffield, UK U. Hain, Siemens, Germany Z. Kacic, U Maribor, Slovenia K. Kirchhoff, U Washington, USA R. Kuhn, NRC-IIT Ottawa, Canada J. Marino, UP Catalunya, Spain H. Meng, CUHK, China D. Mostefa, ELDA, France J. Nurminen, Nokia, Finland F. Och, Google Research, USA L. Qun, ICT, China S. Roukos, IBM Research, USA J. Senellart, Systran Research, France I. Shafran, Johns Hopkins U, USA H. Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany A. Venkataraman, SRI, USA A. Waibel, U Karlsruhe, Germany R. Zens, RWTH Aachen, Germany C. 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This year's conference will take place in Varna on July 24 -27, hosted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. Additional plans are in the works for two days of tutorials and workshops before the conference. A first call for papers will probably be ready by next week and will be posted to the usual places. So, you can start working on your abstracts ... Cheers, Gert From aoife.cahill at computing.dcu.ie Thu Jan 19 16:55:47 2006 From: aoife.cahill at computing.dcu.ie (Aoife Cahill) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:55:47 +0000 Subject: LFG 2006 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for Multiple Postings] Final Call for Papers: LFG 2006 ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE DATES 10 - 13 July 2006 Konstanz, Germany Conference website: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/lfg06/ Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2006 Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee (see addresses below) The 11th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be hosted by the University of Konstanz, Germany from July 10th to 13th 2006. Pre-conference activities are planned for July 8th and 9th. LFG 2006 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse. Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the following sites: SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. + 15 min. discussion), and poster/system presentations. Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the contents of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. The International LFG Association (ILFGA) will pay the conference fees for the students presenting at the student session. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS LFG06 will include a Workshop on South Asian Languages. The workshop will give special emphasis to the interaction between case and semantics, in particular, the interaction between case and aspect. Please watch the conference website for more information. TIMETABLE Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2006 Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2006 Conference: 10 - 13 July 2006 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation session must be received by February 15, 2005. All abstracts should be sent to the program committee at the addresses given below. For further site information, or offers of organisational help, contact the local organiser at: lfg06 at uni-konstanz.de Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to two A4 pages in 10pt or larger type and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self-reference. Note: we no longer ask for a separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and related structures). They can be included in the text of the abstract, obeying the overall two-page limit. Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail. Email submission is preferred. The following information should be provided separately: PAPER TITLE: __________________________________________ (for each author:) NAME: _______________________________ AFFILIATION: _______________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS: _______________________________ IS AUTHOR A STUDENT? (Y/N) ___ (for dissertation session submissions:) UNIVERSITY: _______________________________ ADVISOR(S): _______________________________ (EXPECTED) DATE OF SUBMISSION: _______________________ SESSION TYPE: _________________________ (Should submission be considered for: (1) talk or poster, (2) talk only, (3) poster/demonstration only, (4) dissertation session.) (Note: In the absence of session type specification, submissions will be considered for both the talk and the poster sessions, and the program co-chairs may decide that certain submissions are better as poster presentations than as read papers.) Regular Mail: Include: - Eight copies of the abstract/paper. - A card or cover sheet with author information. Email: Include the author information in the body of your email message. Include or preferably attach your abstract. The preferred file formats are PDF or plain ASCII. (If you cannot create PDF, HTML and postscript will be accepted too. Postscript files require special care to avoid problems: make sure your system is set to include all fonts, or at least all but the standard 13; if using a recent version of Word, make sure you click the printer Properties button and then the Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for Portability; on all platforms make sure the system is not asking for a particular paper size or other device-specific configuration. It is your responsibility to send us a file that us and our reviewers can print. You can often test this by trying to look at the file in a screen previewer such as Ghostview.) All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume published by CSLI Publications. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to: Program Committee Email: Kersti B?rjars Aoife Cahill Mail: LFG 2006 c/o Aoife Cahill or c/o Kersti B?rjars School of Computing School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures Dublin City University University of Manchester Dublin 9 Manchester M13 9PL Ireland UK Local conference organiser: Miriam Butt INFORMATION about Konstanz, as well as accommodation and registration details, are available on the conference website: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/lfg06/. There is now an on-line form for the reservation of hotel rooms available. If you know you are going to be coming to the conference for sure, it is best if you reserve a room as early as possible. From sag at csli.stanford.edu Fri Jan 20 16:44:24 2006 From: sag at csli.stanford.edu (Ivan A. Sag) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:44:24 -0800 Subject: 2007 Summer Institute, Call for Course Proposals Message-ID: CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS Final deadline for receipt of proposals: March 15, 2006. 2007 Summer Linguistic Institute Stanford University Stanford, CA, July 2-27, 2007 Overview The theme of the 2007 Linguistic Society of America summer institute, 'Empirical Foundations for Theories of Language', takes its inspiration from Weinreich, Labov and Herzog (1968) 'Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Language Change'. The institute will be organized around emerging directions of linguistic research, showcasing new methodologies which complement or enhance existing ones, with the goal of enhancing the grounding of linguistic theory in all parts of the field. The curricular content of the institute aims to inspire the broadening and clarification of the empirical basis of our field, leading directly to the refinement of existing theoretical models or the development of new ones. We are also interested in offering courses which cross the boundaries of traditional subfields of linguistics, many of which have been drawn because of historical accident or technological limitations. As research refocuses itself around new core areas, a redefinition of some of the main theoretical issues within the field is to be expected. For these reasons, we especially seek courses aimed at opening up new lines of inquiry, rather than surveying the generally-accepted state of the art in the field. In addition to courses taught by faculty invited by the institute's organizing committee, we will also include courses obtained by the proposal solicitation process described below. The proposal evaluation committee (see below) includes scholars from diverse academic institutions. The institute will take place from July 2nd to July 27th, 2007 at Stanford University; there will be 4 teaching weeks, and most classes will consist of 8 105-minute meetings. Faculty who teach at the 2007 institute will each receive a living stipend, and reasonable travel costs. To supplement these, we are seeking additional funds to provide a modest honorarium, per course. We therefore solicit proposals for courses, in any area of the field, conforming to these guidelines: Course Descriptions Please provide the following information. Each submission should be a single pdf file. (1) Title of course. (2) Instructor(s): name, current affiliation, current title, year and institution of Ph.D. (3) Brief CV(s), including description of teaching experience (noting, where relevant, connection to the proposed course). An explicit rationale should be provided if more than 2 instructors are proposed. (4) Description of course content (1-2 pages), including a statement of the course's relevance to the theme of the institute. An additional 1-page reading list is desirable. (5) Tentative outline of course schedule (8 x 105-minute sessions). (6) Prerequisites for students in the course (these must be explicitly given in every course proposal). (7) Maximum enrollment (if relevant). (see below) (8) Ideal companion courses or synergistic activities. (see below) FINAL DEADLINE for receipt of proposals: March 15, 2006. We anticipate notification in early summer 2006. Additional Information Some courses may be limited in size due to technical needs (e.g., available lab space) or inherent content (e.g., being labor-intensive for the instructor). The last category above, `ideal companion courses or synergistic activities' is for planning purposes - certain courses would naturally complement other ones, for example, or certain courses may naturally lead to a workshop, or one-day presentation session, which would enhance the intellectual activity of the institute. Please send enquiries and proposals to: linginst07prop at stanford.edu. Institute website: http://linginst07.stanford.edu Institute Director: Peter Sells The committee to evaluate proposals has the following members: (AD = Institute Associate Director.) Mary Beckman (The Ohio State University) Juliette Blevins (AD; University of Leipzig) Kay Bock (University of Illinois) Lyle Campbell (University of Utah) Eve V. Clark (AD; Stanford University) Kai von Fintel (MIT) Jeanette Gundel (University of Minnesota) Larry Horn (Yale University) Dan Jurafsky (AD; Stanford University) Beth Levin (AD; Stanford University) Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of Arizona) Ivan A. Sag (AD; Stanford University) Paul Smolensky (John Hopkins University) Donca Steriade (MIT) Raffaella Zanuttini (Georgetown University) From jp.soehn at uni-tuebingen.de Sun Jan 29 16:34:31 2006 From: jp.soehn at uni-tuebingen.de (Jan-Philipp Soehn) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:34:31 +0100 Subject: HPSG 2006 -- First Call for Papers Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS HPSG 2006 The 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Varna, Bulgaria July 24 - 27, 2006 Conference website: http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/ The 13th International Conference on HPSG will take place in Varna on July 24 -27, 2006, hosted by the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The conference will include a tutorial (July 24) and a workshop on "Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language" (July 25). MAIN CONFERENCE July 26 - 27 Abstracts are solicited for 20 minute presentations (followed by 10 minutes of discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. INVITED SPEAKERS To be announced WORKSHOP "Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language" (announcement) July 25 The workshops associated with HPSG conferences typically address topics that are relevant to any grammatical framework. Contributions to the workshop from other frameworks are as welcome as abstract submissions from the HPSG community! The relationship between regularity and irregularity in language has always been a central research theme in linguistic theorizing. Contemporary grammatical frameworks in the generative tradition are no exception in this regard, with research dating back at least as far as George Lakoff's 1967 dissertation. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar is particularly well-suited to address such issues, due to its lexicalist orientation and to its extensive use of types and inheritance hierarchies. Consequently, HPSG researchers have made significant contributions to the study of regularity and irregularity in the areas of morphology, syntax and semantics. To name only a few examples: Morphology and morphology-syntax interface: Flickinger's dissertation on lexical rules and the structure of the lexicon (Flickinger 1987); Nerbonne and Krieger's work on the organization of the lexicon and on inflectional morphology (Nerbonne and Krieger 1993); Riehemann's corpus-based study of derivational morphology (Riehemann 1998); Malouf's constructional approach to English gerunds. Syntax and syntax-semantics interface: Przepiorkowski's account of case assigmnment in Polish (Przepiorkowski 1999); Sag's papers on assignment rules and exceptions in the English auxiliary system (Sag 2001); Ginzburg and Sag's constructional approach to the syntax and semantics of questions (Ginzburg and Sag 2001). Semantics: research on licensing of special elements, including idioms (Riehemann 2001, Soehn 2006), n-words and negative polarity items (Przepiorkowski and Kupsc 1999; Sailer/Richter 1999; De Swart and Sag 2002). We invite contributions that address issues related to the above research topics, that discuss theoretical issues in the treatment of regularity and irregularity in language, or that present empirical studies that pose interesting challenges to existing accounts. The format of submission and the deadlines for the workshop will be identical to that of the main conference. SUBMISSION DETAILS For both the main conference and the workshop, we invite online submissions of abstracts for presentations which should consist of two parts: 1. a separate information page in plain text format, containing - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - e-mail and postal address(es) - title of paper 2. an extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including all figures and references. Abstracts should be in PDF format. We use an online subscription system. All abstracts should be submitted via http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006 (If you have any questions: jp.soehn at uni-tuebingen.de). Abstracts for the main conference should mention 'HPSG-06' and abstracts for the workshop should mention 'Workshop-06' in the subject line. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Authors are asked to avoid self-references in the abstracts. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2005 Tutorial, Workshop, and Conference: July 24 - 27, 2006 PUBLICATION The proceedings of the conference will be published on-line by CSLI publications. A call for papers for contributions will be issued after the conference. On-line proceedings of previous conferences are available at http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE for the CONFERENCE To be announced Program chairs: Erhard Hinrichs (Tuebingen) Jan-Philipp Soehn (Tuebingen) LOCAL ORGANIZATION Chair: Kiril Simov (Sofia) FURTHER INFORMATION local organization: Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova programm and submissions: Jan-Philipp Soehn conference web site: http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/ submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at elda.org Mon Jan 30 11:04:52 2006 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:04:52 +0100 Subject: TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation - June 19-21, 2006, Barcelona, Spain Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation June 19-21, 2006 Barcelona, Spain TC-STAR is a European integrated project focusing on Speech-to-Speech Translation (SST). The project targets unconstrained conversational speech domains in three languages: European English, European Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on all aspects of speech-to-speech translation and to compare TC-Star innovative approaches to other on-going research projects. The workshop is associated with an open evaluation campaign (for details see: www.elda.org/tcstar-workshop), whose results will be presented in addition to regular papers. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech-to-speech translation: * speech and language translation * speech recognition * speech synthesis * evaluation and system aspects: performance measures, integration of recognition and translation, combination of system outputs, ... Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. Further details on the submission guidelines can be found on the workshop web site www.elda.org/tcstar-workshop. INVITED SPEAKERS: F. Och, Google Research, USA: Machine Translation M. Gales, U Cambridge, UK: Speech Recognition N. Campbell, ATR, Japan: Speech Synthesis IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of full papers (6 pages) March 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance April 17, 2006 "Camera-ready" paper submission May 22, 2006 Registration June 2, 2006 Workshop June 19-21, 2006 ORGANIZING COMITTEE: A. Bonafonte, UP Catalunya, Spain K. Choukri, ELDA, France J.-L. Gauvain, LIMSI, France J. Kunzmann, IBM, Germany G. Lazzari, ITC-IRST, Italy H. Ney (Workshop Chair), RWTH Aachen, Germany H. van den Heuvel, U Nijmegen, Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE: A. Black, CMU, USA B. Byrne, U Cambridge, UK N. Campbell, ATR, Japan F. Casacuberta, UP Valencia, Spain T. Ciloglu, METU Ankara, Turkey L. Deng, Microsoft Research, USA M. Federico, ITC-IRST, Italy G. Foster, NRC-IIT Ottawa, Canada T. Hain, U Sheffield, UK U. Hain, Siemens, Germany Z. Kacic, U Maribor, Slovenia K. Kirchhoff, U Washington, USA R. Kuhn, NRC-IIT Ottawa, Canada J. Marino, UP Catalunya, Spain H. Meng, CUHK, China D. Mostefa, ELDA, France J. Nurminen, Nokia, Finland F. Och, Google Research, USA L. Qun, ICT, China S. Roukos, IBM Research, USA J. Senellart, Systran Research, France I. Shafran, Johns Hopkins U, USA H. Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany A. Venkataraman, SRI, USA A. Waibel, U Karlsruhe, Germany R. Zens, RWTH Aachen, Germany C. 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To view all the Language Resources available, you can visit our on-line catalogue : http://www.elra.info or http://www.elda.org The GlobalPhone Database: GlobalPhone is a multilingual speech and text database collected at Karlsruhe University, Germany and covers 15 languages: Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic), Chinese-Mandarin, Chinese-Shanghai, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Tamil, and Turkish. Special prices are offered for a combined purchase of several GlobalPhone languages (5 languages, 10 languages or 15 languages). 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