From shuichi_yatabe at yahoo.co.jp Fri Feb 1 02:50:07 2008 From: shuichi_yatabe at yahoo.co.jp (Shuichi Yatabe) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:50:07 +0900 Subject: HPSG08: Last Call for Papers Message-ID: Dear all, This is the last call for papers for the 15th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG-2008). http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/hpsg-2008/ HPSG-2008 will take place on 28-30 July, 2008, near the historic cities of Nara and Kyoto in Japan. Invited Speakers Mutsumi Imai (Keio University) Tibor Kiss (Ruhr-Universit"at Bochum) Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas at Austin) Call for Papers Abstracts are solicited for presentations which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Each presentation will be allotted 40 minutes, but the talk itself must be at most 30 minutes long, leaving at least 10 minutes for discussion. The last day of the conference will be devoted to a workshop on "Grammar at the Interfaces", whose purpose is to explore not just various problems regarding grammar-internal interfaces (such as the syntax-semantics interface and the morphology-syntax interface) but also issues surrounding the interface between competence grammar and extragrammatical factors. Papers that do not utilize the theoretical framework of HPSG will be as welcome as papers that do. Submissions We will use an online submission system. All abstracts should be submitted via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2008 Abstracts should be in PDF format and should not be more than 5 (five) pages long. Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair: hpsg2008 at easychair.org Abstracts for the main conference should mention 'HPSG-08' and abstracts for the workshop should mention 'Workshop-08' in the title. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Abstracts should not include the authors' names and authors are asked to avoid self-references. The Program Committee reserves the right to reassign accepted papers from the main conference to the workshop, and vice versa. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2008 Conference: July 28-30, 2008 Publication The conference proceedings will be published online by CSLI publications. A call for contributions to the publications will be issued after the conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are available at http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/. The final deadline for receipt of written versions of conference papers is October 25, 2008. Program Committee Anne Abeill'e, Olivier Bonami, Bob Borsley, Gosse Bouma, Rui Chaves, Berthold Crysmann, Markus Egg, Elisabet Engdahl, Daniel Flickinger, Jonathan Ginzburg, Dani`ele Godard, Chikara Hashimoto, Erhard Hinrichs, Anke Holler, Chiharu Uda Kikuta, Jong-Bok Kim, Tibor Kiss, Anna Kupsc, Shalom Lappin, Robert Levine, Rob Malouf, Nurit Melnik, Detmar Meurers, Stefan M"uller, Tsuneko Nakazawa, Gerald Penn, Adam Przepi'orkowski, Frank Richter, Louisa Sadler, Ivan Sag, Manfred Sailer, Jesse Tseng, Stephen Wechsler, Shuichi Yatabe (chair), and Kei Yoshimoto. Conference Web Site http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/hpsg-2008/ Submission Web Site http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2008 Supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology ----- Shuichi Yatabe University of Tokyo From info at elda.org Fri Feb 1 03:43:41 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:43:41 +0100 Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT Workshop (LREC 2008) Message-ID: ******************************************************************** Second call for Papers (deadline for abstract : 12/02/2008) Second International Workshop on EMOTION (satellite of LREC): CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT Monday, 26 May 2008 in Marrakech (Morocco) In Association with 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ Main Conference 28-29-30 May 2008 ********************************************************************** This decade has seen an upsurge of interest in systems that register emotion (in a broad sense) and react appropriately to it. Emotion corpora are fundamental both to developing sound conceptual analyses and to training these 'emotion-oriented systems' at all levels - to recognise user emotion, to express appropriate emotions, to anticipate how a user in one state might respond to a possible kind of reaction from the machine, etc. Corpora have only begun to grow with the area, and much work is needed before they provide a sound foundation. This workshop follows a first successful workshop on Corpora for research on Emotion and Affect at LREC 2006. The HUMAINE network of excellence (http://emotion-research.net/) has brought together several groups working on the development of emotional databases, the HUMAINE association will continue this effort and the workshop aims to broaden the interaction that has developed in that context. The HUMAINE Association portal will provide a range of services for individuals, such as a web presence, access to data, and an email news service; special interest groups will be provided with a working folder, a mailing list, and a discussion forum or a blog. Conferences, workshops and research projects in the area of emotion-oriented computing can be given a web presence on the portal. Papers are invited in the area of corpora for research on emotion and affect. They may raise one or more of the following questions. What kind of theory of emotion is needed to guide the area? What are appropriate sources? Which modalities should be considered, in which combinations? What are the realistic constraints on recording quality? How can the emotional content of episodes be described within a corpus? Which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how? How should access to corpora be provided? What level of standardisation is appropriate? How can quality be assessed? Ethical issues in database development and access. Description of the specific technical issues of the workshop: Many models of emotion are common enough to affect the way teams go about collecting and describing emotion-related data. Some which are familiar and intuitively appealing are known to be problematic, either because they are theoretically dated or because they do not transfer to practical contexts. To evaluate the resources that are already available, and to construct valid new corpora, research teams need some sense of the models that are relevant to the area. • What are appropriate sources? In the area of emotion, some of the hardest problems involve acquiring basic data. Four main types of source are commonly used. Their potential contributions and limitations need to be understood. • Acted: Many widely used emotion databases consist of acted representations of emotion (which may or may not be generated by actors). The method is extremely convenient, but it is known that systems trained on acted material may not transfer to natural emotion. It has to be established what kind of acted material is useful for what purposes. • Application-driven: A growing range of databases are derived from specific applications (eg call centres). These are ideal for some purposes, but access is often restricted for commercial reasons, and it is highly desirable to have more generic material that could underpin work on a wide range of applications. • General naturalistic: Data that is representative of everyday life is an attractive ideal, but very difficult to collect. Making special-purpose recordings of everyday life is a massive task, with the risk that recording changes behaviour. Several teams have used material from broadcasts, radio & TV (talk shows, current affairs). That raises issues of access, signal quality, and genuineness. • Induction: A natural ideal is to induce emotion of appropriate kinds under appropriate circumstances. Satisfying induction is an elusive ideal, but new techniques are gradually emerging. • Which modalities should be considered, in which combinations? Emotion is reflected in multiple channels - linguistic content, paralinguistic expression, facial expression, eye movement, gesture, gross body movement, manner of action, visceral changes (heart rate, etc), brain states (eeg activity, etc). The obvious ideal is to cover all simultaneously, but that is impractical - and it is not clear how often all the channels are actually active. The community needs to clarify the relative usefulness of the channels, and of strategies for sampling combinations. • What are the realistic constraints on recording quality? Naturalism tends to be at odds with ease of signal processing. Understanding of the relevant tradeoffs needs to be reached. That includes awareness of different applications (high quality may not be crucial for defining the expressive behaviours a virtual agent should show) and of timescale for solving particular signal processing issues(eg recovering features from images of heads in arbitrary poses). • How can the emotional content of episodes be described within a corpus? Several broad approaches exist to transcribing the emotional content of an excerpt - using everyday emotion words; using dimensional descriptions rooted in psychological theory (intensity, evaluation, activation, power); using concepts from appraisal theory (perceived goal-conduciveness of a development, potential for coping, etc). These are being developed in specific ways driven by goals such as elegance, inter-rater reliability, and faithfulness to the subtlety of everyday emotion, relevance to agent decisions, etc. There seems to be a real prospect of achieving an agreed synthesis of the main schemes. • Which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how? Corresponding to each emotion-related channel is one or more sets of signs relevant to conveying emotion. For instance, paralinguistic signs exist at the level of basic features - F0, intensity, formant-related properties, and so on; at the level of linguistic features of prosody ; and at more global levels (tune shapes, repetitions, etc). Even for speech, inventories of relevant signs need to be developed, and for channels such as idle body movements, few descriptive systems have been proposed. Few teams have the expertise to annotate many types of sign competently, and so it is important to establish ways of allowing teams that do have the expertise to make their annotations available as part of a database. Mainly for lower level features, automatic transcription methods exist, and their role needs to be clarified. In particular, tests of their reliability are needed, and that depends on data that can serve as a reference. • How should access to corpora be provided? Practically, it is clearly important to find ways of establishing a sustainable and easily expandable multi-modal database for any sorts of emotion-related data; to develop tools for easily importing and exporting data; to develop analysis tools and application programmers’ interfaces to work on the stored data and meta-data; and to provide ready access to existing data from previous projects. Approaches to those goals need to be defined. • What level of standardisation is appropriate? Standardisation is clearly desirable in the long term, but with so many basic issues unresolved, it is not clear where real consensus can be achieved and where it is better to encourage competition among different options. • How can quality be assessed? It is clear that some existing corpora should not be used for serious research. The problem is to develop quality assurance procedures that can direct potential users toward those which can. • Ethical issues in database development and access Corpora that show people behaving emotionally are very likely to raise ethical issues - not simply about signed release forms, but about the impact of appearing in a public forum talking (for instance) about topics that distress or excite them. Adequate guidelines need to be developed. All of the questions above will be studied during the workshop and will contribute to the study of practical, methodological and technical issues central to developing emotional corpora (such as the methodologies to be used for emotional database creation, the coding schemes to be defined, the technical settings to be used for the collection, the selection of appropriate coders). The organising committee: Laurence Devillers / Jean-Claude Martin Spoken Language Processing group/ Architectures and Models for Interaction, LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403 Orsay Cedex, France (+33) 1 69 85 80 62 / (+33) 1 69 85 81 04 (phone) (+33) 1 69 85 80 88 / (+33) 1 69 85 80 88 (fax) devil at limsi.fr / martin at limsi.fr http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/devil/ http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/ Roddy Cowie / School of Psychology Ellen Douglas-Cowie / Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK +44 2890 974354 / +44 2890 975348 (phone) +44 2890 664144 / +44 2890 ****** (fax) http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/teaching/cowie/index.aspx http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/staff/douglas-cowie/ r.cowie at qub.ac.uk / e.douglas-Cowie at qub.ac.uk Anton Batliner - Lehrstuhl fuer Mustererkennung (Informatik 5) Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg - Martensstrasse 3 91058 Erlangen - F.R. of Germany Tel.: +49 9131 85 27823 - Fax.: +49 9131 303811 batliner at informatik.uni-erlangen.de http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Personen/batliner/ Contact: Laurence Devillers lrec-emotion at limsi.fr ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- 1rt call for paper 21 December 2nd call for paper 29 January Deadline for 1500-2000 words abstract submission 12 February Notification of acceptance 12 March Final version of accepted paper 4 April Workshop full-day 26 May -------------- SUBMISSIONS --------------- The workshop will consist of paper and poster presentations. Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster must consist of about 1500-2000 words. Final submissions should be 4 pages long, must be in English, and follow the submission guidelines at LREC2008. The preferred format is MS word or pdf. The file should be submitted via email to lrec-emotion at limsi.fr ----------------------------- As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send to lrec-emotion at limsi.fr a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submissions. Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. Submitted papers will be blind reviewed. -------------------------------------------------- TIME SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION FEE -------------------------------------------------- The workshop will consist of a full-day session, There will be time for collective discussions. For this full-day Workshop, the registration fee will be specified on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ From info at elda.org Mon Feb 4 09:14:56 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:14:56 +0100 Subject: 2nd call for papers: ELRA Workshop on Evaluation (LREC 2008) Message-ID: *CALL FOR PAPERS* * * *ELRA Workshop on Evaluation* *Looking into the Future of Evaluation: when automatic metrics meet task-based and performance-based approaches* * * * * To be held in conjunction with the 6th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008) *27 May 2008, *Palais des Congrès Mansour Eddahbi, Marrakech Submission page: *_https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ELRA-EVAL2008/submit.html_* *Background* Automatic methods to evaluate system performance play an important role in the development of a language technology system. They speed up research and development by allowing fast feedback, and the idea is also to make results comparable while aiming to match human evaluation in terms of output evaluation. However, after several years of study and exploitation of such metrics we still face problems like the following ones: * they only evaluate part of what should be evaluated * they produce measurements that are hard to understand/explain, and/or hard to relate to the concept of quality * they fail to match human evaluation * they require resources that are expensive to create etc. Therefore, an effort to integrate knowledge from a multitude of evaluation activities and methodologies should help us solve some of these immediate problems and avoid creating new metrics that reproduce such problems. Looking at MT as a sample case, problems to be immediately pointed out are twofold: reference translations and distance measurement. The former are difficult and expensive to produce, they do not cover the usually wide spectrum of translation possibilities and what is even more discouraging, worse results are obtained when reference translations are of higher quality (more spontaneous and natural, and thus, sometimes more lexically and syntactically distant from the source text). Regarding the latter, the measurement of the distance between the source text and the output text is carried out by means of automatic metrics that do not match human intuition as well as claimed. Furthermore, different metrics perform differently, which has already led researchers to study metric/approach combinations which integrate automatic methods into a deeper linguistically oriented evaluation. Hopefully, this should help soften the unfair treatment received by some rule-based systems, clearly punished by certain system-approach sensitive metrics. On the other hand, there is the key issue of « what needs to be measured », so as to draw the conclusion that « something is of good quality », or probably rather « something is useful for a particular purpose ». In this regard, works like those done within the FEMTI framework have shown that aspects such as usability, reliability, efficiency, portability, etc. should also be considered. However, the measuring of such quality characteristics cannot always be automated, and there may be many other aspects that could be usefully measured. This workshop follows the evolution of a series of workshops where methodological problems, not only for MT but for evaluation in general, have been approached. Along the lines of these discussions and aiming to go one step further, the current workshop, while taking into account the advantages of automatic methods and the shortcomings of current methods, should focus on task-based and performance-based approaches for evaluation of natural language applications, with key questions such as: - How can it be determined how* useful* a given system is for a given task? - How can focusing on such issues and combining these approaches with our already acquired experience on automatic evaluation help us develop new metrics and methodologies which do not feature the shortcomings of current automatic metrics? - Should we work on hybrid methodologies of automatic and human evaluation for certain technologies and not for others? - Can we already envisage the integration of these approaches? - Can we already plan for some immediate collaborations/experiments? - What would it mean for the FEMTI framework to be extended to other HLT applications, such as summarization, IE, or QA? Which new aspects would it need to cover? We solicit papers that address these questions and other related issues relevant to the workshop. *Workshop Programme and Audience Addressed* This full-day workshop is intended for researchers and developers on different evaluation technologies, with experience on the various issues concerned in the call, and interested in defining a methodology to move forward. The workshop feature invited talks, submitted papers, and will conclude with a discussion on future developments and collaboration. *Workshop Chairing Team* Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec Sprachtechnologien GmbH, Germany) - chair Khalid Choukri (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) -- co-chair Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) -- co-chair *Organising Committee* Victoria Arranz (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) Khalid Choukri (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) Christopher Cieri (LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium, USA) Eduard Hovy (Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California , USA) Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Keith J. Miller (The MITRE Corporation, USA) Satoshi Nakamura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Andrei Popescu-Belis (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland) Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec Sprachtechnologien GmbH, Germany) *Important dates* Deadline for abstracts: Monday 18 February 2008 Notification to Authors: Monday 10 March 2008 Submission of Final Version: Monday 31 March 2008 Workshop: Tuesday 27 May 2008 *Submission Format* Abstracts should be no longer than 1500 words and should be submitted in PDF format through the online submission form on START. For further queries, please contact Gregor Thurmair at g.thurmair at linguatec.de . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- From gpenn at cs.toronto.edu Mon Feb 4 21:56:28 2008 From: gpenn at cs.toronto.edu (Gerald Penn) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:56:28 -0500 Subject: ACL-08 Workshop on Parsing German Message-ID: [Please distribute widely] ACL 2008 WORKSHOP ON PARSING GERMAN June 19 or 20, 2008 Columbus, Ohio 1st CALL FOR PAPERS 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. 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 Release of training data: February 5, 2008 Release of test data: March 5, 2008 Submission of test results: March 10, 2008 Evaluation results available: March 12, 2008 Workshop Paper Submission deadline: March 17, 2008 Notifications sent to authors: April 4, 2008 Camera ready due: April 18, 2008 Workshop Dates: June 19 or 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 (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or their evaluation metrics. Both submission and review processes will be handled via the START system. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Berthold Crysman, Bonn Amit Dubey, Edinburgh Anette Frank, Heidelberg Erhard Hinrichs, Tuebingen Julia Hockenmeier, Illinois Laura Kallmeyer, Tuebingen Frank Keller, Edinburgh Sandra Kuebler (co-chair) Wolfgang Menzel, Hamburg Stefan Mueller, Berlin Stefan 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 From ebender at u.washington.edu Thu Feb 7 13:22:48 2008 From: ebender at u.washington.edu (Emily M. Bender) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:22:48 -0800 Subject: HPSG analyses of non-configurationality In-Reply-To: <20070525153332.GA9985@u.washington.edu> Message-ID: Hello, I'm looking for existing HPSG analyses of radical non-configurationality, in particular, of languages with free word order including discontinuous NPs. So far, I've only been able to turn up Donohue and Sag's 1999 paper (reference below). Thanks! Emily Donohue, Cathryn and Ivan A. Sag. 1999. Domains in Warlpiri. In Sixth International Conference on HPSG-Abstracts. 04-06 August 1999. 101-106. Edinburgh. URL: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~sag/papers/warlpiri.ps. 08.19.07 From info at elda.org Tue Feb 12 04:14:37 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:14:37 +0100 Subject: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update Message-ID: Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement. ******************************************************************* ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update ***************************************************************** ELRA is happy to announce that 3 new Speech Resources from the LC-STAR project are now available in its catalogue. *ELRA-S0269 LC-STAR Greek Phonetic lexicon *The LC-STAR Greek Phonetic lexicon comprises 110,708 entries, including a set of 57,519 common words, a set of 45,162 proper names (including person names, family names, cities, streets, companies and brand names) and a list of 8,027 special application words. The lexicon is provided in XML format and includes phonetic transcriptions in SAMPA. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1054 *ELRA-S0270 LC-STAR Italian Phonetic lexicon *The LC-STAR Italian Phonetic lexicon comprises 109,712 entries, including a set of 56,420 common words, a set of 45,253 proper names (including person names, family names, cities, streets, companies and brand names) and a list of 8,039 special application words. The lexicon is provided in XML format and includes phonetic transcriptions in SAMPA. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1055 *ELRA-S0271 LC-STAR English-Italian Bilingual Aligned Phrasal lexicon *The LC-STAR English- Italian Bilingual Aligned Phrasal lexicon comprises 10,466 phrases from the tourist domain. It is based on a list of short sentences obtained by translation from US-English 10,524 phrasal corpus. The lexicon is provided in XML format. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1056 For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli mailto:mapelli at elda.org Visit our on-line catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info . From info at elda.org Tue Feb 12 04:57:09 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:57:09 +0100 Subject: LREC 2008 - 2nd International Workshop on Emotion ** NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 19th ** Message-ID: Second International Workshop on EMOTION (satellite of LREC): CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT Monday, 26 May 2008, in Marrakech (Morocco) *NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 19th* Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/EMOTION/submit.html In Association with 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC 2008 Main Conference 28-29-30 May 2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ From kordoni at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE Tue Feb 12 06:05:51 2008 From: kordoni at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE (Valia Kordoni) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:05:51 +0100 Subject: Post-Doctoral Position: Language Technology and Cognitive Systems Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ----------------------------------- Post-Doctoral Position in "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany The International Research Training Group "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" is pleased to announce the availability of a post-doctoral position available from June, 2008. The programme, established in 2001, is a collaborative PhD training programme between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh - two leading institutions in the fields of computational linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. The participating departments in Saarbruecken are the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the Department of Computer Science. The IRTG focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of human language processing, particularly emphasizing the following research areas: - Language understanding (including spoken language processing, cognitive modelling, and experimental psycholinguistics) - Knowledge representation, inference, the lexicon, and ontologies - Data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and machine learning methods) - Dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models) Candidates must have completed all requirements for their PhD degree by the time of appointment. The ideal candidate for the post-doctoral position will have research interests which span computational and cognitive aspects of language processing, and have experience overlapping several of the above areas. In addition to the opportunity to carry out independent and collaborative research, the position also includes some administrative duties associated with the program. Some teaching is also possible, but not a requirement of the post. The position comes with access to state-of-the-art computing facilities, and the possibility to use the range of facilities on-site - such as eye-tracking, dialog, speech, and robotics laboratories - by arrangement with the relevant lab directors. Salary is on the German TV-L E13 scale (approx. 35K Euros per annum, depending on age and marital status). Support for travel to conferences is also available. The position is available from June 1, 2008 until March 31, 2010. For more information about the graduate college and current members, prospective applicants are encouraged to look at our website: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/igk/ The final deadline for applications is 3 March, 2008. Any inquiries concerning the post should be directed to the e-mail address below. Complete applications including: (1) a statement of research interests, (2) a full CV, (3) two example publications, and (4) the names (and e-mail addresses) of two referees, should be sent (preferably via e-mail) to: Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker e-mail: irtg-admin at coli.uni-sb.de Department of Computational Linguistics Saarland University P.O. Box 15 11 50 66041 Saarbruecken, Germany Tel. +49 (0)681 302-6560 Fax +49 (0)681 302-6561 From info at elda.org Tue Feb 12 12:44:48 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:44:48 +0100 Subject: LREC 2008 Workshop HLT & NLP within the Arabic world - New Submission Deadline: February 28th Message-ID: HLT & NLP within the Arabic world : Arabic Language and local language processing: Status Updates and Prospects Saturday 31st May 2008, in Marrakech (Morocco) NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 28th Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ALLLP2008/submit.html In Association with 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC 2008 Main Conference 28-29-30 May 2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- From vogel at cs.tcd.ie Thu Feb 14 13:51:28 2008 From: vogel at cs.tcd.ie (Carl Vogel) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:51:28 +0000 Subject: fyi -- postdoc & PhD positions, TCD Message-ID: [Apologies for Multiple Postings; Please pass on to colleagues and students as appropriate.] Post-doctoral positions and PhD fellowships in Text Classification and Automatic Labelling The Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin is looking for applications for ONE Postdoctoral positions and TWO PhD positions in the areas of text classification and automatic labelling of text streams. The positions are part of a large research project "Next Generation Localisation" involving a consortium of leading Irish Universities (DCU, TCD, UCD and UL) and Industry Partners, funded by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). The project focuses on Language Technology and Digital Content Management in Localisation. Localisation is the industrial-scale adaptation of digital content to domain, culture and language. Successful candidates will join a team of Postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and research advisors from academia and industry. Details of the advertised posts are as follows: - POSTDOCSF32: Postdoctoral Position in "Text Categorisation" o Description: The successful candidate will research and develop algorithms for automatic annotation of localisation metadata, and multilingual text type and genre classification. Candidates must have a strong background and research record in machine learning and data-intensive natural language processing, as well as good programming skills. o Starting date: 3rd quarter 2008 o Salary: Approx. 38,000-44,000 Euro per annum depending on experience and qualifications. For further details, please contact Dr Saturnino Luz (luzs at cs.tcd.ie) or Dr Carl Vogel (vogel at cs.tcd.ie). To apply, please email a CV and contact details for two references by March 1, 2008 to Jean.Maypother at cs.tcd.ie. Please include the job reference ("POSTDOCILT32") in the subject line of all email correspondence. ------------------------ - PHDILT33: PhD Fellowship in "Multilingual Text Type and Genre Classification" o Description: Candidates must have a strong interest and some experience in Computational Linguistics and Machine Learning, and good programming skills. Experience with syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis is desirable. o Starting date: September 2008 o Stipend: Approx. 16,000 Euro per annum (tax exempt) + University fees (approx. 5,000 Euro per annum) + equipment allowance and a generous conference travel allowance. For further details, please contact Dr Carl Vogel (vogel at cs.tcd.ie). To apply, please email a CV and contact details for two references by March 1, 2008 to Jean.Maypother at cs.tcd.ie. Please include the job reference ("PHDILT33") in the subject line of all email correspondence. ------------------------ - PHDILT32: PhD Fellowship in "Automatic Annotation of Localisation Metadata" o Description: Candidates must have a strong interest and some experience in Computational Linguistics or Machine Learning, and good programming skills. o Starting date: September 2008 o Stipend: Approx. 16,000 Euro per annum (tax exempt) + University fees (approx. 5,000 Euro per annum) + equipment allowance and a generous conference travel allowance. For further details, please contact Dr Saturnino Luz (luzs at cs.tcd.ie). To apply, please email a CV and contact details for two references by March 1, 2008 to Jean.Maypother at cs.tcd.ie. Please include the job reference ("PHDILT32") in the subject line of all email correspondence. While the deadline is March 1, 2008, applications will be considered until the position is filled. y From stefan.mueller at fu-berlin.de Fri Feb 15 05:29:13 2008 From: stefan.mueller at fu-berlin.de (=?UTF-8?B?U3RlZmFuIE3DvGxsZXI=?=) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:29:13 +0100 Subject: Bremen pages moved (HPSG Bibliography, Babel, etc) Message-ID: Hi, I moved the content of the Bremen Web-Server to hpsg.fu-berlin.de. The Bremen server will be switched off soon. Please update your links to the HPSG Bibliography, Babel, me, and my papers. Replace www.cl.uni-bremen.de by hpsg.fu-berlin.de and www.dfki.de/lt/HPSG/ by hpsg.fu-berlin.de/HPSG-Bib/ and www.dfki.de/~stefan/ by hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/ Thank you very much! Best wishes Stefan -- Stefan Müller Tel: (+49) (+30) 838 52973 Fax: (+49) (030) 838 4 52973 Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie Deutsche Grammatik http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/ http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/Babel/Interaktiv/ From kevin.cohen at gmail.com Sat Feb 16 17:14:10 2008 From: kevin.cohen at gmail.com (Kevin B. Cohen) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:14:10 -0700 Subject: Software engineering/testing/quality assurance for NLP: an ACL 2008 workshop Message-ID: Hello, The ACL 2008 meeting will include a workshop on software engineering, testing, and quality assurance for NLP. Grammar engineering is within the scope of the workshop topics, so hopefully this CFP is within the scope of interest of a number of readers of the HPSG-L list. Kevin Cohen Software engineering, testing, and quality assurance for natural language processing An ACL 2008 workshop Columbus, OH June 19 or 20, 2008 (awaiting determination by ACL organizers) http://alias-i.com/acl-08-software-workshop/ Natural language, as an input type, has unique characteristics that present special problems for software testing, quality assurance, and even requirements specification. This workshop is intended to stimulate research in all areas of software engineering for natural language processing. The goals of the workshop include raising awareness of the need for good software engineering practices in NLP, stimulating research on same, and disseminating the results of current work in this area. The target audience is researchers interested in natural language processing software, including testing and standardization. Submissions of full papers and poster abstracts are solicited in all areas of software engineering, testing and quality assurance as they relate to natural language processing. Some suggested areas are: * Patterns for design, coding, refactoring, and unit testing of language processing systems * Test suite design and generation * Special issues in metrology for natural language processing * Grammar/rule engineering * Usability * Standardization of tools and/or resources * Design for and evaluation of reliability and robustness * Scalability issues in training and deployment * Reusability and toolkit design * Concurrency and multithreading for NLP * Theoretical issues in software engineering for NLP IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: Friday, March 21, 2008, 11:59 PM East Coast time Notification of acceptance: Sunday, April 20, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: Saturday, April 26, 2008 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Full papers: Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. These are intended to be reports of original and mature research. Poster abstracts: Poster abstracts should not exceed two (2) pages. Accepted abstracts will be published in a separate section of the workshop proceedings. Appropriate poster topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Submission format: Submissions must be in PDF and should follow the two-column format of the ACL proceedings. Ensure that you are *not* in A4 format. Please see the conference website for detailed typesetting specifications. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style files available on the ACL meeting website at http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html. Submit your paper or abstract via the workshop web site at https://www.softconf.com/acl08/ACL08-WS04/ by 11:59 PM on Friday, March 21, East Coast time. Submissions need not be anonymous. Authors who cannot submit a PDF file electronically should contact the workshop organizers well in advance of the submission deadline. Papers may not be submitted to the software engineering, testing, and quality assurance workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication and that other meeting or publication prohibits dual submissions. If your paper is or will be concurrently under consideration by another meeting or publication, please notify us of that fact in a footnote on the first page. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairs K. Bretonnel Cohen, MITRE Corporation and U. Colorado School of Medicine Bob Carpenter, Alias-i Members William A. Baumgartner, Jr., U. Colorado School of Medicine Hamish Cunningham, U. Sheffield Dan Flickinger, Stanford U. Michael Gamon, Microsoft Martin Jansche, Google Marc Light, Thomson James Lyle, Microsoft Kevin Markey, Silver Creek Systems Stephan Oepen, Stanford U. Martha Palmer, U. Colorado at Boulder Jeff Reynar, Google Jun'ichi Tsujii, U. Tokyo and UK National Centre for Text Mining Martin Volk, U. Stockholm -- K. B. Cohen Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead Center for Computational Pharmacology 303-916-2417 (cell) 303-377-9194 (home) http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen From info at elda.org Wed Feb 20 12:14:29 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:14:29 +0100 Subject: LREC 2008 - Early-bird Registration NOW OPEN Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] Early-bird Online Registration is now open at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Online-Registration.html Hotel Reservation will be available shortly. We have booked a number of hotel rooms and negotiated special rates for LREC participants. More information: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008 From vogel at cs.tcd.ie Fri Feb 22 15:39:22 2008 From: vogel at cs.tcd.ie (Carl Vogel) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:39:22 +0000 Subject: Revised CFP (March 5): Sentiment Analysis--Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology & Terminology Message-ID: [Apologies for Multiple Postings; Please pass on to colleagues as appropriate.] ********************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS LREC 2008 Workshop on Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology (EMOT 2008) 27 May, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/lrec-emot08.html Revised Submission deadline: 5 March 2008 ********************************************************* Workshop Topics Sentiment analysis systems seek to extract emotions and feelings expressed about people, organisations, nation states, goods and services, in free natural language texts. This interdisciplinary workshop will address three related topics: (a) how metaphor and sentiment interact in everyday communication; (b) language/conceptual resources properties to support sentiment analysis (c) evaluation of sentiment analysis programs and evaluation methodologies. Prof Sam Glucksberg will give the keynote lecture of the workshop entitled Beyond Similarity: How Metaphors Create Categories. Workshop Aims This workshop will deal with the recent advances in the processing of sentiment in arbitrary collections of text. Sentiment can be expressed about works of art and literature, about the state of financial markets, about liking and disliking individuals, organisations, ideologies, and consumer goods. It is necessary to examine what aspects of emotional experience sentiment analysis aims to capture, how and in what way this may be evaluated. This workshop focuses on three strands of research which will serve to enhance the development of automated sentiment analysis systems of free text for real world applications. Firstly, in psychology and computational linguistics, the notions of emotion and metaphor interact in a number of complex ways. It has been argued that conceptual metaphors underlie human understanding and processing of emotion. In addition, it can be argued that the expression of sentiment and its interpretation can rely critically on how a speaker or writer uses metaphor. Therefore, an understanding of how emotion is expressed and perceived in language is not complete without addressing the role of figurative language and metaphor as basic scaffolding or tool for modulating affective text content. Secondly, to date, sentiment analysis typically deals with a specific domain of ideal objects. In order to build a sentiment analysis system, one has to understand `what there is' in a given domain, i.e. the ontology of the domain. In this context, is it possible to conceive of generic sentiment analysis? Practitioners in this area need to examine the requirements and challenges of an approach that could cross boundaries of domain or time or even language where different communities of use, languages or cultures may express or even experience sentiments in different ways. Finally, work in sentiment analysis may be regarded as work in intelligent information retrieval and success is evaluated in terms of accuracy in identifying the affective content of information segments. Yet sentiment analysis has the potential to have a powerful impact in other domains that require input about emotional context. Researchers in Human-Computer Interaction, Affective Computing, Lexicography and Terminography, may become end-users of work in sentiment analysis and sentiment analysis folks may have much to learn from how a machine artificially endowed with emotions/sentiments behaves. It may become feasible to evaluate sentiment analysis systems in terms of the performance of such applications. An examination of alternative end-user systems and evaluation mechanisms can only serve to enrich the field of sentiment analysis and present new challenges for researchers to address. Important Dates 5th March Deadline for workshop papers 21 March Notification of acceptance 4 April Camera-ready papers due 27 May Workshop held at LREC 2008 Programme Committee: Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Gerhard Budin, Zentrum fur Translationswissenschaft, Universitat Wien, Austria Ann Devitt, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Sam Glucksberg, Princeton University, USA Gerhard Heyer, Institut fur Informatik, Universitat Leipzig, Germany Maria Teresa Musacchio, Universita di Padova, Italy Maria Teresa Pazienza, University of Roma Tor Vergata Margaret Rogers, University of Surrey, U.K. Carl Vogel, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, U.K. Submissions Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages and should be typeset using a font size of 11 points. (Style files will be made available by LREC for the camera-ready versions of accepted papers.) The reviewing of the papers will be blind and the papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Springer has expressed an interest in publishing selected papers from the workshop. We are in discussion and further details will be confirmed at a later date. Papers should be submitted electronically, no later than 5th March 2008. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. 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Final Submission Deadline: March 28, 2008 All the details on Final submission can be found on LREC web site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/-Submissions-.html Best regards, LREC2008 Organizing Committee ******************************************************************** LREC 2008 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Palais des Congres Mansour Eddhabi Marrakech, Morocco Register online Now Early-bird Registration up to March 13th Book a hotel room for the conference From sag at stanford.edu Fri Feb 29 12:39:53 2008 From: sag at stanford.edu (sag at stanford.edu) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:39:53 -0800 Subject: CfP: GEAF at COLING 2008 Message-ID: All, FYI. -Ivan Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:19:40 PST From: Tracy Holloway King Subject: CfP: GEAF at COLING 2008 Call for Papers Grammar Engineering across Frameworks (GEAF08) August 24 Manchester, UK http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/GEAF08/GEAF08.html This workshop is part of The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-08). This workshop aims to bring together grammar engineers from different frameworks to compare research and methodologies, particularly around the themes of evaluation, modularity, maintainability, relevance to theoretical and computational linguistics, and applications of "deep" grammars to real-world domains and NLP tasks. Recent years have seen the development of techniques and resources to support robust, deep grammatical analysis of natural language in real-world domains and applications. The demands of these types of tasks have resulted in significant advances in areas such as parser efficiency, hybrid statistical/symbolic approaches to disambiguation, and the acquisition of large-scale lexicons. The effective acquisition, development, maintenance and enhancement of grammars is a central issue in such efforts, and the size and complexity of realistic grammars makes these tasks extremely challenging; indeed, these tasks are often tackled in ways that have much in common with software engineering. This workshop aims to bring together grammar engineers from different frameworks --- for example LFG, HPSG, TAG, CCG, dependency grammar --- to compare their research and methodologies. The workshop is a follow-up to the first GEAF workshop (http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/GEAF/2007/geaf07.html) which was held at Stanford in 2007. Paper Topics: The workshop is soliciting submissions for papers on the following themes: 1. Evaluation: Proposals concerning evaluation methodologies and metrics which can capture the added benefits of deep linguistic analysis; evaluation techniques which can compare grammars across varieties/languages. 2. Modularity: Reflections on which aspects of linguistic structure can most easily be separated out from each other, why and how the analyses of separate linguistic phenomena are interconnected/interdependent, and the role of frameworks on promoting or inhibiting modularity. 3. Maintainability: Techniques for improving long-term and multideveloper maintainability of grammars; impacts of considerations of maintainability on choices of linguistic analysis. 4. Relevance to theoretical and computational linguistics: Reflections on how to present grammar engineering work to other research communities. 5. Regression testing: Evaluation for internal purposes; methodologies and techniques for test suite construction, role of test suites in day-to-day progress on grammars. 6. Applications of "deep" grammars to real-world domains and NLP tasks, such as parsing, machine translation, question answering, dialogue, generation; with a focus on how the use of deep grammars can lead to improved performance on such tasks. Organizing Committee: Tracy Holloway King, PARC Stephen Clark, Oxford University Program Committee: Jason Baldridge, Texas Emily Bender, Washington Miriam Butt, Konstanz Aoife Cahill, Stuttgart John Carroll, Sussex Ann Copestake, Cambridge Berthold Crysmann, Bonn Mary Dalrymple, Oxford Stefanie Dipper, Bochum Dan Flickinger, Stanford Josef van Genabith, Dublin Ron Kaplan, Powerset Montserrat Marimon, Barcelona Yusuke Miyao, Tokyo Owen Rambow, Columbia Jun'ichi Tsujii, Tokyo Important Dates and Submission Details: Paper submission deadline: 5 May Notification of acceptance of Papers: 6 June Camera-ready copy of papers due: 1 July Demo session requests due: 1 July Workshop: 24 August The maximum length of submissions is 8 pages. Please use the COLING-08 style files, available from: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/style.html Please use the START system to submit a paper: https://www.softconf.com/coling08/GEAF/submit.html Contact for inquiries: Tracy Holloway King Stephen Clark Special Demo Session: In addition to the papers, there will be a demo session. If you wish to give a demonstration of a system relevant to the GEAF theme, please submit a title of the demo and a one-page description by July 1, 2008, through the START system (URL above). You do not have to have a paper in the workshop in order to give a demo. Proceedings: Accepted papers will form part of the workshop proceeedings. ----- End forwarded message ----- From shuichi_yatabe at yahoo.co.jp Fri Feb 1 07:50:07 2008 From: shuichi_yatabe at yahoo.co.jp (Shuichi Yatabe) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:50:07 +0900 Subject: HPSG08: Last Call for Papers Message-ID: Dear all, This is the last call for papers for the 15th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG-2008). http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/hpsg-2008/ HPSG-2008 will take place on 28-30 July, 2008, near the historic cities of Nara and Kyoto in Japan. Invited Speakers Mutsumi Imai (Keio University) Tibor Kiss (Ruhr-Universit"at Bochum) Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas at Austin) Call for Papers Abstracts are solicited for presentations which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Each presentation will be allotted 40 minutes, but the talk itself must be at most 30 minutes long, leaving at least 10 minutes for discussion. The last day of the conference will be devoted to a workshop on "Grammar at the Interfaces", whose purpose is to explore not just various problems regarding grammar-internal interfaces (such as the syntax-semantics interface and the morphology-syntax interface) but also issues surrounding the interface between competence grammar and extragrammatical factors. Papers that do not utilize the theoretical framework of HPSG will be as welcome as papers that do. Submissions We will use an online submission system. All abstracts should be submitted via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2008 Abstracts should be in PDF format and should not be more than 5 (five) pages long. Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair: hpsg2008 at easychair.org Abstracts for the main conference should mention 'HPSG-08' and abstracts for the workshop should mention 'Workshop-08' in the title. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Abstracts should not include the authors' names and authors are asked to avoid self-references. The Program Committee reserves the right to reassign accepted papers from the main conference to the workshop, and vice versa. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2008 Conference: July 28-30, 2008 Publication The conference proceedings will be published online by CSLI publications. A call for contributions to the publications will be issued after the conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are available at http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/. The final deadline for receipt of written versions of conference papers is October 25, 2008. Program Committee Anne Abeill'e, Olivier Bonami, Bob Borsley, Gosse Bouma, Rui Chaves, Berthold Crysmann, Markus Egg, Elisabet Engdahl, Daniel Flickinger, Jonathan Ginzburg, Dani`ele Godard, Chikara Hashimoto, Erhard Hinrichs, Anke Holler, Chiharu Uda Kikuta, Jong-Bok Kim, Tibor Kiss, Anna Kupsc, Shalom Lappin, Robert Levine, Rob Malouf, Nurit Melnik, Detmar Meurers, Stefan M"uller, Tsuneko Nakazawa, Gerald Penn, Adam Przepi'orkowski, Frank Richter, Louisa Sadler, Ivan Sag, Manfred Sailer, Jesse Tseng, Stephen Wechsler, Shuichi Yatabe (chair), and Kei Yoshimoto. Conference Web Site http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/hpsg-2008/ Submission Web Site http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2008 Supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology ----- Shuichi Yatabe University of Tokyo From info at elda.org Fri Feb 1 08:43:41 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:43:41 +0100 Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT Workshop (LREC 2008) Message-ID: ******************************************************************** Second call for Papers (deadline for abstract : 12/02/2008) Second International Workshop on EMOTION (satellite of LREC): CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT Monday, 26 May 2008 in Marrakech (Morocco) In Association with 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ Main Conference 28-29-30 May 2008 ********************************************************************** This decade has seen an upsurge of interest in systems that register emotion (in a broad sense) and react appropriately to it. Emotion corpora are fundamental both to developing sound conceptual analyses and to training these 'emotion-oriented systems' at all levels - to recognise user emotion, to express appropriate emotions, to anticipate how a user in one state might respond to a possible kind of reaction from the machine, etc. Corpora have only begun to grow with the area, and much work is needed before they provide a sound foundation. This workshop follows a first successful workshop on Corpora for research on Emotion and Affect at LREC 2006. The HUMAINE network of excellence (http://emotion-research.net/) has brought together several groups working on the development of emotional databases, the HUMAINE association will continue this effort and the workshop aims to broaden the interaction that has developed in that context. The HUMAINE Association portal will provide a range of services for individuals, such as a web presence, access to data, and an email news service; special interest groups will be provided with a working folder, a mailing list, and a discussion forum or a blog. Conferences, workshops and research projects in the area of emotion-oriented computing can be given a web presence on the portal. Papers are invited in the area of corpora for research on emotion and affect. They may raise one or more of the following questions. What kind of theory of emotion is needed to guide the area? What are appropriate sources? Which modalities should be considered, in which combinations? What are the realistic constraints on recording quality? How can the emotional content of episodes be described within a corpus? Which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how? How should access to corpora be provided? What level of standardisation is appropriate? How can quality be assessed? Ethical issues in database development and access. Description of the specific technical issues of the workshop: Many models of emotion are common enough to affect the way teams go about collecting and describing emotion-related data. Some which are familiar and intuitively appealing are known to be problematic, either because they are theoretically dated or because they do not transfer to practical contexts. To evaluate the resources that are already available, and to construct valid new corpora, research teams need some sense of the models that are relevant to the area. ? What are appropriate sources? In the area of emotion, some of the hardest problems involve acquiring basic data. Four main types of source are commonly used. Their potential contributions and limitations need to be understood. ? Acted: Many widely used emotion databases consist of acted representations of emotion (which may or may not be generated by actors). The method is extremely convenient, but it is known that systems trained on acted material may not transfer to natural emotion. It has to be established what kind of acted material is useful for what purposes. ? Application-driven: A growing range of databases are derived from specific applications (eg call centres). These are ideal for some purposes, but access is often restricted for commercial reasons, and it is highly desirable to have more generic material that could underpin work on a wide range of applications. ? General naturalistic: Data that is representative of everyday life is an attractive ideal, but very difficult to collect. Making special-purpose recordings of everyday life is a massive task, with the risk that recording changes behaviour. Several teams have used material from broadcasts, radio & TV (talk shows, current affairs). That raises issues of access, signal quality, and genuineness. ? Induction: A natural ideal is to induce emotion of appropriate kinds under appropriate circumstances. Satisfying induction is an elusive ideal, but new techniques are gradually emerging. ? Which modalities should be considered, in which combinations? Emotion is reflected in multiple channels - linguistic content, paralinguistic expression, facial expression, eye movement, gesture, gross body movement, manner of action, visceral changes (heart rate, etc), brain states (eeg activity, etc). The obvious ideal is to cover all simultaneously, but that is impractical - and it is not clear how often all the channels are actually active. The community needs to clarify the relative usefulness of the channels, and of strategies for sampling combinations. ? What are the realistic constraints on recording quality? Naturalism tends to be at odds with ease of signal processing. Understanding of the relevant tradeoffs needs to be reached. That includes awareness of different applications (high quality may not be crucial for defining the expressive behaviours a virtual agent should show) and of timescale for solving particular signal processing issues(eg recovering features from images of heads in arbitrary poses). ? How can the emotional content of episodes be described within a corpus? Several broad approaches exist to transcribing the emotional content of an excerpt - using everyday emotion words; using dimensional descriptions rooted in psychological theory (intensity, evaluation, activation, power); using concepts from appraisal theory (perceived goal-conduciveness of a development, potential for coping, etc). These are being developed in specific ways driven by goals such as elegance, inter-rater reliability, and faithfulness to the subtlety of everyday emotion, relevance to agent decisions, etc. There seems to be a real prospect of achieving an agreed synthesis of the main schemes. ? Which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how? Corresponding to each emotion-related channel is one or more sets of signs relevant to conveying emotion. For instance, paralinguistic signs exist at the level of basic features - F0, intensity, formant-related properties, and so on; at the level of linguistic features of prosody ; and at more global levels (tune shapes, repetitions, etc). Even for speech, inventories of relevant signs need to be developed, and for channels such as idle body movements, few descriptive systems have been proposed. Few teams have the expertise to annotate many types of sign competently, and so it is important to establish ways of allowing teams that do have the expertise to make their annotations available as part of a database. Mainly for lower level features, automatic transcription methods exist, and their role needs to be clarified. In particular, tests of their reliability are needed, and that depends on data that can serve as a reference. ? How should access to corpora be provided? Practically, it is clearly important to find ways of establishing a sustainable and easily expandable multi-modal database for any sorts of emotion-related data; to develop tools for easily importing and exporting data; to develop analysis tools and application programmers? interfaces to work on the stored data and meta-data; and to provide ready access to existing data from previous projects. Approaches to those goals need to be defined. ? What level of standardisation is appropriate? Standardisation is clearly desirable in the long term, but with so many basic issues unresolved, it is not clear where real consensus can be achieved and where it is better to encourage competition among different options. ? How can quality be assessed? It is clear that some existing corpora should not be used for serious research. The problem is to develop quality assurance procedures that can direct potential users toward those which can. ? Ethical issues in database development and access Corpora that show people behaving emotionally are very likely to raise ethical issues - not simply about signed release forms, but about the impact of appearing in a public forum talking (for instance) about topics that distress or excite them. Adequate guidelines need to be developed. All of the questions above will be studied during the workshop and will contribute to the study of practical, methodological and technical issues central to developing emotional corpora (such as the methodologies to be used for emotional database creation, the coding schemes to be defined, the technical settings to be used for the collection, the selection of appropriate coders). The organising committee: Laurence Devillers / Jean-Claude Martin Spoken Language Processing group/ Architectures and Models for Interaction, LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403 Orsay Cedex, France (+33) 1 69 85 80 62 / (+33) 1 69 85 81 04 (phone) (+33) 1 69 85 80 88 / (+33) 1 69 85 80 88 (fax) devil at limsi.fr / martin at limsi.fr http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/devil/ http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/ Roddy Cowie / School of Psychology Ellen Douglas-Cowie / Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK +44 2890 974354 / +44 2890 975348 (phone) +44 2890 664144 / +44 2890 ****** (fax) http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/teaching/cowie/index.aspx http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/staff/douglas-cowie/ r.cowie at qub.ac.uk / e.douglas-Cowie at qub.ac.uk Anton Batliner - Lehrstuhl fuer Mustererkennung (Informatik 5) Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg - Martensstrasse 3 91058 Erlangen - F.R. of Germany Tel.: +49 9131 85 27823 - Fax.: +49 9131 303811 batliner at informatik.uni-erlangen.de http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Personen/batliner/ Contact: Laurence Devillers lrec-emotion at limsi.fr ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- 1rt call for paper 21 December 2nd call for paper 29 January Deadline for 1500-2000 words abstract submission 12 February Notification of acceptance 12 March Final version of accepted paper 4 April Workshop full-day 26 May -------------- SUBMISSIONS --------------- The workshop will consist of paper and poster presentations. Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster must consist of about 1500-2000 words. Final submissions should be 4 pages long, must be in English, and follow the submission guidelines at LREC2008. The preferred format is MS word or pdf. The file should be submitted via email to lrec-emotion at limsi.fr ----------------------------- As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send to lrec-emotion at limsi.fr a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submissions. Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. Submitted papers will be blind reviewed. -------------------------------------------------- TIME SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION FEE -------------------------------------------------- The workshop will consist of a full-day session, There will be time for collective discussions. For this full-day Workshop, the registration fee will be specified on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ From info at elda.org Mon Feb 4 14:14:56 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:14:56 +0100 Subject: 2nd call for papers: ELRA Workshop on Evaluation (LREC 2008) Message-ID: *CALL FOR PAPERS* * * *ELRA Workshop on Evaluation* *Looking into the Future of Evaluation: when automatic metrics meet task-based and performance-based approaches* * * * * To be held in conjunction with the 6th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008) *27 May 2008, *Palais des Congr?s Mansour Eddahbi, Marrakech Submission page: *_https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ELRA-EVAL2008/submit.html_* *Background* Automatic methods to evaluate system performance play an important role in the development of a language technology system. They speed up research and development by allowing fast feedback, and the idea is also to make results comparable while aiming to match human evaluation in terms of output evaluation. However, after several years of study and exploitation of such metrics we still face problems like the following ones: * they only evaluate part of what should be evaluated * they produce measurements that are hard to understand/explain, and/or hard to relate to the concept of quality * they fail to match human evaluation * they require resources that are expensive to create etc. Therefore, an effort to integrate knowledge from a multitude of evaluation activities and methodologies should help us solve some of these immediate problems and avoid creating new metrics that reproduce such problems. Looking at MT as a sample case, problems to be immediately pointed out are twofold: reference translations and distance measurement. The former are difficult and expensive to produce, they do not cover the usually wide spectrum of translation possibilities and what is even more discouraging, worse results are obtained when reference translations are of higher quality (more spontaneous and natural, and thus, sometimes more lexically and syntactically distant from the source text). Regarding the latter, the measurement of the distance between the source text and the output text is carried out by means of automatic metrics that do not match human intuition as well as claimed. Furthermore, different metrics perform differently, which has already led researchers to study metric/approach combinations which integrate automatic methods into a deeper linguistically oriented evaluation. Hopefully, this should help soften the unfair treatment received by some rule-based systems, clearly punished by certain system-approach sensitive metrics. On the other hand, there is the key issue of ? what needs to be measured ?, so as to draw the conclusion that ? something is of good quality ?, or probably rather ? something is useful for a particular purpose ?. In this regard, works like those done within the FEMTI framework have shown that aspects such as usability, reliability, efficiency, portability, etc. should also be considered. However, the measuring of such quality characteristics cannot always be automated, and there may be many other aspects that could be usefully measured. This workshop follows the evolution of a series of workshops where methodological problems, not only for MT but for evaluation in general, have been approached. Along the lines of these discussions and aiming to go one step further, the current workshop, while taking into account the advantages of automatic methods and the shortcomings of current methods, should focus on task-based and performance-based approaches for evaluation of natural language applications, with key questions such as: - How can it be determined how* useful* a given system is for a given task? - How can focusing on such issues and combining these approaches with our already acquired experience on automatic evaluation help us develop new metrics and methodologies which do not feature the shortcomings of current automatic metrics? - Should we work on hybrid methodologies of automatic and human evaluation for certain technologies and not for others? - Can we already envisage the integration of these approaches? - Can we already plan for some immediate collaborations/experiments? - What would it mean for the FEMTI framework to be extended to other HLT applications, such as summarization, IE, or QA? Which new aspects would it need to cover? We solicit papers that address these questions and other related issues relevant to the workshop. *Workshop Programme and Audience Addressed* This full-day workshop is intended for researchers and developers on different evaluation technologies, with experience on the various issues concerned in the call, and interested in defining a methodology to move forward. The workshop feature invited talks, submitted papers, and will conclude with a discussion on future developments and collaboration. *Workshop Chairing Team* Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec Sprachtechnologien GmbH, Germany) - chair Khalid Choukri (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) -- co-chair Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) -- co-chair *Organising Committee* Victoria Arranz (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) Khalid Choukri (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) Christopher Cieri (LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium, USA) Eduard Hovy (Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California , USA) Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Keith J. Miller (The MITRE Corporation, USA) Satoshi Nakamura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Andrei Popescu-Belis (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland) Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec Sprachtechnologien GmbH, Germany) *Important dates* Deadline for abstracts: Monday 18 February 2008 Notification to Authors: Monday 10 March 2008 Submission of Final Version: Monday 31 March 2008 Workshop: Tuesday 27 May 2008 *Submission Format* Abstracts should be no longer than 1500 words and should be submitted in PDF format through the online submission form on START. For further queries, please contact Gregor Thurmair at g.thurmair at linguatec.de . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- From gpenn at cs.toronto.edu Tue Feb 5 02:56:28 2008 From: gpenn at cs.toronto.edu (Gerald Penn) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:56:28 -0500 Subject: ACL-08 Workshop on Parsing German Message-ID: [Please distribute widely] ACL 2008 WORKSHOP ON PARSING GERMAN June 19 or 20, 2008 Columbus, Ohio 1st CALL FOR PAPERS 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. 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 Release of training data: February 5, 2008 Release of test data: March 5, 2008 Submission of test results: March 10, 2008 Evaluation results available: March 12, 2008 Workshop Paper Submission deadline: March 17, 2008 Notifications sent to authors: April 4, 2008 Camera ready due: April 18, 2008 Workshop Dates: June 19 or 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 (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or their evaluation metrics. Both submission and review processes will be handled via the START system. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Berthold Crysman, Bonn Amit Dubey, Edinburgh Anette Frank, Heidelberg Erhard Hinrichs, Tuebingen Julia Hockenmeier, Illinois Laura Kallmeyer, Tuebingen Frank Keller, Edinburgh Sandra Kuebler (co-chair) Wolfgang Menzel, Hamburg Stefan Mueller, Berlin Stefan 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 From ebender at u.washington.edu Thu Feb 7 18:22:48 2008 From: ebender at u.washington.edu (Emily M. Bender) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:22:48 -0800 Subject: HPSG analyses of non-configurationality In-Reply-To: <20070525153332.GA9985@u.washington.edu> Message-ID: Hello, I'm looking for existing HPSG analyses of radical non-configurationality, in particular, of languages with free word order including discontinuous NPs. So far, I've only been able to turn up Donohue and Sag's 1999 paper (reference below). Thanks! Emily Donohue, Cathryn and Ivan A. Sag. 1999. Domains in Warlpiri. In Sixth International Conference on HPSG-Abstracts. 04-06 August 1999. 101-106. Edinburgh. URL: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~sag/papers/warlpiri.ps. 08.19.07 From info at elda.org Tue Feb 12 09:14:37 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:14:37 +0100 Subject: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update Message-ID: Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement. ******************************************************************* ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update ***************************************************************** ELRA is happy to announce that 3 new Speech Resources from the LC-STAR project are now available in its catalogue. *ELRA-S0269 LC-STAR Greek Phonetic lexicon *The LC-STAR Greek Phonetic lexicon comprises 110,708 entries, including a set of 57,519 common words, a set of 45,162 proper names (including person names, family names, cities, streets, companies and brand names) and a list of 8,027 special application words. The lexicon is provided in XML format and includes phonetic transcriptions in SAMPA. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1054 *ELRA-S0270 LC-STAR Italian Phonetic lexicon *The LC-STAR Italian Phonetic lexicon comprises 109,712 entries, including a set of 56,420 common words, a set of 45,253 proper names (including person names, family names, cities, streets, companies and brand names) and a list of 8,039 special application words. The lexicon is provided in XML format and includes phonetic transcriptions in SAMPA. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1055 *ELRA-S0271 LC-STAR English-Italian Bilingual Aligned Phrasal lexicon *The LC-STAR English- Italian Bilingual Aligned Phrasal lexicon comprises 10,466 phrases from the tourist domain. It is based on a list of short sentences obtained by translation from US-English 10,524 phrasal corpus. The lexicon is provided in XML format. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1056 For more information on the catalogue, please contact Val?rie Mapelli mailto:mapelli at elda.org Visit our on-line catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info . From info at elda.org Tue Feb 12 09:57:09 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:57:09 +0100 Subject: LREC 2008 - 2nd International Workshop on Emotion ** NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 19th ** Message-ID: Second International Workshop on EMOTION (satellite of LREC): CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT Monday, 26 May 2008, in Marrakech (Morocco) *NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 19th* Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/EMOTION/submit.html In Association with 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC 2008 Main Conference 28-29-30 May 2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ From kordoni at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE Tue Feb 12 11:05:51 2008 From: kordoni at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE (Valia Kordoni) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:05:51 +0100 Subject: Post-Doctoral Position: Language Technology and Cognitive Systems Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ----------------------------------- Post-Doctoral Position in "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany The International Research Training Group "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" is pleased to announce the availability of a post-doctoral position available from June, 2008. The programme, established in 2001, is a collaborative PhD training programme between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh - two leading institutions in the fields of computational linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. The participating departments in Saarbruecken are the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the Department of Computer Science. The IRTG focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of human language processing, particularly emphasizing the following research areas: - Language understanding (including spoken language processing, cognitive modelling, and experimental psycholinguistics) - Knowledge representation, inference, the lexicon, and ontologies - Data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and machine learning methods) - Dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models) Candidates must have completed all requirements for their PhD degree by the time of appointment. The ideal candidate for the post-doctoral position will have research interests which span computational and cognitive aspects of language processing, and have experience overlapping several of the above areas. In addition to the opportunity to carry out independent and collaborative research, the position also includes some administrative duties associated with the program. Some teaching is also possible, but not a requirement of the post. The position comes with access to state-of-the-art computing facilities, and the possibility to use the range of facilities on-site - such as eye-tracking, dialog, speech, and robotics laboratories - by arrangement with the relevant lab directors. Salary is on the German TV-L E13 scale (approx. 35K Euros per annum, depending on age and marital status). Support for travel to conferences is also available. The position is available from June 1, 2008 until March 31, 2010. For more information about the graduate college and current members, prospective applicants are encouraged to look at our website: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/igk/ The final deadline for applications is 3 March, 2008. Any inquiries concerning the post should be directed to the e-mail address below. Complete applications including: (1) a statement of research interests, (2) a full CV, (3) two example publications, and (4) the names (and e-mail addresses) of two referees, should be sent (preferably via e-mail) to: Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker e-mail: irtg-admin at coli.uni-sb.de Department of Computational Linguistics Saarland University P.O. Box 15 11 50 66041 Saarbruecken, Germany Tel. +49 (0)681 302-6560 Fax +49 (0)681 302-6561 From info at elda.org Tue Feb 12 17:44:48 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:44:48 +0100 Subject: LREC 2008 Workshop HLT & NLP within the Arabic world - New Submission Deadline: February 28th Message-ID: HLT & NLP within the Arabic world : Arabic Language and local language processing: Status Updates and Prospects Saturday 31st May 2008, in Marrakech (Morocco) NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 28th Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ALLLP2008/submit.html In Association with 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC 2008 Main Conference 28-29-30 May 2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- From vogel at cs.tcd.ie Thu Feb 14 18:51:28 2008 From: vogel at cs.tcd.ie (Carl Vogel) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:51:28 +0000 Subject: fyi -- postdoc & PhD positions, TCD Message-ID: [Apologies for Multiple Postings; Please pass on to colleagues and students as appropriate.] Post-doctoral positions and PhD fellowships in Text Classification and Automatic Labelling The Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin is looking for applications for ONE Postdoctoral positions and TWO PhD positions in the areas of text classification and automatic labelling of text streams. The positions are part of a large research project "Next Generation Localisation" involving a consortium of leading Irish Universities (DCU, TCD, UCD and UL) and Industry Partners, funded by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). The project focuses on Language Technology and Digital Content Management in Localisation. Localisation is the industrial-scale adaptation of digital content to domain, culture and language. Successful candidates will join a team of Postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and research advisors from academia and industry. Details of the advertised posts are as follows: - POSTDOCSF32: Postdoctoral Position in "Text Categorisation" o Description: The successful candidate will research and develop algorithms for automatic annotation of localisation metadata, and multilingual text type and genre classification. Candidates must have a strong background and research record in machine learning and data-intensive natural language processing, as well as good programming skills. o Starting date: 3rd quarter 2008 o Salary: Approx. 38,000-44,000 Euro per annum depending on experience and qualifications. For further details, please contact Dr Saturnino Luz (luzs at cs.tcd.ie) or Dr Carl Vogel (vogel at cs.tcd.ie). To apply, please email a CV and contact details for two references by March 1, 2008 to Jean.Maypother at cs.tcd.ie. Please include the job reference ("POSTDOCILT32") in the subject line of all email correspondence. ------------------------ - PHDILT33: PhD Fellowship in "Multilingual Text Type and Genre Classification" o Description: Candidates must have a strong interest and some experience in Computational Linguistics and Machine Learning, and good programming skills. Experience with syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis is desirable. o Starting date: September 2008 o Stipend: Approx. 16,000 Euro per annum (tax exempt) + University fees (approx. 5,000 Euro per annum) + equipment allowance and a generous conference travel allowance. For further details, please contact Dr Carl Vogel (vogel at cs.tcd.ie). To apply, please email a CV and contact details for two references by March 1, 2008 to Jean.Maypother at cs.tcd.ie. Please include the job reference ("PHDILT33") in the subject line of all email correspondence. ------------------------ - PHDILT32: PhD Fellowship in "Automatic Annotation of Localisation Metadata" o Description: Candidates must have a strong interest and some experience in Computational Linguistics or Machine Learning, and good programming skills. o Starting date: September 2008 o Stipend: Approx. 16,000 Euro per annum (tax exempt) + University fees (approx. 5,000 Euro per annum) + equipment allowance and a generous conference travel allowance. For further details, please contact Dr Saturnino Luz (luzs at cs.tcd.ie). To apply, please email a CV and contact details for two references by March 1, 2008 to Jean.Maypother at cs.tcd.ie. Please include the job reference ("PHDILT32") in the subject line of all email correspondence. While the deadline is March 1, 2008, applications will be considered until the position is filled. y From stefan.mueller at fu-berlin.de Fri Feb 15 10:29:13 2008 From: stefan.mueller at fu-berlin.de (=?UTF-8?B?U3RlZmFuIE3DvGxsZXI=?=) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:29:13 +0100 Subject: Bremen pages moved (HPSG Bibliography, Babel, etc) Message-ID: Hi, I moved the content of the Bremen Web-Server to hpsg.fu-berlin.de. The Bremen server will be switched off soon. Please update your links to the HPSG Bibliography, Babel, me, and my papers. Replace www.cl.uni-bremen.de by hpsg.fu-berlin.de and www.dfki.de/lt/HPSG/ by hpsg.fu-berlin.de/HPSG-Bib/ and www.dfki.de/~stefan/ by hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/ Thank you very much! Best wishes Stefan -- Stefan M?ller Tel: (+49) (+30) 838 52973 Fax: (+49) (030) 838 4 52973 Institut f?r Deutsche und Niederl?ndische Philologie Deutsche Grammatik http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/ http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/Babel/Interaktiv/ From kevin.cohen at gmail.com Sat Feb 16 22:14:10 2008 From: kevin.cohen at gmail.com (Kevin B. Cohen) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:14:10 -0700 Subject: Software engineering/testing/quality assurance for NLP: an ACL 2008 workshop Message-ID: Hello, The ACL 2008 meeting will include a workshop on software engineering, testing, and quality assurance for NLP. Grammar engineering is within the scope of the workshop topics, so hopefully this CFP is within the scope of interest of a number of readers of the HPSG-L list. Kevin Cohen Software engineering, testing, and quality assurance for natural language processing An ACL 2008 workshop Columbus, OH June 19 or 20, 2008 (awaiting determination by ACL organizers) http://alias-i.com/acl-08-software-workshop/ Natural language, as an input type, has unique characteristics that present special problems for software testing, quality assurance, and even requirements specification. This workshop is intended to stimulate research in all areas of software engineering for natural language processing. The goals of the workshop include raising awareness of the need for good software engineering practices in NLP, stimulating research on same, and disseminating the results of current work in this area. The target audience is researchers interested in natural language processing software, including testing and standardization. Submissions of full papers and poster abstracts are solicited in all areas of software engineering, testing and quality assurance as they relate to natural language processing. Some suggested areas are: * Patterns for design, coding, refactoring, and unit testing of language processing systems * Test suite design and generation * Special issues in metrology for natural language processing * Grammar/rule engineering * Usability * Standardization of tools and/or resources * Design for and evaluation of reliability and robustness * Scalability issues in training and deployment * Reusability and toolkit design * Concurrency and multithreading for NLP * Theoretical issues in software engineering for NLP IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: Friday, March 21, 2008, 11:59 PM East Coast time Notification of acceptance: Sunday, April 20, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: Saturday, April 26, 2008 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Full papers: Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. These are intended to be reports of original and mature research. Poster abstracts: Poster abstracts should not exceed two (2) pages. Accepted abstracts will be published in a separate section of the workshop proceedings. Appropriate poster topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Submission format: Submissions must be in PDF and should follow the two-column format of the ACL proceedings. Ensure that you are *not* in A4 format. Please see the conference website for detailed typesetting specifications. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style files available on the ACL meeting website at http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html. Submit your paper or abstract via the workshop web site at https://www.softconf.com/acl08/ACL08-WS04/ by 11:59 PM on Friday, March 21, East Coast time. Submissions need not be anonymous. Authors who cannot submit a PDF file electronically should contact the workshop organizers well in advance of the submission deadline. Papers may not be submitted to the software engineering, testing, and quality assurance workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication and that other meeting or publication prohibits dual submissions. If your paper is or will be concurrently under consideration by another meeting or publication, please notify us of that fact in a footnote on the first page. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairs K. Bretonnel Cohen, MITRE Corporation and U. Colorado School of Medicine Bob Carpenter, Alias-i Members William A. Baumgartner, Jr., U. Colorado School of Medicine Hamish Cunningham, U. Sheffield Dan Flickinger, Stanford U. Michael Gamon, Microsoft Martin Jansche, Google Marc Light, Thomson James Lyle, Microsoft Kevin Markey, Silver Creek Systems Stephan Oepen, Stanford U. Martha Palmer, U. Colorado at Boulder Jeff Reynar, Google Jun'ichi Tsujii, U. Tokyo and UK National Centre for Text Mining Martin Volk, U. Stockholm -- K. B. Cohen Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead Center for Computational Pharmacology 303-916-2417 (cell) 303-377-9194 (home) http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen From info at elda.org Wed Feb 20 17:14:29 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:14:29 +0100 Subject: LREC 2008 - Early-bird Registration NOW OPEN Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] Early-bird Online Registration is now open at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Online-Registration.html Hotel Reservation will be available shortly. We have booked a number of hotel rooms and negotiated special rates for LREC participants. More information: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008 From vogel at cs.tcd.ie Fri Feb 22 20:39:22 2008 From: vogel at cs.tcd.ie (Carl Vogel) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:39:22 +0000 Subject: Revised CFP (March 5): Sentiment Analysis--Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology & Terminology Message-ID: [Apologies for Multiple Postings; Please pass on to colleagues as appropriate.] ********************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS LREC 2008 Workshop on Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology (EMOT 2008) 27 May, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/lrec-emot08.html Revised Submission deadline: 5 March 2008 ********************************************************* Workshop Topics Sentiment analysis systems seek to extract emotions and feelings expressed about people, organisations, nation states, goods and services, in free natural language texts. This interdisciplinary workshop will address three related topics: (a) how metaphor and sentiment interact in everyday communication; (b) language/conceptual resources properties to support sentiment analysis (c) evaluation of sentiment analysis programs and evaluation methodologies. Prof Sam Glucksberg will give the keynote lecture of the workshop entitled Beyond Similarity: How Metaphors Create Categories. Workshop Aims This workshop will deal with the recent advances in the processing of sentiment in arbitrary collections of text. Sentiment can be expressed about works of art and literature, about the state of financial markets, about liking and disliking individuals, organisations, ideologies, and consumer goods. It is necessary to examine what aspects of emotional experience sentiment analysis aims to capture, how and in what way this may be evaluated. This workshop focuses on three strands of research which will serve to enhance the development of automated sentiment analysis systems of free text for real world applications. Firstly, in psychology and computational linguistics, the notions of emotion and metaphor interact in a number of complex ways. It has been argued that conceptual metaphors underlie human understanding and processing of emotion. In addition, it can be argued that the expression of sentiment and its interpretation can rely critically on how a speaker or writer uses metaphor. Therefore, an understanding of how emotion is expressed and perceived in language is not complete without addressing the role of figurative language and metaphor as basic scaffolding or tool for modulating affective text content. Secondly, to date, sentiment analysis typically deals with a specific domain of ideal objects. In order to build a sentiment analysis system, one has to understand `what there is' in a given domain, i.e. the ontology of the domain. In this context, is it possible to conceive of generic sentiment analysis? Practitioners in this area need to examine the requirements and challenges of an approach that could cross boundaries of domain or time or even language where different communities of use, languages or cultures may express or even experience sentiments in different ways. Finally, work in sentiment analysis may be regarded as work in intelligent information retrieval and success is evaluated in terms of accuracy in identifying the affective content of information segments. Yet sentiment analysis has the potential to have a powerful impact in other domains that require input about emotional context. Researchers in Human-Computer Interaction, Affective Computing, Lexicography and Terminography, may become end-users of work in sentiment analysis and sentiment analysis folks may have much to learn from how a machine artificially endowed with emotions/sentiments behaves. It may become feasible to evaluate sentiment analysis systems in terms of the performance of such applications. An examination of alternative end-user systems and evaluation mechanisms can only serve to enrich the field of sentiment analysis and present new challenges for researchers to address. Important Dates 5th March Deadline for workshop papers 21 March Notification of acceptance 4 April Camera-ready papers due 27 May Workshop held at LREC 2008 Programme Committee: Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Gerhard Budin, Zentrum fur Translationswissenschaft, Universitat Wien, Austria Ann Devitt, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Sam Glucksberg, Princeton University, USA Gerhard Heyer, Institut fur Informatik, Universitat Leipzig, Germany Maria Teresa Musacchio, Universita di Padova, Italy Maria Teresa Pazienza, University of Roma Tor Vergata Margaret Rogers, University of Surrey, U.K. Carl Vogel, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, U.K. Submissions Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages and should be typeset using a font size of 11 points. (Style files will be made available by LREC for the camera-ready versions of accepted papers.) The reviewing of the papers will be blind and the papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Springer has expressed an interest in publishing selected papers from the workshop. We are in discussion and further details will be confirmed at a later date. Papers should be submitted electronically, no later than 5th March 2008. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. Please submit your paper on the LREC site: https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/EMOT/submit.html or failing that please send your submission to kahmad at cs.tcd.ie Further Information Workshop web page: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Khurshid.Ahmad/lrec-emot08.html LREC 2008 web page: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ From info at elda.org Mon Feb 25 10:54:11 2008 From: info at elda.org (ELDA) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:54:11 +0100 Subject: LREC 2008: Early-bird Registration and Accommodation Reservation now OPEN Message-ID: * ***[Apologies for multiple postings] ****************** Registration and Accommodation Reservation now OPEN************************** *LREC 2008* http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Palais des congres Mansour Eddhabi Marrakech, Morocco May 26 - June 1, 2008 * Registration to Main Conference and Workshops&Tutorials is now OPEN * *Important dates:* Early registration deadline: *13 March 2008* Final version for the Conference Proceedings: 28 March 2008 *Accommodation * *Online Booking is now OPEN* **Check the list and rates of the hotels we have booked for you in Marrakech.** ** * * * Conference Schedule:* *** * Main Conference: *28-29-30 May 2008 * Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: *26-27 May ** 2008 * Post-conference workshops: *31 May - 1 June 2008* For any question, please don't hesitate to contact us . ****************** Registration and Accommodation Reservation now OPEN************************** ** ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Final Submission Deadline: March 28, 2008 All the details on Final submission can be found on LREC web site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/-Submissions-.html Best regards, LREC2008 Organizing Committee ******************************************************************** LREC 2008 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Palais des Congres Mansour Eddhabi Marrakech, Morocco Register online Now Early-bird Registration up to March 13th Book a hotel room for the conference From sag at stanford.edu Fri Feb 29 17:39:53 2008 From: sag at stanford.edu (sag at stanford.edu) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:39:53 -0800 Subject: CfP: GEAF at COLING 2008 Message-ID: All, FYI. -Ivan Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:19:40 PST From: Tracy Holloway King Subject: CfP: GEAF at COLING 2008 Call for Papers Grammar Engineering across Frameworks (GEAF08) August 24 Manchester, UK http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/GEAF08/GEAF08.html This workshop is part of The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-08). This workshop aims to bring together grammar engineers from different frameworks to compare research and methodologies, particularly around the themes of evaluation, modularity, maintainability, relevance to theoretical and computational linguistics, and applications of "deep" grammars to real-world domains and NLP tasks. Recent years have seen the development of techniques and resources to support robust, deep grammatical analysis of natural language in real-world domains and applications. The demands of these types of tasks have resulted in significant advances in areas such as parser efficiency, hybrid statistical/symbolic approaches to disambiguation, and the acquisition of large-scale lexicons. The effective acquisition, development, maintenance and enhancement of grammars is a central issue in such efforts, and the size and complexity of realistic grammars makes these tasks extremely challenging; indeed, these tasks are often tackled in ways that have much in common with software engineering. This workshop aims to bring together grammar engineers from different frameworks --- for example LFG, HPSG, TAG, CCG, dependency grammar --- to compare their research and methodologies. The workshop is a follow-up to the first GEAF workshop (http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/GEAF/2007/geaf07.html) which was held at Stanford in 2007. Paper Topics: The workshop is soliciting submissions for papers on the following themes: 1. Evaluation: Proposals concerning evaluation methodologies and metrics which can capture the added benefits of deep linguistic analysis; evaluation techniques which can compare grammars across varieties/languages. 2. Modularity: Reflections on which aspects of linguistic structure can most easily be separated out from each other, why and how the analyses of separate linguistic phenomena are interconnected/interdependent, and the role of frameworks on promoting or inhibiting modularity. 3. Maintainability: Techniques for improving long-term and multideveloper maintainability of grammars; impacts of considerations of maintainability on choices of linguistic analysis. 4. Relevance to theoretical and computational linguistics: Reflections on how to present grammar engineering work to other research communities. 5. Regression testing: Evaluation for internal purposes; methodologies and techniques for test suite construction, role of test suites in day-to-day progress on grammars. 6. Applications of "deep" grammars to real-world domains and NLP tasks, such as parsing, machine translation, question answering, dialogue, generation; with a focus on how the use of deep grammars can lead to improved performance on such tasks. Organizing Committee: Tracy Holloway King, PARC Stephen Clark, Oxford University Program Committee: Jason Baldridge, Texas Emily Bender, Washington Miriam Butt, Konstanz Aoife Cahill, Stuttgart John Carroll, Sussex Ann Copestake, Cambridge Berthold Crysmann, Bonn Mary Dalrymple, Oxford Stefanie Dipper, Bochum Dan Flickinger, Stanford Josef van Genabith, Dublin Ron Kaplan, Powerset Montserrat Marimon, Barcelona Yusuke Miyao, Tokyo Owen Rambow, Columbia Jun'ichi Tsujii, Tokyo Important Dates and Submission Details: Paper submission deadline: 5 May Notification of acceptance of Papers: 6 June Camera-ready copy of papers due: 1 July Demo session requests due: 1 July Workshop: 24 August The maximum length of submissions is 8 pages. Please use the COLING-08 style files, available from: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/style.html Please use the START system to submit a paper: https://www.softconf.com/coling08/GEAF/submit.html Contact for inquiries: Tracy Holloway King Stephen Clark Special Demo Session: In addition to the papers, there will be a demo session. If you wish to give a demonstration of a system relevant to the GEAF theme, please submit a title of the demo and a one-page description by July 1, 2008, through the START system (URL above). You do not have to have a paper in the workshop in order to give a demo. Proceedings: Accepted papers will form part of the workshop proceeedings. ----- End forwarded message -----