TLSX -- call for participation

[D. Terence Langendoen]

Alexis, looks good! Joan Maling and I will get a report from Doug 
Whalen, so you
should all be on your best behavior around him! :-;
Terry
--
Terry Langendoen
Prof Emeritus, Dept of Linguistics, Univ of Arizona, and
Co-Director, Linguistics Program, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive
Sciences, National Science Foundation, Arlington VA 22230, USA
Phone: +1 (703) 292-5088   Fax: +1 (703) 292-9068   Email: dlangend at nsf.gov


Quoting =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alexis_Palmer?= <alexispalmer at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU>:

> Apologies for multiple postings ...
>
> ==== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
>
>     TLSX Texas Linguistics Society 10
>     Computational Linguistics for Less-Studied Languages
>
>     Austin, Texas 3-5 November 2006
>
>     http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2006tls
>
> ==== DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRAION:
>
>     20 October
>     Registration info:
>     http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2006tls/registration.php
>
> ==== SCOPE:
>     The past decade has seen great developments at the intersection of
>     computational linguistics and language documentation, particularly
>     in the focus areas of speech and video recording and
>     transcription, best practices for data collection and archiving,
>     and ontology development. TLSX aims to highlight the application
>     of techniques from computational linguistics to the management and
>     analysis of language data as well as to less-studied languages or
>     less-studied varieties of well-studied languages.
>
>     The goal of TLSX is to further the state of computational
>     linguistics for less-studied languages by bringing together
>     researchers working at this frontier and providing a forum for the
>     presentation of original research. We anticipate work both from
>     documentary and descriptive linguists interested in improving
>     technologies for linguistic analysis and from computational
>     linguists interested in theoretical issues such as the application
>     of data-driven natural language processing (NLP) techniques to
>     languages for which there exists relatively little
>     digitally-available data.
>
> ==== INVITED SPEAKERS:
>     * Jason Baldridge, University of Texas at Austin
>     * Emily Bender, University of Washington
>     * Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
>     * Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
>     * Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
>     * Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
>
> ==== PROGRAM:
>
> == Friday, November 3, 2006
> 8:30 - 9:15 Registration / Coffee and refreshments
> 9:15 - 9:30 Opening remarks
>
> 9:30 - 10:45
>     Keynote address
>     Linguistic Data Management with the Natural Language Toolkit
>     Steven Bird, University of Melbourne, University of Pennsylvania
>
> 10:50 - 11:20
>     Annotating and archiving natural language paradigms online
>     Dorothee Beerman & Atle Prange
>
> 11:20 - 11:50
>     The SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer Approach to Morphological Parsing
>     H. Andrew Black & Gary F. Simons
>
> 1:00 - 1:30
>     A Method for Enhancing Search Using Transliteration of Mandarin Chinese
>     Vijay John
>
> 1:30 - 2:00
>     Inflectional Vocalization of Arabic Text: A MaxEnt Tagging Approach
>     Frederick M. Hoyt
>
> 2:10 - 3:35
>     Keynote address
>     Cutting Corpus Costs: Machine Learning and Annotation
>     Jason Baldridge , University of Texas at Austin
>
> 3:50 - 5:30
>     Panel Discussion
>
>     Understanding needs of documentary and descriptive linguistics,
>     gaps in the current tool set, problems of current technologies,
>     issues involved in doing work on less-studied languages
>     Tony Woodbury, moderator
>
> == Saturday, November 4, 2006
> 9:00 - 10:15
>     Keynote address
>     TBA
>     Emily Bender, University of Washington
>
> 10:20 - 10:50
>     Two Approaches to Mayan Grammar Development in CCG
>     Elias Ponvert
>
> 10:50 - 11:20
>     A Combinatory Categorial Grammar of a Fragment of American Sign Language
>     Tony Wright
>
> 11:20 - 11:50
>     A Morphological Analyzer for Verbal Aspect in American Sign Language
>     Aaron Shield & Jason Baldridge
>
> 1:00 - 2:15
>     Keynote address
>     Detecting outliers: useful for word sense assignment - and for
>     aiding manual annotation?
>     Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
>
> 2:20 - 2:50
>     Affix Discovery based on Entropy and Economy Measurements
>     Alfonso Medina-Urrea
>
> 2:50 - 3:20
>     Enriching Language Data through Projected Structures
>     William Lewis, Fei Xia, & Dan Jinguji
>
> 3:20 - 3:50
>     Finite State Methods for Bantu Verb Morphology
>     Robert Elwell
>
> 4:05 - 5:20
>     Keynote address
>     TBA
>     Ray Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
>
> == Sunday, November 5, 2006
>
> 9:00 - 10:15
>     Keynote address
>     TBA
>     Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
>
> 10:30 - 12:30
>     Panel Discussion
>     How can computational linguistics address the needs of documentary
>     and descriptive linguistics, and how will doing so further the
>     state of research in the field of computational linguistics? What
>     are fruitful directions for future research? Where do we go from
>     here?
>
>
> ==== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
>     * Stephen Hilderbrand
>     * Heeyoung Lyu
>     * Alexis Palmer
>     * Elias Ponvert
>
>     The organizing committee members are all members of the Department
>     of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin.
>
>     Please contact tls at uts.cc.utexas.edu with any questions or concerns.