12.416, Calls: Syntax/Semantics Journal, Cross-Lang Evaluation

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Subject: 12.416, Calls: Syntax/Semantics Journal, Cross-Lang Evaluation

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Date:  Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:56:08 +0100
From:  Snippets <snippets at unimi.it>
Subject:  SYNTAX-SEMANTICS JOURNAL

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Date:  Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:17:38 EST
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject:  Cross-Language Evaluation Forum - CLEF-2001

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Date:  Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:56:08 +0100
From:  Snippets <snippets at unimi.it>
Subject:  SYNTAX-SEMANTICS JOURNAL



                 * APRIL 1, 2001 *

is the deadline for submissions to Issue 4 of the
syntax-semantics newsletter _Snippets_.

(Issues 1 through 3 are accessible at the web site

http://www.lededizioni.it/ledonline/snippets.html

The website contains updated copyright information that
is not present in the hard copies that have been
circulated.)

Relevant information follows about the newsletter, and
about how to submit:

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 From the SNIPPETS Editorial Statement:

The aim of _Snippets_ is to publish specific remarks that
motivate research or that make theoretical points germane to
current work. The ideal contribution is the ideal footnote: a
side remark that taken on its own is not worth lengthy development
but that needs to be said.
........

We will publish notes that contribute to the study of _syntax and
semantics in generative grammar_. The notes are to be brief,
self-contained and explicit. They may do any of the following
things:

a. point out an empirical phenomenon that goes against accepted
generalizations or that shows that some aspect of a theory is
problematic;
b. point out unnoticed minimal pairs that fall outside the scope
of any existing theory;
c. point out an empirical phenomenon that confirms the
predictions of a theory in an area where the theory has not
been tested;
d. explicitly describe technical inconsistencies in a theory or
in a set of frequently adopted assumptions;
e. explicitly describe unnoticed assumptions that underlie a
theory or assumptions that a theory needs to be supplemented
with in order to make desired predictions;
f. propose an idea for a pilot experiment in language acquisition
or language processing that directly bears on theoretical
issues;
g. call attention to little-known or forgotten literature in
which issues of immediate relevance are discussed.
........

We will solicit submissions issue by issue. A new submission
deadline will be announced for each issue, and the submissions that
we receive we will consider only for that issue. The submissions
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scheduled for a later issue.

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references. Given that we envision the submissions themselves as
footnotes, _the submissions may not contain footnotes of their own_.
The ideal submission is one paragraph; a submission of five lines is
perfectly acceptable. _We will not consider abstracts_.

We will accept electronic submissions at the address

snippets at unimi.it

Paper submissions should be sent to

Caterina Donati
Facolta' di Lingue
Universita' di Urbino
Piazza Rinascimento 7
61029 Urbino
ITALY

We strongly encourage electronic submissions. Electronic
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an attached file. The attached file should be a simple text file,
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All submissions must state the name and affiliation of the
author(s), and a (postal or electronic) return address.

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Date:  Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:17:38 EST
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject:  Cross-Language Evaluation Forum - CLEF-2001


CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM

CLEF 2001 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The CLEF series of system evaluation campaigns aims at promoting
research and development in Cross-Language Information Retrieval.

Registration is now open for CLEF 2001.

There will be three main evaluation tracks in CLEF 2001, testing
multilingual, bilingual and monolingual (non-English) information
retrieval systems. There will also be a special sub-task for
domain-specific mono- and cross-language evaluation and, possibly, an
experimental track testing interactive cross-language systems.

The CLEF test collection for 2001 consists of a multilingual corpus of
newspaper and newswire documents for English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish and Dutch from the same time period. Topic sets will also be
provided in a number of additional languages including Russian,
Japanese and Greek.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Data Release - 1 March 2001
Topic Release - 9 April 2001
Receipt of results from participants - 15 May 2001
Release of relevance assessments and individual results - 15 July 2001
Submission of paper for Working Notes - 7 August 2001
Workshop - 3-4 September 2001 (in conjunction with ECDL 2001)

For full details on the CLEF Agenda and Task Description for 2001 and
instructions on How to Participate, see http://www.clef-campaign.org

For further information, contact:

Carol Peters - IEI-CNR
Tel: +39 050 315 2987
Fax: +39 050 315 2810
E-mail: carol at iei.pi.cnr.it.

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