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Subject: 13.2177, Calls: Computational Ling, African Ling
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:19:24 -0600
From: "Alexander Gelbukh" <gelbukh at cic.ipn.mx>
Subject: CICLing-2003 -- Computational Linguistics, Mexico, February, Springer LNCS
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:41:11 +0200
From: "Vergeer CCA <ccav at sun.ac.za>" <CCAV at sun.ac.za>
Subject: Call for Papers
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:19:24 -0600
From: "Alexander Gelbukh" <gelbukh at cic.ipn.mx>
Subject: CICLing-2003 -- Computational Linguistics, Mexico, February, Springer LNCS
CICLing-2003
Third International Conference
on Intelligent Text Processing
and Computational Linguistics
February 16 to 22, 2003
Mexico City, Mexico
SUMMARY
PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 10, short papers: October 20
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Eric Brill (Microsoft Research, USA)
Adam Kilgarriff (Brighton U., UK)
Ted Pedersen (U. of Minnesota, USA)
More are likely to be announced, see www.CICLing.org
EXCURSIONS: Ancient pyramids, Monarch butterflies,
great cave and colonial city, and more.
See photos of past events at www.CICLing.org
URL: http://www.CICLing.org/2003
The latest complete version of this CFP is at that website. Just in
case, below is ABRIDGED text. If you can read the website, please go
there and IGNORE the rest of this document.
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Contents:
- WHY CICLing?
- Areas of interest
- Important dates
- Registration
- Submission guidelines
- Tentative schedule
- Cultural Program
- Hotel and local guide
- Program Committee
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| WHY CICLing?
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This conference is the fourth CICLing event. The past CICLing
conferences have been very successful, according to the comments of
the participants. We consider the following factors to define our
identity:
General interest. The conf covers nearly all topics related
to computational linguistics. This makes it attractive for
people from different areas and leads to vivid and interesting
discussions and exchange of opinions.
Informal interaction. It is intended for a small group of
professionals, some 50 participants. This allows for informal
and friendly atmosphere, more resembling a friendly party than
an official event. At CICLing you can pass hours speaking with
your favorite famous scientists who you scarcely could greet in
the crowd at large confs.
Excellent excursions. Mexico is a wonderful country rich in
culture, history, and nature. The conference is intended for
people feeling themselves young in their souls, adventurous
explorers in both science and life. Our cultural program brings
the participants to unique marvels of history and nature hidden
from the usual tourists.
Relief from frosts. In the middle of February frosts, the
participants from Europe and North America can enjoy bright warm
sun under the shadow of palms.
The conf is held at the Center for Computer Research (CIC) of the
National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico. The IPN is one of the
largest universities in the world, with over 120,000 students. The CIC
is a relatively new school devoted to the cutting edge research in all
areas of science related to computers, both in software and
hardware. The conf is organized by the Natural Language Processing
laboratory of CIC (you can find some our publications at
www.Gelbukh.com).
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| Areas of interest
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In general, we are interested in whatever helps, will help eventually,
or might help computers meaningfully process language data.
The conference is intended to the exchange of opinions between the
scientists working in different areas of the growing field of
computational linguistics and intelligent text processing. Our idea is
to get a general view of the state of art in computational linguistics
and its applications.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited by, the following
topics, as long as the topic is presented in computer-related or
formal description aspects:
Computational linguistics research:
Computational linguistic theories and formalisms
Representation of linguistic knowledge
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Discourse models
Text generation
Statistical methods in computational linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Lexical resources
Intelligent text processing and applications:
Document classification and search
Information retrieval
Information extraction
Text mining
Automatic summarization
Spell checking
Natural language interfaces
In particular, papers on the following narrower themes are especially
welcome:
HPSG
Ambiguity resolution
Word Sense Disambiguation
Anaphora resolution
Subcategorization
Naturally, we welcome the works on processing any language, not
necessarily English, though major languages are of more general
interest. Note: when describing phenomena of languages other than
English, please be sure to make your discussion understandable for
people not familiar with this language.
See more info at www.CICLing.org/2003.
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| Important dates
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Submission deadline: October 10, short papers: October 20
Notification of acceptance: November 1, short papers: November 10
Firm camera-ready deadline: November 13
Conf: February 17-23
Authors of rejected full papers will be given a chance to re-submit
their works as short papers before November 5.
Please note that the camera-ready deadline is firm. We do not
guarantee the inclusion of any paper that does not arrive
(camera-ready version) by the midnight November 15.
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| Registration
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Authors of accepted papers: By submitting a paper, at least one author
thereby promises, in case of acceptance of the paper, to attend the
conf in person to present their paper and to pay the corresponding
early registration fee. Unless the current policy changes, the authors
of accepted papers will register on-site at the early registration
rate. Note: We reserve the right to change this information before
November 15; please check our website.
Public: Please contact registration at cicling.org before November 20 for
early registration information.
Early registration fee (before November 20):
Professionals US$ 280
Students US$ 140
On-site registration fee:
Professionals US$ 320
Students US$ 180
Local students enter free (no printed material).
A limited number of reduced registrations will be available. See more
info at www.CICLing.org/2003.
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| Submission guidelines
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All accepted full and short papers will be published in a Proceedings
volume edited by Springer-Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series.
The full papers should not exceed 12 pages, though we encourage you to
keep it as short as possible (but not shorter!). If you really need
more pages, please let us know: gelbukh at cicling.org.
Short papers should not exceed 4 pages and should, if possible,
contain references to Internet sites where more detail on the work can
be found. Otherwise the format of the short papers is identical to
that of full papers.
Please strictly follow the format guidelines of Springer LNSC series,
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. We cannot guarantee
publication of any paper that does not follow these guidelines. Please
do not hesitate to ask any questions at gelbukh at cicling.org.
We accept only electronic submissions, which should be properly
formatted. To submit a paper, send both or any one of the following at
submission at cicling.org:
PostScript or PDF file. PostScript usually better works
with non-English characters.
Source file in RTF or DOC. Or, file in LaTeX together with
a PostScript or PDF file.
When sending us the camera-ready paper, please send all of the
following:
Source file in LaTeX or RTF (not in DOC). If you use LaTeX,
then also all necessary source files, such as EPS pictures
and all style files different from llncs.cls (note that the
use of custom style files is strongly discouraged).
PostScript and PDF file, if you are unable to produce a PDF
file. If you use LaTeX, then also DVI file.
Copyright form (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/copyrigh.html)
by fax at +1 (928) 441-1817.
See more info at www.CICLing.org/2003.
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| Tentative schedule
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The specific schedule will be posted in the Program section at the
website.
The following schedule and, in particular, the list of excursions and
their exact dates is tentative.
There will be four working days and three days of excursions. You can
arrive on Monday and leave on Friday if you wish; then you will loose
two excursions.
February 16, Sunday:
Excursion to Teotihuacan: ancient Indian pyramids.
February 17, Monday:
Registration. Talks. Welcome party.
February 18, Tuesday:
Talks.
February 19, Wednesday:
Excursion to Angangueo: Monarch Butterfly wintering site.
February 20, Thursday:
Talks.
February 21, Friday:
Talks and discussions. Excursion to the Anthropological Museum
February 22, Saturday:
Excursion to Cacahuamilpa and Taxco: very large cave and
colonial city.
We will try to arrange for an alternative excursion to the City Center
on Wednesday; no guarantee yet.
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| Cultural Program
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One of the most exciting things at the conference are excursions to
the ancient Indian pyramids and visiting a unique natural phenomenon,
the Monarch Butterfly wintering site where you can see millions of
beautiful butterflies in the trees and in the air around you. In
common opinion of the last year's participants, the excursions were
excellent; at our webisite you can see their own photos.
Warning: the excursion to the Butterflies is very long and tiresome,
especially for not so young people. We think it is worth the trouble,
but you decide. What is more, after the death of very many butterflies
in 2002, we do not know if their population will recover for the conf
time. If not, this excursion may be cancelled. We will try to arrange
for an alternative informal excursion to the city center at the same
time as the excursion to the Butterflies.
Here is the tentative list of excursions:
- The Anthropological Museum: inside Mexico City
- The City Center; tentative and informal
- Teotihuacan: ancient Indian pyramids, 1 hour drive
- Cacahuamilpa and Taxco: great cave and colonial city, 2 hours drive
- Angangueo: Monarch Butterfly wintering site, 4 hours drive
The reception party will be combined with the Poster and Demo section.
We will have some snack, maybe some wine. (No music, no real food,
even no tables, sorry: we consider official banquets waste of your
valuable time.) You will enjoy the informal atmosphere to speak with
each other and with the presenters of the posters and demos. You will
also have a chance to show and discuss your own programs (for this,
please let us know your software and hardware requirements).
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| Hotel and local guide
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We suggest that it is convenient for the participants to stay in the
same hotel, to facilitate informal interaction. Usually our
participants form ad-hoc informal companies in the hotel reception to
go to some restaurant, walking tours, etc.
We will provide free transportation from the recommended hotel to the
conf place. Also, we will try to get discounted rates for the conf
participants in this hotel.
Please notify us in advance if you wish to reserve a room in this
hotel. Please see www.CICLing.org/2003, Hotel, for specific info.
Also, at the website you will find the following information:
- How to get to the Hotel,
- How to get to CIC, the conf place,
- Useful local information: currency and credit cards, transportation,
food museums, security.
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| Program Committee
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1. Barbu, Catalina, UK
2. Boitet, Christian, France
3. Bolshakov, Igor, Mexico
4. Bontcheva, Kalina, UK
5. Brusilovsky, Peter, USA
6. Calzolari, Nicoletta, Italy
7. Carroll, John, UK
8. Cassidy, Patrick, USA
9. Cristea, Dan, Romania
10. Gelbukh, Alexander (chair), Mexico
11. Hasida, Koiti, Japan
12. Harada, Yasunari, Japan
13. Hirst, Graeme, Canada
14. Johnson, Frances, UK
15. Kittredge, Richard, USA / Canada
16. Kharrat, Alma, USA
17. Knudsen, Line, Denmark
18. Koch, Gregers, Denmark
19. Kuebler, Sandra, Germany
20. Lappin, Shalom, UK
21. Laufer, Natalia, Russia
22. Lopez-Lopez, Aurelio, Mexico
23. Loukanova, Roussanka, USA / Bulgaria
24. Luedeling, Anke, Germany
25. Maegaard, Bente, Denmark
26. Martin-Vide, Carlos, Spain
27. Mel'cuk, Igor, Canada
28. Metais, Elisabeth, France
29. Mikheev, Andrei, UK
30. Mitkov, Ruslan, UK
31. Murata, Masaki, Japan
32. Narin'yani, Alexander, Russia
33. Nevzorova, Olga, Russia
34. Nirenburg, Sergei, USA
35. Palomar, Manuel, Spain
36. Pedersen, Ted, USA
37. Pineda-Cortes, Luis Alberto, Mexico
38. Piperidis, Stelios, Greece
39. Ren, Fuji, Japan
40. Sag, Ivan, USA
41. Sidorov, Grigori, Mexico
42. Sharoff, Serge, Russia
43. Sun Maosong, China
44. Tait, John, UK
45. Trujillo, Arturo, UK
46. T'sou Ka-yin, Benjamin, Hong Kong
47. Van Guilder, Linda, USA
48. Verspoor, Karin, USA / The Netherlands
49. Vilares Ferro, Manuel, Spain
50. Wilks, Yorick, UK
More info: gelbukh at CICLing.org
Alexander Gelbukh,
www.Gelbukh.com
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Gelbukh (Alexandre Guelboukh Kahn),
Research Professor, head of NLP Lab,
Centro de Investigacion en Computacion (CIC),
Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN).
Address: CIC, IPN, entrada por calle Venus (cerca de Metro Poli),
Col. Zacatenco, CP 07738, Mexico DF., Mexico
Office: +52 (55) 5729-6000 ext. 56544, 56518, 56602, home 5597-0709
Fax: +1 (928) 441-1817 (personal), +52 (55) 5586-2936, 5729-6607 (shared)
gelbukh at cic.ipn.mx, gelbukh at gelbukh.com, www.Gelbukh.com
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-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:41:11 +0200
From: "Vergeer CCA <ccav at sun.ac.za>" <CCAV at sun.ac.za>
Subject: Call for Papers
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12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN LANGUAGES ASSOCIATION OF
SOUTHERN AFRICA
7 - 11 JULY 2003
UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH
CONFERENCE THEME:
AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA: THE PARTNERSHIP
BETWEEN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Precise details of registration and conference events will be
communicated later at the conference website at:
<http://www.sun.ac.za/african_languages/alasa.html>
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts are invited on a wide range of fields within African
linguistics and literature on topics linked to the conference theme,
although papers on other topics within the following sub-fields are
also welcome:
African linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Language Planning and Policy
Language in Society
Language acquisition
Applied Linguistics including
Literacy and language teaching
Lexicography
Discourse analysis / Text linguistics
Pragmatics
Human Communication
Onomastics
Syntax
Morphology
Semantics
Phonology and phonetics
Computational linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Comparative linguistics
Historical linguistics
Translation
Literature produced in African Languages
Literary theory
Prose
Drama
Theatre and Performance
Poetry
Praise poetry
Oral art, folklore
History of Literature
Comparative Literature
Science fiction
Proposals for papers
Presentations will be 20 minutes in length plus 10 minutes for
discussion.
Submission of summaries and abstracts: Abstracts and summaries should
be submitted by email as part of the message text or as an MSWord file
attachment in accordance with the following guidelines:
Title
Surname
Full first name(s)
Institutional affiliation
Email address
Telephone number and/or Fax number
Sub-field of linguistics or literature of topic on which paper
is presented
An abstract of the paper of approximately 100 words
A summary of the paper of approximately 800 words (excluding
the "References") stating the research questions and
aims, theoretical approach and main findings of the
paper.
The author's name, abstract (and summary) title, affiliation, email
address, telephone and fax number should appear on a separate page.
The title of the paper should also appear at the top of the abstract
and summary.
Deadline for summaries and abstracts: There is one deadline for the
submission of abstracts for paper proposals, 31 January 2003.
Abstracts should be submitted as soon as possible, preferably before
20 December 2002. Abstracts may also be submitted in hard copy form
by mailing/faxing three (3) copies to the attention of the ALASA
Conference Secretariat.
Abstracts received after 31 January 2003 will not be
considered. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and notification of
acceptance will be sent by 15 March 2003.
For detailed instructions for the submission of conference
contributions, as well as for information on registration and other
conference related matters, please contact the Conference Secretariat.
Conference contributions can be emailed to the ALASA Conference
Secretariat:
Ms K Vergeer Mrs SJ du Plessis
Email: ccav at sun.ac.za Email: sjdp at sun.ac.za
Tel: 021-808 2210 Tel: 021-808 2106
Fax: 021-808 2171 Fax: 021-808 2171
or posted to:
ALASA Conference Secretariat
Department of African Languages
University of Stellenbosch
Private Bag X1
Stellenbosch, 7602
South Africa
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