13.538, Calls: Computational Ling, Applied Ling

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Subject: 13.538, Calls: Computational Ling, Applied Ling

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1)
Date:  Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:27:54 -0800 (PST)
From:  Martin Frank <martinfrank at yahoo.com>
Subject:  Final CFP, due March 1: WWW-2002 Semantic Web Workshop

2)
Date:  Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:36:03 +0100
From:  dedaicm at georgetown.edu
Subject:  Conference Announcement - Applied Linguistics

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:27:54 -0800 (PST)
From:  Martin Frank <martinfrank at yahoo.com>
Subject:  Final CFP, due March 1: WWW-2002 Semantic Web Workshop

Call for Participation:
Semantic Web Workshop at the 2002 World-Wide Web Conference
Hawaii, May 7, 2002


Invited Speakers

Rakesh Agrawal, IBM, USA
Mike Uschold, Boeing, USA


Important dates

Submission of papers: *** March 1st ***
Notification of acceptance: April 1st
Submission of camera-ready copy: April 15th


The term "Semantic Web" denotes the next evolutionary step of the Web,
which establishes a layer of machine-understandable data for automated
agents, sophisticated search engines, and information integration and
interoperability services. The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to
allow machines to share and use knowledge worldwide in a scalable,
adaptable and extensible manner, without any central authority and
just a few basic rules.

The Semantic Web workshop at WWW-2002 will complement the Semantic Web
track at the main conference by providing a forum for active
discussion on the current achievements, pitfalls, and the future
research directions of the Semantic Web. Our goal is to provide a
forum for fruitful discussion sessions rather than a
mini-conference. We solicit papers, but at the workshop itself the
emphasis will be on sharing experiences with time for all participants
to contribute. The workshop will be structured around group
discussions designed to help us achieve greater understanding of the
following issues: What are the recent successes in Artificial
Intelligence, Databases, Information Integration, and other Computer
Science fields that are relevant to the Semantic Web?  What are the
unique challenges of the Semantic Web that do not allow us to apply
that research directly? How do we overcome these challenges?  What are
new areas of basic research that the Semantic Web needs? What are
possible killer applications for the Semantic Web? How can we achieve
the critical mass of ontologies, annotated data, tools, and agents to
make the Semantic Web as ubiquitous as the regular Web is today?

Besides the papers about up-to-date progress of research, we solicit
reports from Semantic Web practitioners. We also encourage submissions
from researchers in established areas of Computer Science discussing
the possibilities and challenges of applying traditional techniques to
the Semantic Web, with its de-centralization and scale. Practitioners'
reports will give us the opportunity to discuss the gap between the
current practices and the visions. The challenge papers will help us
achieve a coherent picture of the Semantic Web to come.

Relevant workshop topics include but are not limited to:
* Language and Representation issues of the Semantic Web
  (e.g. RDF, OIL, DAML, Topic-Maps, RSS)
* Query languages for RDF
* Tools, systems and methodologies for engineering of, storing of and
  reasoning with RDF data
* Migrating existing information to be usable for RDF applications
* Trust in the Semantic Web
* Information integration and Mediation on the Web
* Semantic Web applications


Organizing Committee

Steffen Staab, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
Martin Frank, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA


Program Committee

Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
Fabio Ciravegna, U Sheffield, UK
Peter Crowther, Network Inference, UK
Monica Crubezy, Stanford University, USA
Mike Dean, BBN, USA
Stefan Decker, Stanford University (DB), USA
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France
Dieter Fensel, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Tim Finin, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, USA
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Asun Gomez-Perez, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University, USA
Martin Lacher, Technische Universität München, Germany
Yannis Labrou, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, Hong Kong
Alexander Maedche, FZI, Germany
Brian McBride, HP Laboratories, UK
Sergey Melnik, Stanford University, USA
Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK
Louiqa Raschid, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Katia Sycara, CMU, USA
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
Mike Uschold, Boeing, USA


Submission procedure

We invite three types of submission: research papers, application
papers, and position statements. Research and application papers
should not exceed 12 pages (including bibliography).  Position
statements should not exceed 3 pages and address some of the questions
in this announcement. Indicate the type of paper in large fonts on the
first page of your submission. We will accept only electronic
submissions in PDF format. To submit the paper, send the PDF file or
the URL where we can download it to noy at smi.stanford.edu

For additional information about the workshop, visit
http://semanticweb2002.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

For additional information about WWW-2002, visit
http://www2002.org


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Date:  Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:36:03 +0100
From:  dedaicm at georgetown.edu
Subject:  Conference Announcement - Applied Linguistics

CROATIAN APPLIED LINGUISTICS SOCIETY (CALS)
16th CALS Conference
17 -18 May 2002
Opatija, Croatia

CURRENT TRENDS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Keynote speaker:
DAVID CRYSTAL


First Call for Presentations and Announcement

The sixteenth annual CALS Conference will be held in Opatija, Croatia,
on the 17th and 18th of May, 2002. It will be an opportunity to survey
the current state of affairs and achievements in the fields of foreign
language learning and teaching in Croatia and abroad, and for the
presentation of papers on the practical application of these fields in
applied linguistics.

The conference is one of the key events organized by CALS. Its
international nature provides a unique opportunity for all CALS
members to submit speaker proposals for inclusion in the final
program. The Papers Committee welcomes papers on research and
practical issues in FLT, i.e. in language acquisition, learning and
teaching foreign languages and other areas of applied linguistics.

For more information, please visit our web page
http://www.pfri.hr/hdpl/eng/2002/



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