16.101, Calls: Computational Ling/UK; Applied Ling/Croatia

Fri Jan 14 21:18:54 UTC 2005

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Subject: 16.101, Calls: Computational Ling/UK; Applied Ling/Croatia

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1)
Date: 11-Jan-2005
From: Jennifer Spenader < j.spenader at gmail.com >
Subject: Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis

2)
Date: 11-Jan-2005
From: Jean-Marc Dewaele < j.dewaele at bbk.ac.uk >
Subject: 15th European Second Language Association Annual Conference

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:14:30
From: Jennifer Spenader < j.spenader at gmail.com >
Subject: Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis

Full Title: Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis

Date: 08-Aug-2005 - 12-Aug-2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Jennifer Spenader
Meeting Email: j.spenader at gmail.com
Web Site: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~spenader/Ellipsis_Workshop.html

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics;
Semantics

Call Deadline: 09-Mar-2005

Meeting Description:

Workshop on the nature and function of ellipsis from a discourse perspective,
focusing also on current methods of dealing with ellipsis in NLP applications.
Organized as part of the 17th European Summer School on Logic, Language and
Information (ESSLLI) August 8-19, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland

Second Call for Papers

Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis

Workshop August 8-12, and organized as part of the 17th European Summer  School
on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) August 8-19, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland

Workshop Organizers:
 Jennifer Spenader (j.spenader(a)gmail.com)
 Petra Hendriks (p.hendriks(a)let.rug.nl)

Workshop Purpose

The area of ellipsis resolution and generation has long been neglected in work
on natural language processing, and there are few examples of systems or
computational algorithms. However, the misuse or non-use of ellipsis in highly
preferred contexts can make a dialogue difficult to understand similar to the
way inappropriate referential expressions can impede comprehension. This
workshop will provide a forum for researchers to present data that give insights
into the nature and function of ellipsis from a discourse perspective as well as
present methods to deal with ellipsis in NLP applications.

Additionally, we encourage discussion about how information from several
knowledge sources (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, world knowledge) can be used
to resolve and generate elliptical expressions, emphasizing approaches that draw
on empirical results or have been tested in actual implementations.

More specifically, we encourage contributions related to :

* implemented ellipsis resolution algorithms that incorporate information from
more than one linguistic module

* appropriate generation of ellipsis

* studies of ellipsis in dialogue and the relation of ellipsis to discourse
structure

* formalized treatments of ellipsis that incorporate semantic, pragmatic and
discourse structural information

* corpus studies of ellipitical phenomena

* elicitation tasks that give insights into interpretation or generation of
elliptical phenomena

Submission details:
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract. Submissions should not
exceed 6 pages. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS, ASCII text. Please
send your submission by email to j.spenader(a)gmail.com by the deadline listed
below. As reviewing will be blind, please refrain from including identifying
information on submitted abstracts. Instead the accompanying email should
contain contact information about the author(s). The submissions will be
reviewed by the workshop's Program Committee and additional reviewers. The
accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The
final versions will be done and latex and more information will be given later
to accepted authors.

Workshop format:

The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will
consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the first
or second week (not yet determined) of ESSLLI. There will be two slots for paper
presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop
organizers will give an introduction to the topic.

Invited speakers

 Dan Hardt (Copenhagen Business School)
 Gerhard Jaeger (University of Bielefield)

Important Dates

 Submissions: March 9, 2005
 Notification: April 18, 2005
 Preliminary programme: April 23, 2005
 ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2005
 Final papers for proceedings: May 18, 2005
 Final programme: June 22, 2005
 Workshop dates: August 8-12, 2005

Program Committee

 Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)
 Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen)
 Oesten Dahl (Stockholm University)
 Dan Hardt (Copenhagen Business School)
 Jack Hoeksema (University of Groningen)
 John Hoeks (University of Groningen)
 Gerhard Jaeger (University of Bielefield)
 Jason Merchant (University of Chicago)
 Mariet Theune (University of Twente)

Local Arrangements:

All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register
for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond
to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. Moreover, a number of
additional fee waiver grants will be made available by the OC on a competitive
basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for those. There will be
no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Workshop speakers who have
difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to
ask for the possibilities for a grant.

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:14:34
From: Jean-Marc Dewaele < j.dewaele at bbk.ac.uk >
Subject: 15th European Second Language Association Annual Conference

Full Title: 15th European Second Language Association Annual Conference
Short Title: EUROSLA

Date: 14-Sep-2005 - 17-Sep-2005
Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Contact Person: Marta Medved
Meeting Email: mmedved at ffzg.hr
Web Site: http://www.unizg.hr/eurosla2005

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2005

Meeting Description:

The EUROSLA 15 Organizing Committee invites all members of the Second Language
Acquisition and applied linguistics community to join this prestigeous scholarly
event.

Please check out on http://www.unizg.hr/eurosla2005

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