16.1750, Calls: Socioling, Canada; Comp Ling, South Korea

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Subject: 16.1750, Calls: Socioling, Canada; Comp Ling, South Korea

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1)
Date: 01-Jun-2005
From: Peter Wood < wcgs at uwaterloo.ca >
Subject: Diaspora Experiences: German-Speaking Immigrants and their Descendants

2)
Date: 01-Jun-2005
From: Mark Dras < madras at ics.mq.edu.au >
Subject: 3rd International Workshop on Paraphrasing

-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:01:38
From: Peter Wood < wcgs at uwaterloo.ca >
Subject: Diaspora Experiences: German-Speaking Immigrants and their Descendants

Full Title: Diaspora Experiences: German-Speaking Immigrants and their Descendants

Date: 24-Aug-2006 - 27-Aug-2006
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Contact Person: Peter Wood
Meeting Email: wcgs at uwaterloo.ca
Web Site: http://www.wcgs.ca

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): German, Standard (GER)

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2005

Meeting Description:

The conference will explore commonalities and differences experienced by
German-speaking immigrants and their descendants when living in
geographical and linguistic settings other than those of their own ethnic
origin. These can include individuals and groups in all continents of the
world. Sessions will be planned with a focus on history, linguistics,
literature and film.

Call for Expressions of Interest and Proposals
Diaspora Experiences: German-Speaking Immigrants and their Descendants
Waterloo Centre for German Studies
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
24-27 August 2006

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies at the University of Waterloo
invites expressions of interest and, subsequently, proposals for papers of
thirty minutes length to be given in English (preferred) or German at an
international interdisciplinary conference on the diaspora experiences of
German-speaking immigrants and their descendants.

The Kitchener-Waterloo region, home to the Waterloo Centre for German
Studies and University of Waterloo, is Canada's most prominent area of
German settlement.

The conference will explore commonalities and differences experienced by
German-speaking immigrants and their descendants when living in
geographical and linguistic settings other than those of their own ethnic
origin. These can include individuals and groups in all continents of the
world. Sessions will be planned with a focus on history, linguistics,
literature and film. Topics within these may include, among others:

- acculturation strategies of German-speaking people (assimilation,
integration, separation);

- bilingualism, loss and maintenance of the German language among
immigrants and their descendants;

- emigration/immigration history;

- emigration/immigration of German-speaking people as a subject of
literature and film;

- gender issues;

- impact of WW I, WW II and the experience of Germany under National
Socialist rule on German-speaking people in the diaspora;

- interactions between German-speaking immigrants and their descendants,
with others in their adopted countries, and among members of different
waves of German-speaking immigrants;

- relations between the German language and identity development.

Potential participants are invited to address these issues within specific
geographical contexts and/or as part of international and cross-cultural
comparisons.

To be considered, please send an initial brief (a sentence or two)
expression of interest, with your rough topic by September 30, 2005. This
will assist us in planning and budgeting. Follow this with a proposal of up
to five hundred words without your name, and on separate sheets your name,
address, professional affiliation and brief curriculum vitae. You may
submit by e-mail attachment (preferred), fax or mail, to arrive in the
organizers' hands not later than November 30, 2005. We will acknowledge
receipt of expressions of interest and proposals quickly and inform you of
the result by February 28, 2006. All proposals will be assessed anonymously
by an international panel of expert scholars in the respective fields.
Presenters will be required to submit the full text of their presentation
to the conference committee by July 15, 2006. These will be posted on the
conference website and be made available to conference registrants through
the use of a password. Subsequently, selected papers will be included in
the published conference volume. These contributions will need to fit the
thematic framework described by the volume's editor. The volume will be in
English. Contributions written in German and accepted will be translated in
co-operation with their authors.

All presenters will receive travel subsidies and will be expected to attend
and participate actively in the full conference. The conference program is
planned to include three keynote speakers of international reputation in
the field and will offer opportunities to become acquainted with the region
of Waterloo. It will be open to the public.

Reply to:

Diaspora Experiences Conference Committee
Waterloo Centre for German Studies
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. West
Waterloo ON  N2L 3G1
Canada
E-mail: wcgs at uwaterloo.ca
Fax: 519 746 5243
Phone: 519 888 4567, ext. 7547
www.wcgs.ca

-------------------------Message 2 ----------------------------------
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:02:08
From: Mark Dras < madras at ics.mq.edu.au >
Subject: 3rd International Workshop on Paraphrasing

Full Title: 3rd International Workshop on Paraphrasing
Short Title: IWP2005

Date: 14-Oct-2005 - 14-Oct-2005
Location: Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Contact Person: Mark Dras
Meeting Email: iwp2005-submission at nlp.nagaokaut.ac.jp
Web Site: http://nlp.nagaokaut.ac.jp/IWP2005/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 06-Jun-2005

Meeting Description:

The workshop will be open to any research topic related to paraphrasing
of any language. More specifically, topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

        * typology of paraphrases
        * representation of paraphrases
        * automatic acquisition of paraphrases
        * algorithms for recognizing and generating paraphrases
        * existing and potential applications of automatic paraphrasing
        * computational modeling of linguistic theories on paraphrases
        * open resources for paraphrasing technology
        * methods for evaluating paraphrasing technology

Call for Paper
The 3rd International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005)

http://nlp.nagaokaut.ac.jp/IWP2005/

IJCNLP-05 Workshop
October 14, 2005
Jeju Island, South Korea

Paper Submission Deadline:   now June 6, noon (Japanese time)

[Background and Goals]

Paraphrases are alternative ways to convey the same information. As
has been claimed by an increasing number of researchers, technology
for generating and recognizing paraphrases can potentially benefit a
broad range of NLP tasks including machine translation, reading
assistance, multi-document summarization, information retrieval, and
question answering.

Motivated by this background, we organized international workshops
on automatic paraphrasing in 2001 and 2003 (IWP2003), which
successfully drew the growing interest of NLP researchers. As both
workshops attracted attention and successfully finished, we will hold
the third workshop in conjunction with IJCNLP-05, in order to collect
existing and emerging research topics on automatic paraphrasing
during the recent two years.

The proposed workshop is intended to be the successor to these
previous workshops. The goals of the workshop are to connect with
a broader range of research activities related to automatic paraphrasing,
and to place the workshops in a series with the aim of establishing a
new research field.

[General Topics]

The workshop will be open to any research topic related to paraphrasing
of any language. More specifically, topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

-typology of paraphrases
-representation of paraphrases
-automatic acquisition of paraphrases
-algorithms for recognizing and generating paraphrases
-existing and potential applications of automatic paraphrasing
-computational modeling of linguistic theories on paraphrases
-open resources for paraphrasing technology
-methods for evaluating paraphrasing technology

Given the location of the workshop, papers focusing on paraphrasing
within the languages of the Asia-Pacific region are particularly encouraged.

[Special Topic: constructing paraphrase-related resources]

The theme of the previous workshop in the series was the automated
acquisition of paraphrase. A particular topic of interest for this workshop,
then, is the issue of constructing paraphrase-related resources that
would follow from this automated acquisition: What should these look
like? How would dictionaries and corpora of automatically acquired
paraphrases be defined?

[Submission Information]

Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8
pages including references, figures etc. Authors are required to follow
the guidelines of IJCNLP-05 workshop style, by hopefully using either
the LaTeX style file or the MS Word document template shown in the
IJCNLP-05 style file page (http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/archives4.html).
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email your
submission in PDF (preferred), PostScript, or MS Word to the following
address:

iwp2005-submission at nlp.nagaokaut.ac.jp

Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address and title in the body of the email message. For
more information, please make contact with the workshop co-chairs by
using the same e-mail address above.

[Important Dates]

Paper submission deadline:  now June 6, noon (Japanese time)
Notification of acceptance:  July 18, 2005
Camera ready manuscripts due:  August 5, 2005
Workshop date:  October 14, 2005

[Workshop Organizers]

Mark Dras, Macquarie University, Australia
Kazuhide Yamamoto, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan

Please use the following e-mail address to contact us:
iwp2005-submission at nlp.nagaokaut.ac.jp

[Program Committee]

-Caroline Brun (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
-Mark Dras (co-chair, Macquarie University, Australia)
-Ulf Hermjakob (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA)
-Kentaro Inui (NAIST, Japan)
-Gen'ichiro Kikui (ATR-SLT, Japan)
-Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
-Hiroshi Nakagawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
-Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
-Satoshi Sato (Kyoto University, Japan)
-Yusuke Shinyama (New York University, USA)
-Noriko Tomuro (DePaul University, USA)
-Hua Wu (Toshiba China, P.R.China)
-Kazuhide Yamamoto (co-chair, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
-Chengqing Zong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R.China)

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