16.2612, Calls: General Ling/Germany;Computational Ling/Thailand

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-2612. Sun Sep 11 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.2612, Calls: General Ling/Germany;Computational Ling/Thailand

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1)
Date: 07-Sep-2005
From: Jan Wohlgemuth < rara2006 at eva.mpg.de >
Subject: Rara & Rarissima: Collecting and Interpreting Unusual Characteristics of Human Languages 

2)
Date: 07-Sep-2005
From: Wirote Aroonmanakun < awirote at chula.ac.th >
Subject: The Sixth Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2005 

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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:30:13
From: Jan Wohlgemuth < rara2006 at eva.mpg.de >
Subject: Rara & Rarissima: Collecting and Interpreting Unusual Characteristics of Human Languages 

Full Title: Rara & Rarissima: Collecting and Interpreting Unusual Characteristics of Human Languages 
Short Title: Rara 2006 

Date: 29-Mar-2006 - 01-Apr-2006
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Jan Wohlgemuth
Meeting Email: rara2006 at eva.mpg.de
Web Site: http://email.eva.mpg.de/rara2006/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Typology 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2005 

Meeting Description:

Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, should prove a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works. 

Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have researchers looked at the other end of the scale. And even when they did, they mostly just noted peculiar facts as ''quirks'' or ''unusual behavior'', without making too much of an effort at explaining them beyond calling them ''exceptions'' to various rules or generalizations.

Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, should prove a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works.

Send your one-page abstract to Jan Wohlgemuth at the address below, either by email (preferably in PDF format) or as hard copy, to arrive no later than November 1st, 2005.

Papers should be presented in English. The time allotted for presentation is 30 minutes plus 15 minutes for discussion. Notification of acceptance is by December 15th, 2005.

The abstract itself should contain no identification of the author. A separate sheet or the cover e-mail should contain the title of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s), and one correspondence address, with institutional affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax, and email address as available:

Rara & Rarissima Conference
attn. Jan Wohlgemuth
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Germany

rara2006 at eva.mpg.de
Fax +49-341-3550-333

http://email.eva.mpg.de/rara2006/

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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:30:17
From: Wirote Aroonmanakun < awirote at chula.ac.th >
Subject: The Sixth Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2005 

Full Title: The Sixth Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2005 
Short Title: SNLP2005 

Date: 13-Dec-2005 - 15-Dec-2005
Location: Chiang Rai, Thailand 
Contact Person: Wirote Aroonmanakun
Meeting Email: info at snlp2005.org
Web Site: http://www.snlp2005.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2005 

Meeting Description:

The Sixth Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2005 is hosted by Chulalongkorn University in cooperation with the Thailand's National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC). The Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP) is an international conference held biannually since 1993 with the cooperative effort of a number of universities in Thailand. 

The Sixth Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2005 is hosted by Chulalongkorn University in cooperation with the Thailand's National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC). The Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP) is an international conference held biannually since 1993 with the cooperative effort of a number of universities in Thailand. The purpose of SNLP is to promote research in Natural Language Processing by bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field to exchange ideas and present results from research in Natural Language Processing and various related fields. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to:

- Pragmatics and Discourse
- Semantics, Syntax and the Lexicon
- Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology
- Interpreting and Generating Spoken and Written Language
- Linguistic, Mathematical and Psychological Models of Language
- Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Text Mining
- Corpus-Based Language Modeling
- Multi-Lingual Processing
- Machine Translation and Translation Aids
- Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems
- Message and Narrative Understanding Systems
- Pattern Recognition
- Applied NLP Systems
- Language Processing in Internet Applications
- Human Processing of Language and Speech
- Tools and Resources for Natural Language Processing
- Evaluation of Natural Language Systems
- Speech Processing
- Evaluation of Speech Understanding/Dialogue Systems
- Multi-Modal Speech Corpora
- Speech Corpus Annotation Tools
- Spoken Language Processing
- Second Language Learning
- Assistive Technology
- Semantic Web
- Others

Important Dates

Extended Abstract submission deadline  	September 30, 2005  
Full paper submission deadline  		October 14, 2005  
Notification of paper acceptance  		October 28, 2005  
Camera-ready submission 			November 11, 2005 
Conference date 				December 13-15, 2005

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