16.2670, Calls: Socioling/Germany;Computational Ling/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-2670. Thu Sep 15 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.2670, Calls: Socioling/Germany;Computational Ling/Italy

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Date: 13-Sep-2005
From: Claus D. Pusch < claus.pusch at romanistik.uni-freiburg.de >
Subject: Workshop 'Dialect Convergence and Standardization in Catalan and Other Languages' 

2)
Date: 13-Sep-2005
From: Frank Keller < keller at inf.ed.ac.uk >
Subject: Posters and System Demonstrations 

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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:17:59
From: Claus D. Pusch < claus.pusch at romanistik.uni-freiburg.de >
Subject: Workshop 'Dialect Convergence and Standardization in Catalan and Other Languages' 

Full Title: Workshop 'Dialect Convergence and Standardization in Catalan and Other Languages' 

Date: 23-Feb-2006 - 25-Feb-2006
Location: Eberhard-Karls University Tuebingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Johannes Kabatek
Meeting Email: kabatek at uni-tuebingen.de
Web Site: http://www.katalanistik.de/colloqui.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat)

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2005 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is held as part of the 20th German Conference on Catalan Studies / 20è Col.loqui Germano-Català / 20. Deutscher Katalanistentag, organized by the Department of Romance Languages of Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen in cooperation with the German Association for Catalan Studies / Deutscher Katalanistenverband e.V. and the Institut Ramon Llull Barcelona. 

Workshop ''DIALECT CONVERGENCE AND STANDARDIZATION IN CATALAN AND OTHER LANGUAGES''

Keynote speakers:
Peter Auer (University of Freiburg im Breisgau / Germany)
Germà Colón Domènech (University of Basel / Switzerland)

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 

The workshop is devoted to the question how language planning (on both status and corpus level), language policy in schools and education, mass media (traditional and electronic) and other means of spreading standardized language varieties affect diatopic variation in the case of regional and minority languages for which the process of standardization is still relatively recent and where the diffusion of this (comparatively) new standard variety takes place under the conditions of diglossic competition with another (national or international) language that in most cases already has an established and unchallenged standard variety. The workshop will focus on the question whether dialect convergence, dialect divergence, formation of new language varieties and diasystematic dynamism follow the same or different pathways in the case of minority languages as it does in ''big'' (inter-)national languages, and how this process affects identitarian and ideological attitudes among the linguistic communities involved. The main focus will be on Catalan, but studies on other regional languages in Europe (and elsewhere) including a comparative perspective on Catalan are also welcome. Papers may be read in German, Catalan, other Romance languages, and English. 

Please send an abstract no longer than one A4 page, including your name, academic affiliation, and address, preferably as ASCII, MS WORD, HTML or PDF file attached to an e-mail, to the conference convenor at kabatek at uni-tuebingen.de. Abstract deadline: October 31, 2005. 

The conference will be held in Tübingen, a historic town in Southwestern-Germany with a long academic tradition and which has played an important role in the development of Catalan studies in Germany. Detailed information on the conference, registration and fees, on the scientific and social program, travel and accomodation is available on the conference web-site and through the links listed there. 

Workshop organized by Johannes Kabatek (University of Tübingen) and Claus D. Pusch (University of Freiburg im Breisgau). 

For more information, please contact the conference convenor: Prof. Dr. Johannes Kabatek, Universität Tübingen, Romanisches Seminar, Wilhelmstrasse 50, D-72074 Tübingen, E-mail kabatek at uni-tuebingen.de.

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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:18:04
From: Frank Keller < keller at inf.ed.ac.uk >
Subject: Posters and System Demonstrations 

Full Title: Posters and System Demonstrations 

Date: 03-Apr-2006 - 07-Apr-2006
Location: Trento, Italy 
Contact Person: Frank Keller
Meeting Email: keller at inf.ed.ac.uk
Web Site: http://eacl06.itc.it/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Dec-2005 

Meeting Description:

EACL 2006 will also include a session for posters and system  demonstrations. POSTERS should present work in progress, project status  reports, unevaluated results or system summaries.

DEMONSTRATIONS should showcase implemented systems in any area of  computational linguistics. Posters and demos will be allocated 4 pages in  a companion volume in the conference proceedings. 

EACL 2006 FIRST CALL FOR POSTERS AND SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS

11th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational 
Linguistics

April 3rd - 7th 2006
Trento, Italy

http://eacl06.itc.it/

- Submission deadline: December 6, 2005 -

The European Association of Computational Linguistics invites the  submission of posters and system demonstrations for its 11th meeting. The  areas of interest for posters and demos are the same as those mentioned  in the call for full papers.

POSTERS should present work in progress, project status reports,  unevaluated results or system summaries (with or without demos). In the  programme of the conference there will be sessions reserved for posters.  Each poster will be allocated 4 pages in a companion volume in the  conference proceedings.

DEMONSTRATIONS should showcase implemented systems in any area of  computational linguistics. Each demo will be allocated 4 pages in a  companion volume in the conference proceedings.

Developers should outline the design of their system and provide  sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and  relevance to computational linguistics. Pointers to web sites running a  demo preview will also be helpful.

Demo submissions should also clearly indicate if any computer equipment  is expected to be provided by the local organizer. If so, please specify  desired hardware platform, hard disk and memory capacity, operating  system and other software needed in order to run the demo. If you are  bringing your own laptop, you should instead request a video projector if  you need one, providing details about PC type, screen resolution, etc.

Reviewing

The reviewing of the submissions will be blind. It will be conducted by  an international panel of experts. Final decisions on the program will be  made by the poster and demo co-chairs.

Submission Information

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and  should not exceed four (4) pages, including references. We strongly  recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files  tailored for this year's conference. They will be available at  http://eacl06.itc.it/submission.htm  

(Note: The submissions webpage is still under construction, it will be available soon).

A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable  to use these style files directly. Submissions must conform to the  official EACL-06 style guidelines, and we reserve the right to reject  submissions that do not conform to these styles including font size  restrictions. Submissions should be in PDF format and must include all  fonts, so that the submission will print (not just view) anywhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the submission should not include the  authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal  the author's identity, e.g., ''We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'',  should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as ''Smith previously  showed (Smith, 1991) ...''. Submissions that do not conform to these  requirements will be rejected without review.

Submission will be electronic using the submission software to be made  available at http://eacl06.itc.it/submission.htm. The submissions must be  submitted no later than 11:59pm (23:59) GMT December 6, 2005. Submissions  submitted after that time will not be reviewed.

Important Dates

Poster/demo submission deadline:  December 6, 2005
Notification of acceptance:       January 12, 2006
Camera ready versions due:        February 6, 2006
EACL 2006 Conference:             April 5-7, 2006

Program Co-Chairs:
Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic, Hungary) 

Local Organisers:
Alberto Lavelli (ITC-IRST, Italy)
Bernardo Magnini (ITC-IRST, Italy)

Student Sponsorships

The EACL has a limited number of student sponsorships available to  student participants of the EACL 2006 main conference, the EACL 2006  poster/demo session and/or the EACL 2006 student session.

Priority is given to students from Eastern Europe and more generally, to  students from countries with hard currency problems (within the  geographical area covered by EACL).

A request for student sponsorship for EACL 2006 should include the 
following information:

- Name, email address, affiliation and status (PhD year etc.) of the   
candidate 
- Source and amount of yearly income
- Letter of motivation
- Proof of student status
- Copy of acceptance letter from programme chair/student workshop
  chair or poster/demo chair 
- Letter of recommendation from supervisor
- Overview of the estimated costs

Requests for student sponsorships can be directed to the EACL at
secretary at eacl.org

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