16.2686, Calls: Computational Ling/Italy;Applied Ling/Taiwan

Sun Sep 18 20:45:10 UTC 2005

LINGUIST List: Vol-16-2686. Sun Sep 18 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.2686, Calls: Computational Ling/Italy;Applied Ling/Taiwan

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1)
Date: 14-Sep-2005
From: Jonathon Read < students at eacl.org >
Subject: Student Research Workshop at EACL-2006 

2)
Date: 14-Sep-2005
From: Jiun-Shiung Wu < wujs at mail.ncyu.edu.tw >
Subject: International Conference on Applied Linguistics 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:41:48
From: Jonathon Read < students at eacl.org >
Subject: Student Research Workshop at EACL-2006 

Full Title: Student Research Workshop at EACL-2006 
Short Title: EACL-06-SW 

Date: 05-Apr-2006 - 07-Mar-2006
Location: Trento, Italy 
Contact Person: Jonathon Read
Meeting Email: students at eacl.org
Web Site: http://eacl.coli.uni-saarland.de/studentws06/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Nov-2005 

Meeting Description:

Student Research Workshop at EACL-2006
http://eacl.coli.uni-saarland.de/studentws06/

Trento, Italy
April 5-7, 2006 

Student Research Workshop at EACL-2006
http://eacl.coli.uni-saarland.de/studentws06/

Trento, Italy
April 5-7, 2006

- Submission Deadline: November 8, 2006-

1.  General Invitation for Submissions

EACL-2006 will continue the tradition of providing a forum for student researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.  Participants will have the opportunity to get feedback both from a wide audience in general and from selected panelists -- experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation.

The European Association of Computational Linguistics would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop.  Original and unpublished research is invited on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to these topic areas:

- phonetics, phonology and morphology;
- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
- syntax, semantics and grammars;
- pragmatics, discourse and dialogue;
- the lexicon and ontologies;
- parsing and grammatical formalisms;
- generation, text planning and summarization;
- language modeling, spoken language recognition and understanding;
- mathematical models of language;
- information retrieval, text categorisation, question answering, and information extraction;
- paraphrasing and textual entailment;
- machine learning for natural language;
- multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
- multi-modal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
- language-oriented applications, tools and resources;
- evaluation methodology.

The main conference will also feature tutorials, workshops and research notes.  Further information on these is available at the main conference website, http://eacl06.itc.it/

2.  Submission Requirements

Seeing that the main mission of the student workshop is to provide the participants with a wide audience and useful feedback, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress.  It will therefore normally be open to students who have settled on their thesis direction but who still have significant research left to do; those students in the final stages of their thesis are encouraged to submit to the main conference.  Papers should clearly indicate directions for future research where appropriate. The papers can have more than one author, however all authors must be students.

A paper accepted for presentation at the Student Workshop cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings.  Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this immediately after the title material on the first page.  Students who have previously presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student session will not be eligible to present again at the student session of any of these conferences.  These students are instead encouraged to submit to the main conference.

3.  Submission Procedure

Submissions should follow the two-column formal of EACL/ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) 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.  A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable to use the style files directly. Papers must conform to the official EACL 2006 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 paper will print (not just view) anywhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper 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) ...''. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Submission will be electronic using the paper submission software to be made available at http://eacl06.itc.it/submission.htm.  The papers must be submitted no later than 11:59pm (23:59) GMT November 8, 2005.

Further details on the submissions procedure may be found at the student session homepage.
(http://eacl.coli.uni-saarland.de/studentws06/).

4.  Reviewing Procedure

The reviewing of the papers will be blind.  Reviewing will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs and a team of reviewers.  Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review.  The final acceptance decision will be based on the results of the review.

5.  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

6.  Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:     November 8, 2005
Notification of acceptance:    January 15, 2006
Camera ready papers due:       February 6, 2006
EACL 2006 Conference:          April 5-7, 2006

Student Research Workshop Co-Chars (students at eacl.org):
- Sebastian Pado (Saarland University, D)
- Jonathon Read (University of Sussex, UK)
- Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, CH)

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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:41:54
From: Jiun-Shiung Wu < wujs at mail.ncyu.edu.tw >
Subject: International Conference on Applied Linguistics 

Full Title: International Conference on Applied Linguistics 

Date: 01-Apr-2006 - 02-Apr-2006
Location: Chiayi, Taiwan 
Contact Person: Laura Liao
Meeting Email: chaochih at mail.ncyu.edu.tw

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2005 

Meeting Description:

The International Conference on Applied Linguistics will take place between April 1st - 2nd, 2006, in Chiayi County, Taiwan, hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages, National Chiayi University. 

This conference gives scholars of applied linguistics to meet and exchange the results of their research activities, thus contributing to the understanding and discussion of the current research trends in applied linguistics in Taiwan and the other parts of the world. 

MEETING DESCRIPTION: (Third Call for Papers)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS
CALL FOR PAPERS
THEME: GENERALIZATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

The International Conference on Applied Linguistics will take place between April 1st - 2nd, 2006, in Chiayi County, Taiwan, hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages, National Chiayi University. 

This conference gives scholars of applied linguistics to meet and exchange the results of their research activities, thus contributing to the understanding and discussion of the current research trends in applied linguistics in Taiwan and the other parts of the world.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Janet Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Managing English in the workplace: some socio-pragmatic considerations

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

We invite original, not presented/published works including, but not limited to, the following fields:

Language and Culture: sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, language and gender, language identity, etc. 

Language and Cognition: psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language and mind, language and brain, language development, language acquisition, etc.

Language and Teaching: teaching methodology, curriculum and syllabus design, class activity design, Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language, Teaching Mandarin as a Second/Foreign Language, etc.  Computational Linguistics: creation of (annotated) corpora, tree bank, POS tagging, syntactic or semantic parsing, natural language understanding, knowledge representation, implementation of linguistic models, etc.  General Linguistics: (articulatory, acoustic, perceptual) phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, interfaces of the fields above, etc.

ABSTRACT

We invite abstracts of 20-minute talks, plus 10-minute discussion. Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred. Abstracts should be single-spaced and one-page long, including references and examples, in 12 Pt Times New Roman font, with all margins at 2.5 cm. Please email your abstract to dfl_con2004 at mail.ncyu.edu.tw 

The abstract should be in a Word File, including the following information in order:

Title of Presentation: 
Name of Principal Presenter: 
Affiliation and Position: 
Equipment Needed for Presentation: 
Language used in Presentation: 
Email Address: 
Mailing Address: 
Fax Number: 
Telephone Number: 
Abstract of 250-300 words

If email is impossible, please send five hard copies of your abstracts (one with the name(s), affiliation(s) and email(s) of the author(s), and the other four anonymous) to: Department of Foreign Languages, National Chiayi University, 85, Wenlong, Minghsiung, Chiayi County, TAIWAN, 621.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 15, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2005
Full Paper Due: January 31, 2006

EQUIPMENT

Overhead projectors, laptops and digital projectors are available at the conference. Requests of other equipment can be sent to the conference and will be met at our best efforts.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Phone: 05-2263411 Ext. 2151
Fax: 05-2063072
Email: dfl_con2004 at mail.ncyu_edu.tw.
http://211.22.252.67/ncyu_en/studyplan_2006_01.php
Address: Department of Foreign Languages, National Chiayi University, 85, Wenlong, Minghsiung, Chiayi County, TAIWAN, 621

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