17.724, Calls: Computational Ling/Australia;Applied Ling/Italy
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Subject: 17.724, Calls: Computational Ling/Australia;Applied Ling/Italy
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1)
Date: 07-Mar-2006
From: Begona Villada Moiron < M.B.Villada.Moiron at rug.nl >
Subject: COLING-ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties
2)
Date: 06-Mar-2006
From: Giancarlo Buoiano < g.buoiano at ling.unipi.it >
Subject: Joint Meeting: Language Origins and Psychiatric Brain and Language Research Societies
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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:51:41
From: Begona Villada Moiron < M.B.Villada.Moiron at rug.nl >
Subject: COLING-ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties
Full Title: COLING-ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties
Date: 23-Jul-2006 - 23-Jul-2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Contact Person: Timothy Baldwin
Web Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~avillavicencio/mwe-acl06.html
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 12-Apr-2006
Meeting Description:
There has been a growing awareness in the NLP community of the
problems that Multiword Expressions (MWEs) pose. Given all the
progress that has been made, it is now the time to ask some
fundamental questions on the nature of MWEs. A better understanding of
the underlying linguistic properties that define MWEs as well as their
cognitive aspects can be used to inform their computational
treatment. These combinations of research will help to provide a more
complete picture of the nature of MWEs, which can be used to advance
NLP methods for capturing them.
This workshop continues a tradition of ACL workshops on Collocations
(2001) and Multiword Expressions (2003 and 2004). Its specific
objective is to focus on the underlying properties of MWEs.
2nd Call For Papers
COLING-ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties
(Endorsed by SIGLEX)
July 23, 2006, Sydney,Australia
Workshop Description:
There has been a growing awareness in the NLP community of the
problems that Multiword Expressions (MWEs) pose. Given all the
progress that has been made, it is now the time to ask some
fundamental questions on the nature of MWEs. A better understanding of
the underlying linguistic properties that define MWEs as well as their
cognitive aspects can be used to inform their computational
treatment. These combinations of research will help to provide a more
complete picture of the nature of MWEs, which can be used to advance
NLP methods for capturing them.
This workshop continues a tradition of ACL workshops on Collocations
(2001) and Multiword Expressions (2003 and 2004). Its specific
objective is to focus on the underlying properties of MWEs.
Submissions:
We welcome papers describing original work on MWEs, and this includes
(but is not limited to) research on:
(1) Linguistic, Empirical and Cognitive Properties of MWEs: research
into the definitions and properties of MWEs and the impact that
such information has on NLP applications. We will also welcome
studies which investigate cross-linguistic properties or
which identify variation across languages (or families of
languages). This includes research on how to identify and
handle parallel constructions in different languages: how easily
can techniques developed for one language be transferred to
another and how can cues in one language help in another?
(2) Classes of MWEs: investigating the representation of classes of
MWEs and the extent to which classes of MWEs can be treated with
common methods, to help assess how much we can expect
computational techniques to transfer across classes. What methods
are there for identifying variability in MWEs and how reliable are
these?
(3) Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Theories of MWEs: combining the
computational treatment of a class of MWEs with a solid linguistic
and/or psycholinguistic analysis.
(4) Evaluation: addressing how to overcome the limitations that the
lack of gold standards brings on the evaluation of techniques for
automatic extraction, representation, and use of information about
MWEs. What techniques are best for establishing standards - web
experiments, expert judgements, etc. - and how can we best
contribute to available resources?
(5) Compositionality: assessing how humans and computers can make
reliable judgements on compositionality for the different
categories of MWE and to what extent non-compositionality is
important for determining whether a given candidate is a MWE.
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and
should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly
recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word document
template that will be made available on the COLING-ACL main conference
Web site (http://www.acl2006.mq.edu.au/).
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) ...''.
Submission will be electronic using the paper submission START system,
and they must be in Adobe PDF format. The papers must be submitted no
later than April 12, 2006. Papers submitted after that time will not
be reviewed. For details of the submission procedure, please consult
the submission webpage reachable via the workshop website.
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: April 12, 2006
Notification of acceptance for papers: May 12, 2006
Camera ready papers due: May 26, 2006
Workshop Date: July 23, 2006
Programme Committee:
Timothy Baldwin (Stanford University, USA; Melbourne University,
Australia)
Colin Bannard (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Beatrice Daille (Nantes University, France)
Gael Dias (Beira Interior University, Portugal)
James Dowdall (University of Sussex, UK)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Nicole Gregoire (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Matthew Hurst (Inteliseek, USA)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)
Brigitte Krenn (OFAI, Vienna, Austria)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Roger Levy (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Rosamund Moon (University of Birmingham, UK)
Stephan Oepen (Stanford University, USA; University of Oslo,
Norway)
Kentaro Ogura (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Japan)
Darren Pearce (University of Sussex, UK)
Scott Piao (University of Lancaster, UK)
Ivan Sag (University of Stanford, USA)
Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Beata Trawinski (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Kiyoko Uchiyama (Keio University, Japan)
Tom Wasow (Stanford University, USA)
Annie Zaenen (PARC, USA)
Contacts:
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please contact Begona Villada
Moiron (mwe_iep06 at let.rug.nl).
Workshop organizing committee:
Begona Villada Moiron [Chair] (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Diana McCarthy (University of Sussex, UK)
Stefan Evert (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)
Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto, Canada)
WEB site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~avillavicencio/mwe-acl06.html
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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:51:45
From: Giancarlo Buoiano < g.buoiano at ling.unipi.it >
Subject: Joint Meeting: Language Origins and Psychiatric Brain and Language Research Societies
Full Title: Joint Meeting: Language Origins and Psychiatric Brain and Language Research Societies
Short Title: LOS-PBLRS
Date: 24-Aug-2006 - 27-Aug-2006
Location: Barga (LU), Italy
Contact Person: Giancarlo Buoiano
Meeting Email: g.buoiano at ling.unipi.it
Web Site: http://www.psychiatriclinguistics.org/
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics
Call Deadline: 20-Apr-2006
Meeting Description:
Joint workshop of Language Origins Society and Psychiatric Brain and Language Research Society (Società Italiana di Linguistica Psichiatrica e Neuroscienze)
The aim of the Meeting is to gather studies, achievements and experiences from scholars working on language origins and Homo Sapiens speciation and its links with language pattern in psychoses. The LOS program will include a selection of papers on all aspects of the origins and evolution of spoken, written, and signed languages. The title of the PBLRS meeting is ''Cognitive and Language Impairments in Bipolar Disorders and Psychoses: The Speciation of Homo Sapiens and Mental Illness''
The PBLRS papers will be delivered on Thursday and Friday, the LOS presentations on Saturday and Sunday.
The Jan Wind memorial lecture. The invited LOS speaker is Francesco d'Errico, Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire of the University of Bordeaux. The title of his address will be ''The archaeology of language origin or the search for the best fitting model.''
Abstract Submission
Those who wish to present a paper or a poster should submit their abstracts no later than April 20, 2006.
Membership in the LOS or PBLRS is not a prerequisite. Abstracts should be no more than 500-word long, be in Word format and sent as e-mail attachment. Authors are kindly asked to specify whether they wish to make an oral or a poster presentation and, in case that an abstract is not accepted as oral presentation, whether the author considers appropriate a poster presentation or not.
LOS abstracts of Language Origins papers should be sent to Dr. Dominique Nouveau at D.Nouveau at let.ru.nl.
PBLRS abstracts should be mailed to: Dr. Mario Betti (tibet54 at alice.it) and CCed to Dr. Giancarlo Buoiano (g.buoiano at ling.unipi.it) and Dr. Siham Bouanani (siham.bouanani at tin.it).
The Book of the abstracts will be published in a special number of Psichiatria e Territorio (Psychiatry and Homeland) www.psyter.it
Abstract submission deadline: 20 April 2006.
PROCEEDINGS: The organizers are investigating the possibility of publishing, after review, the LOS and PBLRS papers in a special issue of Schizophrenia Research or Schizophrenia Bulletin.
REGISTRATION: The registration fee will be €50.00. Participants will receive a conference pack and be treated to a welcome reception on Thursday evening, August 24, 2006. The closing dinner on Sunday night in a typically Tuscan restaurant will be at the participants' expense.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Participants will be able to reserve lodging for ca. €40.00 a night, and shuttle service will be available to and from the meeting hall and from the Pisa airport and the Lucca railway station and back.
Detailed information about the logistics will be posted in early March on the following websites:
www.linguisticapsichiatrica.it or www.psychiatriclinguistics.org
CONTACTS: Questions about the LOS program should be sent to
Dominique Nouveau: D.Nouveau at let.ru.nl
or Bernard Bichakjian (standing in for ailing Marco Haverkort): BHB at Post.Harvard.edu
About the PBLRS program and about logistics to
Giancarlo Buoiano: g.buoiano at ling.unipi.it
Siham Bouanani: s.bouanani at psico.med.unipi.it
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