17.781, Calls: Computational Ling/USA; Computational Ling/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-781. Tue Mar 14 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.781, Calls: Computational Ling/USA; Computational Ling/Germany

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1)
Date: 13-Mar-2006
From: Susan Herring < herring at indiana.edu >
Subject: Persistent Conversation Minitrack - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 

2)
Date: 12-Mar-2006
From: Nils Reiter < reiter at coli.uni-sb.de >
Subject: Tagung der Computerlinguistik-Studierenden 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:20:11
From: Susan Herring < herring at indiana.edu >
Subject: Persistent Conversation Minitrack - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 

Full Title: Persistent Conversation Minitrack - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 
Short Title: HICSS 40 

Date: 03-Jan-2007 - 06-Jan-2007
Location: Big Island, HI, USA 
Contact Person: Susan Herring
Meeting Email: herring at indiana.edu
Web Site: http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2006 

Meeting Description:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Eighth Annual Minitrack on Persistent Conversation
Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS 40)
Hilton Waikola Village Resort , Big Island, Hawaii
January 3-6, 2007

The Persistent Conversation minitrack and workshop is a yearly gathering of those who design and study systems that support computer-mediated communication.

AT A GLANCE

-Summary of Topic-
Persistent conversations occur via instant messaging, text and voice chat, email, blogs, wikis, web boards, MOOs, graphical VR environments, document annotation systems, text messaging on mobile phones, etc. Such forms of conversation play a crucial role in domains such as online communities, the sharing and management of knowledge, and the support of e-commerce, e-learning and other network mediated interactions. The persistence of digitally mediated conversation affords new uses (e.g., searching, replaying, restructuring) and raises new problems. This multi-disciplinary minitrack seeks contributions from researchers and designers that improve our ability to understand, analyze, and/or design persistent conversation systems.

-Who-
Researchers and designers from fields such as anthropology, computer-mediated communication, HCI, interaction design, linguistics, management, psychology, rhetoric, sociology, and so forth. We also welcome submissions from graduate students.

-Chairs-
Thomas Erickson, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (snowfall at acm.org)
Susan Herring, School of Library and Information Science,
Indiana University (herring at indiana.edu)

-Important Dates*-
Fri, Mar 31, 2006:  Abstract submission
Fri, Apr 14, 2006:  Feedback on abstracts
Th, June 15, 2006:  Paper submission [Instructions will be on the HICSS site]
Tu, Aug 15, 2006:  Accept/Conditional Accept/Reject notice
To be determined:  Resubmission of Conditional Accept papers -
Fri Sep 15, 2006:  Final publication-ready papers due -
Fri Sep 15, 2006:  One author must register for HICSS -

*  For other dates, such as end of early registration and hotel deadlines, see the official HICSS conference site. 

-About the Minitrack-
This interdisciplinary minitrack and workshop brings designers and researchers together to explore persistent conversation, the transposition of ordinarily ephemeral conversation into the potentially persistent digital medium. The phenomena of interest include human-to-human interactions carried out using chat, instant messaging, text messaging, email, blogs, wikis, mailing lists, newsgroups, bulletin board systems, multi-authored Web documents, structured conversation systems, textual and graphical virtual worlds, etc. Computer-mediated conversations blend characteristics of oral conversation with those of written text: they may be synchronous or asynchronous; their audience may be small or vast; they may be highly structured or almost amorphous; etc. The persistence of such conversations gives them the potential to be searched, browsed, replayed, annotated, visualized, restructured, and recontextualized, thus opening the door to a variety of new uses and practices.

The particular aim of the minitrack and workshop is to bring together researchers who analyze existing computer-mediated conversational practices and sites, with designers who propose, implement, or deploy new types of conversational systems. By bringing together participants from such diverse areas as anthropology, computer-mediated communication, HCI, interaction design, linguistics, management, psychology, rhetoric, sociology, and the like, we hope that the work of each may inform the others, suggesting new questions, methods, perspectives, and design approaches.

-About Paper Topics-
We are seeking papers that address one or both of the following two general areas:
* Understanding Practice. The burgeoning popularity of the internet
  (and intranets) provides an opportunity to study and characterize
  new forms of conversational practice. Questions of interest range
  from how various features of conversations (e.g., turn-taking,
  topic organization, expression of paralinguistic information)
  have adapted in response to the digital medium, to new roles
  played by persistent conversation in domains such as education,
  business, and entertainment.
* Design. Digital systems do not currently support conversation
  well: It is difficult to converse with grace, clarity, depth
  and coherence over networks. But this need not remain the case.
  Toward this end, we welcome analyses of existing systems as well
  as designs for new systems which better support conversation.
  Also of interest are inquiries into how participants design
  their own conversations within the digital medium -- that is,
  how they make use of system features to create, structure, and
  regulate their discourse.

Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:
* Turn-taking, threading, and other structural features of CMC
* The dynamics of large scale conversation systems (e.g., USENET)
* Methods for summarizing or visualizing conversation archives
* Studies of virtual communities or other sites of digital conversation
* The roles of mediated conversation in knowledge management
* Studies of the use of instant messaging in large organizations
* Novel designs for computer-mediated conversation systems
* Analyses of or designs for distance learning systems
For other examples see the list of previous years' papers:
http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC_History.html

-The Workshop-
The minitrack is normally preceded by a half-day workshop open to all minitrack authors, as well as those who will form the core audience for the minitrack. We will know whether the workshop has been accepted for HICSS 2007 in early April. Watch the online version of this call for more details:
http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html

= Instructions for Abstract Submission =
Submit a 250 word abstract of your proposed paper via email to the chairs: Tom Erickson <snowfall at acm.org>, Susan Herring <herring at indiana.edu> by the deadline noted above.

-Instructions for Paper Submission-
* HICSS papers must contain original material not previously
  published, or currently submitted elsewhere. All papers will
  be submitted in double column publication format and limited
  to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo
  a double-blind review.
* Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack. If
  unsure which Minitrack is appropriate, submit the abstract
  to the Track Chair for guidance.
* Submit your full paper according to the instructions that will
    appear on the HICSS web site:  http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/

-For More Information-
* This call for participation, etc.:
        http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html
* History (papers and participants in previous minitracks):
                http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC_History.html
* About the minitrack, contact: snowfall at acm.org, herring at indiana.edu
* About the HICSS conference, see: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:20:21
From: Nils Reiter < reiter at coli.uni-sb.de >
Subject: Tagung der Computerlinguistik-Studierenden 

Full Title: Tagung der Computerlinguistik-Studierenden 
Short Title: TaCoS 

Date: 08-Jun-2006 - 11-Jun-2006
Location: Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany 
Contact Person: Nils Reiter
Meeting Email: tacos at coli.uni-sb.de
Web Site: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/tacos-06/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2006 

Meeting Description:

The TaCoS is an annual meeting of students of computational linguistics and similar curricula, like linguistics, information science, phonetics, and others. It takes place at a different university each year and is organised by the students themselves. 

Students interested in giving a talk should submit their topic, a short summary and all the information we should print in the conference program due to May 15th. The length of the talk should be around 30 to 45 minutes and can be given in German or English.

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