17.1479, Calls: General Ling/Germany;Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Subject: 17.1479, Calls: General Ling/Germany;Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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1)
Date: 09-May-2006
From: Eric Anchimbe < anchimbe_eric at yahoo.com >
Subject: Panel: Universalism and Relativism in Face-Saving: Focus on Postcolonial Contexts 

2)
Date: 09-May-2006
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum < pz at biomath.jussieu.fr >
Subject: New Frontiers in Biomedical Text Mining 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 20:24:35
From: Eric Anchimbe < anchimbe_eric at yahoo.com >
Subject:  Panel: Universalism and Relativism in Face-Saving: Focus on Postcolonial Contexts 

Full Title: Panel: Universalism and Relativism in Face-Saving: Focus on
Postcolonial Contexts 

Date: 30-Aug-2006 - 02-Sep-2006
Location: Bremen, Germany 
Contact Person: Eric Anchimbe
Meeting Email: anchimbe_eric at yahoo.com
Web Site: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/sle2006/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-May-2006 

Meeting Description:

We wish to call for papers for the panel 'Universalism and relativism in
face-saving: Focus on postcolonial contexts' scheduled for the 39th annual
meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), 30-Aug-2006 to 02-Sep-2006
in Bremen, Germany.

Although the focus of this panel is primarily on face-saving, papers related to
the myriad locutionary forms, illocutionary functions, and perlocutionary
effects of language communication and communication systems in postcolonial
contexts are welcome as well. Papers dealing with natural discourse and issues
of cultural displacement, migration, hybridity, diaspora, and the role of public
and government media in shaping perceptions of postcolonial history, politics,
and regional, ethnic, and social identities will also be considered. With its
emphasis on communication and issues of identity, agency, understanding, and
empowerment in different postcolonial contexts, this panel wishes to provide a
common platform for interdisciplinary cooperation between scholars of different
persuasions with interests in language, communication, and postcolonial questions.

Abstracts to
- anchimbe_eric at yahoo.com and
- janney at lmu.de 

Deadline: May 30th, 2006. 

Panel: SLE Conference August 30th - 2nd September, 2006. Bremen
http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/sle2006/

Universalism and relativism in face-saving: Focus on postcolonial contexts

Richard W. Janney (University of Munich)
janney at lmu.de
Eric A. Anchimbe (University of Munich)
anchimbe_eric at yahoo.com

The main question this panel wishes to address is: to what extent are the
patterns of face-saving claimed by Brown and Levinson (1978) really universal?
Since the publication of Brown and Levinson's work, several other works have
been published that describe patterns of politeness and face-saving in
Non-western cultures that are distinctly different from those in Western
cultures. Although some researchers have discussed politeness in certain African
and Asian cultures, it is still not established if the further mix of languages
and linguistic identities created by colonialism play a significant role in the
way speakers in multilingual postcolonial speech communities produce and react
to speech acts related to politeness and face-saving. This issue is particularly
complex, because language use and abuse play important roles in many areas of
postcolonial life. Language can be a powerful mediator of understanding,
empowerment, and solidarity, or a source of repression, disempowerment, and
discrimination. Choices of what and how (and in what languages) things are
expressed stand at the centre of postcolonial pragmatic interest. 

If certain face-saving strategies (hedging, complimenting, understating,
distancing, etc.) are relatively uniform in Western cultures, as Brown and
Levinson claim, how are these realised in postcolonial contexts? What happens to
these strategies among speakers who have complex, hybrid linguistic identities
built on mixtures of foreign languages imposed during colonialism, indigenous
languages, and the languages of wider communication (Pidgins and Creoles)? Do
speakers adopt situational faces, using the different languages (and with these,
identities) at their disposal to project such faces? Or do they adopt stabile
face-saving patterns specific to one language and culture in their daily
communication? Answers to these questions could be found by analyzing everyday
face-to-face discourse, political and institutional discourse, print media
discourse, literary discourse, and all forms of electronically mediated
communication.

Send abstracts to
- anchimbe_eric at yahoo.com and
- janney at lmu.de

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 20:24:40
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum < pz at biomath.jussieu.fr >
Subject: New Frontiers in Biomedical Text Mining 

Full Title: New Frontiers in Biomedical Text Mining 
Short Title: PSB2007-NLP 

Date: 03-Jan-2007 - 07-Jan-2007
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA 
Contact Person: Pierre Zweigenbaum
Meeting Email: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr
Web Site: http://psb.stanford.edu/cfp-nlp.html 

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

Call Deadline: 17-Jul-2006 

Meeting Description:

New Frontiers in Biomedical Text Mining

A Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Session
January 3-7, 2007
Grand Wailea Resort, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii
http://psb.stanford.edu/cfp-nlp.html

SESSION CHAIRS

 - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Contact person)
   Inserm U729; Assistance Publique - Paris Hospitals; Inalco
   pz at biomath.jussieu.fr
 - Dina Demner-Fushman
   Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
   U.S. National Library of Medicine
   ddemner at mail.nih.gov
 - Kevin Bretonnel Cohen
   Center for Computational Pharmacology
   kevin.cohen at gmail.com
 - Hong Yu
   College of Health Sciences
   University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
   yuh9001 at dbmi.columbia.edu 

IMPORTANT DATES

    Paper submissions due:		July 17, 2006
    Notification of paper acceptance:	September 6, 2006
    Final paper deadline: 		September 25, 2006
    Meeting dates: 			January 3-7, 2007

TOPICS

Papers are invited on the topic of text data mining in its strictest
sense: providing users with information not explicitly stated in
text. Work submitted to this session will be required to be more
ambitious with respect to either theory or reach than the entity
identification, information extraction, and information retrieval
projects that comprise most work in biomedical language processing.

We especially solicit work in the following areas:

 - Question answering
 - Summarization
 - Mining data from full text including figures, tables, and images
 - Coreference resolution and normalization
 - User-driven systems, including user needs, user model, interactive
   systems, and user interfaces for biomedical language processing
 - Evaluation: test collections and evaluation methods

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

 - All papers must be submitted to Russ Altman in PostScript (.ps),
   Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), or Microsoft Word (.doc) format. Adobe Acrobat
   is preferred.

 - Attached files should be named with the last name of the first
   author ( e.g. altman.ps, altman.pdf, or altman.doc). Hardcopy
   submissions or unprocessed TeX or LaTeX files will be rejected
   without review.

 - Every paper must be accompanied by a cover letter which must include
   the following:
    - The email address of the corresponding author
    - The specific PSB session that the paper should be considered for
    - A statement that the submitted paper contains original,
      unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration
      elsewhere
    - A statement that all authors concur with the contents of the
      paper

 - Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in the PSB
   publication format.

 - Please format your paper according to the instructions found at
   http://psb.stanford.edu/psb-online/psb-submit/.

 - If figures cannot easily be resized and placed precisely in the
   text, then it should be clear that with appropriate modifications,
   the total manuscript length would be within the page limit.

 - Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors.
   The fee is $500 per page of color pictures, payable at the time of
   camera-ready submission.

 - Contact Russ Altman ( russ.altman at stanford.edu) for additional
   information about paper submission requirements.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

    Eugene Agichtein, Microsoft Research
    Sophia Ananiadou, University of Salford
    Alan Aronson, U.S. National Library of Medicine
    Sabine Bergler, Concordia University
    Olivier Bodenreider, U.S. National Library of Medicine
    Breck Baldwin, Alias-i Inc
    Bob Carpenter, Alias-i Inc
    Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University
    James Cimino, Columbia University
    Aaron Cohen, Oregon Health Sciences University
    Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
    Lynne Fox, University of Colorado
    Kristofer Franzén, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
    Carol Friedman, Columbia University
    Robert Futrelle, Northeastern University
    Henk Harkema, Cognia Corporation
    Marti Hearst, University of California, Berkeley
    Lynette Hirschman, The MITRE Corporation
    Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN-CNRS & University Paris-Nord
    Tom Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine
    Jasmin Saric, University of Stuttgart
    Vijay Shanker, University of Delaware
    Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
    Padmini Srinivasan, University of Iowa
    Lorrie Tanabe, NCBI/U.S. National Library of Medicine
    Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo
    Alfonso Valencia, National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid
    Karin Verspoor, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
    John Wilbur, NCBI/U.S. National Library of Medicine

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