17.2957, Calls: Applied Ling, General Ling/Germany; General Ling/USA

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Subject: 17.2957, Calls: Applied Ling, General Ling/Germany; General Ling/USA

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1)
Date: 09-Oct-2006
From: Karin Pittner < karin.pittner at rub.de >
Subject: Bochumer Linguistik-Tage 

2)
Date: 09-Oct-2006
From: Philip McCarthy < pmccarthy at mail.psyc.memphis.edu >
Subject: Applied Natural Language Processing (special track) 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:46:41
From: Karin Pittner < karin.pittner at rub.de >
Subject: Bochumer Linguistik-Tage 

Full Title: Bochumer Linguistik-Tage 
Short Title: GeSuS 

Date: 12-Feb-2007 - 14-Feb-2007
Location: Bochum, Germany 
Contact Person: Robert Pittner
Meeting Email: karin.pittner at rub.de
Web Site: http://www.rub.de/linguistiktage 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jan-2006 

Meeting Description:

Die Tagung ist thematisch offen. Neben einem allgemeinen Vortragsprogramm gibt es Arbeitskreise zu speziellen Themen:

Autonomieförderndes Sprachenlernen und -lehren 
Wortbildung
Theolinguistik
Phraseologie in den Medien 
Aspekte von Entwicklung und Varietäten der Gegenwartssprache 
Syntax 
Partikeln und Konnektoren 
Deutsche Sprache im Vergleich 
Phonetik und mündliche Kommunikation 
Translation - Kommunikation zwischen zwei Sprachen und Kulturen 

Bitte schicken Sie ein kurzes Abstract (ca. eine halbe Seite) bis zum 1.1.2007 per Post an:

Robert Jakob Pittner
Steeler Str. 168
D-45884 Gelsenkirchen
Germany

Bitte geben Sie an, wie lange Ihr Vortrag sein soll (30, 45 oder 60 Minuten) und ob Sie ihn in einem der Arbeitskreise oder im allgemeinen Programm halten möchten.

Vorträge können auf Englisch oder auf Deutsch gehalten werden.

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:46:48
From: Philip McCarthy < pmccarthy at mail.psyc.memphis.edu >
Subject: Applied Natural Language Processing (special track) 

Full Title: Applied Natural Language Processing (special track) 

Date: 07-May-2007 - 09-May-2007
Location: Key West, USA 
Contact Person: Philip McCarthy
Meeting Email: pmccarthy at mail.psyc.memphis.edu
Web Site: http://homepage.mac.com/hempelma/flairs07.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Nov-2006 

Meeting Description:

The track of Applied Natural Language Processing is a forum for researchers working in natural language processing (NLP)/computational linguistics(CL), applied linguistics(AL) and related areas. The rapid pace of development of online materials, most of them in textual form or text combined with other media (visual, audio), has led to a revived interest for tools able to understand, organize and mine those materials. Innovative human-computer interfaces, for instance interactive agents, can benefit from language understanding and generation techniques with a large impact on user acceptance and satisfaction. Moreover, language can facilitate human-computer interaction for people with special needs leading to an ever increasing user base for computer systems. 

While papers and contributions on traditional issues are welcome, the 2007 track will emphasize applications by the NLP/CL community, particularly in areas such as multilingual processing, learning environments, multimodal communication, bioNLP, spam filtering, humor processing, security, language teaching, textual assessment, language varieties, materials development, and educational applications etc. We also encourage papers in information retrieval, speech processing and machine learning that present actual applications that can benefit from or have an impact on NLP/CL. 

Goal: 
The track of Applied Natural Language Processing is a forum for researchers working in natural language processing (NLP)/computational linguistics(CL), applied linguistics(AL) and related areas. The rapid pace of development of online materials, most of them in textual form or text combined with other media (visual, audio), has led to a revived interest for tools able to understand, organize and mine those materials. Innovative human-computer interfaces, for instance interactive agents, can benefit from language understanding and generation techniques with a large impact on user acceptance and satisfaction. Moreover, language can facilitate human-computer interaction for people with special needs leading to an ever increasing user base for computer systems. 

While papers and contributions on traditional issues are welcome, the 2007 track will emphasize applications by the NLP/CL community, particularly in areas such as multilingual processing, learning environments, multimodal communication, bioNLP, spam filtering, humor processing, security, language teaching, textual assessment, language varieties, materials development, and educational applications etc. We also encourage papers in information retrieval, speech processing and machine learning that present actual applications that can benefit from or have an impact on NLP/CL. 

Topics: 
We invite highly original papers that describe work in, but not limited to, the following areas: 
1.NL-based Knowledge Representations and Systems 
2.Applied Linguistics and First and Second Language Acquisition 
3.English for Specific Purposes 
4.Textual assessment indices 
5.Syntax 
6.Semantics 
7.Coreference Resolution 
8.Word Sense Disambiguation 
9.Text Cohesion and Coherence 
10.Dialogue Management and Systems 
11.Language Generation 
12.Language Models 
13.Human Computer Interfaces - in particular, multimodal human-computer communication and language as the only acceptable human-computer communication channel for the handicapped and elderly 
14.Machine Learning applied to NL problems 
15.Multilingual Processing 
16.Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building and Annotation Languages 
17.NL in Learning Environments 
18.Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning 
19.Applications: Machine Translation, Summarization, Intelligent Tutoring, Question Answering, Information Extraction, etc. 
20.others 

Submission Guidelines:
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by November 21, 2006. Please note the change from 5 to 6 pages from the first CFP. Additional pages (7 and more) have to be cleared by the program chairs and will be $100 each. For FLAIRS-20, the 2007 conference, the reviewing is not blind. Authors should indicate the special track if one exists that closely matches the topic of their paper. All submissions will be done electronically via the FLAIRS web submission system available through the paper submission site at http://www.easychair.org/FLAIRS20/. 

Please, check the website http://www.flairs.com/ for information regarding submission. 

Conference Proceedings:
Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) to be published in 2007. 

Organizing Committee:
Philip McCarthy, Institute for Intelligent Systems 
Christian Hempelman, Hakia Inc. 
Program Committee 
Cederick Bellissens, Institute for Intelligent Systems 
Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University 
Peter Clark, Boeing 
Scott Crossley, Mississippi State University 
Sidney D'Mello, Institute for Intelligent Systems 
Nick Duran, Institute for Intelligent Systems 
Anna Feldman, Montclair State University 
Chris Gates, Hakia Inc. 
Patrick Jeuniaux, Institute for Intelligent Systems 
Charles Hall, University of Memphis 
Christian Hempelmann, Hakia Inc. 
Diana Inkpen, University of Toronto 
Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh 
Christopher Kurby, Northern Illinois University 
Max Louwerse, University of Memphis 
Philip McCarthy, Institute for Intelligent Systems 
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas 
Paul Morarescu, University of Texas at Dallas 
Roberto Navigli, University of Rome ''La Sapienza'' 
Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 
Andrew Olney, Institute for Intelligent Systems 
Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton 
John Paolillo, Indiana University 
Srinivasa Pillarisetti, Institute for Intelligent Systems 
Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen 
Vasile Rus, University of Memphis 
Roger Taylor, Institute for Intelligent Systems 
Stacey Todaro, Northern Illinois University 
Katrina E. Triezenberg, Purdue University 
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University 
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield 

Further Information:
Questions regarding the NLP Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chairs: 
Philip McCarthy, email 
Christian F. Hempelmann, email 
Questions regarding paper submission should be addressed to the FLAIRS-2007 program co-chairs: 
David Wilson, University of North Carolina Charlotte, email 
Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, email 
General questions concerning the conference should be addressed to the FLAIRS-2007 conference co-chairs: 
Douglas D. Dankel II, University of Florida, email 
Special Tracks Chair 
Rainer Knauf, Ilmenau Technical University, Ilmenau, Germany 

Invited Speakers: 
Victor Raskin, Purdue University 

Conference Web Sites:
Paper submission site: http://www.easychair.org/FLAIRS20/ 
NLP Special Track web page: http://home.autotutor.org/pmccarthy/index.htm 
FLAIRS-2007 conference web page: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/FLAIRS/flairs2007/call.html 
FLAIRS 2007 home page:
Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com

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