18.3877, Calls: Psycholingusitics/Netherlands; Comp Ling/Moroco

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Subject: 18.3877, Calls: Psycholingusitics/Netherlands; Comp Ling/Moroco

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1)
Date: 21-Dec-2007
From: Sergio Baauw < sergio.baauw at let.uu.nl >
Subject: 16th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 

2)
Date: 21-Dec-2007
From: Jian Su < sujian at i2r.a-star.edu.sg >
Subject: Building & Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:11:13
From: Sergio Baauw [sergio.baauw at let.uu.nl]
Subject: 16th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
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Full Title: 16th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 

Date: 26-Jun-2008 - 28-Jun-2008
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Sergio Baauw
Meeting Email: espp at let.uu.nl

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2008 

Meeting Description:

The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/) of Utrecht University invites you to the 16th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (http://www.eurospp.org), which will take place from the 26th to the 28th of June 2008 in Utrecht. 

Invited Speakers:
- Marina Nespor (University of Milan, Italy): Mechanisms in Early language acquisition.
- Radu Bogdan (Dept of Philosophy, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey): Why development matters to cognitive science: The case for mental assembly.
- Nicky Clayton (Dept of Exptl. Psychology, Cambridge University, UK): The development and evolution of mental time travel.
- Yosef Grodzinsky (McGill University, Canada): A brain map for syntax and semantics.

Invited Symposium Organizers:
- Asher Koriat (Dept of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel):  Metacognition
- Peter Hagoort (FC Donders Institute/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen): Downward causation
- Mike Martin (Dept of Philosophy, University College London, UK): Joint action
- Corrado Sinigaglia (University of Milan, Italy): Embodied language

The Society invites submitted papers, posters and symposia for this meeting.  

Previous topics covered at ESPP include spatial concepts, emotion, perception, simulation theory, attention, reference, problems of consciousness, early numerical cognition, infants' understanding of intentionality, memory and time, motor imagery, causal understanding, counterfactuals, the semantics/pragmatics distinction, reasoning, vagueness, mental causation, action and agency, thought without language, externalism, connectionism, hypnosis, and the interpretation of neuropsychological results. 

For full details of electronic submission requirements, see the abstract submission form: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/cgi-bin/espp/2008/psf.pl 

Submissions are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and relevance to psychologists, philosophers and linguists. All submissions  must include an abstract of  250 words maximum, in addition to a 750 word summary (psychology and linguistics) or a short paper (philosophy). Potential convenors of symposium submissions should email the description and list of speakers directly to one of the programme chairs by 1 February 2008. 

We particularly welcome POSTER submissions.  Posters will be displayed throughout the conference as well as at designated poster sessions.  The first author of each accepted poster (and who does not also present a paper) will get free ESPP membership for 2008. 

Programme Chairs:
Psychology: Liz Robinson (U. Warwick, UK) e.j.robinson at warwick.ac.uk
Philosophy: Matt Nudds (U. Edinburgh, UK) matthew.nudds at ed.ac.uk
Linguistics: Alessandro Zucchi (U. Milan, Italy) alessandro.zucchi at unimi.it

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:11:18
From: Jian Su [sujian at i2r.a-star.edu.sg]
Subject: Building & Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining
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Full Title: Building & Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining 
Short Title: BERBMTX-08 

Date: 26-May-2008 - 26-May-2008
Location: Marrakech, Morocco 
Contact Person: Sophia Ananiadou
Meeting Email: sophia.ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2008 

Meeting Description:

We invite papers reporting on biomedical resources specifically used to facilitate biomedical text mining and the process of designing, building, updating, delivering, evaluating and disseminating them. A focus of the workshop is on lexical and knowledge repositories (e.g. controlled vocabularies, terminologies, ontologies, factual databases) and annotated corpora. Another focus is on design guidelines, standards for building resources, storage and exchange format, interoperability of resources and last, on exploring new directions for their dissemination. 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Building biomedical resources: controlled vocabularies, terminologies, ontologies, corpora
- Guidelines and annotation schemas, challenges, interoperability
- Building task-specific resources
- Reengineering existing biomedical or general language resources 
- Augmentation of resources with biomedical features 
- Update and evolution of resources
- Lightly annotated and noisy resources
- Tools for exploration of resources
- Data exchange formats
- Standards for building resources
- Documenting and disseminating resources
- Evaluation of resources

Organisers:

*Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester,UK
*Monica Monachini, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy
*Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester, UK
*Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Important Dates:

February 15, 2008     Paper submissions due

March 20, 2008         Paper notification of acceptance

April 4, 2008             Camera-ready papers due

May 26, 2008            Workshop 

Submissions:

Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work.  Each submission will be reviewed by three program committee members.

Accepted papers will be given eight pages in the workshop proceedings, and may be presented either as a poster or an oral presentation.  

Online submission for papers: your paper (up to 8 pages) should be formatted according to the stylesheet provided at LREC 2008. 

Please send your electronic submissions in PDF format to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=berbmtm08  

Paper review will be double blind, so papers should not include authors' names and affiliations. Self-references are to be avoided--instead of ''As we showed in Smith et al. 1999...'', say ''As Smith et al. 1999 showed....''.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. 

Program committee members: 

Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, USA
Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR, Italy
Kevin B. Cohen, MITRE, USA  
Nigel Collier, National Institute for Informatics, Japan 
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Beatrice Daille, University of Nantes, France
Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany 
Marti Hearst, Berkeley, USA   
Martin Krallinger, Protein Design group, Spain
Ewan Klein, Edinburgh University, UK
Mark Liberman, CIS, UPenn, USA
Liu, Hong Fang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA 
John McNaught,   University of Manchester, UK 
Simonetta Montemagni, CNR, Italy
Claire Nedellec, CNRS, Framce
Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN, Paris 13, France
John Pestian, Computational Medicine Center, Cincinnati Children's, USA
Dietrich Rebholz, EMBL-EBI, UK
Patrick Ruch, University Hospital of Geneva and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, USA
Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany 
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, University of Manchester, UK
Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan and University of Manchester, UK
Karin Verspoor, Los Alamos National Labs, USA
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, France 

Workshop contact person:

Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk 

National Centre for Text Mining, Computer Science, University of Manchester

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