18.1732, Calls: Applied Ling,Computational Ling/Bulgaria; Lexicography/Austria

Wed Jun 6 20:05:44 UTC 2007

LINGUIST List: Vol-18-1732. Wed Jun 06 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.1732, Calls: Applied Ling,Computational Ling/Bulgaria; Lexicography/Austria

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Date: 06-Jun-2007
From: Mathias Schulze < mschulze at uwaterloo.ca >
Subject: Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources 

2)
Date: 06-Jun-2007
From: Alexander Onysko < alexander.onysko at uibk.ac.at >
Subject: Computational Lexicography

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:00:28
From: Mathias Schulze < mschulze at uwaterloo.ca >
Subject: Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources 

Full Title: Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources 
Short Title: NLPER07 

Date: 26-Sep-2007 - 26-Sep-2007
Location: Borovetz, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Mathias Schulze Schulze
Meeting Email: nlper07 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://ixa.si.ehu.es/NLP_ER2007 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2007 

Meeting Description

Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources

In conjunction with RANLP-2007
September 26, 2007
Borovetz, Bulgaria

Workshop site http://ixa.si.ehu.es/NLP_ER2007

RANLP 2007 site http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/ 

Second Announcement and Call for Papers

Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources

In conjunction with RANLP-2007
September 26, 2007
Borovetz, Bulgaria

The submission system is available at the Workshop site
http://ixa.si.ehu.es/NLP_ER2007

RANLP 2007 site
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/

In this workshop we will discuss how using NLP techniques in the automatic
treatment of texts can support pedagogic goals. There are well over 100
documented projects at the use of NLP in Intelligent Computer-Assisted  Language
Learning (ICALL) (Heift & Schulze,2007); however, there are  significantly fewer
publications about the use of NLP techniques in educational areas other than
language learning.
This workshop will bring together NLP and ICALL researchers with colleagues
who are investigating NLP treatment for other educational purposes. Our main 
aim is to discuss how we can use NLP in the automatic treatment of corpora for 
pedagogical purposes as well as in the analysis of learner corpora (students 
free responses).
The contributions of this workshop will share at least two keywords: NLP and
Education. We especially seek contributions about the adaptation and integration
of NLP techniques in the following areas:

- Automatic exercise and task generation
- Controlled language
- Error diagnosis and remediation
- Essay assessment
- Fostering language awareness
- Automatic generation of didactic resources
- Analysis of learners? interlanguage
- NLP for processing texts in ICALL environments
- Learner corpora
- Learning of textual analysis (in linguistics, literature, anthropology, ?)
- Student modelling
- Text production tools (e.g. grammar and spell checkers)
- Translator training

Heift, Trude, & Schulze, Mathias. (2007). Errors and Intelligence in CALL.
Parsers and Pedagogues. New York: Routledge.

Important Dates

Call for papers: March 26, 2007
Second call for papers: May 30, 2007
Workshop paper submission deadline: June 15, 2007
Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 23, 2007
Camera-ready papers for workshop proceedings: August 24, 2007
Workshop date: September 26, 2007

Submission Guidelines

Instructions for Authors:
Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not exceed 7 pages,
including cover page, figures, tables and references. Times New Roman 12 
font is preferred. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format.

The RANLP 2007 stylefiles are available at:
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/submissions.htm

Submission Procedure

The submission will be maintained by conference management software - START

Please submit your paper at: http://www.softconf.com/ranlp/NLP_ER2007/submit.html

Reviewing and Accepted Papers:
Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce
camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings.
Guidelines for producing camera-ready versions will be available at the
conference web site at http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007. If the paper is accepted
for publication, at least one of the authors will attend the workshop; all
workshop participants are expected to pay the RANLP-2007 workshop registration fee.

Requirements:
Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted for presentation
cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Papers 
that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must indicate 
this on the title page.
The reviewing of the papers will be blind. The paper should not include the
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-citations and other r
eferences that could reveal the author's identity should be avoided.

Committee

Organizing Committee:
Montse Maritxalar (University of the Basque Country)
Nerea Ezeiza (University of the Basque Country)
Mathias Schulze (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Programme Committee:
Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza (University of the Basque Country)
Nerea Ezeiza (University of the Basque Country)
Pius ten Hacken (Swansea University, U.K.)
Trude Heifth (Linguistics Department, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Ola Knutsson (School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of
Technology, Sweden)
Chao-Lin Liu (Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Montse Maritxalar (University of the Basque Country)
Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University, USA)
Ruslan Mitkov - (University of Wolverhampton, U.K)
John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centre for Applied Linguistics, Santiago de Cuba)
Mathias Schulze (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Eiichiro Sumita (NICT/ATR, Japan) 

Contact
For questions or comments, please contact nlper07 at gmail.com

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:00:37
From: Alexander Onysko < alexander.onysko at uibk.ac.at >
Subject: Computational Lexicography 

Full Title: Computational Lexicography 

Date: 26-Oct-2007 - 28-Oct-2007
Location: Innsbruck, Austria 
Contact Person: Alexander Onysko
Meeting Email: alexander.onysko at uibk.ac.at
Web Site: http://www.onomastik.at/index.php?article_id=41 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography 

Call Deadline: 10-Jul-2007 

Meeting Description:
Workshop - Computational Lexicography / Computergestützte Lexikographie 

The constant rise in the popularity and the use of electronic dictionaries (on
CD-Rom and particularly on the Internet) underlines the growing importance of
these reference tools. The general shift to electronic dictionaries challenges
modern lexicography particularly in the following areas:
-Conception of dictionaries as databases
-Issues of (automatic) entry compilation
-Digitization of print dictionaries (e.g. English Dialect Dictionary,
http://www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/projects/speed/index.html)
-Design and functionality of electronic dictionaries
-Multi-parametric searches as the basis of fast and precise retrieval of complex
information
-Electronic dictionaries as interactive tools (maps, hyperlinking, integration
of audio and video files)
-Encoding of and access to phonetic transcriptions
-From dictionary to wictionary

As part of the 35th Austrian Linguistics Conference, the workshop aims to
provide a forum for researchers, lexicographers, and software developers to
present and discuss their work on any of the aspects above and on further issues
related to computational lexicography.

We invite to submit abstracts (for 20 min presentation + 10 min discussion) of a
maximum of 500 words (excluding references) as a Word or Pdf file to
alexander.onysko at uibk.ac.at. To facilitate the review process, include the title
of the paper, name of the author(s), and contact information in the body of the
e-mail. The abstract should remain anonymous.

Deadline of submission: July 10, 2007

Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2007

Conference registration and more information on the 35th Austrian Linguistics
Conference (35. Österreichische Linguistiktagung): 
http://www.onomastik.at/index.php?article_id=41 

Conference Languages: 
German and English

Location: 
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Innrain 52
6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Contact: 
Alexander Onysko
Phone: +43 512 507 4193
E-mail: alexander.onysko at uibk.ac.at

Date: 
October 26 - 28, 2007

Organizers:
Manfred Markus
Reinhard Heuberger
Alexander Onysko

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