19.1098, Calls: Computational Ling/USA; Applied Ling/Brazil

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Date: 01-Apr-2008
From: Robert Ross < robertr at informatik.uni-bremen.de >
Subject: Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems 

2)
Date: 01-Apr-2008
From: Vander Viana < vander.viana at terra.com.br >
Subject: II CLAFPL

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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:38:24
From: Robert Ross [robertr at informatik.uni-bremen.de]
Subject: Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems
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Full Title: Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems 
Short Title: YRRSDS08 

Date: 21-Jun-2008 - 21-Jun-2008
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA 
Contact Person: Robert Ross
Meeting Email: yrr08-organizers at googlegroups.com
Web Site: http://www.yrrsds.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-May-2008 

Meeting Description:

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems is an annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The roundtable provides an open forum where participants can discuss their research interests, current work and future plans. The workshop is meant to provide an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research, and help create a stronger international network of young researchers working in the field.  The workshop is co-located with ACL 2008 and will occur the day after the 9th SIGdial workshop. 

Second Call for Participation

Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems
June 21st, 2008, Columbus, Ohio,

Sponsored by AT&T and VoiceObjects Inc.

Workshop Format:
Workshop events will include small informal discussion groups, a larger Question & Answers style discussion with senior researchers from academia and industry, and an opt-in demo presentation session. There will also be time for participants to have informal discussions over coffee with senior researchers on potential career opportunities. The small discussion groups are intended to allow participants to exchange ideas on key research topics, and identify issues that are likely to be important in the coming years. The results of each discussion group will then be presented and discussed in plenary sessions. The topics for discussion are still open and will be determined by participant submissions and finalized online before the workshop. Potential participants should submit a short paper, as described below in the submission process, to get accepted to the workshop.

In addition to the traditional one day event, a half day extension on the topic of  ''Frameworks and Grand Challenges for Dialog System Evaluation'' is under consideration for the morning of June 22nd, 2008. The aim of this extra session is to provide an opportunity for dialog systems researchers to discuss issues of evaluation, and hopefully determine an agenda for a future evaluation event or framework. Organization of this extended event will depend on interest; we therefore, as described below, invite potential participants to indicate their interest with their YRR08 submission.

Submission Process:
We invite participation from students, post docs, and junior researchers in academia or industry who are currently working in spoken dialog systems research. We also invite participation from those who are working in related fields such as linguistics, psychology, or speech processing, as applied to spoken dialogue systems. Please note that by 'young researchers' the workshop's organizers mean to target students and researchers in the field who are at a relatively early stage of their careers, and in no way mean to imply that participants must meet certain age restrictions.

Potential participants should submit a 2-page position paper and suggest topics for discussion and whether they would be interested in attending the extended session on Sunday morning. A template and specific submission instructions are available on http://www.yrrsds.org/. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis until the maximum number of participants for the workshop (50) is reached, or until the submission deadline (May 10th, 2008) is reached. Proceedings from previous years' workshops are also available on our web site. Specific questions can be directed to the organizing committee at yrr08-organizers__AT_googlegroups_DOT_com

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: May 10th, 2008
Notification: May 20th, 2008
Registration begins: to be announced
Workshop: June 21st, 2008

Organizing Committee:
Hua Ai, Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Carlos Gómez Gallo, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, USA
Robert J. Ross, Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany
Sabrina Wilske, Department of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany
Andi Winterboer, Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, University of Edinburgh, UK
Craig Wootton, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Local Organization:
Tim Weale, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA

Advisory Committee:
John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany
Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
Sudeep Gandhe, University of Southern California, USA
Stefan Hamerich, Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, Germany
Hartwig Holzapfel, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
Alistair Knott, Otago University, New Zealand
Geert-Jan Kruijff, DFKI Language Technology, Germany
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Michael McTear, University of Ulster, UK
Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ian O'Neill, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA
Verena Rieser, University of Edinburgh, UK
Antonio Roque, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam, Germany
Marilyn Walker, University of Sheffield, UK
Fuliang Weng, Bosch Research, USA
Wieneke Wesseling, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Michael White, Ohio State University, USA

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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:38:34
From: Vander Viana [vander.viana at terra.com.br]
Subject: II CLAFPL
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Full Title: II CLAFPL 

Date: 27-Nov-2008 - 29-Nov-2008
Location: Rio de Janeiro / RJ, Brazil 
Contact Person: Inés Miller
Meeting Email: clafpl2008 at puc-rio.br
Web Site: http://www.letras.puc-rio.br/clafpl/default.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2008 

Meeting Description:

The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the Special Interest Group on Teacher Education of the National Association of Post-graduation and Research in Letters and Linguistics (ANPOLL) have the pleasure to announce the II CLAFPL - II Latin-American Congress on Language Teacher Education to be held at the Gávea Campus of PUC-Rio, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from November 27-29, 2008, to address the theme: 

Language Teacher Education and Social Transformation

The event comprises conferences, round tables, symposia, individual and coordinated paper sessions as well as coordinated interactive poster sessions given by well-known researchers in the field of teacher education in Brazil and abroad. 

Call for Papers

II CLAFPL

II Latin-American Congress on Language Teacher Education

Second Announcement, Registration Form and Preliminary Program 

Proposals for symposia and papers on teacher education issues are welcome and will be organized within the following themes: 
1. Teacher educators and researchers as learners; 
2. Language teacher cognition;
3. Language teacher identity;
4. Language teacher linguistic education;
5. Comparative studies in language teacher education;
6. Linguistic policies and their interface with language teacher education; 
7. Pedagogic discourse in the context of language teacher education; 
8. Curriculum issues in language teacher education courses and their relationship with the fields of Education, Psychology, Computer Science, Speech Therapy, etc; 
9. Language teachers' work and teacher education;
10. New technologies of information and communication (NTICs) and distance education in initial and continuing language teacher education; 
11. School-university partnerships in initial and continuing language teacher education; 
12. Educational evaluation and initial language teacher education; 
13. Integration of initial and continuing language teacher education; 
14. Ethics and discourse in research on language teacher education. 

Proposals based on the themes above can be submitted to be presented in the following modalities: 

- Symposia (2 hours) - Presentation and discussion of research papers  submitted by a coordinator who will be responsible for selecting and sending to the Organizing Committee three papers of, at least, two different institutions as well as the name of a discussant. Each symposium will last 2 hours - 30 minutes for each presentation and 30 minutes for general discussion. 

- Coordinated paper sessions (90 minutes) - Presentation and discussion of three papers produced by researchers who may be from the same institution, from a research group or collective research project, etc., who may wish for example to present results of the same research from different perspectives. The three proposals will be submitted by a coordinator who will be responsible for selecting and sending them to the Organizing Committee. Each session will last 90 minutes - 20 minutes for each paper and 30 minutes for debate or general discussion.

- Interactive poster sessions (90 minutes) - Interactive posters presentations by teachers, learners, teacher educators, future teachers and researchers involved in teacher education research. Each coordinated poster session will last 90 minutes - 60 minutes for interactive poster presentations and 30 minutes for general discussion coordinated by an invited specialist.

- Individual paper sessions (90 minutes) - Oral paper presentations individually submitted and sent to the Organizing Committee, who will group them according to similar themes. Each session will include three papers of 30 minutes - 20 minutes for each paper presentation and 10 minutes for questions.

The deadline for submitting proposals is April 30, 2008. Acceptance letters will be sent by July, 2008. The official languages for the event are Portuguese, Spanish and English; and participants are to present in the same language as that in which they submitted their proposals.

The selection of papers will be conducted by the II CLAFPL Scientific Committee. Proposals need to be sent electronically to: 

II CLAFPL Scientific Committee 
E-mail: clafpl2008 at puc-rio.br

and should: 
a) include title, author(s), affiliation; 
b) use Times New Roman, size 10;
c) have a maximum of 200 words; 
d) be accompanied by the Registration Form.  

Notes:  
1. Participants who live in Brazil should also send the following by regular mail: (a) their proposals, (b) their Registration Form and (c) a check  payable to Inés Kayon de Miller to: 

II CLAFPL/PUC-Rio 2008
Departamento de Letras
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Rua Marques de São Vicente, 225 - CEP 22453-900 Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

2. Conference participants who do not live in Brazil should send their proposals and registration forms by e-mail to Prof. Telma Gimenez (tgimenez at uel.br). These participants will pay their registration fees upon arrival at the event. 

3. Participants who are proposing symposia and coordinated paper sessions should send (a) a general (100-200) word summary for the session, (b) separate summaries for each presentation, and (c) a Registration Form with personal information for each author, including the coordinator's. All the submissions will need to be made jointly by the coordinator of the symposium. Separate submissions will not be accepted.

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