19.1348, Calls: General Ling/Russia; General Ling/Spain

Mon Apr 21 19:49:55 UTC 2008

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Subject: 19.1348, Calls: General Ling/Russia; General Ling/Spain

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1)
Date: 21-Apr-2008
From: Alexander Rusakov < ayurusakov at gmail.com >
Subject: 8th International Conference on Romani Linguistics 

2)
Date: 21-Apr-2008
From: Gemma Bel < gemma.bel at urv.cat >
Subject: Non-Classical Formal Languages in Linguistics

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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:45:30
From: Alexander Rusakov [ayurusakov at gmail.com]
Subject: 8th International Conference on Romani Linguistics
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Full Title: 8th International Conference on Romani Linguistics 
Short Title: 8ICRL 

Date: 04-Sep-2008 - 06-Sep-2008
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia 
Contact Person: Alexander Rusakov
Meeting Email: 8icrling at gmail
Web Site: http://www.iling.spb.ru/confs/8icrl.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romani 

Call Deadline: 02-May-2008 

Meeting Description:

8th International Conference on Romani Linguistics (8ICRL)
4 - 6 September 2008, St. Petersburg 

Call for Papers and Extension of Abstract Deadline

The 8th International Conference on Romani Linguistics (8ICRL) is scheduled for
Thursday, September 4 through Saturday, September 6, 2008 at the Institute of
Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (Russia).

Presentations in all fields of Romani linguistics are invited. The abstract -
written in English or in Russian, not exceeding 400 words, and identifiable
solely by the title of the presentation - should be sent as an e-mail
attachment. The author's name, affiliation, and e-mail and postal addresses
should be indicated in the body of the message. All abstracts will be reviewed
by the conference's international Programme Committee. 

8ICRL E-mail: 8icrling at gmail.com 
8ICRL Homepage: http://www.iling.spb.ru/confs/8icrl.html  

Important Dates:
- Deadline for abstract submission: May 2, 2008
- Notification of acceptance to authors: May 20, 2008
- Preliminary programme: June 20, 2008
- Conference: September 4-6, 2008

Organizing Committee:
Olga Abramenko
Fatima Eloeva
Alexander Rusakov
Yaroslav Vasilkov

Programme Committee:
Viktor Elsik
Victor Friedman
Yaron Matras
Alexander Rusakov

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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:45:42
From: Gemma Bel [gemma.bel at urv.cat]
Subject: Non-Classical Formal Languages in Linguistics
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Full Title: Non-Classical Formal Languages in Linguistics 
Short Title: ForLing 2008 

Date: 19-Sep-2008 - 20-Sep-2008
Location: Tarragona, Spain 
Contact Person: Gemma Bel
Meeting Email: gemma.bel at urv.cat
Web Site: http://grammars.grlmc.com/ForLing2008/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2008 

Meeting Description:

Non-Classical Formal Languages In Linguistics

ForLing 2008

September 19-20, 2008, Tarragona (Spain) 

Call for Participation at the Second International Workshop

This is the second edition of the Workshop on Non-Classical Formal Languages in
Linguistics. The first ForLing was hold in 2007, as a co-located workshop of the
16th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory (FCT) that
was hold in the Benczúr Hotel in Budapest (Hungary) on August 31, 2007.

Aims and Scope:
Formal Language Theory was born in the middle of 20th century as a tool for
modelling and investigating syntax of natural languages. After 1964, formal
language theory developed as a separate branch with specific problems,
techniques and results and with an internal self-motivated life. So, formal
languages, which started being a tool to be applied to natural languages, became
rapidly a theory that studied formal systems independently of possible
linguistic applications. On the other hand, classical formal language theory,
due to its abstract and formal properties, has been applied to a wide range of
fields (besides initial linguistic motivation): economic modelling,
developmental biology, cryptography, sociology... Non classical models of formal
languages present the same abstractness that has facilitate the application of
classical models to many issues, and, in addition, present, several advantageous
features: natural inspiration, parallelism, distribution, cooperation, etc.
Therefore, recently many researchers claim that application of non-classical
models of formal languages can provide approaches to linguistics that can
improve the description, analysis and processing of natural languages. In fact,
the aim of this workshop is to discuss the possible applications of
non-classical formal languages in linguistics.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different areas
that have in common the use of formal language theory to approach different
aspects of natural language.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Mathematical Linguistics
Linguistic Applications of Formal Languages
Formal Analysis of Linguistic Theories and Frameworks
Model-Theoretic and Proof-Theoretic Methods in Linguistics
Probabilistic and Statistical Models of Language
Linguistic Applications of FSA
Logics and Language

Submissions:
Authors are invited to submit a paper of at most 12 pages in plain LaTeX format
to one of the following e-mail addresses mariadolores.jimenez at urv.cat or
gemma.bel at urv.cat

Accepted papers will be included in a preproceedings volume edited as a GRLMC
report.

Selected papers will be published in a well-ranked journal after the workshop.

Important Dates: 
Submission deadline: June 30, 2008 
Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2008 
Final version due: September 1, 2008 
Workshop: September 19-20, 2007

Organizers:
Gemma Bel-Enguix, GRLMC
M. Dolores Jiménez-López, GRLMC

Programme Committee:
Gemma Bel-Enguix (Rovira Virgili University, Tarragona)
Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University)
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (MTA SZTAKI, Budapest)
Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser, Burnaby)
M. Dolores Jiménez-López  (Rovira Virgili, Tarragona)
Manfred Kudlek (Hamburg)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Brussels)
Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest)
Carl Pollard (Ohio State University, Columbus)
Reinhard Rapp (Rovira Virgili, Tarragona)
György Vaszil (MTA SZTAKI, Budapest)

Contact:
Gemma Bel-Enguix, gemma.bel at urv.cat
M. Dolores Jiménez-López, mariadolores.jimenez at urv.cat

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