19.1413, Calls: General Ling/USA; Applied Ling,Computational Ling/China

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LINGUIST List: Vol-19-1413. Sat Apr 26 2008. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 19.1413, Calls: General Ling/USA; Applied Ling,Computational Ling/China

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1)
Date: 25-Apr-2008
From: Kellye Hawkins < tucsps at temple.edu >
Subject: 1st Annual Conf. on Spanish & Portuguese Studies 

2)
Date: 24-Apr-2008
From: Frederique Segond < segond at xrce.xerox.com >
Subject: Risk Management and Computational Linguistics

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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:50:29
From: Kellye Hawkins [tucsps at temple.edu]
Subject: 1st Annual Conf. on Spanish & Portuguese Studies
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Full Title: 1st Annual Conf. on Spanish & Portuguese Studies 
Short Title: TUCSPS 

Date: 24-Oct-2008 - 25-Oct-2008
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA 
Contact Person: Kellye Hawkins
Meeting Email: tucsps at temple.edu
Web Site: http://www.freewebs.com/tucsps 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Chavacano (cbk), Spanish (spa), Ladino (lad), Spanish
Loreto-Ucayali (spq), Old Spanish (osp), Andalusian Arabic (xaa), Caló (rmr),
Portuguese (por), Indo-Portuguese (idb), Korlai Creole Portuguese (vkp),
Macanese (mzs), Malaccan Creole Portuguese (mcm), Crioulo, Upper Guinea (pov),
Portuguese Sign Language (psr), Pidgin, Timor (tvy), Galician (glg), Romani,
Carpathian (rmc), Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat), English (eng), Basque (eus),
Basque, Navarro-Labourdin (bqe), Basque, Souletin (bsz)

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2008 

Meeting Description:

1st Annual Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Temple University Graduate Students of Spanish and Portuguese 
October 24-25, 2008 

Hosted by the Temple University Graduate Students of Spanish and Portuguese 

Keynote Speaker: Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania

Abstracts on any literary, cultural or linguistic topic are requested for
20-minute presentation. Abstracts of 300 words or less should be attached in
either a PDF or Word file and sent to tucsps at temple.edu. Submissions may be in
Spanish, Portuguese or English. Please include the name and the affiliation of
the author(s) in the body of the email message. Panel proposals may also be
submitted. All abstracts for a panel should be submitted with the panel proposal.

Specifics on the areas:
Peninsular Literature: This area represents the literature of Spain including
the literatures of Galicia, al-Andalus, Catalonia, etc. [Periods: Medieval,
Early Modern (Golden Age), 18th & 19th Centuries, 20th Century] 

Hispanic-American Literature: This area represents the literature of
Spanish-Speaking Latin America including the literatures of Latinos who write in
the United Stated or other countries. [Periods: Colonial, 19th & Early 20th
Centuries, Contemporary] 

Spanish Linguistics: This area represents the following linguistic fields
related to Spanish language. [Fields: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics,
Dialectology, Applied Linguistics] 

Portuguese Studies: This area represents the literature and linguistics of the
Portuguese Speaking world. [Areas: Literatures of Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone
Asia and Lusophone Africa and Portuguese Linguistics]

Comparative Literature: This includes research about Spanish or Portuguese
language literature and its relation to literary sources, texts, movements, etc.
representative of other languages and cultures.

Contrasts (Linguistics): This includes studies about any linguistic fields in
Spanish or Portuguese language and how it contrasts to another language.

Underrepresented areas: We would also love to receive abstracts that include
diaspora studies, such as  Afro-Caribbean literature, or indigenous studies,
such as Quechua-Spanish contrasts.

If in doubt please send your abstract and we will let you know if it fits within
the parameters that we have set for the conference.

The deadline for abstract submission is July 1, 2008. Faculty and recent
graduates are welcome to submit abstracts. 

Organizing Committee:
Kellye Hawkins (khawkins at temple.edu)
Pilar Maraví (pilarm at temple.edu)
Christine Poteau (cpoteau at temple.edu)
Lorena Santos Quiñones (lsantos at temple.edu)

Check http://www.freewebs.com/tucsps/ for the conference program and travel
information to be posted later in the year or email tucsps at temple.edu

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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:50:42
From: Frederique Segond [segond at xrce.xerox.com]
Subject: Risk Management and Computational Linguistics
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Full Title: Risk Management and Computational Linguistics 
Short Title: RMCL Workshop 

Date: 20-Oct-2008 - 20-Oct-2008
Location: Beijing, China 
Contact Person: Frederique Segond
Meeting Email: segond at xrce.xerox.com
Web Site: http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip2008/workshop_1.jsp 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 09-Jun-2008 

Meeting Description:

Risk Management and Computational Linguistics Workshop 
at the 5th International Conference on 
Intelligent Information Processing (IIP2008) 
October 20, 2008
Beijing, China

http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip2008/workshop_1.jsp 

Call for Papers

With the growth of electronic documents and the development of technologies to
ease their access in different languages, risk management is becoming a major
application for information processing and as a consequence for computational
linguistics.

Managing risk has to do with:
- Recognition of risk which for computational linguistics translates as
extracting sentences or piece of documents expressing a risk. As expression of
risk can be carried by different types of medias such as images, videos or data,
it means also being able to unify all pieces of knowledge in different format
that express a risk
- Risk assessment and developing strategies to manage risk which means to be
able to qualify the extracted risk, as for instance to be able to say if this
risk is factual or not. It also means to develop methods being able to affect a
weight to the different pieces of information extracted and this, across media.
In other words it means, among other to define methodologies that will help to
assess the gravity of a given risk so that ''the risks with the greatest loss
and the greatest probability of occurring are handled first, and risks with
lower probability of occurrence and lower loss are handled in descending order''.

Because risk may refer to numerous types of threats caused by environment,
technology, humans, organizations and politics, applications are numerous among
different vertical markets such as finance, health or homeland security.  

This workshop invites papers addressing the issue of how natural language
processing can help to support risk management in general this includes:

- discourse analysis 
- language understanding
- identification and representations of events
- identification and representation of threats
- identification and sources' validation
- taxonomies
- parsing
- knowledge representation 
- reasoning
- relations between different concepts such as event and time
- modality (e.g. factuality)
- fusion text data
- risk management systems and tools with emulated language competence

Instructions for submissions are: 
Papers should be no longer than 8 pages including all tables, figures, and
references.
Papers should respect the format of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0)

All papers should be sent electronically in PDF to the two organizers at the
following addresses: segond at xrce.xerox.com, vetulani at amu.edu.pl. All paper
submissions will be acknowledged and peer reviewed. 
At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register at the conference
and present the paper at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings and delivered at the workshop. 
Deadlines for conference paper and panel submissions are: 

Workshop calls for papers: 25 April, 2008 
Workshop paper submission deadline: June 9, 2008
Notification of acceptance of Workshop papers: June 30, 2008
Camera-ready copy of papers due	July, 10, 2008

Information concerning conference fees and venue will be soon published on the
IIP2008 conference web site (http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip2008/)

Program Committee: 
Frédérique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France,
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland,
Sophia Annaniadou,  NaCTeM, UK
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria,
Stephane Darmoni, Rouen hospital, France 
Luca Dini, CELI, Italy
Christiane Fellbaum , Princeton, USA,
Jerry Hobbs , University of Southern California, USA,
Gerard Ligozat, LIMSI, France, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland,
Bernardo Magnini, IRST, Italy,
Jean-Francois Marcotorchino, Thales, France, 
Patrick Paroubek,  LIMSI, France,
Ralph Steinberger, European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy,
Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, USA,
Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan,
Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research, USA.

For the IIP conference
Prof. Zhongzhi Shi                                               

For the Program committee
Prof. Zygmunt Vetulani
Dr. Frederique Segond                                            

Contacts: 
Frederique Segond
Xerox Research Centre Europe
6 chemin de Maupertuis
38240 Meylan
France
Tel +33 4 76 61 50 78
segond at xrce.xerox.com

Zygmunt Vetulani
Adam Mickiewicz University
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
ul. Umultowska 87
61614 Pozna?
Poland
Tel +48 601 777 296
vetulani at amu.edu.pl

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