19.383, Calls: Computational Ling/Morocco; General Ling/Germany

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1)
Date: 01-Feb-2008
From: Helene Mazo < info at elda.org >
Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 

2)
Date: 31-Jan-2008
From: Tonjes Veenstra < veenstra at zas.gwz-berlin.de >
Subject: Clefts

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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:44:39
From: Helene Mazo [info at elda.org]
Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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Full Title: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 
Short Title: LREC 

Date: 26-May-2008 - 01-Jun-2008
Location: Marrakech, Morocco 
Contact Person: Helene Mazo
Meeting Email: lrec at lrec-conf.org
Web Site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2007 

Meeting Description:

LREC 2008 - 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Main Conference: 28 - 30 May 2008
Workshops and Tutorials: 26 - 27 May and 31 May - 1 June 2008

The sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) will be organised in 2008 by ELRA in cooperation with a wide range of international associations and organisations.

Palais des Congrès Mansour Eddahbi, Marrakech - Morocco

Conference web site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ 

Second Announcement and Call for Papers

The sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) will be organised in 2008 by ELRA in cooperation with a wide range of international associations and organisations, including AAMT, AMTA, ACL, ALTA, COCOSDA and Oriental COCOSDA, EACL, EAMT, ELSNET, EURALEX, GWA, IAMT, KnowledgeWeb, LDC, NEMLAR Network, SIGLEX, TEI, Technolangue French Program, WRITE and with major national and international organisations including the European Commission - Information Society and Media, Unit E.2 ''Content and Knowledge''.

Conference Aims:
In 10 years - the first LREC was held in Granada in 1998 - LREC has become the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones.

LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.

Conference Topics:
Issues in the design, construction and use of Language Resources (LRs): text, speech, multimodality

- Guidelines, standards, specifications, models and best practices for LRs
- Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
- Methodologies and tools for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge
- Ontologies and knowledge representation
- Terminology
- Integration between (multilingual) LRs, ontologies and Semantic Web technologies
- Metadata descriptions of LRs and metadata for semantic/content markup

Exploitation of LRs in different types of systems and applications

- For: information extraction, information retrieval, speech dictation, mobile communication, machine translation, summarisation, web services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, etc.
- In different types of interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensorial interactions, voice activated services, etc.
- Communication with neighbouring fields of applications, e.g. e-government, e-culture, e-health, e-participation, mobile applications, etc.
- Industrial LRs requirements, user needs

Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation

-  HLT Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
- Validation, quality assurance, evaluation of LRs
- Benchmarking of systems and products
- Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces, interactions and dialogue systems
- Usability and user satisfaction evaluation

General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation

- National and international activities and projects
- Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
- Open architectures
- Organisational, economical and legal issues

Special Highlights:
LREC targets the integration of different types of LRs - spoken, written, and other modalities - and of the respective communities. To this end, LREC encourages submissions covering issues which are common to different types of LRs and language technologies.

LRs are currently developed and deployed in a much wider range of applications and domains. LREC 2008 recognises the need to encompass all those data that interact with language resources in an attempt to model more complex human processes and develop more complex systems, and encourages submissions on topics such as:

- Multimodal and multimedia systems, for Human-Machine interfaces,
Human-Human interactions, and content processing
- Resources for modelling language-related cognitive processes, including emotions
- Interaction/Association of language and perception data, also for robotic systems

Programme:
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels.

There is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered. 

Abstract Submission:
On-line submission form for abstracts is now available: please go to the ''Abstract submission'' section on the LREC2008 web site (http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008) and follow the procedure instructions. Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster or demo presentations must consist of about 1500-2000 words.

Workshops, Tutorials And Panels
Submission of workshop, tutorial and panel proposals should be made by e-mail to the following e-mail address:

lrec at lrec-conf.org 

and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.

Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no longer than three pages, and include:

For workshops:
- The title
- A brief technical description of the specific technical issues that the workshop will address
- The reasons why the workshop is of interest
- The names and affiliations, postal addresses, phone and fax numbers, email and web site addresses of the organising committee, which should consist of at least three people knowledgeable in the field, coming from different institutions
- The name and the e-mail address of the member of the workshop organising committee designated as the contact person
- The desirable duration of the workshop (half day or full day)
- A summary of the intended call for participation
- An estimate of the approximate audience size
- A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements

The workshop proposers will be responsible for the organisational aspects (e.g. workshop call preparation and distribution, review of papers, notification of acceptance, assembling of the workshop proceedings using the ELRA specifications, etc.).

For tutorials:
- The title
- A brief technical description of the tutorial content
- The reasons why the tutorial is of interest
- The names and affiliations, postal addresses, phone and fax numbers, email and web site addresses of the tutorial speakers, with brief descriptions of their technical background
- The name and e-mail address of one tutorial speaker designated as the contact person
- The duration of the tutorial (half day is the expected usual length)
- An estimate of the approximate audience size
- A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements

The tutorial proposers will be responsible for the organisational aspects (e.g.
assembling of the tutorial material, etc.).

Proposals for panels should contain the following information:
- The title
- A brief technical description of the specific technical issues that the panel will address
- The reasons why the panel is of interest
- Name of the panel organiser/s; affiliation and postal address; phone and fax numbers; e-mail address; web site address
- The name and the e-mail address of the designated contact person

Important Dates:
- Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 31 October 2007
- Submission of proposals for oral and poster/demo papers: 31 October 2007
- Notification of acceptance of panels, workshops and tutorials proposals: 22 November 2007
- Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters: 4 February 2008
- Final version of papers for the proceedings: 25 March 2008
- Conference: 28-30 May 2008
- Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: 26 and 27 May 2008
- Post-conference workshops and tutorials: 31 May and 1 June 2008

Consortia and Project Meetings:
Consortia or projects wishing to take this opportunity for organising meetings should contact well in advance the organisers at the following e-mail address: lrec at lrec-conf.org 

Conference Programme Committee:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa, Italy
(Conference chair)
- Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France
- Bente Maegaard, CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
- Jan Odijk, Nuance Communications International, Belgium and UIL-OTS, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Stelios Piperidis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Athens, Greece
- Daniel Tapias, Telefónica Móviles España, Madrid, Spain

The composition of the committees as well as instructions and addresses for registration and accommodation in Marrakech will be detailed on the conference website at http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/.

Proceedings
The Proceedings on CD will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format. In addition a Book of Abstracts will be printed.

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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:44:45
From: Tonjes Veenstra [veenstra at zas.gwz-berlin.de]
Subject: Clefts
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Full Title: Clefts 

Date: 28-Nov-2008 - 29-Nov-2008
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Tonjes Veenstra
Meeting Email: cleft08 at zas.gwz-berlin.de

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2008 

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims to provide a space to discuss and compare different theoretical approaches and empirical studies to the syntax and semantics of clefts. 

Workshop on Clefts

Call for Papers

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2008

Date: 28 - 29 November 2008
Location: Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany

Invited Speakers:
David Adger
Marcel den Dikken
Nancy Hedberg

Cleft sentences have generally been described as sentence patterns that overtly embody their discourse function. As the terminology suggests, cleft constructions are formed by dividing a more elementary clause into two parts, namely an initial focus constituent and a backgrounded proposition, which is subordinated by being placed in a relative construction. Although the biclausal format of the English it-cleft seems to be clear enough, languages show a considerable amount of variation in the way they encode the equivalent of such clefts. Parameters of typological variation include: (i) the type of copula device that is employed (verbal vs. pronominal copulas); (ii) the form of the predicative relative clause; (iii) the constituents that can undergo clefting.

In this workshop, we are interested in recent theoretical and empirical developments in the analysis of cleft constructions. The submissions should therefore address some of the following issues:

- The sentential status of clefts: arguments for a biclausal or a monoclausal analysis
- The syntactic analysis of clefts: arguments for a derivation analysis or a base-generation analysis of clefts
- The syntactic structure of the copula clause: location of the copula, connection of the relative clause
- The information-structural function of a cleft: is clefting always a focusing strategy, or could it also establish a topic comment structure?
- The similarities and differences between cleft semantics and focus semantics
- The question whether clefts are always exhaustively interpreted
- Presuppositions of clefts: Do clefts always have a presupposition?
- Universality of clefts: Do all languages have cleft constructions?
- The status of the copula: evidence for a grammaticalization path from copular elements to focus markers, or vice versa

This workshop aims to provide a space to discuss and compare different theoretical approaches and empirical studies to the syntax and semantics of clefts. 

Abstracts are invited for a 30-minute presentation followed by a 15-minute question period. Accepted authors will be asked to submit a preliminary version of their papers (up to 15 pages). Selected papers from the workshop will be considered for peer-reviewed book publication.

An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. Abstracts should be at most 2 pages in 12-point font with 1'' margins, including data and references. Authors are requested to submit two copies of their abstract, one with their name and one anonymous. Abstracts must be submitted as a pdf attachment to: cleft08 at zas.gwz-berlin.de. The names of the files should be surname-named.pdf and surname-anon.pdf.

The body of the e-mail should contain the following information:
Name(s) of author(s)
Title of talk
Affiliation(s)
E-mail address(es)

Important Dates:
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2008
Notification of acceptance: end April 2008
Deadline for draft version: 30 October 2008
Workshop: 28 - 29 November 2008

Organising Committee:
Andreas Haida
Katharina Hartmann
Tonjes Veenstra

cleft08 at zas.gwz-berlin.de

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