19.2190, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Greece; General Linguistics/India

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LINGUIST List: Vol-19-2190. Wed Jul 09 2008. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 19.2190, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Greece; General Linguistics/India

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1)
Date: 09-Jul-2008
From: Yanjun Ma < yma at computing.dcu.ie >
Subject: Student Research Workshop 

2)
Date: 08-Jul-2008
From: Stephen Morey < s.morey at latrobe.edu.au >
Subject: North East Indian Linguistics Society

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:55:33
From: Yanjun Ma [yma at computing.dcu.ie]
Subject: Student Research Workshop
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Full Title: Student Research Workshop 

Date: 30-Mar-2009 - 03-Apr-2009
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Yanjun Ma
Meeting Email: yma at computing.dcu.ie
Web Site: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/studentresearchworkshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 24-Oct-2008 

Meeting Description:

EACL-2009 will continue the tradition of providing a forum for student
researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Participants will have the
opportunity to get feedback both from a wide audience in general and from
selected panelists -- experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and
questions in advance of the presentation. 

Call for Papers

2nd CFP: EACL 2009 Student Research Workshop

1. General Invitation for Submissions
The European Association of Computational Linguistics would like to invite
student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Original and
unpublished research is invited on all aspects of computational linguistics,
including, but not limited to these topic areas:

- pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon
- phonetics, phonology and morphology
- linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
- information retrieval, information extraction, question answering
- summarization and paraphrasing
- speech recognition, speech synthesis
- corpus-based language modeling
- multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids
- spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems
- multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems
- message and narrative understanding systems

The main conference will also feature tutorials, workshops and research notes.
Further information on these is available at the main conference website:
http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/. 

2. Submission Requirements
Seeing that the main mission of the student workshop is to provide the
participants with a wide audience and useful feedback, the emphasis of the
workshop will be on work in progress. It will therefore normally be open to
students who have settled on their thesis direction but who still have
significant research left to do; those students in the final stages of their
thesis are encouraged to submit to the main conference. Papers should clearly
indicate directions for future research where appropriate. The papers can have
more than one author, however all authors must be students.

A paper accepted for presentation at the Student Workshop cannot be presented or
have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings.
Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this
immediately after the title material on the first page. Students who have
previously presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student session will not be eligible
to present again at the student session of any of these conferences. These
students are instead encouraged to submit to the main conference.  

3. Submission Procedure
Submissions should follow the two-column formal of EACL/ACL proceedings. The
maximum length of a manuscript is eight (8) pages of content and one (1)
additional page of references. The page limits have to be strictly observed. We
strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style
files tailored for this year's conference. They will be available at
http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/authors. A description of the format will also
be available in case you are unable to use the style files directly. Papers must
conform to the official EACL 2009 style guidelines, and we reserve the right to
reject submissions that do not conform to these styles including font size
restrictions. Submissions should be in PDF format and must include all fonts, so
that the paper will print (not just view) anywhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity,
e.g., ''We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'', should be avoided. Instead,
use citations such as ''Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...''. Papers that
do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

The deadline for submission is 23:59 CET on October 24, 2008. Additional
instructions for electronic submission will be posted on the conference website
at http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/submissions.

4. Reviewing Procedure
The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by the
Student Workshop Co-Chairs and a team of reviewers. Each submission will be
matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The
final acceptance decision will be based on the results of the review.

5. Student Sponsorship
The EACL has a limited number of student sponsorships available to student
participants of the EACL 2009 main conference, the EACL 2009 poster/demo session
and/or the EACL 2009 student research workshop.

Priority is given to students from Eastern Europe and more generally, to
students from countries with hard currency problems (within the geographical
area covered by EACL).

A request for student sponsorship for EACL 2009 should include the following
information:
- Name, email address, affiliation and status (PhD year etc.) of the candidate
- Source and amount of yearly income
- Letter of motivation
- Proof of student status
- Copy of acceptance letter from programme chair / student workshop chair or
poster/demo chair
- Letter of recommendation from supervisor
- Overview of the estimated costs

Requests for student sponsorships can be directed to the EACL at secretary at eacl.org

6. Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: October 24, 2008
Notification of acceptance: December 19, 2008
Camera-ready papers due: February 13, 2008
EACL 2009 Conference: March 30 - April 3, 2009

The Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs (students at eacl.org):
Vera Demberg
Yanjun Ma 
Nils Reiter

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:55:38
From: Stephen Morey [s.morey at latrobe.edu.au]
Subject: North East Indian Linguistics Society
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Full Title: North East Indian Linguistics Society 
Short Title: NEILS 

Date: 13-Jan-2009 - 17-Jan-2009
Location: Shillong, Meghalaya, India 
Contact Person: Stephen Morey
Meeting Email: s.morey at latrobe.edu.au
Web Site: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/Neils/Neils.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2008 

Meeting Description:

The Fourth Meeting of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS) will be
held at North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) Shillong, Meghalaya, India from
13-17 January 2009. There will be a two day workshop followed by three day
conference meeting.

Papers which treat any aspect of North East Indian languages and linguistics are
invited for submission. We particularly welcome papers which make use of primary
descriptive data, and/or which approach their topic from a descriptive,
functional, and/or typological perspective. 

Abstracts are sought by 15th September 2008, and should be sent to
s.morey at latrobe.edu.au 

Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce the Fourth International Meeting of the North East
Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS), to be held January 13-17, 2009 at the
North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, Meghalaya, Assam, India. 

As last year, NEILS 2009 will include paper presentations over three days,
preceded by an optional two-day programme of workshops, as well as an optional
cultural excursion. Details and a provisional schedule will be available shortly
on the NEILS website: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/Neils/Neils.htm. 

Scholars wishing to present a paper at NEILS 2009 should send an abstract of no
more than 500 words (exclusive of data, figures/tables and references, if any)
via email on .pdf (preferred), .doc or .txt attachment, or as inline text by
September 15, 2008 to s.morey at latrobe.edu.au, or via post to NEILS, Department
of Linguistics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam 781041, India. 

Paper presentations will be limited to thirty minutes, inclusive of question
time. Papers which treat any aspect of North East Indian languages and
linguistics are invited for submission, however we particularly welcome papers
which make use of primary descriptive data, and/or which approach their topic
from a descriptive, functional, and/or typological perspective. Paper whose sole
or primary aim addresses purely formal and/or theoretical concerns are not
likely to be accepted for presentation. If you do not wish to submit an abstract
at this time, but would like to consider attending without presenting a paper,
please notify the organizers to ensure that you continue to receive email
communications relating to NEILS 2009 organization. The organizational fee of
Rs. 2000 (international non-student) Rs. 1000 (international student/local
non-student) Rs. 200 (local student) remains unchanged from last year, and may
be paid on arrival. 

Any questions may be directed to the email address listed above, or to
m.post at latrobe.edu.au. We look forward to a productive and enjoyable meeting,
and especially, to seeing you there.

With our warmest regards,

NEILS 4 Organizing committee

North East Indian Linguistics Society:
Dr. Jyotiprakash Tamuli (Co-Chair)
Dr. Stephen Morey (Co-Chair)
Mark Post (Secretary) http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/Neils/Neils.htm

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