19.711, Calls: Computational Ling/Germany; Ling Theories/UK

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Subject: 19.711, Calls: Computational Ling/Germany; Ling Theories/UK

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1)
Date: 03-Mar-2008
From: Beata Trawinski < trawinski at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de >
Subject: Perspectives on Slavistics 3 

2)
Date: 03-Mar-2008
From: Reiko Vermeulen < r.vermeulen at ucl.ac.uk >
Subject: Workshop on Information Structure

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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:43:45
From: Beata Trawinski [trawinski at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Perspectives on Slavistics 3
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Full Title: Perspectives on Slavistics 3 
Short Title: PoS-3 

Date: 28-Aug-2008 - 31-Aug-2008
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Beata Trawinski
Meeting Email: pos3 at barlach.sfb.uni-tuebingen.de
Web Site: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/pos3/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Ling & Literature 

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2008 

Meeting Description:

Perspectives on Slavistics 3 is the third international conference on Slavic languages and literatures. It will take place in Hamburg, Germany, August 28-31, 2008. The deadline for abstract submission is March 31, 2008. 

Final Call for Papers

The Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Hamburg and the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Tuebingen are pleased to announce the Third International Conference ''Perspectives on Slavistics''.
The conference will take place in Hamburg, Germany, on August 28-31, 2008. The goals of the conference are to encourage the study of Slavic languages and literatures and to establish connections among scholars working in these areas. 

The following keynote speakers have accepted the invitation to present at 
the conference:
- Patrice Dabrowski, Harvard University (USA)
- Gerd Hentschel, University of Oldenburg (Germany)
- Mikhail Iampolski, New York University (USA)
- Marek Lazinski, University of Warsaw (Poland)
- Karel Oliva, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
- Danko Sipka, Arizona State University (USA)
- Galin Tihanov, University of Manchester (UK)

Submissions from any scholar working on Slavic languages or literatures are
welcomed, including those in Slavic departments, as well as in specialized
linguistics or literature departments. We particularly want to encourage young scholars to participate in this conference. Papers will be considered on topics relating to the diachronic or synchronic study of Slavic languages and literatures from any theoretical perspective. 

There will be a special session on Electronic Resources of Slavic Languages. 
The aim of the special session is to provide a forum for exchange of information regarding the recent developments in the composition and design, construction and use of different types of resources for Slavic languages. We encourage submissions reporting on, but not limited to:
- corpora (large and small, general and genre-specific, annotated and non-annotated, single language and parallel corpora, spoken and written language corpora, treebanks);
- wide-coverage grammars;
- computational lexicons, electronic terminology databases, dictionaries (mono- and multilingual);
- speech collections;
- wordnets, framenets, ontologies;
- tools for acquisition, construction, annotation and management of language resources.

Each paper submitted to the conference will be allowed thirty minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Presentations should be in English in order to open the conference up to researchers working on non-Slavic languages and literatures. Data projectors and overhead projectors will be provided upon request. The deadline for submissions is March, 31, 2008 (submission information and abstract specifications see below). 

The participation fee will be 80 euros (40 euros for graduate students and passive participants), to be paid in advance. Detailed information on payment options and local arrangements will be provided by May 2008. The participation fee covers the abstract booklet, other conference materials, refreshments and snacks. 

Submission information and abstract specifications:
Abstracts for 20 minute talks (plus 10 minute discussion) should:
- be anonymous;
- not exceed 500 words (plus an additional page for tables, figures and references,  if necessary);
- use one-column format, Times New Roman, 12pt, single-spacing;
- use the international transcription of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters;
- be in Adobe PDF format (please do include all fonts in PDF documents).

Your abstract should present a hypothesis and outline your plan for defending that hypothesis, i.e., it should specify research question(s), an approach / method to the data, and obtained results. Each abstract will be anonymously reviewed by independent reviewers.

Abstracts should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair Conference Manager at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pos3

You will be requested to enter a user name and password to enter the site. If you do not have an EasyChair account, enter the following URL:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/account_apply.cgi

to obtain one. Your account access information will be emailed to you.

After having logged in to the system, you will be able to submit your abstract by:
1. providing an address for correspondence, 
2. specifying the author(s), 
3. providing the title and a short abstract in plain text (the short abstract should summarize the essentials of the proposal in maximally two short sentences), 
4. specifying at least two keywords, 
5. selecting the topic relevant to your paper (Linguistics, Literature or Resources), 
6. uploading the PDF file with the full anonymous abstract including the title and the abstract body.

The contact author of the paper will receive an auto-generated notification of receipt via email.

The abstracts must be submitted no later than March 31, 2008. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by May 5, 2008. 

Organizing Committee: 	
Bernhard Brehmer, University of Hamburg
Schamma Schahadat, University of Tuebingen
Beata Trawinski, University of Tuebingen
Annette Werberger, University of Tuebingen

Program Committee:	
Tanja Anstatt, Bochum University (Germany)
Tania Avgustinova, DFKI (Germany)
Tilman Berger, University of Tuebingen (Germany)
Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey (UK)
Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
Steven Franks, Indiana University (USA)
Eva Hajicova, Charles University (Czech Republic)
Bjoern Hanser, University of Regensburg (Germany)
Gerd Hentschel, University of Oldenburg (Germany)
Sebastian Kempgen, University of Bamberg (Germany)
Vadim Borisovic Krys'ko, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Volkmar Lehmann, University of Hamburg (Germany)
Marek Lazinski, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Michael Moser, University of Vienna (Austria)
Stefan Michael Newerkla, University of Vienna (Austria)
Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland)
Gilbert C. Rappaport, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
Zygmunt Saloni, University of Warmia and Mazury (Poland)
Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
Danko Sipka, Arizona State University (USA)
Frantisek Sticha, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan (Poland)
Christian Voss, Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany)
Daniel Weiss, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Bjoern Wiemer, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)
Gerhild Zybatow, University of Leipzig (Germany)
Other PC members are to be confirmed.

Conference webpage: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/pos3/
Contact: pos3 at barlach.sfb.uni-tuebingen.de
Submission page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pos3

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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:43:53
From: Reiko Vermeulen [r.vermeulen at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop on Information Structure
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Full Title: Workshop on Information Structure 
Short Title: IS Workshop 

Date: 13-Sep-2008 - 15-Sep-2008
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Reiko Vermeulen
Meeting Email: is-workshop at ling.ucl.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/is/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 12-Mar-2008 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Interface-based Approaches to Information Structure
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London v 

Call for Papers - Deadline Extended

Workshop on Interface-based Approaches to Information Structure 

Date: 13 - 15 September 2008
Location: University College London, UK
Workshop Website: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/is/

New deadline: 12th March 2008

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