19.2969, Calls: General Ling/Switzerland; Computational Ling/Greece

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Subject: 19.2969, Calls: General Ling/Switzerland; Computational Ling/Greece

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1)
Date: 01-Oct-2008
From: Agnes Kolmer < a.kolmer at ds.uzh.ch >
Subject: 3. Intern. Kongress für Dialektologie des Deutschen 

2)
Date: 01-Oct-2008
From: Thierry Poibeau < tpoibeau at yahoo.fr >
Subject: Cognitive Aspects of Computational Lang. Acquisition

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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:09:57
From: Agnes Kolmer [a.kolmer at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: 3. Intern. Kongress für Dialektologie des Deutschen

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Full Title: 3. Intern. Kongress für Dialektologie des Deutschen 
Short Title: IGDD 2009 

Date: 07-Sep-2009 - 09-Sep-2009
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Elvira Glaser
Meeting Email: igdd09 at ds.uzh.ch
Web Site: http://www.ds.uzh.ch/Tagungen/IGDD09 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2009 

Meeting Description:

The 3. Internationaler Kongress für Dialektologie des Deutschen will take place
in Zurich, Switzerland, from 7th to 9th September 2009. It is organized by
Elvira Glaser and the Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des
Deutschen e.V. 

Call for Papers

The conference aims at bringing together linguists interested in German
varieties, working within different theoretical frameworks and applying
different methods.

Invited speakers are:
Prof. Dr. Walter Haas (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Gunther De Vogelaer Ph.D. (University of Ghent, Belgium)

Electronic forms for registration and submission of abstracts:
http://www.ds.uzh.ch/Tagungen/IGDD09/Anmeldung/

We ask for registration until 30-Nov-2008.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28-Feb-2009. Speakers will be informed by
the end of March 2009.

Abstract guidelines: Abstracts should not exceed two pages in length (including
examples and references). 

If you are unable to send your abstract electronically, send a printed copy to:

Ursula Landert
Universität Zürich
Deutsches Seminar
Schönberggasse 9
CH-8001 Zürich

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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:10:03
From: Thierry Poibeau [tpoibeau at yahoo.fr]
Subject: Cognitive Aspects of Computational Lang. Acquisition

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Full Title: Cognitive Aspects of Computational Lang. Acquisition 

Date: 30-Mar-2009 - 31-Mar-2009
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Aline Villavicencio
Meeting Email: cognitive2009 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/cognitive/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Dec-2009 

Meeting Description:

1st Call for Papers
EACL 2009 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition
30 or 31 March 2009
Athens, Greece
http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/cognitive/ 

Call for Papers

EACL 2009 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language 
30 or 31 March 2009
Athens, Greece
http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/cognitive/

Workshop Description
This workshop is focused on the relevance of computational learning methods for
research on human language acquisition. Developing and applying such
computational techniques that can improve our understanding of human language
acquisition will not only benefit cognitive sciences in general, but will also
reflect back to NLP and place us in a better position to develop useful language
models.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from the diverse fields of NLP,
machine learning, artificial intelligence, (psycho)linguistics, etc. who are
interested in the relevance of computational techniques for understanding human
language learning. 
The workshop is intended to bridge the gap between the computational and
cognitive communities, promote knowledge and resource sharing, and help initiate
interdisciplinary research projects. Success in this type of research requires
close collaboration between NLP and cognitive scientists. To this end,
interdisciplinary workshops can play a key role in advancing existing and
initiating new research. This was demonstrated by some successful events like
the previous edition of this workshop held at ACL 2007. 

Areas of interest
Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

- Computational learning theory and analysis of language learning
- Computational models of human (first, second and bilingual) language
acquisition
- Computational models of various aspects of language acquisition, and their
interaction with each other
- Computational models of the evolution of language
- Data resources and tools for investigating computational models of human
language acquisition
- Empirical and theoretical comparisons of the learning environment and its
impact on the acquisition task
- Computational methods for acquiring various linguistic information (related to
e.g. speech, morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, and discourse) and their
relevance to research on human language acquisition
- investigations and comparisons of supervised, unsupervised and weakly-
supervised methods for learning (e.g. machine learning, statistical, symbolic,
biologically-inspired, active learning, various hybrid models) from the
cognitive aspect

Papers can cover one or more of these areas.

Submission Information
Papers should describe original work and should indicate the state of completion
of the reported results. In particular, any overlap with previously published
work should be clearly mentioned. Submissions will be judged on correctness,
novelty, technical strength, clarity of presentation, usability, and
significance/relevance to the workshop.

Submissions should follow the two-column format of the EACL 2009 main-
conference proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including
references. We strongly recommend the use of either the LaTeX style file or the
Microsoft-Word Style file, which can be found at
http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/authors.

The reviewing will be blind. Therefore, the paper should not include the
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-citations and other
references that could reveal the author's identity should be avoided.

Submission will be electronic. The only accepted format for submitted papers is
Adobe PDF. Papers must be submitted no later than December 19, 2008 using the
submission webpage that will be available soon.

Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Program Committee. Authors of
accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready
versions of their papers for inclusion in the EACL workshop proceedings.

Notification of receipt will be emailed to the contact author.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 19 December 2008
Acceptance notification sent: 30 January 2009
Final version deadline: 13 February 2009
Workshop date: 30 or 31 March 2009

Workshop Chairs
Thierry Poibeau (CNRS and University Paris 13, France)
Afra Alishahi (University of Saarland, Germany))
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and
University of Bath, UK)

Address any queries regarding the workshop to:
cognitive2009 at gmail.com

Program Committee
Colin J Bannard    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
Marco Baroni    (University of Trento, Italy)
Robert C. Berwick    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Jim Blevins    (University of Cambridge, UK)
Rens Bod     (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Antal van den Bosch    (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Chris Brew    (Ohio State University, USA)
Ted Briscoe    (University of Cambridge, UK)
Robin Clark    (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Stephen Clark    (University of Oxford, UK)
Matthew W. Crocker    (Saarland University, Germany)
James Cussens    (University of York, UK)
Walter Daelemans    (University of Antwerp, Belgium and Tilburg University, The
Netherlands)
Ted Gibson    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Henriette Hendriks    (University of Cambridge, UK)
Julia Hockenmaier    (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Marco Idiart    (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Mark Johnson    (Brown University, USA)
Aravind Joshi    (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Anna Korhonen    (University of Cambridge, UK)
Alessandro Lenci    (University of Pisa, Italy)
Massimo Poesio    (University of Trento, Italy)
Brechtje Post    (University of Cambridge, UK)
Ari Rappoport    (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Dan Roth    (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Kenji Sagae    (University of Southern California, USA)
Sabine Schulte im Walde    (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mark Steedman    (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Suzanne Stevenson    (University of Toronto, Canada)
Patrick Sturt    (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Bert Vaux    (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Charles Yang    (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Menno van Zaanen    (Macquarie University, Australia)
Michael Zock    (LIF, CNRS, Marseille, France)

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