19.2796, Calls: General Ling/Malaysia; Computational Ling/Austria

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Subject: 19.2796, Calls: General Ling/Malaysia; Computational Ling/Austria

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1)
Date: 12-Sep-2008
From: Dr. Vijay Kumar Mallan < vijay at fbmk.upm.edu.my >
Subject: Msian Int Conference on Languages, Lit and Culture 

2)
Date: 11-Sep-2008
From: Dag Haug < daghaug at ifikk.uio.no >
Subject: Computational Linguistics and Latin Philology

 

	
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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:50:50
From: Dr. Vijay Kumar Mallan [vijay at fbmk.upm.edu.my]
Subject: Msian Int Conference on Languages, Lit and Culture 

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Full Title: Msian Int Conference on Languages, Lit and Culture 
Short Title: MICOLLAC 2009 

Date: 28-Apr-2009 - 30-Apr-2009
Location: Putrajaya, Malaysia 
Contact Person: Dr Mardziah Hayati Abdulah
Meeting Email: mardziah at fbmk.upm.edu.my

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2009 

Meeting Description:

Nationally and internationally, the biannual MICOLLAC organized by the 
Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, 
Universiti Putra Malaysia, has a reputation as a comprehensive conference 
covering areas of languages, literatures and cultures. At each of these 
conferences (since 1999), we explore how languages, literatures and 
cultures are constantly evolving. The coming conference aims to look at 
how language universals continue to have an impact on language studies. 
At the same time, particular distinctions are also the foray of current 
investigations with simultaneous emphasis on cross-disciplinary 
perspectives that enrich the macro fields of the links between languages, 
literatures and cultures.

MICOLLAC brings together local and international academics, educators, 
planners and teaching professionals to exchange views and insights on 
past and current practices in the areas of languages, literatures and 
cultures with significance for future directions. Attendees will have excellent 
opportunities to meet colleagues from Malaysia and other parts of the 
world. 

Call for Papers


Papers are invited for the discussion of universals, distinctions and cross-
disciplinary perspectives in the following areas:

Language Universals
Language and Identity
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Language
Literatures across Cultures
Heritage Language
Gender and Sexism in Language
Language Engineering 
Variation and Language Change
Issues in Assessment
Second Language Acquisition
Literary Theories
Media and Language
Translation Studies
 

Papers on other related sub-themes are also welcome.



	
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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:50:56
From: Dag Haug [daghaug at ifikk.uio.no]
Subject: Computational Linguistics and Latin Philology 

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Full Title: Computational Linguistics and Latin Philology 

Date: 06-Apr-2009 - 06-Apr-2009
Location: Innsbruck, Austria 
Contact Person: Dag Haug

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Latin (lat)

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2008 

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims to bring together scholars working in the field of 
computational linguistics and Latin philology - both those developing 
resources and those conducting linguistic research using them - to share 
their work and experience. 

Call for Papers

Workshop in Computational Linguistics and Latin Philology

Place: University of Innsbruck, 15. International Colloquium on Latin 
Linguistics
Date: April 6, 2009
Workshop organizers: David Bamman (Perseus Project, Tufts University), 
Dag Haug (University of Oslo), Marco Passarotti (Catholic University of 
Milan)

Invited speaker: Roberto Busa, S.J.

Classical Studies has long had a history of driving pioneering research in 
linguistics and literary studies.  The great Classical philologists and 
lexicographers of the 19th century are arguably some of the world's 
earliest and finest corpus linguists - but we find ourselves now lagging 
behind the achievements of other languages due in large part to the 
absence of structured digital resources on which to base our research.   
While the TLG and the Packard Humanities Institute each released their 
respective Greek and Latin corpus in the 1970s (only shortly after the 
release of the Brown Corpus of English in 1967), they remain today - 
almost 40 years later - two of our most widely used electronic resources.  
Those ensuing 40 years have seen the rise and widespread development 
of structured knowledge bases, such as huge treebanks to encode 
syntactic information in English, Czech, Arabic and over twenty other 
languages, lexical ontologies such as WordNet, and new corpora being 
annotated not just with their semantics and syntax disambiguated, but their 
named entities and propositional data made explicit as well.

We are, however, now beginning to see these same resources being 
developed for Latin, along with the automatic tools that can exploit them 
(such as automatic syntactic parsers and morphological taggers) and a 
new interest in quantitative research that can only exist as a result.  As we 
enter this new era, we must take care to work together as a community 
going forward - the three organizers, for instance, are each leading the 
development of independent treebank projects for different eras of Latin 
(Classical, Biblical and Thomistic) and we recognize that the value of each 
project is exponentially greater when compatible with the others.  This 
workshop aims to bring together scholars working in the field - both those 
developing such resources and those conducting linguistic research using 
them - to share such work and experience.

We invite presentations including the following:

- Electronic resources for Latin in development
- Corpus linguistic research
- Application and evaluation of NLP tools on Latin texts
- Development of corpus-driven lexica
- Standards and standardization of annotation styles on different linguistic 
layers (e.g., morphological, syntactic, semantic, propositional)

Please submit abstracts of up to two a4-pages to Dag Haug at 
daghaug at ifikk.uio.no.ignorethisbit before December 1, 2008. Notifications 
will be sent before January 1, 2009.


 





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