20.375, Calls: Computational Ling,Semantics/United Kingdom; General Ling/Spain

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Subject: 20.375, Calls: Computational Ling,Semantics/United Kingdom; General Ling/Spain

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1)
Date: 04-Feb-2009
From: Matthew Purver < mpurver at dcs.qmul.ac.uk >
Subject: 10th Meeting of the SIG on Discourse and Dialogue 

2)
Date: 04-Feb-2009
From: Lidia Gómez < elcpostgrad at uvigo.es >
Subject: 2nd ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:24:45
From: Matthew Purver [mpurver at dcs.qmul.ac.uk]
Subject: 10th Meeting of the SIG on Discourse and Dialogue

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Full Title: 10th Meeting of the SIG on Discourse and Dialogue 
Short Title: SIGDIAL 2009 

Date: 11-Dec-2009 - 12-Dec-2009
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Matthew Purver
Meeting Email: mpurver at dcs.qmul.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop10/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics;
Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 24-Apr-2009 

Meeting Description:

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge
research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers.
Due to the success of the nine previous SIGDIAL workshops, SIGDIAL is now a
conference. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which
serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and
ISCA. SIGDIAL 2009 will be co-located with Interspeech 2009 as a satellite event.

In addition to presentations and system demonstrations, the program includes an
invited talk by Professor Janet Bavelas of the University of Victoria, entitled
'What's unique about dialogue?'. 

Call for Papers

Topics of Interest
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical
work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following
themes:

1. Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems
Discourse semantic and pragmatic issues in NLP applications such as text
summarization, question answering, information retrieval including
topics like:
- Discourse structure, temporal structure, information structure;
- Discourse markers, cues and particles and their use;
- (Co-)Reference and anaphora resolution, metonymy and bridging resolution;
- Subjectivity, opinions and semantic orientation;

Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems including topics such as:
- Dialogue management models;
- Speech and gesture, text and graphics integration;
- Strategies for preventing, detecting or handling miscommunication
(repair and correction types, clarification and under-specificity, grounding and
feedback strategies);
- Utilizing prosodic information for understanding and for disambiguation;

2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology
Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and spoken, text-based and
multi-modal dialogue including its support, in particular:
- Annotation tools and coding schemes;
- Data resources for discourse and dialogue studies;
- Corpus-based techniques and analysis (including machine learning);
- Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology, metrics
and case studies;

3. Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single
sentence) including the following issues:
- The semantics/pragmatics of dialogue acts (including those which are
less studied in the semantics/pragmatics framework);
- Models of discourse/dialogue structure and their relation to
referential and relational structure;
- Prosody in discourse and dialogue;
- Models of presupposition and accommodation; operational models of
  conversational implicature.

Submissions
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers for full plenary
presentation as well as short papers and demonstrations. Short papers and demo
descriptions will be featured in short plenary presentations, followed by
posters and demonstrations.

- Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, examples,
references, etc. In addition to this, two additional pages are allowed as an
appendix which may include extended example discourses or dialogues, algorithms,
graphical representations, etc.
- Short papers and demo descriptions should be 4 pages or less (including title,
examples, references, etc.).

Please use the official ACL style files:
http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications
must provide this information (see submission format). SIGDIAL 2009 cannot
accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published
elsewhere. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the General Co-Chairs.

Authors are encouraged to make illustrative materials available, on the web or
otherwise. Examples might include excerpts of recorded conversations, recordings
of human-computer dialogues, interfaces to working systems, and so on.

Best Paper Awards
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse science
and technology, SIGDIAL will (for the first time) recognize a Best Paper Award
and a Best Student Paper Award. A selection committee consisting of prominent
researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.

Important Dates (Subject to Change):
Submission: April 24, 2009
Workshop: September 11-12, 2009

Websites
SIGDIAL 2009 conference website: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop10/
SIGDIAL organization website: http://www.sigdial.org/
Interspeech 2009 website: http://www.interspeech2009.org/

Organizing Committee
For any questions, please contact the appropriate members of the organizing
committee:

General Co-chairs
Pat Healey (Queen Mary University of London): ph at dcs.qmul.ac.uk
Roberto Pieraccini (SpeechCycle): roberto at speechcycle.com

Technical Program Co-chairs
Donna Byron (Northeastern University): dbyron at ccs.neu.edu
Steve Young (University of Cambridge): sjy at eng.cam.ac.uk

Local Chair
Matt Purver (Queen Mary University of London): mpurver at dcs.qmul.ac.uk

Sigdial President
Tim Paek (Microsoft Research): timpaek at microsoft.com

Sigdial Vice President
Amanda Stent (AT&T Labs - Research): amanda.stent at gmail.com

Technical Program Committee
Gregory Aist , Arizona State University, USA
Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Jason Baldridge, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Dan Bohus , Microsoft Research, USA
Johan Bos, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Charles Calloway, University of Edinburgh, UK
Rolf Carlson , Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Mark Core, University of Southern California, USA
David DeVault ,  University of Southern California, USA
Myroslava Dzikovska, University of Edinburgh, UK
Markus Egg , Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
Stephanie Elzer , Millersville University, USA
Mary Ellen Foster, Technical University Munich, Germany
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jonathan Ginzburg ,  King's College London, UK
Genevieve Gorrell, Sheffield University, UK
Alexander Gruenstein,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Pat Healey, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Mattias Heldner , Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Beth Ann Hockey , University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Kristiina Jokinen , University of Helsinki, Finland
Arne Jonsson ,  University of Linköping, Sweden
Simon Keizer , University of Cambridge, UK
John Kelleher ,  Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Alexander Koller , University of Edinburgh, UK
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Staffan Larsson, Göteborg University, Sweden
Gary Geunbae Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Fabrice Lefevre,  University of Avignon, France
Oliver Lemon , University of Edinburgh, UK
James Lester , North Carolina State University, USA
Diane Litman,  University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ramón López-Cózar, University of Granada, Spain
François Mairesse, University of Cambridge, UK
Michael McTear , University of Ulster, UK
Wolfgang Minker, University of Ulm, Germany
Sebastian Möller ,  Deutsche Telekom Labs and Technical
University Berlin, Germany
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Tim Paek , Microsoft Research, USA
Patrick Paroubek,  LIMSI-CNRS, France
Roberto Pieraccini ,  SpeechCycle, USA
Paul Piwek , Open University, UK
Rashmi Prasad, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Matt Purver,  Queen Mary University of London, UK
Laurent Romary,  INRIA, France
Alex Rudnicky , Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Yoshinori Sagisaka         Waseda University, Japan
Ruhi Sarikaya ,  IBM Research, USA
Candy Sidner, BAE Systems AIT, USA
Ronnie Smith , East Carolina University, USA
Amanda Stent , AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Matthew Stone , Rutgers University, USA
Matthew Stuttle,  Toshiba Research, UK
Joel Tetreault , Educational Testing Service, USA
Jason Williams ,  AT&T Labs - Research, USA

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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:24:55
From: Lidia Gómez [elcpostgrad at uvigo.es]
Subject: 2nd ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics

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Full Title: 2nd ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics 
Short Title: ELC21 

Date: 30-Oct-2009 - 31-Oct-2009
Location: Vigo, Spain 
Contact Person: Iria Pastor
Meeting Email: elcpostgrad at uvigo.es
Web Site: http://webs.uvigo.es/elcpostgrad/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2009 

Meeting Description:

Second ELC International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics (ELC2)
http://webs.uvigo.es/elcpostgrad
Vigo (Spain) 30-31 October 2009 

Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce the Second ELC International Postgraduate Conference
on English Linguistics (ELC2), to be held at the University of Vigo (Spain) on
30-31 October 2009. ELC2 aims to provide linguistics postgraduate students with
an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal and
intellectually stimulating setting. 

Meeting Description
We are pleased to announce the Second ELC Postgraduate Conference on English
Linguistics (ELC2), to be held at the University of Vigo (Spain) on 30-31
October 2009.

ELC2 aims to provide linguistics postgraduate students with an opportunity to
present and discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating
setting.

The conference is organised by postgraduate students from the English
Departments of the Universities of Vigo and Santiago de Compostela. It is
supported by these two universities and by the English Linguistics Circle, a
research network involving the following research teams:
- Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalisation (VLCG; University of
Santiago de Compostela; director: Prof. Teresa Fanego) [http://www.usc-vlcg.es]
- Spoken English Research Team at the University of Santiago de Compostela
(SPERTUS; University of Santiago de Compostela; director: Ignacio Palacios
Martínez)[http://www.usc.es/ia303/spertus]
- Language Variation and Textual Categorisation (LVTC; University of Vigo;
director:Javier Pérez Guerra) [http://lvtcuvigo.blogspot.com]
- Methods and Materials for the Teaching and Acquisition of Foreign Languages
(MMTAFL, University of Vigo; Coordinadora: Marta Dahlgren-Thorsell).

The English Linguistics Circle was also responsible for ELC1, a former edition
of the International Postgraduate Conference on English Linguistics held in
Santiago de Compostela in May 2008. A refereed volume containing a selection of
the papers presented at ELC1 is now in preparation, and will be published as
"New trends and methodologies in applied English language research. Diachronic,
diatopic and contrastive studies" (Linguistic Insights Series; Bern: Peter Lang).

Plenary Speakers:
- Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Terence Odlin (Ohio State University)
- Geoff Thompson (University of Liverpool)

Organising Committee:
Lidia Gómez García (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Iria Pastor Gómez (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Paula Rodríguez Puente (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Beatriz Tizón Couto (University of Vigo)
David Tizón Couto (University of Vigo)

Postgraduate students are invited to submit abstracts for oral presentations on
all fields of linguistic research, whether synchronic or diachronic. Papers are
to be 20 minutes in length plus 10 minutes for discussion. The conference
language is English.

Abstract Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be anonymous and not exceed 400 words. They should preferably
be submitted via e-mail as an attachment (Microsoft Word, RTF or PDF files) to
the address elcpostgrad at uvigo.es.

Abstracts should include:
- the title of the paper
- a list of 5-10 keywords
- the research focus
- the research methodology
- a brief summary of findings (if applicable)
- a short list of key references (restrict references to a minimum).

The e-mail message accompanying the abstract should contain the following
information:
- the name(s) of the author(s) and their affiliation(s)
- the author's e-mail address and contact details
- audiovisual equipment required.

Abstract submission deadline:
Abstracts must be received by 1 June 2009.
Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by the programme committee and the
authors will be notified of acceptance by 30 June 2009 (by e-mail).

Proceedings:
Authors of papers accepted for presentation will be invited to submit their
paper for publication (length to be determined) in the volume of conference
proceedings. Papers will be subjected to refereeing.

Registration Information:
To register for the conference please download the registration form from the
conference website http://webs.uvigo.es/elcpostgrad.
The fee includes coffee, tea and refreshments during the conference days as well
as an informal dinner (Friday 30 October, evening).

The registration fees are as follows:
- 50 € fee for registration by 15 September 2009
- 60 € fee for registration after 15 September 2009.
The registration fee can be paid by bank transfer; further information on the
bank account number will be available soon.

Conference Venue:
The conference will be held at the Club Financiero de Vigo in the centre of the
city (García Barbón 62, Vigo - tel.: +34 986 44 72 20 - fax: +34 986 44 98 86 -
e-mail: cfv at clubfinvigo.com - web: http://www.clubfinvigo.com)

Further Information:
For general enquiries send an e-mail message to: elcpostgrad at uvigo.es
For further information, visit the conference website:
http://webs.uvigo.es/elcpostgrad

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