20.225, Calls: Historical Ling/Greece; Computational Ling,Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

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Subject: 20.225, Calls: Historical Ling/Greece; Computational Ling,Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

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1)
Date: 23-Jan-2009
From: Gregory Papanikos < atiner at atiner.gr >
Subject: 7th International Conference on History 

2)
Date: 22-Jan-2009
From: Venkata Subramaniam < lvsubram at in.ibm.com >
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:36:19
From: Gregory Papanikos [atiner at atiner.gr]
Subject: 7th International Conference on History

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Full Title: 7th International Conference on History 

Date: 28-Dec-2009 - 31-Dec-2009
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Nicholas Pappas
Meeting Email: atiner at atiner.gr
Web Site: http://www.atiner.gr/docs/History.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 29-May-2009 

Meeting Description:

The History Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research
(ATINER) will organize its 7th International Conference on History in Athens,
Greece on 28-31 of December 2009. The conference will be held in downtown
Athens, within walking distance of the Acropolis (Parthenon) and other
historical sites of Athens. 

Call for Papers

Papers (in English) from all areas of history are welcome. Special sessions will
be organized in the following areas: Ancient Greek and Roman History, Cultural
History, History of Religion, Arts History, Economic History, Political and
Social History, Sports History (History of Olympic Games), History of Sciences,
History of Philosophy, Intellectual History, Modern American History, Latin
American History, African History, Asian History, European History,
Personalities in Philosophy and History, Interactions of Civilizations
(East-West & North-South), Historiography, Historic Preservation and the Future
of Historical Studies. Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of
the Conference Proceedings. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of
one paper, chair a session or observer. The conference website is
http://www.atiner.gr/docs/History.htm. The first 6 conferences produced a number
of books. Visit our site http://www.atiner.gr/docs/HISTORY_PUBLICATIONS.htm for
titles, table of contents and order form.

Please submit a 300-word abstract via email only by May 29th, 2009 to the
following address: 
Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Professor of History, Sam Houston University, USA and
Vice-President of ATINER. 8 Valaoritou Street, Kolonaki, 10671 Athens, Greece. 
Tel.: + 30 210 363-4210 
Fax: + 30 210 363-4209 
Email: atiner at atiner.gr. 

Abstracts should include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current
Position, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the
subject of your submission. 

We also invite people to chair sessions, act as reviewers and editors of the
book(s) that will be published after the conference. If you want to participate
without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, evaluate papers to be included
in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing, or any other
offer to help please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, gtp at atiner.gr,
Director, ATINER.

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:36:24
From: Venkata Subramaniam [lvsubram at in.ibm.com]
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data

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Full Title: 3rd Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data 
Short Title: AND 2009 

Date: 23-Jul-2009 - 24-Jul-2009
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Venkata Subramaniam
Meeting Email: lvsubram at in.ibm.com
Web Site: http://and2009workshop.googlepages.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Morphology;
Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 20-Apr-2009 

Meeting Description:

AND 2009 is a workshop devoted to issues arising from the need to contend with
noisy inputs, the impact noise can have on downstream applications, and the
demands it places on document analysis. The Third Workshop on Analytics for
Noisy Unstructured Text Data will build on two previous successful AND workshops
held in 2007 (in conjunction with the 20th International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence) and in 2008 (in conjunction with the 31st Annual
International ACM SIGIR Conference). 

Call for Papers

Noisy unstructured text data is ubiquitous in real-world communications. Text
produced by processing signals intended for human use such as printed/
handwritten documents, spontaneous speech, and camera-captured scene images, are
prime examples. Telephonic conversations between call center agents and
customers often see 30-40% word error rates, even using state-ofthe-art ASR. OCR
error rates for hardcopy documents can range widely from 2-3% for clean inputs
to 50% or higher depending on the quality of the page image, the complexity of
the layout, aspects of the typography, etc. Individual variabilities in
handwriting make this a particularly difficult form of input and error rates
here are often substantially higher than for machine print text. In spite of the
tremendous challenges such data presents, it is pervasive in applications of
interest to corporations and government organizations. 

Recognition errors are not the sole source of noise; natural language and the
creative ways that humans use it can create problems for computational
techniques. Electronic text from the Internet (emails, message boards,
newsgroups, blogs, wikis, chat logs and web pages), contact centers (customer
complaints, emails, call transcriptions, message summaries), and mobile phones
(text messages) is often noisy, containing spelling errors, abbreviations,
non-standard words, false starts, repetitions, missing punctuation, missing case
information, and pause-filling words such as "um" and "uh" in the case of spoken
conversations.

AND 2009 is a workshop devoted to issues arising from the need to contend with
noisy inputs, the impact noise can have on downstream applications, and the
demands it places on document analysis. The Third Workshop on Analytics for
Noisy Unstructured Text Data will build on two previous successful AND workshops
held in 2007 (in conjunction with the 20th International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence) and in 2008 (in conjunction with the 31st Annual
International ACM SIGIR Conference).

Topics of Interest
- Noise induced by document analysis techniques and its impact on downstream
applications
- Formal models for noise, including characterization and classification of noise
- Treatment of noisy data in specific application areas, including historical
texts, multilingual documents, blogs, chat / SMS logs, social network analysis,
patent search, and machine translation
- Data sets, benchmarks, and evaluation techniques for analysis of noisy text
- All other topics arising from noise and its effects on textual data

Submission Guidelines
Full papers may be submitted following the guidelines specified on the AND 2009
website: http://and2009workshop.googlepages.com/

Important Dates (tentative)
Paper Submission: April 20, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2009
Camera-Ready papers due: June 20, 2009

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