20.705, Calls: Computational Ling/Italy;General Ling/Norway

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Subject: 20.705, Calls: Computational Ling/Italy;General Ling/Norway

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Date: 05-Mar-2009
From: Luca Dini < dini at celi.it >
Subject: Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries

2)
Date: 05-Mar-2009
From: Sturla Berg-Olsen < sturla.berg-olsen at iln.uio.no >
Subject: The Baltic Languages and the Nordic Countries

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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:43:49
From: Luca Dini [dini at celi.it]
Subject: Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries

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Full Title: Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries 
Short Title: NLP4DL 

Date: 15-Jun-2009 - 15-Jun-2009
Location: Viareggio (LU), Italy 
Contact Person: Luca Dini
Meeting Email: dini at celi.it
Web Site: http://www.cacaoproject.eu/NLP4DL09 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 20-Apr-2009 

Meeting Description:

The First Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (NLP4DL) workshop,
organised under the auspices of the CACAO project (eContentplus Programme of the
European Commission, ECP 2006 DILI 510035 CACAO), aims to collect all
fundamental and innovative research which is done in connection with Natural
Language Technologies applied to the digital libraries universe. 

Call for Papers

Digital libraries represent a crucial contact point among traditional libraries,
recent advances in Information Technology, and Natural Language Processing
technologies. In a sense, digital libraries represent a *perfect* crossroads:
they are mainly  built out of text, they are consulted by humans via natural
language, and one of the major tools  for accessing the information they hold,
metadata, is a mix of structured and unstructured information. 

Commission, ECP 2006 DILI 510035 CACAO), aims to collect all fundamental and
innovative research which is done in connection with Natural Language
Technologies applied to the digital libraries universe. The workshop will host
invited speakers together with talks/papers concerning:

- free text access to full-text digital libraries;
- access to digital resources via metadata;
- NLP techniques for harmonizing metadata in digital library (DL) federations;
- cross-language access to DLs;
- cross-language harmonization of metadata;
- discovery in DLs: hyperlinking, clustering, user-oriented categorization;
- management of digital collections via NLP-based algorithms;
- adaptation of linguistic resources to thematic DLs;
- fundamental issues: named entity extraction, word sense disambiguation,
translation disambiguation.

All abstracts papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted contributions will be
distributed on a CD at the workshop.  A volume from the conference will be
published in Fall 2009. Depending on the number of high quality submissions, a
poster/demo session may also be held. 

Practical Information
The conference will be held in Viareggio, Italy on 15 June  2009. More details
will be available soon at the conference website at 
http://www.cacaoproject.eu/NLP4DL09

Important Date
Deadline for submission (Abstract, maximum five pages): 20  April 2009;
submission should be sent as a PDF file to nlp4dl at research.celi.it .
Notification of acceptance: 4 May 2009
Conference version of the paper due (Instructions will be provided to authors):
1 June 2009
Conference date: 15  June 2009
Press version of the paper due: 4 September 2009

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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:43:59
From: Sturla Berg-Olsen [sturla.berg-olsen at iln.uio.no]
Subject: The Baltic Languages and the Nordic Countries

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Full Title: The Baltic Languages and the Nordic Countries 

Date: 19-Jun-2009 - 20-Jun-2009
Location: Oslo, Norway 
Contact Person: Sturla Berg-Olsen
Meeting Email: sturla.berg-olsen at iln.uio.no
Web Site: http://folk.uio.no/sturlab/conf/Announcement.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Baltic 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2009 

Meeting Description:

In line with the University of Oslo's traditions in the field of Baltic
Linguistics and with the aim of drawing attention to this field in Norway and
the other Nordic countries, we invite you to participate at this international
conference, which represents a continuation of the conference cycle Baltic Days
and White Nights, started in St Petersburg in June 2008. 

Call for Papers

The centre of attention at the conference will be the links and parallels
between the Baltic languages (Latvian, Lithuanian and Old Prussian) and
thelanguages of the Nordic countries (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland
and the Faroe Islands) - both in a synchronic and a diachronic perspective.

Abstracts on other aspects of Baltic Linguistics will also be considered.

Participants will be given 20 minutes for their talks, followed by 10 minutes
for questions and discussion. The language of the conference will be English.

Abstracts (of maximum 500 words) should be sent to Sturla Berg-Olsen
(sturla.berg-olsen at iln.uio.no) no later than April 15. Notifications of
acceptance or rejection will be sent out no later than May 1.

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