Final Call for Papers: Conference Perspectives on Slavistics III (Deadline extended!)

Thu Apr 3 12:27:19 UTC 2008

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 15, 2008

Due to many requests, we have decided to extend the deadline for paper
submission to "Perspectives on Slavistics 3" to April 15, 2008.

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Final Call for Papers

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The Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Hamburg and the
Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Tuebingen are pleased to
announce the Third International Conference "Perspectives on Slavistics".
The conference will take place in Hamburg, Germany, on August 28-31, 2008.
The goals of the conference are to encourage the study of Slavic languages
and literatures and to establish connections among scholars working in these
areas.

The following keynote speakers have accepted the invitation to present at
the conference:

- Patrice Dabrowski, Harvard University (USA)

- Gerd Hentschel, University of Oldenburg (Germany)

- Mikhail Iampolski, New York University (USA)

- Marek Lazinski, University of Warsaw (Poland)

- Karel Oliva, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)

- Danko Sipka, Arizona State University (USA)

- Galin Tihanov, University of Manchester (UK)

Submissions from any scholar working on Slavic languages or literatures are
welcomed, including those in Slavic departments, as well as in specialized
linguistics or literature departments. We particularly want to encourage
young scholars to participate in this conference. Papers will be considered
on topics relating to the diachronic or synchronic study of Slavic languages
and literatures from any theoretical perspective.

There will be a special session on Electronic Resources of Slavic Languages.
The aim of the special session is to provide a forum for exchange of
information regarding the recent developments in the composition and design,
construction and use of different types of resources for Slavic languages.
We encourage submissions reporting on, but not limited to:

- corpora (large and small, general and genre-specific, annotated and
non-annotated, single language and parallel corpora, spoken and written
language corpora, treebanks);

- wide-coverage grammars;

- computational lexicons, electronic terminology databases, dictionaries

(mono-  and multilingual);

- speech collections;

- wordnets, framenets, ontologies;

- tools for acquisition, construction, annotation and management of language
resources.

Each paper submitted to the conference will be allowed thirty minutes
(including 10 minutes for discussion). Presentations should be in English in
order to open the conference up to researchers working on non-Slavic
languages and literatures. Data projectors and overhead projectors will be
provided upon request. The new deadline for submissions is April 15, 2008
(submission information and abstract specifications see below).

The participation fee will be 80 euros (40 euros for graduate students and
passive participants), to be paid in advance. Detailed information on
payment options and local arrangements will be provided by May 2008. 

The participation fee covers the abstract booklet, other conference
materials, refreshments and snacks.

Submission information and abstract specifications:

Abstracts for 20 minute talks (plus 10 minute discussion) should:

- be anonymous;

- not exceed 500 words (plus an additional page for tables, figures and
references,  if necessary);

- use one-column format, Times New Roman, 12pt, single-spacing;

- use the international transcription of Cyrillic characters into Latin
characters;

- be in Adobe PDF format (please do include all fonts in PDF documents).

Your abstract should present a hypothesis and outline your plan for
defending that hypothesis, i.e., it should specify research question(s), an
approach / method to the data, and obtained results. Each abstract will be
anonymously reviewed by independent reviewers.

Abstracts should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair Conference
Manager at:

 <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pos3>
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pos3

You will be requested to enter a user name and password to enter the site.
If you do not have an EasyChair account, enter the following URL:

 <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/account_apply.cgi>
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/account_apply.cgi

to obtain one. Your account access information will be emailed to you.

After having logged in to the system, you will be able to submit your
abstract by (1) providing an address for correspondence, (2) specifying the
author(s), (3) providing the title and a short abstract in plain text (the
short abstract should summarize the essentials of the proposal in maximally
two short sentences), (4) specifying at least two keywords,

(5) selecting the topic relevant to your paper (Linguistics, Literature or
Resources), (6) uploading the PDF file with the full anonymous abstract
including the title and the abstract body.

The contact author of the paper will receive an auto-generated notification
of receipt via email.

The abstracts must be submitted no later than April 15, 2008. 

Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by
May 25, 2008.

Organizing Committee:   

Bernhard Brehmer, University of Hamburg

Schamma Schahadat, University of Tuebingen Beata Trawinski, University of
Tuebingen Annette Werberger, University of Tuebingen

Program Committee:      

Tanja Anstatt, Bochum University (Germany) Tania Avgustinova, DFKI (Germany)
Tilman Berger, University of Tuebingen (Germany) Igor Boguslavsky, Technical
University of Madrid (Spain) Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey (UK)
Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) Susanne Frank, University
of Regensburg (Germany) Steven Franks, Indiana University (USA) Erika
Greber, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) Thomas Grob, University
of Konstanz (Germany) Eva Hajicová, Charles University (Czech Republic)
Bjoern Hansen, University of Regensburg (Germany) Eva Hausbacher, University
of Salzburg (Austria) Gerd Hentschel, University of Oldenburg (Germany)
Mikhail Iampolski, New York University (USA) Catriona Kelly, University of
Oxford (UK) Sebastian Kempgen, University of Bamberg (Germany) Walter
Koschmal, University of Regensburg (Germany) Vadim Borisovic Krys'ko,
Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Volkmar Lehmann, University of Hamburg
(Germany) Marek Lazinski, University of Warsaw (Poland) Holt Meyer,
University of Erfurt (Germany) Michael Moser, University of Vienna (Austria)
Stefan Michael Newerkla, University of Vienna (Austria) Riccardo Nicolosi,
University of Konstanz (Germany) Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of
Technology (Poland) Gilbert C. Rappaport, University of Texas at Austin
(USA) Zygmunt Saloni, University of Warmia and Mazury (Poland) Sylvia Sasse,
Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany) Ulrich Schmid, University of St. Gallen
(Switzerland) Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK) Kiril Simov, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria) Danko Sipka, Arizona State University (USA)
Frantisek Stícha, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) Dirk Uffelmann,
University of Passau (Germany) Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University
Poznan (Poland) Christian Voss, Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany) Daniel
Weiss, University of Zurich (Switzerland) Bjoern Wiemer, Johannes Gutenberg
University Mainz (Germany) Georg Witte, Free University of Berlin (Germany)
Gerhild Zybatow, University of Leipzig (Germany)

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2008 (extended) Notification of
acceptance: May 25, 2008

Conference: August 28-31, 2008

Conference webpage:  <http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/pos3/>
http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/pos3/

Contact: pos3 at barlach.sfb.uni-tuebingen.de Submission page:
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pos3>
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pos3

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