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mail.udlap.mx>SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS V Conference on Applied Linguistics (Psychological Issues) Cholula, Puebla, Mexico - 19-20 May 2000 Hosted by: The Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics and the Department of Languages, Universidad de las Am�ricas - Puebla, Mexico The organizing committee of the V Conference on Applied Linguistics invites abstracts for papers, workshops and poster presentations on topics in applied linguistics with a focus on second language acquisition and teaching. The conference theme this year is "psychological issues". Paper proposals on psychological and psycholinguistic topics are particularly welcome. However, proposals on other areas within applied linguistics will also be considered. Confirmed Plenary speaker: Robert Bley-Vroman (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) Possible issues within the conference theme include: Aphasia, dyslexia and second languages Bilingual lexical representation and processing Error analysis and error correction Grammatical development and grammar instruction Language attrition/loss (of L1, L2, indigenous languages) Language learning deficits Language transfer/cross-language influence Learning and communication strategies Memory and language learning/loss Metacognition and language learning Metalinguistic awareness Motivation and attitudes Sign language Similarities and differences in L1, L2, and L3 acquisition Skills development and processing (listening, speaking, reading, writing) Teaching methodology Universals (Universal Grammar) Vocabulary acquisition and teaching Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including references). Authors should specify whether they are submitting for a paper presentation (30 min.), workshop (60 min.) or poster presentation. Hard copy submission by mail or fax (if necessary): 1 copy with title, author name(s), affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers, and 3 copies with the title and abstract only for blind review. Electronic submission (preferred): title, abstract, author name(s), affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers (sent as e-mail text or MS Word attachment). Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 12th of 2000. Notification of acceptance or rejection: by January 31st. The conference will be held in the Main Auditorium of the Universidad de las Am�ricas - Puebla. The campus is situated in the historic community of Cholula, 15 minutes from the city of Puebla, 30 min. from the Puebla airport, and 2 hours from the airport in Mexico City. Airport express buses leave every 30 minutes from Mexico City to Puebla. Registration fee (general): 500.- Pesos (US $50.-) for Latin American participants: 150.- Pesos Students: 80.- Pesos For more information on the conference, venue/accommodation and tourism, please contact our web page or one of the members of the organizing committee. Web page: http://www.pue.udlap.mx/~lldl_www/lenguas/congreso.html Organizers: Peter Ecke eckepMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ISI.EDU>Call for Papers Workshop on Automatic Summarization (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000 sponsored by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) MITRE Corporation Sunday, April 30, 2000 Seattle, Washington, USA I. OVERVIEW The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field.� Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL in 97, and the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98. All of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before. ANLP/NAACL'2000 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem. The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers addressing (but not limited to): Summarization Methods: use of linguistic representations, statistical models, NL generation for summarization, production of abstracts and extracts, multi-document summarization, narrative techniques in summarization, multilingual summarization, text compaction, multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio), use of information extraction, studies and modeling of human summarizers, improving summary coherence, concept fusion, use of thesauri and ontologies, trainable summarizers, applications of machine learning, knowledge-rich methods. Summarization Resources: development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers, annotation standards, shared summarization tools, document segmentation, topic detection, and clustering related to summarization Evaluation Methods: intrinsic and extrinsic measures, on-line and off-line evaluations, standards for evaluation, task-based evaluation scenarios, user studies, inter-judge agreement Workshop Themes: 1. Multilingual Text Summarization 2. Generation for Summarization 3. Topic Identification for Summarization 4. Multidocument Summarization 5. Evaluation and Test/Training Corpora 6. Integration with web and IR access II. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2000 Notification of acceptance for papers: March 1, 2000 Camera ready papers due: March 13, 2000 Workshop date: April 30, 2000 III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style (http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000/latex/index.html) or Microsoft Word style WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Please send submission questions to cylMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue