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magellan.umontreal.ca>_________________________________________________________________________ (Annonce en francais a la suite) CALL FOR PAPERS - JOURNAL T.A.L. ********************************* DEADLINE EXTENDED : JULY 1 1999 The Journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (T.A.L.) will publish a special issue on the following theme : DEPENDENCY GRAMMARS This special issue will be devoted to the various aspects of natural language processing using dependency grammars. That concerns all automatic systems or NLP-oriented linguistic models directly using dependency trees as structure of representation, as well as those using equivalent notions such as syntactic heads or syntactic functions. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - presentation of automatic systems (parsing, generation, translation, disambiguation, correction, speech recognition, teaching ...) based on dependencies; - presentation of electronic resources (dictionaries, annotated corpora, grammars) based on dependencies; - presentation of algorithms for dependency grammars; - presentation of NLP-oriented linguistic models based on dependencies; - evaluation of automatic systems based on dependencies and comparison with other systems; - study of the syntax-semantics interface from a dependency trees point of view. Papers submitted may focus on a particular linguistic phenomenon provided that they throw a light on or entail a reflection about the use of syntactic dependencies in natural language processing. FORMAT ****** Papers (30 pages max, Helvetica 12) are accepted in RTF, Latex or Word formats. Latex style is downloadable from http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~atala/tal/tal.html. Papers can also be submitted in French. Papers should be submitted by e-mail (preferably) to: skMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
uia.ua.ac.be>7th INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE Budapest, Hungary, 9-14 July 2000 Check the IPrA home page for more details at http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ The 7th International Pragmatics Conference will be held on 9-14 July 2000 on the premises of Budapest Technical University (Building K), the largest institution of higher education in Hungary, situated on the Buda side of the city, overlooking the Danube, 10 minutes from the city center. CONFERENCE CHAIR: Ferenc KIEFER (IPrA President and Director of the Linguistic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: J\243zsef ANDOR (P\233cs), Wolfgang DRESSLER (Vienna), L\225szl\243 KOML\211SI (P\233cs), Zolt\225n K\214VECSES (Budapest), Enik N\201METH (Szeged), Csaba PL\201H (Szeged), G\225bor TOLCSVAI NAGY (Budapest) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members of the Local Organizing Committee, the International Conference Committee will include: Christiane BALTAXE (Los Angeles), Laura BENIGNI (Rome), Josie BERNICOT (Paris), Jan BLOMMAERT (Ghent), Thorstein FRETHEIM (Trondheim), Monica HELLER (Toronto), Alexandra JAFFE (Hattiesburg), Manfred KIENPOINTNER (Innsbruck), Kang-Kwong LUKE (Hong Kong), Jan NUYTS (Antwerp), Klaus-Uwe PANTHER (Hamburg), Ben RAMPTON (London), Srikant SARANGI (Cardiff), Alain TROGNON (Nancy), Jef VERSCHUEREN (Antwerp) TOPICS The conference is open to all topics of interest to pragmatics in its widest sense as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on langauge and communication. The special topic of this edition of the International Pragmatics Conferences is Cognition in language use: The role of perception and representation, memory and planning, and metalinguistic awareness. PLENARY LECTURES (titles are tentative) Jens ALLWOOD (G\246teborg), "Activity-based analysis of meaning and interaction" Wolfgang DRESSLER & Heinz STARK (Vienna), "Clinical impairments of text pragmatics: Linguistic or cognitive?" Ray GIBBS (Santa Cruz), "Inferring what speakers say and what they mean" Auli HAKULINEN (Helsinki), "What can a grammarian learn from conversation analysis?" Maya HICKMANN (Paris), "Cognition and language in child development: Old questions, new directions" John LUCY (Chicago), "Fashions of speaking: Linguistic relativity in the social sciences" Csaba PL\201H (Szeged), "Language processing & modularity" Michael TOMASELLO (Leipzig), "The pragmatics of word learning in early child language" OTHER EVENTS include regular lecture sessions, poster sessions, panels, and data sessions. PANELS on a wide range of topics (both in the special topic area and in domains of general interest) are already being prepared by Norine BERENZ (Johannesburg), K\225roly BIBOK (Szeged), Igor BOGUSLAVSKY (Moscow), Patrick BOYLAN (Rome), Frank BRISARD (Antwerp), Hubert CUYCKENS (Leuven), Derek EDWARDS (Loughborough), Dariusz GALASINSKI (Wolverhampton), Yueguo GU (Beijing), Paul ten HAVE (Amsterdam), Sachiko IDE (Tokyo), Karol JANICKI (Bergen), Katarzyna JASZCZOLT (Cambridge), Istv\225n KECSK\201S (Missoula), Andr\225s KERT\201SZ (Debrecen), Peter KLOTZ (Bayreuth), L\225szl\243 KOML\211SI (P\233cs), Zolt\225n K\214VECSES (Budapest), Marta MALECZKI (Szeged), Ulrike MEINHOF (Bradford), Enik N\201METH (Szeged), Jan NUYTS (Antwerp), Klaus-Uwe PANTHER (Hamburg), Tunde PAPP (Missoula), Aneta PAVLENKO (Philadelphia), Uta QUASTHOFF (Dortmund), Kanavillil RAJAGOPALAN (Campinas), Ken TURNER (Brighton), Li WEI (Newcastle), Ruth WODAK (Vienna) CALL FOR PAPERS Letters of intent for the organization of panels, specifying a clear pragmatics-related topic and explaining the rationale behind the initiative, should reach the IPrA Secretariat as soon as possible, but at any rate no later than September 15th 1999. Such proposals will be negotiated directly in view of the contribution they make to the overall program. Note that all contributions to panels have to be submitted in precisely the same way as individual papers Paper submissions for panel contributions (whether invited by the panel organizer(s) or sent in spontaneously), lectures and posters, as well as proposals for data sessions should be sent before November 1st 1999 to the IPrA Secretariat. For detailed instructions for the submission of conference contributions, as well as for information on registration and other conference-related matters, contact: IPrA Secretariat P.O. Box 33 (Antwerp 11) B-2018 Antwerp Belgium tel. + fax +32-3-230 55 74 e-mail: ipraMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue