LINGUIST List 11.114

Fri Jan 21 2000

Calls: XL Telephone Speech Databases, Semitic Language

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Jeff ALLEN, LREC2000 satellite workshop: XLDB Telephone Speech
2. Charles Kisseberth, Phonology and Prosodic Morphology of Semitic Languages

 2nd Call for Papers
		
	 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
 LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION

 XLDB - 1st. Int'l Workshop on
 Very Large Telephone Speech Databases

 a satellite event to LREC 2000 in Athens

 May 29th, 2000
 supported by ELRA and ISCA

 http://www.speechdat.org/XLDB/XLDB.html

In recent years, several very large telephone speech databases have
become available to the SLP community. It is now time to critically
assess the quality and utility of these databases, both for Speech
Technology and Speech Research.

The XL-DB workshop thus focuses on three aspects:

 * Collection, Annotation and Access
 * Research and Gaining new Knowledge
 * Application and Service Development

Contributions to these areas are highly welcome. The web-site
features a registration form for the XLDB-mailing list. Take
advantage of this mailing list to receive the most up-to-date
information on this workshop!

Important Dates

Abstracts due: 28.Jan.2000, Notification of acceptance: 18.Feb.2000

Note that all contributions must be made electronically, either by
e-mail or via the submission form on the XLDB web-site.

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Christoph Draxler
Department of Phonetics and Speech Communication
Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich Tel: +49 +89 28669968
Schellingstr. 3 Fax: +49 +89 280 0362
D 80799 Munich e-mail: draxlerphonetik.uni-muenchen.de
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 CALL FOR PAPERS
 Workshop on the Phonology and Prosodic
 Morphology of Semitic Languages
 Tel Aviv University

The Department of Linguistics of Tel Aviv University will host a
one-day workshop on "The Phonology and Prosodic Morphology of Semitic
Languages" on Sunday June 11, 2000. This workshop is a satellite to
the annual meeting of the Israeli Association for Theoretical
Linguistics (IATL), which will be held at Tel Aviv University on June
12-13, 2000.

The workshop will involve a one hour presentation by the invited
speaker, Jean Lowenstamm (Paris VII), and a number of half hour
presentations (twenty minute talk, ten minute question period). Papers
on any aspect of the phonology and prosodic morphology of any of the
Semitic languages are welcome. Papers will be selected on the basis of
a (maximally) two-page abstract, which may be submitted either in hard
copy or email form. Be certain to include your name, affiliation, mail
and e-mail addresses on the abstract. The deadline for receipt of
abstracts is March 7, 2000. Notification regarding acceptance of
papers will be given during the first week of April.

Abstracts should be sent to Outi Bat-El (co-organizer of the workshop,
along with Charles W. Kisseberth) at the following addresses:

obatelpost.tau.ac.il

Department of Linguistics
Tel-Aviv University
Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv 69978
Israel