LINGUIST List 11.1185

Wed May 24 2000

Calls: Computational Semantics, Theoretical Ling/NELS

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1. Johan Bos, ICoS-2: CALL FOR SYSTEM-DEMOS
2. Miok Debby Pak, Theoretical Ling:Conference of the North East Linguistic Society 2000

	 * CALL FOR SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS *

 second workshop on

 INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

 ICoS-2


 Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, July 29-30, 2000

 http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~kohlhase/event/icos2/

 (Submission deadline: June 1, 2000)




ABOUT ICoS
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Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model
builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely
and easily available. A wide variety of new tools (statistical and
probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are
likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics. Most
importantly of all, computational semantics seems to have reached the
stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its
most pressing tasks - and there's a lot of interesting new work which
takes inferential issues seriously.

The Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS) intends to
bring researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science,and Logics together, in
order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural
language semantics.


DATES 
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People who would like demonstrate systems that address inference in
computational semantics should consider the following dates:

 Submission Deadline for System Demos: June 12, 2000. 
 Notification: June 19, 2000. 
 ICoS-2: July 29-30, 2000. 
 (COLING: July 31 - August 4, 2000)


LOCATION 
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ICoS-2 will be held the International Conference And Research Center
for Computer Science SCHLOSS DAGSTUHL. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated in
the Saarland (Germany), allowing participants to reach the COLING
conference in Saarbruecken conveniently. Transport from Dagstuhl to
Saarbruecken will be organized on sunday evening or monday morning.
Invited speakers are James Allen (University of Rochester) Christof
Monz (University of Amsterdam) and Bonnie Webber (University of
Edinburgh). Dagstuhl offers rich computing facilities.
	

SUBMISSIONS
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A two-page abstract containing a description of the system
and the demonstration.

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2000. 

Submissions can be sent to icos2ags.uni-sb.de. Please use plain
text, latex, dvi, postscript, or pdf format.



FURTHER INFORMATION
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If you have any questions, please contact the local organizers 
Johan Bos and Michael Kohlhase via icos2ags.uni-sb.de.

For actual information concerning ICoS-2 please consult

 http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~kohlhase/event/icos2/

 NELS 2000
 Conference of the North East Linguistic Society
 October 6-8, 2000
 Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 Gennaro Chierchia
 Junko Ito and Armin Mester
 Howard Lasnik

 Nels 2000 features:
 Roundtable: Anti-symmetry and Minimalism in Romance Syntax
 Richard Kayne
 Juan Uriagereka
 Andrea Moro
 Eduardo Raposo

 Workshop: Neurological Bases of Language
 David Poeppel
 Yosef Grodzinsky
 Michael Ullman
 Angela Friederici

 Phonology and phonetics POSTER session

 CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite abstracts for twenty-minute talks plus ten-minute discussions on
any aspect of theoretical linguistics. We also invite abstracts for posters for
the phonology and phonetics poster session and the Neurological bases of
Language workshop.

Abstracts must be at most one-page with one-inch margins and typed in at
least 11-point font. An optional second page is permitted for data and
references. Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract
per author.

We strongly encourage electronic submissions. Electronic submissions
should have the subject header "abstract" and include all the author
information (see below) in the body of the e-mail. Acceptable formats are
PC and Mac MS Word, text and RTF. Abstracts with unusual fonts
must attach the font file.

Postal submissions must include 6 copies of an anonymous abstract
and an index card including the following information: name, title of
abstract, area (phonology, syntax, etc.), poster or main session,
affiliation(s), mailing address, and e-mail address.

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: July 1, 2000
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: August 20, 2000

Electronic submissions: nels2000georgetown.edu

Postal submissions: Abstract Committee/NELS2000
 Department of Linguistics
 Georgetown University
 37th and O street, NW
 Washington, DC 20057

For more detail, visit our web-site:
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/linguistics/nels31