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lia.di.epfl.ch>First Call for Papers ROMAND 2000 1st workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data Department of Computer Science Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne October 19-20 2000 http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2000/ ROMAND 2000 is the first of a series of workshop that aims at bringing together researchers working on robust methods in natural language processing. The term "natural language" is intended as all possible modalities of human communication and it is not restricted to written or spoken language. The main goal of the workshop will be to bring together researchers working in fields like artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, cognitive science who are facing with the problem of feasible and reliable systems implementation. Theoretical aspects of robustness in NLP are welcome as well as engineering and industrial experiences. The workshop will be held in collaboration with the TALN 2000 conference (le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - Automatic Natural Language Processing) which will be held in Lausanne from October 16th to 18th. The ROMAND workshop will be held just afterwards, from the 19th to 20th. We invite abstracts on all topics related to robustness in natural language processing, including, but not limited to: Robust Text Analysis Information Extraction Spoken Dialogue systems Multimodal human-computer interfaces Natural Language Architectures NLP and Soft Computing Robust Semantics Underspecification Multimedia document analysis Robust Parsing Complexity of linguistic analysis Hybrid methods in computational linguistics Text Mining SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 6 (included references) single-column pages with 10' body font size (for talks with a duration of 20' plus 10' discussion) together with a separate page specifying the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in postscript or pdf format) to: romandMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
georgetown.edu>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 LAST 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: nels2000Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue