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ucalgary.ca>Seventh Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC-7) Banff, Alberta, Canada Saturday, April 21 to Monday, April 23, 2001 Call for Papers Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for 30-minute papers on any linguistic or philological aspect of any historic or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English (to 1500) and the extraterritorial varieties. Papers from a range of linguistic subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, socio-linguistics, language acquisition, contact, and change, as well as differing theoretical approaches, are especially welcome. Please send to the address below a one-page, 12-point font abstract that is headed only by the title of your paper, as well as a separate 3" x 5" index card with your name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax numbers, email address, and the title of your paper. Submissions must be received by January 5, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by February 11, 2001. GLAC-7 Department of Linguistics University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1N4 Location and Accomodation Banff is the townsite of Banff National Park located in the Rocky Mountains. This area is easily one of the most beautiful in the world and certainly an ideal place to celebrate Earth Day on April 22. The conference will take place at the Banff Conference Centre. Rooms, including breakfast and lunch, are available at a special conference rate of CDN $137.03 (U.S. $92.50) for a single or CDN $87.53 (U.S. $59.10) per person for a double. Please note: These rates apply only to conference participants. If two people (e.g. you and your spouse or a friend) share a room and only one is attending the conference, the single rate applies; i.e. CDN $137.03 (U.S. $92.50). There is an additional 5% provincial hotel room tax, and a 7% Goods and Services Tax (GST). The GST on all accomodation is refundable to Non-Canadian residents upon application. The Banff Conference Centre is extending these rates for three days before and after the conference, so we hope that you will find time to explore the area. Further information will be provided later. Please note: The exchange rate is presently U.S. $1.00 = CDN $1.48. Transportation Banff is most easily accessible from Calgary, Alberta, located about 120 kilometres (70 miles) to the east. There are some direct shuttle buses from Calgary International Airport to Banff, and frequent buses from Calgary downtown to Banff. We will provide full details on transportation later. The Diebold Awards Beginning with GLAC-6, thanks to generous funding from the Diebold Foundation, a number of prizes in the amount of $250 are awarded to the best graduate student papers presented at the conference. A jury of three members appointed by the Executive Committee of the Society for Germanic Philology will judge conference papers submitted in writing within four weeks of the conference. The Society for Germanic Philology The Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference is sponsored by the Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL). The SGL also publishes the Journal of Germanic Linguistics, a semiannual journal devoted to the study of all present and historical Germanic varieties, including English (to 1500). Information on submissions to the journal, as well as Society membership, are accessible through the SGL website (http://www.germanic.ohio-state.edu/sgl/). Contact The GLAC-7 Homepage is at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~glac7/glac7.html. For further information, please send email to the local organizers: Prof. Robert W. Murray Prof. Amanda Pounder glac7Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.vassar.edu>************************ ACL 2000 Workshop ************************ WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group for the Lexicon (SIGLEX) October 2000 (following ACL'2000) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/siglex00.html With an increasingly global economy and the explosive growth of the "World" in "World Wide Web", the computational linguistics community is faced as never before with the challenges and opportunities of multi-linguality. At the same time, the community has returned with renewed enthusiasm to problems of word meaning, especially the delineation and discrimination of word senses. An intimate relationship between the two issues is becoming apparent -- for example, in the consideration of translation equivalence in parallel corpora, the construction of multilingual ontologies, and the examination of senses in relation to specific natural language applications such as machine translation, information retrieval, summarization, etc. The issue of multi-lingual approaches to sense distinctions was also a central topic of discussion at the first SENSEVAL conference in 1998, and is one of the areas to be covered at SENSEVAL-2 (to be held in Spring 2001). This workshop is intended to address problems of word sense disambiguation and delineation of appropriate sense distinctions, with specific emphasis on approaches that involve more than one language and the ways in which observations about cross-linguistic equivalence affect our consideration of sense divisions in the individual languages. More generally, we seek to foster discussion and exchanges of insight in any area of computational linguistics where a non-monolingual approach to word sense issues is being taken. Some example topics include o multi-lingual sense inventories and systems, e.g. EuroWordNet, MikroKosmos o use of parallel corpora in investigating word sense issues o word senses and cross-language information retrieval o word senses and machine translation o comparative lexical semantics We will also consider submission on issues in mono-lingual lexical semantics relevant to sense distinctions, but priority will be given to papers addressing multi-lingual approaches. Where and when =============== The workshop will be held for a full day on either October 7 or 8, following the main ACL conference October 3-6. The venue will be the same as for ACL 2000. Submissions =========== Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Papers may not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references). They must be received by July 31, 2000, in hard copy (4 copies) OR postscript OR rtf format. Electronic submissions should be sent to siglex-wsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue