LINGUIST List 11.1850

Fri Sep 1 2000

Calls: Speech Technology Transfer, Formal Pragmatics

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

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1. Teresa L. Soto, I Meeting on Speech Technology Transfer
2. Anton Benz, Formal Pragmatics

			2ND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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I MEETING ON SPEECH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

6-10 November 2000
Universidad de Sevilla and Universidad de Granada
Sevilla
SPAIN

URL: http://fing.us.es/TecnoHabla/index.html
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The I MEETING ON SPEECH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER will take place at the
University of Seville from Monday 6th to Friday 10th November 2000.

Oral presentations, posters and demos are invited on any topic concerned
with the following related areas:

- Phonetics and Phonology
- Discourse Analysis
- Speech Perception and Production
- Language Modelling
- Signal Processing and Analysis
- Speech Recognition
- Speech Processing
- Speaker Recognition
- Speech Synthesis
- Language Generation
- Dialogue Systems
- Signal Coding
- Resources, Assessment and Evaluation
- Applications
- Education
- Development
- Machine Translation
- Parsing
- Information Retrieval
- Others

An abstract of a maximum of 300 words must reach us by 1st October 2000.


INFORMATION:

UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE
Teresa L. Soto
Dpto. Lengua Inglesa
Palos de la Frontera, s/n
41004 Sevilla
SPAIN
Tel: +34 954 551 588
Fax: +34 954 551 516
email: teresafing.us.es

UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado
Dpto. Electronica y Tecnologia de Computadores
Avda. Severo Ochoa, s/n
18071 Granada
SPAIN
Tel: +34 958 243 271
Fax: +34 958 243 230
email: rlopezcugr.es

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I JORNADAS EN TECNOLOGIA DEL HABLA

Universidad de Sevilla y Universidad de Granada
6-10 noviembre 2000
Sevilla
ESPANA

URL: http://fing.us.es/TecnoHabla/inicio.html
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Con el fin de impulsar el intercambio tecnologico y favorecer el
encuentro entre los investigadores y empresas de nuestro pais dedicados a
la tecnologia del habla, la Universidad de Sevilla y la Universidad de
Granada organizan las I JORNADAS EN TECNOLOGIA DEL HABLA.

Se invita a los interesados a presentar una comunicacion oral, poster o
demostracion de sistema antes del 1 de octubre de 2000. En cualquier caso
deberan presentar un resumen de la actividad a desarrollar que no exceda
300 palabras.

Los trabajos presentados podran adscribirse a cualquiera de las siguientes
areas tematicas:

- Fonetica y fonologia
- Analisis del discurso
- Produccion y Percepcion del Habla
- Modelado del lenguaje
- Procesamiento y analisis de senal
- Reconocimiento del habla
- Procesamiento del habla
- Reconocimiento de locutores
- Sintesis del habla
- Generacion del lenguaje
- Sistemas de dialogo
- Codificacion de la senal
- Recursos y evaluacion
- Aplicaciones
- Herramientas didacticas y de desarrollo
- Traduccion automatica
- Tecnicas de parsing
- Recuperacion de informacion
- Otros


INFORMACION:

UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
Teresa L. Soto
Dpto. Lengua Inglesa
Palos de la Frontera, s/n
41004 Sevilla
SPAIN
Tel: +34 954 551 588
Fax: +34 954 551 516
email: teresafing.us.es

UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado
Dpto. Electronica y Tecnologia de Computadores
Avda. Severo Ochoa, s/n
18071 Granada
SPAIN
Tel: +34 958 243 271
Fax: +34 958 243 230
email: rlopezcugr.es

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Workshop on FORMAL PRAGMATICS - Second CALL FOR 
PAPERS 

Date: 16. to 18. March 2001,
Location: Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Organised by
 Anton Benz (Berlin)
 Reinhard Blutner (Berlin), and
 Bart Geurts (Berlin/Nijmegen)
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Although formal pragmatics has a long tradition, it has generally 
been in the shadow of formal semantics. But recently there has 
been a rapid progress in the field, as witness the development of 
new approaches such as:

 - Optimality theory (OT)
 - Game and decision Theory
 - Theory of distributed Systems
 - Logic-based approaches
 - Extensions of dynamic semantics
 - Extensions of classical pragmatic approaches

This workshop offers an opportunity for the discussion of new 
approaches to formal pragmatics. We invite submissions related 
but not limited to the following topics:

 - Optimality and interpretation
 - Information and relevance
 - Game theory and communication
 - Conversational implicature
 - Presupposition
 - Focus
 - Information update in dialogue
 - Dialogue acts and their representation


Invited Speakers:
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 Nicholas Asher (Austin)
 Helen de Hoop (Utrecht)
 Laurence R. Horn (Yale)
 Arthur Merin (Munich)


Program Committee
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 Nicholas Asher (Austin)
 Anton Benz (Berlin)
 Reinhard Blutner (Berlin)
 Bart Geurts (Berlin/Nijmegen)
 Helen de Hoop (Utrecht)
 Laurence R. Horn (Yale)
 Manfred Krifka (Berlin)
 Arthur Merin (Munich)


Submission format
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We invite submissions of abstracts of maximum 4 page length (a4,
10pt, including bibliography), accompanied by a separate sheet 
indicating name, address and affiliation of the author(s) together 
with the title of the abstract, to be addressed to:

 Anton Benz
 Projekt Dialogsemantik
 Humboldt Universit�t Berlin
 Prenzlauer Promenade 149-152
 Room 521/522
 13189 Berlin
 Germany

Electronical submissions are highly encouraged (MS Word, ps, 
pdf, or dvi), and may be sent to one of the following addresses:

 toni.benzgerman.hu-berlin.de
 bart.geurtsphil.kun.nl


Important dates
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 - November 1st, 2000: Deadline for submission
 - January 15th, 2001: Notification of acceptance
 - March 16th to 18th: Conference


Conference Homepage
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 http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/dialog/work2.html