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essex.ac.uk>****************************************************** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS VIEW 2000: Variation Is EveryWhere 14-16 September, 2000 University of Essex Colchester, England INTRODUCTION VIEW is newly organized to provide a regular forum in the British Isles for scholars concerned with language variation. The regional emphasis is on the British Isles -- either because scholars are part of the British variationist community, or because their work concerns variation in the British Isles. (Not restricted to varieties of English.) VIEW 2000 is the second in a series of meetings organized to strengthen this research community. (It is the follow-up to the First UK Language Variation Workshop, held April 1997 in Reading.) There is a VIEW Standing Committee whose members will participate in the conference, review abstracts, and meet during the conference to plan future events. THE COMMITTEES VIEW Standing Committee: Enam Al-Wer (Essex), David Britain (Essex), Deborah Cameron (London), Jenny Cheshire (Queen Mary Westfield), Karen Corrigan (Newcastle), Aidan Coveney (Exeter), Gerry Docherty (Newcastle), Paul Foulkes (Leeds/York), Paul Kerswill (Reading), Ronald Macaulay (Pitzer), Lesley Milroy (Michigan), Peter Patrick (Essex), Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow), Sali Tagliamonte (York), Peter Trudgill (Fribourg), Dominic Watt (Leeds/York), and Ann Williams (Reading). VIEW 2000 Organizing Committee: Enam Al-Wer, David Britain, Peter Patrick (chair). THE CONFERENCE VIEW 2000 will be a small- to medium-sized conference with no parallel sessions. Our hope is to give presenters enough time to talk freely, and other participants enough space to interact with them, so that the conference will not merely display the state-of-the-art, but advance it. VIEW is open to post-graduate students presenting their own or collaborative research as well as to established scholars, and encourages submission of preliminary results or work in progress, esp. as posters. We invite colleagues to submit papers on any aspect of language variation, including but not limited to contemporary social dialectology (rural or urban areas), quantitative variationist sociolinguistics, geolinguistics, variation in discourse, sociophonetics, dialect contact, creolistics, historical variation and linguistic change, theoretical models of variation and change, instrumental phonetic research, grammatic(al)ization, perceptual dialectology, and sociolinguistic studies of language and social class, status, sex, gender, age, ethnicity and other social factors. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Submission deadline: 30 April 2000. Colleagues wishing to present a paper/poster should send ONE camera-ready copy of their abstract (150-250 words, no more than 1 side of A4, 12-point type), indicating the title of the paper/poster, author's full name, name and address of institution, and email; and THREE copies of their abstract with no identifying information. Mail to: Prof. Peter L. Patrick, VIEW Organizing Committee Dept. of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K. [No faxed abstracts, please.] IN ADDITION, send an identical e-mail version of abstract and author info to: patrickpMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ilsp.gr>Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000) Athens, Greece Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND TOOLS IN EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS May 30, 2000 (morning session) http://www.ilsp.gr/lrec/educreslrec.html WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS The key concepts for Language Resource infrastructure have been Reusability and Standardization. In NLP, where the requirement not only for large scale lexicons but also for large scale corpora has been established, they have both found fruitful ground. The emerging multimedia cultural industry has established new needs and use conditions of Language Resources in respect to industrial production. The constant increase of demand for electronic educational tools and aids either in the INTERNET/INTRANET or in the CD-ROM environment raises the question of whether language resources and tools developed for the Human Language Technology (HLT) sector may be (re)used also for educational application purposes. LREC-2000 focuses in many respects on the importance of this new multimedia cultural industry and the connection between industrial production and use of Language Resources and Tools. The workshop aims at bringing together specialists from the areas of language engineering and multimedia technologies with experience in CALL (Computer Aided Language Learning). Issues related to innovative and reflective approaches in the exploitation, integration and evaluation of language resources in CALL will be addressed. TOPICS Papers are invited in the following topics: - Internet/Intranet and CD-ROM applications demanding HLT tools - Distance learning applications - Integration of language resources in multimedia educational environments - Evaluation of language resources for educational applications - Development of language tools based on language resources - Legal aspects and problems in the access and use of available language resources - Customization of language resources for multimedia educational products - Electronic books and HLT tools SUBMISSION Submissions should address one or more of the listed topics. Descriptions of planned or existing tools are acceptable, but they should be situated in the larger context of the issues the workshop addresses. A maximally 1000 word abstract in English should be submitted to Eleni Efthimiou by e-mail at "<mailto:eleni_eMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue