LINGUIST List 12.1022

Wed Apr 11 2001

Calls: Corpus-based Analysis, Pacific L2 Research

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1. Nancy M. Ide, EUROLAN Workshop on Multi-layer Corpus-based Analysis
2. National Foreign Language Resource Center, Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF 2001)

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 REMINDER

 SUBMISSIONS DUE APRIL 15

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 EUROLAN 2001
 Summer Institute
 Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources


 WORKSHOP
 ON
 MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS
 

 July 30 - August 1, 2001
 Iasi, Romania
 

 ORGANIZERS

 Dan Cristea, University "A.I. Cuza", Iasi, Romania
 Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
 Daniel Marcu, ISI, University of Southern California
 Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh


 Corpora annotated for a variety of linguistic features are
 becoming increasingly available. Part of speech annotated
 corpora are commonplace; treebanks in a variety of
 languages are available or under development; and corpora
 annotated for various features of discourse, including
 co-reference and discourse structure, are also available
 (e.g., the MUC corpora). In addition, large speech corpora
 annotated with phonetic transcriptions and prosodic
 analysis and various multi-lingual aligned corpora are
 available from centers such as the Linguistic Data
 Consortium and the European Language Resources
 Association.

 This workshop will address issues of using corpora
 annotated for multiple layers (e.g., syntax and discourse,
 prosody and part of speech, etc.) or combining multiple
 layers of annotation in natural language analysis. We
 invite submissions on the following topics:

 o Research that exploits information on different
 linguistic levels;

 o Consideration and demonstration of the ways in which
 information from different layers can be used in
 automatic language processing;

 o Compatibility of corpora annotated for different
 linguistic layers, including means to harmonize
 different annotation types and levels;

 o Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation. 

 The workshop will be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN
 2001 Summer School on Creation and Exploitation of
 Annotated Language Resources, to be held in Iasi, Romania
 from 30 July - August 11, 2001. Because EUROLAN 2001 is
 concerned with a wide variety of types of linguistic
 annotation, the workshop will serve to complement the
 content of lectures and tutorials that are part of the
 School's main program. Registration for the workshop is
 included in the Summer School registration fee.

 SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

 Papers should report on original work not previously
 presented elsewhere. The workshop is intended to provide a
 forum for discussion and a means to receive feedback for
 future development; therefore, papers describing both
 completed work and work-in-progress are acceptable.

 Submissions of 3500-5000 words should be sent via email to
 idecs.vassar.edu with the subject line "EUROLAN 2001
 WORKSHOP SUBMISSION". Submissions in Postscript, PDF, or
 plain ASCII text formats are acceptable.

 DATES:

 Deadline for receipt of submissions
 April 15, 2001
 Notification of acceptance
 May 5, 2001
 Final Paper due
 June 1, 2001
 Workshop date
 July 30 - August 1, 2001


 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbr�cken
 Charles Fillmore - ICSI, UC Berkeley
 Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo
 Jan Hajic - Charles University, Prague 
 Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto
 Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton
 Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University
 Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy
 Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy
 Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken
 Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem
 Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield

Of interest to researchers and teachers of East Asian, Southeast Asian,
and Pacific languages!



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	 PACIFIC SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM (PacSLRF) 2001

			 OCTOBER 4-7, 2001
			at the Imin Conference Center
			University of Hawai'i at Manoa
			 Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA

		WEBSITE: http://www.LLL.hawaii.edu/pacslrf/
			 EMAIL: pacslrfhawaii.edu

This conference will focus on the acquisition of second languages in
instructed and naturalistic settings, particularly in East Asian,
Southeast Asian, and Pacific languages. Paper, poster, and colloquium
proposal submissions are welcome (see end of message for CALL FOR PAPERS
announcement - DEADLINE: APRIL 30, 2001)!

	PLENARY SESSIONS:
	* "The state of emergentism in SLA" (KEVIN GREGG, St. Andrews
	 University, Osaka, Japan)
	* "Operations and representations in second language acquisition"
	 (WILLIAM O'GRADY, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Hawai'i, USA)
	* "Issues in second dialect acquisition" (JEFF SIEGEL, University
	 of New England, New South Wales, Australia)
	* "Children acquire traits of those who feed them" (NOEAU WARNER,
	 University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Hawai'i, USA)
	* "Mind, language, and epistemology: Toward a language
	 socialization paradigm for SLA" (KAREN WATSON-GEGEO, University
	 of California at Davis, California, USA)
	* "Morphological variability in SLA: A hardy perennial" (LYDIA
	 WHITE, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

	INVITED COLLOQUIA:
	* "Japanese as a second language from different perspectives"
	 (Convener: KAZUE KANNO, UH Manoa)
	* "Current research in second dialect acquisition" (Convener:
	 JEFF SIEGEL, University of New England)
	* "Issues in Instructed SLA" (Convener: CATHERINE DOUGHTY, UH
	 Manoa)

For more information about PacSLRF 2001 conference pre-registration,
conference schedule, lodging options, and social events, please visit our
website at:

			http://www.LLL.hawaii.edu/pacslrf/

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 ANNOUNCING THE 4TH PACIFIC SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM (PACSLRF)
			 * CALL FOR PAPERS *

Proposals for papers, posters, and colloquia regarding any aspect of
research in second language acquisition, particularly in Asian and Pacific
languages, are invited:

INDIVIDUAL PAPERS will be allotted 40 minutes (30 minutes plus 10 minutes
	for discussion).
POSTERS will be displayed for one day during the conference; posters are
	intended as a format for reports of work in progress.
COLLOQUIA will be allotted 2 hours and 10 minutes. Distribution of this
	time will be left to the discretion of the colloquium organizers,
	who are encouraged to include ample time for audience response and
	discussion.

Proposals can be submitted as follows. Choose one submission format only.

Either fill out and submit a proposal on the World Wide Web at the PacSLRF
2001 Website (http://www.LLL.hawaii.edu/pacslrf) OR submit the information
listed below either via email (pacslrfhawaii.edu) or on floppy disk. If
sent on a floppy disk or as an email attachment, make sure that the
proposal is in MICROSOFT WORD, WORD PERFECT, or plain text format. (Or
you may also send a hard copy proposal via regular mail. Be sure to
include 3 copies if you choose this option)

For INDIVIDUAL PAPERS and POSTERS, include in the following order:
	1. presentation category (paper or poster)
	2. title of the presentation (maximum ten words)
	3. language of presentation
	4. presenter contact info: last name, first name, department,
	 affiliation, mailing address, phone, and e-mail address
	5. co-presenter(s) contact info: last name, first name,
	 department, affiliation, mailing address, phone, and e-mail
	 address
	6. 50-word (maximum) single-spaced English language summary of the
	 paper or poster
	7. 300-word (maximum) single-spaced English language abstract of
	 the paper or poster

For COLLOQUIA, include in the following order:
	1. presentation category (colloquium)
	2. title of colloquium (maximum ten words)
	3. language of presentation
	4. colloquium organizer contact info: last name, first name,
	 department, affiliation, mailing address, phone, and e-mail
	 address
	5. 50-word (maximum) single-spaced colloquium summary (in
	 English)
	6. 300-word (maximum) single-spaced abstract (in English),
	 explaining theme and structure of the colloquium
	7. For each individual colloquium presentation, send:
		a) title of the presentation
		b) language of presentation
		c) presenter contact info: last name, first name,
		 department, affiliation, mailing address, phone, and
		 e-mail address
		d) 50-word (maximum) single-spaced presentation summary
		 (in English)
		e) 300-word (maximum) single-spaced presentation abstract
		 (in English)

SNAIL MAIL/DISK SUBMISSIONS: Pacific Second Language Research Forum 2001
			 c/o National Foreign Language Resource Center
			 University of Hawai'i at Manoa
			 1859 East-West Road #106
			 Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 USA

EMAIL SUBMISSIONS: pacslrfhawaii.edu

ONLINE WEB SUBMISSIONS: http://www.LLL.hawaii.edu/pacslrf

The DEADLINE for receipt of all submissions for PacSLRF 2001 has been
extended to MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be
sent by the end of May, 2001.

Thank you for your interest,

Jim Yoshioka
Conference Chair, PacSLRF 2001


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P	 PACIFIC SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM (PacSLRF) 2001
 A 2 c/o National Foreign Language Resource Center
 C 0 University of Hawai'i at Manoa
 S 0 1859 East-West Road, #106
 L 1 Honolulu HI 96822
 R phone: (808) 956-9424; fax: (808) 956-5983
 F email: pacslrfhawaii.edu

VISIT US ON THE WEB! http://www.LLL.hawaii.edu/pacslrf
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