LINGUIST List 12.1670

Wed Jun 27 2001

Calls: Textual Data, Language policy in China

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1. Pascale [** iso-8859-1 charset **] S�billot, Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2002)
2. zhou minglang, Language policy in China: Theory and practice

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS - JADT 2002 - March 13-15, 2002

6th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

March 13-15, 2002 
Palais du Grand Large 
St-Malo / France

The International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data
provides a workshop-style forum to all scholars, statisticians, computer
scientists, linguists..., working in the vast field of textual data
analysis ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political
discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from
computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of
data to content analysis. Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier
(1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998) and Lausanne (2000), the 6th
International Conference will be held in Saint-Malo, France on march
13-15 2002. 

Important Dates
 Submission Deadline: September 1, 2001
 Notification: October 30, 2001
 Camera ready papers: December 15, 2001
 Conference: March 13-15, 2002

Website: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt
e-mail address: jadt2002irisa.fr

Submission:

Submissions should be limited to original work. All papers should
include background survey and/or reference to previous works.
Participants wishing to submit a paper should send to the organization
committee (via email jadt2002irisa.fr) a first version of their paper
for review by September 1, 2001, giving the following information: 
 - Name, affiliation and full postal address (fax and/or e-mail) of
authors 
 - Title of the proposed paper with keywords
 - A first version of the paper (12 pages max.) emphasizing the purpose
of the paper
 - An abstract in the paper language
 - An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) 
 - Bibliographical references 
A format (identical for the final version) is proposed on the Website
(for LaTeX and Word), http://www.irisa.fr/jadt/authors.htm).

Topics:

Topics of interest of the conference concern the application of
statistical models and tools in the following domains:
 - Exploratory Textual Data Analysis 
 - Textual Statistics
 - Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions
 - Natural Language Processing
 - Stylometry 
 - Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis 
 - Textual Classification
 - Text Corpora and Text Encoding 
 - Frequency Dictionaries 
 - Lemmatization, automatic categorization
 - Information Retrieval 
 - Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis 

Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors on October 30,
2001. 

Final versions (camera-ready papers) should conform to the format that
is provided on the Website (12 pages max.) and reach the committee no
later than December 15, 2001. 

Accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the
participants at the start of the conference.

Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of
these languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian
All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract.
As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. 


Program Committee:

Ramon Alvarez, Univ. of Leon, Spain
Harald Baayen, Univ. of Nim�gue, The Netherlands
Monica B�cue, Polyt. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain
Sergio Bolasco, Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy
�tienne Brunet, Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Annibale Elia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy
Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, France
Dominique Labb�, Univ. of Grenoble, France 
Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST Paris, France (Pr�sident)
Alain Lelu Univ. of Franche Comt�, France
Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, France
Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, France
Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. of Versailles SQY, France
Andr� Salem, Univ. Paris 3, France
Pascale S�billot, IRISA, France
Fiona Tweedie, Univ. of Glasgow, UK


Organization Committee:

Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr
Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr 
Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr
organized by IRISA/INRIA Rennes




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Pascale SEBILLOT
IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France
tel: (33|0) 2 99 84 73 17, fax: (33|0) 2 99 84 71 71
email: sebillotirisa.fr

I am organizing one or two AAS panel(s) on "Language policy in China: Theory
and practice". To my knowledge, this topic has not been covered at AAS at
least since the 1980s.

The panel (s) shall cover the following topics (at least):

a) the theoretic basis of China's language policy;

b) how China's language policy affects the relationship between the majority
 language and minority languages (in government business, education, media,
 business, and everyday life);

c) how it affects the relationship between Putonghua and Chinese dialects
 (in government business, education, media, business, and everyday life); and

d) how it affects the relationship among minority languages (in government
 business, education, media, business, and everyday life).

An AAS panel normally consist of a chair, four presenters, and one discussant
- maximally six people. If there is sufficient interest, we can organize 
two panels: one on theory and practice in Chinese dialect communities and
one on theory and practice in minority communities.

Deadline: July 20, 2001 ( I will put the panel(s) together and mail before
 AAS deadline--August 3, 2001)

Send me (zhoumcolorado.edu) an abstract of maximally 250 words in MS word
 format by email, if you are interested in a presentation of your research.

Send me (zhoumcolorado.edu) a short academic biography (500 words) with
 focus on your research interest and publications, if you are interested in
 chairing a panel or being a discussant.

I have done some research on the panel topic for a while and have a good and
 updated bibliography. I can email it if anyone is interested.

At the AAS conference, we will discuss how to pursue the project furhter, as
 a book project or as a special issue in an appropriate journal.

Contact: Minglang Zhou
	 Zhoumcolorado.edu