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mail.doc.fl.ul.pt>Dear all, We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the International Conference "Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise", to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, at Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, in October. Please join us in this significant event. Best Regards, Carlos A. M. Gouveia - ----------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on "Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise" University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Portugal, October 25-26, 2001 This two-day conference aims at bringing together academics, researchers and professionals from a variety of disciplines interested in the general field of discourse and communication in the enterprise, such as management, linguistics, economics, marketing, sociology, psychology, business studies, trade, e-commerce and law. The organisers invite papers dealing with either macro or micro analysis of discourse. Particularly welcome are papers in Applied Linguistics and related fields, i.e., on language in use and the framing of discursive and cultural practices in the enterprise. Invited Speakers: Francesca Bargiela (Nottingham Trent University) Britt-Louise Gunnarsson (Stockholm University) Maria do Carmo Leite de Oliveira (Pontif�cia Univ. Cat�lica do Rio de Janeiro) Organising Committee: Linguistics Research Group - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies Abstracts: Papers will be timetabled at half hourly intervals with 20 minutes for presentation and ten minutes questions and discussion. Proposals with an abstract of maximum length 300 words should be sent either by e-mail or post to Em�lia Ribeiro Pedro or Carlos A. M. Gouveia at the addresses below. The deadline for submission of abstracts in any form, including e-mail, is 15 May 2001. Notice of whether your paper is included will be sent by 31 May 2001. Address for correspondence: Em�lia Ribeiro Pedro/ Carlos A. M. Gouveia Conference on "Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise" Centro de Estudos Angl�sticos Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Cidade Universit�ria 1600-214 Lisboa Portugal E-mail / Correio-electr�nico: epedroMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ACL/EACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education Co-organised by ELSNET Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001 BACKGROUND: At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools and materials for the language and speech communities. An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99 concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials, appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point of departure. This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories. Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI, http://registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools for the distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the ELRA/ELDA, LDC, TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/, http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/, http://www.telri.de and http://www.elsnet.org/resources.html , OLAC (a worldwide network of language archives at www.language-archives.org), and JEWELS (http://www.elsnet.org/jewels), an as-yet incomplete EU funded website for educational materials in Language and Speech. A third theme concerns how to build upon existing initiatives as sources of data or inspiration. AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP: The main goal of the workshop is to discuss methods for the improvement and extension of existing repositories; the educational uses of repositories; the closer interlinking between different kinds of repositories (tools and resources); global infrastructures for the achievement of joint actions. However, we expect the scope of the workshop to be much wider than that, as the issues addressed are of general interest to everybody who believes that sharing tools and resources is essential for the progress of research and education in our field. Contributions of papers and demonstrations are solicited that address the above themes. The following list of topics is suggestive rather than exhaustive: * Repositories versus catalogues * Mechanisms and infrastructures for sharing and describing content * Repository management * Standards for exchange, description, and annotation * Metadata descriptions * Quality assessment * Structure and content of an NLP/CL repository * Tools and materials for NLP/CL education * Web-based teaching methods for NLP/CL SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR PAPERS * Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following link: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. In case of problems with the submission format, please contact one of the co-chairs. * Submissions to either co-chair (mrosMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue