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cic.ipn.mx>CICLing-2003 Third International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 16 to 22, 2003 Mexico City, Mexico SUMMARY PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 10, short papers: October 20 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Eric Brill (Microsoft Research, USA) Adam Kilgarriff (Brighton U., UK) Ted Pedersen (U. of Minnesota, USA) More are likely to be announced, see www.CICLing.org EXCURSIONS: Ancient pyramids, Monarch butterflies, great cave and colonial city, and more. See photos of past events at www.CICLing.org URL: http://www.CICLing.org/2003 The latest complete version of this CFP is at that website. Just in case, below is ABRIDGED text. If you can read the website, please go there and IGNORE the rest of this document. ================================================================ Contents: - WHY CICLing? - Areas of interest - Important dates - Registration - Submission guidelines - Tentative schedule - Cultural Program - Hotel and local guide - Program Committee +------------------------------------------------------- | WHY CICLing? +------------------------------------------------------- This conference is the fourth CICLing event. The past CICLing conferences have been very successful, according to the comments of the participants. We consider the following factors to define our identity: General interest. The conf covers nearly all topics related to computational linguistics. This makes it attractive for people from different areas and leads to vivid and interesting discussions and exchange of opinions. Informal interaction. It is intended for a small group of professionals, some 50 participants. This allows for informal and friendly atmosphere, more resembling a friendly party than an official event. At CICLing you can pass hours speaking with your favorite famous scientists who you scarcely could greet in the crowd at large confs. Excellent excursions. Mexico is a wonderful country rich in culture, history, and nature. The conference is intended for people feeling themselves young in their souls, adventurous explorers in both science and life. Our cultural program brings the participants to unique marvels of history and nature hidden from the usual tourists. Relief from frosts. In the middle of February frosts, the participants from Europe and North America can enjoy bright warm sun under the shadow of palms. The conf is held at the Center for Computer Research (CIC) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico. The IPN is one of the largest universities in the world, with over 120,000 students. The CIC is a relatively new school devoted to the cutting edge research in all areas of science related to computers, both in software and hardware. The conf is organized by the Natural Language Processing laboratory of CIC (you can find some our publications at www.Gelbukh.com). +------------------------------------------------------- | Areas of interest +------------------------------------------------------- In general, we are interested in whatever helps, will help eventually, or might help computers meaningfully process language data. The conference is intended to the exchange of opinions between the scientists working in different areas of the growing field of computational linguistics and intelligent text processing. Our idea is to get a general view of the state of art in computational linguistics and its applications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited by, the following topics, as long as the topic is presented in computer-related or formal description aspects: Computational linguistics research: Computational linguistic theories and formalisms Representation of linguistic knowledge Morphology Syntax Semantics Discourse models Text generation Statistical methods in computational linguistics Corpus linguistics Lexical resources Intelligent text processing and applications: Document classification and search Information retrieval Information extraction Text mining Automatic summarization Spell checking Natural language interfaces In particular, papers on the following narrower themes are especially welcome: HPSG Ambiguity resolution Word Sense Disambiguation Anaphora resolution Subcategorization Naturally, we welcome the works on processing any language, not necessarily English, though major languages are of more general interest. Note: when describing phenomena of languages other than English, please be sure to make your discussion understandable for people not familiar with this language. See more info at www.CICLing.org/2003. +------------------------------------------------------- | Important dates +------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: October 10, short papers: October 20 Notification of acceptance: November 1, short papers: November 10 Firm camera-ready deadline: November 13 Conf: February 17-23 Authors of rejected full papers will be given a chance to re-submit their works as short papers before November 5. Please note that the camera-ready deadline is firm. We do not guarantee the inclusion of any paper that does not arrive (camera-ready version) by the midnight November 15. +------------------------------------------------------- | Registration +------------------------------------------------------- Authors of accepted papers: By submitting a paper, at least one author thereby promises, in case of acceptance of the paper, to attend the conf in person to present their paper and to pay the corresponding early registration fee. Unless the current policy changes, the authors of accepted papers will register on-site at the early registration rate. Note: We reserve the right to change this information before November 15; please check our website. Public: Please contact registrationMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
sun.ac.za>***************************************************** 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN LANGUAGES ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 7 - 11 JULY 2003 UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH CONFERENCE THEME: AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA: THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE Precise details of registration and conference events will be communicated later at the conference website at: <http://www.sun.ac.za/african_languages/alasa.html>; FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts are invited on a wide range of fields within African linguistics and literature on topics linked to the conference theme, although papers on other topics within the following sub-fields are also welcome: African linguistics Sociolinguistics Language Planning and Policy Language in Society Language acquisition Applied Linguistics including Literacy and language teaching Lexicography Discourse analysis / Text linguistics Pragmatics Human Communication Onomastics Syntax Morphology Semantics Phonology and phonetics Computational linguistics Psycholinguistics Comparative linguistics Historical linguistics Translation Literature produced in African Languages Literary theory Prose Drama Theatre and Performance Poetry Praise poetry Oral art, folklore History of Literature Comparative Literature Science fiction Proposals for papers Presentations will be 20 minutes in length plus 10 minutes for discussion. Submission of summaries and abstracts: Abstracts and summaries should be submitted by email as part of the message text or as an MSWord file attachment in accordance with the following guidelines: Title Surname Full first name(s) Institutional affiliation Email address Telephone number and/or Fax number Sub-field of linguistics or literature of topic on which paper is presented An abstract of the paper of approximately 100 words A summary of the paper of approximately 800 words (excluding the "References") stating the research questions and aims, theoretical approach and main findings of the paper. The author's name, abstract (and summary) title, affiliation, email address, telephone and fax number should appear on a separate page. The title of the paper should also appear at the top of the abstract and summary. Deadline for summaries and abstracts: There is one deadline for the submission of abstracts for paper proposals, 31 January 2003. Abstracts should be submitted as soon as possible, preferably before 20 December 2002. Abstracts may also be submitted in hard copy form by mailing/faxing three (3) copies to the attention of the ALASA Conference Secretariat. Abstracts received after 31 January 2003 will not be considered. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 March 2003. For detailed instructions for the submission of conference contributions, as well as for information on registration and other conference related matters, please contact the Conference Secretariat. Conference contributions can be emailed to the ALASA Conference Secretariat: Ms K Vergeer Mrs SJ du Plessis Email: ccavMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue