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bgcict.acad.bg>Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 2002 20th and 21st September 2002, Sozopol, Bulgaria Workshop motivation and aims Treebanks are a language resource that provides annotations of natural languages at various levels of structure: at the word level, the phrase level, the sentence level, and sometimes also at the level of function-argument structure. Treebanks have become crucially important for the development of data-driven approaches to natural language processing, human language technologies, grammar extraction and linguistic research in general. There are a number of on-going projects on compilation of representative treebanks for languages that still lack them (Spanish, Bulgarian, Portugese,Turkish) and a number of on-going projects on compilation of treebanks for specific purposes for languages that already have them (English). The practices of building syntactically processed corpora have proved that aiming at more detailed description of the data becomes more and more theory-dependent (Prague Dependency Treebank and other dependency-based treebanks as the Italian treebank (TUT) or the Turkish treebank (METU); Verbmobil HPSG Treebanks, Polish HPSG Treebank, Bulgarian HPSG-based Treebank etc.). Therefore the development of treebanks and formal linguistic theories need to be more tightly connected in order to ensure the necessary information flow between them. The workshop aims at being a forum for researchers and advanced students working in one or both of these areas. It will be held in conjunction with the summer school "Empirical Linguistics and Natural Language Processing", Flagman hotel, Sozopol, Bulgaria. Topics of interest Papers should address the following topics: - design principles and annotation schemes for treebanks; - applications of treebanks in acquiring linguistic knowledge and NLP; - the role of the linguistic theories in a treebank development; - treebanks as a base for linguistic research; - evaluation of treebanks; - tools for creation and management of treebanks; - standards for treebanks. Two round-table discussions will be organized on the following topics: - the relationship between the syntactic properties of a given language and the choice of linguistic theory for annotation purposes - the utility of treebanks for linguistic theorizing Important dates Deadline for workshop abstract submission 12th April 2002 Notification of acceptance 20th May 2002 Final version of paper for workshop proceedings 24th June 2002 Submissions Papers should describe existing research connected to the topics of the workshop. The presentation at the workshop will be 25 minutes long (20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion). Each submission should include: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Extended abstracts (maximum 1500 words, plain-text format or Postscript) should be sent to: Name: Kiril Simov Email: kivsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
baruch.cuny.edu>You are cordially invited to submit a proposal to read a paper at AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY Sponsored by THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GEOLINGUISTICS and BARUCH COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK at BARUCH COLLEGE THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK October 4-5, 2002 Papers on any aspect of the topic should take 15 minutes to read aloud but may be expanded to as many as 15 pages (single-spaced, with one-line spaces between paragraphs) for publication in the proceedings. Those will appear early in 2003. Participants are asked to submit final articles to the secretary by December 15, 2002. Names are so important to personal identity that even those seeking aliases tend to retain some part of the real name, if only initials. Language underlies ethnic unity and fuels political aspirations, whether speakers have a country or their own or (as with gypsies or the Kurds) not. The conference will address all the cultural, economic, political and other ramifications of the connections between language and personal, group, and national identities; the impact of artificial and dominant international languages; the have/have-nots of the modern technological world with its special languages; bilingualism and language competition/legislation; language as affecting the personality and the tribe; and more. The conference is, like other ASG conferences since 1985, under the direction of Prof. Leonard R. N. Ashley, president of ASG, and the secretary again is Prof. Wayne H. Finke. Prof. Finke may be contacted now with early proposals (to 400 words) for papers, questions about registration fees, $45.00 (as usual covering also the gala banquet and a copy of the proceedings), etc. Enjoy New York City in the fall and participate with colleagues from the US and abroad in an important scholarly meeting! Professor Wayne H. Finke, Modern Languages, B6-280, Baruch College, 17 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010-5585. E-mail: wayne_finkeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue