LINGUIST List 14.156

Thu Jan 16 2003

Calls: Case, Valency&Transitivity/ACL Student Workshop

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

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1. L.Kulikov, Case, Valency and Transitivity, Netherlands
2. jahna, ACL 2003 Student Research Workshop, Japan

Case, Valency and Transitivity

Location: Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: 17-Jun-2003 - 19-Jun-2003 
Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2003

Contact Person: Peter de Swart
Meeting Email: P.deSwartlet.kun.nl
Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

PIONIER workshop on Case, Valency and Transitivity Case, Valency and
Transitivity 

First CALL FOR PAPERS 
PIONIER-Workshop

Dates: second half of June 2003
Location: Nijmegen
Organizers: Leonid Kulikov, Andrej Malchukov, Peter de Swart

Case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of
the modern linguistics. Case is a grammatical category determined by
the syntactic or semantic function of a noun or pronoun. Valency is a
verbal feature which characterizes the capacity of a verb to take a
specific number and type of arguments and thus, in the languages with
case-marking, crucially depends on the case-marking of the
arguments. Transitivity is a more abstract feature of both verbs and
syntactic patterns, determined by the ability of a given verb (verbal
form) to take a (direct) object.

Thus, the three concepts listed in the title of the workshop are
intimately related to each other and build up the foundations of the
syntactic skeleton of a clause. In fact, however, all the three
concepts reach far beyond the pure syntax. On the one hand, they are
crucially connected with such morphological aspects of the clause as
case marking and person agreement (which both can be understood as
case in a broad sense of the concept), valency marking on verbs (voice
and diathesis) and various morphological devices for marking
transitivity. On the other hand, they inevitably involve several
semantic issues, such as meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal
classes, semantic correlates of transitivity (in the vein of Hopper &
Thompson's (1980) approach to transitivity as a bunch of features) and
some others.

All these issues belong to the scope of the research activity of the
PIONIER-Project ''Case cross-linguistically'', started at University
of Nijmegen in 2002 under the guidance of Dr. H. deHoop.

Among the questions which we would like to see addressed are the following:

- Case systems across languages 
- Case semantics
- Valency, transitivity and verbal classes
- Valency change and case-marking
- Core valency and oblique arguments
- Case-marking of subject and object: nominative, accusative,
ergative, absolutive
- Nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive patterns in synchronic
and diachronic perspective
- Evolution of case systems
- Person agreement as case-marking on verbs
- Passive, antipassive and other transitivity alternations
- Case-marking in causative constructions
- Marking of transitivity and labile verbs
- Transitivity and object marking

The idea is to organize two- or three-day meeting on Case, Valency and
Transitivity in the second half of June 2003. We hope also to be able
to arrange partial reimbursement of travel and accommodation costs for
some participants if necessary.

We invite those interested in these topics to a discussion, with
reference to specific case histories or more general issues in the
study of Case, Valency and Transitivity. Each presentation will be
allotted 30 minutes including time for discussion.

Abstracts should not exceed one page and can be sent electronically or
in paper format. Electronic submission should be pdf-files or Word
documents. Please include your name, affiliation, and contact
information in the email message to which the abstract is attached. If
sending as paper copy, please include your name, affiliation, and
contact information on a separate sheet. Please specify in the subject
line or on the envelope: Abstract for ''Case, Valency and
Transitivity''.

Deadline for abstract submission: March 1st, 2003
Notification of acceptance: March 31th, 2003

The organizers of the workshop will be the members of the
PIONIER-Project ''Case cross-linguistically'' Leonid Kulikov, Andrej
Malchukov and Peter de Swart.


Please send your submissions to:

Peter de Swart 
P.deSwartlet.kun.nl
University of Nijmegen
Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Linguistics
PO Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Fax: 024-3611070

Student Research Workshop 

at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistic

Short Title: ACL 2003 Student Workshop
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Date: 07-Jul-2003 - 12-Jul-0200 
Call Deadline: 26-Feb-2003

Web Site: http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/acl03-student
Contact Person: Jahna Otterbacher
Meeting Email: acl03-studentumich.edu
Linguistic Subfield(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Student Session is an established tradition at ACL
conferences. This year it will take the form of a Student
Workshop. The main purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for
student researchers who are investigating various areas related to
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. 

*****CALL FOR PAPERS*****

Student Research Workshop at ACL2003

The 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL03)

Sapporo Convention Center, SAPPORO, JAPAN

Paper registration deadline: February 21, 2003
Paper submission deadline: February 26, 2003

Email contact of the Student Workshop Co-chairs: acl03-studentumich.edu

Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly established
yet. Tentatively, the Workshop may take place anytime between the 7th
and 12th of July, 2003. The exact dates will be posted once confirmed
by the Main ACL 2003 Conference Program Committee.


1. General Invitation for Submissions

The Student Session is an established tradition at ACL
conferences. This year it will take the form of a Student
Workshop. The main purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for
student researchers who are investigating various areas related to
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. We would
like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the
workshop. Seeing that the main mission of the student workshop is to
provide the participants with a wide audience and useful feedback, the
emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. For the Student
Workshop, original, and unpublished research is invited on all aspects
of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to these
topic areas:

pragmatics
 discourse
 semantics
 syntax and the lexicon
 phonetics and phonology
 morphology
 linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
 language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction
 corpus-based language modeling
 machine translation and translation aids
 natural language interfaces
 dialogue systems
 approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in
multi-media systems
 message and narrative understanding systems
 summarization
 speech recognition and synthesis
 generation

The conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and demos. See
the Main ACL 2003 page (http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003) for
information.

2. Submission Requirements

Papers should describe original work in progress. The main purpose of
presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers
and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work.
Papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever
appropriate. The papers can have more than one author; however, all
authors MUST be students. A paper accepted for presentation at the
Student Workshop cannot be presented or have been presented at any
other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers
that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this
immediately after the title material on the first page. In addition,
a student who has already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student
session will not be allowed to present again at the student session at
any of these conferences, but instead, are encouraged to submit to the
main conference.

3. Submission Procedure
Paper Registration:

Registration of your submission is required. A registration form will
soon be available from the student session web pages
(http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/acl03-student) After you fill out
and submit this form, a unique ID number will be generated and sent to
you in an e-mail shortly after the paper registration. You will then
be able to use this ID number instead of your name on the title page
of the paper and in any subsequent correspondence with the workshop
co-chairs. If you are unable to use the on-line form for paper
registration or experience problems using it, please, send email to
acl03-studentumich.edu.

Paper Length:

Authors should submit their papers for review in the two-column format
of the ACL proceedings and should not exceed 6 pages. We strongly
recommend the use of ACL latex style or Microsoft Word Style files
available from the main session's web pages
(http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003) These will also soon be available
from the student workshop web pages
(http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/acl03-student).

Separate items to be submitted:

 1) Identification page:
 Title:
 Paper ID code (generated at paper registration)
 Author(s) name(s) affiliation and e-mail addresses
 Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas)
 Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
 Word Count: excluding title page and references
 Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, specify)
 Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

 2) Title page
 Title:
 Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration)
 Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas)
 Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
 Word Count: excluding title page and references
 Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, specify)
 Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)
 Paper:

A CV or letter from your advisor indicating that you meet the submission
requirements specified in Section 2.

Electronic Submissions:

Electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions are
acceptable. If you are submitting your paper electronically, only the
following formats will be acceptable:

PostScript (.ps)
Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf)
Microsoft Word ACL style(.doc)
PDF (.pdf)

Specific instructions for electronic submissions will be available
soon on the student workshop web pages
(http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/acl03-student). Electronic
submissions are strongly preferred, and will be required for inclusion
in the final proceedings. Contact the co-chairs if you absolutely
need to submit a hardcopy at this stage.

4. Reviewing Procedure

Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed
by Student Workshop Co-Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance
of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed
panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final
acceptance decision will be made based on the results of the review.

Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please, make
sure you do not put the author(s) name(s) on the title page. (See
paper submission requirements for details). You should not have any
self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for
review. For example, you can't have a reference like this ''We showed
previously (Smith, 1991), ...'' Instead, use citations such as ''Smith
previously showed (Smith, 1991)...''

5. Schedule

Submissions must be received by February 26, 2003. Late submissions
will be automatically disqualified. The student workshop committee is
not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. For
electronic submissions, all time zones will be taken into
account. Acknowledgement will be emailed soon after
receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email)
on April 26, 2003. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation
of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their
acceptance notice.

6. Timetable
Important Dates for the Student Session:

Paper registration: February 21, 2003
Paper submission deadline: February 26, 2003
Notification of Acceptance: April 26, 2003
Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 5, 2003

Contact Information:
If you need to contact the co-chairs of the Student Workshop, please use
this address: acl03-studentumich.edu. An e-mail sent to this address will
be forwarded to all three co-chairs.


Kotaro Funakoshi, Co-chair, Asia
Department of Computer Science
Tokyo Institute of Technology
kohcl.cs.titech.ac.jp

Sandra Kuebler, Co-chair, Europe
Department of Linguistics
University of Tuebingen
kueblersfs.uni-tuebingen.de

Jahna Otterbacher, Co-chair, North America
School of Information
University of Michigan
jahnaumich.edu