LINGUIST List 14.3093

Tue Nov 11 2003

Calls: Computational Ling/China; Applied Ling/Spain

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. mmhasan, 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources
2. lcarrio, 22nd International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics

4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources 
Short Title: ALR-04

Date: 25-Mar-2004 - 25-Mar-2004
Location: Sanya City, Hainan Island, China
Contact: Maruf Hasan
Contact Email: mmhasancrl-asia.org 
Meeting URL: http://203.144.225.125/tcl/alr-04/

Linguistic Sub-field: Text/Corpus Linguistics, Lexicography, General
Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
Subject Language: Vietnamese, Urdu, Thai, Korean, Japanese,
Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, Mandarin, Arabic, Standard
Subject Language Family: Sino-Tibetan, Japanese Family, Indo-European
Call Deadline: 12-Dec-2003

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Asian Language Resources. Post-Conference Workshop to be
held after The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language
Processing (IJCNLP-04) March 22-24, 2004 

First Call for Paper:

The 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR-04) is a workshop
affiliated to IJC-NLP-04, the 1st International Joint Conference on
Natural Language Processing organized by Asia Federation of Natural
Language Processing (AFNLP)

Main Conference: The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural
Language Processing (IJCNLP-04) March 22-24, 2004 Main Conference Web
site: http://www.cipsc.org.cn/IJCNLP-04/

Post Conference Workshop: Asian Language Resources (ALR-04), March 25,
2004 Venue: Sanya City, Hainan Island, CHINA

Purpose and Topics:
Language resources play an important role as corpus-based, stochastic,
and learning approaches are introduced to natural language processing
research. Many research units put great efforts on developing corpora
for their particular purpose, and some even focus on compiling various
kinds of language resources.

Asia, the land of language variation, are suffering from the shortage
of sharing the resource and cross language problem solving
experience. There are several reports referring to the success of
constructing and using corpora in many dimensions. But however, there
are few efforts in establishing common formats or frameworks for
handling these languages. The re-organizing the existing resources and
finding for the guideline in corpus development become significant
issue in the current research.

The 4th workshop on Asian Language Resources will be held with the
following purposes:
- To investigate and discuss the problems related to the construction,
dissemination and NLP research based on Asian Language Resources
- To establish the collaborative effort on Asian language resources
construction, management, accessibility, distribution, and sharing
- To launch the Asian Language Resources roadmap
- To introduce the status of Asian language resources to researchers
in other regions

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Text corpora
* Machine-readable dictionaries
* Lexicons
* Ontology
* Grammars
* Exchange and annotation schemata
* Infrastructure for constructing and sharing language resources
* Exchange formats
* Best practices for creating and disseminating language resources
* Metadata for resource classification and discovery
* Strategies and priorities for EU-US and Asian cooperation
* Standards for language resources (lexicons, corpora, ontologies,
etc.)
* Lexical standards and multi-linguality
* Standards for content management
* Standards and applications
* Standards and evaluation

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: December 12, 2003
Notification of acceptance: January 10, 2004
Camera ready papers due: January 24, 2004
Workshop date: March 25, 2004 (Thursday)

Paper Submission: 
Submission Format is identical to the main conference, IJC-NLP-04.
Please refer to
http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submission.html for
Submission formats and templates.

Submissions should follow a two-column format and should not exceed
eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use
of IJC-NLP LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored
for IJC-NLP.

Several files are supplied below that describe the formatting for
ijc-NLP-04 submissions. Note that full paper submissions are
restricted to 8 pages.

PDF file illustrating the format: ijc-nlp04.pdf 
Postscript file illustrating the format: ijc-nlp04.ps 
Sample latex file: ijc-nlp04.tex 
Style file for latex: ijc-nlp04.sty 
Bibliography formatting file for latex: ijc-nlp04.bst 
MSWord dot file: ijc-nlp04.dot 

A description of the format is available in ijc-nlp04.ps in case you
are unable to use these style files directly.

Please E-mail your paper to mmhasancrl-asia.org before the submission
deadline.

Workshop Committee:
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (chair)
Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL, Thailand

Chu-Ren Huang (co-chair)
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Takenobu Tokunaga (co-chair)
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Pushpak Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Swen Bing, Peking University, China
Steven Bird, University of Melbourne, Australia
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR,
Italy
Thatsanee Charoenporn, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL,
Thailand
Key-Sun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Korea
Maruf Hasan, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL, Thailand
Hitoshi Isahara, Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), Japan
Shuichi Itahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Sadao Kurohashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea
Hammam Riza, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology,
BPPT, Indonesia
Dipti M Sharma, International Institute of Information Technology,
India
Kiyoaki Shirai, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Japan
Jian Su, Institute for Inforcomm Research, Singapore
Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology
Center, NECTEC, Thailand
Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Sirindhorn International Institute of
Technology, Thailand
Benjamin Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Piek Vossen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Zaharin Yusoff, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Jun Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China

22nd International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied
Linguistics
Short Title: XXII Conference of AESLA

Date: 22-Apr-2004 - 24-Apr-2004
Location: Valencia, Spain
Contact: Marisa Carri�
Contact Email: lcarrioidm.upv.es 
Meeting URL: http://www.upv.es/aesla2004

Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics 
Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2003

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce that the 22nd International Conference of
the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) will be held at
the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) from 22nd to 24th April
2004. The main conference theme will focus on emerging technologies
and their application to interdisciplinary aspects of linguistic
studies, structured around the ten AESLA thematic panels, following
the conference tradition. For further information on the panels,
please visit the official AESLA website
(http://www.aesla.uji.es/Congreso/paneles.html). General information
about the conference is available on the web at
http://www.upv.es/aesla2004/. There will be morning and afternoon
sessions as well as scheduled cultural events. Eleven invited keynote
speakers and the AESLA Annual General Meeting, which will take place
on Friday evening, complete the programme.

Keynote speakers: 
Prof. Martin Bygate: Task Repetition: Some Issues for Applied
Linguistics and Language Pedagogy
Prof. Teresa Cabr� Los bancos de conocimiento al servicio de la
ense�anza de lenguas especializadas y de la formaci�n de traductores
Prof. Malcolm Coulthard: Some Cultural and Linguistic Problems in
Writing Academically in English at University Level
Prof. Francisco Garrudo Carabias: Globalizaci�n, nacionalismo e
identidad ling��stica
Prof. Leonardo G�mez Borrego: Algunas novedades en las �ltimas obras
de la RAE
Prof. Michael Hoey: Cohesion and Collocation: Two Aspects of the same
Phenomenon
Prof. �ngel L�pez Garc�a: Conexiones inform�ticas y conexiones
neuronales: el problema de la traducci�n
Prof. Javier Mart�n Arista: Funciones, alternancias sint�cticas y
metadiccionario
Prof. Dietmar R�sler: Das scheinbare Paradox des DaF-Lernens mit
digitalen Medien: Tendenz zur Individualisierung und zur St�rkung
kooperativer Lernformen
Prof. Bernd R�schoff: Linguistics Online - the Virtual Linguistics
Campus: studying Applied Linguistics in a telecooperative & blended
learning environment

We encourage you to participate in the venue. The deadline for the
reception of papers is 31st December 2003. All the information related
to paper submission can be found on our web site.