LINGUIST List 14.583

Fri Feb 28 2003

FYI: CfP: Shared Task, Summer School on Typology

Editor for this issue: James Yuells <jameslinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Rada Mihalcea, Call for participation: Shared Task on Word Aligment
2. Martin Haspelmath, Summer School Announcement

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 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 Shared Task on Word Alignment

 HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop
 "Building and Using Parallel Texts"
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All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited
to participate in this shared task, individually or as part of a team.
Participants in the shared task will be invited to submit short papers
describing their system and/or evaluation methodology, which will be
published in the workshop proceedings.

Training and trial data for the two word alignment tasks (Romanian-English
and English-French) are already available from the workshop webpage:
http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/wpt

Shared task timetable:
Training and trial data 	available February 14
Test data 			available March 18
Submission of results 	 	March 25
Results back to participants 	March 28
Submission of short papers 	April 1

Last day to register for participation in the shared task: March 21.
[no more access to training/trial/test data will be given after this date]

Announcing:

Summer School in Linguistic Typology,
University of Cagliari, Italy, 1-12 September 2003
(under the auspices of the Association for Linguistic Typology)

For more information, see
http://www.summerschoolaltconference.it/

Courses offered:

1. Morphosyntactic typology
BERNARD COMRIE (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
2. Phonological typology
LARRY M. HYMAN (UC Berkeley)
3. Italian dialects and typology:
MICHELE LOPORCARO (U Zurich)
4. Typology of the classical languages (Ancient Greek and Latin)
 PAOLO RAMAT (U Pavia) and PIERLUIGI CUZZOLIN (U Bergamo)
5. The languages of Native North America
 MARIANNE MITHUN (UC Santa Barbara)
6. The languages of Australia
 NICHOLAS EVANS (U Melbourne)
7. Creole languages and typology
JOHN MCWHORTER (UC Berkeley)
8. Languages of South-East Asia
DAVID GIL (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
9. Language acquisition and semantic typology
MELISSA BOWERMAN (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
10. Morphological typology and language acquisition
 WOLFGANG U. DRESSLER (U Vienna)
11. The syntax/semantic interface
CLAUDE HAGEGE (Coll?ge de France, Paris)
12. Typology of agreement constructions
GREVILLE CORBETT (U Surrey)
13. Typology of Sign Languages
 URIKE ZESHAN (University of Cologne)
14. Typology and generative syntax
 FREDERICK NEWMEYER (U Washington)
15. Noun phrase typology in areal perspective
 MARIA KOPTJEVSKAJA-TAMM (U Stockholm)
16. Typology and language change
 MARTIN HASPELMATH (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig)