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essex.ac.uk>FOURTH CELTIC LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE Selwyn College University of Cambridge, UK 1-3 September, 2003 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Celtic Linguistics Conference will take place on 1-3 September 2003 at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK. The invited speakers will be: Maire Ni Chiosain (University College, Dublin), Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz), Erich Poppe (Philipps University, Marburg), Alain Rouveret (Universit Paris VII), Abstracts are solicited for 30 minute presentations (followed by 10 minutes of discussion) in any area of Celtic linguistics. SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of abstracts, to consist of three parts 1) A one page abstract with your name and affiliation 2) An anonymous version of the abstract without your name and affiliation 3) a separate information page in plain text format, containing - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - e-mail and postal address(es) - title of paper These should be sent as pdf, ps files or as hard copies. In the latter case you should send 5 copies of the anonymous version of the abstract. E-mail submissions should be sent to: David Willis (dwew2Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>Notice the March 10 Deadline for regular papers submissions! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- C A L L F O R P A P E R S Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond An HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop Edmonton, Alberta May 31, 2003 http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/wpt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on problems related to the creation and use of parallel text. Recent events have demonstrated once again the importance of inter-language communication, and reinforce the need for advances in machine translation (MT) and multi-lingual processing tools. The workshop will be centered around the problem of building and using parallel corpora, which are vital resources for efficiently deriving multi-lingual text processing tools. In addition to regular papers, the workshop also includes a shared task that will result in a comparative evaluation of word alignment techniques. We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following issues: - Construction of parallel corpora, including the automatic identification and harvesting of parallel corpora from the Web. - Methods to evaluate the quality of parallel corpora and word alignments - Tools for processing parallel corpora, including automatic sentence alignment, word alignment, phrase alignment, detection of omissions and gaps in translations, and others - Using parallel corpora for data driven Machine Translation - Using parallel corpora for the derivation of language processing tools in new languages - Using parallel corpora for automatic corpora annotation - Language learning applied to parallel corpora - Translation memory systems as a source of aligned corpora While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources. We expect to make arrangements with a journal in Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics for a special issue that will include selected papers from this workshop. Invited Speaker: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Shared Task: -=-=-=-=-=-= All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team. Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of metrics. See the workshop website for details regarding the shared task. Submission format: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Submissions should consist of regular full papers of max. 7 pages, formatted following the NAACL 2003 guidelines. In addition, teams participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation methodology. Send your submission (a ps or pdf file), prepared for anonymous review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, radaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue