LINGUIST List 15.1935

Mon Jun 28 2004

Calls: Computational Ling/Netherlands; Forensic Ling

Editor for this issue: Andrea Berez <andrealinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. harry.bunt, 6th International Workshop on Computational Semantics
2. aabosiaccy, Language and Law: Legal Communication in an Interdisciplinary Perspective

6th International Workshop on Computational Semantics 
Short Title: IWCS-6 

Date: 12-Jan-2005 - 14-Jan-2005
Location: Tilburg, Netherlands
Contact: Anne Adriaensen
Contact Email: computational.semanticsuvt.nl 
Meeting URL: http://let.uvt.nl/research/ti/sigsem/iwcs/iwcs6 

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics ,Semantics

Call Deadline: 25-Sep-2004 


Meeting Description:

Tilburg University in the Netherlands will host the 6th International
Workshop on Computational Semantics on 12-14 January 2005. The aim of
the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in any aspect
of the computation, annotation, and representation of meaning in
natural language, in multimedia objects, or in multimodal
messages. The workshop will be preceded by the 4th meeting of the
ACl-SIGSEM Working Group on the Representation of Multimodal Semantic
Information on 10-11 January 2005. This meeting will be open to IWCS-6
participants.

TOPICS:

Areas of special interest for IWCS-6 will be computational aspects of
semantic theories; theoretical aspects of the design and
implementation of language understanding systems and systems for
multimodal communication; and semantic annotation of natural language
and multimodal utterances. Papers are invited that are concerned with
topics in these areas, including but not limited to the following:

* construction of representations of meaning in natural language
* modelling and using context for semantic interpretation
* learning lexical semantics from corpora
* methdologies and tools for semantic annotation
* information sources and their use in meaning computation
* construction and use of underspecified representations of meaning
* the semantic web and natural language semantics
* referential relations to concepts in ontologies and repositories
* machine learning of semantic structures
* the semantics of speech acts and dialogue acts
* the computational semantics-pragmatics interface
* dynamic interpretation in text, speech and dialogue
* meaning representation in multimodal interaction
* referential links within and across mmodalities
* gestural morphosyntax and its semantic interpretation
* structural semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
* semantic aspects of language generation
* shallow processing and semantics
* monotonicity and shallow reasoning in interpretation


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
 
James Allen 
Patrick Blackburn 
Johan Bos
Harry Bunt (chair) 
Nicoletta Calzolari
Robin Cooper 
Kees van Deemter
Jan van Eijck
Dafydd Gibbon
Jerry Hobbs 
Daniel Kayser 
Paul Mc Kevitt 
Adam Kilgarriff 
Emiel Krahmer 
Reinhard Muskens
Martha Palmer
Manfred Pinkal
Massimo Poesio
Steve Pulman
Alan Ramsay
Maarten de Rijke
Laurent Romary
Patrick Saint-Dizier
Mark Steedman
Matthew Stone
Carl Vogel
Bonnie Webber


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Harry Bunt
Jeroen Geertzen
Yann Girard
Roser Morante
Reinhard Muskens
Ielka van der Sluis
Elias Thijsse
Anne Adriaensen (secr.)


PAPER SUBMISSION:

Three types of submissions are solicited: full papers, short papers,
and project abstracts.

Full papers are descriptions of original work that have not been
published elsewhere of maximally 12 pages.

Short papers are mini-papers of 3 pages, that will be published in the
IWCS-6 proceedings and will have a flash presentation at the
workshop. Authos of short papers are also invited to put up a poster
and to participate in a poster session.

Project abstracts are brief descriptions of 2 pages of ongoing,
recently completed, or starting projects. They will be published in
the IWCS-6 proceedings and will be presented in poster sessions.

Submissions of all three types should be in postscript or pdf format
and prepared with LaTeX; see the IWCS-6 website:
http://let.uvt.nl/research/ti/sigsem/iwcs/iwcs6 for information on the
style files to be used.

Email your postscript or pdf file to: computational.semanticsuvt.nl.


TIME SCHEDULE:

25 September 2004 Deadline for submitting full papers
25 October 2004 Notification of acceptance
01 November 2004 Deadline for submitting short papers and project
abstracts
15 November 2004 Deadline for submitting final versions of accepted
papers and Abstracts
01 December 2004 Deadline for early registration
10-11 January 2005 Meeting of ACL-SIGSEM Working Group on the
Representation of Multimodal Semantic Information
12-14 January 2005 IWCS-6


Further information can be obtained from the conference secreatriat:

 Ms Anne Adriaensen
 Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group
 Tilburg University
 P.O.Box 90153
 5000 LE Tilburg
 The Netherlands
 Phone: +31 13 466 30 60
 Fax: +31 13 466 31 10
 Email: computational.semanticsuvt.nl

Website: http://let.uvt.nl/research/ti/sigsem/iwcs/iwcs6 

Language and Law: Legal Communication in an Interdisciplinary
Perspective
Short Title: LANGUAGE AND LAW 

Date: 02-Dec-2004 - 04-Dec-2004
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Contact: Dr Anna Jopek-Bosiacka
Contact Email: linguaetius2004uw.edu.pl 
Meeting URL: http://www.ils.uw.edu.pl 

Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics ,Discourse Analysis ,General
Linguistics ,Pragmatics ,Psycholinguistics ,Semantics
,Sociolinguistics ,Text/Corpus Linguistics ,Translation ,Forensic
Linguistics ,Anthropological Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2004 


Meeting Description:

The purpose of this interdisciplinary conference is to analyse the
communication phenomena and processes in the field of law, in
particular those related to the language of law and legal
communication between representatives of various professional, social,
national, and cultural groups. The conference is addressed to
linguists, lawyers, sociologists (of law), journalists, specialists in
culture studies, translators, interpreters, and psychologists dealing
with legal communication in practice.

Proposed sections: law and society, law and culture, law and language,
law and translation/interpreting, law and business, law and
institutions, law and technology.

Conference languages are Polish and English. 


ABSTRACTS: Please send paper proposals by 15 September 2004.
Abstracts (up to 200 words, preferably in Word or PDF) with paper
title and the information about the author (name, title, affiliation,
mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address) should be sent to
linguaetius2004uw.edu.pl


CONFERENCE FEE: 250 PLN (ca. 50 EURO) (incl. the cost of conference
materials, tee/coffee during breaks, social programme)

CONFERENCE DINNER: 100 PLN (ca. 20 EURO)

CONTACT: Institute of Applied Linguistics, Browarna Street 8/10,
00-311 Warsaw, Poland, e-mail address: linguaetius2004uw.edu.pl. More
information can be found at: http://www.ils.uw.edu.pl


Organizing Committee

Warsaw University, Institute of Applied Linguistics,Institute of
Theory of State and Law, University Nancy 2, ATILF CNRS

Prof. Anna Duszak, Prof. Hubert Izdebski, Dr hab. Danuta Bartol,
Dr. Anna Jopek-Bosiacka, Dr. Adam Bosiacki