LINGUIST List 15.2175

Thu Jul 29 2004

Calls: Translation/Japan; Lexicology/Italy

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1. SOMEYA, Yasumasa, Japan Association for Interpretation Studies (JAIS)
2. sanso, International Colloquium on 'Word structure and lexical systems: models and applications'

The 5nd Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Interpretation
Studies (JAIS) will be held on Sunday, September 26, 2004, on
Ikebukuro Campus of Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan. Proposals for
oral presentation are now accepted via email as follows:

1) Deadline for submission: August 1, 2004
2) Length of proposal (ABSTRACT): Approximately 300-500 words, clearly
 stating the nature of the problem that you are addressing.
3) Author's information: Attach a separate information page/sheet to
 your proposal, indicating (a) title of your presentation, (b) your
 full name, (c) affiliation, (d) mailing address, (e) email address,
 and (f) telephone/fax number.
4) Presentation time: 30 minutes, plus 15 minutes for discussion.
5) Notification of acceptance: Official notification of acceptance of
 proposals will be sent to successful applicants via email by the end
 of August 2004.

Please also note the following:
1) Presenters must be the members of, or have applied to the membership
 with, JAIS as of the date of proposal submission.
2) If you wish to use special presentation equipment including OHC and
 RGB Projector, state it clearly in your proposal.

Send Proposals to: secretariatjais-org.net
JAIS Website: http://www.jais-org.net


SOMEYA, Yasumasa <someyacl.aoyama.ac.jp>
Associate Professor, English Department
Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, JAPAN
Website: http://www.cl.aoyama.ac.jp/~someya

Title: International Colloquium on 'Word structure and lexical
systems: models and applications'
Short title: Lexical Structure

Date: December 16-17, 2004
Location: University of Pavia, Italy
Contact: Elisabetta Jezek
Contact e-mail: jezekunipv.it
Meeting URL: http://dobc.unipv.it/linguistica

Linguistic sub-field: general linguistics, lexicology, semantics

Call deadline: September 30, 2004


Meeting description

In light of the central role recently assigned to the lexicon in
linguistic theories, the colloquium aims at bringing together
researchers from various theoretical backgrounds who carry out
investigations in the following areas:
- description and representation of lexical information
(i.e. semantic, syntactic, combinatorial);
- investigation of the properties of words and word classes from an
interface perspective (i.e. interrelation between semantic/aspectual
properties and syntactic behavior);
- elaboration of dynamic models of meaning representation, considering
the limits of the compositionality principle in semantics;
- identification of recurrent patterns of meaning/form relation in
world languages with reference to the organization of their lexicons
(i.e. ways of compacting semantic components in lexical items);
- description and representation of syntagmatic phenomena in the
lexicon (i.e. multiword expressions, collocations, light verb
constructions etc.);
- application of lexical models to the development of computational
tools (i.e. computational lexicons) for various purposes
(i.e. language learning, texts production, compilation of
lexicographic sources etc.)
- extraction of lexical information from corpora.

The focus of the colloquium is both on the description and
representation of lexical information and on the principles and levels
of organization of entire lexicons. The purpose is to give an overall
view of the most recent acquisitions in these domains, discuss the
advantages and disadvantages of the various theoretical proposals, and
trace the most promising perspectives of study.

Invited Speakers
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR,
Pisa), Ulrich Heid (Universit�t Stuttgart), James Pustejovsky
(Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.), Raffaele Simone (Universit� di
Roma Tre, Roma), Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Utrecht)

Activities
- lectures by invited speakers
- presentations by other participants
- posters

Colloquium venue
Universit� di Pavia, Aula Volta, Palazzo Centrale, Strada Nuova 65,
Pavia

Call for papers
Abstracts are invited for presentations and for posters. Please submit
a one-page abstract to: Lexical Structure Conference Committee,
Universit� di Pavia, Dipartimento di Linguistica, Strada Nuova 65,
27100 Pavia Send abstract by fax (+390382504487), by priority mail (to
the above mentioned address) or, preferably, by email to:
jezekunipv.it

Deadline
All submission must be received by September 30, 2004. Acceptance will
be notified via e-mail on October, 15.

Important dates:
September, 30: deadline for abstracts
October, 15: notification of acceptance
December, 16-17: colloquium

Scientific committee
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR,
Pisa), Elisabetta Jezek (Universit� di Pavia), Raffaele Simone
(Universit� di Roma Tre), Paolo Ramat (Universit� di Pavia), Michele
Prandi (Universit� di Bologna)

Organizing committee
Elisabetta Jezek, Amira Lakhdhar, Stefano Rastelli, Andrea Sans�