LINGUIST List 15.987

Wed Mar 24 2004

Calls: General Ling/USA;Computational Ling/Switzerland

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

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1. mmacaula, 36th Algonquian Conference
2. pz, 3rd International Workshop On Computational Terminology

36th Algonquian Conference 

Date: 28-Oct-2004 - 31-Oct-2004
Location: Madison, WI, United States of America
Contact: Monica Macaulay
Contact Email: mmacaulawisc.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.umanitoba.ca/Algonquian 

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics 
Subject Language Family: Algonquian 
Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2004 


Meeting Description:

Papers are invited on any scholarly topic in the field of Algonquian
studies including, but not limited to, anthropology, archaeology, art,
biography, education, ethnography, folklore, geography, history,
language, linguistics, literature, music, politics, and religion.
Papers may be delivered in English or French. Speakers will be
allowed a maximum of 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for
discussion. Papers are invited on any scholarly topic in the field of
Algonquian studies including, but not limited to, anthropology,
archaeology, art, biography, education, ethnography, folklore,
geography, history, language, linguistics, literature, music,
politics, and religion. Papers may be delivered in English or French.
Speakers will be allowed a maximum of 20 minutes for presentation and
10 minutes for discussion.
 
This year we would also like to particularly encourage submissions in
three focal areas:

 *medicine and ethnobotany
 *politics and law
 *preverbs (linguistics)

If the number of submissions in these areas is high enough we will
have parasessions devoted to each topic.
 
We also encourage organized sessions on particular topics. Interested
parties should contact the conference organizers at the address below
as soon as possible.
 
We ask that potential contributors submit an abstract (no more than
one page in length, including title and names of all presenters),
preferably by email, by September 1st, 2004. All submissions should
include the name, address, affiliation, telephone and fax number, and
email address of each presenter. Please indicate on your submission
any equipment needed for your presentation.
 
email address for submissions: mmacaulawisc.edu
 
In cases where email submissions are not possible, send a paper copy
to the following address: Organizing Committee, 36th Algonquian
Conference, Linguistics Department, 1168 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden
Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA, or fax your submission to (608)
265-3193.
 
Presentations will begin on Thursday, October 28th in the afternoon
and will end on Sunday, October 31st at noon. The registration fee,
payable to the 36th Algonquian Conference, is $40 US ($50 Canadian) if
received by September 15th, 2004, and $50 US ($60 Canadian)
thereafter, with student rates $15 lower. Further information about
the conference venue and accommodations is available at the Algonquian
Conference website: http://www.umanitoba.ca/Algonquian.

3rd International Workshop On Computational Terminology 
Short Title: COMPUTERM 2004 

Date: 29-Aug-2004 - 29-Aug-2004
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Contact: Sophia Ananiadou
Contact Email: S.Ananiadousalford.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/~pz/computerm2004.html 

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics 
Call Deadline: 05-Apr-2004 


Meeting Description:

The aim of this COLING workshop is to bring together NLP researchers
in Terminology and to discuss recent advances in computational
terminology and its impact in many NLP applications. Issues like
standardisation of terminological resources, constructing and updating
domain specific dictionaries and thesauri, systematic terminology
management will be addressed as they are a necessary component of any
NLP system dealing with domain-specific literature.
http://www.cse.salford.ac.uk/TextMining/CompuTerm2004
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/~pz/computerm2004.html

			 COMPUTERM 2004
		**Deadline extended to April 5, 2004**

 3rd International Workshop On Computational Terminology

			A Coling-2004 Workshop

Computational Terminology becomes an increasingly important aspect in
areas such as text mining, information retrieval, information
extraction, summarisation, document management systems,
question-answering systems, ontology building, etc. In text mining,
the acquisition of new knowledge is best captured in terms as they
denote new concepts. Terminological information is paramount to
knowledge mining from texts for scientific discovery and competitive
intelligence. Currently, scientific needs in emerging scientific
domains, such as biomedicine, coupled with the overwhelming amount of
textual data published daily, raised an additional interest to the
usefulness of terminology acquired and managed systematically and
automatically.


Areas of interest
_________________

The 3rd workshop on Computational Terminology invites a range of
papers on substantial, original and unpublished research on areas of
computational terminology such as:

 * Mining terminology (NLP techniques for the acquisition and
 alignment of mono-lingual and multi-lingual terminology)

 * Structuring and managing terminology (term variation, term
 association discovery, term clustering and classification)

 * Terminological integration and update of resources (linking of
 terminological databases, thesauri, ontologies, (semi)-automatic
 update of terminological resources)

 * Applications of terminological information (term oriented IE, IR,
 QA, summarisation etc)

 * Evaluation of terminology


Submission format
_________________

Papers for workshop contributions should not exceed 8 pages (including
references, figures, etc.). Authors should follow the main conference
Coling style format. An additional title page should include the
title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact email address, postal
address, telephone, url (as a separate file as main submissions are
anonymous).

Submissions should be sent via email, using ps or pdf format to:

 S.Ananiadousalford.ac.uk


Invited speaker
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 Marie-Claude L'Homme (Université de Montréal):
 A Lexico-semantic Approach to the Structuring of Terminology


Important dates
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 Deadline for submission of papers: **extended to April 5, 2004**
 Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2004
 Final camera-ready copy due: June 7, 2004
 COMPUTERM'04 workshop: August 29, 2004


Workshop Organisers
___________________

 Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK)
 Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/DSI/AP-HP, France)


Programme committee
___________________

 Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, US)
 Didier Bourigault (ERSS, France)
 Teresa Cabre (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
 Key-Sun Choi (KORTERM, KAIST, Korea)
 Beatrice Daille (IRIN, France)
 Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
 Eric Gaussier (Xerox, France)
 Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp)
 Marie-Claude L'Homme (University of Montréal, Canada)
 Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
 Philippe Langlais (RALI, Canada)
 John McNaught (UMIST, UK)
 Goran Nenadic (UMIST, UK)
 Koichi Takeuchi (Okayama University, Japan)