LINGUIST List 17.1788 Tue Jun 13 2006 Calls: Arabic Translation/UK;General Ling/USA Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org> As a matter of policy, LINGUIST discourages the use of abbreviations or acronyms in conference announcements unless they are explained in the text. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html. Directory         1.    Roger Harris, Arabic NLP/MT Conference         2.    Brian Agbayani, Western Conference on Linguistics Message 1: Arabic NLP/MT Conference Date: 12-Jun-2006 From: Roger Harris <rwshnationalfinder.com> Subject: Arabic NLP/MT Conference Full Title: Arabic NLP/MT Conference Date: 23-Oct-2006 - 23-Oct-2006 Location: London, United Kingdom Contact Person: David Wigg Meeting Email: wiggjdbcs.org.uk Web Site: http://www.bcs-mt.org.uk/ Linguistic Field(s): Translation Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2006 Meeting Description: The British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group Proposed Arabic NLP/MT Conference Monday, 23 October 2006, London, U.K. CFP: Arabic NLP-MT Conference, London, U.K., 23 Oct 2006 http://www.bcs-mt.org.uk/arabic-2006/cfp.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT The Machine Translation SIG of the British Computer Society requests papers for presentation at a one day Conference in London, UK, on Monday 23 October 2006 on the subject of the challenge of the Arabic language for Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation in particular. This includes a wide range of possible topics such as electronic dictionaries and corpus linguistics. The Conference will be held in the excellent meeting facilities of the British Computer Society in central London. If you would like to present a paper, please submit a 200-400 word abstract of your proposed paper by 15 July. Please send them to me, wiggjdbcs.org.uk with copies to r.mitkovwlv.ac.uk and d.r.lewisexeter.ac.uk. The Conference language will be English. We will accept or reject the abstract by the 15 August. After acceptance we will require your paper to be supplied in hardcopy and electronic form (MS Word only with Arabic capability) by 15 September for inclusion in the Proceedings which will be published under the auspices of the British Computer Society. We are looking for papers to be delivered in 30 to 40 minutes with each being followed immediately by 5 to 10 minutes of question and answer time. Facilities are available for the display of computer information for illustration purposes during the presentation. We will also be able to provide separate facilities for the demonstration of software without the presentation of a paper. We have tentatively divided up the day under the following headings, but this is flexible: Morning: (i) Introduction: talks on the Arabic language (ii) The challenges of Arabic for language processing Afternoon: (iii) Concrete applications I: NLP tasks and applications for Arabic (iv) Concrete applications II: MT between English and Arabic in focus With reference to expenses for attending and presenting your paper at the Conference I regret we are not in a position to pay for any expenses outside this country. Within the UK we may be able to pay some expenses on an individual basis. As soon as you like, please let me know what you need, if anything. We may be able to arrange reasonably priced (for London) hotel accommodation for you if you need it. Please let me know by 15 July as well. Please see our website at http://www.bcs-mt.org.uk for the latest information about the Conference. Finally, I would be grateful if you could let me know as soon as possible of any e-mail lists which you think we should address in order to advertise this Conference more widely. Thank you for your interest in our Conference. Yours sincerely, David Wigg Chairman Natural Language Translation Specialist Group The British Computer Society http://www.bcs-mt.org.uk Message 2: Western Conference on Linguistics Date: 11-Jun-2006 From: Brian Agbayani <bagbayancsufresno.edu> Subject: Western Conference on Linguistics Full Title: Western Conference on Linguistics Short Title: WECOL Date: 27-Oct-2006 - 29-Oct-2006 Location: Fresno, California, USA Contact Person: Chris Golston Meeting Email: wecolcsufresno.edu Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2006 Meeting Description: WECOL 06 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 1, 2006 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: September 1, 2006 EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 15, 2006 WECOL 06 Call for Abstracts (second call) Location: California State University Fresno Fresno, California Date: October 27-29, 2006 Special Theme: Minimalism and Optimality Invited Speaker: Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) ABSTRACTS Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (with 10 minutes of discussion) on any aspect of theoretical linguistics. Abstracts are also invited for a poster session. Please specify all the sessions for which you would like to be considered. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author. All abstracts should be in English, and submitted as attachments, in PDF format, to the following email address: wecolcsufresno.edu. The subject of the message should specify ''Abstract'', and the body should include the following information: author's name(s), affiliation, e-mail address, title of abstract, and area of linguistics (syntax, phonology, acquisition, phonetics, computational linguistics, etc.). Abstracts should be limited to one page (using 1'' margins on all sides and 11pt font size) with an optional additional page containing examples and references. Non-standard fonts and software should be avoided and all fonts should be embedded in the PDF document. The papers presented at WECOL '06 will be eligible for publication in the official proceedings of the conference. 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