LINGUIST List 17.922: Lang acquisition/Netherlands;Writing Systems/Spain

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LINGUIST List 17.922
Sun Mar 26 2006 Calls: Lang acquisition/Netherlands;Writing Systems/Spain Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Jacqueline van Kampen, Romance Turn II 2. Edward Garrett, Resource-Scarce Language Engineering Message 1: Romance Turn II
Date: 24-Mar-2006 From: Jacqueline van Kampen <jacqueline.vankampenlet.uu.nl> Subject: Romance Turn II Full Title: Romance Turn II Date: 07-Sep-2006 - 09-Sep-2006 Location: Utrecht, Netherlands Contact Person: Jacqueline van Kampen Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.let.uu.nl./romanceturn/ Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2006 Meeting Description: The Romance Turn II will take place at Utrecht University (Netherlands). Like the first edition of The Romance Turn, which took place in 2004 at the UNED in Madrid, the present workshop intends to gather people working on the acquisition of the Romance languages. Papers are invited in the area of the acquisition of Romance languages. All topics in the fields of (typical and impaired) first and second language acquisition from a generative perspective will be considered. Presentations will be 30-minutes long, plus 15 minutes for discussion, and will be in English. Final Call for papers Authors are invited to send one copy of an abstract (maximally two pages) in English for review. Abstracts should be submitted via e-mail to Romanceturnlet.uu.nl, as an attachment in PDF. In the body of the e-mail message include the title, language, name, academic affiliation, current address, phone and fax number, e-mail, and audiovisual requests. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one joint. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: April 1 2006. Notification of acceptance: May 1 2006. Address for sending abstracts: Romanceturnlet.uu.nl Organizing committee: Sergio Baauw, Jacqueline van Kampen, Joke de Lange & Manuela Pinto Message 2: Resource-Scarce Language Engineering
Date: 24-Mar-2006 From: Edward Garrett <egarrettemich.edu> Subject: Resource-Scarce Language Engineering Full Title: Resource-Scarce Language Engineering Date: 31-Jul-2006 - 04-Aug-2006 Location: Málaga, Spain Contact Person: Edward Garrett Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://altiplano.emich.edu/resource_scarce/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Writing Systems Call Deadline: 07-Apr-2006 Meeting Description: This workshop will bring together scientists from academia and industry, as well as advanced PhD students, to present and discuss research on the theoretical and practical challenges of engineering resource-scarce languages. We intend to provide an inclusive forum for exchanging ideas on a broad range of topics in areas represented by ESSLLI, including basic text processing, speech analysis, and machine translation. FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (24 March, 2006) Resource-Scarce Language Engineering http://altiplano.emich.edu/resource_scarce/ 31 July - 4 August, 2006 Workshop Topics: Seen through one lens, ''resource-scarce languages'' are languages for which few digital resources exist; and thus, languages whose computerization poses unique challenges. Through another lens, ''resource-scarce languages'' are languages with limited financial, political, and legal resources, languages that lack the clout or global importance of the world's major languages. In spite of these challenges, resource-scarce languages and their speakers are not being ignored. Individuals, governments, and companies alike are busy developing technologies and tools to support such languages. They are driven by a variety of motivations - from the desire among academics and community activists to preserve or revitalize endangered or threatened languages - to the desire by governments to promote minority languages - to the need by other governments to detect hostile chatter in diverse tongues - to the strategy of some companies to enhance their stature in emerging markets such as China and South America. Recognizing the above trend, this workshop will serve as a forum for the discussion of academic and industrial research on resource- scarce language engineering. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - multilingual text processing and the Unicode Standard - machine translation and speech recognition with minimal training data - rapid portability of existing language technologies to new languages - the use of multilingual resources for monolingual annotation - the annotation of new language data on the basis of knowledge of related languages - coping with data of inconsistent or uneven quality or coverage In addition, there will be a shared task on a specific resource- scarce language - Tibetan (details to be announced separately). Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit a paper describing completed work in the area of the workshop. Each submission will be read by at least two members of the program committee, and will be evaluated according to its scientific merit, its relevance to the workshop, and the degree to which its ideas are expressed fully yet concisely. Submissions of any length will be accepted, but acceptable formats are limited to postscript and pdf. Papers sent in other formats will be subject to immediate disposal. Please send your submission electronically to egarrettemich.edu by the deadline listed below. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. Workshop Format: This workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the first week of ESSLLI. There will be at least 2-3 slots for paper presentation and discussion plus one invited talk per session. On the first day the workshop organizer will give a general introduction to the topic. Invited Speakers: Tom Emerson, Basis Technology Corporation John Goldsmith, University of Chicago Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cathy Wissink, Microsoft Corporation Workshop Programme Committee: Deborah Anderson, University of California, Berkeley Emily Bender, University of Washington Steven Bird, University of Melbourne Alan W. Black, Carnegie Mellon University Sean Fulop, California State University, Fresno Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne William Lewis, University of Washington Steven Loomis, IBM Joel Martin, National Research Council, Canada Mike Maxwell, University of Maryland Tony McEnery, Lancaster University Manuela Noske, Microsoft Corporation Charles Schafer, Johns Hopkins University Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Mellon University Michael Tjalve, University College London Important Dates: Submissions : April 7, 2006 Notification : April 28, 2006 Full paper deadline: May 19, 2006 Final program : June 30, 2006 Workshop Dates : July 31 - August 4, 2006 Local Arrangements: All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. 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