LINGUIST List 17.954: Hungarian/USA;Computational Ling/Australia

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Wed Mar 29 2006 Calls: Hungarian/USA;Computational Ling/Australia Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Marcus Kracht, The Hungarian Language: Past and Present 2. Anja Belz, INLG 2006 Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation Message 1: The Hungarian Language: Past and Present
Date: 28-Mar-2006 From: Marcus Kracht <krachthumnet.ucla.edu> Subject: The Hungarian Language: Past and Present Full Title: The Hungarian Language: Past and Present Date: 05-May-2006 - 06-May-2006 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Contact Person: Marcus Kracht Meeting Email: krachthumnet.ucla.edu Web Site: http://kracht.humnet.ucla.edu/hun06/index.html Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Subject Language(s): Hungarian (hun) Call Deadline: 16-Apr-2006 Meeting Description: Workshop on linguistic, sociological and historical aspects of the Hungarian language. 2. Call for Papers The Hungarian Language: Past and Present UCLA, May 5-6, 2006 Department of Slavic Languages and Department of Linguistics Speakers: Donka Farkas (UC Santa Cruz) Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) Marianne Bakró-Nagy (University of Szeged & Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Anna Fenyvesi (University of Szeged) Aim and Scope: The aim of this conference is to bring together linguists and scholars of Hungarian to discuss aspects of the Hungarian language, in particular - but not limited - to the following subject areas: * historical development, genetic affiliation, onomastics * typoloy * syntax, morphology, phonology * semantics, pragmatics * sociolinguistics * language acquisition, psycholinguistics Contributions may either focus on the special properties of the Hungarian language or highlight the importance of the language for theoretical linguistics. Organisers and Venue: The workshop is organised by Johanna Domokos (Department of Slavic Languages) and Marcus Kracht (Department of Linguistics) and is hosted by the Department of Slavic languages of UCLA and co-hosted by the Department of Linguistics of UCLA. Time: May 5-6, 2006. Language: The official language is English. Submissions: The deadline for submissions is April 16, 2006. Submissions on any of the above topics for a 30 minute talk are welcome. Please email an abstract of approx. 2 Pages (in either .pdf, .txt or .doc) to krachthumnet.ucla.edu. There is so far no deadline. Information and Contact: Information will be made available at http://kracht.humnet.ucla.edu/hun06 For more information contact Marcus Kracht at krachthumnet.ucla.edu or Johanna Domokos at jdomokoshumnet.ucla.edu. Message 2: INLG 2006 Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation
Date: 27-Mar-2006 From: Anja Belz <a.s.belzbrighton.ac.uk> Subject: INLG 2006 Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation Full Title: INLG 2006 Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation Date: 15-Jul-2006 - 15-Jul-2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Contact Person: Anja Belz Meeting Email: a.s.belzbrighton.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.ict.csiro.au/inlg2006/special_session.htm Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 28-Apr-2006 INLG 2006 Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation Second Call for Contributions WHAT THIS IS ABOUT Unlike many other areas within natural language processing, Natural Language Generation (NLG) does not have a tradition of sharing data resources, and no tradition of comparative evaluation of alternative techniques. We believe the introduction of a shared task for NLG would be of benefit to the community, both internally and in terms of making the field more visible to those outside the community. We would like to move discussion on this topic forward by means of a special session at INLG'06. The focus of the session will be to move us closer to an answer to the question: what would a shared task for NLG look like? BACKGROUND Over the past year, in particular at ENLG'05 and UCNLG'05, NLG researchers have started discussing ways in which the field might move towards a situation where sharing data and other resources becomes possible and comparative evaluation results can be produced. It is clear that the wide range of tasks and issues of interest to researchers in NLG makes it difficult to identify a single set of data that can be used by many, or a single task that could serve as the basis for comparative evaluation of techniques. For this reason we believe it is important to see if we can establish a consensus view amongst NLG researchers as to the content and focus of a shared task. We invite submissions of two kinds of contributions to the INLG'06 Special Session on Sharing Data and Comparative Evaluation: (1) Short papers for inclusion in the main INLG'06 proceedings: (a) Position papers that explore or make proposals regarding shared data and shared tasks, covering topics including (but not necessarily limited to) the following: * standardisation of NLG tasks * what kind of data people are interested in sharing * mechanisms for sharing * evaluation metrics * human evaluation methods * evaluation campaigns * lessons from evaluation campaigns in MT and document * summarisation (b) Reports on the results of experimenting with sharable data sets. Contributors may use any data set at all, but for anyone looking for a data set we recommend the SumTime Meteo data set (created by the SumTime project group at Aberdeen), available from the SIGGEN webpage. (2) Abstracts for oral presentations during an Open Mic session on the topics of the special session. We hope to involve a good number of NLG researchers, and particularly encourage contributions likely to stimulate discussion. SUBMISSION Paper submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings (http://www.acl2006.org/program/style/), should be in PDF format, and should not exceed three (3) pages, including references. As reviewing will be blind, please do not include the authors' names and affiliations, and avoid revealing their identity in the text of the paper. Please follow the submission instructions for the main INLG'06 session (details will be available on the Coling/ACL web site: http://www.acl2006.org), but note that you should submit your paper to the SPECIAL SESSION TRACK (not the short paper track or any of the others). The deadline for submissions is Friday April 28th (9 days later than the deadline for the main INLG'06 session). 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