LINGUIST List 18.2331: General Ling/India; Computational Ling,Semantics/Portugal

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Mon Aug 06 2007 Calls: General Ling/India; Computational Ling,Semantics/Portugal Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Mark Post, North East Indian Linguistics Society 2. Katerina Pastra, Metadata Mining for Image Understanding Message 1: North East Indian Linguistics Society
Date: 05-Aug-2007 From: Mark Post <m.postlatrobe.edu.au> Subject: North East Indian Linguistics Society E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: North East Indian Linguistics Society Short Title: NEILS Date: 20-Jan-2008 - 22-Jan-2008 Location: Guwahati, Assam, India Contact Person: Mark Post Meeting Email: m.postlatrobe.edu.au Web Site: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/Neils/Neils.htm Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2007 Meeting Description The 3rd International Conference of the North East Indian Linguistics Society will be held from 20-22 January, 2008 at the Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, Assam, India. The Conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics of Gauhati University, in association with scholars from the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology of LaTrobe University. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by email attachment (.pdf preferred, .doc or .txt acceptable) to m.postlatrobe.edu.au, or by snail mail to NEILS, Department of Linguistics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam 781014 India by no later than 15 September, 2007. Notification of acceptance will be in October. Papers on any aspect of North East Indian languages (and/or their genetic and areal neighbours) are welcomed. Papers should have a primary descriptive focus, preferably from a functional-typological perspective; field reports are acceptable. Papers with a primarily formal and/or theoretical focus are unlikely to be accepted for presentation. Message 2: Metadata Mining for Image Understanding
Date: 04-Aug-2007 From: Katerina Pastra <kpastrailsp.gr> Subject: Metadata Mining for Image Understanding E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Metadata Mining for Image Understanding Short Title: MMUI Date: 21-Jan-2008 - 21-Jan-2008 Location: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal Contact Person: Katerina Pastra Meeting Email: kpastrailsp.gr Web Site: http://www.visapp.org/MMIU.htm Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2007 Meeting Description The workshop addresses the issue of using 'metadata' of different kinds (e.g. captions, accompanying text, user-generated tags/labels, etc.) for organizing, sharing and processing images. First Call for Papers International Workshop on ''Metadata Mining for Image Understanding'' (MMIU) http://www.visapp.org/MMIU.htm A Satellite Event of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 22 - 25 January, 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal http://www.visapp.org/index.htm Chairs Gabriela Csurka, XEROX Research Centre Europe, France Katerina Pastra, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece Scope The number of digital images being generated, stored, managed and shared through the internet is growing at a phenomenal rate. Press and photo agencies receive and manage thousands or millions of images per day and end-users (e.g. amateur reporters) can easily participate into the related professional workflows. In an environment of approximately one billion photos, searchable in online databases worldwide, finding the most relevant or the most appealing image for a given task (e.g. to illustrate a story) has become an extremely difficult process. In these huge repositories, many images have additional information coming from different sources. Information related to the image capture such as date, location, camera settings or name of photographer is often available from the digital camera used to take the photograph. The owner can further add a relevant title, filename or/and descriptive caption or any other textual reference. If the image is uploaded to a shared photo collection, additional comments are frequently added to the image by other users. On the other hand, images used in documents, i.e. web pages, frequently have captions and surrounding text. All this information can be considered image metadata and is of value for organizing, sharing, and processing images. However, it is not always evident how to exploit the information contained in such metadata in an intelligent, generic or task-specific way. Linking this information with the actual image content is still an open challenge. The aim of this workshop is to offer a meeting opportunity for researchers, content providers and related user-service providers to elaborate on the needs and practices of digital image management, to share ideas that will point to new directions on using metadata for image understanding and to demonstrate related technology representative of the state of the art and beyond. Research paper topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to: - image metadata pattern discovery and mining - interaction of image metadata and visual content - image and video metadata enrichment - automatic metadata creation - hybrid collaborative and machine learning techniques for metadata creation and/or fusion - cross image-text categorization and retrieval - image auto-captioning and annotation transfer - learning user preferences, aesthetical and emotional measures from pinion mining - integration of camera settings with image categorization, retrieval or enhancement - application-specific issues of metadata mining: a) integration of visual and geo-location information for improved virtual tourism b) stock-photo c) web-based image retrieval Important Dates Full Paper Submission: October 15, 2007 Authors Notification: November 7, 2007 Final Paper Submission and Registration: November 19, 2007 Submission of Papers Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed above. All papers must be written in English, and the length should not exceed 10 pages for oral presentations and 6 pages for posters (including figures and tables). Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the following web page: http://www.grapp.org/paper_templates.htm Papers (preferably in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.grapp.org/paper_submission.htm Workshop Proceedings All accepted and registered papers will be published in a workshop proceedings book with an ISBN reference, which will be issued by INSTICC Press. The proceedings will be available at the time of the workshop. There will be also a CD-ROM publication. Publication A selection of the best papers will be considered for improvement and publication in a special issue of a journal (TBD). Registration Information At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. Workshop Programme Committee (more to be included shortly) Suzanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK Gabriela Csurka, XRCE, France Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap, Martigny, Switzerland Benoit Huet, Institut Eurécom, Sophia-Antipolis, France Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland Jiebo Luo, Kodak Research Lab, Rochester, NY, USA Katerina Pastra, ILSP, Greece Georges Quenot, LIG, Grenoble, France Rahul Nair, Yahoo! Research Berkeley, USA Stefan Rueger, KMI, Open University, UK Horacio Saggion, University of Sheffield, UK Tamás Szirányi, SZTAKI, Hungary Tinne Tuytelaars, University of Leuven, Belgium Geoffrey Woolfe, XRCW, NY, USA Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research, China Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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