LINGUIST List 18.2794: General Ling/UK; Computational Ling/Portugal

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Wed Sep 26 2007 Calls: General Ling/UK; Computational Ling/Portugal Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. David Willis, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 2. Katerina Pastra, Metadata Mining for Image Understanding Message 1: British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
Date: 25-Sep-2007 From: David Willis <dwew2cam.ac.uk> Subject: British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Short Title: BASEES Date: 29-Mar-2008 - 31-Mar-2008 Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom Contact Person: David Willis Meeting Email: dwew2cam.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.basees.org.uk/conference.html Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2007 Meeting Description Languages and Linguistics section of the annual conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 2008 Final Call: Deadline for Abstracts is 1 October 2007. Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies 2008 Call for Papers in Languages and Linguistics The annual conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) will take place at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge (UK), between 29-31 March 2008. Abstracts are invited for individual 20-minute papers or for entire panels (2-3 papers) in any area of Slavonic philology, linguistics, language teaching, and translation studies. The working languages of the conference are English and Russian. At this year's conference we had around thirty papers in formal linguistics, historical linguistics, applied linguistics, semiotics, language teaching, and translation studies presented by academics and graduate students from institutions in the UK and abroad. The annual convention as a whole brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines including literary studies, linguistics, cultural studies, history, economics, politics, sociology, film and media studies as they pertain to Central and Eastern Europe and to the former Soviet Union. Abstracts (250 words or less) for languages and linguistics papers or panels should be sent using a form available at www.basees.org.uk by 1 October 2007 via email to David Willis at: dwew2cam.ac.uk or at the following address: Department of Linguistics University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge GB-CB3 9DA United Kingdom Further details are available on the website at www.basees.org.uk. Dr David Willis University Senior Lecturer Department of Linguistics University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dwew2/ Fellow in Linguistics Selwyn College Cambridge CB3 9DQ Tel: +44 1223 335885 On research leave: October 2007 - April 2008. Please use college address for all postal correspondence Message 2: Metadata Mining for Image Understanding
Date: 25-Sep-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 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. Second 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 opinion mining - integration of camera settings with image categorization, retrieval or enhancement - application-specific issues of metadata mining: integration of visual and geo-location information for improved virtual tourism stock-photo 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 Suzanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK Gabriela Csurka, XRCE, France Christophe Garcia, France Telecom Research, France Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap, Martigny, Switzerland Benoit Huet, Institut Eurécom, Sophia-Antipolis, France Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, Netherland Ales Leonardis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 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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