LINGUIST List 18.3442: Computational Ling/Egypt; Anthropological Ling/Estonia

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Mon Nov 19 2007 Calls: Computational Ling/Egypt; Anthropological Ling/Estonia Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Khaled Shaalan, Special Track on Natural Language Processing 2. Jonathan Roper, Seminar on Encounter Charms / Begegnungssegen Message 1: Special Track on Natural Language Processing
Date: 16-Nov-2007 From: Khaled Shaalan <k.shaalanfci-cu.edu.eg> Subject: Special Track on Natural Language Processing E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Special Track on Natural Language Processing Short Title: NLP Date: 27-Mar-2008 - 28-Mar-2008 Location: Cairo, Egypt Contact Person: Khaled Shaalan Meeting Email: k.shaalanfci-cu.edu.eg Web Site: http://www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 30-Dec-2007 Meeting Description CFP: Natural Language Processing special track session(s), INFOS2008, Cairo University, Egypt INFOS 2008: The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems Special Track on Natural Language Processing 27 - 28 March, 2008 Cairo, Egypt http://www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/ Natural language processing research is gaining much interest from many parties such as researchers from academia, industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users. The goal of this track session(s) is to provide the participants with an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems. Topics The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track: - Ontologies and linguistic resources (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks, etc.) - Transliteration, transcription and diacritization - Part of speech tagging - Morphological analysis and generation - Shallow and deep parsing - Machine translation - Word sense and syntactic disambiguation - Semantic analysis - Information retrieval - Information extraction - Question answering - Text clustering and classification - Text summarization - Text and web content mining - Named entity recognition - Arabic script-based language processing Invited Speaker Prof. Ali Farghaly, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Text Group, Oracle USA, CA, and Adjunct Professor of Arabic Linguistics, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA. Track Chair Prof. Khaled Shaalan (Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University, Egypt) Program Committee Nahed Aboelhassan (Brandeis University, USA) Fawaz Al-Anzi (Kuwait University, Kuwait) Ibrahim Alkharashi (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Achraf Chalabi (Sakhr, Egypt) Chia-Hui Chang (National Central University, Taiwan) Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt) Mona Diab (Columbia University, USA) Joseph Dichy (Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France) Ahmed Guessoum (Freelance Consultant, Algeria) Nizar Habash (Columbia University, USA) Lamia Hadrich Belguith (Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax, Tunisia) Sattar Izwaini (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Mohammed Kayed (Beni-Sueif University, Egypt) Shereen khoja (Pacific University, USA) Petra Maier-Meyer (FAST, Germany) Farid Meziane (Salford University, UK) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE) Ahmed Rafea (American University in Cairo, Egypt) Doaa Samy (Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain) Otakar Smrz (Charles University, Czech Republic) Abdelhadi Soudi (Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale, Morocco) Hissam Tawfik (Liverpool Hope University, UK) Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh, UK) Imed Zitouni (IBM, USA) Conference URL www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/ Important Dates Full Paper submission due: 30 December 2007 Notification of acceptance: 30 January 2008 Camera ready submissions: 15 February 2008 For Further Information Prof. Khaled Shaalan, k.shaalanfci-cu.edu.eg Message 2: Seminar on Encounter Charms / Begegnungssegen
Date: 16-Nov-2007 From: Jonathan Roper <j.roperleeds.ac.uk> Subject: Seminar on Encounter Charms / Begegnungssegen E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Seminar on Encounter Charms / Begegnungssegen Date: 09-May-2008 - 09-May-2008 Location: Tartu, Estonia Contact Person: Ulo Valk Meeting Email: ulovalkut.ee Web Site: http://www.ut.ee/isfnr/page.php?p=10&cm=15 Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2008 Meeting Description Day seminar on encounter charms / Begegnungssegen Call for Papers One-day seminar on Encounter charms / Begegnungssegen May 9th 2008, Tartu, Estonia Organised by the Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research Hosted by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu, Estonia Many narrative charms feature an encounter between the chief protagonist of the historiola and another key figure. These may be encounters with a supernatural helper or encounters with an evil power. The great charms scholar Ferdinand Ohrt termed such charms 'Begegnungssegen' in a series of influential articles and in his entry on 'Segen' in the Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens. But little concentrated work has been done on encounter charms since then - a situation this seminar intends to remedy. This seminar will be dedicated to addressing encounter charms across cultures and over time, and papers are requested dealing with topics such as: history of particular types of encounter charms, the genre characteristics of historiolas, the role of protagonists, antagonists and helpers in historiolas the nature of encounters and dialogues in charms, the links (or lack of links) between the historiola and the remainder of the charm, the connections of encounter charms with other charm types, the relationship between encounter charms and other genres, and other related themes. Please send your proposals of 75-150 words, before the deadline of February 29th, either electronically to: ulo.valk ut.ee (with copies to j.roper leeds.ac.uk and pocse chello.hu) or by post to: Ülo Valk Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore University of Tartu Ülikooli 16 51003 Tartu Estonia fax +372 737 5310 Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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