LINGUIST List 19.14 Mon Jan 07 2008 Calls: General Ling/USA; Computational Ling,Text/Corpus Ling/Morocco Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org> As a matter of policy, LINGUIST discourages the use of abbreviations or acronyms in conference announcements unless they are explained in the text. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html. Directory         1.    Cynthia Clopper, Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan         2.    Andreas Witt, Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing         1.    Cynthia Clopper, Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan         2.    Andreas Witt, Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing Message 1: Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan Date: 03-Jan-2008 From: Cynthia Clopper <clopper.1osu.edu> Subject: Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan E-mail this message to a friend Message 1: Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan Date: 03-Jan-2008 From: Cynthia Clopper <clopper.1osu.edu> Subject: Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan E-mail this message to a friend Location: Columbus, OH, USA Full Title: Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan Contact Person: Cynthia Clopper Meeting Email: springsymling.osu.edu Date: 02-May-2008 - 03-May-2008 Web Site: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~springsym/ Location: Columbus, OH, USA Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Contact Person: Cynthia Clopper Call Deadline: 18-Jan-2008 Meeting Email: springsymling.osu.edu Meeting Description The Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University will host a symposium entitled Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan on May 2-3, 2008. The symposium will bring together scholars from linguistics and related disciplines, including psychology, speech and hearing sciences, and anthropology, to examine variability as a fundamental property of human language at all life stages. The symposium will focus on questions about the sources of linguistic variability at each life stage and the implications of these sources of variability for language processing, acquisition, perception, and social identity construction. For example, in early childhood, how does variability relate to the acquisition process? In adulthood, how does stylistic variation mark membership in communities centered around work or leisure? In later life, how do physical changes in the vocal tract contribute to linguistic and social sources of variability? By bringing together scholars interested in acquisition, stylistic variation, and aging, this symposium will also provide the opportunity to extend research questions beyond their typical life stage. For example, how does language acquisition continue beyond childhood? How could we view adulthood as characterized as much by variability and transition as other life stages? The symposium will include invited talks by: Penelope Eckert, Stanford University Carla Hudson Kam, University of California, Berkeley Benjamin Munson, University of Minnesota Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania Web Site: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~springsym/ We invite abstracts for contributed talks on research examining variation at all levels of linguistic representation in infants, children, adolescents, and adults. We hope that the final symposium program will represent a wide range of approaches to linguistic variability from infancy through late life, including formal, experimental, computational, sociolinguistic, developmental, and historical perspectives. Contributed talks will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts of at most 500 words should be submitted as an email attachment to springsymling.osu.edu in pdf (preferred) or Word format by January 18, 2008. Please include only the title and text of the abstract in the attachment. The authors' names, affiliations, and postal and email addresses should be included in the text of the email. Symposium website: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~springsym/ Please email springsymling.osu.edu if you have any questions. Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Call Deadline: 18-Jan-2008 The Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University will host a symposium entitled Linguistic Variation Across the Lifespan on May 2-3, 2008. The symposium will bring together scholars from linguistics and related disciplines, including psychology, speech and hearing sciences, and anthropology, to examine variability as a fundamental property of human language at all life stages. The symposium will focus on questions about the sources of linguistic variability at each life stage and the implications of these sources of variability for language processing, acquisition, perception, and social identity construction. For example, in early childhood, how does variability relate to the acquisition process? In adulthood, how does stylistic variation mark membership in communities centered around work or leisure? In later life, how do physical changes in the vocal tract contribute to linguistic and social sources of variability? By bringing together scholars interested in acquisition, stylistic variation, and aging, this symposium will also provide the opportunity to extend research questions beyond their typical life stage. For example, how does language acquisition continue beyond childhood? How could we view adulthood as characterized as much by variability and transition as other life stages? The symposium will include invited talks by: Penelope Eckert, Stanford University Carla Hudson Kam, University of California, Berkeley Benjamin Munson, University of Minnesota Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania We invite abstracts for contributed talks on research examining variation at all levels of linguistic representation in infants, children, adolescents, and adults. We hope that the final symposium program will represent a wide range of approaches to linguistic variability from infancy through late life, including formal, experimental, computational, sociolinguistic, developmental, and historical perspectives. Contributed talks will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts of at most 500 words should be submitted as an email attachment to springsymling.osu.edu in pdf (preferred) or Word format by January 18, 2008. Please include only the title and text of the abstract in the attachment. The authors' names, affiliations, and postal and email addresses should be included in the text of the email. Symposium website: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~springsym/ Please email springsymling.osu.edu if you have any questions. Message 2: Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing Date: 29-Dec-2007 From: Andreas Witt <Andreas.Wittuni-tuebingen.de> Subject: Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing E-mail this message to a friend Message 2: Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing Date: 29-Dec-2007 From: Andreas Witt <Andreas.Wittuni-tuebingen.de> Subject: Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing E-mail this message to a friend Date: 31-May-2008 - 31-May-2008 Full Title: Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing Location: Marrakech, Morocco Short Title: SustainableNLP08 Contact Person: Andreas Witt Meeting Email: Andreas.Wittuni-tuebingen.de Date: 31-May-2008 - 31-May-2008 Web Site: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/SustainableNLP08/ Location: Marrakech, Morocco Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics Contact Person: Andreas Witt Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2008 Meeting Email: Andreas.Wittuni-tuebingen.de Web Site: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/SustainableNLP08/ Meeting Description One of the problems in Natural Language Processing and related fields is that the sustainability of language resources and of language technology tools are neglected. The very complex question of how to ensure or maybe even guarantee sustainability is a multi-faceted one and depends on different individual subtasks. Several of these tasks will be addressed by contributions of this workshop. Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2008 Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing One of the problems in Natural Language Processing and related fields is that the sustainability of language resources (e.g., corpora) and of language technology tools (e.g. annotation or query tools) are neglected on a regular basis. This results in, for example, tools whose algorithms and data structures are poorly documented and whose area of application is evident only to the people who built the software. Similar issues arise with regard to language resources: often, these are tailored to the needs of an individual application or of a project with a very specific research question. When the project is finished it becomes next to impossible (especially for third parties) to gain access to the resource that may have taken several months or even years to create. The very complex question of how to ensure or maybe even guarantee sustainability is related to several key issues spanning a broad spectrum across several closely related fields: in the area of language documentation, seven dimensions of portability (content, format, discovery, access, citation, preservation, rights) have been suggested. Another area of research is primarily concerned with annotation technology, especially the problem of building generic annotation frameworks as well as representing several different layers of linguistic annotation referring to one specific set of primary data by means of standoff annotation. Closely related work deals with the standardisation of annotation frameworks, especially with regard to the level of impact a specific linguistic theory has on their vocabularies and markup grammars. A last area concerns the fostering of sustainability through specific Providing sustainability for linguistic tools and language resources becomes increasingly important for the research community. Nowadays, this is also acknowledged by funding organisations - they often encourage research projects to make sure that language resources will still be accessible and (re-)usable in ten, 15, or 20 years time. The problem of ensuring sustainability is a multi-faceted one and depends on several individual subtasks. At least one of these tasks should be addressed by contributions to this workshop. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Archiving linguistic data and resources - Annotation technology, e.g., generic corpus annotation frameworks; the relationship of linguistic theories to corpus annotation; metadata annotation schemes, and related tools and applications - Reusability of treebanks, e.g., annotations according to one specific linguistic framework should be applicable to NLP tasks that are based on different linguistic paradigms - Sustainability in Software Engineering for Computational Linguistics - Copyright issues, e.g., legal restrictions, copyright of web pages (for example, in a web as corpus approach), software patents, intellectual property, national and international issues etc. - Privacy protection, e.g., automatic anonymisation of language data - Sustainability, maintenance, and adaptability of NLP applications and tools, e.g., to new domains, to new linguistic resources, or even to new linguistic frameworks or theories - Querying linguistic data, e.g., the usability and adaptability of query interfaces or query toolboxes - Usability and acceptance of NLP software, e.g., corpus query interfaces Submission Instructions Submissions should not exceed ten (10) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word document template that will be made available on the LREC Conference Web site. A description of the required format will be made available to those who are unable to make direct use of these style files. Submission will be electronic. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. The papers must be submitted no later than 15th February 2008. Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed. For details of the submission procedure, please consult the submission webpage reachable via the workshop website. Important Dates Deadline for submission of Papers: 15th February 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 18th March 2008 Deadline for final paper submission: 2nd April 2008 Organizing Committee Lou Burnard, Oxford University Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA Georg Rehm, Tübingen University Thomas Schmidt, University of Hamburg Andreas Witt, Tübingen University Program Committee Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan University, USA Jeannine Beeken, Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, The Netherlands Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, UK Dan Cristea, University of Iasi, Romania Stefanie Dipper, Bochum University, Germany Jost Gippert, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany Marc Kupietz, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim, Germany Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, Computational Linguistics, USA D. Terence Langendoen, NSF, USA Joakim Nivre, Växjö University & Uppsala University, Sweden Massimo Poesio, University of Trento, Italy Kiril Ribarov, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Laurent Romary, Max-Planck Digital Library, Germany Hinrich Schuetze, Stuttgart University, Germany Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds, UK Gary F. Simons, SIL International, USA Manfred Stede, Potsdam University, Germany Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, UK Peter Wittenburg, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Martin Wynne, Oxford Text Archive, UK Heike Zinsmeister, Heidelberg University, Germany One of the problems in Natural Language Processing and related fields is that the sustainability of language resources and of language technology tools are neglected. The very complex question of how to ensure or maybe even guarantee sustainability is a multi-faceted one and depends on different individual subtasks. Several of these tasks will be addressed by contributions of this workshop. Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing One of the problems in Natural Language Processing and related fields is that the sustainability of language resources (e.g., corpora) and of language technology tools (e.g. annotation or query tools) are neglected on a regular basis. This results in, for example, tools whose algorithms and data structures are poorly documented and whose area of application is evident only to the people who built the software. Similar issues arise with regard to language resources: often, these are tailored to the needs of an individual application or of a project with a very specific research question. When the project is finished it becomes next to impossible (especially for third parties) to gain access to the resource that may have taken several months or even years to create. The very complex question of how to ensure or maybe even guarantee sustainability is related to several key issues spanning a broad spectrum across several closely related fields: in the area of language documentation, seven dimensions of portability (content, format, discovery, access, citation, preservation, rights) have been suggested. Another area of research is primarily concerned with annotation technology, especially the problem of building generic annotation frameworks as well as representing several different layers of linguistic annotation referring to one specific set of primary data by means of standoff annotation. Closely related work deals with the standardisation of annotation frameworks, especially with regard to the level of impact a specific linguistic theory has on their vocabularies and markup grammars. A last area concerns the fostering of sustainability through specific Providing sustainability for linguistic tools and language resources becomes increasingly important for the research community. Nowadays, this is also acknowledged by funding organisations - they often encourage research projects to make sure that language resources will still be accessible and (re-)usable in ten, 15, or 20 years time. The problem of ensuring sustainability is a multi-faceted one and depends on several individual subtasks. At least one of these tasks should be addressed by contributions to this workshop. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Archiving linguistic data and resources - Annotation technology, e.g., generic corpus annotation frameworks; the relationship of linguistic theories to corpus annotation; metadata annotation schemes, and related tools and applications - Reusability of treebanks, e.g., annotations according to one specific linguistic framework should be applicable to NLP tasks that are based on different linguistic paradigms - Sustainability in Software Engineering for Computational Linguistics - Copyright issues, e.g., legal restrictions, copyright of web pages (for example, in a web as corpus approach), software patents, intellectual property, national and international issues etc. - Privacy protection, e.g., automatic anonymisation of language data - Sustainability, maintenance, and adaptability of NLP applications and tools, e.g., to new domains, to new linguistic resources, or even to new linguistic frameworks or theories - Querying linguistic data, e.g., the usability and adaptability of query interfaces or query toolboxes - Usability and acceptance of NLP software, e.g., corpus query interfaces Submission Instructions Submissions should not exceed ten (10) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word document template that will be made available on the LREC Conference Web site. A description of the required format will be made available to those who are unable to make direct use of these style files. Submission will be electronic. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. The papers must be submitted no later than 15th February 2008. Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed. For details of the submission procedure, please consult the submission webpage reachable via the workshop website. Important Dates Deadline for submission of Papers: 15th February 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 18th March 2008 Deadline for final paper submission: 2nd April 2008 Organizing Committee Lou Burnard, Oxford University Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA Georg Rehm, Tübingen University Thomas Schmidt, University of Hamburg Andreas Witt, Tübingen University Program Committee Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan University, USA Jeannine Beeken, Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, The Netherlands Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, UK Dan Cristea, University of Iasi, Romania Stefanie Dipper, Bochum University, Germany Jost Gippert, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany Marc Kupietz, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim, Germany Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, Computational Linguistics, USA D. 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