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1. Bill
Palmer,
Directions in Oceanic Research
2. Erik
Tjong Kim Sang,
7th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
Message 1: Directions in Oceanic Research
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Date: 11-Jun-2008
From: Bill Palmer <bill.palmernewcastle.edu.au>
Subject: Directions in Oceanic Research
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Full Title: Directions in Oceanic Research
Short Title: DOR
Date: 09-Dec-2008 - 11-Dec-2008
Location: Newcastle, Australia
Contact Person: Bill Palmer
Meeting Email: oceanic.conferencenewcastle.edu.au
Web Site:
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/groups/pacific-languages-research-group/conferences--workshops.html
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Documentation; Linguistic
Theories; Typology
Language Family(ies): Austronesian
Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2008
Meeting Description:
In recent years research attention has to some extent moved away from Oceanic
languages, towards eastern Indonesia and Formosa in Austronesian, and towards
Papuan. While these are significant areas for research, this trend raises
questions about the extent to which Oceanic retains continuing significance for
wider linguistic research.
This conference explores the place of Oceanic language research in the wider
agenda of linguistics by focusing on two themes. One is concerned with aspects
of Oceanic, from broad issues in Oceanic grammar to specific phenomena in
individual languages, that hold continuing significance in informing a wider
understanding of language. The second theme relates to the interaction and
integration of successive layers of linguistic research in investigating
Oceanic, particularly the core layers of documentation, description, typology
and formal theory.
The interaction and successful integration of these layers is crucial to
linguistics' core research agenda of modelling the language faculty. Modelling
language is the function of formal theory, but to successfully do so, formal
theory depends on thorough descriptions of individual languages and broadly
based typologies of phenomena to model. Typology in turn also depends on
detailed descriptions, while descriptive linguistics depends on adequate
documentation. These four successive layers of research activity are
interdependent and each essential to the overall research program. This
conference explores the interaction and integration of multiple layers in
investigating Oceanic.
To address these themes the conference brings together key scholars representing
each of these core layers of research within Oceanic.
The conference will be hosted by the newly-formed Pacific Languages Research
Group at the University of Newcastle (Australia). It will be held at the Central
Coast Campus of the University of Newcastle, in Ourimbah, New South Wales.
Invited speakers:
Frantisek Lichtenberk (Auckland) Description
Diane Massam (Toronto) Formal theory
Claire Moyse-Faurie (LACITO-CNRS, Paris) Typology
Nick Thieberger (Hawai'i) Documentation
René van den Berg (SIL PNG) Integrating research
Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (20 minute presentations + 10 minute
discussion) on any topic relating to Oceanic, in the following overlapping areas:
-The interaction and integration of multiple layers of linguistic research in
the field of Oceanic languages.
-Aspects of Oceanic languages with continuing wider significance.
We welcome papers in one or more of the following areas, particularly those
integrating more than one area:
-Documentation;
-Description;
-Typology;
-Formal theory.
We also welcome papers relating to the wider significance of Oceanic in other
subdisciplines, including:
-Language change;
-Language and prehistory;
-Language, culture and cognition;
-Anthropological linguistics;
-Language endangerment;
-Language maintenance;
-Language acquisition.
Abstracts should not exceed one A4 page with a 2.5cm margin on each side and in
12 pt. Times New Roman font, with one additional page for data and references.
IPA data should use Doulos SIL font if possible.
Abstracts should be submitted in two versions. One version should be in Word,
consisting of the title, followed on separate lines by the author(s) name(s),
affiliation(s), and email contacts. The second version should be fully
anonymized, and submitted preferably as a pdf, or in Word.
All abstracts should be sent as email attachments to:
oceanic.conferencenewcastle.edu.au
Submission deadline is Friday 15 August.
Registration:
Registration details will be announced in due course. Registration will be
A$100, or A$50 for students/unwaged.
Message 2: 7th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
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Date: 10-Jun-2008
From: Erik Tjong Kim Sang <tltrug.nl>
Subject: 7th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
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Full Title: 7th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
Short Title: TLT7
Date: 23-Jan-2009 - 24-Jan-2009
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Contact Person: Erik Tjong Kim Sang
Meeting Email: tltrug.nl
Web Site: http://www.let.rug.nl/tlt/
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Text/Corpus
Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2008
Meeting Description:
The Seventh International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories will be
held on January 23 to 24, 2009 in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Workshop Motivation and Aims
Treebanks are language resources that include annotations at levels of
linguistic structure beyond the word level. They typically provide
syntactic constituent or dependency structures for sentences and
sometimes functional and predicate-argument structures. Treebanks have
become crucially important for the development of data-driven
approaches to natural language processing, human language
technologies, grammar extraction and linguistic research in
general. There are a number of ongoing projects aiming at compiling
representative treebanks for specific languages. In addition, there
are projects that develop tools or explore annotation beyond syntactic
structure and beyond a single language.
Experiences in building syntactically processed corpora have shown
that there is a relation between formal linguistic theory and the
practice of syntactic annotation. Therefore the connection between
treebank development and linguistic theories and paradigms merits
attention.
The Seventh International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories
January 23-24, 2009
Groningen, The Netherlands
http://www.let.rug.nl/tlt
First Call for Papers
The Seventh International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic
Theories will be held on January 23 to 24, 2009 in Groningen, the
Netherlands. Submissions are invited for papers, posters and
demonstrations presenting high quality, previously unpublished
research in the topics described below. Contributions should focus on
results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis
on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether
descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Papers and poster
abstracts will be published in paper as well as online proceedings.
This series of workshops aims at being a forum for researchers and
advanced students working in these areas. We encourage interested
potential participants to read the proceedings of the previous
workshops (see the web page for links).
Workshop Topics
The workshop invites submissions that discuss relevant innovative work
in treebanking, including the relations and links between, and
possibly merging of, various aspects of morphological, syntactic,
semantic, and pragmatic annotation; furthermore, submissions
describing work on parallel treebanks and/or cross-language annotation
schemes, on the relation between linguistic theory and the practice of
annotation, and on applications of information in treebanks are
encouraged as well.
Invited Speakers
Adam Przepiorkowski
Robert Malouf
Local Organisers
Gertjan van Noord, Gosse Bouma, Barbara Plank, Tim van de Cruys,
Jelena Prokic, Cagri Coltekin, Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of
Groningen, the Netherlands) Ineke Schuurman (University of Leuven,
Belgium)
Programme Committee
PC chairs:
Frank Van Eynde, University of Leuven, Belgium
Anette Frank, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway
PC members:
Anne Abeille, France
Gosse Bouma, the Netherlands
Aoife Cahill, Germany
Stefanie Dipper, Germany
Josef van Genabith, Ireland
Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
Erhard Hinrichs, Germany
Julia Hockenmaier, USA
Sandra Kubler, USA
Domen Marincic, Slovenia
Yuji Matsumoto, Japan
Detmar Meurers, USA
Yusuke Miyao, Japan
Joakim Nivre, Sweden
Stephan Oepen, Norway
Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
Victoria Rosen, Norway
Yvonne Samuelsson, Sweden
Kiril Simov, Bulgaria
Manfred Stede, Germany
Yannick Versley, Germany
Important Dates
Deadline for submission:
September 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance:
October 17, 2008
Final version due:
November 17, 2008
Instructions for Submission, Local Organization, and Further Information:
For more information on the submission procedure, instructions for
authors, venue and other aspects of the workshop, please see the
workshop website: http://www.let.rug.nl/tlt
Information About Co-located Events
TLT will be co-located with CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the
Netherlands), which will be held on January 22, 2009, in Groningen.
Please forward this call to colleagues of yours who may be interested.
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