LINGUIST List 21.3639 Wed Sep 15 2010 Confs: Computational Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Spain Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Monica Monachini, The Multilingual Web - Where Are We? Message 1: The Multilingual Web - Where Are We? Date: 14-Sep-2010 From: Monica Monachini <monica.monachiniilc.cnr.it> Subject: The Multilingual Web - Where Are We? E-mail this message to a friend The Multilingual Web - Where Are We? Date: 26-Oct-2010 - 27-Oct-2010 Location: Madrid, Spain Contact: Richard Ishida Contact Email: ishidaw3.org Meeting URL: http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/madrid/cfp Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Meeting Description: W3C is organizing a Workshop: The Multilingual Web - Where Are We? to take place 26-27 October 2010 in Madrid, Spain. Workshop participants will survey and introduce currently available best practices and standards that help content creators, localizers, language technology developers, browser makers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. The Workshop also provides opportunities for networking that span the various communities involved in enabling the multilingual Web. Participation is free and open to anyone. However, space is limited and participants must send an expression of interest to the program committee. People wishing to speak should also submit a presentation outline by September 17th. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Internationalizers. Web addresses (IRIs and IDNs); Web protocols (HTTP(s), IRC, REST, etc) ; Content formats (HTML, CSS, SVG, etc); Scripting languages (JavaScript etc); Unicode; Local data formats (CLDR,etc); Language & locale tags; Data feeds; Creators. Content management and authoring tools; Browser support; Mobile Web; Voice on the Web; Language selection & navigation; Multilingual web sites; Usability & design for i18n ; Localizers. Localization standards & tools; TM and terminology databases; Machine translation; Crowd-sourcing; Cloud based issues; Process enablers; Users. Social Web (blogs, social media, etc.); Cultural topics; Minority languages; Accessibility; Machines. Semantic web; Multilingual web services; Language resources; Text mining; Language technologies; Search engine optimization; Policy makers. Why the multilingual web matters; Trends; Standards organization players; Political enforcements This is the first of four Workshops being planned by W3C over the next two years as part of the MultilingualWeb European Project. The first Workshop is hosted by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. For more information, see the call for participation. Learn more about W3C's Internationalization Activity. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 15-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.