LINGUIST List 21.4585 Tue Nov 16 2010 Calls: Computational Ling/Semantics/Computational Linguistics (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Justin Petro <justinlinguistlist.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.     Roser Morante , Computational Linguistics Message 1: Computational Linguistics Date: 16-Nov-2010 From: Roser Morante <roser.moranteua.ac.be> Subject: Computational Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Computational Linguistics Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2011 A Special Issue of the Computational Linguistics Journal on Modality and Negation http://cljournal.org/specials/modality-and-polarity.html Computational linguistics has seen achievements in handling language at different levels of linguistic abstraction, from tokenization to semantic role labeling. Given a sentence, systems can more or less reliably determine who does what to whom when and where. However, texts do not always express factual information; on the contrary, language is often used to express uncertainty, opinion, evaluation, or doubt. Accordingly, computational linguistics has started to take into account the subjective aspects of language. There is now research that focuses also on determining who states that someone does something somewhere at a certain point in time (perspective) and based on what evidence (evidentiality), how certain someone is about stating something (certainty), the truth value of the facts being stated (negation), or the subjective evaluation of these facts (positive/negative opinion). TOPICS For this special issue we solicit full-length article submissions describing innovative and challenging research on aspects of the computational modeling and processing of modality and negation. We specifically invite submissions that take into account linguistic aspects of the phenomena and bring a theoretical basis to research on computing the factuality and certainty of the events in a statement, finding the source and evidence for the statement of a fact, and determining whether a statement has a truth value. We encourage submissions that have a substantial analysis component, in the form of an analysis of the task and data and/or an error analysis of the proposed method. Submissions can address aspects of either modality or negation or both, provided that they lead to an enhanced understanding of the phenomena, as opposed to a straightforward engineering solution. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Linguistically informed modeling of modality and negation for NLP - Analysis of the relevant information/knowledge involved in processing modality and negation - The computational complexity of processing modality and negation - Novel machine learning approaches for learning modality and negation - Processing modality and negation across domains and genres - The interaction of modality and negation for determining the factuality of events - The influence of the linguistic context on the processing of modality and negation - Evaluation of systems: metrics and application-based evaluation EXPRESSION OF INTEREST If you are considering submitting an article to this special issue, please send an expression of interest to the Guest Editors (roser.moranteua.ac.be, csporledcoli.uni-sb.de) before the 10th December, 2010. Expressions of interest are not binding. Please use subject line 'EoI CL SI Modality and Negation', and include a brief description of your potential submission. IMPORTANT DATES Call for papers: 10 November 2010 Expressions of interest: 10 December 2010 Submission of full articles: 10 March 2011 Preliminary decisions to authors: 31 June 2011 Submission of revised articles: 30 August 2011 Final decisions to authors: 18 October 2011 Final versions due from authors: 1 November 2011 GUEST EDITORS Roser Morante CLiPS - University of Antwerp, Belgium roser.moranteua.ac.be Caroline Sporleder Computational Linguistics and Phonetics - Saarland University, Germany csporledcoli.uni-sb.de Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Nov-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.