LINGUIST List 22.2418 Sat Jun 11 2011 Confs: Computational Linguistics/Romania 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.     Diana Trandabat , Eurolan 2011 Summer School - NLP Goes Industrial Message 1: Eurolan 2011 Summer School - NLP Goes Industrial Date: 08-Jun-2011 From: Diana Trandabat <dtrandabatinfo.uaic.ro> Subject: Eurolan 2011 Summer School - NLP Goes Industrial E-mail this message to a friend Eurolan 2011 Summer School - NLP Goes Industrial Short Title: EUROLAN 2011 Date: 28-Aug-2011 - 04-Sep-2011 Location: Cluj Napoca, Romania Contact: Dan Cristea Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2011/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Meeting Description: The new information and communication technologies have changed the business management climate. Organizations use every day technological innovations to become more competitive. With the rapid development of natural language processing techniques, as well as their use in ever more industrial applications, the link between companies and academia is more necessary than ever. In this context, the EUROLAN 2011 summer school will provide one week of intensive study of the natural language processing technologies currently under development to support industrial applications. Internationally known scholars, researchers (with the particular involvement of scientists from the Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance - META), but also industrials involved in leading-edge work in innovative areas of natural language processing will give lectures at the school (tutorials, hands-on labs and demos) to share with students in-depth understanding and experience. Topics to be covered in the school include the following: - question answering in mobile applications; - extracting information from web search queries; - finite state technologies; - latest developments in machine translation; - technologies for chaining NLP components; - sharing and exploitation of multilingual resources, including corpora, tools and datasets; - success stories of NLP-based industrial applications. The venue of EUROLAN 2011 is Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the heart of Transylvania. An excursion to Alba Iulia and Sibiu is planned at the school's mid-point. Whatever the venue, the EUROLAN summer schools are well known for the degree of camaraderie that develops among students and professors alike - just ask any previous participant! Students in the school learn an enormous amount, but at the same time enjoy the warmth of new friendships with both fellow students and professors. EUROLAN 2011 Lecturers: Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Davide Cali, ULA, Italy Lorenzo Cassulo, Semantic Valey, Italy Dan Cristea, 'Al. I. Cuza' University of Iasi, Romania Nancy Ide, Vassar College,USA Radu Șoricuț, Language Weaver, California, USA Dan Tufiș, Romanian Academy, Romania Tamás VáradiHungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Andrejs Vasiljevs, Tilde, Latvia Marius Pasca, Google Inc., USA TBA, IBM Watson, USA Program Committee: Dan Cristea, 'Al. I. Cuza' University of Iasi, Romania Dan Tufiș, Romanian Academy, Romania Nancy Ide, Vassar College,USA António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 11-Jun-2011       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.