LINGUIST List 22.279 Sun Jan 16 2011 Calls: Computational Linguistics, Lexicography/Cyprus 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.     Ignazio Mauro Mirto , 30th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar Message 1: 30th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar Date: 14-Jan-2011 From: Ignazio Mauro Mirto <ignaziomirtounipa.it> Subject: 30th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 30th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar Short Title: LGC 2011 Date: 05-Oct-2011 - 08-Oct-2011 Location: Nicosia, Cyprus Contact Person: Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/Colloques/lgc/index.php?year=2011&lang=en&page=0 Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Lexicography Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2011 Meeting Description: The conference aims at bringing together linguists and computer scientists. Keynote speakers: Margarita Alonso Ramos (University of La Coruna, Spain), Raffaele Simone (University of Rome 3, Italy) The conference languages are English and French. Scientific and Technical Organization Committee: Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa (Univ. of Cyprus), Thekla Constandinou (Univ. of Cyprus), Matthieu Constant (Univ. Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée), Sébastien Paumier (Univ. Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée) Scientific Committee: Annibale Elia (Univ. Salerno) [Chair], Jorge Baptista (Univ. Algarve), André Borillo (Univ. Toulouse-le-Mirail), Mirella Conenna (Univ. Bari), Laurence Danlos (Univ. Paris-Diderot), Jacqueline Giry-Schneider (CNRS-Univ. Paris- Est Marne-la-Vallée), Ulrich Heid (Univ. Stuttgart), Cvetana Krstev (Univ. Belgrade), Tita Kyriacopoulou (CNRS-Univ. Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée), Svetla Koeva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Nunzio La Fauci (Univ. Zurich), Béatrice Lamiroy (Univ. Leuven), Éric Laporte (CNRS-Univ. Paris-Est Marne- la-Vallée), Peter Machonis (Florida International Univ.), Elisabete Marques Ranchhod (Univ. Lisbon), Denis Maurel (Univ. Tours), Ignazio Mauro Mirto (Univ. di Palermo), Takuya Nakamura (CNRS-Univ. Paris-Est Marne-la- Vallée), Jee-Sun Nam (Univ. de Seoul), Thierry Poibeau (CNRS-Lattice), Jan Radimsky (Univ. de Bohême du Sud), Satoshi Sekine (New York University) Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Carlos Subirats- Rüggeberg (ICSI, Berkeley), Harald Ulland (Univ. Bergen), Zygmunt Vetulani (Univ. Poznan), Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA), Dusko Vitas (Univ. Belgrade) Call for Papers: The conference welcomes innovative papers on the formal description of languages, as well as on the construction, management and use of language resources, including manually constructed lexicons and grammars. The conference will combine a general session and a thematic session. The thematic session of the 30th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar is dedicated to Light/Support Verb Constructions, including, but not limited to: - V N, Adj, ... light verb constructions - Applications (text mining, information retrieval, and so on) for Natural - Language Processing of Light/Support verb constructions - Type of meaning light verbs contribute (e.g. aspect, inception, intensification, register) - Rise of metaphor - Determiner constraints for the predicative noun (e.g. zero article) - Defining characteristics, formal characters and formalization of Light verb constructions - Light verbs and argument structure - Collocations - Diachronic vs. synchronic perspective - Terminological aspects and implications of the labels Light verb, Support verb, Funktionsverb etc. Submissions for the general session may address any of the usual topics of the conference: - Predicate-argument structures - The interface between lexis and grammar - Exploitation of language resources (including manually constructed lexicons and grammars) for language processing (including information retrieval, information extraction, parsing) - Language resources concerning lexis or grammar. Important dates: Submission deadline: March 31, 2011 Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2011 Final version: June 15, 2011 Conference: October 5-8, 2011 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Jan-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.