LINGUIST List 22.3614 Fri Sep 16 2011 Calls: Computational Linguistics/India Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     Dr. Richa , POS Annotation in Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives Message 1: POS Annotation in Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives Date: 16-Sep-2011 From: Dr. Richa <rsrishtigmail.com> Subject: POS Annotation in Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: POS Annotation in Indian Languages: Issues & Perspectives Short Title: POSANIL Date: 12-Dec-2011 - 13-Dec-2011 Location: Mysore, Karnataka, India Contact Person: Dr. Richa Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.ldcil.org/annpos.aspx Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 30-Oct-2011 Meeting Description: POS annotation is assigning a label or a tag to a word/token in a sentence according to its parts parts-of-speech category. Being an intermediate level of analysis, it is primarily meant to disambiguate the output of morph-analysis. POS annotation can be both manual as well as automatic. Manual annotation, though more accurate, is a time-consuming process. Since large scale quality annotated data is required for the consuming technological development of Indian languages, POS taggers are very essential to gear up the process of annotation. So far, various automatic taggers have been developed in India and outside for Indian languages, using linguistic rules, stochastic and hybrid models. Since Indian languages are highly inflectional and morphologically rich, POS annotation (both manual and automatic) in Indian languages is a challenging task. Moreover, there is a need to bring the consensus among the NLP groups so that there will be uniformity in the annotation schemes that are being used in the context of Indian languages. In this context, LDC-IL is organising a national seminar to bring together researchers working in this area and provide a platform to present their work and to share knowledge. This event endeavours to concentrate on the challenges in the area of POS annotation and to investigate and to share novel annotation advancements. It also aims to provide researchers an academic space to discuss the most recent information about theories, tools and techniques explored for POS annotation, and focuses on related issues, linguistic as well as computational. Call for Papers: Abstracts of no more than 500 words (including references) mentioning the title of the paper, author(s) name, institutional affiliation, and email address should be submitted by the due date in .rtf or .pdf format to the following email addresses: rsrishtigmail.com or ldc-richaciil.stpmy.soft.net shahid.bhat3gmail.com or ldc-shahidciil.stpmy.soft.net Important Dates: Last date for submitting the abstract: 30th October, 2011 Abstract acceptance notification: 5th November, 2011 Last date for submitting full length papers: 30th November, 2011 Tentative date for seminar: 12-13th December, 2011 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Sep-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.