LINGUIST List 22.3754 Tue Sep 27 2011 Calls: Computational Linguistics/ TAL Journal (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.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.     Nuria Bel , Second Call for Papers: TAL Message 1: Second Call for Papers: TAL Date: 27-Sep-2011 From: Nuria Bel <nuria.belupf.edu> Subject: Second Call for Papers: TAL E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: TAL Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 14-Oct-2011 Extended Deadline: 14 October 2011 Call for Papers Special Issue of the TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) Journal of ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing) invites authors to submit papers for the Special Issue on 'Free Language Resources'. The goal of this special issue is to focus on the full range of scientific issues related to language resources that go beyond the description of the resources by themselves. Thus, expected contributions can cover all topics related to language resources, including: - Modeling of the language data that constitute the resource (both linguistically motivated formal frameworks, representation of linguistic information in the form of structured and/or quantitative data, standards for Language Resources ...) - Methodologies for the development of Language Resources, either by hand, completely automatic or hybrid (semi-supervised techniques, interlingual transfer methods, use of pre-annotation tools, validation / correction interfaces, etc.), approaches promoting linguistic relevance while minimizing the 'human cost' are most welcome. - Methods for validation and evaluation of language resources including extrinsic evaluation within NLP systems and for experimental linguistic purposes. Contributions must show how the use of language resources has caused system performance improvements, better understanding of phenomenon and/or be a means to assess or improve these language resources. Language Resources for French, or better multilingual resources or language independent methods where French is one of the addressed languages, are the main objective of this call. Works on resources for other Romance languages are also relevant. In addition, contributions related to free resources will be particularly appreciated. Scientific Committee Nicolas Asher Delphine Bernhard Paul Buitelaar Maria Teresa Cabré Emmanuel Cartier Anne Condamines Benoît Crabbé Cecile Fabre Mikel Forcada Gregory Grefenstette Eva Hajicová Nancy Ide Christine Jacquin Anne Lacheret Marie-Claude L'Homme Joseph Mariani Piet Mertens Asunción Moreno Sophie Rosset Agata Savary Jesse Tseng Agnès Tutin Gertjan van Noord Piek Vossen Geoffrey Williams Important Dates - Deadline for submission: Extended Deadline 14 October - List of papers selected: 15 January 2011 - Deadline for camera ready papers: 3 March 2011 - Publication on line: Mid 2012 The Journal TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is a forty year old international journal published by ATALA (French Associationfor Natural Language Processing) with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). It has moved to an electronic mode of publication, with printing on demand. This affects in no way its reviewing and selection process. Practical Issues Authors intending to submit a paper are encouraged to contact the guest editors of the issue: Benoît Sagot (INRIA Paris Rocquencourt), benoit.sagot at inria.fr et Núria Bel(IULA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), nuria.bel at upf.edu Contributions (25 pages maximum, PDF format) must be sent by e-mail to the addresses below : benoit.sagot at inria.fr and nuria.bel at upf.edu Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 27-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.