LINGUIST List 22.799 Thu Feb 17 2011 Calls: Computational Ling/ Computational Linguistics (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <d-hornbyhotmail.com> 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.     Caroline Sporleder , Computational Linguistics Message 1: Computational Linguistics Date: 17-Feb-2011 From: Caroline Sporleder <csporledcoli.uni-sb.de> Subject: Computational Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Computational Linguistics Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2011 Deadline Extension: 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 abstraction. Systems can more or less reliably determine who does what to whom when and where. However, texts do not always express factual information; 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). The treatment of modality and negation is very relevant for all NLP applications that involve deep text understanding. Hence, the adequate modeling of these phenomena is of crucial importance to the NLP community as a whole. 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 Important Dates: Submission of full articles: 31 March 2011 (extended) Preliminary decisions: 15 July 2011 Submission of revised articles: 15 Sept. 2011 Final decisions: 1 Nov. 2011 Final versions due: 21 Nov. 2011 Submission Instructions: Articles submitted to this special issue must adhere to the Style Guidelines of the Computational Linguistics Journal (http://cljournal.org/style.html). The submission guidelines can be found in the Computational Linguistics website (http://cljournal.org/submissions.html). As in regular submissions to the journal, paper submissions should be made through the CL electronic submission system (http://cljournal.org/submissions/index.php/cljournal). Guest Editors Roser Morante, CLiPS, University of Antwerp, Belgium Caroline Sporleder, Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-Feb-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.