LINGUIST List 23.684 Thu Feb 09 2012 Calls: Computational Linguistics/Switzerland 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.     Tobias Kuhn , 3rd Workshop on Controlled Natural Language Message 1: 3rd Workshop on Controlled Natural Language Date: 09-Feb-2012 From: Tobias Kuhn <kuhntobiasgmail.com> Subject: 3rd Workshop on Controlled Natural Language E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 3rd Workshop on Controlled Natural Language Short Title: CNL 2012 Date: 29-Aug-2012 - 31-Aug-2012 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Contact Person: Tobias Kuhn Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2012/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 06-Apr-2012 Meeting Description: 3rd Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2012) 29-31 August 2012 Zurich, Switzerland http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2012/ A controlled natural language (CNL) is based on natural language but comes with restrictions on vocabulary, grammar, and/or semantics. The general goal is to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity. Some of these languages are designed to improve communication among humans, especially for non-native speakers of the respective natural language. In other cases, the restrictions on the language are supposed to make it easier for computers to analyze such texts in order to improve computer-aided, semi-automatic, or automatic translations into other languages. A third group of CNL has the goal to enable reliable automated reasoning on seemingly natural texts. Such languages have a direct mapping to some sort of formal logic and should improve the accessiblity of formal knowledge representations or specifications for people unfamiliar with formal notations. All these types of CNL are covered by this workshop. Venue: The workshop will take place at the Department of Informatics and the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich in Switzerland. 2nd Call for Papers: The deadline has been extended to 6 April 2012. Topics: Possible topics for CNL 2012 include: CNL for knowledge representation CNL for question answering CNL for specifications CNL for business rules CNL for interactive systems CNL for machine translation CNL for improved understandability of texts Design of CNLs CNL applications CNL evaluation Usability and acceptance of CNL CNL grammars and lexica Reasoning in CNL Spoken CNL CNL in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data CNL in the government CNL in industry CNL use cases Theoretical properties of CNL Submissions and Proceedings: We invite researchers to submit papers with novel contributions in the area of CNL. These research papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages (but shorter papers are highly welcome too). Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair conference system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cnl2012 Accepted papers will be included in the printed workshop proceedings to be published by Springer within the LNAI series. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their research at the workshop. Unlike the previous CNL workshops, the final papers will be reviewed and published before the workshop (there are no extended abstracts anymore). Important Dates: Submission deadline (extended): 6 April 2012 Notification of acceptance: 25 May 2012 Deadline for revised papers: 18 June 2012 Workshop: 29-31 August 2012 Organization Committee: Tobias Kuhn (Yale University, USA), kuhntobiasgmail.com Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland), fuchsifi.uzh.ch Program Committee: Johan Bos (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Peter E. Clark (Vulcan Inc, USA) Rogan Creswick (Galois, USA) Danica Damljanovic (University of Sheffield, UK) Brian Davis (DERI/National University of Ireland) Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Normunds Gruzitis (University of Latvia) Stefan Hoefler (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany) Tobias Kuhn (Yale University, USA) Hans Leiss (University of Munich, Germany) Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Gordon Pace (University of Malta) Richard Power (The Open University, UK) Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa) Mike Rosner (University of Malta) Aarne Ranta (Chalmers University, Sweden) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT, Netherlands) Uta Schwertel (imc, Germany) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK) Adam Wyner (University of Liverpool, UK) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Feb-2012       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.