LINGUIST List 5.1424

Sat 10 Dec 1994

Calls: EACL-95, SICOL, Penn Ling Colloquim, Machine Translation

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1. Evelyne Tzoukermann, EACL-95 SIGDAT WORKSHOP
2. Jan Tent, SICOL & APCP
3. Rajesh Bhatt, Call for papers for Penn Linguistics Colloquium
4. Bruno Tersago, Final Call for Papers

 CALL FOR PAPERS
FROM TEXTS TO TAGS: ISSUES IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS

 EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP
 Dublin, Ireland - March 27, 1994

 Second Announcement

Workshop organized by the ACL special interest group SIGDAT
to be held in conjunction with the meeting of the European Chapter
of the Association of Computational Linguistics. The meeting will be
co-chaired by Susan Armstrong, ISSCO and Evelyne Tzoukerman, AT&T Bell
Laboratories.

 Submission deadline: Jan 23
 Notice of acceptance/rejection: February 10
 Camera ready copy due: March 1

With the growing amount of multilingual corpus data becoming
available, there is a pressing need to explore issues in
representation and analysis of these texts. Although extensive and
leading work has been accomplished for languages such as English, for
the most part many theoretical and concrete issues need to be resolved
in the representation and tagging of other languages.

The focus of this workshop is on multilingual text analysis, from the
level of text itself, e.g. tokenization, sentence separation, etc, to
morphosyntactic analysis, specifically tagging. We intend to focus on
tagging since it appears to be the case that, from a computational
point of view, part of speech tagging is often an important
prerequisite to further structural analysis. Additionally, many NLP
systems can make use of tagged corpora for various applications.
However, tasks such as tokenization and tagging continue to raise
serious challenges in multilingual text analysis, due to differing
types of morphological characteristics across languages.

 Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

 - tokenization and segmentation
 - interfaces between morphological analysis and part-of-speech tagging
 - size and choice of tagset
 - defining and refining new tag sets
 - mapping between tag sets
 - universal vs. language specific tags
 - multilingual approaches to tagging

We invite submissions on topics that in general reflect an awareness
of differences and similarities in working on multilingual text.
We also welcome substantive descriptions of newly started and ongoing
projects.

Program Committee:

 K. Church, USA
 B. Gale, USA
 J.-M. Lange, FR
 G. Leech, UK
 A. Voutilainen, FI

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit extended abstracts
(2000-3000 words), either electronically or in hard-copy. Electronic
submissions must either be plain ascii text or a postcript file
following the EACL-95 stylesheet. Hard copy backup should include
two (2) copies of the paper. Abstracts should be sent to either of
the addresses:

Evelyne Tzoukermann Susan Armstrong-Warwick
AT&T Bell Laboratories ISSCO University of Geneva
Room 2D-448, P.O. Box 636 54 route des Acacias
600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ, 07944-0636 CH-1227 Geneve
USA Switzerland
tel. +1-908-582-2924 +41-22-705-7113
fax +1-908-582-7308 +41-22-300-1086
email evelyneresearch.att.com susandivsun.unige.ch

 SICOL

 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
 ON OCEANIC LINGUISTICS

 Suva, Fiji, July 3 - 7, 1995

 CALL FOR PAPERS

The Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (SICOL), which
will be held at the Laucala campus of the University of the South Pacific
from 3 - 7 July, 1995, will be concerned with various aspects of the
languages of the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian, with papers in the
following areas:

 descriptive studies
 sociolinguistic studies
 historical and comparative studies
 contact between Oceanic and other (Oceanic or non-Oceanic)
 languages
 applied and policy studies (e.g., dictionaries, language
 teaching, translation, language development, etc.)
 other areas which fit in with the focus of the Conference, at
 the discretion of the organisers.

Papers will generally be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and at least
10 minutes for discussion, but exceptions may be made for those who require
more time.

 Deadline for paper titles and abstracts is 31 March, 1995.

If you are interested in attending, please contact:

 Jan Tent (TENT_Jusp.ac.fj)

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 APCP

 ASSOCIATION FOR PIDGINS AND CREOLES IN THE PACIFIC

The inaugural meeting of APCP will be held in conjunction with SICOL. A
special session on pidgins and creoles will be included in the SICOL
program. If you are interested in contributing to this session, please
contact either:

 Jeff Siegel (jsiegelgara.une.oz.au)

 or

 Chris Corne (rom_corneccnov2.auckland.ac.nz)

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 The Penn Linguistics Club Announces

 The Nineteenth Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium

 Saturday and Sunday, February 25 and 26, 1995

We welcome papers on any topic in linguistics. Speakers will have
twenty minutes for their presentation and five minutes for discussion
and questions.

Prospective speakers should submit an abstract no later than Monday,
January 16, 1995 to:

 The Penn Linguistics Colloquium Committee
 Department of Linguistics
 619 Williams Hall
 University of Pennsylvania
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6305

Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages in 12 point font with 1 inch
margins and should be accompanied by an index card including your name,
affiliation (department and institution), address, email address and
the subfield of linguistics (or related discipline) that you find most
appropriate to your topic. Submission by email to plc19babel.ling.upenn.edu
will be greatly appreciated.

Abstracts will be evaluated by jurors from the University of Pennsylvania
and other institutions.

Colloquium participants are invited to submit their paper to the Penn Review
of Linguistics, which will be published late in the spring following the
Colloquium.

If you have any further questions, please contact us at the above address
or via e-mail at plc19babel.ling.upenn.edu

THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN MACHINE TRANSLATION

-------- TMI95 ----- REMINDER ----- CALL FOR PAPERS -------

We kindly remind you that the deadline for papers for TMI95
(Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation)
is JANUARY 15, 1995.

More information can be obtained via e-mail at:

tmi95ccl.kuleuven.ac.be

Via WWW:

http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be

TMI95
Centre for Computational Linguistics
KU Leuven
Maria-Theresiastraat 21
B - 3000 Leuven
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