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ucs.usl.edu>Call for Papers IEEE Computer Theme Issue on Interactive Natural Language Processing Computer has planned to devote the July 1996 issue to Interactive Natural Language Processing. Manuscripts reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of Interactive Natural Language Processing are sought immediately in the following areas: + Speech Understanding and Generation Platforms + Natural Language Interfaces and User Interface Management Systems + Dialog/Discourse Management and Story Understanding Environments + Interactive Machine Translation systems (and Translator's Workbenches) + Intelligent Writing Agents Papers on successful large-scale natural language processing systems, integrated speech and natural language understanding applications, dialog management and story understanding systems, and toolbeds for developing such applications are especially desired. The particular focus of this theme issue is the special considerations in theory and practice of "real-time" processing of natural language as opposed to "batch-mode" processing. How do the theoretical and processing assumptions differ when the input stream is "live", thus increasing the emphasis on response time and throughput? What are the trade-offs? What are the mechanisms (symbolic, statistical, connectionist, hybrid)? Finally, what are the strategies that enable interactive natural language processing to either be effected or finessed? Instructions for Submitting Manuscripts: Manuscripts should be no longer than 20 double spaced, single sided pages, including all text, figures, and references. No more than 12 references should be cited. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes: the title of the paper, full name, affiliation, physical address, electronic address, and telephone numbers of all of the authors, a 100 to 150 word abstract, and, a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the manuscript's content. Deadlines: + 100 to 150 word abstract of the manuscript September 19, 1995 + Seven copies of the manuscript December 19, 1995 + Notification of decisions April 1996 + Final version of the manuscript May 14, 1996 + Date of special issue July 1996 Questions regarding the special issue can be directed to: Dr. Bill Z. Manaris Computer Science Department University of Southwestern Louisiana Lafayette, LA 70504-1771 Phone: (318)482-6638 Fax: (318)482-5791 Email: manarisMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>Call for Papers AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (AAAL) Annual Meeting, March 23-26, 1996, Chicago, Illinois Conference Theme: DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES Program Chair: Elinor Ochs, UCLA Throughout the life span, people participate in multiple communities which are defined to a great extent by discourse practices. Discourse knowledge and praxis are essential to establishing membership in families, peer groups, classrooms, neighborhoods, professions, intellectual paradigms, religions, ethnic and other culturally significant groups. Given the linguistic and social heterogeneity of societies today, people find themselves participating in sometimes overlapping, sometimes disconnected social worlds. The 1996 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference brings together psychological, socio- cultural, and linguistic insights into how discourse is organized, socialized, acquired, and assessed within and across such worlds. PLENARY SPEAKERS EMANUEL A. SCHEGLOFF (University of California, Los Angeles) BARBARA ROGOFF (University of California, Santa Cruz) WOLFGANG KLEIN (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) ANA CELIA ZENTELLA (Hunter College) KARIN ARONSSON (Linkoping University) TIM McNAMARA (University of Melbourne) INVITED COLLOQUIA & ORGANIZERS GENDERED DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES MARJORIE H. GOODWIN (University of South Carolina) YOUTH NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITIES SHIRLEY BRICE HEATH (Stanford University) DISCOURSE AND THE PROFESSIONS PER LINELL (Linkoping University) EARLY LITERACY ACROSS COMMUNITIES CLOTILDE PONTECORVO (University of Rome, La Sapienza) EMILIA FERREIRO (National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) UNDERSTANDING DISCOURSE: ARE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS COMPATIBLE? CLAIRE KRAMSCH (University of California, Berkeley) CREATING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE MARIANNE CELCE-MURCIA (University of California, Los Angeles) ALL PAPERS IN THE LARGER FIELD OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS ARE WELCOME, but submissions addressing the conference theme are strongly encouraged. ABSTRACTS are invited for individual papers and colloquia on topics in applied linguistics, including language acquisition and socialization, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, second and foreign language pedagogy, literacy, language for specific purposes, assessment, language policy and planning, rhetoric and stylistics, translation and interpretation. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for discussion. Send 3 copies of a typed double-spaced abstract no more than 250 words long. In the upper left-hand corner of the first copy, place the submitter's name, address, phone and fax number, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation. Do not put any identification on the second and third copies. In addition, please submit a 50-word typed single-spaced summary, headed by the name and affiliation of each presenter together with the title of the paper. This summary will appear in the conference program exactly as it is submitted. COLLOQUIA proposals are invited for blocks of time up to 3 hours. Colloquia organizers may divide up their block(s) of time as they see fit, but time should be adequately allocated for opening and closing remarks, presentations, discussants, and audience response. A colloquium proposal should include the following: 1) a 50-word typed single-spaced description by the organizer of the entire colloquium, which will appear as submitted in the conference program 2) a 250-word typed double-spaced abstract for EACH INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION (In the upper left-hand corner of the first copy, place the submitter's name, address, phone and fax number, e- mail address, and institutional affiliation.) 3) a 50-word typed single-spaced summary for EACH INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION, headed by the name and affiliation of each presenter together with the title of the paper (This summary will appear in the conference program exactly as it is submitted.) 4) a cover letter from the organizer bearing the organizer's name, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, an explanation of how the individual presentations relate to one another, to the theme of the colloquium, and to the theme of the conference (if relevant) 5) a tentative breakdown of the requested time block into component activities. Abstracts for all presentations in a colloquium must be submitted together. GENERAL INFORMATION: 1) With all submissions, please attach the following information FOR EACH PRESENTER: Presenter's Name, Affiliation, Address, Phone, Fax, E-mail. 2) Please clearly indicate if the submission is an Individual Paper Proposal or a Colloquium Proposal. 3) Titles should be no longer than 10 words. 4) Please indicate which ONE of the following topic areas of applied linguistics the proposal is most relevant to: a) language acquisition/socialization; b) language for specific purposes; c) discourse analysis; d) assessment; e) psycholinguistics; f) language policy and planning; g) sociolinguistics; h) rhetoric and stylistics; i) literacy; j) translation and interpretation; k) second and foreign language pedagogy 5) Please indicate if your presentation will require audio visual equipment: e.g., VCR (fee charged), tape recorder playback, OHP, slide projector 6) Please indicate if any of the presenters will require Deaf interpreting services. 7) Please follow the precise specifications for submissions detailed above. Return all materials IN HARDCOPY FORMAT ONLY to: AAAL 1996 Program Committee, 7630 West 145th Street, Suite 202, Apple Valley, MN 55124-7533, Fax: 612-891-1800 DEADLINE FOR COPIES OF ALL PROPOSALS TO REACH THE AAAL BUSINESS OFFICE: September 17, 1995, 5:00 PM Central Time No late proposals will be accepted. Please direct all electronic queries concerning submissions to the 1996 AAAL Meeting to Sally Jacoby, Associate Chair, IHW1051Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue