LINGUIST List 7.1359

Tue Oct 1 1996

Calls: Critical discourse analysis, Australasian NLP workshop

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1. LISTSERVTAMVM1.TAMU.EDU, FIRST LATIN AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
2. Robert Dale, CFP: 1997 Australasian Summer NLP Workshop

 FIRST LATIN AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
 Second call

 Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 13 to November 15 1996

 Organized by: Sociedad Argentina de Linguistica
 (Argentine Linguistics Society)

 Coorganized by:

 Centro de Investigaciones en Antropologia Filosofica y Cultural (CIAFIC)
 Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Escuela Superior de Idiomas
 Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Facultad de Humanidades,
 Grupo Analisis del Discurso

 Sponsored by: Colegio de Traductores Publicos de la Ciudad de Buenos
		Aires
	Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (SADE)

 Venue: 12 de Octubre Hotel, Callao 1764 (Callao and Quintana)

 Closing Ceremony: Biblioteca Nacional (National Library)

 Organizing Committee: Alicia Carrizo, Adriana Cortes,
 Monica Descalzi, Viviana Iturburu, Adriana Lorusso, Valentina Noblia

 General Coordinators: Martin Menendez, Maria Laura Pardo

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 LATIN AMERICAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE
 Ramon Alvarado (UAM, Mexico, F.D.)
 Adriana Bolivar (Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas)
 Teresa Carbo (CIESAS, Mexico, F.D.)
 Fernando Castanhos (UNAM, Mexico, F.D.)
 Beatriz Lavandera (CIAFIC-CONICET, Buenos Aires)
 Alba Valencia (Sociedad Chilena de Linguistica -
 Chilean Linguistics Society)

 REFEREEING COMMITTEE
 Dr. Raul Arlotti
 Dr. Ricardo Chiesa
 Dr. Gustavo Constantino
 Dr. Beatrice Dorfman Learner
 Dr. Luciano Elizalde
 Dr. Maria Marta Garcia Negroni
 Prof. Estela Klett
 Dr. Edith Litwin
 Dr. Irma Marabotti
 Prof. Martin Menendez
 Prof. Delfina Muschietti
 Dr. Tulio Ortiz
 Prof. Jorge Panesi	
 Prof. Alan Pauls
 Dr. Maria Laura Pardo
 Dr. Irene Vasilachis de Gialdino

 ****PLENARY SESSION SPEAKER: PROF. TEUN VAN DIJK****

 GROUP						PRESIDENT
 1. Critical Discourse Analysis:
 theory and method 		Maria Laura Pardo
 2. Discourse and power				Irene Vasialchis de Gialdino
 3. Discourse and translation	 	 	Ricardo Chiesa
 4. Discourse and education			Gustavo Constantino
 5. Discourse and critical theory 		Jorge Panesi
 6. Discourse and political science		Tulio Ortiz
 7. Discourse and pragmatics			Martin Menendez
 8. Discourse and multimedia writing		To be confirmed

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 Submission of abstracts

 POSTPONEMENT: they will be received until October 15.

 The original and two copies should be sent, typed on A4 paper, using
single spacing. Abstracts should have no more than two hundred
words. Bibliographical references may be included separately. Copies
should be sent under a pseudonym, and the author's particulars on a
separate sheet or in the original. Papers already received with no
pseudonym have been given one before being remitted to the
corresponding refereeing committtee.

 Paper submission
 Any unpublished papers may be submitted to any of the eight groups.
Each accepted paper should be read in twenty minutes (approximately
ten A4 pages, typed using double spacing), with ten minutes for
discussion. The original, a copy and a diskette with Word or Word
Perfect format must be sent.

 Poster presentation
 It should keep to the same guidelines as paper presentation. Design
should include: title and name of the author(s), abstract,
introduction, methodology, text analysis (up to two), outcome in each
case, conclusions. Surface will be approximately 1 square meter.

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 Presentation schedule (new deadlines)
 Abstract reception: October 15.
 Abstract acceptance notifications: referees should reach a decision
 before November 1.

 Send them to:
 First Latin American Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis
 Federico Lacroze 2100
 1426 Capital Federal
 Republica Argentina
 Phone #: (54) (1) 773-0913 (54) (1) 777-5280
 Fax: (54) (1) 776-0913
 E-mail: postmasterciafic.edu.ar
 	postmasterdiscur.filo.uba.ar

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 Conference schedule:

 Wednesday 13
 09:00: Registration
 11.00: Plenary session: Prof. Teum van Dijk
 13.00: Break
 14.00: Group 1. Critical Discourse Analysis: theory and method
 16.30: Break
 17.00: Group 2. Discourse and power
 19.30: Break
 20.00: Poster display
 21.00: Close

 Thursday 14
 09.00: Group 3: Discourse and translation
 11.30: Break
 14.00: Group 4. Discourse and education
 16.30: Break
 17.00: Group 5. Discourse and critical theory
 19.30: Break
 20.00: Poster display
 21.00: Close

 Friday 15
 09.00: Group 6. Discourse and political science
 11.30: Break
 14.00: Group 7. Discourse and pragmatics
 16.30: Break
 17.00: Group 8. Discourse and multimedia writing
 19.30: Break
 20.00: Closing ceremony

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 Fees
		SAL/SADE members			Others
 			US$				 US$
 Speakers		60				 80
 Atenders		40				 60
 Students		10				 20


 PAYMENT:
 In Argentina: you can pay the sum to Adriana Mabel Cortes, into the
Banco Frances account # 0903471/3. You can make the deposit at your
town branch and send the acknowledgement with your particulars by fax.
You can also pay by post-office giro to Adriana Mabel Cortes, Formosa
4747, 7600, Mar del Plata. Or personally.

 Abroad: by bank transfer to the Banco Frances del Rio de la Plata
S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, account # 0903471/3, held by Mabel
Cortes, paying the sum into the Swiss Bank Corporation, New York,
account #101WA374024000.

 All the correspondence concerning the Conference, as well as the
abstracts and papers should be sent to the Sociedad Argentina de
Linguistica's address:

 Federico Lacroze 2100
 1426, Capital Federal
 Republica Argentina

 Phone #: (54) (1) 776-0913
 	 (54) (1) 777-5280
 Fax: (54) (1) 776-0913

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			 CALL FOR PAPERS
 1997 Australasian Natural Language Processing Summer Workshop
			Saturday 8th February 1997
		 Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia


Purpose

This year we are again organizing a one-day workshop on Natural
Language Processing, timed to immediately follow the Australian
Computer Science Conference which is also being held at Macquarie
University. The goals of the workshop are to further establish the
growing NLP community in Australia and New Zealand, and to provide an
opportunity for the broader computer science community to become aware
of local NLP research. Our hope is to get as many Australasian NLPers
together as possible to see where things are currently at; ideally
every active project and research team (and teams can be very small!)
would be represented. Additionally, we are delighted to be able to
have Professor Kathy McKeown from Columbia University as a keynote
speaker at the workshop.

We invite the submission of papers on all aspects of natural language
processing, including, but not limited to, speech understanding and
generation; phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and
discourse; interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;
language-oriented information extraction and retrieval; corpus-based
and statistical language modeling; machine translation and translation
aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and
narrative understanding systems; and computational lexicography.

We particularly welcome papers from postgraduate students working in
the area.

Organising Committee

Robert Dale, Microsoft Research Institute, Macquarie University;
Christopher Manning, University of Sydney; and Cecile Paris, CSIRO,
Sydney.

Submission Format

Initial submissions should be in the form of four-page extended
abstracts, printed single spaced in 12 point font. The first page
should include the paper title, author(s) name(s), complete addresses
including email address and fax number, and a short (5 line)
summary. Submissions may be either hardcopy or electronic; fax
submissions are not acceptable.

Electronic Submission

Electronic submissions of ASCII, MIME-encoded Word (7 or 5 for Mac),
PDF, Postscript, self-contained Latex2e, or HTML files should be sent
to cmanningmail.usyd.edu.au. Please submit electronic files ahead of
the submission date so that we can be sure that they are printable; if
we cannot print your file by the submission date it will be rejected
without review.

Hard Copy Submission

Four copies of the paper should be sent to:

Christopher Manning
1997 NLP Summer Workshop Submission
Linguistics F12
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA

Deadlines

Paper and electronic submissions must be received by FRIDAY 29th
NOVEMBER 1996. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first
author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be
notified of acceptance by MONDAY 16th DECEMBER 1996. Camera-ready
copies of final eight-page papers must be received by MONDAY 27th
JANUARY 1997.