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ist.flinders.edu.au>Paradigms and Grounding in Language Learning Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd January Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide (part of the Australian NLP Fortnight) This workshop is focussed on alternatives to the statistical and learning methodologies based on tagged or bracketed corpora. Such learning has the advantage that fast training can be performed and highly effective systems can be developed for the type of text on which it has trained and the grammatical formalism with which the corpus was prepared. On the other hand, it has several disadvantages: it assumes the very formalism which it is trying to learn, it depends on statistics to choose between ambiguous parses, it offers no opportunity to learn a grounded semantics. This workshop is interested in techniques which automatically propose segmentations, classifications and parses based on plain text or speech corpora, whether syntactic, semantic, phonological or morphological. We are particulary interested in language learning in embedded environments where syntactic, semantic and pragmatic information can be learned in a way comparable with the way in which children learn language. We are also interested in theoretical issues relating to the learning situation or paradigm, and approaches which adopt an interdisciplinary approach using models from in psycholinguistics or cognitive linguistics or cognitive science. Submissions should be in the ANLPF conference submission format and may be two to four pages in length. All submissions will be reviewed. Longer papers will be considered at the discretion of the organizers. Papers should be submitted in final format in PostScript Topics may include but are not limited to: Unsupervised paradigms language learning Algorithms for unsupervised language learning Statistical methods for unsupervised language learning Self-organizing neural nets for language learning Segmentation and Classification models Grounded models of language and ontology Learning or evolution/emergence of robot communication Learning of taxonomies and semantic networks Deadline for papers: 14th November 1997 Acceptances will be notified by: 28th Novebmer 1997 Organizer: David Powers Loebner Prize Committee Flinders University Address for correspondence and postscript submissions: conllMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
mail.telepac.pt>EIGHTH COLLOQUIUM ON GENERATIVE GRAMMAR FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Following the tradition of the last seven years, we are pleased to announce the Eighth Colloquium on Generative Grammar, organised by the Universidade de Lisboa and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, which will take place from the 19th to the 22nd of April 1998. We invite all linguists working in the framework of Generative Grammar to submit their contributions on any topic in the field. The talks, with the duration of thirty minutes, will be followed by ten minutes discussion. The Colloquium will have only plenary sections, during which about thirty talks will be presented and discussed. CALL FOR PAPERS The linguists interested in participating in the colloquium should send ten copies of an abstract in A4 format, with font size 12 and line space 1.5. The abstract must be anonymous, written in English or in any Romance language, and cannot exceed three pages (two for text and one for references or graphics). The author's name, as well as his/her identification (affiliation, address, email or fax), must be sent in a separate sheet. The deadline for the reception of abstracts, which will have to be sent by post, is the 15th of January 1998. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Manuela Ambar (UL), Ernesto d'Andrade (UL), Ignacio Bosque (UCM), Violeta Demonte (UAM), Ines Duarte (UL), Maria Luisa Hernanz (UAB), Itziar Laka (UPB), Joan Mascara (UAB), Gabriela Matos (UL), Jon Ortiz de Urbina (Deusto), Gemma Rigau (UAB), Maria Francisca Xavier (UNL) ORGANISING COMMITTEE Violeta Demonte, Maria Helena Mateus, Ines Duarte, Manuela Ambar, Maria Francisca Xavier, Gabriela Matos, Jose Costa, Maria Jose Freitas, Maria Sousa Lobo, Matilde Miguel, =CDris Pereira, Rita Veloso, Cristina Vieira da Silva FEES AND LODGING The colloquium fees is PTE 7 500$00 (about US$42), from which the participants presenting talks are exempted. The Organising Committee is trying to raise funds to give grants to such participants. The colloquium will take place in Pousada de Palmela, located in a castle which once belonged to the military Order of Santiago, about 40 kms away from Lisbon. As the Pousada only has 25 rooms available, participants wishing to be lodged there are strongly recommended to make an early booking. Alternative lodging will be available in a hotel in Setubal, about 7 kms away from the Pousada; the Organising Committee will provide transportation between Setubal and the Pousada in the morning and late in the afternoon. Participants wishing to book their accommodation and meals through the Organising Committee may choose one of the following packages: Package 1: Lodging in a double room and breakfast at the Pousada de Palmela (19-20, 20-21, 21-22) + Dinner (19) + Lunches (20,21) + Coffee-break (5) + Registration fee =3D PTE 46 500$00 Package 2: Lodging in a single room and breakfast at the Pousada de Palmela (19-20, 20-21, 21-22) + Dinner (19) + Lunches (20, 21)+ Coffee-break (5) + Registration fee =3D PTE 74 000$00 Package 3: Lodging in a double room and breakfast at the Albergaria Laitau, Setubal (19-20, 20-21, 21-22) + Dinner (19) + Lunches (20, 21) + Coffee-break (5) + Registration fee =3D PTE 32 500$00 Package 4: Lodging in a single room and breakfast at the Albergaria Laitau, Setubal (19-20, 20-21, 21-22) + Dinner (19) + Lunches (20, 21) + Coffee-break (5) + Registration fee =3D PTE 42 500$00 Package 5: Dinner (19) + Lunches (20, 21) + Coffee-break (5) + Registration fee =3D PTE 22 500$00 In the second announcement, a list of alternative accommodations for those who prefer to make their own arrangements will be provided. COLLOQUIUM SECRETARIAT All mail should be sent to: 1. Gabriela Matos DLGR, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Alameda da Universidade 1699 LISBOA CODEX PORTUGAL Fax: 351-1-7960063 or 2. manuela.ambarMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cltr.uq.edu.au>CALL FOR PAPERS The 23rd Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA). STRATEGIES FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM A major event within "Language and Linguistics in Brisbane" 1998. 30 June - 3 July 1998 Griffith University Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. You are invited to participate in the 23rd Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA). Strategies for the New Millenium, the theme of the Congress, reflects our focus on advances in practical and theoretical knowledge in applied linguistics as we define future goals and develop strategies to meet the challenges which we face. Invited Plenary Speakers include: * Merril Swain: The Output Hypothesis and beyond. * Anna Uhl Chamot: Language learning strategies instruction: Promises & Pitfalls. * Diane Larsen-Freeman: On chaos and complexity in applied linguistics. * Michael Clyne: Managing and harnessing linguistic diversity in the 21st Century. * Geoffrey Williams: The logic of a pedagogic standard: Partnership and preclusion in early literacy pedagogy. * Peter Freebody & Des Power: Literacy education and young deaf adults: Life histories and classroom experiences. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: January 31, 1998. For further details, go to our Web site on http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/alaa/alaa98.html Contact: Margaret Fletcher Education Faculty Griffith University Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia Tel: +61 7 3875 6869; Fax: +61 7 3875 5965 Email: M.FletcherMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue