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let.ruu.nl>WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Third Utrecht Biannual Phonology Workshop Rene Kager & Wim Zonneveld Utrecht Institute of Linguistics: OTS organisers 11-13 June 1998 Theme: Typology and Language Acquisition Invited speakers: Bruce Hayes (UCLA) and Joe Pater (UBC) Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 1998 ========================================== It is a standard assumption that the striking structural resemblances between human languages are explained from the common starting point: U.G. The study of the striking resemblances (and range of differences) is called `typology'. The direct study of the common starting point is that of `first language acquisition'. Since the introduction of so-called `constraint-based theories', the field of typology and language acquisition is a candidate for a redefinition of its contents and its goals. Questions that can be raised inlcude the following: - What is the nature of the common starting point? Is it an unstructured pool of constraints, where the process of language acquisition consists of providing structure? Is it highly structured (is there a common completely `unmarked', but structured) point of departure), where language acquisition consists of adding markedness? - Is the learning task larger (although not necessarily more difficult) than previously imagined? - To what extent is learning guided by factors of markedness that have an extralinguistic source, e.g., production and/or perception factors? - Is the methodological process of excluding impossible languages different in constraint-based theories, and if so, how? - Is it possible to imagine combined theories of constraints and traditional parameters, both in the area of (adult) typology and language acquisition? ========================================== Abstracts are requested to have a length of 800 words (References incl.). They will be judged according to the following priority scale: - integration of acquisitional and typology issues - acquisitional issues - typological issues Any queries: rene.kagerMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.vassar.edu>========================================================== 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS : DEADLINE MARCH 2, 1998 ========================================================== Third Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-3) WHEN: Tuesday, June 2, 1998 (following the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation and the NSF Workshop on Translingual Information Management) WHERE: Granada, Spain CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION: In the spirit of SIGDAT events, this conference will offer a general forum for novel research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): - robust parsing, phrase structure analysis - part of speech tagging - term and name identification - word sense disambiguation - morphological analysis - anaphora resolution - event categorization - discourse structure identification - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology - language modelling - lexicography - machine translation - spelling and grammar correction In addition, we encourage submissions that describe and evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and recent advances in corpus-based NLP as applied to MULTI-LINGUAL APPLICATIONS. The development of natural language applications which handle multi-lingual information is the next major challenge facing the field of computational linguistics. How well do techniques for lexical tagging, parsing, anaphora resolution, etc., handle the specific problems of multi-lingual applications? What new methods have been developed to address the deficiencies of existing algorithms for these tasks or to address problems specific to handling multi-lingual applications? What problems still lack an adequate empirical solution? Conversely, how can data-driven NLP methods be improved with the help of multi-lingual data? PROGRAM CHAIRS: Nancy Ide Vassar College (chair) Atro Voutilainen University of Helsinki (co-chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Steven Abney, University of Tuebingen, Germany Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland Pascale Fung, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France Ed Hovy, USC/ISI, USA Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland Hwee Tou Ng, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent University, Turkey Peter Schauble, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland Keh Yih Su, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania Evelyne Viegas, New Mexico State University, USA SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP) FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper (3500-8000 words) either electronically or in hardcopy. Electronic submissions should be mailed to "emnlp3Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue