LINGUIST List 9.28

Sat Jan 10 1998

Calls: Clite 1, EMNLP3

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

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1. Tibor Szecsenyi, Clite 1
2. Nancy M. Ide, Conference: EMNLP3

 ANNOUNCING

 CLITE 1

THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTIC THEORY IN
EASTERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES


To be organized by the PhD Program in Theoretical Linguistics of the
University of Szeged, Hungary, 19-21 April, 1998, immediately
following the annual GLOW Meeting at Tilburg.

Keynote speakers are:

Michael Brody (UCL and Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 
 "Mirror theory and the Hungarian verbal complex"
Maria-Luisa Rivero (University of Ottawa),
 "Stylistic verb movement in Slavic and the Balkan area"
Olga Miseska Tomic (University of Novi Sad)
 Title TBA (Topic: South Slavic languages)

The official language of the conference is English. One-page 
 abstracts are expected to be sent by February 28 to the following 
e-mail address: 

sztiborsol.cc.u-szeged.hu

Or by ordinary mail to:

"CLITE 1", JATE Alt. Nyelv. Tsz.
Egyetem u. 2., Szeged, H-6722 Hungary

Fax: 36-62-321843
http://www.arts.u-szeged.hu/dep/genlinguistic/clite/clite1.html

Registration fee is US$ 40.00, which includes a reception, midday
meals and refreshments. A limited number of grants covering
registration, accommodation and meals are available particularly to
students and linguists from Eastern Europe. Grants should be applied
for as soon as possible but February 28 the latest. Reasonable priced
accommodation is offered at local hotels, but inexpensive lodging
especially for low-budget participants is also available.

Szeged is a city of 170,000 in Southern Hungary, and a two-hour
train-ride away from the capital, Budapest. The conference venue is
the centrally located 180-year old Academy building.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee,

 Istvan Kenesei

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 CALL FOR PAPERS
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 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 Hlesinki (co-chair)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

 To be announced

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 "emnlp3cs.vassar.edu" and must either
be (a) plain ascii text or (b) a single postscript file (US letter
format). Hardcopy submissions should be mailed to Nancy Ide (address
below), and should include six (6) copies of the paper.

REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted
for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any
other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be
considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the
submission.

SCHEDULE:

 Submission deadline: Monday, March 2, 1998
 Notification date: Friday, April 3, 1998
 Camera-ready copy due: Friday May 1, 1998
 Conference date: Tuesday, June 2

CONTACTS:

Nancy Ide, Chair
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA
Tel: (+1 914) 437 5988
Fax: (+1 914) 437 7498
E-mail: idecs.vassar.edu

Atro Voutilainen
Research Unit for Multilingual Language Technology
Department of General Linguistics
P.O. Box 4 (Keskuskatu 8, 7th floor) 
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Tel: (+358 9) 191 23 507
Fax: (+358 9) 191 23 598
E-mail: atro.voutilainenling.helsinki.fi


FURTHER INFORMATION:

 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/emnlp3.html
 http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html