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cs.rutgers.edu>Below are two more Coling-ACL'98 Workshop announcements: -Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers -Partially Automated Techniques for Transcribing Naturally Occurring, Continuous Speech seperated by: ********************************************************************** Call for papers Coling-ACL '98 workshop "Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers" August 15, 1998 Universiti de Montrial Montrial/Canada (See also: http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html) The notion of discourse relation has received many different interpretations, some of which are hardly compatible with one another. Nonetheless, there is a consensus among researchers that intersegment relations hold between adjacent portions of a text and that these relations may be signalled by linguistic means, including so-called cue phrases, aspect and mood shifts, theme inversions, and other markers. The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on discourse relations and discourse markers in different linguistic traditions and different NLP applications. The particular focus of the workshop is the issue of discourse relations from the viewpoint of linguistic realization. Specifically, contributions should address one or more of the following questions: o What are sound methodologies for comparing similar discourse markers (contrastive studies, distribution analyses, etc.)? o What are sound methodologies for relating discourse relations with potential realizations? o Are there discourse relations that are always lexically signalled? Are there any that are never lexically signalled? o What non-lexical (i.e., syntactic or prosodic) means are used to signal a relation? o In production, how does one decide whether to signal a relation at all? o In production, how does one motivate a choice among candidate signals for a given relation? o In production, how does the choice of signal interact with other decisions (in particular, those of linearizing some tree or graph structure)? o In analysis, is it possible to reliably infer discourse relations from surface cues? o In analysis, how can one disambiguate polysemous signals such as "and", "since" (temporal or causal) etc.? o What are useful lexical representations of discourse markers, for both analysis and production? o What are useful representations of discourse relations (and the entities they relate), such that they facilitate the realization decision? What features would one like to have handy in a representation so that choices can be made easily? o Are there significant differences between realizations in spoken and written language? o How do individual languages differ in terms of any of the above issues? Organizing committee The workshop is organized by Manfred Stede (TU Berlin) Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart) Eduard Hovy (ISI/USC, Marina del Rey) Requirements for submission Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above. Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty Papers can be submitted either electronically in PostScript format, or as hardcopies. Submissions from North America should be sent to: Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 U.S.A. hovyMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.um.edu.mt>Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages COLING-ACL98 Sunday August 16, 1998, University of Montreal Second Call for Papers - ---------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Although there exists a considerable body of CL research specifically targeted to Semitic languages, much of the work to date has been the result of initiatives undertaken by individual researchers or research establishments. A direct consequence is that there is comparatively little awareness amongst practitioners of either the state of the art as practiced outside their own locality, the common challenges faced by all practitioners, or the potential for developing a coordinated approach. The aims of this workshop are therefore: * To provide a forum where current work in a broad range of subfields can be presented, collected and diffused. * To assess the state of the art with a view to identifying promising areas for future collaborative research. * To set up initiatives to explore the possibilities of supporting such research through national and international funding agencies. SUBTOPICS Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): * Educational Applications * Empirical Methods * Orthographic Represention * Language Modelling * Language Resources * Lexicon and Lexical Represention * Machine Translation * Morphology and Phonology * Multilinguality * Syntax, Parsing and Generation * Speech Applications WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (coordinator) Mohamed Abd-Elsalam, Sakr Software, Egypt Ken Beesley, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France Khalid Choukri, ELRA /ELDA, France Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel Fathi Debili, CNRS-CRLAO (Paris) / IRMC, Tunis Mamoun Hattab, Arabic Textware, Amman, Jordan George Kiraz, Bell Labs, USA Chadia Moghrabi, Univerity of Moncton, Canada Mori Rimon, Hebrew University, Israel SPONSOR Mid-Med Bank, Malta SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Deadlines * Submission Deadline: April 6, 1998 * Notification Date: June 1, 1998 * Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998 Format * Electronic submissions only, Postscript format. * Provide a list of keywords and indicate the best fitting subtopic from the above list. * LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty * Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. * Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). * Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. * Please submit papers to mrosMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue