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justresearch.com>The deadline for submissions to the CALD Workshop on Mixed Media Databases is April the 5th. Please send submissions to arrive at the address given below by that date. Authors will be notified of paper acceptance by April the 15th if an email address is provided with their submission. The call follows. - --------------------------- You are invited to participate in the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery workshop on Mixed Media databases. This workshop will be held in conjunction with the Conference on Automated Learning and Discovery, being held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from June the 11th to the 13th 1998. This workshop is intended for researchers with an interest in learning from multiple media. The workshop will emphasize both algorithms and applications of learning with mixed media databases. Papers that describe algorithms should cover either novel approaches designed to benefit from mixed-media data, or modifications of standard algorithms that utilize multiple media data sources. Application papers should clearly demonstrate the benefits of learning from two or more types of media. Different media areas to be addressed include: Vision: Image, Video, and VRML Speech and Audio Text, including OCR, Closed-Captioning, handwriting, and web-documents Olfactory perception Haptic and Touch sensing If you would like to present at this workshop, please submit a paper describing original research work and results. Four copies of the paper should be submitted in hardcopy by April the 5th, 1998. Because of the deadline extension, submissions should be sent, in quadruplicate, to: CALD Workshop on Mixed Media Databases Attn: Michael Witbrock Justresearch 4616 Henry St, Pittsburgh PA 15213 The ideal paper should cover two or more topics listed above and apply some aspect of learning to the multiple media data. The learning may involve, but is not limited to neural networks, as well as statistical and probabilistic models. All statistical, probabilistic, and learning approaches are welcome. Papers submitted to this workshop may also be submitted to other conferences or to journals. Detailed submission instructions can be found at the following URL, but you should remember the altered deadline and submission address given above: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conald/call.shtml Selected papers from the workshop will be considered for publication in an upcoming special issue of IEEE Expert journal. Organizers: Shumeet Baluja (balujaMail 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-ACL'98 Sunday August 16, 1998, University of Montreal Final Call for Papers ***SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15th April *** - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 * **NEW** Submission Deadline: April 15, 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