LINGUIST List 9.94

Tue Jan 20 1998

Calls: Lexical Functional Grammar (Final), ICSLP'98

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

Directory

1. Christopher D. Manning, Lexical Functional Grammar Conf: Final Call for Papers
2. Chris Cleirigh, ICSLP '98

			 Final Call for Papers

 LFG98

 1998 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

 30 June - 2 July 1998
 The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

 ----> Submission receipt deadline: 30 January 1998 <----
 URL: http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/
 Enquiries: lfg98sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au

You are invited you to participate in LFG98 which will take place from
30 June till 2 July 1998 at Emmanuel College, The University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

LFG98, the third in a series of international conferences, will take
place just before the Australian Linguistic Society annual meeting and
the two week Australian Linguistic Institute. The conference welcomes
work both within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar
and typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of
LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel,
constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote
interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in
nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the
interaction of constraints from multiple levels, including category
information, grammatical relations, and semantic information. Further
information about the syntactic theory LFG can be obtained from:

 http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/

PARTICIPATION

LFG98 will be attended by most of the leading figures in the
international LFG community including Farrell Ackerman, Avery Andrews,
Kersti Borjars, Joan Bresnan, Mary Dalrymple, Ron Kaplan,
K.P. Mohanan, Tara Mohanan, Nigel Vincent, Annie Zaenen, ...

SUBMISSIONS

The conference will involve 20-minute talks, poster/system
presentations, and workshops. Talks and poster presentations will
focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an
emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives,
whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. We
particularly welcome papers and suggestions for workshops on languages
of the Asia-Pacific region.

Abstracts and papers must be received by 30 January 1998, and should
be submitted to the program committee chairs at the address given
below.

ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Send paper/abstract/poster submissions and inquiries about submissions
to:

Program Committee Chairs: Tracy King <thkingparc.xerox.com>
 Miriam Butt <miriam.buttuni-konstanz.de>

Mail: Tracy Holloway King
 Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory
 Xerox PARC
 3333 Coyote Hill Road
 Palo Alto CA 94304
 USA

Contact the conference organisers at:

Organisers: Christopher Manning <cmanningmail.usyd.edu.au>
 Jane Simpson <jhsmail.usyd.edu.au>

Email: lfg98sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au

Mail: Christopher Manning or Jane Simpson
 Linguistics F12
 University of Sydney NSW 2006
 AUSTRALIA

MORE INFORMATION (REGISTRATION, ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS, ETC.)

More information is available in the full call for papers, available
at the conference website:

 http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/

CALL FOR PAPERS

FOR THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING

ICSLP '98

Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre
November 30th - December 4th 1998

The ICSLP '98 conference will continue the eight year tradition of the
ICSLP series in bringing together professionals from all the diverse
disciplines that contribute to Spoken Language Processing. It will be
the premier international display of the state-of-the-art in this
broad field in 1998. The conference will build bridges between people
and sub-disciplines in order to create and nurture synergies that are
important for the future of the field.

Keynote presentations and other plenary events which bring both
experience and vision of multi-disciplinary attacks on grand
challenges in spoken language processing in both humans and machines
will contribute to our aims. A student day at which full-time student
registrants may present their ideas under the guidance of senior
mentors is also planned. However, it is the quality of the delegate
presentations which will be the major factor in making ICSLP '98 a
truly landmark event. This call for papers offers to you the
opportunity to be a part of this significant event.

CO-SPONSORING SOCIETIES

Acoustical Society of America
Acoustical Society of China
Acoustical Society of Japan
Acoustical Society of Korea
Association for Computational Linguistics
Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
	Processing
Audiological Society of Australia Inc.
Australian Linguistic Society
European Speech Communication Association
IEEE Signal Processing Society
International Phonetic Association
International Society for Phonetic Sciences


INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Souguil J.M. Ann, Seoul National University, Korea
Jens P. Blauert, Ruhr-Universitaet, Germany
Michael Brooke, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Timothy Bunnell, University of Delaware, USA
Anne Cutler, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA
Bjorn Granstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Roger Moore, Defence Research Authority, United Kingdom
John J. Ohala, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Louis C.W. Pols, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Christel Sorin, Centre Nationale d'Etude des Telecommunications,
	France
Yoh'ichi Tohkura, ATR, Japan
Jialu Zhang, Academia Sinica, China

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Tour Hosts Conference & Exhibition Organisers
GPO Box 128
SYDNEY NSW 2000
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 2 9262 2277
Fax: +61 2 9262 3135
Email: icslp98tourhosts.com.au



SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submissions are invited in any of the following technical topic areas:

A. Human Speech Production, Acoustic-Phonetics and Articulatory Models
B. Human Speech Perception
C. Language Acquisition: First and Second Languages
D. Spoken Language and Dialogue Modelling; Dialogue Systems
E. Isolated Word Recognition
F. Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
G. Utterance Verification and Word Spotting
H. Speaker Adaptation and Normalisation in Speech Recognition
I. Speaker and Language Recognition; Dialects and Speaking Styles
J. Multilingual Perception and Recognition
K. Signal Processing, Speech Analysis and Feature Extraction
L. Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments
M. Hidden Markov Model Techniques
N. Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Algorithms
O. Spoken Language Understanding Systems
P. Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Q. Prosody and Emotion; Focus, Stress and Accent
R. Speech Coding
S. Spoken Language Generation Systems; Concept-to-Speech
T. Spoken Language Translation Systems
U. Analysis of Speech and Hearing Disorders
V. Speech Processing for the Speech-impaired and Hearing-impaired
W. Segmentation, Labelling and Speech Corpora
X. Speech Technology Applications and Human-Machine Interfaces
Y. Spoken Language Processing and Multimodality
Z. Other Areas of Spoken Language Processing



FORMAT OF SUBMISSION

Acceptance of papers for presentation at the conference will be on the
basis of reviewed summaries. You should submit a summary of your paper
comprising approximately 500 words. At the top of the page, please
specify the following:


Corresponding Author contact details:

Full Name 
Full Postal Mail Address 
Email Address 
Fax Number 
Phone Number


Proposed Paper details:

Paper Title 
Author List 
Topic ID (A-Z) 
Four additional keywords
Presentation preference (oral, poster, student day)


The Topic ID should be a single category from the topic list specified
as an alphabetic letter; if your submission falls within the broad
area of spoken language processing but is not explicitly represented
in the topic list, please use the Z category. The four additional
keywords are requested in order to assist the programme committee in
assigning reviewers.


MEANS OF SUBMISSION

Electronic submission of summaries via the World Wide Web is
preferred. A Summary Submission Form is available via URL at

http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98 

Alternatively, a pro-forma for email submission can be obtained from
this URL or by emailing icslp98tourhosts.com.au . Email submissions
should be sent to icslp98one.net.au . If electronic submission is not
possible, postal submissions (4 copies) to the ICSLP '98 Secretariat
address specified below will be accepted provided that they adhere to
the above format. Please do NOT fax submissions.

RESTRICTIONS ON SUBMISSIONS

Please note that only ASCII summaries written in English will be
accepted. Do not include any attachments, graphics, or embedded
formatting commands. Given the large number of submissions we expect
to receive, anything that cannot be printed directly will be rejected
without consideration.


ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT

You should receive an acknowledgment of receipt within 72 hours of
electronically submitting your summary. If this does not happen, then
you should resend your submission by email to icslp98one.net.au with
the word RESUBMISSION at the beginning of the subject line. If an
acknowledgment is still not forthcoming, an email problem should be
assumed, and the summary submitted by fax. Please do not resubmit or
send by fax for any other reasons than lack of acknowledgment from the
conference.


CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE

All papers must be presented in English by one of the listed
authors. That author will be required to register no later than the
full-paper submission date. Summaries will not be accepted after the
submission date.


STUDENT DAY SUBMISSIONS

Students wishing to submit papers for the SST Student Day should
submit summaries as above. These submissions will be separately
reviewed and published under the banner of the 7th Australian Speech
Science & Technology Conference and will also be included on the CDROM
containing the ICSLP '98 proceedings.


SUBMISSION ADDRESSES

World Wide Web: URL = http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98 

E-mail Submission: icslp98one.net.au 

Postal: ICSLP '98 Secretariat, GPO Box 128, Sydney, NSW 2001,
	Australia

Technical queries: Robert Dale - email: rdalempce.mq.edu.au 

General Information: Email: icslp98tourhosts.com.au 


IMPORTANT DATES

Friday 1st May, 1998 Paper summaries due for review

Friday 26th June, 1998 Acceptance notification

Friday 21st August, 1998 Deadline for full-paper submission