LINGUIST List 13.1344

Mon May 13 2002

FYI: Correction: Slavic Ling, Update: Summer School

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  • Brian Joseph, Prize Competition Results -- CORRECTION!!
  • Holmer Hemsen, ESS2002 final programme and new deadlines

    Message 1: Prize Competition Results -- CORRECTION!!

     Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 19:56:41 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Brian Joseph <bjosephling.ohio-state.edu>
    Subject: Prize Competition Results -- CORRECTION!!


    Dear Colleagues:

    This is a corrected version of the announcement -- if possible, please post this one and trash the previous one I sent -- sorry about the mix-up.

    My thanks,

    Brian

    Brian D. Joseph Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics The Ohio State University

    ===============

    **********ANNOUNCING**********

    Results of 2001 Competition for the Kenneth E. Naylor Young Scholar's Prize in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics:

    First Place Prize of $500 awarded to:

    Daniela Trenkic (Postdoctoral Researcher, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (Ph.D. Cambridge, 2000): "Definiteness as a Grammatical Category and as a Category of Meaning in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian"

    Abstract: In this examination of the nature of nominal definiteness in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, two aspects of definiteness are distinguished and defined: definiteness as a grammatical category and definiteness as a category of meaning. The latter is taken as a universal category relating to the identifiability of nominal referents in communication (cf. Hawkins 1991), whereas the former is language-specific, relating to semantic/pragmatic definiteness as the grammaticalisation of the category of meaning (cf. Lyons 1999). Traditional views that relate word-order, adjectival 'definite aspect', and demonstratives to grammatical definiteness are considered here and found lacking. Rather, it is proposed that definiteness is not grammaticalised in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, and that the definiteness of nominal referents is inferred through general principles of goal-oriented behaviour.

    Runner-up Prize of $50 awarded to:

    Olga Arnaudova (Ph.D. candidate, University of Ottawa): "Why do clitics (sometimes) co-occur with DPs: The Case of Bulgarian"

    Abstract: In this study of the cooccurrence of clitic pronouns in Bulgarian with full nominal phrases, it is argued that the presence of the resumptive clitic has a grammatical function, namely to 'externalize' an argument with implications for the focus structure of the sentence. It is claimed that clitics in Bulgarian are argument- variables, base-generated within the Verb Phrase in argument positions which later move to head position of Tense to license discourse operators related to inferentiality. Those discourse operators can optionally host a Determiner Phrase in their Specifier position and realize a higher predication. From this perspective, the motivation behind the formation of the clitic cluster becomes clear: in syntax, clitics move to license discourse-related operators. This analysis explains why clitics are never found in the domain of focus, as well as the thematic 'redundancy' in Clitic Left-Dislocation constructions. It is also shown that in constructions such as (focus) topicalization, there is no clitic since the moved constituent leaves a gap and, independently the needs of the predication do not require an argument-variable.

    These two young South Slavic scholars join Dr. Grant Lundberg of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages of Brigham Young University and Dr. Svetlana Godjevac, of the University of California, San Diego, the First Prize and Runner-up respectively in the 2000 Naylor Prize competition.

    For more information on the competition and the winners, please contact:

    Brian D. Joseph, Naylor Professor Department of Slavic & East European Languages & Literatures The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio USA 43210-1215 joseph.1osu.edu

    Message 2: ESS2002 final programme and new deadlines

     Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:25:30 +0200
    From: Holmer Hemsen <hemsennis.sdu.dk>
    Subject: ESS2002 final programme and new deadlines


    ======================================================================== Final Programme -- new deadlines ======================================================================== 10TH ELSNET EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON LANGUAGE AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION

    Evaluation and Assessment of Text and Speech Systems Odense, Denmark 15-26 July 2002 Organized by the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory (NISLab) University of Southern Denmark. http://www.summerschool2002.nis.sdu.dk

    The ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication has become one of the most successful annual training courses in Europe. For the year 2002 the topic of evaluation and assessment of text and speech systems has been selected. The school will provide courses on evaluation of language, speech, and multimodal systems and components, and on the use of corpora and annotation schemes, methods and tools in the evaluation process. State of the art techniques and tools (hands-on experience included) will be presented by eminent teachers. The target audience of the Summer School are advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, postdocs and academic and industrial researchers and developers.

    GRANTS will be available from the EU Improving Human Potential programme and may cover a substantial part of total costs for young European researchers. The ISCA grant scheme is open for applications related to this summer school.

    COURSE PROGRAMME ========================= Wolfgang Minker (DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany): Evaluation of spoken language dialogue systems. Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau (University Lumiere, France) Speech recognition evaluation: broadcast news transcribtion, meeting transcription, audio-visual speech recognition. Simone Teufel (Cambridge, UK) Evaluation of question/answering systems, summarization systems and information retrieval systems. Maghi King (ISSCO, Switzerland): Evaluation of machine translation systems. Laurent Romary (Loria, France): Annotation and evaluation of text and speech systems. Bj�rn Granstr�m and David House (KTH, Sweden): Evaluation of talking animated interface agents. Christopher Cieri (LDC, USA): Resources and evaluation of text and speech systems. Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, France): Evaluation of part of speech tagging and of parsing technologies. Klaus Failenschmid (SpeechWorks): Usability evaluation. Nick Campbell (ATR, Japan) Evaluation of speech synthesis systems.

    IMPORTANT DATES =============== Deadline for pre-registration & grant application: May 15, 2002 Deadline for registration/accomodation package: June 1, 2002 Notification of registration and grants: June 1, 2002 Payment deadline: June 21, 2002 (see the summer school website for details: http://www.summerschool2002.nis.sdu.dk/ )

    PROGRAMME COMMITTEE =================== Joseph-Jean Mariani (LIMSI, FR) Antonio Zampolli (University of Pisa, IT) Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht University, NL) Koenraad de Smedt (University of Bergen, NO) Niels Ole Bernsen (University of Southern Denmark, DK)

    CONTACT INFORMATION ============================ Holmer Hemsen Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory (NIS) University of Southern Denmark - Odense Forskerparken 10 DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark Email: hemsennis.sdu.dk Phone: (+45) 63 15 73 08 -- Fax: (+45) 63 15 72 24 Web: http://www.summerschool2002.nis.sdu.dk