LINGUIST List 13.2851

Tue Nov 5 2002

Calls: Berkeley Ling Society/Interpreted Corpora

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    Message 1: Annual Meeting of Berkeley Linguistic Society

     Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 23:35:14 -0800 (PST)
    From: bls <blssocrates.Berkeley.EDU>
    Subject: Annual Meeting of Berkeley Linguistic Society


    The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, to be held February 14-17, 2003. The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession and a Special Session.

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    *GENERAL SESSION*

    The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic interest. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and also welcome papers on language-related topics from disciplines such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Literature, Neuroscience and Psychology.

    *Invited Speakers* Judith Aissen, University of California, Santa Cruz Mark Hale, Concordia University Royal Skousen, Brigham Young University Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University

    *PARASESSION* -- Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations The Parasession invites submissions on the role of phonetics in shaping phonological patterns. Papers representing all views and approaches are sought. Those addressing the relative merits of synchronic and diachronic explanations of phonetically-motivated phonological patterns are particularly welcomed.

    *Invited Speakers* Juliette Blevins, University of California, Berkeley Charles Reiss, Concordia University Donca Steriade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    *SPECIAL SESSION* -- Minority and Diasporic Languages of Europe The Special Session will cover minority and diasporic languages of Europe. Languages of interest include minority, threatened and diasporic European languages and dialects, in both Europe and former colonies and in immigrant and heritage situations, as well as pidgins and creoles based on languages spoken in Europe. Proposals from linguistics and related fields are encouraged.

    *Invited Speakers* Julie Auger, Indiana University J. Clancy Clements, Indiana University Joshua Fishman, Yeshiva University

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    ***ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES***

    Presented papers are published in the BLS Proceedings. Authors agree to provide camera-ready copy (not exceeding 12 pages) by May 15, 2003. Presentations are allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.

    An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS. Abstracts should be as specific as possible, with a statement of topic, approach and conclusions. Abstracts may be at most four hundred words. The reverse side of the single page may be used for data and references only. 10 copies of an anonymous, one-page (8.5"x11") abstract should be sent, along with a 3"x5" card listing:

    (1)paper title (2)session (General/Para/Special) (3)name(s) of author(s) (4)affiliation(s) of author(s) (5)address whither notification of acceptance should be mailed (Nov-Dec 2002) (6)contact phone number for each author (7)email address for each author ***for General Session submissions only*** (8)subfield (syntax, phonology, etc.) ***for Para-/Special Session submissions only*** (9)indication of whether you wish to have your abstract considered for the General Session if the organizers determine that your paper will not fit the other sessions

    *SEND ABSTRACTS TO* BLS 29 Abstracts Committee University of California Linguistics Department 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650

    Abstracts must be received in our office (not postmarked) by 4:00 p.m., November 27, 2002. We cannot accept faxed abstracts. Abstracts submitted via e-mail are also accepted. Only those abstracts formatted as ASCII text or a Microsoft Word (Mac version strongly preferred) attachment can be accepted. The text of the message must contain the information requested in (1)-(9) above. Electronic submissions may be sent to ***blssocrates.berkeley.edu*** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    ***REGISTRATION INFORMATION***

    All attendees, including presenters, must register for the meeting. For advance registration, we can accept only checks or money orders drawn on US banks in US dollars, made payable to Berkeley Linguistics Society.

    Received in our office by February 2, 2003: Students $20 Non-students $40 Received after February 2, 2003: Students $25 Non-students $55

    *SEND ADVANCE REGISTRATION TO* BLS 29 Registration University of California Linguistics Department 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650

    ***BLS will arrange ASL interpretation if requested through blssocrates.berkeley.edu before 12/1/02***

    We may be contacted by e-mail at blssocrates.berkeley.edu.

    Message 2: Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora

     Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:43:32 +0100 (MET)
    From: steven.krauwer <steven.krauwerelsnet.org>
    Subject: Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora


    ** CALL FOR PAPERS **

    4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-03)

    A workshop to be held at EACL-03 the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

    Budapest, 14 April 2003

    http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc03



    ORGANIZED BY:

    Anne Abeill� (Paris 7 & LLF, Paris) Silvia Hansen (Saarland University, Saarbr�cken) Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University & DFKI, Saarbr�cken)

    TOPIC AND MOTIVATION:

    Large linguistically interpreted corpora play an increasingly important role for machine learning, evaluation, psycholinguistics as well as theoretical linguistics. Many groups have started to create corpus resources annotated with morphological, syntactic, semantic and discourse information for a variety of languages. Linguistic annotation may consist of morphological analyses, trees, dependencies, grammatical relations, word senses, (co)references, information structure, semantic representations, discourse relations and other types of linguistic information.

    We aim to bring together these activities in order to facilitate advanced and efficient corpus annotations which will provide re-usable resources.

    The workshop will also provide a forum for reports on the scientific and technological exploitation of interpreted corpora in general, computational or psycholinguistics. Such reports on exploitation results are valuable for the comparison of alternative approaches and will thus serve as feedback to ongoing and new corpus annotation efforts.

    We invite submissions of papers constituting substantial, original, and unpublished work on all aspects of linguistically interpreted corpora, including, but not limited to: - creation of practical annotation schemes - efficient annotation techniques including automation - tools supporting corpus conversions - consistency checking and validation - tools and methods for searching and browsing - qualitative and quantitative studies based on linguistically interpreted corpora - technological advances achieved by the exploitation of interpreted corpora

    PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

    Anne Abeill� (co-chair), Paris Thorsten Brants, Palo Alto John Carroll , Sussex Tomaz Erjavec, Ljubljana Silvia Hansen (co-chair), Saarbr�cken Frank Keller, Edinburgh Stephan Oepen, Stanford Geoffrey Sampson, Sussex Kiril Simov, Sofia Hans Uszkoreit (co-chair), Saarbr�cken Jean Veronis, Aix-en-Provence Atro Voutilainen, Helsinki Jakub Zavrel, Antwerp

    SCHEDULE:

    7 January 2003: Deadline for submitted papers 28 January 2003: Notification of acceptance 13 February 2003: Camera ready copy 14 April 2003: Workshop

    REGISTRATION:

    Please refer to the main conference web page (http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/) for registration details.

    SUBMISSIONS:

    Please send submissions in English as Postscript or PDF (preferably by email) to the address below. Maximum length is 8 pages, formatted in the same way as for the main conference (see http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~hajic/eacl03/submission.html for paper format guidelines).

    Silvia Hansen (hansencoli.uni-sb.de) Computational Linguistics Saarland University Postfach 15 11 50 66041 Saarbr�cken GERMANY