LINGUIST List 14.1609

Fri Jun 6 2003

Calls: General Ling/German; Computational Ling

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  • fipaylim, German Comparative Linguistics and Literature
  • mutt, Computational Linguistics and E-learning

    Message 1: German Comparative Linguistics and Literature

     Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 06:41:55 +0000
    From: fipaylim <fipaylimvh.ehu.es>
    Subject: German Comparative Linguistics and Literature


    German Comparative Linguistics and Literature

    Date: 15-Dec-2003 - 17-Dec-2003 Location: Seville, Spain Contact: Miguel Ayerbe Contact Email: fipaylimvh.ehu.es

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Subject Language: German, Standard Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2003

    Meeting Description:

    The research group ''Filologia Alemana'' (German Philology) of the University of Seville (http://www.us.es) is organizing the II Symposium on German Comparative Linguistics and Literature to be held at the Faculty of Philology in Seville (Spain), December 15th-17th, 2003. Papers comparings aspects of the German language/literature with those of other languages/literatures are welcome.

    Those interested in participating in this Symposium are invited to send the title of the paper and an abstract (length 200 words) to the following address:

    fipaylimvh.ehu.es

    before June 30th, 2003.

    When sending the abstracts candidates must also indicate whether they want to hold a Lecture (50 min.) or to present a Paper (20 min.).

    Message 2: Computational Linguistics and E-learning

     Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:53:49 +0000
    From: mutt <muttccl.umist.ac.uk>
    Subject: Computational Linguistics and E-learning


    Computational Linguistics and E-learning: How much linguistics is required for CALL? Short Title: CL and E-Learning

    Date: 25-Feb-2004 - 27-Feb-2004 Location: Mainz, Germany Contact: Tibor Kiss Contact Email: tiborlinguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

    Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2003

    Meeting Description:

    The workshop is part of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS, the German Linguistic Society). The theme of the Meeting is ''Linguistics in Classroom''.

    DGfS Workshop February 25-27, 2004 Mainz, Germany

    First Call for Papers

    Computational Linguistics and E-learning: How much linguistics is required for CALL?

    The significant increase of computers in schools calls for an increased development and integration of NLP-based educational applications. While basic spell checking is now available for most word processing programs and basic speech processing and recognition techniques are almost standardly available as part of educational applications (e.g., accent training, conversational practice), other areas of computational linguistic competence have not as yet been integrated as part of the toolkit.

    This workshop focuses on the possible integration of state-of-the-art methods in computational linguistics, comprising among other topics:

    o use of statistical natural language processing and corpora

    o state-of-the-art speech technology

    o integration of large scale grammars for error detection and grammar checking

    o adaptation of machine translation techniques (e.g., translation memory, partial translation, formulation of an interlingua)

    o information retrieval methods for a tailoring of user-specific vocabulary acquisition needs

    o reuse of NLP-based generators for the automatic generation of exercise paradigms and self-checking

    The workshop is part of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft f�r Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS, the German Linguistic Society). The theme of the Meeting is ''Linguistics in Classroom''.

    Abstracts are solicited for 30 minute talks (25 minutes talk, 5 minutes discussion).

    Format: 1 page (A4) in pdf or ps (pdf is strongly encouraged, 11 pt minimum). The abstract should be anonymous (for review purposes).

    As part of your e-mail submission you should also include the following in your accompanying message:

    Name of Author(s) E-mail Address(es) Organizational Affiliation Title of Abstract

    Address for submission: tiborlinguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Tibor Kiss, Organizer)

    Deadline: July 31, 2003

    Note that the DGfS Conference also includes a forum for demos. If you would like to schedule a demo in addition to your talk, please submit a demo proposal to Miriam Butt (muttccl.umist.ac.uk) by the 15th of November, 2003.