LINGUIST List 14.1675

Thu Jun 12 2003

Calls: General Ling/UK; Computational Ling/Portugal

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  • tonyj, Diagrams 2004
  • ddg, Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese

    Message 1: Diagrams 2004

     Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:12:48 +0000
    From: tonyj <tonyjmail.csse.monash.edu.au>
    Subject: Diagrams 2004


    Diagrams 2004: Third International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams Short Title: Diagrams 2004

    Date: 22-Mar-2004 - 24-Mar-2004 Location: Univeristy of Cambridge, United Kingdom Contact: Tony Jansen Contact Email: tonyjmail.csse.monash.edu.au Meeting URL: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~d2k4/

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Call Deadline: 12-Sep-2003

    Meeting Description:

    ''Diagrams'' is an international and interdisciplinary conference series on the theory and application of diagrams in any scientific field of enquiry. From early human history, diagrams have been pervasive in human communication. The recent rise of multimedia technology that has turned advanced visual communication into an integral part of our everyday reality makes a better understanding of the role of diagrams and sketches in communication, cognition, creative thought, and problem-solving a necessity. These developments have triggered a new surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations, which is driven by several different scientific disciplines concerned with cognition, computation and communication.

    Diagrams 2004: Third International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams

    March 22-24, 2004 Cambridge University, UK

    The study of diagrammatic communication as a whole must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavor. ''Diagrams 2004'' is the third event in this conference series, which was successfully launched in Edinburgh in September 2000. It attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all academic fields that are studying the nature of diagrammatic representations, their use in human communication, and cognitive or computational mechanisms for processing diagrams. By combining several earlier workshop and symposia series that were held in the US and Europe [Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations (DR), US; Thinking with Diagrams (TWD), Europe; Theory of Visual Languages (TVL), Europe], ''Diagrams'' has emerged as a major international conference on this topic. It is the only conference that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, philosophy and logic, and psychology, to name a few.

    Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * diagram understanding by humans or machines * reasoning with diagrammatic representations * diagram usage in scientific discovery * history of diagrammatic languages and notations * formalization of diagrammatic notations * novel uses of diagrammatic notations * design of diagrammatic notations * interactive graphical communication * psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension, and production of diagrams * computational models of reasoning with and interpretation of diagrams * role of diagrams in applied areas such as visualization * spatial information and diagrams * usability issues concerning diagrams * design with diagrams

    ''Diagrams 2004'' will consist of technical sessions with presentations of refereed papers, posters and tutorial sessions. The tutorials will provide introductions to diagram research in various disciplines in order to foster a lively interdisciplinary exchange.

    We invite submissions of tutorial proposals, full research papers and extended abstracts of posters. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed and accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference proceedings.

    Important Dates: - --------------- 5 September: notice of intent to submit 12 September: deadline for regular research paper and tutorial proposal submission 12 November: deadline for extended abstract for poster paper submission 16 November: notification for tutorial proposals & full papers 23 November: notification for posters 15 December: camera ready copies due 22-24 March: Diagrams conference

    For more information visit the conference website http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~d2k4/

    Conference Organisation - --------------------- Alan Blackwell (General Chair) Kim Marriott & Atsushi Shimojima (Program Chairs) Mateja Jamnik (Local Chair) Jesse Norman (Sponsorship Chair) Tony Jansen (Publicity Chair)

    Program Committee: Gerard Allwein, US Naval Research Center, USA Dave Barker-Plummer, Stanford University, USA Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge, UK Dorothea Blostein, Queen's University, Canada Paolo Bottoni, University of Rome, Italy B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State Univ, USA Peter Cheng, University of Nottingham, UK Max J. Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA Norman Foo, University of Sydney, Australia George Furnas, University of Michigan, USA Corin Gurr, Edinburgh University, UK Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada Pat Healey, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Mary Hegarty, University of California, USA John Howse, University of Brighton, UK Roland Hubscher, Auburn University, USA Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge, UK Yasu Katagiri, ATR Media Information Science Labs, Japan Oliver von Klopp Lemon, Edinburgh University, UK Stephen Kosslyn, Harvard University, USA Zenon Kulpa, Institute of Fund. Technological Research, Poland Stefano Levialdi, University of Rome, Italy Ric Lowe, Curtin University, Australia Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia Mark Minas, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany N. Hari Narayanan, Auburn University, USA Jesse Norman, University College London, UK Ray Paton, University of Liverpool, UK Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK Priti Shah, University of Michigan, USA Atsushi Shimojima, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Sun-Joo Shin, Yale University, USA Keith Stenning, Edinburgh University, UK Masaki Suwa, Chukyo University, Japan Nik Swoboda, ATR Media Information Science Labs, Japan Barbara Tversky, Stanford University, USA (This is an incomplete list - more names will be added)

    Message 2: Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese

     Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 06:59:16 +0000
    From: ddg <ddgdi.ubi.pt>
    Subject: Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese


    Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese Short Title: TASHA'2003

    Date: 03-Oct-2003 - 03-Oct-2003 Location: Lisbon, Portugal Contact: Ant�nio Branco Contact Email: tasha2003di.fc.ul.pt Meeting URL: http://tasha2003.di.fc.ul.pt

    Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics Subject Language: Portuguese Call Deadline: 04-Jul-2003

    Meeting Description: Workshop on Tagging and Shallow Processing of Portuguese (TASHA'2003) University of Lisbon, October 3, 2003 http://tasha2003.di.fc.ul.pt

    A workshop associated with the XIX Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Linguistics Society http://www.apl.org.pt/xix.htm

    Scope - ---

    Recent advances on tagging and other shallow processing tools have confirmed the key importance of these applications to enable subsequent stages of efficient deep linguistic processing, and to improve the quality of information retrieval services and support the semantic web.

    The goal of this workshop will be to provide a forum to discuss experiences and exchange results between people working in this area, and to review the current state of the art in this diverse field in what concerns the Portuguese language.

    We would like to invite presentations reporting on recent advances on all aspects of the shallow processing of Portuguese. We encourage the representation of a large, multidisciplinary range of aspects including but not limited to issues related to the entire production cycle of POS taggers and other shallow processing tools such as tokenizers, stemmers, MWU detectors, named entity recognizers, NP chunkers, WSD tools, PP attachment resolvers, terminology extractors, etc., ranging from the collection of stop lists to the integration of these tools into broader systems and applications, and including a.o. methodologies for accurate hand tagging, linguistic resources for training and evaluation, learning algorithms and their eventual tuning to Portuguese, finite-state solutions, evaluation metrics and results, selected linguistic generalizations and specifications, etc.

    We invite presentations about relevant solutions and approaches to the above issues as well as descriptions or demos of tools, resources, systems or projects.

    Important Dates - -------------

    Deadline for submissions: July 4 Notification of acceptance: July 31 Camera-ready versions: September 8

    Invited talk - ----------

    Bradley Music (t.b.c.) (Microsoft Corp., USA)

    Program Committee - ---------------

    Alina Villalva (Univ. Lisboa, Dep. Lingu�stica, Portugal)

    Am�lia Mendes (Univ. Lisboa, CLUL, Portugal)

    Ant�nio Branco (Univ. Lisboa, Dep. Inform�tica, Portugal)

    Caroline Hag�ge (Xerox Research Centre, France)

    Gae''l Dias (Univ. Beira Interior, Dep. Inform�tica, Portugal)

    Marco Rocha (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina, Dep. Lingu�stica, Brazil)

    Nuno Mamede (L2F INESC-ID Lisboa / IST, Portugal)

    Nuno Marques (Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Dept. Inform�tica, Portugal)

    Renata Vieira (Univ. Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Dep. Inform�tica, Brazil)

    Rute Costa (Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Dep. Lingu�stica, Portugal)

    Tony Sardinha (Univ. Cat�lica de S�o Paulo, Dep. Lingu�stica, Brazil)

    Vera Strube de Lima (Pontif�cia Univ. Cat�lica do Rio Grande do Sul, Fac. Inform�tica, Brazil)

    Organization committee - --------------------

    Ant�nio Branco (Univ. Lisboa, Dep. Inform�tica) Am�lia Mendes (Univ. Lisboa, CLUL) Ricardo Ribeiro (L2F INESC-ID Lisboa / ISCTE)

    Submission instructions - ---------------------

    Submission: For submitting a contribution, please send an anonymous abstract, without id information or self-references, of no more than 3 A4 pages, including figures, tables and references, to the following email address: tasha2003di.fc.ul.pt

    Abstracts should be submitted electronically in .pdf format. For up to three free conversions to PDF see http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS. In exceptional circumstances.ps/.doc/hard copy versions may be accepted.

    Identification page: Add also a separate .txt file including the following information:

    Title 5 Keywords: Author(s) name(s) Affiliation(s) Addresses(s) Email(s)

    Oral presentations: The time allotted to regular presentations is planned to be 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion.

    Publication - ---------

    Submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. Authors of accepted contributions will receive guidelines on how to produce camera-ready versions of their abstracts to be published as workshop notes. Fully-fledged versions of contributed presentations will be invited after the workshop to be included in the proceedings.