LINGUIST List 14.649

Thu Mar 6 2003

Calls: Machine Translation/Language Acquisition

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  • rada, Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond
  • sharon.unsworth, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition

    Message 1: Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond

     Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 23:35:32 +0000
    From: rada <radacs.unt.edu>
    Subject: Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond


    HLT-NAACL-03 Workshop Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond

    Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Date: 31-May-2003 - 31-May-2003 Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2003

    Web Site: http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/wpt Contact Person: Rada Mihalcea Linguistic Subfield(s): Computational Linguistics

    Meeting Description: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond

    An HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop Edmonton, Alberta May 31, 2003

    http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/wpt

    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

    The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on problems related to the creation and use of parallel text. Recent events have demonstrated once again the importance of inter-language communication, and reinforce the need for advances in machine translation (MT) and multi-lingual processing tools.

    The workshop will be centered around the problem of building and using parallel corpora, which are vital resources for efficiently deriving multi-lingual text processing tools. In addition to regular papers, the workshop also includes a shared task that will result in a comparative evaluation of word alignment techniques.

    We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following issues: - Construction of parallel corpora, including the automatic identification and harvesting of parallel corpora from the Web. - Methods to evaluate the quality of parallel corpora and word alignments - Tools for processing parallel corpora, including automatic sentence alignment, word alignment, phrase alignment, detection of omissions and gaps in translations, and others - Using parallel corpora for data driven Machine Translation - Using parallel corpora for the derivation of language processing tools in new languages - Using parallel corpora for automatic corpora annotation - Language learning applied to parallel corpora - Translation memory systems as a source of aligned corpora

    While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources.

    We expect to make arrangements with a journal in Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics for a special issue that will include selected papers from this workshop.

    Invited Speaker: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

    Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal

    Shared Task: -=-=-=-=-=-=

    All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team.

    Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of metrics. See the workshop website for details regarding the shared task.

    Submission format: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Submissions should consist of regular full papers of max. 7 pages, formatted following the NAACL 2003 guidelines. In addition, teams participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation methodology.

    Send your submission (a ps or pdf file), prepared for anonymous review, to both:

    Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, radacs.unt.edu and Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth, tpedersed.umn.edu

    Important dates: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

    Deadline for regular paper submissions: March 10 Deadline for results submissions: March 25 (shared task) Deadline for short paper submissions: April 1 (shared task) Notification of acceptance for regular papers: April 1 Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 10

    Organisation Committee: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

    Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth

    Program Committee: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

    Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa Tim Chklovski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mona Diab, University of Maryland Ulrich Germann, Information Sciences Institute Daniel Gildea, University of Pennsylvania Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, University of Sao Paulo Nancy Ide, Vassar College Lucia Helena Machado Rino, Federal University of Sao Carlos Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute Dan Melamed, New York University Magnus Merkel, Linkoping University Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton Grace Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Kishore Papineni, IBM Jessie Pinkham, Microsoft Research Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva Florence Reeder, MITRE Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Antonio Ribeiro, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy Michel Simard, University of Montreal Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe Jean Veronis, University of Provence Clare Voss, Army Research Lab Dan Tufis, RACAI Romania Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield

    Message 2: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition

     Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 05:30:20 +0000
    From: sharon.unsworth <sharon.unsworthlet.uu.nl>
    Subject: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition


    Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition

    Short Title: GALA Location: Utrecht, Netherlands Date: 04-SEP-03 - 06-SEP-03

    Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2003

    Web Site: http://www.let.uu.nl/uilots/events/events.htm

    Contact Person: Jacqueline van Kampen Meeting Email: gala2003let.uu.nl Linguistic Subfield(s): Language Acquisition

    Meeting Description:

    The 10th GALA conference (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) will be held in at the UiL OTS/Utrecht University, The Netherlands, September 4th-6th 2003. The general conference will be preceded by two workshops on Thursday morning, a 'Learnability Hierarchies and Input' workshop and a 'Child L2 Acquisition' workshop. ***FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS***

    We welcome abstracts on all types of language acquisition (including normal/impaired/bilingual L1, child/adult L2) and on all aspects of linguistic theory (including syntax, phonology, morphology, lexicon, semantics and pragmatics).

    Invited speakers: Harald Clahsen (University of Essex) Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) Jill de Villiers (Smith College, Northampton Mass.) Bonnie D. Schwartz (University of Hawaii) Robin Clark (University of Pennsylvania)

    Abstract guidelines: *Each paper will be 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. *Abstracts should be no more than 2 pages including figures and references, 12 point font with 1'' margins. *At most one individual and one joint abstract per author will be considered for the main session. *Please send an anonymous abstract by e-mail as an attachment to: gala2003let.uu.nl *Acceptable formats are MS Word and PDF. *Please include the following information in the body of the message: name, affiliation, title of the paper, postal address, e-mail address, summer address, whether you want to be considered for a poster and/or a paper and whether you wish to submit for the main session or one of the workshops.

    Deadline for receipt of abstracts: April 1st 2003 See website for further details: http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/conferences/Gala/gala_2003_homepage.htm