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Thu Mar 20 2003

Calls: Indigenous Literatures/NLP & Multilingualism

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  • mbrown, Indigenous Literatures
  • malek.boualem, Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism

    Message 1: Indigenous Literatures

     Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:49:50 +0000
    From: mbrown <mbrownmail1.vcu.edu>
    Subject: Indigenous Literatures


    Indigenous Literatures

    Date: 10-Oct-2003 - 12-Oct-2003 Location: Puebla, Mexico Contact: r mckenna brown Contact Email: mbrownsaturn.vcu.edu

    Linguistic Sub-field: Anthropological Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-May-2003

    This is a session of the following conference: International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic, Historical, American and Folklore Studies

    Meeting Description:

    Panels on indigenous literatures of the Americas are currently being organised, and contributions from all perspectives are welcome to explore topics such as: particular writers, texts or genres; emerging and re-emerging literatures in both oral and written media; literatures within their social, political and cultural contexts, including revitalization movements; issues of access and control, including literacy and translation; and the encounter of the indigenous and non-indigenous worlds in indigenous texts.

    The Vernacular Congress began as a cultural section of the Congress of the Americas, which itself was established after the 1994 economic crisis made it difficult for Latin American academics to attend meetings in the United States. The 2001 Congress of the Americas attracted more than 900 papers. For more information visit:

    http://www.ipsonet.org/vernacular/index.html

    Abstracts in English or Spanish, of 500-word maximum length, are accepted until May 1st, 2003. Please attach a short bio including current academic affiliation. All abstracts and/or questions must be emailed to the Area Chair: mbrownsaturn.vcu.edu.

    Message 2: Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism

     Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:30:47 +0000
    From: malek.boualem <malek.boualemrd.francetelecom.com>
    Subject: Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism


    Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism Short Title: NLP & Multilingualism

    Date: 14-Jun-2003 - 14-Jun-2003 Location: Batz-sur-Mer, France Contact: Malek Boualem Contact Email: malek.boualemrd.francetelecom.com

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Call Deadline: 27-Mar-2003

    This is a session of the following conference: 2003 Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

    Meeting Description:

    Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism

    In conjunction with TALN 2003 Conference : http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/

    Batz-sur-Mer, France June 11-14, 2003

    ***** Deadline extension to March 27, 2003 *****

    ********************************************************************** Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism

    In conjunction with TALN 2003 Conference : http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/

    Batz-sur-Mer, France June 11-14, 2003

    INTRODUCTION

    Multilingualism is a concern that is increasingly taken into account in the design and development of natural language processing applications. Anticipating the adaptation of linguistic software to different language families has repercussions not only on linguistic data representation but also on architecture of systems.

    The aim of the workshop is to enable participants to discuss about the consequences of multilingualism on NLP applications. The workshop topics concern both linguistic data and software; a non exhaustive list is:

    - Representation of linguistic data and genericity of formats. - Overview of the major linguistic problems in this domain. - Creation of linguistic resources from multilingual parallel corpora. - Architectures of NLP technologies for different language families. - Techniques or methods for adapting NLP technologies to new languages. - Applications and NLP tools taking into account the multilingual dimension. - Applications taking into account the encoding formats of documents and multilingual corpora. - Experiments related to this domain. - ...

    Our workshop mainly concentrates on problems related to the combination of NLP systems and linguistic diversity. This problematic does not concern machine translation in itself, but could deal with the adaptation of MT systems to several language pairs.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    - Papers due: March 27, 2003 - Notification of acceptance/rejection : April 14, 2003 - Deadline for camera-ready copy: April 28, 2003

    SUBMISSION FORMAT

    - Languages : French or English. - Size : maximum 10 pages. - Style : Times 12, single-spaced. - Document format : RTF, DOC, PS, PDF. - Printing format : A4 (not US Letter)

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    - Christian Boitet, GETA, University of Grenoble (France) - Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D (France) - Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA (France) - Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Emilie Guimier De Neef, France Telecom R&D (France) - Yannis Haralambous, ENST Bretagne (France) - Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University (Pays-Bas) - Guy Lapalme, RALI, University of Montreal (Canada) - Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (UK) - Fr�d�rique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Jean V�ronis, DELIC, University of Provence (France) - J�r�me Vinesse, France Telecom R&D (France) - R�mi Zajac, Systran Software (USA)

    DOCUMENT TEMPLATES

    Document templates can be downloaded: French Latex: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_FR.tgz English Latex: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_EN.tgz French Word: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_FR.dot English Word: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_EN.dot

    E-MAILS FOR SUBMISSION SENDING :

    - malek.boualemrd.francetelecom.com AND - emilie.guimierdeneefrd.francetelecom.com

    The object of the message should be : "Submission NLP-Multilingualism - Surname and name of the main author"

    CONTACT

    For further information, please contact:

    Malek Boualem AND/OR Emilie Guimier-De-Neef - ---------------------------------------------------- France T�l�com R&D - DMI/GRI Natural Language Processing group 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 / (33)(0)2.96.05.19.87 Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 Email: malek.boualemrd.francetelecom.com Email: emilie.guimierdeneefrd.francetelecom.com - ----------------------------------------------------