LINGUIST List 14.99

Mon Jan 13 2003

Calls: Maritime Terminology/Discourse Particles

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  • margarita-c, Maritime Terminology, Lisbon Portugal
  • henk.zeevat, Meaning and Implementation of Discourse Particles, Austria

    Message 1: Maritime Terminology, Lisbon Portugal

     Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:41:59 +0000
    From: margarita-c <margarita-cnetcabo.pt>
    Subject: Maritime Terminology, Lisbon Portugal


    3rd International Conference on Maritime Terminology

    Short Title: 3rd ICMT Location: Lisbon, Portugal Date: 23-Jun-2003 - 24-Jun-2003 Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2003

    Web Site: http://www.iltec.pt/eng/index2.html Contact Person: Maria Amelia Doria Meeting Email: madiltec.pt Linguistic Subfield(s): Applied Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    3rd International Conference on Maritime Terminology Communication and Globalization

    The 3rd International Conference is a sequel of the events held, in 1998, in Brussels (http://www.termisti.refer.org/nauterm/nauten.htm), and in 2000, in Turku (http://www.utu.fi/erill/mkk/English/conf_mariterm2.html), on the same subject. In previous Conferences particular attention was paid to Issues in Communication and Translation and to Dictionaries and Education. 3rd International Conference on Maritime Terminology Communication and Globalization

    Place

    Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal Organization Instituto de Linguistica Teorica e Computacional

    Goals

    Within a global world, communication tends increasingly monolingual, putting in jeopardy other languages' survival as languages of scientific and technical communication. This is the case even for languages that once played a strong role in international communication in scientific and technical domains, as it was the case of Portuguese in what concerns sea sciences and technologies.

    - What is nowadays the situation of specialized communication in the domains of maritime sciences and/or technologies? - Is this situation similar in all maritime subjects (such as navigation, shipbuilding, maritime security, law, oceanography)? - How did we arrive to the present situation? - Must countries silently submit to linguistic globalization? - Which (dis)advantages may rise from linguistic globalization? - Are there any alternatives?

    These are some of the subjects to be discussed during the 3rd International Conference on Maritime Terminology. This Conference intends to put together not only linguists, termilogists and translators, but also those who need to communicate in their daily activity in a global world.

    Work Languages Portuguese and English

    Honour Committee Contra-Almirante Jos� Lu�s Ferreira Leiria Pinto Comiss�o Cultural da Marinha Com. Joaquim Ferreira da Silva Marinha Doctor Francisco Contente Domingues Departament of History, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

    Scientific Committee Com. Carlos Alexandre Chaves Magano e Silva Escola N�utica Infante D. Henrique Doctor Isabel Desmet Universit� Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Dennis Doctor Marc Van Campenhoudt Termisti - Centre de Recherche en Terminologie do Institut Sup�rieur de Traducteurs et Interpr�tes Doctor M�rio Ruivo Portuguese Committee for COI Doctor Markku Karkama Centre for Maritime Studies, University of Turku

    Organising Committee (ILTEC) Doctor Maria Helena Mira Mateus Doctor Margarita Correia Doctor Miguel Jos� de Oliveira Junior M.A. Ana Margarida Rebello de Andrade B.A. Maria Am�lia Doria

    Papers

    Besides round-tables and conferences to be announced, the 3.rd Conference will include papers. Abstracts must be sent in English (though final texts may be presented in English or in Portuguese, due to simultaneous translation) and they must have no more than 250 words. Abstracts must indicate besides the title of the paper, author(s), institution(s) and e-mail(s).

    Calendar - Abstract: before 20th January 2003. - Notification of acceptance: before 15th February 2003. - Final version: before 31st March 2003.

    Registration Participants Before 31st March 2003: 100 Euros; after 1st April 2003: 120 Euros. Students: 60 Euros. Proceedings: + 20 Euros Payment by check to Instituto de Lingu�stica Te�rica e Computacional.

    Registration Form The registration form is in pdf format. Please, print a copy, fill it in and send it to the following address:

    Contact Maria Am�lia Doria ILTEC Rua Conde de Redondo, 74, 5.� 1150-109 Lisboa (Portugal) Tel.: +351 21 356 30 82 Fax: + 351 21 352 81 12 E-mail: madiltec.pt

    Message 2: Meaning and Implementation of Discourse Particles, Austria

     Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 06:48:17 +0000
    From: henk.zeevat <henk.zeevathum.uva.nl>
    Subject: Meaning and Implementation of Discourse Particles, Austria


    The Meaning and Implementation of Discourse Particles

    Short Title: Particles Location: Vienna, Austria Date: 18-Aug-2003 - 22-Aug-2003 Call Deadline: 04-Apr-2003

    Web Site: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~stede/essllicfp.html Contact Person: Henk Zeevat Meeting Email: henk.zeevathum.uva.nl Linguistic Subfield(s): Discourse Analysis

    This is a session of the following conference: 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

    Meeting Description:

    Discourse particles (or 'discourse markers') are an important device for conveying structure in both spoken and written discourse - even though there are significant differences of particle usage in the two modes.

    The workshop aims at collecting contributions to the theory and implementation of discourse particles and similar devices (intonation, tag questions, modal auxiliaries, etc.) with the aim of building a common understanding of the current possibilities and of contributing to better natural language processing and a deeper understanding of the nature of discourse particles and their function in indicating speech acts and discourse structure. CALL FOR PAPERS

    ''The Meaning and Implementation of Discourse Particles''

    Workshop held as part of the ''Fifteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information'' ESSLLI-03 Vienna, Austria August 18-22

    Workshop webpage: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~stede/essllicfp.html

    Discourse particles (or 'discourse markers') are an important device for conveying structure in both spoken and written discourse - even though there are significant differences of particle usage in the two modes. >From the perspective of computational linguistics, discourse particles are both a promise and a challenge.

    * A promise because they seem to be functioning in communication between humans as devices that indicate discourse relations and other coherence relations in text and dialogue and so it would seem that their treatment would help natural dialogue systems to get a better grasp on the intentions of the user, while at the same time it would help them to achieve more natural and comprehensible output to the user.

    * A challenge, because their analysis is notoriously difficult and seems to involve concepts that are beyond current levels of sophistication in either natural language processing or in natural language semantics.

    The workshop aims at collecting contributions to the theory and implementation of discourse particles and similar devices (intonation, tag questions, modal auxiliaries, etc.) with the aim of building a common understanding of the current possibilities and of contributing to better natural language processing and a deeper understanding of the nature of discourse particles and their function in indicating speech acts and discourse structure. A central goal is to connect the informal understanding of particle use with the tasks of understanding and generating natural natural language, e.g. for use in dialogue systems. This requires formalisation of the informal understanding, and where formal approaches are available, the study of their usability in practical systems.

    Invited speaker: Jerry R. Hobbs (ISI, Univ. of Southern California)

    During the workshop there will be paper presentations and ample time for discussion. We invite contributions to the following topics:

    * Semantics and pragmatics of discourse particles

    * Mechanisms by which particles help to define (specialisations)speech acts * Correspondences between particles and discourse structure, including information structure * Universality: are the functions of discourse particles language-specific or is some realisation found in each language? * The driving force behind the grammaticalisation processes that create particles: universal function or perceived benefits * Place of knowledge about particles in language processing: does it belong to the lexicon or to the grammar? * Differences in particle usage between spoken and written language * (Automatic) language understanding: how do we disambiguate particles? * (Automatic) language production: why do we when use which particle -- the applicability conditions of particles * Spoken language processing: particular dialog phenomena (particles signalling turn-taking, topic shifts etc)

    We invite submissions of extended abstracts. They should be in electronic form (Postscript of PDF) and not exceed 5 pages. Send your submission prior to the deadline to either Manfred Stede or Henk Zeevat (addresses below). Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by members of the program committee. When accepted, authors are asked to submit final versions of their abstracts, which will be distributed during the workshop, as well as on this web page. The question of a follow-up publication will be discussed at the end of the workshop.

    Notice: Workshop participants must register for ESSLLI 2003. Early registration fees apply to authors of accepted papers.

    Organizers: Manfred Stede <stedeling.uni-potsdam.de> (Computational Linguistics, Potsdam University) Henk Zeevat <henkillc.uva.nl> (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)

    Program Committee: Kerstin Fischer, Univ. of Bremen Isabel Gomes-Txurruka, ILCLI/Donostia-San Sebastian Alex Lascarides, Univ. of Edinburgh Daniel Marcu, ISI/Univ. of Southern California Manfred Stede, Univ. of Potsdam Henk Zeevat, Univ. of Amsterdam

    Important Dates: Submission due: April 4 Notification of acceptance: May 2 Final version camera-ready: May 23