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Thu Jan 15 2004

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  • Declerck, ESSLLI 2004 Workshop CfP: NLP for Multimedia Applications
  • kei, 6th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Languages

    Message 1: ESSLLI 2004 Workshop CfP: NLP for Multimedia Applications

     Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:41:32 +0100
    From: Declerck <declerckdfki.de>
    Subject: ESSLLI 2004 Workshop CfP: NLP for Multimedia Applications




    CALL FOR PAPERS

    NLP for Multimedia Applications

    http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/esslli04.htm

    16-20 August, 2004 Nancy, France

    organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2004 (http://esslli2004.loria.fr/) 9-20 August, 2004 in Nancy

    Workshop Organizers: Thierry Declerck (declerckdfki.deb) Elisabeth Andr (andreinformatik.uni-augsburg.de)

    Workshop Purpose: The Workshop aims to provide a discussion platform between advanced PhD students and researchers, who are interested in the topics typically addressed at ESSLLI, and possible multimedia applications involving research results from Language Processing. The submissions should not necessarily describe achieved work, but can present advanced ideas on how to combine NLP and Multimedia applications.

    Workshop Topics: The workshop will explore some issues on the role natural language processing (NLP) can play within the increasing number of multimedia (MM) applications that more and more are influencing our everyday life. Multimodality can be addressed as well, as long as multimedia aspects are considered. Main questions to be addressed will be:

    - How to integrate multimedia input including natural language (spoken or written); - How to combine natural language with other media in order to generate high quality multimedia output; - How to make use of NL for efficient access to MM archives, Including interactive retrieval; - Multimedia segmentation, indexing, summarization, and presentation; - Multimedia and multimodal interaction; - How to extend multilingual NLP applications (like Question Answering etc) into a multi-source and multimedia setting; - Representation (and reasoning about) of multimedia/multimodal discourse and context

    The workshop will also investigate the type of formalisms and standards to be used for this integration task. Contributions on basic research and on running or achieved projects dealing with the topics are welcome.

    Papers addressing one or more of the following topics are also welcome, but there should be some clear possible relationships to NLP, including logical issues: MPEG, multimedia/multimodal content, coding schemes, metadata, knowledge representation for multimedia content (multimedia ontologies), semantic annotation of multimedia content or search, retrieval and Web applications.

    Submission details: Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original work or proposals on the topics mentioned above. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages and are not anonymous. The following formats are accepted: PDF or PS. Please send your submissions electronically to Thierry Declerck (declerckdfki.de), mentioning "NLP_MM Submission" in the subject line of your mail. Your submission will be reviewed by at least two reviewers of the Programme Committee or additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The format for the final version will be following the ACL style (details on the ACL 2002 styles can be found at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/acl02/style/). So the submissions should ideally be conformant to this one.

    Workshop Format: The Workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second Week of ESSLLI. There will 2 or 3 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the organisers will give an introduction to the workshop topics.

    Programm Committee: Noelle Carbonell, LORIA, CNRS & INRIA (Nancy & Paris, France)

    Jean-Michel Borde, Digital Visuel (Paris, France) Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH/ITI (Thessaloniki, Greece) Laurent Romary, Loria (Nancy, France) Elisabeth Andr, University of Augsburg (Augsburg, Germany) Thierry Declerck, University of Saarland & DFKI GmbH (Saarbrcken, Germany) Horacio Saggion, University of Sheffield (Sheffield, England) Jan Kuper, University of Twente (Twente, The Netherlands) Marcel Worring, ISIS at University of Amsterdam, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary College (London, England) Joachim Koehler, Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication (Bonn, Germany) Local Arrangements: All workshop participants are required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will be the same as the early student/workshop speaker registration fee.

    Important Dates: Submissions: March 5, 2004 Notification: April 19, 2004 ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2004 Preliminary programme: April 23, 2004 Final programme: June 25, 2004 Workshop: August 16-20, 2004

    Further Information: About ESSLLI: ESSLLI 2004 in Nancy About the Workshop: http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/esslli04.htm



    Message 2: 6th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Languages

     Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:30:06 -0500 (EST)
    From: kei <keiaya.yale.edu>
    Subject: 6th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Languages


    6th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Languages Short Title: JSLS2004

    Date: 17-Jul-2004 - 18-Jul-2004 Location: Nagoya, Japan, Japan Contact: Kei Nakamura Contact Email: keiaya.yale.edu Meeting URL: http://cow.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/jsls/2004/cfp-e.htm

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2004

    Meeting Description:

    The Japanese Society for Language Sciences invites proposals for our Sixth Annual International Conference, JSLS 2004. We welcome proposals for paper and poster presentations and for one symposium. As keynote speakers, we will invite Bonnie Schwartz (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) and Yukio Otsu (Keio University).

    JSLS2004 Conference Committee Chair Susanne Miyata (Aichi Shukutoku University)

    Conference Dates/ Location The Sixth Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences will be held as follows: (1) July 17 (Saturday)- 18 (Sunday), 2004 (2) Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan

    Submissions We would like to encourage submissions on research pertaining to language sciences, including linguistics, psychology, education, computer science, brain science, and philosophy, among others. We will not commit ourselves to one or a few particular theoretical frameworks. We will respect any scientific endeavor that aims to contribute to a better understanding of the human mind and the brain through language.

    Submission Deadline All submissions should be e-mailed by February 28, 2004 (Sunday).

    Submission guidelines are available on the JSLS 2004 website at: http://cow.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/jsls/2004/cfp-e.htm

    All questions regarding the JSLS 2004 conference should be addressed to:

    Kei Nakamura JSLS 2004 Conference Coordinator 14-21 Sarugakucho Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033 JAPAN e-mail: keiaya.yale.edu

    Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan The Japanese Society for Language Sciences invites proposals for our Sixth Annual International Conference, JSLS 2004. We welcome proposals for paper and poster presentations. As keynote speakers, we will invite Bonnie Schwartz (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) and Yukio Otsu (Keio University).

    JSLS2004 Committee Chair: Susanne Miyata (Aichi Shukutoku University)

    Qualifications for Presenters All presenters should be members of JSLS by May 24, 2004. (It is not necessary for co-presenters to be members.)

    Please refer to the following website for membership information: http://jchat.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/JSLS/

    All presenters should pre-register for the JSLS 2004 conference by May 24, 2004.

    Papers should be original and unpublished.

    We will accept multiple submissions from the same individual, however, you can only be the single or first author of one paper.

    Each presentation will be 25 minutes long. (20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for Q&A).

    The language of presentations may be either Japanese or English.

    Submission Deadline & Review Process

    All submissions should be e-mailed by February 28, 2004 (Sunday).

    Please send the following items to the review committee chairperson, Hirohide Mori.

    Paper and poster presentations

    We will only accept submissions via e-mail. Please send your submissions to the following address, in the following manner:

    To: jsls2004-submissionnausicaa.cyber.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp Subject: Paper Submission (or Poster Submission)

    Send the following application form in the main text, and your abstract as an attachment.

    (1) Application form

    presentation title

    presentation category (paper or poster)

    name of presenter(s), affiliation(s)

    mailing address

    email address

    telephone number

    language of the paper/poster

    language of the presentation (only for papers)

    keywords (about 5 words)

    (2) Title and Abstract

    (a) Format paper: maximum 4 pages (including title, tables, figures, & references) poster: 2 pages (including title, tables, figures, & references) (Do not include any information which may reveal your identity.)

    paper size: A4 or letter-size margins: in the case of A4: Up and Bottom: 30mm Left and Right: 25mm In the case of letter-size All: 1 inch font style: Times New Roman (or similar one) font size: Body: 12 point Notes & References:10 point

    (b) save the file as ''pdf file'' or ''text file''. Please note that other formats will not be accepted.

    (c) save your file under your own name (eg.: brown-roger.pdf).

    Each abstract will be reviewed anonymously by several reviewers. Notification of acceptance will be made by early May. (Some ''paper'' proposals might be accepted as ''poster'' presentations.)

    If your proposal is accepted, you will be requested to send a copy of your paper (Maximum length for papers is 6-pages, for posters 2-pages) by May 24.

    This paper will appear in the Conference Handbook. Excellent papers may be published as a collection of papers titled

    ''Studies in Language Sciences''.

    Symposium We will only accept submissions via e-mail for the symposium until February 28, 2004.

    Please send an e-mail proposal to the following address, in the following manner:

    To: hiromoridc4.so-net.ne.jp Subject: Symposium Proposal

    Please send your abstract in the main text (not as an attachment). (1) Application Form symposium title name of the organizer(s) and affiliation(s) email address telephone number name and affiliations of symposium speakers

    (2) a detailed abstract consisting of an outline of the symposium with abstracts from each speaker. Overall length: 800 to 1600 words in English or 3000 to 6000 characters (moji)in Japanese (equivalent to two to four pages on A4 or letter-size paper).

    All questions regarding the JSLS 2004 conference should be addressed to:

    Kei Nakamura JSLS 2004 Conference Coordinator 14-21 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033 JAPAN e-mail: keiaya.yale.edu Inquiries by phone will not be accepted.