LINGUIST List 15.2295

Thu Aug 12 2004

Calls: Forensic Ling/Italy; Applied Ling/Spain

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  • jcotterill, IPrA Symposium on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law
  • burguillos, 7th ISKO-Spain Conference

    Message 1: IPrA Symposium on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law

     Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:06:52 -0400 (EDT)
    From: jcotterill <jcotterillyahoo.com>
    Subject: IPrA Symposium on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law


    IPrA Symposium on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law

    Date: 10-Jul-2005 - 15-Jul-2005 Location: Riva del Garda, Italy Contact: Janet Cotterill Contact Email: jcotterillyahoo.com Meeting URL: http://webhost.ua.ac.be/tisp/

    Linguistic Sub-field: Forensic Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Call for Papers

    Symposium on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law International Pragmatics Association, Riva del Garda, Italy July 2005

    Susan Berk-Seligson and myself (Janet Cotterill) are planning to attend the forthcoming IPrA conference (International Pragmatics Association), to be held at Riva del Garda in Italy, July 10-15th 2005 (the week after the Cardiff, UK International Association of Forensic Linguists conference).

    We are hoping to put together a symposium of papers on themes within forensic linguistics/language and law. If you are interested in participating in such a symposium, we would like to invite you to submit an abstract for consideration.

    Abstracts should be 200-250 words maximum and should be for a 20-minute presentation (plus 5-10 mins for questions/discussion). All aspects of forensic linguistics/language and law will be considered, although submissions should obviously follow a pragmatics line (broadly defined).

    The Conference website can be found at:

    http://webhost.ua.ac.be/tisp/

    General information about IPrA can be found on their website at:

    http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/Default.html

    Abstracts should be sent directly to both Dr Berk-Seligson and Dr Cotterill at:

    sberkselyahoo.com and jcotterillyahoo.com

    and should include the following information:

    - Title of the presentation - Name(s) of the presenter(s) - Affiliation of the presenter(s) - Both e-mail and postal addresses - Any special audio-visual/IT requirements

    The deadline for submissions is September 15th 2004 (one month ahead of the official IPrA deadline).

    Message 2: 7th ISKO-Spain Conference

     Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 04:36:26 -0400 (EDT)
    From: burguillos <burguillosub.edu>
    Subject: 7th ISKO-Spain Conference


    7th ISKO-Spain Conference

    Date: 06-Jul-2005 - 08-Jul-2005 Location: Barcelona, Spain Contact: Technical Secretariat 7th ISKO-Spain Conference Contact Email: isko2005ub.edu Meeting URL: http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/

    Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science Subject Language: English, Spanish

    Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2004

    Meeting Description:

    7th ISKO-Spain Conference The human dimension of knowledge organization Barcelona 6-8 July 2005

    The focus of the 7th ISKO-Spain Conference is on orienting users of systems and applications of information organisation and retrieval in companies, public administration, archives and document centres, portals or internet services, databases and digital libraries.

    ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) has a broad and interdisciplinary scope. ISKO's mission is to advance conceptual work in knowledge organization in all kinds of forms, and for all kinds of purposes, such as databases, libraries, dictionaries and the Internet.

    As an interdisciplinary society, ISKO brings together professionals from many different fields. ISKO counts more than 500 members all over the world, from fields such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, computer science, as well as special domains such as medical informatics.

    Knowledge Organization has traditionally been centred on representational objects - texts, images and documents in general - or on computer systems that facilitate information retrieval. It is ever more apparent that there is a need to take into consideration the cognitive, physical, and affective characteristics of different types of people when designing applications.

    Currently, with the availability of personalized systems that facilitate the interaction between persons and organisation systems, questions are being asked such as: How to improve universal access to information? How to obtain maximum performance from the management of knowledge in organizations? How to incorporate users into the design cycles of knowledge organization systems? How to respond to differences (social, cultural, etc.) of the users of these systems?

    TOPICS

    - Theoretical base of knowledge organization: what it contributes to understanding the context of human perception; linguistic, social and cultural bases; and structures for representing knowledge. - Design centred on the user of knowledge organization systems: management of content in different systems; usability, personalization, interoperability and multilingualism; design models based on artificial intelligence and natural language processing; its evaluation.

    - Users and use of knowledge organization systems: search behaviour and the social use of Internet; training and competence in information handling; accessibility and the digital divide between different sectors of society; detecting needs for accessing web-based contents and electronic training for the disabled.

    - Applications of knowledge organization systems: the market for knowledge organization systems; content classification systems (categories and taxonomies of web sites); intermediaries, disintermediation and re-intermediation; ethical aspects.

    SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS OF PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS

    Authors have to present an abstract of their work - either oral presentations or posters - that will be reviewed by an evaluation committee as to timeliness, interest and originality.

    Abstracts of presentations should be at least 700 words long. They should include: title, objectives and the premise of the work, methodology followed, conclusions arrived at and, if relevant, references to 3 works used as a bibliography. The length foreseen for the presentation, not to exceed 20 minutes, should also be indicated.

    Abstracts of posters should be 500 words long and include titles, objectives, conclusions and a formal description of the poster.

    In all cases the name and address (post and electronic) with the contact's telephone should be provided for each presenter.

    Abstracts should be sent by e-mail in MS Word or another compatible format to isko2005ub.edu. Acceptance of the abstract of a presentation requires the tacit commitment that at least one of the authors will be present to make the presentation during the congress.

    The working languages of the conference will be Catalan, Spanish and the English although works may be submitted in other languages.

    DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS: 25 OCTOBER 2004