LINGUIST List 15.2515

Fri Sep 10 2004

Calls: Computational Ling/Australia; General Ling

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    Message 1: 2004 Australasian Language Technology Workshop

     Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 03:09:52 -0400 (EDT)
    From: swan <swanics.mq.edu.au>
    Subject: 2004 Australasian Language Technology Workshop


    2004 Australasian Language Technology Workshop Short Title: ALTW2004

    Date: 08-Dec-2004 - 08-Dec-2004 Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia Contact: Workshop Coordinator Contact Email: workshopalta.asn.au Meeting URL: http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2004

    Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics

    Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2004

    Meeting Description:

    A one-day workshop on Natural Language Technology will be organised by the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA). The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Australasian Language Technology Summer School in Sydney. The workshop will run in parallel with the first day of SST 2004: http://www.assta.org/sst/2004

    2004 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2004) - Final Call for Papers

    Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Workshop: 8th December 2004 Submissions due: 15th September 2004 ALTA website: http://www.alta.asn.au/ Workshop contact email: workshop AT alta.asn.au

    The goals of the workshop are:

    * to bring together the growing Language Technology (LT) community in Australia and New Zealand and encourage interactions; * to encourage dissemination of results; * to foster interaction between academic and industrial research; * to provide a forum for discussion of new research and students research; * to encourage interactions between this community and the international LT community; * to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence community to become aware of local LT research; and, finally, * to increase visibility of LT research in Australia, New Zealand and overseas.

    Our hope is to get as many Australasian LT researchers together as possible to encourage dialogue between those working on similar topics and between areas with a - perhaps as yet untapped - potential to interact.

    We would also like to encourage non-Australasian LT researchers to submit papers, and to participate in the workshop.

    Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by an international programme committee, and the workshop proceedings will be published with an ISBN number.

    Program Committee Ash Asudeh, University of Canterbury (NZ) (Co-chair) Cecile Paris, CSIRO (AU) (Co-chair) Stephen Wan, CSIRO and Macquarie University (AU) (Student Chair) Steven Bird, University of Melbourne (AU) Steve Cassidy, Macquarie University (AU) Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO (AU) James Curran, Sydney University (AU) Dominique Estival, DSTO (AU) Alistair Knott, University of Otago (NZ) Mirella Lapata, University of Sheffield (UK) Corrin Lakeland, University of Otago (NZ) Nadine Ozkan, Scansoft (Canada) Daniel Midgley, University of Western Australia (AU) Harold Somers, UMIST (UK) Dekai Wu, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK)

    Topics

    We invite the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to:

    * speech understanding and generation; * phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse; * interpreting and generating spoken and written language; * linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; * language-oriented information extraction and retrieval; * corpus-based and statistical language modelling; * summarisation; * machine translation and translation aids; * natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; * natural language and multimodal systems; * message and narrative understanding systems; * evaluations of language systems; * computational lexicography.

    We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the LT community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of practical LT applications and through multi-disciplinary research. We especially invite people from industry working on LT to send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss and demonstrate their latest applications in front of an informed audience.

    Submission Format

    The length of the submissions should not exceed 8 pages, printed single-spaced in 11 point font. Instructions for the camera-ready version of the papers can be found on the Workshop homepage, available at http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2004.

    The first page of your submission should include:

    paper title, author name(s) and affiliation, complete addresses including email address and fax number, keywords, abstract.

    Only electronic submissions of PDF or PostScript files will be accepted. If we cannot print your file by the submission date it will be rejected without being reviewed. Therefore you are encouraged to send an early version with the typographical complexity of your final intended version so that we can check it is printable. Electronic submissions should be sent to workshop AT alta.asn.au

    Important Dates

    Paper submission: Wednesday 15th September 2004 Notification of acceptance: Friday 15th October 2004 Camera-ready copy: Monday 1st November 2004 Workshop: Wednesday 8th December 2004

    More Information

    A web page for ALTW2004 can be found on the ALTA web page: http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2004

    You can contact the workshop organisers for further information: workshop AT alta.asn.au



    Message 2: Constructions

     Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:49:26 -0400 (EDT)
    From: constructions <constructionsphil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de>
    Subject: Constructions


    Constructions

    Call Deadline: 30-DEC-2004

    We are pleased to announce the launch of the new e-journal "Constructions": http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/constructions

    CONSTRUCTIONS offers a forum for linguistic research concerned with the structure, use, function, and development of 'constructions' in language and linguistics.

    The journal aims at a balanced integration of both notional, informal approaches to constructions in general and more formal treatments, as for example, within the framework of construction grammar. One of the long-term goals is to establish contact between researchers from various perspectives. The term 'construction' as understood in this journal is deliberately chosen to have a broad extension and not be limited to any specific definition or linguistic orientation. Constructions is not restricted to any particular language or language family, and aims at combining theoretical, empirical, and applied issues.

    CONSTRUCTIONS is published as an open access, peer-reviewed electronic journal. As such, it departs from traditional print journals in at least three important ways:

    1) Online availability: Constructions will only be available online, through a freely accessible online content system. Articles may be printed by subscribers for private use only. Copyright generally remains with the author(s). 2) Speedy publication: To ensure a timely publication of current research, Constructions aims at publishing submitted manuscripts within a period of no more than six months. It will not be published in volume and issue form, but throughout the year, as articles become ready for publication. Constructions is part of a large scale project launched by the Ministry of Science and Research of NRW, Germany, to establish digital peer publishing as an alternative to print journals (http://www.dipp.nrw.de). Full publishing services, including citability, archival storage, and copyright management will be provided by the HBZ NRW 'Centre of University Libraries' in Cologne (http://www.hbz-nrw.de). These services also include the provision of professional software for handling the whole publication process from submission to final publication in an efficient standardized format. 3) Innovative formats: The online platform will also allow for new and innovative publication formats, as for example the publication of research materials and comprehensive data sets in digital format, including audio-visual material, online presentations, and electronic data bases.

    Constructions works with a high-class specialized editorial board. All submitted articles will be subjected to the usual double-blind peer reviewing process.

    General Editors

    Alexander BERGS and Anette ROSENBACH Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet

    *** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

    CONSTRUCTIONS invites original, hitherto unpublished high-quality papers of any length that explicitly deal with the structure, use, and function of constructions (however defined) in language and linguistics. While there is in principle no length restriction on papers, authors should bear in mind that length should positively correlate with relevant content and quality. Given the explicit goal of Constructions to bring together research from all linguistic perspectives, submissions should be accessible for a general audience. Authors are also encouraged to consult the "Guidelines for reviewers", available online at http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/constructions/guidelines.pdf

    Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format (as an MS Word document, or compatible file with minimal formatting) to

    constructionsphil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de

    The double-blind peer reviewing process requires anonymous manuscripts. Authors should provide their name, address, title of the paper, and a short abstract (no more than 500 words) in their cover email. Publication languages are English and German.