LINGUIST List 15.307

Wed Jan 28 2004

Calls: Computational Ling/UK, General Ling/USA

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  • f.meziane, 9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems
  • facex002, 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages

    Message 1: 9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems

     Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:10:12 -0500 (EST)
    From: f.meziane <f.mezianesalford.ac.uk>
    Subject: 9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems


    9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems Short Title: NLDB04

    Date: 23-Jun-2004 - 25-Jun-2004 Location: Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom Contact: Farid Meziane Contact Email: f.mezianesalford.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.nldb.org

    Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems. The use of Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modelling, validation, etc) and the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc).

    Topics:

    Natural Language for Web Services (Semantic information retrieval, Semantic Web, Semi-structured models and associated languages, Web usage, content and structure mining for discovering semantics, Concept taxonomies and web mining, Learning taxonomies and ontologies from the web, Information extraction with machine learning, Document classification and indexation)

    Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling (Analysis of natural language descriptions, Requirement engineering, Terminological ontologies, Paraphrasing, Dynamic modelling, Verification, consistency checking, Metadata harvesting)

    Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying/Retrieval (Natural languages interfaces for database querying, Verification of database queries by paraphrasing, Semantic analysis for information retrieval, NL interaction with databases)

    Natural Language-Based Integration of Systems (Linguistic aspects of view integration, Linguistic aspects of data warehouses, Natural language queries to multi-databases systems, Data integration and data cleansing, Ontology driven integration, Ontology management)

    Large Scale on-line Resources (Electronic dictionaries, Question-answer corpora, Informal ontologies, Linguistic databases, Digital libraries)

    Application of Computational Linguistics in Information Systems (Multilingual information systems, NLP in requirements engineering, NLP in knowledge management, Ontology-driven NLP, Semiotics and fundamentals)

    Management of Textual Databases (Text classification, Information extraction and detection, Text mining for creating metadata, Document management, Hypertext and Hyperbases)

    Message 2: 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages

     Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:46:45 -0500 (EST)
    From: facex002 <facex002umn.edu>
    Subject: 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages


    8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages

    Date: 15-Oct-2004 - 17-Oct-2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN, United States of America Contact: Timothy Face Contact Email: hisplingumn.edu Meeting URL: http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/conferences/lingconferences.htm

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Subject Language: Portuguese ,Spanish Call Deadline: 01-May-2004

    Meeting Description:

    The 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, hosted by the University of Minnesota, will include presentations in all areas related to the conference themes. 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

    7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages

    Papers are invited in any area of Hispanic Linguistics and Language Acquisition, and in any theoretical or quantitative framework. Papers may be delivered in either English, Portuguese, or Spanish. Special sessions will be dedicated to experimental studies of Hispanic phonology, Hispanic pragmatics, and Spanish and Portuguese Language Contact.

    Authors may submit up to two abstracts, but no more than one as sole author. Send one copy of a one-page abstract for review. (There may be an additional page for references.) Abstracts may only be submitted via e-mail (hisplingumn.edu). They may be included in the body of the e-mail message or as an attachment in one of two formats: RTF (Rich Text Format) or PDF (Adobe Acrobat). In the body of the e-mail message, please specify which meeting you wish to present in (Linguistics Symposium or Acquisition Conference), title of paper, area of research, name(s) of author(s), academic affiliation(s), current and summer address, phone and fax number, e-mail, and audiovisual requests.

    Abstract deadline: May 1, 2004 For further information: http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/conferences/lingconferences.htm