LINGUIST List 16.1683

Thu May 26 2005

Calls: General Ling/South Africa;Comp Ling/Corpus Ling/UK

Editor for this issue: Megan Zdrojkowski <meganlinguistlist.org>


Directory

        1.    Benedicte Kusendila, MIDP Symposium on Multilingualism and Exclusion
        2.    Anja Belz, Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation


Message 1: MIDP Symposium on Multilingualism and Exclusion
Date: 24-May-2005
From: Benedicte Kusendila <benedicte.kusendilaua.ac.be>
Subject: MIDP Symposium on Multilingualism and Exclusion


Full Title: MIDP Symposium on Multilingualism and Exclusion

Date: 24-Apr-2006 - 26-Apr-2006
Location: Bloemfontein, South Africa
Contact Person: Nikiwe Matebula
Meeting Email: matebulanp.hummail.uovs.ac.za

Please also regularly consult the symposium's website at http://www.etfb.org.za
[Symposium Multilingualism and Exclusion] for continuous information on the
programme, the keynote speakers, accommodation, and others.
Message 2: Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation
Date: 25-May-2005
From: Anja Belz <ucnlgitri.brighton.ac.uk>
Subject: Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation



Full Title: Workshop on Using Corpora for Natural Language Generation
Short Title: UCNLG

Date: 14-Jul-2005 - 14-Jul-2005
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Anja Belz
Meeting Email: ucnlgitri.brighton.ac.uk. Abstracts should not exceed 500
words. RTF format is also accepted but not encouraged.

Reviewing of papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by the workshop's
international programme committee. Final decisions on the technical programme
will be made by the workshop organisers.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Self-references that reveal the authors' identity, e.g., ''We
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'', should be avoided. Instead, use citations
such as ''Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...''.

In the body of the email submitting the abstract, please include the authors'
names and affiliations, and the paper title.

* Camera-ready full-length papers:

4-6 pages in the IJCAI'05 format. Please follow the IJCAI formatting
instructions (http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/). Further submission instructions
for full-length papers will be included in acceptance emails.


Important dates

Abstract submission deadline: Friday 27th May 2005
Notification of acceptance: Friday 10th June 2005
Camera-ready full-length papers: Friday 1st July 2005
Date of workshop: Thursday 14th July


Programme committee

Anja Belz, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK
John Carroll, Informatics, University of Sussex, UK
Robert Dale, Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Australia
Michel Genereux, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK
Kevin Knight, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
Chris Mellish, Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, UK
Sebastian Varges, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK


Workshop website

http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/ucnlg/