LINGUIST List 17.1348

Tue May 02 2006

Calls: East Asian Ling/Canada;Computational Ling/Bulgaria

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Yoonjung Kang, International Conference on East Asian Linguistics
         2.    Kiril Simov, Natural Language Processing for Metadata Extraction
Message 1: International Conference on East Asian Linguistics
Date: 29-Apr-2006
From: Yoonjung Kang <yoonjung.kangutoronto.ca>
Subject: International Conference on East Asian Linguistics



Full Title: International Conference on East Asian Linguistics Short Title: ICEAL
Date: 10-Nov-2006 - 12-Nov-2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Contact Person: Yoonjung Kang
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/iceal
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin; Japanese; Korean

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2006

Meeting Description:

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto is pleased to invite abstracts for submission to the International Conference on East Asian Linguistics to be held at the University of Toronto, November 10-12, 2006. Abstracts are invited for 20 minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion, for a total of 30 minutes) on all aspects of formal linguistics of Chinese, Korean, and/or Japanese. In additional to regular conference sessions, there will be a special session on loanwords. There will be an award of a modest sum for the best student abstract.

Invited Speakers: Keynote speakers: San Duanmu (University of Michigan)Chung-hye Han (Simon Fraser University) C.-T. James Huang (Harvard University) Michael Kenstowicz (MIT) Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University)Jen Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) John Whitman (Cornell University) Student speaker: Shigeto Kawahara (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Abstracts are not to exceed one page in letter-size (8.5'' x 11'') paper with 1'' margins on all sides and 12pt font size, with an optional additional page for data and references. The abstract should have a clear title but should not identify the author(s). The abstract must be sent to icealchass.utoronto.ca en format pdf. Le nom du fichier pdf doit être le nom de famille du premier auteur/de la première auteure (par exemple, Tremblay.pdf, et non résumé.pdf).

Veuillez inclure les informations suivantes dans le corps du courriel:

1. le titre de la communication2. la langue/les langues qui fera/feront objet d'étude (le chinois, japonais et/ou coréen)3. le domaine de linguistique (par exemple, la syntaxe, la phonologie...)4. le nom de l'auteur-e/des auteur-e-s5. l'affiliation6. l'adresse courriel7. étudiant-e (oui/non)

Date limite de la soumission: le 15 juilletAvis d'acceptation: le 1er septembre


Message 2: Natural Language Processing for Metadata Extraction
Date: 29-Apr-2006
From: Kiril Simov <kivsbultreebank.org>
Subject: Natural Language Processing for Metadata Extraction



Full Title: Natural Language Processing for Metadata Extraction Short Title: NLP4ME 2006
Date: 12-Sep-2006 - 12-Sep-2006 Location: Varna, Bulgaria Contact Person: Petya Osenova
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.bultreebank.org/NLP4ME2006/
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 20-May-2006

Meeting Description:

Natural Language Processing for Metadata Extraction (NLP4ME 2006) http://www.bultreebank.org/NLP4ME2006/ Workshop to be held on September 12th as part of the AIMSA 2006 Conference Varna, September 13-15, 2006 http://www.aimsaconference.org

Workshop Motivation and Aims

In spite of the massive amount of work in the last years in the area of Semantic Web, the problem of the creation of semantically annotated electronic content is still one of the main bottlenecks for the Semantic Web technology. A key technology, which is employed to overcome this problem is Natural Language Processing, because most of the content of the web is still textual. Any support for automatic and semi-automatic extraction, elicitation of metadata to such content will be of great assistance to the authors and users of the web content.

The workshop aims at being a forum for researchers to present their work in the area of semantic annotation, key word extraction, practical compositional semantics etc. It will provide an opportunity to present and discuss original methods for identification of metadata in text, semantic annotation of text, dealing with multilingual content, interconnecting metadata with ontologies, etc.

Topics of interest are connected with, but not limited to the following suggestions:

- standards for metadata- extraction of metadata from texts- metadata and ontologies- extraction of concepts and keyphrases from text- metadata in a multilingual environment

Important dates

Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 20th May 2006Notification of acceptance: 24th June 2006Final version of paper: 30th July 2006Workshop: 12th September 2006

Invited Speaker

Paul Buitelaar, DFKI

Submissions

Papers should describe existing research connected to the topics of the workshop. The presentation at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion). Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Extended abstracts (maximum 1500 words, plain-text format) should be sent to:

Petya Osenova Email: petyasfs.uni-tuebingen.de

Local Organizing Committee:

Kiril SimovLinguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP,Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Petya OsenovaLinguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP,Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Support

The workshop is organized within the EU project LT4eL.http://www.let.uu.nl/lt4el/index.php

Workshop Web Pagehttp://www.bultreebank.org/NLP4ME2006/

Conference Web Pagehttp://www.aimsaconference.org