LINGUIST List 17.245

Wed Jan 25 2006

Calls: Computational Ling/Italy/Cognitive Science/Germany

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

Directory         1.    David Ahn, 5th Workshop on NLP and XML/EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing
         2.    Miriam Butt, Konferenz Verarbeitung Natuerlichsprachlicher Systeme
Message 1: 5th Workshop on NLP and XML/EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing
Date: 24-Jan-2006
From: David Ahn <ahnscience.uva.unl>
Subject: 5th Workshop on NLP and XML/EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing


Full Title: 5th Workshop on NLP and XML/EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing Short Title: NLPXML-2006

Date: 04-Apr-2006 - 04-Apr-2006 Location: Trento, Italy Contact Person: David Ahn Meeting Email: ahnscience.uva.nl Web Site: http://ilps.science.uva.nl/nlpxml2006

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2006

2nd CALL FOR DEMOS

EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing: 5th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2006)

http://ilps.science.uva.nl/nlpxml2006/

April 4, 2006, Trento, Italy

Submission deadline: January 31, 2006

The EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, which will take place April 3-7, 2006, in Trento, italy.

This workshop is also the fifth in the NLPXML series, following workshops at NLPRS 2001 in Tokyo, COLING 2002 in Taipei, EACL 2003 in Budapest, and ACL 2004 in Barcelona.

* TOPICS

The widespread adoption of XML within the NLP community as the main standard for both data and meta-data representation has led to research in a number of issues relating to XML and NLP. One particularly interesting challenge arises from the difficulty in combining annotations resulting from disparate NLP systems in a single hierarchical structure. For downstream applications that rely on a range of linguistic annotations, problems such as crossing boundaries and overlapping elements from different sources make it difficult to query data with multiple dimensions of annotation.

As part of this workshop, we solicit demo presentations of tools and applications that provide access to multiple layers of linguistic annotation, as well as multi-dimensional XML processing systems that may be applicable to research in computational linguistics. We also welcome, more generally, presentations of natural language processing systems that have successfully met the challenge of integrating multiple levels of XML markup as part of their data representation.

* DEMO SUBMISSIONS

Demo presenters must submit a description of their demo (up to 4 pages, including screenshots). Submissions should be formatted using the EACL 2006 stylefiles with overt author and affiliation information. The EACL 2006 stylefiles are available at http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm

Please send your PDF file no later than January 31, 2006, to ahn (at) science.uva.nl

The workshop organizers are unable to provide computing equipment for demonstration purposes; if your demo submission is accepted, you are expected to bring your own laptop on which the demonstration can be shown. In your email message, please include details on the facilities you need for your demonstration (internet connection, beamer, etc.)

Each demo submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee. Accepted demo descriptions will be published in the workshop proceedings. As the schedule is extremely tight, there will only be a very short time available for revision of accepted descriptions; please try to make your submissions publication-ready.

(Please note that the deadline for paper submissions has passed; this call concerns demo descriptions only.)

* REGISTRATION

Information on registration and registration fees will be provided at the conference web page.

* IMPORTANT DATES

January 31, 2006 - Deadline for demo descriptions February 7, 2006 - Notification of acceptance February 10, 2006 - Camera-ready descriptions due April 4, 2006 - Workshop

As the schedule is extremely tight, deadline extensions are NOT possible.

* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

David Ahn (University of Amsterdam), co-chair Wouter Alink (NFI, The Hague) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbruecken) Jean Carletta (University of Edinburgh) Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield) Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) Claire Grover (University of Edinburgh) Nancy Ide (Vassar, New York) Amy Isard (University of Edinburgh) Mounia Lalmas (University of London) Maarten Marx (University of Amsterdam) Guenter Neumann (DFKI, Saarbruecken) Laurent Romary (Loria, Nancy) Valentin Tablan (University of Sheffield) Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh) Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Amsterdam) Arjen de Vries (CWI, Amsterdam) Graham Wilcock (University of Helsinki), co-chair

* FURTHER INFORMATION

Workshop web page: http://ilps.science.uva.nl/nlpxml2006/

Conference web page: http://eacl06.itc.it/

EACL 2006 Workshops site: http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/

* CONTACT INFORMATION

David Ahn Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam The Netherlands ahn (at) science.uva.nl
Message 2: Konferenz Verarbeitung Natuerlichsprachlicher Systeme
Date: 23-Jan-2006
From: Miriam Butt <miriam.buttuni-konstanz.de>
Subject: Konferenz Verarbeitung Natuerlichsprachlicher Systeme



Full Title: Konferenz Verarbeitung Natuerlichsprachlicher Systeme Short Title: Konvens

Date: 04-Oct-2006 - 07-Oct-2006 Location: Konstanz, Germany Contact Person: Miriam Butt Meeting Email: konvens06uni-konstanz.de

More Information on Konvens and the supporting organizations can be found on the conference website:

http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/konvens06/

Programm Committee:

Miriam Butt (Universitaet Konstanz, DGfS-CL) Guenter Goerz (Universitaet Erlangen, GI) Ruediger Hoffmann (TU Dresden, ITG) Tibor Kiss (Universitaet Bochum) Bernd Kroeger (Universitaetsklinikum Aachen. DEGA) Henning Lobin (Universitaet Giessen, GLDV) Manfred Stede (Univeritaet Potsdam) Harald Trost (Universitaet Wien, OEGAI) Heike Zinsmeister (Universitaet Tuebingen, DGfS-CL)