LINGUIST List 17.3216
Fri Nov 03 2006
Calls: Syntax/USA; Computational Ling/Israel
Editor for this issue: Dan Parker
<danlinguistlist.org>
Directory
1. Aoife
Cahill,
12th Lexcial Functional Grammar Conference
2. Shalom
Lappin,
Workshop on Machine Learning and NLP
Message 1: 12th Lexcial Functional Grammar Conference
Date: 02-Nov-2006
From: Aoife Cahill <acahillcomputing.dcu.ie>
Subject: 12th Lexcial Functional Grammar Conference
Full Title: 12th Lexcial Functional Grammar Conference
Short Title: LFG07
Date: 28-Jul-2007 - 30-Jul-2007
Location: Stanford University, California, USA
Contact Person: Aoife Cahill
Web Site: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/lfg07.html
Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2007
Meeting Description:
The 12th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will behosted by Stanford University, California from July 28th to 30th 2007,just after the LSA summer linguistic institute.
LFG 2007 welcomes work within the formal architecture ofLexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, andcomputational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach tolanguage employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conferenceaims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interestedin non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as theinteraction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels ofstructuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammaticalrelations, semantics and discourse.
First Call for Papers: LFG 2007
Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2007Submissions should be submitted using the online submission system athttp://www.easychair.org/LFG07/. Submissions will not be accepted in anyother way.
Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at thefollowing sites:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/
Submissions: Talks and Posters:
The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. + 15min. discussion), and poster/system presentations. Contributions shouldfocus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with anemphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whetherdescriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations shoulddescribe original, unpublished work.
Dissertation Session:
As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that willgive students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or otherstudent research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed bythe time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible(e.g., on the World Wide Web). The presentation can either summarise thethesis or focus on some salient issue dealt with in it. When preparing,the presenter should keep in mind the strict time limit for thepresentation.
Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open tostudent submissions but that these will then be judged by the samecriteria as any other submission. The International LFG Association(ILFGA) will provide a small subsidy for all student presenters at theconference.
Timetable:
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2007Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2007
Conference: July 28-30 2007
Submission Speicifications:
Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation sessionmust be received by February 15, 2007. All abstracts should submittedusing the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form ofabstracts only. Abstracts can be up to two A4 pages in 11pt or largertype and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obviousself-reference. Note: we no longer ask for a separate page for data andfigures (c-/f- and related structures). They can be included in the textof the abstract, obeying the overall two-page limit. Please submit yourabstract in .pdf, .ps or .doc format. If you have any trouble convertingyour file into this format, please contact the Program Committee at theaddresses below.
All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people.Papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be published online byCSLI Publications.
Organisers and Their Contact Addresses:
If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using theEasyChair submission, please contact the Programme Committee.
Program Committee:
Email: Kersti Börjars k.borjarscomputing.dcu.ie
Local conference organisers:
Joan Bresnan Tracy Holloway King Adams Bodomo Annie Zaenen
Information about Stanford, as well as accommodation and registrationdetails, are available on the conference website:
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/lfg07.html.
Message 2: Workshop on Machine Learning and NLP
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Date: 01-Nov-2006
From: Shalom Lappin <shalom.lappinkcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Workshop on Machine Learning and NLP
Full Title: Workshop on Machine Learning and NLP
Date: 19-Dec-2006 - 19-Dec-2006
Location: Haifa, Israel
Contact Person: Shalom Lappin
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 19-Dec-2006
Meeting Description:
A workshop on the application of machine learning methods to issues in natural language processing and computational linguistics.
The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute forInterdisciplinary Applications of Computer ScienceUniversity of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 31905Phone: 972-4-8288334, Fax: 972-4-8288181
Workshop on Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing
Organizers: Shalom Lappin and Ido Dagan
Date :Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Location :University of Haifa,
Education and Sciences Building, Room 570
Full Schedule :
9:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks10:10-11:00 Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of HaifaGlobal Inference and Learning: Towards Natural Language Understanding11:00-11:50 Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan UniversityTextual entailment as a framework for applied semantics11:50-12:20 Coffee break12:20-13:10 Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University of JerusalemUniversal Scaling of Semantic Information Revealed from IB Word Clusters13:10-14:10 Lunch14:10-15:00 Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan UniversityThe Authorship Attribution Problem: Variations and Solutions15:00-15:50 Shalom Lappin, King's College, LondonWeak Bias Language Models and Universal Grammar15:50-16:20 Coffee break16:20-17:10 Ari Rappoport, Hebrew University of JerusalemPattern-based Lexical Acquisition and Self-training of Statistical Parsers: Two Cases in a Construction Grammar Approach17:10-18:00 Eytan Ruppin, Tel Aviv UniversityBoosting unsupervised language acquisition with ADIOS
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