LINGUIST List 17.3218: Computational Ling/USA; Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis/Spain

LINGUIST List 17.3218

Fri Nov 03 2006

Calls: Computational Ling/USA; Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis/Spain

Editor for this issue: Dan Parker <danlinguistlist.org>

Directory 1. Jackson Liscombe, Doctoral Consortium at NAACL HLT 2007
2. Chelo Vargas-Sierra, 1st International Conference on Language and Health Care

Message 1: Doctoral Consortium at NAACL HLT 2007
Date: 01-Nov-2006
From: Jackson Liscombe <jaxincs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Doctoral Consortium at NAACL HLT 2007

Full Title: Doctoral Consortium at NAACL HLT 2007
Date: 22-Apr-2007 - 22-Apr-2007 Location: Rochester, NY, USA Contact Person: Jackson Liscombe
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07/dc/
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 18-Jan-2007

Meeting Description:

The Doctoral Consortium at NAACL HLT 2007 provides the opportunity for a group of senior Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research and career objectives with a panel of established researchers in the fields of natural language processing, speech technology, and information retrieval. The event is also an opportunity for students to develop the skills necessary to effectively communicate one's research in preparation for future job talks.

Doctoral Consortium at NAACL HLT 2007http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07/dc/

April 22, 2007Rochester, NY

Application Deadline: Jan 18, 2007

1. Call for Participation

Following the success of last year, the Doctoral Consortium atNAACL HLT 2007 will provide an opportunity for a group of seniorPh.D. students to discuss and explore their research and careerobjectives with a panel of established researchers in the fields ofnatural language processing, speech technology, and informationretrieval. The event is also an opportunity for students to developthe skills necessary to effectively communicate one's research inpreparation for future job talks.

The Doctoral Consortium will be held as a workshop on April 22, 2007,immediately before the start of the main conference. Students willpresent their work and get feedback from a panel of experiencedresearchers. The event will also include a panel presentation onprofessional development topics relevant to students pursuing researchcareers in academia or industry.

Students will participate in a poster session held during the mainconference and will have a short paper discussing their researchpublished in the companion volume of the proceedings. Each student'sprofessional biography, research abstract, and photograph will also beincluded in a face book to be distributed to all attendees of themain NAACL HLT 2007 conference.

The consortium has the following objectives: (1) to provide feedbackon participants' research and on the presentation of their work toothers; (2) to develop a supportive community of scholars; (3) tosupport a new generation of researchers with information and advice onacademic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths; and(4) to contribute to the NAACL HLT conference goals throughinteraction with other researchers and participation in conferenceevents.

There is a possibility that students who participate in the DoctoralConsortium may be able to receive an allowance for basic conferenceregistration, travel, and hotel. The Doctoral Consortium organizersare currently applying for funding for such travel support. Updateswill be available on the Doctoral Consortium website:http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07/dc/

NAACL HLT 2007 continues the combination of the Human LanguageTechnology Conferences (HLT) and North American Chapter of theAssociation for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Meetingsbegun in 2003. Human language technology incorporates a broad spectrumof disciplines working to enable natural language human-computerinteraction, and providing services such as speech recognition,automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, andinformation extraction. For further information on the mainconference, please see:http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07/.

2. Eligibility for Participation

The event is designed for senior Ph.D. students who are in the lastfew years of their doctoral program (who have already settled on aresearch direction and who have likely already submitted a thesisproposal). Students who are conducting research on all aspects ofhuman language processing are invited to apply. Topics include (butare not limited to):

- Computational analysis of language:- Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, dialogue, discourse, and style.

- Speech processing, including:- Speech recognition and speech generation;- Rich transcription: automatic annotation of information structure and sources in speech.

- Information retrieval, text classification, and information filtering/recommendation;- Text data mining, information extraction, text summarization, and question answering.

- Multimodal representations and processing.

- Statistical and learning techniques for language, including:- Corpus-based language modeling;- Lexical and knowledge acquisition.

- Development of language resources, including:- Lexicons and ontologies;- Treebanks, proposition banks, and frame banks.

- Language generation and text planning.

- Multilingual processing, including:- Machine translation of speech and text;- Cross-language information retrieval;- Multi-lingual speech recognition and language identification.

- Intelligent systems for natural language interaction, including:- Conversational systems for collaboration, tutoring and behavioral intervention;- Embodied conversational agents, virtual humans and human-robot conversation;- Language-enhanced platforms for interactive narrative and digital entertainment.

- Evaluation, including:- Glass-box evaluation of HLT systems and system components;- Black-box evaluation of HLT systems in application settings .

As part of the application process, students will submit a short papersummarizing their research goals, completed work, and futuredirections. This paper should be the basis for the student'spresentation at the Doctoral Consortium event, which should follow theformat of an abbreviated job talk. Thus, the paper should give anoverview of the student's research and highlight his or hercontributions; the paper may include citations to previouspublications that describe more specific aspects of the student'sresearch.

The short papers accepted for presentation at the Doctoral Consortiumcannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting withpublicly available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted toother conferences must indicate this immediately after the titlematerial on the first page.

Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their workto the main conference are also invited to apply to the DoctoralConsortium. In this case, the short paper for the Doctoral Consortiummust give an overview of the student's dissertation research, and thepaper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of thiswork.

3. Application Procedure

Applications should contain the following four elements:

(1) A cover letter (under 2-pages) describing the student's progressin his or her degree program, expected date of graduation, plans aftergraduation, and what he or she hopes to gain from the DoctoralConsortium. The letter should contain the student's name, department,school, contact information, name of advisor, advisor's e-mailaddress, and a short statement affirming that the student meets theeligibility requirements specified in Section 2 of this Call forParticipation.

(2) The student's Curriculum Vitae (including a list of publications).

(3) A short paper written by the student summarizing his or herresearch goals, completed work, and future directions. This papershould be the basis for the student's presentation at the DoctoralConsortium event, and it should give an overview of the student'sresearch and highlight his or her major contributions.

(4) A letter of recommendation from the student's advisor. Thestudent's advisor should produce a PDF file of the recommendationletter and e-mail it to naacl-hlt-2007-dccs.columbia.edu

An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to the co-chairs.

Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs:Jackson Liscombe (Columbia University)Phil Michalak (University of Rochester)

Faculty Advisor:Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)

Message 2: 1st International Conference on Language and Health Care
Date: 01-Nov-2006
From: Chelo Vargas-Sierra <Chelo.Vargasua.es>
Subject: 1st International Conference on Language and Health Care

Full Title: 1st International Conference on Language and Health Care
Date: 24-Oct-2007 - 26-Oct-2007 Location: Alicante, Spain Contact Person: Adelina Gómez
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.iulma.es/congreso
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Forensic Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English; French; German, Standard; Spanish

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2007

Meeting Description:

The Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas de la Comunidad Valenciana (IULMA) is proud to announce the first edition of this International Conference on Language and Health Care, to be held at the University of Alicante (Spain) on the 24th, 25th and 26th October 2007. The main topic of the Conference will be the study of language in the context of health sciences and health care: interdisciplinary perspectives. The main aim of this Conference, which deals with language from an interdisciplinary point of view, is to explore and analyze the contribution which can be made to a better understanding of health sciences by linguistics and language analysis.

The Conference is organized by the Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas de la Comunidad Valenciana (IULMA). IULMA is a centre for research, teaching and services run jointly by universities of the Valencian Community and dedicated to theoretical and practical issues in applied modern languages, also known as professional and academic language. IULMA’s activities take place within an interdisciplinary framework as required by a society based on knowledge and information, with a view to the satisfaction of scientific, business and social needs created by the globalization of knowledge, science, technology and economics.

Communications dealing with the present state of research in any of the following topic areas of the conference, are welcome. The provisional topic areas are:

1. The language of health science:a. The linguistic characteristics of health science language.

2.The language of pharmaceutical science:a. Registers;b. Pharmaceutical protocols;c. Clinical testing;d. Health economics;

3. Medical language and communication:a. Language in the doctor-patient relationship;b. Professional genres. Medical protocols, informed consent forms etc.c. The language of interprofessional communication: professional genres articles, conference communications, seminars and round tables;d. Case notes and clinical histories;e. The language of popularisation (genres);f. Advertising.

4. Language as a medical strategy:a. The language of psychiatry;b. The language of clinical psychology.

5. Language and law;a. Bioethics;b. Medical claims assessment;c. Legal medicine;d. Forensic psychiatry;e. Pharmaceutical patents;f. Informed consent: medical and surgical implications.

6. Language pathologies:a. Aphasia;b. Dysphasia.

7. Medical translation and interpretation:a. Characteristics;b. Documentation;c. Translation tools;d. Terminology;e. Genre translation;f. Neutral language (Spanish and English);g. Interpretation of doctor-patient communication;h. Interpretation in medical conferences.

The final deadline for the reception of summaries is the 15th April 2007.

A list of accepted communications, following the necessary evaluation process, will be published at the conference website before the 30th May.

Communications should include some point of interest, reflection or study related to language and health care, from a language or health care point of view, and possibly involving other disciplines such as law, economics etc.

While Spanish, English and Valencian are the official conference languages, communications may be given in any of the official languages of IULMA: Spanish, Valencian, English, French and German.

Presenters of communications will be allowed twenty minutes for their presentation, followed by ten minutes for questions and debate. Those wishing to present communications should fill in the registration form (boletín de inscripción) together with the communication proposal form (http://www.iulma.es/inscripcion_en.asp), and should include two summaries of the communication, one in Spanish and one in English (max. 2000 words).