LINGUIST List 18.1636

Tue May 29 2007

Calls: Pragmatics/Italy; Computational Ling,Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Marina Dossena, Commonality and Individuality in English Academic Discourse
         2.    Manuel Alcantara, Semantic Representation of Spoken Language
Message 1: Commonality and Individuality in English Academic Discourse
Date: 28-May-2007
From: Marina Dossena <marina.dossenaunibg.it>
Subject: Commonality and Individuality in English Academic Discourse


Full Title: Commonality and Individuality in English Academic Discourse Short Title: CERLIS 2008

Date: 19-Jun-2008 - 21-Jun-2008 Location: Bergamo, Italy Contact Person: Michele Sala Meeting Email: cerlisunibg.it (using the form in the conference website) by 31 October 2007. The outcome of submissions will be announced by 30 November 2007.
Message 2: Semantic Representation of Spoken Language
Date: 28-May-2007
From: Manuel Alcantara <manuel.alcantaradfki.de>
Subject: Semantic Representation of Spoken Language



Full Title: Semantic Representation of Spoken Language Short Title: SRSL7

Date: 12-Nov-2007 - 13-Nov-2007 Location: Salamanca, Spain Contact Person: Manuel Alcantara Meeting Email: manuel.alcantaradfki.de Web Site: http://www.dfki.de/~mpla/SRSL/

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

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2007

Meeting Description:

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the semantic representation of spoken corpora, especially spontaneous speech. The current state-of-the-art supports solutions from very different backgrounds and perspectives, but still remain important and complex issues to deal with, such as the accurate segmentation of speech in semantic units.

Spoken language is a pending issue in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, both traditionally focused on written language, although semantic processing of speech is necessary for the understanding of both natural and human-machine interaction. The problems found when trying to linguistically structure spontaneous speech are leading to works focused on its semantic representation. In-depth research on the semantic representation of speech can provide us with a suitable basis for further analysis of related linguistic levels, like prosody or pragmatics.

2nd Call for Papers: International Workshop on the Semantic Representation of Spoken Language 2007 (SRSL7)

Salamanca, Spain (12-Nov-2007 - 13-Nov-2007)

http://www.dfki.de/~mpla/SRSL/

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research concerning the semantic representation of spoken language. They can be full (6-8 pages) or short papers (3-4 pages).

Possible topics include:

- Corpus annotation: structures (frame-banks, proposition banks, etc.) and concepts (ontologies, named entities, etc.). - Content identification and segmentation in spontaneous speech. - Semantic interpretation in dialogues. - Dialogue and discourse structures. - Topic detection and tracking. - Multimodal representations including speech. - Natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems. - Speech in embedded systems. - Project descriptions about applications of spoken corpora semantic representations. - Standardisation work.

Submissions must be written in English and should follow the Springer format. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the author's names and affiliations.

Submission will be via email and must be sent to manuel(dot)alcantara(at)dfki(dot)de. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the workshop. Both full (6-8 pages including references) and short papers (3-4 pages including references) will have an oral presentation at the workshop within the framework of the CAEPIA conference in Salamanca (Spain). The University of Salamanca offers 15 grants/awards to facilitate the attendance of doctoral and young doctors both to the event.

For further information about the workshop and the submission procedure, please visit http://www.dfki.de/~mpla/SRSL/

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2007 Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 20th, 2007 Final Version Submission Deadline: October 10th, 2007 Workshop dates: November 12th and 13th, 2007

Organization:

Chair: Manuel Alcantara (DFKI GmbH) Co-chair: Thierry Declerck (DFKI GmbH)

Program Committee (already confirmed):

David Ahn (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Enrique Alfonseca (Google Inc.) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI GmbH) Harry Bunt (Universiteit van Tilburg) Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR) Raquel Fernández Rovira (Universität Potsdam) Anette Frank (Universität Heidelberg) Massimo Moneglia (Università degli Studi di Firenze) Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Antonio Moreno Sandoval (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Stelios Piperidis (IEA-ILSP) Gael Richard (École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, GET-ENST) Carlos Subirats (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Isabel Trancoso (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa)