LINGUIST List 18.182: Applied Linguistics/Canada; Computational Linguistics/Italy

LINGUIST List 18.182

Thu Jan 18 2007

Calls: Applied Linguistics/Canada; Computational Linguistics/Italy

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

Directory 1. Tanja Collet-Najem, 4th Ontario Conference on Applied Linguistics
2. Manuela Speranza, Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian

Message 1: 4th Ontario Conference on Applied Linguistics
Date: 17-Jan-2007
From: Tanja Collet-Najem <tcolletuwindsor.ca>
Subject: 4th Ontario Conference on Applied Linguistics

Full Title: 4th Ontario Conference on Applied Linguistics Short Title: OCAL 2007
Date: 19-May-2007 - 20-May-2007 Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada Contact Person: Tanja Collet-Najem
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.uwindsor.ca/ocal
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English; French

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2007

Meeting Description:

The 4th Ontario Conference on Applied Linguistics (OCAL 2007) will be held at the University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada) on May 19 and 20, 2007. The Ontario Conference on Applied Linguistics is a fully bilingual annual event which specializes in second-language learning and teaching as well as in related issues dealing with bilingualism.

Second Call for Papers4th Ontario Conference on Applied Linguistics, OCAL 2007University of Windsor, Ontario, CanadaMay 19 and 20, 2007

To submit a proposal or for more information, please visit the conference web site at http://www.uwindsor.ca/ocal .

Message 2: Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian
Date: 17-Jan-2007
From: Manuela Speranza <mansperaitc.it>
Subject: Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian

Full Title: Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian Short Title: EVALITA 2007
Date: 10-Sep-2007 - 10-Sep-2007 Location: Rome, Italy Contact Person: Manuela Speranza
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://evalita.itc.it
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Italian

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2007

Meeting Description:

EVALITA 2007 - Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian

EVALITA 2007 - First Call for Participation

We are pleased to announce EVALITA 2007, a new initiative devotedto the evaluation of Natural Language Processing tools for Italian.The general objective of EVALITA is to promote the development oflanguage technologies for the Italian language, providing a sharedframework where different systems and approaches can be evaluatedin a consistent manner.

We invite participation, both from academic institutions andindustrial organizations, in five tasks, all for Italian:

- Part of Speech Tagging- Parsing- Word Sense Disambiguation- Temporal Expression Recognition and Normalization- Named Entity Recognition

As with other international evaluation campaigns, guidelinesdescribing the different tasks will be distributed to participants.Participants will also be provided with training data and will havethe chance to test their systems with the evaluation metrics andprocedures to be used in the formal evaluation.The results of the evaluation will be disseminated at the finalworkshop, which will be organized in conjunction with AIIA 2007and will take place on September 10th at Villa Mondragone, a XVIcentury ''Villa Tuscolana'' located between Frascati and Monte PorzioCatone, only 20 km from Rome.

To indicate your intention to participate in one or more of theEVALITA 2007 tasks, please contact Manuela Speranza (mansperaitc.it