LINGUIST List 18.412
Tue Feb 06 2007
Calls: Applied Linguistics/Italy; Discourse Analysis,Semantics/Italy
Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz
<anialinguistlist.org>
Directory
1. Daniela
Veronesi,
Bi- and multilingual universities 2007
2. Ron
Artstein,
2007 Workshop on the Semantics/Pragmatics of Dialogue
Message 1: Bi- and multilingual universities 2007
Date: 02-Feb-2007
From: Daniela Veronesi <daniela.veronesiunibz.it>
Subject: Bi- and multilingual universities 2007
Full Title: Bi- and multilingual universities 2007 Short Title: BiMU 07
Date: 20-Sep-2007 - 22-Sep-2007 Location: Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Contact Person: Chiara Moser Meeting Email: bimu07unibz.it Web Site: http://www.unibz.it/bi-and-multilingual-universities-2007
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2014
Meeting Description:
The conference aims at bringing together scholars, instructors, university leaders and administrative personnel working in bi- and multilingual universities, so as to provide them with terrain for scientific and didactic discussion, comparison of practices, approaches and results and networking opportunities.
It will give particular emphasis to bottom-up, application-oriented research, as well as to the critical analysis of practices and policies; a major objective will be to highlight current best practices, but also obstacles and limits faced by multilingual universities across Europe.
Topics will include (required and targeted) student language competence, autonomous learning, CLIL and analysis of academic discourse, English as lingua franca, cost and benefits of institutional multilingualism and minority langauges and higher education.
Bi- and multilingual universities 2007: European perspectives and beyond
Call for papers
The international conference ''Bi- and multilingual universities 2007: European perspectives and beyond'', will be hosted by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano from 20 to 22 September 2007. Our goal is continuation of the discussion on multilingual higher education initiated by the 1st conference on bi- and multilingual universities held in Fribourg/Freiburg in 2003 and subsequently continued with the 2nd conference in Helsinki 2005, ''Bi- and multilingual universities: European perspectives and beyond'' in Bolzano will place particular emphasis on bottom-up, application-oriented research, as well as on the critical analysis of practices and policies on the one hand and on the promotion of exchange of experiences and information on the other. Furthermore, a major objective of the conference will be to highlight current best practices, but also obstacles and limits faced by multilingual universities across Europe and to place them against the background of the language policy adopted by the EU to promote functional multilingualism in society.
Topics:
The multi-faceted nature of multilingual higher education is a well known reality for students, educators, scholars, administrators and university leaders acting in environments where two or more languages are used in informal every-day communication, teaching and learning, decision-taking, planning, negotiating. While such a reality may be seen, perceived and tackled from different perspectives representing focus and priorities of different subjects, it is clear that all of them are strongly interconnected, and that solutions to problems can be only found within interdisciplinarity and interaction. The issue of English as a medium of instruction and as lingua franca, for instance, involves not only questions of international standards and certifications, but also the consideration of the communicative habits of the single disciplines; planning coaching measures for subject-matter instructors can be based on established CLIL-experiences and profit from investigations into academic communicative styles; discussing the kind of competence required of prospective students and to be reached by graduating students has to take into account the needs of workplaces but also to establish solid links with secondary education prior to university. Following such considerations, the conference will be broken down into thematic areas that will allow participants to explore in detail those varied points of view, to compare them and to relate them to each other, so as to gain a comprehensive overview that includes didactical, scientific, organizational, economic and policy aspects of multilingual higher education.
We welcome contributions on following topics:
- Language competence of incoming and outgoing students: language assessment, certifications, quality standards - Autonomous learning and extra-curricular measures - English as language of instruction and as lingua franca - Schools and workplaces: synergies with higher education - CLIL, coaching for subject-matter instructors, analysis of academic discourse (lecturer and student communicative practices) - Minority languages and higher education - The administration perspective: costs and benefits of institutional multilingualism - Institutional language policies and everyday practices: case studies
Abstracts:
Proposals for presentations should not exceed 2000 characters (about 300 words), and can be presented in English, German, Italian, French or Spanish. Each contribution will be given a 30-minutes slot (20-minute presentation and 10-minute discussion).
Presentations in languages other than English are highly encouraged; in order to make the use of such languages feasible by ensuring mutual comprehension, we suggest the adoption of bilingual communication (for instance, speech in the chosen language and visual presentation and/or hand-out in English).
Submission: http://pro.unibz.it/abstract/index.aspx?LanguageID=EN& Conference website: http://www.unibz.it/bi-and-multilingual-universities-2007
Important dates:
February 28, 2007 - submission deadline April 2, 2007 - notification of acceptance April 15, 2007 - early registration deadline April 16-September 10 - standard registration September 20-22 - conference; on-site registration
Scientific committee:
Anne-Claude Berthoud (Lausanne) Jasone Cenoz (Basque Country) Lucie Courteau (Bozen-Bolzano) Liliana Dozza (Bozen-Bolzano Rita Franceschini (Bozen-Bolzano) Mirja Saari (Helsinki)
Local organising committee:
Christoph Nickenig (Bolzano-Bozen) Daniela Veronesi (Bolzano-Bozen)
Message 2: 2007 Workshop on the Semantics/Pragmatics of Dialogue
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Date: 02-Feb-2007
From: Ron Artstein <artsteinessex.ac.uk>
Subject: 2007 Workshop on the Semantics/Pragmatics of Dialogue
Full Title: 2007 Workshop on the Semantics/Pragmatics of Dialogue Short Title: DECALOG
Date: 30-May-2007 - 01-Jun-2007 Location: Rovereto, Trentino, Italy Contact Person: Ron Artstein Web Site: http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/Research/nle/decalog/
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics
Call Deadline: 18-Feb-2007
Meeting Description
The SEMDIAL series of workshops aim to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science. In 2007 we will celebrate ten years of the SEMDIAL series with the DECALOG workshop, organized at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, CIMeC (Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello), of the University of Trento in Rovereto. The SemDial workshops are always stimulating and fun, and Rovereto is a great place to visit.
DECALOG -- The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Università di Trento (Italy), May 30 -- June 1, 2007 http://www.cimec.unitn.it/events/decalog/index.htm
Deadline for receipt of papers for review: 18 February 2007 in conjunction with Inaugural Workshop of the Language, Interaction and Computation Lab, Center For Mind / Brain Sciences (CiMeC) May 29, 2007
Description
DECALOG will be held on May 30 -- June 1, 2007, in conjunction with the Inaugural Workshop of the Language, Interaction and Computation Lab of CIMeC on May 29. This one-day workshop will feature invited presentations by some of the leaders of the computational linguistics and human language technology community.
Invited Speakers
For DECALOG 2007 (May 30 -- June 1)
Bruno Bara (University of Torino) Paul Piwek (Open University) Ipke Wachsmuth (University of Bielefeld) Possibly one more speaker to be confirmed
For the Inaugural Workshop (May 29)
Harald Baayen (Radboud University Nijmegen & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Justine Cassell (Northwestern University) Terry Regier (University of Chicago) Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh & University of Pennsylvania) Possibly one more speaker to be confirmed
Scope
We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:
- models of common ground/mutual belief in communication - modeling agents' information states and how they get updated - multi-agent models and turn-taking - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - semantic interpretation in dialogues - reference in dialogues - ellipsis resolution in dialogues - dialogue and discourse structure - interpretation of questions and answers - nonlinguistic interaction in communication - natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - multimodal dialogue systems - dialogue management in practical implementations - categorization of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora - designing and evaluating dialogue systems
Submission
Deadline for receipt of papers is 18 February 2007, 23:59 UTC. (Since we have to close the system manually, submissions will probably be accepted for a few hours after the deadline, but we're not making any promises.) Submit your paper via the web at
http://www.easychair.org/DECALOG2007/
Before submitting you must register with the website and receive a password by email; please do this well ahead of your submission, since email is sometimes unreliable. You will also need to fill out a web form with the author details and type in (or paste) a plain-text version of your abstract (200 words), in addition to uploading your paper.
The actual paper should be an anonymous PDF file, 6 pages long (including data, tables, figures, and references), A4 paper size, 11pt Times font, 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins, 2-column format. Include a one-paragraph abstract of the entire work (about 200 words). You may find it convenient to use the style files provided by COLING/ACL 2006.
Multiple submissions by the same author or group of authors are allowed, but each person may only give one oral presentation at the workshop.
We will have a separate submission of late-breaking system demonstrations and ongoing project descriptions, to be presented in a poster session during the workshop. Late-breaking submissions will be two pages long; they will not be refereed, but evaluated for relevance only by the program committee chairs. Submission of late-breaking abstracts will be allowed only after review of the main session papers has concluded. The deadline for late-breaking submissions is 15 April 2007.
Proceedings
Final, 8-page versions of the accepted papers, together with the 2-page accepted late breaking abstracts, will be distributed in a proceedings volume at the workshop.
Important Dates
Submissions due: 18 February 2007 (Sunday) Notification: 30 March 2007 (Friday) Late-breaking submissions: 15 April 2007 (Sunday) Notification: 20 April 2007 (Friday) Final versions due: 30 April 2007 (Monday) CIMeC inaugural workshop: 29 May 2007 (Tuesday) DECALOG 2007 workshop: 30 May -- 1 June 2007 (Wednesday--Friday)
Organizers
Ron Artstein (program co-chair) Laure Vieu (program co-chair) Massimo Poesio (local arrangements) Co-organizers: LUNA -- Spoken language understanding in multilingual communication systems
If you have any questions, please write to one of the human organizers (not the institutional co-organizer). We do not have a dedicated email address.
Program Committee
Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Saarbrücken Maria Aloni, University of Amsterdam Nicholas Asher, CNRS, Toulouse & Univ. of Texas Anton Benz, Syddansk University Raffaella Bernardi, University of Bolzano Patrick Blackburn, INRIA, Nancy Johan Bos, University La Sapienza, Rome Monica Bucciarelli, University of Torino Craig Chambers, University of Toronto Marco Colombetti, Politecnico di Milano Paul Dekker, University of Amsterdam Raquel Fernández, University of Potsdam Ruth Filik, University of Glasgow Simon Garrod, University of Glasgow Jonathan Ginzburg, King's College, London Joris Hulstijn, Free University, Amsterdam Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California Alistair Knott, University of Otago Staffan Larsson, Göteborg University Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh Colin Matheson, University of Edinburgh Nicolas Maudet, University of Paris Dauphine Philippe Muller, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Fabio Pianesi, ITC-IRST, Trento Martin Pickering, University of Edinburgh Manfred Pinkal, University of Saarland Matthew Purver, Stanford University Hannes Rieser, University of Bielefeld Laurent Roussarie, University of Paris 8 Ted Sanders, University of Utrecht David Schlangen, University of Potsdam Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Matthew Stone, Rutgers University Henk Zeevat, University of Amsterdam Enric Vallduví, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Sponsors
CIMeC -- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences http://www.cimec.unitn.it/
LOA -- Laboratory for Applied Ontology http://www.loa-cnr.it/
ILIKS -- Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Interacting Knowledge Systems http://www.loa-cnr.it/iliks/
Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include:
MunDial'97 (Munich) http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html Twendial'98 (Twente) http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam) http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/ GÖTALOG 2000 (Gothenburg) http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/gotalog2000/ BI-DIALOG 2001 (Bielefeld) http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/ EDILOG 2002 (Edinburgh) http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/ DiaBruck 2003 (Saarbruecken) http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/ CATALOG'04 (Barcelona) http://www.upf.edu/dtf/personal/enricvallduvi/catalog04/ DIALOR'05 (Nancy) http://dialor05.loria.fr/ BRANDIAL 2006 (Potsdam) http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/brandial/
(see also http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/ )
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