LINGUIST List 18.910

Mon Mar 26 2007

Calls: Gen Ling/Belgium; Comp Ling/Bulgaria

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

Directory         1.    Hartwig Holzapfel, Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems
         2.    Marina Santini, RANLP-07 Workshop on Genre and NLP
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Message 1: Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems
Date: 24-Mar-2007
From: Hartwig Holzapfel <hartwigira.uka.de>
Subject: Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems


Full Title: Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems

Date: 01-Sep-2007 - 01-Sep-2007 Location: Antwerp, Belgium Contact Person: Hartwig Holzapfel Meeting Email: yrr-organizers07ira.uka.de Web Site: http://www.yrrsds.org

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 14-Jul-2007

Meeting Description

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems is an annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems. The roundtable provides an open forum where participants can discuss their research interests, current work and future plans.

YRR-2007: Call for participation

Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems September 1, 2007, Antwerp, Belgium

First Call for Participation

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems is an annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems. The roundtable provides an open forum where participants can discuss their research interests, current work and future plans. The workshop is meant to provide an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research, and help create a stronger international network of young researchers working in the field. The workshop is co-located with Interspeech 2007 and will occur the day before the 8th SIGdial workshop.

Workshop Format

During the workshop we will form small groups to discuss research problems the participants currently face, and identify issues that are likely to be important in the coming years. The results of each discussion group will then presented and discussed in plenary sessions. The topics for discussion are still open and will be determined by participant submissions and finalized online before the workshop. Potential participants should submit a short paper, as described below in the submission process to get accepted to the workshop.

Submission Process

We invite participation from students, post docs, and junior researchers who are currently working in spoken dialog systems research. We also invite participation from those who are working in related fields such as linguistics, psychology, or speech processing, as applied to spoken dialogue systems. Please note that by 'young researchers' the workshop's organizers mean to target students and researchers in the field who are at a relatively early stage of their careers, and in no way mean to imply that participants must meet certain age restrictions.

Potential participants should submit a 2-page position paper and suggest topics for discussion. A template and specific submission instructions will be available on http://www.yrrsds.org/ on March 30. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis from that day until the maximum number of participants for the workshop (50) is reached, or until the submission deadline (July 14th, 2007) is reached. Proceedings from previous years' workshops are also available on our web site. Specific questions can be directed to the organizing committee at yrr-organizers07 at ira dot uka dot de.

Important Dates

Open for submissions: March 30th, 2007 Submissions deadline: July 14th, 2007 Registration begins: July 2nd, 2007 Registration deadline: July 27th, 2007 Workshop: September 1st, 2007

Organizing Committee

Sudeep Gandhe, University of Southern California, USA Stefan Hamerich, Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, Germany Hartwig Holzapfel, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Antonio Roque, University of Southern California, USA Wieneke Wesseling, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

Local Organization

Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium

- YRR Organizers.
Message 2: RANLP-07 Workshop on Genre and NLP
Date: 22-Mar-2007
From: Marina Santini <santiniminwind.it>
Subject: RANLP-07 Workshop on Genre and NLP



Full Title: RANLP-07 Workshop on Genre and NLP

Date: 30-Sep-2007 - 30-Sep-2007 Location: Borovets, Bulgaria Contact Person: Marina Santini Meeting Email: MarinaSantini.MSuni-tuebingen.de).