LINGUIST List 7.1217

Sun Sep 1 1996

Calls: Bilingualism, NLP in Implemented Systems

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  • Li Wei, International Journal of Bilingualism (IJB)
  • Sy Ali, CFP: JNLE Special Issue KRR for NLP in Implemented Systems

    Message 1: International Journal of Bilingualism (IJB)

     Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:46:02 CDT
    From: Li Wei <Li.Weinewcastle.ac.uk>
    Subject: International Journal of Bilingualism (IJB)


    Announcing a New Journal from Ablex

    INTERNATIONAL OF JOURNAL OF BILINGUALISM Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Linguistic Studies of Language Behaviour

    http:wwwncl.ac.uk/~nspeech/resijb/htm

    Announcement and Call for Papers

    Aims and Scope International Journal of Bilingualism (IJB) is an international forum for the dissemination of original research on the linguistic, psychological, neurological, and social issues which emerge from language contact. While stressing interdisciplinary links, the focus of the Journal will be on the language behaviour of the bi- and multi-lingual individual. Preference will be given to research articles which are firmly based on empirical evidence and which seek >to develop innovative analytic models and/or to forge new links between established fields. Original research papers which have considerable theoretical and methodological import, either formulating new hypotheses, or supporting or refuting new or previsouly established models, will be particularly welcome. The Journal also promotes cross-linguistic studies of language acquisition, development and impairment by publishing high-quality research articles in the field.

    The journal respects the needs and interests of readers at several levels of expertise, from all over the world and across the spectrum of behavioural and social sciences. In addition to full-length research papers, contributions are accepted in the form of case study reports of laboratory experiments and field observations, short scholarly notes, and critical review articles.

    Editors: Li Wei (Newcastle upon Tyne) Nick Miller (Newcastle upon Tyne)

    Editorial Board: Peter Auer, Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, Ellen Bialystok, Elizabeth Bates, Li- Rong Lilly Cheng, Eve Clark, Michael Clyne, Nancy Dorian, John Edwards, Fred Genesee, David Green, Monica Heller, Kenneth Hyltenstam, Heila Jordaan, Wolfgang Klein, George Luedi, Marilyn Martin-Jones, Paul Meara, Lesley Milroy, Pieter Muysken, Carol Myers-Scotton, Loraine K. Obler, Michel Paradis, Shana Poplack, Steven Pinker, Ben Rampton, Suzanne Romaine, Dan Slobin, Bernard Spolsky, Catherine Snow

    Submissions Contributions should be written in English and should be typed, double spaced, on single sided A4 or 8.5 x 11 inch paper with 1 inch margins. They should include a 200-word abstract and a short (50 words) bio statement. The style guideline of the Publications Manual of the American Psychology Association (4th edition, 1994) should be followed. Graphics and charts must be submitted as original black ink copies suitable for reproduction. Since manucrsipts are peer reviewed anonymously, all indentifying information should be removed from the body of the paper.

    Four copies of the manuscript and a diskette (preferably Word for Windows DOS compatible) with separate files for title page, text, legends, graphs, and references, accompanied by a cover letter which includes the author's (or authors') name, affiliation, address, and home and office numbers (fax or email) should be submitted to:

    The Editors, IJB Department of Speech King George VI Building University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK Fax: +44 191 222 6518 E-Mail: li.weincl.ac.uk or nicholas.millerncl.ac.uk

    Further information and instructions to authors are available from the same address.

    An Invitation to Publishers Publishers are invited to send relevant books to be considered for review. Please send TWO copies of each book to the Editors of the Jounral at the address above. All publications sent will be listed in the books received section of the Jounral.

    Information Section The Journal will have an information section listing forthcoming conferences and events. Organisers of such events are invited to send information to the Editors at the above address.

    First Issue The first issue of the Journal will be published in April 1997. Participants of the International Symposium on Bilingualism (9-12 April, 1997, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) will receive a special, discounted subscription. For further details, please contact:

    Mrs Gillian Cavagan ISB Administrator Department of Speech King George VI Building University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK Fax: +44 191 222 6518 http:www.ncl.ac.uk/walshaw.html

    Subscription For details of subscription, or to add your name to our mailing list, please contact either the Editors or the Publisher:

    Mr Philip van Tongeren Managing Director Ablex Publishing Corporation 355 Chestnut Street Norwood, New Jersey 07648-2090 U.S.A. Fax: 201-767-6717 Telephone: 201-767-6803

    Message 2: CFP: JNLE Special Issue KRR for NLP in Implemented Systems

     Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:35:51 CDT
    From: Sy Ali <syalitigger.cs.uwm.edu>
    Subject: CFP: JNLE Special Issue KRR for NLP in Implemented Systems
    Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Processing in Implemented Systems

    A Special Issue of the Journal Natural Language Engineering

    Guest Editors

    Syed S. Ali Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA syalics.uwm.edu

    Lucja Iwanska Department of Computer Science Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202, USA lucjacs.wayne.edu

    NOTE: Deadline for submissions is December 31, 1996

    http://tigger.cs.uwm.edu/~syali/jnle-kr-nlp/

    Call for Papers

    This special issue is intended to be a forum for the presentation of the state-of-the-art in implemented knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) systems for general natural language processing (NLP). We are interested in papers that address or describe implemented knowledge representation systems that facilitate natural language processing for implemented systems. This call is intended to be as broad as possible. To this end, topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

    * Implemented systems that support ``interesting'' natural language processing tasks, such as the representation of collections, quantifiers, donkey phenomena, or contextual aspects of natural language. The paper should address how the representation has been used to support the task and include a sample interaction that was produced by the implemented system. * Theories of knowledge representation that are based on, or suitable for, the semantics of natural language. In addition to describing the formal theory, the paper should discuss how the theory has been used in the implementation of a system and should include a sample natural language text that the system processes. * Theories of representation for discourse-level language processing phenomena, such as anaphora, ellipsis, or rhetorical or intentional structure. The paper should discuss how the theory has been used in the implementation of a system and include a sample natural language text that the system handles. * Implemented theories of natural language as knowledge representation. For example, there are inference methods that parallel reasoning in natural language. Natural deduction systems are so called because of surface reasoning, which is based on the syntactic structure of natural language. * Practical results regarding the expressiveness and generality of a representation language with respect to some natural language processing task. For example, the paper might evaluate the coverage of an implemented KRR system for a particular classes of complex object descriptions or quantified expressions. It might also evaluate the performance trade-offs in increasing the expressiveness of the representation language to support natural language. * Empirical results regarding the representation requirements for a particular domain area or task; for example in a particular domain, it might be sufficient to identify quantifier ordering, without resolving scope ambiguities. Such papers must describe the work in sufficient detail for evaluation. * Methods for building knowledge representations on the basis of a statistical analysis of a natural language corpus.

    Submissions to the special issue should address these topics by showing one or more sample texts that the described implemented system can understand, how the information contained in that text is represented, what background information is used by the system, how that information is represented, how the system processes the knowledge to do interesting things (such as answering interesting questions about the text), and how the information is processed into answers.

    Reports on projects whose purpose is to simulate human understanding of texts are appropriate, as are descriptions of projects whose purpose is to provide natural language interfaces to databases, planners, or other knowledge-based systems. Such reports should provide specific implementation details (where applicable) such as: source of data (artificial or real), corpus statistics, scope, dictionary/grammar size and coverage, project size (estimate of person-years of development), scalability, and if part of a larger, possibly non-NLP system, describe interaction/interfacing Operational characteristics of implementations should also be provided, such as the input/output (modality, whether pre-processed, etc), translation (language to logic, for example), representation(s) (of a sample interaction), and how inferencing/processing works.

    Submission Information

    Submit full papers of no more than 25 pages (exclusive of references), twelve point, double-spaced, with one inch margins before the initial submission deadline. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines will not be reviewed.

    Email submission is preferred, and should be directed to the special issue editor at the email address: jnle-subtigger.cs.uwm.edu. The subject line should read: JNLE KRR/NLP Submission. Preferred email submission formats are: stand-alone LaTeX, PostScript, or plain text (for papers without complex figures, etc).

    If email submission is not possible, then five copies of the paper should be mailed to:

    Syed S. Ali Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 3200 N. Cramer Street University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53211

    (414) 229-5375

    Mailed submissions must arrive on or before the deadline for submission.

    Submission Dates

    * Submissions for the symposium are due on December 31, 1996. * Notification of acceptance will be given by January 31, 1997. * Camera-ready copy due March 1, 1997.

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    Sy Ali Fri Aug 30 15:12:51 CDT 1996