Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 07:27:28 -0500 (EST)
From: stijnh@cs.kun.nl
Subject: Focus Symposium on Language Management and Language
Engineering
Focus Symposium on Language Management and Language Engineering
Short Title: InterSymp'04
Date: 01-Aug-2004 - 01-Aug-2004
Location: Baden-Baden, Germany
Contact: Stijn Hoppenbrouwers
Contact Email: stijnh@cs.kun.nl
Meeting URL: http://www.iias.edu/frameset_start_inters_ann.html
Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics ,Computational Linguistics
,Language Description ,Philosophy of Language ,Pragmatics ,Semantics
,Sociolinguistics ,Translation ,Lexicography ,Language Acquisition
Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2004
Meeting Description:
Focus Symposium on LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT AND LANGUAGE ENGINEERING:
Cybernetics of Language. August 1, 2004, Baden-Baden, Germany. Part of 16th
International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics (InterSymp
2004), to be held July 29 - August 5, 2004. CALL FOR PAPERS: LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT
AND LANGUAGE ENGINEERING
InterSymp-2004
16th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and
Cybernetics to be held July 29 - August 5, 2004 in Baden-Baden,
Germany announces Special Focus Symposium on:
LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT AND LANGUAGE ENGINEERING:
Cybernetics of Language
August 1, 2004
Chair: Dr. Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, University of Nijmegen, NL
Conference Chair: Prof. George E. Lasker, IIAS, Windsor, Canada
Focus of the Symposium
The focus is on theories, methods and practices concerning the control of and
communication about language, in view of its (intended) use in some
communicational context. In the center of our focus are processes that lead to
language specifications (including all sorts of conceptual specifications)
intended for computer-related use. However, related issues extend into the world
of organizational communication, and far beyond (education, politics, technology,
science, engineering, literature, art, etc.)
Though standardization (of terminologies, ontologies, etc.) is a powerful means
of controlling language, it cannot be the whole answer. Language is an evolving
creature by nature. Its evolution mostly takes place beyond explicitly exercised
control, i.e. through ''natural change'', but it can also be subject to
purposeful engineering or management. We are particularly interested in language
evolution as part of processes for achieving shared meaning and understanding
among conversation participants.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
-Theory and practices concerning language management and control
-The role of language in (2nd order) cybernetics and Conversation Theory
-Application of Conversation Theory to language management and control
-The role of language in evolutionary systems
-The role of language in information and knowledge system development
-Language-related aspects of formalization processes
-Language specification processes in knowledge engineering
-Language specification processes in information systems development
-Domain modeling and conceptual modeling processes
-Terminology management
-Processes or procedures in lexicology, translation, and localization
-Cognitive, social, or psycholinguistic aspects of (cooperative)
conceptualization
-Support (computerized or otherwise) of cooperative conceptualization processes
Call for Papers
Papers are invited that address any of the above listed issues. Abstracts of
approximately 200 words should be submitted for evaluation. All proposals will
be judged on the basis of their scholarly quality, originality and potential for
further discourse. Abstracts may be submitted electronically (Microsoft Word
preferred), by e-mail by April 15, 2004 to:
Dr. Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Symposium Chair Nijmegen Institute for Informatics and
Information Science, P.O.Box 9010,
6500 GL Nijmegen,
the Netherlands
E-mail: stijnh@cs.kun.nl
With a copy to:
Prof. George E. Lasker, Conference Chair
C/O University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada
E-mail: lasker@uwindsor.ca
Review Process and Conference Proceedings:
All submitted papers and abstracts will be peer reviewed. Final papers should
not exceed 5 single-spaced typed pages prepared according to the Instruction to
Authors, displayed at http://www.iias.edu. The
selected papers will be published in Conference Proceedings.
Important Dates:
April 15, 2004:
Abstract due
May 15, 2004:
Notification of acceptance
July 1, 2004: Final
paper due
The Paper Submission Guidelines, the Copyright Transfer Form and the Conference
Registration Form are available at the InterSymp-2004 Home Page at: http://www.iias.edu
The Symposium and the Conference will be held in the Building of
Markgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium, located in the center of Baden-Baden, in Hardstrasse
2.
Sponsored by
The International institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and
Cybernetics & Systems Research Foundation
InterSymp-2004 Home Page at http://www.iias.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS/PANELS
ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SLAVIC STUDIES CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
URBANA, ILLINOIS
JUNE 24-25, 2004
AWSS invites proposals for individual papers and panels for our first
organizational conference at UIUC in June 2004. We welcome proposals in
any field of Slavic/Eurasian/East European studies, including anthropology, art,
film, history, library science, literature, music, political science, popular
culture, sociology, and, of course, any aspect of women's studies. Work that
crosses or challenges
disciplinary boundaries is very welcome. Proposals for panels -- complete with
chair and discussant -- are encouraged, but not preferred. All presenters must
be AWSS members by the time they register for the event. The Conference
committee is proposing two workshops for the event -- "Career Planning"
and "Getting Published" -- but other workshop proposals are welcome.
All proposals must be submitted electronically to Professor Julie
Brown, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, jvbrown@uncg.edu,
who will distribute them to the multi-disciplinary Conference
selection committee. ALL PROPOSALS ARE DUE MARCH 1, 2004. Applicants
will
be notified about their participation in the first week of April.
Proposals for panels/papers must include:
1) A 150-word abstract for each paper
2) A one-page c.v. for each participant
Proposals for workshops must include a brief description of the topic and, if
possible, should attach a list of possible presenters/facilitators.
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:52:55 -0500 (EST)
From: daniel.elmiger@unine.ch
Subject: The Social Issues of Applied Linguistics
The Social Issues of Applied Linguistics
Date: 16-Sep-2004 - 18-Sep-2004
Location: Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Switzerland
Contact: Daniel Elmiger
Contact Email: daniel.elmiger@unine.ch
Meeting URL: http://www.irdp.ch/colloque.vals-asla04/
Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics
Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2004
Meeting Description:
Linguists are not the only group of people entitled to consider questions of
language. Spelling and non-sexist language changes, for example, concern large
sections of the population; questions of
terminology or text readability are of interest to professional writers: choice
of language(s) for a document, choice of the best discourse type for the
intended audience, etc. Linguists, however,
are obviously concerned by these issues. Sometimes, they are called on (or
believe to be) to function as experts on these various issues âEuro"
without their role necessarily being clearly defined. The aim of the
conference is to question this controversial idea of a linguistic perspective on
social issues. In particular, we invite discussions on how a science like
linguistics can get involved in debates without losing its scientific purpose,
but feeding into them in order to arrive at a better understanding of the issues
at stake. We invite you to submit a paper or a panel session proposal in line
with the proposed topics of the conference. Methods and theoretical issues
should be clarified. Thus, each submission should include a âEuro~social
questioningâ Euro(tm), an argued âEuro~linguistic answerâEuro(tm),
as well as, if possible, a critical reflection on the involvement of linguistics
in the field considered. Abstracts (between 2000 et 2500 characters)
should be sent to the organizing committee before 20th February 2004, in
electronic format (RTF), at the following address:
Vals.Asla2004@unine.ch
For panel sessions please submit a general framework, with a list of potential
speakers. This list can be completed later (end of April). Submissions will be
assessed and selected by the scientific committee of the conference.
Notification of their acceptance or refusal will be sent at the end of March.
In order to be published in the proceedings, the written contributions can be
sent to the organizing committee after the conference, but before 30 November
2004. They, too, will be assessed and selected by the scientific committee,
which will edit the publication. Address for the submission of papers and
panel session proposals Vals.Asla2004@unine.ch
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:32:50 -0500 (EST)
From: grabowski@ph-heidelberg.de
Subject: 9th International Conference of the EARLI Special Interest Group
on Writing
9th International Conference of the EARLI Special Interest Group on Writing
Short Title: Writing Conference
Date: 10-Sep-2004 - 22-Sep-2004
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Contact: Linda Allal
Contact Email: writing2004@pse.unige.ch
Meeting URL: http://www.unige.ch/fapse/SSE/writing2004
Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics ,Psycholinguistics
,Text/Corpus Linguistics ,Writing Systems ,Cognitive Science ,Language
Acquisition
Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2004
Meeting Description:
Following successful recent meetings in Padova, Paris, Freiburg, Utrecht,
Barcelona, Poitiers, Verona and Stafford, we are pleased to announce that the
ninth EARLI SIG Writing conference will be held on September 20-22, 2004, at the
University of Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva's international atmosphere and
lakeside location make it a welcoming venue for the Writing 2004 conference.
EARLI SIG
Writing is a special interest group of the European Association for Research on
Learning and Instruction. Its members come from a variety of disciplinary
backgrounds, including education, psychology, linguistics, computer science,
rhetoric and literary studies. The aim of the conference is to promote
interaction among researchers who are interested in understanding the cognitive,
social and developmental processes involved in writing, who are concerned with
designing
writing instruction in various educational settings, or with exploring the
functions of writing in different social and institutional contexts. The
scope of the conferences has typically been very broad, and we hope to draw
together once again a wide range of researchers and professionals in the area of
writing. We would therefore welcome submissions investigating the basic
cognitive and social processes involved in writing, as well as research on the
forms that writing instruction takes in specific contexts, and on the variety of
purposes which writing can serve. We anticipate a dynamic and diverse meeting,
and look forward to meeting old friends and to welcoming new ones.
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:28:53 -0500 (EST)
From: vitas@matf.bg.ac.yu
Subject: 7th INTEX/NooJ Workshop
7th INTEX/NooJ Workshop
Date: 07-Jun-2004 - 09-Jun-2004
Location: Tours, France
Contact: Max Silberztein
Contact Email: max.silberztein@univ-fcomte.fr
Meeting URL: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/JIntex2004/modele.html
Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics ,Lexicography
Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2004
Meeting Description:
As in the previous workshops (1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003), this
meeting will be the opportunity for INTEX and NooJ users, as well as other
researchers interested in NLP, to meet and to exchange their experience of
development, research or teaching. It will also be the occasion to present the
recent developments of NooJ.
7th INTEX/NooJ Workshop
Tours, June 7-9 2004
Call for papers - Deadline: March 31, 2004
ORGANIZERS
Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Tours (E.A. 2101)
Langues et Représentation, Equipe de recherche en linguistique,
Université de Tours
LAboratoire de SEmioLinguistique, Didactique et Informatique
(E.A. 2281)
We invite the submission of papers for the forthcoming seventh
INTEX/NooJ workshop, to be held in Tours, June 7-9 2004.
INTEX is a linguistic development environment that includes large-coverage
dictionaries and grammars, and parses texts of several million words in real
time. INTEX includes tools to create and maintain large-coverage lexical
resources, as well as morphological and syntactic grammars. Dictionaries and
grammars are applied to texts in order to locate morphological, lexical and
syntactic patterns, remove ambiguities, and tag simple and compound words. INTEX
can build lemmatized concordances of large texts from Finite-State or
Context-Free grammars, and can accordingly perform transformation operations on
texts in cascade, in order to annotate the text, or to generate paraphrases;
these features, when applied in cascade, give INTEX the power of a Turing
Machine. INTEX is used as a linguistic platform, an information retrieval system,
to teach second languages, as a terminological extractor, as well as to teach
computational linguistics to students.
NooJ, which uses a new technology, a new linguistic engine and a new interface,
is meant to replace INTEX. NooJ's architecture was presented in the 5th INTEX
Workshop (Marseille, June 2002) and its first alpha version was demoed at the
6th INTEX Workshop (Sofia, May 27-29 2003).
As in the previous workshops (1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003), this
meeting will be the opportunity for INTEX and NooJ users, as well as other
researchers interested in NLP, to meet and to exchange their experience of
development, research or teaching. It will also be the occasion to present the
recent developments of NooJ.
Please, send before March 31st 2004 a one-page abstract to Denis Maurel by email.
The abstract, in French or English, should contain the title of the article,
name, author affiliations, surface mail and electronic address of each author.
All papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Authors will be notified
whether their papers are accepted or rejected by April 15th 2004. The timeslot
is 30 minutes for presentations (including 5 minutes for discussions).
After the conference, authors will be invited to send a definitive version of
their papers for publishing. We are planning to combine a subset of the
proceedings of the 6th and the 7th INTEX Workshops in a published volume.
Details concerning the workshop organization will soon be given on the
conferences website:
http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/JIntex2004/modele.html
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Xavier Blanco (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Gisèle Chevalier (Univ. de Moncton, Canada)
Ibkewe Fidelia (Univ. de Lyon 3)
Nathalie Friburger (LI, Université de Tours)
Svetla Koeva (BACL, IBL - BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Stoyan Mihov (BACL, CLPP - BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Denis Maurel (LI, Université de Tours)
Paul Sabatier (LIM, CNRS)
Agata Savary (LI, Université de Tours)
Henrik Selsoe Sorensen (Copenhagen Business School)
Max Silberztein (LASELDI, Universite de Franche-Comté)
Tamas Varadi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Dusko Vitas (MATF, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
DEADLINES
Submission due date: March 31, 2004
Notification date: April 15, 2004
Registration: May 1, 2004
Camera ready date: June 30, 2004
NooJ TUTORIALS by Max Silberztein:
- Initiation Tutorial, 20 persons maximum
- Teaching Linguistics with NooJ, 20 persons maximum
REGISTRATION FEE
The registration fee for the workshop is 30 Euro for researchers, 15 Euro for
students and 40 Euro for other categories. The conference will begin on Monday
morning and last till Wednesday evening. During the Conference there will be a
reception on Monday evening and an optional excursion on Tuesday afternoon.
CONTACTS
Denis Maurel <denis.maurel@univ-tours.fr>
Max Silberztein <max.silberztein@univ-fcomte.fr>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:10:12 -0500 (EST)
From: f.meziane@salford.ac.uk
Subject: 9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language
to Information Systems
9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to
Information Systems
Short Title: NLDB04
Date: 23-Jun-2004 - 25-Jun-2004
Location: Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
Contact: Farid Meziane
Contact Email: f.meziane@salford.ac.uk
Meeting URL: http://www.nldb.org
Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2004
Meeting Description:
Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher,
industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural
Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The integration of
databases and natural language has been an utopia for
many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an established field
thanks to developments in Natural Language and technologies that made the
storage and manipulation of large electronic dictionaries possible. As
Information Systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term
databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and
communication systems. The use of Natural Language in Software Engineering has
contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of
developers (improve the process of conceptual modelling, validation, etc) and
the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces,
semantic webs, etc).
Topics:
Natural Language for Web Services (Semantic information retrieval, Semantic Web,
Semi-structured models and associated languages, Web usage, content and
structure mining for
discovering semantics, Concept taxonomies and web mining, Learning taxonomies
and ontologies from the web, Information extraction with machine learning,
Document classification and indexation)
Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling (Analysis of natural language
descriptions, Requirement engineering, Terminological ontologies, Paraphrasing,
Dynamic modelling, Verification, consistency checking, Metadata harvesting)
Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying/Retrieval (Natural languages
interfaces for database querying, Verification of database queries by
paraphrasing, Semantic analysis for information retrieval, NL interaction with
databases)
Natural Language-Based Integration of Systems (Linguistic aspects of view
integration, Linguistic aspects of data warehouses, Natural language queries to
multi-databases systems, Data
integration and data cleansing, Ontology driven integration, Ontology management)
Large Scale on-line Resources (Electronic dictionaries, Question-answer corpora,
Informal
ontologies, Linguistic databases, Digital libraries)
Application of Computational Linguistics in Information Systems (Multilingual
information systems, NLP in requirements engineering, NLP in knowledge
management, Ontology-driven NLP, Semiotics and fundamentals)
Management of Textual Databases (Text classification, Information extraction and
detection, Text
mining for creating metadata, Document management, Hypertext and Hyperbases)
Please pardon the slightly scrambled version of this Call for Papers
that
posted last night; I am trying again. --Mike Finke
The
North American Chekhov Society
Chekhov Centenary
Symposium
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Call
For Papers
The North American Chekhov Society (NACS) is issuing
a call for papers to be presented at the Chekhov Centenary Symposium
that will take place on Thursday, October 14, 2004, at Colby College in
Waterville, Maine. The NACS Chekhov Centenary Symposium will be followed
by a two-day conference (October 15-16, 2004) dedicated to the American
reception of Chekhov. Participants in the latter meeting-- the full
breadth of which remains contingent on funding-- will include
translators, theater scholars and directors, writers and public
critics, and physicians and scholars working in the medical humanities.
Prospective participants in the NACS symposium can thus plan on
attending three days of presentations and roundtables on Chekhov, with
all NACS papers to be delivered on Thursday, October 14. The jubilee
event will include Chekhov performances and demonstrations by two New
York theater groups.
Organizers of the Chekhov Centenary
Symposium welcome the broadest range of scholarly approaches and topics.
Papers may be delivered in English or Russian and should be twenty
minutes long. Graduate students working on Chekhov are encouraged to
present. A title and abstract must be submitted no later than May 31,
2004.
Colby College is situated in Waterville, Maine, an
hour-plus drive from the airports in Portland and Bangor, or three hours
by car north of Boston, and six hours southeast of Montreal. Information
on travel and accommodations will be sent to participants in June,
2004.
Please send two copies of your title and abstract, one to
each of the conference co-organizers, by post or e-mail. Include your name,
address, telephone, e-mail, fax, and institutional affiliation.
Julie de Sherbinin
Michael
Finke
Dept. of German & Russian Russian Department, Box
1052
Colby College
Washington University in St.
Louis
Waterville, ME 04901
1 Brookings Dr.
<jwdesher@colby.edu>
St. Louis,
MO 63130
Sabbatical phone: mcfinke@artsci.wustl.edu>
(413) 253-2037
(314) 935-5841
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