I am forwarding this useful message from the Association for
Computational Linguistics.
   -- Barbara

Priscilla Rasmussen wrote:
>
> 2007 Computational Linguistics Conference Calender
>
>
>
> Dear ACL members,
>
>
>
> I have just received an email from Joel Tetreault, who has created a
> fairly full listing of CL/NLP related events and is graciously willing
> to share his site with us.  I thought you all might be interested.
>
>
>
> All the very best to each of you throughout 2007!
>
>
>
> Priscilla
>
>
>
> *From Joel:
>
>
>
> I've been maintaining a calendar of NLP and CL conferences for
> the past three years, and just started a new listing for 2007 that
> people might
> find useful:
>
> http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/conferences.html
> <http://www.cs.rochester.edu/%7Etetreaul/conferences.html>
>
> I cull together conferences on this list from your ACL emails,
> linguistlist
> and corporalist, as well as from fellow researchers emailing in.  Anyway,
> I was wondering if you send out a big email again you could include a
> pointer to this site?  (or post a link on the ACL website)  I figure
> people might want to know about this resource.
>

-----Original Message-----
From: Надежда Онипенко <onipenko_n@...>
To: krylov-58@...
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:20:18 +0300
Subject: Виноградовские чтения

>
> Сережа! Посылаю программу Виноградовских чтений в МГУ. Разошли по твоей
расслке. С благодарностью, Надя
>
> Onipenko N.
>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Глубокоуважаемые подписчики рассылки!

В связи с тем, что в последнее время участились случаи, когда,
разумеется, безо всякого злого умысла со стороны отправителей, в
рассылку попадают письма, не содержащие полезной информации, я считаю
нужным ещё раз напомнить Вам нижеследующие простые правила пользования
рассылкой.


НЕ посылайте, пожалуйста, ВЛОЖЕНИЯ (attachments), они все запрещены и не
пройдут. Соответствующий файл можно выложить на сайте группы
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mosling (раздел files), или на любом другом
сайте. Для этого пришлите свой файл администраторам рассылки, а затем
можно будет направить всем письмо со ссылкой. Другие варианты: приводить
текст вложения непосредственно в теле письма или предложить желающим
запросить файл у автора (минуя Мослинг).

ТЕМА (subject) сообщения пишется latinskimi bukvami и предваряется
одним из следующих
топикализаторов (topics).
CONF: объявления о конференциях, докладах, семинарах и проч. При
сообщении о мероприятиях
желательно указывать их дату в теме, например: "Zashita dissertacij v
MGU -
1.01.2010".
QUEST: лингвистические опросы и вопросы (ответы на них настоятельно просим
отсылать не на лист, а непосредственно отправителю; последнему же
предлагается "поместить" summary по результатам опроса);
BOOKS: объявления о выходе новых книг (желательно с краткой аннотацией
или оглавлением), или если кому-то удалось раздобыть интересную книгу
по лингвистике и хочет
поделиться радостью; опять-таки, если кто-то ищет книгу - можно спросить;
SOFT: сообщения о появлении / поиске шрифтов, лингвистического софта;
FYI (for your information): сообщение о чем-нибудь лингвистически
интересном: новый сайт, редкое явление в языке лпукхая, или ссылка на
драфт Вашей новой статьи,
который Вы хотите предложить на обсуждение широкой общественности
DISC: если что-то кажется вам настолько важным, что обсуждение этого будет
интересно всем подписчикам - пишите, обсудим; ответы на такие
сообщения можно посылать на всю рассылку.

Пожалуйста, не посылайте письма в рассылку путём нажатия кнопки
Forward (Переслать). Тема сообщения о конференции должна выглядеть
CONF: Shmelevskie chtenija а не Fwd: Re: Re: soobschenie. Также не
хотелось бы видеть в рассылке фрагменты частной переписки (например,
"Дорогой Х, ты просил меня переслать информацию об Y, вот она. Твой
Z")

Следование данным простым правилам позволит избежать возможных
эксцессов и сэкономит время и отправителям писем, и их адресатам.

Спасибо за понимание!

С уважением,

искренне Ваш

владелец рассылки mosling

Петя Аркадьев

Московский государственный университет
им. М.В. Ломоносова
Филологический факультет





XXXVIII

В И Н О Г Р А Д О В С К И Е    Ч Т Е Н И Я


















Москва, 2006


Уважаемый коллега!


Филологический факультет
Московского государственного университета
им. М.В. Ломоносова
приглашает Вас на XXXVIII Ежегодные чтения,
посвящённые памяти академика

Виктора Владимировича Виноградова.



Чтения состоятся во вторник 16 января
в 11аудитории I-го гуманитарного корпуса
МГУ на Воробьевых горах.
Начало чтений - в 11 часов.
Продолжительность каждого доклада   20 минут.




		 ПРОГРАММА
Виноградовских чтений 2007 года

Грамматическое слово академика В.В. Виноградова
(К юбилею книги В.В. Виноградова "Русский язык (Грамматическое учение о слове)")

Вступительное слово профессора М.Л.Ремневой, декана филологического факультета
МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова.
I
В.И. Аннушкин (ИРЯ им. А.С. Пушкина). Русские учения о речи и филологическая
концепция академика В.В.Виноградова
Н.Н. Запольская (Ин-т славяноведения и балканистики РАН). Стратегия
грамматического описания: история и современность.
В.М. Алпатов  (МГУ). В.В. Виноградов и круг Бахтина.
Е.А. Земская. Письма В.В. Виноградова к А.М. Земскому 1941-43 гг.

II
  Е.В. Клобуков (МГУ). Грамматические классы слов в книге В.В. Виноградова
"Русский язык": традиции и новаторство.
Г.А. Золотова (ИРЯ РАН). Идеи В.В. Виноградова в Коммуникативной грамматике.
М.В. Всеволодова (МГУ). Категории русского предлога: результаты последних
исследований.
Т.В. Шмелева (НовгГУ). К вопросу о притяжательных прилагательных
П.А. Лекант (РПГУ). Категориальный статус деепричастия.

Заключительное слово Г.А. Золотовой

Московская высшая школа социальных и экономических наук
и Междисциплинарный академический центр социальных наук (Интерцентр)
приглашают Вас принять участие

в четырнадцатом ежегодном международном симпозиуме
"ПУТИ РОССИИ"

который состоится в Москве 26 - 27 января 2007 г.

Начало заседаний в 10.00

Ждем Вас по адресу:
проспект Вернадского, д. 82, корп. 2, второй этаж, аудитория 237.

Московская высшая школа социальных и экономических наук находится на
территории Ака-демии народного хозяйства при Правительстве РФ. Вход на
территорию АНХ осуществляется по пропускам при наличии документа,
удостоверяющего личность.

Примерная программа Круглого стола (или Секции) "Язык  в социальных
взаимодействиях":
         26 января в 15 ч.
Д.М.Рогозин. (декан психол.ф-та МВШСЭН ) Вступительное слово.
Г.Е. Крейдлин (РГГУ, Москва) .Социальная невербальная коммуникация и
гендерные роли ее     участников .
Л.П.Крысин (ИРЯ РАН, Москва).     Русская литературная норма и
современная речевая практика  (социолингвистический аспект)".
И.Б.Левонтина (ИРЯ РАН, Москва) Лингвистическая экспертиза как факт
новой социальной реальности : современное состояние проблемы .
Р.М.Фрумкина (ИЯЗ РАН, Москва)  Речь и ментальность информантов по
данным неформализованных интервью.
Э.Д.Азарх (Левада-Центр). Некоторые методологические аспекты
конструирования интервью. (заглавие будет уточнено докладчиком).

гДПЮБЯРБСИРЕ,
бДПСЦ ЙРН-МХАСДЭ ГМЮЕР, ЦДЕ МЮИРХ ЯКЕДСЧЫХЕ ЯРЮРЭХ:

Asudesh, Ash. 2005 Relational Nouns, Pronouns, and Resumption.
Linguistics and Philosophy vol. 28 number 4 August 2005: 375-446. Springer,
Netherlands.

Jacobson, P. 1999. Towards a Variable-Free Semantics, Linguistics and Philosophy
22, 117-184.
Jacobson, P. 2000. Paycheck Pronouns, Bach-Peters Sentences, and
Variable-free Semantics. Natural Language Semantics 8: 77-155.

ъ АШК АШ БЮЛ НВЕМЭ АКЮЦНДЮПЕМ.

я СБЮФЕМХЕЛ,

оЕРП яРЮПНБЕПНБ.

яОЮЯХАН АНКЭЬНЕ, БЯЕ МЮЬЕК.

оЕРП яРЮПНБЕПНБ.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  [SLAVICLING:302] Balkan and South Slavic Conference (Banff, 2008)
Date:  Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:01:13 -0700 (MST)
From:  Olga M. Mladenova <omladeno@...>
Reply-To:  slavicling@...
To:  slavicling@...


*SIXTEENTH CONFERENCE ON BALKAN AND SOUTH SLAVIC STUDIES*

*Call for Papers*

*Call Deadline: **15 April 2007***

Dear Colleagues,

It is with pleasure that we announce that the XVI BSS conference will be
held at the Banff Park Lodge (Banff, Canada) on 1-4 May 2008. The
Organizing Committee is now accepting proposals for papers that treat
some aspect of Balkan and South Slavic linguistics, literature, culture
and folklore.

Please note that, in contrast to previous years, this call for papers
comes one year ahead of time. The reason for this is that the Organizing
Committee will apply to the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada) for Aid to Research Workshops and
Conferences in Canada.  The deadline for the SSHRC application is 1 May
2007.  It is a SSHRC requirement that organizers attach a preliminary
program to their application for conference funding. So please submit
your abstract, and for yourself and any co-author(s) updated one-page
CV(s) together with name(s), address(es), and contact information (phone
and e-mail) by midnight of 15 April 2007 Mountain Standard Time to
omladeno@... <mailto:omladeno@...>. Proposals from
graduate students must be accompanied with a letter of support from
their supervisors.

Abstracts should be as specific as possible, with a statement of topic,
approach, and conclusions, and must fit on one page in 12-point font with 1''
margins. So that the review process may remain anonymous, authors should not
include their names or otherwise reveal their identity anywhere on this page,
but attach a separate page bearing their name(s). A selection committee will
blind-review all abstracts to determine their suitability for this conference.
Results of the selection process will be announced electronically by mid-May
2007.

  We will appreciate it if you pass this call for papers to other colleagues who
may be interested to participate.

  Christina Kramer (University of Toronto)

Olga M. Mladenova (University of Calgary)

Tom Priestly (University of Alberta)

Christina Stojanova (University of Regina)

--

Dr. Olga M. Mladenova
Associate Professor
Germanic, Slavic and East Asian Studies
Craigie Hall C 104
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
Fax: (403) 284-3810
Phone: (403) 220-8589

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Translating (in) the Arab World

Edited by: Sameh Fekry Hanna, University College London

To be published by St. Jerome


Call for Papers

The study of translation and interpreting has been Euro-centric since its
inception (Bassnett and Lefevere 1998:138; Baker 1998:277-78). With the
publication of John Benjamins' Translators through History in 1995 and the
Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies in 1998, the latter including a
large section on translation in a wide range of traditions, many scholars both
within and outside the Western sphere began to engage with scholarly work on
translation and interpreting written from the perspective of the West's many
'others' (Nair 2002; Chan 2004; Faiq 2004; Hung and Wakabayashi 2005; Hermans
2006, Cheung 2006).

With very few exceptions, Arabic perspectives on translation have remained
largely hidden from view despite these recent developments, and even though
there are arguably more pressing reasons today for engaging with this particular
area of the world than at any other time in history. Stimulating research on
translation and interpreting by and among speakers of Arabic, as well as giving
this research the kind of visibility it deserves at a time when Arab culture is
the target of indiscriminate and often racist attacks, is one of the main
objectives of this initiative.

This volume will aspire to avoid the limitations of most available research on
the realities of translation in the Arab World. Two limitations can be
identified, one relates to the approaches underlying this research and the other
to the material investigated. First, the dominance of linguistic models of
analysis, though helpful in the context of translation pedagogy, has so far
eclipsed a number of questions and issues that merit the attention of
researchers on translation in the Arab World. These include questions as varied
as the agency of translators, institutional translation policies, dominant and
subversive translation norms, translation of cultural taboos and censorship,
translation as a means of political resistance, and translation and the
mediation of conflicts, among other issues. Second, the fact that most research
on translation in this area has been mainly concerned with 'written', and
specifically literary translation, has obscured the complexity and relevance of
other translation and interpreting practices in the Arab World; these remain, to
a large extent, a terra incognita.

While welcoming articles on literary translation, the editor is particularly
interested in contributions on less-researched domains, such as interpreting,
media translation and audio-visual translation. At the geographical level, some
parts in the Arab World are more visible in research on translation than others.
The fact that the 'Arabic tradition in translation' is generally associated in
the minds of researchers with the history of translation in Egypt and Lebanon is
illustrative of this unequal representation of Arab countries in research on
translation. Tied to this issue is the lack of comparative studies on
translation practices in different Arab countries. The editor would therefore
particularly welcome contributions that engage with translation and
interpreting in less researched regions, such as Algeria, Sudan, the Gulf, etc.

The following is an indicative - though not exhaustive - list of topics which
may be considered by contributors to the volume:

o Translation and interpreting in the Arab World and the conflict between
dominant and subversive norms;
o Institutional translation policies;
o Translation and the representation of national, regional and Pan-Arab
identities;
o Translation and gender in the Arab context;
o Translation and the mediation of political conflicts;
o Translation and the representation of Arab identity in international mass
media;
o Censorship and the translation of cultural taboos;
o Translation of comics and other culturally-sensitive genres;
o Translation as a means of political resistance;
o Translation and the economy of cultural production in the Arab world;
o Practices of audio-visual translation in the Arab context;
o Discourses on translation in the Arab World;
o Comparative studies on translation practice and research in different Arab
countries;
o Alternative histories of translation in the Arab World.

References

Baker, Mona (1998) 'Translation Studies', in Mona Baker (ed.) Routledge
Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, London: Routledge, 277-80.
Bassnett, Susan and AndrИ Lefevere (1998) Constructing Cultures: Essays on
Literary Translation, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Chan, Leo Tak-Hung (2004) Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory: Modes,
Issues and Debates, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Cheung, Martha (editor and commentator) An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on
Translation, Volume One: >From Earliest Times to the Buddhist Project,
Manchester: St. Jerome.
Delisle, Jean and Judith Woodsworth (eds.)(1995) Translators through History,
Amsterdam & Paris: John Benjamins & иditions Unesco.
Faiq, Said (ed.) (2004) Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic,
Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Hermans, Theo (ed.) (2006) Translating Others I & II, Manchester: St. Jerome.
Hung, Eva and Judy Wakabayashi (eds)(2005) Asian Translation Traditions,
Manchester: St. Jerome.
Nair, Rukmini Bhaya (ed.) (2002) Translation, Text and Theory: The Paradigm of
India, New Delhi & Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.


Schedule:

20th March 2007: deadline for submitting abstracts (400-500 words)
30th April 2007: notification of acceptance.
30th September 2007: deadline for submission of papers
15 December 2007: confirmation of provisional acceptance of papers
31st January 2008: referee feedback forwarded to authors
30 March 2008: submission of final versions of papers to editor (6000-8000
words)
1 June 2008: submission of final manuscript to publisher
April 2009: publication date.


Editor

Sameh Fekry Hanna is the Andrew Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, University
College London. He wrote his PhD, at Manchester, on the implications of
Bourdieu's sociology of cultural production for the study of drama translation.
His published research addresses such issues as the sociology of translation,
drama
translation, Shakespeare translation in Egypt, translation and the construction
of national identity, literary translation and translation in the Arabic
tradition.

Contact Details:

Sameh Fekry Hanna
c/o Vice-Provost's office (Academic and International)
University College London
Gower Street
WC1E 6BT
Email: sameh.hanna@...




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PALC 2007 CONFERENCE
http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl/

The Department of English Language at Lodz University plans to hold
the 6th international conference devoted to PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN
LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS.

The general topic of the conference is the relationship between IT
developments and their uses in a range of language and linguistic
fields.

PALC will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year. Over the years the
conference attracted over 400 attendees from 32 countries and its
impact has reverberated significantly across a variety of fields where
information technology and language description converge.

Given the special nature of PALC 2007, we are working towards an
occasion that will reflect on the current status of corpus studies and
computational linguistics but will also set research directions for at
least another ten years. We have therefore envisaged a number of
scholarly stimulating events.

All information concerning the academic programme and social
activities will be publicised as it becomes available. At the same
time, we encourage and welcome proposals for special sessions,
roundtable discussions and workshops. TOPICS

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:
Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora
Discourse and Language Corpora
ESP and Language Corpora
Expert, Retrieval and Analytical Systems in Corpora
FLA/SLA and Language Corpora
Language Teaching Materials and Language Corpora
Language Teaching and Learner Corpora
Lexicography and Language Corpora
Lexicology and Language Corpora
Literature and Language Corpora
Phonetics/Phonology and Language Corpora
Translation and Language Corpora
Cognition, Computers and Language

THEME SESSIONS

The following special theme sessions will be held during the conference:

E-Learning Theme Session

Towards a Large Reference Corpus of Polish (the official languages of
this session are English and Polish)

More information and calls for papers are available at the PALC 2007
Circulars page (Polish information also available).

DATES

PALC 2007 will be held over 3 days, 19 to 22 April 2007 (arrival day
18 April) at the Lodz University Conference Centre, where subsidised
accommodation will also be made available to participants.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

The following scholars have accepted our invitation to address the
conference as plenary speakers:

Patrick Hanks, Masaryk University, Brno
Michael Hoey, University of Liverpool
Frank Kammerzell, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Michael Oakes, University of Sunderland
Paul Rayson, Lancaster University
Mike Scott, University of Liverpool
Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Thekla Wiebusch, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

ABSTRACTS

Abstracts of papers should be up to 500 words long and forwarded (by
e-mail) to the organisers (see below). Deadline for submission is 31
January 2007. We have also activated online registration forms as an
alternative way of submitting abstracts.

COSTS

The cost of conference registration, accommodation and meals at the conference
centre is:

┬ 150 - conference fee (┬ 125 for payments before 31 January 2007)
┬ 38 per night - accommodation in a single room
┬ 60 per night - accommodation in a double room
┬ 8 - lunch at the conference centre
┬ 6 - dinner at the conference centre

The conference fee will cover conference materials, participation in
sessions and social programme.

The accommodation fee includes breakfasts at the conference centre.

We are happy to be able to subsidise the conference fee for
participants working in research and/or educational institutions in
Poland. The fee for registrants meeting this criterion is PLN200.

Colleagues from low-GNP countries and full-time students can apply for
a bursary to participate in the conference.

PAYMENT

Payment should be by bank transfer:

BANK: PKO S.A II O/Lodz
ACCOUNT No:14124030281111001004347782
IBAN: PL14124030281111001004347782
SWIFT: PKO PL PW

Alternatively, cash or cheque payment can be made on arrival. This
will incur an additional charge of 30 Euros.

We regret that credit cards cannot be handled.

All advance payments should be made before 20th March 2007.
PALC 2007 ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Prof dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Dr Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski
Dr Krzysztof Kredens
Dr Jacek Walinski
Ms Anna Kaminska
Mr Piotr Pezik
Mr Lukasz Drozdz
CONTACT DETAILS

e-mail: palc@...

For further contact information CLICK HERE
FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information will be published regularly on this site (see news
- http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl/ ), as well as in circulars sent to participants
and academic institutions.

Official language of the conference will be English

Информационное письмо

Глубокоуважаемые коллеги,

3-4 мая 2007 года в Санкт-Петербурге состоится конференция африканистов,
посвящённая памяти Дмитрия Алексеевича Ольдерогге. Конференцию проводят Музей
антропологии и этнографии РАН (Кунсткамера), кафедра африканистики Восточного
факультета СПбГУ и Научный Совет РАН по вопросам Африки. Приглашаем коллег к
участию.

Тезисы докладов объёмом до 900 печатных знаков просьба направлять в электронном
виде до 20 марта 2007 г. по двум адресам:

Валентину Феодосьевичу Выдрину
vydrine@..., vydrine@...

и

Анатолию Дмитриевичу Саватееву
anatoliy.savateev@...

Планируется работа двух секций: филологической (языкознание, литература,
фольклор) и обществоведческой (этнография, история и др.).

Помимо того, предполагается провести два междисциплинарных круглых стола.
Конференция откроется круглым столом на тему

Глобализация и Африка: Взгляд с позиций разных наук.

В качестве завершающего заседания будет проведён второй круглый стол:

Африканистика √ наука или конгломерат разных дисциплин?

Желающие могут направить по тем же адресам тексты для обсуждения на круглых
столах, которые будут заранее разосланы участникам конференции.

Ждём всех африканистов в Петербурге на конференции!

Валентин Выдрин

FASL deadline now January 22!
Barbara

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Subject:  [SLAVICLING:304] FASL 16 deadline extended by 1 week (now Jan 22)
Date:  Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:50:31 +0100
From:  John Frederick Bailyn <jbailyn@...>
Reply-To:  slavicling@...
To:  slavicling@...
References:  <2531.74.109.183.140.1168542073.squirrel@...>



*Final Call for Papers:  FASL 16,  May 4-6, 2007, Stony Brook University*

The 16th annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics
(FASL-16) will be held at Stony Brook University (State University of
New York) May 4-6, 2007.

Invited speakers are:

David Pesetsky (MIT)
Maria Polinsky (UCSD/Harvard)
Jerzy Rubach (U. Iowa/ U. Warsaw)

Featured lecture on the history of Slavic Linguistics:
Jindrich Toman (University of Michigan)

*The NEW EXTENDED deadline for submitting abstracts is January 22, 2007.*

Details available  at the FASL 16 Website:
http://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/fasl/

Questions?  Contact the Organizing Committee:  fasl16@...

Please spread the word!

--

**********************************
John Frederick Bailyn
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4376
(tel) (631) 632-7364
(fax) (631) 632-9789
e-mail:  jbailyn@...
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Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9274
phone (413) 545-0889, fax (413) 545-2792

Home: 50 Hobart Lane, Amherst , MA 01002  (413) 549-4501
*****
Moscow address:  Tallinskaja 2, apt. 258, Moscow 123458, RUSSIA
Moscow phone: (7) (495) 757 01 08
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Jan - Aug 07: Moscow. Sept - Dec 07: Amherst
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Final Call for Papers:  FASL 16,  May 4-6, 2007, Stony Brook University

The 16th annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics
(FASL-16) will be held at Stony Brook University (State University of
New York) May 4-6, 2007.

Invited speakers are:

David Pesetsky (MIT)
Maria Polinsky (UCSD/Harvard)
Jerzy Rubach (U. Iowa/ U. Warsaw)

Featured lecture on the history of Slavic Linguistics:
Jindrich Toman (University of Michigan)

The NEW EXTENDED deadline for submitting abstracts is January 22, 2007.

Details available  at the FASL 16 Website:
http://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/fasl/

Questions?  Contact the Organizing Committee:  fasl16@...

Please spread the word!

--
**********************************
John Frederick Bailyn
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4376
(tel) (631) 632-7364
(fax) (631) 632-9789
e-mail:  jbailyn@...
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Уважаемые коллеги!

В пятницу, 19 января 2007 г., в 16.00 в конференц-зале на 6 этаже ИППИ
состоится очередное, 462-е, заседание семинара "Теоретическая семантика" под
руководством академика РАН Ю.Д. Апресяна.

С докладом на тему "Микросинтаксис русского языка" выступит Леонид Лейбович
Иомдин (ИППИ РАН).

Сообщаю предварительное расписание следующих заседаний.

463. 16 февраля 2007 г. А.Д.Шмелев (МГПУ). Враньё в русской языковой картине
мира.
464. 16 марта 2007 г. Е.Э.Бабаева (ИРЯ РАН). Механизм многозначности в
диахроническом аспекте.
465. 20 апреля 2007 г. В.А.Плунгян (Институт языкознания РАН). Тема будет
объявлена дополнительно.
466. 18 мая 2007 г. С.С.Сай (Институт лингвистических исследований РАН,
Санкт-Петербург). Тема будет объявлена дополнительно.

За дополнительной информацией обращайтесь по адресу seminar@... или
по телефону (495) 699-4927. ВНИМАНИЕ! Номер телефона Лаборатории изменился!

Напоминаю, что информацию о предстоящих семинарах на русском и английском
языках можно найти на сайте нашей лаборатории:

http://cl.iitp.ru/Seminar/seminar.html

С недавнего времени в сообщениях о семинарах (как в электронной рассылке,
так и на сайте) помещается краткая аннотация предстоящих докладов.
Настоятельно прошу будущих докладчиков при ближайшей возможности прислать
мне аннотации своих докладов на русском и английском языках!

С дружеским приветом

Л.Иомдин,
сотрудник лаборатории компьютерной лингвистики ИППИ






--
Best regards,
  Gurevich                            mailto:alpgurev@...

дНПНЦХЕ ЙНККЕЦХ!

   ъ ОНДСЛЮК, ВРН ЛМНЦХЛ ХГ бЮЯ ЩРН ЛНФЕР АШРЭ ХМРЕПЕЯМН. ъ МЮЬ╦К МЮАНП
ЛЮЙПНЯНБ, ОНГБНКЪЧЫХУ, Б РНЛ ВХЯКЕ, ЯНГДЮБЮРЭ АХАКХНЦПЮТХЧ Х, ЦКЮБМНЕ,
ЯЯШКЙХ МЮ ПЮАНРШ Б РЕЙЯРЕ ЯРЮРЭХ/ДХЯЯЕПРЮЖХХ, ЕЯКХ бШ Е╦ ОХЬЕРЕ Б Word
(Я ПСЯЯЙНИ АХАКХНЦПЮТХЕИ Б LaTeX Ъ ЯОПЮБХКЯЪ МЕ АЕГ ОПНАКЕЛ).
яЯШКЙЮ: http://www.kankowski.narod.ru/soft/disser.htm

Я МЮХКСВЬХЛХ ОНФЕКЮМХЪЛХ,
  дЛХРПХИ йНКНЛЮЖЙХИ                          mailto:lemon_tree@...
http://mitya.net.ru

Дорогие коллеги,
Проблемная группа "Логический анализ языка" сообщает, что 26 января в
15.00 состоится очередное заседание семинара Нины Давидовны Арутюновой.
С докладом "Влияние лексических факторов на фразовую акцентуацию" выступит
Сандро Васильевич Кодзасов.

Место проведения: конференц-зал Института языкознания РАН
Б.Кисловский пер., 1/12. тел. 290 03 36.

Передайте, пожалуйста, эту информацию всем, кому она может быть интересной.

С уважением,
Оргкомитет


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Workshop
Formal Semantics in Moscow / Формальная семантика в Москве
Москва, Филологический факультет МГУ, 28 апреля 2007 г.
Второе информационное письмо


СРОК ПОДАЧИ ТЕЗИСОВ: 25 января.


Задача workshop'а - предоставить исследователям, работающим в области семантики
и прагматики, возможность
поделиться собственными результатами (в том числе предварительными) и
познакомиться с исследованиями своих российских и зарубежных коллег. Workshop
ориентирован прежде всего на студентов, аспирантов и молодых исследователей,
работающих в рамках теоретических установок формальной
семантики и формальной прагматики, как они понимаются в западной традиции,
однако тематика workshop'а не
ограничена каким-либо узким подходом. Особенно приветствуются работы,
интегрирующие западные формально-семантические и российские семантические
подходы.

В этом году основная тема workshop'а   "Вокруг анафоры" (Anaphora and beyond),
однако работы по другим темам также приветствуются. Формат докладов - 20 минут +
10 минут на обсуждение. Рабочий язык workshop'а - английский.


Приглашённые докладчики:

Uli Sauerland
    (ZAS, http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/sauerland/)
Philippe Schlenker
    (UCLA, Institut Jean-Nicod,
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schlenker/)


Тезисы должны быть анонимными и не превышать по объёму 2 страниц. Автор не может
фигурировать более чем в
двух тезисах и не может быть единственным автором более одних тезисов. Мы
принимаем тезисы только в электронном виде. Предпочтительный формат   pdf, но
тезисы в формате Word и txt также будут приниматься к рассмотрению. При
использовании редактора Word, пожалуйста, сохраняйте тезисы в формате rtf.
Тезисы должны быть присланы по адресу fsim3.submissions@... не позднее 25
января. (Если в течение 1-2 дней Вы не получите подтверждения получения Ваших
тезисов, это будет означать, что Ваши тезисы по какой-либо причине не дошли.
Пожалуйста, попробуйте в таком случае выслать тезисы еще раз.)

Авторам будет сообщено о результатах рецензирования в конце февраля. Программа
workshop'а будет опубликована в начале марта.

Участие в workshop'е не предполагает регистрационного взноса.

Информация о workshop'е также размещена на сайте конференции:
http://fsim3.narod.ru/

Организаторы:
Игорь Янович (МГУ)
Анна Пазельская (ABBYY Software House)
Елизавета Былинина (Институт языкознания РАН)
Петр Аркадьев (Институт славяноведения РАН)

Почётный научный консультант workshop'а:
Барбара Х. Парти (UMass at Amherst, РГГУ, МГУ).

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  Prague: ACL 2007 Newsletter No. 2
Date:  Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:29:27 -0500
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@...>
Reply-To:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@...>
Organization:  ACL/AMTA/ARCS/dg.o
To:  <rasmusse@...>



=========================================================
=========================================================

              ACL 2007 NEWSLETTER NO. 2
                 (January 19, 2007)

=========================================================
=========================================================


=========================================================
:: Important Dates
=========================================================

Main conference paper submission deadline:  January 23, 2007
Student research workshop paper submission deadline:  January 23, 2007
No extensions will be granted.

Workshops:          June 23-24 and 28-30, 2007
Tutorials:          June 24, 2007
Main conference:    June 25-27, 2007

=========================================================
:: Table of Contents
=========================================================

1. ACL 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic
2. Organising Committee
3. Main Conference Call for Papers
4. Student Research Workshop Call for Papers
5. Tutorials
6. Workshops
7. Recommended Accommodation
8. Sponsorship
9. Newsletter No. 3

=========================================================
:: 1. ACL 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic
=========================================================

The conference is organized by the Institute of Formal and Applied
Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in
Prague ("Univerzita Karlova v Praze"), Czech Republic, the oldest
University in Europe north of the Alps (founded in 1348).

The conference will take place in the TOP HOTEL Praha, located in the
quiet neighborhood of the Prague 4 district, only 15-20 minutes from the
historic center of Prague. The hotel can accommodate up to 1000
participants on-site (with a small number of dormitory rooms available
nearby). The hotel offers one auditorium, three large lecture rooms,
number of smaller rooms for tutorials and workshops, several restaurants
and cafes and lot of open air space for walks and informal discussions.
The conference banquet and a conference concert will take place in the
historic buildings in the city center -- one in the Municipal Hall
(built in the Art-nouveau style of the early 20th century) and the other
in the 14th century main University Hall.

=========================================================
:: 2. Organising Committee
=========================================================

General Chair: John Carroll
Local Arrangements Chair: Eva Hajicova
Program Chairs: Annie Zaenen and Antal van den Bosch
Student Workshop Chairs: Violeta Seretan and Chris Biemann, with
Ellen Riloff
Workshops Chair: Simone Teufel
Tutorials Chair: Joakim Nivre
Demos/Posters Chair: Sophia Ananiadou
Exhibits Chair: Jaroslava Hlavacova and Pavel Pecina
Sponsorship: Martha Palmer, Gabor Proszeky and Jan Hajic
Publicity: Pavel Stranak and Jiri Mirovsky
Publications: Su Jian
Mentoring Service: Florence Reeder
Student Volunteers: Marketa Lopatkova
Website: Zlatica Subrova and Juraj Simlovic
Secretariat: Priscilla Rasmussen and Anna Kotesovcova

=========================================================
:: 3. Main Conference Call for Papers
=========================================================

Program Co-Chairs:

      Annie Zaenen (PARC, USA)
      Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

Important Dates:

      Paper submission deadline:   January 23, 2007,
                                   5pm US Eastern time (10pm GMT)

      Notification of acceptance:  March 23, 2007
      Camera ready papers due:     May 4, 2007

The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of
papers for its 45th Annual Meeting. Papers are invited on substantial,
original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational
linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, semantics,
syntax, grammars and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology;
lexical semantics and ontologies; word segmentation, tagging and
chunking; parsing; generation and summarization; language modeling,
spoken language recognition and understanding; linguistic, psychological
and mathematical models of language; document retrieval, question
answering, information extraction, and text mining; machine learning for
natural language; corpus-based modeling of language, discourse and
dialogue; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation
aids; multi-modal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
applications, tools and resources; and evaluation of systems.


For further information regarding requirements, reviewing, formatting
and submission details, see the conference web site:

http://www.acl2007.org/

=========================================================
:: 4. Student Research Workshop Call for Papers
=========================================================

Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs:

      Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
      Chris Biemann (University of Leipzig, Germany)
      Ellen Riloff, Faculty Advisor (University of Utah, USA)

Important Dates:

      Paper submissions deadline:  January 23, 2007,
                                   5pm US Eastern time (10pm GMT)

      Notification of acceptance:  March 23, 2007
      Camera ready papers due:     April 27, 2007


The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL
conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers
investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing to present their work and to receive feedback both from the
general audience and from selected panelists -- experienced researchers
who prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the
presentation.

We invite all student researchers to submit their work to the workshop.
As the main goal of the workshop is to provide feedback, the emphasis
is on work in progress. Original and unpublished research is therefore
invited on all aspects of computational linguistics including, but
not limited to, the following topic areas:

- pragmatics and discourse
- semantics and lexicons
- syntax and grammars
- phonetics, phonology, and morphology
- linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language
- information retrieval, information extraction, and question answering
- summarization and paraphrasing
- speech recognition and speech synthesis
- corpus-based language modeling
- multi-lingual processing, machine translation, and translation aids
- spoken and written natural language interfaces and dialogue systems
- multi-modal language processing and multimedia systems
- narrative understanding systems

For further information regarding requirements, reviewing, formatting
and submission details, see the conference web site:

http://www.acl2007.org/


Travel Grants:

Some funding will be available for students whose work is accepted to
the Student Research Workshop. For more information about travel
grants, please contact the co-chairs of the Student Research Workshop.

=========================================================
:: 5. Tutorials
=========================================================

The following tutorials will be offered at ACL-07 in Prague,
June 24, 2007:

- Usability and Performance Evaluation for Advanced Spoken Dialogue
    Systems (Michael McTear, Kristiina Jokinen)

- Nonparametric Structured Models (Percy Liang, Dan Klein)

- Textual Entailment (Ido Dagan, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Dan Roth)

- Quality Control of Corpus Annotation Through Reliability Measures
    (Ron Artstein)

- From Web Content Mining to Natural Language Processing (Bing Liu)

=========================================================
:: 6. Workshops
=========================================================

Following 15 workshops will be held at ACL 2007:

2-day
   * SemEval 2007: 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations

1.5-day
   * Joint Workshop on Entailment and Paraphrase and 3rd PASCAL
Recognizing
      Textual Entailment (RTE-3) Challenge
   * Joint Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2
(FLAC2)
     and Sixth NLPXML Workshop

1 day
   * ACL SIGMORPHON Computational Research in Morphology and Phonology,
      Special Theme: Computational Historical Linguistics
   * NLP for Balto-Slavonic languages, Special Focus on IE
   * Grammar-based approaches to spoken language processing
   * Deep Linguistic Processing
   * Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition
   * Embodied Language Processing
   * BioNLP'07
   * Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

.5 day
   * Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and
Resources
   * A Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions
   * Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data
   * 4th ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions

=========================================================
:: 7. Recommended Accommodation
=========================================================

It is recommended that participants make a reservation at the venue of
the conference (The Top Hotel in Prague). Please go directly to the Top
Hotel's reservation page to make a reservation. The Local Arrangements
Committee has negotiated the following reduced prices for a block of
rooms  available to ACL participants:

Double room     EXECUTIVE       3080 CZK/night
Double room     STANDARD        1960 CZK/night

The prices include a breakfast buffet, all fees and taxes, VAT and  free
entrance to the wellness centre.

A smaller block of rooms is available, also for a reduced price, in  the
adjoined "GARNI TOP HOTEL":

Double room     GARNI HOTEL     992 CZK/night

For these prices to apply, please use the "code" "the ACL 2007
Congress" in
the section named "Detailed information, comments and desires" on the
reservation page.

=========================================================
:: 8. Sponsorship
=========================================================
Chairs very gratefully acknowledge the following
committments in sponsorship confirmed as of this day:

Google - Gold Sponsor, $5,000.00
Microsoft - Silver Sponsor, $4,000.00
BBN and IBM - Bronze Sponsors, $1,000.00, with the IBM sponsorship
earmarked for the Best Student Paper Award.

Anyone interested in becoming a sponsor or finding out more about
sponsorship opportunities is encouraged to contact any of the chairs
at the following e-mail addresses.

Gabor Proszeky <proszeky@... <mailto:proszeky@...>>
Jan Hajic <hajic@... <mailto:hajic@...>>
Jun'ichi Tsujii <j.tsujii@...
<mailto:j.tsujii@...>>
Martha Palmer <Martha.Palmer@...
<mailto:Martha.Palmer@...>>


=========================================================
:: 9. Newsletter No. 3
=========================================================

ACL Newsletter No. 3 will be published before the end of February,
giving among other things more information on registration and
workshop time schedule.

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Date: 18-Jan-2007
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Subject: International Summer School in Cognitive Science


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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:46:09
From: Boicho Kokinov < bkokinov@... >
Subject: International Summer School in Cognitive Science



The Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science at the New
Bulgarian University is pleased to announce the 14th International
Summer
School in Cognitive Science which will be held in Sofia, 9-28 July 2007.
You can find more information about the courses, participation and fees
at
the following address: http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2007.html.
Deadline
for application is March 15.

For further information, please contact us at school@...



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Уважаемые коллеги!
В четверг, 25 декабря, состоится очередной семинар Центра компаративистики РГГУ.
Докладчик: О.А. Мудрак
Тема доклада: К уточнению западнокавказской реконструкции.
Начало доклада: 18.00 (ТОЧНО!)

С уважением,
Елена Парина

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  Prague: Fourth ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions, at ACL
2007 -- CFP
Date:  Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:52:16 -0500
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@...>
Reply-To:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@...>
Organization:  ACL/AMTA/ARCS/dg.o
To:  <rasmusse@...>




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                      CALL for PAPERS

          Fourth ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions
                      28th June, 2007
                   Prague, Czech Republic

http://csserver.ucd.ie/~fintanc/acl2007/prepositions.html
<http://csserver.ucd.ie/%7Efintanc/acl2007/prepositions.html>

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Workshop Description

The Fourth ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions will be
hosted in conjunction with ACL 2007, the 45th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
and will take place on June 28th in Prague, Czech Republic.


Background

Prepositions, postpositions and other adpositions have
received a considerable amount of interest in recent
years, due to their importance in computational tasks.
For instance, in NLP, PP attachment ambiguities have
attracted a lot of attention, and different machine
learning techniques have been employed with varying
success. Researchers from linguistics, artificial
intelligence and psycholinguistics have examined spatial
and temporal aspects of prepositions,their cross-
linguistic differences, monolingual and cross-linguistic
contrasts, the role of prepositions in syntactic
alternations and their semantics in situated dialog. In
languages like English and German, phrasal verbs have
also been the subject of considerable research, ranging
from the development of techniques for their automatic
extraction from corpora to methods for determining their
semantics. In other languages, like Romance languages or
Hindi, the focus has been either on the incorporation of
the preposition or its inclusion in the prepositional
phrase. All these configurations are important both
semantically and syntactically in natural language
understanding and processing.

Building on the success of three previous workshops on
prepositions (held in Toulouse, 2003, Colchester, 2005
and Sydney, 2006), the aim of the fourth ACL-SIGSEM
Workshop on Prepositions is to bring together researchers
from a variety of backgrounds to discuss the syntax,
semantics, description, representation and
cross-linguistic aspects of prepositions. We intend this
workshop to promote collaboration among researchers
interested in different aspects of prepositions, and hope
that it will advance understanding of these important
components of language.


Topics

Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following
topics:

+ Multilingual & crosslinguistic aspects of prepositions:
  - multilingual and contrastive descriptions (mismatches,
    incorporation, divergences)
  - prepositions in human and machine translation (for
    example, issues of automatic word alignment)
  - prepositions in parallel corpus annotation (for
    example, sense disambiguation using parallel texts)
  - prepositions in cross-language information retrieval

+ Description and representation of prepositions:
  - prepositions in lexical resources (including WordNet,
    Framenet, and other ontologies)
  - prepositions in syntactically annotated corpora
    (Treebanks), productive versus collocation uses,
    prepositions and thematic roles
  - Word-sense disambiguation of prepositions (as in the
    SemEval preposition task to run at ACL-2007)

+ Applications:
  - using prepositions in applications such as machine
    translation, grammar and style checking systems
  - information extraction or language generation,
    situated dialog systems (robot interfaces, embodied
    conversational agents)

+ Cognitive dimensions of prepositions:
  - how different kinds of prepositions are
    acquired/interpreted/represented in human cognition
  - how different kinds of preposition provide distinct
    challenges to a reasoning system and how they can be
    handled


Submissions

Authors are invited to submit either full papers or
short papers on original, unpublished work in the topic
area of this workshop. Full papers should be up to 8
pages in length; they should emphasize completed work
rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly
the state of completion of the reported results. Where
appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be
included. Short papers should be up to 6 pages in length;
they can describe work in progress rather than completed
work, or smaller-scale implementation/experimentation.
Presentations for short papers will be proportionally
shorter than presentations for full papers. Submissions
will be judged on correctness, originality, technical
strength, significance and relevance to the workshop, and
interest to the attendees.

Submissions should be formatted using the ACL 2007
stylefiles without overt author and affiliation
information and not exceeding 8 pages. The ACL stylefiles
are available at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/

The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe
PDF. Submission will be electronic, using the START paper
submission website. The submission deadline is March
26th, 2007. The START submission page for this workshop
is http://www.softconf.com/acl07/ACL07-WS11/submit.html


Important Dates

Paper Submission deadline: March 26th, 2007
Notification of acceptance: April 20th, 2007
Camera-ready papers due: May 9th, 2007
Workshop date: June 28th, 2007


Organising Committee

Fintan Costello (University College Dublin, Ireland)
John Kelleher (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Martin Volk (Stockholms Universitet, Sweden)

Address any queries regarding the workshop to:

prepositions2007@... <mailto:prepositions2007@...>


Programme Committee

Doug Arnold (University of Essex, UK)
Boban Arsenijevic (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Collin Baker (University of California Berkeley, USA)
John Beavers (Stanford University, USA)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
Markus Egg (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany)
Tracy Holloway King (PARC, USA)
Valia Kordoni (Saarland University, Germany)
Ken Litkowski (CL Research, USA)
Tom O'Hara (Convera Inc., USA)
Hidetosi Sirai (Chukyo University, Japan)
Beata Trawinski (University of TЭbingen, Germany)
Jesse Tseng (Loria, France)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Feiyu Xu (DFKI, Germany)
Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)


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Barbara H. Partee
Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9274
phone (413) 545-0889, fax (413) 545-2792

Home: 50 Hobart Lane, Amherst , MA 01002  (413) 549-4501
*****
Moscow address:  Tallinskaja 2, apt. 258, Moscow 123458, RUSSIA
Moscow phone: (7) (495) 757 01 08
*****
E-mail (no matter where): partee@...
Home page: http://people.umass.edu/partee/
Jan - Aug 07: Moscow. Sept - Dec 07: Amherst
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  Prague: Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing (BSNLP
2007), a workshop at ACL 2007 -- CFP
Date:  Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:57:52 -0500
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@...>
Reply-To:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@...>
Organization:  ACL/AMTA/ARCS/dg.o
To:  <rasmusse@...>



CALL  FOR  PAPERS
------------------

Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing 2007 (BSNLP 2007)
with Special Theme: Information Extraction and Enabling Technologies

June 29, 2007
Prague, Czech Republic

http://langtech.jrc.it/BSNLP2007

BSNLP will be held in conjunction with the ACL 2007 conference
(http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/) and is co-organised by the
European Commission's Joint Research Centre

TOPIC AND MOTIVATION:

The recent political and economic changes in Central and
Eastern Europe and the related on-going enlargement of the
European Union brings into focus new cultures and languages.
Among them, the languages from the Balto-Slavonic group have
an outstanding role because of their rich cultural heritage
and the widespread use - over 400 million speakers.

The topic of the workshop addresses Natural Language
Processing (NLP) for the Balto-Slavonic languages, with the
focus on Information Extraction (IE) and enabling technologies
for this language family. The task of IE is to identify a
predefined set of concepts from natural language text. The
spectrum of IE tasks ranges from named-entity recognition,
through relation extraction and co-reference resolution to the
identification of complex events and cross-document entity
profile extraction. Although a considerable amount of
IE-related work exists, most of the studies are concentrated
on a few major languages. Research on this topic, as well as
on general-purpose NLP tools in the context of Balto-Slavonic
languages, is still in its early stage and is progressing
relatively slowly. Due to some specific  phenomena like the
highly inflectional character and relatively free word order,
a construction of IE systems and other language processing
tools (question-answering, text summarization, machine
translation) for these languages is an intriguing and
challenging task.

This workshop can be seen as the follow-up to the successful
workshop on Information Extraction for Slavonic and Other
Central and Eastern European Languages
(http://lml.bas.bg/IESL2003) held in conjunction with the
RANLP 2003 conference. It is also related to the EACL 2003
workshop on Morphological Processing of Slavic Languages
(http://nl.ijs.si/mpsl03). In particular, we would strongly
encourage submissions describing systems, resources or
solutions that are made available to the wider public, as
these would help to promote computational linguistics
applications for these languages.

AREAS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:

A. Specific challenges for Balto-Slavonic NLP, in particular
in the context of IE and enabling technologies

- text segmentation
- morphological analysis
- morphology models
- morpho-syntactic disambiguation
- named-entity recognition
- named-entity disambiguation (e.g., geo-referencing)
- named-entity lemmatisation
- term and keyword extraction
- name variant recognition and merging
- syntactic parsing and chunking
- co-reference resolution
- word sense disambiguation
- corpus-based knowledge acquisition

B. Multilingual IE frameworks and techniques applied to these languages

- tools and resources (freely available for research purposes will be
preferred)
- experience with, and evaluation of, linguistic data and processing
resources
- comparative evaluation between languages

C. IE solutions for these languages:

- scenario template filling / event extraction
- relation extraction
- automatic pattern learning
- corpus studies and statistical techniques for IE
- IE from Web sources
- IE-based ontology population
- IE evaluation
- IE techniques for Question/Answering and Answer Extraction
- Utilisation of IE-based techniques in other NLP applications

INTENDED AUDIENCE

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners working on NLP for Balto-Slavonic languages, in
particular on IE and core technologies supporting IE for these
languages. The workshop will give an opportunity to exchange
ideas and experience, to discuss hard-to-tackle problems in
this field of research, and to make available resources more
widely known.

SUBMISSION

Papers should describe original work and should indicate the
state of completion of the reported results. In particular, an
overlap with previously published work should be clearly
mentioned. Submissions will be judged on correctness, novelty,
technical strength, clarity of presentation, usability, and
significance/relevance to the workshop.

Submissions should follow the two-column format of the ACL
2007 main-conference proceedings and should not exceed eight
(8) pages, including references. We recommend to use either
the LaTeX style file or the Microsoft-Word style file, which
can be found at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles.

The reviewing will be blind. Therefore, the paper should not
include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,
self-citations and other references that could reveal the
author's identity should be avoided.

Submission will be electronic. The only accepted format for
submitted papers is Adobe PDF. Papers must be submitted no
later than April 1, 2006 using the submission webpage
http://langtech.jrc.it/BSNLP2007/submission.

Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Program
Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines
regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers
for inclusion in the ACL workshop proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop Paper Submission deadline: April 1
Notification of Acceptance: April 25
Camera-ready Version: May 9
Workshop: June 29, 2007.

LOCATION

Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is located in the
centre of Europe. It is one of the most valuable historical
city reserves in Europe. The historical core of the city is
listed in the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage
Register. The workshop itself will take place in the TOP HOTEL
Praha, located in the quiet neighbourhood of the Prague 4
district, only 15-20 minutes from the historic centre of Prague.

Prague is easily reachable by car, bus or train from central
Europe (only 3-hour drive from Vienna or Budapest or 4 hours
from Berlin or Munich), by cheap flights from the rest of
Europe, and by several direct flights from overseas.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information please write to bsnlp2007@...
<mailto:bsnlp2007@...> or
check the workshop web page http://langtech.jrc.it/BSNLP2007.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Tania Avgustinova (University of Saarland / DFKI, Germany)
Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)
Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Vaclav Kubon (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)
Anna Kupsc (University Paris III, France)
Ruta Marcinkeviciene (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania)
Agnieszka Mykowiecka (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Centre, Italy)
Bruno Pouliquen (Joint Research Centre, Italy)
Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Centre, Italy)
Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Agata Savary (University of Tours, France)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Wojciech Skut (Google Inc., USA)
Ralf Steinberger (Joint Research Centre, Italy)
Dusko Vitas (University of Beograd, Serbia)
Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finland)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR

Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Centre, Italy)
Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Centre, Italy)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Centre, Italy)
Bruno Pouliquen (Joint Research Centre, Italy)
Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Centre, Italy)
Ralf Steinberger (Joint Research Centre, Italy)


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Barbara H. Partee
Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9274
phone (413) 545-0889, fax (413) 545-2792

Home: 50 Hobart Lane, Amherst , MA 01002  (413) 549-4501
*****
Moscow address:  Tallinskaja 2, apt. 258, Moscow 123458, RUSSIA
Moscow phone: (7) (495) 757 01 08
*****
E-mail (no matter where): partee@...
Home page: http://people.umass.edu/partee/
Jan - Aug 07: Moscow. Sept - Dec 07: Amherst
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Дорогие друзья,
мы рады сообщить, что из печати вышел коллективный сборник "Глаголы движения в
воде: лексическая типология" (М.: Индрик, 2007. - 752 с.).

Общее представление о проекте по лексической типологии глаголов плавания, а
также о данном сборнике, можно получить на сайте:
http://aquamotion.narod.ru.

В понедельник 29 января в 16-00 в актовом зале Института языкознания РАН
(Москва, Б.Кисловский пер., 1/12, второй этаж) состоится презентация данной
книги, на которую приглашаются все желающие.

Скорее всего, на презентации можно будет не только посмотреть, но и приобрести
книгу (хотя число экземпляров на продажу будет невелико). Вообще же продаваться
книга будет в магазине на ул. Бахрушина, 28 (справки по тел. 959-20-94), а
возможно и в др. местах.

Будем рады видеть вас на презентации!

Редакторы -
Тимур Майсак,
Екатерина Рахилина

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Уважаемые коллеги,

Напоминаем, что завтра истекает срок подачи тезисов на конференцию Formal
Semantics in Moscow.

От имени организаторов,
Анна Пазельская

--------------------------------
Workshop
Formal Semantics in Moscow / Формальная семантика в Москве Москва,
Филологический факультет МГУ, 28 апреля 2007 г.

Задача workshop'а - предоставить
исследователям, работающим в области
семантики и прагматики, возможность
поделиться собственными
результатами (в том числе предварительными) и познакомиться с исследованиями
своих российских и зарубежных коллег.
Workshop ориентирован прежде всего на
студентов, аспирантов и молодых
исследователей, работающих в рамках
теоретических установок формальной
семантики и формальной прагматики, как они понимаются в западной традиции,
однако тематика workshop'а не ограничена каким-либо узким подходом. Особенно
приветствуются работы, интегрирующие западные формально-семантические и
российские семантические подходы.
В этом году основная тема workshop'а   "Вокруг анафоры" (Anaphora and beyond),
однако работы по другим темам также приветствуются.
Формат докладов - 20 минут + 10 минут на обсуждение.
Рабочий язык workshop'а - английский.
Приглашённые докладчики: Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Berlin,
http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/sauerland), Philippe Schlenker
(http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schlenker/).
Тезисы должны быть анонимными и не
превышать по объёму 2 страниц.
Автор не может фигурировать более чем в
двух тезисах и не может быть
единственным автором более одних тезисов.
Мы принимаем тезисы только в электронном виде. Предпочтительный формат   pdf, но
тезисы в формате Word и txt также будут приниматься к рассмотрению. При
использовании редактора Word, пожалуйста, сохраняйте тезисы в формате rtf.
Тезисы должны быть присланы по адресу
fsim3.submissions@... не
позднее 25 января. Авторам будет сообщено о результатах рецензирования в конце
февраля.

Участие в workshop'е не предполагает
регистрационного взноса.

Информация о Workshop: Формальная семантика в Москве-2007 также размещена на
сайте конференции:
http://fsim3.narod.ru/

Организаторы:
Игорь Янович (МГУ)
Анна Пазельская (ABBYY Software House)
Елизавета Былинина (Институт языкознания
РАН)
Петр Аркадьев (Институт славяноведения РАН)

Почётный научный консультант workshop'а:
Барбара Парти (UMass at Amherst, РГГУ).

Added note from Barbara: Students must become members of the LSA in
order to apply for these tuition scholarships; it's not expensive, but
it does require that some professor guarantees that you are in fact a
student (or aspirant, "graduate student"). I will be happy to act as
guarantor for any Russian students/aspirants who would like to apply,
and to help in any other way I can. I think this is an excellent
opportunity, especially for those with some interest, or potential
interest, in some computational aspects of linguistics. The institute
will be very strong in theory as well, and I believe a number of the
computationally oriented courses will also be theoretically interesting.
See their website for full details, and let me know if and how I can
help. (Aleksandr Kibrik and Vera Podlesskaya are also members of the
LSA, and probably others as well, so I am not the only one who could be
the guarantor of your student/aspirant status.)
    Deadline February 12!
Barbara

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Subject:  California: Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2007 Institute
-- Tuition Scholarship Applications
Date:  Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:48:26 -0500
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@...>
Reply-To:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@...>
Organization:  ACL/AMTA/ARCS/dg.o
To:  <rasmusse@...>




The North American chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (NAACL) is pleased to sponsor tuition scholarships to
attend the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2007 Institute, held
this summer at Stanford (and co-sponsored by the NAACL).

This year, the Institute theme is "Empirical Foundations for Theories
of Language", and it has in place an exciting menu of 18 presession
courses (July 1-3) and 73 regular session courses (July 5-27) given by
leaders in the field; the offerings include an unprecedented and
fabulous suite of 12 explicitly computational courses (pointers to
more info are given at the bottom of this message).

Scholarship eligibility:  you must be all of the following:
    (1) EITHER a current LSA student member committed to taking least two
           computational courses at the institute
        OR a current NAACL student member
    (2) a current graduate or undergraduate student in good standing
    (3) committed to registering for 8 credits at the institute


Awards: Linguistic Institute tuition ($1300) plus free student LSA and
NAACL membership (good for 2008 if the awardee is already a member
this year).  Awardees are responsible for other expenses (travel, room
and board, etc.)

To apply: complete the following two-step procedure by February 12, 2007:
     (1) All applicants must register an intent to apply by emailing
         linginst07-naacl-scholarships@...
<mailto:linginst07-naacl-scholarships@...> .
     (2a) Applicants who ARE currently student LSA members should fill
out the
         online application at

https://lsadc.org/secure/login/login-direct.cfm?TOPAGE=fellowship/fellowship-app\
lication1.cfm
     (2b) Applicants who are NOT currently student LSA members should
         email naacl@... <mailto:naacl@...> , supplying the
information requested on
the sample application viewable at
         https://lsadc.org/fellowship/fellowship-application-mock.cfm

Applications will be evaluated by an LSA committee.  Scholarships will
be awarded on the basis of the applicant's overall academic
performance and promise, as well as the expected role of the Institute
in contributing to the applicant's graduate or undergraduate studies
and future plans. Current LSA student members will be considered for
both the NAACL scholarship and the LSA scholarship, but will not
receive dual awards.

As in previous years, NAACL will also sponsor scholarships to attend the
two-week course at Johns Hopkins during the summer of 2007, which is a
compact introduction to various aspects of speech and natural language
processing.  Details will be provided at the NAACL website when
available (perhaps late February).

For more information:

Linguistic Institute website: linginst07.stanford.edu
    - Courses: linginst07.stanford.edu/courses.html
    - Computational courses: linginst07.stanford.edu/computational.html
NAACL homepage: www.naacl.org <http://www.naacl.org>
A copy of this message is maintained at
http://www.naacl.org/summer-school/2007/lsa2007-awards.htm

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Barbara H. Partee
Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9274
phone (413) 545-0889, fax (413) 545-2792

Home: 50 Hobart Lane, Amherst , MA 01002  (413) 549-4501
*****
Moscow address:  Tallinskaja 2, apt. 258, Moscow 123458, RUSSIA
Moscow phone: (7) (495) 757 01 08
*****
E-mail (no matter where): partee@...
Home page: http://people.umass.edu/partee/
Jan - Aug 07: Moscow. Sept - Dec 07: Amherst
===========================================

Dear everyone,
     I just realized that the announcement I sent around an hour ago is
specially about fellowships sponsored by the ACL, the Association for
Computational Linguistics. There are also the normal LSA-sponsored
fellowships, which do not have any such requirement of taking any
computationally-oriented courses. See http://www.lsadc.org/ for
applications and application details: deadline for both kinds of
applications is Feb 12. For information about the 2007 Institute at
Stanford, see http://linginst07.stanford.edu/ .
     Peter Staroverov just informed me that the applications require
submission of TOEFL scores, but it's too late to take that test before
the Feb 12 deadline. I've just sent an inquiry to the LSA to ask if that
requirement can be waived if someone like me can attest to the excellent
English of the applicant. I'll send another notice when I get the
answer. I hope so; otherwise it's too late for any non-native English
speaker who hasn't already taken the TOEFL test.
    Best, Barbara

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=================================
Barbara H. Partee
Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9274
phone (413) 545-0889, fax (413) 545-2792

Home: 50 Hobart Lane, Amherst , MA 01002  (413) 549-4501
*****
Moscow address:  Tallinskaja 2, apt. 258, Moscow 123458, RUSSIA
Moscow phone: (7) (495) 757 01 08
*****
E-mail (no matter where): partee@...
Home page: http://people.umass.edu/partee/
Jan - Aug 07: Moscow. Sept - Dec 07: Amherst
===========================================

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To all interested Moscow linguistics students (and others) -- I will be
teaching a speckurs at MGU this semester on Current Topics in Formal
Semantics, intended to be accessible to students with no previous
background in formal semantics and also of interest to more advanced
semantics students. The announcement is posted here:
http://community.livejournal.com/chomsky_ru/26117.html
The announcement is also on my website, where handouts and links to
downloadable readings will be posted as the course proceeds.
http://people.umass.edu/partee/MGU_2007/MGU07_formal_semantics.htm
First meeting: Tuesday, Feb 13. Lecture 4:55-6:15pm, Seminar
6:30-7:50pm.  Room not yet known; probably somewhere near the OTiPL office.
I will be happy to have regular auditors in the class as well as
formally enrolled students. (About propuski, please ask someone else.
You all probably know more about that part than I do.)
Best wishes,
Barbara

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Barbara H. Partee
Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9274
phone (413) 545-0889, fax (413) 545-2792

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