http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18042 <pre>Dear All, Please forward this call for paper to your colleagues and interested people. Thank you in advance, *3r**d Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 201** 3**) * - A collocated event at IJCNLP 2013, Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan October 14, 2013 Call for Papers: http://saaip.org/ Since our previous two workshops in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP) in Chiang Mai, Thailand during Nov. 7-13, 2011 and with the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) in Mumbai, India during Dec. 8-15, 2012 were quite successful (with 20 and 14 submissions and more than 30 participants from many countries), we are planning to conduct our next workshop in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP) in Nagoya, Japan during Oct. 14-19, 2013 Inspired by the objectives we aimed at in the first two editions of the workshop, the warm responses and feedbacks we received from the participants and attendees and the final outcome, the purpose of the proposed 3rd edition of the Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 2013) is to create a framework for presenting and discussing the challenges related to sentiment, opinion and emotion analysis in the ground of NLP. This workshop aims to bring together the researchers in multiple disciplines such as computer science, psychology, cognitive science, social science and many more who are interested in developing next generation machines that can recognize and respond to the sentimental states of the human users. The workshop will consist of a set of invited talks and presentations of technical papers that will be selected after peer review from the submissions received. List of Topics &lt;http://saaip.org/index.html&gt; We welcome original and unpublished submissions on all aspects of sentiment analysis. Topics include, but are not limited to - New models of sentiment: its origin in the speaker's goals and intentions, its signaling in the text, and its relationships to the objects in question - Psychological models for sentiment analysis - Topic-dependent/independent sentiment identification. - Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models. - Domain, topic and genre, language dependency of sentiment analysis - Discourse analysis of sentiment - Opinion, Sentiment, Emotion extraction, categorization and aggregation - Sentiment corpora and annotation - Sentiment lexicon - Applications of sentiment analysis specially in Social Networking - Multimodal Sentiment Analysis - Multilingual Sentiment Analysis Workshop Organizers * * *Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India)* Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032, India. Phone: +91 33 2414 6648 Email Address: sbandyopadhyay&lt; at &gt;cse.jdvu.ac.in, sivaji_cse_ju&lt; at &gt;yahoo.com * * *Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)* Professor, Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. Email Address: oku&lt; at &gt;pi.titech.ac.jp Proposed Program Committee · Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) · Alexandra Balahur, DLSI, University of Alicante, (Italy) · Erik Cambria, NUS (Singapore) · Amitava Das, NTNU (Norway) · Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University (India) · Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research (USA) · Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa (Canada) · Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics (Japan) · Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (USA) · Alena Neviarouskaya, University of Tokyo (Japan) · Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, (USA) · Fuji Ren, University of Tokushima (Japan) · Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) · Patrick Saint-Dizier, IRIT-CNRS (France) · Yohei Seki, Tsukuba University (Japan) · Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University (Ireland) · Swapna Somasundaran, Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) (USA) · Veselin Stoyanov, Cornell University (USA) · Carlo Strapparava, FBK (Italy) · Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa (Canada) · Theresa Wilson, University of Edinburgh (UK) · Michael Zock, LIMSI-CNRS (France) Important Dates · Submissions Deadline: July 9, 2013 · Notification of Acceptances: August 9, 2013 · Camera ready submissions: August 23, 2013 · Workshop Date: October 14, 2013 </pre> Braja Gopal Patra 2013-05-19T04:21:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18041 <pre>******************************************************************** SPMRL 2013 - EMNLP-Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages http://spmrl.github.io/spmrl2013.html Endorsed by SIGPARSE ******************************************************************** Co-located with EMNLP 2013, October 18 - 21 in Seattle, Washington Important Dates --------------------- -------------------- Submission deadline July 01, 2013 Author Notification August 01, 2013 Camera ready copy September 01, 2013 Workshop October, 2013 --------------------- -------------------- SPMRL 2013 will feature a shared task on parsing morphologically rich languages: http://spmrl.github.io/spmrl2013-sharedtask.html Join the Shared Task mailing list : https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/info/mrlp-sharedtask Outline The SPMRL series of workshop provides a forum for research in parsing morphologically-rich languages, with the goal of identifying cross-cutting issues in the annotation and parsing methodology for such languages, which typically have more flexible word order and/or higher word-form variation than English. What we have learned Past SPMRL installments have been host to successful identification of some problem areas and approaches that address these problems: in the presence of word order variation, more meaningful results can be reached through treebank transformations (Versley &amp; Rehbein 2009; Tsarfaty &amp; Sima'an 2010, Choi et al., 2012) or latent annotations (Petrov et al., 2006), the parallel use of constituency and dependency structures (Le Roux et al., 2012), as well as techniques to provide prior knowledge in the handling of unseen words (Candito &amp; Seddah 2010, Rehbein 2011, Sigogne et al 2011; Anguiano &amp; Candito 2012). SPMRL has also been host to discussions on realistic and appropriate evaluation methods that can be applied in the face of morphological and/or segmentation ambiguities; these discussions have culminated in a shared task for parsing these morphologically-rich languages, which will be co-located with the workshop. Areas of interest The areas of interest of the fourth SPMRL workshop include, but are not limited to, the following list of topics: - applying cutting-edge parsing techniques to new languages - strengths and weaknesses of current parsing techniques when applied to morphologically-rich languages - insights and techniques that are targeted at improving parsing quality for morphologically-rich languages - using insights from parsing and associated processing problems to motivate decisions in the creation of new syntactically annotated corpora - annotation and parsing of data from domains and genres that are not yet covered for many languages How to Submit Authors are invited to submit long papers (up to 9 pages + references) and short papers (up to 5 pages + references). Long papers should describe unpublished, substantial and completed research. Short papers should be position papers, papers describing work in progress or short, focused contributions. Submissions will be accepted until July, 01 , 2013, (11:59 p.m. PST) in PDF format via the START system (details to be announced) Shared Task The fourth SPMRL workshop will also host the first shared task on parsing morphologically rich languages (see Shared Task). Organizers Workshop - Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University, Israel) - Ines Rehbein (Potsdam University, Germany) - Yannick Versley (Tübingen University, Germany) Shared task - Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, US) - Djamé Seddah (Université Paris Sorbonne &amp; INRIAs Alpage Project, France) - Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden) Program committee - Mohammed Attia (Dublin City University, Ireland) - Bernd Bohnet (University of Birmingham, UK) - Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France) - Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service Inc., US) - Ozlem Cetinoglu (University of Stuttgart, Germany) - Jinho Choi (IPSoft Inc., US) - Grzegorz Chrupala (Saarland University, Germany) - Benoit Crabbé (University of Paris 7, France) - Gülsen Cebiroglu Eryigit (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) - Michael Elhadad (Ben Gurion University, Israel) - Richard Farkas (University of Szeged, Hungary) - Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland) - Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland) - Koldo Gojenola (University of the Basque Country, Spain) - Spence Green (Stanford University, US) - Samar Husain (Potsdam University, Germany) - Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, US) - Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart, Germany) - Alberto Lavelli (FBK-irst, Italy) - Joseph Le Roux (Université Paris-Nord, France) - Wolfgang Maier (University of Düsseldorf, Germany) - Yuval Marton (IBM Watson Research Center, US) - Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) - Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar) - Adam Przepiorkowski (ICS PAS, Poland) - Owen Rambow (Columbia University, US) - Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, US) - Benoit Sagot (Inria Rocquencourt, France) - Djamé Seddah (Inria Rocquencourt, France) - Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden) - Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland) - Daniel Zeman (Charles University, Czechia) ENDORSEMENT This workshop is endorsed by THE ACL SIGPARSE interest group. For their precious help preparing the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task and for allowing their data to be part of it, we warmly thank the Linguistic Data Consortium, the Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew (MILA), the Ben Gurion University, Columbia University, Institute of Computer Science (Polish Academy of Sciences), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, University of Lisbon, Uppsala University, University of Stuttgart, University of Szeged and University Paris Diderot (Paris 7). _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> irehbein< at >uni-potsdam.de 2013-05-18T13:06:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18040 <pre>SLPAT 2013, FINAL call for papers The 4th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT). 21 and 22 August 2013, Grenoble France (satellite event of Interspeech 2013). ==&gt; Submission deadlines: 27 May (research papers) and 3 June (demo proposals) &lt;== Full details: http://slpat.org/slpat2013 Contact: slpat2013.workshop&lt; at &gt;gmail.com Colleagues, We invite you to join us in Grenoble for the 4th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies. This 2-day workshop will combine research in speech and language technology that assists people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. This year we are introducing a special topic -- Smart Homes and ambient intelligent technology applied to augmentative communication. The program committee is now online at http://www.slpat.org/slpat2013/people.html. It is our pleasure to announce that Professor Mark Hawley will be delivering an Invited Lecture on the first day of the workshop. Mark Hawley is Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Sheffield, UK, where he leads the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Research Group. He is also Honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist at Barnsley Hospital, where he is Head of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering. Over the last 20 years, he has worked as a clinician and researcher -- providing, researching, developing and evaluating assistive technology, telehealth and telecare products, and services for disabled people, older people, and people with long-term conditions. This year's workshop will include a tour of a smart home at the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble. This smart home (called "DOMUS", http://domus.imag.fr/) is an environment for researchers working on smart spaces and ambient intelligence. DOMUS is a 40 sq. metre apartment composed of typical rooms (e.g., office, bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen with dining area) and furnishings. The entire apartment is fitted with sensors and actuators and is controlled by a home automation system. General topics of SLPAT 2013 include but are not limited to: - Automated processing of sign language - Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments - Speech transformation for improved intelligibility - Speech and Language Technologies for Assisted Living - Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language - Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AAC/AT applications - Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or text-to-speech - Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio - Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication - Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies - Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies - NLP for cognitive assistance applications - Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments - Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications - Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications - Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies - Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of assistive technology - Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols - Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field - Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes - Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology - Anything included in this year's special topic - Other topics in Augmentative and Alternative Communication The special topic this year is smart homes and intelligent companions. Subtopics include: - Automatic Speech recognition in distant or multi-source environments - Understanding, modelling or recognition of aged speech - Speech analysis in the case of elderly with impairments, early recognition of speech capability loss - Multimodal speech recognition (context-aware ASR) - Multimodal emotion recognition - Applications of speech technology (ASR, dialogue, synthesis) for ambient assisted living This year, SLPAT will be co-located with the 1st Workshop on Affective Social Speech Signals (WASSS, http://wasss-2013.imag.fr/), which takes place on 22 and 23 August 2013). Participation in and submission to both workshops will be facilitated by reduced registration fees for double-registration (rather than registering for both individually), co-ordination of topics on the overlapping day (22 August) to enable participation in both, and common lunch and events combining the two communities. We look forward to your submissions! Regards, Organizing Committee, SLPAT 2013 Frank Rudzicz, PhD. Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute; Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto; Founder and Chief Science Officer, Thotra Incorporated (personal) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Frank Rudzicz 2013-05-18T00:27:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18038 <pre>The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution (AMCR 2013) We invite you to submit a paper/poster to the 1st International Workshop on Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution (AMCR 2013) to be held on September 12th/13th, 2013 at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2013), Hissar, Bulgaria. The workshop's website is available under: http://cl.indiana.edu/~zhekova/amcr13 In the last couple of years, the interest in the area of Multilingual Coreference Resolution (MCR) has increased immensely. Two shared tasks (SemEval-2 Shared Task 1: Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages in 2010 and the CoNLL Shared Task: Modeling Multilingual Unrestricted Coreference in OntoNotes in 2012) have set an excellent benchmark by releasing datasets for 8 different languages (SemEval: Catalan, Dutch, English, German, Italian and Spanish; CoNLL: Arabic, Chinese and English). Moreover, a wide range of multilingual systems have been developed within the framework of the tasks. We see a necessity for future research on the topic of MCR. The lack of existing workshops on the topic motivates our attempt to provide a possibility for the researchers interested specifically on multilinguality with respect to Coreference Resolution to present their work and results. The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution (AMCR 2013) workshop will welcome both theoretical and applied computational work regarding MCR. The submissions are expected to discuss theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, system development and techniques relevant to the AMCR topics. Papers that critically evaluate approaches or existing strategies will be especially welcome, as will new and innovative MCR system implementations. There will be a decisive focus on multilinguality for this workshop. Thus, submitted papers should cover at least one language other than English, preferably more. The scope of topics includes, but is not limited, to: Statistical and rule-based approaches to Multilingual CR Availability of resources for Multilingual CR New resources for Multilingual CR CR for languages other than English Acquisition of world knowledge for improving Multilingual CR Empirical data analysis and comparison of the various annotation CR schemes CR across language families Event coreference for MCR Knowledge-poor and knowledge-rich approaches to Multilingual CR Mention detection for entities and events for Multilingual CR Language specific issues within the Multilingual CR task Parallel corpora for CR Submissions All submitted papers must present substantial, original and not yet published research on a topic that is of interest to the AMCR workshop. The work could include, but is not limited to, detailed analysis and evaluation of proposed new approaches, extensive comparison of previously introduced methods or a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of multilingual coreference resolution. The submissions will be assessed with respect to their relevance to the workshop, correctness, originality, implementation (if applicable) and significance. The AMCR 2013 workshop, as part of the RANLP 2013 conference, will accommodate all style requirements for submissions listed on the RANLP's submission page. Please, use these style files, as papers that do not conform to the requirements will not be accepted at the AMCR 2013 workshop. The papers will undergo a blind review process, thus, authors' names, affiliations and self-references that reveal the author's identity must be avoided. Papers that do not conform to any of the above described requirements will be instantly rejected. Accepted will be the following three formats: LONG PAPERS: This type of submissions should be no longer than eight (8) content pages. References are not considered as content and may be included with up to two (2) additional pages. Long papers must be presented orally during the workshop session and will be included in the workshop proceedings. Page limits must be strictly observed. SHORT PAPERS: Short papers should be no longer than four (4) content pages as well as up to two (2) additional pages of references. Short papers will be presented as posters and will be included in the workshop proceedings. Page limits must be strictly observed. POSTERS: Additionally, the AMCR 2013 workshop will accept posters for the poster session, which will not lead to a publication, but would allow the authors to present and discuss relevant work with the workshop participants. Poster presenters are asked to submit a half page description of the poster. Important Dates Submission deadline: 3 July 2013 Notification of acceptance: 2 August 2013 Camera-ready copies due: 16 August 2013 Submission of poster descriptions: 31 August 2013 Workshop date: 12/13 September 2013 Program Committee Anders Björkelund,University of Stuttgart, Germany Jie Cai, Microsoft Search Technology Center Asia (STCA), China Veronique Hoste, Ghent University, Belgium Hamidreza Kobdani, Cilarix GmbH, Germany Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy Vincent Ng, University of Texas, USA Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, UK Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Sameer Pradhan, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA Altaf Rahman, University of Texas, USA Marta Recasens, Google Research, USA Arndt Riester, University of Stuttgart, Germany Olga Uryupina, University of Trento, Italy Yannick Versley, University of Tübingen, Germany Heike Zinsmeister, University of Stuttgart, Germany Organising Committee Desislava Zhekova Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Center for Information and Language Processing Oettingenstrasse 67, C 106 80538 Munich, Germany e-mail: zhekova&lt; at &gt;cis.uni-muenchen.de www: http://zhekova.net Sandra Kübler Indiana University Department of Linguistics Memorial Hall 322 1021 E Third Street Bloomington, IN 47405, USA e-mail: skuebler&lt; at &gt;indiana.edu www: http://cl.indiana.edu/~skuebler ************************ Desislava Zhekova Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Oettingenstraße 67, 1. OG, Flügel C, Raum 106 80538 München email: zhekova&lt; at &gt;cis.uni-muenchen.de tel: +49 89 21809719 web: www.zhekova.net _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Desislava Zhekova 2013-05-14T07:07:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18037 <pre> http://sifam.tm.fr/likeit.php?etnpdw823qsdq barreiro_anabela&lt; at &gt;hotmail.com Anabela Barreiro ............. 5/17/2013 5:58:58 PM _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Anabela Barreiro 2013-05-17T17:06:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18036 <pre>(Apologies for cross-posting, but feel free to forward!) Call for Papers DH-CASE 2013 Workshop: Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: metadata, vocabularies and techniques in the Digital Humanities (DH-CASE) Venue: Co-located with DocEng 2013, Florence Date: September 10, 2013 Web page: http://www.cs.unibo.it/dh-case/ 1. Abstract In the last few years, collections of digital text have strongly increased in number, especially in the field of humanities. Digital libraries of full-text documents, including digital editions of literary texts, are emerging as environments for the production, the management and the dissemination of complex annotated corpora. The potential interpretative levels emerging from the analysis of textual phenomena (including bibliographic, linguistic, thematic, structural, rhetorical and prosopographic aspects) converge to produce a stratification of annotations whose complex interactions may give light to new and unexpected potentials for analysis. Yet, each community in the field of humanities (archives, libraries, museums, literary studies, etc.) have developed independent metadata models and annotation techniques for their corpora. In a shared environment, the possibility to annotate different aspects of a text overlaps with metadata models and ontologies used for annotation (i.e. TEI, EAD/EAC, CIDOC-CRM, DC, FRBR, SKOS, etc.) and related values vocabularies (i.e. DDC, Geonames, LC, VIAF, Wordnet, Dbpedia) but also with techniques for producing annotations, both with embedded or stand-off markup methods based on XML or other formal languages possibly even in a linked data perspective (OWL/RDF). The aim of this workshop is to explore the state of art in the field of collaboration in text annotation and to reflect on existing platforms for document sharing and management, methods and techniques for multi-level annotation, metadata and vocabularies for declaring interpretative instances. 2. Topics In detail, the focus of the workshop will be on: - Multi-level annotations in textual corpora - Collaborative platforms for digital text annotation and existent solutions - The metadata dialogue: crosswalk in annotating digital textual resources - Annotation and markup in the humanities: techniques and technologies - Linked data and Cultural Heritage: possibilities and perspectives in the interchange between digital/textual annotated objects - What is a text? The differing interpretations of what constitutes a text within different DH communities - OAC. The Open Annotation Collaboration. Utility and case studies in the DH domain - Archives, Libraries and Museums. The DH role and approach to cultural heritage - Annotation and ownership: Annotation in a cross-community context 3. Submissions Proposal will be submitted via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=dhcase2013. A 400 words abstract needs to be submitted by June 8th, and the deadline for the full paper is set to June 16, 2013. Acceptable submissions are both research papers and demo/projects, and have to be delivered as valid PDF files. All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Workshop proceedings are planned to be published via the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Relevant submissions will be considered for a further journal publication. Research papers should be between 6 and 8 pages, whereas documents presenting demos or projects, including tool demonstrations, should not exceed 4 pages. Papers shall follow the ACM template. 4. Relevant Dates - Submission of abstract: June 8, 2013 - Submission of full paper: June 15, 2013 - Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2013 - Submission of camera ready: August 1, 2013 - Workshop: September 10, 2013 - Submission of Selected Paper for Journal: January 10, 2014 - Publication of Selected papers on Journal: by September, 2014 5. Workshop Chairs Francesca Tomasi, University of Bologna, Italy; Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy 6. Program Committee Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy; Gioele Barabucci, University of Bologna, Italy; John Bradley, King’s College London, UK; Elisabeth Burr, University of Leipzig, Germany; Dino Buzzetti, University of Bologna, Italy; Paolo Ciccarese, Massachusetts General Hospital Biomedical Informatics Core, Boston MA, USA; Fabio Ciotti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Julia Flanders, Brown University, Providence RI, USA; Claus Huitfeld, University of Bergen, Norway; Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; Jan Christoph Meister, Institut für Germanistik II, Hamburg, Germany; Silvio Peroni, University of Bologna, Italy Paul Spence, King’s College London, UK; Melissa Terras, University College London, UK; Andreas Witt, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany. 7. Contacts For any enquiry about the workshop, please contact the chairs: Francesca Tomasi, francesca.tomasi&lt; at &gt;unibo.it Fabio Vitali, fabio.vitali&lt; at &gt;unibo.it More details and the programme will be available on the workshop website: http://www.cs.unibo.it/dh-case/ Francesca Tomasi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Professor ­ Digital Humanities Dept. Of Classical Philology and Italian Studies University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum Zamboni 32, 40126 Bologna - ITALY &lt;francesca.tomasi&lt; at &gt;unibo.it&gt; TEL. +39 51 2098539 FAX +39 51 228172 &lt;http://www.unibo.it/docenti/francesca.tomasi&gt; ---------- Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft - Direktorin - Institut für Romanistik Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/quebec/ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gal2010 http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr/JISU/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Elisabeth Burr 2013-05-17T14:59:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18034 <pre>Marie Curie Research Fellow position * Research Fellow position in the framework of the TECNIOSPRING fellowship competitive call. * Period: 2 years * Hosting Institution: A friendly and multidisciplinary R&amp;D environment: Speech and Language group at Barcelona Media (BM-ViL)( http://www.barcelonamedia.org/section/bm-r-d/voice-and-language), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Research Group with interests and expertise in Information Extraction, Opinion Mining, User-Generated Content analysis, E-learning, Multilingual/Crosslingual NLP, etc. * Contact with BM-ViL before end of May 2013 if possible ( maite.melero&lt; at &gt;barcelonamedia.org) * Fellowship call closes: 30th June 2013 We are looking for an experienced researcher in areas such as: * Linked data,big data and semantic web * Knowledge representation * Knowledge engineering * High-throughput text mining * Multimodal analytics * Metadata and encoding standards * With an interest in Natural Language Processing The TECNIOSPRING fellowship programme is co-financed by the European Union through the Marie Curie Action COFUND. The proposal will be jointly submitted by the researcher and BM-ViL. For further details on the TECNIOSPRING program, eligibility requierements and instructions for application, please refer to the TECNIOSPRING web site (http://www.catalonia.com/es/tecnologia/tecniospring/) and the Guide for applicants ( http://www.catalonia.com/es/binaris/Guide_Applicants_TECNIOSPRING_tcm214-152466.pdf ). Please address your inquires to: maite.melero&lt; at &gt;barcelonamedia.org _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Maite 2013-05-17T11:14:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18032 <pre>Apologies for cross-posting, Submissions are invited to the 3rd IEEE ICDM Workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE) to be held at ICDM13 on December 8th in Dallas, Texas. RATIONALE Memory and data capacities double approximately every two years and, apparently, the Web is following the same rule. User-generated contents, in particular, are an ever-growing source of opinion and sentiments which are continuously spread worldwide through blogs, wikis, fora, chats and social networks. The distillation of knowledge from such sources is a key factor for applications in fields such as commerce, tourism, education and health, but the quantity and the nature of the contents they generate make it a very difficult task. Due to such challenging research problems and wide variety of practical applications, opinion mining and sentiment analysis have become very active research areas in the last decade. Our understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution are still limited as natural language understanding techniques are still pretty weak. Most of current research in sentiment analysis, in fact, merely relies on machine learning algorithms. Such algorithms, despite most of them being very effective, produce no human understandable results such that we know little about how and why output values are obtained. All such approaches, moreover, rely on syntactical structure of text, which is far from the way human mind processes natural language. Next-generation opinion mining systems should employ techniques capable to better grasp the conceptual rules that govern sentiment and the clues that can convey these concepts from realization to verbalization in the human mind. TOPICS SENTIRE aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of opinion mining and sentiment analysis to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends Web mining, AI, Semantic Web, information retrieval and natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Sentiment identification &amp; classification • Opinion and sentiment summarization &amp; visualization • Explicit &amp; latent semantic analysis for sentiment mining • Concept-level opinion and sentiment analysis • Sentic computing • Opinion and sentiment search &amp; retrieval • Time evolving opinion &amp; sentiment analysis • Semantic multidimensional scaling for sentiment analysis • Multidomain &amp; cross-domain evaluation • Domain adaptation for sentiment classification • Multimodal sentiment analysis • Multimodal fusion for continuous interpretation of semantics • Multilingual sentiment analysis &amp; re-use of knowledge bases • Knowledge base construction &amp; integration with opinion analysis • Transfer learning of opinion &amp; sentiment with knowledge bases • Sentiment corpora &amp; annotation • Affective knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis • Biologically inspired opinion mining • Sentiment topic detection &amp; trend discovery • Big social data analysis • Social ranking • Social network analysis • Social media marketing • Comparative opinion analysis • Opinion spam detection TIMEFRAME • August 3rd, 2013: Submission deadline • September 24th, 2013: Notification of acceptance • October 15th, 2013: Final manuscripts due • December 8th, 2013: Workshop date SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS Authors are required to follow IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines. The paper length is limited to 10 pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices, if any. Each submitted paper will be evaluated by three PC members with respect to its novelty, significance, technical soundness, presentation, and experiments. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE ICDM proceedings. Selected, expanded versions of papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a forthcoming Special Issue of Cognitive Computation on opinion mining and sentiment analysis. SPEAKER Carlo Strapparava is a senior researcher at FBK-irst (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Istituto per la ricerca scientifica e Tecnologica) in the Human Language Technologies Unit. His research activity covers artificial intelligence, natural language processing, intelligent interfaces, human-computer interaction, cognitive science, knowledge-based systems, user models, adaptive hypermedia, lexical knowledge bases, word-sense disambiguation, affective computing and computational humour. He is the author of over 150 papers, published in scientific journals, book chapters and in conference proceedings. He played a key role in the definition and the development of many projects funded by European research programmes. He regularly serves in the program committees of the major NLP conferences (ACL, EMNLP, etc.). He was executive board member of SIGLEX, a Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2007-2010), Senseval (Evaluation Exercises for the Semantic Analysis of Text) organisation committee (2005-2010). On June 2011, he was awarded with a Google Research Award on Natural Language Processing, specifically on the computational treatment of creative language. KEYNOTE Dealing with creative language and in particular with affective, persuasive and even humorous language has often been considered outside the scope of computational linguistics. Nonetheless it is possible to exploit current NLP techniques starting some explorations about it. We briefly review some computational experiences about these genres. We will introduce techniques for dealing with emotional and witty language. Regarding persuasive language, we will explore the exploitation of extra-linguistic features (e.g. an audience-reaction tagged corpus of political speeches), for the analysis of discourse persuasiveness, We conclude the talk showing some explorations in the automatic recognition of deceptive language. ORGANIZERS • Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) • Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) • Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China) • Ping Chen, University of Houston-Downtown (USA) _______________________________ Erik Cambria, PhD 康文涵 Research Scientist Temasek Laboratories Cognitive Science Programme National University of Singapore 5A Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117411 Skype: senticnet Website: http://sentic.net Email: cambria&lt; at &gt;nus.edu.sg Twitter: http://twitter.com/senticnet Facebook: http://facebook.com/senticnet _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Erik Cambria 2013-05-16T23:58:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18030 <pre>---------------- Please distribute widely - Apologies for cross-posting ******************************************* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE, COGNITION AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS *** REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO MAY 21, 2013 *** Paris, May 28-29, 2013 https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/home We are pleased to invite you to: The Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computational Models, which will be held in Paris at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and at the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris, on May 28th and 29th 2013. The goal of this event is to provide a venue for the multidisciplinary discussion of theoretical and practical research for computational models of language and cognition. The event centers around recent advances on computational models for language acquisition, processing and evolution. The first day will mainly address language evolution and some of the computational models that have been proposed to investigate possible avenues for this phenomenon. The second day will address more varied issues, ranging from the origins of language to recent trends in machine translation. All the talks will address key questions dealing with cognitive, formal and/or computational issues related to language evolution and/or language processing. The event is open to students, researchers and anyone interested in related topics. Attendance is free but people who plan to attend are kindly requested to register preferably before May 21st to help with the planning of the event. The registration form is available at https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/registration The workshop is funded by the cluster of labs (labex) Transfers. It is organized thanks to the support of Lattice, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres, the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris-Ile de France, the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). ******************************************* PROGRAMME: Tuesday May 28th 09:00 - 09:15 - Opening - ENS - salle Dussane 09:15 - 12:45 - Multidisciplinary Aspects of Language Evolution • 09:15 - 10:15 - Dan Dediu (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands) The interplay between linguistic and biological evolution • 10:15 - 11:15 - Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK) A model of L1/L2 Language Acquisition and its implications for language change • 11:15 - 11:45 - Break • 11:45 - 12:45 - Anne Reboul (L2C2-CNRS, France) Social Evolution of public languages: between Rousseau's Eden and Hobbes' Leviathan 12:45 - 14:30 - Lunch Break 14:30 - 17:00 - Modeling Language Evolution: Two Case Studies - ISC-PIF • 14:30 - 15:30 - Benjamin Fagard (Lattice-CNRS, France) Case, Prepositions and In&amp;#8208;Betweens: Sketching a Model of Grammatical Evolution • 15:30 - 16:30 - Remi van Trijp (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France) Linguistic Assessment Criteria for Explaining Language Change: A Case Study on Syncretism in German Definite Articles • 16:30 - 17:00 - Discussions Wednesday May 29th 09:00 - 11:00 - Cognitive and Computational Approaches to Language Processing - ENS - salle Dussane • 09:00 - 10:00 - Robert Berwick (MIT, USA) The Dead Tell No Tales: Known Unknowns about the Origin of Human Language • 10:00 - 11:00 - Massimo Poesio (University of Trento, Italy and University of Essex, UK) Using Data about Conceptual Representations in the Brain for Computational Linguistics • 11:00 - 11:30 - Break • 11:30 - 12:30 - Philippe Blache (LPL, CNRS, France) Measuring difficulty as well as facilitation: a new perspective for human language processing 12:30 - 14:30 - Lunch Break 14:30 - 15:30 - From Language Variety to Machine Tanslation - ENS - salle Dussane • 14:30 - 15:30 - Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel) The Features of Translationese • 15:30 - 16:30 - Martin Kay (Stanford University, USA) Putting Linguistics back into Computational Linguistics 16:30 - 17:00 - Discussions and Closing ******************************************* ORGANIZATION The event is organized by: • Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire Lattice ("Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques et Cognition", UMR8094, CNRS, École Normale Supérieure &amp; Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) • Aline Villavicencio, Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) ******************************************* LOCATIONS *Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS): Salle Dussane, 45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris *Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris-Ile de France (ISC-PIF): 57-59 rue Lhomond F-75005, Paris ******************************************* CONTACT INFORMATION For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to lccmodels2013&lt; at &gt;gmail.com More information on https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/home_______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Aline Villavicencio 2013-05-16T17:33:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18029 <pre>BCS / BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award An Award to Commemorate Karen Spärck Jones The British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) in conjunction with the BCS has created an award to commemorate the achievements of Karen Spärck Jones. Karen was a Professor Emeritus of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge and one of the most remarkable women in computer science. Her contributions to the fields of Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially with regard to experimentation, have been outstanding and highly influential. Karen’s achievements resulted in her receiving a number of prestigious accolades such as the BCS Lovelace medal, for her advancement in Information Systems, and the ACM Salton Award for her significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval. In order to honour Karen’s achievements, the BCS/BCS-IRSG has established an annual award to encourage and promote talented researchers who have endeavoured to advance our understanding of Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing with significant experimental contributions. To celebrate the commemorative event, the recipient of the award will be invited to present a keynote lecture at the BCS-IRSG’s annual conference – the European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR). This forum provides an excellent venue to present and announce the award as the conference attracts many new and younger researchers. The recipient will also be presented with a prize consisting of a certificate, a trophy and a cash prize of £1000 plus expenses to travel to ECIR. BCS/BCS-IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award: Eligibility: Open to all IR/NLP researchers, who have no more than 10 years’ post doctoral or equivalent experience. Criteria: To have endeavoured to advance our understanding of IR and/or NLP through experimentation. Nominations: The following should be provided: - name of nominee, position, affiliation, years since completing PhD; - name of person proposing the nominee, position, and affiliation; - a short case for the award (composed of a short description of why the individual should receive the award); - a short description of what contributions the individual has made; - a list of the individual’s top five publications reflecting the relevant contributions, and role within these; Please note that the nomination text should not exceed 2500 words. - Additionally, two supporting letters (i.e. reference letters) from people who would like to encourage/support the nomination must be sought, along with their contact details. Nominations should be emailed to the contact below, for forwarding to the Nominations Panel, and seek confirmation of receipt. It is advisable that you notify us as soon as possible of an intention to nominate an individual as this will help with planning. It is possible for individuals to nominate themselves, though this is less encouraged – as in the least, this will mean there is one less person supporting the nomination case. Nominations will be forwarded to the Nominations Panel that will receive the applications. Additionally, the Nominations Panel can also seek applications but will not be part of the Award Panel. Award Panel: The Award Panel Chair, appointed by the BCS IRSG Committee, will invite panel members from amongst representatives of the BCS main council, the BCS-IRSG Committee, sponsoring organisation(s), as well as at least two experts appointed by the BCS-IRSG committee and the Awards Coordinator of the BCS-IRSG. Prize: The recipient of the award will receive a certificate, a trophy, a cash prize of £1000 plus expenses to travel to ECIR to present the keynote lecture. Presentation: The recipient of the award is expected to give a keynote lecture at ECIR when he/she will also be presented with their trophy, and cash prize. Timeline (for the 2013 Award to be presented in 2014): 15 September, 2013 Deadline for nominations. 1 October, 2013 - Deadline for support letters. 15 December, 2013 - Notification of the prize winner. 24-27 March, 2014- Winner presents keynote at ECIR. Sponsors: Currently, the award is being sponsored by the BCS IRSG and Microsoft Research Cambridge. Contact: Ayse Göker, a.s.goker&lt; at &gt;rgu.ac.uk Further details and previous winners available on: irsg.bcs.org/ksjaward.php _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Kruschwitz U 2013-05-16T14:55:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18028 <pre>** Deadline is 31st May 2013 &lt; at &gt; 12noon ** Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval. We invite proposals which focus on any area of the practical application of search technologies to real world problems - for the tutorial day due to take place the day before Search Solutions 2013. Tutorials Proposals for both full day (7 hours) and half day (3.5 hours) proposals are invited. These will take place on Tuesday 26th November 2013. Proposal submission Tutorial proposals should be submitted to the panel chair (andym&lt; at &gt;city.ac.uk) by Friday 31st May 2013 &lt; at &gt; 12noon, using the following template: •Name of presenter(s): please list the names and affiliations of presenter(s). •Contact details: email and snail mail address, phone numbers etc. •Type of tutorial: half day or full day. •Tutorial Abstract: for publicity. •Target audience: please outline the practitioner audience to be addressed. •Learning outcomes: what would the practitioners gain from attending this tutorial? •Outline of tutorial: provide the overall structure and subjects to be presented. •Tutorial description: provide a detailed description of the tutorial and its content. •Tutorial logistics/materials: media and formats for tutorial. What will be provided to attendees (e.g. slides). •Bio of presenter(s): including track record of presenting tutorials, lecturing experience etc. (200/300 words) Selection Procedure All tutorial proposals will be peer reviewed by the panel and approved by the organising committee. The selection criteria will focus on the quality of the tutorial content and the appropriateness of it to the main theme of search solutions – namely practitioner issues. Honorarium and other issues Depending on the number of attendees, presenters will receive an Honorarium. All travel and accommodation expenses must be met by the presenters themselves. The organising committee of Search Solutions reserve the right to cancel tutorials unless a minimum of four participants have registered. Panel: Dr A. MacFarlane, City University London (Chair) Prof. J. Tait, johntait.net Ltd Dr M. Oakes, University of Sunderland _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Kruschwitz U 2013-05-16T14:53:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18027 <pre>=========================================================== ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab First call for Extended Abstracts/Short Papers: Student mentoring forum =========================================================== We invite submissions for students to the *Student Mentoring forum* to be held at the evaluation lab at the CLEF conference in Valencia, Spain, September 23-26 2013. This track is aimed at graduate students who would like to present and get feedback on work related to the ShARe/CLEF eHealth tracks or other related, ongoing research, such as: a) evaluation of mono- and multilingual methods, applications and resources for eHealth document analysis; b) development of statistical and user-feedback based evaluation protocols, settings, methods and measures for cross-language evaluation of methods, applications, and resources for eHealth document analysis. Work in progress and/or tentative research plans in these research areas are also welcomed. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two senior researchers in the program committee. We will do our best to accommodate all submissions from students with a paid registration. Each accepted paper will be assigned 5-15 minute presentation followed by mentors' feedback, questions &amp; answers session of students and senior academics. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop webpage. Submission format: Instructions to authors are found here: http://www.clef2013.org/index.php?page=Pages/instructions_for_authors.html * CLEF conference template for extended abstracts: max 2 pages, .doc format using the template for writing 'Extended Abstract' found in the link above. * Submissions are to be uploaded in EasyChair under the 'Mentoring Track'. For more information about CLEFeHealth 2013, see: http://www.nicta.com.au/business/health/events/clefehealth_2013/linkages3/?a=37083 Important dates: Submission deadline: 15 June Notification of acceptance: 1 July CLEF2013: 23-26 Sept. 2013 _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Hans Moen 2013-05-16T14:26:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18017 <pre>The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution (AMCR 2013) We invite you to submit a paper/poster to the 1st International Workshop on Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution (AMCR 2013) to be held on September 12th/13th, 2013 at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2013), Hissar, Bulgaria. The workshop's website is available under: http://cl.indiana.edu/~zhekova/amcr13 In the last couple of years, the interest in the area of Multilingual Coreference Resolution (MCR) has increased immensely. Two shared tasks (SemEval-2 Shared Task 1: Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages in 2010 and the CoNLL Shared Task: Modeling Multilingual Unrestricted Coreference in OntoNotes in 2012) have set an excellent benchmark by releasing datasets for 8 different languages (SemEval: Catalan, Dutch, English, German, Italian and Spanish; CoNLL: Arabic, Chinese and English). Moreover, a wide range of multilingual systems have been developed within the framework of the tasks. We see a necessity for future research on the topic of MCR. The lack of existing workshops on the topic motivates our attempt to provide a possibility for the researchers interested specifically on multilinguality with respect to Coreference Resolution to present their work and results. The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Multilingual Coreference Resolution (AMCR 2013) workshop will welcome both theoretical and applied computational work regarding MCR. The submissions are expected to discuss theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, system development and techniques relevant to the AMCR topics. Papers that critically evaluate approaches or existing strategies will be especially welcome, as will new and innovative MCR system implementations. There will be a decisive focus on multilinguality for this workshop. Thus, submitted papers should cover at least one language other than English, preferably more. The scope of topics includes, but is not limited, to: * Statistical and rule-based approaches to Multilingual CR * Availability of resources for Multilingual CR * New resources for Multilingual CR * CR for languages other than English * Acquisition of world knowledge for improving Multilingual CR * Empirical data analysis and comparison of the various annotation CR schemes * CR across language families * Event coreference for MCR * Knowledge-poor and knowledge-rich approaches to Multilingual CR * Mention detection for entities and events for Multilingual CR * Language specific issues within the Multilingual CR task * Parallel corpora for CR * Submissions All submitted papers must present substantial, original and not yet published research on a topic that is of interest to the AMCR workshop. The work could include, but is not limited to, detailed analysis and evaluation of proposed new approaches, extensive comparison of previously introduced methods or a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of multilingual coreference resolution. The submissions will be assessed with respect to their relevance to the workshop, correctness, originality, implementation (if applicable) and significance. The AMCR 2013 workshop, as part of the RANLP 2013 conference, will accommodate all style requirements for submissions listed on the RANLP's submission page. Please, use these style files, as papers that do not conform to the requirements will not be accepted at the AMCR 2013 workshop. The papers will undergo a blind review process, thus, authors' names, affiliations and self-references that reveal the author's identity must be avoided. Papers that do not conform to any of the above described requirements will be instantly rejected. Accepted will be the following three formats: LONG PAPERS: This type of submissions should be no longer than eight (8) content pages. References are not considered as content and may be included with up to two (2) additional pages. Long papers must be presented orally during the workshop session and will be included in the workshop proceedings. Page limits must be strictly observed. SHORT PAPERS: Short papers should be no longer than four (4) content pages as well as up to two (2) additional pages of references. Short papers will be presented as posters and will be included in the workshop proceedings. Page limits must be strictly observed. POSTERS: Additionally, the AMCR 2013 workshop will accept posters for the poster session, which will not lead to a publication, but would allow the authors to present and discuss relevant work with the workshop participants. Poster presenters are asked to submit a half page description of the poster. Important Dates Submission deadline: 3 July 2013 Notification of acceptance: 2 August 2013 Camera-ready copies due: 16 August 2013 Submission of poster descriptions: 31 August 2013 Workshop date: 12/13 September 2013 Program Committee Anders Björkelund,University of Stuttgart, Germany Jie Cai, Microsoft Search Technology Center Asia (STCA), China Veronique Hoste, Ghent University, Belgium Hamidreza Kobdani, Cilarix GmbH, Germany Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy Vincent Ng, University of Texas, USA Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, UK Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Sameer Pradhan, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA Altaf Rahman, University of Texas, USA Marta Recasens, Google Research, USA Arndt Riester, University of Stuttgart, Germany Olga Uryupina, University of Trento, Italy Yannick Versley, University of Tübingen, Germany Heike Zinsmeister, University of Stuttgart, Germany Organising Committee Desislava Zhekova CIS, University of Munich Center for Information and Language Processing Oettingenstrasse 67, C 106 80538 Munich, Germany e-mail: zhekova&lt; at &gt;cis.uni-muenchen.de www: http://zhekova.net Sandra Kübler Indiana University Department of Linguistics Memorial Hall 322 1021 E Third Street Bloomington, IN 47405, USA e-mail: skuebler&lt; at &gt;indiana.edu www: http://cl.indiana.edu/~skuebler _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Desislava Zhekova 2013-05-15T13:44:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18016 <pre> -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: Friday, June 14, 2013 -- SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access Dublin, Ireland, August 1st 2013 (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/milads/taia2013.aspx) * Workshop background and goals Web content increasingly reflects the current state of the physical and social world, manifested both in traditional news media sources along with user-generated publishing sites such as Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook. At the same time, web searching increasingly reflects problems grounded in the offline world. As a result of this blending of the online world with the offline world, we observe that the web, both in its composition and use, has incorporated many of the dynamics of the offline world. Few of the problems associated with searching dynamic collections are well understood, such as defining time-sensitive relevance, understanding user query behavior over time and understanding why certain web content changes. Just as static collections often benefit from modeling topics, dynamic collections will likely benefit from temporal modeling of events and time-sensitive user interests and intents, which were rarely addressed in the literature. There have been preliminary efforts in the research and industrial communities to address algorithms, architectures, evaluation methodologies and metrics. We aim to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss their recent breakthroughs and the challenges with addressing time-aware information access, both from the algorithmic and the architectural perspectives. This workshop is a successor to the successful SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Time Aware Information Access (#TAIA2012, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/milads/taia2012.aspx). Where the 2012 edition was the first to bring together a broad set of academic and industrial researchers around the topic of time-aware information access, the specific focus of this workshop is on the many time-aware benchmarking activities that are ongoing in 2013. * Format of the Workshop The workshop will comprise of invited talks, oral and poster presentations and open-forum discussions. * Types of submissions The submissions will be peer reviewed and must be formatted according to the ACM SIG proceedings template with a maximum length of 4 pages. We welcome both position papers and ongoing research. The paper should be submitted online on: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=taia2013 by Friday, June 14th 2013 (23:59 UTC-11; Samoa time zone). Acceptance notifications will be on Monday, June 28th 2013. * We will welcome submissions related to all aspects of time-sensitive information access. TAIA 2013 will have a special focus on evaluation and on the collaborative benchmarking activities that are happening this year: 1. Temporal summarization (or work in progress for the TREC 2013 task). 2. Real-time search (or work in progress for the TREC 2013 task), including, real-time trends in social circles, real time events vs. real time queries, aggregated search answers for real-time searches, and other related issues. 3. Dynamic information extraction and updating (or work in progress for TREC 2013 Knowledge Base Acceleration (KBA) and Temporal Summarization tracks). 4. Evaluation methodologies for time-sensitive tasks: How can these tasks be approached? Are they measuring the right thing? What do they teach us? What is missing? In addition, TAIA 2013 welcomes contributions on the following issues that complement today's benchmarking activities and that may inform future versions of these activities: 1. Publicly available dynamic collections (e.g. Wikipedia edits, Wikipedia page requests, Twitter and news streams) 2. Temporal changes in document contents 3. Timeline creations and summarizations 4. Temporal natural language processing tasks and techniques 5. Time-sensitive ranking, including, effective ranking for time-sensitive queries, optimizing for both freshness and relevance, evaluating the results for time sensitive queries, etc. 6. Understanding Web dynamics, including trends and other temporal analysis on web and social graphs 7. Mining and correlating multiple temporal signals (e.g., news streams and query streams) * Workshop Organizers Fernando Diaz Susan Dumais Miles Efron Kira Radinsky Maarten de Rijke Milad Shokouhi _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Kira Radinsky 2013-05-15T07:18:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18015 <pre>The Predictive Technology Laboratory (PTL) at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Systems and Information Engineering, invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Research Associate position. We are seeking researchers with interests in combining statistical learning, predictive analytics, and text/data mining to address applications of interest to the United States Military. Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics or a related discipline, with a demonstrated record of research projects appropriate to the candidate's experience. Strong applicants will have experience with spatio-temporal and textual analysis (or NLP), and a willingness to work with both undergraduate and graduate students. No security clearance is required, nor is United States citizenship. For more information, visit http://jobs.virginia.edu and reference posting 0611442. Email Matthew Gerber (msg8u&lt; at &gt;virginia.edu) with questions. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Matthew Gerber 2013-05-15T02:10:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18014 <pre>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *The 1**st** Workshop on Metaphor in NLP * (co-located with NAACL-HLT 2013) Atlanta, Georgia, USA – June 13, 2013 *https://sites.google.com/site/1stworkshoponmetaphorinnlp2013/* *WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION* Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic to ordinary to scientific) and, thus, to all types of discourse, metaphor becomes an important problem for natural language processing. Its ubiquity in language has been established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This makes metaphor an important research area for computational and cognitive linguistics, and its automatic identification and interpretation indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application. The main focus of the workshop is on computational modeling of metaphor using state-of-the-art NLP techniques. The selected papers offer explorations into the following directions: (1) creation of metaphor-annotated datasets; (2) identification of new features that are useful for metaphor identification; (3) cross-lingual metaphor identification. The papers represent a variety of approaches to utilization and creation of datasets. While existing annotated corpora were used in some papers (Dunn, Tsvetkov et al), most papers describe creation of new annotated materials. Along with annotation guidelines adapted from the MIP and MIPVU procedures (Badryzlova et al), more intuitive annotation protocols are explored in Beigman Klebanov and Flor, Hovy et al, Heintz et al, Mohler et al, and Strzalkowski et al. The papers present a number of novel and extended features for metaphor detection. Topic models, abstractness/concreteness, and semantic classifications based on an ontology are each used in multiple papers. Additional features include classes of named entities (Tsvetkov et al), WordNet examples and glosses (Wilks et al); suggestive evidence is presented regarding potential usefulness of a relationality feature (Jamrozik et al). A distinguishing characteristic of multiple submissions is the interest in cross-lingual approaches to metaphor identification. Accordingly, contributors explore features that can be supported by resources that exist in languages like Russian, Spanish, and Farsi (Strzalkowski et al., Tsvetkov et al, Heintz et al). The program of the workshop also features two invited talks that complement the discussion by addressing topics that are not addressed by this year’s submissions, namely, the relationship between metaphor and action (Srini Narayanan), and interpretation of metaphors (John Barnden). *WORKSHOP PROGRAM* 09:00-09:10 Opening remarks 09:10-10:05 *Invited talk* "*From Metaphor to Action*" Srini Narayanan 10:05-10:30 "*What metaphor identification systems can tell us about metaphor-in-language*" Jonathan Dunn 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-11:25 "*Argumentation-Relevant Metaphors in Test-Taker Essays*" Beata Beigman Klebanov and Michael Flor 11:25-11:50 "*Relational words have high metaphoric potential*" Anja Jamrozik, Eyal Sagi, Micah Goldwater and Dedre Gentner 11:50-12:10 "*Semantic Signatures for Example-Based Linguistic Metaphor Detection*" Michael Mohler, David Bracewell, Marc Tomlinson and David Hinote 12:10-13:40 Lunch 13:40-14:20 *Invited talk* “*Computational Approaches to Metaphor Interpretation: **Some Considerations arising from a Deep Reasoning System*” John Barnden 14:20-14:45 "*Automatic Metaphor Detection using Large-Scale Lexical Resources and Conventional Metaphor Extraction*" Yorick Wilks, Adam Dalton, James Allen and Lucian Galescu 14:45-15:10 "*Cross-Lingual Metaphor Detection Using Common Semantic Features*" Yulia Tsvetkov, Elena Mukomel and Anatole Gershman 15:10-15:30 "*Identifying Metaphorical Word Use with Tree Kernels*" Dirk Hovy, Shashank Shrivastava, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Mrinmaya Sachan, Kartik Goyal, Huying Li, Whitney Sanders and Eduard Hovy 15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-16:25 "*Automatic Extraction of Linguistic Metaphors with LDA Topic Modeling*" Ilana Heintz, Ryan Gabbard, Mahesh Srivastava, Dave Barner, Donald Black, Majorie Friedman and Ralph Weischedel 16:25-16:50 "*Robust Extraction of Metaphor from Novel Data*" Tomek Strzalkowski, George Aaron Broadwell, Sarah Taylor, Laurie Feldman, Samira Shaikh, Ting Liu, Boris Yamrom, Kit Cho, Umit Boz, Ignacio Cases and Kyle Elliot 16:50-17:15 "*Annotating a Russian corpus of conceptual metaphor: a bottom-up approach*" Yulia Badryzlova, Natalia Shekhtman, Yekaterina Isaeva and Ruslan Kerimov 17:15-17:30 Closing remarks *WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS* Ekaterina Shutova, University of California at Berkeley, USA Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service, USA Joel Tetreault, Nuance, USA Zornitsa Kozareva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA John Barnden, University of Birmingham, UK Gemma Boleda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Danushka Bollegala, University of Tokyo, Japan Marisa Boston, Nuance, USA David Bracewell, LCC, USA Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge, UK Jaime Carbonell, CMU, USA Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge, UK Paul Cook, University of Melbourne, Australia Gerard de Melo, University of California at Berkeley, USA Alice Deignan, Leeds University, UK Afsaneh Fazly, University of Toronto, Canada Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA Jerry Feldman, University of California at Berkeley, USA Michael Flor, Educational Testing Service, USA Marjorie Freedman, BBN, USA Deidre Gentner, Northwestern University, USA Yanfen Hao, Electronics Industry Research Institute, ShanXi, China Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California, USA Eugenie Giesbrecht, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK George Lakoff, University of California at Berkeley, USA Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh, UK Mark Lee, University of Birmingham, UK Katja Markert, University of Leeds, UK James H. Martin,University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia, UK Srini Narayanan, University of California at Berkeley, USA Malvina Nissim, University of Bologna, Italy Thierry Poibeau, Ecole Normale Superieure and CNRS, France Diarmuid O'Seaghdha, University of Cambridge, UK Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University, Germany Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany, USA Marc Tomlinson, LCC, USA Oren Tsur, Hebrew University, Israel Peter Turney, National Research Council Canada, Canada Tim van de Cruys, IRIT and CNRS, Toulouse, France Tony Veale, Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Republic of Korea Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and MIT, USA Andreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge, UK Yorick Wilks, Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, USA _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Ekaterina Shutova 2013-05-14T22:43:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18010 <pre>Professor/Reader in Computational Linguistics (permanent post) - Ref: A5966. Salary range: Professor £57,758 - £65,154, Reader £47,314 - £54,826 Deadline for applications: 27 May 2013. The Research Institute in Information and Language Processing at University of Wolverhampton seeks to appoint a Professor or Reader in Computational Linguistics. We are very keen to hear from outstanding individuals. Since its inception, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk) has become an international leader in applied NLP and has been very successful in securing funding from highly competitive sources. This has enabled members of the Group to make important contributions to different areas of NLP and computational linguistics. The results from the Research Assessment Exercise announced in December 2008 confirmed the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research output of the group has been rated as internationally leading, internationally excellent and internationally recognized. Computational Linguistics was entered in Unit of Assessment "Linguistics" and Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton is one of the top 6 best in the UK. The group is seeking to recruit a Professor or Reader to contribute to the further development of this area of our activity by producing research that is internationally acknowledged to be of the highest standard, to offer excellent research supervision and teaching in the interdisciplinary areas of natural language processing and computational linguistics and to deliver cutting-edge practical applications (including commercial applications) to the benefit of society based on its research output. The proposed development will underpin our teaching on the prestigious International Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in NLP&amp;HLT. The new professor (or reader) would come at the right time to support the new and successful Marie Curie ITN FP7-funded project EXPERT where the group will be involved in additional supervision of PhD students and early career researchers. The new professor (or reader) will have a significant impact on our income generation activities. It is anticipated that an experienced research fellow and PhD student will be appointed in due course to support this post. Remuneration packages may include research expenses and support posts and PhD Studentships may be available in certain cases. Further information can be obtained from Professor Ruslan Mitkov at the contact email address below. For further details of these appointments and to apply online, go to the application website address below. Application Deadline: 27 May 2013 Web Address for Applications: http://tinyurl.com/cfbrgs2 Contact Information: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov Email: R.Mitkov&lt; at &gt;wlv.ac.uk&lt;mailto:R.Mitkov&lt; at &gt;wlv.ac.uk&gt; </pre> Mitkov, Ruslan 2013-05-14T17:01:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18009 <pre> Call for Participation NAACL 2013 workshop on: Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility (2nd NLP4ITA) *** 14th June 2013 **** http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/nlp4ita_2013 In recent years there has been an increasing interest in accessibility and usability issues. This interest is mainly due to the greater importance of the Web and the need to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with diverse disabilities. The role of assistive technologies based on language processing has gained importance as it can be observed from the growing number of efforts (United Nations declarations on universal access to information or WAI guidelines related to content) and research in conferences and workshops (W4A, ICCHP, ASSETS, SPLAT, etc.). However, language resources and tools to develop assistive technologies are still scarce. NLP4ITA aims to bring together researchers focused on tools and resources for making textual information more accessible to people with special needs including diverse ranges of hearing and sight disabilities, cognitive disabilities, elderly people, low-literacy readers and adults being alphabetized, among others. This workshop will give an opportunity for individuals from different communities to present research findings, discover future challenges, and discuss potential collaboration. === Program === 9:15- 9:30 - Opening Remarks by Workshop Chairs 9:30-10:00 - A User Study: Technology to Increase Teachers' Linguistic Awareness to Improve Instructional Language Support for English Language Learners Jill Burstein, John Sabatini, Jane Shore, Brad Moulder and Jennifer Lentini 10:00-10:35 - Open Book: a tool for helping ASD users' semantic comprehension Eduard Barbu, Maria Teresa Martín-Valdivia and Luis Alfonso Ureña-López 10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break 11:00-11:30 - Tools for non-native readers: the case for translation and simplification Maxine Eskenazi, Yibin Lin and Oscar Saz 11:30-12:30 - Invited Talk: Information Accessibility: More than just text deep Kathleen F. McCoy, University of Delaware, USA 12:30-14:00 - Lunch Break 14:00-14:30 - Lexical Tightness and Text Complexity Michael Flor, Beata Beigman Klebanov and Kathleen M. Sheehan 14:30-15:00 - A System for the Simplification of Numerical Expressions at Different Levels of Understandability Susana Bautista, Raquel Hervás, Pablo Gervás, Richard Power and Sandra Williams 15:00-15:30 - A Two-Stage Approach for Generating Unbiased Estimates of Text Complexity Kathleen M. Sheehan, Michael Flor and Diane Napolitano 15:30-16:00 - Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 - Final discussion and closing remarks === Organizers === Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Yahoo! Labs) Luz Rello (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) Horacio Saggion (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) === Program Committee === Sandra Aluisio (University of Sao Paulo) Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Yahoo! Labs) Delphine Bernhard (University of Strassbourg) Nadjet Bouayad-Agha (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) Giorgio Brajnik (Universidad de Udine) Richard Evans (University of Wolverhampton) Jose Manuel Gomez (Universidad de Alicante) Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) David Kauchak (Middlebury College) Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal) Elena Lloret (Universidad de Alicante) Paloma Martínez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Aurelien Max (Paris 11) Kathleen F. McCoy (University of Delaware) Ornella Mich (Foundazione Bruno Kessler) Paloma Moreda (Universidad de Alicante) Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton) Luz Rello (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) Horacio Saggion (Universidad Pompeu Fabra ) J.M. Torres Moreno (University of Avignon) Markel Vigo (University of Manchester) Leo Wanner (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) Yeliz Yesilada (Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus) === Contact Address === For further information please contact us at: luz.rello&lt; at &gt;upf.edu or horacio.saggion&lt; at &gt;upf.edu </pre> Horacio Saggion 2013-05-13T16:40:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18008 <pre>PhD studentship : computational modelling of language evolution using fluid construction grammars Paris, France Description: SONY CSL Paris (http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/lab/paris/) along with the LATTICE lab (UMR8094, http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/) are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD studentship (through an industrial Cifre grant: http://www.anrt.asso.fr/fr/espace_cifre/accueil.jsp) on the following topic: computational modelling of language evolution using fluid construction grammars. Fluid construction grammars are based on typed feature structures and are reversible (they can be used for generation as well as for analysis). There is already a large body of research on this formalism that has been successfully applied to a large variety of linguistic phenomena in different languages. More details and online publications can be found at: http://www.fcg-net.org/. Current projects aim at providing a better description of the different parameters that play a role in language evolution. Different phenomena have already been studied, like case evolution in Germanic languages (van Trijp, 2012) or the emergence of grammatical agreement rules (Beuls &amp; Steels, 2013). In this perspective, the PhD candidate will implement different linguistic phenomena that are especially relevant to historical linguistics using fluid construction grammars. We are especially interested in establishing a strong link between attested linguistic material and computational models, for example to explore further the timing of language change. This research will probably entails different evolution of the formalism. - Beuls, K., &amp; Steels, L. (2013). Agent-Based Models of Strategies for the Emergence and Evolution of Grammatical Agreement. PLOS ONE, 8(3), e58960. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058960 - van Trijp, Remi (2012). Not as Awful as it Seems: Explaining German Case through Computational Experiments in Fluid Construction Grammar. Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Avignon: France. http://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2012/vantrijp-12c.pdf Required Skills: Candidates should have an excellent working knowledge both of linguistics and of computer science. Some knowledge of historical linguistics is desirable. Good programming skills are required. The PhD will be co-supervised by Luc Steels (Sony CSL) and Thierry Poibeau (LATTICE). Both laboratories are located within the Paris area. How to apply? Interested candidates are invited to send a CV as soon as possible to Thierry Poibeau (firtname.name&lt; at &gt;ens.fr). The following documents may then be requested: a letter of motivation, grade transcript and Master thesis. A candidate should ideally be selected before summer so that the PhD can begin during Autumn 2013 (taking into consideration the schedule to apply for a Cifre grant which may take up to three months). A Cifre grant is a 36 month contract. The gross salary is 1957 euros per month (net salary: around 1600 euros per month). _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Thierry Poibeau 2013-05-13T14:43:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18007 <pre>Call for Workshop Proposals =========================== ISLE, the International Society for the Linguistics of English, and the English Department of the University of Zurich are pleased to announce the society's third conference, which will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, 24-27 August 2014. http://www.isle3.uzh.ch/index.html The thematic focus of this conference is inter- and intra-disciplinary research. The following keynote speakers have agreed to participate: Prof. Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University Prof. Joan Bresnan, Stanford University Prof. David Britain, University of Berne Prof. Susan M. Fitzmaurice, University of Sheffield Prof. William Foley, University of Sydney Workshop Proposals should include · a thematic outline of the workshop (max. 2 pages, including references); · an estimate of the likely number of papers; · a list of participants and their affiliations (if possible); · length of the workshop (half-day or full day) · contact details of workshop organizers Deadline: 31 July 2013 Contact details: &lt;isleweb&lt; at &gt;es.uzh.ch&gt; _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Gerold Schneider 2013-05-13T11:29:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/18006 <pre>[apologies for cross-posting] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between cognitive and computational approaches to reference (PRE-CogSci 2013) Abstract submission deadline: May 19, 2013 Workshop date: 31 July 2013, Berlin, Germany. Website: http://pre2013.uvt.nl/ Email: precogsci2013&lt; at &gt;gmail.com This workshop is organized as part of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013), and is a follow-up to successful workshops on the production of referring expressions in Amsterdam ( http://pre2009.uvt.nl) and Boston (http://pre2011.uvt.nl). Invited speakers: - Herb Clark (Stanford) - Noah Goodman (Stanford) Topics: We invite submissions on all topics related to reference production, and particularly encourage work that combines experimental, computational and theoretical approaches. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: - collaborative reference, referring expressions in interactive settings, audience/recipient design - non-determinism in reference production: how to algorithmically model non-determinism and individual variation in human reference production? - interaction between comprehension and production of referring expressions - visual scene perception and its influence on the production of referring expressions - psychologically plausible computational models of reference production - when and how do human speakers produce complex descriptions (e.g., plurals, quantified descriptions, relational descriptions)? - vagueness: the use of vague (e.g. gradable) predicates in referring expressions - referential over- and underspecification: why and how do speakers produce over- or underspecified descriptions? - common ground, cooperativeness and shared/private information in reference - realization of referring expressions (including speech and gesture) - how do social and contextual factors influence reference production - data-collection and experimental evaluation method Extended abstract submission: Paper selection will be based on extended, 1000-word abstracts. The only accepted format for submitted abstracts is PDF. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=precogsci2013 Final submission: Upon acceptance, authors are invited to prepare a 4-6 page paper using the CogSci author kit. Final versions need to be submitted as PDF. Papers will be published in on line proceedings, and the authors retain the copyrights. Special issue: Following previous issues of the PRE-Cogsci workshop, a Special Issue was/is edited (PRE-CogSCi 2009: Topics in Cognitive Science. PRE-CogSCi 2011: Language and Cognitive Processes). Similar options are being considered for the present issue of the workshop; one possibility currently under discussion is a research topic for the Open Access journal Frontiers in Psychology. Financial support: We gratefully acknowledge financial support from: - the (Dutch) NWO-VICI project Bridging the gap between psycholinguistics and computational linguistics: the case of Referring Expressions (Krahmer, 2009 – 2013), - the (British) EPSRC project RefNet: An Interdisciplinary Network Focussing on Reference, (Bard and van Deemter, 2012-2015), and - the Cognitive Science society, Satellite event: RefNet plans to organize a cross-pollination meeting, probably on the day before the PRE-CogSci 2013 workshop, in which researchers will interact with practitioners in Human-Computer Interaction, Robotics, and Geographical Information Systems, to discuss challenges involving reference that come from real applications. More information about this event will be made available in due course. PRE-CogSci 2013 Organizers: - Albert Gatt, University of Malta - Roger van Gompel, University of Dundee - Ellen Gurman Bard, University of Edinburgh - Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University - Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen The following researchers have agreed to be members of the Program Committee: - Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University, Israel - Jennifer Arnold, University of North Carolina, USA - Adrian Bangerter, Univ. of Neuchatel, Switzerland - Dale Barr, University of Glasgow, UK - Eva Belke, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany - Holly Branigan, University of Edinburgh, UK - Susan Brennan, Stony Brook University, USA - Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA - Herb Clark, Stanford University, USA - Victor Ferreira, University of California, USA - Jeanette Gundel, University of Minnesota, USA - Martijn Goudbeek, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Markus Guhe, University of Edinburgh, UK - Daphna Heller, University of Toronto, Canada - John Kelleher, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland - Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh, UK - Ralf Klabunde, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany - Daniel Matthews, University of Sheffield, UK - Margaret Mitchell, Johns Hopkins University, USA - Paul Piwek, Open University, UK - Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, UK - Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK - Amanda Stent, AT&amp;T and Stony Brook University, USA - Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA - Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan - Mariet Theune, Twente University, Netherlands. Important Dates: - May 19, 2013: Deadline for Abstract submission - June 15, 2013: Notification of Acceptance - July 15, 2013: Deadline for full papers - July 31, 2013: Workshop _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora&lt; at &gt;uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora </pre> Albert Gatt 2013-05-13T10:24:38 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.science.linguistics.corpora