4.0807 Confs: Language Origins; Corpora/CL (2/94)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 4 Dec 90 20:11:53 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0807. Tuesday, 4 Dec 1990.


(1) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 12:22 EST (55 lines)
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR>
Subject: ACL special issue: Large Corpora

(2) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 13:16 EST (39 lines)
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR>
Subject: language origins conference

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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 12:22 EST
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR>
Subject: ACL special issue

CL Special Issue on Computational Linguistics Using Large Corpora

Guest editor: Susan Warwick-Armstrong

Call for Papers

The increasing availability of machine readable corpora has suggested
new methods for studies in a variety of areas such as lexical knowledge
acquisition, grammar construction and machine translation. Though common
in the speech community, the use of statistical and probablistic methods
to discover and organize data is relatively new to the field at large.
The various initiatives currently under way to locate and collect
machine-readable corpora have recognized the potential of using this
data and are working towards making these materials available to the
research community. Given the growing interest in corpus studies,
it seems timely to devote an issue of CL to this topic.

This special issue will attempt to bring together contributions from a
variety of areas with the aim of identifying current directions in the
field. The emphasis will be on new methods and the insights gained from
applying them. Papers should therefore give a clear presentation of the
methods and models employed, distinguishing them, where appropriate,
from particular applications.

Reports on new projects and on-going activities are welcome, not
necessarily as full papers, but rather to be included in the overview
of activities in the field.

DEADLINES:
Submission date: May 1st, 1991

SUBMISSIONS: (five copies should be sent)

- 3 copies to:

James Allen
Computer Science Department
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627 USA

- 2 copies to:

Susan Warwick-Armstrong
ISSCO, University of Geneva
54, rte. des acacias
CH-1227 Geneva SWITZERLAND

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Susan Warwick-Armstrong
email: susan@divsun.unige.ch

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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 13:16 EST
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR>
Subject: language origins conference


CALL FOR PAPERS

LANGUAGE ORIGINS SOCIETY
7th Annual Meeting

July 18-20 1991

Northern Illinois University
DeKalb Il 60115 USA

The Language Origins Society invites abstracts for papers
on aspects of language origins and evolution. Possible topics
include (but are not limited to) the origins and
development of:
phonetic systems
grammatical systems
semantic systems
writing systems
speech and language
biological, neurological and medical aspects
non-human communication systems
particular language families and subfamilies

Send abstracts of 500 words or less and requests for
further information to:

Edward Callary
Coordinator, LOS
English Department
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb Il 60115 USA

or e-mail: TB0EXC1@NIU.BITNET
(TB ZERO, not the letter O)