Corpora list members,
We would like to bring the following conference and deadline extension to
your attention. Apologies for the multiple postings.
Elias Ponvert
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Extended deadline: 15 August 2006
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TLSX: Texas Linguistics Society 10
Computational Linguistics for Less-Studied Languages
November 3–5, 2006
University of Texas at Austin
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Description
The past decade has seen great developments at the intersection of
computational linguistics and language documentation, particularly in the
focus areas of speech and video recording and transcription, best practices
for data collection and archiving, and ontology development. TLSX aims to
highlight the application of techniques from computational linguistics to
the management and analysis of language data as well as to less-studied
languages or less-studied varieties of well-studied languages.
The goal of TLSX is to further the state of computational linguistics for
less-studied languages by bringing together researchers working at this
frontier and providing a forum for the presentation of original research.
We anticipate work both from documentary and descriptive linguists
interested in improving technologies for linguistic analysis and from
computational linguists interested in theoretical issues such as the
application of data-driven natural language processing (NLP) techniques to
languages for which there exists relatively little digitally-available
data.
To that end, we invite submissions in the areas of computational analysis
and management of linguistic data from less-studied languages. We also
welcome submissions relating to the development of computational tools to
facilitate such analysis. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- machine learning in scarce data situations
- multilingual grammar and lexicon development
- cross-linguistic applicability of NLP methods
- active learning
- transfer learning
- bootstrapping semi-automated annotation
- challenges posed by particular languages, or phenomena to current NLP
methods
Invited Speakers
- Jason Baldridge, University of Texas at Austin
- Emily Bender, University of Washington
- Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
- Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
- Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
- Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Submissions
Submitted papers must be no longer than 10 pages and are expected to follow
the CSLI format for Collected Volumes:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/authors.html
LaTeX2e package
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/cslipubscollection.tar.gz
MS Word template and style guide
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/style_edited_vol_part2.doc
Submissions due: August 15, 2006 (Extended)
Notification: September 1, 2006
Meeting URL: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2006tls
E-mail contact:
Organizing Committee
Stephen Hilderbrand, Heeyoung Lyu, Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert (all of UT
Austin)
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