Last CfP: Applications of GermaNet II

                    Last Call for Papers

                 Applications of GermaNet II

         (Follow-up of the GLDV GermaNet Workshop
"Applications of the German wordnet in Theory and Practice",
                 October 2003)

Workshop of the GLDV AK Lexikographie held in conjunction with the
Biennial Conference of the Society of Linguistics 2005

                 30 March -- 1 April, 2005
                 University of Bonn, Germany

         http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/lsd/
         http://www.gldv.org/2005
         http://www.gldv.org/2005/work1

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                 **KEYNOTE SPEAKER**

                 Prof. Dr. Karel Pala
                 (EuroWordNet, BalkaNet)
                 Faculty of Informatics
                 Masaryk University, Brno
                 Czech Republic

                 Title of the talk: t.b.a.

After the success of the first GermaNet Workshop which took place

Last CfP GLDV 05

Last Call for Papers

GLDV 05: GLDV-Jahrestagung 2005
Biennial Conference of the Society for Computational Linguistics
University of Bonn
Mar 30 -- Apr 01 2005

http://www.gldv.org/2005

Dates:

Deadline for submissions:
Nov 02, 2004

Notification of acceptance:
Dec 01, 2004

Deadline for the final version of papers:
Jan 15, 2005

Conference:
Mar 30 -- Apr 01, 2005

Main topic

The main topic of the conference is

Speech technology for mobile communication

In the focus of the conference are applications and research perspectives

Last CfP: Workshop Turn Taking at the GLDV05

                             Last Call for Papers

           MODELING TURN TAKING AS A BASIC MECHANISM OF COMMUNICATION
                     (Workshop at the GLDV-Jahrestagung 2005)

                          30 March - 01 April 2005
                                Universität Bonn
                                      Germany

                        Deadline: 02 November 2004

                      http://www.gldv.org/2005/work2

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Human-computer communication requires a model of turn taking, i.e. the
machine has to be able to switch between the speaker- and the
hearer-mode.  The hearer-mode maps language signs into a
representation of their content.  The speaker-mode maps content into a
corresponding signs of a language of choice.

This workshop invites original work on all aspects of turn taking, for
example, relating automatic word form recognition to word form
production, relating syntactic-semantic parsing to semantic-syntactic
parsing, analyzing the inferences needed for interpretation and
production, defining the data structure for storing content, or
designing the control structure for relating language interpretation
and production.  In addition to papers on grammar and software systems
modeling turn taking, empirical investigations on dialogue systems
will be considered.

Job: research position in speech synthesis, working on Festival. CSTR, Edinburgh, UK.

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RESEARCH FELLOW IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS

The Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh
is seeking a research fellow to work on the leading text-to-speech
research toolkit, Festival (www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival) through
the ongoing project "Expressive Prosody for Unit-selection Speech
Synthesis". The project's aims are to add explicit control of prosody to
unit-selection speech synthesis, generate prosody appropriate for
communicating specific meanings and information structures and to
realise this prosody with sequences of appropriately-sized pitch
accents, arranged into valid intonation tunes. This project is jointly
lead by Simon King, Mark Steedman and Rob Clark (Edinburgh) and Dan
Jurafsky (Stanford, USA).

Full details can be found at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/opportunities

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Dr. Simon King                               Simon.King <at> ed.ac.uk
Centre for Speech Technology Research          www.cstr.ed.ac.uk
For MSc/PhD info, visit  www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/language-at-edinburgh

ELRA News - Job Offer

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         NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY AT ELRA/ELDA
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ELRA/ELDA offers a position for its Language Resources department.

He/she will be in charge of managing the activities in relation with
the identification of language resources and the negotiation of rights
in relation with their distribution.

The position includes, but is not limited to, the responsibility of the
following tasks:
- Identification of language resources,
- Implementation of a «universal catalogue» aiming at collecting existing
language resources,
- Negotiation of distribution rights and definition of prices of language
resources to be integrated in the ELRA/ELDA catalogue.

Profile:
- Knowledge in computational linguistics, information science, knowledge
management or similar fields,
- Contact and communication skills,
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team,
- Fluent French and English required,
Experience in project management (especially European projects), as well
as practice in contract and partnership negotiation at an international level,
would be a plus.

Applications will be considered until the position is filled; however, a final
decision will be made by the end of year 2004/very beginning of 2005.

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SOFTWARE TOOLS

Corpus for Hierarchical Text Segmentation

Hi all,

I am a student currently doing a project on Hierarchical Text
Segmentation. As such, I require a corpus of hierarchical text in order to
test my algorithm. Any help on where I can find such a resource would be
greatly appreciated.

Yung Kiat

RE: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SOFTWARE TOOLS

Dear Lebron,

We have just released version 2.0 of our web-based corpora lingusitics tool called Corpografo. Among
other things, the Corpografo allows users to extract terminology from their personal corpora (in
several languages). 

http://www.linguateca.pt/corpografo/

I remember calling attention to the Corpografo a few weeks ago on this list, but we have now a completely new
version on-line. 

We were aware of the user interface problems of the previous version so we made a great effort in trying to
improve the usability of the Corpografo in this second version (still beta but 99% ok): the navigation
system is much simpler and user help is available in most of the situations. 

The interface is in portuguese but it is clear enough for anyone who knows basic portuguese (we are working
on making an english interface available). Hope this helps.

Regards,

Luís Sarmento

 --- On Tue 11/02, lebron letchev < lebronletchev <at> yahoo.com.ar > wrote:

From: lebron letchev [mailto: lebronletchev <at> yahoo.com.ar]

To: corpora <at> uib.no

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 19:38:04 -0300 (ART)

Subject: [Corpora-List] INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SOFTWARE TOOLS

<DIV>Dear All,</DIV>

<DIV> </DIV>

<DIV>I am looking for Information Retrieval Software Tools, esp. Term Retrieval.</DIV>

<DIV> </DIV>

<DIV>Thank you in advance.</DIV>

<DIV> </DIV>

<DIV>Regards</DIV>

<DIV> </DIV>

<DIV> </DIV>

<DIV>Lebron Letchev</DIV>

<DIV> </DIV><p>

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Official prices of the hotels in Symposium in Cuba

Dear colleagues,

(Please, read this message carefully
including the official prices of the
hotels. Remember that the payment
of the hotels covers lodging, breakfast
and dinner. The payment of the family
houses cover lodging and breakfast only.)

In the bottom of this message you will find
the official prices of the hotels. The reservation
you should do trough us.

I want to inform you that in Cuba the USA dollar
does not work any more, in it place now is
the PESO CONVERTIBLE cubano (Cuban peso
convertible.) That is why we suggest you come
to Cuba with other currencies: euro, sterlings
pounds, Canadian dollars or Switzerland frank
and you could change it in PESO CONVERTIBLE
cubano at the airport, in your hotel or in the city.
(1.00 PESO CONVERTIBLE cubano = 1.00 USA dolar.)

If you come to Cuba with USA dollar when you will
change it into PESO CONVERTIBLE you will have
10% of tax, the other currencies do not will have any tax.

Now the fee of the Symposium is 200.00 PESO
CONVERTIBLE cubano and the fee of each
Pre-Symposium seminar is 25.00 PESO
CONVERTIBLE cubano.

I hope you understand this message. If you have
any questions, ask please. (Sorry for my bad English!)

Yours sincerely,

Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Secretaria Ejecutiva
IX Simposio Internacional de Comunicacion Social
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

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NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA
JANUARY 24-28, 2005

OFFICIAL PRICES OF THE HOTELS:
(Payment covers lodging, breakfast and dinner)

SAN JUAN HOTEL (***)
Single Room:	51.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES daily
Double Room:	37.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES per person daily
Triple Room:	34.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES per person daily
Payment: 	Cash, VISA or MasterCard or EuroCARD credit cards
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LAS AMERICAS HOTEL (***)
Single Room:	51.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES daily
Double Room:	37.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES per person daily
Payment: 	Cash, VISA or MasterCard or EuroCARD credit cards
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MELIA-SANTIAGO DE CUBA HOTEL (*****)
Single Room:	129.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES daily
Double Room:	  97.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES per person daily
Payment: 	Cash, VISA or MasterCard or EuroCard credit cards
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BIRRET HOTEL (University Hotel)
Single Room:	27.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES daily
Double Room:	23.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES per person daily
Triple Room:	21.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES per person daily
Payment: 	Cash, VISA or MasterCard or EuroCARD credit cards
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LODGING IN PRIVATE HOUSES
Price: 25.00 PESOS CONVERTIBLES per person daily
Rooms are air-conditioned and bath with hot water.
Payment: Cash

Note: The people who will pay the hotels with credit
cards will have 4% of tax

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Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Director
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Calle 8 Nr. 206 entre 7 y 9
Vista Alegre. Santiago de Cuba.
Cuba. C.P. 90400
Telefonos: 53-22-642760, 53-22-656141
Correo Electronico: leonel <at> lingapli.ciges.inf.cu
http://www.santiago.cu/hosting/linguistica/sitio-cla/ingles/
http://www.santiago.cu/hosting/linguistica/sitio-cla/espanol/

Morph-it! Italian lemma lexicon

(Apologies for cross-posting)

Dear all,

We would like to announce the release of Morph-it!, a free (as in free
speech and free beer) morphological resource for the Italian language.

Morph-it! is a lexicon of inflected forms with their lemma and
morphological features. For example:

rimpinzeremmo   rimpinzare      VER:cond+pre+1+p
abominevole     abominevole     ADJ:pos+m+s
dabbenaggine    dabbenaggine    NOUN-F:s
ostensibilmente ostensibilmente ADV

As of version 0.11 the lexicon contains 568,771 entries and 28,500 lemmas.
To download the resource and for more information, please visit:

http://sslmitdev-online.sslmit.unibo.it/linguistics/morph-it.php

Regards,

Marco Baroni and Eros Zanchetta

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Marco Baroni
SSLMIT, University of Bologna
http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni