LINGUIST List 15.151

Sat Jan 17 2004

Calls: Computational Ling/Spain; Philosophy of Lang

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. dekai, 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2. Nathalie.Gontier, Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture

2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Short Title: EMNLP 2004 

Date: 25-Jul-2004 - 26-Jul-2004
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact: Dekai Wu
Contact Email: dekaics.ust.hk 
Meeting URL: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/emnlp04/ 

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics 
Call Deadline: 28-Apr-2004 

Meeting Description:

2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP 2004)
Preliminary Call for Papers


SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special
interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP,
invites submissions to EMNLP 2004. The conference will be held on July
25-26 in Barcelona, Spain, immediately following the 42nd meeting of
the ACL (ACL 2004).

We are interested in papers from academia, government, and industry on
all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned
fields, including but not limited to:

 o information extraction
 o information retrieval
 o language and dialogue modeling
 o lexical acquisition
 o machine translation
 o multilingual technologies
 o question answering
 o statistical parsing
 o summarization
 o generation
 o tagging
 o term and named entity extraction
 o word sense disambiguation
 o word, term, and text segmentation
 o general NLP-related machine learning techniques:
 theory, methods and algorithms

Submissions
Requirements: Submissions must describe original, completed,
unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when
appropriate. Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide
this information (see submission format). In the event of multiple
acceptances, authors are requested to immediately notify the EMNLP
program chair (lindekcs.ualberta.ca) and to choose which meeting to
present and publish the work at as soon as possible. EMNLP cannot
accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been)
published elsewhere.

Format: Submissions should take the form of full papers (up to 8 pages
in two-column format). Authors are strongly encouraged to use the
style files originally provided for ACL 2004.

We strongly prefer submissions to be as PS files. Any author who
submits in PDF must assume the responsibility for ensuring that fonts
are treated properly so that the paper will print (not just view)
anywhere. (This may involve reading the manual.) DOC/RTF formats
cannot be accepted.

Reviewing will be blind. No information identifying the authors should
be in the paper: this includes not only the authors' names and
affiliations, but also self-references that reveal authors'
identities; for example, ''We have previously shown (Smith 1999)''
should be changed to ''Smith (1999) has previously shown''. A separate
identification email is required: see below.

Procedure: Submissions will be entered via a website:
 http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/emnlp04/submit
A PostScript file of the paper must be uploaded onto the system by the
date of the deadline (12 midnight GMT). In addition, information
about each paper must be entered on the website. This information
includes:

 * Paper title
 * Contact author name, affiliation, and email address
 * A short list of keywords (selected from a predefined list)
 * Abstract (no more than 300 words)
 * The conferences that the paper has also been submitted to (if any).

Important Dates
Submission deadline: April 28, 2004
Acceptance notification: May 26, 2004
Camera-ready copy due: June 15, 2004
Conference: July 25-26, 2004

Program Co-Chairs
Dekang Lin, University of Alberta, (lindekcs.ualberta.ca)
Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,
(dekaics.ust.hk)

Conference URL
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/emnlp04/

Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture 
Short Title: EELC 

Date: 26-May-2004 - 28-May-2004
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact: Nathalie Gontier
Contact Email: Nathalie.Gontiervub.ac.be 
Meeting URL: http://www.vub.ac.be/CLWF/eelc 

Linguistic Sub-field: Philosophy of Language 
Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2004 

Meeting Description:

The main theme of the Congress is to investigate the origin and
evolution of language and/or culture from within Evolutionary
Epistemology. Evolutionary Epistemology, a term first coined by Donald
T. Campbell, is a fast growing field within philosophy of science
which focuses mainly on the evolution of evolutionary mechanisms (the
EEM programme) and the evolution of evolutionary theories (the
EET-programme), a distinction made by Michael Bradie and William
Harms. The main idea of this discipline is that we should take Darwin
seriously (Michael Ruse), emphasizing the importance of natural
selection in the investigation of the origin and evolution of our
cognitive abilities such as language, culture or science.

Because of recent developments within biology, the time has come
however, to not only take Darwin seriously, but to also investigate
the possibilities other evolutionary theories, such as systemstheory,
theories about self-organization, punctuated equilibrium,
symbiogenesis, insights in the homeobox can bring to the field. The
nature/nurture debate within anthropology has cleared room for an
investigation in the diverse learning strategies and practices used by
members of different cultures and the time has come to ask how these
cognitive learning abilities interact with and evolved out of our
biological cognitive capacities.

Therefore, the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science and the
Centre Leo Apostel, both of the Free University of Brussels, organize
a 3-day congress on Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and
Culture. The conference's main aim will be to bring together scholars
working on (the origin and evolution of ) language and/or culture from
within the framework of Evolutionary Epistemology, especially
EEM. Preference will be given to those abstracts that formulate
criticisms towards modularity, universal selection theories and
universal Darwinism, but nevertheless adhere to an evolutionary view
to study language and culture. 

Evolutionary Epistemology, Language & Culture (EELC)
3-day Congress - May 26-28, 2004
Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels - Belgium

website: http://www.vub.ac.be/CLWF/eelc

2nd and FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Centre Leo
Apostel, both of the Free University of Brussels, organize a 3-day
congress on Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture. The
conference 's main aim will be to bring together scholars working on
(the origin, variation and evolution of ) language and/or culture from
within the framework of Evolutionary Epistemology, especially
EEM. Preference will be given to those abstracts that formulate
criticisms towards modularity, universal selection theories and
universal Darwinism, but nevertheless adhere to an evolutionary view
to study language and culture.

Invited Speakers

. Franz Wuketits (Institute for Philosophy of Science - University of
Vienna)
. Marek Czachor (Department of Theoretical Physics - University of
Gdansk)
. Olaf Diettrich (Austrian Society for Cognitive Sciences - Vienna)
. Bart de Boer (Department of Artificial Intelligence - University of
Groningen)
. Tim Ingold (Department of Anthropology - University of Aberdeen)

Program Committee: Nathalie Gontier, Jean Paul Van Bendegem, Diederik
Aerts

Organizer/ Contact: Nathalie.Gontiervub.ac.be

Important dates

Abstract deadline: February 1, 2004
Notification of Acceptance: March 1, 2004

Registration Deadline: May 1, 2004
Conference: 26 - 28 May, 2004

Call for abstracts

The language of the congress lectures will be English. We welcome
philosophers, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, biologists,
�Euro� to submit an abstract. Presentations must be directed towards
an interdisciplinary audience.

Topics include but are not limited to:

. General Evolutionary Epistemology (EE), especially EEM, implemented
in (the origin, variation, evolution of) language and/or culture
. Nonadaptive EE
. language evolution
. cultural evolution
. EE and systemstheory, self-organization, punctuated equilibrium,
symbiogenesis, homeogenes, �Euro�
. EE and learning strategies or cultural practices, implemented in
(the origin, variation, evolution of) language and/or culture
. (criticisms towards) the units/levels of selection debate in general
or implemented in the origin and/or evolution of language and/or
culture

Preference will be given to abstracts that formulate criticisms
towards Memetics, Modularity, Universal Selection theories and
Universal Darwinism, but nevertheless adhere to an evolutionary view,
especially systemstheory, for the study of language and/or culture.

Submission of abstracts

One-page abstracts (including diagrams, references, �Euro�) are now
solicited for 30 minutes presentations (+ 15 minutes
discussion). Please use a 12 pt. font and the page should have 2,5 cm
margins all around. The text should be single-spaced.

In the head of the abstract please give: Author(s) name(s), title of
the abstract, affiliation of the author(s) (in brief, one line),
e-mail address of the author(s), max. 5 keywords.

Send your abstract in pdf-file, MS Word document or plain text as an
attachment to Nathalie.Gontiervub.ac.be before February 1, 2004. In
the subject of the mail, please write Abstract EELC 2004.

Proceedings

Proceedings of the congress lectures will be arranged in Studies in
Language - Complementary series (series editors: Werner Abraham and
Michael Noonan).

Scientific refereeing committee
. Franz Wuketits (Institute for Philosophy of Science - University of
Vienna)
. Jean Paul Van Bendegem (Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science -
Free University of Brussels)
. Diederik Aerts (Centre Leo Apostel - Free University of Brussels)
. Hendrik Pinxten (Department of Comparative Science of Cultures -
University of Ghent)
. Francis Heylighen (Centre Leo Apostel - Free University of Brussels)
. Piet Van De Craen (Department of Linguistics - Free University of
Brussels)
. Marek Czachor (Department of Theoretical Physics - University of
Gdansk)
. Myriam Vermeerbergen (Department of Linguistics/ Sign Language -Free
University Brussels)
. Olaf Diettrich (Austrian Society for Cognitive Sciences - Vienna)
. Bart de Boer (Department of Artificial Intelligence - University of
Groningen)
. Tony Belpaeme (Artificial Intelligence Lab - Free University
Brussels)
. Nathalie Gontier (Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science - Free
University of Brussels)

Registration:

The registration fee includes coffee, lunches and entrance fee and
excludes transport or lodging and the congress dinner (approximately
30 euro, to be paid at the congress dinner).

. 30 euro: students
. 125 euro: non-students (including Ph.D. students, professors,
researchers,...)

To subscribe:

(1) Send an e-mail to Nathalie.Gontiervub.ac.be with 
(a) in the subject of the mail : subscribe EELC 2004.
(b) in the content of the e-mail message: 
Full name
Affiliation
postal address
e-mail address
Telephone number
student or non-student
yes/no participating in the conference dinner on Thursday evening
vegetarian/ non vegetarian

(2) Transfer 125 euro for non-students (including Ph.D. Students), 30
euro for students, to the following bank account number:
Fortis Bank - Belgium: 001-0686455-62 
Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels - Belgium.
Very important !!! In the free message write: CONI136-SWIJINK3 

As soon as your payment gets through, you will receive confirmation by
e-mail. Please allow up to 3 weeks processing time.