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------=_NextPart_000_0047_01C2B709.500BBB50-- From jennifer@ling.su.se Thu Jan 9 15:38:18 2003 From: jennifer@ling.su.se (Jennifer Spenader) Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:38:18 +0100 Subject: Second Call: Variations within OT workshop Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030109163620.025f5310@pop3.norton.antivirus> --=====================_15714376==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Second Call for Papers: Stockholm workshop on: Variations within Optimality Theory Recently there has been a proliferation of different =93dialects=94 of=20 optimality theory (OT); e.g. bi-directional optimality theory, stochastic=20 optimality theory, primitive optimality theory, etc. Many of these dialects= =20 were developed to handle short-comings in standard OT for problems=20 particular within a specific linguistic field, but it is not clear how the= =20 different OT dialects work for problems outside that particular area. This= =20 workshop aims to bring together researchers using different forms of OT in= =20 different fields within linguistics, including phonetics, phonology,=20 morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The emphasis is on how=20 different OT dialects support or fail to support the analysis of a certain= =20 problems in order to make their differences and similarities more=20 transparent. The characteristics of the different forms of OT and how they= =20 relate to different problems, rather than the characteristics of the=20 analysed problems themselves, should be the central focus. We invite abstracts on all topics related to optimality theory, including,= =20 but not limited to: - comparisons between different forms of OT - comparative studies of the same problem within more than one form of OT - application of an OT-dialect to a problem in a field new to that dialect - discussions of the inability of some forms of OT to handle certain= problems - discussions of the meta-characteristics of the different types of OT - discussions of learning algorithms for different types of OT and how they= =20 measure up with different data - discussions of computer implementations of OT dialects and their=20 characteristics In addition to talks we may also make time for demonstrations of computer=20 implementations of OT-algorithms. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: All authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract. The length of abstracts for talks should be at most 5 single-column pages (each accepted talk will have a duration of 30' plus 10' discussion).= =20 Proposals for program demonstrations should be at most 3 single-column=20 pages. All submissions should also include a separate cover page specifying= =20 the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address and title of=20 the paper. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in LaTeX, postscript, html, ascii, .doc or pdf format) to: otworkshop@ling.su.se REGISTRATION: The relevant information (fees, booking, etc.) pertaining to that point can= be found at the website (http://www.ling.su.se/otworkshop/) by following the=20 link to the registration. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts due: February 1st Acceptance notice: March 1st Final version due for proceedings: April 9th Workshop dates: April 26-27 INVITED SPEAKER: Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE : Paul Boersma (Univ. of Amsterdam), Anders Eriksson (Stockholm Univ.), =D6ste= n=20 Dahl (Stockholm Univ.), Hanjung Lee (Chapel Hill), Tomas Riad (Stockholm=20 Univ.), Jennifer Spenader (Stockholm Univ.), Henk Zeevat (ILLC Amsterdam) ORGANIZATION: The workshop will take place at Stockholm University in Sweden and the=20 organizers would like to point out that when the weather is good, Stockholm= =20 is very beautiful in the Spring. The local organizers are Jennifer Spenader, Anders Eriksson, and =D6sten= Dahl. FOR MORE INFORMATION: News about the workshop will be posted on the workshop's web page at www.ling.su.se/otworkshop/ Questions can be sent to otworkshop@ling.su.se. Information about Stockholm University: www.su.se ******************************* Jennifer Spenader, PhD Computational Linguistics Dept. of Linguistics Stockholm University 10691 Stockholm Sweden email: jennifer@ling.su.se home page: http://www.ling.su.se/staff/jennifer/index.html tel, arb: +46 8-161761 fax: +46 8-155389 tel, hem +46 8-6554704 ******************************* --=====================_15714376==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Second Call for Papers:

Stockholm workshop on:
Variations within Optimality Theory

Recently there has been a proliferation of different =93dialects=94 of optimality theory (OT); e.g. bi-directional optimality theory, stochastic optimality theory, primitive optimality theory, etc. Many of these dialects were developed to handle short-comings in standard OT for problems particular within a specific linguistic field, but it is not clear how the different OT dialects work for problems outside that particular area. This workshop aims to bring together researchers using different forms of OT in different fields within linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The emphasis is on how different OT dialects support or fail to support the analysis of a certain problems in order to make their differences and similarities more transparent. The characteristics of the different forms of OT and how they relate to different problems, rather than the characteristics of the analysed problems themselves, should be the central focus.

We invite abstracts on all topics related to optimality theory, including, but not limited to:

- comparisons between different forms of OT
- comparative studies of the same problem within more than one form of OT
- application of an OT-dialect to a problem in a field new to that dialect
- discussions of the inability of some forms of OT to handle certain problems
- discussions of the meta-characteristics of the different types of OT
- discussions of learning algorithms for different types of OT and how they measure up with different data
- discussions of computer implementations of OT dialects and their characteristics

In addition to talks we may also make time for demonstrations of computer implementations of OT-algorithms.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
All authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract. The=20 length
of abstracts for talks should be at most 5 single-column
pages (each accepted talk will have a duration of 30' plus 10' discussion). Proposals for program demonstrations should be at most 3 single-column pages. All submissions should also include a separate cover page specifying the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address and title of the paper.

The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in LaTeX,
postscript, html, ascii, .doc or pdf format) to: otworkshop@ling.su.se

REGISTRATION:
The relevant information (fees, booking, etc.) pertaining to that point can be
found at the website (http://www= .ling.su.se/otworkshop/) by following the link to the registration.


IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts due: February 1st
Acceptance notice: March 1st
Final version due for proceedings: April 9th
Workshop dates: April 26-27

INVITED SPEAKER:
Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE :
Paul Boersma (Univ. of Amsterdam), Anders Eriksson (Stockholm Univ.), =D6sten Dahl (Stockholm Univ.),  Hanjung Lee (Chapel Hill), Tomas Riad (Stockholm Univ.), Jennifer Spenader (Stockholm Univ.), Henk Zeevat (ILLC Amsterdam)

ORGANIZATION:
The workshop will take place at Stockholm University in Sweden and the organizers would like to point out that when the weather is good, Stockholm is very beautiful in the Spring.
The local organizers are Jennifer Spenader, Anders Eriksson, and =D6sten Dahl.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
News about the workshop will be posted on the workshop's web page=20 at
www.l= ing.su.se/otworkshop/ 
Questions can be sent to otworkshop@ling.su.se.

Information about Stockholm University:
www.su.se





*******************************
Jennifer Spenader, PhD
Computational Linguistics
Dept. of Linguistics
Stockholm University
10691 Stockholm
Sweden
email: jennifer@ling.su.se
home page: http://www.ling.su.se/staff/jennifer/index.html
tel, arb: +46 8-161761
fax: +46 8-155389
tel, hem +46 8-6554704
******************************* --=====================_15714376==_.ALT-- From ling@pp.iij4u.or.jp Tue Jan 14 15:56:34 2003 From: ling@pp.iij4u.or.jp (ISHIKAWA Kiyoshi) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:56:34 +0900 Subject: Call for Abstract -PACLI7 (please help circulate) Message-ID: <200301141547.h0EFlLF17271@r-pp.iij4u.or.jp> PACLIC 17 2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation 24- 26 June, 2003, Singapore The Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Society is pleased to announce that the 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 17) will be held at Singapore from 24 to 26 June, 2003. The Conference is an annual meeting of scholars in theoretical and computational linguistics from the Pacific Asia region. This meeting will be held concurrently with O-COCOSDA 2003. Extended abstracts are invited on unpublished research on all aspects of both theoretical and computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, typology, corpus linguistics, formal grammar theory, natural language processing, natural language systems and related computer applications. Abstracts at most 6 A4 pages long (about 1,500 words), using 11pt fonts and double line spacing throughout, with the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), postal address, and e-mail address for correspondence on a separate page. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. A camera-ready full paper is expected to be about 10 A4 pages with single line spacing. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 March, 2003. We accept only electronic submissions. Please submit your paper to our website: http://cslp.comp.nus.edu.sg/cgi-bin/journal/review1.exe. Acceptable file formats are PostScript (.ps), Portable Document Format (.pdf), MS Word (.doc), and plain text. You need to register with our computer as a user first, if you have done so before. In case of difficulty, you may also submit your paper as an e-mail attachment to luakt@comp.nus.edu.sg. Generally, we do not accept hard copy submission for this conference. Hard copy will only be accepted under extreme conditions. Please email luakt@comp.nus.edu.sg for assistance. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Suitable papers may also be considered to be included in a special issue of our Journal of Chinese Language and Computing. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due: March 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: April 1 2003 Final Manuscript: April 15, 2003 Early Bird registration: May 15, 2003 Deadline for Conference Registration: June 10, 2003 For further information, please contact: Associate Professor. Kim-Teng Lua, School of Computing, National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543 E-mail: luakt@comp.nus.edu.sg Phone: 6874-2782, Fax: 6779-4580 PACLIC17 Website:http://cslp.comp.nus.edu.sg/colips/conference/PACLIC17/index.htm PACLIC17 Conference Committees http://cslp.comp.nus.edu.sg/colips/conference/PACLIC17 International Co-Chairs Huang Chu-Ren, Academia Sinica, Taipei Akira Ikeya, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo Ik-Hwan Lee Yonsei University, Seoul Kawamori Masahito Byung-Soo Park Kyung Hee University, Seoul Benjamin Tsou ity University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Local Chair Kim Teng LUA National University of Singapore Program Committee Dong Hong Ji (Chair) Laboratories for Information Technology, Singapore. Jing-Shin Chang Dept. of CSIE, National Chi-Nan Univ., Puli, Nantou, Taiwan Hsin-Hsi CHEN National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Keh-Jiann CHEN Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Key-Sun CHOI KAIST Korea Terminology Research Center for Language and Knowledge Engineering, Daejeon Korea Zhiwei FENG Institute of Applied Linguistics, Beijing, China Yasunari HARADA Waseda University, Tokyo JAPAN One-Soon Her National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan Kaoru HORIE Tohoku University, Japan Kiyoshi, ISHIKAWA Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan Sue-Jin$B!W%c(JKER Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan Jong-Bok KIM Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea Tom Bong Yeung LAI City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chungmin LEE Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Kiyong LEE Korea University, Seoul, Korea Wei LI Cymfony Inc., Buffalo, USA Robert Wing Pong LUK Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Kang Kwong LUKE University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yuji MATSUMOTO Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan Tetsuharu MORIYA Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan Jian-Yun NIE University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada Fuji Ren The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan Richard SPROAT AT&T Labs -- Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA Lily I-wen SU National TaiwanUniversity, Taipei, Taiwan Maosong SUN Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Shu-Chuan TSENG Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Jie XU National University of Singapore, Singapore Jianqi WANG Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Chung-Hsien WU National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan Shiwen YU Peking University, Beijing, China - - - ISHIKAWA, Kiyoshi, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Hosei Univeristy E-mail: kiyoshi@i.hosei.ac.jp, ling@pp.iij4u.or.jp URL: http://www.i.hosei.ac.jp/~kiyoshi/ From Honeybop@edgehill.ac.uk Tue Jan 14 16:45:02 2003 From: Honeybop@edgehill.ac.uk (Patrick Honeybone) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:45:02 +0000 Subject: Call for papers: 11th Manchester Phonology Meeting Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting 22-24 MAY 2003 Deadline for abstracts: Sunday 23 February 2003 Special session: 'Historical Phonology and Phonological Theory' Held at the University of Manchester, UK; organised in collaboration with Edge Hill College, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Universite Toulouse-Le Mirail and the Universite Montpellier-Paul Valery Conference website: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/11mfm.html -------------------------- BACKGROUND We are pleased to announce our Eleventh Manchester Phonology Meeting (11mfm). For the past ten years, this meeting has been one of the key conferences for phonologists from all corners of the world. In an informal atmosphere, we discuss a wide range of topics, including the phonological description of languages, phonological theory, phonological acquisition, phonological change and the interface between phonology and neighbouring disciplines (phonetics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, etc.) We therefore invite abstracts for full papers or poster presentations from phonologists, phoneticians, psychologists, sociolinguists, computational linguists - in short, anyone interested in exploring current models of phonological theory and the (cognitive, phonetic, sociological, computational...) implications of such work. Presentations on a variety of languages are welcome. Full papers will last around 30 minutes with around 10 minutes for questions, and the poster session is a key part of the mfm, lasting one and a half hours, with a carefully limited number of posters. -------------------------- SPECIAL SESSION There is no conference theme - abstracts can be submitted on anything, but, following the success of such sessions in previous years, a special themed session has been organised for Friday afternoon by Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Newcastle), Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill) and Nigel Vincent (Manchester). This will feature invited speakers and will conclude in an open discussion session when contributions from the audience will be very welcome. SESSION TITLE: 'Historical Phonology And Phonological Theory' Historical perspectives have long helped to shape phonological theory, and historical phonologists have long sought to test the validity of theoretical models using data from phonological change. There is, for example, a long tradition of enquiry that uses evidence from historical change (e.g. processes of lenition) to probe the nature and structure of phonological representations. The importance that theoretical phonologists have placed on historical data has varied over the years, but it is currently proving to be uniquely relevant to theoretical debates in several phonological fields. Diachronic evidence has a direct bearing on the nature and status of markedness constraints, which take on a central role in the phonological grammar in the model of Optimality Theory; however, several critics of OT have argued that markedness generalizations are in fact mere epiphenomena of recurrent processes of diachronic change, and, as these are driven by performance factors, they should be excluded from 'phonology' proper. For other authors, these performance factors are the direct base of phonology. It is also the case that the rise of strictly parallel approaches to the morphology-phonology interface, such as OT, has posed a challenge to long-accepted views of the life cycle of phonological patterns, according to which rules tend to rise from lower to higher phonological strata in the course of their historical evolution. These are some of the issues that will be addressed in the session, along with the discussion of our speakers' diachronic data. SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order): * Mark Hale (Concordia) * Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) * Aditi Lahiri (Konstanz) * April McMahon (Sheffield) -------------------------- ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts for the 11mfm should be sent to Patrick Honeybone by email (honeybop@edgehill.ac.uk) by **23rd February 2003**. Abstracts should be no longer than one side of A4, with 2.5cm or one inch margins, single-spaced, with a font size no smaller than 12 and with normal character spacing. All examples and references in the abstract should be included on the one single page, but it is enough, when referring to previous work, to cite "Author (Date)" without giving full bibliographical details. Please send two copies of your abstract - one of these should be anonymous and one should include your name, affiliation and email. Use one of these formats: Word, pdf, or plain text. If you need to use a phonetic font in your abstract, use the SILdoulos93 font, which can be downloaded for free from this site: http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa2.html. *Further details* concerning abstract submission are available on the conference website - please make sure that you consult these before submitting an abstract: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/11mfm.html -------------------------- ORGANISERS This is the mfm organising committee. The first named is the main organiser - if you would like to attend or if you have any queries please feel free to get in touch (honeybop@edgehill.ac.uk, or phone +44 (0)1695 584244). * Patrick Honeybone (Edge Hill College of Higher Education) * Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) * Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand (University of Manchester) * Philip Carr (Universite de Montpellier - Paul Valery) * Jacques Durand (Universite de Toulouse - Le Mirail) * Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester) From shong@inha.ac.kr Mon Jan 20 09:07:45 2003 From: shong@inha.ac.kr (=?euc-kr?B?yKu8+Mf2?=) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:07:45 +0900 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: THE 2ND KOREAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHONOLOGY Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS: THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT THE 2ND KOREAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHONOLOGY June 13-14 (Friday & Saturday), 2003 Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Commemorating the 20th anniversary, the Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea invites research proposals in the field of phonology for our 2nd International Conference to be held June 13-14, 2003 at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Presentations will be 20 minutes long, followed by a 10 minute discussion. ABSTRACT Please send your abstract of two or three pages to cksuh@cheonan.ac.kr via e-mail. On the first page of your abstract state your name, paper title, affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number, and mailing address, and the second page should start with the title of the paper. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by readers and acceptance will be notified by April 25, 2003. We strongly encourage you to use Microsoft Word as word processor and Times New Roman 10-point as font. DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSION Intention of submission: February 15, 2003 Abstract submission: March 25, 2003 Paper submission: May 25, 2003 INVITED SPEAKERS Edward Flemming (Stanford University) Elizabeth Hume (Ohio State University) K.P. Mohanan (University of Singapore) David Odden (Ohio State University) Program Committee The 2nd Korean International Conference on Phonology Chang-Kook Suh Department of English Cheonan University cksuh@cheonan.ac.kr +82-41-550-9139 From roa@equinox.rutgers.edu Wed Jan 22 21:09:13 2003 From: roa@equinox.rutgers.edu (roa@equinox.rutgers.edu) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:09:13 -0500 Subject: New Posting: ROA-571 Message-ID: <200301222109.h0ML9DE20507@equinox.rutgers.edu> ROA 571-0103 Language and Music in Optimality Theory Dicky Gilbers Maartje Schreuder Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=571 Abstract: MUSIC IN OPTIMALITY THEORY DICKY GILBERS & MAARTJE SCHREUDER, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN Jackendoff and Lerdahl (1983) point out the resemblance between the ways both linguists and musicologists structure their research objects. This insight gave rise to the proposal of a formal generative theory of tonal music, in which they describe musical intuition. Above all, insights from non-linear phonology (cf. a.o. Liberman & Prince 1977) led to scores provided with tree structures, indicating heads and dependent constituents in the investigated domains. In this way, composer Lerdahl and linguist Jackendoff bring to life a synthesis of linguistic methodology and the insights of music theory. In our paper we pose new arguments for the proposition that every form of temporal ordered behavior, like language and music, is structured the same. In both disciplines the research object is structured hierarchically and in each domain the important and less important constituents are defined. In Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s music theory, these heads and dependents are defined by preference rules determining which outputs, i.e., the possible interpretations of a musical piece, are well-formed. Some outputs are more preferred than others. Preference rules, however, are not strict claims on outputs. It is even possible for a preferred interpretation of a musical piece to violate a certain preference rule. This is only possible, however, if violation of that preference rule leads to the satisfaction of a more important preference rule. This system of violable output oriented preference rules in the music theory leads us to a second investigation of the similarities of language and music, for a practically identical evaluation system, which uses similar well-formedness conditions, can be found in Prince and Smolensky’s Optimality Theory (1993). This theory owes a lot to the work of Lerdahl and Jackendoff. In our paper we will show that in the present state of phonology the resemblance is even more striking than at the time of Lerdahl and Jackendoff (1983). On the basis of this great resemblance we will show that insights of music theory can help out in all kinds of phonological issues, like rhythmic variability, restructuring, lengthening and phrasing phenomena. Keywords: music, rhythmic variability Areas: Music Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=571 From marc.van.oostendorp@meertens.knaw.nl Thu Jan 23 12:43:46 2003 From: marc.van.oostendorp@meertens.knaw.nl (Marc van Oostendorp) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:43:46 +0100 Subject: Old-World Conferences in Phonology In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Old-World Conferences in Phonology During the phonology conference which took place in Leiden, 9-11 January, 2003, and which was already optimistically called 'the *first* Old-World Conference in Phonology' (OCP1) by its organizers, the participants decided that the organisation of this event should turn into a biannual tradition. >From now on, there hopefully will be an OCP somewhere in Europe every second year (untill all problems in phonological theory have been solved to the satisfaction of everybody involved). OCP will provide a platform to phonologists of all theoretical convictions and other researchers interested in phonological theory. The OCP's will alternate with the North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC), of which the previous one took place in 2003 and the next one, hopefully, in 2005. It has been decided that the second OCP (OCP2) will take place in Tromsø, probably in January 2004. Other prospective venues for OCP Meetings are Rhodes/Crete, Berlin/Potsdam, London, Lille and Utrecht/Leiden/Amsterdam. An informal 'steering group' has been set up, which will consist of the organizers of the previous OCP, together with those of the next one. At present this means that the following phonologists are in this informal committee at present: Patrick Bye & Curt Rice (Tromsø), Jeroen van de Weijer (Leiden), Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam). They will set up a small website in the future, which will act as a reference for information on the OCP, and they will organize a mailing list for information on the conference. 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