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CFP Terminology & Artificial Intelligence 2015

​ TIA 2015: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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Terminology and Artificial Intelligence 2015
4 November – 6 November 2015
University of Granada, Spain

​http://lexicon.ugr.es/tia2015/Home.html​

Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA) 2015 will highlight the close connection between multilingual terminology, ontologies, and the representation of specialized knowledge. Knowledge, as regarded in Terminology, is something more complex than a simple hierarchy or a thesaurus-like structure. In this sense, ontologies, understood as a shared conceptualization of a domain that can be communicated between people and/or systems, are better suited for accounting for multilinguality and contextual constraints. The link between Terminology and knowledge representation has been widely acknowledged with the advent of multilingual ontologies.

This is particularly relevant since today’s networked society has generated an increasing number of contexts where multilingualism challenges current knowledge representation methods and techniques. To meet these challenges, it is necessary to deal with semantics since information can be organized, presented, and searched, based on meaning and not just text. Ideally, this would mean that language-independent specialized knowledge could be accessed across different natural languages. There is thus the urgent need for high-quality multilingual knowledge resources that are able to bridge communication barriers, and which can be linked and shared.

Such issues can only be successfully addressed with creative collaborative solutions within disciplines, such as knowledge engineering, terminology, ontology engineering, cognitive sciences, corpus lexicology, and computational linguistics. Accordingly, the TIA 2015 Conference will provide a forum for interdisciplinary research that focuses on the intersection of different disciplines dealing with terminology, multilingualism, lexicology, ontology, and knowledge representation. Papers may address both theoretical questions and methodological aspects on these issues, as well as interdisciplinary approaches developed to facilitate convergence and co-operation in terminological aspects of importance to an increasingly multilingual society.

TIA 2015 solicits both regular papers (8 pages), which present significant work, and short papers (4 pages), which typically present work in progress or a smaller, focused contribution. Regardless of the language of the paper( English, Spanish, or French), all paper presentations will be in English. The submission deadline is June 15. See the conference webpage for more specific submission details.

TOPICS
1. Terminology and ontology acquisition and management
· Applying pattern recognition to enriching terminological resource
· Lexicons, thesauri and ontologies as semantic resources
· Lexicons and ontologies as means for knowledge transfer
· Reusing, standardizing and merging terminological or ontological resources
· Multilingual terminology extraction
· Multilinguality and multimodality in terminological resources
· Management of language resources
1. Terminology and knowledge representation
· Ontological semantics and linguistic
· Ontology localization
· Development of multimedia terminological resources
· Terminology alignment in parallel corpora and other lexical resources
· Representation of terms and conceptual relations in knowledge-based applications
· Comparative studies of terminological resources and/or ontological resources
· Terminological resources in the 21st century
· Harmonization of format and standards in terminological resources
1. Terminology and ontologies for applications
· Interoperability and reusability in knowledge-based tools and applications
· Models and metamodels in annotating semantic and terminological resources
· New R&D directions in terminology for industrial uses and needs
· Terminology for machine translation and natural language processing

Featured plenary speakers
Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Ricardo Miral Usón, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain

TIA 2015 CHAIRS
Pamela Faber, University of Granada
Thierry Poibeau, CNRS

The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE members are distinguished experts from all over the world.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
See the TIA 2015 website: http://lexicon.ugr.es/tia2015/Submission.html

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions (long and short papers): 15 June 2015
Notification to authors: 4 September 2015
Final camera-ready paper: 24 September 2015
Conference: 4-6 November 2015

VENUE:
University of Granada,
Faculty of Translation and Interpreting,
18071 Granada, Spain

Contact information: termai2015@gmail.com​

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III Congreso Intl. Aprendizaje, Innovación y Competitividad

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La tercera edición de CINAIC se celebrará del 14 al 16 de Octubre de 2015 en Madrid. La organización del congreso corre a cargo de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, la Universidad de Zaragoza, la Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, la Universidad de Alicante, el CDTI (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad), la Dirección General de Universidades (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte) y los grupos de investigación GIDTIC (Universidad de Zaragoza) y GRIAL (Universidad de Salamanca).

El plazo para presentar trabajos, en cualquiera de sus áreas temáticas, finalizará el 2 de Mayo de 2015.

Como en ediciones anteriores, CINAIC 2015 promueve el intercambio de conocimiento entre los asistentes a través de las distintas actividades de socialización y dinamización.

Así mismo, CINAIC 2015 trabaja para que el máximo número de trabajos aceptados sean publicados en revistas científicas indexadas en los principales índices de referencia (JCR, Scopus y otras). Puede consultar el listado de revistas científicas ya confirmadas (se irá ampliando). En la edición anterior el 21% de los trabajos aceptados fueron publicados en revistas científicas. Así mismo, todos los trabajos aceptados serán publicados tanto en las actas del congreso (con ISBN) y en el Repositorio de Buenas Prácticas de Innovación Educativa (financiado por el Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte).

Correo electrónico: congresocinaic@gmail.com

4th International AELFE Conference

Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
14th International AELFE Conference

Developments in professional/academic communication and implications for language education and research  – Bucharest, Romania, 25 – 27 June 2015

Conference venue: Academia de Studii Economice (ASE), Piața Romană 6

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS

Registration link

In the context of growing professional and academic mobility, in parallel with the trend towards the internationalization of Higher Education and emerging new channels for academic and research communication, education and research in the field of languages for professional and academic purposes have acquired new roles. This international conference, jointly organised by AELFE (the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes), the Romanian Association for Quality Language Services QUEST and the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE), aims to bring together researchers, academics, language professionals, educational policy makers, as well as academics and experts in other domains, to discuss the current developments of professional/academic communication and their implications for language education and research, and education/language policies and planning.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Maurizio Gotti (University of Bergamo, Italy)
Karen Bennett (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Christine Feak (University of Michigan, USA)
Nigel Harwood (University of Sheffield, UK)
Richard Rossner (International Association Eaquals, UK)

Thematic strands:
1. Research in the field of languages for professional and academic purposes
2. Language and culture learning for better professional and academic performance in a global context
3. Innovative practices in LSP teaching and learning
4. English / French / German as media of instruction and academic communication: challenges and
opportunities of internationalisation
5. Revisiting teacher competencies and professional development
6. The Quality dimension of language education and language planning in Higher Education / Adult Education
7. Translation studies – interconnections between research, the relevance of academic programmes, and performance quality.

Conference languages: English, French, German

Time frame:

Thursday, 25 June, from 9.00 to 18.00: plenaries and parallel sessions; conference dinner at 19.30;
Friday, 26 June, from 9.00 to 17.00: plenaries, parallel sessions, panels, conference closing;
Saturday, 27 June: trip outside Bucharest for those interested.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
We invite contributions in the form of paper presentations or posters on any of the above topics (but not restricted to them). Please submit your proposal in EN, DE or FR, saved as Word.doc, .docx, or .rtf, attached to an email to aelfe2015@gmail.com, by 15 March 2015,

Paper presentations will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Especially welcome will be paper submissions presenting research (either complete or in progress) related to the conference topics. In addition, they should be interesting and academically of good quality. Poster abstracts are particularly welcome if they report on innovative research and/or on projects relevant to at least one of the conference topics.

The Proposal should include:

 the title of the paper / poster
 the name(s) of the author(s), their affiliation and contact details (postal and email address)
 the Abstract (300 words)
 the Speakers’ Biodata (max. 50 words).
In addition, please indicate:
 whether it is a proposal for a paper presentation or a poster
 the language of the presentation (EN, FR or DE)
 the thematic strand it would fit best.

Abstracts should include a brief outline of the research/project context and clearly indicate the objectives, method(s) and results. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference programme committee and AELFE panel coordinators.

Publication opportunities: in peer-reviewed outlets, such as the volume with conference proceedings in the series “Languages for Specific Purposes and Teacher Development” (ISSN 2285–1623), or in journals e.g. Synergy (www.synergy.ase.ro ) or Iberica (www.aelfe.org ).

Participants interested in displaying copies of their work (books, teaching resources) or project materials should contact the organisers at aelfe2015@gmail.com.

KEY DATES:
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 March 2015
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2015
Deadline for early-bird registration: 15 May 2015

Registration deadline to guarantee inclusion in the conference programme: 1 June 2015

REGISTRATION & CONFERENCE FEE:
The conference fee includes: the conference folder, book of abstracts, refreshments and snack lunch on both conference days, and the conference dinner on Thursday. Please note that it does not include
accommodation and the trip on Saturday.

Early bird Participants who are not members of AELFE or QUEST EURO 150
(till 15 May) Members of AELFE, ASE and QUEST EURO 100
Participants who are not members of AELFE or QUEST EURO 175 After 15 May
Members of AELFE, ASE and QUEST EURO 125

Reduced fee for students: 30 euros (includes conference folder, refreshments and snack lunch on both days).

Account details for the bank transfer are on the attached Registration Form.
Details on AELFE membership: at www.aelfe.org or send a message to info@aelfe.org
Details on QUEST membership: at www.quest.ro or send a message to questromania@gmail.com
More details on social activities and accommodation will be announced soon at www.quest.ro.

CONTACT: For all conference matters please contact: aelfe2015@gmail.com

The 10th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM10) September 7-10, 2015

The 10th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM10) will take place at the University of Haifa (Israel) on September 7-10, 2015.

The aim of MMM is to bring together linguists who work on morphology in an informal setting which guarantees maximal interaction between researchers, and gives young linguists an opportunity to present their work at a conference of moderate size, with no parallel sessions, where fruitful contacts with senior linguists can be established.

The theme of the conference will be:

“Quo vadis morphology? Grammar, cognition and computation”

MMM celebrates its 10th meeting with a look at the present and future of morphology. How has the field evolved over the last years? Where do we stand now? And, most importantly, where do we go from here? We welcome contributions that explore new empirical and methodological directions in morphology, especially in the following domains:

– Morphology and grammar: what is (or should be) the place of morphology in linguistic theory? How do we face well-known challenges to foundational issues such as the notion of word, the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis, or the universality of lexical/grammatical categories?

– Morphology and cognition: what can morphology tell us about the mind and language acquisition? How can we reconcile morphological theory and experimental research? What can morphology learn from the other cognitive sciences?

– Morphology and computation: what are the new frontiers for computational approaches to morphology? How is the “big-data effect” affecting morphological research / theory?

Following the MMM tradition, beside the Thematic session (“Quo vadis”), there will be a Free topic session that welcomes all kinds of contributions on morphology and related disciplines.

We explicitly welcome contributions on sign languages, which show how morphology in an alternative natural language modality may shed light on morphology in general.

Invited speakers

Stephen R. Anderson (Yale University)
Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)
Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University)

Program outline

Sept 7: morning:  free guided tour of Haifa
afternoon: Workshop on languages in Israel (Hebrew, Arabic, and local sign languages)
Sept 8: Thematic session “Quo vadis morphology?”
Sept 9: Free topic session
Sept 10: Excursion (details to be posted on the MMM10 website)

Abstract submission

We invite abstracts (500 words maximum, excluding bibliography) for oral presentations or posters. Each abstract will be reviewed anonymously by the MMM Permanent Committee and the MMM Local Organizing Committee.

Abstracts should be sent to mmm10haifa@gmail.com.

Please attach two versions of the abstract: one with authors’s names and one anonymous (both should be in .pdf format). In the body of the mail, please specify:
authors’ names and contact details;
title of abstract;
intended session (Thematic session, Free topic session, Workshop on local languages of Israel);
format preference (oral presentation or poster).

Important dates

Deadline for abstract submission: March 1, 2015.
Notification of decision: May 15, 2015.
Program available: May 31, 2015.
Early bird registration: July 1, 2015

Fees

Early bird registration
(until July 1)
Regular registration
(after July 1)
Student fee
20 Euros
35 Euros
Regular fee
55 Euros
75 Euros

MMM Local Organizing Committee
Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa), Chair
Edit Doron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Elizabeth Ritter (Ben Gurion University)
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad (Bar Ilan University)
Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa)
Outi Bat-El (Tel Aviv University)

MMM Permanent Committee

Jenny Audring (University of Amsterdam)
Geert Booij (Leiden University)
Nikos Koutsoukos (University of Patras)
Francesca Masini (University of Bologna)
Angela Ralli (University of Patras)
Sergio Scalise (University of Bologna)

Contact

mmm10haifa@gmail.com

MMM10 website

http://mmm10.haifa.ac.il/index.php?lang=en

MMM permanent website

http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/mmm2/

EUROCALL2015 Deadline for submissions of proposals 15th February #corpuscall

The 22nd EUROCALL conference will be held at the University of Padova in Italy from 26th to 29th August 2015.

The program will include individual papers, symposia, workshops, presentations on EU-funded projects, and posters.

EUROCALL conferences are hosted under the auspices of the EUROCALL Association. They bring together educators, researchers, PhD students, administrators, designers of software and language learning systems, policy makers and other professionals involved in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) around the globe.

Conference Theme
The theme of this year’s conference is Critical CALL, fostering the notion that we now want to step back and critically appraise the field of CALL, to unpack and examine some of the assumptions that may have become ingrained in our practice, and also to reflect on the state of CALL and language pedagogy. There is also a need to take a critical stance and question what it is we are doing and whose interests we might be serving, since technology is not neutral, and nor is education. Inspired by those who advocate critical approaches to second language teaching, learning and assessment, especially when mediated by technology, we are particularly interested in contributions that look at the interdependence between language learning, power relationships and social change.

Papers on the following themes would be particularly welcome:
·         Lessons learnt in CALL
·         The constraints of CALL (institutional, financial, technological, social)
·         Hegemonies in CALL
·         Corpora and foreign language teaching and course design
·         Learner corpora
·         CALL for CLIL and Language Medium Instruction
·         Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization through CALL
·         Telecollaboration and CMC
·         CALL and less commonly taught languages
·         CALL, inclusion and social justice
·         Digital and critical literacies
·         Open educational resources
·         MOOCs for language learning
·         Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL)
·         Gaming and virtual worlds
·         Learning analytics and CALL design
·         Online testing and assessment
·         Teacher education and professional development
·         Evaluating CALL research

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Keynote speakers at EUROCALL2015 will be:
-Sìan Bayne (University of Edinburgh)  on critical approaches to ICT
-Lynn Mario Menezes de Souza (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
-Robert O’Dowd (Universidad de León, Spain)

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Proposals for Papers, Symposia, European Projects, Workshops and Posters must be submitted online via the EUROCALL submission system which is now open.  The submission system will close on 15th February 2015.

Abstracts may be submitted in English or Italian.

Authors of accepted presentations are requested to submit a short paper (1,500 words) for publication in the online conference proceedings, and may also submit an extended version for peer-reviewed publication in ReCALL or the EUROCALL Review. Details will follow shortly.

Important dates
Deadline for submissions of proposals: 15th February 2015

Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2015

Early-bird Registration ends: 31st May 2015

Deadline for submissions of short papers for proceedings: 30th June 2015

1st international conference: Approaches to digital discourse analysis – ADDA 1 Valencia, 19-20 november 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are invited for the 1st International Conference: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis – ADDA 1, which will take place in Valencia, 19-20 November 2015.

This conference aims to bring together researches interested in the analysis of digital discourse from different disciplines, approaches and traditions. Thus, it seeks to foster state-of-the-art debates and discussions on this burgeoning field of research and provide opportunities for multidisciplinary and critical reflection.

Convenors

Patricia Bou-Franch – Universitat de Valencia

Pilar G. Blitvich – University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Confirmed plenary speakers

Jannis Androutsopoulos – Universität Hamburg

Susan C. Herring – Indiana University

Crispin Thurlow – University of Bern

Conference themes

Papers are invited from discourse scholars from different traditions focusing on digital discourse, among others:

· Research methods in digital discourse analysis
· Critical digital discourse analysis
· Micro analysis of digital discourse
· Digital genres
· Discourse and identities in the digital world
· Multimodality and digital discourse
· Conflict in digital discourse
· Cognitive approaches to discourse analysis
· Digital discourse and the professions
· Digital service encounters
· Political discourse in the digital age
· Gender and the digital media
· Digital discourse and education

Submission information

Important dates:

15 January: Deadline for panel proposals

30 January: Notification of acceptance of panel proposals

15 February: Deadline for abstracts submission (including those in accepted panels)

15 March: Notification of acceptance

· Panel proposals:

Panel proposals are invited by 15 January 2015. In order to propose a panel, organizer(s) need to submit the panel title, a description (up to 500 words), and a list of participants (up to 6) along with the titles of their individual presentations. Once the panel is approved, individual presenters should submit their abstracts (before February 15) in order to be reviewed externally. When they submit their individual proposals, panel participants should mention the title of the panel they are contributing to. Panel organizers would need to make sure that all panel participants submit their proposals timely and follow the guidelines for proposals

· Individual papers:

Abstracts of no more than 350 words, including references, are invited. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 February 2015. Please send the abstracts to the conference email address, as a word document and remember not to include author(s) name and affiliation in the abstract.

. Notification of acceptance by 15 March.

Future publication

There will be a call for full papers, as we are planning to publish a volume with selected contributions. Details will follow soon.

Contact

For any queries please contact ADDA 1 organizers Patricia Bou-Franch and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich at adda.organizers@gmail.com