MTT 2011 - MTT 2011: 5th International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory

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Category MTT 2011

Deadline: June 01, 2011 | Date: September 08, 2011-September 09, 2011

Venue/Country: Barcelona, Spain

Updated: 2011-03-15 14:58:54 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

8 to 9 September 2011, Barcelona, ??Spain

The Meaning-Text Theory is a holistic linguistic theory wherein in Particular by the central position of the lexicon, the primacy of semantics, the importance of the communicative structure (= information structure), and the reliance on dependencies on all levels. MTT has been extensively developed over the last four decades with respect to its coverage of linguistic phenomena and application in a variety of research fields - In Particular natural language processing.

After MTT '03 in Paris '05 in Moscow MTT, MTT '07 in Klagenfurt, and MTT '09 in Montreal, this conference is the fifth in a series that aims at bringing together researchers working on MTT and its implementation in the framework of different natural language processing applications. The conference will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Linguistics Dependency to take place immediately before MTT '11. Unlike the previous Conferences MTT, MTT '11 will be organized in terms of thematic tracks. This new format shall help the conference center and stimulate in-depth contributions and discussions at the conference. Submissions are invited on one of the following themes approached from the perspective of MTT or any related framework:

MTT 2011, be organized into 6 tracks:

1. Fundamentals (semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology and their interaction), Chair: Sylvain Kahane

2. Dictionaries and Lexical Semantics, Chairs: Valentina Apresjan and Tilmann Reuther

3. Collocations, Chairs: Margarita Alonso Ramos and Leo Wanner

4. Semantic Derivation and Morphology, Chair: Maarten Janssen

5. Computational Applications, Chair: Igor Boguslavsky

6. Terminology, Chairs: Amparo Alcina and Marie-Claude L'Homme

SUBMISSION FORMAT:

Submissions must be in English. They may not exceed 10 pages in length (including all figures, data, notes, and bibliography) using a 12 point font, printed in one column) and should Indicate To which track they are submitted. Style files for LaTeX and Word will be published later in the website of the conference. All submissions will be electronic, in pdf format via easy chair.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: June, 1st 2011

* Notification of acceptance: June, 22nd 2011

* Final version due: July, 15th 2011

* Main Conference: September, 8th-9th 2011

PROGRAM CHAIRS:

Igor Boguslavsky, Poli Technical University of Madrid

Leo Wanner, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR:

Lorraine Baqué, Autonomous University of Barcelona

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Track chairs and

Lorraine Baqué, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Maria Auxiliadora Barrios Rodriguez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

David Beck, University of Alberta

Bernd Bohnet, University of Stuttgart

Margarita Correia, ILTEC

Béatrice Daille, LINA Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes

Dmitry Dobrovolsky, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences

Pamela Faber, Universidad de Granada

Kim Gerdes, Sorbonne Nouvelle

Boris Iomdin, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences

Leonid Iomdin, Russian Academy of Sciences

Lydia Iordanskaja, University of Montreal

Anne-Laure Jousse, University of Montreal

François Lareau, Macquarie University

Roman Laskowski, Polish Academy of Sciences

Patrick Leroy, Aarhus Business School

Irina Levontina, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences

François Maniez, Université Lumière Lyon 2

Igor Mel'cuk, University of Montreal

Jasmina Milicevic, Dalhousie University

Alain Polguère, Université Nancy 2

Agnès Tutin, Université Grenoble 3

Serge Verlinde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Daniel Weiss, University of Zurich

Robert pliers enemy, University of Munich

Contact

mtt2011depling.org