11.0637 Workshop Announcements

Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 637.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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[1] From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing- (59)
services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Multimedia Shakespeare Workshop, 30 March 1998

[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (108)
Subject: Workshop Deadline Extension

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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 20:24:22 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Multimedia Shakespeare Workshop, 30 March 1998

Multimedia Shakespeare to Teach Performance and Interpretation

http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/service/workshop/shakes.html

30 March 1998
2.00pm - 5.00pm

CTI Centre for Textual Studies,
University of Oxford,
13 Banbury Road, Oxford.

The Open University/BBC Shakespeare Multimedia Research Project is
developing interactive educational tools about Shakespeare in performance.
This half day workshop, run in conjunction with the CTI Centre for Textual
Studies, will introduce participants to the work of the Project and in
particular demonstrate the pilot CD-ROM 'King Lear in Performance'.
Participants will have the opportunity to see how new technologies can
enable students to bring together text, image, and idea to present their own
interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. Sessions will include discussion of:
mediating performance, packaging expert opinion, imaginative resolution of
copyright problems, how Shakespeare can subsidize the arts, and a glimpse at
future prospects.

Programme:

1.30-2.00 Arrival and Registration

2.00-2.30 Introduction to Shakespeare Studies & Distance Learning at the
Open University

2.30-3.00 The Shakespeare Multimedia Research Project

3.00-3.45 King Lear on CD-ROM

3.45-4.15 Tea and opportunity for hands-on

4.15-5.00 Panel session and opportunity for discussion. Issues may include:
* copyright
* integration into learning
* evaluation
* future prospects

Attendance at the workshop is free of charge. Places are limited and
booking is essential. To book a place please complete and email/fax back
the form below or fill in the online form at
http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/service/workshop/shakes.html

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I WOULD LIKE TO BOOK A PLACE ON THE FOLLOWING HALF-DAY WORKSHOP:

[ ] Multimedia Shakespeare to Teach Performance and Interpretation

Date: 30 March 1998
Venue: CTI Textual Studies, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford
Cost: Free of charge

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PLEASE FAX/EMAIL COMPLETED BOOKING FORM TO:

Ms Abigail Cooke, CTI Textual Studies
Email: abigail.cooke@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Fax: 01865 273 275
Tel: 01865 273 221.

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 18:23:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Workshop Deadline Extension

>> From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>

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DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED!

In response to concerns about the short
time span between the final cfp issued
a few days ago and the original submis-
sion deadline, it has been decided to
extend the deadline by 3 weeks.
Please see the revised timetable below.
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(Final) Call for papers

Coling-ACL '98 workshop

"Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers"

August 15, 1998
Universiti de Montrial
Montrial/Canada

(See also: http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html)

The notion of discourse relation has received many different
interpretations, some of which are hardly compatible with one
another. Nonetheless, there is a consensus among researchers that
intersegment relations hold between adjacent portions of a text and
that these relations may be signalled by linguistic means, including
so-called cue phrases, aspect and mood shifts, theme inversions, and
other markers.

The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on
discourse relations and discourse markers in different linguistic
traditions and different NLP applications. The particular focus of the
workshop is the issue of discourse relations from the viewpoint of
linguistic realization. Specifically, contributions should address one
or more of the following questions:

o What are sound methodologies for comparing similar discourse markers
(contrastive studies, distribution analyses, etc.)?

o What are sound methodologies for relating discourse relations with
potential realizations?

o Are there discourse relations that are always lexically signalled?
Are there any that are never lexically signalled?

o What non-lexical (i.e., syntactic or prosodic) means are used to
signal a relation?

o In production, how does one decide whether to signal a relation at
all?

o In production, how does one motivate a choice among candidate
signals for a given relation?

o In production, how does the choice of signal interact with other
decisions (in particular, those of linearizing some tree or graph
structure)?

o In analysis, is it possible to reliably infer discourse relations
from surface cues?

o In analysis, how can one disambiguate polysemous signals such as
"and", "since" (temporal or causal) etc.?

o What are useful lexical representations of discourse markers, for
both analysis and production?

o What are useful representations of discourse relations (and the
entities they relate), such that they facilitate the realization
decision? What features would one like to have handy in a
representation so that choices can be made easily?

o Are there significant differences between realizations in spoken and
written language?

o How do individual languages differ in terms of any of the above
issues?

Organizing committee

The workshop is organized by

Manfred Stede (TU Berlin)
Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart)
Eduard Hovy (ISI/USC, Marina del Rey)

Requirements for submission

Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above.
Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references.
Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the
text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm).
Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11
to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title.
LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by
ACL: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty Papers
can be submitted either electronically in PostScript format, or
as hardcopies.

Submissions from North America should be sent to:

Eduard Hovy
Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
U.S.A.
hovy@isi.edu

Submissions from elsewhere should be sent to either of the following:

Manfred Stede Leo Wanner
TU Berlin Computer Science Department
KIT Project Group Intelligent Systems Group
Sekr. FR 6-10 University of Stuttgart
Franklinstr. 28/29 Breitwiesenstr. 20-22
D-10587 Berlin D-70565 Stuttgart
Germany Germany
stede@cs.tu-berlin.de wannerlo@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

Timetable

Deadline for electronic submissions: April 6, 1998
Deadline for hardcopy submissions: April 9 (arrival date)
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 1998
Final manuscripts due: June 15, 1998

Program committee

Sandra Carberry (U Delaware)
Barbara DiEugenio (U Pittsburgh)
Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI)
Alistair Knott (U Edinburgh)
Alex Lascarides (U Edinburgh)
Owen Rambow (Cogentex Inc.)
Ted Sanders (U Utrecht)
Donia Scott (U Brighton)
Wilbert Spooren (U Tilburg)
Manfred Stede (TU Berlin)
Keith Vander Linden (Calvin College)
Marilyn Walker (ATT Labs)
Leo Wanner (U Stuttgart)

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