4.0970 Conference Announcements (3/19)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 4 Feb 91 00:02:08 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0970. Sunday, 3 Feb 1991.


(1) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 91 13:27 EST (45 lines)
From: MELANCON@umtlvr.bitnet
Subject: TWO-DAY SEMINAR ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY

(2) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 91 16:48 EST (49 lines)
From: MELANCON@umtlvr.bitnet
Subject: EPISTOLARITY (association)

(3) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 91 18:55 EDT (100 lines)
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@vaxsar.vassar.edu>
Subject: WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING

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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 91 13:27 EST
From: MELANCON@umtlvr.bitnet
Subject: TWO-DAY SEMINAR ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY

TWO-DAY SEMINAR ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY

On February 22 and 23, 1991, the Centre d'etudes quebecoises de
l'Universite de Montreal will host a two-day seminar on
interdisciplinarity.

PROGRAM

Vendredi 22 fevrier

9 h 30 : Mot de bienvenue de Bernard Beugnot, directeur du Departement
d'etudes francaises de l'Universite de Montreal
9 h 45 : Marc Angenot (Universite McGill) : "Methodes des etudes litteraires,
methodes des sciences sociales" (commentaire de Pierre Popovic)
11 h 00 : Jean-Claude Guedon (Universite de Montreal) : "Strategies de
representation du monde des sciences et des techniques dans la culture
quebecoise,1850-1939" (commentaire de Jean-Francois Chassay)
14 h 00 : Fernand Dumont (Universite Laval) : "Ideologie, historiographie,
litterature" (commentaire de Gilles Marcotte)
15 h 00 : Georges Leroux (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) : "La question du
recit metaphysique" (commentaire de Christie McDonald)

Samedi 23 fevrier

9 h 30 : Pol-Pierre Gossiaux (Universite de Liege) : titre a confirmer
(commentaire de Jeanne Demers)
10 h 45 : Robert Morrissey (Universite de Chicago) : "Se sentir chez soi :
histoire, roman et nation dans les Mysteres du peuple d'Eugene Sue"
(commentaire de Micheline Cambron)
11 h 45 : Jacques Neefs (Universite de Paris-VIII) : "La litterature et le
partage des disciplines : Balzac, Flaubert" (commentaire de Michel
Pierssens)

Benoit Melancon
Departement d'etudes francaises
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, succ. A
Montreal (Quebec)
Canada H3C3J7
MELANCON@UMTLVR.BITNET
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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 91 16:48 EST
From: MELANCON@umtlvr.bitnet
Subject: EPISTOLARITY (association)

Association interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l'epistolaire
(A.I.R.E.)

L'A.I.R.E. a ete fondee en 1987 lors du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle
consacre a l'epistolarite. Elle reprenait alors les objectifs de
l'Association des correspondances fondee a Nantes en 1981. D'abord
domiciliee a l'Universite de Nantes (sous la presidence de Jean-
Louis Bonnat), elle est accueillie depuis 1989 par l'Universite de
Caen. Le professeur Andre Magnan en est actuellement le president.

Les objectifs de l'A.I.R.E. sont les suivants : a) regrouper les
chercheurs de toutes les disciplines s'interessant a la pratique
epistolaire; b) constituer une bibliographie des recherches sur
l'epistolaire, quelle que soit la discipline; c) constituer un annuaire
des chercheurs interesses par la question de l'epistolaire; d) faire
circuler toute information pertinente a l'etude de la lettre; e)
organiser des colloques, rencontres et seminaires portant sur la
lettre; f) publier un BULLETIN d'information.

L'A.I.R.E. compte parmi ses membres des philosophes, des historiens,
des specialistes de l'histoire de l'art, des psychanalyste, des
litteraires, des semioticiens, des linguistes, des sociologues, des
psychologues, etc.

Au Canada, on peut s'inscrire, au cout de 10 $ CAN, aupres de :
Benoit Melancon
Departement d'etudes francaises
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, succ. A
Montreal (Quebec)
Canada H3C 3J7
MELANCON@UMTLVR.BITNET

En France, on peut s'inscrire, au cout de 80 FF, aupres de la
secretaire-tresoriere de l'A.I.R.E. :
Mireille Bossis
8, rue de la Villette
75019 Paris
France

L'Association a aussi des correspondants en Belgique, en Espagne, en
Grande-Bretagne, en Italie, aux Pays-Bas, au Portugal, en R.F.A., en
Suisse, en Republique Sud-Africaine, aux Etats-Unis. On pourra se
procurer les coordonnees de ces differents correspondants aupres
de Benoit Melancon.
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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 91 18:55 EDT
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@vaxsar.vassar.edu>
Subject: WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING

I thought you might find the following call for papers of interest.
Carl Weir
weir@PRC.Unisys.COM

CALL FOR PAPERS

WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING

October 27, 1991
Washington, D.C.

The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) invites sub-
missions for a Language and Information Processing Workshop, to
be held on October 27, 1991 at the ASIS '91 meeting in Washington,
D.C. The theme of ASIS '91 is "Systems Understanding People,
People Understanding Systems".

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are
concerned with the potentially significant role of sophisticated natural
language processing (NLP) in intelligent information retrieval (IR).
The workshop will focus on the progress that has been made to date on
the application of NLP methods to the IR problem and will provide a forum
for discussing some promising areas for future research. Submitted papers
must reflect substantive work done at the intersection of NLP and IR.
Papers should emphasize completed work rather than future plans.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Alexa T. McCray, National Library of Medicine
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
Carl Weir, Unisys
David Lewis, University of Massachusetts

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS:

Submit 5 copies of a draft paper, not exceeding 10 single-spaced
pages (exclusive of references) to arrive no later than May 31,
1991. A cover page should include the title, full names of all
authors, the address of the primary author, including an e-mail
address if possible, and a short abstract. Send submissions to
the workshop chair:

Alexa T. McCray
National Library of Medicine
Bldg. 38A/9N905, Mail Stop 54
Bethesda, Md. 20894

Phone: (301) 496-9300
Internet: mccray@nlm.nih.gov

SCHEDULE:

Submissions should be sent to arrive by May 31, 1991.
Notification of acceptance will be made by July 15, 1991.
Camera-ready papers will be due on September 16, 1991.
Workshop will be held on October 27, 1991.

WORKSHOP INFORMATION:

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 54th annual
meeting of the American Society for Information Science (October
27-31, 1991). A full proceedings of the workshop will be made
available to those attend. The workshop will be open to all
interested researchers, but presentations will be limited to
accepted papers. There will be a $30.00 workshop registration fee
which will be used to cover the cost of preparing the proceedings
and providing refreshments. Lunch will not be provided.