8.0308 CFPS: Computers and Text; PACLING '95 (2/270)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 17 Nov 1994 18:22:38 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0308. Thursday, 17 Nov 1994.


(1) Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 11:14:54 +0000 (44 lines)
From: Stuart Lee <stuart@vax.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Computers and Texts 8

(2) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 23:18:25 +1000 (226 lines)
From: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au (Prof. Roly Sussex)
Subject: request to distribute

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Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 11:14:54 +0000
From: Stuart Lee <stuart@vax.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Computers and Texts 8

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Computers & Texts # 8

CALL FOR PAPERS

Newsletter of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies

Computers & Texts has now been running for three years and is the newsletter of
the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies, based at
Oxford University Computing Services. The subjects covered by the Centre
include literature, linguistics, classics, theology, philosophy (& logic),
theatre arts, and media studies. The newsletter has a selection of short
articles relating to computer-aided learning in textual studies, a section
devoted to the Office for Humanities Communication, and has a mailing of over
2,000 world-wide. Articles relating to projects dealing with electronic text
centres and editions are particularly welcome.

Format: Submissions should be of approximately 1000-1500 words although this is
open to discussion with the editors. Footnotes should be limited and placed at
the end of the article. References to published works should be of the form
(Smith, 1992) with full bibliographic details given at the end of the article.
Screen dumps are accepted, preferably in TIFF or PICT format for the Macintosh.

Deadline: 25 November, 1994

Send all details to:

Lorna Hughes or Mike Popham
Research Officers
CTI Centre for Textual Studies
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
Tel:0865-273221
Fax:0865-273221
E-mail: CTITEXT@vax.ox.ac.uk

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 23:18:25 +1000
From: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au (Prof. Roly Sussex)
Subject: request to distribute



CALL FOR PAPERS

(Third Circular and extended submission date)
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PACLING '95
Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics
2nd Conference

April 19-22 (Wed-Sat) 1995
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia



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* HISTORY AND AIMS *
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PACLING (= Pacific Association for Computational
LINGuistics) has grown out of the very successful Japan-
Australia joint symposia on natural language processing
(NLP) held in November 1989 in Melbourne, Australia and in
October 1991 in Iizuka City, Japan. The first meeting of
the retitled PACLING, a name designed to express the wider
membership, took place in Vancouver, Canada in April 1993.

PACLING '95 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop-
oriented meeting whose aim is to promote friendly
scientific relations among Pacific Rim countries, with
emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange showing
openness towards good research falling outside current
dominant "schools of thought," and on technological
transfer within the Pacific region. The conference is a
unique forum for scientific and technological exchange,
being smaller than ACL, COLING or Applied NLP, and also
more regional with extensive representation from the
Western Pacific (as well as the Eastern).

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* TOPICS *
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Original papers are invited on any topic in computational
linguistics (and strongly related areas) including (but not
limited to) the following:

Language subjects:
text, speech;
pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax,
lexicon, morphology, phonology, phonetics;
language and communication channels,
e.g., touch, movement, vision, sound;
language and input/output devices,
e.g., keyboards, menus, touch screens,
mice, light pens, graphics (incl. animation);
language and context,
e.g., from the subject domain, discourse,
spatial and temporal deixis.

Approaches and architectures:
computational linguistic,
multi-modal but natural-language centred;
formal, knowledge-based, statistical, connectionist;
dialogue, user, belief or other model-based;
parallel/serial processing
corpora and large-text linguistics

Applications:
text and message understanding and generation,
language translation and translation aids,
language learning and learning aids;
question-answering systems and interfaces to multi-
media databases
(text, audio/video, (geo)graphic);
terminals for Asian and other languages,
user interfaces;
natural language-based software.


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* SUBMISSION OF PAPERS *
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Authors should prepare full papers, in English, not more than
5000 words including references, approximately 20 double-
spaced pages. The title page must include: author's name,
postal address, e-mail address (if applicable), telephone
and fax numbers; a brief 100-200 word summary; and some key
words for classifying the submission.

Please send four (4) copies of each submission to:

Christian Matthiessen
Department of Linguistics
University of Sydney
Sydney 2006
AUSTRALIA

tel: +61 2 692 4227
fax: +61 2 552 1683
email: cmathies@extro.ucc.su.oz.au


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* SCHEDULE *
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EXTENDED DEADLINE
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In order to overcome some problems of information distribution,
the deadline for the submission of papers has been extended by
4 weeks.

Submission deadline: November 30th, 1994
Notification of acceptance: January 16th, 1995
Camera-ready copy due: March 1st, 1995


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* BACK TO BACK COGNITIVE SCIENCE CONFERENCE*
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The annual meeting of the Australian Cognitive Science Society
will be held at the University of Queensland from April 18-20.
Arrangements are being made with the organizers of that conference
for Pacling delegates to attend sessions of the Cognitive Science
Conference, and we are negotiating with them about joint sessions
and a coordinated program.
On the afternoon of Thursday 20 April CogSci95 will hold
a workshop on the applications of cognitive science. Pacling
delegates who would like to demonstrate software, or who would
like to offer a contribution, should contact Roly Sussex as soon
as possible.



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* CONFERENCE COMMITTEE CHAIR *
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The Conference Committee Chair of PACLING'95 is
Roland Sussex
Centre for Language Teaching and Research
The University of Queensland
Queensland 4072
Australia

telephone: +61 7 365 6896
fax: +61 7 365 7077
email: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au



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* PUBLICITY AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS *
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The conference will take place at the Centre for Language
Teaching and Research of the University of Queensland in
Brisbane, Australia. We are negotiating preferential rates
from downtown hotels.

Delegates may wish to visit attractions like the Barrier
Reef, Australia's desert centre or tropical rain forests
before or after the Conference, and we shall be negotiating
with travel companies to provide tour and travel
information.

For further information on the conference and on local
arrangements, contact

Hongliang Qiao
Centre for Language Teaching and Research
The University of Queensland
Queensland 4072
Australia

tel: +61 7 365 6897
fax: +61 7 365 7077
email: qiao@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au


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* PACLING '95 COMMITTEES *
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Organizing Committee
Chair:
Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Members:
Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Christian Matthiessen (University of Sydney, Australia)*
Nick Cercone (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Charles Fillmore(University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Conference Committee:
Chair:
Roland Sussex (University of Queensland, Australia)
Members:
Dan Fass(Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Randy Goebel(University of Alberta, Canada)
Kiyoshi Kogure(NTT, Japan)*
Paul McFetridge(Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Jun-ichi Nakamura(Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Minako O'Hagan(Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)
Fred Popowich(Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Hiroshi Sakaki(KDD, Japan)
Akira Shimazu (NTT, Japan)
Stanley Starosta(University of Hawaii, USA)*
Roland Sussex(University of Queensland, Australia)
Masami Suzuki(KDD, Japan)
* Program Coordinator