8.0420 3rd CFP: Advances in NLP (1/240)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 24 Mar 1995 22:04:06 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0420. Friday, 24 Mar 1995.

Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 10:54:20 +0000
From: Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP - RECENT ADVANCES IN NLP



* Please post: Third Call For Papers



International Conference

"RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING"

14-16 September 1995
Velingrad, Bulgaria

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language
Processing and Language Engineering are invited, including but not
limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon;
phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and
generation; multilingual NLP, machine translation, machine-aided
translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language
processing; written and spoken natural language interfaces; knowledge
acquisition; text summarization; computer-assisted language learning;
language resources; evaluation, assessment and standards in language
engineering; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related
to NLP of every kind.

The conference welcomes also new results in NLP based on modern
alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of
symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connectionist as well
as hybrid and multimedia approaches.

In view of the recent explosion of the use of on-line language
resources the conference especially welcomes contributions in the area
of language engineering.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

B. Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino)
C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble)
E. Charniak (Brown University)
K. S. Choi (KAIST, Taejon)
A. DeRoeck (University of Essex)
R. Delmonte (University of Venice)
J. P. Descles (University Paris Sorbonne)
S. Finch (University of Edinburgh)
G. Goerz (University of Erlangen)
E. Hajicova (Charles University, Prague)
J. Haller (IAI, Saarbruecken)
P. Jacobs (SRA, Arlington)
A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
L. Kartunen (Xerox Grenoble)
M. Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto)
R. Kittredge (University of Montreal)
K. Kukich (Bellcore, Morristown)
J. Mariani (LIMSI, Orsay)
C. Martin-Vide (University Rovira i Virgili)
Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
K. McKeown (Columbia University)
R. Mitkov (IAI/Institute of Mathematics)
S. Nirenburg (New Mexico State University)
M. Pinkal (University of Saarland, Saarbruecken)
A. Ramsey (University College Dublin)
H. Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
P. Seuren (University of Nijmegen)
O. Stock (IRST, Trento)
B. Tsou (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong)
J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester)
D. Tufis (Romanian Academy of Sciences)
D. Yarowsky (University of Pennsylvania)
M. Zock (LISMI, Orsay)


INVITED SPEAKERS:

A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester)
C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble)



PAPER SUBMISSION:

Papers not exceeding 3500 words should be submitted via Email
(preferably as plain text or in LaTeX format) not later than 20 April
1995 to:

mitkov@informatik.uni-hamburg.de

The first page should also contain the surface and Email address(es)
of the author(s), as well as the topic area.


SUBMISSION MEDIA:

Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to:

Ruslan Mitkov
Department of Computer Science
University of Hamburg
Vogt Koelln St. 30
22527 Hamburg
GERMANY

If electronic submission is problematic (e.g. due to non-standard
format, characters, graphics) not possible, 4 copies of the paper
should be sent.


SCHEDULE:

Authors must submit their papers by 20 April 1995. Notification of
receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon
after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20 June
1995. Camera-ready versions of the accepted papers, preferably using a
laser printer, must be received by 20 July 1995.


LOCATION:

The town of Velingrad is situated in a picturesque valley in the
Western Rhodope mountains and is only 130km from Sofia, the capital
of Bulgaria. The local organizers will provide a daily shuttle bus/
conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location
at an inexpensive rate. Sofia is easily accessible by plane from most
of the major European cities (e.g. daily flights or several flights
per week from London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Vienna and other
European cities). There are also direct flights to Sofia from North
America (New York) and Asia (Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur).


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Ruslan Mitkov IAI Saarbruecken/Institute of Mathematics, Sofia
Michael Zock LIMSI, Orsay, France
Manfred Kudlek University of Hamburg, Germany
Nikolai Nikolov Incoma, Bulgaria
Nicolas Nicolov Dept. of AI, University of Edinburgh, UK


REGISTRATION FEE

Full-time students - USD 100
Academic staff - USD 140
Researchers in industry - USD 180

The registration fee includes attendance at the conference, a copy of
the proceedings, refreshments and a reception.

Participants will be informed of the conference bank account in May
and will be asked to send their registration fee by international money
order before 15 July 1995. On site payment by credit card, cheque or cash
will be possible, but with a surcharge of USD 30.


CONFERENCE INFORMATION:

For further information contact:

Nicolas Nicolov
Dept of Artificial Intelligence
University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1HN
Nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk
Tel: +44-131 650 2727
Fax: +44-131 650 6516


Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should
send a brief description together with a specification of physical
requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to
the above address. The organisers can provide PCs and Macintoshes.


WWW and FTP:

Information about the International Conference "Recent Advances in
Natural Language Processing" is available via:

- WWW at URL: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/misc/NLP_Conf.html

- anonymous FTP from ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk in file: pub/user/adv_nlp.ps
Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user input is
underlined):

$ ftp ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Name (ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk: nicolas): anonymous
^^^^^^^^^
Password: <- Type in your email here!
^^^^^^^^^^^^
ftp> cd pub/user
^^^^^^^^^^^
ftp> get adv_nlp.ps <- PostScript version
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ftp> get adv_nlp.txt <- Plain Text File
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

RELATED EVENTS:

Conference participants are also invited to take part in the
International Summer School "Contemporary Topics in Computational
Linguistics", which will take place just before the conference in
Tzigov Chark, Batak Lake, only 20 km from Velingrad.
Further information about the summer school can be obtained from:
Prof. R. Mitkov <mitkov@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> or
Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk>


INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPANTS / PUBLISHING COMPANIES:

Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP-related
products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books
on NLP. Company representatives should inform Nicolas Nicolov
<nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk> of their intention and publishing
houses should contact Dr.R.Mitkov <mitkov@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>.

NB Prof. Ruslan Mitkov's NEW email is:
<mitkov@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>


ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM:

An alternative program can be arranged for persons accompanying
delegates. Among the places which can be visited is Plovdiv, the
second largest and oldest Bulgarian city, beautifully situated on
7 hills 80 km away from Velingrad.
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NEXT CALL FOR PAPERS:

The next call for papers, including more information on invited talks,
and conference location will be posted in due time.

The information about the conference will be kept updated on the ftp
site and on the WWW (mentioned above).
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