[1] From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu (59)
Subject: GURT'96
[2] From: col96@cst.ku.dk (200)
Subject: COLING96
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 22:30:08 -0500 (EST)
From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: GURT'96
Georgetown University Round Table
on Languages and Linguistics 1996
Linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation:
Current trends and future prospects
March 14 - March 16, 1996
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This is a brief version intended to keep list messages short.
To see the full program, visit this www-site:
>> http://www.georgetown.edu/conferences/gurt96/gurt96.html
.....or contact the GURT staff at the address given below.
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Thursday, March 14, 1996
Opening remarks
James E. Alatis, Chair, Georgetown University Round Table
1996
Dedication of Conference to Earl Stevick, Independent Researcher
Plenary Address
David Crystal, Cambridge University Press
"Playing with linguistic problems from Orwell to Plato and
back again"
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Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16, 1996
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Michael Breen, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Anna Uhl Chamot, The George Washington University
Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics
Mary Ann Christison, Snow College
Reinhold Freudenstein, IFS der Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg/Lahn,
Germany
Braj Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yamuna Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California
Donna Lardiere and Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University
Ronald P. Leow, Georgetown University
Joan Morley, University of Michigan
Peter Patrick, Georgetown University
Theodore Rodgers, University of Hawaii and Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey
Renzo Titone, University of Rome, Italy and University of Toronto,
Ontario
Walt Wolfram and Gail Hamilton, North Carolina State University
and Ocracoke School, North Carolina
*****
Tutorial with Stephen Krashen, School of Education, University of
Southern California
This workshop will cover, and attempt to integrate, material
presented at Krashen's GURT presentations since 1989. It will
review evidence for and against the input hypothesis, the reading
hypothesis, applications of the input hypothesis to beginning
and intermediate language and literacy development, the role of
light reading, and applications to bilingual education.
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For more information, please contact Carolyn A. Straehle,
Coordinator * GURT 1996 * Georgetown University
International Language Programs and Research * 306-U
Intercultural Center * Washington, DC 20057-1045
e-mail: gurt@guvax.bitnet or gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu *
voice: 202/687-5726 * fax: 202/687-0699
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 11:50:57 -0500
From: col96@cst.ku.dk
Subject: COLING96
COLING 96
International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Dates: 5 (Mon) August - 9 (Fri) August, 1996
Place: University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Chairman of the Program Chairman of the Organizing
Committee Committee
Prof. Jun-ichi Tsujii Prof. Bente Maegaard
CCL, UMIST & University of Tokyo CST, Copenhagen
The International Committee on Computational Linguistics invites
the submission of papers for Coling 96, the 16th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Topics of Interest:
Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished
research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including,
but not limited to, the following.
syntax
semantics
phonetics
phonology
morphology
discourse
pragmatics
quantitative linguistics
corpus linguistics
mathematical linguistics
cognitive linguistics
parsing
generation
language understanding
discourse processing
speech analysis/synthesis
computational lexicon
large text corpora
computational terminology
text data base
information retrieval
knowledge representation for NLP
automatic abstraction
knowledge acquisition from corpora
machine translation
machine aids for translation
dialogue
multi-media systems involving language
man-machine interface
hardware/software for NLP
Requirement for Submission:
Papers should describe unique work: They should emphasize
completed work rather than intended work: A paper accepted for
presentation at the Coling cannot be presented or have been
presented at any other meeting with publicly available published
proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other
conferences must reflect this fact on the title page.
Format for Submission:
Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not
to exceed 4000 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside
the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to
rejection without review. Since reviewing will be "blind", the
title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses.
Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity should be
avoided. To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be
supplied, containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the
author(s), complete addresses, a short summary (10 lines), a word
count, and a specification of the topic area.
Submission Media:
Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to the
Program Chair:
Jun-ichi TSUJII
Department of Information Science
Faculty of Science
University of Tokyo
113 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo
Japan
+ 81-3-3818-1073 (fax.)
coling96@nttkb.ntt.jp (e-mail-address)
Electronic submission should be either self-contained Latex
source or plain text. LaTex submissions must use the COLING style
file and should not refer to any external files or styles. The
COLING style file is retrievable by anonymous ftp from cst.ku.dk,
/pub/COLING96/colsub.sty. A model submission is provided in
/pub/COLING96/modelsub.tex. Alternatively, the information can be
obtained by sending an e-mail request to coling96@cst.ku.dk, with
the subject line containing the word "style" and "model",
respectively.
Hard copy submissions should consist of five (5) copies of the
paper and one (1) copy of the identification page. For both kinds
of submissions, if at all possible, a plain text version of the
identification page should be sent separately by electronic mail,
using the following format:
title: <title>
author: <name of first author>
address: <address of first author>
author: <name of second author>
address: <address of second author>
.......
Important Dates
Preliminary paper submission due: 15 December 1995
Acceptance Notification: 15 March 1996
Camera Ready Copy due: 1 May 1996
Review Schedule: Papers received after 15 December will be
returned unopened. Notification of acceptance will be mailed to
the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. All
inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by 21 January.
Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column
format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by
1 May at
Prof. B. Maegaard
COLING 96
Center for Sprogteknologi
Njalsgade 80
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
along with a signed copyright release statement. The format for
the camera ready copies will be available through ftp at
cst.ku.dk, /pub/COLING96/proc.
Other activities
[1] Invited talks and panels will be included in the program.
Proposals and suggestions for invited talks and panels are
welcomed. They should be sent to Prof.J.Tsujii (E-MAIL:
coling96@nttkb.ntt.jp).
[2] A tutorial program is scheduled for August 2-3. Workshops
will be organised August 4.
Proposals for tutorials should be sent to Bjarne Oersnes
(bjarne@cst.ku.dk), proposals for workshops to Bente Maegaard
(bente@cst.ku.dk).
Any other requests should be addressed to coling96@cst.ku.dk
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WVLC-4 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its special
interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to
NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the
FOURTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-4)
WHEN: August 4, 1996 - in conjunction with COLING 96
(Tutorials: Aug 2-3, Main conference: Aug 5-9, 1996).
WHERE: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This workshop, like preceding ones in the series, will offer an
international and general forum for the presentation of new advances
and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural
language processing.
The fourth workshop will focus on the theme of:
Innovative uses and applications of large corpora
Large corpora, i.e. corpora ranging anywhere from 10^4 to 10^9 words, are
coming into existence for several different languages, and techniques for
analyzing them are improving. How are these resources actually being used?
The workshop encourages contributions that show innovative applications of
corpus-based NLP to problems of practical industrial importance.
The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer
a focus for discussion and debate between researchers and industrialists.
We also expect and will welcome a diverse set of submissions in all areas
of statistical and corpus-based NLP, including (but not limited to)
Text Analysis Techniques:
- robust parsing
- part of speech tagging
- term and name identification
- morphological analysis
- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
- sense disambiguation
- anaphora resolution
- event categorization
- discourse structure
Applications:
- Information Retrieval
- Lexicography
- Machine Translation
- Spelling and Grammar Correction
- Recognition: Speech, OCR, handwriting, etc.
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Eva Ejerhed - University of Umea, Umea, Sweden
Ido Dagan - Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full length paper
(3500 - 8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic
submissions should be mailed to "WVLC-4@ling.umu.se" and must be
either (a) a plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file, or
(c) a single LaTex file (no separate figures or .bib files), following
the COLING 96 stylesheet, which is retrievable by anonymous ftp from
ling.umu.se, /pub/SIGDAT/colsub.sty. A model submission is provided
in /pub/SIGDAT/modelsub.tex. Hard copy submissions should be mailed
to Ido Dagan (address below), and should include four (4) copies of
the paper.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted
for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other
meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered, as
long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission.
SCHEDULE:
Submission Deadline: February 23, 1996
Notification Date: March 26, 1996
Camera ready copy due: April 26, 1996
The camera ready hard copies of final papers, prepared in a double
column format and laser printed, should be air-mailed to Eva Ejerhed
(address below) and must be received by April 26, 1996.
CONTACT:
Eva Ejerhed Ido Dagan
Dept of Linguistics, DGL Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science
University of Umea Bar Ilan University
S 90187 Umea, Sweden Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
e-mail: WVLC-4@ling.umu.se e-mail: dagan@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il
http://www.ling.umu.se/SIGDAT/WVLC-4.html