9.730 conference call

Humanist (mccarty@phoenix.Princeton.EDU)
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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 9, No. 730.
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers)
Information at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/

[1] From: Kemal Oflazer <ko@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> (54)
Subject: Call for Papers:NeMLaP-2 -- INT. CONF. ON NEW METHODS
IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

CALL FOR PAPERS

NeMLaP-2

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
NEW METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

September 16--18, 1996

Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey

ORGANIZED BY

Bilkent University UMIST
Department of Computer Engineering Centre for Computational Linguistics
Ankara, TURKEY Manchester, England, UNITED KINGDOM

with support from
NATO Science for Stability Programme, Bilkent ACM-SIGART,
TUBITAK -- Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE: Original papers on all aspects on the use
of statistical, connectionist, corpus-based, example-based and
machine learning techniques in natural language processing and
applications are sought.

INVITED SPEAKER: Kenneth W. Church (ATT Bell Labs)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: S. Armstrong{Warwick (Univ. of Geneva), C.
Bozsahin (METU), C. Brew (Univ. of Edinburgh), C. Cardie (Cornell
Univ.), D. Carter (SRI Cambridge), K. W. Church, (ATT Bell Labs),
M. Crocker (Univ. of Edinburgh), W. Daelemans (Tilburg Univ.), M.
Ellison (Univ. of Edinburgh), H. A. Guvenir, Y. Nitta (Hitachi Corp.)
(Bilkent Univ.), D. Jones (UMIST), K. Oflazer (Bilkent, Co-Chair),
C. Samuelsson (Univ. of Saarland), N. Sharkey (Univ. of
Sheffield), H. Somers (UMIST, Co-Chair), J. Tsujii (UMIST/Univ. of Tokyo),
Y. Wilks, (Univ. of Sheffield), A. Voutilainen (Univ. of
Helsinki), D. Wu (Hong Kong Univ. of Science
and Technology), R. Zajac (New Mexico State Univ.)

PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Please send by MARCH 31, 1996, postscript
copies of your manuscript via e-mail to nemlap2@cs.bilkent.edu.tr.
If this is not possible, send four hardcopies to:

NEMLAP-2
Department of Computer Engineering
Bilkent University
Bilkent TR-06533, ANKARA, TURKEY

Authors will be notified by May 31, 1996 and final copies are due
by June 30, 1995. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings which will be available at the conference.

MISCELLANEOUS: The Conference will be held on the campus of
Bilkent University at the outskirts of Ankara, about 10 kilometers
from the city centre. The campus has a 4* Hotel on the premises.
In addition, a number of free lodging facilities in the University
dormitories will be provided on site for conference participants.

If there is sufficient interest, sightseeing trips to the Museum
of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, to the Cappadocia Region
known worldwide for its lunar landscape, fairy chimneys, and
underground cities, and to Hattusas, the capital of the ancient
Hittite Empire will be organized.

Further details about the NeMLaP-2 conference can be found on the
World Wide Web at the URL
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~nemlap2/