[1] From: Elisabeth Burr <he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> (47)
Subject: SILFI Convegno/Congress SILFI
[2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (284)
Subject: 3 Conference Reminders: ACM: DL'99; DRH 99; ICHIM 99
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (35)
Subject: CFP: New World Orders
[4] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (109)
Subject: IWPT'99 CHANGE OF DATES !!
[5] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (58)
Subject: KRDB'99: early bird registration deadline approaching
[6] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (188)
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: "Corpora and NLP"
[7] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (244)
Subject: SSA:CALL FOR PAPERS 1999 MEETING, PITTSBURGH, OCT. 28-
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:53:20 +0200
From: Elisabeth Burr <he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: SILFI Convegno/Congress SILFI
Scusate, se ricevete questo annuncio piu' di una volta.
Please excuse me if you get this message more than once
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Per favore, distribuite la notizia. Please distribute.
I annuncio - I announcement
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VI Convegno Internazionale
della Societ=E0 Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana
VI International Congress
of the International Society of Italian Linguistics and Philology
Gerhard-Mercator-Universit=E4t Duisburg
29.06.-03.07.2000
=ABTradizione e Innovazione=BB
La linguistica e filologia italiana alle soglie di un nuovo Millen=
nio
=ABTradition and Innovation=BB
Italian Linguistics and Philology at the start of a new Millennium
Scopo del convegno sara' di creare un legame fra la ricca tradizione
dei studi di linguistica e filologia italiana e lo sfruttamento delle
possibilita' che offrono i media elettronici per portare avanti questi
studi, trovare risposte a vecchie e nuove domande e per collegare
ancora meglio la ricerca coll'insegnamento.
Come deciso all'ultimo convegno di Catania (1998), una sezione mo-
nografica si occupera' dell'italiano parlato.
Informazioni piu' precise saranno distribuite al piu' presto possibile.
La pagina WWW del convegno si trova sotto:
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/
The aim of the congress will be to create a link between the rich tradi-
tion of studies in Italian linguistics and philology and exploiting
the possibilities offered by the electronic media with respect to these
studies, with respect to finding new answers to old and new questions
and in order to create an even better link between research and teaching.
As was decided at the last congress in Catania (1998), one of the
topics will be Spoken Italian.
More concrete information will be distributed as soon as possible.
The Web-page of the congress can be found at:
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/
Con cordiali saluti/with best wishes
Elisabeth Burr
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PD Dr'in Elisabeth Burr
FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet
Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg
+49 203 3791957 Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/burr.htm
Editor of:
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/home.html
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/home.html
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/DRV/home.html
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:47:02 -0500
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: 3 Conference Reminders: ACM: DL'99; DRH 99; ICHIM 99
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June 14, 1999
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THREE CONFERENCES: PROGRAMS & REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE
FOURTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (DL '99)
August 11-14, 1999: Berkeley, CA
http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/
DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES: DRH 99=20
September 12-15, 1999: King's College London=20
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drh
International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting: ICHIM99=20
September 22-26, 1999 Washington, DC
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FOURTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (DL '99)
August 11-14, 1999: Berkeley, CA
http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/
>Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:03:51 -0400
>From: Terry Kuny <Terry.Kuny@xist.com>
>
ADVANCE PROGRAM
FOURTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (DL '99)
SPONSORED BY ACM SIGIR AND ACM SIGWEB
AUGUST 11-14, 1999
Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina
200 Marina Boulevard
Berkeley, California 93710 USA
1-800-333-333 or 1-800-243-0625
Conference Web site: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/
General Chair: Neil C. Rowe, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
(rowe@cs.nps.navy.mil)
Program Chair: Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
(fox@cs.vt.edu)
Publicity Chair: James C. French, University of Virginia
(french@virginia.edu)
Tutorials Chair: Gene Golovchinksy, Xerox FX Palo Alto Lab
(gene@pal.xerox.com)
Workshops Chair: Robert B. Allen, University of Maryland
(rba@glue.umd.edu)
Posters/Exhibits Chair: Jonathan Furner, UCLA
(jfurner@ucla.edu)
Treasurer: Michael Freeston, University of California, Santa Barbara
(freeston@alexandria.ucsb.edu)
Schedule
Wednesday, August 11, 1999: Tutorials
Registration 8-8:30
Morning Tutorials (8:30-12):
T1: "Practical Digital Libraries Overview (Part 1)", Ian Witten
(University of Waikato), ihw@rata.cs.waikato.ac.nz
T2: "Multilingual Information Access", Judith Klavans (Columbia
University) and Peter Schauble (Eurospider Information
Technology AG), schauble@eurospider.ch
T3: "XML, RDF, and Metadata for the Web", Neel Sundaresan
(IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose),
neel@almaden.ibm.com
12-1:30: Lunch and Tutorial Registration
Afternoon Tutorials (1:30-4):
T4: "Practical Digital Libraries Overview (Part 2)", Edward Fox
(Virginia Tech), fox@vt.edu
T5: "Thesauri for Knowledge-Based Assistance in Searching
Digital Libraries", Dagobert Soergel (University of Maryland),
ds52@umail.umd.edu
T6: "Searching from Multiple Text Sources in the Internet",
Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Weiyi Meng
(State University of New York at Binghamton),
5-7 Opening Reception
Thursday, August 12, 1999: General Sessions
8-9 Registration
9-10:10 Session 1, Chair: Neil Rowe
- Welcome
- Keynote - David Levy, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
10:10-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Session 2 - Testbeds, Chair: Henry Gladney
P1: "The Computing Research Repository: Promoting the Rapid
Dissemination and Archiving of Computer Science Research",
Joseph Y. Halpern and Carl Lagoze (Cornell University)
P2: "VARIATIONS: A Digital Music Library System at Indiana
University", Jon W. Dunn and Constance A. Mayer (Indiana
University)
P3: "A Digital Library for Authors: Recent Progress of the
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations",
Constantinos Phanouriou, Neill A. Kipp, Ohm Sornil, Paul
Mather, and Edward A. Fox (Virginia Tech)
P4: "A Prototype Implementation of Archival Intermemory", Yuan
Chen (NEC Research Institute and Georgia Institute of
Technology), Jan Edler (NEC Research Institute), Andrew
Goldberg (Intertrust Corporation), Allan Gottlieb (NEC Research
Institute and New York University), Sumeet Sobti (University of
Washington), and Peter Yianilos (NEC Research Institute)
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3 Session 3a - IR / Multimedia, Chair: Edie Rasmussen
P5: "Semantic Indexing for a Complete Subject Discipline", Yi-
Ming Chung, Qin He, Kevin Powell, and Bruce Schatz (University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
P6: "Summarization and Selection of Information Sources Using
Automated Classification", R. Dolin, D. Agrawal, and A. El Abbadi
(University of California, Santa Barbara)
P7: "Vocal Access to a Newspaper Archive: Design Issues and
Preliminary Investigation", Fabio Crestani (University of
California, Berkeley)
P8: "Multimedia Description Framework (MDF) for Content
Description of Audio/Video Documents", Michael J. Hu and Ye
Jian (Nanyang Technological University)
1:30-3 Session 3b - User / Social Issues, Chair: Cliff McKnight
P9: "Introducing a digital library reading appliance into a reading
group", Catherine C. Marshall, Morgan N. Price, Gene
Golovchinsky, and Bill N. Schilit (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)
P10: "Multimodal Surrogates for Video Browsing", Wei Ding
(University of Maryland, College Park), Gary Marchionini
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Dagobert Soergel
(University of Maryland, College Park)
P11: "Making Digital Libraries Go: Comparing Use Across
Genres", Ann Bishop (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
3-3:30 Break
3:30-5 Session 4, Chair: Sugimoto Shigeo
Panel 1: "Visions for a Digital Library for Science, Mathematics,
Engineering Technology Education (SMETE)" Chair: Alice
Agogino (University of California, Berkeley)
Panelists: William Y. Arms, Edward A. Fox, Frank Wattenberg,
and Flora McMartin
7-10 Reception with posters and demonstrations
Friday, August 13, 1999: General Sessions
8:30-10:00 Session 5 - Links / Citations and User Interfaces,
Chair: Nick Belkin
P12: "A System For Automatic Personalized Tracking of
Scientific Literature on the Web", Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve
Lawrence, and C. Lee Giles (NEC Research Institute)
P13: "Topic-Based Browsing Within a Digital Library Using
Keyphrases", Steve Jones and Gordon Paynter (University of
Waikato)
P14: "A Scrollbar-based Visualization for Document Navigation",
Donald Byrd (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
P15: "Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing?", Tammara T.A.
Combs and Benjamin B. Bederson (University of Maryland,
College Park)
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Session 6 - Multimedia, Chair: Robert Allen
P16: "Learnable Visual Keywords for Image Classification", Joo-
Hwee Lim (Kent Ridge Digital Labs)
P17: "A New Ranking Principle for Multimedia Information
Retrieval", Martin Wechsler and Peter Schauble (Eurospider
Information Technology AG)
P18: "Musical Information Retrieval using Melodic Surface", M.
Melucci and N. Orio (University of Padova)
P19: "Towards a Digital Library of Popular Music", David
Bainbridge, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Ian H. Witten, Lloyd A.
Smith, and Rodger J. McNab (University of Waikato and Rutgers
University)
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session 7 - Multiple Collections/Sources, Chair: Jose
Luis Borbinha
P20: "Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in
Federated Digital Libraries", Naomi Dushay (Cornell University),
James C. French (University of Virginia), and Carl Lagoze
(Cornell University)
P21: "A Patent Search and Classification System", Leah S.
Larkey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
P22: "Digital Library Technology for Locating and Accessing
Scientific Data", Robert E. McGrath, Joe Futrelle, Ray Plante
(NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Damien
Guillaume (Universite Louis-Pasteur)
P23: "User Preferences When Searching Individual and
Integrated Full-text Databases", Soyeon Park (Rutgers
University)
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 Session 8, Chair: Edward Fox
- Bush Award Presentation for Best Paper, by Robert Akscyn
- Panel 2: "Digital Library Futures"; Chair: Barry Leiner (CNRI)
5:00-7:00 Final Reception
Saturday, August 14, 1999: Full-Day Workshops
W1: "Networked Knowledge Organization Systems", Linda L. Hill
(University of California, Santa Barbara) and Gail Hodge
(Information Intl. Assoc.), lhill@alexandria.ucsb.edu; see
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/nhos/DL99workshop.html
W2: "Organizing Web Space", Robert Wilensky (University of
California, Berkeley), Katsumi Tanaka (Kobe University), and
Yoshinori Hara (NEC USA),hara@ccrl.sj.nec.com;see
http://www.ccrl.neclab.com/dl99ww/
W3: "Multilingual Information Discovery and Access", Douglas W.
Oard (University of Maryland) and Carol Peters (IEI-CNR, Pisa),
joint with SIGIR'99, oard@glue.umd.edu; see
http://www.clis.umd.edu/conferences/midas.html
W4: "D-Lib Forum Working Group on Metrics for Digital
Libraries", Barry Leiner (CNRI), bleiner@cnri.reston.va.us; see
http://www.dlib.org/metrics
W5: "Second Summit on International Cooperation in Digital
Libraries", Robert Akscyn (KSI, Inc.) and Ian Witten (University of
Waikato), rma@ks.com; see http://www.ks.com/idla/
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Hotel Registration: All sessions will be held at the Radisson Berkeley
Marina. Rooms are $109 for single/double per night plus 12% city tax.
Call 1-800-333-3333 or 1-800-243-0625 for reservations.
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>Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 63.
>Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:35:35 +0100
> From: Helen Skundric <drh99@kcl.ac.uk>
> Subject: DRH 99 Conference
DRH 99 @ King's College London 12-15 September 1999 is open for=20
registration!=20
The Digital Resources for the Humanities conferences are a major forum
for all those affected by the digitization of our common cultural=20
heritage: the scholar creating or using an electronic edition; the=20
teacher using digital resources as an aid to learning; the publisher=20
finding new ways to reach new audiences; the librarian, curator or=20
archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the=20
digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and=20
scholarship; the computer or information science specialist seeking to
apply new scientific and technical developments to the creation,=20
exploitation and management of digital resources.=20
The conference will take up three intensive days of academic papers,=20
panel discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, in=20
the heart of London. The atmosphere will, we hope, encourage much=20
energetic discussion, both formal and informal. Leading practitioners=20
of the application of digital techniques and resources in the=20
Humanities, from the worlds of scholarship, librarianship, archives,=20
museums, galleries and publishing will be there, exchanging expertise,
experience, and opinions.=20
For the conference programme and other information visit the DRH web=20
site @ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drh
You can register at:=20
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drhahc/regis/howtoreg.htm
AHC Conference
The DRH99 conference will overlap with the annual conference of the UK
Association for History and Computing, which is to take place at=20
King's College London 14th-16th September 1999. The conference aims to
provide a forum for the discussion of any aspects of the use of=20
information and computer technology in history. In particular, it will
focus on the creation and use of digital representations of historical
resources and the effects of computer-based technologies on historical
scholarship and on teaching history. For more information visit the=20
conference web site @ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ahcuk99/
Should you have problems accessing the web site and registration=20
forms, please contact the conference office at DRH@kcl.ac.uk
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Helen Skundric
DRH and AHC Conference Office
drh@kcl.ac.uk
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September 22-26, 1999 Washington, DC
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International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting
Washington, DC, USA=20
Sept. 22-26, 1999
Overview
The ICHIM Conference series began in 1991. We've met every two years since=
then, alternating between North America and Europe: Pittsburgh in 91; Camb=
ridge, England in 93, and San Diego, California, in 95. ICHIM last met in P=
aris, France in 97 - over 625=20
people from twenty-five countries attended ICHIM 97 at Le Louvre in Paris! =
Ministries of culture and multi-institutional collaboratives were particula=
rly well represented. Staff from museums, archives and universities came wi=
th ambitious documentation and
public access objectives, and discussed point-of-information kiosks, in-ga=
llery interactives , CD-ROM publications and the World Wide Web with their =
colleagues, and with international publishers of interactive multimedia and=
network service providers. At
each ICHIM meeting practitioners, theorists, subject specialists, develope=
rs and suppliers from the public and private sector meet to share ideas and=
experiences.=20
The Program
Before ichim99 formally begins two full days of workshops help you build y=
our technical, social and managerial skills. ichim99 itself spans three day=
s: two parallel session tracks feature formal papers, panels, and many oppo=
rtunities for participant inte
raction. All podiums have network access, up-to-date computer technology an=
d high-resolution projection to ensure that speakers have the opportunity t=
o demonstrate, not just discuss, the advances they are reporting. An exhibi=
tion hall features the latest=20
from a variety of commercial firms. Social events throughout ichim99 ensure=
that everyone has an opportunity to meet informally and expand their circl=
e of colleagues.=20
Workshops
On September 22 and 23, ichim99 features a wide range of pre-conference wo=
rkshops in half-day, full-day and two day formats. These workshops have bee=
n designed to provide educational experiences ranging from introductory to =
advanced, in formats which inc
lude hands-on computer training, lectures, seminars and interactive group s=
essions. Workshop instructors come from universities, museums and commercia=
l organizations, in the U.S. and abroad, and have extensive experience with=
small group training. A great
professional development opportunity, ichim99 workshops will be attended b=
y many local museum staff (Washington DC has the largest concentration of m=
useums in the USA). Since workshop enrollment is limited and registration i=
s on a "first come, first serv
ed" basis, early registration is strongly advised.=20
Sessions
The ichim99 Program Committee selected a wide variety of speakers and pres=
entation formats from the many proposals received. Presentations are schedu=
led in ways that best suit their content: with 1, 2, 3, and 4 papers, and w=
ith or without formal commenta
tors. All sessions include substantial time for audience discussion - the e=
xperiences of participants make a major contribution to the meeting for eve=
ryone.=20
Exhibits
The range of exhibitors at ichim99, from different sectors of the cultural=
heritage informatics marketplace, assures that every attendee will find so=
mething new and interesting. In the twelve hours available for attendees to=
visit exhibits you'll find pr
oducts and services that will help with your next (or current) project. Exh=
ibits are open to conference attendees only, and begin with a gala receptio=
n in the Exhibit Hall the evening of September 24. On September 25 a full d=
ay of exhibits begins with con
tinental breakfast at 8:00 am, and closes with refreshments at 6:00 pm. For=
information about exhibiting at ichim99, email ichim99@archimuse.com.=20
Social Events
The ichim99 Welcome Reception and the Exhibitors' Reception are rightly re=
nowned. This year, ichim99 will also feature a leisurely Sunday brunch - a =
great time to catch up with people you haven't seen, and cement relationshi=
p with those you've recently m
et. All social events are included with full conference registration.=20
Proceedings
Each full conference registrant will receive the ichim99 Proceedings upon =
arrival, included in the conference registration fee. Proceedings of past y=
ears meetings are also available for purchase. ICHIM Proceedings have becom=
e the premier sources for unde
rstanding the evolution of computer-based interactive multimedia in cultura=
l settings.
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NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
http://www.ninch.org
david@ninch.org
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From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: CFP: New World Orders
>> From: rlandes <cms@mille.org>
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University in conjunction=20
with the American Studies Department at Brandeis University announce the=20
upcoming conference sponsored by the Lilly Endowment Foundation, Boston=20
University, and Brandeis University.
NEW WORLD ORDERS:
MILLENNIALISM IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
November 7-9. 1999
Boston, Massachusetts
An interdisciplinary inquiry examining the wide range of millennial=20
movements in the Americas: their origins, traditions, interpretations and=
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consequences, both religious and secular from the perspective of elite,=20
popular, or counter-culture. Papers on the historiography of=20
millennialism in the Americas will also be considered for presentation.
DEADLINE For one page Abstracts Is JULY 1, 1999 [presentations 20 minutes=
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in length]
Submissions are also invited for roundtable discussions and entire=20
sessions. If submitting an entire session, include an abstract that=20
outlines the purpose of the session. One panelist must be designated as=20
the contact person. The Program Committee assumes all listed individuals=
=20
in a session proposal agree to participate.
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Featured speakers will include (among others to be announced):
NORMAN COHN, [the father of millennial studies] Professor Emeritus,=20
Sussex University
MICHAEL BARKUN, Syracuse University
Contact:
Beth Forrest
Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University=09=09=09=09 =20
704 Commonwealth Ave., Suite 205=09=09=09=09=09=20
Boston, MA 02215=09
617.358.0226
cms@mille.org
http://www.mille.org
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:00:27 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: IWPT'99 CHANGE OF DATES !!
>> From: Harry.Bunt@kub.nl (Harry Bunt)
In view of the closeness of the original dates (December 20-22, 1999) to=20
the millenium change, which may cause inconveniencies, the dates of IWPT'99=
=20
have changed to February 23-25, 2000. IWPT'99 thus becomes IWPT 2000.=20
Below is the updated Call for papers, with revised time table.
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C a l l f o r P a p e r s=20
IWPT 2000 =20
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE
23-25 February, 2000
Trento, Italy
~~~~
The ITC-IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research)=20
in Trento, in the North of Italy, will host the 6th International=20
Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2000) from 23 to 25 February,=20
2000.=20
IWPT 2000 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing=20
technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on
Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).=20
This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989.=20
The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed=20
by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and=20
Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)=20
in 1995; and Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997.=20
More information can be found on the IWPT 2000 home page at:=20
< http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >
Topics of interest for IWPT 2000
--------------------------------
Theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural=20
language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences,=20
speech input, multi-dimensional (pictorial) language, and parsing issues=20
arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Both grammar-based and=20
statistical approaches are welcome.
Submitting Papers
-----------------
Prospective authors are invited to send full papers to the IWPT 2000=20
programme chairman John Carroll. Papers must be in the format given=20
at the IWPT 2000 home pages (see below). Papers should not exceed 12=20
pages. Submission is electronically, in postscript form.=20
Send papers to:
iwpt2000@cogs.susx.ac.uk
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the programme committee.=20
Deadline for paper submission=09: November 5, 1999
Notification of acceptance=09: December 3, 1999
Final papers due=09=09: January 7, 2000
In addition to the papers that will be accepted for full length=20
presentation, papers may be accepted for poster presentations=20
(two pages in the proceedings).
Instruction for authors
-----------------------
Instructions for authors can be found at URL:
< http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >
or can be obtained from the programme chairman.
Programme Committee
-------------------
Robert Berwick (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Bob Carpenter (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA)
John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) (chair)=20
Ken Church (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA)
Mark Johnson (Brown University, Providence, USA)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Ronald Kaplan (Xerox, Palo Alto, USA)
Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto, USA)
Bernard Lang (INRIA, Paris, France)
Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands)
Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Grenoble, France)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento, Italy)
Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Masaru Tomita (Stanford University, USA)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, Newark, USA)
David Weir (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Mats Wiren (Telia Research, Stockholm, Sweden)
Organization
------------
General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)=20
Programme Chair: John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK)=20
Local Arrangements Chair: Alberto Lavelli (IRST, Trento, Italy)
Sponsors
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SIGPARSE, Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for=20
Computational Linguistics
AI*IA, Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
Further information
-------------------
Information about IWPT 2000 can be found at the URL:
< http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >
At this site you can also obtain information about previous IWPTs,=20
proceedings and SIGPARSE related activities.
--=20
------------------------------------------------------
Harry C. Bunt
Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
Dean, Faculty of Arts
Tilburg University=20
P.O. Box 90153=20
5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
2568 (Dean's office)
2653 (office, room B 310)
Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
Harry.Bunt@kub.nl
WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:46:53 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: KRDB'99: early bird registration deadline approaching
>> From: Enrico Franconi <franconi@cs.man.ac.uk>
=09=09 6th International Workshop on =20
=09=09 KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES
=09=09=09=09(KRDB'99)
=09=09=09 Linkoeping (Sweden)
=09=09=09 July 29-30, 1999
=09=09=09 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The 6th International KRDB Workshop continues the tradition of annual=
=20
international workshops devoted to facilitate cross-fertilization between=
=20
the fields of knowledge representation (KR) and databases (DB), started in=
=20
1994.=20
KRDB'99 is an affiliate event with IJCAI'99 (Stockholm, 3-6 August 1999),
and the International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'99, Linkoeping,
July 30 - August 1 1999).
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INVITED SPEAKERS
- MOSHE VARDI (Rice University, TX, USA): Model Checking and Finite Model
Theory in the different contexts of Computational Logics, Knowledge
Representation, and Database Theory.
- RAY REITER (University of Toronto, Canada): Modelling Transactions for
Incomplete Relational Databases.
- NATASHA ALECHINA (University of Nottingham, UK): Tutorial on (Modal)
Logics for Semi-Structured Data.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFORMATION
For detailed information on program, registration and accommodation check
the web page of the workshop at:
< http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/img/krdb99/ >.
Early bird registration deadline: June 15.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Workshop Chairs
Enrico Franconi
University of Manchester, UK
< franconi@cs.man.ac.uk >
Michael Kifer
University at Stony Brook, USA
< kifer@cs.sunysb.edu >
Program Committee
Elisa Bertino, University of Milano, Italy
Anthony Bonner, University of Toronto, Canada
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
Mokrane Bouzeghoub, INRIA-Rocquencourt, France
Jan Van den Bussche, University of Limburg, Belgium
Diego Calvanese, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy
Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, USA
Jan Chomicki, Monmouth University, USA
Rick Hull, Lucent Technologies, USA
Mathias Jarke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg, Germany
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Werner Nutt, DFKI, Germany
Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy
Local Chair
Patrick Lambrix, Linkoeping University, Sweden
< patla@ida.liu.se >
Executive Committee
Franz Baader, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Manfred Jeusfeld, KUB Tilburg, The Netherlands
Werner Nutt, DFKI, Germany
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:50:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: "Corpora and NLP"
>> From: Richard Evans <in6087@wlv.ac.uk>
CALL FOR PAPERS
*************************************************************************
"Corpora and NLP"
ACIDCA'2000 session
Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000
Organised by:
University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)
Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)
Sponsored by:
IEEE SMC
co-sponsored by:
TSS
Supported by:
Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific
Research and Technology (SERST)
**************************************************************************
General
-------
The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in
a number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for
the design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications but
also for their evaluation.
"Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part
of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational
Intelligence for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and
Industrial Systems (ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000,
visit http://www.chez.com/acidca2000) . The session "Corpora and NLP"
will be organised as a workshop with its own Proceedings and Programme
Committee.
The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken
corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP.
Main Topics
-----------
We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following
topics:
* Lexicography
* Lexical knowledge acquisition
* Part of Speech Tagging
* Unknown word guessing
* Term recognition
* Morphological Analysis
* Robust Parsing
* Word Sense Disambiguation
* Anaphora Resolution
* Discourse segmentation
* Machine Translation
* Agreement Error Correction
* Spelling and Grammar Correction
* Information Extraction
* Automatic Abstracting
* Text Categorisation
* Speech processing
* Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications
* Corpus annotation
* Evaluation
Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus
processing techniques are welcome.
Honorary Chairs
---------------
Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific
and Technological Research
Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology
(AIT - Tunisia)
Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley
General Chairs
--------------
Adel Alimi,
National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)
Lamia Belguith Hadrich,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)
Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)
Programme Committee
-------------------
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair
Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom)
Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)
Debili Fathi (IRMC, Tunis)
Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris)
Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)
Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris)
Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon)
Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen)
Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble)
Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg)
Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York)
Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal)
Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of
Edinburgh)
Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille)
Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei)
Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill)
Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki)
Local Organising Committee
--------------------------
Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) -
Chairs
H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax),
Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS,
Sfax),
Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG,
Gabes),
Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax),
Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax),
Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax),
Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis),
Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)
International Organising Committee
----------------------------------
Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray
(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs
Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan),
Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Japan),
Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France),
Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University),
Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA)
Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA)
Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France)
Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain)
Submission Guidelines
---------------------
Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be
written in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures,
tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
title, author's name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by
keywords and an abstract.
Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following
address :
ACIDCA'2000 (Corpora & NLP Session)
Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe,
BP 120, 3049 Sfax
Tunisia
In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of
keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk and
copied to l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn
The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme
Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce
the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
Proceedings.
Schedule
--------
Paper Submission Due: 1 October 1999
Notification of Acceptance : 10 December 1999
Camera-ready Paper Due : 10 January 1999
"Corpora and NLP" Session : 22-24 March 2000
Further information
-------------------
Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants
to attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as
the exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call
for Papers.
There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials
will be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are
finalised.
ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories:
Best Paper, Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper.
The social programme will be announced in the second call for papers.
The call for papers is is also available at:
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/NLP_Session.html
This is the "Corpora and NLP" web site and any important information will
be available at this site too.
For any Information
-------------------
Please contact :
Lamia Belguith
e-mail: l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn
Fax: (216) 4 296 229
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:49:49 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: SSA:CALL FOR PAPERS 1999 MEETING, PITTSBURGH, OCT. 28-31
>> From: alan harris <vcspc005@csun.edu>
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SEMCOM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D//is an online bulletin primarily for
dissemination of semiotic, semiological, discursive, linguistic, visual=20
and allied information pertaining to the study of signs. It is
solely owned and operated by Alan C. Harris Ph.D. and is distributed free
of charge to members of the Commission on Semiotics and Communication,
National Communication Association, members of the Semiotic Society of
America, and other "fellow travelers" who request the service. . . //
[If you would like to be included in the SEMCOM list, please reply or send
a note to alan.harris@csun.edu with the command, "add SEMCOM", in the
body. tia, a.]=20
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=3D
From: William Pencak <wap1@psu.edu>
SEMCIOTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA: ANNUAL MTG.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO MAY 15 -- PLENARY SPEAKERS FLOYD
MERRELL, PETER MCLAREN, ROBERT VISCUSI (WINNER OF AMERICAN BOOK AWARD).
>
>>DEAR SEMIOTICIANS and WOULD-BE SEMIOTICIANS:
>
>1. I am pleased to announce the call for papers and provide you with hote=
l
>information about the 24th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Amer=
ica
>this coming October Oct. 28-31 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We are excited
>that for the first time, our meeting will run jointly with that of the
>American Legal Studies Association, for it gives the members of two kindre=
d
>organizations the chance to become acquainted. The SSA arose in the 1970s =
as
>scholars in various disciplines came together to consider the multiple
>theories and applications of semiotics as alternatives to the traditional
>disciplinary perspectives into which knowledge had become compartmentalize=
d.
>Similarly, the ALSA arose at the same time out of the undergraduate Legal
>Studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a forum for
>colleagues interested in undergraduate and graduate level legal studies
>programs and pedagogies which provided an interdisciplinary, liberal arts,
>humanistic, and critical approach toward law.
>
>2. Membership in the association is required if you wish to participate i=
n
>the annual meeting. Membership in the Semiotic Society of America is $50=
per
>year for individuals, $25 for students, retired, and unemployed, and $75 f=
or
>joint memberships. Please send checks in US funds payable to the Semiotic
>Society of America to Linda Rogers, Executive Director, Semiotic Society o=
f
>America, Dept. of Educational Foundations, 405 White Hall, Kent State
>University, Kent OH 44242. Her email is lrogers@kent.edu.
>
>3. Members receive the American Journal of Semiotics for the year for whi=
ch
>they are enrolled, and issues of the Semiotic Scene which in the future ma=
y be
>issued electronically for those with the ability to receive it. As you
>receive this call for papers and invitation to join, please note that we a=
re
>in the process of making up outstanding back issues of the journal. 1995 w=
as a
>book length quadruple issue on Semiotics and History, 1996 on Semiotics an=
d
>Music. The journal for 1997, ed. by Bill Spinks on the Trickster, should r=
each
>1997 members shortly after this call for papers. 1998 is in press, and 19=
99
>should be published later this year. Beginning in 2000, the journal will o=
nce
>again publish regular issues rather than book-length annuals. Back issues =
are
>also available: contact Richard Lanigan, Editor TAJS, Dept. of Speech
>Communications, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901. Email=
--
>rlanigan@siu.edu.
>
>4. Members of the SSA are also invited to join the American Legal Studies
>Association, although such membership is not required, of course, for
>attendance at the meeting. ALSA publishes the Legal Studies Forum, which
>publishes in areas such as: law and literature; narrative jurisprudence, l=
egal
>storytelling; law and popular culture; law and anthropology; law and relig=
ion;
>humnisitc approaches to law and economics; philosophy of law; feminist
>jurisprudence; semiotics, linguistics, rhetoric, metaphor, structuralism, =
and
>postmodernism; law and cultural studies. Membership is $35 per year, incl=
udes
>the journal, and is available from Prof. James Elkins, Law School, Univ. o=
f
>West Virginia, Morgantown, WV 26506. His email is jelkins@labs.net. Selec=
ted
>back issues are also available.
>
>5. PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS CALL FOR PAPERS AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE TO
>COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS, PROFESSIONAL NEWSLETTERS, ETC. -- ALSO, PLEASE TAKE T=
HE
>INITIATIVE TO ORGANIZE SESSIONS AS WELL AS SUBMIT PAPER PROPOSALS.
>
>6. REGISTRATION FEES FOR THE CONFERENCE, $95 FOR INDIVIDUALS, $50 FOR
>STUDENTS, RETIRED OR UNEMPLOYED $145 FOR COUPLES INCLUDE TWO LUNCH MEALS, =
AND
>SHOULD BE PAID AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WHEN YOUR PAPER PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTED TH=
IS
>SUMMER. WE WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION ON DEADLINES LATER.
>_____________________
>1999 CALL FOR PAPERS -- PITTSBURGH OCT. 28-31, 1999 (Thursday-Sunday)
>
>>24th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SEMIOTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA, in conjunction wi=
th
>
>THE AMERICAN LEGAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
>
>THEME: THE PHENOMENON OF SEMIOTICS: WORDS, SIGNS, AND THINGS
>
>This year, to honor the strong interest in phenomenology at Duquesne
>University which is sponsoring the conference, we have selected the theme =
"The
>Phenomenon of Semiotics." The word "phenomenon," however, also encourages=
us
>to reflect on the way semiotics, almost unknown thirty years ago, has itse=
lf
>has become a vital if sometimes unacknowledged contributor to the ways peo=
ple
>order their worlds in the late twentieth century. Semiotics has become vit=
al
>to scholars of education, communications, art, music, the "hard" sciences,
>anthropology, literature, popular culture, philosophy, history, and other
>subjects. We thereby urge participants to be as bold and diverse as thei=
r
>imagination and scholarship permit in submittingproposals for sessions and
>panels.
>
>>>>>TO BE HELD AT: DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY and the
>>>>
>RAMADA INN PLAZA SUITES, BIGELOW SQUARE, DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH, OPPOSITE THE
>AMTRAK STATION AND WITHIN EASY WALKING DISTANCE OF THE UNIVERSITY.
>
>>>>>>ROOMS ARE NOW AVAILABLE: CALL 1-800-225-5858 AND MENTION YOU ARE WIT=
H
>>>>>>"SSA/DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY" -- RATES $90 SINGLE OR DOUBLE FOR A JUNIOR =
SUITE
> which holds up to four people.
>
> + HOW TO SUMBIT A PROPOSAL FOR AN INDIVIDUAL PAPER +
>>1. Send 7 copies of an abstract of approx. 150-300 words of your
>>presentation, on one side of a sheet of paper only, to Bill Pencak, SSA
>>PROGRAM (so he can sort this out from his other mail), History Dept.,
>>108Weaver Bldg., Penn State Univ., University Park, PA 16802. Do NOT
>>include your name or affiliation on this abstract, since the program
>>committee will do a blind review of your proposal. Or send your proposal =
via
>>email to -- wap1@psu.edu -- pasted into a message only (NO ATTACHMENTS)=
=2E
>
>2. Include with the long abstracts 1 copy of a short abstract describing
>your presentation about a paragraph in length (approx. 50-75 words).
>Include the name and affiliation of all co-presenters. This is the abstrac=
t
>which will appear in the meeting program if your proposal is accepted.
>
>3. Send 3-5 keywords which indicate the major subject(s) your
>presentationdeals with. (These will be used to assign your presentation t=
o an
>appropriate session and to provide an index of session topics).
>
>>4. List ALL of the audio-visual equipment you require. You may have to
>pay for the rental of any equipment not requested when you submit your
>proposal, and we probably will not be able to provide expensive equipment
>(computer equipment, elaborate sound systems, video projectors), although =
you
>can provide or pay for this yourself. VCRs and TV monitors, tape recorder=
s,
>overheads, tablets or chalkboards, and slide projectors will be provided i=
f
>requested when the proposal is submitted free of charge.
>
>5. Include your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email
>address, including where we can reach you over the summer.
>
>+ TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL FOR AN ORGANIZED SESSION +
>
>1) Send 1 copy of a short abstract (approx. 50-75 words) describing your
>session as a whole, plus a short abstract (approx. 50-75 words) for each o=
f
>the presentations which will be made in your session, to BillPencak, SSA
>PROGRAM (to keep these straight from other mail), HistoryDept., 108 Weaver
>Bldg., Penn State Univ., University Park, PA 16802. Or email to --
>wap1@psu.edu -- as part of a simple text message only (No attachments,
>please.) These abstracts should include the name and affiliation of all
>organizers and presenters.
>
>2) Along with the short abstract, send 7 copies of a long abstract of your
>session (not to exceed one single-spaced page for each session, which shou=
ld
>include descriptions of each of the individual presentations. Do NOT send=
a
>long abstracts of every presentation. Do NOT include any names or affiliat=
ions
>on your long abstract.
>
>3) Send 3-5 keywords which indicate the major subject(s) to be dealt with
>in your presentation.
>
>4) List all of the audio visual equipment you need. See (4) above for wha=
t
>we can and cannot provide.
>
>5) Send your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address,
>including where you can be reached during the summer.
>
>DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL ON DISC.
>PLEASE SUBMIT PROPOSALS BY APRIL 20 TO BILL PENCAK, HISTORY DEPT., PENN ST=
ATE
>UNIV., 108 WEAVER BLDG., UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802. E-MAIL: WAP1@PSU.EDU
>
>
>Special Notes and Suggestions: --
>
>1) DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH IS NO LONGER A "GRITTY CITY," BUT THE HOME OF SUCH
>ATTRACTIONS AS THE ANDY WARHOL MUSUEM, THE MATTRESS FACTORY (Museum of
>Installation Art) AND THE HEINZ CENTER FOR WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY.
>We plan to include information describing these and other items of interes=
t
>in your conference packets and with the final program announcement.
>The excellent symphony is performing Mozart and Sibelius Oct. 29-31 and th=
ere
>may be other concerts and/or sports events. We encourage you to arrive
>early on Thursday or stay later on Sunday to take advantage of local
>attractions.
>
>Panels and papers relating to Warhol, installation art, or Pittsburgh and
>its rich immigrant and industrial heritage in some way are welcome.
>
>2. This year, we mourn the death of SSA Past President and indefatigable
>champion Roberta Kevelson, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy
>atPenn State.
>"The Kevelson Memorial Award," initiated by Chris Myers, her friend and mo=
st
>frequent editor at Peter Lang Publishing, will be awarded beginning this y=
ear
>for the best student (graduate or undergraduate) paper presented at the
>meeting and revised for potential publication in The American Journal of
>Semiotics. More information about how to apply for the award will appear =
in
>the conference program that will be printed this summer. Lang's contributi=
on
>needs to be increased, and we eventually hope to award runner-up winners a=
nd
>possibly help fund student travel to the conference. All contributions to =
the
>Kevelson Memorial Award are welcome: please make your check payable to "Th=
e
>Semiotic Society of America", Linda Rogers, Executive Director, Dept. of
>Educational Foundations, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242.
>
>>3. Also to honor Prof. Kevelson, there will be a special session
>>"Remembering Roberta Kevelson" at the meeting. We want this to be a
>>wide-ranging discussion of the impact of Bobbie's life and work and only =
ask
>>that those who wish to speak informally for 5 minutes or so to initiate a
>>discussion let Bill Pencak know. Bobbie's son, Ken Kevelson, will be invi=
ted
>>to the conference.
>
>>4. Individuals have volunteered to organize sessions on particular topic=
s.
>Please contact them with proposals for papers or sessions in these areas:
>
>Empirical Semiotics -- Charls Pearson -- Dr_Charls@msn.com
>Tricksters -- in Life, Art, etc. -- Bill Spinks -- CSpinks@Trinity.edu
>History -- Bill Pencak -- wap1@psu.edu
>Science Fiction -- Bryce Tugwell -- bryce56@hotmail.com
>"The Millennium Virus as a Cultural Phenomenon" -- not Y2K -- Myrdene
>Anderson -- myanders@purdue.edu
>Law and Semiotics -- Vivian Curran -- curran@law.pitt.edu
>
>PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ORGANIZE MORE SESSIONS!
> 5. Please feel free to circulate this call for papers via internet or
>hardcopy to anyone you think may be interested.
>
>Bill Pencak,
>>>Vice-President and President-Elect, Semiotic Society of America
>>>>>>Prof. of History, 108 Weaver Bldg., Penn State Univ.
>>>>>>University Park PA 16802
>>>>>>phone: 814-863-8949 (ans. machine) e-mail: wap1@psu.edu
>>>>>>fax: 814-863-7840 to my attention
>
>
Bill Pencak, Editor Pa. History
Prof. of History
l08 Weaver Bldg.
Penn State
University Park PA 16802
phone: 814-863-8949 (ans. machine)
e-mail: wap1@psu.edu
fax: 814-863-7840 to my attention
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