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     C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S  A N D  P A R T I C I P A T I O N S

	2nd Australian Workshop on Natural Language Processing

			in association with the

    Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94)
             University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W., Australia 
                      22 November 1994 (preceding AI'94)


AIMS

The principal aim is to bring together researchers in Natural
Language Processing and related fields. The workshop is intended
to be a forum for discussing various facets of problems associated
with natural language understanding and generation by machines,
and emerging methodologies for addressing these problems.

Currently those active in these areas of research in Australia have very
few avenues for the discussion and sharing of ideas and points of view.
This workshop builds on the success of the Workshop on Natural Language
Processing associated with AI'93 to address this problem. Hopefully by
bringing together researchers in this field, we can share ideas and learn
from one another, thus encouraging further development and consolidation
of research in Natural Language Processing in Australia.


SCOPE

The primary aim of this workshop is to help engender a sense of 
community amongst Australian and New Zealand-based researchers in NLP; 
to this end, we welcome submissions on any aspect from the full range 
of ongoing work in natural language processing, including but not limited to:

	* computational morphology
	* parsing and parser construction
	* syntactic and semantic interpretation
	* pragmatic and contextual interpretation
	* natural language processing techniques for spoken interaction
	* user modelling
	* text generation/realization for dialogues
	* language translation systems

To help focus the workshop, we intend to allocate a portion of the day
to discussions about one specific theme; given the recent high level of
public interest in the concept of the information superhighway, we would
particularly appreciate submissions which address issues related to NL
access to online services. We therefore ask contributors to look for
connections of their work to this topic. The remainder of the workshop
will be available for broader discussions on a wider range of issues.


PARTICIPATION

Attendance to this one-day workshop will be limited to about 20
active participants selected by the organisers on the basis of their
submissions. Submissions may be either a short description of the
authors' current research, specifying why their contribution to the
workshop would be of interest, or an extended abstract.
Extended abstracts will be reviewed and authors of accepted abstracts
will be given the opportunity to expand their ideas into full papers
which will appear in the proceedings of the workshop.

Depending on the submissions the workshop organisers may schedule
discussion sessions based on issues of common interest.


SUBMISSION

Four hard copies of submissions must be received by August 9, 1993.
Electronic submissions in postscript are also acceptable.
The submissions should take one of the following forms:
	- extended abstracts of papers to be presented at the workshop
	  (about 2000 words)
	- descriptions of current research to justify attendance
	  (about 1000 words), no presentation at the workshop


All submissions should be sent to the following address:
	Ingrid Zukerman
	Department of Computer Science
	Monash University
	Clayton, VICTORIA 3168
	AUSTRALIA


DEADLINES

Submission of extended abstract or research description:   August 9, 1994
Notification of acceptance:   				   September 16, 1994
Full paper submission:        				   October 17, 1994


WORKSHOP ORGANISERS

Robert Dale
	Email:   rdale@microsoft.com
	Address: Microsoft Institute for Advanced Software Technology
		 65 Epping Road
		 North Ryde, NSW 2113
        Phone:   (+61) 2 870 2370

Bhavani Raskutti
	Email:   b.raskutti@trl.oz.au
	Address: Telecom Australia Research Laboratories
		 PO Box 249
		 Clayton, VICTORIA 3168
	Phone:   (+61) 3 253 6314

Chris Rowles
	Email:   c.rowles@trl.oz.au
	Address: as above
	Phone:   (+61) 3 253 6244

Ingrid Zukerman
	Email:   ingrid@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au
	Address: Dept. of Computer Science
		 Monash University
		 Clayton, VICTORIA 3168
		 AUSTRALIA
	Phone:   (+61) 3 905 5202


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IMPORTANT DATES FOR AI'94 WORKSHOPS
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a) 1st Australian Conceptual Structures Workshop
        Submission Deadline             August 31, 1994.
        Notification of Acceptance      September 30, 1994.
        Camera-ready copy               October 15, 1994.

b) AI'94 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation
        Submission Deadline             August 8, 1994.
        Notification of Acceptance      September 12, 1994.
        Camera-ready copy               October 17, 1994.

c) AI'94 Workshop on Expert Systems in Production use
        Abstarct Submission Deadline    August 31, 1994.
        Notification of Acceptance      September 15, 1994.

d) AI'94 Workshop on Knowledge-Based Systems in Natural Resource Management
        Abstarct Submission Deadline    August 31, 1994.
        Notification of Acceptance      September 15, 1994.

e) 2nd Australian Workshop on Natural Language Processing
        Submission of extended abstract August 9, 1994
        Notification of acceptance:     September 16, 1994
        Full paper submission:          October 17, 1994
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