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>Our apologies for multiple postings.
>                            CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITS
>                       Appel aux communications & expositions
>
>                            INTERNATIONAL CONFERE
>                                      ON
>             NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
>                   SPECIAL ACCENT ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
>                          NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000
>
>                              MARCH 24-27, 2000
>                         Mariott Hotel,  HURGADA, EGYPT
>
>                           Conference internationale
>                   sur le traitement automatique des langues et
>                         ses applications industrielles
>                               24-27 mars, 2000
>                      Attention speciale portee au domaine medical
>                               24-27 mars, 2000
>                       Hotel Mariott, Hurgada, Egypte
>
>
>
>TOPICS OF INTEREST:
>
>The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Universit� de Moncton is organising its
>third international conference on NLP and industrial applications. This
>year a special attention is given to medical applications.
>
>Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing,
>including, but not limited to:.
>- natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken
>  and  hand-written language,
>- natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial
>  applications
>- machine translation, computer aided translation, translation  aids,
>- syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology,
>- dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources
>- multimodality
>- multilinguality
>- NLP industrial applications
>- papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and
>  practice of NLP in general and particularly in a medical domain.
>
>Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their papers not
>exceeding 1000 words (exclusive of references) either in English or in
>French, the two official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be
>published in the language of the submitted texts.
>
>
>SUBMISSION:
>
>1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title,
>the authors' names, affiliations, addresses, a five (5) keyword list
>specifying the subject area, a five (5) line summary, and the name and
>address of the contact person.
>
>         TITLE/ Titre:
>         AUTHORS / Auteurs
>         KEYWORDS/ Mots clefs:
>         SUMMARY/ Resume:
>         CONTACT PERSON/ Personne contact:
>
>2) Submissions should not exceed 1000 words in length excluding references
>(12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2.5 cm) all around; if using A4
>please keep top margin at 2.5 cm and text within 19cm x 25.5 cm).
>
>3) The identification page and the actual text should be submitted in 4
>HARD COPIES to
>
> NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000
> Pr. Chadia Moghrabi
> Universite' de Moncton,
> Facult� des sciences,
> Departement d'informatique
> Moncton, NB, Canada, E1A 3E9
>
> Phone: 1 (506) 858-4521
> Fax:  1 (506) 858-4541
> E-mail: gretal@info.umoncton.ca
>
>4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text.
>
>
>REFEREEING:
>
>All submissionss shall be refereed by three members of the Program
>committee.
>
>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
>
>Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France)
>Sadek Eid (U. de Moncton, U. Cairo, Egypt)
>Chadia Moghrabi (U. de Moncton, Canada)
>
> More to be confirmed...
>
>
>DEADLINES:
>
>Submissions are due on  December 6, 2000.
>Authors will be notified of acceptance by  January 21, 2000.
>Camera-ready copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of
>March, 2000 along with registration fees.
>
>Authors are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in
>the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the
>single word INTENTION in the subject line.
>
>
>EXHIBITS:
>Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration can send a
>brief electronic description along with a specification of physical
>requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs,
>etc.) to greta@info.umoncton.ca with the single word EXHIBIT in the
>subject line.
>
>
>OTHER ACTIVITIES:
>
>Hurgada is a beautiful sea resort with coral beaches ideal for diving and
>snorkelling.  A travel agency will be handling any site seeing in Hurgada,
>Cairo, or other Egyptian tourist activities. It would be the year 2000 and
>what a historic place to be visiting.
>
>
>CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
>
>The conference is organised by GRETAL, the NLP study group at Universite'
>de Moncton in co-operation with the American University of Cairo. The
>members of the organising committee are:
>
>Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair,
>                 Universite' de Moncton
>Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, Conference co-chair,
>           University of Cairo
>Luc LeBlanc, Computer Science student & research assistant at Gretal,
>             Universite' de Moncton
>More to come...
>

Lise Menn
Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
303-492-1609

Beware Procrustes bearing Occam's razor.