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>Date: Tues, 10 Mar 98 06:49:38


>************** CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITS**************
>==Appel aux communications & expositions =====================
>
>                        INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
>                                  ON
>           NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
>
>                              NLP+IA 98
>         >>> Special accent on Computer assisted language learning <<<
>
>                        Conference internationale
>                 sur le traitement automatique des langues et
>                     ses applications industrielles
>
>                              TAL+AI 98
>        >>> Attention speciale portee a l'enseignement de la langue <<<
>
>                         AUGUST/aout 18 - 20, 1998
>
>                      Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA
>
>
>Come to Canada this summer...
>IWNLG August 5-7 in Niagara-on-the-Lake
>Coling-ACL August 10-14 in Montreal
>NLP+IA/CALL August 18-21 in Moncton
>
>
>TOPICS OF INTEREST:
>The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Universite de Moncton is organizing
>its second international conference on NLP and industrial applications.
>This year a special attention is given to Computer assisted language
>learning.
>
>
>Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing, including,
>but not limited to,
>* computer assisted language learning,
>* 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 Language learning in particular.
>
>
>LANGUAGE:
>Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their
>papers not exceeding 400 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 INFO/ Auteurs et infos:
>        KEYWORDS/ Mots clefs:
>        SUMMARY/ Resume:
>        CONTACT PERSON/ Personne contact:
>
>2) Abstracts should not exceed 400 words in length excluding references (12
>pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4 please
>keep text within 19cm x 25,5 cm).
>
>3) The identification page and the abstract should be submitted in 4 HARD
>COPIES (12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4
>please keep text within 19cm x 25,5 cm) to:
>
>        NLP+IA 98 / TAL+AI 98
>        Pr. Chadia Moghrabi
>        GETA, CLIPS, IMAG
>        385 rue de la Bibliotheque
>        BP 53
>        38041 Grenoble Cedex 9
>        France
>                Phone: +33 4 76 51 4369
>                Fax:   +33 4 76 51 4405
>                E-mail: NLP+IA-98@imag.fr
>
>4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text.
>
>
>REFEREEING:
>All abstracts shall be refereed by three members of the Program
>committee.
>
>
>INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
>Anne De Roeck (Essex, UK)
>Arnold Smith (NRC, Canada)
>Chadia Moghrabi (Moncton, Canada)
>Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France)
>Chrysanne DiMarco (Logos, Waterloo, Canada)
>Eric Wehrli (Geneva, Switzerland)
>Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague)
>Genvieve Caelen-Haumont (GEOD, Grenoble, France)
>Graeme Hirst (Toronto, Canada)
>Harry Bunt (Tilburg, Netherlands)
>Henry Hamburger (George Mason, USA)
>Howard Hamilton (Regina, Canada)
>John Hutchins (East Anglia, UK)
>John Tait (Sunderland, UK)
>Junichi Tsujii (UMIST, UK)
>Manfred Stede (TU-Berlin, Germany)
>Marcel Cori (Paris-7, France)
>Mark Seligman (GETA-CLIPS & Red Pepper, USA)
>Michael Levison (Queens, Canada)
>Nocoletta Calzolari (Pisa, Italy)
>Pierre Isabelle (RALI, Montreal, Canada)
>Pierrette Bouillon (Geneva, Switzerland)
>Paul Tarau (Moncton, Canada)
>Remi Chadel (Inxight, Xerox, France)
>Roberto Basili (Roma, Italy)
>Ruddy Lelouche (Laval, Canada)
>Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
>Thierry Chanier (Franche-Comte, France)
>Thierry Van Steenberghe (Leuven, Belgium)
>Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser, Canada)
>Yael Ravin (IBM, USA)
>Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, UK)
>Some more to be confirmed
>
>
>SCHEDULE:
>Submissions are due on April 28th 1998.
>Notification of receipt will be mailed to the contact person soon after
>receipt.
>Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 june 1998. Camera-ready
>copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of August 1998 along
>with registration fees.
>
>Participants 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 should
>send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical
>requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs,
>etc.) to the same address with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line.
>
>
>OTHER ACTIVITIES:
>Accompanying persons can enjoy the lovely outdoor living in New-Brunswick
>and visit the highest tides in the world. Moncton is only 20km
>away from the sandy beaches of Shediac, la Capitale mondiale du homard.
>
>
>CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
>The conference is organized by GRETAL, Groupe d'etude sur le traitement
>automatique des langues at the Universite' de Moncton in cooperation with
>GETA-CLIPS at l'Universite' Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. The members of the
>organizing committee are:
>
>Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair
>Jalal Almhana, Director & Professor of Computer Science
>Julien Chiasson, Professor of Computer Science
>Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, director Manufacturing
>           Technology Centre
>Boubaker Meddeb-Hamrouni, Researcher GETA & WinSoft
>Paul Tarau, Professor of Computer Science
>
>
Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-1609; fax 303-492-4416

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