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From: haj@divsun.unige.ch (Jan Hajic)
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: 6  Mar 91 13:09 +0100
Subject: <mod-ki 0669> Prague Summer School 1991
Keywords: Tutorials

mod-ki message 0669
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                SUMMER SCHOOL IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
                Formal and Computational Models of Meaning

TIME AND PLACE: July 8-21, 1991, Prague, Czechoslovakia

ORGANIZERS:     Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
                and Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University

COURSES:
 - Jurij D. Apresjan, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR:
   The Types of Lexical Information for a Dictionary in an Integrated
   Linguistic Description
 - B.T.Sue Atkins, Oxford University Press, UK:
   Lexicography for Computational Linguistics
 - Christian Boitet, G.E.T.A., Grenoble, France:
   Meaning and Understanding in Machine Translation
 - Jens Erik Fenstad, University of Oslo, Norway:
   Computational Semantics
 - Charles J. Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley, USA:
   Semantic Interpretation and Construction Grammar
 - Eva Hajicova and Petr Sgall, Charles University, Prague:
   A Functional Approach to the Meaning of the Sentence and to
   Intersentential Links
 - George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley, USA:
   Cognitive Semantics
 - Martha E. Pollack, SRI International, USA:
   Contextual Influences on Meaning
 - James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA:
   Computational Lexical Semantics
 - Mats Rooth, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA:
   Formal Semantics
 - Hans Uszkoreit, University of Saarbruecken, Germany:
   New Developments in Grammar Formalisms
 - Wolfgang Wahlster, University of Saarbruecken, Germany:
   Discourse and User Models

The programme will be organized in four 90 minute non-overlapping blocks
per day.
 
FEES: 900 USD for industrial participants
      700 USD for academic community

The fees cover the costs of all courses, a welcome party, a guided  tour
of Prague, accomodation in  double  rooms  in  the  University  students
hostel for the whole period of the School (14 nights, 10 USD per night),
and 3 meals per day in the students canteen (13 days,  8 USD  per  day).
There is a limited number of beds  available  for  accompanying  persons
(20 USD per night). Registration is possible  without  accomodation  and
meals, with a registration fee of 450 USD  for  academic  community  and
650 USD for industrial participants.  The  organizers  cannot  take  the
responsibility for hotel accomodation.

REGISTRATION:
The deadline for registration is April 30, 1991, but it is important  to
react as soon as possible, as the courses have limitations on the number
of participants. You can either  ask  for  a  brochure  containing  more
details  with  the  Registration  Form  attached,  or  simply  send  the
following data along with an evidence of the payment of the registration
fee:
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Registration form
Name:
Affiliation (university or company):
Address for correspondence:
e-mail address:
Telephone:
Specify: industrial participant / academic institution / student
Do you wish to reserve room and meals in the University hostel? (Y/N)
Fees (specify the amount paid):
Registration fee:
Date:
(Signature:)
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The address and other contact:

MFF UK - linguistics, c/o Dr. Eva Hajicova
Malostranske nam. 25
118 00 Praha 1, Czechoslovakia
Voice:  +42-2-532136
Fax:    +42-2-847688 (attn. MFF UK linguistics)
e-mail: MATRACE@CSPUNI12.BITNET (or UMLEH@CSEARN.BITNET)

PAYMENT:
The fee should be paid before April 30, 1991.  Cheques  are  payable  to
"ACL", use Swiss franc or a European currency  equivalent  on  date  the
cheque is signed and be sure the cheque is  payable  in  Switzerland  or
France. Cheques in USD must be drawn on a US bank. Send the cheque  with
a copy of the registration form to Michael Rosner (the  address  below).

Bank transfer: Credit Union Bank of Switzerland, Geneva,
a/c "Association of Computational Linguistics", 141.880.LAV.

Send a copy of the registration form to Michael Rosner:
Michael Rosner (Prague Summer School)
IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, 6900 LUGANO, Switzerland

Arrivals ................:  Sunday, June 7, 1991
Beginning of the School .:  Monday, July 8, 9 a.m.
End of the School .......:  Saturday, July 20, 6 p.m.
Departures ..............:  Sunday, July 21
Registration desk open at:  July 7, 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., in  the  building
                            of the Faculty of Mathematics  and  Physics,
                            Praha 8 - Troja, Str.V  Holesovickach 2.

How to get there ........:  Underground  ("Metro")   line  C,   terminal
                            "Nadrazi Holesovice", from there one stop by
                            bus No.156 or 175. The faculty  building  is
                            the tall building on the same  side  of  the
                            road as the bus stop.
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