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From: lmjones@watsol.uwaterloo.ca (Linda M. Jones)
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 11:15:50 EST
Subject: <mod-ki 0654> OED Call for Papers 91
Keywords: Konferenzen

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                            Call for Papers

                             USING CORPORA
      7th Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for 
                      the New OED and Text Research

                      September 29 - October 1, 1991
                         St. Catherine's College
                            Oxford, England

The Seventh Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo  Centre  for
the New OED and Text Research, jointly sponsored by  the  University  of
Waterloo, Oxford  University  Press,  and  Oxford  University  Computing
Services, will be held at  Statherine's  College,  Oxford,  England,  on
September 29 - October 1, 1991.

This year's conference will  focus  on  applications  of  computer-based
corpora.  For  example,  text  databases  can  be  used  to  expand  the
information  potential  of  existing  text,   create  and  maintain  new
information resources, and generate new  print  information.  Conference
participants will again include researchers from  computer  science  and
the humanities, as well as representatives from  publishing  houses  and
other industries.

Papers presenting original research on theoretical and  applied  aspects
of the theme are being sough typical but not exclusive areas of interest
include computational lexicology, computational  linguistics,  syntactic
and semantic analysis, computational  lexicography,  lexical  databases,
and online reference works.

Submissions will be refereed  by  the  program  committee  listed  below
authors should  send  seven  copies  of  a  detailed  abstract  (5 to 10
double-spaced pages) by April 22, 1991,  to  the  Program  Chair,  Prof.
Frank Tompa, at:
                    UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research
                    Davis Centre 
                    University of Waterloo
                    Waterloo, Ontario
                    Canada N2L 3G1
                          or
                    newoed@uwaterloo.ca

Late submissions risk rejection without consideration. Authors  will  be
notified of acceptance or rejection by June 14, 1991. A working draft of
the paper, not exceeding 15 pages, will be due  by  July 19,  1991,  for
inclusion in proceedings which will be made available at the conference.

Program Committee
Patrick Hanks      (Oxford University Press)
Stig Johansson     (University of Oslo)
Ian Lancashire     (University of Toronto)
Michael Lesk       (Bellcore)
Nancy Ide          (Vassar College)
Frank Tompa, Chair (University of Waterloo)
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