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From: walker%flash.bellcore.com@unido.bitnet (Don Walker)
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 90 16:32:15 EST
Subject: COLING '90 Information on registration and tutorials
Keywords: Konferenzen

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                        C O L I N G - 9 0
 
                   CONDENSED 2ND ANNOUNCEMENT

The  13th  International  Conference   on   Computational   Linguistics,
COLING-90, will  take  place  on  the  premises  of  the  University  of
Helsinki, on August 20 through August 25, 1990.
 
PRE-COLING tutorials take place on August 16 - August 18, 1990.

During COLING-90, some 160 topical papers will be  read,  selected  from
the 650 papers submitted for consideration. In addition,  more  than  50
project notes with software  demonstrations  will  be  presented.  There
will also be a large commercial exhibition  of  linguistically  relevant
software and hardware.

The overriding theme of the PRE-COLING tutorials is "Theories,  methods,
and tools for large-scale  linguistic  processing  of  dictionaries  and
running text". The detailed programme is as follows:

Branimir Boguraev & James Pustejovsky, "Knowledge representation and
acquisition from dictionary sources" (10 h)
 
Kenneth W. Church, "Basic Unix for linguists" (6 h)
 
Lauri Karttunen, "Lexical computations" (6 h)
 
Judith L. Klavans & Patrick Hanks, "The role of large text corpora in
building natural language systems" (8 h)
 
Hiroshi Uchida, "Electronic dictionary" (5 h)
 
Facilities for on-line demonstrations and practice will be available
(workstations, dictionaries, corpora).
 
Deadline for advance registration is May 1, 1990. Before that date,
the following registration fees obtain:
 
COLING-90: students 400 FIM, others 750 FIM
 
PRE-COLING: members of the academic community 500 FIM,
representatives of commercial organizations 1500 FIM
 
Late registration fees (after May 1, 1990) are:
 
COLING-90: students 600 FIM, others 1200 FIM
 
PRE-COLING: members of the academic community 800 FIM,
representatives of commercial organizations 2500 FIM

Please request the detailed 2nd announcement, including  information  on
accommodation and the requisite registration forms, from:

Fred Karlsson
Department of General Linguistics
University of Helsinki
Hallituskatu 11
SF-00100 Helsinki, Finland
e-mail: COLING@FINUH.BITNET
fax:    +358 0 653726
telex:  124690 unih sf
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