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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
                           MAKING SENSE OF WORDS

                        9th Annual Conference of the
      University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research

                          September 27 - 28, 1993
                             St. Cross Building
                              Oxford, England

     The  Ninth Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre
     for  the  New  OED  and  Text  Research, jointly sponsored by the
     University  of  Waterloo and the Oxford University Press, will be
     held  at  St.  Cross  Building (with accommodations at St. Edmund
     Hall), Oxford, England, on September 27-28, 1993.

     This  year's  conference will focus on computational solutions to
     problems of equivalence among words and phrases.  Within lexicog-
     raphy,  one of the most important problems in this area is one of
     grouping  equivalents:  sifting  through corpus citations to form
     sense  groups.   Within lexicology and computational linguistics,
     there  are problems of finding equivalents: matching citations to
     dictionary   senses,   aligning   one  dictionary's  senses  with
     another's,  and  aligning parts of texts with their translations.
     In  related  fields,  there  are problems of forming equivalents:
     generating  translations,  expanding full-text queries to include
     synonyms,   and  tailoring  texts  to  suit  specific  audiences.
     Conference  participants will again include researchers from com-
     puter 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 sought.  Typical but not exclusive
     areas of interest include computational lexicology, computational
     linguistics, syntactic and semantic analysis, computational lexi-
     cography,  lexical  databases, computer-assisted translation, 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 pages) by April 27, 1993, to:

                      Prof. Frank Tompa, Program Chair
                UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research
                           University of Waterloo
                     Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
                                     or
                         email: newoed@uwaterloo.ca
                                     or
                             fax: 519-885-1208

     Late  submissions  risk rejection without consideration.  Authors
     will  be notified of acceptance or rejection by June 18, 1993.  A
     working  draft  of the paper, not exceeding 15 pages, will be due
     by July 16, 1993, for inclusion in proceedings which will be made
     available at the conference.

                             Program Committee

              Beryl T. Atkins (Oxford University Press)
              Kenneth Church (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
              Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California)
              Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
              Robert Ingria (BBN Laboratories)
              Frank Tompa, Chair (University of Waterloo)