FYI: NACCL9, GALA '97, Writing the Future

Author:

Hua LIN

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IMPORTANT Information Regarding NACCL9 The Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics University of Victoria, Canada May 2-4, 1997 1) First, a reminder: The deadline for Early Registration is this **COMING SUNDAY (March 31)**. Notice that the university does not open on Saturday and Sundays, so you won't be able to find anyone during these two days should you have any questions, etc. The March 31 deadline will be very STRICTLY observed due to the fact tha we have to turn the final program in for printing very shortly after. Therefore, if you are presenting a paper, you MUST register by then, or your presentation will be canceled. Note that you can register by sending in your Master-Card or Visa # by contacting Pat Mcguire at 250-721-8746 (Phone) or 250-721-8774 (fax), pmcguire@uvaix.uvic.ca or Nieves at nforcada@uvcs.uvic.ca 2) Our web page http://castle.uvic.ca/ling/naclconf.html is ready with links to housing, bus, ferry, car rental, Victoria and Vancouver Island tourism and more. You can also download the Registration Form and the Housing Reservation Form from there. There is an error in the Housing Reservation form that is sent out to participants: keen@uvic.ca should be keen@uvvm.uvic.ca 3) On-campus housing as you see in the Housing Reservation Form is mos suitable for people with a limited budget. The rooms do not contain private bathrooms. Rather, bathrooms are centrally located (i.e. shared). Anyone wishing to have better accommodation should contact UVic Housing directly at 250-721-8395 (Phone), 250-721-8930(fax) or keen@uvvm.uvic.ca (email). 4) We will publish the conference proceedings after the conference, so bear that in mind when you come to present your paper. The forma for the papers in the proceedings will be distributed at the conference. 5) The bus which links Vancouver Airport with Downtown Victoria (via a ferry) is called Pacific Coach Line (Phone: 1-800-661-1725). However, from the Vancouver Airport, you need to take firstly a Delta Hotel shuttle bus which leaves every 15 minutes. The shuttle bus will take you to the Delta Hotel from which you can take a PCL bus. PCL bus goes every 2 hour between 6:00am to 8:00pm. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING (GALA '97) CITY CHAMBERS, EDINBURGH, 4-6 APRIL 1997 ***********************IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT**************************** We are limited by the fire regulations of the City Chambers to some 200 people in the Main Council Chamber, where the plenary talks will be held. Accordingly we are restricting registration numbers to 200. This constraint means that some people who wish to attend GALA '97 may no be able to attend if they leave registration until too late. We have been trying to deal with registrations fairly on a first-come, first-served basis. Our policy is that we are reserving one place at the conference per oral presentation or per poster presentation. Because we have some 120 presentations in all, the number of non-reserved places is quite limited. We have now almost reached the limit, although there may be a few more places resulting from last-minute cancellations. We therefore anticipate that it will be difficult to register on the day of the conference, and we advise participants not to make travel arrangements to come to Edinburgh if they have not pre-registered, or if they have not checked with us tha there are still places available. The GALA '97 Organising Committee http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/gala/ e-mail: gala97@ling.ed.ac.uk Writing the Future: Writing and Computers 10 September 18 - 19 1997 Brighton, UK The deadline for submissions of abstracts to Writing and Computers 10 has been extended until May 2nd. Details can now be found at: http://www-test.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/WandC97/WandC97.html or email: WandC10@bton.ac.uk