LINGUIST List 10.187

Mon Feb 8 1999

Calls: Humorous discourse, Computational Ling.

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Susan Ervin-Tripp, Humorous discourse
2. bowen hui, PACLING-99

 
 1999 INTERNATIONAL HUMOR CONFERENCE
 sponsored by the International Society for Humor Studies

The Eighteenth International Humor Conference is scheduled to take
place from June 29 to July 3, 1999 at Holy Names College in Oakland,
overlooking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area. Submit proposals for
Papers, Posters, and Symposia focusing on humor research in the arts
and humanities as well as in the health and social sciences with
submissions fitting into at least one of five conference topical
tracks:

 (1) cognition and creativity
 (2) health and well-being
 (3) individuals and individual styles
 (4) culture and gender
 (5) public and private discourse

THE DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS IS MARCH 1, 1999.

A brochure containing an overview of the conference with details on
conference tracks, scholarships, and procedures on how to submit
proposals for papers, symposia, and workshops can be obtained by
writing.

Martin D. Lampert, Chair
1999 International Humor Conference
Holy Names College
3500 Mountain Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94619-1699
(510) 436-1699.
humor99hnc.edu
http://www.hnc.edu/events/humor99

			 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

			 PACLING-99
 Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics
 University of Waterloo
 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

			 August 25-28, 1999

The 4th PACLING conference will be held at the University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Canada, on August 25th to 28th, 1999. PACLING '99 is hosted by:

	o Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence
	 (CSCSI)/ Societe canadienne pour l'etude de l'intelligence par
	 ordinateur (SCEIO)
	o University of Waterloo, Canada
	o The Technical Group on Natural Language Understanding and
	 Communication of Institute of Electronics, Information, and
	 Communication Engineers of Japan
	o The Technical Group on Thought and Language of Institute of
	 Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan

PACLING '99 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop-oriented
meeting whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among
Pacific Rim countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific
exchange demonstrating openness towards good research falling outside
current dominant ``schools of thought'', and on technological transfer
within the Pacific region. The conference represents a unique forum
for scientific and technological exchange, being smaller than ACL,
COLING, or Applied NLP, and also more regional with extensive
representation from the Pacific.


INVITED SPEAKERS

There are two invited speakers this year. Fred Popowich, from Simon
Fraser University, will speak to us about ``Running on MT: Aspects of
Real Time Machine Translation'', while Bob Carpenter, from Bell
Laboratories, will announce his topic soon. Further information will
be published on the PACLING homepage as soon as it becomes available.


SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors should prepare extended abstracts, in English, not more than
3000 words including references. The title page must include: author's
name, postal address, e-mail address (if possible), telephone and
facsimile numbers; a brief 100-200 word summary; and some key words
for classifying the submission.

Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether verbatim
or in essence, must reflect this fact after key words. If a paper
appears at another conference, it must be withdrawn from PACLING
'99. Papers that violate these requirements are subject to rejection
without review.

Authors of a selection of representative papers which the Program
Committee identifies will be invited to revise their papers and submit
to a special issue of Computational Intelligence: An International
Journal based on PACLING '99.

Please send four copies of each submission to:

 Nick CERCONE 
 Department of Computer Science 
 William Davis Comp. Research Centre
 University of Waterloo 
 Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
 CANADA

 Telephone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 3292 
 Facsimile: (519) 885-1208 
 E-mail: ncerconeuwaterloo.ca 

 *OR*

 Kiyoshi KOGURE
 NTT Communication Science Laboratories
 2-4, Hikari-dai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, 
 Kyoto 619-023
 JAPAN 

 Telephone: +81 744 93 5250
 Fascimile: +81 744 93 5285
 E-mail: kogurecslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp 


ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE

February 21st 1999

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

May 1st 1999

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Chair:
 Nick Cercone (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Program coordinators: 
 Nick Cercone (University of Waterloo, Canada) 
 Kiyoshi Kogure (NTT, Japan)

Members:
 Francis Bond Sandra Carberry Robin Cohen 
 Veronica Dahl Robert Dale Hercules Daliani
 Chrysanne DiMarco Mike Dent Kohji Dohsaka 
 Randy Goebel Graeme Hirst Satoru Ikehara 
 Kentaro Inui Shun Ishizaki Pierre Isabelle 
 Julia Johnson Richard Kittredge Guy Lapalme 
 Dekang Lin Charles Ling Stan Matwin 
 Robert Mercer Johanna Moore Gordon McCalla
 Paul McFetridge Paul Mc Kevitt Jun-ichi Nakamura
 Minako O'Hagan Kyonghee Paik T. Pattabhiraman
 Emmanuel Planas Fred Popowich Gary Promhouse 
 Hiroshi Sakaki L. K. Schubert Akira Shimazu 
 Booncharoen Sirinaovakul Tomek Strzalkowski Ryoichi Sugimura
 Roland Sussex Masami Suzuki Yoichi Tomiura 
 Hiroaki Tsurumaru Peter van Beek Ning Zhong 
 Ingrid Zukerman 


FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for PACLING-99: http://www.lpaig.uwaterloo.ca/~b2hui/pacling/
Additional information and updates will be posted to the website as they
become available.

For further enquiries, please email Bowen Hui at b2huiuwaterloo.ca .