LINGUIST List 10.742

Fri May 14 1999

Calls: Computational Linguistics, Eastern States

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

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1. Priscilla Rasmussen, EACL'99 Registration Reminder
2. Boeckx, call for papers ESCOL'99

 EACL '99

 9th Conf. of the European Chapter of the 
 Association for Computational Linguistics
 Bergen, June 8-12, 1999

 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW !

 http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

 The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in
 Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. Programme overview:

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 June 7 Pre-conference excursion to the fjords
 June 8 Tutorials
 June 9-11 Main sessions, student sessions, posters&demos
 Invited speakers Bruce Croft & Wolfgang Wahlster
 Exhibit & Job Fair
 Social programme (reception & banquet)
 June 12 Workshops
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 Please consult the website for the full programme, venue and local
 information, registration and hotel accommodation:
 http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

 Welcome to Bergen !

 Henry Thompson & Alex Lascarides, Programme Chairs 
 Koenraad de Smedt, Chair of the Local Organization Committee

 Sponsors:
 LINGSOFT, University of Bergen (Humanities Faculty), Bergen University
 Fund, Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and Church affairs

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			CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

		 EACL'99 TUTORIALS PROGRAMME

The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in
Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. There will be two
tutorial sessions on June 8th, 1999, with two tutorials each.


TIME TABLE

 8:30	Registration
 9:30	Start Morning Session (1 and 3 below)
 11:00	Break
 11:30	Morning Session continued
 13:00	Lunch
 14.00	Start Afternoon Session (2 and 4 below)
 15:30	Break
 16.00	Afternoon Session continued
 17:30	End of Sessions


 1. Practical Text Mining
 Lecturer: Ronen Feldman

 2. Natural Language Learning with the Maximum Entropy Framework
 Lecturer: Adwait Ratnaparkhi 

 3. Building Natural Language Generation Systems
 Lecturers: Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter

 4. Lexicography for Computationalists
 Lecturers: Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell

The URL for the tutorials programme (with abstracts and further
information) is http://ilk.kub.nl/~walter/eacl/prog.html

The URL for the EACL'99 homepage is http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

 -- Walter Daelemans <Walter.Daelemanskub. nl>

ESCOL '99

Eastern states conference on linguistics

University of Connecticut
November 19-21, 1999


Invited Speakers
To be announced 

Call for Papers
Abstracts are being solicited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 
minutes of discussion) on all areas of formal linguistics. 

Abstract requirements	
Please send:
a.	7 copies of an anonymous one-page abstract, 1-inch margins on all 
	sides, 12pt font, letter size;
b.	An additional page is allowed for references and data (no text);
c.	A separate page indicating the title of the paper, the author's 
	name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address and telephone number

to:	ESCOL '99 Committee	
	Dept. of Linguistics, U-1145	
	University of Connecticut	
	Storrs, CT 06269-1145
	USA

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Monday, August 2, 1999.
No fax or e-mail submissions will be accepted. 

For more information, please visit the ESCOL '99 website at: 	
http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~wwwling/escol99.htm
or contact us by e-mail at lingadm2uconnvm.uconn.edu.


Cedric Boeckx/Adolfo Ausin
Dept. of Linguistics
University of Connecticut, U-1145
341 Mansfield Rd
Storrs, CT 06269-1145 (USA)
Tel: (860) 486-4229