LINGUIST List 10.770

Thu May 20 1999

Calls: NLPPacific Rim Symposium, Cultural Change

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1. [** iso-8859-1 charset **] \192\204\193\214\200\163, NLP Pacific Rim Symposium 99
2. Duque Estrada, ASSESSMENT OF A CENTURY OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THE AMERICAS

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 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

 NLPRS-99
 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium

 Beijing, China
 November 5-7, 1999

 "Closing the Millennium"
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NLPRS has contributed to the promotion and circulation of research
efforts in Computational Linguistics and related subjects, primarily
among scholars in the Pacific Rim area. As the NLPRS culminating
a millennium, NLPRS-99 would like to invite more scholars than ever
before, including those beyond the Pacific boundaries, covering
topics of all related areas, in order to create a memorable occasion
before the next century. The papers must be original and address
unpublished work on all aspects of Computational Linguistics.


TOPICS

The conference papers may represent technical works in all areas of
computational linguistics. The following categories are illustrative only.
Do not hesitate to send your papers even if you think that the area of your
paper is not exactly covered by the categories below.

 General Categories
 morphology
 syntax
 discourse
 generation
 anaphora resolution
 lexical semantics
 machine translation
 dialogue
 bilingual alignment
 statistical parsing

 Linguistic Data
 lexical acquisition
 corpus analysis

 Applications
 applied NLP systems
 parallel implementations

 Thematic topics
 millennium view/experiences from large projects
 internet

THEMATIC SESSION and PANEL DISCUSSION :
THE MILLENNIUM: FIFTY YEARS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

NLPRS is considering organizing a millennium session and a panel
discussion on the issues and thoughts of what we have achieved and
what we may achieve over the fifty years of Computational Linguistics.
For instance, historical landmarks with positive influence on the
solutions of linguistic issues may need to be reinterpreted. What
would be the implication of achievements so far? On this topic,
NLPRS would like to encourage the submission of related papers.
In particular, government officials and scholars who created,
funded, and managed large-scale NLP projects are strongly urged
to join this panel discussion. The panel meeting will provide a
timely occasion to discuss successes and failures of large projects.

Those who wish to join the panel discussion on the topics stated
above are kindly requested to compile an email application with
a brief note of the opinion statement to the following address.

 yshanworld.kaist.ac.kr


THEMATIC SESSION :
LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND THE INTERNET

One of the key terms opening the next century will be the Internet.
Linguistic ideas may need to be recast into internet primitives.
NLPRS99 plans to organize a session devoted to related themes;
papers addressing the following themes are welcome:

 - internet applications of NLP systems:
 computational models as well as case studies
 - general topics on group works:
 linguistic or non linguistic algorithms that foster group
 communications


CONFERENCE Chair:

Huang, Changning Tsinghua University, China


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair:

Cao, Youqi Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair:

Choi, Key-Sun KAIST, Korea

Vice-Chairs:

Yu, Shiwen Peking University, China
Han, Young S. Suwon University, Korea

Members:

Ananiadou, Sofia UMIST, Manchester
Boitet, Christian CLIPS-GETA, France
Bond, Francis NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
Chen, Keh-Jiann Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Church, Kenneth W. AT&T Labs, USA
Dale, Robert Microsoft Research Institute, USA
Dong, Zhendong China Information Processing Society, China
Estival, Dominique Syrinx Speech Systems, Australia
Hasida, Koiti Electrotechnical Lab, Japan
Hausser, Roland University of Erlangen, Gemany
Hideki, Kashioka ATR, Japan
Hovy, Eduard USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Huang, Chu-Ren Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Isahara, Hitoshi Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
Joshi, Aravind K. University of Pennsylvania, USA
Kando, Noriko NACSIS, Japan
Kikui, Gen-ichiro NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories,
 Japan
Kim, Yeunbae NHK, Japan
Kurohashi, Sadao Kyoto University, Japan
Kwon, Hyuk-Chul Pusan National University, Korea
Lee, Jong-Hyeok Pohang University, Korea
Leong, Munkew Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
Li, Sheng Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Lua, Kim-Teng National University of Singapore, Singapore
Meknavin Surapan NECTEC, Thailand
Mitkov, Ruslan University of Wolverhampton, UK
Myaeng, Sung Hyon Chungnam National University, Korea
Nishino, Fumihito Fujitsu Labs, Japan
Niwa, Yoshiki ARL Hitachi, Japan
Park, Seyoung ETRI, Korea
Rim, Hae-Chang Korea University, Korea
Sangal, Rajeev Indian Institute of Information Technology, India
Seo, Jungyun Sogang University, Korea
Su, Keh-Yih Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
Takeda, Koichi IBM Tokyo Labs, Japan
Tokunaga, Takenobu Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Tsujii, Jun'ichi UMIST, Manchester
T'sou, Benjamin K. City University of Hong Kong
Uszkoreit, Hans University of Saarbruecken, Germany
Utsuro, Takehito Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Wu, Dekai HKUST Human Language Technology Center, Hong Kong
Wuwongse, Vilas Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Yao, Tian-Shun Northeastern University, China
Yoshimura, Kenji Fukuoka University,Japan
Yusoff, Zaharin University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Zhang, Pu Beijing Language & Culture University, China
Zhou, Ming Tsinghua University, China
Zock, Michael Langage & Cognition LIMSI-CNRS, France


PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should describe unique and completed work. When submitting
papers, authors must specify the category of the presentation: regular
paper, project paper, or poster paper. If a regular paper is intended
for the thematic sessions, the author is asked to indicate so by
choosing one of the two themes: millennium session or internet session.
In particular if the paper is intended for the millennium session, the
paper may length more than 3000 words constraints.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Papers should not contain more than 3200 words except millennium papers. 
The title page must contain the title of the paper, author information, 
paper length in words, the thematic session (if appropriate), and up to 
10 keywords in both English and the author's native language. The main 
pages should not contain the author information. Four hard copies of the 
original paper must be sent directly to the following address : 

 NLPRS-99 Submission
 Prof. Key-Sun Choi
 Department of Computer Science
 KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
 373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu
 Taejon 305-701 Korea
 TEL +82-42-869-3565
 FAX +82-42-867-3565

Hard copy submissions are strongly recommended, but for the authors
who cannot make hard copy submissions, the file format must be readily
browsable and printable in ps, html, or pdf. Electronic submissions
should be made to the following address:

 nlprs99korterm.kaist.ac.kr


IMPORTANT DATES

 Paper Submissions Deadline June 1, 1999
 Notification of acceptance August 1, 1999
 Camera ready paper September 1, 1999

Home page : http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs99

UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA
FACULTY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
DEPARTMENT OF LITERARY STUDIES

The Department of Literary Studies is organizing an International Conference

ASSESSMENT OF A CENTURY OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THE AMERICAS

to be held in the Faculty of Arts and Letters, December 14-18, 1999

The main objective of this event is to debate the principal changes of the
century in the area of culture, in Cuba, Latin America, the Caribbean and
North America, and to analyze intercultural relations
the links between tradition and change
movements, tendencies, new works and artists
social changes and their repercussions on culture
the main currents in cultural studies throughout the century dealing
principally with literature, art and language

An invitation is extended to researchers, professors and students of
culture, either as participants or observers, according to the following
fee schedule:
	Participants and observers: $US 70.00
	Family members and students: $US 35.00

The languages used in the conference will be Spanish, English, French and
Portuguese.

Titles and summaries of papers should be sent before October 1, 1999 to:

Dr. Rogelio Rodriguez Coronel
Chair, Organizing Committee
Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Havana
Zapata y G, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba
Tel. 537 78 82 92, Fax 537 33 56 74
Email: HYPERLINK mailto:revuhcomuh.uh.cu revuhcomuh.uh.cu ,
coronelfayl.uh.cu



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