LINGUIST List 13.1597

Tue Jun 4 2002

Support: Computational Ling: Fellowship, Taiwan

Editor for this issue: Heather Taylor <heatherlinguistlist.org>

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1. Richard Sproat, Computational Ling: Tutorial Student Fellowships, Taipai Taiwan

SIGHAN, the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest
Group on Chinese Language Processing, as part of its goal of promoting
education in Chinese Language Processing is pleased to announce at
least TWO student fellowships, to cover the cost of attending the
full-day tutorial in Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
Processing to be offered August 24, 2002, in conjunction with COLING
2002 in Taipei.

For information on the tutorials, please see:

http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html

The fellowship will cover the cost of tutorial registration only.

Applicants must be students currently enrolled in a degree program,
and have an interest in natural language processing or related areas.

Applications should include the following materials:

1. Short CV or Resume
2. Short (50 word) statement of interest
3. GPA or equivalent
4. Names and email addresses of two referees

Applications should be submitted ELECTRONICALLY to:

Richard Sproat, SIGHAN Vice-Chair/Treasurer, rwsresearch.att.com

with the subject line: "SIGHAN Fellowship Application".

Please send all information in plain ASCII text. SUBMISSION OF
DOCUMENTS IN MSWORD FORMAT IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED.

IMPORTANT DATES:

 - June 30	Application deadline
 - July 15	Notification of awards
 - August 24	Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
 Tutorials

For more information on SIGHAN please visit http://www.sighan.org