LINGUIST List 14.3144

Sun Nov 16 2003

Calls: Computational Ling/Greece; General Ling/USA

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. badenh, International Conference on TeX, XML and Digital Typography
2. makitaka, UNC-CH Spring Linguistics Colloquium 2004

International Conference on TeX, XML and Digital Typography 
Short Title: TUG2004 

Date: 30-Aug-2004 - 03-Sep-2004
Location: Xanthi, Greece
Contact: Apostolos Syropoulos
Contact Email: tug2004ocean1.ee.duth.gr 
Meeting URL: http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/tug2004/ 

Linguistic Sub-field: Text/Corpus Linguistics, Computational
Linguistics 
Call Deadline: 10-Dec-2003

Meeting Description:

International Conference on TeX, XML and Digital Typography - TUG 2004

 (The 25th Annual Meeting and Conference of the TeX Users Group)

 Xanthi, Greece Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 2004

		http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/tug2004/

Hosted by the Greek TeX Friends and the Democritus University of
Thrace

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
======================

The TeX Users Group (TUG) Annual Meeting and Conference for the year
2004 will take place in Xanthi, Greece. It will be the first time that
the TUG Annual Meeting and Conference will coincide with the
International Olympic Games. In fact, the Conference will be held
between Aug. 30 and Sept. 3, 2004, immediately after the 2004
International Olympic Games (Athens, Greece, Aug. 11-29, 2004) and
just before the 2004 International Paralympic Games (Athens, Greece,
Sept. 17-28, 2004). So come and join the TeX Community in the
Olympics for the first time ever!

Main Conference Theme:
- --------------------
TeX in the era of XML and Unicode

The Conference will be focused on the use of TeX in the preparation of
multilingual, complex documents for various output devices in
combination with XML and Unicode. Merging SVG, XSL-FO and XSLT with
existing TeXnologies, the preparation of electronic books, and the
typesetting of rare and lost scripts (Linear A/B, Maya Hieroglyphics,
etc.) are some of the main topics of interest.

The official language of the Conference is English.

Proceedings will be published in a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS). A Pre-Proceeedings will be published in
the TUGboat Journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
===============
Abstracts due		Dec. 10, 2003

Draft paper due		Jan. 1, 2004

Final paper due		Feb. 1, 2004

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
====================
For the initial submission of abstracts, prospective authors should
send (via email to tug2004ocean1.ee.duth.gr) a short note with

	- the name of the author(s), 
	- affiliation, 
	- contact address, 
	- title of the paper, and 
	- an abstract of up to 250 words. 

The abstract must be in LaTeX or plain ASCII format. The authors will
be notified whether their paper has been accepted or not shortly after
it has been submitted. Detailed instructions regarding the format of
final manuscripts will follow acceptance notifications.

Organising Committee:
- -------------------
Apostolos Syropoulos - Greek TeX Friends, Xanthi, Greece 
Ioannis Dimakos - University of Patras, Patras, Greece 
Costas Drossos - University of Patras, Patras, Greece 
Dimitrios Filippou - Greek TeX Friends, Volos, Greece 
Yannis Haralambous - ENST de Bretagne, Brest, France 
Nikos Hatzigeorgiu - Institute for Language and Speech Processing,
Xanthi, Greece
Alexandros Karakos - Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece 
Basil Papadopoulos - Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece 
Antonis Tsolomitis - University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece 

Programme Committee:
- ------------------
Karl Berry - President, TeX Users Group, USA 
Kaja P. Christiansen - University of Aarhus, Denmark 
Yannis Haralambous - ENST de Bretagne, Brest, France 
Baden Hughes - University of Melbourne, Australia 
David Kastrup - Ruhr-Universit�t Bochum, Germany 
Frank Mittelbach - Electronic Data Systems, Germany 
John Plaice - The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 
Apostolos Syropoulos - Greek TeX Friends, Xanthi, Greece 

For more information, please see:

		http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/tug2004/

======================================================================

UNC-CH Spring Linguistics Colloquium 2004 

Date: 27-Mar-2004 - 27-Mar-2004
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
Contact: Maki Takahashi
Contact Email: makitakaemail.unc.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.unc.edu/depts/ling/colloquium.html

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics 
Call Deadline: 16-Jan-2004

Meeting Description:

2004 UNC-CH Spring Linguistics Colloquium will be held on the 27th of
March. Papers are invited on any topic in Theoretical Linguistics and
Applied Linguistics for 20 minutes presentation. 

Call for Papers

UNC-CHAPEL HILL
SPRING LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM 2004

Saturday, March 27 2004

Department of Linguistics,
318 Dey Hall, CB#3155
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155

Keynote Speaker: Anthony Kroch
University of Pennsylvania

Papers are invited on any topic in Theoretical Linguistics and Applied
Linguistics. Presentations will be 20 minutes long (in English)
followed by a 10-minute discussion period.

Deadline for Abstracts : Friday, January 16, 2004

Abstract Guidelines:
PDF files are preferred, but abstracts may be sent in plain text,
Word, or RTF formats. If you use any nonstandard fonts, PDF format is
strongly recommended. Abstracts should be one-page long in 12-point
fonts, with an optional additional page for examples, figures, tables
or references. Please do not include any author information in your
abstract but provide the following information in the body of your
message:

a) Title of paper
b) Author's name(s) and affiliation(s)
c) Email address
d) Address and phone number

Electronic submissions are preferred and should be sent to the
following address. Please send your abstract as an attachment to your
email-message.

lgsacolloquiumunc.edu

Only one abstract from each individual as a first author can be
considered for acceptance. One individual abstract and one jointly
authored abstract may be submitted. For more information, please
visit: http://www.unc.edu/depts/ling/colloquium.html