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Thu 02 Dec 1993

Confs: TALC94, Georgetown, Logic Language and Computation

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1. "Steve Fligelstone", Conference - TALC94 - Call for Participation
2. , Georgetown University Round Table 1994
3. Keith Devlin, Information-Oriented approaches to Logic, Language and Computation

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 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA (TALC94)

 Lancaster University 10 - 13th April 1994

AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE

While the use of computer text corpora in research is now
well established, they are now being used increasingly
for teaching purposes. This includes the use of corpus
data to inform and create teaching materials; it also
includes the direct exploration of corpora by students,
both in the study of linguistics and of foreign
languages. Talc94 will bring together researchers and
teachers who are involved - or who would like to be
involved - in such work, to take part in an international
exchange of current experience and expertise.

DATE AND VENUE

The conference will be held on the campus of Lancaster
University, Lancaster, UK, from 4.00 p.m. on Sunday 10th
April to 4.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 13th April.
Accommodation will be provided in high-standard student
residences, with en suite facilities.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Steven Fligelstone (Lancaster University)
Graeme Hughes (Lancaster University)
Gerry Knowles (Lancaster University)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Anne Wichmann (University of Central Lancashire)

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 Preliminary Announcement * Please Post

 Georgetown University Round Table
 on Languages and Linguistics 1994

 March 13 - 16, 1994

 Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural
 Communication, and Global Interdependence

 Chaired by James E. Alatis, Dean
 School of Languages and Linguistics
 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

 Plenary Speakers

 Douglas Brown, San Francisco State University
 Braj Kachru, University of Illinois
 Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California
 Tom McArthur, Oxford University
 Jack C. Richards, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
 Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University
 Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University

 Invited Speakers

 Ayo Bamgbose, University of Ibadan and University of Illinois
 Leslie Beebe, Columbia University
 Eyamba G. Bokamba, University of Illinois
 Jerry Cline-Bailey, Xavier University (Cincinnati)
 Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, University of Chicago
 Donald Freeman, School for International Training
 Rebecca Freeman, University of Pennsylvania
 Celeste Kinginger, University of Maryland at College Park
 Ronald Leow, Georgetown University
 Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International Studies
 Yu-Hwei Lii-Shih, National Taiwan Normal University
 Joan Morley, University of Michigan
 Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore
 Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania
 Ren Shaozeng, Hangzhou University (People's Republic of China)
 Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
 Larry E. Smith, East-West Center, University of Hawaii
 Zhuang Gen-Yuan, Hangzhou University (People's Republic of China)

 For more information, please contact
 Joan C. Cook, Coordinator * GURT 1994
 Georgetown University * School of Languages and Linguistics
 303 Intercultural Center * Washington, DC 20057-1067
 e-mail: gurtguvax.bitnet * gurtguvax.georgetown.edu
 voice: 202/687-5726 * fax: 202/687-5712

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CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION-ORIENTED APPROACHES
TO LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION
(4th Conference on Situation Theory and its Applications)

Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, California, USA

Conference: June 12--15, 1994
Instructional workshops: June 8--11, 1994

In the past few years, there has been a growing sense of
convergence in information-based work in the study of
language and logic. Situation theory, domain theory, and
linear logic, for example, are increasingly seen as having
common underlying intuitions and motivations. For this
reason, it has been decided to broaden the focus of the
Situation Theory and its Applications conference from
situation theory, per se, to the general study of logic,
language and computation from an informational
perspective.

A special feature of this year's conference is a symposium
on visual reasoning, organized by Jon Barwise and John
Etchemendy.

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PARTICIPANTS
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A preliminary list of participants at the conference includes,
in addition to the conference organizers:
 P. Aczel (U Manchester)
 P. Agre (UC San Diego)
 J. Barwise (Indiana U, Bloomington)
 J. van Benthem (U Amsterdam)
 R. Cooper (U Edinburgh)
 J. Etchemendy (Stanford U)
 D. Israel (SRI, Menlo Park)
 Y. Katagiri (NTT, Tokyo)
 L. Moss (Indiana U, Bloomington)
 K. Mukai (Keio U, Fujisawa)
 D. Oehrle (U Arizona, Tuscon)
 J. Perry (Stanford U)
 S. Peters (Stanford U)
 C. Pollard (Ohio State U, Columbus)
 V. Pratt (Stanford U)
 W. Rounds (U Michigan, Ann Arbor)
 J. Sowa (SUNY, Binghampton)

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CONFERENCE TOPICS
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Contributions related to this theme are invited from
researchers in logic, linguistics, computer science,
philosophy, and related fields. Relevant areas include,
but are not limited to:
 situation semantics
 information-based theories of grammar, semantics,
 and discourse
 dynamic semantics and logic
 situation theory and its applications
 theories of structured objects
 set-theoretic models of semantic theories of information
 proof theoretic approaches to information and semantics
 informational approaches to propositional attitudes
 situated automata
 applications of situation theory to knowledge
 representation, data processing, and systems design
 visual and multi-modal reasoning (special symposium)

Program committee: Dag Westerstahl (chair, U Stockholm),
Elisabet Engdahl (U Edinburgh), John Etchemendy (Stanford U),
Jerry Seligman (U Amsterdam), Hidetosi Sirai (Chukyo U).

Local organization: Keith Devlin (Saint Mary's College).
email: devlinstmarys-ca.edu.