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LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN

Spring Meeting 1993: University of Birmingham

The 1993 Spring Meeting will be held from Monday 22 March to
Wednesday 24 March at the University of Birmingham, where the
Association will be the guests of the Cognitive Science Research
Centre.

Enquiries about the meeting should be sent to the Local Organizer:
William Edmondson, CSRC, School of Computer Science, University of
Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT.
Tel: 021-414-4763. Fax: 021-414-4281.
email: edmondsonwhvax1.computer-centre.birmingham.ac.uk

Accommodation, meals and all lecture rooms are in Lake Hall, on
the University campus. There is also a bar in the Hall. All
bedrooms have washbasins and razor points. Car parking is
available directly outside the Hall. A maximum of 130 people can
be accommodated in residence. A small number of twin rooms are
available: if you require one please inform the Local Organizer on
your booking form.

Travel: Birmingham New Street BR station is most convenient for
the meeting: participants should travel to the campus by taxi, a
cost of around (pounds) 4.50. Alternatively, the BR station on campus,
University Station, is about 1 mile walk from Lake Hall. More
detailed information is sent out in the registration package.

Registration will begin on Monday 22 March at 11.00 in Lake Hall.
Any late arrivals should simply report to the Hall.

Events:

There will be a workshop before the meeting, on the topic of
Disjoint Indexing: Cross-over, Principles B and C, and 'free in a
domain'. The speakers will be Joseph Edmonds, Paul Postal, and
Ruth Kempson. Professor Emonds will also deliver the Linguistics
Association 1993 Lecture, entitled: The nature of syntactic
indices and disjoint reference', on the evening of Monday 22
March. In addition, Professor Postal will be speaking on the
evening of Tuesday 23 March, on 'A novel extraction typology'.

Parasessions: There will be a Linguistics in Education parasession
on Language description and prescription in the English and Modern
Languages classroom. Speakers are Chris Brumfit, Ros Mitchell and
Janet Hooper.

On the afternoon of Wednesday 24 March there will be a parasession
on Linguistics and Cognitive Science. Speakers will include Gerry
Altmann (Sussex) and William Edmondson (Birmingham).

The University is also host to the 1993 meeting of the Society for
the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of
Behaviour (AISB), from 29 March to 2 April. There will be a pre-
session to this on Monday 29 March, when the Joint Council for
Initiatives in Cognitive Science has its annual meeting. The
first presentation is by Professor Gerald Gazdar of the University
of Sussex. Participants interested in attending both meetings
should direct enquiries about accommodation to Dr Donald Peterson,
tel 021-414-4792; fax 021-414-4281
e-mail: aisb93-delegatescs.bham.ac.uk

Bookings should be sent to Julie Heathcote (LAGB), address as
above for Local Organizer, and should arrive by 1 March. Cheques
to be made payable to: University of Birmingham. Bookings sent by
Fax or e-mail by 1 March will qualify for the discount for early
booking. [Fax is preferred.]
E-mail booking form available.

EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93

 THIRD NOTIFICATION

The European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics will hold its Sixth Conference in Utrecht, The
Netherlands, from Wednesday to Friday, 21-23 April 1993, preceded
by two days of tutorials on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20.

General Conference Chair: The conference is co-chaired by Steven
Krauwer, Michael Moortgat and Louis des Tombe (OTS, Utrecht).

Programme Committee: Anne Abeille (University of Paris), Ted
Briscoe (University of Cambridge), Ken Church (AT T Bell
Laboratories), Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania), Ewan
Klein (University of Edinburgh), Andras Kornai (CSLI, Stanford),
Jan Landsbergen (IPO, Eindhoven), Uwe Reyle (University of
Stuttgart), Anne de Roeck (University of Essex), Remko Scha
(University of Amsterdam), Susan Warwick-Armstrong (ISSCO,
Geneva).

Local Organization Coordinator: Renee Pohlmann (OTS, Utrecht).

Tutorials Coordinator: Jan van Eijck (CWI, Amsterdam).

Student Session Programme Committee: The Committee is co-chaired by
Anne-Marie Mineur and Yvon Wijnen (Utrecht University), and consists
of David Beaver, Morten Christiansen, Shona Douglas, Tomaz Erjavec,
Alistair Knott, Carl Vogel (University of Edinburgh), Josef van
Genabith (Essex University), Frank Piron (University of Freiburg),
Patrizia Paggio (University of Kopenhagen), Melina Alexa (UMIST,
Manchester), Kjetil Strand (University of Oslo), Uli Schatz, Juergen
Oesterle (University of Muenchen), Irene Pimenta Rodrigues (University
of Lisbon), Jochen Doerre (University of Stuttgart), Paolo Cattaneo
(IDSIA, Lugano).

The final programme is now being prepared, and a full time
schedule will be published shortly.
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For the provisional program and registration information and forms,
contact one of the organizers or:

EACL93 Organizing Committee, OTS, Trans 10, NL-3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Tel: (31)30-536377. Fax: (31)30-536000. Email: eacl93let.ruu.nl.