LINGUIST List 4.339

Wed 05 May 1993

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1. , Symposium on Romance Languages, February 25-29, 1994, USC/UCLA
2. Eastern States Conference on Linguisticsescolling.ohio-state.edu, ESCOL 93--Last Reminder
3. Makoto NAGAO, CFP: COLING94

**Call For Papers**

The Twenty-Fourth Annual
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
February 25-28, 1994

will be held jointly at
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Southern California, Los Angeles

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: November 1, 1993
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks. Send six copies of an anonymous
one-page abstract. Enclose a 3"x5" card with your name, address, telephone
number, e-mail (if available), affiliation, and title of your paper.

Abstracts taking any linguistic approach to Romance languages are welcome.

ADDRESS ABSTRACTS AND INQUIRIES TO:

LSRL24
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Southern California
University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0358

Tel.: (213) 740-1261 or (310) 825-0237
Fax: 213-740-9463
E-mail: IKP4ACQUCLAMVS.EDU or SALTARELUSCVM.BITNET

Please post

 TENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
 EASTERN STATES CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS

 ESCOL `93

 CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

August 6-8, 1993 (Immediately following the LSA Institute at OSU)

Invited Speakers include:

 Nick Clements (Cornell University/CNRS)
 Nirit Kadmon (Tel Aviv University)
 Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern University)
 Carl Pollard (Ohio State University)

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (+10 minutes
discussion) in all areas of theoretical linguistics. In-
quiries may be addressed via e-mail to:

 escolling.ohio-state.edu.

Requirements: Any individual may submit one individual and one
joint abstract. Abstracts must be no more than one standard page,
single-spaced (a separate sheet for data/references is accept-
able). Five copies of the abstract should be submitted.
Abstracts should be anonymous. Each submission should be accom-
panied by a 3x5 card containing:

 1. the author's name
 2. title of the paper
 3. the author's address and affiliation
 (incl. phone number)
 4. e-mail address (if available).

Abstracts must be received by:

 May 15, 1993.

Presented papers will be published by the Department of Modern
Languages and Linguistics at Cornell University.

Abstracts should be submitted to:

 ESCOL 1993
 Department of Linguistics
 The Ohio State University
 222 Oxley Hall
 1712 Neil Ave.
 Columbus, OH 43210

 COLING 94
 CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference dates: August 5(Fri) -- 9(Tue), 1994

Conference place: Miyako Hotel, Kyoto, Japan

General Chairman: Prof. Makoto Nagao
 Department of Electrical Engineering
 Kyoto University
 Tel. +81-75-753-5344
 Fax. +81-75-751-1576
 Email. coling94pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Program Chairman: Prof. Yorick Wilks
 University of Sheffield
 Sheffield, S10 2UH, England

Program Committee: Yorick Wilks (Sheffield)
 Louise Guthrie (Las Cruces) Graeme Hirst (Toronto)
 Margaret King (Geneva) Judith Klavans (New York)
 Wendy Lehnert (Amherst) Candy Sidner (Cambridge, MA)
 Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo) Henry Thompson (Edinburgh)
 Jun-ichi Tsujii (Manchester) Michael Zock (Paris)

The International Committee on Computational Linguistics invites the
submission of papers for COLING 94, the 15th International Conference
on Computational Linguistics, in Kyoto, Japan.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research
on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not
limited to, the followings.

- syntax - parsing
- semantics - generation
- phonetics - language understanding
- phonology - speech analysis/synthesis
- morphology - computational lexicons
- discourse - electronic dictionaries
- pragmatics - terminology
- quantitative/qualitative linguistics - text database and retrieval
- mathematical linguistics - documentation
- contrastive linguistics - machine translation
- cognitive linguistics - machine aids for translation
- large text corpora - natural language interface
- text processing - dialogue systems
- hardware/software for NLP - multimedia systems

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION:

Papers should be either topical papers (maximum six pages in final
format) or project notes with demonstration (maximum four pages),
preferably in English. Both should describe original work. The
project note should specify the computer platform that will be used.
They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and
they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported
results. A paper accepted for presentation at the COLING Conference
cannot be presented at another conference.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:

Authors should submit four copies of preliminary versions of their
papers with the page limits above, on A4 paper with the title,
author(s), addresses (including email if possible), affiliation across
the page top, a short (five line) summary, the words: topical paper or
project note, and a specification of the topic area preferably drawn
from the list above. As well, authors are strongly urged to email the
title page information by the deadline date. Send the papers and
emails to:

 COLING 94
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Sheffield
 Sheffield S10 2UH, England
 Email: colingdcs.sheffield.ac.uk

IMPORTANT DATES:

 Preliminary paper submission due: 6 January, 1994
 Acceptance notification: 15 March, 1994
 Camera-ready copies due: 1 May, 1994

REVIEW SCHEDULE:

Preliminary papers are due by 6 January 1994. Papers received after
that date will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be
mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt.
All inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by 27 January 1994.
Designated authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 March, 1994.
Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column
format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 1 May
1994 at

 Prof. Makoto Nagao
 Department of Electrical Engineering
 Kyoto University
 Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan

along with a signed copyright release statement. Papers received
after that date may not be included in the proceedings.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

(1) Tutorial program will be presented on 3(Wed) -- 4(Thu), August,
1994.

(2) Invited talks and panels will be included in the program.
Proposals and suggestions for invited talks and panels should be sent
to Prof. Yorick Wilks as soon as possible.

(3) Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration
should send a brief description, together with a specification of
physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables,
etc.) to Prof. M. Nagao.

(4) Many attractive social programs will take place for the occasion
of the 1200th anniversary of Kyoto.