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1. , GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO SLA - CALL FOR PAPERS
2. Julie Vonwiller, conference announcement

 *** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - GASLA 1995

formerly known as the workshop on L2 Acquisition Research (MIT)

We invite original research papers on:

Implications of UG principles and parameters in

* Second Language Acquisition
* Second Language Processing
* Bilingualism
* Language Attrition
* Learnability in SLA

 Date: May 4-5, 1995
 Location: Graduate School and University Center of the City
 University of NY and Queens College

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 Please send 5 copies of an anonymous one-page abstract and
 a 3x5 card with name(s) of author(s), title of paper,
 affiliation, phone number and e-mail address to:

 GASLA
 Department of Linguistics
 Queens College
 Flushing, New York 11367

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 * DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: DEC. 10, 1994 *
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 If you are interested in attending a workshop on experimental
 research methods in SLA to be held in conjunction with the GASLA
 conference (May 6-7), please let us know via e-mail:

 gaslaqcvaxa.acc.qc.edu

 PLEASE NOTE: all electronic correspondence should be sent to
 the above address, *NOT* to pksgccunyvm.cuny.edu.

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 (Third Circular)

 PACLING '95
 Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics
 2nd Conference

 April 19-22 (Wed-Sat) 1995
 The University of Queensland
 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia


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 * HISTORY AND AIMS *
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 PACLING (= Pacific Association for Computational
 LINGuistics) has grown out of the very successful Japan-
 Australia joint symposia on natural language processing
 (NLP) held in November 1989 in Melbourne, Australia and in
 October 1991 in Iizuka City, Japan. The first meeting of
 the retitled PACLING, a name designed to express the wider
 membership, took place in Vancouver, Canada in April 1993.

 PACLING '95 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop-
 oriented meeting whose aim is to promote friendly
 scientific relations among Pacific Rim countries, with
 emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange showing
 openness towards good research falling outside current
 dominant "schools of thought," and on technological
 transfer within the Pacific region. The conference is a
 unique forum for scientific and technological exchange,
 being smaller than ACL, COLING or Applied NLP, and also
 more regional with extensive representation from the
 Western Pacific (as well as the Eastern).

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 * TOPICS *
 **********

 Original papers are invited on any topic in computational
 linguistics (and strongly related areas) including (but not
 limited to) the following:

 Language subjects:
 text, speech;
 pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax,
 lexicon, morphology, phonology, phonetics;
 language and communication channels,
 e.g., touch, movement, vision, sound;
 language and input/output devices,
 e.g., keyboards, menus, touch screens,
 mice, light pens, graphics (incl. animation);
 language and context,
 e.g., from the subject domain, discourse,
 spatial and temporal deixis.

 Approaches and architectures:
 computational linguistic,
 multi-modal but natural-language centred;
 formal, knowledge-based, statistical, connectionist;
 dialogue, user, belief or other model-based;
 parallel/serial processing
 corpora and large-text linguistics

 Applications:
 text and message understanding and generation,
 language translation and translation aids,
 language learning and learning aids;
 question-answering systems and interfaces to multi-
 media databases
 (text, audio/video, (geo)graphic);
 terminals for Asian and other languages,
 user interfaces;
 natural language-based software.

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 * SUBMISSION OF PAPERS *
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 Authors should prepare full papers, in English, not more than
 5000 words including references, approximately 20 double-
 spaced pages. The title page must include: author's name,
 postal address, e-mail address (if applicable), telephone
 and fax numbers; a brief 100-200 word summary; and some key
 words for classifying the submission.

 Please send four (4) copies of each submission to:

 Christian Matthiessen
 Department of Linguistics
 University of Sydney
 Sydney 2006
 AUSTRALIA

 tel: +61 2 692 4227
 fax: +61 2 552 1683
 email: cmathiesextro.ucc.su.OZ.AU

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 * SCHEDULE *
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 Submission deadline: October 31st, 1994
 Notification of acceptance: January 16th, 1995
 Camera-ready copy due: March 1st, 1995

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 * CONFERENCE COMMITTEE CHAIR *
 ******************************

 The Conference Committee Chair of PACLING'95 is
 Roland Sussex
 Centre for Language Teaching and Research
 The University of Queensland
 Queensland 4072
 Australia

 telephone: +61 7 365 6896
 fax: +61 7 365 7077
 email: sussexlingua.cltr.uq.oz.au


 ************************************
 * PUBLICITY AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS *
 ************************************

 The conference will take place at the Centre for Language
 Teaching and Research of the University of Queensland in
 Brisbane, Australia. We are negotiating preferential rates
 from downtown hotels.

 Delegates may wish to visit attractions like the Barrier
 Reef, Australia's desert centre or tropical rain forests
 before or after the Conference, and we shall be negotiating
 with travel companies to provide tour and travel
 information.

 For further information on the conference and on local
 arrangements, contact

 Hongliang Qiao
 Centre for Language Teaching and Research
 The University of Queensland
 Queensland 4072
 Australia

 tel: +61 7 365 6897
 fax: +61 7 365 7077
 email: qiaolingua.cltr.uq.oz.au

 ************************************
 * PACLING '95 COMMITTEES *
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 Organizing Committee
 Chair:
 Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
 Members:
 Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
 Christian Matthiessen (University of Sydney, Australia)*
 Nick Cercone (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
 Charles Fillmore(University of California, Berkeley, USA)

 Conference committee
 Chair:
 Roland Sussex (University of Queensland, Australia)
 Members:
 Dan Fass(Simon Fraser University, Canada)
 Randy Goebel(University of Alberta, Canada)
 Kiyoshi Kogure(NTT, Japan)*
 Paul McFetridge(Simon Fraser University, Canada)*
 Jun-ichi Nakamura(Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
 Minako O'Hagan(Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)
 Fred Popowich(Simon Fraser University, Canada)
 Hiroshi Sakaki(Meisei University, Japan)
 Akira Shimazu(NTT, Japan)
 Stanley Starosta(University of Hawaii, USA)*
 Roland Sussex(University of Queensland, Australia)
 Masami Suzuki(KDD, Japan)
 * Program coordinators