LINGUIST List 5.276

Wed 09 Mar 1994

Confs: African Ling Conference, Summer School on Comp.Ling.

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1. Alan Prince, African Linguistics Conference
2. Nicolas Nicolov, Summer School on Comp.Ling.

The 25th meeting of the ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN LINGUISTICS
(ACAL) will take place at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New
Jersey) from Friday March 25 to Sunday March 27, 1994.
 There will be over 100 papers presented in the areas of
syntax, phonology, lexicon, language planning, historical
linguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, pidgins and
creoles, language and gender, and literature.
 In addition, there will be 3 plenary sessions, with papers
given by Ayo Bamgbose, Joan Bresnan, and Florence Delphyne.
 Friday's meetings will take place at the Hyatt-Regency (New
Brunswick). Saturday and Sunday's will take place on the Rutgers
Campus in New Brunswick, at Scott Hall (College Avenue). Each day
begins at 9:00 AM with a plenary sessions. On Saturday and
Sunday, the plenary sessions will take place at Voorhees 105 on
the Rutgers Campus.

*For further information, email Akin Akinlabi at
 ACAL25zodiac.rutgers.edu.

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ACAL-25 is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for
Academic Affairs, the Office of the Provost, the Faculty of Arts
& Sciences Dean's Office, The Livingston College Student Center,
and the Linguistics Department of Rutgers, the State University
of New Jersey.
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Advance Announcement

 International Summer School
 "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS"
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 1 - 5 Sept 1994
 Varna, Black Sea Coast, BULGARIA

Sponsored by:
 European Association for Machine Translation and
 ECCAI-European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence

Dates: 1 - 5 Sept 1994, (arrival 31 August, departure 6 September)

Location: near Varna, Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria
 The exact location of the Summer School will be given in
 the second announcement.

Who should attend: The school is intended mainly for university students
 and young researchers, but will offer both introductory and advanced
 courses. Those who would like to extend their stay in Bulgaria can
 join the Bulgarian National seminar on Mathematical and Computational
 Linguistics which will take place from the 4th to the 10th of
 September 1994 at the same place.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME: (three or four more courses will be added)

Margaret King (ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
 Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems

Sergei Nirenburg (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
 Latest Developments in Machine Translation

Pieter Seuren (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
 Introduction to Semantic Syntax

Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
 Multilingual Natural Language Interfaces

Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy)
 Discourse Structure and Reference resolution

Manfred Kudlek (University Hamburg, Germany)
 Models for Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural
 Languages

Carlos Martin-Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
 Mathematical Linguistics: Its relevance for
 Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science

ORGANISERS:

R.Mitkov Institute of Mathematics BULGARIA
M.Zock LIMSI, Orsay FRANCE
M.Kudlek University of Hamburg GERMANY
N.Nikolov Incoma-TD Co, Ltd, Shumen BULGARIA

COSTS: in the second announcement.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

People wishing to participate should contact one of the people
mentioned below. Please use the attached registration form.

Ruslan Mitkov E-mail: ruslancslab.kaist.ac.kr
Nicolas Nicolov E-mail: nicolasaisb.edinburgh.ac.uk
Nikolai Nikolov Tel: +359-54 56948
 Fax: +359-54 56881

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REGISTRATION REPLY FORM:

 International Summer School
 "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS"


Name: (Last)_________________________ (First)_______________________
Affiliation:________________________________________________________
Address:____________________________________________________________
Country:_____________________________
Phone:_______________________________
Fax :_______________________________
Email:_______________________________

* Mail Registration Reply Form to:

 Mr. Nikolai Nikolov
 P.O. Box 20, Incoma,
 9700 Shumen
 BULGARIA

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