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Tue 31 May 1994

Calls: Language Engineering on the Information Highway

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1. Celia Roniotes ILSP, Preliminary Call for Participation

Preliminary Call for Participation and Papers
Workshop:
Language Engineering on the Information Highway
September 26-30 1994
Island of Santorini, Greece


The Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) Athens,
Greece and Sprakdata, Department of Swedish, University of
Gotheborg, Sweden, are organising a workshop, to be held
on the breathtaking volcanic Aegean island of Santorini on
September 26 - 30 1994.
The organisers wish to establish and maintain an open working
channel that spans the geographical latitude of Europe
(EFTA, EU), and the international arena.

The objectives of the workshop are:
- to bring together in a relaxed, informal environment
interested parties from the academia, industry,
administration and user-market in order to present and exchange
views, research results, products and needs and to assess the
overall contributions to the area of Language Engineering in
sight of the imminent developments in the are of Information
Technology.

- to pin-point areas that need to be focused upon in future
actions and to establish input for policy makers.

- to establish working contacts among people with common
interests world-wide.

- to detect international trends in the field at the research,
development and market levels.

The workshop will be organised as an informal event where
discussions, presentations, panels and exhibitions will be held
in a majestic setting, combining the impetus new technology
brings, with the age old history and culture the island of
Santorini offers to the ever inquisitive mind.

Members of the Organising Committee are:
G. Carayannis, Director of ILSP, Prof. of National Technical
University of Athens

S. Allen, Permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy

G. Magnusdottir, Director of Studies, Lecturer in NLP, U. of
Gothenborg. Current projects: Swedish Eurolang

C. Roniotes, ILSP.

L. Cranias, ILSP. Current projects: TRANSLEARN - LRE-I.

Programme Committee:

Yorick Wilks, Prof. in Computer Science, U. of Sheffield.

Sergei Nirenburg, Senior Scientist, Center for MT, CMU.

Antonio Zampolli, Director CST Pisa.

Rober Wilensky, Prof. in Computer Science, U. of California,
Berkeley.

Lars Ahrenberg, Prof. in NLP, U. of Gothenborg.

Bente Maegaard, Director of CLT, Copenhagen.

Jan Roukens, CEC, DGXIII/B

Papers are invited in the following areas:
Language and the Information Industry
Information Networks
NLP
MT
Speech Technologies
Electronic Libraries
Language Resources
Information Access and Retrieval
Document Creation and Management
New Technologies in CALL
Evaluation and Assessment in Language Engineering
Standards in Language Engineering
Language and Multi-Media Technologies

Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 17th 1994
Abstracts (max 200 words) should be sent to:
(preferably by e-mail)
Celia Roniotes, ILSP
Margari 22
N. Psychikon
115-25 Athens, Greece
e-mail: Celia.Ronioteseurokom.ie
Tel: 30 1 6712250
Fax: 30 1 6471262
or:
Gudrun Magnusdottir, Sprakdata, U. of Gothenborg
Renstomsgatan 6
S-411298, Gotheborg
Sweden
e-mail: gudrunsvenska.gu.se
Tel: 46 31 7734547
Fax: 46 31 7734455

Participants are kindly requested to contribute to the workshop
by providing either a paper falling within the above domains,
either on on-going or completed research, product development or
marketing, project description or policy issues. Participants
are also welcome to contribute by poster session or demonstration
of their work.

Half-board accommodation, (5 nights), registration fees and proceedings
are inclusive in the attractive price of approximately $600 US
per participant. This price also includes coffee breaks,
lunch, welcoming reception and gala dinner.
The workshop site and first class accomodation will
provided on Santorini. Transfer from the port or airport
are provided free of charge.
Due to rooming restrictions participation will be
limited to a first-come, first-serve basis. Please return
the following form at the above addresses by post or e-mail,
before June 17th for reservations, if you are interested in
receiving a registration form.

Pre-Registration Form

I would like to participate in the workshop on Language
Engineering on the Information Highway.

Please provide an abstract of your paper to be presented or
a short description of your project or demonstration.

Abstract: yes ____ no ____
Poster: yes ____ no ____
Demonstration: yes ____ no ____

Title:_________________________________
Name:__________________________________
Affiliation:___________________________
Address:_______________________________
 _______________________________
 _______________________________
Tel:___________________________________
Fax:___________________________________
Email:_________________________________

For further enquiries: email Celia.Ronioteseurokom.ie
 gudrunsvenska.gu.se Type (the text)