LINGUIST List 5.87

Wed 26 Jan 1994

Calls: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics, ROCLING VII

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1. , Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics at MIT
2. Sam Wang, ROCLING VII Call for papers

The second announcement: abstract reminder

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 * FORMAL APPROACES TO *
 * JAPANESE LINGUISTICS *
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 * MIT *
 * May 13-15, 1994 *
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 Invited Speakers:

 Richared Kayne (CUNY)
 Mamoru Saito (Uconn)
 Natsuko Tsujimura (Indianna)

 The Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT will host the
conference, FORMAL APPROACHES TO JAPANESE LINGUISTICS, on May 13-15, 1994.

 Abstracts are invited for 30 minutes talks relating to any aspect of
Japanese formal linguistics (syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics,
psycholinguistics, pragmatics, etc.). Papers comparing Japanese with other
languages are equally welcome. Send nine copies of the abstract with the title
but without the name of the author, along with a camera-ready original with the
author's name and affiliation centered under the tiltle of the paper, to:

 FAJL Program Committee
 c/o Masa Koizumi
 20D-219, MIT
 Cambridge, MA 02139
 USA

 E-mail: mkoizumiathena.mit.edu
 (no submission by e-mail or fax, please)

Abstracts may not exceed 2 pages. Leave at least 1.25 inch margin on all four
sides. Use fonts no smaller than 12 pts. Also include a 3x5 card containing
the following information:

 Title of paper
 Name of author
 Address / affiliation
 E-mail address
 Phone number

 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: FEBRUARY 4, 1994

 Limited funds will be available to assist student presenters with
travel expenses. Proceedings of the conference will be distributed by the MIT
Working Papers in Linguistics.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Seventh ROC Computational Linguistics Conference

Sponsored by The ROC Computational Linguistics Society
 The Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua
 University
 The Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University

Tutorial Date: August 11, 1994
Conference Dates: August 12 - 13, 1994
Conference Venue: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Building,
 National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, ROC

Scope: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research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

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

Paper Submission:

Four copies of a preliminary version of a full paper (maximum 25 letter- or
A4-sized pages, double spaced throughout) in English or Chinese should be sent
to the following address. The first page of the submitted paper should bear
the following information: the title of the paper, the name(s) of the
author(s), affiliations, (email) addresses. All these items should be properly
centered on top, with a short abstract of the paper following.

Hsu Wang
Institute of Linguistics
National Tsing Hua University
Hsin-Chu, 300, Taiwan
email: onghiokling.nthu.edu.tw
FAX: + 886 35 725994

Important Dates:

Preliminary paper submission due: June 25, 1994
Notification of acceptance: July 10, 1994
H. Samuel Wang onghiokling.nthu.edu.tw
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan