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Fri 09 Sep 1994

Confs: 3Rd LSoRB, 5th International Workshop on Natural Language

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1. Harry Howard, 3Rd LSoRB call for papers
2. , Call for papers: Fifth International Workshop on Natural language

 THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS

 (EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE)
 Workshop/Parasession on Language South of the Rio Bravo (LSoRB)
 January 9 - 10, 1995
 Tulane University, New Orleans

Tulane University is proud to host a conference on language and language
use in "Latin" America, to follow hot on the heels of the 69th Annual
Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans.

Papers and proposals for working groups are invited on topics which include:

*Indigenous languages south of the Rio Bravo
 grammar/description
 processes of language change
 language death
 creolization
 standardization
 revitalization

*Spanish/Portuguese
 grammar/description
 processes of language change: nationalization, creolization, dialectology,
 and contact phenomena
 sociolinguistic context of use

*Analytical approaches include:
 formal theory
 cognitive domains
 comparative
 historial
 typological
 computational
 textual

Send two one- or two-page copies of paper abstracts and/or proposals for
working groups by OCT. 12, 1994 to:

Harry Howard Internet: howardmailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese office: 504/865-5518
302 Newcomb Hall fax: 504/862-8752
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698
USA
or
Judie Maxwell Internet: maxwellmailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Dept. of Anthropology office: 504/865-5336
1021 Audobon fax: 504/865-5338
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
USA

 Fifth International Workshop
 on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming (NLULP5)
 CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference dates: May 29 (Mon) --- 31 (Wed), 1995
Conference place: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Chairman: Gabriel Pereira Lopes
 Department of Computer Science
 Faculty of Science and Technology
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
 Quinta da Torre,
 2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal
 Phon. +351-1-295 3220
 Fax. +351-1-295 56 41
 Email. gplfct.unl.pt

Program Committee:
Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara)
Harvey Abramson (Aizu) Charles Grant Brown (Stockholm)
Veronica Dahl (Vancouver) Sandiway Fong (NEC, Princeton)
Mark Johnson (Providence, RI) Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto)
Gregers Koch (Copenhagen) Michael C. McCord (IBM Yorktown)
Fred Popowich (Vancouver) Patrick Saint-Dizier (Toulouse)
Luis Moniz Pereira (Lisbon) Helder Coelho (Lisbon)
Ryoichi Sugimura(Matsushita Electric Ind.,Osaka)
Gabriel P. Lopes (Lisbon) (chair)

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research
on all aspects of Logic Programming applications to computational
linguistics, including,but not limited to, the following.

- 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

It will be nice to have in Lisbon Practical Applications of PROLOG in the
area of NLU, for demonstrating Prolog's attractiveness for this area.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION:
Papers should have a maximum fifteen pages in final format, be
written in English, and describe completed original work.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:
Authors should submit four copies of preliminary versions of their papers
on A4 paper with the title, author(s), addresses (email if possible),
affiliation across the page top, a short (five to ten line) summary, and a
specification of the topic area preferably drawn from the list above.
Authors are urged to email the title page information by the deadline date.
Send the papers and emails to the chair.

 Preliminary paper submission due: December 19, 1994
 Notification of paper arrival: December 31, 1994
 Inquiries for lost papers: January 20, 1995
 Acceptance notification: March 1, 1995
 Camera-ready copies due: April 1, 1995

Papers received after December 19 will be returned unopened.
C-Ready copies received after April 1 may not be included in the proceedings.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
Accepted papers will appear in the conference "Proceedings".
Springer-Verlag of Berlin, AI series, will probably publish the
Proceedings.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:
(1) Invited talks and panels will be included in the program.
Proposals and suggestions for invited talks and panels should be sent
to the chair as soon as possible.
(2) 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 the chair.