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reks.uia.ac.be>5TH INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE Mexico City, July 4-9 1996 Local Organizing Committee: The 5th International Pragmatics Conference will be organized with the support of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), which will provide the conference facilities, and the Mexican Association of Applied Linguistics (AMLA). Chairman: Fernando CASTA=A5OS, Foreign Language Center (CELE) and M.A. Program in Applied Linguistics, UNAM Members: Marlene RALL, School of Philosophy & Literature and M.A. Program in Applied Linguistics, UNAM; Teresa CARB=FE, Center for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology; Silvia ROJAS, School of Psychology, UNAM; Helena DA SILVA, Foreign Language Center and Head of the M.A. Program in Applied Linguistics, UNAM; Carmen CURC=FE, Foreign Language Center, UNAM; Mary Elaine MEAGHER, National Preparatory School, UNAM; Anna DE FINA, Foreign Language Center and M.A. Program in Applied Linguistics, UNAM. International Conference Committee: William BRIGHT, University of Colorado, Boulder; Helena CALSAMIGLIA, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Teresa CARB=FE, Center for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology; Fernando CASTA=A5OS, UNAM; Herb CLARK, Stanford University;=20 Marcelo DASCAL, Tel Aviv University; Claudia DE LEMOS, Campinas; Susan ERVIN-TRIPP, University of California at Berkeley; Charles GOODWIN, University of South Carolina; Sandra THOMPSON, University of California at Santa Barbara; Masayoshi SHIBATANI, Kobe University; J=81rgen STREECK, University of Texas at Austin; Paul TAKAHARA, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies; Jef VERSCHUEREN, University of Antwerp Special topic: CONVERSATION The conference is open to all other pragmatics-related topics as well (where pragmatics is interpreted very broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication). The distribution of topics across event types is described below. ANTICIPATED EVENT TYPES Plenary lectures: A number of plenary lectures on a diversity of topics of general interest. Plenary speakers will include: Penelope BROWN (Nijmegen), Fernando CASTA=A5OS (Mexico City), Eve CLARK (Stanford), Catherine KERBRAT-ORECCHIONI (Lyon), EMANUEL SCHEGLOFF (Los Angeles) Lecture sessions: Regular lecture sessions (20-minute presentations followed by 5 minutes for discussion and allowing 5 minutes for switching between sessions) are reserved for papers which are directly related to the special topic of the conference. The Conference Committee reserves the right to place individually submitted abstracts, the quality of which would normally make them acceptable for presentation, in poster sessions (as opposed to the lecture sessions) on the basis of their relative distance from the special topic. Poster sessions: Poster sessions are largely devoted to papers of general interest. Four different sets of posters stay up for a whole day on four different days. Authors of posters will be expected to be available for discussion during a period when no other sessions are held. Individually submitted papers which are less directly related to the special topic will be placed here, though it is also possible to submit papers directly for the poster sessions. (All abstracts, including those for poster presentations, will be printed in the set of abstracts provided at the beginning of the conference!) Panels: Panels take the form of a series of closely related lectures on a specific topic, which may or may not be directly related to the special topic of the conference. They may consist of one, two or three units of 90 minutes. Within each panel unit a maximum of four 15-minute presentations are given consecutively, followed by 30 minutes of discussion (either devoted entirely to an open discussion, or taken up in part by comments by a discussant or discussants). The organizers of panels are responsible for submitting the complete set of abstracts before the regular abstracts deadline and, in case of acceptance, for the further preparation of the event (which will involve, for instance, making sure that the discussants receive drafts of the complete papers before the conference).=20 Round Table: A round table discussion is being planned to close the conference. CALL FOR PAPERS Ten copies of a one-page abstract (or of the set of abstracts in case you are proposing a panel) should be sent before November 1st 1995 to the following address: IPrA Secretariat P.O. Box 33 (Antwerp 11) B-2018 Antwerp Belgium All abstracts should contain (in this order): Full name, full address, title of your presentation, and a summary of your topic, approach, and major conclusions. Only hard copies are acceptable! Note: (i) It is not possible for the organizers to consider paper or panel proposals other than those submitted by members; non-members interested in presenting a paper or proposing/participating in a panel should apply for membership, using the attached form, before the November 1st 1995 abstracts deadline. This condition can be waived only for prospective participants from countries with serious currency restrictions. (ii) Accepted papers/panels cannot be entered into the preliminary program unless the advance registration fee is paid before the March 1st 1996 advance registration deadline; notices of acceptance will be sent out in late January 1996. Prospective participants who have to withdraw at a later date due to circumstances beyond their control, will be partly compensated for the financial loss: they will receive a copy of the set of abstracts by mail, and the remainder of their registration fee will count as payment for their 1997 IPrA membership dues. KOBE FUND Through the generosity of the local organizing committee of the 4th International Pragmatics Conference held in 1993 in Kobe, Japan, it will be possible to provide one or more fellowships to scholars from countries with currency restrictions to enable them to participate in the 5th International Pragmatics Conference in Mexico City. Applicants should send their curriculum vitae along with their paper abstract, together with a letter specifying the support they would need.=20 REGISTRATION Prospective participants will have to register directly with the local Conference Secretariat at the following address: 5th IPC CELE UNAM Apdo Postal 70-442 04510 DF Mexico e-mail: 5thipcMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw>Content-Length: 2517 TITLE:ROCLING VIII objetive: CALL FOR PAPERS Sponsored by:The ROC Computational Linguistics Society Information Technology Research Center, Yuan-Ze Institute of Technology. Tutorial Date:August 17, 1995 Conference Dates:August 18-19, 1995 Conference Venue:Yuan-Ze Institue of Technology,Chung-Li, 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/semantics Plarge text corpora phonetics/phonology electronic dictionaries parsing/generation document database morphology machine translation discourse natural language interface text processing dialogue systems cognitive linguistics electronic books language understanding SGML tools and applications speech analysis/synthesis Hytime tools and applications quantitative/qualitative linguistics DSSSL tools and applications mathematical linguistics ODA tools and applications contrastive linguistics 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) address for correspondence. All these items should be properly centered on top, with a short abstract of the paper following. Shinn-Shi Cheng Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan EMAIL:hh-chenMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue