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1. , DEADLINE REMINDER EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP: January, 23rd, 1995
2. E. Wayles Browne, Slavic Workshop announcement

 CALL FOR PAPERS
FROM TEXTS TO TAGS: ISSUES IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS

 EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP
 Dublin, Ireland - March 27, 1995

 Third Announcement

Workshop organized by the ACL special interest group SIGDAT
to be held in conjunction with the meeting of the European Chapter
of the Association of Computational Linguistics. The meeting will be
co-chaired by Susan Armstrong, ISSCO and Evelyne Tzoukerman, AT&T Bell
Laboratories.

 Submission deadline: Jan 23
 Notice of acceptance/rejection: February 10
 Camera ready copy due: March 1

With the growing amount of multilingual corpus data becoming
available, there is a pressing need to explore issues in
representation and analysis of these texts. Although extensive and
leading work has been accomplished for languages such as English, for
the most part many theoretical and concrete issues need to be resolved
in the representation and tagging of other languages.

The focus of this workshop is on multilingual text analysis, from the
level of text itself, e.g. tokenization, sentence separation, etc, to
morphosyntactic analysis, specifically tagging. We intend to focus on
tagging since it appears to be the case that, from a computational
point of view, part of speech tagging is often an important
prerequisite to further structural analysis. Additionally, many NLP
systems can make use of tagged corpora for various applications.
However, tasks such as tokenization and tagging continue to raise
serious challenges in multilingual text analysis, due to differing
types of morphological characteristics across languages.

 Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

 - tokenization and segmentation
 - interfaces between morphological analysis and part-of-speech tagging
 - size and choice of tagset
 - defining and refining new tag sets
 - mapping between tag sets
 - universal vs. language specific tags
 - multilingual approaches to tagging

We invite submissions on topics that in general reflect an awareness
of differences and similarities in working on multilingual text.
We also welcome substantive descriptions of newly started and ongoing
projects.

Program Committee:

 K. Church, USA
 B. Gale, USA
 J.-M. Lange, FR
 G. Leech, UK
 A. Voutilainen, FI

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit extended abstracts
(2000-3000 words), either electronically or in hard-copy. Electronic
submissions must either be plain ascii text or a postcript file
following the EACL-95 stylesheet. Hard copy backup should include
two (2) copies of the paper. Abstracts should be sent to either of
the addresses:

Evelyne Tzoukermann Susan Armstrong-Warwick
AT&T Bell Laboratories ISSCO University of Geneva
Room 2D-448, P.O. Box 636 54 route des Acacias
600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ, 07944-0636 CH-1227 Geneve
USA Switzerland
tel. +1-908-582-2924 +41-22-705-7113
fax +1-908-582-7308 +41-22-300-1086
email evelyneresearch.att.com susandivsun.unige.ch

January 1995
4th Annual Workshop on
Formal Approaches to
Slavic Linguistics

May 12-14, 1995

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

Invited Speaker:
Bernard Comrie, "Formal approaches to Slavic languages"
____________________________________________________________________________
Call for Papers:
Abstracts are invited for 30-minute presentations on topics dealing with
formal aspects of Slavic syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology and
psycholinguistics.
Send 4 copies of a one-page anonymous abstract and a card with your name,
address, e-mail address if any, and title of paper
to:
Wayles Browne or Draga Zec
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Morrill Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y. 14853, U.S.A.
(Authors are advised to re-check examples and glosses with speakers of the
languages involved.)

Abstracts Must Be Received By March 1, 1995.
Persons interested in attending are invited to register their e-mail and
other addresses with W.Browne at: ewb2cornell.edu or the address above.
Please spread the word.

Accommodations: in motel or hotel within walking distance of Cornell; some
"crash space" will be available, primarily for students. Travel: via Ithaca
airport or Syracuse International Airport, or Short Line or Greyhound bus
(from New York City ca. 5 hours). Further details will be available soon.
Sessions: late afternoon or evening May 12; all day May 13; morning,
perhaps early afternoon May 14.
(The organizing committee welcomes participants from all parts of the
world, but regrets it does not have funds to pay for travel and
accommodations.)