LINGUIST List 7.369

Sat Mar 9 1996

Calls: Lg Processing, Speech Technology, Dialect

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <dseelyemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. Kemal Oflazer, NEW METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
2. Sara Basson, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
3. Xiaozhao Huang, Call for Papers (RMADS)

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 NeMLaP-2

 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
 ON
 NEW METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

 September 16--18, 1996

 Bilkent University
 Ankara, Turkey

 ORGANIZED BY


 Bilkent University UMIST
 Department of Computer Engineering Centre for Computational Linguistics
 Ankara, TURKEY Manchester, England, UNITED KINGDOM


 with support from
 NATO Science for Stability Programme, Bilkent ACM-SIGART,
 TUBITAK -- Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council



 SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE: Original papers on all aspects on the use
 of statistical, connectionist, corpus-based, example-based and
 machine learning techniques in natural language processing and
 applications are sought.

 INVITED SPEAKER: Kenneth W. Church (ATT Bell Labs)

 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: S. Armstrong{Warwick (Univ. of Geneva), C.
 Bozsahin (METU), C. Brew (Univ. of Edinburgh), C. Cardie (Cornell
 Univ.), D. Carter (SRI Cambridge), K. W. Church, (ATT Bell Labs),
 M. Crocker (Univ. of Edinburgh), W. Daelemans (Tilburg Univ.), M.
 Ellison (Univ. of Edinburgh), H. A. Guvenir, Y. Nitta (Hitachi Corp.)
 (Bilkent Univ.), D. Jones (UMIST), K. Oflazer (Bilkent, Co-Chair),
 C. Samuelsson (Univ. of Saarland), N. Sharkey (Univ. of
 Sheffield), H. Somers (UMIST, Co-Chair), J. Tsujii (UMIST/Univ. of Tokyo),
 Y. Wilks, (Univ. of Sheffield), A. Voutilainen (Univ. of
 Helsinki), D. Wu (Hong Kong Univ. of Science
 and Technology), R. Zajac (New Mexico State Univ.)

 PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Please send by MARCH 31, 1996, postscript
 copies of your manuscript via e-mail to nemlap2cs.bilkent.edu.tr.
 If this is not possible, send four hardcopies to:

 NEMLAP-2
 Department of Computer Engineering
 Bilkent University
 Bilkent TR-06533, ANKARA, TURKEY

 Authors will be notified by May 31, 1996 and final copies are due
 by June 30, 1995. Accepted papers will be published in the
 conference proceedings which will be available at the conference.

 MISCELLANEOUS: The Conference will be held on the campus of
 Bilkent University at the outskirts of Ankara, about 10 kilometers
 from the city centre. The campus has a 4* Hotel on the premises.
 In addition, a number of free lodging facilities in the University
 dormitories will be provided on site for conference participants.

 If there is sufficient interest, sightseeing trips to the Museum
 of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, to the Cappadocia Region
 known worldwide for its lunar landscape, fairy chimneys, and
 underground cities, and to Hattusas, the capital of the ancient
 Hittite Empire will be organized.

 Further details about the NeMLaP-2 conference can be found on the
 World Wide Web at the URL
 http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~nemlap2/

 CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS


The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH TECHNOLOGY invites contributors to
submit papers for publication on the topic of:

 TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES USING SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES

The Guest Editors for this special issue are Sara H. Basson, Ph.D.,
and Hong Leung, Ph.D., NYNEX Science and Technology, Speech Recognition
and Language Understanding Laboratory.

Speech technologies have moved into mainstream telecommunications, such
as operator services, information provision, database access,
and customer service bureaus.
Papers submitted for this special issue should either:
- Provide detail on deployed or deployable services that are completely
 or partially automated using speech or language technologies, or
- Describe ongoing research and development for telephony-based services.
Relevant technologies for this special issue include: speech recognition,
speech processing, language understanding, text-to-speech synthesis, and
speaker verification. The papers should identify key features accounting
for the success or failure of these services, and also offer insights about
the unique challenges of working within this arena.

All prospective contributors should contact Dr. Sara Basson
(saranynexst.com)or Dr. Hong Leung (hclnynexst.com) on or before
March 29, 1996:

 Sara H. Basson, Ph.D
 Hong C. Leung, Ph.D.
 Special Issue Co-Editors
 NYNEX Science and Technology
 500 Westchester Avenue
 White Plains, New York, 10604

 Phone: (914) 644-2987 (Sara Basson)
 (914) 644-2736 (Hong Leung)
 FAX: (914) 686-5574
 email: saranynexst.com
 hclnynexst.com

Prospective authors should submit four (4) copies of their papers to the
Publisher by May 15,1996. The Publisher's address is:

 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
 Journals Editorial Office, Ms. Kelly Riddle
 Kluwer Academic Publishers
 101 Philip Drive
 Norwell, MA 02061

Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 1,1996.

Revised final papers will be due August 15, 1996. This special
issue is expected to be published within four months of receipt
of all final papers for this issue.

On-line guidelines for preparing a manuscript submission can be obtained from
<http://www.wkap.com>;. Hard copy guidelines can be obtained from the
Publisher at the address listed above.


INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH TECHNOLOGY

Editor-in-Chief: Tony Vitale, Digital Equipment Corporation

Associate Editor: Chris Schmandt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Published by: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS

 			SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 		ROCKY MOUNTAIN AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY
 
 
 	The RMADS welcomes proposals for 15-minute presentations at the
 	50th Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual meeting in
 	Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 24-26, 1996. Authors may submit
 	abstracts of 300 words or less dealing with any aspect of dialects
 	in the United States (both English and other languages) to:
 
 	Xiaozhao Huang
 	Department of English
 	University of North Dakota
 	Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
 	Attn: RMADS Session
 
 	DEADLINE: March 15, 1996.
 
 
 	For additional information:
 	telephone: (701) 777-6393
 	e-mail: xhuangbadlands.nodak.edu