LINGUIST List 7.502

Thu Apr 4 1996

Calls: Germanic Syntax, Multilingual Text Processing

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

Directory

1. Gert Webelhuth, Call for Generative Germanic Syntax Newsletter
2. Robert Dale, Multilingual Text Processing

The editors of the Germanic Generative Syntax Newsletter are getting
ready to compile the Spring edition of 1996. This newsletter is published
twice a year and contains information of relevance to linguists working
on the syntax of the Germanic languages (old and new, EXCEPT Modern
English). The newsletter includes:

Bibliographical references to unpublished manuscripts;
Half-page abstracts of unpublished manuscripts or papers published within
the last six months;
1-page abstracts of book manuscripts, dissertations, and books published
within the last six months;
Conference announcements;
Conference descriptions;
Half-page abstracts of conference talks;
Special bibliographies on a topic of general interest.


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Subject: Reminder: CFP for Multilingual Text Processing Workshop, PRICAI 96


[Includes revised information on late registration fees.]
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			 Call for Papers
 Workshop on "Future Issues for Multilingual Text Processing"
			 PRICAI 96
(4th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
		 Cairns, Australia, 27 August 1996


This workshop has two primary goals. First, it aims to foster
communication between the various individuals and research groups who
have been working in the field of Natural Language Processing in the
Pacific Rim area; and second, it aims to promote discussion of key
issues for this community as a whole. Our aim is to take advantage of
the particularly rich linguistic environment in this geographical
area, in combination with a workshop atmosphere to promote discussion
of future issues and requirements for multilingual research and
applications in NLP.

We would like to receive papers of two kinds. Technical papers on all
aspects of multilingual text processing are welcome, including but not
limited to papers on the following topics:

-	the typological variety of the languages to be treated
-	the impact of differences in the writing systems used
-	the scope for mixed language systems
-	Machine Translation (MT) and tools for Machine Aided
	Translation (MAT)
-	multilingual text generation
-	multilingual natural language analysis
-	the creation and use of mono-lingual and multi-lingual
	dictionaries and corpora.

However, we also particularly welcome papers of a more speculative
nature than would normally be presented in the technical sessions of a
conference: we want to encourage authors to take a step back from
their current research and ask themselves---and others---about the
advantages and pitfalls of extending what they currently do so that
they can deal with multilinguality in the future. What does
multilinguality mean for your research? What imperatives does it
create for the field as a whole? What goals should we set ourselves
with respect to multilinguality in language processing? We want
papers that are likely to interest and excite the audience and provoke
intense discussion.

Organization

The format envisaged is that of a one-day workshop, with presentations
organized in clusters determined on the basis of submissions received.
The workshop will be kept small, with no more than 40 participants.
We intend the schedule to contain discussion periods long enough to
allow real exchange of ideas. We hope to foster the workshop
atmosphere by having the written versions of the accepted
presentations circulated a few weeks in advance of the event, thus
enabling the presenters to relate their work as much as possible to
that of the others and also allowing non-presenting participants to
prepare questions for discussion.

Submission Format

Authors should submit a two page abstract of their intended
presentation to the address below. This abstract should make very
clear what the contribution of the work is to the field. No
constraints are imposed on formatting at this stage, although some
regularity will be imposed later for producing the proceedings.
Abstracts will be reviewed by the members of the organising committee.

Submissions (preferably ASCII, via e-mail) should be sent before 26
April 1996 to:

Dr Dominique Estival
Department of Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia
tel: +61-3-9344-4227
fax: +61-3-9349-4326
e-mail: D.Estivallinguistics.unimelb.edu.au


Schedule

1 March 1996	Call for papers issued
26 April 1996	Two-page abstracts due
31 May 1996	Notification of acceptance or rejection
10 July 1996 Final camera ready versions of papers due
19 July 1996 Deadline for registration
27 August 1996 The workshop

Note that it is a condition imposed by the PRICAI conference
organisers that only people who register for the main conference
will be allowed to register for this workshop. There will be a
workshop registration fee of A$60, if paid by the registration
deadline of 19th July; after this date, the late registration fee is
$100.


Organizing committee

Dr Robert Dale, Microsoft Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
Dr Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Dr Christian Matthiessen, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Dr Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC, Canada
Professor Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan