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CLIN 97 Second Announcement Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Eighth CLIN Meeting Friday, 12 December, 1997 Department for Language and Speech University of Nijmegen We are happy to announce the eighth CLIN meeting, which will be hosted by the Department of Language and Speech of the University of Nijmegen. The meeting will take place in the "Aula/Congresgebouw" of the University of Nijmegen. The default language of the conference will be English. The guest speaker of CLIN 97 is Professor Yorick Wilks University of Sheffield (UK) The topic of his talk will be announced later. The local organisers of this year's meeting are Peter-Arno Coppen, Hans van Halteren and Lisanne Teunissen. Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of computational linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, computational lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, information retrieval, knowledge representation, corpus-oriented methods, etc.). Authors should submit an abstract in English to the local organisers (preferably by e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should contain: - a title - your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address - a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines) You can send your abstract to: clin97Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuelands.let.kun.nl or, if email is not possible, to: CLIN 97 (P.A. Coppen) University of Nijmegen Department for Language and Speech P.O. Box 9103 6500 HD NIJMEGEN Deadline for the submission is 10 October 1997. Notification of acceptance (by e-mail): 17 October 1997 A volume with proceedings of the Seventh CLIN meeting (held 1 December 1996, in Eindhoven) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN 97 before CLIN 98. Papers for these proceedings will have to be written in English; they will be reviewed by a committee to be appointed in due time. This and future information about CLIN 97 will be made available via the CLIN home page: http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/clin.html