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sfu.ca>Call for Papers NORTHWEST LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE 1998 (NWLC 98) SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, BURNABY BC MARCH 7-8, 1998 The Northwest Linguistics Conference is a graduate student conference which was started in 1983 with the dual purpose of encouraging interaction among students in the region (UBC, SFU, UVic, UW, UNBC) and providing a chance for people to present their work in a friendly and lively forum. Requirements for submission Please submit 4 anonymous copies of a one page abstract (250 words) with an additional page for figures and references. Papers may deal with any area of linguistics. Presenters will give a 20 minute talk which will be followed by a 10 minute discussion period. Address all submissions to: Simon Fraser University Department of Linguistics 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 CANADA Attn: Jean Wang / NWLC 98 Committee Sorry, no e-mail submissions will be accepted. Attach to the anonymous abstract a 3x5" card with your name, affiliation, address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address. Receipt of abstracts will be acknowledged via e-mail within 48 hours. Northwest Linguistics students will be given preference in continuance with previous years' tradition, however all abstracts from outside the area are strongly encouraged. Timeline Deadline for abstract submission: February 6, 1998 Program announcement: February 13, 1998 Acceptance notification: February 13, 1998 Final manuscripts due: May 8, 1998 Proceedings available starting: June 5, 1998 This call for papers as well as future information on the conference can be found at http://www.sfu.ca/~lgs/nwlc98.htm Please direct e-mail inquiries to lgsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
crl.nmsu.edu>Extended deadline: January 27, 1998. Call for Communications: Special Issue on Multilingual Processing The Journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" will publish a Special Issue on Multilingual Processing: Theme - --- Multilingual processing presents special challenges for Natural Language Processing. Most NLP research and applications concentrate on one language only and rarely deal with either low-level problems (multiple codesets, localization vs. internationalization, linguistic variants) or higher-level problems (organization of multilingual lexicons and grammars). This special issue will recognize the importance of adequate low-level processing and multilingual software organization, describe multilingual applications, and present approaches to the structuration and development of multilingual lexicons and grammars. Topics (non limitative) - ---- - multilingual text processing - localization and internationalization - multilingual information retrieval and extraction - multilingual MT systems - multilingual text generation - multilingual WWW - multilingual dictionaries and terminological databases - multilingual ontologies and thesaurii - multilingual grammars and parsers Deadline for reception of submissions: January 27, 1998. - ------ Format - ---- Papers (30 pages max in double space, Helvetica 12) are accepted in RTF, Latex or MIF formats. Latex style is downloadable from http://ticotico.linguist.jussieu.fr/~atala/tal/normes.html. Papers can also be submitted in French. Papers should be submitted to (e-mail preferred): Rimi Zajac Computing Research Laboratory New Mexico State University Box 30001 / Dept. 3CRL Las Cruces NM 88003 USA Tel +1-505-646-5782 Fax +1-505-646-6218 Email zajacMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue