LINGUIST List 8.1804

Wed Dec 17 1997

Calls: COLING-ACL'98, Functional Grammar

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1. Congres COLING-ACL 98, COLING-ACL'98
2. mackenzilet.vu.nl> (J.L. Mackenzie), 8th Intl. Conf. on Functional Grammar

			 COLING-ACL '98

			FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'98)
				 and 
 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
			 (ACL'98)

			 August 10-14, 1998
			Universite de Montreal
		 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
		 http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca

On behalf of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics
(ICCL) and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), we are
pleased to announce a major joint conference -- COLING-ACL'98 -- which
will be held on the campus of l'Universite de Montreal between August
10-14, 1998. The RALI laboratory of the Computer Science and
Operations Research Department of l'Universite de Montreal will be
hosting the first North American COLING since the joint COLING-ACL'84
was held at Stanford University in 1984.

We welcome submission of papers describing substantial, original, and
unpublished research contributions on ALL aspects of computational
linguistics. Program subcommittees will be organized around 16 main
areas, as follows.

 * [L] Linguistic issues & associated formalisms
 o L1. Morphology & phonology
 o L2. Syntax & parsing
 o L3. Semantics, pragmatics, cognition
 o L4. Discourse & dialogue
 * [R] Linguistic resources & computational methods
 o R1. Corpus processing & empirical methods
 o R2. Lexical resources & computational lexicography
 o R3. Computational paradigms (symbolic, stochastic, neural,
 hybrid)
 o R4. Languages, tools & environments for lingware 
		development
 * [A] Applications
 o A1. Form checking (spelling, terminology, grammar, style)
 o A2. Summarization, abstraction, generation
 o A3. Text and speech machine translation & translation aids
 o A4. Multimodal NLP (speech & dialogue processing, 
		integration of speech, text, gestures)
 o A5. Text and speech information retrieval and 
		categorization, electronic libraries
 * [P] Projects
 o P1. Large R&D cooperative projects
 o P2. Validation & testing programmes
 o P3. Small scale innovative research projects
 o P4. Others (contributions not falling in above categories)

Authors will be asked to identify the areas (a maximum of two) to
which their submission corresponds. Contributions that do not fall
into any of the above areas but are nevertheless relevant to the field
are also welcome. All contributions will be reviewed by at least three
experts.

Submissions may be of two different types: 1) regular papers; and 2)
project notes. Regular papers should report the results of original
completed research. Project notes, on the other hand, should describe
ongoing research or demonstrate a system. Regular papers will be
presented in 3 parallel sessions that do not overlap with the
presentation of project notes.

LANGUAGES

In order to encourage multilingualism within our research community,
authors will be allowed to use one supplementary page to write up
their abstract in one or more additional languages.

REQUIREMENTS

All papers should describe original work, completed or in progress
rather than merely planned, and clearly indicate the current state of
advancement of the work. No previously published papers should be
submitted. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed
provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification page.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

The maximum allowable length is 7 pages for regular papers and 5 pages
for project notes, plus one optional page for abstract(s) in other
language(s). Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so
that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23
cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to
12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title, centered
page numbers in footers, and 2 columns after title and
abstract. Figures may range across columns.

Since reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page is
required. It should include:

 * submission type (regular paper, project note [+demo]),
 * title
 * author(s) name(s)
 * affiliation(s)
 * complete addresses
 * abstract in English
 * 1 or 2 topic areas
 * submission to other conferences ('none' or list)
 * and author of record (for correspondence).

Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted in the paper itself.
Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g.,
"We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead
use references like "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)...".

Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected
without review.

While submissions must be sent in hardcopy, we encourage authors to
use our style files and templates for preparing them (available on
COLING-ACL'98 Web site). This will help ensure that the requirements
described above (including the separate identification page) are met,
and that the effort required to format the final version will be
minimized.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

All submissions (hardcopy and electronic) and questions regarding
submissions should be sent to:

 COLING-ACL'98 submissions
 Professor Christian Boitet
 GETA, CLIPS, IMAG BP 53
 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 France
 e-mail: ColingACL98.programimag.fr (from 15/9/97)

1) Submission notification: send the complete identification page of
each submission by e-mail at least 10 days before the submission
deadline. A submission_id will be returned. Please use it from that
point on to identify everything related to your submission.

2) Submission proper: send six hard copies of the paper and one copy
of the identification page (with submission_id) early enough so that
so that they reach the program chair no later than the deadline
indicated below. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Late
submissions will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be
e-mailed to the author of record shortly after receipt.

3) In addition, authors are strongly encouraged to send in an
electronic version (which is in no way a substitute for the hard
copies). Only pdf or postcript formats are acceptable. Please e-mail
your paper, specifying as the subject submission_id.{pdf/ps}, AFTER
sending your hard copy. The hard copy and electronic versions must be
identical.

DEADLINES

* Submission notification (id page): e-mail before January 20, 1998
* Submission (6 copies + id page): to arrive in Grenoble no later
 January 30, 1998
* Notification to authors: April 17, 1998
* Final camera-ready copies (2): to arrive in Montreal no later than
 May 30, 1998

A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the
final version.

STUDENT SESSION

There will be a special session for students organized by a committee
of ACL graduate student members. See Web pages at:
	
	http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/

TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS

Workshops will take place on Saturday, August 15 and possibly extend
to August 16. If you would like to give a tutorial or organize a
workshop, send your proposals before December 31, 1997 to:

 Dr. Pete Whitelock
 Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd
 Oxford Science Park
 Oxford, OX4 4GA, England
 e-mail: petesharp.co.uk

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The organizing committee is being chaired by:

 Dr. Pierre Isabelle
 RALI, DIRO
 Universite de Montreal
 P.O. Box 6128, Succ. Centre-ville
 Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3C 3J7
 e-mail: coling-acl98iro.umontreal.ca
 tel: (514) 343-6161; fax: (514) 343-2496

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 Chair: Christian Boitet (GETA-CLIPS, Grenoble, ICCL)

 Co-chair: Peter Whitelock (Sharp, Oxford, ACL)

 Area chairs:

 o L1. L. Karttunen (XRCE, Grenoble)
 o L2. A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
 o L3. E. Hajicova (Charles University, Prague)
 o L4. Y. Wilks (University of Sheffield)
 o R1. D. Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong)
 o R2. N. Calzolari (ILC, Pisa)
 o R3. H. Tanaka (TIT, Tokyo)
 o R4. R. Zajac (NMSU, Las Cruces)
 o A1. S. Richardson (Microsoft)
 o A2. W. Lenders (University of Bonn)
 o A3. J.I. Tsujii (Tokyo University)
 o A4. A. Waibel (CMU, Pittsburgh)
 o A5. S. Nirenburg (CRL, New-Mexico State University)
 o P1. A. Zampolli (ICL, Pisa)
 o P2. J. Mariani (LIMSI, Orsay)
 o P3. H. Schnelle (Bochum)
 o P4. E. Wehrli (LATL, Geneva)

We look forward to receiving your submissions,

 Christian Boitet and Peter Whitelock
 Program Chairs, COLING-ACL'98

Eighth International Conference on Functional Grammar

SECOND AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
6-9 July 1998

Correspondence address: ICFG8, Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije
Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Fax: +31-20-444 6500. All e-mail enquiries to:
ICFG8let.vu.nl

Since 1984, there has been a highly successful biennial series of
International Conferences on Functional Grammar: Amsterdam (1984),
Antwerp (1986), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1988), Copenhagen
(1990), Antwerp (1992), York (1994), and Cordoba (1996). Each of
these conferences has helped advance the theory of Functional Grammar
and create an ever-growing international community of researchers. It
is now time to announce the eighth in this series.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Eighth International Conference on Functional Grammar (ICFG8) will
be held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 6 to 9 July 1998 and
will be organized by Mike Hannay, Caroline Kroon, Lachlan Mackenzie
and Lourens de Vries.

The Conference will be held in English and will be devoted to
Functional Grammar (FG) as set out by the late Simon Dik. His The
theory of Functional Grammar, Parts 1 and 2 has appeared posthumously
with Mouton de Gruyter (Berlin) in both a paperback version (DEM 58
per part) or in hardback, as numbers 20 and 21 of the Functional
Grammar Series. Papers are invited that address matters arising from
that book and more generally from the tradition of work in
FG. Extensive information on FG, including a bibliography of FG and
information on ordering Dik's books, can be found at the following
web-site:

	http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/FGIS/FGIS.html

On Saturday 4 July 1998, there will be a one-day Colloquium on the
Predicate in Functional Grammar at the Vrije Universiteit, organized
jointly by the Institute for Functional Research into Language and
Language Use (IFOTT; Amsterdam-Leiden) and the CNRS Nancy 2 (France);
it is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
NWO and IFOTT. Participants in ICFG8 are cordially invited to attend
this Colloquium, free of charge.

ABSTRACTS

If you wish present a paper , you are requested to send an abstract of
your presentation, preferably by e-mail to ICFG8let.vu.nl, or by
"snail mail" to:

ICFG8 Organizing Committee
Faculteit der Letteren, 
Vrije Universiteit, 
De Boelelaan 1105, 
1081 HV Amsterdam, 
The Netherlands

to arrive no later than 15 January 1998. Please note that this
deadline MUST be met.

Please make sure that your abstract is:
- no longer than 300 words
- written in good English 

Your abstract should include the following: 

1. Title of the presentation

2. Your name, postal address, institutional affiliation and (where
applicable) your e-mail address and/or fax number

3. Text of the abstract

4. References, if necessary

5. An indication whether special audio-visual equipment is required

6. An indication whether you will require accommodation in the
university dormitory during the Conference [see the section on
accommodation below]

All abstracts will be assessed by the Organizing Committee, which will
put together a programme that is thematically coherent. If there are
sufficient papers on (a) Predicate Formation and/or (b) the relation
between Functional Grammar and Cognitive Linguistics, special
workshops will be incorporated into the programme, to be led by Casper
de Groot and Dik Bakker respectively.

FEES

All participants will be asked to pay a Conference fee of NLG
(Netherlands guilders) 175; there is a reduced fee of NLG 125 for
linguists who are unemployed. The fee, to be paid in full and in Dutch
currency (cash) at the beginning of the Conference, will cover
participation in the conference itself, the book of abstracts, the
opening reception, tea and coffee during breaks, as well as an
excursion on Wednesday afternoon 8 July. There will also be a banquet
in the evening after the excursion, for which all participants in the
Conference will be invited to sign up (for an extra
charge). [Participants whose abstract has been selected for
presentation or who register as non-presenters will be informed how
they can, if they wish, pay in advance by credit card.]

TRAVEL TO AND FROM AMSTERDAM

Participants will be expected to make their own arrangements for travel to 
and from Amsterdam. Their attention is drawn to the possibility of arriving 
by Saturday 4 July 1998 and thereby benefiting from APEX air travel rates; 
the Saturday can be spent at the Colloquium on the Predicate, and the Sunday 
devoted to tourism - there will be an opening reception on Sunday evening, 5 
July.

EATING

The university restaurants will be open to participants throughout the
day and in the evening. Participants will also be provided with a list
of recommended restaurants in Amsterdam.

PARTICIPANTS WITH NO PRESENTATION

Participants wishing to attend without presenting a paper should
provide the following information to the ICFG8 Organizing Committee:
name; postal address; affiliation; if available, e-mail and/or fax
number.

ACCOMMODATION

We have reserved a number of rooms in the Hospitium, the university
dormitory. The Hospitium is situated on tram lines 5 and 51, which
pass the Vrije Universiteit (4 minutes' ride) and continue to the
Central Station (18 minutes). If you wish us to book a room for you in
the Hospitium, please indicate, when submitting your abstract, which
type of accommodation you require:

OPTION A: a single room, sharing the use of shower, toilet and kitchen
at NLG 55 per night

OPTION B: a double room including shower, toilet and kitchenette at
NLG 140 per night; please indicate with whom you will be sharing the
room 

OPTION C: a three-person room including shower, toilet and kitchenette
at NLG 140 per night; please indicate with which two persons you will
be sharing the room 

OPTION D: a four-person suite with 2 bedrooms, a sitting room, a
dining area, shower, toilet and kitchenette at NLG 180 per night;
please indicate with which three persons you will be sharing the suite

In all cases, breakfast is available at an additional charge of NLG
12.50.

We will book accommodation for you in the Hospitium if you provide us
with all the following information:

*	which option (A,B,C,D) you wish
*	your date of arrival and date of departure
*	on which days, if any, you wish breakfast
*	if you wish to share a room (options B,C,D), a complete list 
	of the persons with whom you will be sharing

If for whatever reason you book now but do not attend the Conference,
we will cancel the booking at no cost to you provided you inform us of
your non-attendance by 1 June 1998.

If you prefer to stay in a hotel, you must make the booking
yourself. Since Amsterdam is a popular tourist centre in the summer,
we would recommend that you make at least a provisional booking
quickly. The following hotels are either close to tram line 5 or are
within easy walking distance of the Vrije Universiteit:

Hotel Omega, Jacob Obrechtstraat 31, 1071 KG Amsterdam
tel: +31-20-6645182; fax: +31-20-6640809
Single room with shower and toilet: NLG 115
Double room with shower and toilet: NLG 140-165
Double room with shower and toilet on the corridor: NLG 125

Hotel Trianon AMS, Jan Willem Brouwerstraat 3-7, Amsterdam
Hotel Holland AMS, P.C. Hooftstraat 162, Amsterdam
Single room, including breakfast: NLG 130
Double room, including breakfast: NLG 170

Hotel Terdam AMS, Tesselschadestraat 23, Amsterdam
Hotel Museum AMS, P.C. Hooftstraat 2, Amsterdam
Single room, including breakfast: NLG 160
Double room, including breakfast: NLG 230

Hotel Beethoven AMS, Beethovenstraat 43, Amsterdam
Hotel Lairesse AMS. Lairessestraat 7, Amsterdam
Single room, excluding breakfast: NLG 220
Double room, exlcluding breakfast: NLG 260
Breakfast is available at NLG 22 per person

To book at any of the 6 AMS hotels listed above, phone
+31-20-6831811. Make sure you ask for the corporate rate, mentioning
the Vrije Universiteit (VU for short).

Holiday Inn Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 2, 1083 HJ Amsterdam tel. (Holiday
Inn World Wide Reservations): 0800-0221155; fax: +31-20-6065491
Approximate prices: Single room NLG 350, double room NLG 425