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INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLINGUISTIC SOCIETY First circular and call for parpers Dear Colleague: The 6th International Sociolinguistic Conference "Language and Contemporary Reality" will be held from September 26 to 30, 1997 in the historical town of Preslav (nesr the town of Shumen). Co-organising of the conference will be in the Constantin Preslavski University of Shumen. On the behalf of the Organising Committee we have the honour to invite you to participate in the Conference with a paper. The presentation should not exceed 15 min. The working languages are Bulgarian, English and Russian. Travel expences, accomodation and food are covered by the participants. The conference fee is USD 30 (for non-members of INSOLICO)or USD 10 (members). We are trying to reise funds from the Open Society Fund in Sofia to cover the expences of participants from Eastern Europe. Please, send us a completed registration form and a one-page abstract of your participation not later than March 1, 1997. Organising committee Chairman: Prof. Dr. Sc. Michael Videnov Secretary: Ass. Rrof. Dr. Angel G. Angelov ========================================================== REGISTRATION FORM INSOLICO` 97 Preslav, September 26-30, 1997 Participant Name:............................. Contact address:....... Country:........................ Profession:.................. Accompaning person(s) Name:............................... Hotel reservation: Single room A category - 30 USD per night B category - 10 USD per night Double room A category - 15 USD per night B category - 12 USD per night Date:............... Signature:....................... Please send this registration form, together with your abstract, and a copy of your receipt for the paid perticipation fee to: Prof. M.Videnov Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski" Dept. of Slavic Philology 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blv. 1504 Sofia Bulgaria Phone: (359 2) 59 02 98 Fax: (359 2) 46 35 89 E-mail: angelMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueslav.uni-sofia.bg
The original deadline for submitting abstracts for ICCS 97, First International Conference on Cognitive Science in Seoul, was Feb 25, 1997. The organizing committee have decided to extend this deadline. Abstracts are now due on March 31, 1997 and they should reach us by this date. We will notify the authors of the acceptance of abstracts by April 25. For those who have sumbitted abstracts in time for the first deadline (Feb 25), we are cosidering giving some priority in the reviewing process. Revised call for papers will follow: ************* "Extended" CALL FOR PAPERS ************* First International Conference on Cognitive Science Seoul, Korea August 15-16, 1997 Sponsored by The Korean Society for Cognitive Science The First International Conference on Cognitive Science Program Committee invites abstracts for papers presenting research on mind and cognition in the core areas of Cognitive Science such as Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Artificial Intelligence, as well as pioneering interdisciplinary fields such as Cognitive Anthropology, Computer Human Interaction, Computer Vision, Connectionism, Imagery, Language Acquisition and Development, Learning, Memory, Natural Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, and Neurolinguistics. Dedre Gentner, Gregory Ward, Ken Forbus, Charles Ling, and Erich Harth will be invited for plenary talks. The conference will be held at the Convention Center of Seoul National University. For reservation, contact the local arrangements person below. GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS Abstracts for novel research papers are invited on any topic related to mind and cognition. Abstracts should consist of four (4) anonymous copies accompanied by an original with author's name, affiliation and address (please add e-mail address and fax if you have one). Please identify an appropriate major discipline for the work submitted. Abstracts should be no more than three pages long including bibliography and submitted in hardcopy to the address below by February 25, 1997. Please do not e-mail or fax your submissions. Final versions of papers will be required only after authors are notified of acceptance. All papers accepted for oral presentation will be allotted 15 minutes for presentation followed by a 5- minute discussion. Poster sessions will also be considered. Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings. SUBMISSION ADDRESS Beom-mo Kang Dept of Linguistics Korea University Seoul 136-701, Korea "Extended" TIMETABLE Abstract submissions due: March 31, 1997 (originally Feb 25) Notification of acceptance: April 25, 1997 Final papers due: June 30, 1997 CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Jin Hyung Kim (AI, KAIST) Shun Ishizaki (NLP, Keio U) ADVISORY COMMITTEE Dedre Gentner (Psychology, Northwestern U) Giyoo Hatano (Psychology, Keio U) Hung-yul So (Philosophy, Ewha Womans U) Myung-Han Zoh (Psychology, Seoul National U) Kiyong Lee (Linguistics, Korea U) Yung Taek Kim (AI, Seoul National U) Cho-Sik Lee (Philosophy, Korea U) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Myung Won Kim, CHAIR (AI, Soongsil U) Jung-O Kim (Psychology, Seoul National U) Yoo-Hun Suh (Neuroscience, Seoul National U) Kang-Hyuk Lee (NLP, KORDIC) Seung Soo Park (AI, Ewha Womans U) Young-joo Kim (Linguistics, Hong-Ik U) Seungho Nam (Linguistics, Seoul National U) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chungmin Lee, CHAIR (Linguistics, Seoul National U) Koiti Hasida (AI, Electrotechnical Laboratory) Yurinori Takubo (Linguistics, Kyushu U) Charles Ling (AI, The U of Western Ontario) Melissa Bowerman (Language Acquisition, Max Planck Institute) Beom-mo Kang (Linguistics, Korea U) Chan-Sup Chung (Psychology, Yonsei U) Key-Sun Choi (AI, KAIST) Jae C. Choe (Biology, Seoul National U) Jongho Ha (Philosophy, Korea U) Inquiries regarding abstract submission should be addressed to: Beom-mo Kang by e-mail: bmkangMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuekuccnx.korea.ac.kr by fax: +82-2-926-8385 by regular mail (see above) Inquiries regarding organization matters should be addressed to: Myung Won Kim, Dept of Computer Science, Soongsil University, Seoul 156-743, Korea e-mail: mkim
computing.soongsil.ac.kr fax: +82-2-822-3622 Inquiries regarding local arrangements should be addressed to: Jung-O Kim, Dept of Psychology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea e-mail: jungokim
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