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francais.QueensU.CA>***Please distribute widely*** CALL FOR REGISTRATION ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC'97 June 3-7, 1997 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97 The Joint Annual Meeting of the ACH and ALLC is the primary annual event in humanities computing and provides an excellent opportunity to view the state of the art in the field. Humanities computing covers a broad spectrum, ranging from analysis of texts from a variety of perspectives, to work on sounds, images and other semiotic phenomena. Fields covered include literary studies, linguistics, history, philosophy, music, art, film studies, creative writing and cultural studies. PROGRAM The conference program is currently being finalized. The current version is visible on the conference web page (see above). Topics dealt with in papers or sessions include: - authorship attribution - computational lexicography - computer-aided instruction - corpus linguistics - hypertext and multimedia - institutional support for humanities computing - machine translation - scholarly editing and electronic texts - text encoding - text archives and networked textual resources A series of pre-conference workshops will be held on Monday, June 2, to provide hands-on experience of various facets of the field, including text analysis, markup and hypertext. LOCATION Queen's University is one of Canada's older universities, having received its royal charter in 1841. The university is located in the heart of Kingston, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Ontario where the lake flows into the Saint Lawrence River. Located midway between Montreal and Toronto, Kingston is accessible by air (from Toronto), train, bus, car and boat. The distance to both Toronto and Montreal is approximately 250 km. REGISTRATION Instructions on registration are provided on the conference web page. Registration fees include a copy of the printed abstracts, refreshment breaks, lunches for Tuesday through Friday, and admission to all invited talks and paper sessions. A student registration fee is available. (Student registrations must be signed by the student's supervisor.) Accompanying persons are welcome to attend all social functions. Workshop registration is available using a separate form available on the web page. ACCOMMODATIONS The conference will take place in Stirling and Victoria Halls on the Queen's campus. Residence rooms have been arranged in Victoria Hall. The cost of these rooms (including breakfast) will be on the order of $45.75 CDN per night. (Currently, the Canadian dollar is worth around $0.75 US.) In addition, a block of rooms has been reserved in the Holiday Inn, (1 Princess St.) located on the Kingston harbour, about a 20 minute walk from the campus. DEADLINES Registrations are accepted until the conference itself. Note however that registration rates increase after MAY 3, 1997. CONTACTS Fuller details are provided on the conference web page. Those without access to a web browser may request an email version of the essential information and forms by contacting the general queries address below. For enquires about registration: achallc97-registrationMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue