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P r e l i m i n a r y A n n o u n c e m e n t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IWPT'99 Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 20-22 December 1999 Trento, Italy ~~~ The ITC-IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research) in Trento, in the North of Italy, will host the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'99) from 20 to 22 December, 1999. IWPT'99 continues the tradition of biannual workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) 1991; Tilburg & Durbuy (Netherlands/ Belgium) 1993; Prague & Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) 1995, and Boston/Cambridge (Mass.) 1997. A 'Call for Papers' for IWPT'99 will appear in the Spring of 1999. ORGANIZATION: General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Programme Chair: John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK) Local Arrangements Chair: Alberto Lavelli (ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy) More information will soon be available on the IWPT'99 home page http://ecate.itc.it:1024/iwpt99.htmlMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue