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ccl.umist.ac.uk>ATLAS99: Arabic Translation and Localisation Symposium Tunis, May 26-28, 1999 Call for papers It is one of the five official languages of the United Nations, it has 260 million native speakers, and is used as a second language by a further 1.3 billion people. Arabic is certainly one of the world's most important languages. Yet for computer users, it is a third-class language. As there are several different encodings for Arabic, and very few search engines capable of handling Arabic, there are few Arabic-language websites on the internet, most of them just graphic images. The ATLAS symposium asks why this should be so, and seeks to address the problems of ... Localisation to/from Arabic Teleconferencing in Arabic Translation into/out of Arabic Encoding standardisation for Arabic, especially Unicode Information retrieval in Arabic Internet tools (HTML editors, search engines, email, etc) for Arabic Arabic NLP in general We invite contributions on any of the above topics, in English or French. A 200-word abstract together with the author's name and affiliation should be submitted, preferably by e-mail, to atlasMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
dolphin.upenn.edu>******************************************************************** ****************************** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ****************************** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Department of Romance Languages Fifth Annual Graduate Romanic Association Colloquium ON THE EDGE Margins and Marginalities on the Brink of a New Millenium March 27, 1999 We are accepting abstracts for presentations *by graduate students* in Hispanic, Portuguese, Italian, and French and Francophone Literatures and Romance Philology. Works in historical linguistics and all relevant area studies are welcome. This year we encourage papers dealing with the conference theme from a broad range of perspectives. Some of the more obvious perspectives are time, space, and gender, but these are certainly not the only possibilities. Possible topics might include but are not limited to: - synchronicities and diachronicities - (cutting) edges, borders and crossings - frontiers, limits and transgressions - shifts, changes and transformations - margins and marginalities Papers can be in English, French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish and should be able to be read in 20 minutes (approximately eight to ten double-spaced pages). Accepted papers may be eligible for publication in our Working Paper Series. Submit an *anonymous* abstract with a separate self-addressed, stamped envelope and a cover sheet with the following information: - the title of the paper - presenter's name - address - telephone number - e-mail address and - academic affiliation The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 30, 1999. Send the submission to: GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM READING COMMITTEE DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES 521 WILLIAMS HALL UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104-6305 For more information, call (215) 898-7429 and leave a message for Linda Grabner-Coronel OR e-mail lgrabnerMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue