LINGUIST List 10.4

Tue Jan 5 1999

FYI: Comp. Ling., Dictionaries, Phonetic Science

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • Priscilla Rasmussen, 1999 ACL Membership/Order Form
  • Igor Sharshakov, Electronic Multilingual Dictionaries
  • Yoko Hasegawa, ICPhS 99

    Message 1: 1999 ACL Membership/Order Form

     Date: Mon, 28 Dec 98 16:55:51 EST
    From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmussecs.rutgers.edu>
    Subject: 1999 ACL Membership/Order Form


    Below are the 1999 ACL Membership and Order form, followed by a seperate order form for various workshop and other ACL-sponsored proceedings. These two items are seperated by asterisks (***). When returning the memberhip form by email, please do not send the Workshop Order Form unless you are placing an order.

    PLEASE NOTE THE ACL OFFICE ADDRESS/TELEPHONE/FAX CHANGE! ALSO NOTE MULTI-YEAR MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS! **************************************************************************

    Association for Computational Linguistics 1999 MEMBERSHIP, CHANGE OF ADDRESS AND EMAIL, AND ORDER FORM

    MEMBERSHIP

    Membership in the Association for Computational Linguistics is for the calendar year, regardless of when dues are paid. Membership includes a full year of the ACL journal, Computational Linguistics, reduced registration at most ACL-sponsored conferences, and discounts on ACL-sponsored publications. Payments for membership dues, fund donations, back issues, and proceedings may be made in Europe or the USA. Follow the instructions under the PAYMENT heading carefully.

    Provide all personal information, even if you have previously done so, to be sure the ACL membership database is up-to-date. Write legibly, please!

    FULL NAME_______________________________________________________________ (first) (last/family)

    ADDRESS_________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ INSTITUTION________________________________TELEPHONE____________________ (if not in address above) E-MAIL ADDRESS___________________________________FAX____________________

    Please IMMEDIATELY notify the ACL Office of address and email changes. Journal copies returned due to bad addresses will not be remailed until a $5.00 postage/handling fee is remitted. EMAIL (if available) IS USED TO DISTRIBUTE meeting, membership, and other announcements.

    MEMBERSHIP DUES FOR 1999

    IMPORTANT NOTE: Renewals must be received no later than 1 April 1999 to avoid late payment fee assessment. Membership categories include Regular Members and the following: Couples with the same mailing address may be Joint Members; they will receive only one set of publications, but each will be eligible for all other member benefits. Students taking a full-time program of courses and not earning a regular income may become Student Members WITH COPY OF CURRENT STUDENT ID. Students who are not Student Members because of their income can still participate in student activites as Student-Employed. Also available are Retired and Unemployed memberships. WE NOW OFFER MULTI-YEAR MEMBERSHIPS TO REGULAR AND JOINT MEMBERS. Please indicate type of membership you desire below; if no indication is provided, one-year membership will be presumed for Regular and Joint. Late payment fee does not apply to new memberships.

    Regular-1 Year($60) Regular-3 Year($180) Regular-5 year($300) Joint-1 Year($70) Joint-3 Year($210) Joint-5 Year ($350) Student($30) Student-Employed($60) Retired($30) Unemployed($30) MEMBERSHIP DUES $_____

    1st Class or Air ($10 US, Canada, Mexico; $25 elsewhere) OPTIONAL JOURNAL MAILING $_____

    RENEWALS received after 1 April 1999 pay $20 additional postage/handling fee LATE PAYMENT FEE $_____

    INTERNATIONAL FUND: Allows ACL memberships and publications to be available to colleagues who have difficulty in using their national currencies or for whom membership would otherwise be impossible. Contributions may be tax deductible; check local regulations. Receipts are available upon request. INTERNATIONAL FUND $_____ THE DON AND BETTY WALKER INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FUND: This fund was set up to honor Don and Betty Walker. It supports select student travel to ACL meetings. Contributions may be tax deductible, and companies may provide matching funds; check local regulations. Receipts are available upon request. Make checks payable to "THE WALKER FUND". Visa and Mastercard payments are also accepted. WALKER FUND $_____

    TOTAL PAYMENT FOR MEMBERSHIP, WALKER AND INTERNATIONAL FUNDS $_____ (list in PAYMENT SECTION)

    PAYMENT

    METHOD OF PAYMENT (circle): CHECK MONEY ORDER CREDIT CARD BANK TRANSFER

    CREDIT CARD INFORMATION (VISA AND MASTERCARD ONLY):

    CARD NUMBER___________________________________EXPIRATION DATE________________

    CARDHOLDER'S NAME (as appears on card)_______________________________________ GRAND TOTAL OF PAYMENT AUTHORIZED OR ENCLOSED $____________________ (total from MEMBERSHIP and total from PUBLICATION SECTIONS)

    PREPAYMENT is necessary; invoices and receipts are available upon request. The U.S. dollar price is definitive when paying in other currencies, although rounding off is appropriate. CHECKS AND MONEY ORDERS SHOULD BE PAYABLE TO THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (or to ACL). Payment may be made by sending this form (or all pertinent details) and credit card information in email to aclaclweb.org. The following payment choices are available:

    1. CREDIT CARDS: Credit card payments MUST BE MADE TO THE ACL OFFICE IN THE USA. Visa and Mastercard only. Email, fax or hardcopy are acceptable.

    2. CHECKS/MONEY ORDERS: TO THE ACL OFFICE IN THE USA: Send this dues form in hardcopy with a check or money order to the address below. PAYMENTS MUST BE IN U.S. DOLLARS, DRAWN ON A U.S. BANK OR IN U.S. OR CANADIAN DOLLARS (CALCULATED AT THE CURRENT EXCHANGE RATE), DRAWN ON A CANADIAN BANK.

    3. PAYMENTS TO EUROPE: Mail this form to Rosner with either (i) a Eurocheque or banker's draft IN SWISS FRANCS, payable "ACL" or (ii) a standard personal cheque drawn on a French bank in FRENCH FRANCS, payable "ACL" or (iii) photocopy evidence of interbank transfer to "ACL", account number 141.880.LAV at the Union Bank of Switzerland, 8 Rue du Rhone, CH-1211 Geneva 11, SWITZERLAND. Dollar price is definitive. For exchange rate information, use daily published exchange rate or see http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/acl/. NOTE THAT EUROPEAN MEMBERS SHOULD PAY THROUGH ROSNER UNLESS THEY PAY BY CREDIT CARD OR USE A U.S. BANK ACCOUNT.

    Assoc. for Comp. Ling. Dr. Michael Rosner 75 Paterson Street, Suite 9 Dept. Computer Science & AI New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA University of Malta +732-342-9100 phone; Msida, MALTA +732-342-9339 fax +356-32-90-25-04 phone; aclaclweb.org +356-32-05-39 fax mroscs.um.edu.mt PUBLICATIONS ORDER FORM

    Institutions subscribe to the 1999 journal through MIT Press Journals, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; phone +1-617-253-2889; fax +1-617-577-1545; journals-ordersmit.edu. Institutional orders for back issues (1988-) should also be ordered from MIT Press Journals. All other journal back issues orders, and all proceedings, are available through the ACL to members.

    JOURNAL BACK ISSUES: Back issues of Computational Linguistics and two supplements, a Directory of Graduate Programs in Computational Linguistics, 3rd edition, and a Survey of Computational Linguistics Courses, revised in 1993, are available from the ACL Office. Surface mailing costs are included in the prices; additional charges for 1st class or air delivery are noted. ORDERS BY MEMBERS FOR USE IN LABORATORIES OR LIBRARIES MUST BE PAID AT THE "OTHERS" RATE.

    1980-1997 VOLUMES--CIRCLE YEARS (1980-1990: Members $30; Others $60/ 1991-1998: Members $40; Others $80):

    1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 BACK ISSUES $_____

    1st Class or air (each year: $10 U.S., Canada, Mexico; $20 elsewhere) BACK ISSUE OPTIONAL MAILING COSTS $_____

    SUPPLEMENTS--Circle choice (Members $15; Others $30): 1992 Directory of Graduate Programs 1993 Survey of Courses SUPPLEMENTS $_____

    1st Class or air (each year: $5 U.S., Canada, Mexico; $10 elsewhere) SUPPLEMENT OPTIONAL MAILING COST $_____

    PROCEEDINGS: Proceedings are available to ACL members through the ACL for the ACL conferences listed below. COLING proceedings (below) may also be ordered through the ACL. Surface mailing costs are included in the prices; additional charges for 1st class or air delivery are noted. ORDERS BY MEMBERS FOR USE IN LABORATORIES OR LIBRARIES MUST BE PAID AT THE "OTHERS" RATE. Non-members must order directly to: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Order Fulfillment Department, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL, 32887 USA, +1-800-745-7323 phone, +1-800-874-6418 fax, ordersmkp.com.

    ACL PROCEEDINGS (each proceedings: Members $30; Others $60--1st Class or air: $10 U.S., Canada, Mexico; $25 elsewhere) CIRCLE or HIGHLIGHT CHOICE(S):

    17th, San Diego, 1979 18th, Philadelphia, 1980 19th, Stanford, 1981 20th, Toronto, 1982 21st, Cambridge, 1983 22nd, see Coling-84 below 23rd, Chicago, 1985 24th, New York, 1986 25th, Stanford, 1987 26th, Buffalo, 1988 27th, Vancouver, 1989 28th, Pittsburgh, 1990 29th, Berkeley, 1991 30th, Newark, 1992 31st, Columbus, 1993 32nd, Las Cruces, 1994 33rd, Cambridge, 1995 34th, Santa Cruz, 1996 35th, Madrid, 1997 36th, Montreal, 1998 (joint with EACL-97) (joint with Coling-98; see Coling-98 below for price)

    CONFERENCES ON APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (each proceedings: Members $30; Others $60--1st Class or air: $10 U.S., Cnada, Mexico; $25 elsewhere):

    First, Santa Monica, 1983 Second, Austin, 1988 Third, Trento, 1992 Fourth, Stuttgart, 1994 Fifth, Washington, DC, 1997

    EUROPEAN CHAPTER CONFERENCES (each proceedings: Members $30; Others $60-- 1st Class or air: $10 U.S., Canada, Mexico; $25 elsewhere):

    First, Pisa, 1983 Second, Geneva, 1985 Third, Copenhagen, 1987 Fourth, Manchester, 1989 Fifth, Berlin, 1991 Sixth, Utrecht, 1993 Seventh, Dublin, 1995 Eighth, Madrid, 1997 (joint with ACL-97 above)

    PROCEEDINGS TOTAL $_____ OPTIONAL MAILING TOTAL $_____

    COLING PROCEEDINGS (note differences in proceedings prices; 1st Class or air delivery: 1984 is $15 U.S., Canada, Mexico; $25 elsewhere and for subsequent years: $20 U.S., Canada, Mexico; $40 elsewhere):

    COLING-84, Stanford, 1984 (Members $45; Others $90) COLING-84 PROCEEDINGS $__ COLING-88(2 vol.), Budapest, 1984 (Members $45; Others $150) COLING-88 PROCEEDINGS $__ COLING-90(3 vol.), Helsinki, 1990 (Members $95; Others $190) COLING-90 PROCEEDINGS $__ COLING-92(4 vol.), Nantes, 1992 (Members $75; Others $150) COLING-92 PROCEEDINGS $__ COLING-94, Kyoto, 1994 (Members $75; Others $150) COLING-94 PROCEEDINGS $__ COLING-96, Copenhagen, 1996(Members $75; Others $150)COLING-96 PROCEEDINGS $__ Coling-98, Montreal, 1998 (Members $75; Others $150) COLING-98 PROCEEDINGS $__

    TOTAL PUBLICATIONS PAYMENT $_____ (list in PAYMENT SECTION)

    ******************************************************************************

    ACL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS' CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

    The ACL proudly sponsors various workshops and conferences organized by SIGs associated with the ACL. From these meetings, all remaining proceedings are forwarded to the ACL Office in the USA for sale as long as supply lasts.

    Below is a listing of the various proceedings currently available. To place an order, please follow the standard payment procedures below and indicate your proceedings choice(s) by filling in the dollar amount. 1991-1994 proceedings are $20 each; 1996 and beyond are $25 each, including surface mailing costs. Airmail delivery will be an additional $10 for each mailing of up to two proceedings copies.

    SIG CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

    Reversible Grammar in Natural Language Processing, at ACL-91, Berkeley, CA, 17 June 1991 $___________________ The Balancing Act, at ACL-94, Las Cruces, NM, 1 July 1994 $___________________ Computational Phonology, at ACL-94, Las Cruces, NM, 1 July 1994 $___________________ Natural Language Processing for Communication Aids, at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $__________________ Concept to Speech Generation Systems, at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $_________________ Spoken Language Translation, at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $_________________ Envgram Computational Environments for Grammar Development and Linguistic Engineering, at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $________________ Operational Factors in Practical, Robust Anaphora Resolution for Unrestricted Texts, at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $_______________ Interactive Spoken Dialogue Systems: Bringing Speech and NLP Together in Real World Applications, at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $_______________ Referring Phenomena in a Multimedia Discourse and Their Computational Treatment (SIGMEDIA), at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $______________ Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization, at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $______________ Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP Applications Organized by EuroWordNet (LE2 4003), Sparkle (LE 2111) and Ecran, at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $______________ >From Research to Commercial Applications: Making NLP Technology Work in Practice, at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $______________ Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL '97), at ACL/EACL-97, Madrid, Spain, 11-12 July 1997 $_____________ Content Visualization and Intermedia Representations, at Coling-ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998 $_____________ Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers, at Coling- ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998 $_____________ First Workshop on Computational Terminology, at Coling- ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998 $_____________ Processing of Dependency-based Grammars, at Coling- ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998 $_____________ The Computation of Phonological Constraints, at Coling- ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, 15 August 1998 $_____________ The Computational Treatment of Nominals, at Coling- ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, 16 August 1998 $_____________ Translingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilities, at Coling-ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, 16 August 1998 $_____________ Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems, at Coling-ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, 16 August 1998 $_____________ Partially Automated Techniques for Transcribing Naturally Occuring, Continuous Speech, at Coling-ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, 16 August 1998 $_____________ New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (NeMLaP3/CoNLL98, at Sydney, Australia, 11-17 January 1998 $_____________

    Proceedings of the International Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP'98), at Ankara, Turkey, 30 June-1 July 1998 $_____________

    Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, at Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, 5-7 August 1998 $_____________

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Philadelphia, PA, 17-18 May 1996 $_____________ Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Providence, RI, 1-2 August 1997 $_____________ Third Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Granada, Spain, 2 June 1998 $_____________

    Third Workshop on Very Large Corpora, at ACL-95, Cambridge, MA, 30 June 1995 $_____________ Fourth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, at Coling-96, Copenhagen, Denmark 4 August 1996 $_____________ Fifth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Beijing, China, 18 August 1997 and Hong Kong, 20 August 1997 $_____________ Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, at Coling-ACL'98, Montreal, Canada, 15-16 August 1998 $_____________

    Plus airmail costs ($10 per each 1-2 copies) $______________

    TOTAL ORDER $______________

    PAYMENT

    METHOD OF PAYMENT (circle): CHECK MONEY ORDER CREDIT CARD BANK TRANSFER

    CREDIT CARD INFORMATION (VISA AND MASTERCARD ONLY):

    CARD NUMBER___________________________________EXPIRATION DATE________________

    CARDHOLDER'S NAME (as appears on card)_______________________________________

    MAILING ADDRESS______________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________

    GRAND TOTAL OF PAYMENT AUTHORIZED OR ENCLOSED $____________________

    PREPAYMENT is necessary; invoices and receipts are available upon request. The U.S. dollar price is definitive when paying in other currencies, although rounding off is appropriate. CHECKS AND MONEY ORDERS SHOULD BE PAYABLE TO THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (or to ACL). Payment may be made by sending this form (or all pertinent details) and credit card information in email to aclbellcore.com (prior to February 1, 1998) and to aclaclweb.org (after February 1, 1998). The following payment choices are available:

    1. CREDIT CARDS: Credit card payments MUST BE MADE TO THE ACL OFFICE IN THE USA. Visa and Mastercard only. Email, fax or hardcopy are acceptable.

    2. CHECKS/MONEY ORDERS: TO THE ACL OFFICE IN THE USA: Send this dues statement in hardcopy with a check or money order to the address below. PAYMENTS MUST BE IN U.S. DOLLARS, DRAWN ON A U.S. BANK OR IN U.S. OR CANADIAN DOLLARS (CALCULATED AT THE CURRENT EXCHANGE RATE), DRAWN ON A CANADIAN BANK.

    3. PAYMENTS TO EUROPE: Mail this form to Rosner with either (i) a Eurocheque or banker's draft IN SWISS FRANCS, payable "ACL" or (ii) a standard personal cheque drawn on a French bank in FRENCH FRANCS, payable "ACL" or (iii) photocopy evidence of interbank transfer to "ACL", account number 141.880.LAV at the Union Bank of Switzerland, 8 Rue du Rhone, CH-1211 Geneva 11, SWITZERLAND. Dollar price is definitive. For exchange rate information, use daily published exchange rate or see http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/acl/. NOTE THAT EUROPEAN MEMBERS SHOULD PAY THROUGH ROSNER UNLESS THEY PAY BY CREDIT CARD OR USE A U.S. BANK ACCOUNT.

    Assoc. for Comp. Ling. Dr. Michael Rosner P.O. Box 6090 Dept. Computer Science & AI Somerset, NJ 08875 USA University of Malta +732-873-3898 phone; Msida, MALTA +732-873-0014 fax +356-32-90-25-04 phone; aclbellcore.com (prior to 2/1/98) +356-32-05-39 fax aclaclweb.org (after 2/1/98) mroscs.um.edu.mt

    Message 2: Electronic Multilingual Dictionaries

     Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 09:51:27 +0200
    From: Igor Sharshakov <bhmailbox.riga.lv>
    Subject: Electronic Multilingual Dictionaries


    Dear LINGUIST,

    I do hope that my electronic Business and Finance Multilingual Dictionary (English / French / German / Russian), Multilingual Dictionary of Stock Exchange and Investment Terms (English / French / German / Italian / Spanish / Russian), Dictionary of Computing for Everyone (English / Russian), Glossary of International Banking and Finance Acronyms and Abbreviations (English/Russian) (approved by the REUTERS and being used by this esteemed Agency in its marketing), can be useful in your daily activities.

    You, Your friends and collegues are always welcome at http://www.dict.biz.lv

    Dictionaries are ideal for any business traveller Quick and easy to use .PDF format Up-to-date definitions Extensive cross referencing Totally modern vocabulary Powerful browse and search capabilities >From international to personal business and finance

    Your expert comments and suggestions will be very much appreciated.

    With respect and best wishes,

    Igor Sharshakov, the Author (fax: +371 7379350; private e-mail: sharkbinet.lv)

    Message 3: ICPhS 99

     Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 00:12:32 -0800
    From: Yoko Hasegawa <hasegawasocrates.berkeley.edu>
    Subject: ICPhS 99


    International Conference of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS 99

    The organizing committee of ICPhS 99 has sent out notices of acceptance and rejection to all who submitted abstracts. A list of accepted authors and their paper titles can be found on our web site (http://trill.linguistics.berkeley.edu/ICPhS/index.html).

    E-mail: icphs99trill.berkeley.edu</TD> Regular Mail: ICPhS 99 Phonology Laboratory - Dept. of Linguistics University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 U.S.A.

    ================================= Yoko Hasegawa Vice Chair, ICPhS 99