Subject: cfp - recent advances in nlp

mov " ( kivs @ bgearn . bitnet ) , " galja angelova " ( galja @ bgearn . bitnet ) , " george gargov " ( gargov @ bitnet . bgearn ) , " dan tufis " < tufis @ roearn . ici . ac . ro > , ( tufis % roearn . ici . ro @ net . eu . rlay ) , " pascal vaillant " ( tapfer @ thomson-lcr . fr ) , < vaillant @ limsi . fr > , " nikolay vazov " ( vazov @ fr . limsi ) , nlpeople @ aisb , nlpeople @ cogsci , elsnet-list @ ed . cogsci , aisb @ sussex . cogs , bulg . gm @ applelink . apple . com , acl @ edu . columbia . cs , ikbsbb @ rl . inf , fj-ai @ jp . go . etl , linguist @ edu . tamu . tamvm1 , ln @ bitnet . frmop11 , nl-kr @ edu . rpi . cs , humanist @ edu . brown . brownvm , ln-fr @ bitnet . frmop11 , arpanet-bboard @ edu . mit . lcs . mc , ir-l @ bitnet . uccmvsa , " eastern ( europe ) language engineering " ( m5675 @ ie . eurokom ) , nl-kr @ com . sunnyside . ai , empiricists @ csli . stanford . edu , ectl-sub @ snowhite . cis . uoguelph . ca , corpora @ hd . uib . no , jqrqc @ cunyvm . cuny . edu , salt @ cstr . ed . ac . uk international conference " recent advances in natural language processing " 14-16 september 1995 velingrad , bulgaria topics of interest : papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of natural language processing and language engineering are invited , including but not limited to : pragmatics , discourse , semantics , syntax , and the lexicon ; phonetics , phonology , and morphology ; text understanding and generation ; multilingual nlp , machine translation , machine-aidedf { { { { translation , translation aids and tools ; corpus-based language processing ; written and spoken natural language interfaces ; knowledge acquisition ; text summarization ; computer-assisted language learning ; language resources ; evaluation , assessment and standards in language engineering ; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to nlp of every kind . the conference welcomes also new results in nlp based on modern alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic nlp such as analogy-based , statistical , connectionist as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches . in general , the conference especially welcomes any contribution to the area of language engineering in view of the imminent developments in information technology . program committee : b . boguraev ( apple computer , cupertino ) c . boitet ( imag , grenoble ) k . s . choi ( kaist , taejon ) a . deroeck ( university of essex ) r . delmonte ( university of venice ) s . fincher ( university of edinburgh ) e . haijcova ( charles university , prague ) j . haller ( iai , saarbruecken ) p . jacobs ( sra , arlington ) a . joshi ( university of pennsylvania ) l . kartunen ( xerox grenoble ) m . kay ( xerox , palo alto ) r . kittredge ( university of montreal ) k . kukich ( bellcore , morristown ) j . mariani ( limsi , orsay ) c . martin - vide ( university rovira i virgili ) y . matsumoto ( nara institute of science and technology ) k . mckeown ( columbia university ) r . mitkov ( iai / institute of mathematics ) s . nirenburg ( new mexico state university ) h . somers ( umist , manchester ) p . seuren ( university of nijmegen ) o . stock ( irst , trento ) b . tsou ( city polytechnic of hong kong ) j . tsujii ( umist , manchester ) d . tufis ( romanian academy of sciences ) m . zock ( lismi , orsay ) invited speakers : a . joshi ( university of pennsylvania ) j . tsujii ( umist , manchester ) . paper submission : papers not exceeding 3500 words should be submitted via email ( preferably as plain text ) not later than 20 april 1995 to : ruslan @ iai . uni-sb . de the first page should also contain the surface and email address ( es ) of the author ( s ) , as well as the topic area . submission media : papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to : ruslan mitkov iai martin - luther str . 14 d-66111 saarbruecken germany if electronic submission is problematic ( e . g . due to non-standard format , characters , graphics ) not possible , 4 copies of the paper should be sent . schedule : authors must submit their papers by 20 april 1995 . notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author ( or designated author ) soon after receipt . authors will be notified of acceptance by 20 june 1995 . camera - ready versions of the accepted papers , preferably using a laser printer , must be received by 20 july 1995 . location : the town of velingrad is situated in a picturesque valley in the western rhodope mountains and is only 130km from sofia , the capital of bulgaria . the local organizers will provide a daily shuttle bus / conference taxi from sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate . sofia is easily accessible by plane from most of the major european cities ( e . g . daily flights or several flights per week from london , frankfurt , paris , zurich , vienna and other european cities ) . there are also direct flights to sofia from north america ( washington ) and asia ( singapore , bangkok , kuala lumpur ) . organizing committee : ruslan mitkov iai saarbruecken / institute of mathematics , sofia michael zock limsi , orsay , france manfred kudlek university of hamburg , germany nikolai nikolov incoma / school of computational linguistics , bulgaria nicolas nicolov dept . of ai , university of edinburgh , uk conference information : for further information contact : nicolas nicolov dept of artificial intelligence university of edinburgh 80 south bridge edinburgh eh1 1hn nicolas @ aisb . edinburgh . ac . uk tel : + 44-131 650 2727 fax : + 44-131 650 6516 anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description together with a specification of physical requirements ( space , power , telephone connections , tables , etc . ) to the above address . the organisers can provide pcs and macintoshes . www and ftp : information about the international conference " recent advances in natural language processing " is available via : - www at url : http : / / www . dai . ed . ac . uk / misc / nlp _ conf . html - anonymous ftp from ftp . dai . ed . ac . uk in file : pub / user / adv _ nlp . ps here is an example of how to get the same file by ftp ( user input is underlined ) : $ ftp ftp . dai . ed . ac . uk ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ name ( ftp . dai . ed . ac . uk : nicolas ) : anonymous ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ password : ( - type in your email here ! ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ftp ) cd pub / user ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ftp ) get adv _ nlp . ps ( - postscript version ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ftp ) get adv _ nlp . txt ( - plain text file ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ related events : conference participants are also invited to take part in the international summer school " contemporary topics in computational linguistics " , which will take place just before the conference in tzigov chark , batak lake , only 20 km from velingrad . further information about the summer school can be obtained from prof . r . mitkov ( ruslan @ iai . uni-sb . de ) or nicolas nicolov ( nicolas @ aisb . edinburgh . ac . uk ) industrial participants / publishing companies : industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their nlp - related products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books on nlp . company representatives should inform nicolas nicolov ( nicolas @ aisb . edinburgh . ac . uk ) of their intention and publishing houses should contact dr . r . mitkov ( ruslan @ iai . uni-sb . de ) .
