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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
NLP+IA 96
Conference internationale
sur le traitement automatique des langues et
ses applications industrielles
TAL+AI 96
JUNE/juin 4 - 6, 1996
Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA
Come to Canada this june...
NLP+IA june 4-6 in Moncton
CLIM june 8-10 in Montreal
NEW DEADLINES:
Intention to participate as soon as possible
Extended abstract submission extended to february 10, 1996
Notification of acceptance March 15, 1996
Camera-ready & registration May 1 , 1996
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Universite de Moncton is organizing
an international conference on NLP with industrial applications as its focus.
The conference will address a number of issues: What are NLP's recent
developments from a theoretical and a practical angle, what kinds of
challenges it faces, how could it help to improve productivity,
how could it help to improve quality of products and services? What
quality control criteria should it be adopting?
Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing, including,
but not limited to,
* computer assisted language learning,
* natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken and
hand-written language,
* natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial
applications
* machine translation, computer aided translation, translation
aids,
* syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology,
* dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources
* multimodality
* multilinguality
* NLP industrial applications
* papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and
practice of NLP.
LANGUAGE:
Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their
papers not exceeding 1000 words (exclusive of references) either in
English or in French, the two official languages of the conference.
Proceedings would be published in the language of the submitted
texts. Simultaneous translation of the presentations would be available
at the conference.
SUBMISSION:
1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title,
the first author's name, affiliation, address, a five (5) line summary and
a five (5) keyword list specifying the subject area.
2) Papers, 1000 words in length, should be submitted preferably by e-mail in
Postscript or in 4 hard copies (A4 page size, 12 pt, times roman, 2.5 cm
(1 inch) margins all around) to:
NLP+IA 96 / TAL+AI 96
Dr. Chadia Moghrabi, professeure
GRETAL
Departement d'informatique
Universite' de Moncton
Moncton, N. B.
CANADA
E1A 3E9
Phone: (506) 858-4521
Fax: (506) 858-4541
E-mail: nlp-ia@umoncton.ca
3) For both kinds of submissions, a plain text version of the identification
page should be sent separately by electronic mail, using the single
word: SUBMISSION/soumission in the subject line.
TITLE/Titre:
FIRST AUTHOR/ Premier auteur:
ADDRESS/Adresse:
KEYWORDS/Mots clefs:
ABSTRACT/Resume:
REFEREEING:
All extended abstracts shall be refereed by three members of the program
committee.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Lars Ahrenberg (Linkoeping U., Sweden)
Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, U. Geneva, Switzerland)
Christian Boitet (U. Grenoble, France)
Pierrette Bouillon (U. Geneva, Switzerland)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Inst, of Comp. Ling., Pisa, Italy)
Jaime Carbonell (Carnegie-Mellon U., USA)
Veronica Dahl (Simon-Fraser U., Canada)
Chrysanne DiMarco (U. Waterloo, Canada)
Gerard Ellis (Royal Melbourne Inst. of Tech., Australia)
Pierre Isabelle (CITI, Canada)
Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague)
Susan Haller (U. Wisconsin, USA)
Eduard Hovy (ISI, USA)
John Hutchins (East-Anglia, UK)
Margaret King (ISSCO, U. Geneva, Switzerland)
Richard Kittredge (U. Montreal, Canada)
Guy Lapalme (U. Montreal, Canada)
Gudrun Magnusdottir (U. Gothenburg, Sweden)
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Inst. of Sc.& Tech., Japan)
Marie Meteer (BBN, USA)
Chadia Moghrabi (U. Moncton, Canada)
Johanna Moore (U. Pittsburgh, USA)
Allan Ramsay (UMIST, UK)
Geoffrey Sampson (U. Sussex, UK)
Joerg Schuetz (U. Saarbrucken, Germany)
Manfred Stede (TU Berlin, Germany)
Thierry van Steenberghe (U. Louvain, Belgium)
Junichi Tsujii (U. Tokyo, Japan)
SCHEDULE:
Extended abstracts are to be submitted by the 31st of january 1996.
Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author soon after receipt.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 March 1996. Camera-ready
copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of May 1996 along
with registration fees.
Authors are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in
the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the
single word INTENTION in the subject line.
EXHIBITS:
Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should
send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical
requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs,
etc.) to the same address with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line.
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Accompanying persons can enjoy the lovely outdoor living in New-Brunswick
and visit the highest tides in the world. Moncton is only 20km
away from the sandy beaches of Shediac, la Capitale mondiale du homard.
The lobster season would be open, so everybody can indulge in delicious
meals of the famous Atlantic lobster.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
The conference is organized by GRETAL, Groupe d'etude sur le traitement
automatique des langues at the Universite' de Moncton. The members of the
organizing committee are:
Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair
Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, director Manufacturing
Technology Centre, and Conference co-chair
Jalal Almhana, Professor of Computer Science
Louise Bosi, Professor of French Studies
Julien Chiasson, Director & professor of Computer Science
Gaston Losier, Ad. director, Centre d'innovation scientifique et
technologique en industrie
Charles Zama, Ad. director, Centre de traduction et de terminologie
juridique
Paul Tarau, Professor of Computer Science