1997 SIGDAT Conferences - Preliminary Announcement

David Yarowsky (yarowsky@blaze.cs.jhu.edu)
Wed, 6 Nov 96 16:39:17 EST

SIGDAT, ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based
approaches to natural language processing, would like to announce its
1997 schedule of events, one in North America and one in Asia:

1 - The Second Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP (EMNLP2)
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August 1-2 (Fri-Sat) - Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
immediately following AAAI-97

2 - The 5th Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WVLC5)
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August 18,20 (1997) - This workshop will take place in two consecutive
sessions sharing a common program committee and proceedings.
Authors may specify at which session(s) they wish to present their
papers; presentation at both sessions may be invited.

1st session - held in Beijing on August 18 (Mon)
2nd session - held in Hong Kong on August 20 (Wed)

WVLC5 will immediately precede ROCLING 97 (Aug 22-24, Taiwan)
and IJCAI '97 (Aug 24-29, Nagoya, Japan).

These meetings will address the full spectrum of topics in empirical,
statistical and corpus-based natural language processing.

Primary calls-for-papers will be issued later this month and submissions will
be due in February-March, 1997.