Corpora: EACL'99 and ACL'99 Reminders

Priscilla Rasmussen (rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu)
Sun, 23 May 99 17:47:23 EDT

EACL '99

9th Conf. of the European Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
Bergen, June 8-12, 1999

TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW !

http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in
Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. Programme overview:

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June 7 Pre-conference excursion to the fjords
June 8 Tutorials
June 9-11 Main sessions, student sessions, posters&demos
Invited speakers Bruce Croft & Wolfgang Wahlster
Exhibit & Job Fair
Social programme (reception & banquet)
June 12 Workshops
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Please consult the website for the full programme, venue and local
information, registration and hotel accommodation:
http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

Welcome to Bergen !

Henry Thompson & Alex Lascarides, Programme Chairs
Koenraad de Smedt, Chair of the Local Organization Committee

Sponsors:
LINGSOFT, University of Bergen (Humanities Faculty), Bergen University
Fund, Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and Church affairs

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EACL'99 TUTORIALS PROGRAMME

The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in
Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. There will be two
tutorial sessions on June 8th, 1999, with two tutorials each.

TIME TABLE

8:30 Registration
9:30 Start Morning Session (1 and 3 below)
11:00 Break
11:30 Morning Session continued
13:00 Lunch
14.00 Start Afternoon Session (2 and 4 below)
15:30 Break
16.00 Afternoon Session continued
17:30 End of Sessions

1. Practical Text Mining
Lecturer: Ronen Feldman

2. Natural Language Learning with the Maximum Entropy Framework
Lecturer: Adwait Ratnaparkhi

3. Building Natural Language Generation Systems
Lecturers: Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter

4. Lexicography for Computationalists
Lecturers: Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell

The URL for the tutorials programme (with abstracts and further
information) is http://ilk.kub.nl/~walter/eacl/prog.html

The URL for the EACL'99 homepage is http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

-- Walter Daelemans <Walter.Daelemans@kub. nl>

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ACL '99

37th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
June 20-26, 1999

TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW !

http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99

The ACL '99 conference this year will offer a larger and more
diversified program than ever before. Below is a Program Overview.
Detailed information and the entire registration brochure may be
found at the website above. The registration brochure has also been
sent to all ACL members in hardcopy on 19th April, 1999. If you
would like an emailed version of the VERY LONG brochure, please contact
Priscilla Rasmussen at acl@aclweb.org. We also plan to have the
online registration working (hopefully) before the end of May.

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19 June Registration and Tutorial Reception
20 June Tutorials--3 morning and 3 afternoon
21-22 June Workshops--4 1-day and 2 2-day workshops
23-26 June Technical, Thematic, and Student Sessions
(23rd and 26th Technical, 24th and 25th
Thematic and Student sessions); Invited
Speakers: Marti Hearst, Sadaoki Furui,
and George Miller. ACL Business Meeting
and Student Member Lunch Meeting.
Social program (Opening Reception, 22nd
June, and Banquet, 23rd June)

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Please consult the website for the full program, venue and local
information, registration and hotel accommodation:

We hope to see you there!

Robert Dale and Kenneth Church, Program Chairs
Bonnie Dorr, Local Arrangements Chair

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CO-LOCATED MEETING: There will also be a co-located symposium,
Computer-Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language
Processing, organized by Mari Broman Olsen. This symposium will take
place Tuesday, June 22nd on the University of Maryland campus. For
further information, please contact Mari Olsen, molsen@umiacs.umd.edu
or see the web http://umiacs.umd.edu/~molsen/acl-iall