Corpora: Deadline moved:NLP+IA 2000/TAL+AI 2000

Chadia Moghrabi (moghrac@Umoncton.ca)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:48:54 -0400 (AST)

Please note that the deadline for submissions has been postponed to
**** January 6, 2000 ****

Our apologies for multiple postings.

CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITS
Appel aux communications & expositions

INTERNATIONAL CONFERE
ON
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
SPECIAL ACCENT ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000

MARCH 25-28, 2000
Mariott Hotel, HURGHADA, EGYPT

Conference internationale
sur le traitement automatique des langues et
ses applications industrielles
25-28 mars, 2000
Attention speciale portee au domaine medical
24-27 mars, 2000
Hotel Mariott, Hurghada, Egypte

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Université de Moncton is organising its
third international conference on NLP and industrial applications. This
year a special attention is given to medical applications.

Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing,
including, but not limited to:.
- 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
- CALL
- NLP industrial applications
- papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and
practice of NLP in general and particularly in a medical domain.

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.

SUBMISSION:

1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title,
the authors' names, affiliations, addresses, a five (5) keyword list
specifying the subject area, a five (5) line summary, and the name and
address of the contact person.

TITLE/ Titre:
AUTHORS / Auteurs
KEYWORDS/ Mots clefs:
SUMMARY/ Resume:
CONTACT PERSON/ Personne contact:

2) Submissions should not exceed 1000 words in length excluding references
(12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2.5 cm) all around; if using A4
please keep top margin at 2.5 cm and text within 19cm x 25.5 cm).

3) The identification page and the actual text should be submitted in 4
HARD COPIES to

NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000
Pr. Chadia Moghrabi
Universite' de Moncton,
Faculté des sciences,
Departement d'informatique
Moncton, NB, Canada, E1A 3E9

Phone: 1 (506) 858-4521
Fax: 1 (506) 858-4541
E-mail: gretal@info.umoncton.ca

4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text.

REFEREEING:

All submissionss shall be refereed by three members of the Program
committee.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Lars Ahrenberg (U. Linkoeping, Sweden)
Roberto Basili (U. Roma, Italy)
Christian Boitet (GETA, U. Grenoble, France)
Marcel Cori (U. Paris, France)
Chrysanne diMarco (U. Waterloo, Canada)
Sadek Eid (U. de Moncton, U. Cairo, Egypt)
Damien Genthial(TRILAN, IUT Valence, France)
Hoda Hosny (American U. Cairo, Egypte)
Maghi King (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
Guy Lapalme (U. Montreal, Canada)
Ruddy Lelouche (U. Laval, Canada)
Gudrun Magnusdottir (ESTeam AB, Greece)
Chadia Moghrabi (U. de Moncton, Canada)
Anton Nijholt (U. Twente, Netherlands)
Ahmed Rafea (U. Cairo, Egypte)
Ahmed Sameh Mohamed (American U. Cairo, Egypte)
Mark Seligman (GETA & Red Pepper, USA)

DEADLINES:

Submissions are now due on January 6, 2000.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by February 5, 2000.
Camera-ready copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of
March, 2000 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 can send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical
requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs,
etc.) to gretal@info.umoncton.ca with the single word EXHIBIT in the
subject line.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

Hurgada is a beautiful sea resort with coral beaches ideal for diving and
snorkelling. A travel agency will be handling any sightseeing in
Hurghada, Cairo, or other Egyptian tourist activities. It would be the year 2000
and what a historic place to be visiting.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

The conference is organised by GRETAL, the NLP study group at Universite'
de Moncton in co-operation with the American University of Cairo. The
members of the organising committee are:

Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair,
Universite' de Moncton
Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, Conference co-chair,
American University of Cairo.
Hoda Hosny, professor of Engineering, American University of Cairo.
Ahmed Rafea, Professor of Engineering, University of Cairo.
Ahmed Sameh Mohamed, Professor of Engineering,
American University of Cairo.
Luc LeBlanc, Computer Science student & research assistant at Gretal,
Universite' de Moncton.