Corpora: RANLP: Conference Announcement (5-7 Sept 2001)

[Nicolas Nicolov/Watson/IBM]

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        RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

                   EuroConference RANLP-2001
                   (www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001)

                         5-7 Sept 2001
                    Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria


   Further to the successful and competitive 1st and 2nd
   confernces on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
   (selected papers from which were published by John Benjamins as
   CILT vol.136 (www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/toonboek.cgi?997) and as
   CILT vol.189 (www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/toonboek.cgi?1310)),
   we are pleased to announce the third RANLP conreference to be held
   in 2001. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited
   keynote speakers plus individual papers.

SPONSORS

   The conference is funded by the European Commission, DGXII through
   Human Potential Programme for High-Level Scientific Conferences
   (contract number HPCF-2000-00329).

INVITED SPEAKERS

   Keynote speakers whose participation is confirmed so far include:

   Martin Kay         Xerox Parc
   Yorick Wilks       Univ. of Sheffield
   Branimir Boguraev  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
   Eduard Hovy        Information Sciences Institute, USC

TUTORIALS

   RANLP-2001 will be preceded by a 2-day tutorials on 3-4 Sept.

LOCATION

   Following the RANLP 95 and RANLP 97 tradition, the conference will
   be held from in the picturesque Tzigov Chark resort overlooking
   Batak Lake in the Rhodope Mountains, Southern Bulgaria.

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

   The first CFP, to be distributed in February, will will list all
   invited speakers, Programme Committee members and the submission deadlines.

FURTHER INFORMATION

   If you would like to receive information you may subscribe to the
   conference mailing list by sending an e-mail to majordomo at dcs.shef.ac.uk
   with a body (no subject) 'subscribe ranlp2001'. When you receive the
   confirmation e-mail, please make sure that you return the requested
   code to confirm your subscription. Information about RANLP-2001 and
   the pre-conference tutorials will be constantly updated on the
   conference web site (www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001).

ORGANISERS

   Galia Angelova    Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair)
   Kalina Bontcheva  Univ of Sheffield, UK
   Ruslan Mitkov     Univ of Wolverhampton, UK, (PC Chair)
   Nicolas Nicolov   IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA