6.929, Calls: Chinese computing, Language rights

Wed Jul 5 17:38:49 UTC 1995

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-929. Wed Jul 5 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  216

Subject: 6.929, Calls: Chinese computing, Language rights

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Date:  Wed, 05 Jul 1995 13:58:17 +0800
From:  guojin at iss.nus.sg
Subject:  Call For Paper -- Int. Conf. on Chinese Computing'96 (ICCC96)

2)
Date:  Tue, 04 Jul 1995 21:20:09 CDT
From:  egphil at polyu.edu.hk (Phil Benson)
Subject:  Language Rights Conference

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1)
Date:  Wed, 05 Jul 1995 13:58:17 +0800
From:  guojin at iss.nus.sg
Subject:  Call For Paper -- Int. Conf. on Chinese Computing'96 (ICCC96)

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      International Conference on Chinese Computing'96 (ICCC96)
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        The Latest Technological Advancement and Applications

                        June 4-7 (Tues. - Fri.)

                         Jointly Organized by
Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (Singapore)
Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
           Chinese Information Processing Society (China)

Theme:
     The theme of this conference is the application of  advanced
     technologies  and  knowledge  to  the processing of Chinese,
     Japanese, Korean  and  other  oriental  languages.    Recent
     advances  and  developments  in  methodologies,  systems and
     software and hardware will be emphasized.

Papers:
     Suggested  topics  included  but  are  not  limited  to  the
     following:

        Large-scale lexical database construction
        Syntactic and semantic analysis
        New input methods and their applications
        Natural language interface
        Machine(-aided) translation
        Intelligent information retrieval
        Application of corpus and statistics
        Text classification and abstraction
        Discourse understanding
        Knowledge acquisition and representation
        Speech I/O and OCR (printed / handwriting)
        Chinese Internet (WWW) and E-mail
        Font generations and Typesetting
        Localization (Han Hua)

Submission:
     Send 3 copies of full paper of not more than 8000 words to:

        Prof. Dong Zheng Dong
        Institute of Systems Science
        National University of Singapore
        Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge
        Singapore 0511
        FAX: (65) 774 4998
        Email: zddong at iss.nus.sg

        Prof. Huang Chang Ning
        Department of Computer Science
        Tsinghua University
        Beijing, China 100084
        FAX: (86 10) 256 2768

Correspondences:
It is encouraged to communicate electronically with the conference's
organizing committee at:

        email:  iccc96 at iss.nus.sg
        fax:    (65) 774 4998

Important Dates:
                Submission Deadline     Dec. 1 1995
                Notification            Mar. 1 1996
                Final manuscript        Apr. 1 1996

Official Languag:
     English and Chinese.

     An English abstract must be provided if the paper is written
     in Chinese.

Tutorial:
     Proposals for tutorial should be submitted by 1 Oct. 1995 to:

        Dr. Lua Kim Teng
        Department of Information Systems & Computer Science,
        National University of Singapore
        Kent Ridge,  Singapore 0511
        Fax 65-7722782, email luakt at iscs.nus.sg

Venue:
     Institute  of  Systems  Science,  National   University   of
     Singapore, Singapore 0511
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Date:  Tue, 04 Jul 1995 21:20:09 CDT
From:  egphil at polyu.edu.hk (Phil Benson)
Subject:  Language Rights Conference

* First call for papers *

* INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RIGHTS *

June 22-24, 1996 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Organised by the Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic
University in association with a programme committee based at
the Department of Languages and Culture, Roskilde University,
Denmark.

* Plenary speakers *

Florian Coulmas, Chuo University, Japan
Alastair Pennycook, University of Melbourne, Australia
Robert Phillipson, Roskilde University, Denmark
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Roskilde University, Denmark

* Aims *
On paper, the rights of individuals and groups to learn and
use their own languages and the official languages of the
states they live in are widely recognised. In practice, these
rights are fully exercised only by the native speakers of a
small minority of the world's languages.

This conference aims to explore the meaning of language rights
at an international level and in east and southeast Asian
contexts. Relevant areas include

  + language rights and human rights
  + linguistic imperialism
  + international languages and global inequalities
  + language and gender
  + literacy and development
  + linguistic minorities
  + bilingual education
  + language and the media
  + language and the law
  + language and ideology

Papers are welcome which address any of these areas in terms
of language rights. Papers are especially welcome which
address issues of language rights in east and southeast Asian
contexts.

* Submission of abstracts *

Abstracts are invited for paper presentations of 40-45
minutes. Please submit one copy to fit on one side of A4 to
include title of paper, name of presenter and affiliation.

The main language of the conference will be English. Abstracts
and papers may be in any language. Translation/interpretation
into English will be provided if possible.

Abstracts should be sent to Phil Benson at the address at the
end of this page by 1st December, 1995. Abstracts may be sent
by e-mail, but not by fax.

* Schedule *

Registration opens  1 October, 1995
Deadline for submission of abstracts:  1 December, 1995
Notification of acceptance:  1 February, 1996
Conference:  22-24 June, 1996

* Registration *

Before 1 March, 1996:  US$100
After 1 March, 1996:  US$120

* Organisers' address *

If you would like to contact the organisers of the conference
or be placed on our mailing list, please contact:

Phil Benson
Department of English
Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hung Hom, Hong Kong

EGPHIL at POLYU.EDU.HK
Phone: (852) 2766 7535
Fax:   (852) 2333 6569
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