6.475 Calls: Natural lg processing, Melbourne Postgrad, Formal grammar

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Subject: 6.475 Calls: Natural lg processing, Melbourne Postgrad, Formal grammar
 
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 11:43:41 BST
From: Andy.Way at CompApp.DCU.IE
Subject: Call For Papers The COGNITIVE SCIENCE of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
 
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 13:37:02 +1000 (EST)
From: nsn at speech.language.unimelb.edu.au (Nick "Minoan Genius" Nicholas)
Subject: CONF: Melbourne University Postgraduate Conference
 
3)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 13:17:05 UTC+0200
From: Glyn Morrill (morrill at lsi.upc.es)
Subject: Formal Grammar
 
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1)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 11:43:41 BST
From: Andy.Way at CompApp.DCU.IE
Subject: Call For Papers
 
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                        Call for Papers for the
 
                  Fourth International Conference on
 
        The COGNITIVE SCIENCE of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
 
                Dublin City University, 5-7 July 1995
 
Subject Areas:
This is a non-exclusive list of subjects which fall within the scope of
CSNLP. It is intended as a guide only.
        * Corpus-based NLP
        * Connectionist NLP
        * Statistical and knowledge-based MT
        * Linguistic knowledge representation
        * Cognitive linguistics
        * Declarative approaches to NLP
        * NLG and NLU
        * Dialogue and discourse
        * Human language processing
        * Text linguistics
        * Evaluation of NLP
        * Hybrid approaches to NLP
 
Submissions may deal with theoretical issues, applications, databases or other
aspects of CSNLP, but the importance of cognitive aspects should be borne in
mind. Papers should report original substantive research.
 
Theme: The Role of Syntax
There is currently considerable debate regarding the place and importance of
syntax in NLP. Papers dealing with this matter will be given preference.
 
Invited Speakers:
The following speakers have agreed to give keynote talks:
Mark Steedman, University of Pennsylvania
Alison Henry, University of Ulster
 
Registration and Accommodation:
The registration fee will be IR#60, and will include proceedings, lunches and
one evening meal. Accommodation can be reserved in the campus residences at DCU.
A single room is IR#16 per night, with full Irish breakfast an additional IR#4.
Accommodation will be "First come, first served": there is a heavy demand for
campus rooms in the summer.
There are also several hotels and B&B establishments nearby: addresses will
be provided on request.
 
To register, contact Alex Monaghan at the addresses given below. Payment in
advance is possible but not obligatory. Please state gender (for accommodation
purposes) and any unusual dietary requirements.
 
Submission of Abstracts:
Those wishing to present a paper at CSNLP should submit a 400-word abstract to
arrive not later than 10/4/95. Abstracts should give the author's full name and
address, with Email address if possible, and should be sent to:
 
CSNLP
Alex Monaghan
School of Computer Applications
Dublin City University
Dublin 9
Ireland
 
Email submissions are preferred, plain ASCII text please to:
                      ---------
 
alex at compapp.dcu.ie (internet)
 
Completed papers should be around 8 pages long, although longer papers will
be considered if requested. Camera-ready copy must be submitted to arrive
in Dublin by 19/6/94. No particular conference style will be imposed, but
papers should be legible (12pt laser printed) and well-structured.
 
 
Deadlines:
 
10th April --- Submission of 400-word abstract
   1st May --- Notification of acceptance
 19th June --- Deadline for receipt of camera-ready paper (c.8 pages)
 26th June --- Final date for registration, accommodation, meals etc.
 
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 13:37:02 +1000 (EST)
From: nsn at speech.language.unimelb.edu.au (Nick "Minoan Genius" Nicholas)
Subject: CONF: Melbourne University Postgraduate Conference
 
The University of Melbourne Department Linguistics will be holding its
4th Annual Postgraduate Conference on the 30th of May. Abstracts are
now being called for, and will be accepted until the 18th of April;
these may be
 
e-mailed to: nsn at speech.language.unimelb.edu.au;
snail-mailed to:Dept. of Linguistics, University of Melbourne,
        Parkville 3052, Victoria, Australia;
faxed to: (+61 3) 344 7305.
--
**** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** ****
*    Nick Nicholas, Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia      *
 nsn at speech.language.unimelb.edu.au & nick_nicholas at muwayf.unimelb.edu.au
* (http://adhocalypse.arts.unimelb.edu.au/Dept/Linguistics/nsn/nick.html)*
     "Eschewing obfuscatory verbosity of locutional rendering, the
* circumscriptional appelations are excised." --- W. Mann & S. Thompson, *
  _Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Theory of Text Organisation_, 1987.
**** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** ****
 
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 13:17:05 UTC+0200
From: Glyn Morrill (morrill at lsi.upc.es)
Subject: Formal Grammar
 
 
                     LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
 
                        FORMAL GRAMMAR
 
                          Barcelona
                      August 12-13, 1995
                   in conjunction with the
  European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
 
In  1995  the   Seventh  European  Summer  School   in  Logic,
Language  and  Information   is  to  be  held   in  Barcelona.
As  on  previous  occasions  this  meeting  will  serve  as  a
forum for  areas including  computational linguistics,  formal
linguistics,  and the  role  of logic  in grammar  formalisms.
This  year  the  programme includes  a  conference  on  formal
grammar  open  to  all participants  to  present  contemporary
research  in  this  domain.      Themes  of  interest  include
formal  and  computational phonology,  syntax,  semantics  and
pragmatics; logical methods in  linguistics; and foundational,
methodological and architectural issues in grammar.
   Ten  copies of  anonymous abstracts  of not  more than  800
words (on one  two-sided sheet) should be sent  to the address
below  to arrive  not later  than April  21st, 1995.    Please
provide  a  separate  sheet  detailing  title,  author(s)  and
institution(s),  and address,  e-mail,  telephone  and fax  of
one author for  communication purposes.  Indicate  on both the
abstract and the  identification sheet whether you  require 20
minutes or 40 minutes for presentation.
   Notification  of acceptance  will be  by May  22nd.   Final
versions  of  papers  are  to be  received  by  7th  July  for
inclusion in  a proceedings to be  distributed at the  time of
the Summer School.
 
Address for correspondence:
 
    Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar
    c/o Glyn Morrill
    Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics
    Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona
    Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    Pau Gargallo, 5
    08028 BARCELONA
 
    e-mail:  morrill at lsi.upc.es
 
Programme  Committee:   Elisabet  Engdahl,  Ewan  Klein,  Glyn
Morrill, Dick Oehrle, Fernando  Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard
Sproat, Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen.
 
For   information  about   the  European   Summer  School   in
Logic,  Language and  Information (14th-25th August)  contact:
ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda.  Vallvidrera  25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax
+43 3 2054656; e-mail:  esslli95 at gilcub.es
 
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{\large LAST CALL FOR PAPERS}\\
 
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{\Large \bf FORMAL GRAMMAR}\\
 
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Barcelona \\
August 12-13, 1995 \\
in conjunction with the \\
{\bf European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information}
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\medskip
\noindent In 1995 the Seventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information is to be held in Barcelona.  As on previous occasions this
meeting will serve as a forum for areas including computational
linguistics, formal linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar
formalisms. This year the programme includes a conference on formal
grammar open to all participants to present contemporary research in
this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational
phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in
linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues
in grammar.
 
Ten copies of anonymous abstracts of not more than 800 words (on one
two-sided sheet) should be sent to the address below to arrive not
later than April 21st, 1995. Please provide a separate sheet detailing
title, author(s) and institution(s), and address, e-mail, telephone
and fax of one author for communication purposes. Indicate on
both the abstract and the identification sheet whether you
require 20 minutes or 40 minutes for presentation.
 
Notification of acceptance will be by May 22nd. Final versions of
papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings
to be distributed at the time of the Summer School.
 
\medskip
 
\noindent Address for correspondence:
 
\medskip
\begin{tabular}{l}
Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar\\
c/o Glyn Morrill \\
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Inform\`{a}tics \\
Facultat d'Inform\`{a}tica de Barcelona \\
Universitat Polit\`{e}cnica de Catalunya  \\
Pau Gargallo, 5 \\
08028 BARCELONA
\bigskip\\
e-mail: {\sf morrill at lsi.upc.es}
\end{tabular}
 
\medskip
 
\noindent Programme Committee: Elisabet Engdahl, Ewan Klein, Glyn Morrill,
Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard Sproat,
Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen.
 
\medskip
 
\noindent For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language
and Information  (14th-25th August) contact:
ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3
2054656; e-mail: {\sf esslli95 at gilcub.es}
 
\end{document}
 
 
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