9.223, Calls: Comparative Romance Linguistics,Asian Languages

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Subject: 9.223, Calls: Comparative Romance Linguistics,Asian Languages

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Date:  Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:49:28 -0700
From:  "sonia.colina" <scolina at asu.edu>
Subject:  MLA Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group

2)
Date:  Sat, 14 Feb 1998 10:57:28 +0800
From:  Khoo Soo Guan <ASSGKHOO at ntu.edu.sg>
Subject:  CFP: International Workshop: Information Retrieval with
              Asian Languages

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:49:28 -0700
From:  "sonia.colina" <scolina at asu.edu>
Subject:  MLA Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group


MLA '98 (Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group)


SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION 1998 CONVENTION

Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group

San Francisco, California

27-30 December 1998


Deadline for Abstracts: March 1 1998


The Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group is sponsoring its


annual session at the MLA 1998 Convention.


Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks in all areas of Romance

Linguistics.  One-page blind abstracts (one inch margins, typeface no

smaller than 12) accompanied by a card with the presenter's name,

address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address should be
sent

to:


Sonia Colina

Department of Languages and Literatures

Arizona State University

Main Campus, PO Box 870202

Tempe, AZ 85287-0202, USA

Ph (602) 965-4649

Fax (602) 965-0135

e-mail: scolina at asu.edu


Faxed and e-mail submissions will be accepted but should be followed up


by a hard-copy submission.


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Sat, 14 Feb 1998 10:57:28 +0800
From:  Khoo Soo Guan <ASSGKHOO at ntu.edu.sg>
Subject:  CFP: International Workshop: Information Retrieval with
              Asian Languages

Call for Papers

                 The 3rd International Workshop on
        Information Retrieval with Asian Languages - IRAL'98

                        15-16 October, 1998

                   Organized by, and to be held at:

					Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL)
                             Singapore

      (Note: KRDL is a new Research Institute incorporating the former
   Kent Ridge Digital Labs and the Information Technology Institute)

                       In cooperation with:

                        ACM SIGIR (pending)
                       ACM Hong Kong Chapter
         SIG-NLP, Information Processing Society of Japan
         SIG-DBS, Information Processing Society of Japan
       Japanese Association for Natural Language Processing
          Association for Computational Linguistics and
               Chinese Language Processing, Taiwan
                   Singapore Computer Society



                 URL: http://sdmc.krdl.org.sg/IRAL98


ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The purpose of the IRAL workshop is to bring together researchers and
developers who are interested in exchanging new ideas and presenting
results in the field of information retrieval (IR), with an emphasis
on the issues related to Asian languages and multilingual applications.

The first International Workshop was held with the name "Information
Retrieval with Oriental Languages" in 1996, in Taejon, Korea, and the
second, renamed as "Information Retrieval with Asian Languages" to
increase the scope, was held in Tsukuba City in Japan in 1997.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUITORS

Papers (4 hardcopies) should be submitted in English only to the
Program Chair of the 3rd International Workshop as follows:

    Dr. Mun-Kew Leong
    (IRAL'98 submission)
	Kent Ridge Digital Labs
    21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
    Singapore 119613

    Email: mkleong at krdl.org.sg

Electronic submissions WILL NOT be supported because of the difficulty
of printing different language fonts.

Papers should be at most 5000 words in length, and should be
double-spaced.
The first page must contain the title of the paper and an abstract of no
more than 100 words, and no indication about the author(s) and
affliation(s).
In addition, authors must attach a separate page with the title, the
author name(s) and respective affiliations, plus complete contact
information (mailing address, telephone, fax, email) for the author
to whom correspondence should be sent. Email will be the default means
of communication.

IMPORTANT DATES

15 May 1998: The deadline for receipt of papers (4 hardcopies)
13 Jul 1998: Notification of result to authors  (by email)
7  Aug 1998: Final manuscript due in camera ready format

LOCATION OF THE WORKSHOP

Kent Ridge Digital Labs
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613

Please see web site: http://sdmc.iss.nus.sg/IRAL98 for details. Note
that KRDL was formerly the Kent Ridge Digital Labs (ISS) and is
located within the National University of Singapore.

REGISTRATION FEE

Regular: US$100, Full-time student (with student-id): US$50

Both the regular and student registration include a copy of the workshop
proceedings as well as lunch on both days, tea-breaks, and the Workshop
Welcome Reception. Registration and payment information will be
announced
later, and can also be found on the workshop web site.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Overall Chair: Hwee-Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore

Workshop Organizing Committee:
  Mun-Kew Leong (program chair), Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
  Christopher Khoo (publicity), Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
  K. Rajaraman, Information Technology Institute, Singapore
  Victorine Chen-Toh (logistics), Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore

Workshop Steering Committee:
  Tetsuya Ishikawa, University of Library and Information Science, Japan
  Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University, Hong Kong
  Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea
  Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  Mun-Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore

Program Committee:
  Jun Adachi, NACSIS, Japan
  Jun-ichi Aoe, University of Tokushima, Japan
  Christopher Khoo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  Ling Cao, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
  Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea
  Schubert Foo, National Technological University, Singapore
  Kui-Lam Kwok, Queens College, CUNY, USA
  Hyuk-Chul Kwon, Pusan National University, Korea
  Dik L. Lee, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  Gun-Bae Lee, POSTECH, Korea
  Joon-Ho Lee, Soonsil University, Korea
  Kunio Matsui, Fujitsu Labs, Japan
  Hiroshi Nakagawa, Yokohama National University, Japan
  Yasushi Ogawa, Ricoh Labs, Japan
  K. Rajaraman, Information Technology Institute, Singapore
  Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea
  Dong-Wook Shin, Chungnam National Univ, Korea
  Von-Wun Soo, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  Sam-Yuan Sung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
  Mei-Mei Wu, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
  Xiling Zhou, Beijing Information Technology Institute, China

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