Call for Papers: 1996 AATSEEL Meeting (Washington, DC)

[George Fowler]

David,

>The Call for Papers for the 1996 AATSEEL annual meeting (to be held in
>Washington, DC) is available on the World Wide Web at:
>
>        http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djbpitt/aatseel.html

I admire your courage, or is it foolhardiness, in posting this to SEELangs
without mentioning the fact that the same material will appear in the
forthcoming Newsletter, which I, at least, have not yet received. Keep me
informed on the flow of vituperation; and if you'd like me to post this as
an afterthought ("BTW, David didn't mention it because he is sure you all
know it, but..."), let me know; I won't otherwise.

George

P.S. I spent a GREAT day at Microsoft on Friday, where I gave a 90-minute
talk (never had such a lengthy slot before--it was *wonderful*), and got
detailed demos of various software-in-progress, including the engine for
their general NLP effort, which contains a syntactic and morphological
parser, a 50,000-word dictionary with very detailed semantic and syntactic
information, and other goodies. It is most highly developed for English,
French, and Spanish (the same core, with different linguistic interfaces),
and they are also working on German, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Their
goal is to have a complete NLP engine working by 1997 sometime, when they
will start doing commercial applications built around it. That strikes me
as optimistic, but they had really impressive stuff. I mentioned Zaliznjak
to some of them, who were interested, but only idly, as Russian isn't a
target language.

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