Corpora: CLUK5 8-9Jan 2002: Call for Papers

[Eric Atwell]

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                    5th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium

                           Call for Participation

                             8-9 January 2002

                           University of Leeds

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Computational Linguistics UK (CLUK) aims to provide a forum for the
Computational Linguistics community in the UK. The Annual CLUK Colloquium
offers PhD students in Natural Language Processing and related disciplines
an opportunity to present and discuss their work with members of the wider
research community.
Presentations are held in conference-style sessions, to which senior
established researchers are invited, and there will be opportunities for
general discussion. Papers on any topic within the area of Computational
Linguistics, NLP and Language Engineering are welcome.

Guest Speakers:
Mark Davies, Illinois State University
Jenny Thomas, University of Bangor
(further guest speakers to be confirmed)

NOTE:  SELECTED PAPERS WILL BE INCLUDED IN A SPECIAL EDITION OF
       WEB-SLS: THE EUROPEAN STUDENT JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
       (http://www.essex.ac.uk/web-sls/).


Submission of papers

Authors are requested to submit an abstract (600-1000 words).
Each submission should include the following information:
title, names and affiliations of the authors,
and the full address of the primary author, including email.
Abstracts will be refereed by the Programme Committee.

Submissions should be sent to:

John Elliott
School of Computing
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9JT

email: jre at comp.leeds.ac.uk

Please submit abstracts via email as ASCII text.
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Deadlines

Abstract submission deadline: Monday 12 November 2001
Notification of acceptance: Monday 3 December 2001
Camera ready papers due: Monday 17 December 2001
Colloquium: 8-9 January 2002

Apologies for the tight deadlines due to illnesses.
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Programme Committee
Eric Atwell - University of Leeds
John Carroll - University of Sussex
Anne De Roeck - University of Essex
John Elliott - University of Leeds
Jon Herring - University of Brighton
Elenor Maclaren -Brunel University
Diana Maynard - University of Sheffield
Mark Moens - University of Edinburgh
Nicholas Ostler - Linguacubun Ltd.
Darren Pearce - University of Sussex
John Tait - University of Sunderland
Aline Villavicencio - Cambridge University
Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield
(CLUK committee email: cluk-group at dcs.shef.ac.uk)


Local arrangements:

The colloquium will be held at Charles Morris Hall, University of Leeds.

The cost of participation, which includes a copy of the proceedings,
B&B, lunches, and dinner, will be GBP85.

Further details on CLUK from the CLUK website:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/cluk

Local organisation:

Eric Atwell
Hazel Davies
John Elliott
David Roberts
Mandy Schiffrin
Clive Souter
Menno van Zaanen

email: jre at comp.leeds.ac.uk
tel: 0113 233 6827/5761
fax: 0113 233 5468

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