EACL'99 and ACL'99 Reminders

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

                                 EACL '99

                 9th Conf. of the European Chapter of the
                 Association for Computational Linguistics
                         Bergen, June 8-12, 1999

                        TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW !

                       http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

      The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in
   Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe.  Programme overview:

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        June 7     Pre-conference excursion to the fjords
        June 8     Tutorials
        June 9-11  Main sessions, student sessions, posters&demos
                   Invited speakers Bruce Croft & Wolfgang Wahlster
                   Exhibit & Job Fair
                   Social programme (reception & banquet)
        June 12    Workshops
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    Please consult the website for the full programme, venue and local
            information, registration and hotel accommodation:
                       http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

                            Welcome to Bergen !

            Henry Thompson & Alex Lascarides, Programme Chairs
       Koenraad de Smedt, Chair of the Local Organization Committee

                                 Sponsors:
  LINGSOFT, University of Bergen (Humanities Faculty), Bergen University
    Fund, Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and Church affairs

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			CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

		     EACL'99 TUTORIALS PROGRAMME

The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in
Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe.  There will be two
tutorial sessions on June 8th, 1999, with two tutorials each.


TIME TABLE

 8:30	Registration
 9:30	Start Morning Session (1 and 3 below)
 11:00	Break
 11:30	Morning Session continued
 13:00	Lunch
 14.00	Start Afternoon Session (2 and 4 below)
 15:30	Break
 16.00	Afternoon Session continued
 17:30	End of Sessions


  1. Practical Text Mining
     Lecturer: Ronen Feldman

  2. Natural Language Learning with the Maximum Entropy Framework
     Lecturer: Adwait Ratnaparkhi

  3. Building Natural Language Generation Systems
     Lecturers: Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter

  4. Lexicography for Computationalists
     Lecturers: Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell

The URL for the tutorials programme (with abstracts and further
information) is http://ilk.kub.nl/~walter/eacl/prog.html

The URL for the EACL'99 homepage is http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

    -- Walter Daelemans <Walter.Daelemans at kub. nl>

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                                  ACL '99

                          37th Annual Meeting of the
                   Association for Computational Linguistics
             University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
 			     June 20-26, 1999

                         TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW !

                    http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99

       The ACL '99 conference this year will offer a larger and more
  diversified program than ever before.  Below is a Program Overview.
  Detailed information and the entire registration brochure may be
  found at the website above.  The registration brochure has also been
  sent to all ACL members in hardcopy on 19th April, 1999.  If you
  would like an emailed version of the VERY LONG brochure, please contact
  Priscilla Rasmussen at acl at aclweb.org.  We also plan to have the
  online registration working (hopefully) before the end of May.

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	19 June		Registration and Tutorial Reception
        20 June		Tutorials--3 morning and 3 afternoon
        21-22 June	Workshops--4 1-day and 2 2-day workshops
        23-26 June	Technical, Thematic, and Student Sessions
 			(23rd and 26th Technical, 24th and 25th
 			Thematic and Student sessions); Invited
 			Speakers: Marti Hearst, Sadaoki Furui,
 			and George Miller. ACL Business Meeting
 			and Student Member Lunch Meeting.
 			Social program (Opening Reception, 22nd
 			June, and Banquet, 23rd June)

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     Please consult the website for the full program, venue and local
             information, registration and hotel accommodation:

 			We hope to see you there!

 		Robert Dale and Kenneth Church, Program Chairs
 		    Bonnie Dorr, Local Arrangements Chair

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    CO-LOCATED MEETING:  There will also be a co-located symposium,
 Computer-Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language
 Processing, organized by Mari Broman Olsen.  This symposium will take
 place Tuesday, June 22nd on the University of Maryland campus.  For
 further information, please contact Mari Olsen, molsen at umiacs.umd.edu
 or see the web http://umiacs.umd.edu/~molsen/acl-iall