[COLING-2002] First Call for Participation (5/27)

[Jing-Shin Chang]

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[apology for multiple posts] 2002/05/27
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                  COLING-2002: First Call for Participation

                            COLING-2002 (Taipei)

        The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

                      24 August  -  1 September, 2002
	
             Official URL:http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/

    Organized by Academia Sinica, ACLCLP, and National Tsing Hua University
	
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Important Dates:

Early Registration Deadline: 15, June.
Tutorials: 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002 (Academia Sinica)
Conference: 26 (Mon) - 30 (Fri) August, 2002 (Howard International House)
Post-Conference Workshops: 31 (Sat) - 1 September, 2002 (Academia Sinica)
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Dear Colleagues,

The Program Committee and the Organizing Committee of the COLING-2002
Conference are pleased to welcome participants from all countries to
join us in Taipei. Both lists of accepted papers and preliminary
program are available on (http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/).  The
on-line registration system is also open
(http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html).

This year's main conference features three keynote speakers: Charles
J. Fillmore (Linking sense to syntax in FrameNet), William S.-Y. Wang
(Evolutionary Linguistics and Computer Modeling), and Hans Uszkoreit
(New Chances for Deep Linguistic Processing).  In addition to the
close to 200 papers and project notes that will be presented at the
main conference; there will also be over 100 papers featured at the 11
exciting post-conference workshops.  Four pre-conference tutorials
focus on pioneering inter-disciplinary areas: Computational
Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Bio-Informatics,
Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics, and Open Domain
Question-Answering.

Taipei as COLING2002's Conference site offers a unique mix of
culture, science, and technology.

For further details, please visit our official conference website at:

http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/

Please note the pre-registration deadline of June. 15.

We look forwards to your participation in August.

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Program Committee

	Winfried Lenders (Chair), University of Bonn, Germany
	Susan Armstrong, ISSCO/ETI, University of Geneva, Switzerland
	Christian Boitet, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France
	Nicolletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy
	Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
	Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
	Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
	Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA
	Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.
	Chu-Ren Huang, Academia sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
	Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Reseach Centre Europe, Grenoble, France
	Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST, Nara, Japan
	Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, USA
	Benjamin K. T'sou, City university of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Jun-Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan
	Hans, Uszkoreit, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
	Yorik Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK
	Shiwen Yu, Beijing University, China

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Organizing Committee

	Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica (Chair)
	Kathleen Ahrens, national Taiwan University
	Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University
	Jing-Shin Chang, Chi-Nan University
	Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University
	Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica
	Kuang-Hua Chen, National Taiwan University
	Sin-Horng Chen, National Chiao Tung University
	Lee-Feng Chien, Academia sinica (Executive secretary)
	Zhao-Ming Gao, National Taiwan University
	Sue-Jin Ker, Soochow University
	Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
	Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation
	Shu-Chuan Tseng, Academia Sinica (Executive secretary)
	Hsiao-Chuan Wang, National Tsing Hua University
	Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica
	Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University

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