6.679, Calls: Sino-Caucasian hypothesis, Chinese computing

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-679. Sat 13 May 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 139
 
Subject: 6.679, Calls: Sino-Caucasian hypothesis, Chinese computing
 
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               Ann Dizdar <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
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Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 16:35:14 -0400
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer (amr at CS.Wayne.EDU)
Subject: Call for Papers: Special Issue of ALHafniensia on Sino-Caucasian
 
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Date: Fri, 12 May 95 16:44:00 +0800
From: guojin at iss.nus.sg
Subject: CFP -- International Conference on Chinese Computing'96 (ICCC96)
 
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Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 16:35:14 -0400
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer (amr at CS.Wayne.EDU)
Subject: Call for Papers: Special Issue of ALHafniensia on Sino-Caucasian
 
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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia would like to issue a special
issue (or more likely a half-issue) at the end of this year,
devoted to the topic of the Sino-Caucasian hypothesis and
related issues in the classification and reconstruction of
the relevant language groups.  We would like to solicit
submissions ASAP.  At this stage, we would ask for a brief
abstract, to be sent to the address above, by email.  We will
respond promptly, and then ask for a full paper, which is
to also to be submitted by email by July 31 or earlier if
possible.  The papers will be peer-reviewed.  We will aim
at getting the final versions of the papers in September/
October.
 
Alexis Manaster Ramer               Martha Ratliff
 
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Date: Fri, 12 May 95 16:44:00 +0800
From: guojin at iss.nus.sg
Subject: CFP -- International Conference on Chinese Computing'96 (ICCC96)
 
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      International Conference on Chinese Computing'96 (ICCC96)
      =========================================================
 
        The Latest Technological Advancement and Applications
 
                        June 4-7 (Wed. - Fri.)
 
                         Jointly Organized by
Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (Singapore)
Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
           Chinese Information Processing Society (China)
 
Theme:
     The theme of this conference is the application of  advanced
     technologies  and  knowledge  to  the processing of Chinese,
     Japanese, Korean  and  other  oriental  languages.    Recent
     advances  and  developments  in  methodologies,  systems and
     software and hardware will be emphasized.
 
Papers:
     Suggested  topics  included  but  are  not  limited  to  the
     following:
 
        Large-scale lexical database construction
        Syntactic and semantic analysis
        New input methods and their application
        Natural language interface
        Machine(-aided) translation
        Intelligent information retrieval
        Application of corpus and statistics
        Text classification and abstraction
        Discourse understanding
        Knowledge acquisition and representation
        Speech I/O and OCR (printed / handwriting)
        Chinese Internet (WWW) and E-mail
        Font generations and Typesetting
        Localization (Han Hua)
 
Submission:
     Send 3 copies of full paper of not more than 8000 words to:
 
        Prof. Dong Zheng Dong
        Institute of Systems Science
        National University of Singapore
        Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge
        Singapore 0511
        FAX: (65) 774 4998
        Email: zddong at iss.nus.sg
 
        Prof. Huang Chang Ning
        Department of Computer Science
        Tsinghua University
        Beijing, China 100084
        FAX: (86 10) 256 2768
 
Important Dates:
                Submission Deadline     Dec. 1 1995
                Notification            Mar. 1 1996
                Final manuscript        Apr. 1 1996
 
Official Languag:
     English and Chinese.
 
     An English abstract must be provided if the paper is written
     in Chinese.
 
Tutorial:
     Proposals for tutorial should be submitted by  1  Feb.  1996
     to:
 
        Dr. Lua Kim Teng
        Department of Information Systems & Computer Science,
        National University of Singapore
        Kent Ridge,  Singapore 0511
        Fax 65-7722782, email luakt at iscs.nus.sg
 
Venue:
     Institute  of  Systems  Science,  National   University   of
     Singapore, Singapore 0511
 
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