7.689, Calls: Semiotics, Computational Linguistics

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-689. Mon May 13 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  205

Subject: 7.689, Calls: Semiotics, Computational Linguistics

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                   Ann Dizdar <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
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Date:  Mon, 13 May 1996 15:35:54 BST
From:  gloria.withalm at hermes.hsak.ac.at (Gloria Withalm)
Subject:  IASS-AIS 6th Congress 1997 - Call for Papers

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Date:  Mon, 13 May 1996 11:32:57 CDT
From:  kbcs at konark.ncst.ernet.in (KBCS96)
Subject:  CFP:KBCS-96 International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer
	  Systems

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Date:  Mon, 13 May 1996 15:35:54 BST
From:  gloria.withalm at hermes.hsak.ac.at (Gloria Withalm)
Subject:  IASS-AIS 6th Congress 1997 - Call for Papers

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 IASS-AIS
 International Association for Semiotic Studies -
 Association Internationale de Semiotique
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The full URL of the Call for Papers is

        "http://www.bm.lu.se/~arthist/assoc/6IASS97.html"

Description:
        "Semiotics World Congress - Call for Papers: "Semiotics Bridging=
 Nature and Culture" is the general theme of the 6th Congress of the=
 International Association for Semiotic Studies IASS-AIS (Mexico 1997, July =
13-18)."

Thank you very much for your help to reach as many scholars as possible.

Yours sincerely,
Gloria Withalm (Assistant Secretary General)

 *********************************************************************
 Gloria Withalm
 Lehrkanzel fuer Kulturgeschichte * Hochschule fuer angewandte Kunst
 Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2 * A-1010 Vienna, Austria
   phone hsak +43-1-71133-342
   fax   hsak +43-1-71133-310
 Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies ISSS
 International Association for Semiotic Studies IASS
 Waltergasse 5/1/12 * A-1040 Vienna, Austria
   phone+fax ISSS/IASS +43-1-5045344
   e-Mail: gloria.withalm at hermes.hsak.ac.at
 *********************************************************************

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Date:  Mon, 13 May 1996 11:32:57 CDT
From:  kbcs at konark.ncst.ernet.in (KBCS96)
Subject:  CFP:KBCS-96 International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer
	  Systems

                                 Call for Papers
                          INTERNATIONAL   CONFERENCE ON
                         KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
                     National Centre for Software Technology
                                  Bombay, India
                               December 16-18, 1996

                URL : http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs96.html
____________________________________________________________________________

The International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems will
be held in Bombay, India during December 16-18, 1996.  The conference
is intended to act as a forum for promoting interaction among
researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence in India and
abroad.  There will be a two day conference during December 16-17,
1996 followed by one day of post-conference tutorials on December 18,
1996.

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research
on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited
to the following: o AI Applications o AI Architectures o Artificial
Life o Automatic Programming o Cognitive Modeling o Expert Systems o
Foundations of AI o Genetic Algorithms o Information Retrieval o
Intelligent Tutoring Systems o Knowledge Acquisition o Knowledge
Representation o Machine Learning o Machine Translation o Natural
Language Processing o Neural Networks o Planning and Scheduling o
Reasoning o Robotics o Search Techniques o Speech Processing o Theorem
Proving o Uncertainty Handling o User Interfaces o User Modeling o
Vision

Programme Committee:

S. Arunkumar, IIT, Bombay              Amitava Bagchi, IIM, Calcutta
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT, Bombay      Margaret A. Boden, U of Sussex, UK
B. B. Chaudhuri, ISI, Calcutta         R. Chandrasekar, NCST, Bombay
S. S. Gupta, TUL, Bombay               J. R. Isaac, NIIT, New Delhi
Aravind K. Joshi,                      R. A.  Kowalski, Imperial College, UK
       U of Pennsylvania, USA
H. N. Mahabala, INFOSYS, Bangalore     M. Narasimha Murthy, IISc, Bangalore
R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore          S. Ramani, NCST, Bombay (Chair)
P. V. S. Rao, TIFR, Bombay             Patrick Saint-Dizier,
                                               U of Paul Sabatier, France
R. Uthurusamy, GMR, USA                M. Vidyasagar, CAIR, Bangalore

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Format of Submission:

Authors should submit  their papers,  not  to exceed  5000 words  (including
figures and  references) either  electronically or  in hard  copy.    Papers
should be in English.   Papers should include  an abstract of about  100-200
words in  length.    Papers  outside the  specified  length are  subject  to
rejection without review.   Since  reviewing will be  "blind", the  authors'
names and affiliations along with the main area of the paper should be given
only on a separate cover sheet.  Hard copy submissions should  be sent in
triplicate.   Papers in  electronic form can be in any of the following
formats:  plain text, Postscript, Latex, Microsoft Word (RTF format) or
Wordstar.  Submissions in electronic form are preferred.

Send papers to the KBCS-96 Secretariat at the address below.

Paper Submission Deadlines:

  o  Papers due:  July 31, 1996

  o  Acceptance Notification:  October 15, 1996

  o  Camera Ready Copy due:  December 1, 1996

Call for Tutorials:

Proposals are  invited for  post-conference  tutorials.   Tutorials  can  be
half-day  or full-day,  and  will be  held  on December  18th,  1996.    The
proposal should be presented  in the form of  a 200-word abstract, one  page
topical outline  of the  content,  description of  the proposers  and  their
qualifications relating to the tutorial content.

Tutorial Submission Deadlines:

  o  Proposal Submission:  July 31, 1996

  o  Acceptance Notification:  August 31, 1996

  o  Complete Tutorial materials due:  December 1, 1996

Send proposals to the KBCS-96 Secretariat at the address below.

Organizing Committee:

George Arakal, NCST (Chair)  K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, NCST
P. Ravi Prakash, NCST        Durgesh D. Rao, NCST
M. Sasikumar, NCST           T. Suresh, NCST

For further information  please refer to  the KBCS-96 home  page or
write  to the KBCS-96 Secretariat.

 ___________________________________________________________________________

 Address
 KBCS-96 Secretariat                      Phone :  +91 (22) 620 1606
 National Centre for Software Technology  Fax :  +91 (22) 621 0139
 Gulmohar Cross Rd No.  9                 E-mail :  kbcs at konark.ncst.ernet.in
 Juhu, Bombay 400 049, India
            URL : http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs96.html
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