11.906, Calls: Comp Ling/ACL, Automatic Processing/Portuguese

Wed Apr 19 17:20:33 UTC 2000

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Subject: 11.906, Calls: Comp Ling/ACL, Automatic Processing/Portuguese

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1)
Date:  Wed, 19 Apr 2000 7:54:17 EDT
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject:  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2000)

2)
Date:  Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:05:33 -0300
From:  lucia at dc.ufscar.br (Lucia Rino)
Subject:  Automatic Processing of Written and Spoken Portuguese Language

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 19 Apr 2000 7:54:17 EDT
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject:  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2000)

***************EXTENDED DEADLINE  TO  APRIL 26, 2000*******************

	   		   ACL 2000

             38th Annual Meeting of the Association for
                    Computational Linguistics
                      3-6 October, 2000
                           Hong Kong

		  http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/

		   Call for Workshop Proposals

Workshop Chair:

Nicoletta Calzolari
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa
glottolo at ilc.pi.cnr.it

				Call

The ACL'2000 Program Committee invites proposals for Workshops to be
held in conjunction with the ACL'2000 Conference.

Areas of Interest

We welcome proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL community.
In addition to the traditional workshops areas, including both core
issues in CL and NLP applications (such as MT, CLIR, speech related
applications, etc.), we encourage proposals for workshops focussing on
Asian language processing and fostering communication and cooperation
between Western and Eastern (Asian) CL communities.

Dates

The Conference will be held October 3-6; Workshop dates will be
scheduled before and/or after the conference.

Venue

Pre/Post Conference Workshop/Tutorials will be held at Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology (HKUST).

The ACL has a policy on workshops:
ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/Information/workshop-policy.gz

			    Reviewing

Reviewing of Workshop proposals will be managed by an international
Workshop Program Committee.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.

			Submission Details

Proposals for workshops should contain:

* A title and brief (about 500 word) content description of the
workshop topic.

* A budget proposal.

* The target audience and expected number of participants.

* Any special requirements for technical needs (computer
infrastructure, etc.).

Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text,
as soon as possible, but no later than April 18.

The subject line should be:

"ACL 2000 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL".

Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to:

Nicoletta Calzolari, ACL 2000 Workshop Chair

glottolo at ilc.pi.cnr.it

Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR
Area della Ricerca di Pisa
Via Alfieri 1
Localita' San Cataldo
56010 Ghezzano - Pisa - Italy

Tel: +39 050 315-2870 (direct); -2836 or -2835 (secr.)
Fax: +39 050 315-2834

			Important Dates

Submission Deadline for Workshop Proposal:   Apr 26

Notification of acceptance of Workshop Proposal:  May 10

Workshop descriptions due to Workshop Chair:  July 10

Workshop material for reproduction: around the beginning of September
(more information will be provided later)

-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:05:33 -0300
From:  lucia at dc.ufscar.br (Lucia Rino)
Subject:  Automatic Processing of Written and Spoken Portuguese Language

********************************************************************
**************                  LAST REMINDER           **************
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V WORKSHOP ON THE AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF WRITTEN AND SPOKEN
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

November 19-22, 2000
Atibaia - São Paulo, Brazil

Please, notice that the deadline for Paper and proposals for software
demonstrations is April 28, 2000.

*** electronic submission only ***
>For further details, visit the workshop website:
http://nilc.icmc.sc.usp.br/propor/

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+   Lucia Helena Machado Rino                                                +
+   Departamento de Computacao - Centro de Ciencias Exatas e de Tecnologia   +
+   Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos                                       +
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+   http://www.dc.ufscar.br/~lucia                                           +
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