8.0177 CFP: Workshop on Natural Language (1/136)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 9 Sep 1994 10:29:36 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0177. Friday, 9 Sep 1994.

Date: Thu, 8 Sep 94 15:50:19 +0200
From: gpl@fct.unl.pt
Subject: Call for papers: Fifth International Workshop on Natural language

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Fifth International Workshop on
Natural language Understanding and Logic Programming
NLULP5
CALL FOR PAPERS


Conference dates: May 29 (Mon) --- 31 (Wed), 1995

Conference place: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Chairman: Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Science and Technology
Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
Quinta da Torre,
2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal
Phon. +351-1-295 3220
Fax. +351-1-295 56 41
Email. gpl@fct.unl.pt


Program Committee:

Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara)
Harvey Abramson (Aizu) Charles Grant Brown (Stockholm)
Veronica Dahl (Vancouver) Sandiway Fong (NEC, Princeton)
Mark Johnson (Providence, RI) Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto)
Gregers Koch (Copenhagen) Michael C. McCord (IBM Yorktown)
Fred Popowich (Vancouver) Patrick Saint-Dizier (Toulouse)
Luis Moniz Pereira (Lisbon) Helder Coelho (Lisbon)
Ryoichi Sugimura(Matsushita Electric Ind.,Osaka)
Gabriel P. Lopes (Lisbon) (chair)

The Organizing Committee of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural
Language Processing and Logic Programming invites the
submission of papers for NLULP5, in Lisbon, Portugal.


TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research
on all aspects of Logic Programming applications to computational
linguistics, including, but not limited to, the followings.

- syntax - parsing
- semantics - generation
- phonetics - language understanding
- phonology - speech analysis/synthesis
- morphology - computational lexicons
- discourse - electronic dictionaries
- pragmatics - terminology
- quantitative/qualitative linguistics - text database and retrieval
- mathematical linguistics - documentation
- contrastive linguistics - machine translation
- cognitive linguistics - machine aids for translation
- large text corpora - natural language interface
- text processing - dialogue systems
- hardware/software for NLP - multimedia systems

It will be nice to have in Lisbon Practical Applications of PROLOG in the
area of NLU, for demonstrating Prolog's attractiveness for this area.


REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION:

Papers should have a maximum fifteen pages in final format, should be
written in English, and describe original work.
They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and
they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported
results.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:

Authors should submit four copies of preliminary versions of their
papers with the page limits above, on A4 paper with the title,
author(s), addresses (including email if possible), affiliation across
the page top, a short (five to ten line) summary, and a specification of
the topic area preferably drawn
from the list above. As well, authors are strongly urged to email the
title page information by the deadline date. Send the papers and
emails to the chair.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Preliminary paper submission due: December 19, 1994
Notification of paper arrival: December 31, 1994
Inquiries for lost papers: January 20, 1995
Acceptance notification: March 1, 1995
Camera-ready copies due: April 1, 1995

REVIEW SCHEDULE:

Preliminary papers are due by 19 December 1994. Papers received after
that date will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be
mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt by 31
December 1994.
All inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by January 20, 1995.
Designated authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 1995.
Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared according to the
publisher requirements, must be received by 1 April 1995 by the chair
along with a signed copyright release statement. Papers received after
that date may not be included in the proceedings.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS

Accepted papers will appear in the conference "Proceedings".
Springer-Verlag of Berlin, AI series, will probably publish the
Proceedings.


OTHER ACTIVITIES:

(1) Invited talks and panels will be included in the program.
Proposals and suggestions for invited talks and panels should be sent
to the chair as soon as possible.

(2) Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration
should send a brief description, together with a specification of
physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables,
etc.) to the chair.

(3) An attractive social program will be organized for people willing to
know more about Portugal, Lisbon and its surroundings.

(4) At that time of the year the weather is quite worm and unpolluted
beaches are nearby Lisbon, at Costa da Caparica.