6.0358 Final Call: PACLING 93 Deadlines Looming (1/128)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:46:12 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0358. Tuesday, 17 Nov 1992.
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:04 -0800
From: Dan Fass <fass@cs.sfu.ca>
Subject: Final CFP: 2 weeks to PACLING-93 computational linguistics conference
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
PACLING '93
First Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference
(formerly JAJSNLP, the Japan-Australia Joint
Symposia on Natural Language Processing)
April 21-24 (Wed-Sat) 1993
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PACLING's History and Aims, Guest Speakers, and Paper Topics are given after
the Submission instructions below.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: Monday Nov 30th 1992
Notification of acceptance: Friday Jan 29th 1993
Camera-ready copy due: Friday Mar 5th 1993
SUBMISSIONS
Authors should prepare full papers, in English, of not more than 5000 words
including references, approximately 20 double-spaced pages. The title page
must include: author's name, postal address, e-mail address (if applicable),
telephone and fax numbers; a brief 100-200 word summary; some key words for
classifying the submission.
Please send four (4) copies of each submission to:
Paul McFetridge and Fred Popowich email: mcfet@cs.sfu.ca
PACLING '93 Program Co-Chairs tel: (604) 291-3632
Centre for Systems Science email: popowich@cs.sfu.ca
Simon Fraser University tel: (604) 291-4193
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 fax: (604) 291-4424
HISTORY AND AIMS
PACLING (= Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics) has grown out of
the very successful Japan-Australia joint symposia on natural language
processing (NLP) held in November 1989 in Melbourne, Australia and in October
1991 in Iizuka City, Japan.
PACLING '93 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop-oriented meeting
whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among Pacific Rim
countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange showing
openness towards good research falling outside current dominant "schools of
thought," and on technological transfer within the Pacific region.
The theme of PACLING '93 is "transcending language boundaries" by facilitating
communication between speakers of different languages and by going beyond
limitations of natural language as a communicative medium -- the conference
has a particular interest in the theory and practice of natural-language
centred multi-modal architectures, systems, interfaces and design issues.
GUEST SPEAKERS (tentative talk titles)
Dr. Takao Gunji, Osaka University, Japan.
"An Overview of JPSG --- A Constraint-Based Grammar for Japanese."
Dr. George Heidorn, Microsoft Corporation, USA.
"Industrial Strength NLP: The Challenge of Broad Coverage."
Dr. Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University, USA.
"Language Generation as Part of Multimedia Explanation."
TOPICS
Original papers are invited on any topic in computational linguistics (and
strongly related areas) including (but not limited to) the following:
Language subjects:
text, speech;
pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, the lexicon, morphology,
phonology, phonetics;
language and communication channels, e.g., touch, movement, vision, sound;
language and input/output devices, e.g., keyboards, menus, touch screens,
mice, light pens, graphics (including animation);
language and context, e.g., from the subject domain, discourse, spatial
and temporal deixis.
Approaches and architectures:
computational linguistic, multi-modal but natural-language centred;
formal, knowledge-based, statistical, connectionist;
dialogue, user, belief or other model-based;
parallel/serial processing.
Applications:
text and message understanding and generation, language translation
and translation aids, language learning and learning aids;
question-answering systems and interfaces to multi-media databases
(text, audio/video, (geo)graphic);
terminals for Asian and other languages, user interfaces;
natural language-based software.
PUBLICITY AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
The conference will take place at the downtown Vancouver extension of Simon
Fraser University. Preferential rates have been negotiated from downtown
hotels at $Canadian 43, 65 and 82 per person per night.
Conference fees will include a banquet and a day trip by coach to Whistler, a
picturesque local mountain and ski resort. For further information on the
conference and on local arrangements, contact:
Dan Fass email: fass@cs.sfu.ca
PACLING '93 Publicity and Local Arrangements tel: (604) 291-3208
Centre for Systems Science fax: (604) 291-4424
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
PACLING '93 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair:
Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Members:
Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Christian Matthiessen (University of Sydney, Australia)
Nick Cercone (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Yorick Wilks (New Mexico State University, USA)
Local Members:
Hiroaki Tsurumaru (Nagasaki University, Japan)
Roland Sussex (Queensland University, Australia)
Dan Fass, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Advisors:
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)
Observers:
Minako O'Hagan (New Zealand Translation Center, New Zealand)
SPONSORS
Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication interest group of
the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan;
the Australian Computer Science Society; Institute of Robotics and Intelligent
Systems of Canada, the Advanced Systems Institute of British Columbia, Centre
for Systems Science.