Subject: Last CFP: DIALOGUE'97, Conference on Computational Linguistics
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From: dialog@artint.msk.su (DIALOG)
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 18:51:28 +0200 (MSK)

                             DIALOGUE'97
International Conference on computational linguistics and its applications
                    June 10-15, 1997, Moscow, Russia

                            Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to inform you about DIALOGUE'97, an international
conference on computational linguistics and its applications, which
will take place June 10-15, 1997 in a country side near Moscow,
Russia. The conference revived the tradition of the interdisciplinary
DIALOGUE seminars which were regular national annual events in the
USSR during 70s-80s. The conference title means that it is a meeting
place for a dialogue:
a) between researchers from different fields that are related to
   computational linguistics (linguists, computer scientists, cognitive
   scientists, psychologists);
b) between researchers from the former USSR and from the international
   community in computational linguistics.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

*  theoretical and cognitive linguistics
*  syntax, semantics, pragmatics and their interaction
*  multilingual natural language processing
*  systems for natural language processing
*  text, dialogue and speech act in the computational framework

The number of participants is expected about 100. Every prospective
attendee is required to submit a short research summary including
relevant recent publications, regular and e-mail address, fax and
phone numbers.

Participants who wish to present their work are additionally
required to submit a poster (3-4 double-spaced pages, 6-8 kB) or
a full paper (not exceeding 12 double- spaced pages, 24 kB).
Please send submissions preferably via e-mail (in plain ASCII or
uuencoded Winword files) to the address of the Program Committee
before February 1, 1997. Submissions in Russian and English are
equally accepted. A submission in Russian should be accompanied
with a short summary in English (approximately 100-200 words).
We plan to organize selected English-to-Russian and
Russian-to-English translation of talks.

Addresses for all correspondence:
e-mail: dialog@artint.msk.su
Snail mail:
     DIALOGUE'97
     Russian Instititue for Artificial Intelligence
     P.O.Box 111, Moscow,
     103001, Russia.

IMPORTANT DATES:
    Deadline for submission: February 1, 1997
    Notification of acceptance:  March 1, 1997
    Final paper due: March 25, 1997

In the field of computational linguistics in Russia conferences
DIALOGUE became a regular event which attracts the leading
researchers from the former USSR as well as foreign researchers. We
hope that DIALOGUE'97 will continue this tradition.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Alexander S. Narin'yani, Program Chair (Russian Institute of Artificial
                                         Intelligence)
Christian Boitet        (Grenoble University)
Alexander E. Kibrik     (Moscow State University)
Igor A. Mel'chuk        (Montreal University)
Sergei Nirenburg        (New-Mexico State University)
Haldur Oim              (Tartu University)
Dmitrij A. Pospelov     (Computer Center of Russian Academy of Sciences)

Secretariate:
Natalya I. Laufer, (Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence)
Serge A. Sharoff, (Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence)

  If  you have questions about the conference, please send e-mail letters
to the above-mentioned addresses or call:
to Moscow: +7-(095) 152-05-61 (Russian Institute for Artificial
                               Intelligence, Serge Sharoff)

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