Subject: 2nd CFP NLP+IA'98
From: nlp+ia-98@imag.fr (Chadia Moghrabi)
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:33:27 +0000


********************** CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITS **************************
================Appel aux communications & expositions =====================

                        INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
                                  ON
           NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

                              NLP+IA 98
         >>> Special accent on Computer assisted language learning <<<

                        Conference internationale
                 sur le traitement automatique des langues et
                     ses applications industrielles

                              TAL+AI 98
        >>> Attention speciale portee a l'enseignement de la langue <<<

                         AUGUST/aout 18 - 20, 1998

                      Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA


Come to Canada this summer...
IWNLG August 5-7 in Niagara-on-the-Lake
Coling-ACL August 10-14 in Montreal
NLP+IA/CALL August 18-21 in Moncton


TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Universite de Moncton is organizing
its second international conference on NLP and industrial applications.
This year a special attention is given to Computer assisted language
learning.


Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing, including,
but not limited to,
* computer assisted language learning,
* natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken and
  hand-written language,
* natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial
  applications
* machine translation, computer aided translation, translation
  aids,
* syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology,
* dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources
* multimodality
* multilinguality
* NLP industrial applications
* papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and
  practice of NLP in general and Language learning in particular.


LANGUAGE:
Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their
papers not exceeding 400 words (exclusive of references) either in
English or in French, the two official languages of the conference.
Proceedings would be published in the language of the submitted
texts.


SUBMISSION:
1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title,
the authors' names, affiliations, addresses, a five (5) keyword list
specifying the subject area, a five (5) line summary, and the name and
address of the contact person.
        TITLE/ Titre:
        AUTHORS INFO/ Auteurs et infos:
        KEYWORDS/ Mots clefs:
        SUMMARY/ Resume:
        CONTACT PERSON/ Personne contact:

2) Abstracts should not exceed 400 words in length excluding references (12
pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4 please
keep text within 19cm x 25,5 cm).

3) The identification page and the abstract should be submitted in 4 HARD
COPIES (12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4
please keep text within 19cm x 25,5 cm) to:

        NLP+IA 98 / TAL+AI 98
        Pr. Chadia Moghrabi
        GETA, CLIPS, IMAG
        385 rue de la Bibliotheque
        BP 53
        38041 Grenoble Cedex 9
        France
                Phone: +33 4 76 51 4369
                Fax:   +33 4 76 51 4405
                E-mail: NLP+IA-98@imag.fr

4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text.


REFEREEING:
All abstracts shall be refereed by three members of the Program
committee.


INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Anne De Roeck (Essex, UK)
Arnold Smith (NRC, Canada)
Chadia Moghrabi (Moncton, Canada)
Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France)
Chrysanne DiMarco (Logos, Waterloo, Canada)
Eric Wehrli (Geneva, Switzerland)
Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague)
Genvieve Caelen-Haumont (GEOD, Grenoble, France)
Graeme Hirst (Toronto, Canada)
Harry Bunt (Tilburg, Netherlands)
Henry Hamburger (George Mason, USA)
Howard Hamilton (Regina, Canada)
John Hutchins (East Anglia, UK)
John Tait (Sunderland, UK)
Junichi Tsujii (UMIST, UK)
Manfred Stede (TU-Berlin, Germany)
Marcel Cori (Paris-7, France)
Mark Seligman (GETA-CLIPS & Red Pepper, USA)
Michael Levison (Queens, Canada)
Nocoletta Calzolari (Pisa, Italy)
Pierre Isabelle (RALI, Montreal, Canada)
Pierrette Bouillon (Geneva, Switzerland)
Paul Tarau (Moncton, Canada)
Remi Chadel (Inxight, Xerox, France)
Roberto Basili (Roma, Italy)
Ruddy Lelouche (Laval, Canada)
Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
Thierry Chanier (Franche-Comte, France)
Thierry Van Steenberghe (Leuven, Belgium)
Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser, Canada)
Yael Ravin (IBM, USA)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, UK)
Some more to be confirmed


SCHEDULE:
Submissions are due on April 28th 1998.
Notification of receipt will be mailed to the contact person soon after
receipt.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 june 1998. Camera-ready
copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of August 1998 along
with registration fees.

Participants are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in
the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the
single word INTENTION in the subject line.


EXHIBITS:
Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should
send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical
requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs,
etc.) to the same address with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line.


OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Accompanying persons can enjoy the lovely outdoor living in New-Brunswick
and visit the highest tides in the world. Moncton is only 20km
away from the sandy beaches of Shediac, la Capitale mondiale du homard.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
The conference is organized by GRETAL, Groupe d'etude sur le traitement
automatique des langues at the Universite' de Moncton in cooperation with
GETA-CLIPS at l'Universite' Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. The members of the
organizing committee are:

Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair
Jalal Almhana, Director & Professor of Computer Science
Julien Chiasson, Professor of Computer Science
Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, director Manufacturing
           Technology Centre
Boubaker Meddeb-Hamrouni, Researcher GETA & WinSoft
Paul Tarau, Professor of Computer Science