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- From: fass@CS.SFU.CA (Dan Fass)
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- Subject: CFP: PACLING `93 computational linguistics conference
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- Date: 6 Sep 92 17:53:16 GMT
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- 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS
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- PACLING '93
- 1st Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference
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- (formerly JAJSNLP, the Japan-Australia Joint
- Symposia on Natural Language Processing)
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- April 21-24 (Wed-Sat) 1993
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- 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.
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- 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 conference is a unique forum for scientific and technological exchange,
- being smaller than ACL, COLING or Applied NLP, and also more regional with
- extensive representation from the Western Pacific (as well as the Eastern).
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- TRANSCENDING LANGUAGE BOUNDARIES
- The theme of PACLING '93 is "transcending language boundaries" by:
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- o facilitating communication between speakers of different languages --
- e.g., with machine translation and computer-aided language learning,
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- o 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, not only in work that improves existing computational
- linguistic techniques, but also in computational (or computationally
- oriented) research for complementing the communicative strengths of
- natural language and overcoming its weaknesses.
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- GUEST SPEAKERS
- Dr. Takao Gunji, Osaka University, Japan.
- "An Overview of JPSG --- A Constraint-Based Grammar for Japanese."
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- Dr. George Heidorn, Microsoft Corporation, USA.
- "Industrial Strength NLP: The Challenge of Broad Coverage."
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- Dr. Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University, USA.
- "Language Generation as Part of Multimedia Explanation."
-
- (These are tentative talk titles.)
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- TOPICS
- Original papers are invited on any topic in computational linguistics (and
- strongly related areas) including (but not limited to) the following:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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
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- SCHEDULE
- Submission deadline: Monday Nov 30th 1992
- Notification of acceptance: Friday Jan 29th 1993
- Camera-ready copy due: Friday Mar 5th 1993
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- PUBLICITY AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
- The conference will take place at the downtown Vancouver extension of Simon
- Fraser University. We have negotiated preferential rates from downtown hotels
- at $Canadian 43, 65 and 82 per person per night. On one day of the conference,
- a coach trip is planned to Whistler, a picturesque local mountain and ski
- resort. For further information on the conference and on local arrangements,
- contact
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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.
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