From: johnp@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (John Paolillo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Linguistic Society of America -- Software Exhibit (call for
        submissions)
Date: 11 Oct 92 07:21:48 GMT
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For those of you who are working on software having to do with 
natural language processing, grammars, textual analysis, corpus
based studies and other linguistically relevant applications,
please consider presenting your work (be it in Icon, Snobol
C, Pascal, or any other language) for the LSA annual meeting
in January this year (complete announcement follows).

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			 LSA SOFTWARE EXHIBIT

	The Linguistic Society will again sponsor a software exhibit
at the Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, 7-10 January 1993.  Coordinated
by the Committee on Information and Communication Technology, the
exhibit will be expanded to include a poster session, a presentation
session, and a listing of software available but not being
demonstrated at the meeting.  Participation is limited to LSA members
who have developed software of interest to the discipline.

	Submittal guidelines and forms were sent to all Linguistics
Departments and Programs in the October mailing.  Copies may also be
requested from the LSA Secretariat, 1325 18th St, NW, Suite 211,
Washington, DC 20036 (zzlsa@gallua.bitnet).  The deadline for
returning forms to the LSA Secretariat has been extended to 15
November 1992.
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To establish membership in the LSA, send your name, address and
payment of $55.00 ($25.00 student, with signature, title and
affiliation of professor affirming status; additional $10.00 for
non-US members) to LSA, P.O.Box 64003, Baltimore, MD USA  21264.
	Membership includes subscription to the journal _Language_
(4 issues/yr) and the LSA Bulletin, and makes you elligible to 
participate in the LSA annual meeting.  
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	Let me unofficially add that we have a paucity of entries to
date, and we are quite interested in seeing applications that were not
presented at LSA last year.  To give you an idea of what was presented
last year, there were one or two parsers, HyperCard stacks designed to
teach principles of phonetics and linguistics, an A-V parser written
in Lisp, a concordance-builder for corpus-based studies....  In other
words, if you're doing somehting language-related on a computer, you
could probably present it.  The most popular platforms are Mac and
IBM/DOS, although some UNIX stuff was presented last year too.  
	The software exhibit is quite new to LSA (as is computing
awareness among general linguists).  The field is on the verge of a
new breakthrough as more and more linguists turn to computational
tools for data collection, analysis and modelling.  And LSA meeting
costs are still reasonably low for a national academic conference.
	Please distribute this notice to any and all interested.  I
would like to hear that this notice, or a version of it, will be
distributed to participants at ICEBOL 6 if that were possible too...
(I'd do it myself if I could only be there).
	Thanks,
John C. Paolillo
University of Dallas

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