From: fass@cs.sfu.ca (Dan Fass)
Subject: Final CFP: PACLING '93 computational linguistics conference
Summary: 2 weeks to submission deadline
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:08:41 GMT

   		            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 Submissions 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.