From: fass@CS.SFU.CA (Dan Fass)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: CFP: PACLING `93 computational linguistics conference
Date: 6 Sep 92 17:53:16 GMT


   			     2ND CALL FOR PAPERS

			         PACLING '93
         1st 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


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 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).

TRANSCENDING LANGUAGE BOUNDARIES
The theme of PACLING '93 is "transcending language boundaries" by:

o  facilitating communication between speakers of different languages --
     e.g., with machine translation and computer-aided language learning,

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.

GUEST SPEAKERS
     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."

     (These are tentative talk titles.)

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.

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

SCHEDULE
     Submission deadline:		Monday Nov 30th 1992
     Notification of acceptance:	Friday Jan 29th 1993
     Camera-ready copy due:	        Friday Mar  5th 1993

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

     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.
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