Since the amount, the extent and the limit of areal typological properties necessary for granting membership into the Balkan Sprachbund, has not and cannot be assessed independently, linguistic discussion on Balkan Sprachbund membership has centered around specific properties.
Papers dealing with more than one language are strongly preferred.
Deadline March 15. Notification of acceptance by May 1. The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in both NL understanding and generation. Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. All of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before.