Lyne DaSylva (dasylva@iro.umontreal.ca)
Wed, 15 Nov 1995 22:13:10 -0500 (EST)
CALL FOR PAPERS APPEL AUX COMMUNICATIONS CLIM-96 Student Conference in Computational Linguistics in Montreal Colloque Etudiant de Linguistique Informatique de Montreal 08 - 11 June 1996 Universite de Montreal Universite du Quebec a Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada OBJECTIVE: provide an international forum for graduate students to meet, exchange ideas, and present their research. The conference will consist of short presentations by graduate students as well as talks by invited speakers. PRESENTATION FORMAT: student presentations will be 30 minutes long and may be given in French or English. The proceedings will be published. THEME: A special session will focus on the theme of "problems specific to the treatment of French". Articles may be submitted to either the theme session or the general session. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Articles may describe research in any area of computational linguistics. The conference will be organized around, but not limited to, five major topics: speech (analysis, synthesis, etc); treatment of multiple languages (machine translation, text alignment, text generation, etc); computational linguistic theory (computational morphology, phonology, syntax or semantics, discourse analysis, etc); statistical methods in natural language processing (Markov models, decision trees, etc); the lexicon (lexicography, terminology, etc). INVITED SPEAKERS: Sabine Bergler Concordia University, Computer Science Department Henrietta J. Cedergren Departement de linguistique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Louisette Emirkanian Departement de linguistique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Pierre Isabelle Centre for Information Technology Innovation (CITI) Richard Kittredge Departement de linguistique et de traduction, Universite de Montreal Jean-Yves Morin Departement de linguistique et de traduction, Universite de Montreal SUBMISSION FORMAT : students wishing to present a paper should submit one copy of an anonymous one-page (400 word) abstract describing original research by February 9th, 1996. Abstracts must clearly indicate the subject of the paper, the specific problem treated, and the results or solution. They must be accompanied by a separate page containing the following information: the author's (or co-author's) name, university affiliation, and complete address (including email); and the topic (if more than one, indicate the main topic; if none of the above-listed topics is applicable, specify "other"). Electronic submissions will be accepted in the following formats: ASCII, Word (RTF) for Macintosh, and LaTeX (self-contained files only). Abstracts which do not meet the above specifications will be returned to the authors. Submissions should be sent to the following address: CLIM@iro.umontreal.ca Paper submissions will also be accepted. They should be mailed to the following address (and postmarked by February 9th): CLIM Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succursale "Centre-ville" Montreal (Que) H3C 3J7 CANADA Students whose submissions are accepted by the selection committee will be required to provide a paper of approximately six pages in length for inclusion in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES: SUBMISSIONS: 9 February 1996 AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: 1 March 1996 FINAL COPIES DUE: 10 May 1996 SELECTION COMMITTEE Daniele Archambault Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal Lorne Bouchard Departement d'informatique Universite du Quebec a Montreal Andre Clas Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal Guy Lapalme Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle Universite de Montreal Alain Polguere Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal John Reighard Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal Pierrette Bouillon ISSCO, Geneva Patrick Drouin Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal George Foster CITI and McGill University School of Computer Science Alma Kharrat Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal Benoit Robichaud Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal & Universite Paris 7 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Paula Bouffard (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) Martin Brisebois (Universite de Montreal) Andre Cloutier (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) Monique Cormier (Universite de Montreal) Lyne DaSylva (Universite de Montreal) Patrick Drouin (Universite de Montreal) George Foster (CITI and McGill University) Christine Gerard (Concordia University) Benoit Robichaud (Universite de Montreal and Universite Paris 7) Une version francaise de cet appel aux communications a ete envoyee separement. A French version of this Call for Papers has been issued separately.
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