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Summer Schools

• Digitisation Summer School 99

  • (4-9 July 1999, University of Glasgow, UK)
    The availability of high-quality digital material is central for improving public access to the heritage and enabling teaching and reasearch. This one-week intensive programme will be of value to students academics, and professionals working in the cultural and humanities sector (archives, museums, libraries.

Humanities Computing

• 1998 MLA

  • Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research

    Digital Rhetorics: Reader, Writer, Publisher
    Session I: Electronic Literary Texts in English;
    Session II: Electronic Literary Texts in Languages Other than English

    Electronic literary texts and issues related to genre, interactivity, literary value, process/products, sound and images, cultural boundaries, interpretation, authorship and authority, audiences, pedagogies. For further information contact: H. Luis Ulman (ulman.1@osu.edu)

  • Association for Business Communication

    Technology and Writing Courses: New Trends, New Problems. Writing courses increasingly utilize computer labs, Internet access, e-mail, electronic bulletin boards, and so on, but improving? What challanges are instructors facing as they try to keep up with technology? For further information contact Melinda Knight ( maknight@ix.netcom.com)

  • Virtual Communities: Performance in Cyberspace
    Proposed Special Session for the 1998 MLA in San Francisco, December 27-30, 1998
    For further information contact: Michelle Risdon (merisdon@umich.edu) or Austin Booth (habooth@acsu.buffalo.edu)

  • Trails and Trials of Scholarship in the Digital Age
    Proposals for papers for the 1998 MLA in San Francisco, December 27-30, 1998
    For further information contact Susanna Bartmann Pathak (sbpathak@hsc.vcu.edu)

  • Hypertext in Print?
    Proposed Special Session for the 1998 MLA in San Francisco, December 27-30, 1998
    For further information contact: William Cole ( wccole@parallel.park.uga.edu)

  • The Committee on Scholarly Editions: Panel on scholarly editing
    Possible topics: disciplinary perspectives on the scholarly edition, tenure prospects for the harmless drudge, selecting subjects for scholarly editions, new or forthcoming scholarly editions, theory of electronic editions.
    For futher information contact: John Unsworth (jmu2m@virginia.edu)

• Method & theory in electronic text
  June 11,1998
  London, UK

• Virginia Tech: Learning On Line '98: Building the Virtual University
  June 18-21, 1998
  Roanoke, Virginia, USA
  

• Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit: TESS, The Text Encoding Summer School
  July 19-23, 1998
  Oxford, UK
  

• Tag Tutorial
  July 28 to July 31, 1998
  Philadelphia, PA, USA

• Tag + Workshop
  August 1-3, 1998
  Philadelphia, PA, USA
  

• Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication
  August 1-3, 1998
  Science Museum, London, UK

• IFLA Conference Session: Convergence in the Digital Age: Challenges for Libraries, Museums and Archives
  August 13-14, 1998
  Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Literature, Philology and Computers
  September 7-9, 1998
  Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  Call for paper, deadline: June 30, 1998

• Eurocall 98: From Class-Room Teaching to World-Wide Learning
  September 9-12, 1998
  KULeuven, Belgium
  

• DRH98, Digital Resources in the Humanities 1998
  September 9-12, 1998
  Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  

• European Union, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Matematics, ICS-Forth, University of Crete:
  Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
  September 19-23, 1998
  Heraklion, Crete, Greece
  

• The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age
  September 25-28, 1998
  Bergen, Norway Call for paper, deadline May 22, 1998

• AIS 20th Annual Conference
  October 8-11
  Detroit, MI, USA
  

• ASIS, SIG/HFIS and the Chemical Heritage Foundation: Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information System
  October 23-25, 1998
  Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  

• MMLA Computer Research Section: Research, Scholarship, Teaching . . . and Technology?
  November 5-7, 1998
  St. Louis, MO, USA
  

• Humanities Computing Talks at NYU
  Spring Semester 1998
  New York, NY, USA

• CTI Textual Studies: Teaching European Literature and Culture with C & IT (Communication and Information Technologies)
  March 18, 1998
  Oxford, UK

• PODDP 98, Workshop on Principles of Digital Document Processing
  March 29-30, 1998
  Saint-Malo, France
  

• ICCC/IFIP, Second Conference on Electronic Publishing: Towards the Information-Rich Society
  April 20-22, 1998
  Budapest, Hungary

• Beyond the Hype
  April 23, 1998
  Oxford, UK

Computational Linguistics, Corpora, Lexicography

• First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
  May 28-30, 1998
  University of Granada
  Granada, Spain
  

  For further information contact:
  LREC Secretariat
  Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación
  Dpto. de Traducción e Interpretación
  C/ Puentezuelas, 55
  18002 Granada, Spain
  Tel: +34 58 24 41 00 - Fax: +34 58 24 41 04
  reli98@goliat.ugr.es

  Workshops held in conjunction with the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation:

  • Linguistic Coreference Workshop
    May 26 1998, morning session
    For further information contact: Sara J. Shelton
    (sjshelt@afterlife.ncsc.mil)

  • Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applications
    May 26 1998, morning session
    For further information contact: Paola Velardi
    (velardi@dsi.uniroma1.it)

  • Minimising the Effort for Language Resource Acquisition
    May 26 1998, afternoon session
    For further information contact: Svetlana Sheremetyeva
    (lana@crl.nmsu.edu)

  • The Evaluation of Parsing System
    May 26 1998, afternoon session
    For further information contact: John Carroll
    (john.carroll@cogs.susx.ac.uk)

  • Towards an Open European Evaluation Infrastructure for NL and Speech
    MAY 27 1998 morning session
    For further information contact: Steven Krauwer
    (steven.krauwer@let.ruu.nl)

  • Language Resources for European Minority Languages
    May 27 1998, morning session
    For further information contact: Briony Williams
    (briony@cstr.ed.ac.uk)

  • Speech Database Development for Central and Eastern European Languages
    May 27 1998, afternoon session
    For further information contact: Peter Roach
    (p.j.roach@reading.ac.uk)

  • Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources
    May 27 1998, afternoon session
    For further information contact: Yorick Wilks
    (hamish@dcs.shef.ac.uk)

• Third Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-3)
  June 2, 1998
  Granada, Spain

• TALCO 98, Teaching And Language Corpora 1998
  July 24-27, 1998
  Oxford,UK
  

• IWNLG '98: 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation
  August 5-7
  Ontario, Canada

• Coling-ACL '98: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
  August 10-14, 1998
  Université de Montréal
  Montréal, Québec, Canada
  There is also a student session

  Post Conference Workshops:
  August 15-16, 1998
  Université de Montréal
  Montréal, Québec, Canada
  

  August 15-16:

  • Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora

  August 15:

  • Content Visualization and Intermedia Representations
  • Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers
  • First Workshop on Computational Terminology
  • Processing of Dependency-based Grammars
  • The Computation of Phonological Constraints

  August 16:

  • Evolutionary Computational Linguistics
  • The Computational Treatment of Nominals
  • Translingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilities
  • Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems
  • Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
  • Partially Automated Tecniques for Transcribing Naturally Occurring, Continuous Speech
    
  
  

• Second Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton: Creating Electronic Text & Images
  August 16-21, 1998
  New Brunswick, Canada

• Universität des Saarlandes, DFKI Saarbrücken and European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI): ESSLLI-98, 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
  August 17-28, 1998
  Saarbrüeken, Germany
  

  There will be fourteen workshops at ESSLLI-98.

• NLP+IA '98: International Conference on Naturall Language Processing and Industrial Application
  August 18-21, 1998
  Moncton, New-Brunswick, Canada
  

• European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence: ECAI-98
  Special programme of short papers for Young Researchers
  August 26-28, 1998
  Brighton, UK
  

• ACL SIGLEX and EURALEXP: Senseval and the Lexicography Loop
  September 2-4, 1998
  Sussex, UK
  

• GLDV- Herbstschule 1998
  September 28 - October 2, 1998
  Erlangen, Germany

• KONVENS 98, Computers, Linguistics and Phonetics between Language and Speech
  October 5-7, 1998
  Bonn, Germany
  

• The Utrecht Congress on Storage and Computation in Linguistics 1998
  October 19-21, 1998
  Utrecht, The Netherlands
  

• AMTA-98: Machine Translation and the Information Soup
  October 28-31, 1998
  Langhorne, PA, USA
  Call for paper, deadline: June 1, 1998.

• Boston University Conference on Language Development
  November 6-8, 1998
  Boston, MA, USA
  

• WLSS98: II Workshop on Lexical Semantics Systems
  April 6-7, 1998
  Pisa, Italy
  

• Centre for Computational Linguistics and EUROCALL:
  Natural Language Processing in Computer-Assisted Language Learning
  May 9, 1998
  UMIST, Manchester, UK
  

Hypermedia

• Hypertext '98, The Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
  June 20-24, 1998
  Pittsburgh, PA, USA

• ACM SIGCHI: CHI 98, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  April 19-20, 1998
  Los Angeles, CA, USA
  

Museums and Libraries

• Museums and the Web 1998
  April 22-25, 1998
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Digital Library Federation, TEI and XML in Digital Libraries
  June 30-July 1, 1998
  Washington, DC, USA

Other Conferences

• Sixth DELOS Workshop: Preservation of Digital Information
  June 17-18, 1998
  Lisbon, Portugal
  

• European Workshop on Learning Robots 1998
  July 20, 1998
  Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

• AAAI: Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  July 26-30, 1998
  Madison, WI, USA
  

  Workshop held in conjunction with the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
  Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Technology
  

• ECAI-98, 13th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  August 23-28, 1998
  Brighton, UK

• Prolamat '98
  September 9-12, 1998
  Trento, Italy

• MCN '98, Annual Conference of the Museum Computer Network
  September 23-26, 1998
  Santa Monica, California, USA
  

• PKDD'98, 2nd European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  September 23-26, 1998
  Nantes, France
  

• FroCoS'98: Frontiers of Combining Systems
  October 2-4, 1998
  Amsterdam, Netherlands
  

• Governor's Confrence on Arts & Technology
  March 26-29, 1998
  New York, NY, USA

• Intellectual Property and Contract Law in the Information Age
  April 23-25, 1998
  Berkeley, CA, USA

• ACM POLICY '98: Shaping Policy in the Information Age
  May 10-12, 1998
  Washington, DC, USA

• Autonomous Agents '98: Second International Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
  May 10-13, 1998
  Minneapolis / St. Paul, DE, USA
  

• The American Association of Museums: Museum Expo 98
  May 10-14 1998
  Los Angeles, CA, USA

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