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This conference--the major forum for literary, linguistic and humanities computing--will highlight the development of new computing methodologies for research and teaching in the humanities, the development of significant new networked- based and computer-based resources for humanities research, and the application and evaluation of computing techniques in humanities subjects.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
We welcome submissions on topics such as text encoding; hypertext; text corpora; computational lexicography; statistical models; syntactic, semantic and other forms of text analysis; also computer applications in history, philosophy, music, and other humanities disciplines.
In addition, ACH and ALLC extend a special invitation to members of the library community engaged in creating and cataloguing network-based resources in the humanities, developing and integrating databases of texts and images of works central to the humanities, and refining retrieval techniques for humanities databases.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
The deadline for submission of proposals is November 1, 1992.
REQUIREMENTS FOR PROPOSALS
Proposals should describe substantial and original work. Those that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities (e.g., a study of the style of an author) should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources.
PROPOSALS FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Abstracts of 1500-2000 words should be submitted for presentations of thirty minutes including questions.
PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS
Proposals for sessions (90 minutes) are also invited. These should take the form of either:
(a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500- word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 1000-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session;
or
(b) A panel of up to 6 speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.
FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS
Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged.
Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline.
All submissions should begin with the following information:
Title: title of paper Author(s): names of authors Affiliation: of author(s) Contact Address: full postal address E-mail: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) Fax Number: of main author Phone Number: of main author
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS
These should be plain ASCII text files, not files formatted by a word processor, and should not contain tab characters or soft hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines.
Headings and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Notes, if needed at all, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. References, up to six, should be given at the end.
Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters that cannot be transmitted by electronic mail, and include an explanation of the markup scheme after the title information and before the start of the text.
Electronic submissions should be sent to:
neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu
with the subject line "Author's surname Submission for ACH- ALLC93."
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins.
Six copies in an envelope marked "ACH-ALLC93 (Paper submission)," should be sent to:
Michael Neuman Academic Computer Center 238 Reiss Science Building Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057
CONFERENCE DEADLINES
Proposals for papers and sessions: November 1, 1992
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 1993
Advance registration: May 10, 1993
There will be a substantial increase in the registration fee for registrations received after May 10, 1993.
PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in the series _Research in Humanities Computing_, edited by Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide and published by Oxford University Press.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee comprised of:
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodations for conference participants are available at several locations in the Georgetown area:
Georgetown University's Leavey Conference Center
The Georgetown Inn
One Washington Circle Hotel
Georgetown University's Village C Residence Hall
CONFERENCE LOCATION
Georgetown, an historic residential district along the Potomac River, is a six-mile ride by taxi from Washington National Airport. International flights arrive at Dulles Airport, which offers regular bus service to the nation's capital.
INQUIRIES
Please address all inquiries to:
ACH-ALLC93 Michael Neuman Academic Computer Center 238 Reiss Science Building Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 Phone: 202/687-6096 Fax: 202/687-6003 neuman@guvax.bitnet neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu
Please give your name, full mailing address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address with any inquiry.
The Sixth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics will be held on April 21-23, 1993, at the Onderzoeksinstituut voor Taal en Spraak (OTS), Research Institute for Language and Speech, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
This conference is the sixth in a series of biennial conferences on computational linguistics sponsored by the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Previous conferences were held in Pisa (September 1983), Geneva (March 1985), Copenhagen (April 1987), Manchester (April 1989), and Berlin (April 1991). Although hosted by a regional chapter, these conferences are global in scope and participation. The European Chapter represents a major subset of the ACL. The conference is open to both members and non-members of the Association.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Papers are invited on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, grammar formalisms, formal languages, software tools, knowledge representation, AI-methods in computational linguistics, analysis and generation of language, computational lexicography and lexicology, lexical databases, machine translation, computational aids to translation, speech analysis and synthesis, natural language interfaces, dialogue, computer-assisted language learning, corpus analysis and corpus-based language modelling, and information retrieval and message understanding.
The Programme Committee plans special sessions around the following themes: logic and computational linguistics, and data-oriented methods in computational linguistics.
This thematic orientation will be further developed in a tutorial program to be held April 20, 1993, the day preceding the conference. Details will be provided in later notices.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors should submit an extended abstract of their papers, or, in the case of hardcopy, six copies, to the Programme Committee at the following address:
EACL-93 Programme Committee OTS Trans 10 NL-3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 30-392531 Fax: (+31) 30-333380 eacl93@let.ruu.nl
The first page should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses (including e-mail), a specification of the topic area (one or two keywords, preferably from the list above), and an indication of whether the paper addresses one of the themes of the Special Sessions.
The extended abstract should not exceed five pages A4. It should contain sufficient information to allow the referees and the Programme Committee to determine the scope of the work and its relation to relevant literature. Contributions should report on original research that has not been presented elsewhere.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
Electronic submission is preferred, using standard LaTeX or plain ASCII. In case of problems with this, contact the organizers at the above address.
For future final versions, hardcopy or LaTeX files will be accepted.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
The deadline for submission is December 1, 1992. Authors will be notified of acceptance by February 1, 1993. Camera- ready copies of the final papers must be postmarked before March 5, 1993, and received by March 12, 1993, along with a signed copyright release statement.
Papers not received by the due date will not be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published in time for distribution to everyone attending the conference.
The Programme Committee will be co-chaired by Louis des Tombe, Steven Krauwer and Michael Moortgat (OTS, Utrecht).
A program of demonstrations and exhibits is planned. For information, contact the EACL address above.
For information on local arrangements, communicate with Nadine Buenen or Joke Dorrepaal at the above address.
More information on local arrangements will be provided in the next notification.
by C.M. Sperberg-McQueen
In the period from July 1991 through June 1992, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has focused on revising the first version of its Guidelines for Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P1) and issuing an extended second version (TEI P2).
REPORTS BY WORKING COMMITTEES
Reports have been prepared by TEI working committees on Text Documentation and Metalanguage/Syntax Issues and by several specialized work groups for linguistic description, literary studies (verse, drama, and prose), spoken texts, historical studies, dictionaries and lexica, terminological data, character sets, text criticism, hypermedia, corpora, and formulae/tables/figures/graphics.
The proposals of these work groups are now being integrated with the more general chapters to be prepared by the TEI editors in Chicago and Oxford.
The specialized work groups included experts in these fields from across the United States and Europe, meeting two or three times in person, and otherwise communicating via the electronic networks.
In addition, Japanese representatives have met informally to review the TEI guidelines and develop mechanisms for full Japanese participation in the TEI.
REVIEW MEETINGS ORGANIZED
The TEI editors and Steering Committee met twice with the work group heads, a Japanese representative, and other experts in Norway and Chicago to share their analyses and recommendations in anticipation of preparing TEI P2.
The expectations for these technical review meetings were exceeded in all ways except one. The most pleasant result was the extent to which each group's recommendations proved relevant to those of the other groups. This cross- fertilization allowed the formation of inter-group task forces to resolve outstanding problems. However, the complexity of the materials and the volume of the new proposals have imposed a substantial delay upon completion of TEI P2.
As a result, it was decided to issue the Guidelines in parts over the electronic network as they are completed, rather than gathering them together in a single, paper volume for review.
This means of distribution has the additional advantage of allowing individuals to receive and review only those parts of the Guidelines addressing their fields of interest, providing for a more focused review.
RELEASE OF NEW CHAPTERS
To date, the chapters on Spoken Texts and on Characters and Character Sets have been publicly released, while other key chapters on core tags and text documentation are expected to be released soon. If you are interested in knowing when new chapters are released, you should subscribe to the Listserv list TEI-L by sending mail to listserv@uicvm (or, from the Internet, to listserv@uicvm.uic.edu), containing the single line "subscribe Tei-L John Doe"--substituting your name for John Doe's. It is anticipated that the bulk of the second version of the Guidelines will be issued by the early part of 1993; following this, the work groups and editors will prepare a third version of the Guidelines, incorporating the recommendations arising from the public review of the second draft version.
This will allow the Advisory Board to meet in the first half of 1993, at which time it will be asked to endorse the third version.
FUTURE OF THE TEI
After the formal publication of the third version of the Guidelines, it is anticipated that the TEI will continue as an organization to help ensure the full understanding and use of the Guidelines by encoding projects across the world, to continue the process of improving and extending the Guidelines' coverage, and to encourage the development of software to support the TEI encoding scheme.
The organization's funding and focus are being carefully considered by the TEI Steering Committee and editors at this time.
by Henning Moerk
This is to announce the first part of my YU-CORPUS (Yugoslav text corpus) consisting of (mainly) contemporary fiction (prose) in Serbo-Croatian with the main areas represented: Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The corpus consists of 15 files containing together a total of approximately 700,000 words.
These files are available by ftp at aau.dk (129.142.17.240) in the directory /home/ftp/pub/slav.
First, get the text file yu-corp.txt, which among other things tells about the chosen ASCII standard, and the file yu-index.txt, which identifies the available texts by author(s) and size.
The corpus files are zipped and must thus be transferred in binary mode.
All comments are welcome, and should be directed to:
Henning Moerk Slavisk Institut Aarhus Universitet Ny Munkegade 116 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark Phone: +45 86 13 65 55 Fax: +45 86 19 21 55 slavhenn@aau.dk
by Annelies Hoogcarspel
In 1983, Rutgers University began to compile the Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities on RLIN. The development of this project is now one of the responsibilities of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), which was established by Rutgers and Princeton Universities in the fall of 1991.
OBJECTIVE OF THE INVENTORY
The primary objective of the Inventory is to provide access to electronic texts anywhere in the world, by recording bibliographic information and information on availability and contact persons for electronic texts that are known to the Center. This information is collected from surveys and other sources such as the _Humanities Computing Yearbook_.
A comprehensive survey, sponsored by major organizations in the area of textual research, will be mailed this summer to individuals and institutions owning electronic text. Substantive data will then become available not only for cataloguing bibliographic and availability information, but also about encoding techniques and markup.
NEED FOR NEW CATALOGUING RULES
At present, standard cataloguing rules do not prescribe the inclusion of encoding and markup information in a catalogue record. This information is vital, however, for scholars who want to use the electronic text described in the record for their research. In addition, it is difficult to index sufficient information for effective retrieval of appropriate electronic texts, since standard subject heading lists do not include the necessary entries. Much of the work which has been done so far in developing cataloguing rules for computer files has concentrated on computer software and social science data.
ENHANCED CATALOGUING RULES
CETH's objective is to enhance standard cataloguing procedures to provide better access to the many electronic texts which are held by individuals and research institutes which have not previously been catalogued. Providing better access also calls for improved communication between cataloguers and creators of electronic texts about the information needed in a text file for cataloguing purposes, which is at present often not or insufficiently available.
Anyone interested in the enhancement of existing cataloguing rules for electronic text files, or the enhancement of electronic text files for cataloguing purposes, is encouraged to contact Annelies Hoogcarspel, Cataloguer at CETH, at:
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Phone: 908/932-1384 Fax: 908/932-1386 ceth@zodiac.bitnet ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has developed a bulletin board system accessible to users through the telnet process.
Telnet to either atl.calstate.edu or 130.150.102.33 and enter apa at the login prompt. Then just follow the menus from there.
The board contains a list of e-mail addresses of APA members, a Philosophical Calendar, news from the National Office, information on joining the APA, and other items of interest to the philosophical community.
If you have questions or if you have any difficulty using the bulletin board, please communicate with the administrator:
Saul Traiger traiger@cfi.waseda.ac.jp traiger@oxy.edu
PRO-CITE is a new electronic discussion group for users or prospective users of the Pro-Cite bibliographic program published by Personal Bibliographic Software.
The addresses of the group and its list server are:
pro-cite@iubvm.bitnet
pro-cite@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu
listserv@iubvm.bitnet
listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu
The group is unmoderated. Its owner is Mark Day, Associate Librarian in the Indiana University Reference Department.
To subscribe to the group, send an e-mail message to the address of the list server saying:
subscribe pro-cite "your name"
with your own name, not your e-mail address, in place of "your name," without the quotation marks.
If you have any questions about the group, please communicate with:
Mark Day daym@iubacs.bitnet daym@ucs.indiana.edu Phone: 812/855-8028 or 855-0100
by Lou Burnard & Alan Morrison
As of this month, it is now possible to access machines here on JANET directly from the Internet. As of today, it is also (ipso facto) possible directly to transfer files from a machine here to any other machine on the Internet, without specifying a password, filling in a form, or any of that other stuff that some people find so difficult.
AVAILABILITY OF OTA MATERIALS
We'd like to start making some--not all--of the Oxford Text Archive's materials available in this way. There are two constraints.
Firstly, we cannot distribute material that does not belong to us. But there is a small quantity of material we can distribute, which we believe to be in the public domain.
Secondly, we want to begin as we intend to go on: by distributing materials in TEI SGML only. But there is a small number of (mostly very large) files which we will make available "as is" to test the procedure immediately. We'd appreciate your comments as to how useful/reliable you've found the procedure.
THE ANONYMOUS FTP PROCESS
Here's what you need to know. From a machine on the Internet, you should type:
ftp ox.ac.uk
(N.B. this is *not* vax.ox.ac.uk!)
or, since we're not in many people's official name tables yet,
ftp 129.67.1.165
When connected, you will see the prompt "login:" to which you respond "ftp" (or "anonymous"). You will be asked to supply a password, in response to which you should type your e-mail address. All text archive files are kept in the directory "ota." Your first command should therefore be:
cd ota
To see a list of the files and directories currently available, type:
ls
To download a copy of a file (say shortlist.plain), type:
get shortlist.plain
To log out, type:
bye
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FILES
Unless otherwise stated, all files contain plain uncompressed character data. The following files are currently available in the directory ota:
shortlist.sgml, a list of OTA holdings as of November 1 in SGML.
shortlist.plain, the same list, but with no SGML tags.
order.form, the Oxford Text Archive order form.
The following are currently available in the directory ota/dicts:
710, a directory containing the three files making up the "computer usable" dictionary derived from OALDCE by Roger Mitton.
1054, a directory containing the MRCPsycholinguistic Database, complete with manuals and simple C programs for accessing the database.
1192, a directory containing CED Prolog Factbase, a set of prolog facts generated at Virginia Tech from the Collins English Dictionary.
info, a file containing brief descriptive details of all machine readable dictionaries currently held in the Archive, with illustrative examples from each.
The following files are currently available in the directory ota/french:
192tei.queneau, Raymond Queneau: Exercices de Style (1946) in TEI SGML.
192text.moliere, Moliere: Dom Juan in TEI SGML.
The following files are currently available in the directory ota/laws:
ec, a directory containing the text of the Treaty on European Union (the "Maastricht Treaty") of 1992.
usa, a directory containing a collection of U.S. constitutional and legislative papers, polemics etc.
The following files are currently available in the directory ota/tei:
vm2tar.Z, the public domain ARC SGML parser: complete source code and documentation for UNIX systems. (This version has been modified to support TEI dtds; it is in compressed TAR format.)
AN EXAMPLE OF THE PROCESS
So, for example, to get the plain shortlist, you'd type:
ftp 129.67.1.165
anonymous
myname@mysite
cd ota
get shortlist.plain
bye
Internet access is regarded here as a privilege, not a right. Please don't overuse it!
And please remember that this is an experimental facility, which may be withdrawn or substantially modified at any time without notice.
PACLING '93, the 1st Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference, formerly JAJSNLP, the Japan- Australia Joint Symposia on Natural Language Processing, will be held on April 21-24, 1993, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
PACLING 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.
WORKSHOP-ORIENTED MEETING
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).
THEME OF THE CONFERENCE
The theme of PACLING '93 is "Transcending Language Boundaries" by: facilitating communication between speakers of different languages--e.g., with machine translation and computer-aided language learning, and going beyond limitations of natural language as a communicative medium.
The conference has a particular interest in the theory and practice of natural-language centered 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.
TOPICS FOR PAPERS
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 centered; 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.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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; and some key words for classifying the submission.
Please send four (4) copies of each submission to:
Paul McFetridge Fred Popowich PACLING '93 Program Co-Chairs Centre for Systems Science Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia Canada V5A 1S6 Phone: 604/291-3632 Phone: 604/291-4193 Fax: 604/291-4424 mcfet@cs.sfu.ca popowich@cs.sfu.ca
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
Submission deadline: Monday, November 30, 1992
Notification of acceptance: Friday, January 29, 1993
Camera-ready copy due: Friday, March 5, 1993
SITE OF CONFERENCE
The conference will take place at the downtown Vancouver extension of Simon Fraser University. We are negotiating preferential rates from downtown hotels which should be Canadian $60-75 per person. On one day of the conference, we are planning an optional steam train and boat trip. For further information on the conference and on local arrangements, communicate with:
Dan Fass PACLING '93 Publicity and Local Arrangements Centre for Systems Science Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia Canada V5A 1S6 Phone: 604/291-3208 Fax: 604/291-4424 fass@cs.sfu.ca
Joseph Raben recently announced the creation of SCHOLAR, an online news service for computing humanists.
The addresses of the service and its list server are:
scholar@cunyvm.cuny.edu
listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu
To subscribe to SCHOLAR, send the usual e-mail message to the address of its list server.
SCHOLAR files are also available through anonymous ftp at the address jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu or 128.220.2.2. Start by getting the file index.SCHOLAR.
Material for inclusion in future releases should be sent to:
SCHOLAR P.O. Box F New York, NY 10028-0025 jqrqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
ECHT '92, the fourth ACM conference on hypertext and hypermedia, will be held November 30 to December 4, 1992, in Milan, Italy.
ECHT '92 is the second in a series of European conferences on hypertext and hypermedia held in alternation with the U.S. based hypertext conferences coordinated and sponsored by ACM SIGLINK. It's a major event where researchers, developers, and users can meet around the theme of hypertext and hypermedia.
The conference will include prominent guest speakers, presentations of refereed papers, panel sessions, technical briefing sessions, poster and video presentations, as well as demonstrations of a wide variety of experimental research prototypes and commercial products.
Paolo Paolini General Conference Chair Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Elettronica Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 20133 Milano Italy Phone:(39) 2-23993520 Fax: (39) 2-23993411 paolini@ipmel1.polimi.it
A conference on computer applications, organized by the Bulgarian chapter of the ACM, is scheduled for October 4-8, 1992, in Varna, Bulgaria.
The objective of the conference is to bring together an international group of researchers and professionals engaged in the development of a wide range of computer applications.
Among the varied topics of this Bulgarian conference on computer applications are: office automation, computational methods and systems, user-oriented environments, KBMS & DBMS, CD-ROM Systems, industrial computer applications, computer graphics, and CAD/CAM.
The conference program will include invited and contributed papers, workshops, panel discussions, tutorials, and a technical exhibition.
The working language of the conference is English. All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
Stephan Drazhev ACMBUL Chairman 77, Boris I blvd. 9002 Varna, Bulgaria P.O. Box 3 Phone: (+359-52) 236-213 Fax: (+359-52) 235-680 drazhev@acmbul.bg
Scheduled for March 2-3, 1993, in Zurich, Switzerland, the Hypermedia '93 conference is the fourth in a series of successful hypertext/hypermedia conferences held in the German-speaking part of Europe.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
This European hypermedia conference will be held under the auspices of the three national Information Technology Societies of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
It's organized by the Department of Computer Science of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.
TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE
Topics of the conference will include: hypermedia information systems, cooperative hypermedia authoring systems, hypermedia applications, browsing in and retrieval of hypermedia information, automatic link generation, indexing hypermedia data, compressing hypermedia data, structuring and modeling hypermedia information, distributed hypermedia systems, and hypermedia in education.
LOCATION AND LANGUAGE
The conference will be held on the premises of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in downtown Zurich.
The official languages are German and English. The invited papers and some of the submitted papers will be presented in English. No translation will be provided.
The conference chair is H.P. Frei, of the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich. For further information, please communicate with:
Kurssekretariat Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, IFW CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41-1-254-7206 Fax: +41-1-262-3973 hyper93@inf.ethz.ch
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has announced the establishment of a new electronic discussion group to focus on the complex issues of copyright.
CNI-COPYRIGHT has been organized to give those who ask, answer, and discuss copyright questions of any type a forum for discussion. Discussions on the group will not be limited to any one area, such as copyright for electronic materials.
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE GROUP
The addresses of the new group and its list server are:
cni-copyright@cni.org.bitnet
listserv@cni.org.bitnet
To subscribe to the group, send an e-mail message to the address of the list server containing the single line:
subscribe cni-copyright "your name"
with your own name, not your e-mail address, in place of "your name," without the quotation marks.
EDITORS OF THE GROUP
CNI-COPYRIGHT is a moderated group edited by Mary Brandt Jensen of the University of South Dakota and Czeslaw Jan Grycz of the University of California. If you have any questions about the content of the group, please direct them to:
Mary Brandt Jensen, Director
Law Library, School of Law
University of South Dakota
mjensen@charlie.usd.edu
605/677-6363
Czeslaw Jan Grycz
Scholarship and Technology
Study Project
University of California
Office of the President
cjg@stubbs.ucop.edu
510/987-0561
A LIST OF THE ISSUES
If you'd like to see a list of suggested issues to be addressed on the group, send the following command:
information cni-copyright
to the address of the list server. If you have questions about the policies of the group, or questions of a technical nature about subscribing to the group or communicating with the group, please send them to the Coalition's Systems Coordinator:
Craig A. Summerhill craig@cni.org.bitnet
The Coalition for Networked Information is a joint project of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE, and EDUCOM, designed to encourage the development of information resources accessible through the electronic networks.
At present, 162 organizations and institutions are members of CNI. To get a list of CNI members, send the message:
get cni-info cnimembers
to the address of the list server, given earlier in this article.
Available through anonymous ftp, CSD, the Canadian Studies Directory, is a list of the e-mail addresses and specializations of scholars in Canadian studies using e-mail for scholarly contact and research purposes.
Ftp to bss.usl.edu, and change to the directory pub/canada_studies. Then get the file scholars_alpha.
CSD was established by John Ferstel and Robert Beckett. If you'd like to have your name added to the directory, send a message to:
John Ferstel jwf3885@usl.edu
1992 ---- Oct 4-8 ------- International Conference on Computer Applications. Varna, Bulgaria. Organized by Bulgarian Chapter of ACM. Stephan Drazhev, 77, Boris I blvd., P.O. Box 3, 9002 Varna, Bulgaria. Phone: (+359-52) 236-213, Fax: (+359-52) 235-680. E-mail: drazhev@acmbul.bg Oct 8-11 -------- Annual conference of the Society for Literature and Science. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Pamela Gossin, History of Science Dept., 601 Elm, Room 622, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, U.S.A. Oct 13-16 --------- SIGDOC '92. The Tenth Annual Conference. Ottawa, Canada. Sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery. Special interest group on documentation. Roy MacLean, Bell Northern Research, Stop 92, P.O. Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4H7. Phone: 613/763-2134, Fax: 613/763-2626. E-mail: sigdoc92@bnr.ca Oct 15-16 --------- ICEBOL 6. The Sixth Annual Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing. Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota, U.S.A. Eric Johnson, ICEBOL Director, 114 Beadle Hall, Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota 57042, U.S.A. E-mail: eric@sdnet.bitnet or johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu Oct 26-29 --------- 55th AIS Annual Meeting. "Celebrating Change: Information Management on the Move." Pittsburgh Hilton, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Paper submission information: Julie Hurd, University of Illinois at Chicago, 3500 Science and Engineering S., Box 8198, Chicago, Illinois 60680, U.S.A. Other presentations: Sandra Killian, Northrop Corp., 6372 Myrtle Dr., Huntington Beach, California 92647, U.S.A. Oct 28-31 --------- EDUCOM '92. Charting Our Course--Setting a National Agenda for Information Technology and Higher Education. Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Johns Hopkins University. Diane Balestri, Conference Chair, EDUCOM '92, P.O. Box 66, Hopewell, New Jersey 08525, U.S.A. E-mail: educom92@educom.bitnet or educom92@educom.edu Nov 20-22 --------- 8th Workshop on Comparative German Syntax. University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway. Tarald Taraldsen and Ove Lorentz, ISL, University of Tromso, N-9037 Tromso, Norway. E-mail: cgs@mack.uit.no Nov 30-Dec 4 ------------ ECHT '92. Fourth ACM Conference on Hypertext. Milano, Italy. Paolo Paolini, General Conference Chair, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy. Phone: (39) 2-23993520, Fax: (39) 2-23993411. E-mail: paolini@ipmel1.polimi.it 1993 ---- Jan 4-7 ------- International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces. Orlando, Florida. Bill Hefley, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, U.S.A. Phone: 412/268-7793. E-mail: ii-Workshop93.chi@xerox.com Mar 2-3 ------- Hypermedia '93. Fourth in a series of Hypertext/Hypermedia conferences held in the German-speaking part of Europe. Kurssekretariat, Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, IFW, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. Phone +41-1-254-7206, Fax: +41-1-262-3973. E-mail: hyper93@inf.ethz.ch Apr 4-7 ------- ICML 93. International Conference on Mathematical Linguistics. Barcelona, Spain. Carlos Martin Vide, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia, Secci: de Linguistica, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007 Barcelona, Spain. Fax: 34-(9) 3-318.81.63. E-mail: d1frcmv0@eb0ub011.bitnet Apr 21-23 --------- EACL '93. Sixth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Research Institute for Language and Speech, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. EACL '93, OTS, Trans 10, NL-3512 JK, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Phone: (+31) 30-392531, Fax: (+31) 30-333380. E-mail: eacl93@let.ruu.nl Apr 21-24 --------- Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Dan Fass, PACLING '93, Publicity and Local Arrangements, Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6. Phone: (604) 291-3208, Fax: (604) 291-4424. E-mail: fass@cs.sfu.ca Jun 16-19 --------- ACH/ALLC '93. The joint annual international conference of the Association for Computing and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Michael Neuman, Academic Computer Center, 238 Reiss Science Building, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057, U.S.A. Phone: 202/687-6096, Fax: 202/687-6003. neuman@guvax.bitnet or neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu
OFFICERS
Nancy Ide President Dept. of Computer Science Box 252 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 ide@vassar.bitnet Paul A. Fortier Vice President Dept. of Romance Language University of Manitoba Winnepeg, Manitoba Canada R3T 2N2 fortier@uofmcc.bitnet Randall Jones Executive Secretary Dept. of German Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 hrcjones@byuvm.bitnet jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu Joseph Rudman Treasurer Dept. of English Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 rudman@cmphys.bitnetACH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Malcolm B. Brown Academic Computing Dartmouth College Kiewit Computation Center Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 malcolm.brown@dartmouth.edu Christian Delcourt Universite de Liege Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres Place Cockerill, 3 B-4000 Liege, Belgium u017101@bliulg11.bitnet Marianne Gaunt Alexander Library College Avenue New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 gaunt@zodiac.rutgers.edu Joel D. Goldfield 75 Highland Ave. Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766-1804 jdg@coos.dartmouth.edu Mary Dee Harris Language Technology 2153 California St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008 mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu Glyn Holmes Dept. of French The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7 gholmes@uwovax.uwo.ca Estelle Irizarry Dept. of Spanish Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 irizarry@guvax.bitnet Karen Kossuth Dept. of Modern Languages and Literature Pomona College Claremont, California 91711 kkossuth@pomona.bitnet Anita Lowry Butler Library 325 Columbia University New York, New York 10027 lowry@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities Robarts Library, 14th Floor University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1A5 mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca Michael Neuman Academic Computer Center 238 Reiss Science Building Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 neuman@guvax.bitnet Hans Rutimann Consultant 312 West 77th St., #G New York, New York 10024 bb.hxr@rlg.bitnet C.M. Sperberg-McQueen Computer Center (M/C 135) Box 6998 University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois 60680 u35395@uicvm.bitnetLIAISONS
Nancy Frishberg Linguistic Society of America 16 Woods End Road Stamford, Connecticut 06905 nancyf@seiden.com Mary Dee Harris Association for Computational Linguistics Language Technology 2153 California St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008 mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu Carol Zuses Modern Language Association MLA 10 Astor Place New York, New York 10003 mlaod@cuvmb.bitnet mlaod@cuvmb.columbia.edu David Owen American Philosophical Association Dept. of Philosophy University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 owen@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu J. Penny Small American Philological Association 392 Central Park West Apartment 4A New York, New York 10025 jpsmall@cancer.bitnetEX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
Eric Dahlin Editor, _ACH Newsletter_ Humanities Computing Facility University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106-3170 hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.bitnet hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Glyn Holmes Editor, _CHUM_ Dept. of French The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7 gholmes@uwovax.uwo.ca Elaine Brennan Editor, HUMANIST Women Writers Project Box 1842 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 elaine@brownvm.bitnet Allen Renear Editor, HUMANIST Box 1885/CIS Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 allen@brownvm.bitnet
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