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(Vol. 16, No. 3, ISSN 1066-1727)
Published by the Association for Computers and the Humanities
The joint international conference will be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on July 11-15, 1995.
ACH-ALLC 95, the joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, is scheduled for July 11-15, 1995, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California.
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 computer- based resources for humanities research, especially focusing on the issues and problems of networked access to materials, and the developing applications, evaluation, and use of traditional scientific and computing techniques in humanities disciplines.
We welcome submissions on topics and applications focused on the humanities disciplines, defined as broadly as possible: languages and literature, history, philosophy, music, art, linguistics, anthropology and archaeology, creative writing, and cultural studies. We are interested in receiving technical proposals that focus on the cutting edge issues of the application of scientific tools and approaches to humanities disciplines; discipline-based proposals that focus on some of the more traditionally defined applications of computing in humanities disciplines, including text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical models, and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis; broad library and research-based proposals that focus on significant issues of text documentation and information retrieval; and tools-focused proposals that offer innovative and substantial applications and uses for humanities-based teaching and research, throughout the academic and research worlds.
The deadline for submissions is: December 31, 1994.
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.
Abstracts of 1500-2000 words should be submitted for presentations of thirty minutes including questions.
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.
ACH-ALLC 95 will include poster presentations and software and project demonstrations (either stand-alone or in conjunction with poster presentations) to give researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, well-defined problems, or research that is best communicated in conversational mode.
By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters will have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Posters are actually several large pieces of paper that present an overview of a topic or a problem. Poster presenters are given space to display two or three posters, and may provide handouts with examples or more detailed information.
Poster presenters must be present at their posters at a specific time during the conference to describe their work and answer questions, but posters will remain up throughout the conference. Specific times will also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. Further information on poster presentations is available from the Program Committee chair.
Posters proposals and software and project demonstrations will be accepted until February 15, 1995 to provide an opportunity for submitting very current work that need not be written up in a full paper. Poster or software/project demonstration proposals should contain a 300 to 500 word abstract in the same format described below for paper proposals. Proposals for software or project demonstrations should indic ate the type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is accepted.
Doctoral students are encouraged to consider poster submission as a viable means for discussing ongoing dissertation research.
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
(1) Electronic submissions These should be plain ASCII text files, not files formatted by a wordprocessor, 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
Elaine Brennan, elaine@netcom.com
with the subject line "Author's surname Submission for ACH-ALLC 95."
(2) Paper submissions Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. Six copies should be sent to
ACH-ALLC 95 (Paper submission) Elaine Brennan ATLIS Consulting Group 6011 Executive Boulevard Rockville, MD 20852 U.S.A.
Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a Kodak slide projector, a data projector which will display Macintosh, DOS/Windows, and video (but not simultaneously), a computer which will run Macintosh OS programs or DOS/Windows programs, and a VHS (NTSC) videocassette recorder. PAL format will be available; if you anticipate needing PAL, please note this information in your proposal.
It will be possible to transfer programs and data from removable media (floppy disks, SyQuest 44MB cartridges, and Bernoulli cartridges) to the presentation computers.
Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizer; requests for special equipment should be directed to the local organizer no later than December 31, 1994.
Proposals for papers and sessions: December 31, 1994
Proposals for poster presentations: February 15, 1995
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 1995
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.
Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee comprised of:
UC Santa Barbara, one of the nine campuses of the University of California, has an enrollment of some 18000 graduate and undergraduate students and is situated on a scenic 500 acre seashore campus 10 miles north of the city of Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara, a Southern California coastal community of 80,000 population, lies about 100 miles north of Los Angeles on Highway 101, the principal coast highway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
A popular tourist center, it offers the visitor a wide range of accommodations and a great variety of recreational and cultural attractions. It is readily accessible by road, and is served by the major airlines.
Economically priced accommodation for those attending the conference will also be available on the campus itself.
It is expected at this time that the fee for early registration for the conference will be in the $125 to $150 range, with an additional fee for late registration.
Detailed information about the conference will be made available in January or February of 1995.
Information
For further information please communicate with:
Eric Dahlin Local Organizer, ACH-ALLC 95 Office of the Provost College of Letters and Science University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106 U.S.A. Phone: 805 / 687-5003 E-mail: HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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A status report on two ACH sessions to take place at the MLA convention in San Diego.
by Joel Goldfield
Dear Colleagues,
Here is a brief status report on the two ACH sessions I was charged with organizing for the 1994 MLA Convention to take place in San Diego, California. I'm including the session title, presentation titles, presenters' names and affiliations plus part of the abstracts.
My thanks to Paul Fortier and Elaine Brennan for their advice and other participation in the organization of these sessions.
1) "The Role of Electronic Texts Archives in the Study of Literature."
Presiding:
Paul Fortier, U. of Manitoba.
a. Professor D. Hugh Craig, U. of Newcastle, Australia: "A chronological common-words vector in a corpus of English Renaissance tragedy."
The paper will describe the results of part of a continuing quantitative study of very common words in English Renaissance drama. It focuses on tragedy, and on chronological change.
Much has been written in recent years of the corporate nature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, of the importance of collaboration in generating play scripts, about the collective development of the London theatre in the period.
Using frequencies of very common words, the study will compare the strength of authorial variation with that of transauthorial change in tragedies over time, and describe the latter in some detail from the vantage point of the patterns of word use identified.
A number of tragedies from each of five English Renaissance playwrights, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Middleton, Webster, and Jonson, as well as examples by less well-known playwrights, will be analysed.
b. Gina L. Greco, Portland State University, Toby Paff, Princeton University: "Developing Electronic Texts Archives for Literary Research."
Mark Olsen argued three years ago, before this same forum, that a reorientation of theoretical models of computer research was necessary if computer-aided literary studies were to have an impact outside of Humanities computing circles. He called for a model better suited to the computer's strength in analyzing large corpora of texts.
The next year, Peter Shoemaker and I argued that contemporary medieval studies already provides us with notions of textual, particularly intertextual, analysis which are well suited to computer development, and we called for electronic tools developed with such theoretical models in mind.
Last year, Karl Uitti and I, at this same conference but at a workshop organized by a different group, presented--from a literary point of view--a project that we are working on: an electronic database of the manuscript tradition of Chretien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette, a twelfth century narrative poem of approximately 7,000 lines.
In this paper, Toby Paff and I will talk about the same project, but will enter more into the technical questions of precisely how the information has been organized as an archive, as well as how this organization facilitates scholarly research.
We would argue for the development of certain standards in electronic text archives, so that, on the one hand, the tools are designed with contemporary theoretical issues in mind, and can thus serve as tools for research that will interest our entire discipline, rather than the select few of computing Humanists.
On the other hand, with more cooperation, a set of standards would speed up the development of individual projects, since it would provide literary scholars with a framework--a framework that would be both technically and theoretically sound.
Such standards should grow out of scholarly meetings and discussions such as this one. Of course, they would need to be flexible, since each literary period offers a different set of problems and questions; however, much time devoted to electronic projects is certainly spent "reinventing the wheel," as teams are forced to work on such things as TEI and SGML conversion, rather than making progress on the text itself.
2) "Electronic Texts, Hypertexts, and the Study of Literature
Presiding: Joel D. Goldfield, Fairfield University (CT) and Plymouth State College (NH).
a. John Slatin, U. of Texas at Austin: "Is There a Text in this Class? Creating Knowledge in the Electronic Classroom, Part 2"
This presentation is a follow-up report on my 1992 essay of the same title, which described the transformative impact of real-time interactive software (Daedalus InterChange) as a medium for classroom discussion in an undergraduate course on 20th-century American poetry.
The terms of that analysis were drawn from Shoshana Zuboff's (1988) In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power.
In that essay, I briefly described the students' efforts to use StorySpace (Eastgate Systems, 1991) hypertext software to integrate the texts of our discussions with other texts that formed the more traditional portion of the course material--poems, critical essays assigned in the syllabus, and source materials the students had located in their weekly research projects.
b. Margaret Downs-Gamble, Virginia Tech: "Re-presenting Renaissance Dialectic in Hypertextual Poetic"
Like chirographic and typographic culture before it, the computerized or, more accurately, digital context constitutes a distinct environment of textual production with specific characteristics and limitations.
The revolution of digital culture, centered in the obviously technological computer, has promoted the study of textual transmission and, as John Slatin and others have argued, foregrounded the previously "invisible" technologies of hand writing and print (Slatin 1992).
The various claims of "the death of the author," (Foucault 1969) and the "end of literature," (Levy 1991) are due in part to the chaos surrounding the advent of this new medium of textual transmission.
Traditional distinctions between primary and secondary materials, between authorial texts and authorial laundry lists, and between literary and critical discourse (Said 1978) have become less significant because all can be contained in the non-linear, digitized forum of the hypertext.
Further, distinctions which are privileged and even promoted by the apparent stasis of print have no such primacy in a digitized context which may include such things as graphic, historical, critical, bibliographic, and musical information.
c. Catherine Taylor, Duke University: "The Author, the Law, and Technology in America"
This paper will look at the concept of authorship and its intersection with the law and print technology from the book to the computer.
We will examine changes in print technology and genre that were perceived as moments of crisis in the realms of writing and publication, and we will examine several texts that deal explicitly with the notion of authorship.
This presentation will have two main sections. The first will focus on American literature of the 18th- and early 19th-centuries, using the 18th-century rise of the novel and the introduction of U.S. Federal Copyright Law in 1790 as its starting point.
It will cover such subjects as the role of gender in intellectual property lae and the rhetoric of the democratizing powers of print in the early republic.
The second half of the presentation will focus on contemporary questions of authorship, particularly as raised by the advent of computer technology and electronic communications.
We will begin by looking at the way that current debates about the intersection of authorship and the "information superhighway" frequently seek recourse to early American discussions of the nature, possibilities, and regulation of writing and the the public sphere that were covered in the first half of the semester. From there, we will address a range of questions about the future of authorship in this new public sphere of writing. In order to keep some focus in this potentially huge arena, the core of this section will be an examination of "hypertext."
While hypertext documents offer a wealth of information to researchers, they also allow for new forms of what has traditionally been called "inventive" writing.
A number of hypertext novels have been published in the last decade, but they have yet to receive sustained attention as a new genre for study in the classroom.
The readings for this portion of the class where this approach has been used includes works by Robert Coover, William Gibson, and Michael Joyce's hypertext novel, Afternoon. Short secondary readings were drawn from Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, and George Landow's Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology.
Volume 9
ISBN 0-936943-08-4
Computing in Musicology is an international directory of activities related to the acquisition, representation, storage, manipulation, and end uses of musical information in notation, analysis, documentation, and sound control.
It serves as a guide to resources for novice users, as a forum for those at the forefront of research applications, and as a digest for those who need a concise introduction to activities in this rapidly evolving multimedia field.
It is edited by Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge- Field and published by the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities in Menlo Park, CA.
Volume 9 features the first controlled survey of software for optical recognition of musical notation, the first published description of the MuseData databases from the Center for COmputer Assisted Research in the Humanities), the ninth annual survey of notation software, and the results of a reader poll on software preferences as well as numerous articles on document delivery, online services, software tools, and special applications.
Copies for individual, institutional, and distributor purchase may be ordered by phone (800) JSB-MUSE or (415) 322-3307; by fax (415) 329-8365; and by post to CCARH, 525 Middlefield Road, Suite 120, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3443, USA. Queries may be directed to Nancy Solomon via e-mail:
XB.CAR@Forsythe.Stanford.Edu.
Other titles: Volumes 5-8 are still in print and cover a range of other topics. Many articles in previous issues are still state-of-the art. Enquiries may be directed to Nancy Solomon at XB.CAR@Forsythe.Stanford.Edu and at the above numbers.
The 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics is scheduled for March 27-31, 1995, at University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.
Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind.
Papers should describe unique work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the EACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page.
Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Papers should be headed by a title page containing the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the subject area. Since reviewing will be "blind", the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self- references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead, use references like "Smith previously showed (1991) ..." Care should be taken to mask identity in the bibliography by referring to the author's own papers as anonymous. This is especially applicable of unpublished in- house technical reports which are certain to reveal the identity of the author(s).
To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied, containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, a word count, and a specification of the topic areas.
Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to the Program Co-chairs:
Steven Abney and Erhard W. Hinrichs Universitaet Tuebingen Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Abt. Computerlinguistik Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany eacl95@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or plain text. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below) and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09.
A model submission modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well as a bibliography style acl.bst. (Note however that the bibliography for a submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file.)
Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) copies of the paper and one (1) copy of the identification page. For both kinds of submissions, if at all possible, a plain text version of the identification page should be sent separately by electronic mail, using the following format:
title: author: address: ... author: address: abstract: content areas: word count:
Authors must submit their papers by October 20, 1994. Papers received after this date will not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by December 23, 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by January 31, 1995, along with a signed copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is available through the ACL LISTSERV.
The paper sessions, including student papers, will take place on March 29-31.
There will again be special Student Sessions organized by a committee of (E)ACL graduate student members.
(E)ACL student members are invited to submit short papers in any of the topics listed above.
The papers will be reviewed by a committee of students and faculty members for presentation in workshop-style sessions and publication in a special section of the conference proceedings.
There will be a separate call for papers, available from the ACL LISTSERV or from the chair of the program committee for the student sessions:
Thorsten Brants Universitat des Saarlandes Computerlinguistik D-66041 Saarbrucken Germany E-mail: thorsten@coli.uni-sb.de.
The meeting will include a program of tutorials coordinated by:
John Nerbonne Alfa-informatica Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26 Postbus 716 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen NL-9700 AS Groningen E-mail: nerbonne@let.rug.nl.
Proposals for tutorials may be sent to him. There is no special form. Tutorials are scheduled for March 27-28; registration for tutorials will take place on March 26.
Some of the ACL Special Interest Groups may arrange workshops or other activities. Further information may be available from the ACL LISTSERV.
The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by:
Allan Ramsay Department of Computer Science University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Phone: (353)-1-7062479 Fax: (353)-1-2687262 E-mail: allan@monkey.ucd.ie)
For other information on the ACL more generally, contact Judith Klavans (global) or Mike Rosner (for Europe):
Judith Klavans Columbia University Computer Science, Room 724 New York, NY 10027, USA Phone: +1-212-939-7120 Fax: +1-914-478-1802 E-mail:acl@cs.columbia.edu Michael Rosner IDSIA Corso Elvezia 36 CH-6900 Lugano Switzerland E-mail: mike@idsia.ch.
General information about the ACL and electronic membership and order forms are available from the ACL LISTSERV.
Information on the ACL is also available through www URL http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html
LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science.
Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to:
listserver@cs.columbia.edu
with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command.
The most useful requests are "help" for general help on
using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of
the ACL archive and "get acl-l < Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server
may have many requests for different archives to process,
requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight)
to be fulfilled.
The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP at:
From September 1, 1994 to August 31, 1996 Joel Goldfield
will be Visiting Associate Professor of Modern Languages and
Director of the Charles E. Culpeper Language Resource Center
at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT 06430.
Phone: 203 / 254-4000
Announcing the "gopheur LITTERATURES" at the
Universite de Montreal:
or through the University of Montreal Main Gopher:
Gopher servers are sprouting like mushrooms these days. Not
only universities have gopher servers, but also departments
now. They can be very useful tools to locate information and
students here are very fond of them. They are also the first
step towards much more sophisticated modes of accessing
collections of research and bibliographic data, e-texts,
etc...
The "Gopheur LITTERATURES" at the Universite de Montreal
(UdM) just happens to be the first gopher dedicated to
teaching, research and publications on French Literature,
Quebecois Literature and Francophone Literatures, and also
the first gopher to do so in french, albeit without the
accents for the moment. (In the future we will offer the
choice between ASCII and ISO-LATIN, as is currently being
done on others gophers in the province of Quebec).
The "Gopheur LITTERATURES" is in construction. This means it
will be evolving. Items on the main menu indicate a program
of research conducted at the Department of etudes
francaises. The goal of the gopher is to offer electronic
documentation on the Departement d'etudes francaises, and to
establish a resource center for information, tools, links,
documents, local and international, to be used by the
computing community of French scholars and students.
All comments and suggestions of sites of interest to French
Studies should be sent to:
by June Thompson
The new-style ReCALL Newsletter (to be distributed three
times a year, in February, June and October) replaces the
ReCALL\NewsSheets which have hitherto been distributed to
individuals and Modern Languages departments throughout the
UK higher education sector. The three-fold increase in its
size reflects the ever-increasing volume of news items which
are channelled through the CTI Centre for Modern Languages
at the University of Hull. In addition to the Newsletter,
all UK HEFC-funded institutions will receive a free
subscription to the ReCALL journal via libraries.
With the establishment of EUROCALL (the European Association
for Computer Assisted Language Learning), based at the
CTICML office in Hull, we hope to provide a wider, more
international dimension to our services, by having better
access to relevant information. Subscribers to EUROCALL
receive twice-yearly copies of the ReCALL journal, as well
as reduced registration fees at EUROCALL conferences and
other benefits. During 1994, an editorial board will be
appointed for the ReCALL journal, which will move towards
becoming a fully-refereed academic journal with a European
focus.
We also hope to include regular information about the
progress of software development for Modern Languages under
the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP),
including the activities of the TELL consortium, led from
the CTICML office. Preliminary versions of TELL materials
were distributed to HEFC-funded institutions in April 1994.
We look forward to receiving comments which may help our
developers in ensuring that the final versions fit as
closely as possible with the requirements of teachers and
learners.
June Thompson, d.j.thompson@french.hull.ac.uk
by June Thompson
It is now possible to access information about the CTI
Centre for Modern Languages and download items from its most
recent ReCALL Newsletter using the gopher at Hull.
Provided you have access to a gopher client at your home
site, you can access the Hull gopher by pointing your gopher
at:
Once connected to the Hull Gopher Main Menu, you can select
the CTI Centre for Modern Languages option.
Seek advice from your local University Computer Centre if
you are unsure as to whether there is a gopher client you
can access.
The second conference of the Pacific Association for
Computational Linguistics is scheduled for April 19-22,
1995, at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia.
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.
The first meeting of the retitled PACLING, a name designed
to express the wider membership, took place in Vancouver,
Canada in April 1993.
PACLING '95 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).
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, 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 (incl. 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 corpora and
large-text linguistics
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.
Authors should prepare full papers, in English, 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:
Submission deadline:
October 31, 1994
Notification of acceptance:
January 16, 1995
Camera-ready copy due:
March 1, 1995
The Conference Committee Chair of PACLING'95 is:
CATH '94. Courseware in Action, Computers and Teaching in
the Humanities. Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland.
Centre for Humanities Computing, Oxford University Computing
Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6N, U.K.
Phone: 0865-273221, Fax: 0865-273221.
E-mail: cath94@vax.ox.ac.uk
EW-ED'94. East-West Conference on Computer Technologies in
Education. Simferopol State University, Simferopol, Crimea,
Ukraine. Site: Black Sea Coast, near Yalta. Svetlana
Dikareva, Computer Center, Simferopol State University,
Yaltinskaya, 4, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine 333036. Phone:
(0652) 23-23-82,
Fax: (0652) 23-23-10. E-mail:
cted94%ccssu.crimea.ua@ussr.eu.net
Peter Brusilovsky, E-mail: plb@plb.icsti.su
Valery Petrushin, E-mail: petr%itslab.kiev.ua@ussr.eu.net
QUALICO '94, Moscow Conference on Quantitative Linguistics,
Moscow State University, Russia. Anatoliy A. Polikarpov,
Department of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics,
Moscow State University, Moscow, 117899, Russia.
Phone: +7 095 939-31-78, Fax: +7 095 939-26-22.
E-mail: comm-pub@comlab.vega.msk.su
Reinhard Koehler, University of Trier, Department of
Computational Linguistic, D-54286 Trier, Germany.
Phone: +49 651 201-2270 (or 2271), Fax.: +49 651 201-3946.
E-mail: koehler@ldv01.Uni-Trier.de
SIGDOC'94, ACM 1994 SIGDOC conference. Technical
Communicators at the Great Divide: From Computing to
Information Technology. Banff Centre For Conferences, Banff,
Canada. Ray Siemens, University of British Columbia.
E-mail: siemens@unixg.ubc.ca
4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing.
Institut f r Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universit t
Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany. Uwe Reyle, Institut f r
Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universit t Stuttgart,
Azenbergstr. 12, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany.
Phone: +49-711-1211361, Fax: +49-711-1211366.
E-mail: reyle@ims.uni-stuttgart.de
ACM Multimedia 94, the Second ACM International Conference
on Multimedia. Sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery, SIGBIO, SIGBIT, SIGCHI, SIGCOMM, SIGGRAPH, SIGIR,
SIGLINK, SIGMM, and SIGOIS in cooperation with SIGAPP,
SIGCAPH, SIGCPR, SIGMOD, SIGOPS, and the IEEE Communications
Society. San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Domenico Ferrari,
Computer Science Division, EECS Department, University of
California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A. Phone: +1 510 642
3806, Fax: +1 510 642 5775.
E-mail: multimedia94@tenet.berkeley.edu
The Future of the Dictionary. A workshop co-sponsored by
Rank Xerox European Research Centre (Grenoble) and ESPRIT BR
Project Acquilex-II. Grand Hotel, Uriage-les-Bains, Nr.
Grenoble, France. Ted Briscoe. E-mail: briscoe@xerox.fr
INTERFACE '94, the Nineteenth Annual Humanities and
Technology Conference. Sheraton Inn, Atlanta Northwest,
Georgia, U.S.A. Julie Newell, Department of Social and
International Studies, Southern College of Technology,
1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.
Phone: (404) 528-7481. E-mail: jnewell@sct.edu
International Conference: Machine Translation Ten Years On.
Organised by Cranfield University in conjunction with the
Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British
Computer Society (BCS-NLTSG). Cranfield University, England.
Douglas Clarke, SME, or Alfred Vella, SIMS (Bldg.50), TALK
Group, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford MK43 0AL,
England. Phone: +44 (0)234 750111, Fax: +44 (0)234 750728.
E-mail: a.vella@cranfield.ac.uk
NSC '94, the 1994 Network Services Conference. Great Western
Hotel, London, England. For information: NSC '94, EARN
Office, PSI--Batiment 211, 91405 Orsay Cedex France.
Phone: +33 1 6941 2426, Fax: +33 1 6941 6683.
E-mail: nsc94@earncc.earn.net or nsc94@earncc.bitnet
EACL-95, 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics. University
College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland. Allan Ramsay,
Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin,
Belfield,
Dublin 4, Ireland. Phone: (353)-1-7062479, Fax: (353)-1-
2687262. E-mail: allan@monkey.ucd.ie
PACLING '95, Pacific Association for Computational
Linguistics 2nd Conference. The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Roland Sussex, Centre for
Language Teaching and Research, The University of
Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia. Phone: +61 7 365
6896,
Fax: +61 7 365 7077. E-mail: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au
NLULP5, Fifth International Workshop on Natural language
Understanding and Logic Programming. Fundacao Calouste
Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. Gabriel Pereira Lopes,
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and
Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre,
2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal. Phone: +351-1-295 3220,
Fax: +351-1-295 56 41. E-mail: gpl@fct.unl.pt
ACH/ALLC '95, Joint Annual International Conference of the
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), and the
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC).
University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara,
California, U.S.A.
IJCAI-95, International conference on Artificial
Intelligence. Palais de Congres, Montreal, Canada. American
Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive,
Menlo Park, CA 94025, U.S.A. Phone: (415) 328-3123. E-mail:
ijcai@aaai.org
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CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
1994
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Oct 2-5
Oct 13-15
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Oct 17-19
Oct 27-28
Nov 12-14
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1995
Mar 27-31
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ACH OFFICERS, COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND LIAISONS
OFFICERS
Nancy Ide
President
Dept. of Computer Science
Box 252
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
ide@vassar.bitnet
Michael Neuman
Vice President
Academic Computer Center
238 Reiss Science Building
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057
neuman@guvax.bitnet
Randall Jones
Executive Secretary
Dept. of German
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
hrcjones@byuvm.bitnet
jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu
Charles Bush
Treasurer
Humanities Research Center
3060 JKHB
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
chuck_bush@byu.edu
ACH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
David Barnard
Computing and Info. Science
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7I 3N6
barnard@qucis.queensu.ca
Eric Dahlin
Office of the Provost
College of Letters and Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106
hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
Christian Delcourt
Universite de Liege
Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres
Place Cockerill, 3
B-4000 Liege, Belgium
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Joel D. Goldfield
Dept. of Foreign Languages
Plymouth State College
Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264-1600
jdg@coos.dartmouth.edu
Mary Dee Harris
Language Technology
2153 California St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
langtech@dgs.dgsys.com
Charles Henry
Library
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
chhenry@vassar.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
Anita Lowry
Information Arcade
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
anita-lowry@uiowa.edu
Willard McCarty
Centre for Computing in
the Humanities
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University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
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Elli Mylonas
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Mark Olsen
ARTFL
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University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
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LIAISONS
Nancy Frishberg
Linguistic Society of America
P.O. Box 282022
San Francisco, CA 94128-2022
Mary Dee Harris
Association for
Computational Linguistics
Language Technology
2153 California St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
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Carol Zuses
Modern Language Association
MLA
10 Astor Place
New York, New York 10003
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mlaod@cuvmb.columbia.edu
David Owen
American Philosophical Association
Dept. of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
owen@ccit.arizona.edu
J. Penny Small
American Philological Association
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Apartment 9D
New York, New York 10025-6539
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EX OFFICIO MEMBERS
Eric Dahlin
Editor, _ACH Newsletter_
Office of the Provost
College of Letters and Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106
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Editor, _CHUM_
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London, Ontario
Canada N6A 3K7
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Editor, HUMANIST
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Editor, HUMANIST
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