CALL FOR PAPERS
      1996 Australasian Natural Language Processing Summer Workshop
                      Monday 5th February 1996
              Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

PURPOSE

This one-day workshop is being organised to further establish the growing
NLP community in Australia and New Zealand; the aim is to bring together
researchers in the area in order to increase awareness of the work being
pursued in the community. The workshop is timed to follow the Australian
Computer Science Conference being held in Melbourne from 
29th January 1996--2nd February 1996.

We invite the submission of papers on all aspects of natural language
processing, 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 and statistical language modeling;
machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and
dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and
theoretical and applications papers that discuss aspects of NLP.

We particularly welcome papers from postgraduate students working in the
area.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Robert Dale, Microsoft Institute and Macquarie University (co-chair)
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University (co-chair)
Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne
Wayne Wobcke, University of Sydney
Albert Yeap, Otago University

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Initial submissions should be in the form of four-page extended abstracts,
printed single spaced in 12 point font. The first page should include the
paper title, author(s) name(s), complete addresses including email address
and fax number, a short (5 line) summary, and 4--5 relevant keywords.

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Electronic submissions may consist of simple ASCII text or PostScript files.
If you submit a PostScript file, please do this ahead of the submission
date so that we can be sure that the file is printable:  if we cannot
print your file by the submission date it will be rejected without review.
Electronic submissions should be sent to rdale@mpce.mq.edu.au.

HARD COPY SUBMISSION

Four copies of the paper should be sent to:

Robert Dale
1996 NLP Summer Workshop Submission
Microsoft Institute of Advanced Software Technology
65 Epping Road
North Ryde
NSW 2113

Fax submissions are not acceptable.


DEADLINES

Paper and electronic submissions must be received by FRIDAY 1st
DECEMBER 1995.  Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first
author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified
of acceptance by TUESDAY 19th DECEMBER 1995. Camera-ready copies of
final eight-page papers must be received by MONDAY 15th JANUARY 1996.

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