CLIN 2001, FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

                   Twelfth CLIN Meeting
       (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands)
                   Friday, 30 November, 2001
                Department of Computer Science
                     University of Twente

We are happy to announce the twelfth CLIN meeting, which 
will be hosted by the Parlevink language engineering group 
at the University of Twente. The languages of the conference 
will be Dutch and English.

The guest speaker of CLIN 2001 is

              Dr. David Traum
      University of Southern California,
            Marina del Rey (USA)

The topic of his talk will be announced later.

Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects 
of computational linguistics (phonetics, phonology, 
morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, machine translation, 
computational lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, 
information retrieval, information extraction, text mining, 
knowledge representation, parsing and generation, dialogue 
management, embodied conversational agents, corpus-oriented 
methods, etc.).

Authors should submit an abstract in English or Dutch 
(preferably by e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should 
contain:

- a title 
- your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address 
- a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines) 

You can send your abstract to: clin@cs.utwente.nl 

or, if email is not possible, to: 
 

CLIN 2001, 
TKI secretariat (Parlevink)
University of Twente
Department of Computer Science
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands 

Deadline for submission:        28 September 2001. 
Notification of acceptance:     13 October 2001. 

The local organisation committee of this year's meeting consists 
of Anton Nijholt, Mariet Theune, and Charlotte Bijron.

A volume with proceedings of the eleventh CLIN meeting (held 3
November 2000, in Tilburg) will be available at this year's
meeting. We intend to produce a volume of the proceedings of 
CLIN 2001 before CLIN 2002. Papers for these proceedings will 
have to be written in English; they will be reviewed by a 
committee to be appointed in due time.

This and future information about CLIN 2001 will be made 
available via the CLIN home page:
http://www.let.rug.nl/%7Evannoord/clin/clin.html

or the CLIN 2001 home page:
http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/clin2001.html