CLIN 98 First Announcement

        Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands
                Ninth CLIN Meeting 
                Friday, 11 December, 1998
           Center for Computational Linguistics
                University of Leuven

We are happy to announce the ninth CLIN meeting, which will be
hosted by the Center for Computational Linguistics of the
University of Leuven.
The meeting will take place in the Faculty of Arts building
(Erasmushuis). The languages of the conference will be Dutch and
English.
 
The local organisers of this year's meeting are 
Frank Van Eynde and Ineke Schuurman.
 
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, knowledge representation, corpus-oriented methods,
etc.).
 
Authors should submit an abstract in English or Dutch to the
local organisers (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: 

              clin98@ccl.kuleuven.ac.be 
 
or, if email is not possible, to: 

              CLIN 98 
              University of Leuven              
              Center for Computational Linguistics
              Maria-Theresiastraat 21
              B-3000 LEUVEN

Deadline for the submission is 4 October 1998.
Notification of acceptance (by e-mail): 16 October 1998. 

A volume with proceedings of the Eighth CLIN meeting (held 12
December 1997, in Nijmegen) will be available at this year's
meeting. We intend to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN
98 before CLIN 99. Papers for these proceedings will have to be
written in English; they will be reviewed by a committee to be
appointed in due time.

Future information about CLIN 98 will be 
made available via the CLIN home page: 

       http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/clin.html