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                         First Call for Papers

       7th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium

                              6-7 January 2004

                          University of Birmingham

  Please see http:/www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl/cluk/
 

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Computational Linguistics UK (CLUK) aims to provide a forum for the
Computational Linguistics community in the UK. The Annual CLUK Colloquium
offers PhD students in Natural Language Processing and related disciplines
an opportunity to present and discuss their work with members of the wider
research community. A conference proceedings will be produced prior to the
colloquium.

Presentations are held in conference-style sessions, to which senior
established researchers are invited, and there will be opportunities
for general discussion. Papers on any topic within the area of
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Language
Engineering are welcome.

Two invited speakers will also give presentations.
 

Submission of papers

Authors are requested to submit an abstract (approx. 1000 words).  Each
submission should include the following information:  title, a short
abstract, names and affiliations of the authors, and the full address
of the primary author, including email.

Abstracts will be refereed by the Programme Committee.

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to mgl@cs.bham.ac.uk

Please submit abstracts as emailed ASCII text.

Deadlines

Abstract submission deadline: Monday 3rd November 2003
Notification of acceptance: Monday 17th November 2003
Camera ready papers due: Monday 1st December 2003
Colloquium: 6-7 January 2004
 

CLUK Committee
 Eric Atwell
 John Carroll
 Stephen Clark
 Anne De Roeck
 John Elliott
 John Herring
 Mark Lee
 Diana Maynard
 Marc Moens
 Miles Osborne
 Nick Ostler
 Darren Pearce
 John Tait
 Aline Villavicencio
 Yorick Wilks
 

Further Information

Please see http:/www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl/cluk/