The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 

                                 COLING 2000 

                       will be organised under the auspices of the 
                International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) in 

       Saarbruecken (conference), Luxembourg (workshops) & Nancy (tutorials) 

                             Tutorials: 29/30 July, 2000 
                         Conference: 31 July - 4 August, 2000 
                     Post-Conference Workshops: 5/6 August, 2000 
                                         

                            CALL FOR PAPERS

COLING 2000 will provide the foremost opportunity at the beginning of
the new millenium to exchange original research papers on a very broad
range of topics in computational linguistics. Accordingly, the program
committee now solicits suitable hitherto unpublished contributions of
high quality on every aspect of the field.

In line with the practice established in previous COLING conferences,
authors will be asked to place their submission in one of two
categories:

* Regular papers, of not more than seven pages, presenting results
  of original completed research, and

* Project notes, of five pages or less, describing ongoing research or
  demonstrating a system.

All papers should describe original work, completed or in progress,
rather than merely planned, and clearly indicate the current state of
advancement of the work. No previously published papers should be
submitted. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed
provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification page.

METHOD OF SUBMISSION

    The first step in submitting a paper to COLING 2000 is to complete
a Paper Submission Form.

    Authors can update the information in the form right up to the
deadline for submissions (15th January, 2000).

    The program committee encourages electronic submission of papers,
But hard copy is also acceptable.

Camera Ready Copy

DEADLINES

    Deadline for submission: 15th January, 2000. 

    Notification to authors: 18th March, 2000. 

    Arrival in Saarbrücken of final camera-ready copy : 24th June, 2000. 
     

                       COLING 2000 Homepage: www.coling.org

           Call for Papers with all forms and instructions: www.coling.org/call.html

                                    Contacts

               Organization Chair

               Hans Uszkoreit 
               DFKI Language Technology Lab 
               Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3  
               66123 Saarbruecken  
               Germany  

               uszkoreit@dfki.de



                                       Program Chair

                                       Martin Kay 
                                       Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 

                                       3333 Coyote Hill road  
                                       Palo Alto, CA 94304  
                                       USA  

                                       kay@parc.xerox.com