COLING 96 International Conference on Computational Linguistics Dates: 5 (Mon) August - 9 (Fri) August, 1996 Place: University of Copenhagen, Denmark Chairman of the Program Chairman of the Organizing Committee Committee Prof. Jun-ichi Tsujii Prof. Bente Maegaard CCL, UMIST & University of Tokyo CST, Copenhagen The International Committee on Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for Coling 96, the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Topics of Interest: Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following. syntax semantics phonetics phonology morphology discourse pragmatics quantitative linguistics corpus linguistics mathematical linguistics cognitive linguistics parsing generation language understanding discourse processing speech analysis/synthesis computational lexicon large text corpora computational terminology text data base information retrieval knowledge representation for NLP automatic abstraction knowledge acquisition from corpora machine translation machine aids for translation dialogue multi-media systems involving language man-machine interface hardware/software for NLP Requirement for Submission: Papers should describe unique work: They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work: A paper accepted for presentation at the Coling cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Format for Submission: Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to exceed 4000 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Since reviewing will be "blind", the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity. To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied, containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses, a short summary (10 lines), a word count, and a specification of the topic area. Submission Media: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to the Program Chair: Jun-ichi TSUJII Department of Information Science Faculty of Science University of Tokyo 113 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo Japan + 81-3-3818-1073 (fax.) coling96@nttkb.ntt.jp (e-mail-address) Electronic submission should be either self-contained Latex source or plain text. LaTex submissions must use the COLING style file and should not refer to any external files or styles. The COLING style file is retrievable by anonymous ftp from cst.ku.dk, /pub/COLING96/colsub.sty. A model submission is provided in /pub/COLING96/modelsub.tex. Alternatively, the information can be obtained by sending an e-mail request to coling96@cst.ku.dk, with the subject line containing the word "style" and "model", respectively. Hard copy submissions should consist of five (5) copies of the paper and one (1) copy of the identification page. For both kinds of submissions, if at all possible, a plain text version of the identification page should be sent separately by electronic mail, using the following format: title: author: <name of first author> address: <address of first author> author: <name of second author> address: <address of second author> ..... Important Dates Preliminary paper submission due: 15 December 1995 Acceptance Notification: 15 March 1996 Camera Ready Copy due: 1 May 1996 Review Schedule: Papers received after 15 December will be returned unopened. Notification of acceptance will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. All inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by 21 January. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 1 May at Prof. B. Maegaard COLING 96 Center for Sprogteknologi Njalsgade 80 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark along with a signed copyright release statement. The format for the camera ready copies will be available through ftp at cst.ku.dk, /pub/COLING96/proc. Other activities [1] Invited talks and panels will be included in the program. Proposals and suggestions for invited talks and panels are welcomed. They should be sent to Prof.J.Tsujii (E-MAIL: coling96@nttkb.ntt.jp). [2] A tutorial program is scheduled for August 2-3. Workshops will be organised August 4. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to Bjarne Oersnes (bjarne@cst.ku.dk), proposals for workshops to Bente Maegaard (bente@cst.ku.dk). Any other requests should be addressed to coling96@cst.ku.dk