CALL FOR PAPERS
               Hungarian Academy of Sciences
             Research Institute for Linguistics
                      and the
                 HAS Centre in Pecs,
                      
              University Paris 7
Laboratories d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique 

             Janus Pannonius University Pecs

                COMPLEX '99

5th Conference on Computational Lexicography and Text Research

               Pecs Hungary
              16-19 June 1999

         The Organisers invite the submission of papers for 
Complex '99, to be organised in Pecs, Hungary between June 16 
and 19, 1999.
        Topics of interest: Papers are invited on substantial,
original, and unpublished research on all aspects of
computational lexicography, including, but not limited to, the
following:
         - lexical databases and electronic dictionaries,
         - corpora and corpus-based research,
         - parallel corpora,
         - critical review of SGML tools,
         - lexicons and software tools for machine translation.
         
         A detailed abstract of the proposed paper not exceeding 
5 double spaced pages should be sent to Ms Julia Pajzs in 5 
copies by 31 December 1998 to the following address:

Julia Pajzs
Research Institute for Linguistics
Hungarian Academy of Sciences 
Budapest PO Box 19.
H-1250 Hungary

         All papers will be reviewed by an international 
programme committee. The program chairs are Ferenc Kiefer (HAS) 
and Maurice Gross (LADL). Please, do not send the abstracts in 
electronic format, we can only accept printed versions for 
reviewing.

    The time slot given for presentations will be 40 minutes 
(including 10 minutes for discussion).

         Authors will be notified about the acceptance or 
rejection of the preliminary version of their paper by the end 
of February, 1999. The deadline for submitting a final version 
(not exceeding 10 pages) of the papers accepted for the volume 
of proceedings is 15 April, 1999.

   As usual, we will have a number of guest speakers, including 
Thierry Fontenelle, (organiser of the last Congress of 
EURALEX), who has already accepted our invitation. In addition, 
Max Silberztein from LADL agreed to give a demonstration on the 
INTEX corpus retrieval and analyser tool.
 
    The registration fee for the conference is 500 DM. We still 
have a reduced fee for participants coming from the former 
socialist countries. The special fee is 300 DM.

    Detailed information about accommodation possibilities and 
prices, a complete list of the keynote speakers and further 
details will be given in the second circular sent to all those 
who are ready to return the pre-registration form attached to Ms 
Julia Pajzs by 31 December, 1998. Regisration by e-mail is 
encouraged.
  


      Julia Pajzs                      Jozsef Andor
     pajzs@nytud.hu                   andor@btk.jpte.hu
                 
                  Conference organisers

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Julia Pajzs
Research Institute for Linguistics
Hungarian Academy of Sciences 
Budapest PO Box 19.
H-1250
Hungary
Phone:           (361) 37 58 011 /155
Fax:             (361) 21 22 050
E-mail:          pajzs@nytud.hu

             PRE-REGISTRATION FORM                              
                  COMPLEX '99
                 16-19 June, 1999
                  Pecs, Hungary

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I wish to present a paper:      YES                NO

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