DIALOGUE'96
 International Conference on computational linguistics and its applications

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to inform you about DIALOGUE'96, an international
conference on computational linguistics and its applications, which
will take place in the beginning of May, 1996 in a country side near
Moscow, Russia. The conference revived the tradition of the
interdisciplinary DIALOGUE seminars which were regular national
annual events in the USSR during 70s-80s. The conference title means
that it is a meeting place for a dialogue
a) between researches from different fields that are related to
computational linguistics (lignuists, computer scientists, cognitive
scientists, psychologists);
b) between researches from the former USSR and from international
community in computational linguistics.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* theoretical and cognitive linguistics
* syntax, semantics, pragmatics and their interaction
* multilingual natural language processing
* systems natural language processing
* text, dialogue and speech act in the computational framework
* speech communication with computer

The number of participants is expected about 100. Every prospective
attendee is required to submit a short research summary including
relevant recent publications, regular and e-mail address, fax and
phone numbers.

Participants who wish to present their work are additionally required
to submit a poster (3-4 double-spaced pages, 6-8 kB) or a full paper
(not exceeding 12 double-spaced pages, 24 kB). Please send
submissions preferably via e-mail (in plain ASCII or uuencoded
Winword files) to the address of the Program Committee before January
15, 1996.  Submissions in Russian and English are equally accepted.
We plan to organize selected English-to-Russian and
Russian-to-English translation of talks.

Addresses for all correspondence:
e-mail: dialog@artint.msk.su
Snail mail:
        DIALOGUE'96
        Russian Instititue of Artificial Intelligence
        P.O.Box 111, Moscow,
        103001, Russia.


IMPORTANT DATES:
    Deadline for submission: January  15, 1996
    Notification of acceptance:  February 15, 1996
    Final paper due: March 25, 1996

The proceedings of the conference will be printed and publicly distributed.

The last conference DIALOGUE'95 has been held nearby Kazan
(Tatarstan, Russian Federation) in May-June 1995. It was very
successful and attracted the leading researchers from the former USSR
as well as researchers from Europe and USA. We hope that DIALOGUE'96
will continue this tradition.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
 Alexander S. Narin'yani, Program Chair (Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence)
 Dmitrij A. Pospelov    (Computer Center of Russian Academy of Sciences)
 Alexander E. Kibrik    (Moscow State University)
 Igor A. Mel'chuk       (Montreal University)
 Christian Boitet       (Grenoble University)
 Haldur Oim             (Tartu University)

Secretariate:
 Natalya I. Laufer, (Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence)
 Priscilla Rasmussen (Rutgers University, USA)
 Serge A. Sharoff, (Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence)

If you have questions about the conference, please send e-mail
letters to the above-mentioned addresses or call:
to Moscow: +7-(095) 152-05-61 (Russian Institute of Artificial
Intelligence, Serge Sharoff)

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