DIALOGUE'97
International Conference on computational linguistics and its applications

                            Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to inform you about DIALOGUE'97, an international
conference on computational linguistics and its applications, which
will take place June 10-15, 1997 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 researchers from different fields that are related to
   computational linguistics (linguists, computer scientists, cognitive
   scientists, psychologists);
b) between researchers from the former USSR and from the 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 for natural language processing
*  text, dialogue and speech act in the computational framework

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
February 1, 1997. 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'97
     Russian Instititue for Artificial Intelligence
     P.O.Box 111, Moscow,
     103001, Russia.

IMPORTANT DATES:
    Deadline for submission: February 1, 1997
    Notification of acceptance:  March 1, 1997
    Final paper due: March 25, 1997

In the field of computational linguistics in Russia conferences
DIALOGUE became a regular event which attracts the leading
researchers from the former USSR as well as foreign researchers. We
hope that DIALOGUE'97 will continue this tradition.

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

Secretariate:
Natalya I. Laufer, (Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence)
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 for Artificial
                               Intelligence, Serge Sharoff)

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