DIALOGUE'98
International Conference on computational linguistics and its applications
                    Kazan(Russia), May 31 - June 4, 1998

                            Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to inform you about DIALOGUE'98, an international
conference on computational linguistics and its applications, which
will take place May 31 - June 4, 1998 in Kazan(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
req}ired 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 aldress of the Program Committee
before February 1, 1998. Submissions in Russian and English are
equally accepted. A submission in Russian should be accompanied
with a short summary in English (approximately 100-200 words).
We plan to organize selected English-to-Russian and
Russian-to-English translation of talks.

Addresses for all correspondence:
e-mail: dialog98@bull.nmd.msu.ru
Snail mail:
     DIALOGUE'98
     Russian Instititue for Artificial Intelligence
     P.O.Box 111, Moscow,
     103001, Russia.

IMPORTANT DATES:
    Deadline for submission: February 1, 1998
    Notification of acceptance:  March 1, 1998
    Final paper due: March 25, 1998

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'98 will continue this tradition.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Alexander S. Narin'yani, Program Chair (Russian Institute of Artificial
                                         Intelligence)
Christian Boitet        (Grenoble University)
Rais.G. Bukharajev      (Kazan State University)
I.N. Gorelov            (Saratov State 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)
Olga.V. Fedorova,  (Moscow State University)

  If  you have questions about the conference, please send e-mail letters
to the above-mentioned addresses.

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