Because of their closeness to the millenium change, which may cause 
certain inconveniencies, the original dates of IWPT'99 (December 20-22, 
1999) have been changed to February 23-25, 2000. 
IWPT'99 thus becomes IWPT 2000. Below is the updated Call for Papers, 
with revised time table.
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                            IWPT 2000   

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        6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
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                     Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE

                        23-25 February, 2000
                          Trento, Italy
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The ITC-IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research) 
in Trento, in the North of Italy, will host the 6th International 
Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2000) from 23 to 25 February, 
2000. 

IWPT 2000 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing 
technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on
Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 
This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. 
The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed 
by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and 
Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) 
in 1995; and Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997. 

More information can be found on the IWPT 2000 home page at: 
  
        < http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >


Topics of interest for IWPT 2000
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Theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural 
language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences, 
speech input, multi-dimensional (pictorial) language, and parsing issues 
arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Both grammar-based and 
statistical approaches are welcome.


Submitting Papers
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Prospective authors are invited to send full papers to the IWPT 2000 
programme chairman John Carroll. Papers must be in the format given 
at the IWPT 2000 home pages (see below). Papers should not exceed 12 
pages. Submission is electronically, in postscript form. 
Send papers to:

                 iwpt2000@cogs.susx.ac.uk

All submitted papers will be reviewed by the programme committee. 

Deadline for paper submission   : November 5, 1999
Notification of acceptance      : December 3, 1999
Final papers due                : January  7, 2000

In addition to the papers that will be accepted for full length 
presentation, papers may be accepted for poster presentations 
(two pages in the proceedings).


Instruction for authors
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Instructions for authors can be found at URL:
< http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >
or can be obtained from the programme chairman.


Programme Committee
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Robert Berwick (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Bob Carpenter (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA)
John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) (chair) 
Ken Church (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA)
Mark Johnson (Brown University, Providence, USA)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Ronald Kaplan (Xerox, Palo Alto, USA)
Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto, USA)
Bernard Lang (INRIA, Paris, France)
Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands)
Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Grenoble, France)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento, Italy)
Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Masaru Tomita (Stanford University, USA)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, Newark, USA)
David Weir (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Mats Wiren (Telia Research, Stockholm, Sweden)


Organization
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General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) 
Programme Chair: John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK) 
Local Arrangements Chair: Alberto Lavelli (IRST, Trento, Italy)


Sponsors
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SIGPARSE, Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for 
          Computational Linguistics
AI*IA, Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence


Further information
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Information about IWPT 2000 can be found at the URL:

      < http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >

At this site you can also obtain information about previous IWPTs, 
proceedings and SIGPARSE related activities.