CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITS
                       Appel aux communications & expositions

                            INTERNATIONAL CONFERE  
                                      ON
             NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
                   SPECIAL ACCENT ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
                          NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000
 
                              MARCH 24-27, 2000
                         Mariott Hotel,  HURGHADA, EGYPT 

                           Conference internationale
                   sur le traitement automatique des langues et
                         ses applications industrielles
                               24-27 mars, 2000
                      Attention speciale portee au domaine medical
                               24-27 mars, 2000
                       Hotel Mariott, Hurghada, Egypte 



TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Universite de Moncton is organising its
third international conference on NLP and industrial applications. This
year a special attention is given to medical applications.

Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing,
including, but not limited to:.
- natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken
  and  hand-written language, 
- natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial 
  applications 
- machine translation, computer aided translation, translation  aids, 
- syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology, 
- dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources 
- multimodality 
- multilinguality 
- CALL
- NLP industrial applications 
- papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and 
  practice of NLP in general and particularly in a medical domain.

Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their papers not
exceeding 1000 words (exclusive of references) either in English or in
French, the two official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be
published in the language of the submitted texts. 


SUBMISSION:

1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title,
the authors' names, affiliations, addresses, a five (5) keyword list
specifying the subject area, a five (5) line summary, and the name and
address of the contact person. 

         TITLE/ Titre:
         AUTHORS / Auteurs 
         KEYWORDS/ Mots clefs:
         SUMMARY/ Resume:
         CONTACT PERSON/ Personne contact:

2) Submissions should not exceed 1000 words in length excluding references
(12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2.5 cm) all around; if using A4
please keep top margin at 2.5 cm and text within 19cm x 25.5 cm). 

3) The identification page and the actual text should be submitted in 4
HARD COPIES to

 NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000
 Pr. Chadia Moghrabi
 Universite' de Moncton,
 Faculte des sciences,
 Departement d'informatique
 Moncton, NB, Canada, E1A 3E9 
 
 Phone: 1 (506) 858-4521
 Fax:  1 (506) 858-4541
 E-mail: gretal@info.umoncton.ca

4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text. 


REFEREEING:

All submissionss shall be refereed by three members of the Program
committee.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 

Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France)
Sadek Eid (U. de Moncton, U. Cairo, Egypt)  
Ruddy Lelouche (U. Laval, Canada)
Chadia Moghrabi (U. de Moncton, Canada) 

 More to be confirmed... 
                               

DEADLINES:

Submissions are due on  December 6, 1999. 
Authors will be notified of acceptance by  January 21, 2000. 
Camera-ready copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of
March, 2000 along with registration fees. 

Authors are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in
the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the
single word INTENTION in the subject line.                                
 
 
EXHIBITS:
Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration can send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical 
requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs, 
etc.) to gretal@info.umoncton.ca with the single word EXHIBIT in the
subject line. 


OTHER ACTIVITIES:

Hurgada is a beautiful sea resort with coral beaches ideal for diving and
snorkelling.  A travel agency will be handling any sightseeing in
Hurghada, Cairo, or other Egyptian tourist activities. It would be the year 2000
and what a historic place to be visiting.   

                                
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

The conference is organised by GRETAL, the NLP study group at Universite'
de Moncton in co-operation with the American University of Cairo. The
members of the organising committee are: 

Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair, 
                 Universite' de Moncton
Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, Conference co-chair, 
           University of Cairo
Luc LeBlanc, Computer Science student & research assistant at Gretal,
             Universite' de Moncton
More to come...