Sixth International Workshop on 
          Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming 
                             (NLULP'99) 
                                                               

                         December 3-4, 1999 
                    Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 
                                                               
                 http://www.lim.univ-mrs.fr/NLULP99/

NLULP'99 is co-located with the Sixteenth International Conference on 
Logic Programming (ICLP'99) 
                                                               
                          CALL  FOR  PAPERS


WORKSHOP CHAIRS 

Sandiway Fong  &  Paul Sabatier 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Harvey Abramson (STMS, Portland) 
Sandiway Fong (NEC Research Institute, Princeton) 
Claire Gardent (Univ. of the Saarland, Saarbruecken) 
Jose Gabriel Lopes (New University of Lisbon) 
Gerald Penn (SFB 340, Univ. of Tuebingen) 
Monique Rolbert (LIM, Marseille) 
Paul Sabatier (LIM, CNRS, Marseille) 
Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse) 
Shuly Wintner (IRCS, Univ. of Pennsylvania) 

TOPICS OF INTEREST 

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all 
aspects of the intersection of Natural Language Understanding with Logic 
Programming and (Logic) Constraint Programming, including, but not limited to, 
the following: 

- syntax                                 - parsing 
- semantics                              - generation 
- phonetics                              - language understanding 
- phonology                              - speech analysis/synthesis 
- morphology                             - computational lexicons 
- discourse                              - electronic dictionaries 
- pragmatics                             - terminology 
- formalisms                             - text database and retrieval 
- quantitative/qualitative linguistics   - machine translation 
- mathematical linguistics               - machine aids for translation 
- contrastive linguistics                - natural language interface 
- cognitive linguistics                  - dialogue systems 
- large text corpora                     - computer assisted language learning
- text processing                        - multimedia systems 
- hardware/software for NLP


REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION 

Papers should be written in English, and describe original work. They should 
emphasize completed work rather than proposed work. The state of completion of 
reported results should be clearly indicated. 

SUBMISSION FORMAT 

Submissions should be no longer than 15 pages (A4 format, 11pt), including 
abstract, keywords and references.  All contributions are to be made 
electronically as uncompressed mime-encoded PostScript attachments.  Please 
send your submission to both of the co-chairs: 

       Sandiway Fong : sandiway@research.nj.nec.com 
       Paul Sabatier : Paul.Sabatier@lim.univ-mrs.fr

PROCEEDINGS 

On-Line Proceedings of NLULP'99 will be available on the Web from November 15,
1999. 

IMPORTANT DATES 

Deadline for submissions:     June 30, 1999 
Acceptance notification:      September 13, 1999 
Final version of papers:      October 11, 1999 
On-Line Proceedings:          November 15, 1999 
Workshop dates:               December 3-4, 1999