The Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 99) The Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics will take place at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, from December 9 - 10 1999. The conference is open for all branches of computational linguistics. Topics for special sections are however defined: Speech Technology, Linguistic Methods in Information Retrieval, and Translation. Abstracts within these topics are particulary welcome. The deadline for submission of abstracts (in English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish; max 1000 words) is September 15. The time used for the presentation should not exceed 25 minutes. Please submit your abstract by e-mail to the following address: nodalida99@hf.ntnu.no Participants will be notified about acceptance by October 15 1999. The deadline for registration and payment for all participants is November 1, 1999. Registration will be opened by October 1 1999. The local organizer has reserved hotel rooms in the conference period. Selected papers will be published after the conference. The registration fee will be approx. NOK 300 - 500 (EURO 40 - 60), including the conference proceedings, coffee, etc. Conference dinner is not included. More detailed information will be announced later at our home page: http://benoni.hf.ntnu.no/nodalida99/