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                                QUALICO-2000
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          Fourth International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics

                            24 - 26 August, 2000
                           Prague, Czech Republic


                            FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


The International Quantitative Linguistics Association invites the
submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished
research on all aspects of Quantitative Linguistics, including, but
not limited to, the following.

1. Observations and descriptions of all aspects of language and text
   phenomena, including the areas of psycholinguistics,
   sociolinguistics, dialectology, pragmatics etc. as far as they use
   quantitative mathematical methods (probability theory, stochastic
   processes, statistics, differential and difference equations, fuzzy
   logic and set theory, function theory etc.), on all levels of
   linguistic analysis.

2. Applications of methods, models, or findings from quantitative
   linguistics to problems of natural language processing, machine
   translation, language teaching, documentation and information
   retrieval.

3. Methodological problems of linguistic measurement, model
   construction, sampling and test theory.

4. Epistemological issues such as explanation of language and text
   phenomena, contributions to theory construction, system theory,
   philosophy of science.

Reports on ongoing projects are also welcome as far as they concern
any of the topics mentioned above.


REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Papers should be sent for a 20 minute presentation (plus 10 minutes
discussion) on the above-mentioned topics, preferably in English
(German and French will be also accepted). Submissions should be
between 1000-1500 words and should begin with the title, author(s),
addresses (including e-mail if possible), affiliation and a
specification of the topic area.

Authors should send proposals for papers in camera-ready form (ASCII,
postscript, or RTF format) to the following e-mail address:

qualico@mpi.nl

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2000.
Note of acceptance: 15 March 2000.


For further information about the abstract submission please contact

        Lanneke van Dreumel
        Interfaculty Research Unit for Language and Speech
        Wundtlaan 1
        PB 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen
        The Netherlands

        Phone : +31 - (0)24 - 3615751
        Fax   : +31 - (0)24 - 3521213
        E-mail: qualico@mpi.nl

For further information about the conference contact the local
organizer:

        Jan Kralik and Ludmilla Uhlirova
        E-mail: KRALIK@Galaxie.ujc.cas.cz