ROCLING X (1997) International Conference   
                 Research on Computational Linguistics 
                            Call for Papers


Time: August 22-24, 1997

Location: Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Topics of Interest: All areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural
Language Processing, including, but not limited to: natual language
understanding, machine translation, parsing, spoken language
processing, corpus linguistics, language-based information retrieval,
text processing, electronic lexicon and lexical semantics, speech
recognition/synthesis.

Official Conference Language: English

Additional Conference Language: Chinese (Mandarin)

Invited Speakers:
  Janet D. Fodor, CUNY, President of the Linguistic Society of America (1997)
  Beth Levin, Northwestern University
  Ovid T.L. Tzeng, National Chung Cheng University, Member of Academia Sinica

Tutorials: 
  Beth Levin, Northwestern University
  Richard Sproat, Bell Labs
    Finite-state Methods in Morphology, Text Analysis and the Analysis of 
    Writing Systems

Conference Chair: Lin-Shan Lee, Academia Sinica 
Program Committee Co-chairs: Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica
                             Chu-Ren Huang, Accdemia Sinica 
                             Richard Sproat, Bell Labs

Program Committee Members:
   Steve Abney, University of Tuebingen
   Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam
   Jyun-sheng Chang, Tsing Hua University
   Hsin-hsi Chen, Taiwan University
   Shin-Horng Chen, Chiao-Tung University
   Li-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica
   Key-Sun Choi, KAIST
   Jerry Hobbs, SRI International
   Changning Huang, Tsinghua University
   Geunbae Lee, Pohang University of Sci. and Tech.
   Hsi-Jian Lee, Chiao-Tung University
   Kim Teng Lua, National University of Singapore
   Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Sci. and Tech.
   Masaaki Nagata, NTT
   Martha Palmer, University of Penn.
   Jerry Seligman, Chung Cheng University
   Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute. of Tech.
   Keh-Yih Su, Tsing Hua University 
   Chiu-Yu Tseng, Academia Sinica
   Benjamin K. T'sou, City University of Hong Kong
   Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Sci. and Tech.
   Jhing-Fa Wang, Cheng Kung University
   David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University
   Victor Zue, MIT

Submission: Pacific Asia Area                  Rest of the World
            ROCLING X                          ROCLING X
            c/o Dr. Keh-Jiann Chen             c /o Dr. Richard Sproat
            Institute of Information Science,  Bell Labs, Room 2d-451
            Academia Sinica                    700 Mountain Avenue
            Nankang, Taipei 115                Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
            Taiwan                             Tel: +1-908-582-5296
            Tel/Fax: 886-2-788-1638            Fax: +1-908-582-3306

     Types: a) Regular Paper [max. 25pp., double-spaced], b) Short Paper, and
            c) Project Notes [both max. 10pp., double-spaced]
    Copies: Send four (4) copies of full paper.
    Format: The title page should indicate submission type(s), and contain 
            abstract (less than 200 words), name, affiliation, address, and
            email address of  the author(s). Papers should follow either the
            ACL or the LSA stylesheet.

Strongly Recommended: Electronical submission of the title page at the same 
   time of sending the paper.

Electronic Submission: [plain text files only] Accepted at
   rocling@hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw     OR      rocling@research.bell-labs.com

Submission Deadline:        June 16, 1997 (Monday)
Notification of Acceptance: July 9, 1997 (Wednesday)
Final Version of Paper Due: August 1, 1997 (Friday)