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The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its special
interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to
NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the

           FIFTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-5) 

WHEN: August 18-20, 1997  

WHERE:  Tsinghua University, Beijing, China            (August 18, 1997)   
        Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (August 20, 1997)

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The deadline for paper submissions has been extended two weeks. The new 
set of dates are:

	Submission Deadline: 	April 28, 1997
	Notification Date:   	June 9, 1997
	Camera ready copy due: 	July 11, 1997

For more info, please see the final call for paper which will be posted
soon.

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The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its
special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based
approaches to NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the

            FIFTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-5)

WHEN:   August 18-20, 1997

WHERE:  Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
        (August 18/19, 1997)
        Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
        (August 20, 1997)

WVLC5 will immediately precede ROCLING '97 (Aug 22-24, Taiwan)
and IJCAI '97 (Aug 24-29, Nagoya, Japan).

This workshop will take place in two consecutive sessions sharing
a common program committee and proceedings. Authors may specify
at which session(s) they wish to present their papers.

SPONSORED BY:  The Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL) LEXIS-NEXIS, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:  This workshop, like preceding ones in the
series, will offer a general international forum for the
presentation of new advances and applications in the area of
large scale, corpus-based natural language processing.

The fifth workshop will focus on the theme of Innovative and
practical uses of large corpora in real-world  applications

Gigabytes and terabytes of on-line unrestricted natural language
text have become commonplace today. How are these resources
actually being used in commercial as well as research
applications? What robust and efficient techniques exist for
analyzing and organizing these resources?  The workshop
encourages contributions that demonstrate innovative applications
of corpus-based NLP to problems of practical commercial
importance.

The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop,
and offer a focus for discussion and debate between academic
researchers and industrial practitioners. We also expect and will
welcome a diverse set of submissions in all areas of statistical
and corpus-based NLP, including (but not limited to)
   Text Analysis Techniques:
        - part of speech tagging
        - term and name identification
        - morphological analysis
        - robust parsing
        - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
        - sense disambiguation
        - anaphora resolution
        - event categorization
        - discourse structure
   Applications:
        - information retrieval
        - information extraction
        - text categorization and summarization
        - lexicography
        - machine translation
        - spelling and grammar correction
        - recognition: speech, OCR, handwriting, etc.

PROGRAM CHAIRS:
   Huang Changning - Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)
   Ken Church      - AT&T Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
   Joe Zhou        - LEXIS-NEXIS (Dayton, OH, USA)

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:   Authors should submit a full-length
paper (3500-8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy.
Electronic submissions should be mailed to
"WVLC5@lexis-nexis.com" and must either be (a) plain ascii text,
(b) a single postscript file, or (c) a single latex file
following the ACL-97 stylesheet (no separate figures or .bib
files). Hard copy submissions should be mailed to Ken Church
(address below), and should include four (4) copies of the paper.

REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper
accepted for presentation cannot be presented or have been
presented at any other meeting. Papers submitted to other
conferences will be considered, as long as this fact is clearly
indicated in the submission.

SCHEDULE:
  Submission Deadline:    April 7, 1997
  Notification Date:      May 20, 1997
  Camera ready copy due:  July 1, 1997

CONTACT:
   Ken Church                         Joe Zhou
   Room 2B-421                        LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier
   AT&T Laboratories                  9555 Springboro Pike
   Murray Hill, NJ 07974  USA         Dayton, OH 45342  USA
   e-mail: kwc@research.att.com       email: joez@lexis-nexis.com