lmjones@WATSOL.WATERLOO.EDU ("Linda M. Jones") (02/19/91)
Call for Papers
USING CORPORA
7th Annual Conference of the
University of Waterloo Centre for
the New OED and Text Research
September 29 - October 1, 1991
St. Catherine's College
Oxford, England
The Seventh Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for
the New OED and Text Research, jointly sponsored by the University of
Waterloo, Oxford University Press, and Oxford University Computing Services,
will be held at Statherine's College,
Oxford, England, on September 29 - October 1, 1991.
This year's conference will focus on applications of computer-based
corpora. For example, text databases can be used to expand the information
potential of existing text, create and maintain new information
resources, and generate new print information.
Conference participants will again include researchers from computer
science and the humanities, as well as representatives from publishing
houses and other industries.
Papers presenting original research on theoretical and applied
aspects of the theme are being soughtypical but not
exclusive areas of interest include computational lexicology,
computational linguistics, syntactic and semantic analysis,
computational lexicography, lexical databases,
and online reference works.
Submissions will be refereed by the program committee listed
belowuthors should send seven copies of a detailed
abstract (5 to 10 double-spaced pages) by April 22, 1991, to
the Program Chair, Prof. Frank Tompa, at:
UW Centre for the New OED
and Text Research
Davis Centre
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
or
newoed@uwaterloo.ca
Late submissions risk rejection without consideration.
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by June 14, 1991.
A working draft of the paper, not exceeding 15 pages, will be
due by July 19, 1991, for inclusion in proceedings which will be made
available at the conference.
Program Committee
Patrick Hanks (Oxford University Press)
Stig Johansson (University of Oslo)
Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto)
Michael Lesk (Bellcore)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
Frank Tompa, Chair (University of Waterloo)