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)