walker@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Don Walker) (02/22/90)
C O L I N G - 9 0 CONDENSED 2ND ANNOUNCEMENT The 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING-90, will take place on the premises of the University of Helsinki, on August 20 through August 25, 1990. PRE-COLING tutorials take place on August 16 - August 18, 1990. During COLING-90, some 160 topical papers will be read, selected from the 650 papers submitted for consideration. In addition, more than 50 project notes with software demonstrations will be presented. There will also be a large commercial exhibition of linguistically relevant software and hardware. The overriding theme of the PRE-COLING tutorials is "Theories, methods, and tools for large-scale linguistic processing of dictionaries and running text". The detailed programme is as follows: Branimir Boguraev & James Pustejovsky, "Knowledge representation and acquisition from dictionary sources" (10 h) Kenneth W. Church, "Basic Unix for linguists" (6 h) Lauri Karttunen, "Lexical computations" (6 h) Judith L. Klavans & Patrick Hanks, "The role of large text corpora in building natural language systems" (8 h) Hiroshi Uchida, "Electronic dictionary" (5 h) Facilities for on-line demonstrations and practice will be available (workstations, dictionaries, corpora). Deadline for advance registration is May 1, 1990. Before that date, the following registration fees obtain: COLING-90: students 400 FIM, others 750 FIM PRE-COLING: members of the academic community 500 FIM, representatives of commercial organizations 1500 FIM Late registration fees (after May 1, 1990) are: COLING-90: students 600 FIM, others 1200 FIM PRE-COLING: members of the academic community 800 FIM, representatives of commercial organizations 2500 FIM Please request the detailed 2nd announcement, including information on accommodation and the requisite registration forms, from: Fred Karlsson Department of General Linguistics University of Helsinki Hallituskatu 11 SF-00100 Helsinki, Finland e-mail: COLING@FINUH.BITNET fax: +358 0 653726 telex: 124690 unih sf