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COLING-88 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 22-27 August 1988, Budapest, Hungary ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on all aspects of computational linguistics in a broad sense, including but not limited to: > theoretical issues of CL in its relations to linguistics, mathematics, computer science and cognitive science > computational models of (sub)systems of natural language and of human communication (phonemics, morphemic, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, parsing and generation, discourse, speech acts and planning) > linguistic contributions to - natural language dialog systems, intelligent and cooperative question answering - machine (aided) translation - speech understanding and voice output procedures - systems for text generation - systems for use and preparation of dictionaries for humans and machines - intelligent text editors > knowledge representation and inferencing - language comprehension - automatic creation of knowledge bases from texts > hardware and software support for language data processing > computational tools for language learning and teaching Papers should report on substantial, original and unpublished research and should indicate clearly the position of the work described within the context of the research in the given domain and emphasize what new results have been achieved. Authors should submit four (4) copies of an extended abstract not exceeding seven (7) double-spaced pages plus a title page including the name(s) of the author(s), complete address, a short (five-line) summary, and a specification of the topic area. Abstracts must be received not later than 10 December 1987 by the Chairperson of the Program Committee: Dr. Eva Hajicova (COLING-88) Charles University Faculty of Mathematics, Linguistics Malostranske n. 25 CS-118 00 Praha 1, Czechoslovakia Authors will be notified of acceptance by 28 February 1988. Camera-ready copies of final papers must be received by 30 April 1988. Inquiries about the conference, exhibitions, and demonstrations (live and video) should be directed to: COLING-88 Secretariat c/o MTESZ Congress Bureau Kossuth ter 6-8 H-1055 Budapest, Hungary telex 225792 MTESZ H COLING-88 is sponsored by the International Committee on Computational Linguistics. It is organized by the John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences in cooperation with the Computer and Automation Institute and the Institute for Linguistics, both of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. COLING-88 will be preceded by tutorials and workshops, and immediately followed by the 3rd EURALEX Congress on all aspects of lexicography, also to be held in Budapest.