ram@typo.umb.EDU (Robert Morris) (04/23/87)
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS PROTEXT IV CONFERENCE The Fourth International Conference On Text Processing Systems 20-22 October 1987 and the 6 related PROTEXT IV SHORT COURSES 19 October 1987 All sessions at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston The Converence is held under the auspices of the Institute for Numerical Computation and Analysis, a non-profit research organization licensed under the laws of the Republic of Ireland. The short courses are under the same auspices, except as indicated. Conference: The conference is a forum for discussion of the latest research on computer-aided text processing. Keynote speakers include John Collins (Bitstream Inc.); Richard Furuta(Univ. of Maryland); Shiu Chang Loh (Chinese University, Hong Cong); Pierre MacKay( Univ. of Washington); Marc Nanard (CRIM, Montpelier); Luis Trabb-Pardo (Imagen Corp.); Xuan Wang(Peking University). SHORT COURSES. The following one-day short courses are scheduled for October 19: A. Issues in Generalized Text Processing( Furuta, Loh, MacKay, Nanard) B. TeX for Scientific Documentation ( Bart Childs, Texas A&M Univ.) C. An Introduction to SGML ( W.W. Davis, Jr., Internal Revenue Service) D. Issues in Digital Typography (Richard Rubinstein, Digital Equipment Corp.) E. Introduction to PostScript(Yvonne Perry, Adobe Systems) F. Document Databases and Technical Publishing( Geoffrey James, Honeywell Information Systems) under the auspices of the University of Massachusetts/Boston and UCLA extension programs. To be confirmed. CALL FOR PAPERS. Contributed papers are solicited. Authers should submit a one page typeset or typewritten abstract (500 words maximum) and up to two additional pages of figures (no text). This must state clearly the purpose of the work, the specific original results that have been obtained, and the significance of these results. Only works not previously submitted for publication will be considered. The absolute deadline for receipt is June 30, 1987. Manuscripts should be sent to one of the following: Prof. John Miller, School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. Prof. Robert Morris, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA 02125. The program committee will meet shortly after the deadline and notify authors by July 15, 1987. Authors will be allocated 20 minutes at the conference. The final version of the paper is to be submitted in camer-ready cop[y at the conference and will be refereed again before being accepted for publication in the conference proceedings. Further information on fees and accomodation is available from John Miller or Robert Morris at the addresses above.
ram@typo.umb.EDU (Robert Morris) (08/25/87)
ProText IV 4th International Text Processing Conference and associated short courses Second Announcment 20-22 October, 1987 (short courses 19 October, 1987). Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA. Registration forms available in North America from Prof. Robert Morris Dept. of Math. and C.S. UMASS/Boston Boston, MA 02125 telephone 617-929-7976 (7960 if no answer) net mail: ram@umb.edu or ram%umb.edu@relay.cs.net or ...!harvard!umb!ram Outside North America from ProText IV, Conference Managment Services PO Box 5 Dun Laoghaire Co. Dublin IRELAND telephone (+353-1) 613749 (or 611399 if no answer) ------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM Keynote speakers: J. Collins, Bitstream, "Digital Type Fonts for Text Processing Systems" R. Furuta, U of Maryland, "Tools that support multiple authors working simultaneously". S-C. Loh, Hong Kong, "Text Processing in Ideographic Languages" P. Mackay, U. of Washington, "An Editor for Multi-Lingual Texts" M. Nanard (CRIM, Montpelier), "Run Time Adaptive User Interface" L. Trabb-Pardo, Imagen, "The evolution of printing system architecture" X. Wang, Peking University, "Key Problems in Developing an Advanced Chinese Text Processing and Typesetting System" Contributed Lectures: W. Daelemans, Vrije Uni. Brussels, "Text Processing Systems with Linquistic Knowledge" L. Earnest, Stanford, "Making WYSIWYG characters shape up" J. Gourlay, Ohio State, "Spacing a line of music" W. Hegazy and J. Gourlay, Ohio State, "A document formatting model" D. Lucarella, Milan, "Best Match searching in document databases", D. Manson, I.P. Sharp, Toronto, "[..]TeX, PostScript and APL as Tools to Build Data Processing Systems". D. Mellinger (Stanford and Interleaf) and K. Nitchie (Interleaf), "Font Matching with Flexifonts" L. Price, Hewlitt Packard, "User reaction to an SGML Application" R. Sauvain, E. Wayman, Xerox, "Typefounder - A Collection of Digital Font Creation Tools" C. Smith, Berlin, "Beyond Document Structure, SGML as a Software Development Tool" J. Walker and R. Bryan, Symbolics, "An editor for structured technical documents" A number of poster papers and late papers which will not be in the proceedings will be available for discussion. Preceeding the Conference on October 19, the following short courses will be offered: A. Issues in Generalized Text Processing - Furuta, Mackay, Nanard, S. Loh B. TeX for Scientific Documentation - Bart Childs, with the TeX User's Group. C. An Introduction to SGML - W. Davis (IRS) D. Issues in Digital Typography - R. Rubinstein (DEC) E. Introduction to PostScript - Y. Perry (Adobe)