msearle%watsol.waterloo.edu@relay.cs.net (Maureen Searle) (03/01/88)
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UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
CENTRE FOR THE NEW OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PANELISTS
4TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
INFORMATION IN TEXT
October 27-28, 1988
Waterloo, Canada
This year's conference will focus on ways that text stored as electronic
data allows information to be restructured and extracted in response to
individualized needs. For example, text databases can be used to:
- expand the information potential of existing text
- create and maintain new information resources
- generate new print information
Papers presenting original research on theoretical and applied aspects of
this theme are being sought. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest
include computational lexicology, computational linguistics, syntactic
and semantic analysis, lexicography, grammar defined databases, lexical
databases and machine-readable dictionaries and reference works.
Submissions will be refereed by a program committee. Authors should send
seven copies of a detailed abstract (5 to 10 double-spaced pages) by
June 10, 1988 to the Committee Chairman, Dr. Gaston Gonnet, at:
UW Centre for the New OED
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada, N2L 3G1
Late submissions risk rejection without consideration. Authors will be
notified of acceptance or rejection by July 22, 1988. A working draft
of the paper, not exceeding 15 pages, will be due by September 6, 1988
for inclusion in proceedings which will be made available at the
conference.
One conference session will be devoted to a panel discussion entitled
MEDIUM AND MESSAGE: THE FUTURE OF THE ELECTRONIC BOOK. The Centre invites
individuals who are interested in participating as panel members to submit
a brief statement (approximately 150 words) expressing their major
position on this topic. Please submit statements not later than
June 10, 1988 to the Administrative Director, Donna Lee Berg, at the above
address. Selection of panel members will be made by July 22, 1988.
The Centre is interested in specialists or generalists in both academic and
professional fields (including editors, publishers, software designers and
distributors) who have strongly held views on the information potential of
the electronic book.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Roy Byrd (IBM Corporation) Michael Lesk (Bell Communications Research)
Reinhard Hartmann (Univ. of Exeter) Beth Levin (Northwestern University)
Ian Lancashire (Univ. of Toronto) Richard Venezky (Univ. of Delaware)
Chairman: Gaston Gonnet (Univ. of Waterloo)