Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/23/90)
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