Corpora: Preliminary CFP / Int. Workshop on Finite State Methods in NLP

Kemal Oflazer (ko@cs.bilkent.edu.tr)
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                         PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

FSMNLP'98 International Workshop on FINITE STATE METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

June 29 - July 1, 1998 Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

sponsored by EACL - European Chapter of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, TUBITAK- Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council(*) NATO Science for Stability Program-TU-LANGUAGE Project(*)

SCOPE: Original papers in the theory and applications of finite state techniques in all aspects of natural language processing including, but not limited to: speech, phonology, morphology, tagging, parsing, information retrieval, and discourse, are sought. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAMME AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

* Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France, Co-Chair) * Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University, Turkey, Co-Chair)

* Kenneth R. Beesley (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) * Eric Brill (Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA) * Eva Ejerhed (Umea University, Sweden) * Jerry Hobbs (SRI International, CA, USA) * Ronald M. Kaplan (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA) * Martin Kay (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA) * George Kiraz (Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA) * Andras Kornai (BBN, MA, USA) * Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland) * Tomasz Kowaltowski (University of Campinas, Brazil) * Claudio Leonardo Lucchesi ( University of Campinas, Brazil) * Mehryar Mohri (ATT Labs Research, NJ, USA) * Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of Groningen,The Netherlands) * Richard Sproat (Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA) * Emmanuel Roche (Teragram Corp., MA, USA) * Yves Schabes (Teragram Corp., MA, USA) * Gertran Van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) * Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

(*) to be confirmed

IMPORTANT DATES

Jan.16,1998 Submissions Due Mar.16,1998 Authors Notified Apr.17,1998 Camera Ready Copies Due

JUNE 29 - JULY 1 WORKSHOP

SUBMISSIONS

Electronic submissions are encouraged. Please limit full paper submissions to 12, and extended abstracts to 8, single column, single spaced pages. Please submit postscript files by e-mail to

fsmnlp98@cs.bilkent.edu.tr

with the subject line containing the first few words of the paper title. We ask that you send postscript files a few days in advance so that if there are any printing problems, you may have time to submit a hard copy version. If you prefer hard copy submissions, please send 4 copies of your manuscript

FSMNLP'98 Workshop Department of Computer Eng. Bilkent University Bilkent, ANKARA, TR-06533,TURKEY

In either case, please send a separate e-mail message to fsmnlp98@cs.bilkent.edu.tr containing the title, abstract, keywords for the paper and the relevant contact information, with a subject line similar to above.

OTHER ACTIVITIES The workshop will be held just after the 7th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence that will also be held at Bilkent University on June 24-26 1998.

If there is sufficient interest, sightseeing trips to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, to the Cappadocia Region known worldwide for its lunar landscape, fairy chimneys, underground cities, and mystical valleys will be organized during the weekend between the Symposium and the Workshop.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Bilkent University campus has a 4* hotel on the premises. In addition, a number of free lodging facilities in the University dormitories will be provided on site for conference participants. Numerous hotels in downtown Ankara are also available.

FURTHER INFORMATION Information about the workshop will be available at

http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/fsmnlp98/

and will be updated regularly.