--- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERSFSMNLP'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
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.