CLIN 99 First Announcement Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Tenth CLIN Meeting Friday, 10 December, 1999 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Utrecht University We are happy to announce the tenth CLIN meeting, which will be hosted by the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS at Utrecht University. The meeting will take place in Utrecht, at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. The languages of the conference will be Dutch and English. The local organiser of this year's meeting is Paola Monachesi. Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of computational linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, machine translation, computational lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, information retrieval, knowledge representation, corpus-oriented methods, etc.). Authors should submit an abstract in English or Dutch to the local organiser (preferably by e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should contain: - a title - your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address - a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines) You can send your abstract to: clin99@let.uu.nl or, if email is not possible, to: CLIN 99 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Utrecht University Trans 10 3512JK Utrecht The Netherlands Deadline for submission is 1 October 1999. Notification of acceptance (by e-mail): 15 October 1999. A volume with proceedings of the Ninth CLIN meeting (held 11 December 1998, in Leuven) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN 99 before CLIN 2000. Papers for these proceedings will have to be written in English; they will be reviewed by a committee to be appointed in due time. This and future information about CLIN 99 will be made available via the CLIN home page: http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/clin.html