DAARRC2 - Discourse, Anaphora and Reference Resolution Colloquium Lancaster University, 1 - 4th August , 1998 Invited Speakers - Branimir Boguraev "Anaphora in Computational Linguistics" Prof. Michael Hoey "Looking at the Text Linguistics of Certain Words" Prof. Pieter Seuren "A Discourse-Semantic Account of Donkey Anaphora" Anaphora and problems of reference resolution have received a great deal of attention from workers in linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and information retrieval for a number of decades. Such problems have proved a major challenge for all of these fields, and a great many differing theories and solutions have been proposed and implemented with varying degrees of success. This colloquium aims to fill a need for researchers in this field to meet. Our hope is that this meeting will allow all of the different strands of work to be identified, with a view to producing an up-to-date review of the field. To this end, a coloquium will take place from the 1st to the 4th of August, 1998 at Lancaster University, UK, organized jointly by the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University and the Institute for English Studies, Lodz University, Poland. This colloquium is a follow up to the highly succesful DAARC colloquium held at Lancaster in 1996. Our aim this time is specifically geared towards encouraging a cross-fertilization of ideas between theoretical linguistics, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. Papers are requested for presentation on all aspects of anaphora and reference resolution. The following research areas are of particular interest, but do not constitute an exhaustive list: corpus-based studies of anaphora in natural language, statistical approaches to reference resolution, cognitive and psychological perspectives, discourse and text-processing perspectives, information retrieval and other computer applications, pragmatics and anaphor resolution, and linguistic-theoretical approaches. Papers reporting work in any language are welcome. The official language of the conference, for purposes of publication and presentation, is English. Research may be work in progress, or work that has already been completed. Abstracts may be sent either electronically, by email or fax, or by traditional surface mail. Email submission of abstracts is, however, strongly encouraged. Details below. Abstracts should arrive at Lancaster by 1st February, 1998, and notification of acceptance will be sent by 14th February, 1998. Draft versions of full papers should arrive by 30th June, 1998. The proceedings will be published in time for the colloquium. ======================================================================= The DAARC2 Organizing committee Simon Botley, Lodz University, Poland Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Wolverhampton University, UK Pieter Seuren, Nijmegen University, Netherlands Andrew Wilson, Chemnitz University, Germany Surface mail submissions: DAARC2, Department of Linguistics and MEL, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA14YT EMAIL: eiamme@msmail.lancaster.ac.uk FAX: +44 1524 843 085