Fourth International Workshop on 
                   DICTIONARY WRITING SYSTEMS 
                           (DWS 2006)
                 Torino, Italy, 6 September 2006
                     (pre EURALEX conference)
           Workshop website: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/dws06 
            
A dictionary writing system (DWS) is a piece of software for writing
and producing a dictionary. It might include an editor, a database, a
web interface and various management tools (for allocating work etc.)
It operates with a dictionary grammar, which specifies the structure
of the dictionary. 
We invite submission of research papers and demos.  Submission
deadline is  
                     **** 11th June 2006 ****  
The workshop is relevant for: 
       o dictionary project managers 
       o lexical database users and developers 
       o lexicographers 
       o students of lexicography, lexicology, computational
       linguistics  
The workshop follows similar successful events in Brighton, UK in 2002
and 2003, and Brno, the Czech Republic in 2004.  
Program committee:
    o Philippe Climent, IDM, France 
    o Steve Crowdy, Longman Dictionaries/Pearson Education, U.K. 
    o Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd. and U. Sussex,
    U.K. (Chair)
    o Karel Pala, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 
    o Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, TshwaneDJe HLT and Ghent U, Belgium 
    o Pavel Smrz, Brno U of Technology, Czech Republic  
Fee:                            96 (to be confirmed)
Full-time Student fee:          48 (to be confirmed)
Venue will be central Torino; details to follow.  For travel etc see
EURALEX conference website, http://www.euralex2006.unito.it