CALL FOR PAPERS PACLING '97 September 2-5 1997 Meisei University Ohme, Tokyo, Japan PACLING (Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics) has grown out of the very successful Japan-Australia joint symposia on natural language processing held in November 1989 in Melbourne, Australia and in October in Iizuka, Japan in 1991. The first and second meetings of the retitled PACLING, a name designed to express the wider membership, took place in Vancouver, Canada in 1993 and in Brisbane, Australia in 1995. PACLING '97 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop-oriented meeting whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among Pacific Rim countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange showing openness towards good research falling outside current dominant ``schools of thought,'' and on technological transfer within the Pacific region. The conference is a unique forum for scientific and technological exchange, being smaller than ACL, COLING, or Applied NLP, and also more regional with extensive representation from the Pacific. Original papers are invited on any topic in computational linguistics (and strongly related areas) including (but not limited to) the following: phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, dialogues, spoken languages, corpora, text and message understanding and generation, language translation and translation aids, language learning and learning aids, question-answering systems and interfaces to (multimedia) databases, language and input/output devices, natural-language-based software. Authors should prepare extended abstracts, in English, not more than 3000 words including references. The title page must include: author's name, postal address, e-mail address (if possible), telephone and facsimile numbers; a brief 100--200 word summary; and some key words for classifying the submission. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether verbatim or in essence, must reflect this fact after key words. If a paper appears at another conference, it must be withdrawn from PACLING'97. Papers that violate these requirements are subject to rejection without review. Please send four copies of each submission to: Kiyoshi KOGURE NTT Basic Research Laboratories 3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi Kanagawa 243-01 JAPAN Telephone: +81 462 40 3619 Facsimile: +81 462 40 4705 E-mail: kogure@atom.brl.ntt.jp Submission deadline: March 14 1997 Notification of acceptance: May 16 1997 Camera-ready copy due: July 18 1997 President Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Organizing committee Members: Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Christian Matthiessen (Macquarie University, Australia) Nick Cercone(University of Regina, Canada) Charles Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Conference committee Chair: Hiroshi Sakaki (Meisei University, Japan) Program coordinators: Kiyoshi Kogure (NTT, Japan) Jun-ichi Nakamura (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Members: Kohji Dohsaka (NTT, Japan) Dan Fass (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Randy Goebel (University of Alberta, Canada) Shun Ishizaki (Keio University, Japan) Paul McFetridge (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Minako O'Hagan (Victoria University, New Zealand) Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Akira Shimazu (NTT, Japan) Stanley Starosta (University of Hawaii, USA) Ryoichi Sugimura (Matsushita, Japan) Roland Sussex (University of Queensland, Australia) Masami Suzuki (KDD, Japan) Yoichi Tomiura (Kyushu University, Japan) Hiroaki Tsurumaru (University of Nagasaki, Japan)