PACLING Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 August 25-28, 1999 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cooperative Hosts ================= o Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI) / Societe canadienne pour l'etude de l'intelligence par ordinateur (SCEIO) o University of Waterloo, Canada o The Technical Group on Natural Language Understanding and Communication of Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan o The Technical Group on Thought and Language of Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan History and Aims ================ 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 three meetings of the retitled PACLING, a name designed to express the wider membership, took place in Vancouver, Canada in 1993, in Brisbane, Australia in 1995, and in Ohme, Tokyo, Japan in 1997. PACLING '99 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 demonstrating openness towards good research falling outside current dominant ``schools of thought'', and on technological transfer within the Pacific region. The conference represents 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. Topics ====== Original papers are invited on any topic in computational linguistics (and closely related areas) including, but not limited to, the following: o phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics o dialogues, spoken languages, corpora o text and message understanding and generation o language translation and translation aids o language learning and learning aids o question-answering systems and interfaces to (multimedia) o databases, language and input/output devices o natural-language-based software. Submissions =========== 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 '99. Papers that violate these requirements are subject to rejection without review. Authors of a selection of representative papers which the Program Committee identifies will be invited to revise their papers and submit to a special issue of Computational Intelligence: An International Journal based on PACLING '99. Please send four copies of each submission to: Nick CERCONE Department of Computer Science William Davis Comp. Research Centre University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 CANADA Telephone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 3292 Facsimile: (519) 885-1208 E-mail: ncercone@uwaterloo.ca *OR* Kiyoshi KOGURE NTT Communication Science Laboratories 2-4, Hikari-dai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-023 JAPAN Telephone: +81 744 93 5250 Fascimile: +81 744 93 5285 E-mail: kogure@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: February 21, 1999 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1999 Camera-ready copy due: June 18, 1999 Organizing Committee ==================== President: Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Members: Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Christian Matthiessen (Macquarie University, Australia) Nick Cercone (University of Waterloo, Canada) Charles Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Conference Committee ==================== Chair: Nick Cercone (University of Waterloo, Canada) Program coordinators: Nick Cercone (University of Waterloo, Canada) Kiyoshi Kogure (NTT, Japan) Members: Francis Bond (NTT, Japan) Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware, U.S.A.) Robin Cohen (University of Waterloo, Canada) Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Australia) Hercules Dalianis (Royal Inst. of Technology, DSV-KTH, Sweden) Chrysanne DiMarco (University of Waterloo, Canada) Mike Dent (Open Text Corp., Canada) Kohji Dohsaka (NTT, Japan) Randy Goebel (University of Alberta, Canada) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada) Satoru Ikehara (Tottori University, Japan) Kentaro Inui (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Shun Ishizaki (Keio University, Japan) Pierre Isabelle (University of Montreal, Canada; XRCE, France) Julia Johnson (University of Regina, Canada) Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal, Canada) Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal, Canada) Dekang Lin (University of Manitoba, Canada) Charles Ling (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Stan Matwin (University of Ottawa, Canada) Robert Mercer (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Johanna Moore (University of Edinburgh, UK) Gordon McCalla (Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada) Paul McFetridge (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Paul Mc Kevitt (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jun-ichi Nakamura (University of Kyoto, Japan) Minako O'Hagan (Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand) Kyonghee Paik (Keio University, Japan) T. Pattabhiraman (Seagate Software, Canada) Emmanuel Planas (Universiti Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, France) Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Gary Promhouse (Open Text Corp., Canada) Hiroshi Sakaki (Meisei University, Japan) L. K. Schubert (University of Rochester, USA) Akira Shimazu (NTT, Japan) Booncharoen Sirinaovakul (King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thailand) Tomek Strzalkowski (General Electric, 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) Peter van Beek (University of Alberta, Canada) Ning Zhong (Yamaguchi University, Japan) Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Speakers: To Be Announced