RECENT ADVANCES IN NLP

Previous Conference: RANLP'95

Selected papers from RANLP'95 appeared as:

R.Mitkov & N.Nicolov (eds), 1996, Recent Advances in NLP 1995, Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Vol.136, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Hb 90 272 3640 2. Price to be announced.

Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and Language Processing are invited, including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; electronic dictionaries; written and spoken natural language interfaces; knowledge acquisition; terminology; text summarisation; message routing, text classification; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation, assessment and standards in language engineering; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind.

The conference also welcomes new results in NLP based on modern alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connectionist as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches.

Program Committee of RANLP'97

Elisabeth Andre	(DFKI, Saarbruecken)
Branimir Boguraev	(Apple, Cupertino)
Chris Brew	(LTG, University of Edinburgh)
John Carroll	(University of Sussex)
Robert Dale	(Microsoft Research Institute, Australia)
Rodolfo Delmonte	(Universira Ca' Foscari, Venice)
Tomaz Erjavec	(Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Steve Finch	(Thomson Technology, Rockville)
Guenter Goerz	(University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)
Eva Hajicova	(Charles University, Prague)
Ed Hovy	(ISI/University of Southern California)
Changning Huan	(Tsinghua University, Beijing)
Leonid Iomdin	(Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Pierre Isabelle	(CITI,Laval)
Aravind Joshi	(University of Pennsylvania)
Richard Kittredge	(University de Montreal)
Manfred Kudlek	(University of Hamburg)
Karen Kukich	(Bellcore, Morristown)
Geoffrey Leech	(Lancaster University)
Susann LuperFoy	(MITRE Corporation, McLean)
Carlos Martin Vide	(Universidad Rovira i Virgilli, Tarragona)
Yuji Matsumoto	(Nara Inst of Science & Technology)
Tony McEnery	(Lancaster University)
Ruslan Mitkov	(University of Wolverhampton)
Nicolas Nicolov	(University of Sussex)
Stephen Pullman	(SRI, Cambridge)
James Pustejovsky	(University of Brandeis)
Allan Ramsay	(UMIST, Manchester)
Harold Somers	(UMIST, Manchester)
Oliviero Stock	(IRST, Trento)
Isabelle Trancoso	(INESC, Lisbon)
Harald Trost	(Austrian Institute for AI, Vienna)
Benjamin Tsou	(City University of Hong Kong)
Jun-ichi Tsujii	(University of Tokyo/UMIST)
Dan Tufis	(Romanian Academy, Bucharest)
Atro Voutalainen	(University of Helsinki)
Yorick Wilks	(University of Sheffield)
David Yarowsky	(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
Michael Zock	(LIMSI, CNRS)

Invited Speakers

The invited speakers of the conference are outstanding academics including:

Yorick Wilks	(University of Sheffield)
Sergei Nirenburg	(New Mexico State University)

Others are expected to confirm their participation soon.

Format of camera-ready copies

Guidelines for camera-ready copies ranlp-demo.ps : demo PS file which gives one an idea about how things should look. LaTeX users: ranlp97.sty : document style ranlp.bst: bibliography style ranlp-demo.tex : simple demo file

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline (Hard/Electronic)	16 MAY 1997
Paper Notification	15 Jul 1997
Camera-Ready Papers Due	8 Aug 1997
RANLP Conference	11-13 Sep 1997

Location, Transport, Accommodation

Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains surrounding the Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. More detailed information can be found following this link RANLP survival kit.

Industrial Participants/ Publishing Companies/ Demos/Exhibits

Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP-related products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books on NLP. Company representatives should inform Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk) of their intention. Likewise for people from academia who wish to make demos. Publishers wishing to exhibit/ promote books please contact Ruslan Mitkov (r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk).

Alternative Program

An alternative program can be arranged for persons accompanying delegates. Among the places which can be visited is Plovdiv, the second largest and oldest Bulgarian city, beautifully situated on 7 hills 75 km away from Tzigov Chark.

Organising Committee of RANLP'97

Chair:	Ruslan Mitkov	University of Wolverhampton
Vice-Chair:	Nicolas Nicolov	COGS, University of Sussex
	Michael Zock	LIMSI, CNRS
	Manfred Kudlek	University of Hamburg

Registration, Travel, On-site arrangements

Victoria Arranz	UMIST
Malgorzata Stys	University of Cambridge

Local Organisation

Nikolai Nikolov	(Incoma, Shumen)
Iliana Raeva	(Technical University, Rousse)
Kalina Bontcheva	(University of Shefield)
Jordan Tabov	(Institute of Mathematics, Sofia)

Registration

Last update: 28 Mar 1997

Nicolas Nicolov
Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Tel: +44-1273 678408
Fax: +44-1273 671320
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