DIALOGUE'98

International Workshop on computational linguistics and its applications
Kazan (Russia), May 31 - June 4, 1998

Dear Colleagues,

We are glad to inform you about DIALOGUE'98, an international annual workshop on computational linguistics and its applications, which will take place this year in May 31 - June 4, near Kazan (Tatarstan, Russian Federation).

DIALOGUE'98 should become fourth International Workshop in row of DIALOGUE'95 Kazan
DIALOGUE'96 Puschino
DIALOGUE'97 Yasnaya Polyana
reviving the tradition of the interdisciplinary DIALOGUE seminars which were regular national events in the USSR during 70s-80s.

The Workshop is an annual meeting place for a dialogue:

a) between researchers from different fields that are related to computational linguistics (linguists, computer and cognitive scientists, psychologists, researchers in the artificial intelligence);

b) between researchers from the former USSR and from the international community.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• theoretical and cognitive linguistics
• syntax, semantics, pragmatics and their interaction
• systems for natural language processing
• dialogue and speech act
• problems of natioanl localization of natural language processing
• natural language front-ends
• natural language understanding and model of object domain
• voice interaction with computer
• knowledge representation and processing

The number of participants is expected about 100. Every prospective attendee is required to submit a short research summary including relevant recent publications, regular and e-mail address, fax and phone numbers.

Participants who wish to present their work are additionally required to submit a poster (3-4 double-spaced pages, 6-8 kB) or a full paper (not exceeding 12 double- spaced pages, 24 kB). Please send submissions preferably via e-mail (in plain ASCII or uuencoded Winword files) to the address of the Program Committee before March 1, 1998. Submissions in Russian and English are equally accepted. Submissions in Russian should be accompanied with a short summary in English (approximately 100-200 words). We plan to organize selected English-to-Russian and Russian-to-English translation of talks.

Addresses for all correspondence:

e-mail: [email protected]

Snail mail:
DIALOGUE'98
Russian Institute for Artificial Intelligence
P.O.Box 111, Moscow,
103001, Russia.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Deadline for submission: March 1, 1998
• Notification of acceptance: March 20, 1998
• Final paper due: March 30, 1998

In the field of computational linguistics in Russia the DIALOGUE Workshops became regular annual events which attract leading researchers from the former USSR as well as other countries. We hope that DIALOGUE'98 will continue this tradition.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Alexander S. Narin'yani, Program Chair (Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence)
Christian Boitet (Grenoble University)
Rais.G. Bukharajev (Kazan State University)
Ilya N. Gorelov (Saratov State University)
Alexander E. Kibrik (Moscow State University)
Igor A. Mel'chuk (Montreal University)
Sergei Nirenburg (New-Mexico State University)
Haldur Oim (Tartu University)
Dmitrij A. Pospelov (Computer Center of Russian Academy of Sciences)

Secretariate:

Natalya I. Laufer (Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence)
Olga.V. Fedorova (Moscow State University)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Rais.G. Bukharajev (Kazan State University) - the Chairman
Djavdet Sulejmanov (Kazan State University) - the Vice-Chairman
Il'dus Hajbullin (Tatarstan Academy of Science)
Nail' Zamov (Kazan State University)

Information for contacts in Kazan:

420008 Tatarstan, KAZAN
Kremlevskaja str., 35
Kazan State University, VMK Faculty,
Djavdet Sulejmanov

email: [email protected]
Tel./Fax: (843-2) 38-75-91

If you have questions about the Workshop, please send e-mail letters to the above-mentioned addresses.

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