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CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITS Appel aux communications & expositions

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

SPECIAL ACCENT ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000

MARCH 25-28, 2000
MARIOT HOTEL, HURGHADA, EGYPT

Conférence internationale sur le traitement automatique des langues et ses applications industrielles
Attention spéciale portée au domaine médical
25 - 28 mars, 2000
Hotel Mariott, Hurghada, Egypte

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
SUBMISSION:
REFEREEING:
DEADLINES:

EXHIBITS:
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Université de Moncton is organizing its third international conference on NLP and industrial applications. This year a special attention is given to medical applications.

Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to,

- natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken and

hand-written language,

- natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial

applications

- machine translation, computer aided translation, translation

aids,

- syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology,

- dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources

- multimodality

- multilinguality
- CALL

- NLP industrial applications

- papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and

practice of NLP in general and particularly in a medical domain.

Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their papers not exceeding 1000 words (exclusive of references) either in English or in French, the two official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be published in the language of the submitted texts.

SUBMISSION:

1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title, the authors' names, affiliations, addresses, a five (5) keyword list specifying the subject area, a five (5) line summary, and the name and address of the contact person.

TITLE/ Titre:

AUTHORS INFO/ Auteurs et informations: KEYWORDS/ Mots clefs: SUMMARY/ Resume: CONTACT PERSON/ Personne contact:

2) Submissions should not exceed 1000 words in length excluding references (12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2,5 cm) all around; if using A4 please keep text within 19cm x 25,5 cm).

3) The identification page and the actual text should be submitted in 4 HARD COPIES to:

NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000

Pr. Chadia Moghrabi Université de Moncton,
Faculté des sciences,
Département d'informatique Moncton, NB, Canada, E1A 3E9
Phone: 1 (506) 858 - 4521 Fax: 1 (506) 858 - 4541 E-mail: moghrac@umoncton.ca

4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text.

REFEREEING:

All submissions shall be refereed by three members of the Program committee.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Lars Ahrenberg (U. Linkoeping, Sweden)
Roberto Basili (U. Roma, Italy)
Christian Boitet (GETA, U. Grenoble, France)
Marcel Cori (U. Paris, France)
Chrysanne DiMarco (U. Waterloo, Canada)
Sadek Eid (U. de Moncton, U. Cairo, Egypt)
Damien Genthial (TRILAN, IUT Valence, France)
Hoda Hosny (American U. Cairo, Egypt)
Maghi King (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
Guy Lapalme (U. Montreal, Canada)
Ruddy Lelouche (U. Laval, Canada)
Gudrun Magnusdottir (ESTeam AB, Greece)
Chadia Moghrabi (U. de Moncton, Canada)
Anton Nijholt (U. Twente, Netherlands)
Ahmed Rafea (U. Cairo, Egypte)
Ahmed Sameh Mohamed (American U. Cairo, Egypte)
Mark Seligman (GETA & Red Pepper, USA)

DEADLINES:

Submissions are now due on January 28, 2000. Authors will be notified of acceptance by Febuary 10, 2000. Camera-ready copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of March 2000 along with registration fees.

Authors are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the single word INTENTION in the subject line.

EXHIBITS:

Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration
send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical
requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs,
etc.) to moghrac@umoncton.ca with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

Hurgada is a beautiful sea resort with coral beaches ideal for diving and
and snorkelling. A travel agency will be handling any sightseeing in Hurghada, Cairo, or other Egyptian tourist activities. It would be the year 2000 and what a historic place to be visiting.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

The conference is organized by GRETAL, the NLP study group at Université de Moncton in cooperation with the American University of Cairo. The members of the organizing committee are:

Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair, Université de Moncton
Sadek Eid, Professor of industrial engineering, Conference co-chair, Americain University of Cairo.
Hoda Hosny, Professor of Engineering, Americain Uniuversity of Cairo
Ahmed Rafea, Professor of engineering, University of Cairo.
Ahme Sameh Mohamed, Professor of Engineering. Americain University of Cairo.
Paul Deschênes, Computer Science student & research assistant at Gretal, Université de Moncton.