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		Fifth International Workshop on 

	Natural language Understanding and Logic Programming
			NLULP5
	             CALL FOR PAPERS


Conference dates: May 29 (Mon) --- 31 (Wed), 1995

Conference place: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Chairman: 	  Gabriel Pereira Lopes
		  Department of Computer Science
		  Faculty of Science and Technology
		  Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
		  Quinta da Torre,
		  2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal
		  Phon. +351-1-295 3220
		  Fax. +351-1-295 56 41
		  Email. gpl@fct.unl.pt


Program Committee: 


Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo)		Yuji Matsumoto (Nara) 

Harvey Abramson (Aizu)  	Charles Grant Brown (Stockholm)
Veronica Dahl (Vancouver)    	Sandiway Fong (NEC, Princeton)
Mark Johnson (Providence, RI) 	Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto)		   		
Gregers Koch (Copenhagen)   	Michael C. McCord (IBM Yorktown) 

Fred Popowich (Vancouver) 	Patrick Saint-Dizier (Toulouse) 

Luis Moniz Pereira (Lisbon)	Helder Coelho (Lisbon)		
Ryoichi Sugimura(Matsushita Electric Ind.,Osaka)
Gabriel P. Lopes (Lisbon) (chair)

The  Organizing Committee of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural  
Language Processing and Logic Programming  invites the
submission of papers for NLULP5, in Lisbon, Portugal.


TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Papers are invited  on substantial, original, and unpublished research
on  all   aspects of  Logic Programming applications to computational   
linguistics, including,   but not limited to, the followings.

- syntax 				- parsing
- semantics 				- generation
- phonetics 				- language understanding
- phonology 				- speech analysis/synthesis
- morphology 				- computational lexicons
- discourse 				- electronic dictionaries
- pragmatics 				- terminology
- quantitative/qualitative linguistics  - text database and retrieval
- mathematical linguistics 		- documentation
- contrastive linguistics 		- machine translation
- cognitive linguistics 		- machine aids for translation
- large text corpora 			- natural language interface
- text processing 			- dialogue systems
- hardware/software for NLP 		- multimedia systems

It will be nice to have in Lisbon Practical Applications of PROLOG in the area  
of NLU, for demonstrating Prolog's attractiveness for this area.


REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION:

Papers  should  have a maximum fifteen pages  in final format, should be written  
in English, and describe  original  work.  

They should  emphasize completed work rather  than intended  work, and
they should indicate clearly the state of  completion of  the reported
results. 


FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:

Authors  should  submit four copies of  preliminary  versions of their
papers   with the page  limits  above, on  A4  paper with  the  title,
author(s), addresses (including email if possible), affiliation across
the page top, a short (five to ten line) summary, and a specification  of  the  
topic area preferably drawn
from the list above.  As well, authors are strongly urged to email the
title page  information by  the deadline date.   Send  the  papers and
emails to the chair.

IMPORTANT DATES:

	Preliminary paper submission due: 	December 19,  1994
	Notification of paper arrival:		December 31, 1994
	Inquiries for lost papers:		January 20, 1995
	Acceptance notification: 		March 1, 1995
	Camera-ready copies due: 		April 1, 1995 


REVIEW SCHEDULE:

Preliminary papers are  due by 19  December 1994.  Papers received after
that date will be returned unopened.  Notification  of receipt will be
mailed to the first author (or designated  author) soon after receipt by 31  
December 1994.
All inquiries regarding lost papers must be  made  by January 20, 1995.
Designated authors will be  notified of acceptance  by March 1, 1995.
Camera-ready   copies of   final  papers  prepared  according to the publisher  
requirements,  must be received  by 1 April 1995 by the chair along with  a   
signed copyright release statement. Papers  received after that date may not be  
included in the proceedings.


OTHER ACTIVITIES:

(1)   Invited  talks  and  panels will  be   included  in the program.
Proposals and suggestions for invited  talks and panels should be sent
to the chair as soon as possible.

(2) Anyone wishing to arrange   an exhibit or present a  demonstration
should  send a  brief description, together with  a  specification  of
physical requirements (space,   power, telephone connections,  tables,
etc.) to the chair.

(3) An attractive social  program will be organized for people willing to know  
more about Portugal, Lisbon and its surroundings.

(4) At that time of the year the weather is quite worm and unpolluted beaches  
are nearby Lisbon, at Costa da Caparica.