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Subject: Call for Papers  - QUALICO 94 - Second International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 09:37:26 -0700
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                      CALL FOR PAPERS 

                       QUALICO - 94

              Second International Conference
                on Quantitative Linguistics

	 Moscow, Russia, September 20(Tue)-24(Sat), 1994
             
The Permanent International Qualico Committee invites the submission of
papers and participation in this conference, which will be organized
by Moscow State University in cooperation with the University of Trier


Chair of the Organizing Committee:                         

                        Anatoliy A. Polikarpov
                        Department of Theoretical and
                        Computational Linguistics
                        Moscow State University, Moscow, 117899, Russia
			Tel.: +7 095  939-31-78
			Fax.: +7 095  939-26-22
                        E-mail.: comm-pub@comlab.vega.msk.su 

Chair of the Program Committee: 

                        Reinhard Koehler
                        University of Trier, Department of Computational
                        Linguistics, D-54286 Trier, Germany
                        Tel.: +49 651  201-2270 (or 2271)
			Fax.: +49 651  201-3946
                        E-mail.: koehler@ldv01.Uni-Trier.de

Program Committee       Gabriel Altmann (Bochum, Germany)
			Kenneth Church (Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
                        Sheila Embleton (York, Canada)
			Jacques Guy (Clayton, Australia)
			Ludek Hrebicek (Prague, Czech Republik)
			Yuriy K.Krylov (St. Petersburg, Russia)
                        Raimund G.Piotrovskiy (St. Petersburg, Russia)
			Burghard Rieger (Trier, Germany)
                        Jadwiga Sambor (Warsaw, Poland)
                        Pauli Saukkonen (Oulu, Finland)
			George Silnitskiy (Smolensk, Russia)
			Royal Skousen (Provo, Utah, USA)
			Philippe Thoiron (Lyon, France)
			Juhan Tuldava (Tartu, Estonia)


TOPICS OF  INTEREST:  Papers  are  invited  on  substantial,
original, and  unpublished  research  on  all   aspects   of
Quantitative Linguistics, including, but not limited to, the
following.

1) Observations and descriptions of all aspects of  language
and text     phenomena,     including     the    areas    of
psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics,  linguistic   typology,
stylistics, etc.   as   far   as   they   use   quantitative
mathematical methods   (probability    theory,    stochastic
processes,  differential  and  difference  equations,  fuzzy
logics and set theory,  function theory etc.), on all levels
of linguistic analysis.

2) Applications   of   methods,  models,  or  findings  from
quantitative linguistics to  problems  of  natural  language
processing,  machine    translation,    language   teaching,
documentation and  information retrieval - especially in the
form of automated  systems  of  different  kinds  (automated
systems for scientific research,  expert systems, electronic
dictionaries, parsing systems, controlled large text corpora
etc.).

3) Methodological   problems  of   linguistic   measurement,
model construction, sampling and test theory.

4) Epistemological  issues  such  as explanation of language
and text phenomena, contributions  to  theory  construction,
systems theory, philosophy of science.


REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION: Papers should be either topical
papers (maximum six pages in final format)  or project notes
with demonstration  (maximum  four  pages),  preferably   in
English. Both should describe original work.The project note
should specify the computer platform that will be used. They
should emphasize  completed  work rather than intended work,
and they should indicate clearly the state of completion  of
the reported  results.  A paper accepted for presentation at
the QUALICO-94  Conference  cannot  be  presented at another
conference.

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 e-mail if possible), affiliation across the  page
top, a short (five line) summary,  the words:  topical paper
or project note,  and a specification of the topic area.  As
well,  authors are strongly urged to email  the  title  page
information by the deadline date. Send the papers and emails
to the chairman of the program committee.


IMPORTANT DATES:
      Preliminary paper submission due:   31 January, 1994
      Acceptance notification:            15 May, 1994
      Camera-ready copies due:            20 August, 1994


REVIEW SCHEDULE:   Preliminary papers are due by 31  January
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.
Designated  authors  will  be  notified  of acceptance by 15
May, 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in
a  double-column  format,  preferably using a laser printer,
and the text in ASCII format on a diskette (MS-DOS) must be
received by 20 August at the chairman of the program committee.

Papers
received after  that  date  may  not  be  included  in   the
proceedings.


OTHER ACTIVITIES:

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  Ana-
toliy  A.Polikarpov and Reinhard Koehler.