Summer School "Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics"

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              SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
       "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS"

                   Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
                       7-9 Sept'97

http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html [Summer School]
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[FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT]


The sixth summer school "Contemporary Topics in Computational
Linguistics" immediately precedes the international conference
"Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)"
(11-13 Sept'97, same location). The school will continue its
tradition of offering both introductory and advanced courses.
The programme will consist of tutorials and short courses.

LECTURERS

* Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
        Information extraction

* Sergei Nirenburg (University of New Mexico)
        Multi-Engine Machine Translation Environments

* Pieter Seuren (Nijmegen University)
        Semantic Syntax

* Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino)
        Linguistically intensive content characterisation

* Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS)
        Natural Language Generation

* Harald Trost (Austrian Institute for AI)
        Computational morphology

* Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
        Corpus Linguistics

* Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
        Recent Developments in Anaphora resolution

* Carlos Martin-Vide (University of Tarragona)
        Natural computation for natural language

* Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong)
        Automatic abstracting


LOCATION

Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on
the shores of Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia,
the capital of Bulgaria. A minibus will provide reasonably-priced
transport between Sofia airport and the conference hotel.


SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION

For further information, if you wish to participate or exhibit
books/software, please contact:
        - Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk)   or
        - Malgorzata Stys (m.stys@cl.cam.ac.uk)


RELATED EVENTS

The summer school will be followed by the International Conference
"Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)"
(same location). For more information on the conference, visit
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html


SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

A second summer school announcement, including information on location and
accommodation, registration fees and bank accounts, is due to come out in
July 1997.