PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing

NLP 2000:  Filling the gap between theory and practice

2, 3 & 4 June 2000, Samos Island - Greece

URL: http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000

OBJECTIVES
We feel that this is the most opportune time for a critical view of the
achievements both in theory and in practice, and for developing bridges in
order to build emerging advanced systems and services that will provide the
breadth of information envisaged. The aim is to fill the gap between theory
and practice so that developments and needs in theory to take advantage and
give insights for new developments in technological methods and
applications, and visa-versa. The goal is to bring together people that will
attest to the progress of the field and disseminate it to a wider audience.
The conference will provide a forum to bring together researchers from the
fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated translation,
information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest in
computational aspects of terminology processing: acquisition, extraction,
indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary construction, etc. We
also hope that researchers in all areas of NLP will participate, to discuss
ways in which their own work could contribute, even if they are not
currently working on these applications.

Specific themes of the conference include

Linguistic Models in NLP

Language Engineering Techniques and Applications



INVITED TALKS

Berwick Bob (MIT), USA
Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France
Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Center Europe), France
Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Université du Québec a Montréal), Canada
Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland
Morin Jean Yves (University of Montreal), Canada
Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA
Theologitis Dimitris (Commission of the European Union), Luxemburg
Wehrli Eric (University of Geneva), Switzerland
Wilks Yorik (University of Sheffield), England



Dimitris Christodoulakis (University of Patras), Greece
Program Committee Chairman