Announcement & Call for Contributions

Second AMAST Workshop on Language Processing

ALGEBRAIC METHODS IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING

University of Iowa
Iowa City, USA

20-22 May 2000


Aims of the Workshop
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The aim of this workshop is to bring together those
researchers on formal language theory, programming
language theory and natural language description
theory, that have a common interest in the use of
algebraic methods to describe syntactic, semantic and
pragmatic properties of language.  While firmly rooted
in the tradition of mathematical linguistics, the workshop
does not concentrate on natural language only. There is
interesting use of algebraic methods in programming
language processing (compiler construction and
development of programming language environments)
and (obviously) in formal language theory. Moreover,
it is becoming clear that some of the methods
developed in these fields can play a role in natural
language description and processing.


Invited Speakers
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Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Helene Kirchner (LORIA-CNRS, Nancy, France)
Edward Stabler & Edward Keenan (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA)
George Paun (Romanian Academy, Bucharest)


Program and Organizing Committee
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A. Nijholt (Enschede) (chair)
M. Nivat (Paris)
G. Scollo (Catania)
D. Heylen (Enschede)
T. Rus (Iowa City)


Call for Contributions
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Abstracts are invited for presentations on any topic
related to algebraic approaches to language modeling
and processing. Please send a two-page abstract to
the address below. E-mail submissions of abstracts
are welcome.

   Anton Nijholt
   University of Twente
   PO BOX 217
   7500 AE Enschede
   The Netherlands
   anijholt@cs.utwente.nl

   ABSTRACT DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2000

Abstracts will be refereed. There will be a proceedings
volume in the "TWLT" series containing full papers based
on these abstracts.
For previous volumes in these series see:
http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twltseries.html.
The journal of Theoretical Computer Science has agreed,
just as with the previous workshop, to consider a selection
of papers presented at this workshop for publication in
a Special Issue of this journal.
Please note that the proceedings will be distributed at
the workshop. Final submission of accepted papers before
March 31, 2000.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission 2-page abstract:   January 31,  2000
Notification of acceptance:                        February 7,  2000
Deadline for accepted papers:                   March 31     2000
Workshop:                                               May 20-22,
2000

About AMAST
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This workshop is organized in the framework provided by
the Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST)
movement. In this framework several large international
conferences and workshops have been held.

This Second AMAST Workshop on Language Processing will
be organized in Iowa City just before the AMAST 2000
conference (see http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/amast2000/). As
the previous workshop, held at the University of Twente
in the Netherlands, this workshop will focus on algebraic
and general mathematical methods in formal languages,
programming languages and natural languages.