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From: anijholt@cs.utwente.nl (Anton Nijholt)
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Preliminary Announcement


Twente Workshop on Language Technology 8 (TWLT 8):
Speech and Language Engineering

Workshop organized under the auspices of the Dutch NWO 
Priority Programme on Language and Speech Technology, the
Special Interest Group on Parsing Technologies (SIGPARSE)
of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) and
the Centre of Telematics and Information Technology
(CTIT) of the University of Twente.


Dates: December 1 and 2, 1994

Location: University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands

Scientific Organizers:	L. Boves (University of Nijmegen)
			A. Nijholt (University of Twente)

Local Organizers:	R. op den Akker
			C. Bijron
			G. van der Hoeven
			A. Hoogvliet-Haverkate


General Information
The eight TWLT, to be held on December 1 and 2, 1994, will 
be devoted to speech, the integration of speech and natural
language processing and the application of this integration
in natural language interfaces. Well-known researchers from 
industry and university will be invited to present the state
of the art in speech and natural language processing. Part
of the program will consist of the presentation of research 
programmes on parsing in the framework of the recently 
started Dutch NWO programme on Speech and Natural Language.

Among the invited speakers are:

Paolo Baggia (CSELT, Italy)
Herv Bourlard (Lernout & Hauspie, Belgium)
David Carter (SRI International, United Kingdom)
Louis Boves (University of Nijmegen)
Peter Wittenburg (Max Planck Instituut, Nijmegen) 
James McQueen (Max Planck Instituut, Nijmegen)
Herman J.M. Steeneken (TNO/Soesterberg)
Gertjan van Noort (University of Groningen)
Hermann Helbig (Fernuniversitaet Hagen)
Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam)
Paul van Alphen (PTT Research, Leidschendam)

Some other speakers will be invited. Their contributions or
poster presentations will be in the areas of robust parsing
into intermediate semantic representations, prosody, language
generation for dialogs, probabilistic parsing and neural 
networks and parsing. In addition to the program of invited 
speakers other researchers are invited to contribute to the 
workshop. Please send a title and an abstract of a possible
talk and paper to anijholt@cs.utwente.nl before September 15, 
1994. Poster presentations are welcome.

Invited and accepted papers will become part of the proceedings
that will be available during the workshop. Authors of papers
will receive an Instruction for Authors in September of this
year. The final announcement including a program will be avail-
able in October 1994.

During the workshop pc's and workstations will be available for
demonstrations. 'Wizard of Oz' software, a neural network
language acceptor, a natural language interface to a database
system and an environment for grammar and parser development
based on the PATR formalism will be among the demonstrations. 


For more information about this workshop write to 
	anijholt@cs.utwente.nl
	boves@lett.kun.nl
	bijron@cs.utwente.nl, or

Anton Nijholt
University of Twente
Department of Computer Science
PO Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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