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TESL-EJ Vol. 2. No. 4 June 1997

**The Conference Watcher**

The information below has been provided courtesy of Roy F. Cochrun who maintains an excellent website for language-related conferences at <http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html>. Be sure to check there for the most recent listings!

April 1997

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Interpreting: Into the 21st Century
Gallaudet University Kellogg Conference Center
Spring 1997

UCLA short course on "Machine Translation"
UCLA campus in Los Angeles
April 2-4

ICCPOL'97
17th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages
Lam Woo International Conference Centre
Hong Kong
April 2-4, 1997

TIA-97
Themes rencontres Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle
Universite Toulouse-le Mirail, France
3 et 4 avril 1997

SYLC (Sydney Linguistic Circle)
NCELTR seminar room
W6C, Macquarie University
4 April 1997 at 7.30

Carolina TESOL Spring Conference[NEW]
University Hilton
Charlotte, NC
Friday, April 4 - Saturday, April 5

CROSSING THE BOUNDARIES V
A Counter-Disciplinary Graduate Student Conference
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, New York
April 4-5, 1997

Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics: Why, What, and How? workshop
In conjunction with ANLP-97
Washington, D.C.
April 4-5, 1997

Postgraduate Conference
LANGUAGES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FORUM
School of Languages, University of Melbourne, Australia
4-6 APRIL, 1997

SECOL LVI - Spring 1997
Charlotte, North Carolina
4-6 April 1997

International Conference on Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing (GALA 97)
Edinburgh
4.-6.4. 1997

Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese Conference
The University of Michigan
April 5 - 6, 1997

The Foundation for Endangered Languages General Meeting[NEW]
Adam Ferguson Building B9 (50 George Square)
Edinburgh
Sunday 6 April starting at 2 pm

Flexible Hypertext Workshop
Southampton, UK
April 6-11, 1997
Also see below

The Eighth ACM International Hypertext Conference
Southampton, UK
April 6-11, 1997

LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN adjacent to GALA '97
University of Edinburgh
7-9 April 1997

2nd European Conference on Cognitive Science Workshop on Context
Manchester, UK
April 9-11, 1997

[FLASH]AVIATION COMMUNICATION: A MULTI-CULTURAL FORUM
Fixed important typographical error in title
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY
PRESCOTT, AZ
APRIL 9 - 11, 1997

International Symposium on Bilingualism
Newcastle
See below. 9.-12.4

Workshop on Transcribing, Encoding and Analysing Plurilingual Data
a special session of the International Symposium on Bilingualism See above
Newcastle
9.-12.4

1997 PNCFL Conference
Joint meeting with the Confederation in Oregon For Language Teaching
Eugene, Oregon
April 10-12, 1997

International Symposium on Bilingualism University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
10-12 April 1997

African Language Teachers Association, 04/97
African Language Teachers Association's 1st Annual International Conference
University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 10-13, 1997

The 1997 Ohio Foreign Language Association Annual Conference in Conjunction with the Central States Conference
Columbus Convention Center
Columbus, Ohio
April 10-13, 1997

[FLASH]2nd ASTON CORPUS LINGUISTICS SEMINAR "REGISTER AND CORPUS DYNAMICS"
URL now available

Aston University
Friday 11 April 1997

SALSA VSymposium About Language and Society--Austin
University of Texas at Austin
April 11-13th, 1997

The Pre-Columbian Society at the University of Pennsylvania Museum glyph workshops dedicated to the decipherment of ancient Maya inscriptions
University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia
12 April 97

Directions for Language Policy in Israel: Languages in Society and School
Bar-Ilan University
Tuesday, 15 April 1997
Tel Aviv University
Wednesday, 16 April 1997
Note locations and dates, above

ELSNET Bullet Course on Designing and Testing Spoken Dialogue Systems[NEW]
Utrecht, The Netherlands
April 16 - 18, 1997

Tutorial and Research Workshop on ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR UNKNOWN COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
PONT-a-MOUSSON, FRANCE
17-18 April 1997

BOURDIEU, LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION
Southampton University
17, 18 April 1997

[FLASH] CHICAGO LINGUISTICS SOCIETY PRESENTS: CLS - 33
Better source of information
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
APRIL 17-19, 1997

The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
April 17-19, 1997

SECOND EUROPEAN SEMINAR: LANGUAGE APPLICATIONS FOR A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE
Kaunas, Lithuania
April 17-20, 1997

AKSE 1997 1997 Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe
Papers will include classical literature, modern literature or linguistics.
Stockholm, Sweden
April 17-21

A Live, Interative Video Teleconference on ASL Storytelling presented in American Sign Language [NEW]
April 18, 1997
1-3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time

Annual Symposium of MICATA (Mid-America Chapter of ATA)
"Connecting the Global Village"
Omaha, Nebraska
April 18-20, 1997

Midwest Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual meeting
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
(April 18-20)

First International and Eleventh National MELUS Conference
Multi-Ethnic Literatures Across the Americas and the Pacific:
Exchanges, Contestations, and Alliances
The University of Hawaii at Manoa
April 18-20, 1997

The Chicago Linguistic Society Phonetics Panel: ChiPhon 97[NEW]
Judd Hall
University of Chicago
Saturday April 19, 1997

Colloque de linguistique et de litterature
L'Universite de Toronto
Le 19 avril 1997

SDAIR '97
Sixth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval
Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
April 20-23, 1997

FIRST WORKSHOP ON LEXICAL SEMANTICS SYSTEMS[NEW]
Torino, Italy
April 21 1997

The annual Conference of the Polish Association for the study of English
Pulawy
21st-23rd April 1997

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Munich, Germany
April 21-24, 1997

Child Language Research Forum[NEW]
Stanford University
Friday April 25 to Sunday April 27

THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS: Community and the Humanities[NEW]
Mercer University
Macon, Georgia
April 25-27, 1997

A F L A I V The Fourth Annual Meetings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
University of California, Los Angeles
Tentative Dates: April 25, 26, 27

GLAC-3
GERMANIC LINGUISTICS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
THE CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
APRIL 25 - 27, 1997

a conference on the local languages and local cultures of China
University of Pennsylvania
During the last weekend in April, 1997 (26 OR 27)

SQEL 97 Workshop on Multi-Lingual Information Retrieval Dialogs
Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic
27-29 April 1997

Language Teaching and Language Technology
Groningen (The Netherlands)
28-29 April 1997

A colloquium on the theme La traduction dans l'enseignement / L'enseignement de la traduction
Contact: Maurice Pergnier, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines Sciences du Langage
61, av. du Général-de-Gaulle
94010 Créteil
Cedex, France.
l'Université Paris XII
Val de Marne, Département de Sciences du Langage
28-30 avril 1997

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May 1997

(Clicking on the applicable link will provide additional conference information).
Request for Proposals from the Endangered Language Fund[NEW]
grants for language maintenance and linguistic field work
Apply not later than MAY 1st, 1997

GENERATIVE SYNTAX WORKSHOP
at The PLM conference, below
Poznan, Poland
May 1-3, 1997

30th Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM)
Poznan
1-3 May 1997

SYLC (Sydney Linguistic Circle)
NCELTR seminar room W6C
Macquarie University
2 May 1997 at 7.30

1997 New York State Association of Foreing Language Teachers' (NYSAFLT) Colloquium Teaching All Students: From Research to Reality[NEW]
Radisson Plaza Hotel Syracuse
Syracuse, NY 11320
Friday evening, 2 May and Saturday, 3 May 1997

4th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium[NEW]
duBois Conference Center
Northern Arizona University
May 2-3, 1997

Empirical research methodologies in second and foreign languages [NEW]
University of Ottawa
May 2-3, 1997

NACCL-9The Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
May 2-4, 1997

XXI. StuTs - 21. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft
WWU-Muenster
07.05. - 11.05.1997

The Fifth Manchester Phonology Meeting
Hulme Hall lecture suite
University of Manchester
Thursday 8 May to Saturday 10 May 1997

Tenth International NSL Conference
(Non-Slavic Languages Conference, formerly the Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR)
University of Chicago
Thursday-Saturday, 8-10 May 1997

9th STUDENT CONFERENCE IN LINGUISTICS - SCIL 9
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan
May 9-10, 1997
NOTE: Another source shows earlier dates. These dates are correct.

10. Swahili-Kolloquium
Universit=E4t Bayreuth
9-10. Mai 1997

FASL VI: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics
University of Connecticut
9-11 May 1997

SOUTHEAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS SOCIETY VIIth MEETING (SEALS VII)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
May 9 - 11, 1997

GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - GASLA '97 -
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
May 9-10-11, 1997

Hopkins Optimality Theory Workshop / Maryland Mayfest 1997
Inner Harbor, Baltimore
May 9-12, 1997

The Pre-Columbian Society at the University of Pennsylvania Museum glyph workshops dedicated to the decipherment of ancient Maya inscriptions
University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia
10 May 97

Eighth Conference on the Cultures of Caucasia
University of Chicago
Saturday-Sunday, May 10-11, 1997

FLAIRS-97
Special Track on Natural Language Engineering
Daytona Beach, Florida
May 10-14, 1997

THE TILBURG UNIVERSITY WORKSHOP ON CODE SWITCHING AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
Tilburgg, The Netherlands
May 15-16, 1997

Celtic Studies Association of North America[NEW] annual conference
McGill University
Montreal
May 15th-17th, 1997

The Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture Graduate Student Association third annual student conference on language, interaction, and culture
Sunset Commons
University of California, Los Angeles
May 16, 1997

[FLASH]17th Annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference
Better source of information
URL now available
Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska, 68787
May 16-17, 1997

The 18th ANNUAL National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators MEETING AND EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE[NEW]
EMBASSY SUITES SEA-TAC HOTEL
Seattle, WA
May 16-May18, 1997

FIRST NORTHWEST CONFERENCE ON SLAVIC LINGUISTICS
University of Oregon
Eugene
Saturday, May 17, 1997

Athabaskan Language Conference
University of Oregon
Eugene
May 17-18, 1997

Teaching methodology for advanced French
Sevres, France
20th to 27th May 1997

ACROLT SYMPOSIUM Symposium on Language Assessment and Policy across Cultures
Kiriat Anavim, near Jerusalem
21 - 23 May 1997

EUROSLA 7 Acquisition, use and processing of language in situations where more than on language is involved.
Universitat pompeu fabra
barcelona
thursday, May 22nd. to Saturday, May 24th. 1997

64th Dialectological Circle of Japan
Osaka City U
Contact: DCJ office fax (03)5993-7681
May 23, 1997

UCLA Indo-European conference[NEW]
UCLA
Friday, May 23 and Saturday, May 24, 1997

Grammatical relations and semantic roles
University of Gent
23 and 24 May 1997

CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE and LANGUAGE III:
COGNITION AND FUNCTION IN LANGUAGE
University of Colorado at Boulder
May 23-25, 1997

NORTHWEST LINGUISTIC CONFERENCE 1997 (NWLC 97)[NEW]
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
VANCOUVER, B.C.
MAY 24 - 25, 1997

Society for Study of Japanese Language
Osaka City U
Contact: SSJL office fax (03)5802-0615
May 24-25, 1997

Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language>
Keio U
Contact: STJFL office fax (03)3585-0218
May 24-25, 1997

CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE AND LANGUAGE III: "COGNITION AND FUNCTION IN LANGUAGE" CSDL '97
University of Colorado at Boulder
May 24-26, 1997

Teaching Spanish to Young Learners and Teaching Spanish in Key Stage 3 & 4
Pamplona, Spain
25th May to 7th June 1997

1st International Workshop on Computational Semiotics
Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci
PARIS - LA DEFENSE - FRANCE
26th - 27th May, 1997

The Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems (CRD), based at the University of Hartford, is considering sponsoring a conference on "Language and the Internet" on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 27 and 28, or Thursday and Friday, June 12 and 13, 1997
Send your response to tonkin@hartford.uhavax.edu

The 24th Finnish Conference of Linguistics
"Linguistics in Finland and Estonia"
University of Joensuu
May 28-29 1997

The Research Centre on Multilingualism fourth international symposium "Contact + Confli(c)t"[NEW]
Catholic University
Brussels
28-31 May 1997

28th Annual Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition Emergentist Approaches to Language[NEW]
Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh
May 29-31, 1997

Second Scandinavian Summer School on Language Diversity: A Postgraduate Course on Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
University of Joensuu, Finland
MAY 29-31, 1997

1st Conference of Doctoral Students in Linguistics
Université Lumière Lyon 2
University Campus, Bron
29-31 May 1997

Dictionary Society of North American will hold a conference
Madison, Wisconsin
May 29-31, 1997

Celtic Language Teachers' Professional Development Day
St. Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
May 30, 1997

[FLASH]3rd Celtic Language Learning Conference NAACLT '97
Better source of information
St. Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
[FLASH]MAY 29 - JUNE 1
Note change in dates

XII Symposium on psycholinguistics "LANGUAGE CONSCIENCE AND IMAGE OF THE WORLD"
Moscow (Russia)
At the end of May - in the beginning of June

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June 1997

(Clicking on the applicable link will provide additional conference information).
Annual IATL Meeting
Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics
Bar Ilan University
June 2-3, 1997

New Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Minimalism and Pragmatics[NEW]
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
June 2,3 and 4 1997

28th Annual conference of The Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics[NEW]
Memorial University
St. John's, Newfoundland, CANADA
JUNE 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1997

The Summer Institute of Linguistics[NEW]
University of North Dakota
2 June - 1 August 1997

ACH-ALLC '97Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
June 3 - 7, 1997

International Colloquium 'LANGUES ET GRAMMAIRE 3'
Paris, France
Universite Paris-8
June 5-6-7, 1997

Computers and Writing Conference 1997
Kapi'olani Community College
Honolulu, Hawaii
June 5--9, 1997

SYLC (Sydney Linguistic Circle)
NCELTR seminar room W6C
Macquarie University
6 June 1997 at 7.30

Forum for Language Workers in Southern Africa[NEW]
Pretoria, South Africa
6-7 June 1997

1997 Summer Intensive Introductory Course in Yucatec Maya
UNC-Chapel Hill
June 9-July 18

DIALOGUE'97 International Conference on computational linguistics and its applications
Moscow, Russia
June 10-15, 1997

[NEW]
Journees de lexicologie et de semiotique
Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2
12-14 juin 1997

The Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems (CRD), based at the University of Hartford, is considering sponsoring a conference on "Language and the Internet" on Thursday and Friday, June 12 and 13, 1997 or Tuesday and Wednesday, May 27 and 28,
Send your response to tonkin@hartford.uhavax.edu

Open and distance approaches to language learning
Trinity and All Saints Comenius Centre, Leeds
14th June 1997

The Pre-Columbian Society at the University of Pennsylvania Museum glyph workshops dedicated to the decipherment of ancient Maya inscriptions
University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia
14 June 97

113th Linguistic Society of Japan
Gakushu^in U
Contact: LSJ office tel (075)415-3661
Jun 14-15, 1997

The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) LOT Summer School 1997[NEW]
Amsterdam
June 16-27, 1997

ordisk forskerutdanningskurs i GENERATIV FONOLOGI
Hvalfjardarstr|nd, Island
16. - 28. juni 1997

Fourth Baltic Studies Summer Institute
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian languages will be offered.
University of Illinois at Chicago
June 16 to August 8. 1997

Speech and Language Technology (SALT) Club Workshop on EVALUATION IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY[NEW]
Halifax Hall
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK
June 17-18, 1997 Languages at A/AS level A level conference
North West Comenius Centre, Blackburn
19th June 1997

LFG97 Lexical-Functional Grammar and in the `spirit of LFG
University of California-San Diego
San Diego, California
June 19 -- 21, 1997

Sixth International Conference on Chinese Linguistics
Leiden
19-21 June 1997

2nd Celtic Linguistics Conference[NEW]
University College
Dublin
20-21 June, 1997

Languages in adult education Adult Education one-day conference
CILT, London
21st June 1997

The Second European Symposium on ELECTROLARYNGOGRAPHY (ELG) and ELECTROPALATOGRAPHY (EPG)
Conference Centre
Queen Margaret College
Edinburgh, Scotland
23-25 June 1997

CALICO (Computer Assisted Language Instruction COnsortium)
Fourteenth Annual Symposium
Topic: Contents! Contents! Contents! United States Military Academy at West Point. 23-28 June 1997

LSA Linguistic Institute
Languages in Linguistics
Cornell University in Ithaca, NY
June 23-August 1, 1997

Modern languages in colleges: managing the quality of teaching and learning
Blagdon, Bristol
25th to 27th June 1997

N L D B ' 97
Third Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
JUNE 25-27, 1997

Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages
University of Westminister
26-28 June 1997

Languages in adult education Adult Education conference and exhibition
Bristol Education Centre
28th June 1997

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July 1997

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The First International Conference on Guan1hua4 (Mandarins' Language, Officials Language, or Common Language)
Qingdao, China
July or August, 1997

The Ninth Euro-International Systemic Functional Workshop Discourse and Community
Martin-Luther-Universität
Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
July 2-6, 1997

SYLC (Sydney Linguistic Circle)
NCELTR seminar room W6C,
Macquarie University
4 July 1997 at 7.30

13th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE LANGUAGE ORIGINS SOCIETY
University of West Bohemia
Pilsen (Czech Republic)
from July 4 through July 8, 1997

The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Summer Meeting American Indian linguistics[NEW]
In conjunction with the 1997 LSA Linguistic Institute
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
July 5-6

Workshop on Long Distance Reflexives
LSA Linguistic Institute
Cornell University
July 5-6, 1997

Association Internationale de Linguistique AppliquéeMEDIA - MULTIMEDIA - OMNIMEDIA[NEW]5th Man & the Media Symposium
Nancy, France
5 to 7 July 1997

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN OCEANIC LINGUISTICS, (4-ICOL) & PACLA[NEW]
Island of NIUE
5-9 July 1997

"Spr}klige data og lingvistiske problemstillinger"
Sommerskole for doktorgradskandidater i spr}klige emner.
Universitetet i Bergen
L|rdag 5. juli - fredag 11. juli 1997

Concordia Language Villages Teacher Seminars
Bemidji (Minn.) State University
July 6-18

Workshop: "From Research to Commercial Applications: Making NLP Technology Work in Practice"
in conjunction with ACL'97/EACL'97, below
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
Madrid
July 7-10, 1997

ACL97 Student Session
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
Madrid, Spain
July 7-10, 1997

9th International Biennial Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA 97)
University of Natal
Durban, South Africa
7-11 July, 1997

ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference
35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
and
8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
Madrid, SPAIN
July 7-12, 1997

35th ICANAS International Congress of Asian and North-African Studies
Budapest, Hungary
7-12 July 1997

National Foreign Language Resource Center Tools & Techniques for Interactive Television-based Instruction
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
July 7 - July 18

NATO Advanced Study Institute Computational Models of Speech Pattern Processing
Royal Hotel
Jersey, UK Channel Islands
Monday 7th July 1997 - Friday 18th July 1997 (midday)

[FLASH]SUMMER SCHOOL OF SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS
URL now available
Glendon College
York University
Toronto, Canada
July 7-18, 1997

The International Society for Humor Studies Conference:
Humor in the Heartland of America
University of Central Oklahoma
July 8 until July 13, 1997

Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse
Utrecht University
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Thursday and Friday, July 10 and 11, 1997

SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION Workshop[NEW]
in conjunction with ACL'97/EACL'97
Madrid
July 11, 1997

ENVGRAM: COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR PRACTICAL GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT, PROCESSING AND INTEGRATION WITH OTHER NLP MODULES
(at ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference)
Madrid, Spain
July 11, 1997

OPERATIONAL FACTORS IN PRACTICAL, ROBUST, ANAPHORA RESOLUTION FOR UNRESTRICTED TEXTS
(at ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference)
Madrid, Spain
July 11, 1997

Workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization
(at ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference)
Madrid, Spain
July 11, 1997

Workshop CONCEPT to SPEECH GENERATION SYSTEMS
(at ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference)
Madrid, Spain
July 11, 1997

COMPUTATIONAL PHONOLOGY Third Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology (SIGPHON 97)
(at ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference)
Madrid, Spain
July 11th or 12th, 1997

Workshop "From Research to Commercial Applications: Making NLP Technology Work in Practice"
(at ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference)
Madrid, Spain
July 11 or 12, 1997

COMPUTATIONAL NATURAL LANGUAGE LEARNING (CoNLL97)[NEW]
Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Groupin Natural Language Learning
In conjunction withACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference
Madrid, Spain
11-12th July 1997

REFERRING PHENOMENA IN A MULTIMEDIA CONTEXT AND THEIR COMPUTATIONAL TREATMENT
(in conjunction with ACL-97/EACL-97)
Madrid
July 11th/12th 1997

The 7th (1997) Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics
Harvard University
July 11-13 (Friday through Sunday)

28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
July 11-13, 1997

[FLASH]ACL/EACL'97 Workshop NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATION AIDS>
Date finally confirmed Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
Madrid, Spain
July 12th, 1997

Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP Applications (in conjunction with ACL-97/EACL-97)
Madrid
July 12th 1997

Chinese Linguistics Workshop Interface Strategies in Chinese: Syntax and Semantics of Noun Phrases
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
July 12-13, 1997

6th Congress of the IASS-AIS
International Association for Semiotic Studies -- Association Internationale de la Sémiotique
Guadalajara, Mexico
July, 13-18, 1997

EUROLAN'97 [NEW]Summer School on Corpus Linguistics
Tusnad - Romania
13-26 July 1997

The Sixth International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics IsCLL VI
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 115
Republic of China
July 14-16, 1998

1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION
Bellagio, Italy
14-16 July, 1997

SUMMER SCHOOL ON INFORMATION EXTRACTION (SCIE-97)
University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Villa Mondragone Frascati
Roma, Italy
14-19 July 1997

5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Amsterdam
July 14 - 19, 1997

2nd World Congress of African Linguistics
Leipzig, Germany
14-19 July 97

ELSNET's 5TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON LANGUAGE AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION LEXICON DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
Centre for Computational Linguistics
Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium
14-25 July 1997

A level languages show
imperial College, London
15th July 1997

International Workshop "LEXICON DRIVEN INFORMATION EXTRACTION"[NEW]
Frascati (Roma), Italy
July 16, 1997

3rd Himalayan Languages Symposium
University of California, Santa Barbara
July 18-20, 1997

HPSG-97 4th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 1997
LSA Linguistic Institute
Cornell University
July 18-20, 1997

13th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
1997 LSA Linguistic Insitute
Cornell University
July 18-20, 1997

6th INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE[NEW]
Reims, Capital of the Champagne Region, France
19-24 July 1998

Round table on creolistics[NEW] at the 16e Congrès International des Linguistes
Paris
July 20-25, 1997

A round table conference on the theme "Lexical Distribution, Comparison and Genealogy : Methods, Aims and Backgrounds"will be held for the CIL16 Congress
Paris
20-25 July , 1997

XVlth International Congress of Linguists
Organized by Societe de Linguistique de Paris under the auspices of the Permanent International Committee of Linguists, Palais des Congres, Paris (Porte Maillot), France
Paris
July 20-25, 1997

Concordia Language Villages Teacher Seminars
Bemidji (Minn.) State University
July 20-August 1

OSU Summer Program for Spanish Teachers[NEW]
Valencia, Spain
July 20-August 4, 1997

National Foreign Language Resource Center TOOLS & TECHNIQUES FOR WEB-BASED MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTION
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
July 21 - August 1

24th International Sytemic-Functional Congress (ISFC)
Theme: Learning How to Mean: transdisciplinary perspectives on language in context
Toronto, Canada
July 21-25, 1997

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPANISH LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Monday, July 22, and Tuesday, July 23, 1997


Santa Fe, New Mexico
July 23 - 25, 1997

2ND ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES
Philadelphia, Pa
July 23 - 26, 1997

XXII Congres Linguistique Romane
Bruxelles (Belgique)
23 au 29 juillet 1998

7th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation
Santa Fe, New Mexico
July 24 - 28, 1997

8th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
Cornell University ~ LSA Summer Institute
July 25 - 27, 1997

Workshop on Language and Space
at the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97)
Providence Rhode Island
July 27-28, 1997

AAAI-97 Workshop on Language and Space
Providence Rhode Island
July 27-31, 1997

20th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
DoubleTree Hotel
Philadelphia, PA, USA
July 27 -- July 31, 1997

2nd WORLD CONGRESS OF AFRICAN LINGUISTICS
University of Leipzig, Germany
July 27 - August 3, 1997

2nd International Congress of Dialectologists and Geolinguists
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, Netherlands
July 28 through August 1, 1997

Linguistic Association of Canada and the US LACUS 97
York University, Toronto Canada
July 29 - August 2 1997
Note: This conference immediately follows on from the isfc-97.

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August 1997

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SYLC (Sydney Linguistic Circle)
NCELTR seminar room
W6C, Macquarie University
1 August 1997 at 7.30

Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2)
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
August 1-2, 1997 (Immediately following AAAI-97)

Fifth International Conference on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster
Aberdeen University
1-5 August 1997

Internationale Deutschlehrertagung
Amsterdam
4.-9.8XI.

International Conference on Salish & Neighboring Languages[NEW]
Port Angeles, Washington
August 7-9, 1997

Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Stanford University
August 7-10, 1997

Conference on Computational Psycholinguistics CPL '97
Berkeley, California
August 10-12, 1997

20th International Wittgenstein Symposium 1997 The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy
Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria
10-16 August 1997

The XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics
Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet
Duesseldorf, Germany
10 - 17 August 1997

The fourth Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-'97)
SOGANG UNIVERSITY
SEOUL, KOREA
August 11 - August 15, 1997

WORKSHOP on: Quantification: Collectivity, and Reciprocity[NEW]
Aix-en-Provence
In the first week of the Ninth European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI'97): 11.-22.8. 1997

European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI '97)
Aix-en-Provence
11.-22.8. 1997

The Foreign Language Education and Technology III (FLEAT III) conference
University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada
August 12 - 16, 1997

EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL "The cross-linguistic study of language acquisition: - an integrated approach"
Kystgaarden, Nyborg, Fyn, Denmark
August 13-22 1997

First International Conference on Cognitive Science
Seoul, Korea
August 15-16, 1997

Fjortonde nordiska slavistmötet
Helsinki
17.-23.8

FIFTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-5)
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
August 18, 1997
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
August 20, 1997
Note dates and locations

The 11th European Symposium on Language for Special Purposes
Contact: LSP Centre
Copenhagen Business School
Dalgas Have 15
DK-Frederiksberg
Denmark
Copenhagen
18.-22.8. 1997

AI-ED 97
8TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION
Includes sessions on Computer-assisted language learning and Natural language interfaces
Kobe International Conference Cente
Kobe, Japan
19-22 August, 1997

NELAS 6- CMLA 2 LANGUAGE AND COGNITION IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
UNIVERSITY OF ODENSE, DENMARK
20-24 AUGUST 1997

ROCLING X (1997) International Conference Research on Computational Linguistics
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
August 22-24, 1997

IJCAI-97 Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP
Nagoya, Japan
August 23-25, 1997

IJCAI-97 Workshop on COLLABORATION, COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS[NEW]
Nagoya, Japan
August 25, 1997

Fifth Meeting on Mathematics of Language - MOL5
Schloss Dagstuhl
Saarbruecken, Germany
25-27 August 1997

[FLASH]SECOND INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, CT '97
The University of Aizu, Japan
Location fixed
25 - 28 August 1997

QUALICO - 97 Third International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics
Helsinki, Finland
August 26 (Tue) - 30 (Sat), 1997

[FLASH]LANGUAGE STUDY AND THESAURUS:
Session 1 of the 5th International Symposium of National Language Research Institute
Better source of information
Tokyo, JAPAN
27 & 28, AUGUST 1997

International workshop on: PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE GERMANIC LANGUAGES[NEW]
PHILIPPS-UNIVERSITAET
MARBURG, GERMANY
August 27-29, 1997

Symposium on Reflexives and Reciprocals
Boulder, Colorado
August 29-30, 1997

International Symposium on Cognitive Processes of the Chinese Language[NEW]
Hong Kong
August 29 - September 2, 1997

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September 1997

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LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN[NEW]
University of Hertfordshire
4-6 September 1997

SYLC (Sydney Linguistic Circle)
NCELTR seminar room
W6C, Macquarie University
5 September 1997 at 7.30

ESSE workshop on Historical Linguistics
ESSE/4
DEBRECEN
September 5th-9th, 1997

Conference on External Possessor and related Noun Incorporation Phenomena
Eugene, Oregon
7-10 September, 1997

NEW SOUNDS 97 The 3rd International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second-Language Speech
University of Klagenfurt, Austria
8th - 11th September 1997

LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN
University of Hertfordshire
9-11 September 1997 (dates provisional)

THE HENRY SWEET SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC IDEAS 1997 Annual Colloquium
University of Luton, UK
Wednesday 10 September to Saturday 13

Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain
Aberystwyth
University of Wales
10th-13th September 1997

Workshop in Computationally-Intensive Methods in Quantitative Linguistics[NEW]
University of Glasgow, UK
11, 12 September 1997

ITELL[NEW], a conference on Instructional Technology in English Language Learning
Singapore
11 - 13 September 1997

British Association for Applied Linguistics 30th Annual Meeting Language at Work[NEW]
University of Birmingham
11-13 September 1997

RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
11-13 September 1997

EUROCALL 97
Dublin
11.-13.9. 1997

Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT II)
University of Oregon, Eugene
September 11 to September 14, 1997

2nd International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
11-14 September 1997

THE HENRY SWEET SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC IDEAS 1997 Annual Colloquium
University of Luton, UK
13 September

DRH 97 digital resources for the humanities
St Annes College, Oxford
14 - 17 September 1997

THE SECOND TBILISI SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION[NEW]
Tbilisi, Georgia
September 16-21, 1997

32nd Colloquium of Linguistics[NEW]
All Fields of Linguistics
University of Kassel, Germany
September 17-19, 1997

nternational Workshop on Parsing Technologies[NEW]
MIT
Boston, MA, USA
17-20 September 1997

4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE LANGUAGES OF FAR EAST, SOUTH-EAST ASIA AND WEST AFRICA
Moscow
September 17-20, 1997

Writing the Future: Writing and Computers 10[NEW]
Brighton, UK
September 18 - 19 1997

ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Intonation:Theory, Models and Applications
Athens, Greece
September 18-20, 1997

Assessment For teachers of Modern Foreign Languages in the National Curriculum
Homerton Comenius Centre
Cambridge
19th to 20th September 1997

First Mediterranean Meeting of Morphology
Mytilene, island of Lesvos, Greece
September 19-20, 1997

Conference on Theory and Practice of MultiMedia in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
September 21 - 23 1997

Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics LACL'97
Nancy, France
22-24 September 1997

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND SEMIOTICS 97: [NEW]A Learning Perspective
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Tutorials: Monday, September 22, 1997
Conference: Tuesday through Thursday, September 23-25, 1997

EUROSPEECH'97 5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY
RHODES, GREECE
22-25 SEPTEMBER 1997

FIRST INTERNATIONAL LURIA MEMORIAL CONFERENCE includes as one of its main themes Neurolinguistics
Moscow University
24-26 September, 1997

"JOURNEES D'ETUDES JEAN MUNO"
Centre de Recherches Francophones Belges
University of Edinburgh
26-27 September 1997

6th International Sociolinguistic Conference "Language and Contemporary Reality"[NEW]
Preslav (nesr the town of Shumen), Bulgaria
September 26 to 30, 1997

VII. Deutscher Slavistentag
Bamberg
28.9.--1.10.1997

APPLYING HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
The Study of Historical English and Contemporary Society
ESSE/4 DEBRECEN
September 30, 1996

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October 1997

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New technologies in schools:their impact on language teaching
West Country Comenius Centre, Cornwall
Two-day conference, October 1997

22ND ANNUAL APPLIED LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA CONGRESS[NEW]
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND
TOOWOOMBA, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
OCTOBER 1-4 1997

1997 COLLOQUIUM ON THE ACQUISITION OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE AS FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGES[NEW]
Department of Hispanic Studies
McGill University
October 2-4, 1997

THE PARIS SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS CONFERENCE CSSP 1997 COLLOQUE DE SYNTAXE ET SEMANTIQUE DE PARIS
Universite Paris 7
2-4 octobre 1997

SYLC (Sydney Linguistic Circle)
NCELTR seminar room
W6C, Macquarie University
3 October 1997 at 7.30

UT Spanish Second Language Acquisition Symposium[NEW]
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Texas at Austin
October 3-4, 1997

17. Kongreß für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF)
Universität Koblenz-Landau
6. - 8. Oktober 1997 in Koblenz

6. Bi-annual Conference of the Sektion Computerlinguistik der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft (Special Interest Group in Computational Linguistics of the German Linguistic Society) Applied Computational Linguistics
Heidelberg
8.10.97 to 10.10.97

Japan Association for Language Teaching CONFERENCE
Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
October 9-12, 1997

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE
Department of Communication, School of Journalism and Telecommunications
University of Kentucky
October 10-12, 1996

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KAHLIL GIBRAN
University of Maryland
University College, Inn and Conference Center
College Park, MD
October 10th through 12th, 1997

6th Annual Conference ICPLA -- International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association[NEW]
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
October 13 - 15, 1997

THE PARIS SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS CONFERENCE[NEW]
COLLOQUE DE SYNTAXE ET SEMANTIQUE DE PARIS CSSP 1997[NEW]
University of Paris 7
Paris
October 16-18, 1997
16-18 octobre 1997

American Dialect Society
Denver
Oct. 16-19, 1997

Second Language Research Forum '97
Second Language Acquisition Across Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
October 16-19, 1997

Second Language Research Forum '97: Second Language Acquisition Across Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
October 17-19, 1997

SELF AND OTHER THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE
Department of Communication, University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
October 18-20, 1996

Teaching Spanish for vocational purposes
Pamplona, Spain
19th October to 1st November 1997

6. Internationale Arbeitstagung f|r Computereinsatz in der Historischen Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft[NEW]
Frankfurt a.M.
21.- 24. Oktober 1997

First International Symposium on Bilingualism[NEW]
Vigo, Spain
21-25 october 1997

Teaching German to Young Learners
Staufen, Germany
22nd October to 1st November 1997

Conference on "The word as a phonetic unit"[NEW]
Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Berlin, Germany
October 22-23 1997

22nd Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America[NEW]
Louisville, Kentucky
Oct. 23-26, 1997

CONFERENCE ON THE PHONOLOGICAL WORD[NEW]
Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Berlin, Germany
October 24-26 1997

29th Algonquian Conference
Thunder Bay, Ontario
October 24-26, 1997

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November 1997

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COMMISSION ON SEMIOTICS AND COMMUNICATION, SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, ANNUAL MEETING
CHICAGO
NOVEMBER, 1997

Linguistics Session--Midwest Modern Language Association Beyond Politeness: Rudeness and Violent Linguistic Acts[NEW]
Chicago, Illinois
November 6-8, 1997

SYLC (Sydney Linguistic Circle)
NCELTR seminar room
W6C, Macquarie University
7 November 1997 at 7.30

XXIII International Association Language & Business Conference 1997 Globalisation : its Impact on Language Needs in Business & Industry"
MONS (Belgium)
7-8 November, 1997

AAAI Fall 1997 Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines[NEW]
MIT
Cambridge, MA, USA
November 8-10, 1997

NETSKILLS/CTICML Workshop: 'An Introduction to the Internet for Linguists'
University of Newcastle
Wednesday-Thursday, 13-14 November

English for specific Purposes: Meeting the Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
Puteri Pan Pacific Hotel, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
18-20 November

National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Language NADSFL Annual Meeting
Nashville Opryland Hotel
Nov. 19-20

Conference on American Indian Languages (CAIL)[NEW]
Washington, DC
November 19-23

a panel entitled: "Orthography and the Politics of Representation"
Washington DC
Nov. 19-23

The major varieties of English (MAVEN)[NEW]
British, American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand
Vaxjo University College
VAXJO, Sweden
20-22 November 1997

Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 2)
University of Potsdam
20-22 November 1997
The 29th National Convention of the AAASS
hosted by the Western Slavic Association
Sheraton Seattle Hotel
Seattle, USA
20-23 November 1997

Motivation in language learning
Novotel
York
21st to 22nd November 1997

ESCOL 97[NEW] Eastern States Conference on Linguistics
Yale University
New Haven, CT
November 21-23, 1997

AATG-ACTFL
Nashville, TN
November 21-23

SOFSEM '97[NEW] XXIV-th Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics
Devet-skal hotel
Milovy, Czech Republic
November 22 - November 29, 1997

SOUTHEAST REGIONAL TESOL CONFERENCE[NEW]
Charleston, SC
Sunday, November 23 - Wednesday, November 26

VII ENCUENTROS COMPLUTENSES EN TORNO A LA TRADUCCIÓN[NEW]
Instituto Universitario de Lenguas Modernas y Traductores
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
25-29 de noviembre de 1997

Twelfth New Zealand Linguistics Conference
Knox College
University of Otago
Dunedin
Wednesday November 26th through Friday November 28th, 1997

Language in Borneo: Unities and Diversities[NEW]
The National University of Malaysia
Bangi, Selangor
28-29 November 1997

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December 1997

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Languages and special educational needs
Oxford Comenius Centre
one-day conference, December 1997

Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium 1997 (NLPRS'97)
(Incorporating SNLP'97)
Phuket, Thailand
December 2-4, 1997

SYLC (Sydney Linguistic Circle)
NCELTR seminar room
W6C, Macquarie University
5 December 1997 at 7.30

CONFERENCE OF THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF BELGIUM: VARIATION IN SUBSTANDARD LANGUAGE[NEW]
Kortrijk (Courtrai), Belgium
December 12-13, 1997

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WORLD ENGLISHES[NEW]
Singapore
19-21 December, 1997

Modern Language Association of America MLA Conference
Toronto
Dec 27-30, 1997

International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
The Registration Form is here
Taipei
December 28, 1997 to January 2, 1998

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