Local Arrangements

 
The Hong Kong session of WVLC-5 will be held at HKUST on August 20, following the Beijing session at Tsinghua University on August 18.  This workshop, like the preceding ones in the series, will offer an international forum for the presentation of new advances and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural language processing.  The fifth workshop will focus on the theme of innovative and practical uses of large corpora in real-world applications.  Gigabytes and terabytes of on-line unrestricted natural language text have become commonplace today.  How are these resources actually being used in commercial as well as research applications? What robust and efficient techniques exist for analyzing and organizing these resources?  The workshop encourages contributions that demonstrate innovative applications of corpus-based NLP to problems of practical commercial importance.  July 25, 1997 is the deadline for regular workshop registration, as well as housing and cruise registration.

• Home page:  www.lexis-nexis.com/WVLC-5
• HK local arrangements:  www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/dekai/wvlc-5
• HK housing registration: www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/dekai/wvlc-5/housing.htm
• HK evening cruise registration: www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/dekai/wvlc-5/cruise.htm

Program Committee:  Susan Armstrong, ISSO, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Key-sun Choi, KAIST, Korea; Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University, Israel; Pernilla Danielsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Marti Hearst, Xerox Research Park, USA; Chu-ren Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Claudia Leacock, Princeton University, USA; Sun Maosong, Tsinghua University, China; Masaaki Nagata, NTT Information and Communication Systems Labs, Japan; Daniel Pliske, LEXIS-NEXIS, USA; Benjamin Tsou, City University of Hong Kong; Paul Wu, Institute of Systems Science, Singapore.

HK Local Arrangements:  Dekai Wu, HKUST, Computer Science, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, dekai@cs.ust.hk, +852 2358-7000, +852 2358-1477 (fax).