University of Edinburgh

6th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium
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6-7 January 2003
University of Edinburgh

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Introduction

The CLUK Symposia aim to offer PhD students in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Engineering an opportunity to present and discuss their work with members of the wider research community.

Previous symposia have been held in Sunderland, Essex, Brighton, Sheffield and Leeds.

The invited speakers for CLUK6 are:

Mark Steedman - University of Edinburgh
Parsing with Wide Coverage Combinatory Grammars (abstract)

Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield
Stone soup revisited, or the unity of MT as the primal NLP task (abstract)

Marc Moens - Rhetorical Systems
Turning computational linguistics into products

Directions to Buccleuch Place

The colloquium will be held in the Conference Suite, Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, University of Edinburgh (2 Buccleuch Place).

There is a map showing the location of Buccleuch Place in Edinburgh.

Here is another map.

Important Dates

(Extended) Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday 12th November 2002
Notification of acceptance: Monday 25th November 2002
Camera ready papers due: Friday 13th December 2002
Colloquium: 6th-7th January 2003

Here is the call for papers.

Instructions for Authors

Here are the instructions for authors, together with the LaTeX style file.

Registration

Here is the registration form. Payment can be by cheque or credit card, and receipts will be issued during the Colloquium.
The full registration fee is 98.00, and there is a non-accommodation option for which the fee is 68.50.

Note that the registration deadline is December 18.

If registering, please e-mail cluk-list@inf.ed.ac.uk confirming that you have sent the registration form.

Local Accommodation

The 98 pounds registration fee includes one night's accommodation (January 6) only, in the Kenneth McKenzie Hospitality Suite.

Here is the address, and some information about additional Hotels and Guest Houses in the area. Note that the Kenneth McKenzie Hospitality Suite is not available for January 5th.

Here is a map showing the location of Richmond Place, where the Kenneth McKenzie Hospitality Suite is.

Programme

Here is the programme of events.

Programme Committee

Eric Atwell University of Leeds
John Carroll University of Sussex
Stephen Clark University of Edinburgh
Anne De Roeck Open University
Frank Keller University of Edinburgh
Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh
Diana Maynard University of Sheffield
Diana McCarthy University of Sussex
Miles Osborne University of Edinburgh
John Tait University of Sunderland
Aline Villavicencio Cambridge University

Local Organisation

Stephen Clark and Miles Osborne