computational linguistics pleased announce first call papers eacl 99 held bergen norway 8 12 june 1999 call text version found http www ltg ed ac uk eacl99 callfor papers html conference home page http www hit uib eacl99 henry thompson programme committee chair alex lascarides programme commitee cochair koenraad de smedt local arrangements chair john nerbonne eacl president eacl 99 call papers demos posters student papers tutorials workshops _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9th conference european chapter association computational linguistics 8 12 june 1998 university bergen bergen norway 1 paper sessions 1 1 topics interest papers invited substantial original unpublished research aspects computational linguistics including limited pragmatics discourse semantics syntax lexicon phonetics phonology morphology interpreting generating spoken written language linguistic mathematical psychological models language languageoriented information retrieval information extraction corpusbased language modeling machine translation translation aids natural language interfaces dialogue systems approaches coordinating linguistic modalities multimedia systems message narrative understanding systems 1 2 requirements papers describe original work emphasize completed work rather intended work indicate clearly state completion reported results wherever appropriate concrete evaluation results included paper accepted presentation eacl meeting presented presented meeting publicly available published proceedings papers submitted conferences must reflect fact title page 1 3 format submission authors submit preliminary versions papers review exceed 3200 words exclusive references papers headed title page containing paper id code see title short 5 line summary five keywords specifying subject area word count excluding figures bibliography notice multiple submission required since 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