------------------------------------------------------------------------ !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Language and Computer Science !!! !!! Please circulate and post among students !!! !!! We apologize if you receive this message more than once !!! ======================================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION August 6-18 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain Submission Deadline : March 15th, 2000 http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/ESSLLI-2000.html ======================================================================== We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2000) organized by the University of Birmingham and located at the same University in August 2000 (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli). We will welcome submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PURPOSE: This fifth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own WORK IN PROGRESS and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. It is desired that papers presenting creative and innovative ideas will be submitted. The ESSLLI-2000 Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates - before completion of the Master Thesis as well as postgraduates - before completion of the PhD degree. We will not accept papers co-authored by non-students. The ESSLLI Student Session consists of paper presentations and has its own timeslot in the summerschool's schedule: 60 minutes every day for two weeks, provided that a sufficient number of good quality papers is accepted. Each presentation will last 30 minutes (including 10 minutes of discussion). The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during ESSLLI-2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. Papers will cover topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic, Language, Computation, Logic & Language, Logic & Computation, Language & Computation). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages of length exclusive of references and send a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., " We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like " Smith (1991) previously showed...". For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent SEPARATELY, using the following format: Title: Author: <firstname lastname of the first author> Address: <address of the first author> ... Author: <firstname lastname of the last author> Address: <address of the last author> Short summary (5 lines): <summary> Subject area (one of): Logic | Language | Computation | Logic and Language | Logic and Computation | Language and Computation. The submission of the extended abstract should be in one of the following formats: 1) SELF-CONTAINED LATEX SOURCE (the most encouraged): The LaTeX source should use the standard article document-class, with A4 paper size and 12pt font size. The source should not refer to any other external files or styles, except for the standard styles for LaTeX2e. The bibliography for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file: the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file. 2) POSTSCRIPT: PostScript submissions must use a standard font and A4 (8 1/4 " x 11 3/4 ") size pages. Please avoid the default letter page size if submitting from outside Europe. 3) ASCII text. Submissions outside the specified length and formatting requirements will be subject to rejection without review. The extended abstract and separate identification page must be sent by e-mail to: Catherine.Piliere@loria.fr by March 15, 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI-2000 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI-2000. For all information, please consult the ESSLLI-2000 web site: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: March 15, 2000. Authors notifications: May 14, 2000. Final version due: June 11, 2000. ESSLLI-2000 Student Session: August 6-18, 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Catherine Pilière (chair), LORIA - University Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France; Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi, IMAG, Grenoble, France; Paola Maneggia, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Great Britain; Vincenzo Pallotta, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland; Sylvain Pogodalla, Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France; Kristina Striegnitz, Computational Linguistics, University of Saarbrücken, Germany. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For any specific question concerning ESSLLI-2000 Student Session, please, do not hesitate to contact the chair: Catherine Pilière LORIA Campus Scientifique BP 239 54 506 VANDOEUVRE-LES-NANCY Cedex France Tel. +33 (0)3 83 59 20 22 E-mail Catherine.Piliere@loria.fr http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/