Please apologize if you should receive multiple copies. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing NLP 2000: Filling the gap between theory and practice 2, 3 & 4 June 2000, Samos Island - Greece URL: http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000 OBJECTIVES We feel that this is the most opportune time for a critical view of the achievements both in theory and in practice, and for developing bridges in order to build emerging advanced systems and services that will provide the breadth of information envisaged. The aim is to fill the gap between theory and practice so that developments and needs in theory to take advantage and give insights for new developments in technological methods and applications, and visa-versa. The goal is to bring together people that will attest to the progress of the field and disseminate it to a wider audience. The conference will provide a forum to bring together researchers from the fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated translation, information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest in computational aspects of terminology processing: acquisition, extraction, indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary construction, etc. We also hope that researchers in all areas of NLP will participate, to discuss ways in which their own work could contribute, even if they are not currently working on these applications. Specific themes of the conference include Linguistic Models in NLP Language Engineering Techniques and Applications INVITED TALKS Berwick Bob (MIT), USA Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Center Europe), France Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Universit� du Qu�bec a Montr�al), Canada Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland Morin Jean Yves (University of Montreal), Canada Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA Theologitis Dimitris (Commission of the European Union), Luxemburg Wehrli Eric (University of Geneva), Switzerland Wilks Yorik (University of Sheffield), England Dimitris Christodoulakis (University of Patras), Greece Program Committee Chairman
