pacling 99 first call papers call paper also available http www lpaig uwaterloo ca b2hui pacling additional information updates posted website become available please direct questions bowen hui b2hui uwaterloo ca pacling pacific association computational linguistics university waterloo waterloo ontario canada n2l 3g1 august 2528 1999 cooperative hosts canadian society computational studies intelligence cscsi societe canadienne pour l etude de l intelligence par ordinateur sceio university waterloo canada technical group natural language understanding communication institute electronics information communication engineers japan technical group thought language institute electronics information communication engineers japan history aims pacling pacific association computational linguistics grown successful japan australia joint symposia natural language processing held november 1989 melbourne australia october iizuka japan 1991 first three meetings retitled pacling name designed express wider membership took place vancouver canada 1993 brisbane australia 1995 ohme tokyo japan 1997 pacling 99 lowprofile highquality workshoporiented meeting whose aim promote friendly scientific relations among pacific rim countries emphasis interdisciplinary scientific exchange demonstrating openness towards good research falling outside current dominant schools thought technological transfer within pacific region conference represents unique forum scientific technological exchange smaller acl coling applied nlp also regional extensive representation pacific topics original papers invited topic computational linguistics closely related areas including limited following phonology phonetics morphology syntax semantics pragmatics dialogues spoken languages corpora text message understanding generation language translation translation aids language learning learning aids questionanswering systems interfaces multimedia databases language input output devices naturallanguage based software 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alberta canada graeme hirst university toronto canada satoru ikehara tottori university japan kentaro inui kyushu institute technology japan shun ishizaki keio university japan pierre isabelle university montreal canada xrce france julia johnson university regina canada richard kittredge university montreal canada guy lapalme university montreal canada dekang lin university manitoba canada charles ling university western ontario canada stan matwin university ottawa canada robert mercer university western ontario canada johanna moore university edinburgh uk gordon mccalla univ saskatchewan canada paul mcfetridge simon fraser university canada paul mc kevitt aalborg university denmark jun ichi nakamura university kyoto japan minako ohagan victoria univ wellington new zealand kyonghee paik keio university japan pattabhiraman seagate software canada emmanuel planas universiti joseph fourier de grenoble france fred popowich simon fraser university canada gary promhouse open text corp canada hiroshi sakaki meisei university japan l k schubert university rochester usa akira shimazu ntt japan booncharoen sirinaovakul king mongkut university technology thailand tomek strzalkowski general electric usa ryoichi sugimura matsushita japan roland sussex university queensland australia masami suzuki kdd japan yoichi tomiura kyushu university japan hiroaki tsurumaru university nagasaki japan peter van beek university alberta canada ning zhong yamaguchi university japan ingrid zukerman monash university australia speakers announced