[LRegroup][30] Plenary speakers at Congress
Below is a list of plenary speakers at the Congress. Workshop on LR
for NLP is from 5-8 Jan. If you register for the Workshop you can
come earlier and attend the programme of the Congress also at a small
additional charge. (Registration details follow.)
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CONGRESS ON "WORLD LANGUAGES IN MULTILINGUAL CONTEXTS"
CIEFL, Hyderabad, 3-7 Jan 2001
PLENARY SESSIONS
Time of Plenary Sessions to be announced.
1. Prof. Raj Braj Kachru, University of Illinois, USA
Title: Awaited. (Inaugural lecture)
(On 3 January 2001, forenoon)
2. Prof.Merrill Swain, OISE, Torento, Canada
Title: Collaborative Dialogue and Second Language Learning.
(On 4 January 2001, forenoon)
3. Prof Aravind K Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Title: Computational Linguistics and Role of Linguists
(On 5 January 2001, afternoon)
4. Prof.Christopher Candlin, Mcquire University, Australia &
City University, Hong Kong.
Title: Awaited.
5. Prof.Bernard Spolsky, Barilan University, Israel.
Title: Penetration of English & Other Global Languages into
Israeli Socio-Linguistics Space.
6. Prof.Micheal Byram, University of Durham, England.
Title: Language Learning & Citizen ship - A European Perspective.
7. Prof.Yamuna Kachru, University of Illinois, USA
Title: Cultural Construction of Politeness: Discourse in
Plural Societies.
8. Prof.Vijay Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Title: Awaited.
(On 3 January 2001, afternoon)
9. Dr.N.S. Prabhu, Formerly, National University of Singapore.
Title: Appropriating English Language Teaching
10. Prof.Robert Herbert, State University of New York.
Title: Purity and Pollution in South African Language Politics.
11. Prof.Tamara M Valentine, University of South Carolina, USA.
Title: Language Gender and Idealogy in a Multilingual Society.
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SESSION ON DICTIONARIES (4 JANUARY 2001, AFTERNOON)
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(Partial list of speakers):
J. Simpson, Oxford University Press
Title: Electronic Dictionaries (Exact title to be anounced)
(On 4 January 2001, afternoon)
P. Gillard, Cambridge University Press
Title: Electronic Dictionaries (Exact title to be anounced)
(On 4 January 2001, afternoon)
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Workshop on Lexical Resources for Natural Language Procesing,
Hyderabad, 5-8 January 2001. (Paper submission deadline: 5 Dec 2000)
Email: conf_lr@iiit.net,
Web: http://www.iiit.net/conf_lr/index.html
Email addr for pre-workshop egroup: conf_lr_egroup@iiit.net
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