tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Fifth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics"

The preparation of the Fifth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics was done, without doubt, under extraordinary circumstances. To characterize the situation one only has to remember that since the Manchester conference there have been four governments on the territory of the former GDR, differing in every imaginable respect. The change in autumn 1989 and the unification on 3 October 1990 - the two outstanding events - were accompanied by an immense number of radical political, economic, and social changes which were not without consequences on the preparation of this conference. . | Fifth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Conference 9-11 April 1991 Congress Hall Alexanderplatz Berlin Germany Published by the Association for Computational Linguistics 1991 Association for Computational Linguistics Order copies of this and other ACL proceedings from Donald E. Walker ACL Bell Communication Research 445 South Street MRE 2A379 Morristown NJ 07960-1910 USA Preface The preparation of the Fifth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics was done without doubt under extraordinary circumstances. To characterize the situation one only has to remember that since the Manchester conference there have been four governments on the territory of the former GDR differing in every imaginable respect. The change in autumn 1989 and the unification on 3 October 1990 - the two outstanding events - were accompanied by an immense number of radical political economic and social changes which were not without consequences on the preparation of this conference. We therefore ask for your understanding not everything went as we wanted and there were some mishaps in preparing the conference which we regret very much. The main reason for this trouble was the inadequacy of communications which did not improve to a degree necessary for a smooth handling of the organization. That nevertheless everything went comparatively well is mainly due to two different facts on the one hand to the energy and enthusiasm which some of our collaborators put in to making a successful outcome possible. We particularly want to thank them here. On the other hand it is also due to the generous financial support which although not in every case meant for the conference raised our technical and other facilities to a level allowing more effective work during the last months. This holds above all for the financial aid we received from the Federal Minister of Research and Technology. Finally we .