We would be happy to help those wishing to arrange events in conjunction with ACL03. For information on available venues and local facilities for gatherings and meetings, please contact:Kenji Araki (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Following is a list of other conferences or workshops so far informed to us.

(a) 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

July 5 and 6, 2003, Sapporo

Organizing Committee:
Akira Kurematsu (University of Electro-Communications) [general chair]
Laila Dybkjaer (University of Southern Denmark)
David Traum (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)
Alexander Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University)

(b) Workshop on Language Understanding and Agent for Real World Interaction

July 13, 2003, Hokkaido University

Organizing co-chairs:
Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

(c) PAPILLON-2003 Workshop on Multilingual Lexical Databases

July 3-5, 2003, Hokkaido University

Organizing Committee:
David Thevenin (Invited Researcher, NII, Tokyo, Japan) [organization chair]
Mathieu Mangeot (Invited Researcher, NII, Tokyo, Japan) [organization co-chair]
Francois Brown de Colstoun (Scientific Attache, French Embassy, Tokyo, Japan) [organization co-chair]
Program Committee:
Yves Lepage (Senior Researcher, ATR, Keihanna, Japan) [program chair]
Gilles Serasset (Associate Professor, UJF, Grenoble, France) [program co-chair]

(d) ISO/TC 37/SC 4 Plenary Meeting &ISO/TC 37/SC 4/WG 1 Meeting

July 7, Sapporo

Organizers:
Harry Bunt
Key-Sun Choi
Kiyong Lee
Laurent Romary