From: Lua Kim Teng <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 10:04:41 +0800

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                       C A L L   O F  P A P E R

                             Comm.COLIPS

                           COMMUNICATIONS OF
       CHINESE AND ORIENTAL LANGUAGES INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY

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                         Information for Authors

This journal is intended to be published 4 issues per volume. Its scope
includes  all aspects related to  Computer  Processing  of
Chinese & Oriental Languages, e.g., computer input and output  of
characters,  typesetting  and design of  characters,  coding  and
compression   of   data,  voice  input  and   output,   analysis,
recognition and synthesis of speech, man-computer communications,
language  processing  and text understanding,  representation  of
knowledge  and inferencing, computational linguistics,  machine
translation,  software and design of Chinese language  computers,
database  management  and systems,  information  retrieval,  text
handling, question answering, applications of theories, methods and
techniques.

                              Manuscripts

Manuscripts will be reviewed for possible publication on the
understanding that they are being submitted to this journal only, and have
not been published, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for
publication in any other journal.

All manuscripts must be submitted in triplicate to the Editor-in-Chief,
K T Lua, Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, National
University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511. When the paper is
accepted, the author will also be requested to submit an electronic copy
of the manuscript on a 5.25" diskette in IBM PC 360KB or 1.2 MB format.
The text should be in GB2312/Big-5 codes if possible.

The official languages of this journal are English and Chinese.
Occasionally invited papers may be published in other oriental languages
with English abstracts.

                  Papers which contain Copyright Material

It is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission
from both author and publisher to reproduce material which has
appeared in another publication. Copies of this permission must
also be enclosed with the manuscript.

                          Style for Manuscript

Manuscripts must be typed on one side of paper only, one and
half spacing or double-spaced with wide margins. All pages should
be numbered consecutively. Good machine-reproduced copies may be
sent in lieu of the originals. No footnotes will be accepted.

Type and Length of Manuscript
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The following restriction on the length of manuscripts mush be
observed :

Communications - up to 5000 words. These are short reports of original
research and development.

Invited papers - up to 10,000 words. These are specially invited
reports on the major development in the Chinese computing.

New products, Announcements, Short Reports - up to 500 words

Title Page
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The first page of the manuscript should provide the title of the
paper, the names of all authors, their affiliations and a phone

number for contact. Full addresses of all authors, including
institution, country, province, district, street, postal code etc
must be provide.

Abstract and Keywords
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Each manuscript must contain an informative abstract of no more
than 100 words together with 4 to 6 keywords which should best
describe the paper.

References
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References are to be cited in text by numerals enclosed in

square brackets; for example [7]. References should be complete
and accessible to our readers. In general, the style should
follow the recommendations of the Transactions of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:

a. Journal articles: author initials followed by last name,
title, volume, page numbers, month and year.

b. Books: author, title, publisher and location,year, page
numbers.

Illustrations and Special Symbols
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Illustrations should be of good quality, their originals should
be sent immediately upon acceptance of the paper. Originals of
all illustrations should be sharp, clean, and of good contrast. A
complete list of illustrations must accompany the manuscript.
Drawings should be in black ink on paper or glossy photographs.
Use 8.5" by 11" size sheets whenever possible, to facilitate
handling of the manuscript. All lettering and drawings should be
large enough to permit legible reduction of the figure to about
one-half or a third of the original size. Number each original at
the bottom of the front or on the back. Captions lettered on
figures may be blocked out in reproduction in favor of captions
of a uniform style.

Tables
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Tables must be typed on separate sheets. Please number tables
consecutively.

                       Voluntary Page Charges

After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the
author's institution or company will be requested to pay a
voluntary charge of US$5.00 (S$10.00) per printed page to cover part of
the publication cost. This page charge is not obligatory nor is
its payment a prerequisite for publication. The author will receive
4 volumes of the journal if the charge is honored.

                  Agreement on Copyright and Editing

A statement transferring copyright from the authors (or their
employers, if they hold the copyright) to the publisher of this
journal will be required before the manuscript can be accepted
for publication.

The editors of the publication of COMM. COLIPS reserved the
right to edit, correct and select appropriate material from the
above paper for publication. The necessary form for this
agreement will be supplied.

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