Organisation IWPT'97
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General chairman
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Harry C. Bunt, ITK, Tilburg University, The Netherlands 
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Local chairman
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Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 
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Program committee
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Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands(chair) 
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Masaru Tomita, Fujisawa, Japan 
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Bernard Lang, INRIA, Paris, France 
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Mats Wirené Telia Research AB, Sweden 
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Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
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K. Vijay-Shanker, University of Delaware, USA 
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Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
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Bob Carpenter, Bell Labs, USA 
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Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 
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Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan 
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David Weir, University of Sussex, UK 
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Harry C. Bunt, ITK, Tilburg University, The Netherlands 
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Mark Johnson, Brown University, USA 
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Eva HajicováCharles University, Prague, Czech Republic 
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Martin Kay, Rank Xerox, Palo Alto, USA 
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Mark Steedman, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
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Ronald Kaplan, Rank Xerox, Palo Alto, USA 
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Kent Wittenburg, GTE Laboratories, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA 
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