walker@MOUTON.BELLCORE.COM (Don Walker) (08/09/86)
CALL FOR PAPERS
25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
6-9 July 1987
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA
TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and
unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics,
theoretical or applied. Papers that demonstrate the power of a
technique for computational purposes or present new ideas together with
a comparison and evaluation of their implications for current research
are particularly welcomed. The following topics are illustrative:
phonology, morphology, the lexicon, syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics;
parsing and generation; language understanding; knowledge representation;
speech acts and planning; language interfaces; language acquisition;
speech analysis and synthesis; information and document retrieval;
computational, mathematical, and psychological models;
programming strategies; computer architectures.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe unique work that has not been
submitted elsewhere; they should emphasize completed work rather than
intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion
of the reported results.
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit ten copies of an extended
abstract not to exceed eight double-spaced pages (exclusive of
references) in a font no smaller than 10 point (elite). The title page
should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete
addresses, a short (5 line) summary, and a specification of the topic
area. Submissions that do not conform to this format will not be
reviewed. Send to:
Candy Sidner, ACL-87 Program Chair
BBN Laboratories Inc.
10 Moulton Street
Cambridge, MA 02238, USA
(617)497-3566; sidner@g.bbn.com
SCHEDULE: Papers must be received by 12 January 1987.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by 2 March 1987.
Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column
model paper format must be received by 30 April, along with a
signed copyright release statement.
OTHER ACTIVITIES: Special events will signal the 25th Anniversary of
the ACL. The meeting will also include a program of applied tutorials
and a variety of exhibits and demonstrations. Anyone wishing to
arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief
description together with a specification of physical requirements
(space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to Paul Martin,
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; (415)859-4480;
pmartin@sri-ai.arpa.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Local arrangements are being handled by
Doug Appelt, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025; (415)859-6150;
appelt@sri-ai.arpa. For other information on the conference and on the
ACL more generally, contact Don Walker (ACL), Bell Communications
Research, 445 South Street, MRE 2A379, Morristown, NJ 07960;
201:829-4312; walker@mouton.bellcore.com or walker%mouton@relay.cs.net
or bellcore!walker@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.
LSA SUMMER LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE: ACL-87 will be preceded and followed
by the 54th LSA Institute at Stanford University, which will be
cosponsored by the ACL and the AAAI. Computational linguistics will be
the major focus for the Institute. The week preceding the 25th Annual
Meeting will feature ten 8-hour courses that can be taken by ACL
members as tutorials. For more information, contact Ivan Sag,
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305,
USA; (415)723-4284; institute@su-csli.stanford.edu. A conference on
Logic and Linguistics will follow ACL-87 from 10-11 July, also at
Stanford University; contact Rich Thomason, Linguistics Department,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; (412)624-5791;
thomason@c.cs.cmu.edu.