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Tinlap3
January 7,8,9, 1987
Tinlap3 will be the third in the series of interdisciplinary workshops
Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing.
The format will be as in MIT(1985) & Illinois (1978): invited panels
of distinguished figures in the field will discuss pre-circulated
statements of position. Lively audience participation is anticipated.
The panels are intended to cover the major contentious issues of the
moment.
Tinlap3 is being supported by the Association of Computational Linguistics
and funds are also being sought from NSF, AAAI, and ACM.
Tinlap Grand Committee:
Nick Cercone (Simon Fraser University),
Richard Rosenberg (Dalhousie University),
Roger Schank (Yale University),
David Waltz (Brandeis University),
Bonnie Webber (University of Pennsylvania).
Tinlap3 General Chair: Andrew Ortony (University of Illinois)
Tinlap3 Program Chair: Yorick Wilks (New Mexico State University)
Panels and their Chairs will be:
* Connectionist and other parallel approaches to natural language processing
(Dave Waltz, Thinking Machines & Brandeis)
* Unification and the new grammatism
(Fernando Pereira, SRI)
* World and world representations
(Don Walker, Bellcore)
* Formal versus commonsense semantics
(Yorick Wilks, NMSU)
* Why has theoretical NLP made so little progress?
(to be confirmed)
* Discourse theory and speech acts.
(Barbara Grosz, SRI)
* Reference: the interaction of language and the world
(Doug Appelt, SRI)
* Metaphor
(Derdre Gentner, U.Illinois)
* Natural language generation
(Aravind Joshi, U. Pennsylvania)
Registration:
Registration covers pre-circulated preprints, mid-session refreshments etc.,
some local transportation, and adminstration.
Registration fees: Non-student: $50 ($40 if registered before Aug. 20, 1986)
Full-time students: $30 ($25 if registered before Aug. 20, 1986)
Registration Form: [Deleted -- contact author for copy. -- KIL]
Registrants should fill out and print out form, sign and send hardcopy
with check made payable to NMSU Foundation to
Tinlap3,
Box3CRL, NMSU, Las Cruces, NM 88003.
Sending a copy of your registration by return netmail will also assure its
quick entry to mailouts of further materials.
Where: at New Mexico State University main campus (Las Cruces), Rio Grande
Corridor for Technical Excellence, Computing Research Lab.
(505-646-5466) for further details.
Forming the western corner of a triangle with White Sands and El Paso,
Las Cruces is a city of about 50,000 people in southern NM. Las Cruces is
situated between the spectacular Organ Mountains fifteen miles to the east,
and the historic Rio Grande River to the west. Two miles west of Las Cruces,
near the Rio Grande, is La Mesilla, the old Mexican village where the Gadsden
Purchase was signed. The town square is bordered by restaurants and shops,
with Indian arts -- pottery, paintings, jewelry, baskets, and weaving.
Also nearby are the White Sands National Monument (about 55 miles),
the Carlsbad Caverns (about 160 miles), and Sierra Blanca, a 12,000 foot
mountain with fine skiing (about 130 miles).
The weather in early January is usually clear and sunny, with temperatures
usually in the 50's in the daytime, and the 20's at night. Good skiing is
one and a half hours away.
Note:
Full program will be mailed to all registrants in September and
the preprints in December. Detailed accommodation and travel information
will be sent on receipt of completed registration form.
Hotel rates will be from $20-$50 per night.
Since accommodation may be limited, to obtain
hotel information, it is advisable to register early.