walker@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Don Walker) (02/18/91)
Fifth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 9-11 April 1991 Congress Hall, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany THIRD CIRCULAR AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME TUESDAY, 9 APRIL 1991 9.00 Opening 9.30 Invited Paper: Antonio Zampolli (Italy) Large Reusable Linguistic Knowledge Bases 10:30 Break 11.00 Steve G. Pulman (Great Britain) Comparatives and Ellipsis 11.30 Wolfgang Wahlster, Elisabeth Androe, Winfried Graf, Thomas Rist (Germany): Designing Illustrated Texts: How Language Production is Influenced by Graphics Generation 12.00 David M. Magerman, Mitchell P. Marcus (USA) Pearl: A Probabilistic Chart Parser Section A 14.00 Tilman Becker, Aravind K. Joshi, Owen Rambow (USA) Long-Distance Scrambling and Tree Adjoining Grammars 14.30 Alberto Lavelli, Giorgio Satta (Italy) Bidirectional Parsing Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars 15.00 Stephen J. Hegner (USA) Horn Extended Feature Structures: Fast Unification with Negation and Limited Disjunction 15.30 Break 16.00 Patrick Saint-Dizier (France) Processing Language with Logical Types and Active Constraints 16.30 Rene Leermakers (Netherlands) Non-deterministic Recursive Ascent Parsing 17.00 Tsuneko Nakazawa (USA) An Extended LR Parsing Algorithm for Grammars Using Feature- Based Syntactic Categories Section B 14.00 Fabio Pianesi (Italy) Indexing and Referential Dependencies within Binding Theory: A Computational Framework 14.30 Manfred Pinkal (Germany) On the Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Bound Anaphora 15.00 Longin Latecki (Germany) An Indexing Technique for Implementing Command Relations 15.30 Break 16.00 Pete Whitelock (Great Britain) What sorts of trees do we speak? - A Computational Model of the Syntax-Prosody Interface in Tokyo Japanese 16.30 Eric Bilange (France) A Task Independent Oral Dialogue Model 17.00 Steven Bird, Patrick Blackburn (Great Britain) A Computational Approach to Arabic Phonology WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 1991 Section A 9.00 Dan Tufis, Octav Popescu (Roumania) A Unified Management and Processing of Word-Forms, Idioms and Analytical Compounds 9.30 Alan W. Black (Great Britain), Joke van de Plassche (Netherlands) Analysis of Unknown Words through Morphological Decomposition 10.00 Michel Gilloux (France) Automatic Learning of Word Transducers from Example 10.30 Break 11.00 Sabine Reinhard, Dafydd Gibbon (Germany) Prosodic Inheritance and Morphological Generalisations 11.30 James Kilbury, Petra Naerger, Ingrid Renz (Germany) DATR as a Lexical Component for PATR 12.00 Gunnel Kaellgren (Sweden) Parsing without Lexicon: the MorP System Section B 9.00 Stephan Busemann (Germany) Structure-Driven Generation from Separate Semantic Representations 9.30 Alison Cawsey (Great Britain) Using Plausible Inference Rules in Description Planning 10.00 Lee Fedder (Great Britain) Generating Sentences from Different Perspectives 10.30 Break 11.00 Danilo Fum, Bruno Pani, Carlo Tasso (Italy) Teaching the English Tense: Integrating Naive and Formal Grammars in an Intelligent Tutor for Foreign Language Teaching 11.30 Jacky Herz, Mori Rimon (Israel) Local Syntactic Constraints 12.00 Robert Dale, Nicholas Haddock (Great Britain) Generating Referring Expressions Involving Relations Section A 14.00 Richard P. Cooper (Great Britain) Coordination in Unification-Based Grammars 14.30 Luis Damas, Nelma Moreira (Portugal), Giovanni B. Varile (Luxembourg) The Formal and Processing Models of CLG 15.00 Gosse Bouma (Netherlands) Prediction in Chart Parsing Algorithms for Categorial Unification Grammar 15.30 Break 16.00 Guy Barry, Mark Hepple, Neil Leslie, Glyn Morrill (Great Britain) Proof Figures and Structural Operators for Categorial Grammar 16.30 Juergen Wedekind (USA) Classical Logics for Attribute-Value Languages 17.00 Joep Rous (Netherlands) Computational Aspects of M-grammars Section B 14.00 Matthew W. Crocker (Great Britain) Multiple Interpreters in a Principle-Based Model of Sentence Processing 14.30 Suzanne Stevenson (USA) A Computational Architecture for Syntactic Disambiguation 15.00 Elena V. Paducheva (USSR) Semantic Features and Selection Restrictions 15.30 Break 16.00 Sabine Bergler (USA) The Semantics of Collocational Patterns for Reporting Verbs 16.30 Michael R. Brent (USA) Automatic Semantic Classification of Verbs from their Syntactic Contexts: An Implemented Classifier for Stativity 17.00 Nancy M. Ide (USA), Jean Veronis (France) An Assessment of Semantic Information Automatically Extracted from Machine Readable Dictionaries THURSDAY, 11 APRIL 1991 9.00 Arne Joensson (Sweden) A Dialogue Manager Using Initiative-Response Units and Distributed Control 9.30 Gudrun Klose, Thomas Pirlein (Germany) Modelling Knowledge for a Natural Language Understanding System 10.00 Guenter Neumann (Germany) A Bidirectional Model for Natural Language Processing 10.30 Break 11.00 Espen J. Vestre (Norway) An Algorithm for Generating Non-redundant Quantifier Scopings 11.30 Richard Ball, Keith Brown, Anne de Roeck, Chris Fox, Marjolein Groefsema, Nadim Obeid, Ray Turner (Great Britain) Helpful Answers to Modal and Hypothetical Questions 12.00 Karin Haenelt, Michael Koenyves-Tlth (Germany) The Textual Development of Non-Stereotypic Concepts 14.00 Bianka Buschbeck, Renate Henschel, Iris Hoeser, Gerda Klimonow, Andreas Kuestner, Ingrid Starke (Germany) Limits of a Sentence Based Procedural Approach for Aspect Choice in German-Russian Machine Translation 14.30 Jun-ichi Tsujii, Kimikazu Fujita (Great Britain) Lexical Transfer Based on Bilingual Signs: Towards Interaction During Transfer 15.00 Yannis Dologlou (Greece), Giovanni Malnati (Italy), Patrizia Paggio (Denmark) A Preference Mechanism Based on Multiple Criteria Resolution 15.30 Break 16.00 Graham Russell, Afzal Ballim, Dominique Estival, Susan Warwick-Armstrong (Switzerland) A Language for the Statement of Binary Relations over Feature Structures 16.30 Louisa Sadler, Henry S. Thompson (Great Britain) Structural Non-Correspondence in Translation 17.00 Final Meeting RESERVE PAPERS: Nelson Correa (Colombia) An Extension of Earley's Algorithm for S- and L-Attributed Grammars Helmut Horacek (Germany) Exploiting Conversational Implicature for Generating Concise Explanations Hubert Lehmann (Germany) Towards a Core Vocabulary for a Natural Language System Heinz-Dirk Luckhardt (Germany) Sublanguages in Machine Translation - What are they worth? Jan Odijk (Netherlands) Using Transformations in a Compositional Framework Allan Ramsay (Ireland) A Common Framework for Analysis and Generation CONFERENCE SITE The Congress Hall (Kongresshalle) is situated at the east side of Alexanderplatz, at the beginning of Alexanderstrasse, close to Haus des Lehrers. Alexanderplatz has a station of S-Bahn (municipal train) and U-Bahn (subway) of the same name. From airport Berlin-Schoenefeld: S-Bahn From airport Berlin-Tegel: Bus (line 9) to S-Bahn Station Charlottenburg, then S-Bahn. ACCOMMODATION If you have a confirmation for your hotel accommodation, you may go first to the hotel if convenient. If you booked accommodation in a youth guest-house, you should first go to the Conference Office. You have to pay your accommodation booked at the Europaeisches Reisebuero as well as the accommodation in youth guest-houses in the Conference Office, in all other cases you have to pay in the hotel. Cheques and credit cards will be accepted. CONFERENCE OFFICE The Conference Office in the Kongresshalle will be open as follows: Monday, 8 April 1991 10.00 - 22.00 Tuesday, 9 April to Thursday, 11 April 1991 8.00 - 18.00 In the Conference Office there will be a desk of the Europaeisches Reisebuero, which will on request confirm or book flights, reserve seat tickets for trains, order tickets for cultural events, and help you in other touristic matters. DEMONSTRATIONS AND BOOK EXHIBITION On Thursday, 11 April, we will have a special section for demonstrations. They can be prepared on Wednesday. The final programme for this section will be distributed during the conference. Participants who are still interested in giving a demonstration are welcome to contact Wolfgang Menzel (same address) to be included in the programme and to discuss further details. During the conference we will have a book exhibition where several publishing houses and book sellers will show their specific offer and you will have the possibility of ordering. SOCIAL EVENTS Monday, 8 April 1991, from 15.00: Get-together Reception (Kongresshalle) Thursday, 11 April 1991, 19.00: Banquet ("Schultheiss in der Hasenheide", Hasenheide 23-31, 1000 Berlin 61, U-Bahn, line 8, station "Hermannplatz") TOURISTIC EVENTS as announced in the Second Circular. We strongly recommend you to book the touristic events by 26 February, because the tours T4, T5 and T6 will be cancelled by 1 March if there are not enough participants. CORRESPONDENCE/INQUIRIES Your correspondence partners for hotel reservations are Europaeisches Reisebuero and Berlin Tourist Office, respectively. In all other cases contact: Juergen Kunze Zentralinstitut fuer Sprachwissenschaft Prenzlauer Promenade 149-152, D-1100 Berlin, GERMANY Telephone: (+37-2) 47 97 153 or 47 97 173 Telex: 114713 adwgi dd