walker@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Don Walker) (12/14/90)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Reversible Grammar in Natural Language Processing
17 June 1991
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA
A workshop sponsored by the
Special Interest Groups on Generation (SIGGEN) and Parsing (SIGPARSE)
of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
and supported by the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
TOPICS OF INTEREST: The purpose of this workshop is to bring together
researchers whose work concerns problems of reversible grammar
systems that are designed for, or may find applications in, Natural
Language Processing. Papers are invited on significant, original
and unpublished research on all aspects of reversible grammars,
including, but not limited to:
(1) Reversible computation (multi-directional and non-directional
computation; algorithms for program inversion and transformation;
efficiency issues);
(2) Reversible natural language systems (parsers and generators
for reversible grammars; reversibility of unification-based grammars;
new architectures for reversible natural language processing;
knowledge representation issues; reversible machine translation;
lexicons for bidirectional systems; reversibility in discourse
processing);
(3) Reversible grammars in linguistic theory (formal characterization;
reversibility within various grammatical frameworks, eg., GB, LFG,
GPSG, HPSG, TAG, categorial grammars; reversibility in rule-based
and principle-based approaches; reversibility and semantic
compositionality).
FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of their
papers in hard copy form. Papers should be a minimum of four pages
and a maximum of ten single-spaced pages (exclusive of references).
The title page should include the title, full names of all authors
and their complete addresses including electronic addresses where
applicable, and a short (5 line) summary. Submissions that do not
conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to:
Tomek Strzalkowski
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
715 Broadway, Room 704
New York, NY 10003, USA
tomek@cs.nyu.edu
(+1-212) 998-3496
SCHEDULE: Papers must be received by 1 March 1991 (NOT 31 March,
as in a previous release). Authors will be notified of acceptance
by 5 April 1991. A camera-ready copy of the final paper prepared
in the two-column format must be received by 10 May 1991. Accepted
papers will be included in the proceedings published by the ACL.
WORKSHOP INFORMATION: The workshop is held in connection with the
29th Meeting of the ACL (18-21 June). Local arrangements are being
handled by Peter Norvig (Division of Computer Science, University
of California, 573 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, (+1-415)
642-9533, norvig@teak.berkeley.edu).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Marc Dymetman, Gertjan van Noord, Patrick
Saint-Dizier, Tomek Strzalkowski.