[comp.ai] Prague Summer School on Formal & Computational Models of Meaning

walker@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Don Walker) (10/19/90)

		  SUMMER SCHOOL IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

		  FORMAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF MEANING

			      Charles University
			    Prague, Czechoslovakia
			      July 8 - 21, 1991

The 1991 Summer School in Computational Linguistics is organized by the Faculty
of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in close collaboration with the
re-established Department of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics at the
Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague (Head: Petr Sgall).  The main
focus of the School is the interdisciplinary domain of formal and computational
models of meaning.  The program will be organized in four 2-hour nonoverlapping
blocks per day, workshop and guest lectures.

		 		    FEES
		   Industrial participants    900 USD
		   Academic community         700 USD
The fees cover the costs of all courses, a welcome reception, a guided tour of
Prague, accommodation in double rooms in the University students hostel for the
whole period of the School (13 nights) and 3 meals per day in the students
canteen (12 days).  The organizers cannot assume responsibility for hotel
accommodation.

		 	       PREREGISTRATION
To preregister, please fill in the attached form.  Only those who send in the
preregistration form will receive the final information and registration forms.

The deadline for preregistration is NOVEMBER 30, 1990

For further details contact: Dr. Eva Hajicova
                             MFF UK - Linguistics
                             Malostranske n. 25
                             CS - 118 00 Prague 1
			     CZECHOSLOVAKIA


                                 COURSES

The types of lexical information for a dictionary in an integrated linguistic
description
Juri D. Apresjan, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR

Computational lexicography 
B.T.S. Atkins, Oxford University Press, UK

Meaning and understanding in MT
Christian Boitet, G.E.T.A., Grenoble, France

Computational semantics
Jens Erik Fenstad, University of Oslo, Norway

Semantic interpretation and construction grammar
Charles J. Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley, USA

A functional approach to the meaning of the sentence and to intersentential
links
Eva Hajicova and Petr Sgall, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Contextual influences on meaning
Martha E. Pollack, SRI International, USA

New developments in grammar formalisms
Hans Uszkoreit, University of Saarbruecken, FRG

Discourse and user models
Wolfgang Wahlster, University of Saarbruecken, FGR

Intensional semantics
Mats Rooth, University of Texas, USA

Computational lexical semantics
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA

Cognitive linguistics
George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley, USA


			     PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

Deadline for pre-registration: November 30, 1990

NAME:

AFFILIATION (university or company):

ADDRESS for correspondence:

TELEPHONE:

Please, mark the appropriate box: industrial participant
                                  academic institution
                                  student

Previous schooling and experience in computational linguistics:

Fill in the form and return it to: MFF UK - Linguistics
                                   c/o Anna Kotesovcova
                                   Malostranske n.25
                                   CS-118 00 Prague 1
                                   CZECHOSLOVAKIA