walker@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Don Walker) (08/06/90)
********* Note: Attached is the scientific programme of The Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING-90, to be held in Helsinki on August 20-25, l990. Expressions such as PI, PII, MI, etc., refer to the auditoria. The conference proceedings will be available from ACL after the meeting. For further information, please contact: Fred Karlsson Dept of General Linguistics University of Helsinki Hallituskatu 11 SF-00100 Helsinki, Finland e-mail: KARLSSON@FINUH.BITNET fax: +358 0 653726 phone: +358 0 1913512 ********* SUMMARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME Sunday, August 19, 1990 9.00 - 12.00 Extrapositional Session PIV: Open Workshop on Textual and Lexical Resources 14.00 - 16.00 Extrapositional Session PI: Computer Software - Property or Freeware? Monday, August 20, 1990 10.00 - 11.00 Opening Session Main Building: The Next Quarter of a Century 11.15 - 15.50 Scientific Papers and Demonstrations PI: Beyond Full Stop PII: Beyond the Map PIII: Out of the Laboratory PIV: New Tools M1: Projects M5: Projects 16.00 - 17.00 Panel Discussion PI: Unfinished Language Tuesday, August 21, 1990 9.00 - 15.50 Scientific Papers and Demonstrations PI: Formalisms PII: Translations PIII: Discourse and Speech Acts PIV: Efficiency and Tolerance M1: Projects M5: Projects 16.00 - 17.00 Panel Discussion PI: Homunculus Loquens Thursday, August 23, 1990 9.00 - 17.00 Scientific Papers and Demonstrations PI: Beyond Full Stop PII: Beyond the Map PIII: Out of the Laboratory PIV: New Tools M1: Projects M5: Projects 17.00 - 19.00 Demonstrations Friday, August 24, 1990 9.00-15.50 Scientific Papers and Demonstrations PI: Text Planning and Comprehension PII: Morphology; Translation PIII: Parallel Processing PIV: Computation M1: Projects M5: Projects 16.00 - 17.00 PI: Summing up and looking ahead Note: The headings of the groups of sessions do not exhaustively specify the contents. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME, Sunday, August 19, 1990 9.00 - 12.00, Extrapositional Session PIV: Open Workshop on Textual and Lexical Resources Organized by Don Walker. (This workshop will examine recent activities, plans and possibilities for collecting and exploiting massive text files, creating lexical data and knowledge bases, and developing methods to reuse and share both data and tools. Everyone is invited.) 14.00 - 16.00, Extrapositional Session PI: Computer Software - Property or Freeware? Jon Bing. (This lecture by Professor Bing from the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, University of Oslo, was invited in response to demands for a discussion at COLING-90 of the legal aspects of software development in a research-oriented environment.) SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME, Monday, August 20, 1990 Monday, 10.00 - 11.00, Opening Session The Grand Assembly Hall of the University of Helsinki, Main Building, Senate Square entrance, Unioninkatu 34. Programme Chair's Address. Hans Karlgren. Host's Address. Fred Karlsson (Chair of the Committee on Local Arrangements). The Next Quarter of a Century in Computational Linguistics. Martin Kay (President of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics). New Computation Technology - Expectations and Rational Research Strategy. Helmut Schnelle. Monday, 11.15 - 11.45 PI: Generation of Extended Explanations. David J Mooney & Sandra Carberry & Kathleen F McCoy. PII: Acquisition of Lexical Information from Corpus. Nicoletta Calzolari & Remo Bindi. PIII: Towards Personal MT. Christian Boitet. PIV: Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammars. Stuart M Shieber & Yves Schabes. M1: Spelling-Checking for Highly Inflected Languages. Jan Hajic & Janus Drozd. Monday, 11.50 - 12.20 PI: Generating Referring Expressions. Russel Block & Helmut Horacek. PII: Deep Sentence Understanding in a Restricted Domain. Pierre Zweigenbaum & Marc Cavazza. PIII: Parsing for Grammar and Style Checking. Gregor Thurmair. PIV: A Hybrid Deterministic Parser. Kanaan A Faisal & Stan C Kwasny. M5: Advice-Giving Dialogue. Didier Bronisz & Thomas Grossi & Francois Jean-Marie. Monday, 12.25 - 12.55 PI: Discourse Anaphora. Joke Dorrepaal. PII: Automated Discovery and Acquisition of Rules. Byoung-Tak Zhang & Yung-Taek Kim. PIII: Noisy Channel Model for Spelling Correction. Mark D Kernighan & Kenneth W Church & William A Gale. PIV: The Generalized LR Parser/Compiler V8-4. Masaru Tomita. M5: Japanese-to-English Project: PROTRAN and TWINTRAN. J Jelinek & G Wilcock & O Nishida & T Yoshimi & M J W Bos & N Tamura & H Murakami. Monday, 13.00 - 13.30 PI: Syntactic Constraints on Anaphoric Binding. Mary Dalrymple & John Maxwell & Annie Zaenen. PII: Extending the Lexicon by Exploiting Subregularities. Robert Wilensky. PIII: Knowledge-Based Structural Disambiguation. Katashi Nagao. PIV: A Government-Binding Parser for Mandarin Chinese. Hsin-Hsi Chen. M1: Interactive Multilingual Style Analysis. Guenter Winkelmann. Monday, 13.35 - 14.05 PI: La recherche du theme d'un discours. Monique Rolbert. PII: Probabilistic Integration of Syntax and Semantics. Dekai Wu. PIII: Memory-based Translation. Satoshi Sato & Makoto Nagao. PIV: Information-Based Case Grammar. Keh-jiann Chen & Chu-Ren Huang. M1: An Experimental Sentence Translation System. Eric Wehrli. Monday, 14.45 - 15.15 PI: Semantic Abstraction and Anaphora. Mark Johnson & Martin Kay. PII: Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora. Peter Anick & James Pustejovsky. PIII: Translation and Grammatical Metaphor. John A Bateman. PIV: Lazy Incremental Copy Graph Unification. Kiyoshi Kogure. M1: The First Million is Hardest to Get: Corpus Tagging. Gunnel Kaellgren. Monday, 15.20 - 15.50 PI: Identifying Subjective Characters in Narrative. Janyce M Wiebe. PII: Automatic Pruning of Too Wide Grammars. Lynette Hirschman. PIII: Why Human Translators Still Sleep in Peace. Paola Velardi. PIV: Augmented Chart Parser for Speech Recognition. Lee-Feng Chien & K J Chen & Lin-Shan Lee. M1: A Government-Binding Parser implemented in PARLOG. Robert J Kuhns. Monday, 16.00 - 17.00 PI: Unfinished Language. Panel Discussion. Moderator: Walther von Hahn. (based on the Electronic Colloqium). SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME, Tuesday, August 21, 1990 Tuesday, 09.00 - 09.30 PI: Combining Phrase Structure and Field Structure. Lars Ahrenberg. PII: Lexical Gaps and Idioms in Machine Translation. Diana Santos. PIII: Cleft Constructions in Discourse. J L Delin. PIV: Parallel Generalized LR Parsing. Hiroaki Numazaki & Hozumi Tanaka. M1: A Semantically Based Systemic Functional Generator. Robin P Fawcett & Gordon H Tucker. Tuesday, 09.35 - 10.05 PI: Implementing 'Generalized Word Order Grammars'. Bengt Sigurd. PII: Retrieval of Idioms. Erik-Jan van der Linden & Wessel Kraaij. PIII: Explanation Facility for a Grammar Writing System. Loong Cheong Tong. PIV: Bottom-Up Generation with Principle-Based Grammars. Masato Ishizaki. M5: A Computationally Expensive Approach to Morphology. Marc Domenig. Tuesday, 10.10 - 10.40 PI: Representing and Integrating Linguistic Knowledge. Daniel Jurafsky. PII: "Translation great problem". Barbara Gawronska-Werngren. PIII: Generating Connectives. Michael Elhadad & Kathleen R McKeown. PIV: Human-Computer Interaction for Disambiguation. Ralf D Brown & Sergei Nirenburg. M1: Recognizing Advice, Warnings, Promises and Threats. Kevin Donagy. M5: Augmentive Communication Systems. Kathleen McCoy & Patrick Demasco & Mark Jones & Christopher Pennington & Charles Rowe. Tuesday, 11.15 - 11.45 PI: Normal Form Theorem Proving for the Lambek Calculus. Mark Hepple. PII: Using Test Suites in Evaluation of MT Systems. Margaret King & Kirsten Falkedal. PIII: Free Adjuncts in Natural Language Instructions. Bonnie Lynn Webber & Barbara Di Eugenio. PIV: A Linguistic Theory of Robust Parsing. Sebastian Goeser. M5: Repair Work in Human-Computer Dialoge. Alison Cawsey & Pirkko Raudaskoski. Tuesday, 11.50 - 12.20 PI: Parsing Complexity of Extended Categorial Grammars. Esther Koenig. PII: Machine Translation without a Sources Text. Harald Somers & Jun-ichi Tsujii & Danny Jones. PIII: Semantic Interfaces in Text Generation. Christian Matthiessen. PIV: Category Hierarchy and Robust Parsing. Damien Genthial & Jaques Courtin & Irene Kowarski. M1: A Machine Translation System for Foreign News. Teruaki Aizawa & Terumasa Ehara & Noriyoshi Uratani & Hideki Tanaka & Naoto Kato & Sumio Nakase & Norikazu Aruga & Takeo Matsuda. Tuesday, 12.25 - 12.55 PI: Functor-Driven Generation and CUG. Dale Gerdemann & Erhard W Hinrichs. PII: Modelling Variations in Goal-Directed Dialogue. Jean Carletta. PIII: Coordination in an Axiomatic Grammar. Davie Milward. PIV: Syntactic Normalization of Spontaneous Speech. Hagen Langer. M5: Software for Intelligent Text Processing. Paul S Jacobs & Lisa F Rau. Tuesday, 13.00 - 13.30 PI: Feature Logic with Disjunctive Unification. Jochen Doerre & Andreas Eisele. PII: Translation by Abduction. Jerry R Hobbs & Megumi Kameyama. PIII: Centering Theory and Italian Pronouns. Barbara Di Eugenio. PIV: When Something is Missing. Alberto Lavelli & Oliviero Stock. M5: Bilingual Generation of Weather Forecasts. D Carcagno & E Goldberg & R Kittredge & A Polguere. Tuesday, 13.35 - 14.05 PI: Linear Encodings of Linguistic Analyses. Samuel S Epstein. PII: Independent Transfer Using Graph Unification. Lauri Carlson & Maria Vilkuna. PIII: Centering in Japanese Discourse. Sharon Cote & Masayo Iida & Marilyn Walker. PIV: Gapping and Frame Semantics. Andreas Stolcke. M1: Connectionist Networks for Constituent Structure. Helmut Schnelle & Rolf Wilkens. Tuesday, 14.45 - 15.15 PI: Complex Features in Description of Chinese. Feng Zhiwei. PII: Translation of Support Verb Constructions. Morris Salkoff. PIII: Disambiguating Cue Phrases. Diane Litman & Julia Hirschberg. PIV: Generating from Deep Structure. Claire Gardent & Agnes Plainfosse. M1: Intelligent Handling of Weather Forecasts. Stephan Kerpedjiev & Veska Noncheva. Tuesday, 15.20 - 15.50 PI: A Karaka-based Approach to Parsing. Akshar Bharati & Rajeev Sangal. PII: Representing Spatial Configurations for Generation. Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt. PIII: On Trying to Do Things with Words. Michael J Hussmann & Heinz Genzmann. PIV: Phonological Processing of Speech Variants. Julie Carson-Berndsen. M1: An Open-Ended Chinese Question-Answering System. Benjamin K Tsou. M5 (Exhibitors' Forum): ATLAS II: FUJITSU's first-in-the-world Japanese German Machine Translation System - jointly developed with ARIS (Germany). FUJITSU Ltd. & ARIS Software-Entwicklung GmbH. (printed in this booklet) Tuesday, 16.00 - 17.00 PI: Homunculus Loquens. Panel Discussion. Moderator: Hans Karlgren. (based on the Electronic Colloquium). SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME, Thursday, August 23, 1990 Thursday, 09.00 - 09.30 PI: Generation of Programs from a Declarative Grammar. Zaharin Yusoff. PII: Lexical Semantics via Lexicology. Ted Briscoe & Ann Copestake & Bran Boguraev. PIII: Stress and Intonation in Concept-to-Speech Systems. Georg Dorffner & Ernst Buchberger & Markus Kommenda. PIV: Disambiguation by Document-Oriented Preference Sets. Hirohito Inagaki & Sueharu Miyahara & Tohru Nakagawa & Fumihiko Obashi. M1: Generation for Dialogue Translation. Yoshihiro Ueda & Kioshi Kogure. M5: A Parser for French without a Dictionary. Jacques Vergne. Thursday, 09.35 - 10.05 PI: Using Lexicalized Tags for Translation. Anne Abeille & Yves Schabes & Aravind K Joshi. PII: Tagging for Learning: Collecting Thematic Relations from Corpus. Uri Zernik & Paul Jacobs. PIII: Anchor Word in Parsing for Speech Recognition. Hiroaki Saito. PIV: Two Principles of Parse Preference. Jerry R Hobbs & John Bear. M1: Automatic Indexing and Government-Binding Theory. Robert J Kuhns. Thursday, 10.10 - 10.40 PI: Constraining Tree Adjoining Grammars by Unification. Karin Harbusch. PII: Lexical Ambiguity and Knowledge Representation. Branimir Boguraev & James Pustejovsky. PIII: Optimum Selection from Phrase Lattice. Kazuhiko Ozeki. PIV (Exhibitors' Forum): ATLAS II: FUJITSU's first-in-the-world Japanese German Machine Translation System - jointly developed with ARIS (Germany). FUJITSU Ltd. & ARIS Software-Entwicklung GmbH. (printed in this booklet) M1: A Morphological Analyzer for Bulgarian. Kiril Simov & Galia Angelova & Elena Paskaleva. M5: Local Cohesive Knowledge for Translating Dialogues. Ikuo Kudo. Thursday, 11.15 - 11.45 PI: Bi-Directional Grammar Formalisms. P Newman. PII: Combining Bilingual Corpora and Dictionaries. Judith Klavans & Evelyne Tzoukermann. PIV: Constraint Grammar for Parsing Running Text. Fred Karlsson. M1: Czech-to-Russian Transducing Dictionary. Alla Bemova & Vladislav Kubon. M5: Matching Job Offers and Job Search Requests. Jose Vega. Thursday, 11.50 - 12.20 PI: Reversible Unification-Based MT. Gertjan van Noord. PII: To Parse and Not to Parse: Relation-Driven Skimming. Paul S Jacobs. PIII: Backwards Phonology. John Bear. PIV: Finite-State Parsing and Disambiguation. Kimmo Koskenniemi. M1: A Mechanism for Ellipsis Resolution in Dialogue. A Diaz de Harraza Sanchez & H Rodriguez Hontoria & F Maillo Verdejo. Thursday, 12.25 - 12.55 PI: A Symmetrical Approach to Parsing and Generation. Marc Dymetman & Pierre Isabelle & Francois Perrault. PII: Is there Contents in Empty Heads? Louise Guthrie & Brian M Slator & Yorick Wilks & Rebecca Bruce. PIII: Unification-based Formalism for Korean Phonology. Hee-Sung Chung. PIV: A Constraint-Based Approach to Performance. Koiti Hasida. M5: Information Extraction and Semantic Constraints. John Sterling & Ralph Grishman. Thursday, 13.00 - 13.30 PI: How to Invert a Parser into an Efficient Generator. Tomek Strzalkowski. PII: Computer-Aided Discovery of Syntactic Knowledge. Bai Shuo. PIII: Unification-Based Phonology. Richard Wiese. PIV: Constraint Logic Grammars. Sergio Balari & Luis Damas & Nelma Moreira & Giovanni B Varile. M1: Three-Typed Pragmatics for Dialogue Analysis. Hitoshi Iida & Takayuki Yamaoka & Hidekazu Arita. Thursday, 13.35 - 14.05 PI: GPSG Parsing and Bidirectional Charts. Laurent Devos & Michel Gilloux. PII: Co-Occurence and Semantic Classification. Elena V Paducheva & Ekaterina V Rakhilina. PIII: Unification Phonology. John Coleman. PIV: The Self-Extending Lexicon. Geert Adriaens & Maarten Lemmens. M1: Translation Tool for the Target Language Inexpert. Xiuming Huang. Thursday, 14.45 - 15.15 PI: Reversible Unification Grammar for French. Dominique Estival. PII: Synthesizing Concept Hierarchy from Hypernyms. Jean Fargues & Adeline Perrin. PIII: Parsers for a Text-to-Speech System. Thomas Russi. PIV: Syntactic Description of Free Word Order Languages. Tania Avgustinova & Karel Oliva. M1: Conditionals and Counterfactuals in Prolog. J Ph Hoepelman & A J M van Hoof. Thursday, 15.20 - 15.50 PI: Expressive Power of Grammatical Formalisms. Alexis Manaster-Ramer & Wlodek Zadrozny. PII: Neural Networks Generated from Dictionaries. Jean Veronis & Nancy M Ide. PIII: The Text-Planning Component of the LILOG System. J Kreyss & H-J Novak. PIV: (empty on purpose). M1: Using the Same System for Analysis and Synthesis. Philippe Rincel & Paul Sabatier. Thursday, 15.55 - 16.25 PI: Textual and Lexical Resources. Speaker: Donald E Walker. (Report from Workshop, August 19, 1990, Helsinki, on recent activities, plans and possibilities to collect text files, create lexical data and knowledge bases, and develop methods to reuse and share both data and tools. Continues in PI with discussion 16.30.) PII: Message Processing with Object-Centered Semantics. Jean-Francois Delanoy. PIII: A Planning-Based Sentence Generator Architecture. Dieter Kohl & Agnes Plainfosse & Claire Gardent. PIV: (empty on purpose). M1: Russian Morphological Vocabulary. Igor A Bolshakov. Thursday, 16.30 - 17.00 PI: Textual and Lexical Resources. Discussion. Chair: Donald E Walker. (continued from PI, 15.55 - 16.25). PII: Psychologically Plausible Object-Oriented Parsing. Bradley L Pritchett & John W Reitano. PIII: Parsing Long Sentences with Pattern Rules. Wei-Chuan Li & Tzusheng Pei & Bing-Huang Lee & Chuei-Feng Chiou. PIV: Processing Large Corpora for Reference Resolution. Ido Dagan & Alon Itai. M1: Natural Language Interface to Software Package. Z Alexin & K Fabricz & T Gyimothy & T Horvath. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME, Friday, August 24, 1990 Friday, 09.00 - 09.30 PI: Formal Semantics in Relational Database Formalism. Claire Vanderhoeft. PII: Finite-State Morphological Processor for Spanish. Evelyne Tzoukermann & Mark Y Liberman. PIII: Head-Driven Incremental and Parallel Generation. Guenter Neumann & Wolfgang Finkler. PIV: A Computational Approach to Binding Theory. Allessandra Giorgi & Fabio Pianesi & Giorgio Satta. M1: A PC-Oriented Tool for Corpus Work. Benny Brodda. Friday, 09.35 - 10.05 PI: Meaning Representation and Text Planning. Christine Defrise & Sergei Nirenburg. PII: A Two-Level Model for Non-Concatenative Morphology. Harald Trost. PIII: Language Without A Central Pushdown Stack. Carson T Schuetze & Peter A Reich. PIV: (empty on purpose). M1: An Environment for Machine Translation. D Estival & al. M5: Organizing Linguistic Knowledge for Multi-Lingual Generation. Martin Emele & Ulrich Heid & Stefan Momma & Remi Zajac. Friday, 10.10 - 10.40 PI: Abduction Models for Semantic Interpretation. Peter Norwig & Robert Wilensky. PII: Syllable-based Morphology. Lynne J Cahill. PIII: Neural Network for Word Category Prediction. Masami Nakamura & Katsuteru Maruyama & Takeshi Kawabata & Kiohiro Shikano. PIV: Overload and Garden-Path Effects. Edward Gibson. M1: German-Russian Translation Experiment. B Buschbeck & R Henschel & I Hoeser & G Klimonow & A Kuestner & I Starke. Friday, 11.15 - 11.45 PI: Causal and Temporal Text Analysis. Ralph Grishman & Tomasz Ksiezyk. PII: (empty on purpose). PIII: Parallel Processing of Hierarchial Clauses. Risto Miikkulainen. PIV: PATR for Categorial Unification Grammar. Todd Yampol & Lauri Karttunen. M1: Morphological Analysis of Slovene. Tomaz Erjavec & Peter Tancig. M5: A Self-Learning System for the Chinese Characters. Georges Fafiotte. Friday, 11.50 - 12.20 PI: Hierarchy of Salience. Eva Hajicova & Petr Kubon & Vladislav Kubon. PII: Incremental Sentence Production with a Parallel Marker-Passing Algorithm. Hiroaki Kitano. PIII: A Model for Interaction between Cognitive Processes. Gerard Sabah. PIV: Disjunctive Unification for Bottom-Up Parsing. David Carter. M1: Anticipation-Free Diagnosis of Structural Faults. Wolfgang Menzel. M5: Definite Clause Grammar for Arabic Syntax. Hisham El-Shishiny. Friday, 12.25 - 12.55 PI: Arguments Understanding. Stephane Guez. PII: A Bilingual Knowledge Bank. Victor Sadler & Ronald Vendelmans. PIII: Unbounded Dependency: Tying Strings to Rings. Jon M Slack. PIV: (empty on purpose). M1: An English-Chinese Translation System for Tourists. Huang Jianshuo. M5: A Phrase-Structure Grammar for Arabic. Ayman Elnaggar. Friday, 13.00 - 13.30 PI: Japanese Sentence Analysis and Argumentation. Akira Shimazu. PII: Reading Distinction in MT. Pius ten Hacken. PIII: Typed Unification Grammars. Remi Zajac & Martin Emele. PIV: Incremental Parsing and Reason Maintenance. Mats Wiren. M1: Word Sense Disambiguation with Examples. Taijiro Tsutsumi. Friday, 13.35 - 14.05 PI: Structured Meanings. Kees van Deemter. PII: The E-Framework: Emerging Problems. Ian Crookston. PIII: Type Theory and Complex Verb Generation. Satoshi Tojo. PIV: Bottom-Up Filtering: A Parsing Strategy for GPSG. Philippe Blache & Jeaque-Yves Morin. M1: Generating Explanations of Concepts in Geometry. Ruslan Mitkov. Friday, 14.45 - 15.15 PI: Semantic Representation of Texts. Marie-Claude Landau. PII: Interlingual Representation of Definite NPs. Montserrat Meya. PIII: Partial Descriptions and Systemic Grammar. Chris Brew. PIV: A Portable Data-Base Interface Generator. Simon Sabbagh. M1: A Parser for an HPSG-Style Grammar. Karel Oliva. M5: A Plan Inference System using Feature Structures. John K Myers. Friday, 15.20 - 15.50 PI: (empty on purpose). PII: Concept Analysis, Terminology and Documentation. Douglas Skuce & Ingrid Meyer. PIII: Scoping without A Free Variable Constraint. Ian Lewin. PIV: An Interactive Japanese Parser for MT. Hiroshi Maruyama. M1: A Morphological Parser for Afrikaans. L G de Stadler & M W Coetzer. M5: The CAT2 Machine Translation System. Randall Sharp. Friday, 16.00 - 17.00 PI: Summing up and looking ahead.