walker@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Don Walker) (03/21/90)
The printed version of the following program and registration information for
ACL-90 has been mailed to ACL members. Others are encouraged to use the
attached form or write for a program flyer to the following address:
Dr. D.E. Walker (ACL)
Bellcore - MRE 2A379
445 South Street - Box 1910
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ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
28th Annual Meeting
6-9 June 1990
William Pitt Union, 3959 Forbes Avenue
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
TUESDAY EVENING, 5 JUNE
7:00 9:00 Tutorial Registration and Reception
Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
WEDNESDAY, 6 JUNE
9:00 12:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS: David Lawrence Hall
Room 104 Unification in the Syntax/Semantics Interface
Per-Kristian Halvorsen & John Nerbonne
Room 105 Tagging Linguistic Information in a Text Corpus
Terry Langendoen & Mitch Marcus
2:00 5:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS: David Lawrence Hall
Room 104 Discourse Representation Theory
Irene Heim
Room 105 Connectionism in Natural Language Processing
David Rumelhart
7:00 9:00 Conference Registration and Reception
Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
7:00 9:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations
Ballroom, William Pitt Union
REGISTRATION: THURSDAY SATURDAY
8:00 5:00 Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union; until noon Saturday
EXHIBITS&DEMONSTRATIONS: THURSDAY SATURDAY
9:00 6:00 Ballroom, William Pitt Union; until 1:30pm Saturday
THURSDAY, 7 JUNE ASSEMBLY ROOM
9:00 9:15 Opening remarks and announcements
9:15 9:40 Polynomial Time Parsing of Combinatory Categorial Grammars
K. Vijay-Shanker & David J. Weir
9:40 10:05 Intonation and Syntax in Spoken Language Systems
Mark Steedman
10:25 10:50 Prosody, Syntax, and Parsing
John Bear & Patti Price
10:50 11:15 Empirical Study of Predictive Powers of Simple Attachment
Schemes for Post-modifier Prepositional Phrases
Greg Whittemore, Kathleen Ferrara, & Hans Brunner
11:15 11:40 Structural Disambiguation with Constraint Propagation
Hiroshi Maruyama
11:40 12:05 Memory Capacity and Sentence Processing
Edward Gibson
1:30 1:55 Transforming Syntactic Graphs Into Semantic Graphs
Hae-Chang Rim, Jungyun Seo, & Robert F. Simmons
1:55 2:20 A Compositional Semantics for Focusing Subjuncts
Dan Lyons & Graeme Hirst
2:20 2:45 Designer Definites in Logical Form
Mary P. Harper
3:05 3:30 Mixed Initiative in Dialogue: an Investigation Into
Discourse Segmentation
Marilyn Walker & Steve Whittaker
3:30 3:55 Performatives in a Rationally-Based Speech Act Theory
Philip R. Cohen & Hector J. Levesque
3:55 4:20 Normal State Implicature
Nancy Green
4:40 5:05 The Computational Complexity of Avoiding Conversational
Implicatures
Ehud Reiter
5:05 5:30 Free Indexation: Combinatorial Analysis and a Compositional
Algorithm
Sandiway Fong
5:30 5:55 Licensing and Tree Adjoining Grammar in Government Binding
Parsing
Robert Frank
FRIDAY, 8 JUNE ASSEMBLY ROOM
9:00-9:25 A Simplified Theory of Tense Representations and Constraints
on Their Composition
Michael Brent
9:25-9:50 Solving Thematic Divergences in Machine Translation
Bonnie Dorr
9:50 10:15 A Syntactic Filter on Pronominal Anaphora for Slot Grammar
Shalom Lappin & Michael McCord
10:35 11:00 Acquiring Core Meanings of Words, Represented as
Jackendoff-style Conceptual Structures, from Correlated
Streams of Linguistic and Non-linguistic Input
Jeffrey Mark Siskind
11:00 12:00 INVITED TALK: Structural Sources of Verb Meaning
Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania
1:30 1:55 The Limits of Unification
Robert J.P. Ingria
1:55 2:20 Defaults in Unification Grammar
Gosse Bouma
2:20 2:45 Expressing Disjunctive and Negative Feature Constraints
with Classical First-Order Logic
Mark Johnson
3:05 3:30 Lazy Unification
Kurt Godden
3:30 3:55 Zero Morphemes in Unification-based Combinatory Categorial
Grammar
Chinatsu Aone & Kent Wittenburg
3:55 4:20 Types in Functional Unification Grammars
Michael Elhadad
4:40 5:05 Asymmetry in Parsing and Generating With Unification Grammars:
Case Studies from ELU
Graham Russell & Susan Warwick
5:05 5:30 Automated Inversion of Logic Grammars for Generation
Tomasz Strzalkowski & Ping Peng
5:30 5:55 Algorithms for Generation in Lambek Theorem Proving
Erik-Jan van der Linden & Guido Minnen
6:30- 7:30 RECEPTION
Galleria, Forbes Quadrangle
7:30 10:00 BANQUET
Assembly Room, William Pitt Union
Presidential Address: Jerry R. Hobbs
SATURDAY, 9 JUNE ASSEMBLY ROOM
9:00-9:25 Multiple Underlying Systems: Translating User Requests Into
Programs to Produce Answers
Robert J. Bobrow, Philip Resnick, Ralph M. Weischedel
9:25-9:50 Computational Structure of Generative Phonology and Its
Relation to Language Comprehension
Eric Sven Ristad
10:10 11:10 INVITED TALK: Stochastic Methods for Context-Free Grammars
Fred Jelinek, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
11:10 12:15 ACL REPORT, BUSINESS MEETING, & ELECTIONS
11:10 11:30 A Report on the ACL Data Collection Initiative
Mark Y. Liberman
11:30 12:15 Business Meeting & Elections
Nominations for ACL Offices for 1991
President: Ralph Grishman, New York University
Vice President: Kathy McKeown, Columbia University
Secretary-Treasurer: Don Walker, Bellcore
Executive Committee (1991-1992): Martha Palmer, Unisys
Executive Committee (1991-1993): Fernando Pereira, AT&T Bell Labs
Nominating Committee (1991-1993): Jerry Hobbs, SRI International
1:30 1:55 Parsing the LOB Corpus
Carl Gustave de Marken
1:55 2:20 Automatically Extracting and Representing Collocations for
Language Generation
Frank A. Smadja & Kathleen R. McKeown
2:20 2:45 Heuristics for Disambiguating and Interpreting Verb Definitions
Yael Ravin
3:05 3:30 Noun Classification from Predicate-Argument Structures
Donald Hindle
3:30 3:55 Deterministic Left to Right Parsing of Tree Adjoining Languages
Yves Schabes & K. Vijay-Shanker
3:55 4:20 An Efficient Parsing Algorithm for Tree Adjoining Grammars
Karin Harbusch
4:40 5:05 Lexical Constraints on Syntactic Rules in a Tree Adjoining
Grammar
Anne Abeille
5:05 5:30 Bottom-Up Parsing Extending Context-Freeness in a Process
Grammar Processor
Massimo Marino
5:30 5:55 A Hardware Algorithm for High Speed Morpheme Extraction and
Its Implementation
Toshikazu Fukushima, Yutaka Ohyama, & Hitoshi Miyai
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Robert Berwick, MIT (Chair)
David Israel, SRI International
Karen Jensen, IBM Corporation
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
Richard Larson, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Paul Martin, SRI International
Kathy McKeown, Columbia University
Martha Pollack, SRI International
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
Edward Stabler, UCLA
Hans Uszkoreit, Universitaet des Saarlandes
David Weir, Northwestern University
TUTORIALS
6 June 1990
David Lawrence Hall
UNIFICATION IN THE SYNTAX/SEMANTICS INTERFACE
Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Xerox PARC & CSLI
John Nerbonne, Hewlett-Packard & CSLI
The introduction of unification-based formalisms for linguistic
description has had a major impact on syntactic processing techniques
and even on syntactic theory, especially in the development of
feature-based grammars. More recently the use of unification has
found success in semantic processing, raising anew some central
issues concerning the syntax/semantics interface (e.g. compositionality
and the virtues of "direct" interpretation). The tutorial will
present the basic techniques underlying the use of unification in
semantic processing, and demonstrate how these are profitably
extended. Major topics are (i) Compositionality and systematicity
in semantic interpretation revisited from the perspective of
unification grammars; (ii) Structure-sharing, the ability to cater
to the information shared in linguistic signs, employed not only
in logic translations, but also in ancillary information associated
with interrogative, relative, anaphoric and reflexive pronouns;
(iii) Exploitation of the ability to underspecify information as
an attractive option to multiplying semantics analyses in treating
ambiguities; (iv) New ways of integrating semantic and syntactic
constraints provided by a unitary basis for processing both semantic
and syntactic information.
TAGGING LINGUISTIC INFORMATION IN A TEXT CORPUS
Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona
Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Within the next few months, the widespread availability of extremely
large corpora of computer readable texts through the ACL Data
Collection Initiative will provide a new research tool for both
linguistics and computational linguistics. Work is also beginning
on explicit annotation of large corpora with several aspects of
linguistic structure. This tutorial is intended for those who wish
either to engage in text annotation projects of their own, or to
exploit the availibility of new large annotated text and transcribed
speech corpora such as the Penn Treebank. We will discuss at length
a proposed set of draft standards developed by the internationally
sponsored Text Encoding Initiative for the encoding and interchange
of phonological, morphological and syntactic information, focussing
both on the issues involved in developing such standards and on
the particulars of the present proposed standard. We will outline
a set of general design issues for large corpus annotation efforts,
with focus on achieving the productivity rates necessary to annotate
millions of words of text. The particular schemes used within the
Penn Treebank project will be presented. We will also briefly
survey a range of recent results deriving from the use of both
annotated and unannotated corpora as research tools, using statistical,
information-theoretic, and classical-AI symbolic methodologies.
DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION THEORY
Irene Heim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) refers to a semantic analysis
of indefinites and anaphora advanced by Kamp (1981) and Heim (1982)
and to modifications and extensions thereof in subsequent work by
various authors. Like any concrete piece of linguistic analysis,
DRT is a package deal and eclectically incorporates several ideas
and assumptions that have been around in the philosophy and
linguistics literature for a while and will probably continue to
be explored long after DRT is obsolete. The main goal of this
tutorial is not just to show how the DRT analysis works, but to
isolate the distinct items in the `package' and clarify the role
of each within DRT as well as in the broader context of semantic
theory. We will specifically attend to aspects of the following
general issues: the syntax-semantics interface; context-dependency
and presupposition; and the syntax and semantics of natural language
quantification structures.
CONNECTIONIST APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE
David Rumelhart, Stanford University
This tutorial will provide an overview and introduction to
connectionist techniques and their applications to linguistic
information processing. I will discuss issues of learning and
computation via constraint satisfaction, and will illustrate the
applications of these to language processing problems.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS
PREREGISTRATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY 25 MAY; after that date, please
wait to register at the Conference itself. Complete the attached
``Application for Preregistration'' and send it with a check payable
to Association for Computational Linguistics or ACL to Donald E.
Walker (ACL); Bellcore, MRE 2A379; 445 South Street, Box 1910;
Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA; (+1-201) 829-4312;
walker@flash.bellcore.com. If a registration is cancelled before
25 May, the registration fee, less $25 for administrative costs,
will be returned. Registration includes one copy of the Proceedings,
available at the Conference. Additional copies of the Proceedings
at $25 for members ($50 for nonmembers) may be ordered on the
registration form or by mail prepaid from Walker. For people who
are unable to attend the conference but want the proceedings, there
is a special entry line at the bottom of the registration form.
TUTORIALS: Attendance in each tutorial is limited to 79.
Preregistration is essential to insure a place and guarantee that
syllabus materials will be available.
BANQUET: The conference banquet will be held on Friday, 8 June,
in the Assembly Room of the William Pitt Student Union. Jerry Hobbs
will present the Presidential Address.
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Contact Richmond H. Thomason, Intelligent
Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260;
(+1-412) 624-5791; thomason@cad.cs.cmu.edu; or his secretary,
Stefni Agin, (+1-412) 624-5755; stefni@b.cs.cmu.edu.
EXHIBITS AND DEMONSTRATIONS: People interested in organizing
exhibits or in demonstrating programs at the conference should
contact Johanna Moore, LRDC 520, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
PA 15260; (+1-412) 624-7050; jmoore@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu AS SOON
AS POSSIBLE. Those with papers on the program and academics without
grant support can present demonstrations without charge, to the extent
that scheduling permits.
RESIDENCE HALL ACCOMMODATIONS: A large number of rooms in the
Litchfield Towers at the University of Pittsburgh are available.
Send in the ``Application for Residence Halls'' as soon as possible,
BY 11 MAY to guarantee a place, although it may still be possible
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PARKING: Spaces are available in the garage under the Residence
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registration desk.
DIRECTIONS: From the Pittsburgh International Airport, limousine
service is hourly, stopping at the Holiday Inn as well as several
other places in Oakland for $8, roundtrip $15. Taxis are about
$28. From downtown, taxis are $6-7; the fare for the 61(A,B,C) or
71(A,B,C,D) bus is $1.10, exact change required. Get off at the
Cathedral of Learning (5th and Bigelow); the Student Union is across
Bigelow.
By car: From the airport, follow Route 60 to I-279 Pittsburgh;
immediately after crossing the Fort Pitt Bridge take I-376 Oakland
to the Forbes Avenue exit; follow Forbes Avenue to Bigelow Boulevard,
just before reaching the ``towering'' Cathedral of Learning; turn
left and then left immediately onto Fifth Avenue. The William Penn
Union is the building between Forbes and Fifth on Bigelow. There
is a carriage entrance from Fifth. The Litchfield Tower Residence
Halls are the tall cylindrical buildings just beyond the Union.
To unload for the Residence Halls, enter the driveway on Fifth
Avenue just after the Pittsburgh National Bank. Walk to your right
through the courtyard. Parking is under the Litchfield Towers;
enter on Forbes between Bouquet Street and Bigelow; this is a more
convenient place to unload for the Residence Halls if you intend
to park anyway. If you have stopped at the Union on Fifth, you
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Allies, shortly after taking the Forbes Avenue exit from I-376.
By car: From the east take I-76, the Pennsylvania Turnpike,
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directions above. From the west take I-76 or I-70 to I-79.
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ABOUT PITTSBURGH
Located in Pittsburgh's Oakland section, the cultural hub of the
city, the University of Pittsburgh has much to offer. It is just
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offering 10 km of running trails, tennis courts, and swimming pool,
the urban setting of the University is accented with serene and
rustic surroundings. Carnegie Mellon University is a few minutes
walk.
HOTEL INFORMATION
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in the Oakland area. The Holiday Inn is about a 5 minute walk and
Howard Johnson's a 20 minute walk. Both are providing special
university rates; indicate that you are attending the ACL Meeting
at PITT. Prices do not include the 9% hotel room tax. Rates are
valid through the date specified.
Holiday Inn 100 Lytton Ave 800:HOLIDAY $70 Double 4 May
University Center 412:682-6200
Howard Johnson 3401 Boulevard of 800:245-4444 $50 Single 11 May
University Center the Allies 800:441-3979(PA) $60 Double
$8 Additional
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28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
6-9 June 1990, University of Pittsburgh Residence Halls
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