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Dr. D.E. Walker (ACL)
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ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
27th Annual Meeting
26-29 June 1989
Instructional Resources Centre (IRC)
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
SUNDAY EVENING, 25 JUNE
7:00-9:00 Tutorial Registration and Reception
Fort Camp Lounge, Walter Gage Residence Halls Complex
MONDAY MORNING, 26 JUNE
9:00-12:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Theatre 4 Constrained Grammatical Formalisms
Aravind Joshi, K. Vijay-Shanker, & David Weir
Theatre 5 Psycholinguistic Approaches to Language Comprehension
Michael Tanenhaus
MONDAY AFTERNOON, 26 JUNE
2:00-5:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Theatre 4 Morphology and Computational Morphology
Richard Sproat
Theatre 5 Speech Technology
Jared Bernstein & Patti Price
MONDAY EVENING, 26 JUNE
7:00-9:00 Conference Registration and Reception
Lobby
8:00-9:30 PANEL: Computational Linguistics & Research in the Humanities
Don Walker (Chair), Patrick Hanks, Nancy Ide,
Mark Liberman, Martha Palmer, Antonio Zampolli
REGISTRATION: TUESDAY THURSDAY
8:00-5:00 Lobby; until noon Thursday
EXHIBITS: TUESDAY THURSDAY
9:00-6:00 Various rooms on lobby floor; until 1:30pm Thursday
***** ALL TECHNICAL SESSIONS IN THEATRE 2 *****
TUESDAY MORNING, 27 JUNE
9:00-9:15 Opening remarks and announcements
9:15 9:40 A Transfer Model Using a Typed Feature Structure Rewriting
System with Inheritance
Remi Zajac
9:40-10:05 A Semantic-Head-Driven Generation Algorithm for
Unification-Based Formalisms
Stuart M. Shieber, Gertjan van Noord, Robert Moore,
& Fernando C. N. Pereira
10:05 10:35 Break
10:35 11:00 A Three-Valued Interpretation of Negation in Feature Structure
Descriptions
Anuj Dawar & K. Vijay-Shanker
11:00-12:00 INVITED TALK: Natural Language and Knowledge Representation:
So Close Together Yet So Far Apart
James Allen
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 27 JUNE
1:30-1:55 Logical Forms in the Core Language Engine
Hiyan Alshawi & Jan van Eijck
1:55 2:20 Unification-Based Semantic Interpretation
Robert C. Moore
2:20-2:45 Reference to Locations
Lewis G. Creary, J. Mark Gawron, & John Nerbonne
2:45 3:05 Break
3:05 3:30 Getting at Discourse Referents
Rebecca J. Passonneau
3:30-3:55 Conversationally Relevant Descriptions
Amichai Kronfeld
3:55 4:20 Cooking Up Referring Expressions
Robert Dale
4:20-4:40 Break
4:40-5:05 Word Association Norms, Mutual Information and Lexicography
Kenneth Church & Patrick Hanks
5:05 5:30 Lexical Access in Connected Speech Recognition
Ted Briscoe
5:30-5:55 Dictionaries, Dictionary Grammars and Dictionary Entry Parsing
Mary S. Neff & Branimir K. Boguraev
WEDNESDAY MORNING, 28 JUNE
9:00-9:25 Some Chart-Based Techniques for Parsing Ill-Formed Input
Chris Mellish
9:25 9:50 On Representing Governed Prepositions and Handling `Incorrect'
and Novel Prepositions
Hatte Blejer & Sharon Flank
9:50-10:15 Acquiring Disambiguation Rules from Text
Donald Hindle, AT&T Bell Laboratories
10:15 10:45 Break
10:45-11:10 The Effects of Interaction on Spoken Discourse
Sharon L. Oviatt & Philip R. Cohen
11:10-12:10 INVITED TALK: Repair and the Organization of Natural Language
Emmanuel Schegloff
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 28 JUNE
1:30-1:55 How to Cover a Grammar
Rene Leermakers
1:55-2:20 The Structure of Shared Forests in Ambiguous Parsing
Sylvie Billot & Bernard Lang
2:20-2:50 Break
2:50-3:15 A Calculus for Semantic Composition and Scoping
Fernando Pereira
3:15-3:40 A General Computational Treatment of the Comparative
Carol Friedman
3:40-4:05 The Lexical Semantics of Comparative Expressions
Duane E. Olawsky
4:05-4:25 Break
4:25-4:50 Automatic Acquisition of the Lexical Semantics of Verbs from
Sentence Frames
Mort Webster & Mitch Marcus
4:50-5:15 Computer Aided Interpretation of Lexical Cooccurrences
Paola Velardi, Maria Teresa Pazienza, & Stefano Magrini
5:15-5:40 A Hybrid Approach to Representation in the Janus Natural
Language Processor
Ralph M. Weischedel
6:30-7:30 RECEPTION
Graduate Center
7:30-10:00 BANQUET
Museum of Anthopology
Presidential Address: Candy Sidner
THURSDAY MORNING, 29 JUNE
9:00-9:25 Planning Text for Advisory Dialogues
Johanna D. Moore & Cecile L. Paris
9:25-9:50 Two Constraints on Speech Act Ambiguity
Elizabeth A. Hinkelman & James F. Allen
9:50-10:10 Break
10:10-11:10 INVITED TALK: How Many Words Do People Know?
Mark Liberman
11:10-12:00 BUSINESS MEETING & ELECTIONS
Nominations for ACL Offices for 1990
President: Jerry Hobbs, SRI International
Vice President: Ralph Grishman, NYU
Secretary-Treasurer: Don Walker, Bellcore
Executive Committee (1990-1992): Kathleen McKeown, Columbia
Executive Committee (1990-1991): Wolfgang Wahlster
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Nominating Committee (1990-1992): Candy Sidner, BBN
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 29 JUNE
1:30-1:55 Treatment of Long Distance Dependencies in LFG and TAG:
Functional Uncertainty in LFG is a Corollary in TAG
Aravind K. Joshi & K. Vijay-Shanker
1:55-2:20 Tree Unification Grammar
Fred Popowich
2:20-2:45 A Generalization of the Offline Parsable Grammars
Andrew Haas
2:45-3:15 Break
3:15-3:40 Discourse Entities in Janus
Damaris M. Ayuso
3:40-4:05 Evaluating Discourse Processing Algorithms
Marilyn A. Walker
4:05-4:30 A Computational Mechanism for Pronominal Reference
Robert J.P. Ingria & David Stallard
4:30-4:50 Break
4:50-5:15 Parsing as Natural Deduction
Esther Koenig
5:15-5:40 Efficient Parsing for French
Claire Gardent, Gabriel G. Bes, Pierre-Francois Jurie,
& Karine Baschung
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Joyce Friedman, Boston University
Barbara Grosz, Harvard University
Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Bell Laboratories (Chair)
Robert Kasper, USC Information Sciences Institute
Richard Kittredge, Universite de Montreal
and Odyssey Research Associates
Beth Levin, Northwestern University
Steve Lytinen, University of Michigan
Martha Palmer, Unisys
Fernando Pereira, SRI International
Carl Pollard, Carnegie-Mellon University
Len Schubert, University of Rochester
Mark Steedman, University of Pennsylvania
TUTORIALS
26 June 1989
CONSTRAINED GRAMMATICAL FORMALISMS
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
K. Vijay-Shanker, University of Delaware
David Weir, Northwestern University
Our goal is to review a range of constrained grammatical formalisms
by considering the following aspects: key features of language
structure the formalisms try to capture, linguistic adequacy,
mathematical and computational properties, parsing strategies,
kinds of structural descriptions supported, strategies for embedding
them in the unfication framework, etc. We will focus on those
formalisms characterized as mildly context-sensitive. The presentation
will be based on examples rather than on formal proofs. Therefore,
it will be appropriate for a wide range of computational linguists,
even those whose investments in the construction of a lexicon and
a grammar do not allow them the luxury of playing with alternative
formalisms now.
PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION
Michael Tanenhaus, University of Rochester
I will present a selective review of recent psycholinguistic work
in three areas: (1) word recognition and lexical access; (2) parsing,
with a focus on attachment ambiguity and gap-filling; and (3)
anaphora resolution. In each of these areas, I will summarize some
of the influential ideas and the empirical results that have emerged
during the last few years. Basic information will be provided
about some of the methodological advances that are enabling
psycholinguists to provide detailed information about immediate or
``on-line'' comprehension processes. I will also identify some of
the controversial issues that I expect will be the focus of
psycholinguistic research for the next few years, and I will outline
some areas where more interaction between computational linguistics
and experimental psycholinguists would be especially fruitful.
MORPHOLOGY AND COMPUTATIONAL MORPHOLOGY
Richard Sproat, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Why study the structure of words computationally why not just look
up words in a dictionary without considering their internal structure?
Knowledge of morphology is useful in applications as diverse as
speech synthesis, parsing, machine translation, spelling correction,
and Japanese text-editing. The tutorial will outline some major
results in theoretical morphology which affect computational issues,
including recent linguistic work on the phonological, syntactic
and semantic properties of words. Particular pieces of work in
computational morphology will be discussed, all of which deal with
theoretically interesting issues to a greater or lesser extent,
and many of which were done with a particular application in mind.
Among the systems discussed will be the Decomp module of the MITalk
text-to-speech system, and the KIMMO Two-Level morphological analysis
system. There will also be some discussion of computational work
in areas closely related to morphology, including the interpretation
of compound nouns in English, and the recognition of word boundaries
in inputs where such boundaries are not marked, such as speech or
Chinese text. Some of the recent debate on the computational
complexity of morphological analysis will be addressed.
SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
Jared Bernstein and Patti Price, SRI International
This tutorial will review the basics of speech production and
perception, followed by a an overview of the major speech processing
applications including coding-decoding for transmission, speaker
recognition, speech recognition, speech synthesis, and related
medical and educational applications. The core of the tutorial is
an in-depth review of speech synthesis and recognition, along with
a discussion of metrics for their evaluation and current directions
of research. The presentation on text-to-speech synthesis will
cover current practice and research issues in letter-to-sound
conversion, prosodic construction, and spectral composition. The
presentation of recognition will emphasize methods for acoustic
feature extraction, lexical modeling, and word matching. The
integration of syntactic and semantic knowledge in recognition and
synthesis will also be covered.
PANEL
26 June 1989
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES
Don Walker, Bellcore (Chair); Patrick Hanks, Collins Publishers;
Nancy Ide, Vassar; Mark Liberman, AT&T Bell Laboratories;
Martha Palmer, Unisys; Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa
Humanists have carried out careful analyses of selected bodies of
literary texts, although usually not with sophisticated linguistic
tools. Computational linguists have developed new techniques for
examining linguistic structure, but only recently have begun to
study naturally occurring texts and to explore the characteristics
of particular collections. A Text Encoding Initiative has just
been established to formulate and disseminate international guidelines
for the encoding and interchange of machine-readable texts intended
for literary, linguistic, historical, or other textual research.
A Data Collection Initiative has also been started to collect,
annotate, and tag a large body of English texts. Other initiatives
in the United States, Europe, and Japan are pursuing similar
directions. The session will consider these developments and
explore the mutual relevance of corpus-based language analysis and
language-based corpus analysis in this larger context.
Organized with the cooperation of the Association for Computers
and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic
Computing .
REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS
PREREGISTRATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY 12 JUNE; 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; (201) 829-4312; walker@flash.bellcore.com.
If a registration is cancelled before 12 June, the registration
fee, less $25US for administrative costs, will be returned.
Registration includes one copy of the Proceedings, available at
the Conference. Additional copies of the Proceedings at $25US for
members ($50US 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 is limited. Preregistration is encouraged
to insure a place and guarantee that syllabus materials will be
available.
BANQUET: The conference banquet will be held on 28 June 1989 at
the Museum of Anthropology on campus. The Museum is an architectural
masterpiece featuring a remarkable collection of Northwest Coast
Indian art. In addition, all of its research materials from around
the world are accessible in visible storage areas. Members will
be able to browse through the Museum before the banquet, after
eating, and again after Candy Sidner presents her presidential
address.
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Richard S. Rosenberg, Department of Computer
Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
V6T 1W5; (604) 228-3061; rosen@cs.ubc.ca or rosen%cs.ubc.ca@relay.cs.net.
EXHIBITS AND DEMONSTRATIONS: People interested in exhibiting or
in demonstrating programs at the conference should contact Richard
Rosenberg (address above) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
RESIDENCE HALL ACCOMODATIONS: A large number of rooms in the Walter
Gage Residence Halls at the University of British Columbia. Send
in your ``Application for Residence Halls'' as soon as possible,
BY 26 MAY 1989, to guarantee a place.
HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS: A variety of hotel and motel accomodations
from simple to luxurious are available in downtown Vancouver, about
five miles from the UBC campus. Blocks of rooms at reduced rates
have been set aside for ACL members at three hotels, as indicated
on the attached list. You should make reservations directly with
those hotels as soon as possible, stating that you will be attending
the ACL conference at the University of British Columbia. The
rates quoted for them are subject to change after May 26.
PARKING: There is virtually unrestricted parking on the campus
during the summer.
DIRECTIONS: Car rental services are available at the Vancouver
International Airport. Take Grant McConachie Way over the Arthur
Laing Bridge to the Granville Street exit; continue north on
Granville to West 70th Street. If you are driving to Vancouver
from the U.S., take Route 99 (which becomes Oak Street in Vancouver),
to West 70th Street. In either case, turn left onto West 70th,
which becomes Southwest Marine Drive and continue for about 4 miles;
turn right onto 16th Avenue; turn left at Gate 10 of the UBC Campus
and continue on Wesbrook Mall to Gate 2; left at Student Union
Boulevard; the Walter Gage Residence Halls are immediately to your
right. Driving from downtown Vancouver, take the Burrard Bridge,
bearing right along the shore onto Point Grey Road; turn left at
Alma, then right onto 4th Avenue; continue on 4th Ave., which
becomes Chancellor Boulevard, to Wesbrook Mall; turn left at Wesbrook
Mall; turn right at Gate 2 onto Student Union Boulevard; the Walter
Gage Residence Halls are immediately to your right. If you are
coming directly to the IRC, continue on Wesbrook Mall to University
Blvd.; turn right, then left onto East Mall, for several hundred
feet. A visitor parking structure is on the left. The IRC is
behind and to the left in the Biomedical complex.
TAXI: from the airport to the UBC campus about $22CDN; from downtown
about $16.50CDN; between the airport and downtown about $18CDN.
SHUTTLE BUS: between airport and downtown $6.50CDN.
BUS: from downtown Vancouver take the No. 4 or No. 10 to the campus
(about 30 minutes); get off at the Bus Loop at University Boulevard
and East Mall, next to the Student Union Building; look at the map
there or follow the signs to the IRC. Fare is $1.25CDN; exact
change is required.
BANKING AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE: available in the Student Union Building.
HOTEL INFORMATION
Make reservations as soon as possible. The first three hotels
below are providing special university rates; indicate that you
are attending the ACL Meeting at UBC. Prices are in Canadian
dollars and do not include 10% hotel sales tax. Rates at the first
three hotels are the same for single or double occupancy and are
valid through the date specified. The other three hotels show a
range of prices from single to higher priced doubles and may be
reserved at any time.
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Blue Horizon 1225 Robson 800:663-1333 $75CDN* 12 May
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Sylvia 1154 Gilford 604:681-9321 $50-70CDN
Centennial 898 W. Broadway 604:872-8661 $65-95CDN
Barclay 1348 Robson 604:688-8850 $59-99CDN
* 3rd person in room is $15.00 additional
**$125 single or double occupancy for an Executive One Bedroom Suite
APPLICATION FOR PREREGISTRATION (BY 12 JUNE)
27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
26-29 June 1989, University of British Columbia
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BANQUET TICKETS: $30US each; amount enclosed $_________
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*Non-member tutorial fee includes ACL membership for 1989;
do not pay non-member fee for BOTH registration and tutorials.
Morning Tutorials:
select ONE: Constrained Grammatical Formalisms Psycholinguistic Approaches
Afternoon Tutorials:
select ONE: Morphology & Computational Morphology Speech Technology
TOTAL PAYMENT MUST BE INCLUDED: $_______________
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27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
26-29 June 1989, Walter Gage Residence, University of British Columbia
The Walter Gage Residence is a modern three tower, 17 story complex
consisting of single bedrooms, grouped in sixes with a shared
bathroom and living area. Many rooms have a panoramic view of the
moutains, Burrard Inlet and Howe Sound. A limited number of
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