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ADVANCE NOTICE AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence ITK, recently founded at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, will be fostering a
SYMPOSIUM ON DISCONTINUOUS CONSTITUENCY
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DATE:
January 25-27, 1990.
PLACE:
Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
GUESTSPEAKERS:
David Dowty, Ohio State University;
Richard Kayne, CUNY;
James McCawley, University of Chicago;
Carl Pollard, Carnegie-Mellon University;
Jan Koster, Groningen University.
ITK:
The Institute for Language Technology and Artificial
Intelligence ITK was founded in spring 1988 at Tilburg
University to further research and development of integrated
theories of language, knowledge and computation.
ITK brings together the research programme on natural
language processing and artificial intelligence at the
department of Language and Computer Science in the Faculty
of Arts, and the research programme on data base technology,
artificial intelligence and expert systems at the department
of Computer Science in the Faculty of Economics, both at
Tilburg University. ITK is also the centre of activity in
the national university-industry research programme
'Human-computer communication using natural lanuguage'. In
addition, ITK initiates new research in language processing,
data base technology and artificial intelligence.
ITK was founded through grants from the Dutch government
and Tilburg University and receives support from several
computer firms.
HUMAN-COMPUTER COMMUNICATION:
The possibility to use natural language in human interfaces
to computer systems constitutes a target of ITK research.
This target is a source of challenging research questions
of a fundamental nature and holds the promise of a wide
variety of exciting applications. It forms the theme of the
reserach programme 'Human-computer communication using
natural language'. in which several universities and
industries cooperate with financial support from the
Dutch government through teh SPIN agency. The programme
has been designed and will be carried out by ITK
together with the section Language Technology in the
department of Psychology at the University of Nijmegen
the Language and Speech Technology group in the R&D
department of Oce-Nederland, and the Institute for
Perception Research IPO (a joint institute of Philips
Research and Eindhoven Technical University). The programme
is coordinated at ITK.
THE SYMPOSIUM:
Discontinuous constituency, a phenomenon found in many languages,
presents problems for its description in formal grammars. Manifold
are the syntactic solutions to the problem that have been
suggested. These vary from transformations to metarules, and from
crossing branches to representations in c- and f-structures. Of
course there are also semantic problems involved; there is for
instance the problem that discontinuous constituency raises for
the principle of compositionality.
In the symposium three questions will occupy a central position:
- How can discontinuous constituency be accounted for in
syntactic terms;
- Given a syntactic analysis, how can a semantic analysis be
formulated;
- What are the computational implications of the answers
formulated to the first two questions.
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:
Three copies of extended abstracts (4 to 5 pages,
double-spaced) should be submitted before
SEPTEMBER 15, 1989 to:
Wietske Sijtsma and/or Arthur van Horck
Tilburg University, ITK
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands.
All papers, both written and oral versions, should be
in English. The Conference Proceedings will be distributed
to the conference participants.
REFEREES:
Riny Huybregts, Tilburg University;
Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University;
Henk van Riemsdijk, Tilburg University
Elias Thijsse, Tilburg University;
Frans Zwarts, Groningen University.
OTHER IMPORTANT DATES:
November 1, 1989 - notification of acceptance.
December 15, 1989 - camera-ready copies due.
REGISTRATION:
The following registration fees are due:
Students Non-students
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(amounts in Dfl.)
- Conference attendance (3 days) 40 140
(incl. Conference Proceedings,
coffee, tea)
- Lunch (3 days) 35 35
- Dinner/buffet 35 35
Registration will be accepted until December 1, 1989.
MORE INFORMATION:
For more information and/or application forms, please contact:
Wietske Sijtsma and/or Arthur van Horck
Tilburg University, ITK
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands.
email: wietske@htikub5.bitnet
or
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