[news.announce.conferences] COMPUTATATIONAL LINGUISTICS/FORMAL SEMANTICS WORKSHOP

rosner@cui.unige.ch (07/01/88)

****WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT/APPLICATION FORM******

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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
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FORMAL SEMANTICS
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Institut Dalle Molle ISSCO, Geneva
Istituto Dalle Molle IDSIA, Lugano

29th August - 2nd September 1988
Palazzo dei Congressi, LUGANO, Switzerland

With the support of

Fondazione Dalle Molle
Citta' di Lugano
European Economic Community
Fonds National Suisse

AIMS:  to present both tutorial and current research material in
these two fields.

PROGRAM

Tutorials:

		   Jens Erik Fenstad, (Oslo)
	       Representation and Interpretation

		      Martin Kay, (Xerox)
	 Unification and the Syntax/Semantics Interface

		    Barbara Partee, (UMass)
	       Current Issues in Formal Semantics


Workshop Papers:


		     Ewan Klein (Edinburgh)
		  Context and Compositionality

		    Kris Halvorsen, (Xerox)
	     Algorithms for Semantic Interpretation

		       Pat Hayes, (Xerox)
	 Natural Language versus Mental Representations

		   Michael Moortgat, (Leiden)
	 Categorial Parsing and Implicational Deduction

		      Ray Turner, (Essex)
		   Polymorphism in Semantics

		 Johan van Benthem, (Amsterdam)
	   Logical Semantics and the Theory of Types

		   Yorick Wilks, (New Mexico)
		 Form and Content in Semantics

		     Margaret King (Geneva)
	Computational Linguistics and Formal Semantics?

     Rod Johnson, Mike Rosner, CJ Rupp* (Lugano/*Manchester)
	Situation Schemata and Linguistic Representation

REGISTRATION

To receive application form: rosner@cui.unige.ch or
				..cernvax!unige!cui!rosner
Further information: Sandra Manzi/Mike Rosner +41 22 20 93 33 ext. 2115