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Return-Path: <@AI.AI.MIT.EDU:ailist-request@ai.ai.mit.edu> Date: 11 May 88 21:30:34 GMT From: rochester!ur-tut!sunybcs!rapaport@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Subject: ACL-88 program & registration CLARIFICATION Sender: ailist-request@ai.ai.mit.edu To: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 26th Annual Meeting 7-10 June 1988 Knox 20, State University of New York at Buffalo (Amherst Campus) Buffalo, New York, USA PROGRAM MONDAY EVENING, 6 JUNE 7:00 9:00 Tutorial Registration and Reception Rathskeller, Norton Hall TUESDAY MORNING, 7 JUNE 9:00 12:15 Tutorial Sessions CONTEMPORARY SYNTACTIC THEORIES Peter Sells TEXT PROCESSING SYSTEMS Martha Palmer, Lynette Hirschman, and Deborah Dahl TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 7 JUNE 1:45-5:00 Tutorial Sessions NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION David McDonald EFFICIENT PARSING ALGORITHMS Masaru Tomita TUESDAY EVENING, 7 JUNE 7:00-9:00 Conference Registration and Reception Rathskeller, Norton Hall REGISTRATION: Wednesday - Friday 8:00-5:00 Rathskeller, Norton Hall; until noon Friday EXHIBITS: Wednesday Friday 9:00-6:00 Rathskeller, Norton Hall WEDNESDAY MORNING, 8 JUNE 9:00-9:15 Opening remarks and announcements 9:15-9:45 Adapting an English Morphological Analyzer for French Roy J. Byrd and Evelyne Tzoukermann 9:45-10:15 Sentence Fragments Regular Structures Marcia C. Linebarger, Deborah A. Dahl, Lynette Hirschman, and Rebecca J. Passonneau 10:45-11:10 Multi-Level Plurals and Distributivity Remko Scha and David Stallard 11:10-11:35 The Interpretation of Function Nouns Jos de Bruin 11:35-12:00 Quantifier Scoping in the SRI Core Language Engine Douglas B. Moran WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 8 JUNE 1:30-1:55 A General Computational Treatment of Comparatives for Natural Language Question Answering Bruce W. Ballard 1:55-2:20 Parsing and Interpreting Comparatives Manny Rayner and Amelie Banks 2:20-2:45 Defining the Semantics of Verbal Modifiers in the Domain of Cooking Tasks Robin F. Karlin 2:45-3:10 The Interpretation of Tense and Aspect in English Mary Dalrymple 3:40-4:05 An Integrated Framework for Semantic and Pragmatic Interpretation Martha E. Pollack and Fernando C. N. Pereira 4:05-4:30 A Logic for Semantic Interpretation Eugene Charniak and Robert Goldman 4:30-4:55 Interpretation as Abduction Jerry R. Hobbs, Mark Stickel, Paul Martin, and Douglas Edwards 4:55-5:20 Project APRIL: A Progress Report Robin Haigh, Geoffrey Sampson, and Eric Atwell 7:00-9:00 Visit to Albright-Knox Art Gallery THURSDAY MORNING, 9 JUNE 9:00-9:25 Discourse Deixis: Reference to Discourse Segments Bonnie Lynn Webber 9:25-9:50 Cues and Control in Expert-Client Dialogues Steve Whittaker and Phil Stenton 9:50-10:15 A Computational Theory of Perspective and Reference in Narrative Janyce M. Wiebe and William J. Rapaport 10:45-11:10 Parsing Japanese Honorifics in Unification-Based Grammar Hiroyuki Maeda, Susumu Kato, Kiyoshi Kogure and Hitoshi Iida 11:10-11:35 Aspects of Clause Politeness in Japanese: An Extended Inquiry Semantics Treatment John Bateman 11:35-12:00 Experiences with an On-Line Translating Dialogue System Seiji Miike, Koichi Hasebe, Harold Somers, and Shin-ya Amano THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 9 JUNE 1:30-2:30 ANALOGY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF METAPHOR, Invited Talk Dedre Gentner 2:30-2:55 Planning Coherent Multisentential Text Eduard H. Hovy 3:25-3:50 A Practical Nonmonotonic Theory for Reasoning about Speech Acts Douglas Appelt and Kurt Konolige 3:50-4:15 Two Types of Planning in Language Generation Eduard H. Hovy 4:15-4:40 Assigning Intonational Features in Synthesized Spoken Directions James Raymond Davis and Julia Hirschberg 4:40-5:05 Atomization in Grammar Sharing Megumi Kameyama 7:00-8:00 RECEPTION Erie Community College, City Campus 8:00-10:00 BANQUET Erie Community College, City Campus Co-sponsored by Erie Community College and Barrister Information Systems Corporation Presidential Address: Alan Biermann FRIDAY MORNING, 10 JUNE 9:00-9:25 Syntactic Approaches to Automatic Book Indexing Gerard Salton 9:25-9:50 Lexicon and Grammar in Probabilistic Tagging of Written English Andrew David Beale 9:50-10:15 Parsing vs. Text Processing in the Analysis of Dictionary Definitions Thomas Ahlswede and Martha Evens 10:45-11:10 Polynomial Learnability and Locality of Formal Grammars Naoki Abe 11:10-12:00 BUSINESS MEETING & ELECTIONS Nominations for ACL Offices for 1989 President: Candy Sidner, BBN Laboratories Vice President: Jerry Hobbs, SRI International Secretary-Treasurer: Don Walker, Bellcore Executive Committee (1989-1991): Ralph Grishman, NYU Nominating Committee (1989-1991): Alan Biermann, Duke FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 10 JUNE 1:30-1:55 Conditional Descriptions in Functional Unification Grammar Robert T. Kasper 1:55-2:20 Deductive Parsing with Multiple Levels of Representation Mark Johnson 2:20-2:45 Graph-Structured Stack and Natural Language Parsing Masaru Tomita 2:45-3:10 An Earley-Type Parsing Algorithm for Tree Adjoining Grammars Yves Schabes and Aravind K. Joshi 3:10-3:40 Break 3:40-4:05 A Definite Clause Version of Categorial Grammar Remo Pareschi 4:05-4:30 Combinatory Categorial Grammars: Generative Power and Relationship to Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems David J. Weir and Aravind K. Joshi 4:30-4:55 Unification of Disjunctive Feature Descriptions Structures Andreas Eisele and Jochen Doerre PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jared Bernstein, SRI International Roy Byrd, IBM Watson Research Center Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware Eugene Charniak, Brown University Raymonde Guindon, MCC Lynette Hirschman, Unisys Jerry Hobbs, SRI International (Chair) Karen Jensen, IBM Watson Research Center Lauri Karttunen, Xerox PARC William Rounds, University of Michigan Ralph Weischedel, BBN Laboratories Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley TUTORIAL DESCRIPTIONS CONTEMPORARY SYNTACTIC THEORIES Peter Sells, University of California, Santa Cruz This tutorial will examine some recent developments in theoretical syntax centered in, or stemming from, work in Government-Binding Theory, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar. I will try to explain the linguistic motivations for the proposals I will discuss, and also convergences among the theories. Little in the way of background will be assumed, beyond a rudimentary knowledge of phrase structure grammars and basic transformational mechanisms (movement, deletion, etc.). TEXT PROCESSING SYSTEMS Martha Palmer, Lynette Hirschman, and Deborah Dahl, Paoli Research Center, Unisys Defense Systems This tutorial will cover issues in text processing, focusing on the current state-of-the-art in text processing, the applications of text processing, the architecture of a text-processing system (using the Unisys PUNDIT system as an example), issues of portability and extensibility, and issues relating to large-scale computational linguistics projects. The section on system architecture will describe a modular architecture, with components that handle syntax, semantics and pragmatics, emphasizing the importance of segregating domain-specific and domain-independent data. We will then discuss, in the context of recent experiences with the PUNDIT system, the issue of portability across domains and the tools that support bringing up an application in a new domain. We will also look at the problems associated with building a large natural language processing system: how to integrate people with a variety of backgrounds (computer science, linguistics), how to manage and maintain a large system, and how to do development in multiple domains simultaneously. We will conclude with a survey of text-processing systems, comparing their strengths and weaknesses as related to their particular goals. NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION David McDonald, Brattle Research Corporation This tutorial will take participants through the workings of a complete, albeit very simple, generation system from the underlying conceptual representation to the surface morphology. This mini-system, which uses a ``direct replacement'' algorithm, would be quite satisfactory for the demands of most present expert systems; its weaknesses will be used to motivate the research that is going on in generation today. The major themes of that research will be surveyed, concentrating on the rationales behind the adoption of specific frameworks, such as systemic, unification, or tree adjoining grammar. Illustrations will be taken from current and historically important systems. Emphasis will be on generation as a planning and construction process which has markedly different concerns and issues from language understanding, and on how this has led to the approaches generation researchers are taking today. Efficient Parsing Algorithms Masaru Tomita, Carnegie-Mellon University Parsing efficiency is crucial when building practical natural language systems. This is especially the case for interactive applications such as natural language database access, interfaces to expert systems and interactive machine translation. This tutorial covers several efficient context-free parsing algorithms, including chart parsing, Earley's algorithm, LR parsing and the generalized LR algorithm. Augmentation to the context-free parsing algorithms is also discussed, to handle unification-based grammar formalisms such as Lexical-Functional Grammar, Functional Unification Grammar, and Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. 11-May-1988 21:42:04-EST,7641;000000000001 The printed version of the program and registration information has been mailed to ACL members. Others are encouraged to use the attached form or write for a program flier to the following address: Dr. D.E. Walker (ACL) Bellcore - MRE 2A379 445 South Street - Box 1910 Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA or send net mail to walker@flash.bellcore.com or bellcore!walker@uunet.uu.net, specifying "ACL Annual Meeting Information" on the subject line.