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NL-KR Digest (Mon Feb 18 18:52:30 1991) Volume 8 No. 8 Today's Topics: COLING-92 First Announcement & Call for Papers ACL Applied Natural Language Processing Conference - Trento 1992 ACL SIGGEN and SIGPARSE Workshop on Reversible Grammar, 17 June 1991 SPECIAL STUDENT SESSION at ACL-91 in Berkeley, 18-21 June 1991 ACL SIGLEX Workshop at ACL-91, 17 June 1991, Berkeley Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.10.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPIECS and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPIECS. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 19:55:18 -0500 >From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: COLING-92 First Announcement & Call for Papers Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING-92 23-28 July 1992, Nantes, France FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS DATES: The conference will last five full days (not counting Sunday). Pre-COLING tutorials will take place on 20-22 July (2-1/2 days). ORGANIZERS: GETA and IMAG, Grenoble (F. Peccoud, Ch. Boitet, J. Courtin), Palais des Congres, Nantes (M. Gillet), Universite de Nantes (M.H. Jayez), EC2 (G. d'Aumale). PROGRAMME CHAIR: Prof. A. Zampolli, Universita di Pisa, ILC, via della Faggiola 32, I-56100 Pisa, ITALY (tel: +39.50.560481; fax: +39.50.589055). DEADLINES: Send six A4 or 8-1/2 by 11 inch copies of the full paper to Prof. Zampolli before 1 November 1991. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 1 March 1992. Camera-ready copies of final papers conforming to the COLING-90 style sheet must reach GETA (GETA-IMAG, COLING-92, BP 53X, F-38041 Grenoble, FRANCE) by 1 May 1992. TOPICS: All topics in Computational Linguistics are acceptable. Papers concerning real applications will be especially welcome. A special session on language industry is planned. Please indicate main areas of papers using two-level categories: computational models and formalisms (in morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, dialogue, . . .), methods (symbolic, numerical, statistical, neural, . . .), tools (specialized languages, environments), large-scale resources (textual, lexical, grammatical databases), applications (natural language interfaces, information retrieval, text generation, machine translation, machine aids to writing, translating, abstracting, learning, . . .), hypermedia and natural language processing (integration of text, speech, graphics, video), generic questions in language industry (engineering, ergonomics, legal aspects, normalization, . . .). TYPES OF PAPERS: Topical papers (maximum seven pages in final format) on crucial issues in Computational Linguistics, and project notes (maximum five pages). Only unpublished papers will be accepted. Papers should describe substantial and original work, especially new methodologies and applications. They should emphasize completed rather than intended work. PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE: Twelve 30-minute lecture slots daily (hopefully in only three parallel sessions) and three 30-minute demonstration slots during the lunch break (hopefully in at least ten parallel sessions). It should be possible to have lunch and go to two or even three demos. DEMONSTRATIONS: Demonstrations are strongly encouraged. A project note without a demo will have a lower probability of acceptance. With a demo, it will get three consecutive demo slots. A topical paper including a demo will be presented as a lecture and as a demo. LANGUAGES: One extra page will be allowed for a long abstract in English, if the paper is written in another language, or conversely (paper in English and long abstract in another language). Speakers not giving their talk in English are encouraged to use visual aids in English. EXHIBITION: An exhibition of language industry products will be organized in parallel by EC2, the well known organizer of the annual Avignon meetings on Expert Systems. Industrial firms are encouraged to present state-of-the-art NLP products. OTHER ACTIVITIES: A social programme will be proposed to participants and companions. Individual discovery is also possible, as Nantes and its region are culturally very active and full of picturesque places. Organized on behalf of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics Martin Kay, Palo Alto (President); Eva Hajicova, Prague (Vice President); Donald E. Walker, Morristown (Secretary General); Christian Boitet, Grenoble; Nicoletta Calzolari, Pisa; Brian Harris, Ottawa; David Hays, New York (Honorary); Kolbjorn Heggstad, Bergen; Hans Karlgren, Stockholm; Olga Kulagina, Moscow; Winfried Lenders, Bonn; Makato Nagao, Kyoto; Helmut Schnelle, Bochum; Petr Sgall, Prague; Yorick Wilks, Las Cruces; Antonio Zampolli, Pisa ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 19:57:12 -0500 >From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: ACL Applied Natural Language Processing Conference - Trento 1992 CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing Trento, Italy, 1-3 April 1992 sponsored by Association for Computational Linguistics PURPOSE The focus of this conference is on the application of natural language processing techniques to real world problems. It will include invited and contributed papers, tutorials, an industrial exhibition, and demonstrations. A special video session is also being organised. The organizers want the conference to be as international as possible, and to feature the best applied natural language work presently available in the world. This conference follows on from those held in Santa Monica, California in 1983, and in Austin, Texas in 1988. AREAS OF INTEREST Original papers are being solicited in all areas of applied natural language processing, including but not limited to: dialog systems; integrated speech and natural language systems; machine translation; explanation and generation; database interface systems; tool development; text and message processing; grammar and style checking; corpus development; knowledge acquisition; lexicons; language teaching aids; evaluation; adaptive systems; multilanguage systems; multimedia systems; help systems; and other applications. Papers may discuss applications, evaluations, limitations, and general tools and techniques. Papers that critically evaluate a relevant formalism or processing strategy are especially welcome. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Authors should submit, by 10 September 1991, a) six copies of a full-length paper (min 9, max 18 double-spaced pages, minimum font size 12, exclusive of references); b) 16 copies of a 20-30 line abstract; c) a declaration that the paper has not been accepted nor is under review for a journal or other conference nor will it be submitted during the conference review period. Papers arriving after the deadline will be returned unopened. We regret that papers cannot be submitted electronically, or by fax. Papers should describe completed rather than intended work, identify distinctive aspects of the work, and clearly indicate the extent to which an implementation has been completed; vague or unsubstantiated claims will be given little weight. Both the paper and the abstract should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses and e-mail address. Papers from Europe and Asia should be sent to: Oliviero Stock (ANLP-3) phone: +39-461-814444 I.R.S.T. fax: +39-461-810851 38050 Povo (Trento), ITALY email: stock@irst.it Papers from America and other continents should be sent to: Madeleine Bates (ANLP-3) phone: +1-617-8733634 BBN Systems & Technologies fax: +1-617-8733776 10 Moulton Street email: bates@bbn.com Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 30 November 1991. Full-length versions of accepted papers, prepared according to instructions, must be received, along with a signed copyright release statement, by 15 January 1992. All papers will be reviewed by members of the program committee, which is co-chaired by Madeleine Bates (BBN Systems & Technologies) and Oliviero Stock (IRST) and also includes: Robert Amsler, MITRE Kathy McKeown, Columbia Univ. Giacomo Ferrari, Univ. of Pisa Sergei Nirenburg, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI Makoto Nagao, Kyoto Univ. Paul Jacobs, General Electric Remko Scha, Univ. of Amsterdam Martin Kay, Xerox PARC Karen Sparck Jones, Univ. of Cambridge Mark Liberman, Univ. of Pennsylvania Henry Thompson, Univ. of Edinburgh Paul Martin, MCC Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI VIDEOTAPES Videotapes are sought that display interesting research on NLP applications to real-world problems, even if presented as promotional videos (not advertisements). An ongoing video presentation will be organized that will demonstrate the current level of usefulness of NLP tools and techniques. Authors should submit one copy of a videotape of at most 15 minutes duration, accompanied by a submission letter giving permission to copy the tape to a standard format and two copies of a one to two page abstract that includes: title, name and address and email or fax number of authors; tape format of the submitted tape (VHS, any of NTSC, PAL or SECAM); duration. The final tape format provided by the authors should be one of VHS, 75'' u-Matic, BVU, in any of NTSC, PAL or SECAM. Videotapes cannot be returned. Tape submissions should be sent to the same address as the papers (see above). The timetable for submissions, notification of acceptance or rejection, and receipt of final versions is the same as for the papers. See above for details. Tapes will be reviewed and selected for presentation during the conference. Abstracts of accepted videos will appear in the conference proceedings. We are also considering the possibility of producing a collection of video proceedings, for those videotapes that authors agree to distribute. A preliminary indication on this matter will be appreciated. DEMONSTRATIONS Beside demonstrations to be carried on within a regular booth at the industrial exhibition, there will be a program of demonstrations on standard equipment available at the conference (SUN's, MAC's, etc.). Anyone wishing to present a demo should send a one-page description of the demo and a specification of the system requirements by 1 December 1991 to Carlo Strapparava phone: +39-461-814444 I.R.S.T. fax: +39-461-810851 38050 Povo (Trento), ITALY email: strappa@irst.it PRIZE A prize will be given for the best nonindustrial demonstration. TUTORIALS The meeting will be preceded by one or two days of tutorials by noted contributors to the field. Responsible for tutorials: Jon Slack phone: +39-461-814444 I.R.S.T. fax: +39-461-810851 38050 Povo (Trento), ITALY email: slack@irst.it WORKSHOPS Proposals for organizing workshops in Trento immediately after the conference can be addressed to Oliviero Stock at the above address. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION Facilities for exhibits will also be available. Persons wishing to arrange an exhibit should send a brief description together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, table, etc.) by 1 September 1991 to Giampietro Carlevaro phone: +39-461-814444 I.R.S.T. fax: +39-461-810851 38050 Povo (Trento), ITALY email: carleva@irst.it GENERAL INFORMATION Local arrangements are being handled by Tullio Grazioli and Oliviero Stock phone: +39-461-814444 I.R.S.T. fax: +39-461-810851 38050 Povo (Trento), ITALY email: interne@irst.it For information on the ACL, contact Donald E. Walker (ACL) phone: +1-201-8294312 Bellcore, MRE 2A379 fax: +1-201-4551931 445 South Street, Box 1910 email: walker@flash.bellcore.com Morristown, NJ 07960, USA The conference is also supported by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) and Istituto Trentino di Cultura. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 20:00:59 -0500 >From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: ACL SIGGEN and SIGPARSE Workshop on Reversible Grammar, 17 June 1991 CALL FOR PAPERS Reversible Grammar in Natural Language Processing 17 June 1991 University of California Berkeley, California, USA A workshop sponsored by the Special Interest Groups on Generation (SIGGEN) and Parsing (SIGPARSE) of the Association for Computational Linguistics and supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency TOPICS OF INTEREST: The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers whose work concerns problems of reversible grammar systems that are designed for, or may find applications in, Natural Language Processing. Papers are invited on significant, original and unpublished research on all aspects of reversible grammars, including, but not limited to: (1) Reversible computation (multi-directional and non-directional computation; algorithms for program inversion and transformation; efficiency issues); (2) Reversible natural language systems (parsers and generators for reversible grammars; reversibility of unification-based grammars; new architectures for reversible natural language processing; knowledge representation issues; reversible machine translation; lexicons for bidirectional systems; reversibility in discourse processing); (3) Reversible grammars in linguistic theory (formal characterization; reversibility within various grammatical frameworks, eg., GB, LFG, GPSG, HPSG, TAG, categorial grammars; reversibility in rule-based and principle-based approaches; reversibility and semantic compositionality). FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of their papers in hard copy form. Papers should be a minimum of four pages and a maximum of ten single-spaced pages (exclusive of references). The title page should include the title, full names of all authors and their complete addresses including electronic addresses where applicable, and a short (5 line) summary. Submissions that do not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to: Tomek Strzalkowski Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 715 Broadway, Room 704 New York, NY 10003, USA tomek@cs.nyu.edu (+1-212) 998-3496 SCHEDULE: Papers must be received by 1 March 1991 (NOT 31 March, as in a previous release). Authors will be notified of acceptance by 5 April 1991. A camera-ready copy of the final paper prepared in the two-column format must be received by 10 May 1991. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published by the ACL. WORKSHOP INFORMATION: The workshop is held in connection with the 29th Meeting of the ACL (18-21 June). Local arrangements are being handled by Peter Norvig (Division of Computer Science, University of California, 573 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, (+1-415) 642-9533, norvig@teak.berkeley.edu). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Marc Dymetman, Gertjan van Noord, Patrick Saint-Dizier, Tomek Strzalkowski. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 20:27:49 -0500 >From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: SPECIAL STUDENT SESSION at ACL-91 in Berkeley, 18-21 June 1991 CALL FOR PAPERS Student Session at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 18-21 June 1991 University of California Berkeley, California USA PURPOSE: The goal of this session is to provide a forum in which graduate student members can present WORK IN PROGRESS and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community, particularly senior researchers. The session(s) will be workshop-style, consisting of short paper presentations and discussion. Note that having a student session for the presentation of ongoing work in NO way influences the treatment of student-written papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the student session will provide an entirely separate track emphasizing students' work in progress rather than completed work. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress that demonstrates INSIGHT, CREATIVITY, and PROMISE. Topics of interest are the same as for the main conference. Authors must have ACL Student Membership at the time of the conference. For membership information contact Don Walker at the address below. Because of differences in FOCUS (complete results vs. work in progress) and SUBMISSION FORMAT, papers submitted to the main conference can not be considered for the student session. Students may of course submit papers to both. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of an extended abstract 2 pages long (including title, authors, references, etc). Chosen abstracts will be printed in the conference proceedings directly from the submissions. Submissions therefore should be final camera-ready copy (preferably laser-printer output), laid out in the conventional double-column conference format. In addition, a SEPARATE ``topic area'' page should include the title, name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses (including e-mail), and one or two keywords indicating the topic area. Send to: Bonnie Webber (ACL Student Session) University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science 200 South 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389, USA (+1-215) 898-7745 bonnie@central.cis.upenn.edu SCHEDULE: Submissions are due by 1 MARCH 1991; authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 APRIL 1991. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sandra Carberry (Delaware), Mark Liberman (Pennsylvania), Terry Nutter (Virginia Tech), Bill Rapaport (SUNY Buffalo), Tomek Strzalkowski (NYU), Bonnie Webber (Pennsylvania), Kent Wittenberg (Bellcore and MCC), and the members of the student session committee. STUDENT SESSION COMMITTEE: Dania Egedi (Duke), Jong-Gyun Lim (Columbia), Susan McRoy (Toronto), Philip Resnik (Pennsylvania), Jeff Siskind (MIT), David Traum (Rochester), Barbara Vauthey (NYU and Fribourg). CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For registration forms and other information on the conference and on the ACL more generally, contact Don Walker (ACL), Bellcore, MRE 2A379, 445 South Street, Box 1910, Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA; (+1-201)829-4312; walker@flash.bellcore.com. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 23:04:59 -0500 >From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: ACL SIGLEX Workshop at ACL-91, 17 June 1991, Berkeley CALL FOR PAPERS Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation 17 June 1991 University of California Berkeley, California, USA A workshop sponsored by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) of the Association for Computational Linguistics TOPICS OF INTEREST: The recent resurgence of interest in lexical semantics (LS) has brought many linguistic formalisms closer to the knowledge representation (KR) languages utilized in AI. In fact, some formalisms from computational linguistics are emerging which may be more expressive and formally better understood than many KR languages. Furthermore, the interests of computational linguists now extend to include areas previously thought beyond the scope of grammar and linguistics, such as commonsense knowledge, inheritance, default reasoning, collocational relations, and even domain knowledge. With such an extension of the purview of "linguistic" knowledge, the question emerges as to whether there is any logical justification for distinguishing between lexical semantics and world knowledge. The purpose of this workshop is to explore this question in detail, with papers addressing the following points: a. Possible methods for determining what is lexical knowledge and what is outside the scope of such knowledge. b. Potential demonstrations that the inferences necessary for language understanding are no different from supposed non-linguistic inferences. c. Arguments from language acquisition and general concept development. d. Cross-linguistic evidence for the specificity of lexical semantic representations. e. Philosophical arguments for the (impossibility of the) autonomy of lexical knowledge. f. Theoretical approaches and implemented systems that combine lexical and non-lexical knowledge. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of a position paper describing the work they have done in this area and indicating why they would like to participate in the workshop. Papers should be a minimum of two pages and a maximum of four pages (exclusive of references). The title page should include the title, full names of all authors and their complete addresses including electronic addresses where applicable, and a short (5 line) summary. Submissions that do not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to: James Pustejovsky Computer Science Department Ford Hall Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254-9110 USA (+1-617) 736-2709 jamesp@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu SCHEDULE: Papers must be received by 1 March 1991. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 5 April 1991. WORKSHOP INFORMATION: Attendance will be limited to 35-40 participants. The workshop is held in connection with the 29th Meeting of the ACL (18-21 June). Local arrangements are being handled by Peter Norvig (Division of Computer Science, University of California, 573 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, (+1-415) 642-9533, norvig@teak.berkeley.edu). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Branimir Boguraev Peter Norvig James Pustejovsky Robert Wilensky ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************