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NL-KR Digest (Mon Apr 3 11:50:46 1989) Volume 6 No. 17 Today's Topics: COLING-90 Call for Papers ACL Annual Meeting, 26-29 June, Vancouver; program & registration info Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.1.10] 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. --------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 11:58:38 EDT >From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Donald E Walker) Subject: COLING-90 Call for Papers The Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING 90 COLING 90 will be arranged on August 20-25, 1990, at the University of Helsinki. Pre-Coling tutorials take place on August 16-18, 1990. YOU ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT - a topical paper on some critical issue in computational linguistics, - a project note with software demonstration The written part of your presentation should not exceed 6 pages in A4 format or 12,000 characters for a topical paper, and half that length for a project note. The final version of the paper should follow the COLING 88 style sheet. Send your text NOT LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 1989, as electronic mail or as five paper copies to the Coling 90 Program Committee. The Program Committee will respond by February 1, 1990. All prospective participants are kindly requested to indicate their interest to the Conference Bureau by January 15, 1990. Detailed information (on e.g. accommodation) will be sent to all participants by February 1, 1990. Deadline for preregistration will be May 1, 1990. The registration fee will be 750 FIM (certified students 400 FIM). The late registration fee is 1100 FIM. Inquiries concerning papers should be directed to the Program Committee and concerning accommodation to the Conference Bureau. Other inquiries are handled by the local organizers. COLING 90 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hans Karlgren KVAL Skeppsbron 26 S-111 30 STOCKHOLM Sweden Phone: +46 8 7896683 Fax: +46 8 7969639 Telex: 15440 kval s E-mail: COLING@COM.QZ.SE or: COLING@QZCOM.BITNET COLING 90 CONFERENCE BUREAU Riitta Ojanen Kaleva Travel Agency Ltd Congress Service Box 312 SF-00121 HELSINKI Finland Phone: +358 0 602711 Fax: +358 0 629019 Telex: 122475 kleva sf LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Fred Karlsson Dept of General Linguistics University of Helsinki Hallituskatu 11 SF-00100 HELSINKI Finland Phone: +358 0 1911 Fax: +358 0 656591 Telex: 124690 unih sf E-mail: COLING@FINUH (in BITNET) ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Sun, 2 Apr 89 18:59:33 EDT >From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Donald E Walker) Subject: ACL Annual Meeting, 26-29 June, Vancouver; program & registration info The printed version of the following program and registration information will be mailed to ACL members by the end of the week. Others are encouraged to use the attached form or write for a program flyer 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 uunet.uu.net!bellcore!walker, specifying "ACL Annual Meeting Information" on the subject line. 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. NAME ADDRESS PHONE PRICE DATE Blue Horizon 1225 Robson 800:663-1333 $75CDN* 12 May Coast Georgian 773 Beatty 800:663-1144 $109CDN 26 May Pacific Palisades 1277 Robson 800:663-1815 $115CDN** 26 May 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 NAME ___________________________________________________________________________ Last First Middle ADDRESS ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ AFFILIATION (short form for badge ID) __________________________________________ TELEPHONE ______________________________________________________________________ COMPUTER NET&ADDRESS ___________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION INFORMATION (circle fee) NOTE: Only those whose dues are paid for 1989 can register as members; if you have not paid dues for 1989, register at the `non-member' rate. ACL NON- FULL-TIME MEMBER MEMBER* STUDENT by 12 June $95US $135US $60US at the Conference $135US $175US $80US *Non-member registration fee includes ACL membership for 1989; do not pay non-member fee for BOTH registration and tutorials. BANQUET TICKETS: $30US each; amount enclosed $_________ EXTRA PROCEEDINGS FOR REGISTRANTS: $25US each; amount enclosed $__________ TUTORIAL INFORMATION (circle fee for each tutorial, and check tutorials desired) ACL NON- FULL-TIME Each tutorial MEMBER MEMBER* STUDENT by 12 June $75US $115US $50US at the Conference $100US $140US $60US *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: $_______________ (Registration, Banquet, Extra Proceedings, Tutorials) PROCEEDINGS ONLY: $25US members; $50US others; amount enclosed $__________ Make checks payable to ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS or ACL. If payments are made in Canadian dollars, calculate charges according to current exchange rate. Credit cards cannot be honored. Send Application for Registration WITH PAYMENT before 12 JUNE to: Donald E. 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VISA MasterCard Credit Card Number_________________________ Expiration Date_____________________ Cardholder's Name_____________________ Cardholder's Signature___________________ Send Application for Residence Halls WITH DEPOSIT ONLY before 26 MAY to: UBC CONFERENCE CENTRE Reservations Office 5961 Student Union Boulevard Vancouver, B.C., CANADA V6T 2C9 Phone: (604) 228-2963 Fax: (604) 228-5297 ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************