5.0801 ACL '92 Conference Announcement (1/234)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 30 Mar 1992 20:02:57 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0801. Monday, 30 Mar 1992.
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 16:07:12 -0500
From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker)
Subject: Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
30th Annual Meeting
28 June -- 2 July 1992
Clayton Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
The program for the Annual Meeting itself, which will take place
on 29 June to 2 July, features papers on all aspects of computational
linguistics. Two invited lectures will be given during the meeting:
``Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and All That''
by Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University, and Martin Kay, Xerox
PARC and Stanford University; and ``Reflections and Projections''
by Don Walker, Bellcore and ACL. In addition, there are a special
set of Student Sessions featuring papers that describe `work in
progress' so that students can receive feedback from other members
of the computational linguistics community.
The Annual Meeting is preceded on 28 June by a set of tutorials:
``Statistics for Computational Linguists'' by William A. Gale and
Joseph B. Kruskal; ``Leading Issues in Tree Adjunction'' by Yves
Schabes and Stuart Shieber; ``Very Large Text Corpora: What You
Can Do with Them, and How to Do It'' by Mark Liberman and Mitch
Marcus; and ``Situation Semantics'' by Keith Devlin.
The ACL Business Meeting will feature reports on the ACL Special
Interest Groups, the ACL Data Collection Initiative, the Consortium
for Lexical Research, the Text Encoding Initiative, the new Graduate
Directory, the new Computational Linguistics Course Survey, the
NLP Software Registry, the Linguistic Data Consortium, and other
topics of current interest.
There will also be an informal gathering to discuss multimedia language
processing.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
The Program Committee was chaired by Henry Thompson, Edinburgh
University. The Tutorials were organized by Bonnie Webber, University
of Pennsylvania. For information about exhibits and demonstrations,
contact Dan Chester, CIS Department, University of Delaware, Newark,
DE 19716, USA, 1-302-831-1955; chester@udel.edu. Local arrangements
are handled by Sandra Carberry, Dan Chester, or Kathleen McCoy,
Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark,
DE 19716, USA; 1-302-831-2712; acl@udel.edu.
Program and registration brochures are being mailed to all ACL
members. To get a brochure 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.
The full contents of the brochure follow, if the distribution medium
has the room to display it.
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
30th Annual Meeting
28 June -- 2 July 1992
Clayton Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
PROGRAM
SUNDAY, 28 JUNE
11:00-3:00 Tutorial Registration
Clayton Hall Lower Lobby
2:00-5:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Statistics for Computational Linguists
William A. Gale and Joseph B. Kruskal
Leading Issues in Tree Adjunction
Yves Schabes and Stuart Shieber
7:00-9:00 Tutorial Registration and Reception
Clayton Hall Lower Lobby
MONDAY, 29 JUNE
8:00-5:00 Tutorial and Conference Registration
Clayton Hall Lower Lobby
9:00-12:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Very Large Text Corpora: What You Can Do with Them,
and How to Do It
Mark Liberman and Mitch Marcus
Situation Semantics
Keith Devlin
MONDAY, 29 JUNE CLAYTON HALL ROOM 128
1:30-9:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations
Clayton Hall Rooms 119 and 120
1:30-1:45 Opening Remarks and Announcements
1:45-2:10 Inferring Discourse Relations in Context
Alex Lascarides, Nicholas Asher & Jon Oberlander
2:10-2:35 An Algorithm for VP Ellipsis
Daniel Hardt
2:35-3:00 A Simple But Useful Approach to Conjunct Identification
Rajeev Agarwal & Lois Boggess
3:30-3:55 The Representation of Multimodal User Interface Dialogues
Using Discourse Pegs
Susan Luperfoy
3:55-4:20 Monotonic Semantic Interpretation
Hiyan Alshawi & Richard Crouch
4:20-4:45 Probabilistic Prediction and Picky Chart Parsing
David M. Magerman & Carl Weir
5:15-5:40 A Functional Approach to Generation with TAG
Kathleen McCoy, K. Vijay-Shanker & Gijoo Yang
5:40-6:05 Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources for Detection
& Correction of Repairs in Human-Computer Dialog
John Bear, John Dowding & Elisabeth Shriberg
7:00-9:00 Reception with Exhibits and Demonstrations
Clayton Hall Lower Lobby and Rooms 119 and 120
TUESDAY, 30 JUNE CLAYTON HALL ROOM 128
8:00-5:00 Conference Registration
Clayton Hall Lower Lobby
9:00-9:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations
Clayton Hall Rooms 119 and 120
9:00-9:25 Conversational Implicatures in Indirect Replies
Nancy Green & Sandra Carberry
9:25-9:50 Reasoning with Descriptions of Trees
James Rogers & K. Vijay-Shanker
9:50-10:15 Comparing Two Grammar-Based Generation Algorithms: A Case Study
Miroslav Martinovic & Tomek Strzalkowski
10:45-11:10 Recognition of Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
Giorgio Satta
11:10-12:15 Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval,
and All That ***INVITED TALK***
Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University
Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University
1:45-2:10 Accommodating Context Change
Bonnie L. Webber
2:10-2:35 Information Retrieval Using Robust Natural Language Processing
Tomek Strzalkowski & Barbara Vauthey
2:35-3:00 Prosodic Aids to Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Spoken
English
Chris Rowles & Xiuming Huang
3:30-3:55 Understanding Natural Language Instructions: The Case of
Purpose Clauses
Barbara Di Eugenio
3:55-4:20 A Cognitive Approach for the Typographical Correction of
Arabic Texts
Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou
4:20-4:45 Inside-Outside Reestimation from Partially Bracketed Corpora
Fernando Pereira & Yves Schabes
5:15-5:40 Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems and Deterministic
Tree-Walking Transducers
David J. Weir
5:40-6:05 A Connectionist Parser for Structure Unification Grammar
James Henderson
9:00-9:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations
Clayton Hall Rooms 119 and 120
WEDNESDAY, 1 JULY CLAYTON HALL ROOM 128
8:00-5:00 Conference Registration
Clayton Hall Lower Lobby
9:00-6:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations
Clayton Hall Rooms 119 and 120
9:00-9:25 Would I Lie to You? Modeling Context and Pedagogic
Misrepresentation in Tutorial Dialogue
Carl Gutwin & Gordon McCalla
9:25-9:50 Lattice-Based Word Identification in CLARE
David M. Carter
9:50-10:15 An Alternative Conception of Tree-Adjoining Derivation
Yves Schabes & Stuart M. Shieber
10:45-11:10 GPSM: A Generalised Probabilistic Semantic Model for
Ambiguity Resolution
Jing-Shin Chang, I-Fen Luo & Keh-Yih Su
11:10-11:35 Development, Evaluation and Results for a Broad-Coverage
Probabilistic Grammar of English-Language Computer Manuals
Ezra Black, John Lafferty & Salim Roukos
11:35-12:30 BUSINESS MEETING & ELECTIONS
See separate notice for description of special agenda items.
NOMINATIONS FOR ACL OFFICES FOR 1993:
President: Fernando Pereira, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Vice President: Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University
Secretary-Treasurer: Don Walker, Bellcore
Executive Committee (1993-1995): Stuart Shieber, Harvard University
2:00-5:45 STUDENT SESSION (See separate program)
7:30-10:30 RECEPTION AND BANQUET
Schaeffers Canal House (buses leave Clayton at 7:00)
Presidential Address: Kathy McKeown
THURSDAY, 2 JULY CLAYTON HALL ROOM 128
8:00-2:00 Conference Registration
Clayton Hall Lower Lobby
9:00-2:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations
Clayton Hall Rooms 119 and 120
9:00-9:25 Modeling Negotiation Subdialogues
Lynn Lambert & Sandra Carberry
9:25-9:50 Handling Linear Precedence Constraints by Unification
Judith Engelkamp, Gregor Erbach & Hans Uszkoreit
9:50-10:15 A Unification-Based Semantic Interpretation for
Coordinate Constructs
Jong C. Park
10:45-11:10 Corpus-based Acquisition of Relative Pronoun Disambiguation
Heuristics
Claire Cardie
11:10-12:15 Reflections and Projections ***INVITED TALK***
Don Walker, Bellcore and ACL
12:15-1:45 STUDENT MEMBER LUNCH MEETING (See separate notice)
1:45-2:10 Association-Based Natural Language Processing with
Neural Networks
Kazuhiro Kimura, Takashi Suzuoka & Sin-ya Amano
2:10-2:35 Tense Trees as the Fine Structure of Discourse
Chung Hee Hwang & Lenhart K. Schubert
2:35-3:00 Connection Relations and Quantifier Scope
Longin Latecki
3:30-3:55 Estimating Upper and Lower Bounds on the Performance
of Word Sense Disambiguation Programs
William Gale, Kenneth Church & David Yarowsky
3:55-4:20 A Parameterized Approach to Integrating Aspect with
Lexical-Semantics for Machine Translation
Bonnie J. Dorr
4:20-4:45 Using Classification to Generate Text
Ehud Reiter & Chris Mellish
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Peter Brown, IBM TJ Watson Research Center;
Stephan Busemann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence;
Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa; Mary Dalrymple, Xerox
PARC; Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telephony Research Labs;
Johanna Moore, University of Pittsburgh; Klaus Netter, German
Research Center for Artificial Intelligence; Nicholas Ostler,
Linguacubun Ltd.; Jan Pedersen, Xerox PARC; Steve Pulman, SRI
International, Cambridge; Yves Schabes, University of Pennsylvania;
Donia Scott, Brighton Polytechnic; Henry Thompson (chair), University
of Edinburgh; Ralph Weischedel, BBN Systems and Technologies
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