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AIList Digest Friday, 24 Jun 1988 Volume 7 : Issue 43
Today's Topics:
Announcements:
deadline change - Automating software design workshop
PODS - 89 Call for papers
COLING '88 program
Unisys AI seminar: The Causal Simulation of Ordinary and Intermittent Mechanical Devices
ACL European Chapter Call for Papers
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 88 13:49:22 EDT
From: Robert McCartney <robert%carcvax.uconn@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: deadline change
EXTENDED DEADLINE -- Automating software design workshop
Due to problems with the mail link at kestrel, we are extending the
deadline for requests to participate and/or make presentations at the
automating software design workshop at AAAI. The deadline, which was
originally 15 June, has been changed to 4 July; we still intend to
send notification around 15 July. To maximize the likelihood of your
request/abstract being received, we suggest the following csnet
addresses: robert@uconn.edu for mccartney, lowry@coyote.stanford.edu
for lowry. Hard copy submissions should be sent to Doug Smith at
Kestrel as before. If you have any questions, call one of the
organizers at the numbers given below.
Current plans include a difference in emphasis between the morning and
afternoon sessions--the morning's emphasis will be on specification
and acquisition issues, while the afternoon's will be on formal
derivation. This separation is by no means absolute, and given the
deadline change, the schedule is still quite approximate.
The revised call follows. Apologies to all whose mail to kestrel
didn't go through.
--robert.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Automating software design: current directions
(a workshop at AAAI-88)
Radison-St. Paul Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota
Thursday, 25 August 1988
In this workshop, we intend to discuss current approaches to automated
software design and how these approaches deal with: 1) acquiring
specifications, 2) acquiring and representing domain and design
knowledge, and 3) controlling search during design. Among the issues
that might be addressed are the interaction of domain and design
knowledge, comparing automatic and interactive systems, the use of
general vs. specific control mechanisms, and software environments
appropriate for design systems.
This is intended to be a forum for the presentation and discussion of
current ideas and approaches. The format will consist of individual
presentations followed by adequate time for interaction with peers.
To maximize such interaction, participation will be limited to a small
number of active researchers.
Participation: Those interested in attending should submit a short
description of their research interests and current work to one of the
organizing committee (preferably electronically) by July 4. At the
same time, those interested in making a presentation should submit a
short abstract (around 500 words) of their intended topic.
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be given after July 15.
All participants may submit an extended abstract or position paper by
August 1; these will be reproduced and distributed at the workshop.
Organizing Committee:
Michael Lowry Robert McCartney Douglas R. Smith
Stanford/Kestrel Univ. of Connecticut Kestrel Institute
(415) 325-3105 (203) 486-5232 (415) 493-6871
(lowry@coyote.stanford.edu) (robert@uconn.edu)
Hard-copy submissions may be sent to:
Douglas R. Smith
Kestrel Institute
1801 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1216
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Date: 22 Jun 88 14:46:12 GMT
From: sbcs!kifer@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer)
Subject: PODS - 89 Call for papers
Call for Papers
Eighth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on
PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS (PODS)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 29-31, 1989
Extended Abstracts due October 10, 1988
The conference will cover new developments in both the theoretical and
practical aspects of database and knowledge-base systems. Papers are
solicited which describe original and novel research about the theory,
design, specification, or implementation of database and knowledge-
base systems.
Some suggested, although not exclusive, topics of interest are:
complex objects, concurrency control, database machines, data models,
data structures, deductive databases, dependency theory, distributed
systems, incomplete information, knowledge representation and
reasoning, object-oriented databases, performance evaluation, physical
and logical design, query languages, query optimization, recursive
rules, spatial and temporal data, statistical databases, and
transaction management.
You are invited to submit eleven copies of a detailed abstract (not a
complete paper) to the program chairman:
Ashok K. Chandra - PODS
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 218
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.
ashok@ibm.com (914) 945-1752.
Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of significance,
originality, and overall quality. Each abstract should 1) contain
enough information to enable the program committee to identify the
main contributions of the work; 2) explain the importance of the work -
its novelty and its practical or theoretical relevance to database
and knowledge-base systems; and 3) include comparisons with and
references to relevant literature. Abstracts should be no longer than
ten double-spaced pages. Deviations from these guidelines may affect
the program committee's evaluation of the paper.
Program Committee
Catriel Beeri Daniel J. Rosenkrantz
Ashok K. Chandra Oded Shmueli
Hector Garcia-Molina Victor Vianu
Michael Kifer William E. Weihl
Teodor C. Przymusinski Carlo Zaniolo
The deadline for submission of abstracts is OCTOBER 10, 1988. Authors
will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 7, 1988. The
accepted papers, typed on special forms, will be due at the above
address by January 11, 1989. All authors of accepted papers will be
expected to sign copyright release forms. Proceedings will be
distributed at the conference, and will be subsequently available for
purchase through the ACM.
General Chair: Local Arrangements Chair:
Avi Silberschatz Tomasz Imielinski
Computer Science Department Dept. of Computer Science
Univ. of Texas at Austin Rutgers University
Austin, Texas 78712 New Brunswick, NJ 08903
avi@sally.utexas.edu imielinski@rutgers.edu
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Date: 23 Jun 88 13:11:18 GMT
From: FLASH.BELLCORE.COM!walker@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (walker_donald e)
Subject: COLING '88 program
12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: COLING '88
Budapest, 22-27 August 1988
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
MONDAY, AUGUST 22nd
9:30 OPENING SESSION - Room E
ROOM A: SEMANTICS
11:00 - J.Ph.Hoepelman, A.J.M.van Hoof (FRG): The success of failure -
the concept of failure in dialogue logics with some
applications for NL-semantics
11:30 - P.Saint-Dizier (France): Default logic, natural language and
generalized quantifiers
12:00 - D.Jurafsky (USA): Issues in the relation of grammar and meaning
14:00 - D.Horton, G.Hirst (Canada): Presuppositions as beliefs
14:30 - R.E.Mercer (Canada): Solving some persistent presupposition
problems
15:30 - T.Vlk (Czechoslovakia): Topic/Focus articulation and
intensional logic
16:00 - M.Merkel (Sweden): A novel analysis of temporal frame-adverbials
ROOM B: FORMAL MODELS
11:00 - N.Abe (USA): Polynomially learnable subclasses of mildly context
sensitive languages
11:30 - C.Beierle, U.Pletat (FRG): Feature graphs and abstract data
types: a unifying approach
12:00 - M.Reape, H.Thompson (UK): Parallel intersection and serial
composition of finite state transducers
14:00 - S.M.Shieber (USA): A uniform architecture for parsing and
generation
14:30 - J.Wedekind (FRG): Generation as structure driven derivation
15:30 - M.Meteer, V.Shaked (USA): Strategies for effective paraphrasing
16:00 - J.Kilbury (FRG): Parsing with category cooccurrence restrictions
ROOM C: UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
11:00 - L.Ahrenberg (Sweden): Functional constraints in knowledge-based
natural language understanding
11:30 - X.Liu, T.Nishida, S.Doshita (Japan): Maintaining consistency
and plausibility in integrated natural language understanding
12:00 - K.Hasida (Japan): A cognitive account of unbounded dependency
14:30 - V.Pericliev, S.Brajnov, I.Nenova (Bulgaria): Hinting by
paraphrasing in an instruction system
15:30 - P.S.Jacobs (USA): Concretion: assumption-based understanding
16:00 - U.Zernik, A.Brown (USA): Default reasoning in natural language
processing: a preliminary report
ROOM D: MACHINE TRANSLATION
11:00 - J.Tsujii, M.Nagao (Japan): Dialogue translation vs. text
translation - interpretation based approach
11:30 - R.Zajac (France): Traduction interactive: une nouvelle approche
12:00 - A.K.Melby (USA): Lexical transfer: between a source rock and
a hard target
14:00 - J.L.Beaven, P.Whitelock (UK): Machine translation using
isomorphic UCGs
14:30 - H.Nogami, Y.Yoshimura, S.Amano (Japan): Parsing with look-ahead
in a real-time on-line translation system
15:30 - F.Nishida, S.Takamatsu (Japan): Feed-back of the corrections
in post edition to the machine translation system
16:00 - K.Kakigahara, T.Aizawa (Japan): Completion of Japanese sentences
by inferring function words from content words
SPEECH ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS
17:00 - W.M.P.Daelemans (Belgium): A grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
system for Dutch
17:30 - P.Trescases, M.Crocker (Canada): Linguistic contributions to
text-to-speech computer programs for French
18:00 - R.Kuhn (Canada): Speech recognition and the frequency of
recently used words: a modified Markov model for natural
language
17:00 - 18:30 PANEL DISCUSSION in Room C:
"Language Engineering: The real Bottleneck of Natural
Language Processing: (moderator: M.Nagao)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23rd
ROOM A: SEMANTICS
9:00 - J.Pustejovsky, P.Anick (USA): On the semantic interpretation
of nominals
9:30 - L.Lesmo, P.Terenziani (Italy): Interpretation of noun phrases
in intensional contexts
10:00 - E.V.Paduceva (USSR): Referential properties of generic terms
denoting things and situations
DISCOURSE
11:00 - M.V.LaPolla (USA): The role of old information in generating
readable text
11:30 - M.H.Sarner, S.Carberry (USA): A new strategy for providing
definitions in task-oriented dialogues
12:00 - A.Yamada, T.Nishida, S.Doshita (Japan): Figuring out most
plausible interpretation from spatial descriptions
14:00 - E.Werner (FRG): A formal computational semantics and pragmatics
of speech acts
14:30 - M.Gerlach, M.Sprenger (FRG): Semantic interpretation of pragmatic
clues: connectives, modal verbs, and indirect speech acts
15:30 - K.Eberle (FRG): Partial orderings and Aktionsarten in discourse
representation theory
16:00 - M.Hess (Switzerland): Crossing coreference in discourse
representation theory
ROOM B: FORMAL MODELS
9:00 - L.Vijay-Shanker, A.K.Joshi (USA): Feature structures based tree
adjoining grammars
9:30 - R.M.Kaplan, J.T.Maxwell III (USA): An algorithm for functional
uncertainty
10:00 - Ch.Boitet, Y.Zaharin (France): Representation trees and
string-tree correspondences
11:00 - L.Carlson (Finland): RUG: Regular unification grammar
11:30 - J.Calder, E.Klein (UK), H.Zeevat (FRG): Unification categorial
grammar, a concise, extendable grammar for natural language
processing
12:00 - A.M.R.Aristar, C.F.Justus (USA): Word-order constraints in a
multilingual categorial grammar
14:00 - B.V.Sukhotin (USSR): Optimization algorithms of deciphering
as the elements of a linguistic theory
14:30 - R.M.Kaplan, J.T.Maxwell III (USA): Coordination in lexical
functional grammar
15:30 - S.Busemann, Ch.Hauenschild (Berlin): A constructive view of
GPSG or how to make it work
16:00 - W.Weisweber (Berlin): Using constraints in a constructive
version of GPSG
ROOM C: UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
9:00 - H.Shimazu, Y.Takashima, M.Tomono (USA, Japan): Understanding
of stories for animation
9:30 - R.J.Kuhns (USA): A news analysis system
10:00 - D.Fass (USA): Metonymy and metaphor: what's the difference?
SOFTWARE TOOLS
11:00 - B.Boguraev, J.Carroll, T.Briscoe, C.Grover (UK): Software
support for practical grammar development
11:30 - H.Tomabechi, M.Tomita (USA): Application of the direct
memory access paradigm to natural language interface to
knowledge-based system
12:00 - M.Marino (Italy): A process-activation based parsing
algorithm for the development of natural language grammars
14:00 - T.Tokunaga, M.Iwayama, H.Tanaka, T.Kamiwaki (Japan): LangLAB:
a natural language analysis system
14:30 - H.Kaji (Japan): An efficient execution method for rule-based
machine translation
COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING
15:30 - M.Zock (France): Language learning as problem solving
16:00 - M.Rayner, A.Hugosson, G.Hagert (Sweden): Using a logic
grammar to learn a lexicon
ROOM D: PARSING
9:00 - B.Lang (France): Parsing incomplete sentences
9:30 - H.Saito, M.Tomita (USA): Parsing noisy sentences
10:00 - E.Giachin, K.C.Rullent (Italy): Robust parsing of severely
corrupted spoken utterance
MACHINE TRANSLATION
11:00 - P.Isabelle, M.Dymetman, E.Mackiovitch (Canada): CRITTER:
a translation system for agricultural market reports
11:30 - Chen Zhaoxiong, Gao Qingshi (China): English-Chinese machine
translation system IMT/EC
12:00 - I.Golan, S.Lappin, M.Rimon (Israel): An active bilingual
lexicon for machine translation
PARSING
14:00 - Y.Schabes, A.K.Joshi (USA): An Earley-type parser for tree
adjoining grammar
14:30 - A.Yonezawa, I.Ohsawa (Japan): A new approach to parallel
parsing for context-free grammar
15:30 - M.B.Kac, T.Rindflesch (USA): Coordination in reconnaissance-
attack parsing
16:00 - L.Emirkanian, L.H.Bouchard (Canada): Knowledge integration
in a robust and efficient morpho-syntactic analyzer for French
MACHINE TRANSLATION
17:00 - Ch.DiMarco, G.Hirst (Canada): Stylistic grammars in language
translation
17:30 - P.C.Rolf (Netherlands): Machine translation: the language
network (versus the intermediate language)
18:00 - P.Brown, J.Cocke, S.Della Pietra, V.Della Pietra, F.Jelinek,
R.Mercer, P.Roossin (USA): A statistical approach to
language translation
17:00 - 18:30 PANEL DISCUSSION in Room C:
"Parallel Processing in Computational Linguistics"
(moderator: H.Schnelle)
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25th
ROOM A: SYNTAX AND MORPHEMICS
9:00 - T. van der Wouden, D.Heylen (Netherlands): Massive
disambiguation of large text corpora with flexible
categorial grammar
9:30 - I.Kudo, T.Morimoto, M.Chung, M.Koshino (Japan): Schema method: a
framework for correcting ill-formed input based on LFG
10:00 - J.Veronis (France): Morphosyntactic correction in natural
language interfaces
11:00 - L.Kataja, K.Koskenniemi (Finland): Finite-state description of
Semitic morphology: a case study of ancient Akkaidan
11:30 - M.R.Sorensen (USA): Non-linear computational analysis of
non-concatenative Arabic morphology
12:00 - G.Goerz, D.Paulus (FRG): A finite state approach to German
verb morphology
14:00 - K.Koskenniemi, K.W.Church (USA): Complexity, two-level
morphology and Finnish
14:30 - J.Bear (USA): Morphology with two-level rules and negative
rule features
15:30 - J.Carson (FRG): Unification and transduction in computational
phonology
16:00 - I.A.Bol'sakov (USSR): Socinitel'nyj ellipsis v russkich
tekstach: problemy opisanija i vosstanovlenija
ROOM B: DISCOURSE
9:00 - B.L.Webber (USA): Tense as discourse anaphora
9:30 - J.G.Carbonell, R.D.Brown (USA): Anaphora resolution: a
multi-strategy approach
10:00 - E.Schuster (USA): Anaphoric reference to events and action:
a representation
LANGUAGE GENERATION
11:00 - L.Iordanskaja, R.Kittredge, A.Polguere (Canada): Implementating
the meaning-text model for language generation
11:30 - S.Nirenburg, I.Nirenburg (USA): A framework for lexical
selection in natural language generation
12:00 - J.M.Lancel, M.Otani, N.Simonin (France): Sentence parsing and
generation with a semantic dictionary and a lexicon-grammar
14:00 - D.Schmauks, N.Reithinger (FRG): Generating multimodal output -
conditions, advantages and problems
14:30 - M.Gasser, M.G.Dyer (USA): Sequencing in a connectionist model
of language processing
15:30 - N.Ward (USA): Issues in word choice
16:00 - P.Sibun, A.K.Huettner, D.D.McDonald (USA): Directing the
generation of living space descriptions
ROOM C: COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING
9:00 - C.Schwind (France): Sensitive parsing: error analysis and
explanation in an intelligent language tutoring system
9:30 - W.Menzel (GDR): Error diagnosing and selection in a training
system for second language learning
10:00 - E.G.Borissova (USSR): Two-component teaching system, that
understands and corrects mistakes
11:00 - U.Zernik (USA): Language Acquisition: Coping with lexical gaps
11:30 - W.Bloemberg (Netherlands): A system for creating and manipulating
generalized wordclass transition matrices from large labelled
text-corpora
12:00 - Y.Tateisi, Y.Ono (Japan): A computer readability formula of
Japanese texts for machine scoring
LEXICAL ISSUES
14:00 - R.Scha, D.Stallard (USA): Lexical ambiguity and distributivity
14:30 - J.L.Klavans (USA): COMPLEX: a computational lexicon for
natural language systems
15:30 - J.Nakamura, M.Nagao (Japan): extraction of semantic information
from ordinary English dictionary and its evaluation
16:00 - N.Calzolari, E.Picchi (Italy): Acquisition of semantic
information from an on-line dictionary
ROOM D: MACHINE TRANSLATION
9:00 - E.van Munster (Netherlands): The treatment of scope and
negation in Rosetta
9:30 - P.Schmidt (FRG): A syntactic description of German in a
formalism designed for a machine translation system
10:00 - C.Zelinsky-Wibbelt (FRG): Universal quantification in machine
translation
PARSING
11:00 - H.Nakagawa, T.Mori (Japan): A parser based on connectionist model
11:30 - R.T.Kasper (USA): An experimental parser for systemic grammars
12:00 - A.Abeille (USA): Parsing French with tree adjoining grammar:
some linguistic accounts
14:00 - H.Haugeneder, M.Gehrke (FRG): Improving search strategies: an
experiment in best-first parsing
14:30 - O.Stock, R.Falcone, P.Insinnamo (Italy): Island parsing and
bidirectional charts
15:30 - H.Trost, W.Heinz, E.Buchberger (Austria): On the interaction of
syntax and semantics in a syntactically guided caseframe parser
16:00 - G.Adriaens, M.Devos, Y.D.Willems (Belgium): The parallel expert
parser (PEP): a thoroughly revised descendant of the word
expert parser (WEP)
MACHINE TRANSLATION
17:00 - M.Meya, J.Vidal (Spain): An integrated model for treatment of
time in MT-systems
17:30 - F.van Eynde (Belgium): The analysis of tense and aspect in
EUROTRA
18:00 - E.H.Steiner, J.Winter-Thielen (FRG): ON the semantics of focus
phenomena in Eurotra
17:00 - 18:30 PANEL DISCUSSION in Room C
"Controlled Languages and Language Control"
(moderator: H.Karlgren)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26th
9:00 - 10:30 PLENARY SESSION: TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES
Speakers: A.K.Joshi, H.Karlgren, M.Kay, M.Nagao, P.Sgall,
W.Wahlster
ROOM A: DISCOURSE
11:00 - A.Nakhimovsky, W.Rapaport (USA): Discontinuities in narratives
11:30 - K.J.Saebo (FRG): A cooperative yes-no query system featuring
discourse particles
12:00 - R.Reilly (Ireland), G.Ferrari, I.Prodanof (Italy): a Framework
for a model of dialogue
14:00 - J.Gundel, N.Hedberg, S.Rundquist, R.Zacharski (USA): On the
generation and interpretation of demonstrative expressions
14:30 - K.Yoshimoto (Japan): Identifying zero pronouns in Japanese
dialog
ROOM B: SPEECH ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS
11:00 - W.N.Campbell (UK): Speech-rate variation in a real-speech
database
11:30 - K.J.Engelberg (FRG): Lexical functional grammar in speech
recognition
12:00 - S.Matsunaga, M.Kohda (Japan): Linguistic processing using a
dependency structure for speech recognition and understanding
14:00 - J.Harrington, G.Watson, M.Cooper (UK): Word-boundary
identification from phoneme sequence constraints in automatic
continuous speech recognition
14:30 - G.Houghton (UK): Anaphora and accent placement in a model of
the production of spoken dialogue
ROOM C: LEXICAL ISSUES
11:00 - Y.Wilks, D.Fass, Ch.M.Guo, J.E.McDonald, T.Plate,
B.M.Slator (USA): Machine tractable dictionaries as tools and
resources for natural language processing
11:30 - M.Domenig (Switzerland): Word manager: a system for the
definition, access and maintenance of lexical databases
12:00 - B.Katz, B.Levin (USA): Exploiting lexical regularities in
designing natural language systems
14:00 - Zhong-Xiang Yang (China): Generation of Chinese vocabulary
from text by associative network
14:30 - J.H.Martin (USA): Representing regularities in the metaphoric
lexicon
ROOM D: MACHINE TRANSLATION
11:00 - J.A.Alonso (Spain): A model for transfer control in METAL
11:30 - M.McGee Wood (UK): Machine translation for monolinguals
12:00 - A.Bech, A.Nygaard (Denmark): The E-framework: a new comprehensive
formalism for natural language processing within a stratificational
transfer-based multi-lingual machine translation system
PARSING
14:00 - N.Correa (USA): A binding rule for government-binding parsing
14:30 - Hsin-Hsi Chen, I-Peng Lin, Chien-Ping Wu (Taiwan): A new design
of Prolog-based bottom-up parsing system with government-binding
theory
15:00 - 17:00 PANEL DISCUSSION in Room C
"The Relation of Lexicon and Grammar in Machine Translation"
(moderator: A.Zampolli)
17:00 - CLOSING SESSION in Room C
For further information, contact:
COLING'88 Secretariat c/o MTESZ Congress Bureau
Kossuth ter 6-8, H-1055 Budapest, Hungary
Telex: 22792 MTESZ H
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 88 13:27:26 EDT
From: finin@PRC.Unisys.COM
Subject: Unisys AI seminar: The Causal Simulation of Ordinary and
Intermittent Mechanical Devices
AI SEMINAR
UNISYS PAOLI RESEARCH CENTER
The Causal Simulation of Ordinary
and Intermittent Mechanical Devices
Pearl Pu
University of Pennsylvania
The causal simulation of physical devices is an important area in the
field of commonsense reasoning of the everyday physical world. When a
human expert describes the way a physical device works, for example a
pendulum clock, he or she uses commonsense knowledge of physics and
mathematics. To make computers to do likewise, we must first construct
a knowledge representation scheme that captures commonsense knowledge,
and supports causal simulation.
Mechanical systems, especially those that exhibit intermittent
motions, provide a good basis for the investigation of behavioral
reasoning issues. Our key observation is that the spatial
configuration of mechanical devices changes periodically. So far only
simple links or conduits have been used to model the connection
between a pair of objects in the field. We offer a solution which
uses a separate representational entity, called the connection frame,
to model the spatial relationships between a pair of objects and how
those relationships achieve force or velocity propagation. The
connection representation is assumed supplied as part of the design
knowledge of the mechanism, though it could be just as readily
computed by other spatial connection determination methods.
In this talk, I describe a framework constructed to simulate the
behaviors of regular and intermittent mechanical systems, with an
emphasis on force and velocity propagation reasoning. In general, it
appears that continuous motion can usually be modeled by velocity
propagation while intermittent motion is best approached by force
propagation.
The second part of the talk, I discuss a simulation system which
attempts to reason about how the physical devices work by simulating
the devices qualitatively, mimicing the way people perform such a
task. The simulation algorithm will be outlined. Several examples
analyzed with the model include dozens of generic objects and
connections, a two-gear device, a spring-driven cam mechanism, and a
pendulum clock. Currently the simulation is being implemented on the
Symbolics Lisp machine in Flavors, which is an object-oriented
language. Some of the implementation issues will be discussed as
well.
2:00 pm Wednesday, June 29
BIC Conference room
Unisys Paoli Research Center
Route 252 and Central Ave.
Paoli PA 19311
-- non-Unisys visitors who are interested in attending should --
-- send email to finin@prc.unisys.com or call 215-648-7446 --
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Date: 23 Jun 88 21:46:32 GMT
From: FLASH.BELLCORE.COM!walker@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (walker_donald e)
Subject: ACL European Chapter Call for Papers
ACL European Chapter 1989
Status: R
CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth Conference of the European Chapter
of the Association for Computational Linguistics
10-12 April 1989
Centre for Computational Linguistics
University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology
Manchester, England
This conference is the fourth in a series of biennial
conferences on computational linguistics sponsored by the
European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics. Previous conferences were held in Pisa (Sep-
tember 1983), Geneva (March 1985) and Copenhagen (April
1987). Although hosted by a regional chapter, these confer-
ences are global in scope and participation. The European
Chapter represents a major subset of the parent Association
for Computational Linguistics, and is in its seventh year.
The conference is open both to existing members and non-
members of the Association.
Papers are invited on all aspects of computational linguis-
tics, including but not limited to:
morphology
lexical semantics
computational models for the
analysis and generation of language
speech analysis and synthesis
computational lexicography and lexicology
syntax and semantics
discourse analysis
machine translation
computational aids to translation
natural language interfaces
knowledge representation and expert systems
computer-assisted language learning
Authors should send six copies of a 5- to 8-page double-
spaced summary to the Programme Committee at the following
address:
Harold Somers
Centre for Computational Linguistics
UMIST
PO Box 88
Manchester M60 1 QD
England
It is important that the summary should identify the new
ideas in the paper and indicate to what extent the work is
complete and to what extent it has been implemented. It
should contain sufficient information to allow the programme
committee to determine the scope of the work and its rela-
tion to relevant literature. The author's name and address
(including net address if possible) should be clearly indi-
cated, as well as one or two keywords indicating the general
subject matter of the paper.
Schedule: Summaries must be submitted by 1st October 1988.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15th December.
Camera-ready copy of final papers prepared in a double-
column format on model paper (which will be provided) must
be received by 28th February 1989, along with a signed copy-
right release statement. Papers not received by this date
will not be included in the Conference Proceedings, which
will be published in time for distribution to everyone
attending the conference.
The programme committee will be co-chaired by Harold Somers
(UMIST) and Mary McGee Wood (Manchester University), and
will include the following
Christian Boitet (Grenbole)
Laurence Danlos (Paris)
Gerald Gazdar (Sussex)
Jurgen Kunze (Berlin, DDR)
Michael Moortgat (Leiden)
Oliviero Stock (Trento)
Henry Thompson (Edinburgh)
Dan Tufis (Bucharest)
Local arrangements will also be handled by Somers and Wood.
Please await a further announcement in October for more
details.
Exhibits and demonstrations: A programme of exhibits and
demonstrations is planned. Anyone wishing to participate
should contact John McNaught at the above address. Book
exhibitors should contact Paul Bennett also at the above
address.
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