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NL-KR Digest Volume 12 No. 26
NL-KR Digest Thu Oct 14 21:57:20 PDT 1993 Volume 12 No. 26
Today's Topics:
Program: Robustness Conference 28-30 Oct 93
CFP: 32cnd ACL meetings (ACL-94)
CFP: 2cnd Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache (KONVENS 94)
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 15:21:30 +0100
From: Onderzoeks Instituut Taal en Spraak <ots@let.ruu.nl>
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Program: Robustness Conference 28-30 Oct 93
THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE LANGUAGE FACULTY:
COPING WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION
Organized by the Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS)
on the occasion of its 5th anniversary
28-30 October 1993
Theme Description
The human language faculty shows a remarkable robustness with respect
to incomplete information. Many possible features are not realized in the
signal of a normal linguistic utterance; and on the meaning side too, the
interpretation is highly underdetermined by the expression itself. Yet, in
the normal case, understanding is not in any way hampered by this. It
may well be that the availability of knowledge from other cognitive
domains contributes to the overall success, or perhaps this robustness is
caused by the modular structure of the linguistic system itself. Information
that disappears from one module would be compensated for via another
module. The central question of this conference will be how this
robustness of the language system can be explained, focusing in particular
on the role of non-linguistic information and higher order redundancy.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, October 27 1993
(OTS Building, Trans 10)
18.00-21.00 Registration & drinks
Thursday, October 28 1993
(Academy Building, Domplein 29)
9.00-10.00 Registration
10.00 Opening Wiecher Zwanenburg
(Dean Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht)
10.15-11.30 Theme: Language Acquisition
Speaker: Ken Wexler (MIT)
Title: `Recent developments in the modular theory
of language acquisition: Parameter-setting
and the underspecification of tense'
Comments: Juergen Weissenborn (MPI, Nijmegen)
11.30-12.00 Coffee
12.00-13.15 Theme: Aphasia
Speaker: Greg Dogil (Stuttgart)
Title: `Coping with incomplete information in aphasia'
Comments: Leo Blomert (MPI, Nijmegen)
13.15-14.45 Break
14.45-16.00 Theme: Language Processing
Speaker: Michael Tanenhaus (Rochester)
Title: `Toward a constraint-based framework for
language processing'
Comments: Louis des Tombe & Steven Krauwer (Utrecht)
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.45 Theme: Sign Language
Speaker: David Perlmutter (San Diego/Rochester)
Title: `What happens when the language faculty
encounters a non-natural language?'
Comments: Ann Mills (Amsterdam)
18.00- Reception
Friday October 29 1993
(CSB Building, Kromme Nieuwegracht 29)
Theme: Partial information
9.30-10.15 Speaker: Ivan Sag (Stanford)
Title: `Toward a constraint-based framework for
knowledge of language'
10.15-11.00 Speaker: Ruth Kempson (SOAS, London)
Title: `How we understand sentences.
And fragments too?'
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.15 Speaker: Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht)
Title: `The lazy ticket controller. or: How do
we manage to (under-)inform each other?'
12.15-12.45 Comments: Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam)
12.45-13.00 General Discussion
13.00-14.30 Break
Theme: Overdetermination and underspecification in phonology
14.30-15.15 Speaker: Paul Kiparsky (Stanford)
Title: `On the architecture of the phonological component'
15.15-16.00 Speaker: Rene Kager (Utrecht)
Title: `Generalized alignment and morphological
parsing'
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.15 Speaker: K.P. Mohanan (Singapore)
Title: `The formal interpretation of robustness:
Storage or processing?'
17.15-17.45 Comments: Stephen Anderson (Johns Hopkins)
17.45-18.00 General Discussion
Evening lecture
(Academy Building, Domplein 29)
20.00-21.00 Speaker: David Lightfoot (Maryland)
Title: `Small causes: Big effects'
21.00- Party (Kromme Nieuwegracht 80)
Saturday, October 30
(CSB Building, Kromme Nieuwegracht 39)
Theme: Phonetic Underspecification
9.30-10.15 Speaker: Bjorn Lindblom (Austin)
Title: `The H&H Hypothesis'
10.15-11.00 Speaker: Chris Darwin (Sussex)
Title: `Separating speech from other sounds'
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.15 Speaker: Stephen Anderson (Johns Hopkins)
Title: to be announced
12.15-12.45 Reaction & Comments: Louis Pols (Amsterdam)
Title: `Vowels in context: Production and perception'
12.45-13.00 General Discussion
13.00-14.30 Break
Theme: Contextual vs Grammatical Conditions on Interpretation
14.30-15.15 Speaker: Tanya Reinhart (Tel Aviv/Utrecht)
Title: `Syntactic encoding of referential properties'
15.15-16.00 Speaker: Molly Diesing (Cornell)
Title: `NP types and conditions on interpretation'
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.15 Speaker: James Huang (Irvine)
Title: `Two types of donkey sentences'
17.15-17.45 Comments Denis Delfitto (Utrecht)
17.45-18.00 General Discussion
Organization
Peter Coopmans Research Institute for Language & Speech
Martin Everaert Utrecht University
Eric Reuland Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht
Wim Zonneveld tel:+31-30-536006, fax:+31-30-536000, e-mail:ots@let.ruu.nl
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Accommodation:
The organisation will not take care of hotel accommodation. Please
contact the VVV Tourist Information Office:
Utrecht VVV Tourist Information Office
address: VVV Utrecht
Vredenburg 90
Postbus 19107
3501 DC Utrecht
Holland
tel.: +31-6-34034085
fax: +31-30-331417
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Registration
Fee for registration:
Employed: Dfl 90
Unemployed/student: Dfl 60
Payment: All payments must be made in Dutch guilders.
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- You can transfer the appropriate amount to our bank account:
Coopmans en/of Buenen, Inz.Congres
Account no 40.84.68.939
ABN-AMRO Bank
Postbus 362
3500 AJ Utrecht
Reference : OTS-Robustness registration fee
A copy of the bank transfer should be sent to us together with
your registration form. Make sure you add transfer charges.
- You can use MasterCard/Eurocard and VISA credit cards.
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Registration Form
Mr/Ms ............................................................
Family Name ............................................................
First Name ............................................................
Affiliation ............................................................
Address ............................................................
............................................................
............................................................
Tel ............................................................
Fax ............................................................
Email ............................................................
Conference rate:..............
Enclose a copy of the bank transfer, or fill in and sign below if you
pay by credit card.
Please charge [ ] Mastercard/Eurocard [ ] VISA
Card number: ..........................................................
Expiration date: ..........................................................
Amount: ..........................................................
Name: ..........................................................
Address: ..........................................................
Signature: ..........................................................
Send this form, with full payment, to:
Robustness Organizing Committee
OTS
Trans 10
NL-3512 JK Utrecht
The Netherlands.
Tel: +31-30-536006
Fax: +31-30-536000
Email: OTS@let.ruu.nl
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 93 11:17:12 -0400
From: walker@bellcore.com (Don Walker)
Subject: CFP: 32cnd ACL meetings (ACL-94)
ACL-94 CALL FOR PAPERS
32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
27 June - 1 July 1994
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and
unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics,
including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics,
syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology;
interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic,
mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented
information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine
translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and
dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and
theoretical and applications papers of every kind.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe unique work; they should emphasize
completed work rather than intended work; and they should indicate
clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper
accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or
have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available
published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other
conferences must reflect this fact on the title page.
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit preliminary versions of
their papers, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references).
Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are
subject to rejection without review. Papers should be headed by a
title page containing the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a
specification of the subject area. Since reviewing will be ``blind'',
the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses.
Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g.,
``We previously showed (Smith, 1991) . . .'') should be avoided.
Instead, use references like ``Smith previously showed (1991) . . .''
To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be
supplied, containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s),
complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, a word count, and a
specification of the topic area.
SUBMISSION MEDIA: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard
copy to the Program Chair:
James Pustejovsky +1-617-736-2709
Brandeis University +1-617-736-2741 fax
Computer Science, Ford Hall
Waltham, MA 02254, USA jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu
Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or
plain text. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style
(aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which
is described below) and should not refer to any external files or
styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. A
model submission modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well
as a bibliography style acl.bst. (Note however that the bibliography
for a submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual
bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source
file.)
Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) copies of the paper
and one (1) copy of the identification page. For both kinds of
submissions, if at all possible, a plain text version of the
identification page should be sent separately by electronic mail,
using the following format:
title: <title>
author: <name of first author>
address: <address of first author>
...
author: <name of last author>
address: <address of last author>
abstract: < abstract>
content areas: <first area>, ..., <last area>
word count:
SCHEDULE: Authors must submit their papers by 6 January 1994. Late
papers will not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed
to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 March 1994. Camera-ready
copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably
using a laser printer, must be received by 1 May 1994, along with a
signed copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format
is available through the ACL LISTSERV.
STUDENT SESSIONS: There will again be special Student Sessions
organized by a committee of ACL graduate student members. ACL student
members are invited to submit short papers describing innovative WORK
IN PROGRESS in any of the topics listed above. Papers are limited to 3
pages plus a title page and an identification page in the format
described above and must be submitted by hard copy or both e-mail AND
hard copy to Beryl Hoffman at the address below by 1 FEBRUARY 1994.
The papers will be reviewed by a committee of students and faculty
members for presentation in workshop-style sessions and publication in
a special section of the conference proceedings. There is a separate
Call for Papers, available from the ACL LISTSERV (see below); or from
Beryl Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania, Computer Science, 3401
Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; +1-215-898-5868; 0587 fax;
hoffman@linc.cis.upenn.edu; or Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University,
Computer Science, New York, NY 10027, USA; +1-212-939-7120; 666-0140
fax; becky@cs.columbia.edu.
OTHER ACTIVITIES: The meeting will include a program of tutorials
coordinated by Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, 202 Burlington
Road, MS K329, Bedford, MA 01730, USA; +1-617-271-7789; 2352 fax;
lynette@linus.mitre.org. Some of the ACL Special Interest Groups may
arrange workshops or other activities. Further information may be
available from the ACL LISTSERV.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION: The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by:
Janyce M. Wiebe +1-505-646-6228
New Mexico State University +1-505-646-6218 fax
Computing Research Laboratory
PO Box 30001/3CRL
Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA wiebe@nmsu.edu
Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should
send a brief description together with a specification of physical
requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to Ted
Dunning, New Mexico State University, Computing Research Laboratory,
Box 30001/3CRL, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA; +1-505-646-6221; 6218 fax;
ted@nmsu.edu.
ACL INFORMATION: For other information on the conference and on the
ACL more generally, contact Judith Klavans (ACL), Columbia University,
Computer Science, New York, NY 10027, USA; +1-914-478-1802 phone/fax;
acl@cs.columbia.edu. General information about the ACL AND electronic
membership and order forms are available from the ACL LISTSERV.
ACL LISTSERV: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic
document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up
at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from
the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to
listserv@cs.columbia.edu
with an empty subject field and the message body containing the
request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help
on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL
archive and "get acl-l <file>" to get a particular file named <file>
from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a
message with the following body should be sent:
get acl-l membership-form.txt
Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have
many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued
up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled.
The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an
example of how to get the same file by FTP (user typein is
underlined):
$ ftp cs.columbia.edu
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Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous
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Password:pereira@research.att.com << not echoed
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ftp> cd acl-l
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ftp> get membership-form.txt.Z
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ftp> quit
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$ uncompress membership-form.txt.Z
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To: uunet!comp-ai-nlang-know-rep
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 14:35:28 GMT
From: ernst@ai.univie.ac.at (Ernst Buchberger)
Subject: CFP: 2cnd Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache (KONVENS 94)
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S / A U F R U F Z U R T E I L N A H M E
K O N V E N S 9 4
2.Konferenz "Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache"
28.-30. September 1994
University of Vienna, Austria
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Veranstalter/Organizer:
OeGAI - Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Artificial Intelligence
DGfS - Deutsche Gesellschaft f. Sprachwissenschaft/Sektion Computerlinguistik
GI - Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, FA 1.3 "Natuerliche Sprache"
GLDV - Gesellschaft fuer linguistische Datenverarbeitung
ITG/DEGA - Informationstechnische Gesellschaft/Deutsche Gesellschaft f. Akustik
*______________________________________________________________________________*
Tagungsleiter/chairman: Harald Trost, Universitaet Wien
Programmkomitee/program committee:
Peter Bosch, IBM Deutschland, WHZ Michael Herweg, IBM Deutschland, WHZ
Ernst Buchberger, OeFAI Wien R. Hoffmann, TU Dresden
Guenther Goerz, Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg Markus Kommenda, TU Wien
Johann Haller, IAI und Univ.d.Saarlandes E. Paulus, TU Braunschweig
Erhard Hinrichs, Universitaet Tuebingen Burkhart Rieger, Universitaet Trier
*______________________________________________________________________________*
Die Gesellschaften DGfS, GI, GLDV, ITG/DEGA und OeGAI veranstalten alle 2 Jahre
gemeinsam eine Tagung zum Thema Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache. Die
KONVENS 94 wird vom 28. bis 30. September in Wien stattfinden.
Die KONVENS soll einen Querschnitt ueber die aktuelle Forschung auf allen
Gebieten der Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache am Computer zu bieten. Dazu ist
Mitarbeit von Forschern aus allen beteiligten Disziplinen, wie Informatik,
Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Linguistik, Philosophie, Psychologie und Nachrichten-
technik erwuenscht. Es sollen sowohl grundlagenorientierte Forschungsaspekte und
-resultate vertreten sein als auch innovative Anwendungen. Besonders erwuenscht
sind erfolgreich durchgefuehrte und implementierte Vorhaben.
Als Schwerpunktthema fuer die KONVENS 94 wurde
D a s L e x i k o n i n d e r S p r a c h v e r a r b e i t u n g
gewaehlt. Zum Schwerpunktthema werden eingeladene Vortraege und Einfuehrungs-
kurse, die der Tagung vorangehen, angeboten.
Erbeten werden Beitraege, Posters und Systemvorfuehrungen zu allen Gebieten der
Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache, insbesondere zu
- psycholinguistische Aspekte des Lexikons
- Lexika fuer Speech-Systeme und deren Integration mit Lexika der textbasierten
Computerlinguistik
- lexikalistische Grammatiken
- polytheoretische Ansaetze
- Repraesentationsformalismen fuer Lexika
*______________________________________________________________________________*
E i n r e i c h e n v o n B e i t r a e g e n / Submission of papers
- Beitraege sollen 10 Seiten (A4, Times, 12 Punkt) nicht ueberschreiten und
in fuenf Exemplaren beim Tagunsleiter eingereicht werden
- Posterbeitraege sollen max.4 Seiten umfassen und in fuenf Exemplaren beim
Tagungsleiter eingereicht werden. Bitte benoetigte Posterflaeche angeben!
- Ankuendigungen von Systemvorfuehrungen muessen Titel und Kurzbeschreibung
sowie die benoetigte technische Infrastruktur spezifizieren.
- Jeder Beitrag muss die Namen aller Autoren sowie die genaue Anschrift des
Hauptautors, ueber den die Korrespondenz erfolgen soll, enthalten.
- Alle Beitraege sollen eine Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch und Englisch von
jeweils max. 12 Zeilen enthalten.
- Tagungssprachen sind D e u t s c h und E n g l i s c h.
- Alle Einreichungen werden von mindestens 2 unabhaengigen Gutachtern
beurteilt, die vom Programmkomitee bestimmt werden.
- Der Tagungsband, in dem alle angenommenen Beitraege und Posterbeitraege abge-
druckt werden, wird rechtzeitig zur Tagung erscheinen.
*______________________________________________________________________________*
T e r m i n e / D e a d l i n e s
15.4.94 - Einreichung von Beitraegen und Posterbeitraegen
15.6.94 - Benachrichtigung ueber Annahme oder Ablehnung
15.7.94 - Abgabe der druckfertigen Vorlagen fuer den Tagungsband
15.7.94 - Anmeldung von Systemvorfuehrungen
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T a g u n g s s e k r e t a r i a t T a g u n g s l e i t e r
Frau Mag.Gerda Helscher Ass.Prof.Dr.Harald Trost
Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Institut fuer Med.Kybernetik und
Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence
Postfach 177 Freyung 6
A-1014 Wien, Oesterreich A-1010 Wien, Oesterreich
e-mail: sec@ai.univie.ac.at harald@ai.univie.ac.at
Tel.: +43-1-535 32 81 0 +43-1-535 32 81 0
Fax: +43-1-532 06 52
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Fuer weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an das Tagungssekretariat
(sec@ai.univie.ac.at).
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