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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 70
NL-KR Digest Wed Oct 25 21:21:57 PDT 1995 Volume 14 No. 70
Today's Topics:
Announcement: Course on HPSG Grammars and Typed Feature Formalisms
Program: Tenth Amsterdam Semantics Colloquium, Dec 95, Amsterdam
Announcement: Webster Lexicons from the LDC, U. Penn.
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From: H.Stoldt@ed.ac.uk (Heike Stoldt)
Subject: Announcement: Course on HPSG Grammars and Typed Feature Formalisms
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 15:17:40 GMT
COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
HPSG Grammars and Typed Feature Formalisms
Advanced, hands-on course taught by
The Edinburgh University Language Technology Group
December 11-14, 1995
Edinburgh
This course will provide practical and theoretical experience for people
wish- ing to learn about today's state-of-the-art grammar writing
technology. At the end of the course, participants will be able to write
sign-based grammars using leading-edge language engineering tools. This
is a hands-on course: each participant will have access to substantial
computing facilities throughout the course, and assisted practical
exercises are integrated into the course structure.
Background
Modern constraint-based grammars are the next logical step for people
familiar either with Prolog or unification-based formalisms such as
Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG). A recent constraint-based
approach is Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) [Pollard and Sag,
1994]. HPSG has taken the computational linguistics community by storm
and is the driving force in research into grammars that can be readily
integrated into practical application systems.
Syllabus
This intensive, lab-based course will bring you up-to-date with the above
developments, providing you with:
- An introduction to today's state-of-the-art typed feature
formalisms, especially ALE (Attribute Logic Engine) and
CUF (Comprehensive Unfication Formalism).
Both ALE from Carnegie-Mellon University and CUF from the
University of Stuttgart provide a typed unification-based engine
for developing, testing and debugging constraint-based grammars
such as HPSG grammars.
- An introduction to HPSG based on Chapter 9 of [Pollard and Sag,1994],
which contains the most recent advancements of the theory.
- An in-depth guide to programming in typed feature formalisms.
- A detailed look at what is involved in developing complex grammars for
particular domains.
Participants in the course will:
- Learn about HPSG.
- Use the latest tools and technology for developing HPSG grammars.
- Acquire skills in designing and debugging grammars.
Dates
The course is 4 days long and is next scheduled for December 11-14 1995.
Due to the hands-on nature of the course, there is a limit to class numbers.
Early registration is advisable.
Teaching Staff
The classes are taught by staff of Edinburgh's Language Technology Group:
Suresh Manandhar (PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University) has
conducted research both in the logical foundations of constraint
formalisms and on their implementations.
Claire Grover (PhD in Linguistics, Essex University) has been
extensively involved in developing large grammars using constraint
formalisms.
Chris Brew (PhD in Experimental Psychology, Sussex University) has
conducted research in several areas including constraint-based
formalisms, systemic grammars and statistical methods.
Henry Thompson (PhD in Linguistics, University of California) is reader
at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University and
has been involved in research in computational linguistics,
data-intensive linguistics, language corpora and corpus management.
Venue
The classes will be taught at the Human Commmunication Research Centre in
Edinburgh.
Contact
The fee for the course is 650 pounds (industrial), 550 pounds (academic) and
250 pounds (student). Please contact:
for registration details: for course details:
Heike Stoldt (Course Administration) Suresh Manandhar (Course
Co-ordinator)
Human Communication Research Centre Human Communication Research Centre
University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place 2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW Edinburgh EH8 9LW
Tel: +44 131 650 4427 Tel: +44 131 650 4631
Fax: +44 131 650 4587 Fax: +44 131 650 4587
Email: H.Stoldt@ed.ac.uk Email:
Suresh.Manandhar@ed.ac.uk
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Heike Stoldt
HCRC, University of Edinburgh
+44 131 650 4629
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 02:12:29 +0100
To: (AcTen Lists)
From: AcTen@illc.uva.nl (Tenth Amsterdam Colloquium)
Subject: Program: Tenth Amsterdam Semantics Colloquium, Dec 95, Amsterdam
TENTH AMSTERDAM COLLOQUIUM
December 18---21, 1995
The Preliminary Program
Monday 18
9.30 Registration
10.30 Opening by the Rector of
the University of Amsterdam
10.50 -- 11.50 Angelika Kratzer
coffee
12.20 -- 13.00 Ariel Cohen Jon Barwise
Lawrence S. Moss
lunch
14.00 -- 14.40 Ralf Naumann Massimo Poesio
14.50 -- 15.30 Markus Egg Manfred Pinkal
tea
16.00 -- 16.40 Ekaterina Rakhilina Tim Fernando
16.50 -- 17.50 Hans Kamp
18.30 -- 19.30 Reception
Contributed Talks
Jon Barwise and Lawrence S. Moss
Modal Correspondence for Models
Ariel Cohen
Generics and Frequency Adverbs as Probability Judgments
Markus Egg
Aspect and Quantification: an Iterative Approach
Tim Fernando
Non-Monotonic Consequences of Ambiguity
Ralf Naumann
Aspectual Composition and Dynamic Logic
Manfred Pinkal
Radical Underspecification
Massimo Poesio
Defeasible Reasoning with Underspecified Representations
Ekaterina V. Rakhilina
Is Aspectual Classification of Nouns Possible?
Tuesday 19
9.30 -- 10.30 Krister Segerberg
coffee
11.00 -- 11.40 Marco Hollenberg Martin van den Berg
11.50 -- 12.30 Maarten Marx Livia Polanyi
Szabolcs Mikulas Martin van den Berg
lunch
14.00 -- 14.40 Gene Rohrbaugh Herman Hendriks
14.50 -- 15.30 Henk Zeevat David Milward
tea
16.00 -- 16.40 Sigrid Beck Jan Jaspars
Hotze Rullmann Megumi Kameyama
16.50 -- 17.50 Anna Szabolcsi
Contributed Papers
Sigrid Beck and Hotze Rullmann
Degree Questions, Maximal Informativeness, and Exhaustivity
Martin H. van den Berg
Discourse Grammar and Dynamic Logic
Herman Hendriks
Links without Locations
Marco Hollenberg
General Safety for Bisimulation
Jan Jaspars and Megumi Kameyama
Preferences in Dynamic Semantics
Maarten Marx and Szabolcs Mikulas
Relativized First Order Logics and Expert Systems
David Milward
Integrating Situations into a Theory of Discourse Anaphora
Livia Polanyi and Martin H. van den Berg
Discourse Structure and Discourse Interpretation
Gene Rohrbaugh
An Event-Based Semantics for Deontic Utterances
Henk Zeevat
A Neoclassical Analysis of Belief Sentences or
Common Ground Updating or
Exhaustivity and Plurals
Wednesday 20
9.30 -- 10.30 Bob Carpenter
coffee
11.00 -- 11.40 Michael Moortgat Javier Gutierrez Rexach
11.50 -- 12.30 Martin Emms Yoad Winter
lunch
14.00 -- 14.40 Jaap van der Does Tsutomu Fujinami
14.50 -- 15.30 Brendan Gillon Natasha Alechina
tea
16.00 -- 16.40 Matt Watson Jan Jaspars
Emiel Krahmer
16.50 -- 17.30 Laurence Cavedon Jaakko Hintikka
Sheila Glasbey
20.30 -- 22.30 RetroProspective
Semantics in the Progressive
-> Johan van Benthem
-> Hans Kamp
-> Barbara Partee
Contributed Papers
Natasha Alechina
Quantification over Interdependent Variables
Lawrence Cavedon and Sheila Glasbey
The Role of Context in the Interpretation of Generics
Jaap van der Does
E-type Pronouns and Categorial Semantics
Martin Emms
Embeddings and Undecidability for the Second Order Lambek Calculus
Brendan S. Gillon
Donkey Anaphora and a Puzzle Due to C.S. Peirce
Tsutomu Fujinami
A Process Algebraic Approach to Situation Semantics
Jaakko Hintikka
No Scope for Scope
Jan Jaspars and Emiel Krahmer
Unified Dynamics
Michael Moortgat
In Situ Binding: a Modal Analysis
Javier Gutierrez Rexach
Semantic Properties of Interrogative Generalized Quantifiers
Matt Watson
A Critique of a Proof-Theoretic Treatment of Anaphora
Yoad Winter
The Square of Individuals
Thursday 21
9.30 -- 10.30 Fred Landman
coffee
11.00 -- 11.40 Theo Janssen David Beaver
11.50 -- 12.30 Laszlo Kalman Emiel Krahmer
lunch
14.00 -- 14.40 Seungho Nam Willem Groeneveld
14.50 -- 15.30 Johan Bos Robert Westmoreland
tea
16.00 -- 16.40 Michael Kohlhase Gerhard Jaeger
Susanna Kuschert
Manfred Pinkal
16.50 -- 17.50 Gennaro Chierchia
Contributed Papers
David Beaver
Local Satisfaction Preferred
Johan Bos
Predicate Logic Unplugged
Willem Groeneveld
Dynamic Epistemic Logic
Gerhard Jaeger
Only Updates. On the Dynamics of the Focus Particle only
Theo M.V. Janssen
Compositionality
Laszlo Kalman
Strong Compositionality
Michael Kohlhase, Susanna Kuschert and Manfred Pinkal
A Type-Theoretic Semantics for lambda-DRT
Emiel Krahmer
Presuppositional Discourse Representation Theory
Seungho Nam
The Semantics of Paths and Spatial Orientations
Robert R.~Westmoreland
Epistemic Must as Evidential
Stand in Papers
Nicholas Asher
Mathematical Treatments of Discourse Contexts
Jelle Gerbrandy
Simple Semantics for Paradoxes
Antoon Hurkmans
How Frege Failed to Prove the Equivalence of `Nothing is F' and `The
Number of F's = 0' in Grundlagen
Natasha Kurtonina
Bisimulations without Prejudices
The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together logicians,
philosophers, linguists and computer scientists who share an
interest in semantics. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from
descriptive (semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions), to
theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic
theories, philosophical foundations).
The organizing committee of the Tenth Amsterdam Colloquium consists
of Paul Dekker, Jeroen Groenendijk, Erik-Jan van der Lnden, Marjorie Pigge and
Martin Stokhof. Financial support is provided by the ILLC, the
Department of Philosophy, the Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW),
the Dutch Graduate School in Logic (OzsL), and the Foundation for
Language Speech and Logic (TSL) of the Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research.
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To: nl-kr@snyside1.sunnyside.com
Subject: Announcement: Webster Lexicons from the LDC, U. Penn.
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 09:56:55 EDT
From: LDC Office <ldc@unagi1k.cis.upenn.edu>
Announcing
Lexicons from Merriam Webster and
the Linguistic Data Consortium
The LDC has reached an agreement with Merriam Webster, Inc. to
distribute electronic versions of Merriam Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary, Tenth Edition (full text), Biographical Dictionary, New
Geographical Dictionary, Collegiate Thesaurus, School Dictionary, and
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (mass-market paperback) to the research
community. Except for the Collegiate Thesaurus, each lexicon will be
available in two versions, full text and a version with headwords,
functional labels, and pronunciations.
The contents of each corpus are as follows:
Collegiate Dictionary (straight ASCII text files with special
characters indicated by mnemonic codes, such as
{aacute}, etc)
Main A-Z text
Front matter
Back matter
Art (Tiff files)
Tables (Word Perfect files)
Documentation (electronic and on paper)
Biographical Dictionary (straight ASCII text files with
special characters indicated by mnemonic codes)
Main A-Z text
Front matter
Backmatter Prenames section
Documentation
Geographical Dictionary (straight ASCII text file etc)
Main A-Z text
Front matter
Documentation
No maps or tables
Collegiate Thesaurus
Main A-Z text
Front matter
Documentation
School Dictionary (straight ASCII text files etc)
Main A-Z text no art (not scanned)
Front matter
Back matter
Merriam-Webster Dictionary (paperback)
Main A-Z text
Front matter
Tables
Backmatters
Documentation
The cost of the lexicons ranges from $100 to $300 for LDC nonmembers;
LDC members will have the option of receiving one copy of each lexicon
as part of their 1996 membership. A special agreement between Merriam
Webster and the user will be signed prior to releasing the lexicon.
'Research Only' licenses are available from the LDC; requests for
commercial licenses will be directed to Merriam Webster.
Nonmember Nonmember
price of price of
Full Text Headwords* Description Release Date
300 150 Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary LDC96L8A-B**
300 N/A Merriam Webster Collegiate Thesaurus LDC96L9A-B**
200 100 Merriam Webster Biographical Dict. LDC96L10A-B**
200 100 Merriam Webster Geographical Dict. LDC96L11A-B**
200 100 Merriam Webster School Dictionary LDC96L12A-B**
200 100 Merriam Webster Paperback Dict. LDC96L13A-B**
* Headwords, Functional Labels, and Pronunciations
** For example, the catalog number LDC96L*A refers to Full Text
corpora and the catalog number LDC96L8B refers to Headwords,
Functional Labels, and Pronunciations corpora.
Questions and requests for obtaining any of the Merriam Webster
Corpora should be sent to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu.
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