Date: Fri 24 Jun 1988 00:14-EDT From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Us-Mail: MIT Mail Stop 38-390, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-2737 Subject: AIList Digest V7 #43 To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Status: R 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 88 13:49:22 EDT From: Robert McCartney 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 -- ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************