IRList Digest Saturday, 30 April 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 27 Today's Topics: Announcement - ACL 1988 Annual Meeting Program News addresses are Internet or CSNET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 88 22:20:15 EDT From: Don Walker Subject: ACL 1988 Annual Meeting Program and Registration Information The printed version of the following program and registration information will be mailed to ACL members by the end of the week. Others are encouraged to use the attached form or write for a program flier to the following address: Dr. D.E. Walker (ACL) Bellcore - MRE 2A379 445 South Street - Box 1910 Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA or send net mail to walker@flash.bellcore.com or bellcore!walker@uunet.uu.net, specifying "ACL Annual Meeting Information" on the subject line. ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 26th Annual Meeting 7-10 June 1988 Knox 20, State University of New York at Buffalo (Amherst Campus) Buffalo, New York, USA PROGRAM MONDAY EVENING, 6 JUNE 7:00 9:00 Tutorial Registration and Reception Rathskeller, Norton Hall TUESDAY MORNING, 7 JUNE 9:00 12:15 Tutorial Sessions CONTEMPORARY SYNTACTIC THEORIES Peter Sells TEXT PROCESSING SYSTEMS Martha Palmer, Lynette Hirschman, and Deborah Dahl TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 7 JUNE 1:45-5:00 Tutorial Sessions NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION David McDonald EFFICIENT PARSING ALGORITHMS Masaru Tomita TUESDAY EVENING, 7 JUNE 7:00-9:00 Conference Registration and Reception Rathskeller, Norton Hall REGISTRATION: Wednesday - Friday 8:00-5:00 Rathskeller, Norton Hall; until noon Friday EXHIBITS: Wednesday Friday 9:00-6:00 Rathskeller, Norton Hall WEDNESDAY MORNING, 8 JUNE 9:00-9:15 Opening remarks and announcements 9:15-9:45 Adapting an English Morphological Analyzer for French Roy J. Byrd and Evelyne Tzoukermann 9:45-10:15 Sentence Fragments Regular Structures Marcia C. Linebarger, Deborah A. Dahl, Lynette Hirschman, and Rebecca J. Passonneau 10:45-11:10 Multi-Level Plurals and Distributivity Remko Scha and David Stallard 11:10-11:35 The Interpretation of Function Nouns Jos de Bruin 11:35-12:00 Quantifier Scoping in the SRI Core Language Engine Douglas B. Moran WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 8 JUNE 1:30-1:55 A General Computational Treatment of Comparatives for Natural Language Question Answering Bruce W. Ballard 1:55-2:20 Parsing and Interpreting Comparatives Manny Rayner and Amelie Banks 2:20-2:45 Defining the Semantics of Verbal Modifiers in the Domain of Cooking Tasks Robin F. Karlin 2:45-3:10 The Interpretation of Tense and Aspect in English Mary Dalrymple 3:40-4:05 An Integrated Framework for Semantic and Pragmatic Interpretation Martha E. Pollack and Fernando C. N. Pereira 4:05-4:30 A Logic for Semantic Interpretation Eugene Charniak and Robert Goldman 4:30-4:55 Interpretation as Abduction Jerry R. Hobbs, Mark Stickel, Paul Martin, and Douglas Edwards 4:55-5:20 Project APRIL: A Progress Report Robin Haigh, Geoffrey Sampson, and Eric Atwell 7:00-9:00 Visit to Albright-Knox Art Gallery THURSDAY MORNING, 9 JUNE 9:00-9:25 Discourse Deixis: Reference to Discourse Segments Bonnie Lynn Webber 9:25-9:50 Cues and Control in Expert-Client Dialogues Steve Whittaker and Phil Stenton 9:50-10:15 A Computational Theory of Perspective and Reference in Narrative Janyce M. Wiebe and William J. Rapaport 10:45-11:10 Parsing Japanese Honorifics in Unification-Based Grammar Hiroyuki Maeda, Susumu Kato, Kiyoshi Kogure and Hitoshi Iida 11:10-11:35 Aspects of Clause Politeness in Japanese: An Extended Inquiry Semantics Treatment John Bateman 11:35-12:00 Experiences with an On-Line Translating Dialogue System Seiji Miike, Koichi Hasebe, Harold Somers, and Shin-ya Amano THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 9 JUNE 1:30-2:30 ANALOGY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF METAPHOR, Invited Talk Dedre Gentner 2:30-2:55 Planning Coherent Multisentential Text Eduard H. Hovy 3:25-3:50 A Practical Nonmonotonic Theory for Reasoning about Speech Acts Douglas Appelt and Kurt Konolige 3:50-4:15 Two Types of Planning in Language Generation Eduard H. Hovy 4:15-4:40 Assigning Intonational Features in Synthesized Spoken Directions James Raymond Davis and Julia Hirschberg 4:40-5:05 Atomization in Grammar Sharing Megumi Kameyama 7:00-8:00 RECEPTION Erie Community College, City Campus 8:00-10:00 BANQUET Erie Community College, City Campus Co-sponsored by Erie Community College and Barrister Information Systems Corporation Presidential Address: Alan Biermann FRIDAY MORNING, 10 JUNE 9:00-9:25 Syntactic Approaches to Automatic Book Indexing Gerard Salton 9:25-9:50 Lexicon and Grammar in Probabilistic Tagging of Written English Andrew David Beale 9:50-10:15 Parsing vs. Text Processing in the Analysis of Dictionary Definitions Thomas Ahlswede and Martha Evens 10:45-11:10 Polynomial Learnability and Locality of Formal Grammars Naoki Abe 11:10-12:00 BUSINESS MEETING & ELECTIONS Nominations for ACL Offices for 1989 President: Candy Sidner, BBN Laboratories Vice President: Jerry Hobbs, SRI International Secretary-Treasurer: Don Walker, Bellcore Executive Committee (1989-1991): Ralph Grishman, NYU Nominating Committee (1989-1991): Alan Biermann, Duke FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 10 JUNE 1:30-1:55 Conditional Descriptions in Functional Unification Grammar Robert T. Kasper 1:55-2:20 Deductive Parsing with Multiple Levels of Representation Mark Johnson 2:20-2:45 Graph-Structured Stack and Natural Language Parsing Masaru Tomita 2:45-3:10 An Earley-Type Parsing Algorithm for Tree Adjoining Grammars Yves Schabes and Aravind K. Joshi 3:10-3:40 Break 3:40-4:05 A Definite Clause Version of Categorial Grammar Remo Pareschi 4:05-4:30 Combinatory Categorial Grammars: Generative Power and Relationship to Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems David J. Weir and Aravind K. Joshi 4:30-4:55 Unification of Disjunctive Feature Descriptions Structures Andreas Eisele and Jochen Doerre PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jared Bernstein, SRI International Roy Byrd, IBM Watson Research Center Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware Eugene Charniak, Brown University Raymonde Guindon, MCC Lynette Hirschman, Unisys Jerry Hobbs, SRI International (Chair) Karen Jensen, IBM Watson Research Center Lauri Karttunen, Xerox PARC William Rounds, University of Michigan Ralph Weischedel, BBN Laboratories Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley TUTORIAL DESCRIPTIONS CONTEMPORARY SYNTACTIC THEORIES Peter Sells, University of California, Santa Cruz This tutorial will examine some recent developments in theoretical syntax centered in, or stemming from, work in Government-Binding Theory, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar. I will try to explain the linguistic motivations for the proposals I will discuss, and also convergences among the theories. Little in the way of background will be assumed, beyond a rudimentary knowledge of phrase structure grammars and basic transformational mechanisms (movement, deletion, etc.). TEXT PROCESSING SYSTEMS Martha Palmer, Lynette Hirschman, and Deborah Dahl, Paoli Research Center, Unisys Defense Systems This tutorial will cover issues in text processing, focusing on the current state-of-the-art in text processing, the applications of text processing, the architecture of a text-processing system (using the Unisys PUNDIT system as an example), issues of portability and extensibility, and issues relating to large-scale computational linguistics projects. The section on system architecture will describe a modular architecture, with components that handle syntax, semantics and pragmatics, emphasizing the importance of segregating domain-specific and domain-independent data. We will then discuss, in the context of recent experiences with the PUNDIT system, the issue of portability across domains and the tools that support bringing up an application in a new domain. We will also look at the problems associated with building a large natural language processing system: how to integrate people with a variety of backgrounds (computer science, linguistics), how to manage and maintain a large system, and how to do development in multiple domains simultaneously. We will conclude with a survey of text-processing systems, comparing their strengths and weaknesses as related to their particular goals. NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION David McDonald, Brattle Research Corporation This tutorial will take participants through the workings of a complete, albeit very simple, generation system from the underlying conceptual representation to the surface morphology. This mini-system, which uses a ``direct replacement'' algorithm, would be quite satisfactory for the demands of most present expert systems; its weaknesses will be used to motivate the research that is going on in generation today. The major themes of that research will be surveyed, concentrating on the rationales behind the adoption of specific frameworks, such as systemic, unification, or tree adjoining grammar. Illustrations will be taken from current and historically important systems. Emphasis will be on generation as a planning and construction process which has markedly different concerns and issues from language understanding, and on how this has led to the approaches generation researchers are taking today. Efficient Parsing Algorithms Masaru Tomita, Carnegie-Mellon University Parsing efficiency is crucial when building practical natural language systems. This is especially the case for interactive applications such as natural language database access, interfaces to expert systems and interactive machine translation. This tutorial covers several efficient context-free parsing algorithms, including chart parsing, Earley's algorithm, LR parsing and the generalized LR algorithm. Augmentation to the context-free parsing algorithms is also discussed, to handle unification-based grammar formalisms such as Lexical-Functional Grammar, Functional Unification Grammar, and Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS LOCATION OF CONFERENCE: ACL-88 will be held at the SUNY Buffalo Amherst Campus, which is known locally as the ``UB Amherst Campus''. Please do not confuse it with the SUNY Buffalo Main Street Campus (``UB Main Street Campus'') or the SUNY College at Buffalo (known locally as ``Buff State''). PREREGISTRATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY 1 JUNE; after that date, please wait to register at the Conference itself. Complete the attached ``Application for Registration'' and send it with a check payable to Association for Computational Linguistics or ACL to Donald E. Walker (ACL), Bellcore - MRE 2A379, 445 South Street - Box 1910, Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA; (201) 829-4312; walker@flash.bellcore.com. If a registration is cancelled before 1 June, the registration fee, less $25 for administrative costs, will be returned. Registration includes one copy of the Proceedings, available at the Conference. Additional copies of the Proceedings at $25 for members ($35 for nonmembers) may be ordered on the registration form or by mail prepaid from Walker. For people who are unable to attend the conference but want the proceedings, there is a special entry line at the bottom of the registration form. TUTORIALS: Attendance is limited. Preregistration is encouraged to insure a place and the availability of syllabus materials. BANQUET: The conference banquet will be held on 9 June 1988, at the Erie Community College City Campus in downtown Buffalo. Bus service will be provided from UB/Amherst to ECC/City. The presidential address by Alan Biermann will be featured. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: William J. Rapaport (Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260; (716)636-3180; rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu, rapaport@sunybcs.bitnet) and Lynda Spahr (Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260; (716)636-2464; spahr@cs.buffalo.edu, spahr@sunybcs.bitnet). EXHIBITS AND DEMONSTRATIONS: People interested in exhibiting or in demonstrating programs at the conference should get in touch with Lynda Spahr (address above) or Scott Campbell (Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260; (716)636-2095; campbl@cs.buffalo.edu, campbl@sunybcs.bitnet) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. RESIDENCE HALL ACCOMODATIONS: A large number of rooms in SUNY Buffalo residence halls are available. Please send in your ``Application for Residence Halls'' as soon as possible, NO LATER THAN 20 MAY 1988 to guarantee a place. HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS: A variety of hotel and motel accomodations from simple to luxurious are available in the general vicinity of the UB Amherst Campus as indicated on the attached list. You should make reservations directly with the hotel as soon as possible. Blocks of rooms have been set aside for ACL; you should state that you will be attending the ACL conference at SUNY Buffalo when you make your reservation. Some of the rates quoted are university rates (indicated by *); these rates are subject to change after May 20. PARKING: There is virtually unrestricted parking on the UB Amherst campus during the summer. There will be free shuttle-bus service between the hotels, dorms, and conference site. DIRECTIONS: Car rental services are available at the Greater Buffalo International Airport. If you are driving to Buffalo, the Amherst Campus is at Route 263 (Millersport Highway) and Maple Road. From the New York State Thruway, take Exit 50 (I-290, Youngmann Memorial Highway) to the exit for Millersport Highway North. Proceed north to the State University exit (Flint Entrance). An alternative is to remain on I-290 to the next exit past Millersport (I-990). Take I-990 North and exit at the first off-ramp, the State University exit. >From Greater Buffalo International Airport to UB Amherst Campus: Airport Taxi 24 hour taxi service; fee is approximately $13 to UB Amherst Campus. >From Amtrak or Metro Bus Terminal to UB Amherst Campus: Taxi service is also available; fee is approximately $18. >BE SURE TO TELL TAXI DRIVER THAT YOU ARE GOING TO ``UB AMHERST CAMPUS''. HOTEL INFORMATION The hotels are listed in order of price. There will be free shuttle-bus service between most hotels and the UB Amherst campus. The telephone area code is 716. Make reservations as soon as possible. Note that rates are subject to change. Prices do not include 8% sales and 5% hotel taxes. NAME PHONE SINGLE DOUBLE Super 8 688-0811 30.49 35.89 Red Roof 689-7474 433.95 39.95 *Continental 834-2231 34.88 41.88 (upstairs) Journey's Inn 36.88 43.88 (downstairs) **University Manor 837-3344 (none) 36.95 Hampton 689-4414 41.00 46.00 *Marriott 689-6900 62.00 62.00 *Must be booked before May 20 to receive the University discount. **University Manor approx. 3.5 miles away; not on shuttle bus circuit. APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 7-10 June 1988, SUNY Buffalo (Amherst Campus) NAME ___________________________________________________________________________ Last First Middle ADDRESS ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ AFFILIATION (short form for badge ID) __________________________________________ TELEPHONE ______________________________________________________________________ COMPUTER NET&ADDRESS ___________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION INFORMATION (circle fee) NOTE: Only those whose dues are paid for 1988 can register as members. ACL NON- FULL-TIME MEMBER MEMBER* STUDENT by 1 June $85 $125 $55 at the Conference $125 $165 $75 *Non-member registration fee includes ACL membership for 1988; do not pay non-member fee for BOTH registration and tutorials. BANQUET TICKETS: $30 each; amount enclosed $______ EXTRA PROCEEDINGS FOR REGISTRANTS: $25 each; amount enclosed $_____ TUTORIAL INFORMATION (circle fee and tutorials desired) ACL NON- FULL-TIME Fee per tutorial MEMBER MEMBER* STUDENT by 1 June $75 $115 $50 at the Conference $100 $140 $60 *Non-member tutorial fee includes ACL membership for 1988; do not pay non-member fee for BOTH registration and tutorials. MORNING TUTORIALS: circle ONE: Contemporary Syntactic Theories Text Processing Systems AFTERNOON TUTORIALS: circle ONE: Efficient Parsing Algorithms Natural Language Generation TOTAL PAYMENT MUST BE INCLUDED: $____________ (Registration, Banquet, Extra Proceedings, Tutorials) PROCEEDINGS ONLY: $25 members; $35 individual nonmembers; $50 institutions; amount enclosed $______ Make checks payable to ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS or ACL. Credit cards cannot be honored. Send Application for Registration WITH PAYMENT before 1 JUNE to: Donald E. Walker (ACL) Bellcore - MRE 2A379 445 South Street - Box 1910 Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA (201)829-4312 walker@flash.bellcore.com uunet.uu.net!bellcore!walker APPLICATION FOR RESIDENCE HALLS 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 7-10 June 1988, SUNY Buffalo (Amherst Campus) Rooms at Governor's Residence Halls (either single or shared rooms, with common bathrooms) may be booked from Sunday, 5 June, through Saturday, 11 June, at the following rates: Single, $23 per day; Double, $18 per day per person (children < 12 yrs. old in a double room, $4 per day). Please indicate times of arrival and departure on the form. Cafeteria-style breakfasts will be served on a cash basis for all conference participants (including those staying off campus) at Talbert Dining Hall. Buffet lunches will be served at Talbert at a total cost of $32 for all 4 days of the conference; $24 for people staying 3 days or less. No refunds are possible for missed lunches. In the event of unanticipated demand, rooms will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Please send in your reservation request as early as possible. Room and lunch payments are due by 20 May to guarantee a place. Fees may be paid with traveler's checks, money orders, or a personal check made payable to Research Foundation, SUNY Buffalo. Credit cards cannot be honored. Participants interested in a trip to Niagara Falls on Monday, 6 June (approximate cost $30; detailed information will be sent only to people checking the box on the form), and/or in a tour of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Wednesday evening, 8 June (no charge), should check the appropriate boxes on the form. NAME ___________________________________________________________________________ Last First Middle ADDRESS ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ AFFILIATION (short form for badge ID) __________________________________________ TELEPHONE ______________________________________________________________________ COMPUTER NET&ADDRESS ___________________________________________________________ RESIDENCE HALL REQUIREMENTS Single at $23 per night Double at $18 per night Female Male Nonsmoking Smoking Preferred roommate _____________________________________________________________ Date and time of arrival _______________________________________________________ Date and time of departure _____________________________________________________ Lunch: $32 (4 days) $24 (3 days or less) TOTAL PAYMENT MUST BE INCLUDED: $____________ Interested in trip to: Niagara Falls Art Gallery Send Application for Residence Halls WITH PAYMENT before 20 MAY to: Lynda Spahr (ACL) Department of Computer Science SUNY Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260, USA spahr@cs.buffalo.edu spahr@sunybcs.bitnet ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************