The Future of the Dictionary and the Dictionary of the Future Martin Kay, Xerox PARC Relations Extracted from Machine-Readable Dictionaries for Building a Text Generator Raoul N. Smith, GTE Laboratories

Natural Language Help Systems. Intelligent help facilities can contribute significantly to the usability of sophisticated interactive systems. To handle the wide variety of queries that will'be posed to such a system, a flexible interface is necessary. Since English pro­vides such flexibility and is already familiar to users, it is attractive as an interface language. This session will explore issues in both the design of flexible help sys­tems and the use of English for communicating with such systems.

The session was organized by Elaine Rich, Universi­ty of Texas at Austin, and will be chaired by Robert Fenchel, Xerox Corporation. It will consist of :

Uniform Help Facilities for a Cooperative User Interface Philip Hayes, Carnegie-Mellon University

Natural Language Help in the Consul System Bill Mark, Information Sciences Institute

Programs as Data for Their Help Systems Elaine Rich, University of Texas at Austin

For further information contact: Martha Evens

Computer Science Department Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois 60616 (312) 567-5150

A Conference on Applied Natural Language Proc­essing will be held February 1-3, 1983, in Santa Moni­ca, California, sponsored by the Association for Com­putational Linguistics and the Naval Research Labora­tory. This special conference will focus on the use of computational linguistic techniques in solving real world problems, and will be limited to 300 partici­pants. Original papers on the use of computational linguistic techniques are being solicited in the areas of:

• data, information and knowledge management

• training and education

• language translation technology

• speech recognition and synthesis technology

The papers should discuss applications, evaluations, limitations, and general tools and techniques. Papers describing end-users' experience with these technolo­gies are especially welcome.

Six copies of an extended summary of five to eight pages, double spaced, should be sent by August 15, 1982 to:

System Development Corporation 2500 Colorado Avenue

Santa Monica, California 90406 It is important that the summary identify distinctive aspects of the work and clearly indicate to what extent the work is complete and has been implemented.

Summaries will be reviewed by the Conference Committee. Notification of acceptance of papers will be sent by September 15, 1982. For inclusion in the Conference Proceedings, final versions of papers must be received by November 15, 1982. Authors of ac­cepted papers will be expected to sign a copyright release form. Limited travel funds for authors will be available.

Facilities for product and system demonstrations will be available, including videotape equipment. Short papers describing planned demonstrations and types of equipment required should be submitted by November 15, 1982. Additionally, tutorials and panel sessions are planned.

The Conference Committee consists of: Iris Kame-ny, System Development Corporation (General Chair), Beatrice Oshika, System Development Corporation (Program Chair), Don Walker, SRI International (Secretary-Treasurer), Christine Montgomery, Operat­ing System Division, Logicon, Ray Perrault, University of Toronto, Jane Robinson, SRI International, and Norm Sondheimer, Sperry Univac.