Faculty Club, 41 Wilcocks Street Jane J. Robinson, SRI Internationa/

Planning Natural Language Referring Expressions Douglas E. Appelt, SRI International

The TEXT System for Natural Language Generation: An Overview

Kathleen R. McKeown, University of Pennsylvania

Salience: The Key to Selection in Deep Generation E. Jeffrey Conklin and David D. McDonald, University of Massachusetts

A Knowledge Engineering Approach to Natural Language Understanding

Stuart C. Shapiro and Jeannette Neal, SUNY Buffalo

A Model of Early Syntactic Development Pat Langley, Carnegie-Mellon University

Building Non-Normative Systems —

The Search for Robustness

Mitchell Marcus (Chair), Bell Laboratories Robert J. Bobrow, Bolt Beranek and Newman Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania Richard Granger, University of California at Irvine Stan C. Kwasny, Indiana University Lance A. Miller, IBM Research

The Ninth International Conference on Computation­al Linguistics (COLING 82) will be held July 5-10, 1982, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. It will be sponsored by the International Committee on Computational Linguistics, in association with the Linguistic Institute of L. Star, Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles Uni­versity, Prague. [See AJCL 7:2, pg. 122.] For further information contact:

MFF UK, Linguistics

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The 1982 European Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held July 12-14, 1982, in Orsay, France (just after COLING-82). The conference is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior (AISB). [See AJCL 7:3, pg. 182.] General inquiries about the conference should be addressed to:

Yves Kodratoff, General Chairman Institut de programmation 4, Place Jussieu

The Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), in cooperation with ACM SIGART, will be held August 18-20, 1982, at The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There will also be a two-day Tutorial Program August 16-17. [See AJCL 7:4, pg. 265.] For additional information con­tact:

The 1982 ACM Symposium on LISP and Functional Programming will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 16-19, 1982. The symposium is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN), Automata and Computability (SIGACT), and Artificial Intelligence (SIGART). [See AJCL 7:4, pg. 265.] The local arrangements chairman is:

Guy L. Steele, Jr. Computer Science Department Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

EUROMICRO 82 is the eighth annual symposium organized by EUROMICRO, the European Associa­tion for Microprocessing and Microprogramming. It will be held September 5-9, 1982, in Haifa, Israel. [See AJCL 7:4, pg. 266.] The deputy program chair­man is:

L. Richter

The 1982 International Conference of the Chinese-Language Computer Society will be held September 22-23, 1982 (during COMPCON week), in Washing­ton, D.C. [See AJCL 7:4, pg. 265.] For further in­formation, contact:

Professor C.Y. Suen

Program Chairman

Department of Computer Science

Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve West

Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, CANADA

The Sixth German Workshop on Artificial Intelli­gence (GWAI-82) will be held in Bad Honnef (Physikzentrum, Hauptstraße 5, D-5340 Bad Honnef), September 27 - October 1, 1982. The workshop is organized by the special interest group on artificial intelligence in the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (Gl). [See AJCL 7:4, pg. 265.] The chairman is:

Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster FB Informatik University of Hamburg Schiuterstraße 70 D-2000 Hamburg 13 WEST GERMANY (040) 4123 3315

The Linguistics Program at the University of Dela­ware has announced the Delaware Symposium on Lan­guage Studies IV, to take place October 14-16, 1982, at the University of Delaware. [See AJCL 7:4, pg. 266.] For further information about the program, contact:

Dr. Stephanie Williams

Department of Languages and Literature

University of Delaware

The American Society for Information Science's 45th Annual Meeting (ASIS-82) will be held in Columbus, Ohio, October 17-21, 1982. [See AJCL 7:4, pg. 266.] For more information, contact:

John Fried - Room CA

ASIS-82 Technical Program Chairman

Battelle Columbus Laboratories

Georgia Institute of Technology will host a Sympo­sium on Empirical Foundations of Information and Software Science on November 3-5, 1982, in Atlanta, Georgia. Co-sponsors of the Symposium are the Spe­cial Interest Group for Foundations of Information Science (SIG/FIS) of the American Society of Infor­mation Science and the Army Institute for Research in Management Information and Computer Science (AIRMICS). [See AJCL 7:4, pg. 266.] All inquiries and other correspondence regarding the Symposium should be addressed to:

Professor Pranas Zunde

Chairman, Symposium Organizing Committee

School of Information and Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing will hold its 1983 Meeting in San Francis­co, California, April 6-8, 1983. The deadline for pa­per proposals for the meeting is September 30, 1982. [See AJCL 7:4, pg. 264.] For further information contact:

James Joyce ITS

The next International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-83) will be held in Karlsruhe, West Germany, during the week of August 8-12, 1983. [See AJCL 7:4, pg. 265.] For further information, contact:

Saul Amarel

Computer Science Department Hill Center/Busch Campus Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 (201) 932-3546