The FINITE STRING Newsletter
Calls for Papers
dimming, Susanna 1986a Design of a Master Lexicon. Technical Report IS1/RR-85-163 (February). USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California.
Cumming, Susanna 1986b The Lexicon in Text Generation. Technical Report 1SI/RR-86-168. USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California. Presented at The Workshop on Automating the Lexicon, Pisa, Italy (May).
Cumming, Susanna and Albano, Robert 1986 A Guide to Lexical Acquisition in the JANUS System. Technical Report ISI/ RR-85-162 (February). USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California.
Habel, Christopher 1982 Referential Nets with Attributes. In Horecky, Ed., Proceedings of COLING-82. North-Holland, Amsterdam.
Kaczmarek, T.; Bates, R.; and Robins, G. 1986 Recent Developments in NIKL. In AAAI-86, Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (August).
Kaczmarek, T.; Mark, W.; and Sondheimer, N. 1983 The Consul/CUE Interface: An Integrated Interactive Environment. In Proceedings of CHI '83 Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM (December): 98-102.
Mann, W. 1984 Discourse Structures for Text Generation. Technical Report RR-84-127 (February). USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California.
Mann, William C. and Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M. 1983 Nigel: A Systemic Grammar for Text Generation. Technical Report ISI/RR-83-105 (February). USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California.
Sondheimer, Norman K. and Nebel, Bernhard 1986 A Logical-Form and Knowledge-Base Design for Natural Language Generation. In AAAI-86, Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (August).
USC/ISI 1985 Penman's Logical Language. USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California.
Vilain, M. 1985 The Restricted Language Architecture of a Hybrid Representation System. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Los Angeles, California (August): 547-551.
second international workshop on natural language understanding and logic programming
The workshop will consider fundamental principles and important innovations in the design, definition, uses, and extensions of logic programming to natural language understanding and, conversely, the adequacy of logic programming to express natural language formalisms. The main topics of interest are:
• Logic grammar formalisms
• Formal representations of natural language sentences and texts
• Resolution methods for specific aspects such as anaphoras, coordination
• Natural language generation
• Uses of techniques for logic grammars (unification) in other grammar formalisms
• Compilers and interpreters for grammar formalisms
• Applications: natural language front ends DEADLINES
Final papers will be published in a book.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Papers should contain the following: title, name and address(es) of author(s), affiliation(s), mailing address(es) and phone (or telex) number(s), and one program area. Papers must relate recent and unpublished work.
Please send four copies of an 8-12 page, single-spaced, typed manuscript, including a 150-200 word abstract, to:
Patrick Saint-Dizier
Department of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
1987 WORKSHOP ON VISUAL LANGUAGES IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY
Papers are invited on theory, methodology, and applications of visual languages, including both languages that have a heavy visual component and languages designed for operating on visual objects. Areas related to visual languages, such as man-machine interface, office automation, computer-aided design, computer hardware, and knowledge-based systems, are also of interest if the visual language aspect is in focus.
Topics include, but are not limited to• Visual Data Structure
. Formal, Cognitive, and Semantic Models for Visual Languages « Visual Support for Software Production• Shape Grammars
• Visual Programming
• Visualization of Programs and their Behavior
• User Interfaces Using Visual Objects
• Representation and Acquisition of Visual Knowledge
• Icon and Iconic System Design
• Animation Research
• Multimedia Systems
Submit three copies of each paper - maximum length 5,000 words - to the Program Chairman (see below).
Calls for Papers
IMPORTANT DATES
Acceptance Notification 20 April 1987
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
Prof. Robert Korfhage
Department of Information Science
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 PROGRAM CHAIRMAN
Erland Jungert
FFV Elektronik AB
S-582 22 Linkoping, Sweden ORGANIZERS
Roland Hjerppe, Christian Krysander
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Linkoping
S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden DETAILS
Contact the Organizers at UUCP: RHJ@LIUIDA ARPA: RHJ%LIUIDA.UUCP@SEISMO
THIRD ANNUAL EXPERT SYSTEMS IN GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The conference focuses on the use and development of expert systems by government agencies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following AI techniques and application areas:
• Knowledge Representation
• Knowledge Acquisition
• Reasoning under Uncertainty
• Expert Systems for Robotics
• Image Understanding
• Natural Language and Intelligent Interfaces
• Expert System Development Environments
• Distributed and Parallel Architectures
• Command and Control Applications
• Logistics Support Systems
• Financial and Project Management
• Nuclear Industry Applications
• Aerospace Applications
• Maintenance and Diagnostic Systems
• Software Lifecycle Applications
• Weather Forecasting
Proposals for panels and tutorials related to the topics of interest are also solicited.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submit papers (three copies) and proposals (for panels, tutorials) to be received no later than 15 May 1987 by
The Mitre Corporation 7525 Colshire Drive
McLean, VA 22102 The first page of the paper should contain the author's name, affiliation, address, electronic address if available, phone number, and 100 word abstract. Accepted papers will be allocated six manuscript pages in the proceedings. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 1 July 1987. Camera-ready copy for accepted papers is due by 1 August 1987.
FURTHER INFORMATION Conference Co-Chairmen
R. Peter Bonasso, The Mitre Corporation,
bonasso@mitre-arpa, (+1 703) 883-7932 Jude Franklin, PRC Government Information Systems Technical Program Co-Chairmen
Jim Antonisse, The Mitre Corporation,
jima@mitre.arpa Jack Benoit, The Mitre Corporation, Tutorials Co-chairmen
Steven W. Oxman, OXKO Corporation
Lisa Sokol, The Mitre Corporation, sokol@mitre.arpa
Mail for conference chairmen can be addressed to c/o ESIG '87 MS W418
The Mitre Corporation 7525 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102
SPECIAL CL ISSUE ON COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO TENSE AND ASPECT
The central problem facing long-standing attempts by linguists and philosophers to account for the meaning of temporal and aspectual expressions in natural languages is that their semantics seems to be inextricably linked to more general processes of understanding discourse and other events in a changing world. Recently, computational linguists have joined in the fray, with the result that computational solutions have begun to be proposed. In light of these developments, it seems appropriate to devote a special issue of Computational Linguistics to this important topic. Bonnie Lynn Webber has agreed to serve as guest editor.
Three copies of the manuscript should be sent to
Professor Bonnie Lynn Webber
University of Pennsylvania
ARPANet: Bonnie@CIS.UPenn.EDU and two copies should be sent to
Professor James Allen (CL Editor)
Department of Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania
Announcements
University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627, USA ARPANet: ACL@Rochester.ARPA Manuscripts should be received by 1 April 1987.
For information write to: Department of Linguistics University of Sidney NSW Australia 2006
fourth conference on arabic computational linguistics
The Linguistics Department of the Social and Economic Research and Study Center in Tunis is organising this conference in collaboration with the Computer Science Department of the FSEG-Faculty, Sfax, the Faculty of Arts in Tunis and the IBLV of Tunis. For further information, contact
Dr. Ridha SOUISSI
C.E.R.E.S.
1000 Tunis Recette principale
eighth international conference on computers and the humanities
9-12 April 1987, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
The Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Department of Computer Science of the University of South Carolina are pleased to announce the Eighth International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, to be held on Palm Sunday weekend to coincide with academic variations in North America and abroad. For further information, contact ICCH87 c/o Professor Robert L. Oakman Department of Computer Science University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208, USA
eighth world congress of applied linguistics
STUDIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Two new books in the Cambridge University Press series have just been published: Computational Linguistics: An Introduction by Ralph Grishman; and Language and Spatial Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Study of Prepositions in English by Annette Herskovits. Semantic Interpretation and the Resolution of Ambiguity by Graeme Hirst is expected shortly. Books under contract and in various stages of production are: Machine Translation — Theoretical and Methodological Issues by Sergei Niren-burg; an English translation of Generation automatique de textes en langues naturelles by Laurence Danlos; Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars — Head Grammars and Natural Languages by Carl Pollard. [UPDATE: In addition, one contract offer has been made and five manuscripts are under review.]
Manuscripts and editorial inquiries should be sent to
Aravind Joshi
Computer and Information Science
joshi@upenn.csnet. Information for ordering is provided at the end of this issue.
coling '86 proceedings
These proceedings are available only from: IKS e.V.
Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-5300 Bonn 1 WEST GERMANY
INTERNET: UPK000%DBNRHRZ1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU The price is 95 DM within Europe and 110 DM for air delivery to non-European countries. Please pay in advance by check to the address above or by bankers draft to the following account: Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft Bonn Account no. 1205 163 900, BLZ 380 101 11