4.0604 Summer School: Computational Models of Meaning (1/103)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 18 Oct 90 19:43:28 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0604. Thursday, 18 Oct 1990.
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 90 17:44:43 -0400
From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker)
Subject: Prague Summer School on Formal & Computational Models of Meaning
SUMMER SCHOOL IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
FORMAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF MEANING
Charles University
Prague, Czechoslovakia
July 8 - 21, 1991
The 1991 Summer School in Computational Linguistics is organized by the Faculty
of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in close collaboration with the
re-established Department of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics at the
Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague (Head: Petr Sgall). The main
focus of the School is the interdisciplinary domain of formal and computational
models of meaning. The program will be organized in four 2-hour nonoverlapping
blocks per day, workshop and guest lectures.
FEES
Industrial participants 900 USD
Academic community 700 USD
The fees cover the costs of all courses, a welcome reception, a guided tour of
Prague, accommodation in double rooms in the University students hostel for the
whole period of the School (13 nights) and 3 meals per day in the students
canteen (12 days). The organizers cannot assume responsibility for hotel
accommodation.
PREREGISTRATION
To preregister, please fill in the attached form. Only those who send in the
preregistration form will receive the final information and registration forms.
The deadline for preregistration is NOVEMBER 30, 1990
For further details contact: Dr. Eva Hajicova
MFF UK - Linguistics
Malostranske n. 25
CS - 118 00 Prague 1
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
COURSES
The types of lexical information for a dictionary in an integrated linguistic
description
Juri D. Apresjan, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR
Computational lexicography
B.T.S. Atkins, Oxford University Press, UK
Meaning and understanding in MT
Christian Boitet, G.E.T.A., Grenoble, France
Computational semantics
Jens Erik Fenstad, University of Oslo, Norway
Semantic interpretation and construction grammar
Charles J. Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley, USA
A functional approach to the meaning of the sentence and to intersentential
links
Eva Hajicova and Petr Sgall, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Contextual influences on meaning
Martha E. Pollack, SRI International, USA
New developments in grammar formalisms
Hans Uszkoreit, University of Saarbruecken, FRG
Discourse and user models
Wolfgang Wahlster, University of Saarbruecken, FGR
Intensional semantics
Mats Rooth, University of Texas, USA
Computational lexical semantics
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA
Cognitive linguistics
George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley, USA
PRE-REGISTRATION FORM
Deadline for pre-registration: November 30, 1990
NAME:
AFFILIATION (university or company):
ADDRESS for correspondence:
TELEPHONE:
Please, mark the appropriate box: industrial participant
academic institution
student
Previous schooling and experience in computational linguistics:
Fill in the form and return it to: MFF UK - Linguistics
c/o Anna Kotesovcova
Malostranske n.25
CS-118 00 Prague 1
CZECHOSLOVAKIA