4.1211 ACL '91: Program Information (1/197)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 8 Apr 91 18:44:01 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1211. Monday, 8 Apr 1991.

Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 17:40:46 -0500
From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker)
Subject: ACL-91 Program and Registration Information

ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
29th Annual Meeting
17-21 June 1991
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

MONDAY EVENING, 17 JUNE
7:00--9:00 Tutorial Registration and Reception, Wheeler Hall

TUESDAY, 18 JUNE
8:00--3:00 Tutorial Registration, Wheeler Hall

9:00--12:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Natural Language Generation
Kathleen McCoy and Johanna Moore
Intonation in Spoken Language Systems
Julia Hirschberg

2:00--5:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Computational Linguistics Methodologies for Humanities Computing
Nancy M. Ide
Machine Translation: An In-Depth Tutorial
Jaime Carbonell and Yorick Wilks

7:00--9:00 Conference Registration and Reception, Wheeler Hall

7:00--9:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations
203 Wheeler Hall and 279 Dwinelle Hall

REGISTRATION: WEDNESDAY--FRIDAY
8:00--5:00 Wheeler Hall; until noon Friday

EXHIBITS & DEMONSTRATIONS: WEDNESDAY--FRIDAY
9:00--6:00 203 Wheeler Hall and 279 Dwinelle Hall; until 1:30pm Friday

WEDNESDAY, 19 JUNE -- WHEELER HALL
8:30--8:45 Opening remarks and anouncements
8:45--9:10 Resolution of Collective-Distributive Ambiguity Using
Model-Based Reasoning
Chinatsu Aone
9:10--9:35 Inclusion, Disjointness and Choice: The Logic of Linguistic
Classification
Bob Carpenter & Carl Pollard
9:35--10:00 Event-Building through Role-Filling and Anaphora Resolution
Greg Whittemore, Melissa Macpherson & Greg Carlson
10:00--10:20 BREAK
10:20--10:45 Toward a Plan-Based Understanding Model for Mixed-Initiative
Dialogues
Hiroaki Kitano & Carol Van Ess-Dykema
10:45--11:10 An Algorithm for Plan Recognition in Collaborative Discourse
Karen E. Lochbaum
11:10--11:30 A Three-Level Model for Plan Exploration
Lance A. Ramshaw
11:30--11:50 A Tripartite, Plan-Based Model of Dialogue
Lynn Lambert & Sandra Carberry
11:50--1:40 LUNCH (Student Sessions)
1:40--2:05 Discourse Relations and Defeasible Knowledge
Alex Lascarides & Nicholas Asher
2:05--2:30 Some Facts about Centers, Indexicals, and Demonstratives
Rebecca J. Passonneau
2:30--2:55 Type-Raising and Directionality in Combinatory Grammar
Mark Steedman
2:55--3:15 BREAK
3:15--3:40 Efficient Incremental Processing with Categorial Grammar
Mark Hepple & Guy Barry
3:40--4:05 Compose-Reduce Parsing
Henry S. Thompson, Mike Dixon & John Lamping
4:05--4:30 LR Recursive Transition Networks for Earley and Tomita
Parsing
Mark Perlin
4:30--4:50 BREAK
4:50--5:15 A New Shift-Reduce Parser for Arbitrary Context-Free
Grammars: Relationship to Earley's Parser & Formal Results
Yves Schabes
5:15--5:40 Head Corner Parsing for Discontinuous Constituency
Gertjan van Noord
5:40--6:05 The Acquisition and Application of Context Sensitive
Grammar for English
Robert F. Simmons & Yeong-Ho Yu

THURSDAY, 20 JUNE -- WHEELER HALL
8:30--8:55 Two Languages are More Informative than One
Ido Dagan, Alon Itai & Ulrike Schwall
8:55--9:20 Learning Perceptually-Grounded Semantics in the L0 Project
Terry Regier
9:20--9:45 Subject-Dependent Co-occurrence and Word Sense Disambiguation
Joe A. Guthrie, Louise Guthrie, Yorick Wilks & Homa
Aidinejad
9:45--10:10 A System for Translating Locative Prepositions from
English into French
Nathalie Japkowicz
10:10--10:30 BREAK
10:30--10:55 Translation by Quasi Logical Form Transfer
Hiyan Alshawi, David Carter, Bjoern Gambaeck & Manny
Rayner
10:55--12:00 Linguistic Problems and Extra-Linguistic Problems
in Machine Translation (INVITED TALK)
Jun-ichi Tsujii, UMIST
12:00--1:45 LUNCH (Student Sessions)
1:45--2:05 Aligning Sentences in Parallel Corpora
Peter F. Brown, Jennifer C. Lai & Robert L. Mercer
2:05--2:25 A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora
William A. Gale & Kenneth W. Church
2:25--2:50 Experiments and Prospects of Example-Based Machine
Translation
Eiichiro Sumita & Hitoshi Iida
2:50--3:10 BREAK
3:10--3:35 Resolving Translation Mismatches with Information Flow
Megumi Kameyama, Ryo Ochitani, Stanley Peters &
Hidetoshi Sirai
3:35--4:00 Automatic Noun Classification by Using Japanese-English
Word Pairs
Naomi Inoue
4:00--4:20 BREAK
4:20--4:45 Automatic Acquisition of Subcategorization Frames from
Untagged, Free-Text Corpora
Michael R. Brent
4:45--5:10 Multiple Default Inheritance in a Unification-Based Lexicon
Graham Russell, John Carroll & Susan Warwick-Armstrong
5:10--5:35 Metaphoric Generalization through Sort Coercion
Ellen Hays & Samuel Bayer
5:35--6:00 Structural Ambiguity and Lexical Relations
Donald Hindle and Mats Rooth
7:00---8:00 RECEPTION: Pauley Ballroom, Student Union
8:00--10:00 BANQUET: Pauley Ballroom, Student Union
Presidential Address: Ralph Grishman

FRIDAY, 21 JUNE -- WHEELER HALL
8:30--8:55 Strategies for Adding Control Information to Declarative
Grammars
Hans Uszkoreit
8:55--9:20 Finite-State Approximation of Phrase Structure Grammars
Fernando Pereira & Rebecca Wright
9:20--9:45 Feature Logic with Weak Subsumption Constraints
Jochen Doerre
9:45--10:05 BREAK
10:05--11:05 Word Meaning: Starting where the MRDs Stop (INVITED TALK)
Charles Fillmore and Sue Atkins
11:05--11:50 BUSINESS MEETING & ELECTIONS
Nominations for ACL Offices for 1992
President: Kathy McKeown, Columbia University
Vice President: Fernando Pereira, AT&T Bell Labs
Secretary-Treasurer: Don Walker, Bellcore
Executive Committee (1992-1993): Martha Pollack, SRI International
Executive Committee (1992-1994): Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen
Nominating Committee (1992-1994): Ralph Grishman, New York University
11:50--1:10 LUNCH
1:10--1:35 Word Sense Disambiguation using Statistical Methods
Peter F. Brown, Stephen A. Della Pietra,
Vincent J. Della Pietra & Robert L. Mercer
1:35--2:00 A Stochastic Process for Word Frequency Distributions
Harald Baayen
2:00--2:25 An Evaluation of Xtract from N-Grams to Collocations
Frank Z. Smadja
2:25--2:45 BREAK
2:45--3:10 Predicting Intonational Phrasing from Text
Michelle Q. Wang & Julia Hirschberg
3:10--3:35 A Best-First Language Processor Integrating the Unification
Grammar and Markov Language Model for Speech Recognition
Applications
Lee-Feng Chien, K.J. Chen & Lin-Shan Lee
3:35--4:00 Factorization of Language Constraints in Speech Recognition
Roberto Pieraccini and Chin-Hui Lee
4:00--4:20 BREAK
4:20--4:45 Constraint Projection: An Efficient Treatment of Disjunctive
Feature Descriptions
Mikio Nakano
4:45--5:05 Quasi-Destructive Graph Unification
Hideto Tomabechi
5:05--5:25 Unification with Lazy Non-Redundant Copying
Martin C. Emele

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Doug Appelt, SRI International,
Ken Church, AT&T Bell Labs and USC/ISI,
Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo,
Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tuebingen,
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI,
Robert Ingria, BBN Systems & Technologies,
Yasuhiro Katagiri, NTT Basic Research Laboratories,
Diane Litman, Columbia University,
K. Vijay-Shanker, University of Delaware,
Meg Withgott, XEROX PARC,
Henk Zeevat, University of Amsterdam


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