6.0524 European ACL 1993: Provisional Program (1/544)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 17 Feb 1993 15:29:01 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0524. Wednesday, 17 Feb 1993.
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 13:50:09 +0100
From: EACL 1993 <eacl93@let.ruu.nl>
Subject: EACL93: Provisional Programme
EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93
THIRD NOTIFICATION -- PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
The European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics will hold its Sixth Conference in Utrecht, The
Netherlands, from Wednesday to Friday, 21-23 April 1993, preceded
by two days of tutorials on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20.
General Conference Chair: The conference is co-chaired by Steven
Krauwer, Michael Moortgat and Louis des Tombe (OTS, Utrecht).
Programme Committee: Anne Abeille (University of Paris), Ted
Briscoe (University of Cambridge), Ken Church (AT T Bell
Laboratories), Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania), Ewan
Klein (University of Edinburgh), Andras Kornai (CSLI, Stanford),
Jan Landsbergen (IPO, Eindhoven), Uwe Reyle (University of
Stuttgart), Anne de Roeck (University of Essex), Remko Scha
(University of Amsterdam), Susan Warwick-Armstrong (ISSCO,
Geneva).
Local Organization Coordinator: Renee Pohlmann (OTS, Utrecht).
Tutorials Coordinator: Jan van Eijck (CWI, Amsterdam).
Student Session Programme Committee: The Committee is co-chaired by
Anne-Marie Mineur and Yvon Wijnen (Utrecht University), and consists
of David Beaver, Morten Christiansen, Shona Douglas, Tomaz Erjavec,
Alistair Knott, Carl Vogel (University of Edinburgh), Josef van
Genabith (Essex University), Frank Piron (University of Freiburg),
Patrizia Paggio (University of Kopenhagen), Melina Alexa (UMIST,
Manchester), Kjetil Strand (University of Oslo), Uli Schatz, Juergen
Oesterle (University of Muenchen), Irene Pimenta Rodrigues (University
of Lisbon), Jochen Doerre (University of Stuttgart), Paolo Cattaneo
(IDSIA, Lugano).
The final programme is now being prepared, and a full time
schedule will be published shortly. This announcement provides an
overview of the contents of the main programme, and includes
registration information and forms.
Please note that the early registration period has been extended
to 1 March, but note also that hotel accommodation cannot be
guaranteed after this date!
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
TUTORIALS (Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 April):
Each tutorial consists of an introductory class on Monday (3 hours),
and an advanced class on the same topic on Tuesday (3 hours).
There are 4 tutorials:
(1) Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof (University of Amsterdam):
Uses of Dynamic Logic in NL Processing
(2) Hans Uszkoreit (University of Saarbruecken):
Recent Developments in Unification-based NP Processing
Tutorials (1) and (2) will take place in parallel.
(3) Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania):
Statistical Methods in NL Processing
(4) Applications of Complexity Theory
(teacher to be announced)
Tutorials (3) and (4) will take place in parallel.
MAIN PROGRAMME (Wednesday 21, Thursday 22 and Friday 23 April):
INVITED SPEAKERS:
(1) Ken Church (AT&T)
(2) Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam)
(3) Third speaker to be announced
PAPERS:
Below we list the papers that have been accepted for EACL93
(including papers on the reserve list). Note that not all authors
have confirmed their participation yet.
Area: SYNTAX AND CL
Doug Arnold, Toni Badia, Josef van Genabith, Stella Markantonatou,
Stefan Momma, Louisa Sadler, Paul Schmidt:
Experiments in Reusability of Grammatical Resources
Bernd Abb, Michael Herweg and Kai Lebeth:
The Incremental Generation of Passive Sentences
Area: LEXICON, MORPHOLOGY
Harald Trost:
Coping with derivation in a morphological component
Adam Kilgarriff:
Inheriting Verb Alternations
Josee Heemskerk:
A probabilistic context-free grammar for disambiguation in
morphological parsing
Hideki Kozima and Teiji Furugori:
Similarity between Words Computed by Spreading Activation
on an English Dictionary
Area: DATA-ORIENTED CL
Yves Schabes, Michael Roth and Randy Osborne:
Parsing the Wall Street Journal with the Inside-Outside
Algorithm
Rens Bod:
Using an Annotated Corpus as a Virtual Grammar
Didier Bourigault:
An Endogeneous-Corpus Based Method for Structural Noun
Phrase Disambiguation
Masaki Kiyono and Jun-ichi Tsujii:
Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition from Parsing Failures
Pim van der Eijk:
Automating the Acquisition of Bilingual Terminology
Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans:
Data-Oriented Methods for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
Area: AI-RELATED METHODS IN CL
Donna M. Gates and Peter Shell:
Rule-based acquisition and maintenance of lexical and
semantic knowledge
Susan McRoy and Graeme Hirst:
Abductive explanations of dialogue misunderstandings
Geoffrey Simmons:
Tradeoff between Compositionality and Complexity in the
Semantics of Dimensional Adjectives
Area: PARSING AND COMPLEXITY
Alain Lecomte:
Efficient Proof-Nets for Parsing
Patrick Blackburn and Edith Spaan:
Decidability and Undecidability in stand-alone Feature
Logics
Mark-Jan Nederhof:
Generalized left-corner parsing
K. Vijay-Shanker, David J. Weir:
The use of shared forests in TAG parsing
Gosse Bouma and Gertjan van Noord:
Head-driven parsing for lexicalist grammars: experimental
results
Peter Staudacher:
New frontiers beyond context-freeness: di-grammars and
di-automata
Atro Voutilainen, Pasi Tapanainen:
Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser
Area: LOGIC AND CL
Juergen Wedekind and Ronald M. Kaplan:
Type-driven semantic interpretation of f-structures
Olivier Bouchez, Olivier Istace, Jan van Eijck:
A strategy for dynamic interpretation: a fragment and an
implementation
Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping and Vijay Saraswat:
LFG semantics via constraints
Marcus Kracht:
Mathematical Aspects of Command Relations
Martin Boettcher:
Disjunctions and inheritance in the context feature
structure system
Patrick Blackburn, Claire Gardent and Wilfried Meyer-Viol:
Talking about trees
Martin Emms:
Parsing with polymorphism
Koen Versmissen:
Lambek calculus, modalities and semigroup semantics
Glyn Morrill and Teresa Solias:
Tuples, Discontinuity, and Gapping in Categorial Grammar
Daniele Godard and Jacques Jayez:
Towards a proper treatment of coercion phenomena
Area: MORPHOLOGY, PHONOLOGY, SPEECH
Scott Prevost, Mark Steedman:
Generating contextually appropriate intonation
Ajit Narayanan, Lama Hashem:
On abstract, finite-state morphology
Lynne J. Cahill:
Morphonology in the Lexicon
Marc van Oostendorp:
Formal properties of metrical structure
Area: MACHINE TRANSLATION
Ronald M. Kaplan and Juergen Wedekind:
Restriction and Correspondence-based Translation
Area: SEMANTICS
Sheila Glasbey:
A computational treatment of sentence-final 'then'
Claire Gardent:
A unification-based approach to multiple VP ellipsis
resolution
E. Hajicova, H. Skoumalova, P. Sgall:
Identifying topic and focus by an automatic procedure
Andrew Kehler:
A Discourse Copying Algorithm for Ellipsis and Anaphora Resolution
Tim Fernando:
The donkey strikes back
Michael White:
Delimitedness and trajectory-of-motion events
Joke Dorrepaal:
On the notion of uniqueness
Alex Lascarides, Jon Oberlander:
Temporal connectives in a discourse context
Tadashi Nomoto and Yoshihiko Nitta:
Resolving Zero Anaphora in Japanese
STUDENT PAPERS:
Johan Bos:
VP Ellipsis in a DRT-implementation
George C. Demetriou:
Lexical Disambiguation Using CHIP (Constraint Handling in Prolog)
Paola Monachesi:
Object clitics and clitic climbing in Italian HPSG grammar
Michael Schiehlen:
Localising Barriers Theory
Hadar Shemtov:
A Translation Tool for Dealing with Updated Documents
Manfred Stede:
Lexical Choice Criteria in Language Generation
POSTERS and DEMOS:
The following poster and demo submissions have been accepted by
the programme committee. A number of submissions (not listed
here) is waiting for confirmation by the authors.
I. Aduriz, E. Agirre, I. Alegria, X. Arregi, J.M. Ariola,
X. Artola, A. Diaz de Ilarraza, N. Ezeiza, M. Maritxalar,
K. Sarasola and M. Urkia:
A morphological analysis based method for spelling correction
Eric Wehrli and Mira Ramluckun:
ITS-2: an interactive personal translation system
Gabor Proszeky and Laszlo Tihanyi:
Helyette: Inflectional Thesaurus for Agglutinative Languages
Dario Bianchi, Rodolfo Delmonte and Emanuele Pianta:
Understanding Stories in Different Languages with GETA_RUN
Gunnar Eriksson and Gunnel Kallgren:
Demonstration of software for annotation and automatic disambiguation
Atro Voutilainen and Pasi Tapanainen:
Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser
Shinichi Doi, Kazunori Muraki and Shinichiro Kamei:
Long Sentence Analysis by Domain Specific Pattern Grammar
David Clemenceau and Emmanuel Roche:
Enhancing a Large Scale Dictionary with a two-level System
Robert Frederking, Ariel Cohen, Dean Grannes, Peter Cousseau
and Sergei Nirenburg:
The PANGLOSS MARK I MAT system
Laila Dybkjaer, Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkjaer:
Maximising Naturalness
Dirk Heylen, Andre Schenk and Marc Verhagen:
A Constraint-based Representation Scheme of Collocational Structures
Gabor Proszeky and Laszlo Tihanyi:
Helyette: Inflectional Thesaurus for Agglutinative Languages
Atro Voutilainen and Pasi Tapanainen:
Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
NOTE THE EXTENSION OF THE EARLY REGISTRATION PERIOD!!!!!!!!
Conference: The registration fee will be 275 Dutch guilders for
ACL-members, and 165 guilders for students and unemployed
members. Registration forms and payment should be received by 1
March 1993. The fees include one copy of the proceedings and an
invitation to the reception.
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ACL member (dues paid | | |
for 1993) | 275 Dfl | 385 Dfl |
Non-member (includes | | |
membership for 1993) | 335 Dfl | 445 Dfl |
Reduced rate (full time | | |
students and unemployed) | | |
ACL member (dues paid | | |
for 1993) | 165 Dfl | 230 Dfl |
Non-member (includes | | |
membership for 1993) | 210 Dfl | 275 Dfl |
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Tutorials: The tutorial fee will be 100 Dfl. per tutorial if
registered before 1 March, 1993. After 1 March, the fee will be
130 Dfl. Please note that only people who register for the
conference will be eligible to take part in the tutorials.
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Standard rate | 100 Dfl | 130 Dfl |
Reduced rate (full time | | |
students and unemployed) | 70 Dfl | 100 Dfl |
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If a registration is cancelled before 1 April, the registration fee,
less 50 Dfl for administrative costs, will be returned.
Please note: We regret that we cannot accept any registrations by
email. Send your registration and payment by (air)mail.
Accommodation: The organisation has reserved a number of hotel
rooms in Utrecht, close to the conference site. Cheaper
accommodation is offered outside Utrecht. Travelling time will
not be more than an hour. Please return the application for
hotels as soon as possible. Accommodation cannot be guaranteed if
applications with full payment are not received by 1 March.
Payment: All payments must be made in Dutch guilders.
- You can send us - together with your registration form - a
cheque or banker's draft payable to: Faculteit Letteren RU,
UTRECHT
- You can transfer the appropriate amount to our bank account:
Faculteit Letteren RU
Account no 55 50 74 897
ABN-AMRO Bank
Neude 4
3512 AD UTRECHT
Reference : EACL93 registration fee
A copy of the bank transfer should be sent to us together with
your registration form. Make sure you add transfer charges.
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Participants from Eastern European countries: A limited number of
grants will be available for participants living in Eastern
European countries. These grants include free registration and
accommodation, and a daily allowance of 50 Dfl. Authors of
accepted papers will have priority. Please provide full details
concerning affiliation and participation of your institution in
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Social Events: The participants will be offered a reception on
Tuesday 20 April. A banquet featuring Indonesian `Rijsttafel'
will be held on Thursday the 22nd. Space limitations restrict the
number of participants; first come first served. The banquet fee
is 60 Dfl.
Venue: The conference site is located in the centre of Utrecht,
10 minutes walk from Utrecht Central Station, which in turn is
located at 50 minutes by train (30 by taxi) from Amsterdam
Airport (Schiphol).
Addresses: General address for all communications with Programme
Committee, Organizing Committee, Student Session Committee and
Tutorials Coordinator:
EACL93 [relevant committee/coordinator],
OTS,
Trans 10,
NL-3512 JK Utrecht,
The Netherlands.
Tel: +31 30 53 63 77
Fax: +31 30 53 60 00
Email: eacl93@let.ruu.nl
For information on the ACL in general, contact Don Walker
(global), or Mike Rosner (for Europe):
Dr. Donald E. Walker (ACL) Dr. Michael Rosner (ACL)
Bellcore, MRE 2A379 IDSIA
445 South Street, Box 1910 Corso Elvezia 36
Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland
walker@flash.bellcore.com mike@idsia.uu.ch
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