8.0460 Preliminary Program: NLULP '95 (1/401)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 13 Apr 1995 01:05:27 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0460. Thursday, 13 Apr 1995.
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 17:06:29 +0200
From: gpl@fct.unl.pt
Subject: NLULP'95 preliminary programme and registration forms
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION FORMS
for the
Fifth International Workshop on
Natural language Understanding and Logic Programming
NLULP5
Conference dates: May 29 (Mon) --- 31 (Wed), 1995
Conference place: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Avenida de Berna, 45
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara)
Harvey Abramson (Aizu) Charles Grant Brown (Stockholm)
Veronica Dahl (Vancouver) Sandiway Fong (NEC, Princeton)
Mark Johnson (Providence, RI) Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto)
Gregers Koch (Copenhagen) Michael C. McCord (IBM Yorktown)
Fred Popowich (Vancouver) Patrick Saint-Dizier (Toulouse)
Luis Moniz Pereira (Lisbon) Helder Coelho (Lisbon)
Ryoichi Sugimura(Matsushita Electric Ind.,Osaka)
Gabriel P. Lopes (Lisbon) (chair)
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, May 29
9:00-9:30: Registration
9:45-10:00: Opening remarks, welcome
10:00-11:00: Fernando Pereira, invited speaker
11:00-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:30: paper's presentation on discourse
11:30 Seiki Akama and Michio Kobayashi, Japan
"A labelled Deductive Approach to DRT I"
12:00 Irene Pimenta Rodrigues Gabriel Pereira Lopes, Portugal
"Representing events and states for information retrieval from text"
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00: Sandiway Fong, invited speaker
15:00-15:30: Coffee break
15:30-17:00: paper's presentation on Generation and Machine Translation
15:30 Claire Gardent, Germany
"Generating Discourse"
16:00 Barbara Gawronska and Caroline Willners, Sweden
"Automatic Generation of Domain-Specific Abstracts"
16:30 Fred Popowich, Canada
"Improving the Efficiency of a Generating Algorithm for Shake and
Bake Machine Translation Using Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar"
18:00 Wellcome Port at Lisbon's City Council
TUESDAY, May 30
9:00-10:00: Harvey Abramson, invited speaker
10:00-11:00: paper's presentation on well formedness
10:00 Robert Pasero and Paul Sabatier, France
"Guided Sentences Composition"
10:30 Joao Balsa, Veronica Dahl and G. Pereira Lopes, Portugal and Canada
"Datalog Grammars for Abductive Syntactic Error Diagnosis and Repair"
11:00-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:30: paper's presentation on parsing
11:30 Klaus Mecklenburg, Paul Heisterkamp, and Gerhard Hanrieder, Germany
"A Robust parser for continuous spoken language using PROLOG"
12:00 Norman Creaney, United Kingdom
"Implementing Scope and Dependency Constraints in a Typed Attribute
Logic"
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00: invited lecture, the speaker will be announced soon
15:00-15:30: Coffee break
15:30-17:00: paper's presentation on computational lexicons
15:30 A.Michiels, Belgium
"Multi-word Units in Horatio"
16:00 Patrick SAINT-DIZIER, France
"Modelling Type Coercion in Generative Lexicon and its
Implementation in Logic Grammars"
16:30 Masahiko Haruno, Japan
"Verbal Case Frame Acquisition as Data Compression"
Workshop dinner
WEDNESDAY, May 31
9:00-10:30: paper's presentation on features, parsing and pragmatics
9:00 Shuly Wintner, and Nissim Francez, Israel
"Abstract Machine for Typed Feature Structures"
9:30 Walt Detmar Meurers, and Guido Minnen, Germany
"A Computational Treatment of Lexical Rules as Covariation in
Lexical Entries"
10:00 Seiki Akama, Japan,
"Formalizing Implicatures in Annotated Logic"
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-12:30: Round table on Teaching, research and industrial prospects for
Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming
12:30-12:45: Close
RESERVE PAPERS
Lena Stromback, Sweden
"Using Logic Programming Results while Developing a Flexible
Unification-Based Grammar Formalism"
Philippe Blache, and Nabil Hathout, France
"Constraint Logic Programming for Natural Language Processing"
The above reserve papers will be published in the Proceedings. They will be
presented if any of the other authors can't present their papers at last minute.
These papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNAI Series.
EXHIBITION
During the two and a half days duration of the workshop there will be a book
exhibition by some of the leading international publishers.
SPONSORS
NLULP'95 is sponsored by Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundacao Luso-Americana
para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD), Fundacao do Oriente, Junta Nacional de
Investigacao Cientifica e Tecnologica (JNICT), Associacao Portuguesa para a
Inteligencia Artificial (APPIA), the Network of Excellence in Computational
Logic (COMPULOG NET), Secretaria de Estado da Ciencia e Tecnologia, Caixa Geral
de Depositos, Banco Portugues do Atlantico, IBM Portuguesa, SA, Camara Municipal
de Lisboa.
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The Fifth International Workshop on
Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming
Registration Form
Please complete this form and return it to:
Jose Gabriel Pereira Lopes (NLULP 95)
Departamento de Informatica,
Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Quinta da Torre
2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal
Phone: 351 1 295 32 20 Fax: 351 1 295 56 41
Email: gpl@fct.unl.pt
Please type or print in block letters.
Title (Prof, Dr, Mr, Ms):
First Name:
Last name:
Institution:
Department:
Address:
Phone: Fax:
Email:
Registration Fee: (includes coffee breaks, Workshop dinner)
(Special food requirements for the Workshop dinner:
vegetarian __, other:________________)
22 500 Pte -- If registration and remmitance completed by April 28, 1995
30 000 Pte -- After April 28, 1995
17 500 Pte -- Full-time student, certificate required, no late fee for
students
(Pte -- Portuguese escudo)
(Members of Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence will have
7 000 Pte reduction)
Remittance:
I have remitted the above sum of total amount in Pte on ___________ (date)
through my bank _____________ (name of your bank) to the account of NLULP-95.
(Personal check will not be accepted. Please make sure that bank transfer
expenses are covered by you.)
Name of Bank: Credit Lyonnais Portugal
Name of Account: NLULP-95
Account No.: 85 938 (Ordinary Deposit)
Please send a copy of bank's receipt of the remittance with this form.
Date:_______________ Signature: __________________________
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The Fifth International Workshop on
Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming
Hotel Accommodation
Recommended Hotels:
The Hotels are in a walking distance to the Congress Venue - Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation.
* HOTEL BARCELONA -- A 4 star Hotel with 120 rooms and 5 suites fully
equipped with private bath, satellite TV, mini-bar, telephone with
direct dial, radio, safety box, massage shower and electronic lock.
Garage.
* HOTEL NOVOTEL -- A 3 star Hotel with 246 rooms all complete with
fully-furnished bathroom, color TV, radio, video, mini-bar and
telephone with direct dial for local and long distance call. Two
Restaurants, bar and swimming-pool.
* HOTEL EDUARDO VII -- A 3 star Hotel with 130 rooms and suites all
fully equipped with private bath, direct-dial telephone, air
conditioning, mini-bar, music channels, radio and satellite TV. The
rooftop cocktail-lounge and restaurant have a breathtaking panoramic
view of old Lisbon and the Tagus river.
* HOTEL RENO -- A 3 star Hotel with all rooms
equipped with private bath, shower, radio, telephone and central heating.
80% of the rooms have a balcony. There is service of restaurant and bar.
The daily room charges in Portuguese Escudos (Pte), including tax and
service charges (including Buffet breakfast) are as follows:
Room Charge in Portuguese Escudos:
Name of Hotel Cat Single/room Twin/room
Hotel Barcelona **** 10 100 11 800
Hotel Novotel *** 11 100 11 100
Hotel Eduardo VII *** 8 500 10 000
Hotel Reno *** 7 000 8 000
For further information please contact Meeting Point Travel Agency.
Payment details:
A deposit of Pte. 20 000, is required until 28th April 1995.
The payment can be settled by:
*Bank draf payable to Meeting Point addressed to:
Meeting Point Travel Agency
Quinta de Santa Marta, sala 18
1495 ALG'ES - LISBOA
PORTUGAL
*Bank transfer addressed to:
BANCO ESPIRITO SANTO
Meeting Point Account 036/2340858.8
Largo Comandante Augusto Madureira
ALGES - 1495 LISBOA
PORTUGAL
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The Fifth International Workshop on
Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming
Hotel Reservation Form
(Deadline: April 28, 1995)
Please complete this form and return it to:
(together with the deposite, a bank check or a copy of bank's receipt)
Meeting Point Travel Agency
Quinta de Santa Marta, sala 18
Largo Comandante Augusto Madureira
ALG\'ES - 1495 LISBOA
PORTUGAL
Fax. 351 1 4120204
Phone. 351 1 4120888/4108294
Please type or print in block letters.
Participant:
Last name: First name:
Address:
City/Town/Postal Code: Country:
Fax: Phone:
Accompanying Person(s):
Last name: First name:
Last name: First name:
Hotel Accommodation:
Room Charge in Portuguese Escudos:
Name of Hotel Cat Single/room Twin/room
Hotel Barcelona **** 10 100 11 800
Hotel Novotel *** 11 100 11 100
Hotel Eduardo VII *** 8 500 10 000
Hotel Reno *** 7 000 8 000
The above rates are in Portuguese Escudos (Pte) per room and per night.
Buffet Breakfast and taxes are included.
Arrival Date: / / Departure Date: / / Number of nights:___
Twin room ___ Double room ___ Single room ___
Hotel preference: ___________________________________
Date: / / Signature: _____________________________
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The Fifth International Workshop on
Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming
Accompanying Person's Programme
Please complete this form and return it to:
Meeting Point Travel Agency
Quinta de Santa Marta, sala 18
Largo Comandante Augusto Madureira
ALGES - 1495 LISBOA
PORTUGAL
Fax: 351 1 4120204 Phone: 351 1 4120888/4108294
Date Price per person number of persons
Lisbon and
Discoveries May 29/14h00 3 000 Pte ________
Sintra/Cape
of Roca/Estoril May 30/09h00 8 000 Pte ________
Last name: First name:
The above tours are subject to a minimum of 20 persons.
Kindly contact the "Hospitality Desk" of Meeting Point at the Congress
Centre on Monday morning, May 29th in order to collect your tickets
and to make the payment.
For further information concerning the above or for any other
suggestions please contact the Meeting Point Travel Agency.
* Lisbon and Discoveries -- (Half-Day) Departure from the Congress
Centre - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - at 14h00 to the quarter of
Bel\'em, which is famous for its monuments. Stop near the Tower of
Bel\'em - built between 1515 and 1521 - and the Monument to the
Discoveries, which is comprised of a stylized caravel with various
historical figures. Not very far away, we will find the Jer\'onimos
Monastery, built in 1514, which is a good example of the
Gothic-Manueline style. Continue to the downtown and visit the
Cathedral of Lisbon, built in the 2nd half of the XII century in
Romanesque style. Return to the Hotels.
* Sintra/Cape of Roca/Estoril -- (Full-Day including lunch) Departure
from the Congress Centre - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - at 09h00
to the delightful village of Sintra, immortalized by the world famous
poet Lord Byron as "Glorious Eden". Visit to the National Palace,
former royal residence, dated from the XIV century with beautiful
tiles, painted ceilings and centuries old walls, as well as an
unusually huge kitchen. Free time for visiting this romantic village.
Lunch in a typical Restaurant. After lunch the tour proceeds to the
Cape of Roca which is the western-most point of Europe. Return to
Lisbon along the shore via Cascais, well known resort and Estoril with
its famous Casino.