The FINITE STRING Newsletter Programs 8000 words), double-spaced, by 1 December 1985, to Bestougeff, Ligozat - Parametrised abstract objects for the Chairman of the Program Committee: linguistic information processing Salton - On the representation of query term relations by Prof. Makoto Nagao (Kyoto) soft Boolean operators Dept. of Electrical Engineering Kyoto University 29 MARCH Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606, Japan MORNING The Program Committee will respond before 15 March Altman - The resolution of local syntactic ambuiguity by 1986. the human sentence processing mechanism The complete text of the revised papers in camera- Pulman - A parser that doesn't ready form should be sent before 1 May 1986 to Delmonte - Parsing difficulties and phonological processing Winfried Lenders in Italian Institut for Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik Izumida et al. - A natural language interface using a world der Universit~it Bonn model Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 Berry-Rogghe - Interpreting singular definite descriptions D-5300 Bonn 1 in database queries Bree, Smit - Non-standard uses of if Wehrli - Design and implementation of a lexical data base PROGRAMS Maistros, Kotsanis - Lexifamis: A lexical analyser of modern Greek ACL EUROPEANCHAPTER: Beale - Grammatical analysis by computer of the SECOND CONFERENCE Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen corpus 28 MARCH 1985 Fimbel et al. - Using a text model for analysis and gener- ation MORNING Gillott - The simulation of stress patterns in synthetic Opening Session: Invited Speaker speech - a two level problem Kornai - Natural languages and the Chomsky hierarchy Johnston, Altman - Automatic speech recognition: a Hess - How does Natural Language Quantify framework for research Stifling - Distributives, quantifiers, and a multiplicity of .4 FTER NOON events Garside - A probabflistic parser Slocum and Bennett - An evaluation of METAL Boguraev, Briscoe - Toward a dictionary support environ- Root - A two-way approach to structural transfer in MT ment for real time parsing Boitet et al. - Various representations of texts for EURO- TRA Koktova - Towards a new type of morphemic analysis Fum et al. - A rule based approach to evaluating impor- A FTER NOON tance in descriptive texts Descles - Predication and topicalisation: a formal study in Patten - A problem solving approach to generating text the framework of applicative languages from systematic grammar Bainbridge - Montagovian definite clause grammar Parisi, Giorgi - GEMS: a model of sentence production Des Tombe et al. - Specification of time in natural McDonald, Pustejovskh - SAMSON: A computational language theory of prose style in generation Fum - Natural language processing and the automatic Tait - An English generator for a case-labelled dependency acquisition of language representation Wilks - Right attachment and preference semantics Muraki et al. - Augmented dependency grammar Dunin- Keplica - How to restrict ambiguity of discourse Hajicova, Sgall - Towards an automatic identification of Haugeneder - An ATN treatment of WH-movement topic and focus Popowich - SAUMER: Sentence analysis using METArules Mofik - User modelling, dialog structure, and dialog strut- Ramsay - A self improving parser for generalised phrase egy in HAM-ANS structure grammars Narin'Yani, Simonova - Communicative context of Lehtola - A language based environment for natural dialogue interaction language parsing 44 Computational Linguistics, Volume 11, Number I, January-March 1985 The FINITE STRING Newsletter Programs 23rd ANNUALMEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION Genera"hzing the Earley Algorithm FOR COMPUTATIONALLINGUISTICS Mark Johnson 8 JULY 1985 - TUTORIALS Structure Sharing with Binary Trees Lauri Karttunen and Martin Kay Parser Construction Techniques A Structure-Sharing Representation for Unification-Based Jonathan Slocum Grammar Formalisms Prolog with Natural Language Examples Fernando Pereira Fernando Pereira Using Restriction to Extend Parsing Algorithms for Speech Recognition and Synthesis Complex-Feature-Based Formalisms Jared Bernstein and Beatrice Oshika Stuart M. Shieber Natural Language Interfaces Norman Sondheimer and Madeleine Bates AFTERNOON Unification Approaches to Grammar INVITED SPEAKER William Woods Stuart Shieber Knowledge and Language: A New Frontier 9 JULY Semantic Case Frame Parsing & Syntactic Generality MOR NING Philip Hayes Semantics of Temporal Queries and Temporal Data Movement in Active Production Networks Mark Jones and Alan Driscoll Carole D. Hafner Temporal Inferences in Medical Texts Parsing Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar Klaus Obermeier Derek Proudian and Carl Pollard Tense, Aspect and the Cognitive Representation of Time A Computational Semantics for Natural Language Kenneth Man-kam Yip Carl Polled and Lewis Creary Classification of Modality Function and its Application to Analysis of Conjunctions in a Rule-based Parser Japanese Language Analysis Leonardo Lesmo and Pietro Torasso Shozo Naito, Akira Shimazu and Hirosato Nomura 11 JULY Universality and Individuality: The Interaction of Noun MORNING Phrase Determiners in Copular Clauses INVITED SPEAKER Barbara Grosz John C. Mallery The Structures of Discourse Structures Meinongian Semantics for Propositional Semantic Networks The Dynamic Discourse Model: A Formal Approach to William J. Rapaport Discourse Segmentation A FTER NOON Remko Scha and Livia Polanyi A Pragmatics-Based Approach to Understanding Intersen- INVITED SPEAKER Fernando Pereira tential Ellipsis A Survey of Natural Language Research at Japan's Sandra Carberry Institute for New Generation Computing Technology Some Pragmatic Issues in the Planning of Definite & Speech Acts and Rationality Indefinite Noun Phrases Philip Cohen and Hector Levesque Douglas Appelt Ontological Promiscuity Repairing Reference Identificaiton Failures by Relaxation Jerry Hobbs Brad Goodman Reversible Automata and Induction of the English Auxilary AFTERNOON System INVITED SPEAKER Bonnie Webber Sam Pilato and Robert Berwick The Computation Difficulty of ID/LP Parsing Focusing in Anaphora Resolution: Allocation of Short-term G. Edward Barton, Jr. Memory Some Computational Properties of Tree Adjoining Gram- Raymonde Guindon and Burton Wagner mars Explanation Structures in XSEL Aravind Joshi and K. Vijayshankar Karen Kukich TAGs as a Grammatical Formalism for Generation Description Strategies for Naive and Expert Users David McDonald & James Pustejovsky Cecile L. Paris I 0 JULY Stress Assignment in Letter to Sound Rules for Speech Synthesis MORNING Kenneth Church Modular Logic Grammars An Eclectic Approach to Building Natural Language Inter- Michael McCord faces New Approaches to Parsing Conjunctions Using Prolog Brian Phillips, Michael Freiling, James Alexander, Robert Berwick and Sandiway Fong Steven Messick, Steve Rehfuss and Sheldon Nicholl Computational Linguistics, Volume 11, Number 1, January-March 1985 45 The FINITE STRING Newsletter Announcements 12 JULY Cambridge University Press MORNING 32 East 57th Street Structure-Sharing in Lexical Representation New York, NY 10022 Daniel Flickinger, Carl Pollard and Thomas Wasow from elsewhere: A Tool Kit for ]Lexicon Building Cambridge University Press Thomas Ahlswede The Edinburgh Building Using an On-line Dictionary to Find Rhyming Words and Shaftesbury Road Pronunciations for Unknown Words Cambridge, CB2 2RU, ENGLAND Roy Byrd & Martin Chodorow Manuscripts and editorial inquiries should be sent to Towards a Self-Extending Phrasal Lexicon Aravind Joshi Uri Zernik & Michael G. Dyer Computer and Information Science Grammatical Analysis by Computer of the Lancaster University of Pennsylvania, -Oslo/Bergen Corpus of British English Texts Philadelphia, PA 19104 Andrew D. Beale phone 215:898-8540 Extracting Semantic Hierarchies from a Large On-Line csnet joshi@upenn. Dictionary Martin Chodorow, Roy Byrd and George Heidorn NOMINATIONS FOR 1986 ACL SLATE A FTER NOON The Nominating Committee has submitted the following INVITED SPEAKER George Miller slate for consideration during the 23rd ACL Annual Dictionaries of the Mind Meeting (8-12 July 1985, University of Chicago): The Use of Syntactic Clues in Discourse Understanding President Nan Decker Ralph M. Weischedel, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Grammar Viewed as a Functioning Part of a Cognitive Vice President System William C. Mann, USC/Information Systems Institute Helen M. Gigley Secretary-Treasurer Donald E. Walker, Bell Communications Research Executive Committee (1986-1988) Barbara Grosz, SRI International ANNOUNCEMENTS Nominating Committee (1986-1988) STUDIES IN NATURALLANGUAGE PROCESSING Madeleine Bates, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Two volumes in the Cambridge University Press series The election will take place during the Business Meeting, have just been published: to be on held at 17:30 on 10 July 1985. Additional • Natural Language Parsing - Psychological, Computa- nominations can be proposed at that meeting, but nomi- tional and Theoretical Perspectives nators must be able to guarantee that their candidates are edited by David Dowty, Lauri Karttunen, and willing to serve if elected. Arnold Zwicky $39.60 members ($49.50 nonmembers); ACL SESSIONS AT NCC '85 • Generating Natural Language The two ACL Sessions at NCC '85 in Chicago, sched- by Kathleen McKeown uled to follow one another on the afternoon of July 15, $23.96 ($29.95). 1985, are: One is to be published by midsummer: • Planning Natural Language Utterances, MICROCOMPUTER DATABASES THAT UNDERSTAND by Douglas Appelt. ENGLISH Three are in production: Session Chair: Martha Evens • Space and Prepositions in English Illinois