4.1044 Conf: 5th European ACL (1/250)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 17 Feb 91 19:53:54 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1044. Sunday, 17 Feb 1991.
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 91 17:51:51 -0500
From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker)
Subject: ACL European Chapter Conference Programme, 9-11 April 1991
Fifth Conference of the European Chapter
of the Association for Computational Linguistics
9-11 April 1991
Congress Hall, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany
THIRD CIRCULAR AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
TUESDAY, 9 APRIL 1991
9.00 Opening
9.30 Invited Paper: Antonio Zampolli (Italy)
Large Reusable Linguistic Knowledge Bases
10:30 Break
11.00 Steve G. Pulman (Great Britain)
Comparatives and Ellipsis
11.30 Wolfgang Wahlster, Elisabeth Androe, Winfried Graf, Thomas Rist
(Germany):
Designing Illustrated Texts: How Language Production is Influenced by
Graphics Generation
12.00 David M. Magerman, Mitchell P. Marcus (USA)
Pearl: A Probabilistic Chart Parser
Section A
14.00 Tilman Becker, Aravind K. Joshi, Owen Rambow (USA)
Long-Distance Scrambling and Tree Adjoining Grammars
14.30 Alberto Lavelli, Giorgio Satta (Italy)
Bidirectional Parsing Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars
15.00 Stephen J. Hegner (USA)
Horn Extended Feature Structures: Fast Unification with Negation
and Limited Disjunction
15.30 Break
16.00 Patrick Saint-Dizier (France)
Processing Language with Logical Types and Active Constraints
16.30 Rene Leermakers (Netherlands)
Non-deterministic Recursive Ascent Parsing
17.00 Tsuneko Nakazawa (USA)
An Extended LR Parsing Algorithm for Grammars Using Feature-
Based Syntactic Categories
Section B
14.00 Fabio Pianesi (Italy)
Indexing and Referential Dependencies within Binding Theory:
A Computational Framework
14.30 Manfred Pinkal (Germany)
On the Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Bound Anaphora
15.00 Longin Latecki (Germany)
An Indexing Technique for Implementing Command Relations
15.30 Break
16.00 Pete Whitelock (Great Britain)
What sorts of trees do we speak? - A Computational Model of the
Syntax-Prosody Interface in Tokyo Japanese
16.30 Eric Bilange (France)
A Task Independent Oral Dialogue Model
17.00 Steven Bird, Patrick Blackburn (Great Britain)
A Computational Approach to Arabic Phonology
WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 1991
Section A
9.00 Dan Tufis, Octav Popescu (Roumania)
A Unified Management and Processing of Word-Forms, Idioms and
Analytical Compounds
9.30 Alan W. Black (Great Britain), Joke van de Plassche (Netherlands)
Analysis of Unknown Words through Morphological Decomposition
10.00 Michel Gilloux (France)
Automatic Learning of Word Transducers from Example
10.30 Break
11.00 Sabine Reinhard, Dafydd Gibbon (Germany)
Prosodic Inheritance and Morphological Generalisations
11.30 James Kilbury, Petra Naerger, Ingrid Renz (Germany)
DATR as a Lexical Component for PATR
12.00 Gunnel Kaellgren (Sweden)
Parsing without Lexicon: the MorP System
Section B
9.00 Stephan Busemann (Germany)
Structure-Driven Generation from Separate Semantic Representations
9.30 Alison Cawsey (Great Britain)
Using Plausible Inference Rules in Description Planning
10.00 Lee Fedder (Great Britain)
Generating Sentences from Different Perspectives
10.30 Break
11.00 Danilo Fum, Bruno Pani, Carlo Tasso (Italy)
Teaching the English Tense: Integrating Naive and Formal Grammars
in an Intelligent Tutor for Foreign Language Teaching
11.30 Jacky Herz, Mori Rimon (Israel)
Local Syntactic Constraints
12.00 Robert Dale, Nicholas Haddock (Great Britain)
Generating Referring Expressions Involving Relations
Section A
14.00 Richard P. Cooper (Great Britain)
Coordination in Unification-Based Grammars
14.30 Luis Damas, Nelma Moreira (Portugal), Giovanni B. Varile (Luxembourg)
The Formal and Processing Models of CLG
15.00 Gosse Bouma (Netherlands)
Prediction in Chart Parsing Algorithms for Categorial Unification
Grammar
15.30 Break
16.00 Guy Barry, Mark Hepple, Neil Leslie, Glyn Morrill (Great Britain)
Proof Figures and Structural Operators for Categorial Grammar
16.30 Juergen Wedekind (USA)
Classical Logics for Attribute-Value Languages
17.00 Joep Rous (Netherlands)
Computational Aspects of M-grammars
Section B
14.00 Matthew W. Crocker (Great Britain)
Multiple Interpreters in a Principle-Based Model of Sentence
Processing
14.30 Suzanne Stevenson (USA)
A Computational Architecture for Syntactic Disambiguation
15.00 Elena V. Paducheva (USSR)
Semantic Features and Selection Restrictions
15.30 Break
16.00 Sabine Bergler (USA)
The Semantics of Collocational Patterns for Reporting Verbs
16.30 Michael R. Brent (USA)
Automatic Semantic Classification of Verbs from their Syntactic
Contexts: An Implemented Classifier for Stativity
17.00 Nancy M. Ide (USA), Jean Veronis (France)
An Assessment of Semantic Information Automatically Extracted
from Machine Readable Dictionaries
THURSDAY, 11 APRIL 1991
9.00 Arne Joensson (Sweden)
A Dialogue Manager Using Initiative-Response Units and
Distributed Control
9.30 Gudrun Klose, Thomas Pirlein (Germany)
Modelling Knowledge for a Natural Language Understanding System
10.00 Guenter Neumann (Germany)
A Bidirectional Model for Natural Language Processing
10.30 Break
11.00 Espen J. Vestre (Norway)
An Algorithm for Generating Non-redundant Quantifier Scopings
11.30 Richard Ball, Keith Brown, Anne de Roeck, Chris Fox, Marjolein
Groefsema, Nadim Obeid, Ray Turner (Great Britain)
Helpful Answers to Modal and Hypothetical Questions
12.00 Karin Haenelt, Michael Koenyves-Tlth (Germany)
The Textual Development of Non-Stereotypic Concepts
14.00 Bianka Buschbeck, Renate Henschel, Iris Hoeser, Gerda Klimonow,
Andreas Kuestner, Ingrid Starke (Germany)
Limits of a Sentence Based Procedural Approach for Aspect
Choice in German-Russian Machine Translation
14.30 Jun-ichi Tsujii, Kimikazu Fujita (Great Britain)
Lexical Transfer Based on Bilingual Signs: Towards Interaction
During Transfer
15.00 Yannis Dologlou (Greece), Giovanni Malnati (Italy), Patrizia
Paggio (Denmark)
A Preference Mechanism Based on Multiple Criteria Resolution
15.30 Break
16.00 Graham Russell, Afzal Ballim, Dominique Estival, Susan
Warwick-Armstrong (Switzerland)
A Language for the Statement of Binary Relations over Feature
Structures
16.30 Louisa Sadler, Henry S. Thompson (Great Britain)
Structural Non-Correspondence in Translation
17.00 Final Meeting
RESERVE PAPERS:
Nelson Correa (Colombia)
An Extension of Earley's Algorithm for S- and L-Attributed Grammars
Helmut Horacek (Germany)
Exploiting Conversational Implicature for Generating Concise Explanations
Hubert Lehmann (Germany)
Towards a Core Vocabulary for a Natural Language System
Heinz-Dirk Luckhardt (Germany)
Sublanguages in Machine Translation - What are they worth?
Jan Odijk (Netherlands)
Using Transformations in a Compositional Framework
Allan Ramsay (Ireland)
A Common Framework for Analysis and Generation
CONFERENCE SITE
The Congress Hall (Kongresshalle) is situated at the east side of
Alexanderplatz, at the beginning of Alexanderstrasse, close to
Haus des Lehrers.
Alexanderplatz has a station of S-Bahn (municipal train) and U-Bahn
(subway) of the same name.
>From airport Berlin-Schoenefeld: S-Bahn
>From airport Berlin-Tegel: Bus (line 9) to S-Bahn Station
Charlottenburg, then S-Bahn.
ACCOMMODATION
If you have a confirmation for your hotel accommodation, you may
go first to the hotel if convenient. If you booked accommodation
in a youth guest-house, you should first go to the Conference
Office. You have to pay your accommodation booked at the Europaeisches
Reisebuero as well as the accommodation in youth guest-houses in
the Conference Office, in all other cases you have to pay in the
hotel. Cheques and credit cards will be accepted.
CONFERENCE OFFICE
The Conference Office in the Kongresshalle will be open as
follows:
Monday, 8 April 1991 10.00 - 22.00
Tuesday, 9 April to Thursday, 11 April 1991 8.00 - 18.00
In the Conference Office there will be a desk of the Europaeisches
Reisebuero, which will on request confirm or book flights, reserve
seat tickets for trains, order tickets for cultural events, and
help you in other touristic matters.
DEMONSTRATIONS AND BOOK EXHIBITION
On Thursday, 11 April, we will have a special section for
demonstrations. They can be prepared on Wednesday. The final
programme for this section will be distributed during the conference.
Participants who are still interested in giving a demonstration
are welcome to contact Wolfgang Menzel (same address) to be included
in the programme and to discuss further details. During the
conference we will have a book exhibition where several publishing
houses and book sellers will show their specific offer and you will
have the possibility of ordering.
SOCIAL EVENTS
Monday, 8 April 1991, from 15.00: Get-together Reception (Kongresshalle)
Thursday, 11 April 1991, 19.00: Banquet ("Schultheiss in der Hasenheide",
Hasenheide 23-31, 1000 Berlin 61, U-Bahn, line 8, station "Hermannplatz")
TOURISTIC EVENTS
as announced in the Second Circular. We strongly recommend you to
book the touristic events by 26 February, because the tours T4, T5
and T6 will be cancelled by 1 March if there are not enough
participants.
CORRESPONDENCE/INQUIRIES
Your correspondence partners for hotel reservations are
Europaeisches Reisebuero and Berlin Tourist Office, respectively.
In all other cases contact:
Juergen Kunze
Zentralinstitut fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Prenzlauer Promenade 149-152, D-1100 Berlin, GERMANY
Telephone: (+37-2) 47 97 153 or 47 97 173
Telex: 114713 adwgi dd