6.613, Confs: Natural language Understanding and Logic Programming

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-613. Tue 25 Apr 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 169
 
Subject: 6.613, Confs: Natural language Understanding and Logic Programming
 
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 95 19:43:23 +0200
From: gpl at fct.unl.pt
Subject: Natural language Understanding and Logic Programming
 
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 95 19:43:23 +0200
From: gpl at fct.unl.pt
Subject: Natural language Understanding and Logic Programming
 
                    FINAL PROGRAM 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: Randy Sharp, invited speaker
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 Geralde Depositos, Banco Portugues do Atlantico, IBM
Portuguesa, SA, Camara Municipalde Lisboa.
 
REGISTRATION FORMS
 
More information about registration forms, contact: gpl at fct.unl.pt (Gabriel
Pereira Lopes
 
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