Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!arpa-bboard From: arpa-bboard@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.arpa-bboard Subject: call for papers Message-ID: <3650@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 05:59:50 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.3650 Posted: Wed Dec 5 05:59:50 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 03:53:04 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 54 From: ISRAEL@SRI-AI.ARPA CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding Dalhousie Univeristy Halifax, Nova Scotia 28-30 May, 1985 General Chairperson: Richard Rosenberg, Mathematics Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. B3H 4H8 Program Chairperson: Nick Cercone, Computing Science Dept., Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding is intended to bring together active researchers in Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science to discuss/hear invited talks, papers, and positions relating to some of the 'hot' issues regarding the current state of natural language understanding. The three areas chosen for discussion are aspects of grammars, aspects of semantics/pragmatics, and knowledge representation. In each of these, current methodologies will be considered: for grammars - theoretical developments, especially generalized phrase structure grammars and logic-based meta-grammars; for semantics - situation semantics and Montague semantics; for knowledge representation - logical systems and special purpose inference systems. Papers are solicited on topics in any of the areas mentioned above. You are invited to submit four copies of a paper (double-spaced, maximum 4000 words) to the program chairman: Nick Cercone, before 12 January, 1985. Authors will be notified of acceptances by 27 February. Accepted papers, typed on special forms, will be due 30 March 1985 and should be sent to the program chairman. To make referring possible it is important that the abstract summarize the novel ideas, contain enough information about the scope of the work, and include comparisons to the relevant literature. Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings; those papers so recommended by the reviewers will be considered for inclusion in a speacial issue of Computational Intelligence, an international Artificial Intelligence journal published by the National Research Council of Canada. Presentation of papers at the Workshop will be at the discretion of the program/organizing committee in order to maintain the focus and workshop flavor of this meeting. Information concerning local arrangements will be available from the general chairman: Richard Rosenberg. Proceedings will be distributed at the workshop and subsequently available for purchase. -------