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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.
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