Provisional Programme and Final Call for Registration - Please Post
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Registration fee is 60 pounds, inc. one dinner, lunches and coffee.
To register or reserve accommodation, contact alex@compapp.dcu.ie
Please notify me of your intention to attend by 26/6/95, so that I can book
meals etc. Some campus accommodation is still available, and can be booked
through me by email. A single room costs 16 pounds per night, exc. breakfast.
Payment on the day, by cash or Irish cheque, is acceptable for both
accommodation and registration.
Tuesday 4 July
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14:00 - 18:00 Registration
Wednesday 5 July
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09:00 - 18:00 Registration
09:45 - 10:00 Opening Remarks
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote Lecture: Mark Steedman, University of Pennsylvania
Coffee
11:30 - 13:00 Poster Session I:
LSP Corpora in NLP: Some Fundamentals and Approaches
(Bowker)
Communicative principles and utterance planning
(Jokinen)
A Learning environment for Natural Language Processing
(Boisvert)
Test Suites for NLP: Issues in their design and construction
(Balkan, Arnold & Fouvry)
A Syntax-Free NLP Interface for an Intelligent Tutoring Environment
(Long)
Syntax-Free Speech Generation
(Monaghan)
Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Oral Session I:
Exploring the role of statistics in Human Natural Language Processing
(Corley)
A Methodology for Example Based Machine Translation
(Collins & Cunningham)
Events and Individuals in Italian Dynamic Locative Expressions
(Dini & Tomaso)
Beyond Lexical Semantics
(Mandelblit)
Thursday 6 July
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10:00 - 11:00 Keynote Lecture: Alison Henry, University of Ulster
Coffee
11:30 - 13:00 Poster Session II:
On-line pragmatic inference in zero anaphor assignment.
(Peatfield & marslen-Wilson)
A Hybrid Model of Semantic Inference
(Scheler & Schumann)
Ambiguity resolution in a Connectionist Parser
(Tepper)
Nominal Compounds in the Generation of German Technical Documentations
(Kowalewski)
The universality of simple distributional methods
(Redington)
Understanding Metaphorical Descriptions of Mental States and Processes in Disc
ourse
(Barnden)
Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Oral Session II:
Cross-Serial Dependencies Are Not Hard To Process
(Vogel, Branigan & Hahn)
Arguments and Ambiguity
(Wallington)
State-Transition Syntax in an Integrated Language Model
(Tugwell)
A Computational Framework for Composition in Multiple Linguistic Domains
(Bozsahin & Gocmen)
Drinks
18:00 - 20:30 Conference Dinner
Drinks
Friday 7 July
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10:00 - 12:30 Oral Session III:
Is there a Role for Syntax/Parsing in NLP?
(Jones)
Looking for a New NLP Paradigm
(Narinyani)
Coffee
Anticipating the Interpretation
(Groefsema)
The Interplay of Syntax and Prosody During Reading
(Bader)
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 General Discussion
Closing Remarks
Drinks
More Drinks
Directions
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DCU is on the north side of Dublin, quite near the airport (10 pound taxi
fare). The conference is in the Business School, right beside the campus
entrance from Collins Avenue. The accommodation block is best reached from
the Ballymun Road entrance. If you will arrive late, please notify me in
advance: the residences office normally closes at 18:00hrs.