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ling.uu.se>CALL FOR PAPERS Analysis for Generation a Workshop in conjunction with The International Conference on Natural Language Generation INLG'2000 (June 13-14) June 12, 20000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel the workshop homepage: http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/external.htm 1. The reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the field of NLG with the emphasis on the development of independent NLG applications rather than generation modules of MT systems. While it seems natural to consider problems of analysis and generation as two sides of a coin in such NLP applications as MT, researchers working on "pure" generation systems sometimes treat problems arising at every stage of generation-content specification, sentence planning, and surface realization-as independent. Time may be ripe for examining the mutual utility of analysis and generation in greater detail. The impetus is, as can be expected, the goal of minimizing system-building efforts in language engineering. 2. A brief technical description of the issues the workshop will address. The workshop proposes to address the issues of � Analysis as part of generation.. A modicum of analysis is, in fact, an essential part of every generation system. The input to generation systems such as raw data in tables, lists, diagrams, elements of various databases or even text snippets that are fed into the system directly by a user still must first be somehow processed, that is, analyzed The question arises whether it is possible to develop criteria to better choose and integrate analysis techniques which could be efficiently applied at different stages of generation. � Reusability and adaptability of analysis techniques and tools for generation. While it is not uncommon to believe that generation and analysis are not reversible, a number of contributions over the years have discussed reversibility of analysis and generation resources, especially the grammars and demonstrated how the use of reversible grammars may lead to efficient and flexible natural language parsing and generation systems. It is worth discussing constraints on reversibility. � Reusability of analysis knowledge and methodology of its acquisition for generation. Generation and analysis are closely related in that both processes use many similar resources, and often it is less expensive to reorganize an existing "analysis" resource (e.g., an analysis lexicon) than to acquire one for generation from scratch.It is worth discussing how to establish whether a resource built for analysis can be used for generation and at what price. In particular the workshop will seek to address the following issues I. Applications of analysis in generation and types of analysis techniques used in NLG. II. Reusability and adaptability of knowledge resources in generation and analysis - knowledge representation - lexicon format and indexing - rule writing format - knowledge acquisition and adaptation - reversibility of grammars - use of microtheories - architectural issues - converting (morphological, syntactic, semantic, etc.) analyzers into generator modules - architectural peculiarities of systems involving both analysis and synthesis and reusability of their modules. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions should consist of full papers (maximum of 12 pages Including references, 12pt font size). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, and email. Please send your electronic submission (PostScript or PDF format) until March 20 to: Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Computing Research Laboratory New Mexico State University, USA Box30001/Dept.3CRL/Las Cruces New Mexico 88003-8001 505 646 5466 (voice) 505 646 6218 (fax) lanaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
sfsu.edu>2nd Call for Papers Linguistics Session Annual Convention of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association UCLA 10 - 12 November 2000 We invite abstracts for talks on any aspect of linguistics. Talks will be 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for discussion. Proposals should not exceed 500 words and must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 50 words. Please submit your proposal by 21 March 2000 to: Ilona Vandergriff, Presiding Officer PAMLA, Linguistics Session, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ilona Vandergriff Assistant Professor of German Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 USA ph: 415.338.3120 fx: 415.338.7030 vdgriffMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue