LINGUIST List 5.1137

Tue 18 Oct 1994

Calls: Les journees, Central American ling, Computational

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1. , Call for papers - first announcement
2. Alberto Rey, CILCA '95
3. Gerrit M. Rentier ITK, Programme/Call for Participation IWCS

For the ninth year in a row, the Association of Graduate Students in Linguis-
tics at the Universite Laval is organizing the student conference Les Journees
De Linguistique, which will be held on March the 9th, 10th and 11th 1995 at the
Universite Laval in Quebec City (Canada).

Les Journees De Linguistique is a conference allowing M.A. and Ph.D. students
as well as postdoctorate researchers to present the result of their work in all
fields of linguistics, from all theoretical standpoints. Furthermore, once agai
n this year, the papers presented at the conference will be published in the
proceedings.

Les Journees De Linguistique is thus an excellent opportunity to initiate one-
self to scholarly communication and publication, or to share and expand one's
understanding of the discipline.

In addition to the general session which will bring researchers from the Ameri-
cas and Europe, a thematic session on SEMANTICS will be held. This thematic se-
ssion will allow researchers concerned with any of the various aspects of this
field (lexical or grammatical Semantics, Discourse studies, Pragmatics, among
others) to present innovative work and discuss their significance. Given the
limited space avalaible, the papers that cannot be scheduled in the thematic
session will be considered for the general session.

A proposal for one 30 minute presentation (including the discussion period) can
be sent through mail no later than December 9th 1994. It must include a $CDN 8
cheque covering the registration fees, three copies of an anonymous abstract,
and three copies of an information document. This information document will in-
dicate the name of the researcher; his affiliation; the title of the paper; the
session for which the paper is prepared; if the paper is prepared for the gene-
ral session, its field (Phonetics, Phonology, Lexicon studies, Grammar, Seman-
tics, Discourse studies, Computational linguistics, Teaching, Translation, So-
ciolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Epistemology, other (please specify)); the
availability to chair a session; the researcher's full postal and e-mail adress
as well as phone and fax numbers, both at the university and at home. The ano-
nymous abstract will describe in no more than 20 lines the title of the paper,
the relevant session and field, as well as the problem analyzed in the paper,
its goals, the demarche and the results. It should also describe, if applicable
the theoretical standpoint, the methodology, the data, or whatever important
element of the work.

The researcher will receive the comments of the organizing committee along with
 the preliminary program by the middle of January.

All written material and the large majority of presentations are expected to be
 in French.

We hope you will be there to participate in another exciting conference!

Send all proposals and queries to:
Pierre Larrivee, president of the organizing committee,
Departement de langues et linguistique, U Laval, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada
G1K 7P4. Phone: (418) 656-3263. Fax: (418) 656-2019.
3914larpvm1.ulaval.ca

Pierre Larrivee
Departement de langues et linguistique, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada,
G1K 7P4
3914larpvm1.ulaval.ca

 AVISO IMPORTANTE
 TERCER CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE LITERATURA CENTROAMERICANA
 C.I.L.C.A. '95
 Ciudad de Guatemala: 22-24 de febrero de 1995

Mande abstractos (una pagina) y propuestas para sesiones especiales
antes del 15 de noviembre de 1994 a:
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Send abstracts (one page) and proposals for special sessions by Nov. 15,1994
to:

Jorge Roman-Lagunas
Conference Director
Foreign Languages & Literatures
Purdue University Calumet
Hammond, IN 46323-2094
Telephone: (219)989-2632
Fax: (219)989-2581
E-mail: in%"romanljpucal.bitnet"

Congreso organizado por la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala y
 Purdue University Calumet

La conferencia se especializa en literatura de Centroamerica pero ahora
estamos haciendo una llamada especial a los linguistas interesados en
presentar un tema relacionado con algun estudio linguistico sobre
Centroamerica.

The Conference is prncipally interested in research on Central American
literature but is making a special call to linguists for research on
Central American linguistics.

Mande abstractos sobre estudios de literatura centroamericana al:
Profesor Roman Lagunas
Mande abstractos de linguistica al:
Profesor Rey

Send abstracts on studies of Central American Literature to:
Professor Roman-Lagunas
Send linguistics abstracts to:
Professor Rey

Fecha limite para los abstractos es el 1 de diciembre de 1994.
Deadline for abstracts is Dec. 1, 1994.

Inscripcion/Registration:
Profesores- $95(antes/before 15-nov-94)
 $125(despues/after 16-nov-94)
Estudiantes- $65(antes/before 15-nov-94)
 $85(despues/after 16-nov-94)
Favor de enviar cheque o giro postal a nombre de "CILCA" a: Jorge
Roman-Lagunas a la direccion indicada anteriormente.

 Alberto Rey
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
Howard University
Washington,D.C. 20059
Phone: (202)806-6758
Fax: (202)806-4562
E-mail: alreycldc.howard.edu

PROGRAMME and CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
December 19-21, 1994, Tilburg, The Netherlands

The Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence
will host a workshop on Computational Semantics that will take
place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from 19 - 21 December 1994.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers involved
in all aspects of computational semantics of natural language.

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE (Tilburg University, Room AZ9)

MONDAY DECEMBER 19

09.00-09.45 hrs Registration at the hall of building B
09.45-10.00 hrs Opening by Harry Bunt (ITK, Tilburg)
10.00-10.40 hrs Allan Ramsay (Ireland)
 "The Co-operative Lexicon"
10.40-10.55 hrs coffee
10.55-11.35 hrs Chris Fox (UK)
 "Discourse Representation, Type Theory and Property Theory"
11.35-12.15 hrs Rene Ahn (The Netherlands)
 "Dynamic Knowledge States in Type Theory"
12.15-13.45 hrs lunch
13.45-14.25 hrs Henk Zeevat (The Netherlands)
 "Questions and Exhaustivity in Update Semantics"
14.25-15.05 hrs Rodger Kibble (Scotland)
 "Dynamics of Epistemic Modality and Anaphora"
15.05-15.45 hrs Matthew Stone (USA)
 "The Reference Argument of Epistemic `Must'"
15.45-16.00 hrs tea
16.00-16.40 hrs Leon Verschuur (The Netherlands)
 "Agreement and Dynamic Semantics in HPSG"
16.40-17.20 hrs Jonathan Ginzberg (Scotland)
 "An Update Semantics for Dialogue"
17.20 hrs DRINKS

TUESDAY DECEMBER 20

09.00-09.40 hrs Tim Fernando (Germany)
 "What is a DRS?"
09.40-10.20 hrs N. Asher, M. Aurnague, M. Bras, P. Sablayrolles and
 L. Vieu (France)
 "Computing the Spatiotemporal Structure of Discourse"
10.20-10.35 hrs coffee
10.35-11.15 hrs Jose Coch and Raphael David (France)
 "Causality and Multisentential Text"
11.15-11.55 hrs Claire Gardent and Joke Dorrepaal (The Netherlands)
 "Reversible Discourse Processing"
11.55-12.35 hrs Henriette de Swart and Arie Molendijk (The Netherlands)
 "Negation in Narrative Discourse"
12.35-13.45 hrs lunch
13.45-14.25 hrs Nissim Franchez and Jonathan Berg (Denmark)
 "MDRT: A Multi-Agent Extension of DRT"
14.25-15.05 hrs Massimo Poesio (Scotland)
 "Ambiguity, Underspecification and Discourse Interpretation"
15.05-15.45 hrs J. Bos E. Mastenbroek, S. McGlashan, S. Millies and
 M. Pinkal (Germany)
 "A Compositional DRS-based Formalism for NLP Applications"
15.45-16.00 hrs tea
16.00-16.40 hrs Stephen Pulman (UK)
 "A Computational Theory of Context Dependence"
16.40-17.40 hrs DISCUSSION

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21

09.00-09.40 hrs Tsutomu Fujinami (UK)
 "A Transitional Approach to Semantics: Encoding
 Situation-theoretic Objects into the pi-calculus"
09.40-10.20 hrs Ariel Cohen (USA)
 "Reasoning with Generics"
10.20-10.35 hrs coffee
10.35-11.15 hrs Daniel Marcu and Graeme Hirst (Canada)
 "An Implemented Formalism for Computing Linguistic
 Presuppostions and Existential Commitments"
11.15-12.05 hrs Gosse Bouma (The Netherlands)
 "Calculated Flexibility"
12.05-13.45 hrs lunch

REGISTRATION FORM

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
19-21 DECEMBER 1994
TILBURG, THE NETHERLANDS

Name : .................................

Affiliation : .................................

Address : .................................

City, State, Zip Code : .................................

Country : .................................

Telephone : .................................

Fax : .................................

Email address : .................................

REGISTRATION FEE

Before November 1, 1994 Dfl. 275,00
After November 1, 1994 Dfl. 325,00

METHOD OF PAYMENT:

0 Bank Transfer
 Transfer the registration fee in Dutch guilders to:
 * ABN/AMRO Bank
 Account number 45 50 46 042;
 Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, 5037 GC TILBURG
 Please mention code 951.55, Computational Semantics, and
 your name. Please calculate transfer charges, as we must
 receive the full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees
 will have to be paid upon arrival.

0 Postal Money Order
 Make the fee (in Dutch guilders) payable to:
 * Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, 5037 GC TILBURG
 Please mention code 951.55, Computational Semantics and
 your name. Please calculate transfer charges, as we must
 receive the full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees
 will have to be paid upon arrival.

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 information:

 Card number : .........................

 Expiration date : .........................

 Name as it appears on card: .........................

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HOTEL RESERVATION

Do you want us to make hotel reservations for you? (The price of a
single room will be approximately Dfl. 135,00 per person per night,
breakfast included.) YES / NO

If your answer to the previous question was YES, please fill in the
date of your arrival and departure.

Date of arrival : ................................................

Date of departure: ................................................

Send this registration form to:

Peggy Bertens
Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE TILBURG
The Netherlands Tel.: +31 13 663113
Fax : +31 13 662537
Email:Computational.Semanticskub.nl

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Organizing Committee
International Workshop on Computational Semantics
Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Phone: (+31) (0)13 663060
Fax: (+31) (0)13 662537
Email: Computational.Semanticskub.nl