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UVM.HAIFA.AC.IL>18th International Congress on Education of the Deaf Tel, Aviv, Israel, July 16-20, 1995 First Announcement This is the first announcement for the conference, held once in five years, this time in Israel. The conference program includes a wide variety of topics. Topics of potential interest to LINGUIST subscribers include: Linguistics, communication, language development, literacy, and cognition and learning Abstracts must be received by November 15, 1994. All abstracts must be submitted by regular mail on the form provided in the announcement booklet. To receive a booklet, please contact Wendy Sandler by direct email, and send your regular mail address: RHLE702Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.columbia.edu>ACL-1994 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT THE BALANCING ACT Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language 1 July 1994, just after ACL '94 New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA Organized by: Judith Klavans (Columbia), Philip Resnik (Sun) A renaissance of interest in corpus-based statistical methods has rekindled old controversies -- rationalist vs. empiricist philosophies, theory-driven vs. data-driven methodologies, symbolic vs. statistical techniques. The aim of this workshop is to set aside a priori biases and explore the balancing act that must take place when symbolic and statistical approaches are brought together. PROGRAM INVITED TALK : Qualitative and Quantitative Designs for Speech Translation Hiyan Alshawi The Noisy Channel and the Braying Donkey Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Pazienza, and Paola Velardi Study and Implementation of Combined Techniques for Automatic Extraction of Terminology Beatrice Daille Parsing with Principles and Probabilities Andrew Fordham and Matthew Crocker Do we Need Linguistics When We Have Statistics? A Comparative Analysis of the Contributions of Linguistic Cues to a Statistical Word Grouping System Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou Complexity of Description of Primitives: Relevance to Local Statistical Computations Aravind K. Joshi and B. Srinivas The Automatic Construction of a Symbolic Parser Via Statistical Techniques Shyam Kapur and Robin Clark Integrating Symbolic and Statistical Approaches in Speech and Natural Language Applications Marie Meteer and Herbert Gish Combining Linguistic with Statistical Methods in Automatic Speech Understanding Patti Price Exploring the Statistical Derivation of Transformational Rule Sequences for Part-of-Speech Tagging Lance A. Ramshaw and Mitchell P. Marcus Bootstrapping Statistical Processing into a Rule-Based Natural Language Parser Stephen D. Richardson Statistical versus Symbolic Parsing for Captioned-Information Retrieval Neil C. Rowe Learning a Radically Lexical Grammar Mary McGee Wood REGISTRATION Registration fees are $25 for participants who register by 15 May 1994. Late registrations will be $30. Registration includes a copy of the proceedings, lunch, and refreshments during the day. Acceptable forms of payment are US$ cheques payable to "ACL" or credit card (VISA/Mastercard) payment. Please submit the following form along with payment: name:_________________________________________________________________ institution: (for name tag)___________________________________________ address: (postal address)_____________________________________________ email:________________________________________________________________ payment: (specify cheque or credit card)______________________________ credit card info: (name on card, card number, expiration date)________ ______________________________________________________________________ dietary requirements: (vegetarian, kosher,etc.)_______________________ Please send to: Philip Resnik Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc. Mailstop UCHL03-207 Two Elizabeth Drive, Chelmsford, MA 01824-4195 USA Email: philip.resnikMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue