Information Retrieval List Digest 060 (May 8, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-060 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 May 91 15:53:40 PST Reply-To: Information Retrieval List Sender: Information Retrieval List From: IRLIST Subject: IRLIST Digest, Vol. VIII, No. 17, Issue 60 IRLIST Digest May 8, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 17 Issue 60 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. ACL-91 Program and Registration Information University of California, Berkeley, California June 17-21, 1991 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Don Walker Re: ACL-91 Program and Registration Information University of California, Berkeley, California June 17-21, 1991 *MONDAY EVENING, 17 JUNE 7:00--9:00Tutorial Registration and Reception, Wheeler Hall *TUESDAY, 18 JUNE 8:00--3:00Tutorial Registration, Wheeler Hall 9:00--12:30TUTORIAL SESSIONS Natural Language Generation, Kathleen McCoy and Johanna Moore Intonation in Spoken Language Systems, Julia Hirschberg 2:00--5:30TUTORIAL SESSIONS Computational Linguistics Methodologies for Humanities Computing Nancy M. Ide Machine Translation: An In-Depth Tutorial, Jaime Carbonell and Yorick Wilks 7:00--9:00Conference Registration and Reception, Wheeler Hall 7:00--9:00Exhibits and Demonstrations, 203 Wheeler Hall and 279 Dwinelle Hall *REGISTRATION: WEDNESDAY--FRIDAY 8:00--5:00Wheeler Hall; until noon Friday *EXHIBITS & DEMONSTRATIONS: WEDNESDAY--FRIDAY 9:00--6:00203 Wheeler Hall and 279 Dwinelle Hall; until 1:30pm Friday *WEDNESDAY, 19 JUNE -- WHEELER HALL *WEDNESDAY, 19 JUNE -- WHEELER HALL 8:30--8:45Opening remarks and anouncements 8:45--9:10Resolution of Collective-Distributive Ambiguity Using Model-Based Reasoning, Chinatsu Aone 9:10--9:35Inclusion, Disjointness and Choice: The Logic of Linguistic Classification, Bob Carpenter & Carl Pollard 9:35--10:00Event-Building through Role-Filling and Anaphora Resolution Greg Whittemore, Melissa Macpherson & Greg Carlson 10:00--10:20BREAK 10:20--10:45Toward a Plan-Based Understanding Model for Mixed-Initiative Dialogues, Hiroaki Kitano & Carol Van Ess-Dykema 10:45--11:10An Algorithm for Plan Recognition in Collaborative Discourse, Karen E. Lochbaum 11:10--11:30A Three-Level Model for Plan Exploration Lance A. Ramshaw 11:30--11:50A Tripartite, Plan-Based Model of Dialogue Lynn Lambert & Sandra Carberry 11:50--1:40LUNCH (Student Sessions) 1:40--2:05Discourse Relations and Defeasible Knowledge Alex Lascarides & Nicholas Asher 2:05--2:30Some Facts about Centers, Indexicals, and Demonstratives Rebecca J. Passonneau 2:30--2:55Type-Raising and Directionality in Combinatory Grammar Mark Steedman 2:55--3:15BREAK 3:15--3:40Efficient Incremental Processing with Categorial Grammar Mark Hepple & Guy Barry 3:40--4:05Compose-Reduce Parsing, Henry S. Thompson, Mike Dixon & John Lamping 4:05--4:30LR Recursive Transition Networks for Earley and Tomita Parsing, Mark Perlin 4:30--4:50BREAK 4:50--5:15A New Shift-Reduce Parser for Arbitrary Context-Free Grammars: Relationship to Earley's Parser & Formal Results Yves Schabes 5:15--5:40Head Corner Parsing for Discontinuous Constituency Gertjan van Noord 5:40--6:05The Acquisition and Application of Context Sensitive Grammar for English, Robert F. Simmons & Yeong-Ho Yu *THURSDAY, 20 JUNE -- WHEELER HALL 8:30--8:55Two Languages are More Informative than One Ido Dagan, Alon Itai & Ulrike Schwall 8:55--9:20Learning Perceptually-Grounded Semantics in the L0 Project Terry Regier 9:20--9:45Subject-Dependent Co-occurrence and Word Sense Disambiguation, Joe A. Guthrie, Louise Guthrie, Yorick Wilks & Homa Aidinejad 9:45--10:10A System for Translating Locative Prepositions from English into French, Nathalie Japkowicz 10:10--10:30BREAK 10:30--10:55Translation by Quasi Logical Form Transfer, Hiyan Alshawi, David Carter, Bjoern Gambaeck & Manny Rayner 10:55--12:00Linguistic Problems and Extra-Linguistic Problems in Machine Translation (INVITED TALK), Jun-ichi Tsujii, UMIST 12:00--1:45LUNCH (Student Sessions) 1:45--2:05Aligning Sentences in Parallel Corpora Peter F. Brown, Jennifer C. Lai & Robert L. Mercer 2:05--2:25A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora William A. Gale & Kenneth W. Church 2:25--2:50Experiments and Prospects of Example-Based Machine Translation, Eiichiro Sumita & Hitoshi Iida 2:50--3:10BREAK 3:10--3:35Resolving Translation Mismatches with Information Flow, 3:10--3:35Resolving Translation Mismatches with Information Flow, Megumi Kameyama, Ryo Ochitani, Stanley Peters & Hidetoshi Sirai 3:35--4:00Automatic Noun Classification by Using Japanese-English Word Pairs, Naomi Inoue 4:00--4:20BREAK 4:20--4:45Automatic Acquisition of Subcategorization Frames from Untagged, Free-Text Corpora, Michael R. Brent 4:45--5:10Multiple Default Inheritance in a Unification-Based Lexicon, Graham Russell, John Carroll & Susan Warwick-Armstrong 5:10--5:35Metaphoric Generalization through Sort Coercion Ellen Hays & Samuel Bayer 5:35--6:00Structural Ambiguity and Lexical Relations Donald Hindle and Mats Rooth 7:00---8:00RECEPTION: Pauley Ballroom, Student Union 8:00--10:00BANQUET: Pauley Ballroom, Student Union, Presidential Address: Ralph Grishman *FRIDAY, 21 JUNE -- WHEELER HALL 8:30--8:55Strategies for Adding Control Information to Declarative Grammars, Hans Uszkoreit 8:55--9:20Finite-State Approximation of Phrase Structure Grammars Fernando Pereira & Rebecca Wright 9:20--9:45Feature Logic with Weak Subsumption Constraints Jochen Doerre 9:45--10:05BREAK 10:05--11:05Word Meaning: Starting where the MRDs Stop (INVITED TALK), Charles Fillmore and Sue Atkins 11:05--11:50BUSINESS MEETING & ELECTIONS Nominations for ACL Offices for 1992 President: Kathy McKeown, Columbia University Vice President: Fernando Pereira, AT&T Bell Labs Secretary-Treasurer: Don Walker, Bellcore Executive Committee (1992-1993): Martha Pollack, SRI International Executive Committee (1992-1994): Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen Nominating Committee (1992-1994): Ralph Grishman, New York University 11:50--1:10LUNCH 1:10--1:35Word Sense Disambiguation using Statistical Methods, Peter F. Brown, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra & Robert L. Mercer 1:35--2:00A Stochastic Process for Word Frequency Distributions Harald Baayen 2:00--2:25An Evaluation of Xtract from N-Grams to Collocations Frank Z. Smadja 2:25--2:45BREAK 2:45--3:10Predicting Intonational Phrasing from Text Michelle Q. Wang & Julia Hirschberg 3:10--3:35A Best-First Language Processor Integrating the Unification Grammar and Markov Language Model for Speech Recognition Applications, Lee-Feng Chien, K.J. Chen & Lin-Shan Lee 3:35--4:00Factorization of Language Constraints in Speech Recognition, Roberto Pieraccini and Chin-Hui Lee 4:00--4:20BREAK 4:00--4:20BREAK 4:20--4:45Constraint Projection: An Efficient Treatment of Disjunctive Feature Descriptions, Mikio Nakano 4:45--5:05Quasi-Destructive Graph Unification Hideto Tomabechi 5:05--5:25Unification with Lazy Non-Redundant Copying Martin C. Emele *PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Doug Appelt, SRI International; Ken Church, AT&T Bell Labs and USC/ISI; Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo; Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tuebingen; Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI; Robert Ingria, BBN Systems & Technologies; Yasuhiro Katagiri, NTT Basic Research Laboratories; Diane Litman, Columbia University; K. Vijay-Shanker, University of Delaware; Meg Withgott, XEROX PARC; Henk Zeevat, University of Amsterdam *TUTORIALS, 18 June 1991 *NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION: Kathleen McCoy, University of Delaware, Johanna Moore, University of Pittsburgh The ability to generate natural language utterances is an important component of many intelligent systems (expert systems, intelligent tutoring systems, advice-giving systems). This tutorial will provide an in-depth survey of the branch of computational linguistics known as natural language generation. Most of the work in natural language processing has concentrated on understanding text. Instead, we look at the problems involved in generating text. Generation brings up issues not apparent in understanding. The task of an understander is to recognize which choice has been taken. In contrast, a generator must decide why to make one choice over another. Considering generation forces the researcher to come to terms with issues concerning what kind of information must be available to the generation component, where that information may be obtained, and how information should be presented to different users in different situations. In this tutorial we concentrate on a portion of the generation process known as text planning, which is responsible for deciding what is to be said and how it is to be structured. We look at how the content of a text can be chosen (including topics in user modeling and text planning formalisms) and how texts should be structured in a coherent fashion (including topics on text structure and coherence, pragmatics, focus of attention). *INTONATION IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS: Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Bell Laboratories. Current interest in spoken language systems has focused attention on potential interfaces between traditional concerns of Natural Language Processing with syntactic, semantic and discourse/pragmatics representation and analysis -- and traditional concerns of speech scientists and engineers with speech recognition and synthesis. One area of mutual interest is intonational variation. How do intonational features such as phrasing and prominence interact with syntactic, semantic and discourse factors to shape the overall `meaning' of an utterance? (Can parsers be designed to parse intonational features along with lexical items? Can intonation disambiguate among possible semantic interpretations of a sentence?) How can knowledge of intonational regularities improve speech recognition techniques and provide more natural-sounding synthetic speech? (Can intonational information be incorporated into recognition hypotheses? Can likely intonational features be reliably predicted from text to approximate human intonation in synthetic speech?) This tutorial will survey (a) current empirical and theoretical research on the contribution of intonation to utterance interpretation, (b) methods of prosodic analysis from speech corpora, (c) alternative approaches to intonational description and representation, and (d) current and potential applications to speech generation systems, text-to-speech systems and speech recognition. The tutorial will be extensively illustrated with examples from natural and synthetic speech. *COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS METHODOLOGIES FOR HUMANITIES COMPUTING Nancy M. Ide, Vassar College. Recently, panels and sessions at COLING, and conferences of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing have addressed the increasing merging of methodologies in the fields of computational linguistics and humanities computing. On the one hand, computational linguists are devoting considerable attention to statistical and other quantitative measures traditionally used in humanities computing. Also, work with large text corpora, long the central activity in humanities computing, is becoming an important area for computational linguistics. Computational linguists are now beginning to consider texts, and even literary texts, as an object of study and a rich source of information about the phenomena of language and discourse. On the other hand, humanists are turning to methods for morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis developed by computational linguists to enhance their strategies for literary and linguistic studies. This tutorial will describe work which falls at the intersection of the fields of computational linguistics and humanities computing, either in methodology or use of materials, and show how these methods and materials benefit both disciplines. In particular, work in the areas of computational lexicology and lexicography, corpora and corpus linguistics, statistical models and methods for language and text analysis, and content analysis will be considered. *MACHINE TRANSLATION: AN IN-DEPTH TUTORIAL Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Yorick Wilks, New Mexico State University. Machine Translation (MT) is the area of computational linguistics with the longest history and with the largest volume of dedicated R&D resources on the global scene. After reviewing the primary objectives and accomplishments of MT in its 40-year history, the major MT paradigms will be presented in some detail, including sytactic transfer, semantic transfer, and interlingua-based approaches. Then, we will discuss the appropriateness of these methods to different application areas, including technical vs nontechnical text, specialized domains vs general text, multilingual vs bilingual requirements, spontaneous discourse vs prepared text, and full-translation vs text scanning vs fact extraction. We will also touch upon evaluation of MT systems and recent developments in MT such the remergence of statistical approaches, making knowledge-based interlingual MT systems practical, and the integration of MT with other technologies such as document production, optical character recognition, and speech understanding. *PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS *LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION, 17 June 1991 Sponsored by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) The recent resurgence of interest in lexical semantics (LS) has brought many linguistic formalisms closer to the knowledge representation (KR) languages utilized in AI. In fact, some formalisms from computational linguistics are emerging which may be more expressive and formally better understood than many KR languages. Furthermore, the interests of computational linguists now extend to include areas previously thought beyond the scope of grammar and linguistics, such as commonsense knowledge, inheritance, default reasoning, collocational relations, and even domain knowledge. With such an extension of the purview of ``linguistic'' knowledge, the question emerges as to whether there is any logical justification for distinguishing between lexical semantics and world knowledge. The purpose of this workshop is to explore this question in detail, with papers addressing the following points: -Possible methods for determining what is lexical knowledge and what is outside the scope of such knowledge. -Potential demonstrations that the inferences necessary for language understanding are no different from supposed non-linguistic inferences. -Arguments from language acquisition and general concept development. -Cross-linguistic evidence for the specificity of lexical semantic representations. -Philosophical arguments for the (impossibility of the) autonomy of lexical knowledge. -Theoretical approaches and implemented systems that combine lexical and non-lexical knowledge. Attendance is limited to invited participants who responded to the Call for Papers. For more information, contact James Pustejovsky, Computer Science Department, Ford Hall, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254-9110, USA; (+1-617)736-2709; jamesp@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu. *REVERSIBLE GRAMMAR IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, 17 June 1991 Sponsored by the Special Interest Groups on Generation (SIGGEN) and Parsing (SIGPARSE) Supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers whose work concerns problems of reversible grammar systems that are designed for, or may find applications in, Natural Language Processing. The following topics will be considered: (1) Reversible computation (multi-directional and non-directional computation; algorithms for program inversion and transformation; efficiency issues); (2) Reversible natural language systems (parsers and generators for reversible grammars; reversibility of unification-based grammars; new architectures for reversible natural language processing; knowledge for reversible natural language processing; knowledge representation issues; reversible machine translation; lexicons for bidirectional systems; reversibility in discourse processing); (3) Reversible grammars in linguistic theory (formal characterization; reversibility within various grammatical frameworks, eg., GB, LFG, GPSG, HPSG, TAG, categorial grammars; reversibility in rule-based and principle-based approaches; reversibility and semantic compositionality). Attendance is limited to invited participants who responded to the Call for Papers. For more information, contact Tomek Strzalkowski, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 715 Broadway, Room 704, New York, NY 10003, USA; (+1-212)998-3496; tomek@cs.nyu.edu. *EVALUATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS, 18 June 1991 Supported by Rome Laboratory. The evaluation of NLP systems is essential in order to measure the capabilities of individual systems, to measure technical progress and growth in the field, and to provide a basis for selecting NLP systems to best fit the communication requirements of application domain systems. Important issues for any evaluation effort and relevant to this workshop include identification of the items or capabilities to be evaluated, choosing between ``black box'' and ``glass box'' approaches, definition of evaluation criteria, development of methods or procedures for evaluation, determination of evaluation metrics, and determination of the type of output to be produced by the evaluation procedures. The areas of NLP relevant for this workshop include syntactic analysis, semantic analyisis, pragmatic analysis, lexical processing, morphology, sharable knowledge bases and ontologies, speech understanding, and trainable systems. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for computational linguists to report on and discuss current efforts and activities, research progress, new approaches, problems and issues; to promote scientific interchange on important evaluation issues; and to generate recommendations and directions for future investigations in the evaluation area. Attendance is limited to invited participants who responded to the Call for Participation. For more information, contact Jeannette G. Neal, Calspan Corporation, P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225, USA; (+1-716)631-6844; neal@cs.buffalo.edu. *STUDENT SESSIONS 19 & 20 June 1991 *WEDNESDAY, 19 JUNE, 12:00--1:30: SESSION 1. Logical Form of Complex Sentences in Task-Oriented Dialogues, Cecile Balkanski, Harvard; Action Representatation for NL Instructions, Barbara Di Eugenio, Penn; Extracting Semantic Roles from a Model of Eventualities, Sylvie Ratte, Quebec a Montreal; Case Revisited: In the Shadow of Automatic Processing of Machine- Readable Dictionaries, Fuliang Weng, NMSU *WEDNESDAY, 19 JUNE, 12:00--1:30: SESSION 2. Discovering the Lexical Features of a Language, Eric Brill, Penn; Lexical Disambiguation: Information Sources and their Statistical Realization, Ido Dagan, Technion; Non-Literal Word Sense Identification through Semantic Network Path Schemata, Eric Iverson & Stephen Helmreich, NMSU; Current Research in the Development of a Spoken Language System using PARSEC, Carla Zoltowski, Purdue *THURSDAY, 20 JUNE, 12:10--1:40: SESSION 1. Collaborating on Referrring Expressions, Peter Heeman, Toronto; Conceptual Revision for Natural Language Generation, Ben Cline, Virginia Polytechnic; Modifying Beliefs in a Plan-Based Dialogue Model, Lynn Lambert, Delaware; Resolving a Pragmatics Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguity, Christine Nakatani, Penn *THURSDAY, 20 JUNE, 12:10--1:40: SESSION 2. Partial Orderings and Declarative Unification Based Constraint Systems, Josef A. van Genabith, Essex; Syntactic Graphs and Constraint Satisfaction, Jeff Martin, Maryland; An Incremental Connectionist Phrase Structure Parser, James Henderson, Penn *1991 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE 23 June to 2 August 1991, Santa Cruz, California. ACL-91 will be followed by the 56th Linguistic Institute, which is sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America and cosponsored by the ACL and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Of particular interest to computational linguists are a set of courses in PROLOG for Linguists, Robert Carpenter; PROLOG and Natural Language Processing, Robert Carpenter; Morphological Processing, Uli Frauenfelder & Jorge Hankamer; Computational Semantics, Per-Kristian Halvorsen & Jan-Tore Lonning; Knowledge Representation for Linguists, Pat Hayes; Synthesizing Voices, Caroline Henton; Abductive Models of Language Processing, Jerry Hobbs; Computational Morphology, Lauri Karttunen & Ron Kaplan; Machine Translation, Martin Kay; Linguistic Inference in Large Text Corpora, Mark Liberman; Current Issues in Language Comprehension, Mark Seidenberg & Maryellen MacDonald; Concepts of Dictionary and Lexicon, Geoffrey Nunberg & Annie Zaenen; Parsing Technology and Natural Language, Fernando Pereira & Stuart Shieber; Computational Models of Discourse, Martha Pollack; Connectionism and Harmony Theory in Linguistics, Alan Prince & Paul Smolensky; Machine Perception of Language, Margaret Withgott; Readings in Mathematical Linguistics, Aravind Joshi; Mathematical Background for Linguistic Theory, Robert Wall. Many other relevant courses in linguistics and related fields are being offered as well. For further information, contact 1991 Linguistic Institute, Board of Studies in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA; (+1-408)459-4594; institute@ling.ucsc.edu. *REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS PREREGISTRATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY 7 JUNE; after that date, please wait to register at the Conference itself. Complete the attached ``Application for Preregistration'' and send it with a check payable to Association for Computational Linguistics or ACL to Donald E. Walker (ACL); Bellcore, MRE 2A379; 445 South Street, Box 1910; Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA; (+1-201) 829-4312; walker@flash.bellcore.com. If a registration is cancelled before 7 June, the registration fee, less $25 for administrative costs, will be returned. Registration includes one copy of the Proceedings, available at the Conference. Additional copies of the Proceedings at $25 for members ($50 for nonmembers) may be ordered on the registration form or by mail prepaid from Walker. For people who are unable to attend the conference but want the proceedings, there is a special entry line at the bottom of the registration form. *REGISTRATION: On-site registration will be in Wheeler Hall, which is also the site of the plenary sessions. *TUTORIALS: Attendance in each tutorial is limited. Preregistration is essential to insure a place and guarantee that syllabus materials will be available. *BANQUET: The conference banquet will be held on Thursday, 20 June, in the Pauley Ballroom of the Student Union. Ralph Grishman will present the Presidential Address. *LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Contact Peter Norvig, Computer Science Division, 571 Evans Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; (+1-415)642-9533; norvig@teak.berkeley.edu. *EXHIBITS AND DEMONSTRATIONS: People interested in organizing exhibits or in demonstrating programs at the conference should contact Sandra Newton, Brown Bear Consulting, 3842 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94303, USA, (+1-415)856-6506; Palo Alto, CA, 94303, USA, (+1-415)856-6506; newton@decwrl.dec.com AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Those with papers on the program and academics without grant or contract support can present demonstrations without charge, to the extent that scheduling permits. *RESIDENCE HALL ACCOMMODATIONS: A large number of rooms in the Unit 3 Residence Halls have been reserved by ACL. Send in the ``Application for Residence Halls,'' as soon as possible, but no later than 31 May to guarantee a room, although it may still be possible to make reservations after that date. Participants wishing to arrive early or stay later than the program dates may make individual reservations at the University Guest Residence (located at Stern Residence Halls, Hearst and Highland Place). The Guest Residence is operated during the summer like a hotel. The room-only rates are $34.00 single, $44.00 double, per night. Reservations may be made by calling directly, after 1 June, at (+1-415)642-5925. *DIRECTIONS: By car from the San Francisco Airport (45 minutes), take 101 North to Interstate 80, and East on 80 across the Bay Bridge. From the Oakland Airport (30 minutes), get directions to 80 and proceed east on 80. Take the University Avenue Exit (Berkeley); proceed east on University to the end (you will pass both the Travelodge and Campus Motels); then turn right on Oxford to Durant Avenue; left on Durant to the Unit 3 Residence Halls at Dana or the Durant Hotel at Bowditch (two blocks apart). Wheeler Hall is reached most directly from the south end of the campus at the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Bancroft Way, two blocks from the Residence Halls and the Durant Hotel. Limousine service from San Francisco Airport to the Durant Hotel is provided by the Bay Area Shuttle, (+1-415)873-7771, for $10 and by Bayporter Express, (+1-415)467-1800, for $13. From the Oakland Airport, the Bayporter Express charges $12; reservations are required. Public transportation: from the San Francisco Airport, take the SamTrans 3B bus to Daly City BART station and BART to downtown Berkeley ($2.65 total). After 6:30PM, take the 7B or 7F bus to the TransBay terminal, and then BART to downtown Berkeley ($3.05 total). From the Oakland Airport, take the Air-BART shuttle bus to the Oakland Coliseum BART station and BART to downtown Berkeley at Shattuck and Center ($3.25 total). Walk or take a taxi from there. *PARKING: University parking is $3 (in quarters). Residence Hall residents: use garage on Haste between Dana and Ellsworth; you also need a conference registration slip available at check-in. Other conference attendees may park in ``Student Fee Lots'' during the summer without a special permit: on Channing, between Bowditch and College Ave, and on the corner of Hearst and La Loma Ave (lower level only) for Stern Hall residents. Other ``Student Fee Lots'' are also available. *FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE: Best done at the airports. *HOTEL INFORMATION: ACL has reserved 100 rooms at the Durant Hotel, located one block from campus. Identify yourself as attending the ACL meeting and make reservations by 17 May for special rates. Note that the airport shuttle services stop at this hotel. Other suggested lodgings are listed in the table below. Note that there is an 11% City of Berkeley Occupancy Tax. -Durant Hotel 1-800-238-7268$71 singleRestaurant, lounge, 2600 Durant 415-845-8981$81 doubleTV, shuttle dropoff; Berkeley 947041 block from campus -Travelodge Berkeley 415-843-4262$52-68Restaurant, lounge, 1820 University Ave (University rate)TV, swimming pool; Berkeley 947101 mile from campus -Campus Motel 415-841-3844$45-501 mile from campus 1619 University Berkeley 94710 *APPLICATION FOR PREREGISTRATION (BY 7 JUNE) 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 17-21 June 1991, University of California, Berkeley NAME ___________________________________________________________________________ Last First Middle ADDRESS ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ AFFILIATION (short form for badge ID) __________________________________________ TELEPHONE ______________________________________________________________________ COMPUTER NET&ADDRESS ___________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION INFORMATION (circle fee) *NOTE: Only those whose dues are paid for 1991 can register as members; if you have not paid dues for 1991, register at the `non-member' rate. 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Morning Tutorials: circle ONE:Natural Language Generation/Intonation in Spoken Language Afternoon Tutorials: circle ONE:Methodologies for Humanities/Machine Translation *TOTAL PAYMENT MUST BE INCLUDED: $_______________ (Registration, Banquet, Extra Proceedings, Tutorials) PROCEEDINGS ONLY: $25 members; $50 others; amount enclosed $__________ Make checks payable to ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS or ACL. Credit cards cannot be honored. Send Application for Preregistration WITH FULL PAYMENT before 7 June to: Donald E. Walker (ACL), Bellcore, MRE 2A379, 445 South Street, Box 1910, Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA, (+1-201) 829-4312, walker@flash.bellcore.com *APPLICATION FOR RESIDENCE HALLS (BY 31 MAY) The Unit 3 Residence Halls are adjacent to the UC Berkeley campus at 2400 Durant, between Dana and Telegraph. This location is two blocks from the Durant Hotel, at which the airport shuttle services stop. A special rate of $115.50 single and $79.50 double per person has been established for room and breakfast for people arriving on Tuesday, 18 June, and leaving Friday, 21 June. Those wishing to stay on Monday night will pay $34 additional for a single room or $22 each for a double; breakfast on Tuesday will not be included, but it is available in the same dining room for $4.50. Those wanting to arrive earlier and stay later than these dates are advised to make arrangements with the University Guest Residence (Stern Residence Halls, Hearst and Highland Place) at (+1-415)642-5925 after 1 June; the rates are $34 single, $44 double, without breakfast. The rest room and shower facilities are centrally located on each floor and are communal. As a result, each floor is separated, alternately, by gender. Towels, sheets, blankets, pillows, pillow cases, and soap are provided. Couples can be accommodated. 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