The FINITE STRING, Volume 14, Number 1

American Jeurnal of Computational Linguistics NEWSLETTER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONPEC LINGUI StICS VOLUME 14 - NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 1977 NEW MANAGING EDITOR Donald E Walker has accepted the responsibilities of Managing Editor of AJCL along with those of Secretary-Treasurer of the Association He needs time to obtain and sort the records and stocks formerly held by the Center for Applied Linguistics, but will soon be ready to provide prompt service to members and institutional subscribers EDITORIAL BOARD CHANGES Five new members have joined the Board Jonathan Allen, Gary G Hendrux, C Raymond Perreault, Jane Robinson, and William C Rounds See frames 3-5 of this fiche FORMAT SHIFT To conserve production money, AJCL now uses blank frames following the text of some contributions for news and other material formerly collected in The Finite String AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS is published by the Association for Computational Linguistics EDITOR David G Hays, Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science, State University of New York, Buffalo EDITORIAL ASSISTANT William Benzon EDITORIAL ADDRESS 5048 ~ a k e Shore Rbad, Hamburg, New York 14075 TECHNICAL ADVISOR Martin Kay, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center MANAGING EDITOR Donald E Walker PRODUCTION AND SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS. Artificial Intelligence Center, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California 94025 Assoclatlon for Computational Llngulstlcs CONTENTS EDITORIAL BOARD: Three-year terms inaugurated EULOGY af A Ljudskanov by G Rondeau LETTERS concerning Igor Mel'chuk IFIF C(YNGEESS 77 COMPCON Spring 1977 Invited speakers, etc Program exeerpts COLING 76 Invited papers published in SMIL SMIL Journal of Linguistic Calculus (new policy) RESEARCH IN PROGRESF; SSIE search service EPIGRAPHY Informatic methods - papers published LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY (new journal) CANADIAN LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE PATENT INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION Symposium, Munich LACUS Forum IFIP on-Selection and acquisition of Data Base Systems National Computer Conference 1 9 7 7 Major Bpeakers, etc INFORMATION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION ConEerence ASIS Officers for 1977 TAXONOMY of computer science MEETINGS ACM, Computer plrformance modeling, Data com- munications, ASIS midyear, ACII New York regional, Paral- lel and distributed processing, Cbmputing in Humanities AFIPS seminar for FCC on data communications NOTICE TO AJCL CONTRIBUTORS Short-paper format REVIEW Dynamic Information and Library Processing, by Gerard Salton, reviewed by Ronald E Wyllys CURHENT BIBLIOGRAPHY American Journal of Computational Linguistics E D I T O R I A L B O A R D In accordance with a new policy adopted by the Executive Committee of ACL at its 1976 meeting, members of the Editorial Board are to serve three-year terms The Editor, whose t e q is certainly limited but not to three years, thanks the members whose terms expired at the end of 1976, and welcomes those who now join the Board Terms expire December 31, 1976 Joseph Grimes Martin Kay, who continues as technical advisor Ignatius G Mattingly William A Woods, Jr Terms expire December 31, 1977 Joyce Friedman Winfred P. Lehmaqn Christine A Montgomery Donald E Walker, who continues as Managing Editor Terry Winograd Terms expire December 31, 1978 Robert Barnes Fred J Damerau Gary R. Martins …

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