Program of the 1979 ACL Meeting

The FINITE STRING Newsletter Program of the 1979 ACL Meeting The following table summarizes the responses to the four questions included in the survey. Here, too, it can be seen that respondents were very positive to the idea of a primarily hard-copy publication. No Question Yes No Ans. A. Would AJCL be read more? 72% 2% 26% B. Would submissions increase? 56% 8% 36% C. Would you elect to receive HC? 63% 18% 19% D. Should dues depend on form? 47% 17% 36% The responses were also tabulated separately for the U.S., Canada, and the other countries, but the results did not differ significantly from the combined results shown. About 35 additional responses were received after the meeting, but it was apparent from looking at them carefully that they would not significantly affect the results already tabulated. George E. Heidorn Program of the 1979 ACL Meeting The 17th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics was held at the University of California at San Diego, in La Jolla, California, on the weekend of August 11-12, 1979. The program committee for the meeting consisted of Norm Sond- heimer (Chairman), Barbara Sangster, Bonnie Lynn Webber, and Ralph Weischedel, and the local arrange- ments chairman was Jim Levin. The 24 papers listed below were presented there. Copies of the proceed- ings, which includes the full text of most of these pa- pers and extended abstracts of the others, along with an introduction to each session by its chairperson, are available for $5 from Don Walker at the address given on the inside front cover of this issue. SESSION I - Language Structure and Parsing Martin Kay, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Towards a Self-Extending Parser Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie-Mellon University Word Expert Parsing Stephen Small, University of Maryland Schank/Riesbeck vs. Norman/Rumelhart: What's the Difference? Marc Eisenstadt, The Open University Toward a Computational Theory of Speech Perception Jonathan Allen, MIT Ungrammaticality and Extra-Grammaticality in Natural Language Understanding Systems Stan Kwasny, The Ohio State University Norman K. Sondheimer, Sperry Univac Generalized Augmented Transition Network Grammars for Generation from Semantic Networks Stuart C. Shapiro, State University of N.Y. at Buffalo SESSION II - Knowledge Organization and Application Aravind K. Joshi, University of Pennsylvania Taxonomy, Descriptions, and Individuals in Natural Language Understanding Ronald J. Brachman, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Semantics of Conceptual Graphs John F. Sowa, IBM Systems Research Institute On the Automatic Transformation of Class Membership Criteria Barbara Sangster, Rutgers University A Snapshot of KDS, a Knowledge Delivery System James A. Moore and William C. Mann, USC / Inf ormation Sciences Institute The Use of Object-Specific Knowledge in Natural Language Processing Mark H. Burstein, Yale University Reading with a Purpose Michael Lebowitz, Yale University SESSION III - Dialogue Jane Robinson, SRI International Paraphrasing Using Given and New Information in a Question-Answer System Kathleen R. McKeown, University of Pennsylvania Where Questions Benny Shanon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Role of Focussing in Interpretation of Pronouns Candace L. Sidner, MIT The Structure and Process of Talking …

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