The FINITE STRING, Volume 15, Number 1

American Journal of Computational Linguistics Mi crof che 7 4 5$ THE FINITE STRING NEWSLETTER OF ThE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS RELEASED FOR P U B ~ I C A T I O N ON MAY 1 2 , 1 9 7 8 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONriL.LINGUISTICS is published by the Association for Computational Linguistics. SECRETARY-TREASURER. Donald E. Walker, SRI International, Menlo Park, California 94025. EDITOR: David 6 . Hays, 5648 Lake Shore Road, Hamburg, New York, 14075. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: George E. Heidorn, IBM Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT. Willidrn Benzon Copyright C 1978 0 A~sociation for Conputatlonal Llmjulstics American Journal of Computational Linguistics C O N T E N T S WHAT SOME SEMANTIC THEORIES CAN'T DO. Th R . Hofmann . . . . 3 NLInINFORMATIONSCIENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CAL in SCIENCE EDUCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 NEW JOUmAL: Annals of rhe H i s t o r y of Computing . . . . . . 7 NEL! ENGLAIJD F&sEARCH APPLICATION CENTER . . . . . . . . . . 8 CIEIGUAFRANCA ; Document Search (LLBA) . . . . . . . . . . 9 DEM0II;JSTRATION: Intefactive Search of LLBA . . . . . . . 1 0 . . . . . . . NFAIS/UNESCO Indexing Education K i t . . . . 11 SYMPOSIW: Computer Assisted Learning . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . 1978 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE Conferences & S y m p o s i a 13 . . . . . . . . . DATA BASES: Usability and Responsiveness 14 CONFEPZNCES: Internal Auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . . . . a * . . . CONFERENCES Briefly Noted . . . . . . 1 6 NSF Awards i n COIPUTER SCIENCE for 1976 . . . . . . . . . . 19 . . . A J C L A Description . . . . . . . . . 23 . . . . AJCL . Page Format . . . . 25 . . . A.JCT Opaque Card Format . . . 26 . . . . . AFIPS WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER . . . . 27 American Journal of Computational Linguistics MJ 2rof i che 7 3 : 3 WHAT: SOrZ SEIMNTIC THEORIES CAil'T DO: MONTAGUE GRAMMAR COGN ~ T I V E !~ETWORKS, AND INTERPRETIVE SEMANTI cs TH. R . HOFMANN We can define ?direct interpretive semantic theories" to be those which propose a semantic interpretation directly into the universe, without the use of a representation for the meaning of 1 linguistic codstructions. Elsewhere I have argued that the size of the linguistic units which require …

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