The FINITE STRING, Volume 13, Number 1

American Journal of Cornputat ional Linguistics Microfiche 37 7 THE FINITE STRING >- NEWSLETTER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL L I N G U I S T I C S A combined alphabetic list of members of the Associ- ation and persons mentioned in the 1974 and 1975 sets of AJCL, both contributors and authors of ab- stracted papers, is in preparation. A new scheme of topical categories is being prepared by cluster analysis of responses from members, and w i l l be used as headings on a set of index guide cards which will l i s t articles, abstracts and members by topic. The whole package will be distributed about a month after this issue. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS is published by the Center for Applied Linguistics for the AssoCiation for Computational Linguistics. EDITOR: David G. Hays, Professor of Linguistics and af Com- puter Science, State University af New York, Buffalo. EDITORIAL ASSISTANTI William L. 'Benzon. EDITORIAL ADDRESS: Twin Willows, Wanakah, New York 14075. MANAGING EDITORZ A. Hood Roberts, Center for Applied Linguistics. ASS I STANT : David Hoffman . PRODUCTION AND SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESSt 1611 North Kent Street, Arlington, Virginia 22209. Coyyright 1976 by the Associaticn for Computational Linguistics TABLE OF CONTENTS ACL PRESIDENT 1976 Stanley R. Petrick . . . . . . 3 PERSONAL NOTES . . . * . . . . . . . . . . . * . . 4 SEMANTICS Georgetown Round Table a . . . , . . . 5 AAAS PROGRAM EXCERPTS Science and Expectations . . 7 NEH Application deadlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT Ralston speaks a t NCC 76 . . 12 ARCHITECTURE FOR NONNU'MER3:C PROCESS3NG . . . , . . 13 ASIS PRESIDENT 1976 Melvin S . Day . . . . . . . . - 15 L I T E R A R Y AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING Meeting notes . . 16 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING SOCIETIES Gon. !renee . . 17 ISTITUTO PER GLI STUOI SEMANTICX E COGNITIVI . . . . 18 PETRARCH Translated by computer , . . . . . . . . . 20 STENOTYPE Computer-aided transcription . . . . . 21 5ERIALS LIBRARIANSHIP Drexel Library c)uarterly , . . 22 A COMPUTER SIMULATfON OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE . . 23 PLATON--A NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS Makoto Nagao & Jun-Ichi Tsuj L i 28 I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 11. Pattern-matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 III. Basic operations o f PLATON . . . . . . . . . 34 IV . Push-down and pop-up operations . . . . . . . 40 V . A sl-mple example . . . . . . . . , . . . 44 VI …

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