Natural Language

[Noel Sharkey]

            CALL FOR PAPERS

              CONNECTION SCIENCE
        (Journal of Neural Computing, Artificial
          Intelligence and Cognitive Research)

                Special Issue

          CONNECTIONIST RESEARCH ON NATURAL LANGUAGE


Editor: Noel E. Sharkey, University of Exeter


Special Editorial Review Panel

Robert Allen, Bell Communication Research
Garrison W. Cottrell, University of California, San Diego
Michael G. Dyer, University of California, Los Angeles
Jeffrey L. Elman, University of California, San Diego
George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley
Wendy W. Lehnert, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Jordan Pollack, Ohio State University
Ronan Reilly, Beckmann Institute, Illinois
Bart Selman, University of Toronto
Paul Smolensky, University of Colorado, Boulder

This special issue will accept submissions of full length connectionist papers
and brief reports from any area of natural language research including:


    Connectionist applications to AI problems in natural
        language (e.g. paraphrase, summarisation, question answering).

        New formalisms or algorithms for natural language processing.

        Simulations of psychological data.

        Memory modules or inference mechanisms to support natural
        language processing.

        Representational methods for natural language.

        Techniques for ambiguity resolution.

        Parsing.

        Speech recognition, production, and processing.

    Connectionist approaches to linguistics (phonology, morphology etc.).

Submissions of short reports or recent updates will also be accepted for
the Brief Reports section in the journal. No paper should be currently
submitted elsewhere.

DEADLINES

      Deadline for submissions:  December 15th 1989
      Decision/reviews by: February 1990

Papers may be accepted to appear in regular issues if there is insufficient
space in the special issue.

For further information about the journal please contact


Lyn Shackleton
(Assistant Editor)

Centre for Connection Science       JANET:  lyn at uk.ac.exeter.cs
Dept. Computer Science
University of Exeter                UUCP:   !ukc!expya!lyn
Exeter EX4 4PT
Devon                    BITNET: lyn at cs.exeter.ac.uk@UKACRL
U.K.