Call for Participation in Connectionist Natural Language Processing
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cpd at aic.hrl.hac.com
Tue Jul 10 13:52:42 EDT 1990
AAAI Spring Symposium
Connectionist Natural Language Processing
Recent results have lead some researchers to propose that connectionism
is an alternative to AI/Linguistic approaches to natural language
processing, both as a cognitive model and for practical applications.
This symposium will bring together both critics and proponents of
connectionist NLP to discuss its strengths and weaknesses.
This symposium will cover a number of areas, spanning from new phonology
models to connectionist treatments of anaphora and discourse issues.
Participants should address what is new that connectionism brings to the
study of language. The purpose of the symposium is to examine this issue
from a range of perspectives including:
Spoken language understanding/generation
Parsing
Semantics
Pragmatics
Language acquisition
Linguistic and representational capacity issues
Applications
Some of the questions expecting to be addressed include:
What mechanisms/representations from AI/Linguistics
are necessary for connectionist NLP? Why?
Can connectionism help integrate signal processing
with knowledge of language?
What does connectionism add to other theories
of semantics?
Do connectionist theories have implications for
psycholinguistics?
Prospective participants are encouraged to contact a member of the
program committee to obtain a more detailed description of the
symposium's goals and issues. Those interested in participating in this
symposium are asked to submit a 1-2 page position paper abstract and a
list of relevant publications. Abstracts of work in progress are
encouraged, and potential participants may also include 3 copies of a
full length paper describing previous work. Submitted papers or
abstracts will be included in the symposium working notes, and
participants will be asked to participate in panel discussions.
Three (3) copies of each submission should be sent to arrive by November
16, 1990 to:
Charles Dolan, Hughes Research Laboratories, RL96, 3011 Malibu Canyon
Road, Malibu CA, 90265
All submissions will be promptly acknowledged.
E-Mail inquiries may be sent to:
cpd at aic.hrl.hac.com
Program Committee: Robert Allen, Charles Dolan (chair),
James McClelland, Peter Norvig, and Jordan Pollack.
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