1996 SALS-SIG Seminars

1996 Seminars (in reverse order):

• Ring out the old, ring in the new: An end of year look at the prospects for language technology
  Robert Dale
  MRI Language Technology Group
  Friday, 13th December 1996, 2:00pm, E6A357, Macquarie University
• Computer Assistance for Multilingual Authoring
  Cecile Paris
  CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences
  Friday, 6th December 1996, 10:00am, E6A357, Macquarie University
• Linguistics in an Age of Engineering
  Christopher Manning
  Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia
  Friday, 22nd November 1996, 2:00pm, E6A357, Macquarie University
• A Probabilistic Word Sense Disambiguation Algorithm
  How Khee Yin
  Artificial Intelligence Lab, National Computer System of Singapore
  Monday, 18th November 1996, 11:00am, E6A357, Macquarie University
• Multimodal Systems
  Marilyn Cross
  Defense Science Technology Organisation (DSTO), Canberra, Australia
  Friday, 15th November 1996, 2:00pm, E6A357, Macquarie University
• Natural Language Processing and Language Technology
  A half-day workshop on the application of research in NLP and Language Technolog y. Precise details to be confirmed. This event is jointly organised by SALS-SIG and the Sydney Knowledge Based Systems Group.
  Friday, 8th November 1996
• The Design and Implementation of a Multilingual Meaning Server
  Licheng Zeng
  Linguistics Department, Macquarie University
  Friday, 25th October 1996, Macquarie University
• The Semantic Component of the Dual-Route Cascaded Reading Model (DRC)
  Malti Patel
  Computing Department, Macquarie University
  Friday, 11th October 1996, Macquarie University
• Lojban as a Machine Translation Interlingua in the Pacific
  Nick Nicholas
  Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne
  Friday, 4th October 1996, 3:00pm, E6A357, Macquarie University
• Using Multiple Language Models for Machine Translation
  Mark Pedersen
  University of Queensland
  Friday, 27th September 1996, 2:00pm, E6A357, Macquarie University
• Classification of Fricative Spectra - the problem of [f] and [T]
  Marija Tabain
  Speech, Hearing and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University
  Friday, 13th September 1996, 2:00pm, E6A357, Macquarie University
• Workshop on Future Issues for Multilingual Text Processing, held as part of the 4th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Cairns, Australia, 27th August 1996: not strictly speaking a SALS-SIG event, but we were involved in the organisation. You can check out the Call for Papers, look at the Program and download the papers.
• Modularity in TFS grammars
  Do minique Estival
  Linguistics Department, Melbourne University
  Friday, 23rd August 1996, 3:00pm, E6A357, Macquarie Univer sity
• A Principled Framework for Constructing Natural Language Interfaces to Temporal Databases
  Ion Androutsopoulos
  MRI Language Technology Group
  Friday, 16th August 1996, 2:00pm, E6A357, Macquarie University
• How to be interesting: meta-information in the Intelligent Labelling Explorer
  Jon Oberlander
  Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
  Friday, 2nd August 1996, 3:15pm, E6A357, Macquarie University
• Computational models of human sentence comprehension and Generalized Left-Corner Parsing
  Mark Johnson
  Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences, Brown University
  Friday, 2nd August 1996, 2:00pm, E6A357, Macquarie University
• Mixed Top-down/Bottom-Up Parsing
  Graeme Ritchie
  Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  Friday, 12th July 1996, 11:45am, E6A 357
• Discourse Planning as an Optimization Process
  Ingrid Zukerman and Richard McConachy
  Department of Computer Science, Monash University
  Friday, 12th July 1996, 10:30am, E6A 357
• Language Production Day
  A one-day workshop on multiple aspects of language production, hosted by SALS-SIG and the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University.
  Friday, 5th July 1996, 9:15am--5:45pm
• What I'll Probably Say and What I'll Probably Mean
  Mark Lauer
  MRI Language Technology Group, Department of Computing, Macquarie University
  Tuesday, 4th June 1996, 1:00pm, E6A102
• Strategies for Comparison in Encyclopedia Descriptions
  Maria Milosavljevic
  MRI Language Technology Group, Department of Computing, Macquarie University
  Friday, 31st May 1996, 2:00pm, E6A102
• Repairing Conversational Misunderstandings and Non-Understandings
  Graeme Hirst
  Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
  Friday, 17th May 1996, 2:00pm, E6A102
• How Do I Love Paraphrasing? Let Me Count the Words
  Mark Dras
  MRI Language Technology Group, Department of Computing, Macquarie University
  Friday, 10th May 1996, 4:00pm, E6A357
• Sentence Recognition with Categorial Grammar and Haskell
  Victor Essers
  MRI Language Technology Group, Department of Computing, Macquarie University
  Monday, 11th March 1996, 2:00pm, E6A357
• Experiments with Believable Autonomous Conversational Agents
  Mark Steedman
  University of Pennsylvania
  Monday, 11th March 1996, 3:00pm, E6A357