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From: matsu@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Yuji MATSUMOTO)
Subject: NLULP4:  2nd Call-for-participation
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Organization: Electr. Eng. II, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 10:23:45 GMT


	      Second Announcement and Call-for-participation

	       NLULP4: The FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on
	   NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING and LOGIC PROGRAMMING

		September 29 (Wed) -- October 1 (Fri), 1993
		   Nara-ken New Public Hall, Nara, Japan

				  Program

[September 29 (Wed)]

13:00		Opening

13:20 -- 14:30	Invited Talk (1)
		Constraints, Features and Logic
		     Mark Johnson (Brown University)

15:00 -- 17:00	Avoiding Non-termination in Unification Grammars
		     Christer Samuelsson (SICS)
		Direct Automated Inversion of Logic Grammars
		     Guido Minnen,Dale Gerdemann, Erhard Hinrichs
			and Dieter Martini (Universit\"at T\"ubingen)
		A Prolog Implementation of the Functional Unification
                        Grammar Formalism
		     Massimo Fasciano and Guy Lapalme
			(Universit\'e de Montr\'eal)

[September 30 (Thu)]

9:30 -- 10:50	Text Processing in a Logic Programming Framework:
			The Interpretation of Tense and Aspect
		     Lrene Rodrigues and Jos\'e Lopes (UNINOVA)
		Disambiguation by Inference on Ambiguous Representations
		     Esther K\"onig and Christian Rohrer
			(Stuttgart University)

11:10 -- 12:30	Situation Schemata as Representation Format and
			Query Languege for a Non-Standard Database System
		     Thomas Lemke, Marion Schulz and Armin Cremers
		     (Rheinicshe Friedrich-Whlhelms-Universit\"at)
		A Database Oriented Situation Schema Interpreter
		     Volker Paul (Rheinicshe Friedrich-Whlhelms-Universit\"at)
		Using Situation Theory in a Computational Language for
			Natural Language Processing
		     Alan Black (ATR)

14:00 -- 15:10	Invited Talk (2)
                Operations on Feature Graphs
                     Kiyoshi Kogure (NTT)

15:30 -- 17:30	A Dependency-directed FUG Unification in Text Generation
		     Kentaro Inui, Takenobu Tokunaga and Hozumi Tanaka
			(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
		Plan Inferences in Dialogue Based on Dynamical Constraint
			Programming
		     Takashi Miyata, Koiti Hasida and Akinori Yonezawa
			(University of Tokyo and ETL)

18:30 --	Welcome Reception


[October 1 (Fri)]

9:30 -- 11:30	A Flexible Natural Language System with Concurrency and
			Meta-level Processing
		     Yuji Matsumoto, Yasuharu Den and Kiyoshi Yanagi
			(AIST-Nara, ATR and Kyoto University)
		Parsing Ill-Formed Input with ID/LP Rules
		     Surapand Meknavin, Thanaruk Theeranmunkong and
			Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
		Taking advantage of projection in bottom up parsing:
		  phrasal categories, verb complexes and empty operators
		     Charles Brown (SICS)

11:50 -- 13:10	Semantics of Japanese Particles for NP Coordination
		     Nobuaki Mutoh and Hiroshi Nakagawa
			(Yokohama National University)
		Morphological Analysis in Integrated Natural Language
			Interfaces to Deductive Databases
		     Werner Winiwarter and A Min Tjoa
			(University of Vienna)
13:10		Closing


NLULP4 Programme Committee:

   Hozumi Tanaka,	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (co-chair)
   Yuji Matsumoto,	AIST-Nara, Japan (co-chair)
   Harvey Abramson,	University of Aizu, Japan
   Charles Brown,	SICS, Sweden
   Veronica Dahl,	Simon Fraser University, Canada
   Sandiway Fong,	NEC Research, USA
   Mark Johnson,	Brown University, USA
   Martin Kay,		Xerox PARC, USA
   Gregers Koch,	Copenhagen University, Denmark
   Michael McCord,	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
   Fred Popowich,	Simon Fraser University, Canada
   Manny Rayner,	SRI Cambridge, UK
   Patrick Saint-Dizier,Universite Paul Sabatier, France
   Ryoichi Sugimura,	Matsushita, Japan

For Further Information:

	Yuji Matsumoto (NLULP4)
	Graduate School of Information Science
	Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nara
	8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma-shi, Nara 630-01, Japan
	Phone: +81-7437-2-5240\ Fax:   +81-7437-2-5219
	Email: matsu@is.aist-nara.ac.jp