From: andrew@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Andrew Jennings)
Subject: Program: 1st Aust. NLP & IR Workshop
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 12:19:08 GMT

Workshop Program:

	  1st Australian Workshop on Natural Language Processing and
	  Information Retrieval

	  November 19-20 1992

Venue: Monash University

Aims:

The principal aim is to bring together researchers in the field in the
immediate Australian region. The Workshop will consist of both paper
sessions and extensive discussion sessions. Participation is open to all 
researchers in the field.

There is no registration fee. If you wish to participate in this workshop
simply mail a brief cv and description of research interests to Andrew
Jennings (a.jennings@trl.oz.au)

Scope:

The principal focus of the workshop is on the use of natural language
processing techniques for enhanced access to services, including
information retrieval services.

Topics include but are not limited to:

	 * parsing and parser construction 
	 * syntactic and semantic language analysis 
         * statistical textual analysis for information retrieval 
         * enchanced interfaces for text information retrieval 
         * natural language processing techniques for spoken interaction
	   with future information retrieval systems 
         * user modelling 
         * text generation for dialogue 
         * language translation systems

Format:

Practitioners of the different fields related to information retrieval
approach similar problems from different perspectives. To foster interaction
between participants from different but related fields, the Workshop will
feature panel/discussion sessions in addition to the paper sessions.


Organising Committee:

R.Jones    Computer Power R&D 
I.Zukerman Monash University 
R.Wilkinson CITRI 
C.Matthiessen Sydney University
A.Jennings AOTC TRL 
C.Rowles  AOTC TRL 
B.Garner Deakin University




Papers :

Malti "Techniques for Summarizing Electronic Mail Messages"

C.Rowles, X.Huang & M.deBeler "Understanding Spoken English"

I.Zukerman & R.McConachy "Addressing Uniqueness Implicatures during Discourse Planning"

P.Martin & M.Mlouka "A Chinese Ideograms Input Interface with Acoustic-Phonetic Decoding of Pinyin"

E.K.Jones & L.M.Miller "Eager GLR Parsing"

R.Wilkinson "Finding Answers for a Large Document Collection"

C.RaviShankar "Parsing Telegu: A Semi Free Word Order Language"

P.Wallis "Modifying a Machine Readable Dictionary for Information Retrieval"

J.A.Thom & P.Wallis "Enhanced Retrieval using the Macquarie Thesaurus"

M.Cross & F.O'Brien "Architectures for Systems that Manage Natural Language"

M.Lauer "On Extracting Semantic Knowledge from Machine Readable Dictionaries: Previous Work and Some New Ideas"

A.K.Luk & W.Wobke "Modelling Knowledge and Communication in a Multiagent Environment"

A.K.Luk "Relational Semantics and Logical Reasoning with Natural Language"

J.Zobel "Practical Information Retrieval for Large Document Collections"

P.Losco, H.Chelyah, M.Mlouka "An Approach to Lexicon Representation in a Multilingual Context"

D.Conway "Guidelines for the Generation of Natural Language Colour Descriptions"



We are planning a workshop dinner for the first evening of the workshop.


Enquiries to a.jennings@trl.oz.au 



a.jennings@trl.oz.au               phone  : 61 3 253 6241 fax : 61 3 253 6173
Andrew Jennings   AI Systems       Telecom Australia Research Laboratory