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  <Title>LADISLAV ZGUSTA LECTURES AND CONFERENCES LANGUAGE IN AMERICA Weekly; sponsored by National Endowment for the Humahitjes DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLARS Five; sponsored by American Council of Learned Societies TYPOLOGY AND UNIVERSALS</Title>
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THE FINITE STRING
NEWSLETTER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR CORUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The members and Executive Committee of the Association will soon have to choose among limiting the scope of the Journal, making its content more compact and its content more concise, or increasing dues. The production budget allows for no more than 20 fiches per year. The rate of arrival of acceptable manuscripts and news that's fit to print is going above the level that can be accommodated in that budget.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Members who prefer one of the three recognized courses of action, or who have another to propose, can write to the Editor, the President, or any member of the Editorial Board or Executive Committee.</Paragraph>
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AMERICAN JOUFWL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS is published
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    <Paragraph position="0"> by the Center for Applied Linguistics for the Association for Computational Linguistics.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> EDITOR: David G. Hays Pmfessor af Linguistics, SUNY ~uffalo</Paragraph>
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PERSONAL NOTES ............ . . . 3
1976 NATIONAL COMPUTER CONFERENCE ... . . 4
NIMH: TECHNICAL HELP FOR PROPOSERS . MINORITY PROGRAMS . 5
NSF: FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM..EGYPT . INDIA . PAKISTAN . 6
CATASTROPHE THEORY: THOM AT SIAM MEETING . . ... 7
NATO8 ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTES ........ 8
STRUCTURAL-PROCESS THEORIES OF BEHAVIOR .... 8
MAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION ............ 9
COMPUTER-BASED SCIENCE INSTRUCTION .... . 10
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    <Paragraph position="0"> C . 5 . PIERCE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS . . ...... 11</Paragraph>
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NEW JOURNAL: COGNITIVE SCIENCE .......... 12
NSFI REJECTED PROPOSALS G RECONSIDERATION .... 13
CONFERENCE CHRONICLE ........ ...... 14
1976 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE. OSWEGO . NEW YORK .... 15
BAAL: SEMINAR ON TRANSLATION AT ESSEX. ENGLAND ..... 19
INDEXING IN PERSPECTIVE SEMINAR AT WARSAW . . 20
NFAIS OFFICERS 1976-77 ................ 21
EXPERIMENTS WITH A POWERFUL PARSER (REPRINT) Martin Kay 22
AFIPS WASHINGTON REPORT (REPRINT. 1975-76 ISSUES) .... 53
American Journal of Computational Linguistics Microfiche 43 : 3
PERSONAL NOTES
JAIME CARBONELL MEMORIAL
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A Japanese translation of REPRESENTATION AND UNDERSTANDING is in preparation. dedicated to Carbonell's memory. This edition will include a paper signed by Carbonell and Collins, published posthumously in AJCL BRUDERER, HERBERT New address: Finkenweg 3, 3110 Munsingen, Switzerland NOVAK. GORDON S . JR. PhD in Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin, for a thesis entitled COMPUTER UNDERSTANDING</Paragraph>
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OF PHYSICS PROBLEMS STATED IN NATURAL LANGUAGE
American Journal of Computational Linguistics Microfiche 43 : 4
1976 NATIONAL COMPUTER CONFERENCE
NEW YORK HILTON HOTEL AND COLISEUM
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    <Paragraph position="0"> was held December 10-12, 1951, in Philadelphia. Ten large-scale computers were described: UNIVAC, Burroughs, IBM CPC, ORDVAC, ERA 1101, MARK 111, Ferranti-Manchester, Whirlwind I, EDSAC, NBS SEAC. Bell Labs was in the field. 877 attended.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> KEYNOTE ADDRESS. J. Paul Lyet, Chairman of Sperry Rand Corp.</Paragraph>
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PUBLIC ACCESS TO COMPUTERS: Tuesday 8 June. David Ahl, chn.
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INTERNATIONAL PLENARY SESSION. Monday 7 June. Bob 0. Evans.
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INTERACTIVE AND NETWORK DEMONSTRATION. Telenet nationwide
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    <Paragraph position="0"> packet-switching network--first U.S. carrier in the field.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Several dozen terminals in the Coliseum. Econometric forecasting models; information retrieval; conferencing; editing; engineering design graphics. 12+ computer centers.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> American Journal of Computational Linguistics Microfiche 43 : 5 Behavioral, social sciences and related mental health fields Telephone calls, letters, and site visits.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Prior to submission.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Send draft of ideas, objectives, budget to  The U.S. Government holds currency in these countries that cannot be exported.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> Joint programs in scientific and engineering research are sought. Support is available for International travel for project development and meetings Visits by individual U.S. scientists to institutions in participating countries  Humv aspects including hardware and software interface design, programming, interaction with different classes of user, training and modelling.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="6"> DIRECTOR: Professor B. Shackel</Paragraph>
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LOCATIONS Greece or Italy
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    <Paragraph position="0"> American Journal of Computational Linguistics Microfiche 43 : 10 Alternate approaches and uses of computer-based instructional systems in University Science teaching: Games; models and simulation; computerized individualized aptitude evaluation and strategy development; interactive computer graphics; computer-managed instruction; multi-media instructional programs</Paragraph>
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  <Section position="10" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="metho">
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COGNITIVE SCIENCE
EDITORS: Eugene Charniak, Allan Collins, Roger C. Schank
CONTENTS 11lr PROBLEM SOLVING IN SEMANTICALLY RICH DOMAINS
AN EXAMPLE FROM ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> R. Bhaskar and H. A. Simon, Carnegie-Mellon</Paragraph>
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  <Section position="11" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="metho">
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HUMAN AND COMPUTATIONAL QUESTION-ANSWERING
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    <Paragraph position="0"> W. Lehnert, Yale University DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS G SEMANTIC MEMORY A. Ortony and R. Anderson, U. of Illinois ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, LANGUAGE. AND THE</Paragraph>
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STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE
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    <Paragraph position="0"> I. Goldstein and S. Papert, MIT</Paragraph>
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EDITORIAL^ WHY COGNITIVE SCIENCE
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    <Paragraph position="0"> &amp;quot;The discipline might have been called applied epistemology or intelligence theory, but someone on high declared it would be cognitive science and so it shall.&amp;quot; American Journal of Computational Linguistics Micfofiche 43 : 13 A new, standardizedthreeltep procedure has been announced by NSF for reconsideration of proposals initially declined.  1. Program Director is to supply explanation on request 2. Investigator is to request reconsideration within 180 days after rejection of proposal 3. Deputy Director is to review proposals on request  within 180 days of reconsideration as in Step 2. Re-examkne administrative judgments as to scientific merit; can call for additional peer review No further review will be made following these three steps, but a new proposal can be submitted. &amp;quot;New&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;substantially revhed&amp;quot; Ametican Jburnal of Computational Linguistics Microfiche 43 : 14</Paragraph>
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CONFERENCE CHRONICLE
PAST AND FUTURE CONFERENCES NOTED FOR THE RECORD
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REALISTIC MOOEL OF LANGUAGE George A. Miller and Morris
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1 R 1 I ANALYSIS OF WRITTEN AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND ITS
APPLICATIONS Morris Salkoff, director. Kayser, Kittredge,
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ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL DATA SYSTEMS - 14TH INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTION Don Bitzer, Plato chief; Herb Grosch of Computer-
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    <Paragraph position="0"> world; contributed papers. May 4-7, 1976, at Phoenix.</Paragraph>
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  <Section position="18" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="metho">
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COMPUTER LAW ASSOCIATION - GROSCH AS LUNCHEON SPEAKER.
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SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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FACULTY
MERVYN ALLEYNE
FRANK ANSHEN
ALAN BELL
RAND BISHOP
MARINA BURT
LYLE CAMPBELL
HEIDI DULAY
CHARLES FERGUSON
FRANCINE FRANK
VICTORIA FROMKIN
HOWARD GILES
TALMY G IVON
JOSEPH GREENBERG
PEG GRIFFIN
SHIRLEY HEATH
JOHN HELFELDT
REG I NALD HENRY
JOAN HOOPER
PAUL HOPPER
CAROL JUSTUS
EDWARD KEENAN
STEPHEN KRASHEN
SUSUMU KUNO
WALLACE LAMBERT
WINFRED LE HMANN
CHARLES LI
RICHARD LODER
DENNIS PRESTON
WILLIAM RITCHIE
WILGA RIVERS
DAVID ROOD
ROGER SHUY
SUSAN STEELE
STEPHEN S rRAIGHT
M, STUDDERT-KENNEDY
DAVID TAYLOR
SANDRA THOMPSON
STANLEY WANAT
LINDA WAUGH
JOSEPI WIECHA
MARIANNE WILLIAMS
WOLFGANG WOLCK
WALT WOLFRAM
LADISLAV ZGUSTA
LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
LANGUAGE IN AMERICA
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Weekly; sponsored by National Endowment for the Humahitjes</Paragraph>
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DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLARS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Five; sponsored by American Council of Learned Societies</Paragraph>
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TYPOLOGY AND UNIVERSALS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Both weekly; conducted by Lehmann and Greenberg</Paragraph>
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SOCIETY FOR ELVISH STUDIES. JULY 10
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STANFORD PHONOLOGY ARCHIVE WORKSHOP JULY 13-15
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SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION CONFERENCE JULY 17-18
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HISPANIC AND LUSO-BRAZILIAN LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM JULY 24-25
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INDO-EUROPEAN AND TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES JULY a8
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AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY MEETING JULY 29
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Hood Roberts, CAL, 1611 North Kent St., Arlington VA 22209</Paragraph>
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LSA SUMMER MEETING JULY 30-AuG 1
1611 North Kent Street, Arlington, Virginia 22209
TYPOLOGY AND SYNTACTIC FIELD WORK CONFERENCE AUGUST 2-4
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AMERICAN INDIAN LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL AUG 6-7
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Lyle Campbell, Anthropology, SUNY Albany, New York 12222 The 45th Summer Llngulstlc InstlWte ol the Linguistic Swiety of America is being hosted by the State University of New Yoh at Its Oswego campus. The institute has traditionally offered courses In particular aspeats of linguislics which are not readily available to students and faculty on their home campuses.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The institute focusing on two major themes. &amp;quot;Language Varlatlon in America.&amp;quot; In keeping with the bicentennial year, and &amp;quot;Languepe Universals and Typology.&amp;quot; will include oourses, lectures and seminars on these themes by internationally known scholsrs The Institute curriculum has been designed specificaliy to emphasize important Current developments In the dlaoipllne, the mutual contrlbutlons of linguistics and related disclpiines to one another, and the corn munication of these oontributions to linguists and noniinguists alike.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Courses will meet Monday, Tuasday. Thursday and Friday for one hour and 15 minutes unless otherwise spedilied. An additionat 1 and tYI hours wr week is to be arranged in consultation with the instructor. Please consult the Institute flnal brochure tor course descriptions and prereduisltes Students who reglster for a course numbered 500 or above must be graduate students and prepared to do independent research in addition to following regular classroom work. Seniors may by petition to the Graduate Dean, be admltted to courses at the 5W level if they fulfiiCthe prerequisites, and show that they are capable of work at the graduate level</Paragraph>
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