WORKSHOP ON ROBUST PARSING - CALL FOR ATTENDANCE
                           August 12 - 16, 1996

                              at ESSLLI'96
          European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                         Prague, Czech Republic

BACKGROUND:
Parsing systems able to analyse natural language text robustly and
accurately at an appropriate level of detail would be of great value in
computer applications ranging from speech synthesis and document style
checking to message understanding and automatic translation. A number of
research groups worldwide are currently developing such systems, varying
in the depth of analysis from lexical parsing or tagging (identifying
syntactic features just of individual words), through shallow or phrasal
parsing (forming hierarchical syntactic structure but not exploiting
subcategorisation), to full parsers (which deal with unbounded
dependencies etc., and are able to recover predicate-argument structure).

To bring researchers in this area together to present and compare
state-of-the-art systems for robust parsing, a workshop will be held
August 12-16, 1996, during the first week of ESSLLI'96, the European
Summer School in Logic, Language and Information.

PRESENTATIONS:
Partial Parsing via Finite-state Cascades
Steven Abney, University of Tuebingen, Germany

A Robust Finite-State Parser for French
Jean-Pierre Chanod, Rank Xerox Research Centre, France &
Pasi Tapanainen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Robust Speech Parsing
Ute Ehrlich, Daimler-Benz AG, Germany &
Gerhard Hanrieder, FORWISS, Erlangen, Germany

Shallow Parsing and Text Chunking: a View on Underspecification in Syntax
Stefano Federici, Simonetta Montemagni & Vito Pirrelli, ILC-CNR Pisa, Italy

Using Verb Semantic Role Information to Extend Partial Parses via a
Co-reference Mechanism
Robert Gaizauskas & Kevin Humphreys, University of Sheffield, UK

GLR*: A Robust Parser for Spontaneously Spoken Language
Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Evaluation of PRINCIPAR with the SUSANNE Corpus
Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba, Canada

Robust Parsing with the Head-Corner Parser
Gertjan van Noord, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

An Approach to Robust Partial Parsing and Evaluation Metrics
B. Srinivas, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Transformation-based Bracketing: Fast Algorithms and Experimental Results
Mark Vilain & David Palmer, The MITRE Corporation, USA

REGISTRATION: 
Attendees must register in advance, through the ESSLLI secretariat
(contact details below), and will then be eligible at no extra cost to
attend all other workshops at ESSLLI'96, as well as the many courses and
symposia (see the ESSLLI WWW pages for details). The workshop will consist
of 5 90-minute sessions, with two papers in each session. A volume of
proceedings will be issued to each attendee.

ORGANISERS:
John Carroll, University of Sussex
and Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge

WORKSHOP ENQUIRIES TO:
John Carroll
Cognitive and Computing Sciences,
University of Sussex,
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
E-mail:    john.carroll@cogs.susx.ac.uk

SUMMER SCHOOL CONTACT:
ESSLLI'96,
UFAL MFF UK,
Malostranske' na'm. 25,
118 00 Praha 1,
Czech Republic
Fax:       +42-2-2191-4-309
Phone:     +42-2-2191-4-255
E-mail:    esslli@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
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