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>From: patta@cs.sfu.ca (T Pattabhiraman)
Subject: Publicn Announcemt: Computational Intelligence: Spl Issue on NLG
Message-ID: <1992Jan28.041532.29322@cs.sfu.ca>
Keywords: Natural Language Generation, Special Issue, Computational Intelligence
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1992 04:15:32 GMT


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	Special Issue on Natural Language Generation

	COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, 7(4), 1991

	Guest Editors: 	T.Pattabhiraman and Nick Cercone
		Centre for Systems Science
		Simon Fraser University
		Burnaby B.C. CANADA V5A 1S6
 
	email enquiries to: patta@cs.sfu.ca
 
(Information on ordering copies given at the end of this announcement)
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The COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE journal is bringing out Vol. 7, No. 4 (1991)
as a special issue on Natural Language Generation (NLG).
This special issue presents current perspectives in NLG research 
on a wide range of problems such as syntactic realization, lexical choice,
generation of referring expressions, content planning, expressibility of 
text plans, discourse structuring and explanation generation. 
The articles contain results and analyses which are pertinent to
such practical applications as intelligent tutoring systems,
expert system explanation and automatic report generation.

The fifteen articles in this issue present new formalisms
and mechanisms for various aspects of NLG, and arguments for the explicit 
representation of new knowledge sources. Moreover, the articles present
critical analyses of the strengths and limitations of techniques
which have been in vogue in the recent years in NLG (for example,
the use of schema and Rhetorical Structure Theory relations for
discourse structuring), and monitor current trends and their implications
for future developments. Such analyses are an essential component of
the current debate in NLG which this special issue seeks to capture.

The articles are also exemplars of the use of methodologies and adaptation of
bodies of knowledge from related disciplines such as linguistics and
psycholinguistics. The background summaries and overviews, provided by 
the authors wherever appropriate, make the articles self-contained,
and enhance the accessibility of the ideas to the wide readership of 
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Contributing authors: S.Carberry, R.Dale, N.Haddock, E.Hovy, G.Kempen,
R.Kittredge, T.Korelsky, M.Maybury, K.McCoy, D.McDonald, K.McKeown,
M.Meteer, D.Mooney, J.Moore, C.Paris, O.Rambow, E.Reiter, Y.Schabes,
S.Shieber, F.Smadja, D.Suthers, K.Vijay-Shanker, G.Yang, I.Zukerman
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	List of articles in the Special Issue
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   Gijoo Yang, Kathleen F. McCoy and K. Vijay-Shanker:
	From Functional Specification to Syntactic Structures:
	Systemic Grammar and Tree Adjoining Grammar

   Stuart M. Shieber and Yves Schabes:
	Generation and Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammars
 
   Frank Smadja and Kathleen McKeown:
	Using Collocations for Language Generation
 
   Ehud Reiter:
	A New Model of Lexical Choice for Nouns
 
   Robert Dale and Nicholas Haddock:
	Content Determination in the Generation of Referring Expressions

   Mark T. Maybury:
	Topical, Temporal and Spatial Constraints on Linguistic Realization
 
   Ingrid Zukerman:
	Using Meta-Comments to Generate Fluent Text in a Technical Domain
 
   Marie W. Meteer:
	Bridging the "Generation Gap" between Text Planning and
	Linguistic Realization
 
   Richard Kittredge, Tanya Korelsky and Owen Rambow:
	On the Need for Domain Communication Knowledge
 
   Daniel D. Suthers:
	A Task-Appropriate Hybrid Architecture for Explanation
 
   David J. Mooney, Sandra Carberry and Kathleen F. McCoy:
	Capturing High-Level Structure of Naturally-Occurring 
	Extended Explanations Using Bottom-Up Strategies
 
   Gerard Kempen:
	Conjunction Reduction and Gapping in Clause-Level Coordination:
	An Inheritance-Based Approach
 
   David D. McDonald:
	"One Tree - One Unit"- A Hypothesis for the Conceptual Sources
	Underlying Generation
 
   Eduard Hovy:
	Recent Trends in Computational Research 
	on Monologic Discourse Structure
 
   Johanna D. Moore and Cecile L. Paris:
	Requirements for an Expert System Explanation Facility
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Single copies of the special issue may be ordered @ US$17.50 per copy from:

	National Research Council of Canada
	Research Journals
	Subscriptions Office, Attn: Ms.Joan Hill
	Ottawa ON K1A 0R6
 
Cheques/money orders are to be made out to:
	National Research Council of Canada

Please mention with your order: 
	COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, Special Issue on NLG, 7(4), 1991.
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*******  P.S.: A continuation of the 7(4) special issue will appear in
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE 8(1), 1992. Details to be announced later *******
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