ijcai95 workshop context nlp call papers ijcai95 workshop context natural language processing august 19 20 21 1995 montreal canada correct interpretation natural language utterances texts requires linguistic nonlinguistic context goal workshop investigate nature context natural language role natural language processing shed light largely unexplored area great theoretical practical importance dialogue text processing two application domains lack good theories context impedes significant progress applying developing new technologies speech technology matures becomes technically feasible build dialogue systems however understanding dialogues especially multimodal dialogues possible without account role context similarly today text processing technology feasible automatically create knowledge bases fairly unconstrained texts newspaper archives ignoring context texts however results knowledge bases incomplete also dramatically different knowledge bases created humans based texts invite papers researchers active fields natural language processing knowledge representation related areas addressing theoretical aspects context implications designing practical nlp systems interested reports implemented nlp systems utilizing contextual information also interested knowledge representation systems inference methods algorithms would allow one computationally handle specific aspects context agenda workshop provide answers insights go answering number questions including following role context natural language context context previous utterance sentence context dialogso far textso far relationship many different contexts makes two contexts different relationship formalization context natural language ideas context status context formal representation aiming truthfully capturing characteristics natural language context inherent characteristic natural language ultimately decides formal power natural language natural language minus context less powerful formal language representing context truthfully capturing characteristics natural language require new knowledge representation automated reasoning systems relationship context semantics pragmatics natural language context different possible worlds situations relationship domain ontologies contexts ii contextdependent interpretation natural language way context affect interpretation natural language utterances texts aspects context contexts result refined general different interpretations natural language aspects context explicit implicit natural language utterances texts phenomena inferences observed natural language contextindependent ones always depend context iii computability handling context increase decrease computational complexity natural language processing automatically identify contextprovided constraints resulting conveying understanding additional different aspects information represent extra constraints provided context automatically compute contextdependent interpretation natural language final interpretation natural language decontextualized stored knowledge base information obtained one context utilized another possibly unanticipated context workshop format hold four sessions role context natural language ii context dependent interpretation natural language iii computability iv general discussion sessions ii iii mildly structured first committee present brief overview possible answers specific questions included agenda discuss answers presentation mixed questions participants second participants whose papers accepted briefly comment answers questions presentations also mixed questions participants session iv general discussion give participant chance make statement contextrelated issue make comment raise question argue answers etc preworshop activities preworkshop mailing list established please indicate whether want included order facilitate interaction focus discussion two months workshop provide participants specific examples data illustrating various aspects context 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