nominal expressions first announcement call papers esslli99 workshop generation nominal expressions university utrecht netherlands 913 august 1999 context workshop take place association 11th european summer school logic linguistics information esslli held utrecht netherlands 920 august 1999 format workshop 5 x 90 minutes 5 consecutive days 9 13 august 1999 esslli summer school organized auspices european association logic language information folli previous esslli summer schools highly successful attracting around 500 students europe elsewhere school developed important meeting place forum discussion students researchers interested interdisciplinary study logic language information information see http esslli let uu nl workshop description someone attempted assess state art linguistic research nominal expressions looking presentday programs generate nominals would doubt underestimate gravely level sophistication theoretical work nominals argued existing work computational generation nominals limited relatively simple nominals often focussing simple singular definite descriptions pronouns alternatively might contended much theoretical work area mature enough appicable generation may work generation nominals profited much theoretical research formal semantics psycholinguistics meaning interpretation production nominal expressions workshop try bridge gap theory practice area focusing generation nominal expressions different linguistic types including example indefinite quantificational nps different monotonicity types theme workshop closely related number ongoing research projects including gnome generation nominal expressions project itri brighton hcrc edinburgh durham collaborate funded epsrc united kingdom topics submissions invited include 1 influence discourse context appropriateness interpretation nominal expression 2 descriptive issues concerning treatment plurality bridging aggregation eventualities reference text crossmodal reference etc 3 representational issues e kind meaning representations form input generation algorithm 4 reversibility grammars 5 differences textual style genre 6 psycholinguistic research relevant computational natural language generation nlg 7 corpus based work leading insights relevant computational nlg 8 issues system algorithm evaluation practical issues welcome short e roughly 10001500 words electronic submissions send email rodger kibble itri brighton ac uk theme workshop submissions postscript plain ascii please include esslli99 subject line message make things easy us accordance description workshop description encourage submissions theoretical e g formal semantic psycholinguistic applied corpusbased work long work clearly relevant nlg programs matter consider main focus work ask authors stress relevance nlg submission later presentation ensure contributions contain common core notwithstanding differences perspective esslli practice make sure workshops go ahead turns sufficient level interest based quantity quality submissions workshop speakers required register summer school however workshop speakers able register reduced rate determined organizing committee limited funds available contribute speakers expenses exceptional circumstances important dates first call papers 22 october 1998 deadline submissions abstracts 1 march 1999 notification acceptance 1 may 1999 workshop held august 913 questions please contact organizers consult web page http www itri brighton ac uk projects gnome esslli99 html shortly available rodger kibble kees van deemter information technology research institute itri university brighton lewes road watts building brighton bn2 4gj united kingdom email rodger kibble itri brighton ac uk kees van deemter itri brighton ac uk fax 44 1273 642908