Subject: First AMAST Workshop on Language Processing

From: [email-masked] (Pippo Scollo)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 17:35:09 +0200

[With apologies if you receive this announcement more than once]

Preliminary Announcement

First AMAST Workshop on Language Processing

Place		: University of Twente, Enschede
		  the Netherlands

Time		: 6-8 December 1995

Organizers	: A. Nijholt (Enschede)
		  M. Nivat (Paris)
		  T. Rus (Iowa City)

Theme		: Algebraic Methods in Language Processing

About AMAST
This workshop is organized in the framework provided by
the Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST) 
movement. In this framework four large international 
conferences have been held and, until now, three workshops
(one on Topology and Completion in Semantics, the other two
on Real-Time Systems).
The First AMAST Workshop on Language Processing will be
organized in Enschede. This workshop will focus on algebraic
methods in formal languages, programming languages and
natural languages.

Aims of the Workshop
The aim of this workshop is to bring together those 
researchers on formal language theory, programming 
language theory and natural language description 
theory, that have a common interest in the use of 
algebraic methods to describe syntactic, semantic and 
pragmatic properties of language. The workshop does 
not concentrate on natural language only. There is 
interesting use of algebraic methods in programming 
language processing (compiler construction and 
development of programming language environments) 
and (obviously) in formal language theory. Moreover, 
it is becoming clear that some of the methods 
developed in these fields can play a role in natural 
language description and processing.

Invited Speakers
A preliminary list of invited speakers is given below.

* An Algebraic Framework for Analogies and Metaphors
  Bibin Indurkhya, Boston, USA

* Implication Structures and Residuated Algebras related
  to Formal Grammar
  Wojciech Buszkowski, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan,
  Poland

* An Algebraic Perspective on Grammatical Theories for
  Natural Language
  Theo M.V. Janssen, Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

* Algebraic Processing of Programming Languages
  Teo Rus, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

* Contextual Grammars with Depth-First Derivation.
  Carlos Martin Vide, J. Miquel-Verges & Gh. Paun,
  Barcelona, Spain

* Tools for Contextual Syntactic Analysis
  Francois Barthelemy, CNAM-Laboratoire de Micro-informatique,
  Paris, France

* Parsing Schemata and Correctness of Parsing Algorithms
  Klaas Sikkel, GMD, Bonn, Germany

Some other speakers will be added to this list. A complete
program of the workshop and information about registration
will be available in September 1995. For more information
contact: [email-masked].