Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -

Abstract

This volume contains the papers prepared for the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, held 18-21 June 1991 in Berkeley, California. Also, for the first time the program included a number of presentations by students describing interesting dissertation work in progress. Their papers are gathered in a separate section at the end of this Proceedings.The program committee found its job to be quite difficult this year because of the extraordinarily high quality of the submissions we received. Because of the high overall quality, we have expanded the number of papers we accepted this year, and even so we felt that some papers were rejected that would have met the standards of past years. It gives all of us great pleasure to see the field evolve and its standards of excellence increase. The entire computational linguistics research community deserves congratulations for this encouraging development. We feel this program demonstrates excellent progress in all areas of computational linguistics, and it reflects the increasingly international character of the research community, with contributions from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. We hope that you find these papers as interesting and exciting as we did.