Challenges in natural language processing: Conclusion

Preface Symposium participants Part I. Challenging Problems: 1. Critical changes for natural language processing Madeleine Bates, Robert J. Bobrow and Ralph M. Weischedel Part II. Building a Lexicon: 2. The contribution of lexicography B. T. Sue Atkins 3. The contribution of linguistics Beth Levin 4. The contribution of computational lexicology Branimar K. Boguraev Part III. Semantics and Knowledge Representation: 5. Events, situations and adverbs Robert C. Moore 6. Natural language, knowledge representation and logical form James F. Allen Part IV. Discourse: 7. Getting and keeping the center of attention Rebecca J. Passonneau 8. Surface structure, intonation and discourse meaning Mark Steedman Part V. Spoken Language Systems: 9. Prosody, intonation and speech technology Janet Pierrehumbert Part VI. Conclusion: 10. The future of computational linguistics Madeleine Bates and Ralph M. Weischedel Author index Subject index.