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  <Title>NEWSLETTER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS</Title>
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7 THE FINITE STRING &gt;-
NEWSLETTER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A combined alphabetic list of members of the Association and persons mentioned in the 1974 and 1975 sets of AJCL, both contributors and authors of abstracted papers, is in preparation. A new scheme of topical categories is being prepared by cluster analysis of responses from members, and will be used as headings on a set of index guide cards which will list articles, abstracts and members by topic.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The whole package will be distributed about a month after this issue.</Paragraph>
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS is published by
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACL PRESIDENT 1976 Stanley R. Petrick . . . . . . 3
PERSONAL NOTES . . . * . . . . . . . . . . . *.. 4
SEMANTICS Georgetown Round Table a . . . , . . . 5
AAAS PROGRAM EXCERPTS Science and Expectations . . 7
NEH Application deadlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT Ralston speaks at NCC 76 . . 12
ARCHITECTURE FOR NONNU'MER3:C PROCESS3NG . . . , . . 13
ASIS PRESIDENT 1976 Melvin S. Day . . . . . ...- 15
LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING Meeting notes . . 16
ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING SOCIETIES Gon. !renee . . 17
ISTITUTO PER GLI STUOI SEMANTICX E COGNITIVI . . . . 18
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
STANLEY R, PETRICK
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Dr. Petrick works on syntactic and semantic analysis for transformational grammars; he has been employed in this field since 1967 as a member of the Theoretical and Comoutational Linguistics Group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center His doctoral dissertation (Linguistics, MIT, 1965) was A Recognitim Procedure for Transformational Grammars; it was one of the original systems to go beyond phrase structure.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Dr. Petrick programmed the Ordvac Computer in 1953 and went on to study digital computation at MIT as a student officer in the Air Force. From 1958 to 1967, the was a research mathernetician in the Applied Mathematics Branch ~f the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory. His research was on truth function minimization, speech recognition, and formal language theory, He was chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation, 1969-1971, program chairman of the 1968 ACL meeting, and vice president of ACL in 1975.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> American Journal of Computational Linguistics Microfiche 37 : 4</Paragraph>
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PERSONAL MOTES
BRUDERER HERBERT TO Finkenweg 3, 3110 Munsingen/Berne,
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    <Paragraph position="0"> from Haslerstrasse 12, Berne.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> DE MEY. MARC T. M. TO Department of Psychology, University of Tilburg, Hogeschoollaan 225, Tilburg, Netherlands, from Gent, Belgium.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> DOBREE. NICK To Rose Cottage, Hindon, Wiltshire, England, from Beirut, pending the cessation of hostilities.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> RAMEH, CLEA To School of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University, from a year in Brazil. Rameh is chairman of the 1976 Round Table on Languages and Linguistics.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> REDDY. D. RAJ Guggenheim fellowship for studies in the computer processing of speech.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> WALTER. JOHN PAUL TO 1746 Curtis Avenue, Manhattan Beach, California 90266 American Journal of Computational Linguistics ~i crofiche 37 : 5</Paragraph>
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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ROUND TABLE
LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS 19 76
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    <Paragraph position="0"> ' 'Semantics: Theory and Application' ' March 11, 12, 13, 1976 The theme of the Georgetown University on Thursday evening, on Friday mcr.rine and after-Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1976 noon, and on Saturday morning, March 1 I-? 3 On is semantics. There will br two types of meetings: Friday esening. Georgetown University will hast a (1 ) fourtcen Interest Group Sessions on Thursday budet reception for those attending the Round Table. afternoon, March 1 1; and ( 2 ) four Plenary Sessions The Interest Group Sessions will provide an opportunicy for informal discussion of various related topics.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> These sessions will be chaired and their topics wjli be introduced by scholars in the various fields. A limit of 25 participants for each Group should provide a manageable interchange of iieas. Acceptance for each group will depend on early preregistratim. On the form below participants should indicate their preferred Interest Group and list any speciiic topic they desire did. Those not registering until the Round Table itself cannot be guaranteed parricipacion in an Interest Group.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The Plenary Sessions will explore the relationship of semantics to various theoretical viewpoints in linguistics, to problems in applied linguistics and to problems in language teaching. The Plenary Sessions will also discuss the relationships of semantics to anthropology, computer science, philosophy, and psychology.</Paragraph>
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