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  <Title>The comments on the dust jacket for the third edition of Colin Cherry's On Human Communication come from reviews of previous editions whf-ch appeared in such diverse places as the Canadian Journal of Psychology, Physics Today, and Romance Phllolo~ ahd lndicllte that it fs a broad ranging and fascinating</Title>
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:-$ THE FINITE STRING
NEWSLETTER OF THE ASSOCIAT.IOlj FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> George E Heidorn kps accepted appointment as Editor-of AJCL His term begins with the first .issue fgr 1979 The experiment With a microfiche journal is over. The next issue of the journal will be on paper, with possible microfiche supplement.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The re~iting Editor apologizes to the membership for the long delay in release of the present material for publication. Grave persona1 difficulties interfered with all of Hays&amp;quot;s routine activities during the period, and voluntary activities necessarily suffered most Released for publication March 25, 1979,</Paragraph>
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  <Section position="2" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="metho">
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS is'puhljshed
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    <Paragraph position="0"> by the Association fpr. Comfiutational Linguistics</Paragraph>
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MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Allen noted that the minutes of the previous meeting had been published in the Finite String, Volume 14, Number 3-, Microfiche 65 of the American</Paragraph>
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FINANCIAL STATUS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Don Walkw, Secretary-Treasurer, reviewed the financial status of the Association, a copy of which is attached to these Minutes. He presented income and expehses both for 1'977 and for 1978 through 21 July. The balances of $6,332.19 for 1977 and $7,060.63 for 1978 constitute ajs9et9 of $13,39r.82.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> However, the major costs for AJCI, for the current year are yet, to be incurred, and dues for AFIPS have not yet been billed, At the same time, the $1,000 advance to cover costs of the TINLAP-2 Meeting is likely be returned, along with a portion of the excess of income over expenses, which will be shared with ACM/SIGART.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The indebtedness of the Association ta the Center for Applied Linguistics, which housed the previous Secretariat, has been paid off. Of the total of $13,486:06, funds from the previous Secretariat provided $9,913.92; $3,572.14 was taken out of income for 1977.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> I Walker remarked that the income item from AFIPS for 1977 of $2,365, which refledted a disbursement of surplus funds from the National Computer Conference, was unlikely to be repeated again soon. AFIPS is in the process of creatAfig 2 new journal, ABACUS, modeled after Scientific American, and future surpluses probably will be used to defray or at least to backup the startup ,costs. The journal is expected to be self-sustaining, and might eventually show a profit.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> The current balance in the TINLAP-1 Account is $109.41; approximately 75 copies remain.</Paragraph>
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MEMBERSHIP
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Walker reported membership figures for 1977 of 500 individual and 201 institutional, for a total of 701. The current figures for 1978, through 21 July, are 405 individual and 208 institutional, for a total of 613. A slightly more detailed breakdown is attached to these Minutes.</Paragraph>
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EDITOR 'S REPORT
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Dave Hays, Edito-r of the AJCL, announced thaG he was resigning, effective at the end of tb year. The next issue will include the TINLAP Proceedings; the final issue of the current year will contain a complete index for the five years of its publication. The Jourrlal wa3 established in 1974 as an NSF-sp,onaored experiment in microfiche pub1icat;ion. Anticipating the implications of George Heidornta survey (see below), Hays remarked that this mode of publication is likely to be replaced by microprocessor technology and might never repeive a full scale trial.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Allep expressed the gratitude of t,he Association to Hays for his devotion, his constructivenes~, and his tireless efforts in establishing and sustaihing the A JCL . This tribute was affirmed by the members.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Allen then announced that Heidorn, currently Associate Editor, would replace Hays as Editor in January.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> A NEW FORMAT FOR THE AJCL Heidorn presented the results of his survey of the qembership regarding a new format for the AJCL. Of 513 questionnaires mailed (to both current members and to members ~ho paid for 1977 but not yet for 1978); 212 were ret;'urned. The responses favored crea'tion of a hard copy edition, similar in format to the Communications of the ACM, with or without an acoompanying microfiche version. Most members felt that such a change would encourage a wider readership and an increase in the submission of techical articles, A more comprehensive report by Heidorn is included elsewhere in this iswe.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> Allen reported that the ExecubSve Committee, after reviewing Heidorn's findings, has decided to issue the Journal in the new format with both hard copy and microfiche versions sent to each membep, beginning with the first issue of 1979. The microfiche also may contain appendixes for technical articles, program listings, and other material of interest to the membership but less appropriate for Inclusion in hard copy form, like the list of members.</Paragraph>
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NEXT MEETING
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Allen stated that a decision about the time and place of the 1979 meeting had not yet been made. Asiloalar, near Monterey in California, is being considered, possibly around the time of the next International Joint Conference on Artificial IntelLlgence, which wj-11 be held in Tokyo from 20 to 24 August. In the discussion, members expressed concern that the choice should not discourage attendance by graduate students.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> For 1980, the Executive Committee recommended that a third TINLAP meeting be held. The President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer constitute an interim opmmittee to investigate this possibility and to negotiate with SIGART, a3 appropriate. Allen also remarked that an offer already had been received from Aravlnd Joshi to host TINLAP-3 at the Universi ty of Pennsylvania.</Paragraph>
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