Workshop on Grammatical Foundations of Prosody and Discourse; Santa Cruz, CA; June 23-July 7, 1991

理论语言学、计算语言学和应用语言学的最新进展表明，需要整合涉及口语语篇理解的所有单个语言模块的信息。为了促进这种融合，将于1991年6月23日至7月7日在加州大学圣克鲁斯分校举办一次关于韵律和语篇语法基础的研讨会，在夏季学院的头两周，由美国语言学会主办，由计算语言学协会和美国人工智能协会共同赞助。研讨会将在一次简短的会议中达到高潮，来自学术界和产业界的国际知名研究人员将汇聚一堂，他们致力于语言专业之间的接口工作。它将为语音处理、语音学、语音学、句法、语义学和语篇的研究人员提供机会，共同努力，在其学科领域内对口语理解中的关键理论、描述性和计算问题达成共识。为期两周的会议的一个重要任务将是探索如何最好地组织在语法的一个模块中表达的信息，例如句法结构，以传达其他相关模块所需的所有信息，如语篇和韵律。这样的探索对于开发用于自然语言理解、翻译和生成的更健壮的计算系统以及直接适用于语音理解和合成技术是必要的。在语言研究所举行会议，并鼓励研究所的与会者参加许多讲习班和公开会议，这将确保要解决的关切问题将在整个语言界得到传播。

Recent advances in theoretical, computational, and applied linguistics demonstrate a need to integrate information across all the individual linguistic modules that are involved in the comprehension of spoken discourse. To facilitate this integration, a workshop on the Grammatical Foundations of Prosody and Discourse will be held between June 23rd and July 7th, 1991, at the University of California at Santa Cruz, during the first two weeks of the Summer Institute sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America and co-sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. The workshop, which will culminate in a short conference, will bring together internationally known researchers, both from academia and industry, who work at the interfaces between linguistic specializations. It will provide the opportunity for researchers in speech processing, phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse to work together to develop a common understanding of crucial theoretical, descriptive, and computational issues in spoken language understanding across their subject areas. An important task for the two week long meeting will be to explore how information expressed in one module of the grammar, syntactic structure for example, can best be organized to convey all the information needed by other related modules, such as discourse and prosody. Such an exploration is needed for the development of more robust computational systems for natural language understanding, translation, and generation, as well as being directly applicable to speech understanding and synthesis technology. Holding the meeting at the Linguistic Institute and encouraging participation by Institute attendees at many of the workshop functions as well as at the public conference will assure that the concerns to be addressed will be disseminated among the linguistic community at large.