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.