Constraint solving and language processing
Contains selected and thoroughly revised papers plus contributions from invited speakers presented at the First International Workshop on C- straint Solving and Language Processing, held in Roskilde, Denmark, September 1–3, 2004. Constraint Programming and Constraint Solving, in particular Constraint Logic Programming, appear to be a very promising platform, perhaps the most promising present platform, for bringing forward the state of the art in natural language processing, this due to the naturalness in speci?cation and the direct relation to e?cient implementation. Language, in the present context, may - fer to written and spoken language, formal and semiformal language, and even general input data to multimodal and pervasive systems, which can be handled in very much the same ways using constraint programming. The notion of constraints, with slightly differing meanings, apply in the characterization of linguistic and cognitive phenomena, in formalized linguistic m- els as well as in implementation-oriented frameworks. Programming techniques for constraint solving have been, and still are, in a period with rapid devel- ment of new eficient methods and paradigms from which language processing can prompt. A common metaphor for human language processing is one big c- straint solving process in which the differently specified linguistic and cognitive phases take place in parallel and with mutual cooperation, which ?ts quite well with current constraint programming paradigms.
Constraint handling rules : Current research topics
The Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) language is a declarative concurrent committed-choice constraint logic programming language consisting of guarded rules that transform multisets of relations called constraints until no more change occurs. The aim of this volume was to attract high-quality research papers on these recent advances in Constraint Handling Rules.
Logic Programming ; Vol. 4079 ; 22nd International Conference, ICLP 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, August 17-20, 2006, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2006, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in August 2006. The 20 revised full papers and 6 application papers presented together with 2 invited talks, 2 tutorials and special interest papers, as well as 17 poster presentations and the abstracts of 7 doctoral consortium articles, were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 initial submissions. The papers cover all issues of current research in logic programming - they are organized in topical sections on theory, functional and constraint logic programming, program analysis, answer-set programming, semantics, and applications.
Logic Programming ; Vol. 3668 : 21st International Conference, ICLP 2005, Sitges, Spain, October 2-5, 2005, Proceedings
This volume contains the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Logic Programming which was held in Sitges (Barcelona), Spain, from October 2nd to 5th, 2005. The conference was colocated with the International Conf- ence on ConstraintProgramming(CP 2005)and the following 6 post-conference workshops: – CICLOPS 2005: Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and Logic Programming Systems – CSLP 2005: Constraint Solving and Language Processing – WCB 2005: Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics – WLPE 2005: Logic-Based Methods in Programming Environments – MoVeLog 2005: Mobile Code Safety and Program Veri?cation Using C- putational Logic Tools – CHR 2005: Constraint Handling Rules The conferencecoincided with a solareclipse
Logic programming ; 23rd International Conference, ICLP 2007, Porto, Portugal, September 8-13, 2007, Proceedings
The 22 revised full papers together with two invited talks, 15 poster presentations, and the abstracts of five doctoral consortium articles cover all issues of current research in logic programming, including theory, functional and constraint logic programming, program analysis, answer-set programming, semantics, and applications.
Logic Programming : 24th International Conference, ICLP 2008 Udine, Italy, December 9-13 2008 Proceedings
The 35 revised full papers together with 2 invited talks, 2 invited tutorials, 11 papers of the co-located first Workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2008), as well as 26 poster presentations and the abstracts of 11 doctoral consortium articles were carefully reviewed and selected from 177 initial submissions. The papers cover all issues of current research in logic programming - they are organized in topical sections on applications, algorithms, systems, and implementations, semantics and foundations, analysis and transformations, CHRs and extensions, implementations and systems, answer set programming and extensions, as well as constraints and optimizations.





