From nl-kr-distribution-owner Wed Feb 24 13:31:54 1993 Received: from cs.rpi.edu ([128.213.1.1]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150189>; Wed, 24 Feb 1993 13:31:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 13:05:30 -0500 Received: by cs.rpi.edu (5.65c/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA02473; Wed, 24 Feb 1993 13:05:30 -0500 Message-Id: <199302241805.AA02473@cs.rpi.edu> From: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) Reply-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Digest) Approved: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Errors-To: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Maint-Path: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 10 No. 1 NL-KR Digest (Wed Feb 24 10:47:32 1993) Volume 10 No. 1 Today's Topics: Announcement: Looking for a new moderator Announcemet: New newsgroup comp.ai.nat-lang CFP: BISFAI-93 CFP: AAAI-93 Workshop on Reasoning About Function CFP: AAAI-93 Workshop on "Reasoning About Function" CFP: Seventh International Workshop on Unification (UNIF93) Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 10:53:19 -0500 From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Chris Welty) Subject: Announcement: Looking for a new moderator I have been unable to work on NL-KR for the past two months, and I'm trying now to get some issues out and deal with the administrative backlog. I don't forsee myself being able to devote even the hour or two a week this Digest requires anytime in the near future, so I'd like to put out the call for a new moderator. If you are interested, let me know - send mail to weltyc@cs.rpi.edu not nl-kr. I apologize for the two month hiatus. I am simply removing all CFPs and other announcements whose expirations have past in order to get out as much as possible. If you sent me an administrative request, it may take some time. I apologize to those who requested removal from the Digest, you will probably get a few more issues before I get to your request, as I want to get the CFPs and Announcements whose deadlines are approaching out as fast as I can. ===== Christopher Welty Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs, Troy, NY 12180 weltyc@cs.rpi.edu "Porsche: Fahren in seiner schoensten Form" ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 23 Feb 93 13:12:47 -0500 From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: Announcemet: New newsgroup comp.ai.nat-lang Followup-To: news.groups This is an official request for discussion (RFD) for the formation of the newsgroup, comp.ai.nat-lang Charter for comp.ai.nat-lang Name: comp.ai.nat-lang Moderation: This group will be unmoderated. Purpose: To discuss issues relating to natural language, especially computer-related issues from an AI viewpoint. The topics that will be discussed in this group will concentrate on, but are not limited to, the following: * Natural Language Understanding * Natural Language Generation * Machine Translation * Dialogue and Discourse Systems * Natural Language Interfaces * Parsing * Computational Linguistics * Computer-Aided Language Learning This group will avoid discussing issues that are more properly covered by other newsgroups. For example, speech synthesis should be discussed in comp.speech. However, due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field, there may be overlap in material between other groups. To try to keep this to a minimum, topics should pertain to computer-related aspects of natural language. Rules of Decorum: Because of the unmoderated format, anyone with access to this newsgroup will be able to post without review. This is meant to encourage discussion of the topics. Please refrain from "flames" or unnecessary criticism of a person's viewpoints or personality in a harsh or insulting manner. Criticisms should constructive and polite whenever possible. Intended Audience: While there can be some talk of linguistics, we are going to only cover topics that pertain to natural language processing, and not all of linguistics, and therefore, in some ways we are narrower and broader in the range of topics that we will talk about compared to sci.lang. Therefore, we do not wish to restrict this newsgroup to linguists only. We should restrict discussion of speech synthesis and recognition to groups like comp.speech, except where they serve as parts of a bigger natural language system. Also, while this group is meant for those people in the field, we should be open to those who are interested in natural language processing, but who may not have had much expertise in the field. These may include beginners in the field as well as those who might simply find the area interesting, even though they work in a different area. End of charter - ------- Discussion period: The last day for discussion will be set for Sunday, February 28, 1992 (or 28 February 1992 for Europeans). If there is still ongoing discussion that appears serious, we will continue discussion via e-mail. Name of the group: As pointed out in another post, the original leading choice for the name of the newsgroup was comp.ai.nlp. Originally, I would have let this name be the name of the group. However, the moderator of news.announce.newgroups and his colleagues suggest that "nlp", unlike "AI" is a bit too cryptic, and that their experience is that cryptic names are not good because they lead to people who add spurious posts to the newsgroup. Rather than reopen up the selection to a vote, I have, for reasons of creating this newsgroup, selected the name which someone had suggested to me, and one that I liked, comp.ai.nat-lang. I am sympathetic to those who had wanted the group to be called comp.ai.nlp, since "nlp" is commonly used, but rather than get into potential trouble by using this name, and under the belief that the newsgroup should be formed rather than get too worried about the choice of name, I decided to change the name to one that was more descriptive to people who aren't in the field (and some of those are in AI!). Call For Votes: Short of a flurry of people sending me mail to the contrary, my intention is to start the call for votes (CFV) on Tuesday, March 2, 1992, and end in on Monday, March 30, 1992 at midnight Eastern Time. Instructions for voting should be posted by Monday 1, 1992. Reminders: This is the final Request For Discussion, and the period of discussion will end this Sunday. Due to the moderately low posting (except concerning the name), there appears to be little opposition to forming the group, and hopefully we can keep it that way. E-mail: Any questions or suggestions can be e-mailed to me, Charles Lin, at clin@eng.umd.edu. If there are any problems e-mailing me, let me know via posting, or asking another person to forward mail to me (this might be preferable). Followup discussion: All followup discussion will be carried out on news.groups. You may wish to crosspost to other groups, but to keep clutter in other groups to a minimum, discussion is preferably confined to news.groups. - - Charles Lin clin@eng.umd.edu ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 12:00:35 IDT From: "Martin Charles Golumbic" Subject: CFP: BISFAI-93 ....... Second Announcement ....... ....... Please Post ....... Submission deadline is March 1, 1993 Third Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence 15-17 June 1993 -- Ramat Gan, Israel Bar-Ilan University, through its Center for Applied Logic and Artificial Intelligence (CALAI) and the Abraham Gelbart Research Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, is pleased to announce its third Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (BISFAI-93) to be held June 15-17, 1993 in Ramat Gan, Israel. The Symposium is also supported by AAAI and is held in cooperation with the ECCAI and the IAAI. The Symposium is international in scope, with invited lectures by leading researchers and contributed papers on foundations of AI. The invited speakers for BISFAI-93 will be Barbara Grosz, Jean-Louis Lassez, Vladimir Lifschitz and Jeffrey Rosenschein. Symposium Chair is Martin Golumbic. This biennial event focuses on a range of topics of concern to scholars applying quantitative, combinatorial, logical, algebraic and algorithmic methods to AI areas as diverse as decision support, automatic reasoning, knowledge-based systems, machine learning, computational linguistics, computer vision, and robotics. These include applied logicians, algorithms and complexity researchers, AI theorists, and applications specialists using mathematical methods. Although a small meeting is anticipated, with selected speakers and no parallel sessions, an attempt will be made to open attendance to all interested research scientists. ............ CALL FOR PAPERS .............. High quality research papers are solicited for consideration by the program committee to be presented at the Symposium. Submissions of extended abstracts of 4-10 pages or full papers must arrive by 1 March 1993 and should be sent in triplicate to: Dr. Sarit Kraus, Program Chair BISFAI-93 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel email: sarit@bimacs.bitnet or sarit@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il Decisions on presentations will be made on or before 20 April 1993. Selected refereed full length theory papers will be published in a special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence and selected application oriented papers in the journal Applied Artificial Intelligence, as a permanent record of the Symposium. These should be submitted shortly after the conclusion of the Symposium. No informal proceedings will appear. ............ TRAVEL GRANTS .............. A limited number of grants for partial support will be available for graduate students and postdocs. Those interested in applying for such a grant should send (1) a short statement about their research and (2) the name of at least one faculty member who can recommend them, to Prof. Martin Golumbic, Symposium Chair BISFAI-93 IBM Israel Scientific Center MATAM Technology Park Haifa, Israel email: golumbic@haifasc3.vnet.ibm.com The deadline for grant requests is April 15, 1993. ............ FURTHER INFORMATION .............. For further information on the Symposium and to receive additional announcements, contact Dr. Ronen Feldman, BISFAI-93 Organizing Chair Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, ISRAEL email: feldman@bimacs.bitnet or feldman@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il Hotel accommodations will be reserved at the Kfar Hamaccabia Hotel in Ramat Gan which also has sports facilities available gratis for the Symposium participants. The Symposium will take place at the University, which is a short ride, or a half-hour walk, from the hotel. Program Committee: Yaacov Choueka (Bar-Ilan University) Rina Dechter (U.C. Irvine) Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University) Ariel Frank (Bar-Ilan University) Dov Gabbay (Imperial College) Dan Geiger (Technion) Martin Golumbic (IBM Israel and Bar-Ilan University) Joe Halpern (IBM Almaden Research Center) Jeff Johnson (Open University, England) Moshe Koppel (Bar-Ilan University) Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University) Daniel Lehmann (Hebrew University) Larry Manevitz (Haifa University) Jack Minker (University of Maryland) Leora Morgenstern (IBM Watson Research Center) Ephraim Nissan (Bar-Ilan University) Judea Pearl (UCLA) Donald Perlis (University of Maryland) Michael Richter (University of Kaiserslautern) Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew University) Uri Schild (Bar-Ilan University) Micha Sharir (New York University and Tel Aviv) Jonathan Stavi (Bar-Ilan University) ======================================================================= >>>> PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM TO RECEIVE FURTHER MAILINGS <<<< Dr. Ronen Feldman, BISFAI-93 Organizing Chair Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, ISRAEL email: feldman@bimacs.bitnet or feldman@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il Name: ________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________________ Electronic mail: ____________________________________________ _____ I will attend the Bar-Ilan Symposium June 15-17, 1993 _____ Please send me the final announcement in May 1993. I do / do not plan to submit a paper. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 17:55:55 EST From: amruth@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Amruth Kumar) Subject: CFP: AAAI-93 Workshop on Reasoning About Function Call for Participation ---------------------- AAAI-93 Workshop on Reasoning About Function ======================== Washington D.C., July '93 Description of Workshop: - ---------------------- The explicit representation and use of the function (purpose) of an object, either as intended by its designer or as interpreted by its user, is emerging as a focal point of problem solving in fields as diverse as Device Invention, Redesign, Diagnosis, Explanation Generation and Automatic Debugging. Explicit treatment of function has proven to be very useful because of its potential to organize and provide access to causal knowledge of the object (eg., focuses on missing causality during redesign), because of the improved resolution it brings to the reasoning process (eg., discriminates among suspects during diagnosis) and because of its utility in addressing the scaling problem. To date, function-based knowledge has been successfully applied in several domains, including Software Engineering, Human Physiology, and various fields of engineering such as Electrical, Aerospace and Chemical Engineering. The objectives of this workshop are: 1) to examine current techniques used to represent and reason about function; 2) to present a forum to develop a shared framework for reasoning about function, and 3) to identify the trends and future directions for this emerging field. Topics - ----- The workshop will focus on the following issues: 1) Terminology: theoretical analyses yielding an appropriate vocabulary for function; disambiguating function from other terms such as behavior and teleology: what are the interactions and dependencies between them? How do form, use, experience, etc. relate to function? 2) Representation: What are the issues in acquisition of function knowledge? What are the ontological bases of an adequate function representation: processes, states, flows, parameters? How can representational primitives be chosen in a given ontology? What impact does the intended use of a function model have on its construction? How is knowledge of function related to behavioral, structural and heuristic knowledge? 3) Reasoning: What are the sorts of tasks/domains for which Functional Reasoning is particularly well suited? What are the AI processes involved in exploiting function knowledge during reasoning? How can reasoning about function, behavior, teleology, etc. be integrated into a coherent system? 4) Applications: An examination of implemented systems, i.e., representation and reasoning techniques used, evaluation of the system and lessons learned from the experience. Format of Workshop: - --------------------- The workshop will address the work of participants in the form of moderated presentations and discussions. Where appropriate, participants will be invited to display posters describing their work. Separate sessions will be devoted to terminology, representation issues, reasoning and application issues. The workshop will conclude with a summarizing panel discussion. Attendance: - ---------- Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately 35 people. See Submission Requirements below for the criteria to be invited. Submission Requirements: - ------------------------ Those who wish to attend the workshop should submit four copies of a 1-2 page research summary including a list of relevant publications, regular and email address (where possible) and phone and FAX number. Those who wish to present their work at the workshop should submit four copies of a short paper (6-8 pages) in addition to the research summary. If the work has been published or submitted for consideration elsewhere, please specify the journal or conference. Note that, unpublished work is preferred for presentation. Electronic submissions will not be accepted. All submissions will be reviewed by the Workshop Committee. In order to facilitate interaction among participants, you are requested to specify the following with regard to your work: topic (terminology/representation/reasoning/application), field (redesign/diagnosis/explanation generation etc.) and domain (electrical/chemical/physiology etc.). In submitted papers, you are urged to either define or relate to existing literature, all terminology used. Also, please include a two-line description of the main contribution of your paper. Submission Deadline: March 12, 1993 - ------------------- Notification Date: April 2, 1993 - ----------------- Final date for camera-ready copies to organizers: April 30,1993 - ------------------------------------------------ Submit to: - --------- Amruth N. Kumar (Reasoning About Function Workshop) 226 Bell Hall Department of Computer Science SUNY Buffalo, NY 14260 Ph: (716) 645 2193 Fax: (716) 645 3464 (amruth@cs.buffalo.edu) Workshop Committee: - ------------------ Dean Allemang Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) (allemang@lia.di.epfl.ch) David Franke Trilogy Development Group (franke@trilogy.com) Jack Hodges San Francisco State University (hodges@huckleberry.sfsu.edu) Amruth N. Kumar (Coordinator) SUNY Buffalo (amruth@cs.buffalo.edu) James K. McDowell Michigan State University (mcdowelj@pleiades.cps.msu.edu) Jon Sticklen Michigan State University (sticklen@cps.msu.edu) Shambhu J. Upadhyaya SUNY Buffalo (shambhu@cs.buffalo.edu) ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:46:27 EST From: amruth@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Amruth Kumar) Subject: CFP: AAAI-93 Workshop on "Reasoning About Function" Call for Participation ---------------------- AAAI-93 Workshop on Reasoning About Function ======================== Washington D.C., July '93 Description of Workshop: - ---------------------- The explicit representation and use of the function (purpose) of an object, either as intended by its designer or as interpreted by its user, is emerging as a focal point of problem solving in fields as diverse as Device Invention, Redesign, Diagnosis, Explanation Generation and Automatic Debugging. Explicit treatment of function has proven to be very useful because of its potential to organize and provide access to causal knowledge of the object (eg., focuses on missing causality during redesign), because of the improved resolution it brings to the reasoning process (eg., discriminates among suspects during diagnosis) and because of its utility in addressing the scaling problem. To date, function-based knowledge has been successfully applied in several domains, including Software Engineering, Human Physiology, and various fields of engineering such as Electrical, Aerospace and Chemical Engineering. The objectives of this workshop are: 1) to examine current techniques used to represent and reason about function; 2) to present a forum to develop a shared framework for reasoning about function, and 3) to identify the trends and future directions for this emerging field. Topics - ----- The workshop will focus on the following issues: 1) Terminology: theoretical analyses yielding an appropriate vocabulary for function; disambiguating function from other terms such as behavior and teleology: what are the interactions and dependencies between them? How do form, use, experience, etc. relate to function? 2) Representation: What are the issues in acquisition of function knowledge? What are the ontological bases of an adequate function representation: processes, states, flows, parameters? How can representational primitives be chosen in a given ontology? What impact does the intended use of a function model have on its construction? How is knowledge of function related to behavioral, structural and heuristic knowledge? 3) Reasoning: What are the sorts of tasks/domains for which Functional Reasoning is particularly well suited? What are the AI processes involved in exploiting function knowledge during reasoning? How can reasoning about function, behavior, teleology, etc. be integrated into a coherent system? 4) Applications: An examination of implemented systems, i.e., representation and reasoning techniques used, evaluation of the system and lessons learned from the experience. Format of Workshop: - --------------------- The workshop will address the work of participants in the form of moderated presentations and discussions. Where appropriate, participants will be invited to display posters describing their work. Separate sessions will be devoted to terminology, representation issues, reasoning and application issues. The workshop will conclude with a summarizing panel discussion. Attendance: - ---------- Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately 35 people. See Submission Requirements below for the criteria to be invited. Submission Requirements: - ------------------------ Those who wish to attend the workshop should submit four copies of a 1-2 page research summary including a list of relevant publications, regular and email address (where possible) and phone and FAX number. Those who wish to present their work at the workshop should submit four copies of a short paper (6-8 pages) in addition to the research summary. If the work has been published or submitted for consideration elsewhere, please specify the journal or conference. Note that, unpublished work is preferred for presentation. Electronic submissions will not be accepted. All submissions will be reviewed by the Workshop Committee. In order to facilitate interaction among participants, you are requested to specify the following with regard to your work: topic (terminology/representation/reasoning/application), field (redesign/diagnosis/explanation generation etc.) and domain (electrical/chemical/physiology etc.). In submitted papers, you are urged to either define or relate to existing literature, all terminology used. Also, please include a two-line description of the main contribution of your paper. Submission Deadline: March 12, 1993 - ------------------- Notification Date: April 2, 1993 - ----------------- Final date for camera-ready copies to organizers: April 30,1993 - ------------------------------------------------ Submit to: - --------- Amruth N. Kumar (Reasoning About Function Workshop) 226 Bell Hall Department of Computer Science SUNY Buffalo, NY 14260 Ph: (716) 645 2193 Fax: (716) 645 3464 (amruth@cs.buffalo.edu) Workshop Committee: - ------------------ Dean Allemang Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) (allemang@lia.di.epfl.ch) David Franke Trilogy Development Group (franke@trilogy.com) Jack Hodges San Francisco State University (hodges@huckleberry.sfsu.edu) Amruth N. Kumar (Coordinator) SUNY Buffalo (amruth@cs.buffalo.edu) James K. McDowell Michigan State University (mcdowelj@pleiades.cps.msu.edu) Jon Sticklen Michigan State University (sticklen@cps.msu.edu) Shambhu J. Upadhyaya SUNY Buffalo (shambhu@cs.buffalo.edu) ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: snyder@cs.bu.edu (Wayne Snyder) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 15:28:44 -0500 Subject: CFP: Seventh International Workshop on Unification (UNIF93) UNIF93 Seventh International Workshop on Unification Preliminary Annoucement and Call for Participation Sunday, June 13 -- Monday, June 14 Boston University, Boston MA (USA) This workshop is the seventh in a series of meetings on unification and related topics, the previous ones having been in Val d'Ajol (France), Lambrecht (Germany), Leeds (UK), Barbizon (France), and Dagstuhl (Germany). As its predecessors, UNIF93 is meant to be an opportunity to meet old and new colleagues, to present recent (even unfinished) work, and to discuss new ideas and trends in unification and related fields. It is also a good opportunity for young researchers and researchers working in related areas to get an overview of the current state of the art in unification theory. The following is a (non-exclusive) list of possible topics: * Narrowing * Typed Unification * General E-unification and Calculi * Foundations * Implementations * Applications * Unification in Special Theories * Combination problems * Constraint Solving * Disunification * Higher-Order Unification * Type reconstruction * Unification-Based approaches to * Matching Grammar This year's workshop will be jointly organized by Franz Baader and Wayne Snyder. It is scheduled to make it convenient for those traveling to RTA and LICS in Montreal to attend (RTA starts on wednesday, June 16, and LICS on June 20). The workshop will take place in the Computer Science Department at Boston University, located in the center of Boston on the Charles River, with easy access via subway (or by foot) to MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, Harvard Square, the Public Garden and Boston Commons, the harbor area, the Backbay area, and a wide variety of cultural events and historical sights. Lodging has been obtained for workshop participants in air-conditioned dormitories at Boston University for saturday through monday nights, but may also be arranged in local hotels or "bed and breakfasts." With the help of an small NSF grant for the workshop, the cost has been kept relatively low, approximately $135 total, which includes a single-occupancy room for three nights with breakfast, a banquet on monday night, and the workshop itself. (Double--occupancy rooms will be slightly less expensive.) Lunch on both days and dinner on sunday night will be up to the individuals (there are many restaurants and shops in the area, as well as a faculty club with a good view of the Charles River). Those staying in hotels should expect to pay approximately $75 to $90 for each night, and about $50 for the workshop. The format of the workshop will depend on the number of participants, but it is likely to consist of talks of approximately half hour in length, with time for discussion and interaction. We are also considering having one or more hour long survey talks. Final arrangements will depend on the number of participants and their interests. Those wishing to give system demonstrations can avail themselves of our department computer network. If you intend to participate in the workshop, please apply as soon as possible (preferably by E-mail before the end of February) to Wayne Snyder Computer Science Department Boston University 111 Cummington Street Boston, MA 02215 E-mail: snyder@cs.bu.edu Space is limited to about 40 participants, so please reply promptly if you have an interest in coming. Please indicate whether you require lodging, and whether you intend to give a talk (if so, please give a short description of the topic). ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Mon Mar 1 16:38:31 1993 Received: from cs.rpi.edu ([128.213.1.1]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150191>; Mon, 1 Mar 1993 16:38:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 15:55:17 -0500 Received: by cs.rpi.edu (5.65c/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA17503; Mon, 1 Mar 1993 15:55:17 -0500 Message-Id: <199303012055.AA17503@cs.rpi.edu> From: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) Reply-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Digest) Approved: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Errors-To: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Maint-Path: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 10 No. 2 NL-KR Digest (Wed Feb 24 16:19:30 1993) Volume 10 No. 2 Today's Topics: CFP: IJCAI Workshop on Object-Based Representation Systems CFP: Pacific Asia Conf on Formal and Computational Linguistics CFP: 9th Annual Conference on Uncertainty in AI CFP: CIKM-93 -- 2nd Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Mgmt. CFP: Workshop on Abductive Reasoning ICLP'93 CFP: 5th UNB AI Symposium CFP: 3rd MCSEAI (Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence) Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. [ ***Administrivia: It never rains but it pours.....last week I couldn't send out more than one issue. I am focusing now on purging the backlog of submissions, then on handling administrative requests. I believe all requests for removal have been processed - if you asked to be removed and are getting this issue then your request got lost. -CW ] ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: napoli@moselle.loria.fr (Amedeo Napoli) Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: CFP: IJCAI Workshop on Object-Based Representation Systems Date: 24 Feb 93 09:59:01 GMT - ----------------------------------------------------- **** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **** IJCAI Workshop ``Object-Based Representation Systems'' Chambery (August 28th 1993) - ----------------------------------------------------- The goal of the workshop is to study the notion of ``object'' as a knowledge grain in knowledge-based systems. A first category of object-based representation systems mainly includes terminological (or description) logics. People working in this area are more interested in studying and using declarative representations. A second category includes hybrid systems that rely on frame-based languages and object-oriented programming. People working in this area are more interested by the representation and the use of procedural components. Thus, the topics of interest of the workshop are the following: - objects in knowledge representation: concepts, frames, classes. - links between description logics and hybrid systems (frame-based or class-based systems). - fundamental relationships: specialization/generalization, subsumption, part-whole, other partial orderings and equivalence relations. - objects, constraints and other relations: temporal and spatial relations, general constraints (equalities, inequalities). - representation of procedural knowledge: reflexes (demons), methods. - reasoning with objects: inheritance, classification-based reasoning, truth maintenance. The workshop is intended to be a challenge to understand the contributions of the more logical and more procedural approaches. Participants will try to develop guidelines for interpreting the usefulness of each approach. They will also be encouraged to exchange different points of view, and possibly, to define a more complete and universal object-based representation formalism integrating the two approaches. - ----------------------------- Participation and Organization - ----------------------------- Participation will be of two kinds: speaker and regular participant. People interested in attending the workshop must send a position paper, 1 or 2 pages for regular participant, up to 10 pages for speakers. Selected papers will be published in the proceedings of the workshop. Submissions should be made preferably by email. For those who do not have access to email (or any other reason), send 4 copies of your position paper to the chairman of the workshop. The workshop registration fee is 300 FF, and includes coffee breaks (note that every workshop participant must have registered for the main conference). - ------- Schedule - ------- - Position papers must be sent to the chairman before March 1993, 1st. - The decisions of the program committee will be notified to the selected speakers and regular participants before April, 15th. - Final papers are due before June, 1st, to be published in the proceedings of the workshop. It is intended that preprints of the workshop will be mailed to participants before the workshop. - --------------------------------- Organization and Program Committee - --------------------------------- Ronald J. Brachman (ATT and Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA) Roland Ducournau (Sema Group, Montrouge, France) Bob MacGregor (USC/ISI, Marina Del Rey, USA) Amedeo Napoli (CRIN, Nancy, France) Bernhard Nebel (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany) Francois Rechenmann (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France) Albrecht Schmiedel (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany) Fabrizio Sebastiani (CNR, Pisa, Italy) Philippe Volle (NSL, Paris, France). - ------- Chairman - ------- Amedeo NAPOLI CRIN CNRS -- INRIA Lorraine BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy Cedex France email: napoli@loria.fr Phone: (33) 83 59 20 68 ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: @VM.ITS.RPI.EDU:NCCUT086@TWNMOE10.BITNET Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 01:56:19 EST Subject: CFP: Pacific Asia Conf on Formal and Computational Linguistics Pacific Asia Conference on Formal and Computational Linguistics Call for Papers First Notice The Computational Linguistics Society of R.O.C. (ROCLING) is pleased to announce that the Pacific Asia Conference on Formal and Computational Linguistics will be held at the Activity Center in Academia Sinica on August 30-31, 1993. This will be the first effort in collaborating with the local linguists as well as scholars from Japan, Singapore, Korea, and Hong Kong in providing an opportunity to further the scholarly exchange among linguists in Pacific Asia region in the areas of formal and computational linguistics and in fostering a cooperative environment for better understanding of the development or new trend in theoretical and computational linguistics in Pacific Asia region. Topics of the conference include theoretical and computational studies in syntax, semantic, corpus linguistics and contrastive analysis of Pacific Asian languages. In addition to eight plenary sessions on the special topics, five invited speakers will address issues in syntax, semantics, contrastive analysis and corpus linguistics in formal and computational approach. Research representative of regional endeavor will be presented at plenary sessions. The organizing committee welcomes submittance of one-page abstracts (with an additional optional page for references and/or data) that address the above topics. Abstract will be due by May 10, 1993. The abstract submitted via e-mail or in disk form with WordPerfect or Microsoft Word format is welcome and strongly recommended. Abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee and additional reviewers. The notice of abstract acceptance will be mailed out by June 11, 1993. Please address all the correspondences to the organizing committee at the following address: Professor Chu-Ren Huang ROCLING c/o Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei 115 Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: 886-2-788-1638 Fax: 886-2-788-1638 e-mail: HSCHUREN@twnas886.bitnet OR HSCHUREN@ccvax.as.edu.tw nccut086@twnmoe10.bitnet (Professor Claire H. Chang) nccut146@twnmoe10.bitnet (Professor O.-S. Her) Sponsored By: The Computational Linguistics Society of R.O.C. Co-Sponsored By: The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchanges [pending approval] Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica The Logico-Linguistics Society of Japan The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Invited Speakers and Tentative Titles Kenneth Church, AT&T Bell Laboratories Current Practice in Part of Speech Tagging and Suggestions for the Future Mary Dalrymple, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Reciprocals and the Syntax-Semantics Interface Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania How Hard Is Syntax? Ivan Sag, Stanford University What is 'Computational Semantics'? Charles Ting-chi Tang, National Tsing Hua University A 'Theta-Grid' Approach to a Contrastive Analysis of English, Chinese and Japanese - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee Claire Hsun-hui Chang, Department of English, National Cheng-chi University Keh-jiann Chen, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica One-Soon Her, Graduate Institute in English, National Cheng-chi University Chu-Ren Huang, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Akira Ikeya, Department of English, Tokyo Gagukei University, Japan Akira Ishikawa, Department of English Language and Studies, Sophia University, Japan K.P. Mohanan, Department of Linguistics, National University of Singapore Keh-Yih Su, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University Chih-Chen Jane Tang, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Benjamin K. T'sou, Associate Director, Hong Kong City Polytechnic - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Organization committee: Claire Hsun-hui Chang, Department of English, National Cheng-chi University One-Soon Her, Graduate Institute in English, National Cheng-chi University Chu-Ren Huang, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Cheng-hui Liu, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Related Conference: The Sixth R. O. C. Computational Linguistics Conference Time: September 2-4, 1993 Location: Chitou Park, Nantou, Taiwan Scope: Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Theme: Computational Semantics & Corpus Linguistics Contact: The Computational Linguistics Society of R.O.C. (see address and phone number above) ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 22:54:30 PST From: David Heckerman Subject: CFP: 9th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON UNCERTAINTY IN AI NINTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE July 9-11, 1993, Washington D.C. CALL FOR PAPERS The ninth annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence will be devoted to methods for reasoning under uncertainty as applied to problems in artificial intelligence. The conference's scope covers the full range of approaches to automated and interactive reasoning and decision making under uncertainty, including both qualitative and numeric methods. We seek papers on fundamental theoretical issues, on computational techniques for uncertain reasoning, and on the foundations of alternative paradigms of uncertain reasoning. Topics of interest include: - Foundations of uncertainty concepts - Representations of uncertain knowledge and their semantics - Knowledge acquisition - Construction of uncertainty models from data - Uncertainty in machine learning - Automated planning and decision making under uncertainty - Algorithms for uncertain inference - Pooling of uncertain evidence - Belief updating and inconsistency handling in uncertain knowledge bases - Explanation and summarization of uncertain information - Control of reasoning and real-time architectures This year, we hope to attract more contributions that emphasize real-world applications of uncertain reasoning. Questions of particular interest include: - Why was it necessary to represent uncertainty in your domain? - What kind of uncertainties does your application address? - Why did you decide to use your particular uncertainty formalism? - What theoretical problems, if any, did you encounter? - What practical problems did you encounter? - Did users of your system find the results or recommendations useful? - Did the introduction of your system lead to improvements in reasoning or decision making? - What methods were used to validate the effectiveness of the systems? Papers will be carefully refereed for originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Papers may be accepted for presentation in plenary or poster sessions. Some key applications oriented work may be presented both in a plenary session and in a poster session where more technical details can be discussed. All accepted papers will be included in the published proceedings. Outstanding student papers may be selected for special distinction. Five copies of each paper should be sent to one of the Program Co-Chairs by February 5, 1993. The first page should include a descriptive title, the names, addresses, and student status of all authors, a brief abstract, and salient keywords or other topic indicators. Acceptance notices will be sent by March 29, 1993. Final camera-ready papers, incorporating reviewers' suggestions, will be due approximately five weeks later. There will be an eight-page limit on proceedings papers, with a few extra pages available for a fee. Program Co-Chairs (paper submissions): David Heckerman Department of Computer Science, UCLA Boelter Hall, Room 3531 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 tel: (310) 825-2695, fax: (310) 825-2273 email: heckerman@cs.ucla.edu Abe Mamdani Deptartment of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary & Westfield College Mile End Road London E1 4NS tel: +44-71-975-5341, fax: +44-81-981-0259 e-mail: e.h.mamdani@qmw.ac.uk General Co-Chair (conference inquiries): Michael P. Wellman Department of EECS, University of Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tel: (313) 764-6894, fax: (313) 763-1260 email: wellman@engin.umich.edu Conference Committee: Piero Bonissone, Peter Cheeseman, Mike Clarke, Bruce D'Ambrosio, Didier Dubois, Max Henrion, John Fox, Rudolf Kruse, Henry Kyburg, John Lemmer, Tod Levitt, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Serafin Moral, Ramesh Patil, Judea Pearl, Enrique Ruspini, Ross Shachter, Glenn Shafer, Philippe Smets, Kurt Sundermeyer, Lotfi Zadeh. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:29:23 -0500 From: Timothy Finin Subject: CFP: CIKM-93 -- 2nd Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Mgmt. The CIKM-93, second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management will be held November 1-5, 1993 at the Double Tree Hotel in Washington D.C., USA. Like the successful CIKM-92, it will provide an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. Authors are invited to submit papers, proposals for tutorials and exhibits concerned with theory or practice or both. Papers should be sent to the Program Chair, Dr. Bharat Bhargava, by April 1, 1993. Send email to CIKM-INFO@CS.UMBC.EDU to receive an automatic reply with a full copy of the Call for Papers. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: rouaix@inria.fr (Francois Rouaix) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog,sci.logic,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.ai.philosophy Subject: CFP: Workshop on Abductive Reasoning ICLP'93 Date: 28 Jan 93 14:36:09 GMT Reply-To: Philippe.Codognet@inria.fr Followup-To: comp.lang.prolog On behalf of Philippe Codognet: Call For Papers 10th International Conference on Logic Programming Post-conference Workshop on ABDUCTIVE REASONING ------------------- Budapest, Hungary June 24 - 25, 1993 Abduction was introduced by the logician and philosopher C. S. Pierce at the beginning of the century as a new inference mechanism for logical systems along with deduction and induction. It has been investigated in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming since the early 80's, and it has shown itself to be a basic concept for formalizing various aspects of hypothetical reasoning. Recently, it has been used as a fundamental tool for a better understanding of the relations between hypothetical, nonmonotonic and default reasoning. Abduction is also directly relevant to various aspects of LP. These include the semantics of LP (particularly of negation as failure), extensions of LP, e.g. Constraint Logic Programming, and several applications of LP. A wide range of A.I. applications such as diagnosis, planning and knowledge assimilation have been investigated, often within the LP framework, using abduction. The workshop is intended to bring together researchers interested in all aspects of abductive reasoning and abductive logic programming, with the aim to be a forum for exchange and integration of ideas on this subject. Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to : - theory and semantics - computational aspects of abduction - relations to default and nonmonotonic reasoning - relations to Constraint Logic Programming - applications to planning and diagnostic reasoning - applications to natural language - relations with other areas of AI, LP, databases and knowledge bases - philosophical foundations Authors interested in presenting their work are invited to send a 3-5 pages extended abstract before April 15th at the address below. Electronic submissions in latex or postscript format are strongly encouraged. Surface mail submissions must include four copies of the paper. Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection of their submissions by May 15th. The final version is due by the end of May. Organizers : - ----------- Philippe Codognet (INRIA - Rocquencourt, France) Phan Minh Dung, (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) Antonis C. Kakas, (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Paolo Mancarella, (University of Pisa, Italy) Contact: - ------- Paolo Mancarella tel: +39 - 50 - 510252 Dipartimento di Informatica fax: +39 - 50 - 510226 Universita' di Pisa e-mail: paolo@di.unipi.it Corso Italia, 40 56125 Pisa, Italy - - Francois Rouaix Projet Chloe - INRIA Rocquencourt rouaix@margaux.inria.fr ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 22:31:29 AST From: Lev Goldfarb Subject: CFP: 5th UNB AI Symposium Call for Participation The 5th UNB AI Symposium ********************************* * * * Theme: * * ARE WE MOVING AHEAD? * * * ********************************* August 11-14, 1993 Sheraton Inn, Fredericton New Brunswick Canada Advisory Committee ================== N. Ahuja, Univ.of Illinois, Urbana W. Bibel, ITH, Darmstadt D. Bobrow, Xerox PARC M. Fischler, SRI P. Gardenfors, Lund Univ. S. Grossberg, Boston Univ. J. Haton, CRIN T. Kanade, CMU R. Michalski, George Mason Univ. T. Poggio, MIT Z. Pylyshyn, Univ. of Western Ontario O. Selfridge, GTE Labs Y. Shirai, Osaka Univ. Program Committee ================= The international program committee will consist of approximately 40 members from all main fields of AI and from Cognitive Science. We invite researchers from the various areas of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Pattern Recognition, including Vision, Learning, Knowledge Representation and Foundations, to submit articles which assess or review the progress made so far in their respective areas, as well as the relevance of that progress to the whole enterprise of AI. Other papers which do not address the theme are also invited. Feature ======= Four 70 minute invited talks and five panel discussions are devoted to the chosen topic: "Are we moving ahead: Lessons from Computer Vision." The speakers include (in alphabetical order) * Lev Goldfarb * Stephen Grossberg * Robert Haralick * Tomaso Poggio Such a concentrated analysis of the area will be undertaken for the first time. We feel that the "Lessons from Computer Vision" are of relevance to the entire AI community. Information for Authors ======================= Now: Fill out the form below and email it. --- March 30, 1993: -------------- Four copies of an extended abstract (maximum of 4 pages including references) should be sent to the conference chair. May 15, 1993: ------------- Notification of acceptance will be mailed. July 1, 1993: ------------- Camera-ready copy of paper is due. Conference Chair: Lev Goldfarb Email: goldfarb@unb.ca Mailing address: Faculty of Computer Science University of New Brunswick P. O. Box 4400 Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada E3B 5A3 Phone: (506) 453-4566 FAX: (506) 453-3566 Symposium location The symposium will be held in the Sheraton Inn, Fredericton which overlooks the beautiful Saint John River. IMMEDIATE REPLY FORM ==================== (please email to goldfarb@unb.ca) I would like to submit a paper. Title: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ I would like to organize a session. Title: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Name: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Department: _____________________________________ University/Company: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Address: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Prov/State: _____________________________________ Country: _____________________________________ Telephone: _____________________________________ Email: _____________________________________ Fax: _____________________________________ ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 01:18:01 -0500 From: "B.e.Ayeb" Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.functional,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: CFP: 3rd MCSEAI (Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence) CALL FOR PAPERS Third Maghrebian Conference on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Rabat, 11-14 April 1994 Organizer MIPS (Maghrebian Information Processing Society) Sponsors (sollicited) IEEE Computer Society-- Washington International Federation for Information Processing-- Geneva Associations Francaise pour la Cybern Economique et Technique-- France The Third Maghrebian Conference on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence is planned for April 11th to 14th 1994, in Rabat, Morocco. Its intent is to build on the background of previous conferences (Constantine'89 & Tunis'92) by identifying areas of research and development within software engineering and artificial intelligence, that are of interest for the world at large, and for the maghrebian region in particular. TOPICS Researchers, practionners and developpers in software engineering and artificial intelligence are encouraged to submit original contributions to this conference. All areas of software engineering and artificial intelligence will be considered, although a special emphasis is placed on the following topics: - Software Specification and Validation - Software Development: Methods and Tools - Distributed Systems - Foundation of Expert System and Artificial Intelligence - Knowledge Representation and Automation - Programming Paradigms: Functional, Logic and Object Oriented. Each submission will be read by at least three reviewers and will be judged on the basis of originality, relevance, clarity, and significance. Finally, it is essential that submitted papers are not published, nor submitted for publication, elsewhere. The official languages of the conference are Arabic, English & French. GENERAL CHAIR Abdelfdil Bennani, E.N.S.I.A.S., B.P. 713, Rabat, Morocco. PROGRAM CHAIR Abdelhamid El Iraki, E.N.I.M., Dept. Informatique, B.P. 753, Rabat, Morocco. Montasser Ouaily, E.N.S.I., 16, rue 8010 Montplaisir, Tunis, Tunisia. PROGRAM COMMITTEE H. Adeli Ohio State Univ. B. el AYEB Univ. of Sherbrooke E. Astesiano Univ. of Genova A. El IRAKI ENIM, Rabat K. Barkaoui CNAM, Paris L. Feraud Univ. Toulouse III B. Belkhouche Tulane Univ. J.P. Finance Univ. of Nancy C. Ben Yelles Univ. of Algiers M. Ghallab LAAS, Toulouse A. Benkiran EMI, Rabat Y. Hlal EMI, Rabat A. Bennani ENSIAS, Rabat A. Hocine Univ. of Pau R. Berghammer Univ. of Munich C. Kaiser CNAM, Paris V. Berzins Monterey, CA M. Luqi Monterey, CA M. Bettaz Univ. of Constantine A. Mili Univ. of Ottawa M. Bidoit LIENS, Paris R. Mittermeir Univ. of Klagenfurt N. Boudriga Univ. of Tunis A. Mouradi Univ. Mohamed V. Rabat E. Bouyakhf Univ. Mohamed V, Rabat F. Orejas Univ. of Barcelone C. Choppy Univ. Paris-Sud M. Ouaily ENSI, Tunis P. Cointe Ecole des Mines, Nantes G. Pujolle Univ. of Paris VI F. D'Hautcourt ULB, Brussels O. Rafiq Univ. of Pau J. Desharnais Univ. Laval G. Scollo Univ. of Twente M. Diaz LAAS, Toulouse M. Sellami Univ. of Annaba H. Ehrig Univ. of Berlin Y. Slimani Univ. of Tunis INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS Authors are invited to submit original contribution in arabic, french or english, in triplicate to the program chair. Submissions must be printed on one side of the page only and should not exceed 20 double spaced pages. . Submission of papers : June 15, 1993 . Notification of acceptance : October 30, 1993 . Accepted papers due : December 30, 1993 . Advance Registration : January 30, 1994 STEERING COMMITTEE M. Bettaz, Chair M. Boudriga, A. Mili, Z. Sahnoun, members ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Promotion: M. Bennani (ENSIAS, Rabat); Tutorials: B. Idrissi (EMI, Rabat); Local arrangements: A. Janati (ENSIAS, Rabat); Registration: K. Ouazzani (ENIM, Rabat); Proceedings: A. Mounir Alaoui (EMI, Rabat) INFORMATION Hanan Alami Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minerale, Departement d'Informatique Rue Abderrahman El Ghafiki B.P. 753, Rabat-Agdal, Morocco Tel: [212] (7) 77 13 60 / 77 16 67 / 77 45 17 Fax: [212] (7) 77 10 55 Please (Re)Distribute; following is a Latex Version. Thanks, Bechir, ayeb@dmi.usherb.ca ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Tue Mar 2 09:57:48 1993 Received: from cs.rpi.edu ([128.213.1.1]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150196>; Tue, 2 Mar 1993 09:57:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 09:05:55 -0500 Received: by cs.rpi.edu (5.65c/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA26667; Tue, 2 Mar 1993 09:05:55 -0500 Message-Id: <199303021405.AA26667@cs.rpi.edu> From: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) Reply-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Digest) Approved: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Errors-To: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Maint-Path: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 10 No. 3 NL-KR Digest (Mon Mar 1 18:54:31 1993) Volume 10 No. 3 Today's Topics: Position: Natural Language Processing at Canon Research (UK) Position: Machine Translation at Eurolang (France) Position: NLP guest researcher at SICS (Sweden) Announcement: ALE: An Attribute Logic Engine Announcement: Summer Internships at ICSI Announcement: 5th ESSLLI: SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANG. AND INFO. Announcement: Alvey NL Tools Release 4 Announcement: Grad Students needed in NLP/AI at Univ. of Sheffield Announcement: 1993 BU Conference *cancellation* Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: wachtel@canon.co.uk (Tom Wachtel) Subject: Position: Natural Language Processing, Canon Research, UK Reply-To: wachtel@canon.co.uk Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 14:14:22 GMT RESEARCH POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd Guildford, UK Canon Research Centre Europe is looking for new recruits for its Natural Language Processing research group. We are looking for people who will fit well into the NLP group on a permanent basis, rather than for specific projects. The following areas of expertise are the most important. - natural language processing - knowledge representation and reasoning - large-scale corpus analysis A good general computer science or linguistics background is important, as are excellent programming skills, including fluency in Prolog. Creativity and a flair for innovative work are essential. Our principal interest is in interpretation relative to context, and in using pragmatics and generalised non-linguistic reasoning to enhance Natural Language systems. This research work is not currently tied to the production of a particular product, but seen rather as providing a foundation for more directed application work at the right point in the future. Producing a prototype is, however, of prime importance. We are also engaged in producing software to aid the translation of Canon documentation. The first version of this software has already been delivered and activity on this project is expected to increase. Experience with handling very large corpora would be an advantage in this area. People with expertise in speech processing might also find their skills put to good use. Canon Research Centre Europe has been on the University of Surrey Research Park since 1988. We doubt that you would be disappointed by salary, equipment or working environment. Our recruitment policy is one of equal opportunity. Please note that you need to have the right to work in Britain in order to apply for this position. If you are not a citizen of one of the member states of the European Community, please check whether you are eligible before applying. If you are interested, please send a detailed CV to: Shirley Alexander-O'Neill Personnel, NL position Canon Research Centre Europe 17-20 Frederick Sanger Road Surrey Research Park Guildford GU2 5YD, UK tel: +44-483-574325 fax: +44-483-574360 You can send a paper copy, or email a copy to nljob@canon.co.uk in plain text (preferred), LaTeX, Framemaker, troff, etc. Please send in your application by 15 February 1993. Late applications will be considered at our discretion. Please send only cvs/applications to nljob@canon.co.uk. If you need more information, please get in touch with Tom Wachtel (wachtel@canon.co.uk) or with Shirley Alexander-O'Neill (personnel@canon.co.uk). - - Tom Wachtel (wachtel@canon.co.uk) ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 18:18:33 +0100 From: simon@site-maisons-alfort.fr (simon.sabbagh) Subject: Position: Machine Translation at Eurolang (France) MACHINE TRANSLATION R&D Opportunities Within the framework of the EUROLANG project (100 Million ECU), jointly managed by SITE, the European leader in multilingual, multimedia technical documentation, and SIEMENS NIXDORF, one of the major European corporations in the field of computer technology, we are now in a second phase of recruitment of : - Computational linguists with practical experience in writing computational grammars (for English, German and French). - Computational linguists with practical experience in the following fields: . Machine translation . Parsers / Generators . Corpus analysis / Sublanguage methodologies / Terminology . Statistics-based NL processing - Computational lexicographers with practical experience of writing bi-lingual computational dictionaries for natural language processing purposes (for English, German and French). Successful candidates will be based in Paris, France, at the R&D offices of SITE. Several posts are available. Salaries shall be commensurate with experience. Applicants should have a good first degree and post-graduate qualifications (or appropriate experience) in relevant fields, and should preferably have good experience of relevant project work in industry or academia. Experience of multilingual natural language processing would be a distinct advantage. Eurolang is a EUREKA project involving a large European consortium of major IT companies and well-known research institutes. Emphasis in the project is on the development of a commercial machine translation system, appropriate support tools and large-scale linguistic resources, using state-of-the-art technology. Thus, preference will be given to candidates offering practical experience in the field and a commitment to working in an industrial R&D environment. Letters of application, including 2 copies of a Curriculum Vitae and the names of two referees, should be sent to: Simon Sabbagh SITE 2,rue Louis-Pergaud F-94700 Maisons Alfort Cedex FRANCE from whom further details may be obtained. SITE is an equal opportunities employer. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.lang.prolog,misc.jobs.offered,sics.sicstus From: ivan@sics.se (Ivan Bretan) Subject: Position: NLP guest researcher at SICS (Sweden) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 15:34:57 GMT We offer the opportunity of visiting the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) as a guest researcher for a period of time ranging from a month to a year, according to the guest researcher's own preferences. SICS is located north of Stockholm, Sweden. The visiting researcher will be working with the Natural Language Processing group, which currently consists of four persons: Ivan Bretan, Bj|rn Gamb{ck, Jussi Karlgren and Christer Samuelsson. The main focus of the group is developing a Swedish Natural Language system based on the SRI Core Language Engine (CLE) and using this as a vehicle for other NL research activities. The group has gained recognition in the fields of machine translation and applying machine learning techniques to NLP. Current activities include developing advanced prototypes for Swedish industrial companies in the fields of automatic spoken language translation, support systems for human translation, and information retrieval mixing NLP and statistical methods. The basic research focuses on improving the Swedish NL system; on developing self-organizing language models, using both statistical methods and machine learning techniques; and on applied research in the field of multi-modal (NL-graphical) interfaces. A variety of projects can be conceived depending on the visitor's length of stay and his or her special competence and preferences. One scenario is the visitor taking part in one or several of the activities mentioned above. Another is for example extending the system to cover a foreign language (German, French, Japanese ...). A visiting researcher should be interested in and have competence in several of the following areas: - - self-organizing language models - - machine translation - - grammar development - - multi-modal interfaces - - robust text processing (skimming, part-of-speech identification) The main programming languages of the group are (SICStus) Prolog and C. To apply for the position or to receive more information, contact: Christer Samuelsson Swedish Institute of Computer Science Box 1263 S-164 28 Kista Sweden Email: nlp@sics.se Phone: +46 8 752 15 00 Fax: +46 8 751 72 30 Applicants should send the following items (preferably by email): 1. Curriculum vitae (name, address, degrees with school, date, and major, work experience, etc.) 2. List of publications, patents, awards, etc. 3. The name and (email) address of two professional references. 4. A statement describing the kind of research you would like to do here. If you are interested in this position, please contact us before March 1, 1993. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 15:50:48 mst From: Carpenter Subject: Announcement: ALE: An Attribute Logic Engine ALE: An Attribute Logic Engine - ------------------------------ ALE, a public domain system written in Prolog, integrates phrase structure parsing and constraint logic programming with typed feature structures as terms. This generalizes both the feature structures of PATR-II and the terms of Prolog II to allow type inheritance and appropriateness specifications for features and values. Grammars may also interleave unification steps with logic program goal calls (as can be done in DCGs), thus allowing parsing to be interleaved with other system components. While ALE was developed to handle HPSG grammars, it can also execute PATR-II grammars, DCG grammars, Prolog, Prolog-II, and LOGIN programs, etc. Grammars and logic programs are specified using a typed version of Rounds-Kasper attribute-value logic, which includes variables and full disjunction. Programs are then compiled into low-level Prolog instructions corresponding to the basic operations of the typed Rounds-Kapser logic. There is a strong type discipline enforced on descriptions, allowing many errors to be detected at compile-time. The logic programming and parsing systems may be used independently or together. Features of the logic programming system include negation, disjunction and cuts. It has last call optimization, but does not perform any argument indexing. On the 'naive reverse' benchmark, it performed at 1000 LI/s on a DEC 5100 running SICStus 2.1, which is rouglhy 15% as fast as the SICStus interpreter and 1.5% as fast as the SICStus compiler. The phrase structure system employs a bottom-up all-paths chart parser. A general lexical rule component is provided, including procedural attachment and general methods for orthographic transformations using pattern matching or Prolog. Empty categories are permitted in the grammar. Both the phrase structure and logic programming components of the system allow parametric macros to be defined and freely employed in descriptions. Parser performance is similar to that of the logic programming system. In an early HPSG grammar, where feature structures consisted of roughly 100-200 nodes each, a 10 word sentence producing 25 completed inactive edges parsed in roughly two seconds, using SICStus 2.1 on a DEC 5100. Complete documentation (running to 80 pages, with examples of everything, programming advice, and sample grammars), is available as: Bob Carpenter (1992) ALE User's Guide. Carnegie Mellon University Laboratory for Computational Linguistics Technical Report. Pittsburgh. ALE can be run in either SICStus or Quintus Prolog, and with other compatible compilers doing first-argument indexing and last-call optimization. The system and its documentation are available without charge for research purposes from the address below. Please indicate whether electronic copies of program and documentation can be sent via e-mail and whether they should be compressed or not: full compressed.Z Documentation LaTeX 150k 61k .dvi 200k 93k PostScript 530k 236k Program ALE 85k 28k grammars 10k 4k Otherwise, documentation can be sent out by hard mail. Tape or disk copies of the system might be possible if absolutely necessary. The full theoretical details behind ALE are available in the book: Bob Carpenter (1992) _The Logic of Typed Feature Structures with Applications to Unification Grammars, Logic Programs and Constraint Resolution_. Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science 32, Cambridge University Press. Ordering Information US: CUP, 110 Midland Ave, Port Chester, NY 10573-4930, 800-872-7423 (about 35 dollars US) Europe: 20 pounds UK, CUP, Edinburgh Bldg, Shaftesbury Rd, Cambridge CB2 2RU UK (about 20 pounds UK)] This book covers many details which are not included in the system, including inequations, extensionality and general constraint resolution. It also details the completeness results for the description languages. A future version of ALE should be available by Summer 1993 which contains a full implementation of everything in this book. - Bob Carpenter Computational Linguistics Program Philosophy Department Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Net: carp@lcl.cmu.edu Phone: (412) 268-8573 Fax: (412) 268-1440 ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.object,comp.software-eng From: beer@icsi.berkeley.edu (Joachim Beer) Subject: Announcement: Summer Internships at ICSI Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:36:34 GMT The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is soliciting applications for their student summer internship program in Europe. The program is open to advanced graduate students in computer science at American universities. Applicants don't need to be U.S. citizens OR permanent residents of the U.S. to be eligible for the program. The selection process is soley based on merit and works roughly as follows: an application is submited to ICSI where an initial selection takes place. ICSI does not have special application forms for the summer internship program. A cover letter stating the applicants intentions, transcripts, and one or two letters of recommendation is sufficient. It would also be very helpful if the applicant could provide a short proposal stating what he/she is interested in and the particular fields he/she would want to work in. The selected applications will be forwarded to those participating research labs that best match the applicants scientific interest and background. Depending on the applicants interest, background, and research proposal her/his application might be send to several of the research labs. It is the research labs that make the final decision. Current sponsor nations are Germany, Italy and Switzerland. ICSI is *not* able to support or process applications for internships in non-sponsor nations. Graduate students which have been invited by research labs in ICSI sponsor nations due to their own initiative or existing collaborations can apply for travel grants. However, ICSI will not be able to provide financial support beyond travel grants. Financial support provided by the hosting research lab is approximately $1800 per month for 3 month while ICSI provides travel grants up to $1500. Submit applications including at least one letter of recommendation, a list of completed course work, and a statement of intent to: International Computer Science Institute -Summer Internship Program 1947 Center Street, Suite 600 Berkley, CA 94704 ****************************** * * * DEADLINE March 1, 1993 * * * ****************************** Note: ICSI is only a clearinghouse for summer internship applications. ICSI is not able to answer question concerning specific research activities within participating research labs. In the past summer interns have been working in such areas as computer vision, expert systems, knowledge representation, natural language processing, software engineering, software tool development, etc.. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 16:35:12 PRT From: ana teresa Subject: Announcement: 5th ESSLLI: SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANG. AND INFO. FIFTH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ORGANISED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION AT THE FACULDADE DE LETRAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA PORTUGAL AUGUST 16-27 1993 THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE SCHOOL BEING THE INTERFACE BETWEEN LOGIC, LINGUISTICS AND COMPUTATION, THE COURSES COVER A VARIETY OF TOPICS WITHIN SIX AREAS OF INTEREST: LOGIC, LANGUAGE, COMPUTATION, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION, COMPUTATION AND LANGUAGE, LANGUAGE AND LOGIC.THEY ARE CAST AT BOTH INTRODUCTORY AND ADVANCED LEVELS. WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIA WILL ALSO BE OFFERED. WORKSHOPS WILL BE CHAIRED BY AN EXPERT IN THE FIELD AND WILL PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PHD STUDENTS AND OTHER YOUNG RESEARCHERS TO PRESENT THEIR WORK AND GAIN INFORMED FEEDBACK AND USEFUL CONTACTS. SYMPOSIA WILL TYPICALLY CONSIST OF A SERIES OF PRESENTATIONS ON A TIMELY TOPIC BY PEOPLE ACTIVE IN THE RELEVANT AREAS. BOTH WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIA ARE INTENDED TO ENCOURAGE COLLABORATION AND CROSS FERTILISATION OF IDEAS BY STIMULATING IN-DEPTH DISCUSSION OF ISSUES WHICH ARE AT THE FOREFRONT OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN THE FIELD. THERE WILL ALSO BE INVITED LECTURES. FOR FURTHER DETAILS, PLEASE CONTACT: ESSLLI'93 FACULDADE DE LETRAS ALAMEDA DA UNIVERSIDADE 1699 LISBOA CODEX PORTUGAL EMAIL: LLI93@PTEARN.FC.UL.PT LLI93@PTEARN.BITNET TELEFAX: + 351 1 7960063 TELEPHONE: + 351 1 7965162 ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 10:56:33 GMT From: John.Carroll@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Announcement: Alvey NL Tools Release 4 THE ALVEY NATURAL LANGUAGE TOOLS (RELEASE 4) BASIC DESCRIPTION AND DISTRIBUTION ARRANGEMENTS A fourth (and final) release of the Alvey Natural Language Tools (ANLT) is now available. The UK Alvey Programme originally funded three projects at the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Lancaster to provide tools for use in natural language processing research. The DTI and SERC has funded their continued support and enhancement. The tools, a MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSER, PARSERS and a GRAMMAR and LEXICON, are usable individually as well as together (integrated by a GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT) forming a complete system for the morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis of a considerable subset of English. DISTRIBUTION AND LICENSING The ANLT system is available by anonymous FTP from Cambridge University, Computer Laboratory. The files containing grammars, lexicons and source code are encrypted, however, reports describing the system, specimen licence agreement and other information is not. If after examining the documentation, you wish to purchase a licence for use of the system for research purposes, you should complete and sign the specimen agreement and return it together with a cheque for the amount specified in the agreement (currently 500 ECU -- 100 ECU upgrade -- or local currency equivalent) to: Lynxvale WCIU Programs 20 Trumpington St. Cambridge, CB2 1QA, UK Fax: +223 332797 On receipt Lynxvale will send you (by letter) the key which can be used in conjunction with the software provided to decrypt the remaining files. If you do not have access to anonymous FTP, you can write to Lynxvale for further details and obtain the system on magnetic tape or cartridge. We are currently negotiating with Longman Group UK Ltd, who have an interest in the large lexicon, to provide a commercial licence for use of the ANLT system. A specimen commercial licence agreement will be deposited in the files shortly. DESCRIPTION The MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSER provides a set of mechanisms for the analysis of complex word forms. The analyser requires data files specifying a lexicon of base morphemes, rules governing spelling changes when concatenating morphemes, and rules describing valid combinations of morphemes in complex words. The tools include a description of English morphology in this form. The analyser should be capable, though, when provided with the necessary linguistic analyses, of being used for most European languages and many others. The morphological analyser is now available independently of the rest of the tools package by anonymous FTP from scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.3]:/pub/phonology/tools/MAP/MAP3.1.tar.Z Further enquiries may be sent to Alan W Black (awb@ed.ac.uk). There are two alternative PARSERS. The main one is an optimized chart parser, incorporating a 'packing' mechanism (making it much more efficient when parsing sentences containing multiple local ambiguities). The other parser is a non-deterministic LALR(1) parser which seems, in most cases, to be even more efficient than the chart parser. The GRAMMAR is a wide-coverage syntactic and semantic grammar of English, written in a metagrammatical formalism derived from Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. The grammar pairs one or more formulas of the lambda calculus with each syntactic rule and these produce unscoped (mostly) first-order `event-based' compositional semantic representations. Full coverage is provided of the following constructions and their combinations: - all sentence types: declaratives, imperatives and questions (yes/no, tag and wh questions), - all unbounded dependency types: topicalisation, relativisation, wh questions, - a relatively exhaustive treatment of verb and adjective complement types, - phrasal and prepositional verbs of many complement types, - passivisation, verb phrase extraposition, - sentence and verb phrase modification, - noun phrase complements, - noun phrase pre- and post-modification, - partitives, - coordination of all major category types, - nominal and adjectival comparatives. The LEXICON contains 40,000 homonyms (63,000 entries in total) in the form required by the morphological analyser. The GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT gives access to all of the other components of the tools, allowing grammars to be input, edited, and browsed; it also compiles them into the base grammatical formalism used by the parsers, and provides extensive grammar debugging facilities. A simple quantifier scoping and post-processing module is supplied as an example of how the result of parsing a sentence can be converted into a representation suitable for further semantic and pragmatic processing. In addition, an illustrative database management application with a small database of wine merchants' stock is supplied. All of the software components are written in Common Lisp and have been tested in several implementations on a wide range of machines. We have created a BULLETIN BOARD which we hope can be used to inform existing users about developments, to provide some informal support, and as a forum for discussion between people doing research with the ANLT system. Submissions should be sent to alveynltools@cl.cam.ac.uk and requests to be added to or deleted from the distribution list should be sent to alveynltools-request@cl.cam.ac.uk. If you are an existing user and this message has come to you direct, your email address has been added to the list already; unfortunately though, we do not have up-to-date email addresses for all known users, so please email alveynltools-request otherwise. Two published REFERENCES to these projects are: Briscoe, E., C. Grover, B. Boguraev & J. Carroll, 'A Formalism and Environment for the Development of a Large Grammar of English', Proceedings of 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Milan, 1987, pp. 703-708. Ritchie, G., G. Russell, A. Black & S. Pulman, 'Computational Morphology: Practical Mechanisms for the English Lexicon', MIT Press, 1991. Technical reports describing the system in detail are available via FTP as detailed in the file `instruct'. These contain many further references to papers describing aspects of the ANLT system. ******************** ANLT distribution arrangements and instructions, and a machine-readable specimen licence agreement are available in files on the FTP server ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk (128.232.0.56). To fetch this information use anonymous FTP (login with user name anonymous, and password your e-mail address), go to the directory `nltools', and fetch the files licence a machine-readable specimen licence agreement instruct instructions on how to FTP technical reports and the ANLT itself The following example shows how to fetch these files: $ ftp ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk Connected to swan.cl.cam.ac.uk. 220- swan.cl.cam.ac.uk FTP server (Version 5.60+UA) ready. ... Name (ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk:jac): anonymous Password (ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk:anonymous): ... ftp> cd nltools 250 CWD command successful. ftp> get licence ... ftp> get instruct ... ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. (The $ is the Unix shell command prompt). If the FTP command does not know about the address ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk, try giving the command the internet number (128.232.0.56) instead. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 11:22:54 MST From: Subject: Announcement: Grad Students needed in NLP/AI at Univ. of Sheffield The Computer Science Department at the University of Sheffield ((UK) has two graduate studentships available for Fall 93 (which include fees and living support) within a natural language processing/AI group that is expanding rapidly. The five preferred fields of interest are: the representation of beliefs, automatic extraction of information from text, lexical computation, Japanese language processing and semantics-based parsing of English. Initial enquiries to yorick@nmsu.edu. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:06:51 -0500 From: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development) Subject: Announcement: 1993 BU Conference *cancellation* We regret that the annual BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT will not be held in 1993. The conference is run by the Ph.D. Program in Applied Linguistics. However, University reductions in linguistics faculty and resources have placed the graduate (as well as the undergraduate) linguistics program in jeopardy. We would welcome letters of support for our Ph.D. Program in Applied Linguistics and for the annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, sent to: Carol Neidle, Director carol@louis-xiv.bu.edu Ph.D. Program in Applied Linguistics phone and fax: Boston University 617-353-6218 718 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 We will then forward them to the Provost at the appropriate time. Please contact me directly if you would like any additional information. We hope that the University will restore these essential resources to the linguistics program, and that we will be able to hold the conference in 1994. Thank you. Carol Neidle ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Tue Mar 2 15:52:24 1993 Received: from cs.rpi.edu ([128.213.1.1]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150199>; Tue, 2 Mar 1993 15:52:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 14:58:13 -0500 Received: by cs.rpi.edu (5.65c/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA02632; Tue, 2 Mar 1993 14:58:13 -0500 Message-Id: <199303021958.AA02632@cs.rpi.edu> From: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) Reply-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Digest) Approved: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Errors-To: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Maint-Path: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 10 No. 4 NL-KR Digest (Tue Mar 2 13:46:30 1993) Volume 10 No. 4 Today's Topics: Query: Sunstar Tools Query: HPSG grammars and parsers Query: English dictionaries Query: PREVIEW MY PAPER ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Query: GA's in NLP Query: Morphological (phonological) anal. of Spanish Query: Comments on Alvey NL Tools (release 4) Announcement: Dissertation (ViewFinder) available by FTP Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Query: Sunstar Tools Reply-To: sgo@fct.unl.pt Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 13:23:32 +0000 From: mw@fct.unl.pt (Michel Wermelinger) Hi, I'm posting this question for a friend. Please reply to Sabine Grueninger (sgo@fct.unl.pt), not to the mailing list. Does anyone know anything about the Sunstar Tools? Michel - ------ Michel Wermelinger aka mw@fct.unl.pt Dept. de Informatica, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2825 Monte da Caparica, PORTUGAL ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 11:26:02 IDT From: "Shuly Wintner" Subject: Query: HPSG grammars and parsers Hello, I'm looking for references to HPSG grammars and parsers. Grammars for any language, as well as parsers, grammar compilers and HPSG grammar-development environments are sought. Any reference will be appreciated. Please reply to shuly@cs.technion.ac.il or shuly@techunix.bitnet I will post a summary of the replies. Thank you. Shuly. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Query: English dictionaries Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 21:39:39 +0100 (MET) From: Rene Sennhauser I am looking for machine-readable English dictionaries which I can access via anonymous ftp. I am especially interested in dictionaries with universal vocabulary of about 50'000 to 100'000 words. Any pointers are welcome. I will summarize useful hints. Thanks a lot in advance. Rene email: sennhaus@ifi.unizh.ch ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.cog-eng Subject: Query: PREVIEW MY PAPER ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Keywords: interesting results Date: 20 Jan 93 02:38:07 GMT Followup-To: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep I've almost completed a paper on Linguistics that I'd like to submit to the Journal of Computational Linguistics. I'd like to send it to anyone interested and ask for comments, and suggestions. There is a lot of interesting stuff here :-)... LINGUISTIC METRIC SPACES Section I: OPPOSITIONS, RELATIONS, GROUPS, LATTICES Binary oppositions of Jakobson, Binary Relations, Groups Isomorphisms, Partial Ordering, Lattices All applied to structure of Consonant sets and vowels, Ordinal vowels, relation to cardinal vowels, Ladefoged Modification. etc SEc II: PRIVATE AND UNIVERSAL VOWEL SPACES More on Isomorphism, Rings, Lattices, Hilbert Curves, Linear Ordering, Private Vowel Spaces, Bloch and Trager Spaces, Chomsky & Halle Spaces, Hamming Distance, Complements, Pure Vowels, Compound Vowels,Dipthongs, Trubetzkoy quantal vowels, Articulatory dimensions and operations and relation to the semigroup and lattice structures. Sec III: UNIVERSAL DISCRETE SPACES, CODES.. Discrete Universal Spaces, Algorithm for generation of numbers for higher-dimensional universal discrete spaces Examples: Finnish vowels, Hungarian vowels, Discrete Space for English vowels and dipthongs, Intro to Vector Spaces & formants Sec IV: COMPOUND VOWELS & DIPTHONGS Vector Spaces, Basis, Dimension, Orthogonality. A vector space vowels, Trubetzkoy quantal vowels as basis orthonormal vectors Time-Domain And ArticulatorySpace-Domain Compositions of dipthongs, glides, compound vowels. English dipthong examples. Semivowels. Degrees-of-freedom. Sec V: SPECTRAL DOMAIN DESCRIPTIONS Time-domain signals, Frequency-domain descriptions, compound vowels, glides, dipthongs, Power Spectrum, Noise, Source and Filter model. Formant functions and approximations. This is where I am. I'm working on: Peterson& Barney, and Clark&Yallop results. Relation of formant-spaces to orthonormal spaces of previous sections. Scaling, Shearing, Rotation and Reflection Operators. First-Order Formant Function approximations. (Maybe Neural Networks, Graph-theoretic clustering) These Sections will follow: Section VI: CONTINUOUS VECTOR SPACES FOR CONSONANTS Quasi-consonants, vector spaces for vowels, semivowels, and consonants. Dimensional Analysis and Buckingham Pi Theorem. Relations to the two-tube model of speech, Relation to the articulatory operations. (Probably examples as below: from English, Serbo-Croation, Korean and Turkish; Syllabifier Finite Automaton, Mid-level metrics forlanguage characteristics, such as consonant clusters, use of dipthongs, etc. Context-Free Language for Describing Phoneme Level Structure of Languages) (I'll probably be able to finish up to Section VI) Section VII: MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS Section VIII: HIGH-LEVEL DISTANCE METRICS (These two sections VII and VIII are going to take a long time. Sometime during the semester, I'll make a terse version available.) And finally these two last sections will be made available as an outline of sorts. They will be very short since they'll just express general ideas. They'll depend on Sections VII and VIII, and I can't give them away until they're ready.) Section IX: THE FAMILY TREE Section X: PROPAGATION AND DIFFUSION OF LINGUISTIC INNOVATION Anyone who wants a copy will be sent one. All you have to do is send me email with your name and address: Please include your name and address exactly as you would put it on an envelope. I'm going to print it the way it is and use it as an address label. PS. I'll be grateful to anyone who can make suggestions, ask for clarification, give me references to works along similar lines so that I don't have to re-invent any wheels. I'd also like to give proper credit to people who've done things. But I can't promise I'll incorporate every change and I can't promise I'll answer every question in detail since my time is limited. - - mark hubey@amiga.montclair.edu hubey@apollo.montclair.edu hubey@pilot.njin.net ...!rutgers!pilot!hubey ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: lankhors@cs.rug.nl (Marc M. Lankhorst) Subject: Query: GA's in NLP Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:34:05 GMT Hello netters, Does anyone of you know of information (journal articles, etc.) on the application of Genetic Algorithms to Natural Language Processing, esp. grammatical inference? Thanks in advance. Marc - - Marc Lankhorst, "Yet another emotional suicide, Dept. of Computing Science, Overdosed on sentiment and pride" Groningen University, -- Marillion The Netherlands (lankhors@cs.rug.nl) ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: Robert Goldman Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 20:38:40 CST Subject: Query: Morphological (phonological) anal. of Spanish Reply-To: rpg@cs.tulane.edu (Robert Goldman) For some work in the morphological analysis of Spanish text, I am wondering if anyone knows of a 2-level (Koskenniemi-style) analysis of Spanish. Any citations, reports, etc. would be appreciated. Robert Goldman rpg@cs.tulane.edu ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: terry@csi.uottawa.ca (Terry Copeck) Subject: Query: Comments on Alvey NL Tools (release 4) Followup-To: terry@csi.uottawa.ca Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 04:30:07 GMT Has anyone used the NL tools from the UK Alvey project, whose public release in a fourth version was recently publicized? We'd like to hear your opinion of them. - - Terry Copeck (terry@csi.uottawa.ca) ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: Afzal Ballim Subject: Announcement: Dissertation (ViewFinder) available by FTP Keywords: Belief, dissertation, program, ftp Date: Wed, 24 Jan 93 11:33 EST A PostScript copy of my dissertation, plus a copy of an important program which forms a subpart of it (called ViewGen), are available for anonymous ftp The dissertation is concerned with representing,forming, and maintaining nested models of agent attitudes, in particular belief. The ViewGen program implements one of the belief ascription algorithms described in the dissertation, and is a core element in my book with Yorick Wilks, "Artificial Believers". A long abstract of the dissertation is given further down. The files are available from: USA: ==== crl.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.18) in the directory: pub/ViewFinder Login as user "anonymous" and give your email address as password. As a courtesy to the people at this site please try to restrict ftp access to time slots outside office hours. The load on the machine usually is pretty high between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. MST. Europe: ======= ftp.ims.uni-stuttgart.de (141.58.127.8) in the directory: pub/ballim Login as user "ftp" and give your email address as password. As a courtesy to the people at this site (thank you Stefan) please try to restrict ftp access to time slots outside office hours Central European Time. The load on the machine usually is pretty high between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. CET. Currently there are no restrictions on ftp access on this host. It's up to you whether it can be kept that way ... Please note that ftp access to ftp.ims.uni-stuttgart.de is monitored, i.e. they keep a log of the hosts that had connections and which files are up-/downloaded. The dissertation is available in a number of formats: 1) A5 format -- this is really A4, but with two pages side by side in landscape mode (each being an A5 page). The file to get if you want this is: ViewFinder-A5.tar.Z 2) A4 format -- the file is formatted to fill an A4 page. ViewFinder-A4.tar.Z 3) US Letter -- the file is formatted to fill a US Letter page. ViewFinder-US.tar.Z Each tar file contains the appropriate PostScript file, plus a readme file. In addition, the prolog program ViewGen, which implements one of the ascription algorithms, is also available in a file called: ViewGen.tar.Z HELP: It would help if there were other sites where the package could be archived. In particular, sites in the US, UK, Japan/Australia would be welcome. Finally, if you'd like more details on my belief work (as well as information on facets not covered to such an extent in my dissertation, such as ViewGen), then you could run out and get a copy of the book:-) Artificial Believers (1991) Afzal Ballim & Yorick Wilks Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ISBN: 0-8058-0453-6 ==================================================================== ViewFinder: A Framework for Representing, Ascribing and Maintaining Nested Beliefs of Interacting Agents Afzal Ballim Abstract Interacting with agents in an intelligent manner means that the computer program is able to adapt itself to the specific requirements of agents. The dissertation is concerned with an important feature necessary for this ability to adapt: the use of models of the beliefs and knowledge of the interacting agents. The objective of this dissertation is to detail a theory of belief, by which is meant a theory of how the contents of nested belief models are formed. The work is motivated by (i) the aspects of representation, formation, and revision of nested belief models that have been neglected, and (ii) the lack of a unifying framework for all of these features of nested beliefs. In much research involving models of the beliefs of agents, the models used are pre-given. While this is sufficient in highly constrained domains it is inappropriate in general. In more complex domains it is necessary to dynamically generate these models. This dissertation is directly concerned with the problems of dynamically creating such nested models of the beliefs of agents. Major Contributions =================== Using Stereotypes for Belief Ascription: The use of stereotypes (in particular, hierarchically organised stereotypes) is shown to be an excellent method for making shallow belief models, i.e., the system's view of another agent, but to suffer from serious problems as a mechanism for making deeper ascriptions. A precedence inheritance reasoner for stereotypes is developed as this is necessary in shallow use of stereotypes, in deep use, and in the fused ascription process later developed. Perturbation as a Basis for Belief Ascription: The perturbation model of belief ascription is investigated, and shown to be excellent for generation of deep belief models. However, it relies upon beliefs generally being common between the ascribing agent (the ascriber) and the agent to whom the beliefs are being ascribed (the ascribee), and so is inadequate when this assumption does not hold. Ascription Operators: The perturbation method of belief ascription relies on counter-evidence to block ascription. In the investigation of counter-evidence a number of families of ascription operators are identified. In particular, a distinction is made between radical operators, which can form a disjunctive result, and conservative operators which form a unique result. Different types of each of these operators are developed. Weighing Evidence Sources: The basic perturbation mechanism for belief ascription intuitively implies a simple recursive algorithm. This is shown to be false. It is demonstrated that pre-stored nested beliefs of the agents involved in a nesting (and pre-stored beliefs of their views of each other) must be considered as sources of evidence and counter-evidence for ascription. A method for totally ordering these evidence sources is developed. A Fused Approach: The stereotype ascription and perturbation ascription are fused together via the notion of atypical beliefs . These are beliefs that are only held by particular groups of agents. A mechanism based on lambda expressions is investigated for fusing atypicality into the perturbation mechanism. Evaluation of these lambda expressions in a nested environments investigated, as to is the nature of transformations on them that is required when they are ascribed from agent to agent. Improvements are made over previously descriptions of these processes. Interpreted and Ascribed Beliefs: Interpreted beliefs are those beliefs attributed to an agent based on inferences from the utterances (or actions) of the agent. Ascribed beliefs are those beliefs attributed to an agent based on principles of commonality and minimal evidence about the probable background of the agent. It is claimed that belief interpretation requires belief ascription as a pre-requisite. Further, although it might be expected that interpreted beliefs would always be preferred to ascribed ones, it is claimed that this is not necessarily the case and that this largely depends on the inference rules used to interpret the beliefs. It follows that interpretation rules must be classed to give some indication of the reliability of their inferences. Maintenance of Nested Beliefs: A number of aspects of belief revision with respect to nested beliefs are considered. It is claimed that it is necessary to distinguish between simulating an agents own revision mechanism, and making revisions of the belief model of the agent because the model has proved to be wrong. In addition, it is shown how either of these changes can cause the system to want to change its own beliefs, but in different ways. Simulating the agents own revision process is more likely to cause the system to make revisions of its beliefs about the domain, or topic of conversation, while revisions on the belief model are more likely to cause the system to make revisions of its beliefs about the agent. An operation known as percolation is devised to aid in the former revision process. A Framework for Environments: A general framework for environments is developed. The framework is deliberately designed to be open-ended, i.e., not completely defined. A number of important types of environment are discussed. It is shown how environments may be used as a mechanism for reasoning about ordering relations, and how, thus, they provide an appropriate medium for reasoning about different ordering relations, such as confidence relations, inheritance leaning relations, etc. Particular attention is paid to the representational problems discussed in the background section. Ascription Operators as Environment Projection: The ascription operators previously developed are generalised to be operators that cause projection of one environment on another. Environment projection operators are studied in more detail, and a number of extra projection operators are proposed, including Bayesian projection, Fuzzy projection, and Logic Foundational projection. Environment Projection as a Fundamental Operator: It is shown that environment projection can be seen as a fundamental operator underlying many important processes in AI, including belief ascription, inheritance reasoning, truth maintenance, belief revision, merging of intensional descriptions, and metaphor generation. An environment framework may thus serve as a basis for investigation, development, and implementation of all of these processes. ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Wed Mar 3 12:40:44 1993 Received: from cs.rpi.edu ([128.213.1.1]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150179>; Wed, 3 Mar 1993 12:40:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 11:47:14 -0500 Received: by cs.rpi.edu (5.65c/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA19329; Wed, 3 Mar 1993 11:47:14 -0500 Message-Id: <199303031647.AA19329@cs.rpi.edu> From: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) Reply-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Digest) Approved: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Errors-To: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Maint-Path: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 10 No. 5 NL-KR Digest (Wed Mar 3 10:16:05 1993) Volume 10 No. 5 Today's Topics: Announcement: Tech Report on Intentions in Time available Announcement: AI and NLP Symposium, Geneva Sept. 6-9, 1993 Announcement: ICCS-93 - Third International COGSCI Colloquium Announcement: PhD dissertation available Position: post-doc/visiting scientists in HCI at NRL Position: AI openings at MITRE Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: Robert Goldman Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 17:22:26 CST Subject: Announcement: Tech Report on Intentions in Time available Reply-To: rpg@cs.tulane.edu (Robert Goldman) Intentions in Time Robert P. Goldman and R. Raymond Lang Technical Report TU 93-101 ABSTRACT: Representing and reasoning about goal-directed actions is necessary in order for autonomous agents to act in or understand the commonsense world. This paper provides a formal theory of intentional action based on Bratman's characterization of intention. Our formalization profits from the insights developed by Cohen and Levesque in their formalization of Bratman's theory. We review Cohen and Levesque's formalization and illustrate its weaknesses. Using Allen's temporal logic as a foundation, we construct a formalization that, like Cohen and Levesque's, satisfies Bratman's desiderata for an acceptable theory of intentional action. We introduce a characterization of success and failure of intentional action and show that our richer theory of time allows us to formalize more complex intentional actions, particularly those with deadlines. Finally, we argue that the use of a syntactic theory of belief allows us to accommodate a more descriptive theory of intentional action by fallible agents. Our work has relevance to applications like multi-agent planning, speech-act processing and narrative understanding. We are pursuing applications of this theory to representing the content of narratives and to constructing and understanding description-based communication. Technical report available by anonymous ftp from rex.cs.tulane.edu [129.81.132.1] as file tutr-93-101.ps.Z in directory pub/tech File is a compressed postscript file. Because of compression, the file must be transferred in BINARY mode and, when expanded (using the UNIX uncompress utility) may be printed on a postscript printer. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 11:49:57 +0100 From: Sandra Manzi Subject: Announcement: AI and NLP Symposium, Geneva Sept. 6-9, 1993 ************************************ * First Announcement - Please post * * * * Symposium on AI and NLP * * September 6th -- 9th, 1993 * * Geneva, Switzerland * * * ************************************ To celebrate its 21st anniversary, ISSCO is to organize a Symposium with the theme "Switzerland: AI and NLP" (SwAN-21). Contributions have been invited from past members of the Institute, and speakers will include: Eugene Charniak Anne de Roeck Pat Hayes Mike Rosner Phil Hayes Roger Schank Rod Johnson Manfred Wettler Martin Kay Yorick Wilks For further information, please contact: ISSCO (SwAN-21) 54 route des Acacias 1227 Geneva Switzerland tel.: (+41) 22 705 7115 fax: (+41) 22 300 1086 email: issco-admin@divsun.unige.ch (please mention "swan-21" in the subject line) The 1993 IJCAI conference will take place the previous week in Chambery, which is approximately one hour and a half from Geneva by car or train. Intending participants may wish to take advantage of the temporal and geographical proximity of the two events by combining them into a single trip. If you would like to receive more details, please write or e-mail to the above address, and supply your address in the following format: %D name %I institution or company %A address %C city %S country %E email %T telephone number %F fax number - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sandra Manzi | Internet: sandra@divsun.unige.ch ISSCO, University of Geneva | X400: S=sandra;OU=divsun;O=unige; 54 route des Acacias | PRMD=switch;ADMD=arcom;C=ch CH-1227 GENEVA (Switzerland) | UUCP: mcvax!cui!divsun.unige.ch!sandra Tel: +41/22/705 71 16 | FAX: +41/22/300 10 86 ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 11:30:05 UTC+0100 From: "" Subject: Announcement: ICCS-93 - Third International COGSCI Colloquium Third Announcement Third International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-93) Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, May 4-8, 1993 ******** The Colloquium is organized by the Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science of the University of the Basque Country, and supported by: Universidad del Pais Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea DGCYT (Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia) Hezkuntza eta Kultura Sailak (Eusko Jaurlaritza) Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia Kutxa It will take place in the School of Architecture of the University of the Basque Country at DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (address: Campus de Ibaeta, Avenida de Tolosa, s.n.). MAIN TOPICS: 1. Representation and Dynamics in Semantics and Pragmatics. 2. Formalization of Cognitive Models and Complexity. 3. Information Processing and Communication in Natural Systems. 4. Belief, Intention and Action. Conference desk: There will be a reception-desk in the School of Architecture, from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm, on Monday, May 3. Lunch tickets must be bought there before 12:00 am. Lunch will be at the School of Law. Information can be obtained from the members of the Organizing Committee or local participants (wearing red badges). All participants should be prepared to show their conference badge, if so requested. Badges are required to attend all sessions of the Colloquium. The Program is enclosed. Contributed Papers will be 20-25 minutes, allowing 5 minutes for discussion. Speakers should note that there will be overhead projectors (for transparencies) in the lecture rooms. Speakers wishing to prepare transparencies in advance of their talk will find the necessary materials at the conference desk. Please note that smoking is not allowed in any of the session rooms. The closing session will take place in the Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia, on Saturday 8 May, at 6:30 pm. Note that an excursion to the Caves of Isturitz - Biarritz - Baiona has been arranged for Thursday afternoon. MAIL: All mail and telegrams for people attending the Colloquium should be addressed as follows: Name of participant, ICCS-93, School of Architecture, UPV/EHU, Avda. de Tolosa s/n, 20009 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. Mail and telegrams so addressed may be picked up at the conference desk. Telephone and fax for emergency messages: School of Architecture. Tel. (9)43 218466. Fax: (9)43 219727. TRAVEL: The city airport is Hondarribia which is about 18 kms. from Donostia. Participants arriving to the airport of Bilbao should take a taxi from the airport to PESA coach station (downtown, Hurtado de Amezaga (Abando)), and then take a coach (by motorway) to Donostia. Coaches are at the following times: 6:45 am, 7:00 am, 7:30 am, 8:00 am, 9:00 a.m. and every hour until 9:00 pm. ACCOMODATION: Participants can make hotel reservations through: MUNDO TRES Viajes Plaza del Buen Pastor, 7 20005 SAN SEBASTIAN (Spain) Tel.: 34 (9)43 430569 Telex: 38206 Fax: 34 (9)43 431069 PLEASE MAKE RESERVATIONS BY APRIL 2. Enclosed you will find a list of B&B accommodation. REGISTRATION: The registration fee is $ 160.00 or 16,000 ptas. ($ 80.00 for students -please verify- and accompanying persons).This fee may be paid from abroad by an international check made out to ICCS-93 and sent to Dr. J.M. LARRAZABAL, Dpto. de Logica, Fac. de Filosofia y CC.EE, Apdo. 1249, 20080 SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain; or by way of a bank transfer to ICCS-93 account n. 330127-2, CAJA GIPUZKOA-DONOSTIA KUTXA, Garibay 13, 20004 SAN SEBASTIAN (Spain). (Please send a copy of your transfer to Dr. J.M. LARRAZABAL (address above)). PROGRAM COMMITTEE: N. Block (Cambridge, MA), M. Boden (Brighton), A. Clark (Brighton), R. Cooper (Edinburgh), V. Demonte (Madrid), K. Devlin (Maine), J. Ezquerro (Secretary), J. Higginbotham (Cambridge, MA), D. Israel (Stanford), J.M. Larrazabal (San Sebastian), A. ter Meulen (Bloomington), A. Moreno (San Sebastian), M. Pollack (Pittsburgh), V. Sanchez de Zavala (San Sebastian), L. Shastri (Philadelphia), L. Ml. Valdes (Murcia), D. Wilkes-Gibbs (Middletown, Conn.), D. Wilson (London). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: X. Arrazola (San Sebastian), A. Arrieta (San Sebastian), A. Borillo (Toulouse), E. Casaban (Valencia), O. Diaz (San Sebastian), A. Eguzkitza (Vitoria), T. Espinal (Barcelona), J. Ezquerro (San Sebastian), E. Gillet (Liege), K. Korta (Assistant Secretary), J.M. Larrazabal (Secretary), C. Moya (Valencia), J. Oberlander (Edinburgh), N. Ursua (San Sebastian), M. De Vega (La Laguna), S. Vinardell (Salamanca). Third International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-93) Donostia-San Sebastian, May 4-8, 1993 ******** PROVISIONAL PROGRAM TUESDAY, MAY 4 10:00 a.m. Opening Session by the President of the University of the Basque Country. CH Sanchez de Zavala (Donostia). 10:30 a.m. Opening Lecture. M. Boden (Brighton): Creativity and Representational Redescription. 11:30 a.m. Break. 12:00 a.m J. Higginbotham (Cambridge, MA): Words and Thoughts. 1:15 p.m. Lunch. 3:15 p.m. SECTION 1. CHAIR: A. ter Meulen (Bloomington). V. Demonte (Madrid): Aspects of the Syntax-Semantics Interface. SECTION 2. CHAIR: L. Shastri (Philadelphia) A. Clark (Brighton): Connectionism and Nativism: New Ways of Loading the Dice. 4:15 p.m. Break. 4:30 p.m. SECTION 3. CHAIR: L. Ml. Valdes (Murcia). K. Devlin (Maine): Scenes, stories, and possible descriptions. SECTION 4. CHAIR: D. Israel (Stanford). J. Oberlander (Edinburgh): Beliefs and Intentions in Abductive Discourse Generation. 5:30 p.m. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS. 6:00 p.m. TUTORIALS: A. ter Meulen (Bloomington): Modelling Temporal Reasoning. R. Jackendoff (Waltham): On Natural Language Semantics. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 9:00 a.m. CHAIR: R. Jackendoff (Waltham). H. Kamp (Stuttgart): Planning Verbs. 10:00 a.m. SECTION 2. CHAIR: A. Moreno (Donostia). M. Dascal (Tel Aviv): Concepts in Dispute: Conceptual Entrenchment and Adaptation in Scientific and Philosophical Controversies. SECTION 3. CHAIR: J. Ezquerro (Donostia). L. Shastri (Philadelphia): A Neurally Motivated Characterization of Tractable Reasoning. 11:00 a.m. Break. 11:30 a.m. TUTORIALS: A. ter Meulen (Bloomington): Modelling Temporal Reasoning. R. Jackendoff (Waltham): On Natural Language Semantics. 1:00 p.m. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS. 1:30 p.m. Lunch. 3:15 p.m. SECTION 1. CHAIR: V. Demonte (Madrid). L. Ml Valdes (Murcia): Propositional Attitudes as Relations to Propositions. SECTION 4. CHAIR: H. Levesque (Toronto). F. Lin (Toronto): The Frame Problem Revisited: Provably Complete Theories of Action in the Situation Calculus. 4:15 p.m. Break. 4:30 p.m. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS. 5:30 p.m. TUTORIALS: K. Devlin (Maine) & D. Israel (Stanford): Information and Communication. M. Boden (Brighton): Is Cognitive Science a Fraud? THURSDAY, MAY 6 9:00 a.m. CHAIR: M. Boden (Brighton). P. Johnson-Laird (Princeton): The Mind as a Reasoning Machine. 10:00 a.m. SECTION 1. CHAIR: D. Wilson (London). A. ter Meulen (Bloomington): CHRONOSCOPES: Dynamic Temporal Telescopes. SECTION 4. CHAIR: N. Block (Cambridge, MA). D. Israel (Stanford): The Meaning(s) of Actions. 11:00 a.m. Break. 11:30 a.m. TUTORIALS: K. Devlin (Maine) & D. Israel (Stanford): Information and Communication. N. Block (Cambridge, MA): The Computer Model of the Mind. 1:00 p.m. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS. 1:30 p.m. Lunch. 3:15 p.m. EXCURSION. FRIDAY, MAY 7 9:00 a.m. CHAIR: R. Stalnaker (Cambridge, MA). H. Levesque (Toronto): Is Reasoning Too Hard? 10:00 a.m. SECTION 2. CHAIR: P. Johnson-Laird (Princeton). A. Riviere (Madrid): Intentionality and Metarepresentation: A Developmental Perspective. SECTION 3. CHAIR: A. Clark (Brighton). D. Wilkes-Gibbs (Middletown,Conn.): Conversational Teamwork. 11:00 a.m. Break. 11:30 a.m. TUTORIALS: P. Johnson-Laird (Princeton): Mental Models. H. Kamp (Stuttgart) & D. Wilson (London): On the Boundaries between Semantics and Pragmatics. 1:00 p.m. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS. 1:30 p.m. Lunch. 3:15 p.m. SECTION 1. CHAIR: A. Borillo (Toulouse). D. Wilson (London): Recent Issues in Relevance Theory. SECTION 4. CHAIR: J. Oberlander (Edinburgh). N. Asher (Austin): A Formal Framework for Reasoning about Belief and Intention in a Changing World. 4:15 p.m. Break. 4:30 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION. 5:30 p.m. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS. 6:00 p.m. TUTORIALS: H. Kamp (Stuttgart) & D. Wilson (London): On the Boundaries between Semantics and Pragmatics. J. Higginbotham (Cambridge, MA) & R. Stalnaker (Cambridge, MA) : Truth and Representation. SATURDAY, MAY 8 CHAIR: H. Kamp (Stuttgart). 9:00 a.m. R. Stalnaker (Cambridge, MA): On the Problem of Logical Omniscience. 10:00 a.m. SECTION 3. N. Block (Cambridge, MA): What can Neuropsychology tell us about the Function of Consciousness? 11:00 a.m. Break. 11:30 a.m. PANEL DISCUSSION. 12:30 p.m. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS. 1:30 p.m. Lunch. 3:30 p.m. TUTORIALS: P. Johnson-Laird (Princeton): Mental Models. J. Higginbotham (Cambridge, MA) & R. Stalnaker (Cambridge, MA) : Truth and Representation. 5:00 p.m. CHAIR : J. Higginbotham (Cambridge, MA). R. Jackendoff (Waltham, MA): Is There a Faculty of Social Cognition? 6:30 p.m. Closing Session / Cocktail. Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia. Third International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-93) Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, May 4-8, 1993 ******** REGISTRATION FORM NAME: ADDRESS: CITY: COUNTRY: Amount paid: The registration fee is $ 160.00 or 16,000 ptas. ($ 80.00 for students -please verify- and accompanying persons), before April 5; $ 200.00 or 20,000 ptas. after that date. This fee may be paid from abroad by an international check made out to ICCS-93 and sent to Dr. J.M. LARRAZABAL, Dpto. de Logica, Fac. de Filosofia y CC.EE, Apdo. 1249, 20080 SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain; or by way of a bank transfer to ICCS-93 account n. 330127-2, CAJA GIPUZKOA-DONOSTIA KUTXA, Garibay 13, 20004 SAN SEBASTIAN (Spain). (Please send a copy of your transfer to Dr. J.M. LARRAZABAL (address above)). Date: Signature: ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 11:37 MET From: SCHOLTES@ALF.LET.UVA.NL Subject: Announcement: PhD dissertation available =================================================================== Ph.D. DISSERTATION AVAILABLE on Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval =================================================================== A Copy of the dissertation "Neural Networks in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval" by Johannes C. Scholtes can be obtained for cost price and fast airmail- delivery at US$ 25,-. Payment by Major Creditcards (VISA, AMEX, MC, Diners) is accepted and encouraged. Please include Name on Card, Number and Exp. Date. Your Credit card will be charged for Dfl. 47,50. Within Europe one can also send a Euro-Cheque for Dfl. 47,50 to: University of Amsterdam J.C. Scholtes Dufaystraat 1 1075 GR Amsterdam The Netherlands Do not forget to mention a surface shipping address. Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 16:05:57 EST From: gigley@itd.nrl.navy.mil ( Helen Gigley ) Subject: Position: post-doc/visiting scientists in HCI at NRL Post-Doc / Visiting Scientist Positions Human Computer Interaction Research We are looking for a cognitive scientist or engineering psychologist with a strong computer scince background to work on a project titled "Human Machine Dialog." This project focuses on human-human dialogs as a model for human computer communication. An important aspect of the program is developing evaluation methods and training guidelines. Specific interest in individual differences is also encouraged. If interested, please call Dr. Astrid Schmidt-Nielsen (202) 767-2682 or send e-mail to schmidtn@itd.nrl.navy.mil for more information. The Human computer Interaction Laboratory at the Naval Research Laboratory provides an interdisciplinary research environment to address problems in interface software design. The approaches within the HCI Laboratory assume that interface software provides the bi-directional communication of information between humans and computers. Information can be in the form of data, symbolic knowledge, or control specifics. Multi-modal forms of communication are assumed. Research in the laboratory focuses on developing software principles and methodologies useful to software designers. Current work emphasizes dialogue as an organizing principle for the interactions. Presently, research spans efforts in interfaces for decision aids for avionics, novel devices and their I/O styles, speech processing, and development of evaluation and testing methodologies. The novel devices research includes aspects of telepresence and virtual environments. Software design within the research tasks provides the basis for our software engineering approach to developing interface specifications and requirements which are independent of the applications. The goal is to develop principles and methods for high-performance user-computer interaction and supporting software architectures. The Laboratory has Post-Doc positions for computer scientists, cognitive researchers and enigneering psychologists depending on availability of funding. Other Post-Doc and/or Visiting Scientist enquiries should be addressed to: Dr. Helen M. Gigley Head, Human Computer Interaction Laboratory Naval Research Laboratory CODE 5530 Washington, D.C. 20375 phone: 202-767-0718 fax: 202-404-8441 email: gigley@itd.nrl.navy.mil Post Doc stipend $36,000-40,000. U.S. citizenship is required. The Naval Research Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. - ---- End Included Message ----- ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 20:16:38 -0500 From: maybury@linus.mitre.org (Mark Maybury) Subject: Position: AI at MITRE MITRE MITRE is a private, non-profit Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) formed in 1958 to serve the public interest. MITRE shares various aspects of the goverment, industry, and academic community -- with a mission of bringing the strengths of these groups together to deal with complex technical problems that have national importance for a wide range of defense, intelligence, and civil clients. Given the importance of informational systems, over the years MITRE established technology centers in areas such as software, networking, and artificial intelligence. Approximately 75 AI professionals work at MITRE in Bedford, Washington, and Houston in the entire range of AI disciplines. Given its strategic focus on advanced technologies and non-profit status, MITRE invests tens of millions of dollars annually in advanced research which accounts for an excellent blend of operationally-focused and research-focused work. Our most important resource is our people and we are currently seeking to expand our team in the Bedford Artificial Intelligence Center in our corporate headquarters, conveniently located in the greater Boston area. THE OPPORTUNITIES 1. Group Leader, Artificial Intelligence Applications Manage and technically lead a group of artificial intelligence researchers and practitioners. The ideal candidate would be a recognized expert in at least one area of artifical intelligence (e.g., language processing, knowledge based software, planning and scheduling, object-oriented and intelligent databases, neural networks) with proven success at developing and transitioning AI systems. A track record of thriving in an entrepreneurial/consulting environment is essential. You should be effective at personnel management, team building, work program development, and sponsor/client relations. Three to five years of experience designing, implementing and testing AI systems is required. 2. Group Leader, Speech and Language Processing The successful candidate will manage and technically lead a group of researchers and practitioners in the area of speech and language processing. Must have proven track record in team leadership, work program development, and technical innovation. Relevant technical skills include language processing for information retrieval and data extraction, intelligent training systems, and spoken language interfaces. Expertise in areas of user modelling, intelligent multimedia interfaces and heterogeneous databases are relevant. Excellent oral and written skills are essential. Three to five years of experience designing, implementing and testing AI systems is required. Both of these positions require a US citizenship and an ability to (moderately) travel. A background in intelligence or scientific analysis and a record of positions of increasing responsibility is desireable. Successful applicants will be required obtain a security clearance. If you are qualified for the above positions, please send your resume to: Mr. David Gentes Mail Stop S-122 The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 USA and Dr. Mark T. Maybury Associate Director, AI Center Mail Stop K-329 The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Wed Mar 3 17:44:36 1993 Received: from cs.rpi.edu ([128.213.1.1]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150202>; Wed, 3 Mar 1993 17:44:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 17:20:50 -0500 Received: by cs.rpi.edu (5.65c/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA25112; Wed, 3 Mar 1993 17:20:50 -0500 Message-Id: <199303032220.AA25112@cs.rpi.edu> From: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) Reply-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Digest) Approved: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Errors-To: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Maint-Path: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 10 No. 6 NL-KR Digest (Wed Mar 3 15:50:25 1993) Volume 10 No. 6 Today's Topics: Program: AISB'93 Conference in AI and Cognitive Science Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 01:56:25 GMT From: aisb93-prog@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk Subject: Program: AISB'93 Conference in AI and Cognitive Science ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ CONFERENCE PROGRAMME and REGISTRATION INFORMATION A I S B' 9 3 'P R O S P E C T S F O R A R T I F I C I A L I N T E L L I G E N C E' Cognitive Science Research Centre The University of Birmingham March 29th -- April 2nd 1993 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS 1. Message from the Programme Chair 2. Technical Programme 3. Workshops and Tutorials 4. Registration Form ORGANISATION Programme Chair: Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham) Programme Committee: David Hogg (University of Leeds) Glyn Humphreys (University of Birmingham) Allan Ramsay (University College Dublin) Derek Partridge (University of Exeter) Local Organiser: Donald Peterson (University of Birmingham) Administration: Petra Hickey (University of Birmingham) GENERAL ENQUIRIES AISB'93, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, U.K. Email: aisb93-prog@cs.bham.ac.uk Phone: +44-(0)21-414-3711 Fax: +44-(0)21-414-4281 WORKSHOP and TUTORIAL ENQUIRIES Hyacinth S. Nwana, Computer Science Dept. Keele University, Newcastle, Staffs ST5 5BG, ENGLAND. JANET: nwanahs@uk.ac.keele.cs Other: nwanahs@cs.keele.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)782 583413 Fax: +44 (0)782 713082 ________________________________________________________________________ MESSAGE FROM THE PROGRAMME CHAIR ________________________________________________________________________ The biennial conferences of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour are traditionally "single-track" scientific meetings aiming to bring together all areas of research in AI and computational cognitive science, and AISB'93 is no exception. With the end of the century close at hand, it seemed appropriate to choose a forward looking theme, so the five invited speakers, all distinguished researchers in their own sub-fields, have been asked to identify trends and project into the future, instead of simply surveying past achievements. Some but not all of the submitted papers also analyse prospects; the others report on work already done. The referees and the selection committee used as a major criterion for selection the requirement that papers should be of interest to a general AI audience. All of the papers have in common a commitment to a "design-based" approach to the study of intelligence, though some of them focus mainly on requirements, some mainly on designs and some on actual implementations, and of course there is wide variation not only regarding the sub-domains of AI (such as vision, learning, language, emotions) but also between the techniques used (such as symbolic reasoning, neural net models, genetic algorithms), and also between those who attempt to design intelligent agents using a top down analysis of human-like intelligence and those who work bottom up from primitive insect-like mechanisms. There is also international variety, with papers from several European countries and further afield. This variety of topics and approaches promises to make the conference particularly lively, with plenty of scope for controversy. We have therefore decided to allow a little more time than usual for each item in the programme, so that questions and discussions can add to the interest. There will also be poster presentations, where some work that could not be included in the formal proceedings can be presented, and it is expected that there will be book displays by major AI publishers and possibly some displays and demonstrations by vendors of AI software and systems. The conference will be preceded by a programme of seven tutorials and workshops for which separate registration is available. Integral Solutions Limited have agreed to present a prize of AI software, including Poplog, and a place on one of their training courses, for the paper voted "best presented" by the audience. For those involved in AI and Cognitive Science, the conference is a primary opportunity to meet, discuss and learn about current work. For those new to these fields, the conference is a chance to become acquainted with them in pleasant surroundings and to meet the people involved. For full-time students, large reductions in registration fees are offered. The location of the conference is one of the attractive halls of residence in a pleasant lakeside setting at one end of the campus of the University of Birmingham. This is not very far from the city centre, so a visit to one of the local attractions of the centre, such as the renowned Symphony Hall, will require a journey of only a few minutes by taxi or train. Single room accommodation has been booked, and the auditorium is in the same building as the bedrooms and dining room, so that the conference will provide excellent opportunities for informal mixing and discussions. The number of rooms available is limited, so early booking is recommended. We look forward to seeing you and hope you enjoy the conference. Aaron Sloman. ________________________________________________________________________ TECHNICAL PROGRAMME (The order is provisional. Invited talks are asterisked) ________________________________________________________________________ MONDAY MARCH 29TH Workshops and Tutorials (see below) TUESDAY MARCH 30TH (Morning) Workshops and Tutorials (see below) TUESDAY MARCH 30TH (Afternoon) * Kurt Van Lehn (Pittsburg) - -- Prospects for modelling human learning (e.g. college physics) Husbands, Harvey, Cliff - -- An evolutionary approach to AI Edmund Furse - -- Escaping from the box Thomas Vogel - -- Learning biped robot obstacle crossing Antunes, Moniz, Azevedo - -- RB+ the dynamic estimation of the opponent's strength WEDNESDAY 31ST MARCH * Ian Sommerville (Lancaster) - -- Prospects for AI in systems design Oh, Azzelarabe, Sommerville, French - -- Incorporating a cooperative design model in a computer aided design improvement system Stuart Watt - -- Fractal behaviour analysis Valente, Breuker, Bredewg - -- Integrating modeling approaches in the commonKADS library Cawsey, Galliers, Reece, Jones - -- Revising beliefs and intentions: a unified framework for agent interaction * Allan Ramsay (Dublin) - -- Prospects for natural language processing by machine Lin, Fawcett, Davies - -- Genedis: the discourse generator in communal Miwa, Simon - -- Production system modelling to represent individual differences: tradeoff between simplicity and accuracy in simulation of behaviour Freksa, Zimmerman - -- Enhancing spatial reasoning by the concept of motion POSTER SESSION THURSDAY 1ST APRIL * Glyn Humphreys (Birmingham) - -- Prospects for connectionism - science and engineering Rodrigues, Lee - -- Nouvelle AI and perceptual control theory Vogel, Popwich, Cercone - -- Logic-based inheritance reasoning Beatriz Lopez - -- Reactive planning through the integration of a case-based system and a rule-based system James Stone - -- Computer vision: what is it good for? SESSION ON EMOTIONS AND MOTIVATION Bruce Katz - -- Musical resolution and musical pleasure Moffatt, Phaf, Frijda - -- Analysis of a model of emotions Beaudoin, Sloman - -- A computational exploration of the attention control theory of motivator processing and emotion Reichgelt, Shadbolt et al. - -- EXPLAIN: on implementing more effective tutoring systems POSTER SESSION CONFERENCE DINNER FRIDAY 2ND APRIL (Morning) * David Hogg (Leeds) - -- Prospects for computer vision Elio, Watanabe - -- Simulating the interactive effects of domain knowledge and category structure within a constructive induction system Dalbosco, Armando - -- MRG an integrated multifunctional reasoning system Bibby, Reichgelt - -- Modelling multiple uses of the same representation in SOAR1 Sam Steel - -- A connection between decision theory and program logic INFORMAL WORKSHOP ON MOTIVATION, EMOTIONS AND ATTENTION (see below) ________________________________________________________________________ Workshop 1: Connectionism, Cognition and a New AI Organiser: Dr Noel Sharkey (Exeter) Committee: Andy Clark (Sussex) Glyn Humphries (Birmingham) Kim Plunkett (Oxford) Chris Thornton (Sussex) Time: Monday 29th pm & Tuesday 30th March (all day) Note: This workshop overlaps with the events in the main Technical Programme on the afternoon on Tuesday 30th. ________________________________________________________________________ A number of recent developments in Connectionist Research have strong implications for the future of AI and the study of Cognition. Among the most important are developments in Learning, Representation, and Productivity (or Generalisation). The aim of the workshop would be to focus on how these developments may change the way we look at AI and the study of Cognition. SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION ABSTRACTS INCLUDE: Connectionist representation, Generalisation and Transfer of Knowledge, Learning Machines and models of human development, Symbolic Learning versus Connectionist learning, Advantages of Connectionist/Symbolic hybrids, Modelling Cognitive Neuropsychology, Connectionist modelling of Creativity and music (or other arts). WORKSHOP ENTRANCE Attendance at the workshop will be limited to 50 or 60 places, so please let us know as soon as possible if you are planning to attend, and to which of the following categories you belong. DISCUSSION PAPERS Acceptance of discussion papers will be decided on the basis of extended abstracts (try to keep them under 500 words please) clearly specifying a 15 to 20 minute discussion topic for oral presentation. ORDINARY PARTICIPANTS A limited number places will be available for participants who wish to sit in on the discussion but do not wish to present a paper. But please get in early with a short note saying what your purpose in attending is. PLEASE SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: Dr. Noel Sharkey Centre for Connection Science Dept. Computer Science University of Exeter Exeter EX4 4PT Devon U.K. Email: noel@uk.ac.exeter.dcs REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below. ________________________________________________________________________ Workshop 2: Qualitative and Causal Reasoning Organiser: Dr Tony Cohn (Leeds, U.K.) Committee: Mark Lee (Aberystwth) Chris Price (Aberystwth) Chris Preist (Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol) Time: Monday 29th March + Tuesday 30th March (morning) ________________________________________________________________________ This workshop is intended to follow on from the series of DKBS (Deep Knowledge Based Systems) workshops which were originally initiated under the Alvey programme. QCR93 will be the 8th in the series. The format of the 1.5 day workshop will consist mainly of presentations, with ample time for discussion. It is hoped to have an invited talk in addition. Participation will be by invitation only and numbers will be limited in order to keep an informal atmosphere. If you wish to present a paper at the workshop, please send 4 copies (max 5000 words) to the address below by 20 Feb. An electronic submission is also possible (either postscript or plain ascii). Alternatively send a letter or email explaining your reasons for being interested in attending. Papers may address any aspect of Qualitative and Causal Reasoning and Representation. Thus the scope of the workshop includes the following topics: * Task-level reasoning (e.g., design, diagnosis, training, etc.) * Ontologies (e.g., space, time, fluids, etc.) * Explanation, causality and teleology * Mathematical formalization of QR * Management of multiple models (formalization, architecture, studies) * Model building tools * Integration with other techniques (e.g., dynamics, uncertainty, etc.) * Methodologies for selecting/classifying QR methods * Practical applications of QR, or Model Based Reasoning etc. These topics are not meant to be prescriptive and papers on other related or relevant topics are welcome. Suggestions for special sessions for the workshop are also welcome (eg panel session topics). There may be some partial bursaries available to students who wish to attend. If you wish to apply for such a bursary, then please send a letter giving a case for support (include details of any funding available from elsewhere). A CV should be attached. Electronic submission is preferred. REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below. CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBMISSIONS: Tony Cohn, Division of AI, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, ENGLAND. UUCP: ...!ukc!leeds!agc JANET: agc@uk.ac.leeds.scs INTERNET: agc@scs.leeds.ac.uk BITNET: agc%uk.ac.leeds.scs@UKACRL PHONE: +44 (0)532 335482 FAX: +44 (0)532 335468 ________________________________________________________________________ Workshop 3: AISB POST-GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP Organiser: Dr Hyacinth Nwana University of Keele, UK. Time: Monday 29th (all day) + Tuesday 30th March (morning) ________________________________________________________________________ Many postgraduate students become academically isolated as a result of working in specialised domains within fairly small departments. This workshop is aimed at providing a forum for graduate students in AI to present and discuss their ideas with other students in related areas. In addition there will invited presentations from a number of prominent researchers in AI. A small number of group discussions is planned, including study for and completion of theses, life after a doctorate, paper refereeing and how to make use of your supervisor. All attendees are expected to present an introduction to their research in a poster session on the first day's morning. In addition a couple of attendees will be given the opportunity to present short papers. Confirmed tutors so far include: Dr John Self (Lancaster) - 'Why do supervisors supervise?' Dr Steve Easterbrook (Sussex) - 'How to write a thesis' Dr Elizabeth Churchill (Nottingham) - Title to be confirmed. Dr Peter Hancox (Birmingham) - Title to be confirmed. Applicants are asked to submit a two-page abstract of their current work. In addition full papers of between 3000 and 5000 words may be submitted. These will be considered for publication in a supplement to the AISB quarterly journal. Deadline for 2-page abstracts: 10th February 1993 Please send an abstract or a full paper of work to: Dr. Hyacinth S. Nwana, Computer Science Dept. Keele University, Newcastle, Staffs ST5 5BG, ENGLAND. JANET: nwanahs@uk.ac.keele.cs other: nwanahs@cs.keele.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)782 583413 fax: +44 (0)782 713082 REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below. ________________________________________________________________________ Workshop 4: Motivation, Emotions and Attention Organiser: Tim Read, University of Birmingham Time: Friday 2nd April 2.30 - 5pm ________________________________________________________________________ An informal workshop will be held after lunch on Friday 2nd April enabling further discussion of issues raised in the Thursday afternoon session on motivation and emotions, and possibly additional presentations. There will be no charge, though numbers will be limited by available space. For more information contact The study of emotion encounters many difficulties, among them the looseness of emotional terminology in everyday speech. A theory of emotion should supersede this terminology, and should connect with such issues as motivation, control of attention, resource limitations architectural parallelism and underlying biological mechanisms. Computation provides useful analogies in generating an information processing account of emotion, and computer modelling is a rigorous and constructive aid in developing theories of affect. It makes sense for researchers within this field to collaborate, and the aim of the workshop is to facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas, sharing of experience, and healthy discussion. If you wish to make a presentation, please contact: Tim Read School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England EMAIL T.M.Read@cs.bham.ac.uk Phone: +44-(0)21-414-4766 Fax: +44-(0)21-414-4281 REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below (no charge for this workshop) ________________________________________________________________________ Tutorial 1: Collaborative Human-Computer Systems: Towards an Integrated Theory of Coordination Dr Stefan Kirn University of Muenster, Germany Time: Monday 29th March (morning) ________________________________________________________________________ Intelligent support of human experts' intellectual work is one of the most competitive edges of computer technology today. Important advances have been made in the fields of computer networking, AI (e.g., KADS, CBR, Distributed AI), integrated design frameworks (the European JESSI project), nonstandard databases (e.g., databases for teamwork support), computer supported cooperative work, and organizational theory. The time is ripe for developing integrated human computer collaborative systems to significantly enhance the problem solving capabilities of human experts. Perhaps one of the most interesting challenges here is the development of an integrated theory of human computer coordination. Such a theory will help to link humans and computers together in order to let them collaboratively work on complex "nonstandard" problems. It is the aim of the tutorial to put the loose ends of the above mentioned disciplines together thus arguing towards the development of an integrated theory of human computer coordination. Only undergraduate-level knowledge in at least one of the following fields is assumed: AI, database/information systems, organisational theory and CSCW. Dr Stefan Kirn is senior researcher and project leader at the Institute of Business and Information Systems of the Westfaelische Wilhelms-University of Muenster. He has more than 30 major publications in international journals and conferences, primarily in the areas of DAI, Cooperative Information Systems, CSCW and Computer-Aided Software Engineering. REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below. ________________________________________________________________________ Tutorial 2: The Motivation, Meaning and Use of Constraints Dr Mark Wallace European Computer-Industry Research Centre Munchen, Germany. Time: Monday 29th March (afternoon) ________________________________________________________________________ This tutorial explains how constraints contribute to clear, clean, efficient programs. We study constraints as specification tools, as formal tools, and as implementation tools. Finally we examine the use of constraints in search and optimisation problems. As the tutorial unfolds, we will explain the three different notions of constraints: constraints as built-in relations, with built-in solvers; constraints as active agents, communicating with a store; and propagation constraints. We will also explain how these notions are related, and moreover how the different types of constraints can all be combined in a single program. For programming examples, the logic programming framework will be used. It will be aimed at postgraduates, researchers and teachers of AI, who would like to know what constraints are, and what they are for. Also anyone interested in declarative programming, seeking a solution to the problem of efficiency, will benefit from the tutorial. An understanding of formal logic will be assumed, and some familiarity with logic programming will be necessary to appreciate the programming examples. Dr Mark Wallace leads the Constraints Reasoning Team at ECRC (the European Computer-Industry Research Centre), Munich. He introduced "Negation by Constraints" at SLP'87. He has recently presented papers at IJCAI'92, FGCS'92 and JFPL'92. Recent tutorial presentations include a short course on Deductive and Object-Oriented Knowledge Bases at the Technical University of Munich, and "Constraint Logic Programming - An Informal Introduction", written with the CORE team at ECRC for the Logic Programming Summer School, '92. REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below. ________________________________________________________________________ Tutorial 3: A Little Turing and Goedel for Specialists in AI Prof. Alexis Manaster Ramer Wayne State University, USA. Time: Monday 29th March (morning + afternoon) ________________________________________________________________________ Currently debated issues in the foundations of AI go directly back to technical work of people like Turing and Godel on the power and limits of formal systems and computing devices. Yet neither the relevant results nor the intellectual climate in which they arose are widely discussed in the AI community (for example, how many know that Godel himself believed that the human mind was not subject to the limits set by his theorems on formal systems?). The purpose of this tutorial is to develop a clear picture of the fundamental results and their implications as seen at the time they were obtained and at the present time. We will primarily refer to the work of Godel, Turing, Chomsky, Hinttika, Langendoen and Postal, Searle, and Penrose. Some background knowledge is assumed: some programming, some AI and some discrete mathematics. Dr Alexis Manaster Ramer is professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University. He has over 100 publications and presentations in linguistics, computational linguistics, and foundations of CS and AI. A few years ago, he taught a short course on the theory of computation for the Natural Language Processing group at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center (Hawthorne, NY, USA) and this past summer taught a one-week advanced course on mathematics of language at the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (Colchester, UK). REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below. ________________________________________________________________________ OTHER MEETINGS ________________________________________________________________________ LAGB CONFERENCE. Shortly before AISB'93, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) will hold its Spring Meeting at the University of Birmingham from 22-24th March, 1993. For more information, contact Dr. William Edmondson: postal address as below; phone +44-(0)21-414-4773; email EDMONDSONWH@vax1.bham.ac.uk JCI CONFERENCE The Joint Council Initiative in Cognitive Science and Human Computer Interaction will hold its Annual Meeting on Monday 29th March 1993 in the same buildings as AISB'93 (in parallel with the AISB'93 workshops and tutorials). The theme will be "Understanding and Supporting Acquisition of Cognitive Skills". For more information, contact Elizabeth Pollitzer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180, Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.; phone +44-(0)71-581-8024; email eep@doc.ic.ac.uk. ________________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION NOTES Main Programme, Workshops and Tutorials ________________________________________________________________________ o Please print off the form, tick through the items you require, enter sub-totals and totals and send by post, together with payment, to: AISB'93 Registrations, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K. o Payment should be made by cheque or money order payable to `The University of Birmingham', drawn in pounds sterling on a UK clearing bank and should accompany the form below. o Registrations postmarked after 10th March count as late registrations. o It is not possible to register by email. o Confirmation of booking, a receipt, and travel details will be sent on receipt of this application form. o The Conference Dinner (20 pounds) is on the evening of Thursday 1st. o Delegates wishing to join AISB (thus avoiding the non-AISB member supplement) should contact: AISB Administration, Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, U.K.; phone: +44-(0)273 678379; fax: +44-(0)273 678188; email: aisb@cogs.susx.ac.uk Donald Peterson, January 1993. ______________________________________________________________________ R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M ---- A I S B' 9 3 ______________________________________________________________________ Figures in parentheses are for full-time students (send photo copy of ID). ACCOMMODATION and FOOD 28th 29th 30th 31st 1st sub-totals lunch 5.50 5.50 5.50 5.50 ______ dinner 7.50 7.50 7.50 20.00 ______ bed & 23.00 23.00 23.00 23.00 23.00 ______ breakfast total ______ vegetarians please tick _____ TECHNICAL PROGRAMME, WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS technical programme 175 (40) _____ non-AISB members add 30 _____ late registration add 35 _____ Nwana workshop 50 _____ Sharkey workshop 60 (30) _____ Cohn workshop 60 (30) _____ Read workshop 0 _____ Manaster Ramer tutorial 110 (55) _____ Wallace tutorial 75 (30) _____ Kirn tutorial 75 (30) _____ total _____ Pounds PERSONAL DETAILS Full time Name ___________________________________________ student? 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You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: fass@cs.sfu.ca (Dan Fass) Subject: Program: PACLING '93 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 21:51:14 GMT INVITED/ACCEPTED PAPERS AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION PACLING '93 First Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference April 21-24 (Wed-Sat) 1993 The Harbour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada CONFERENCE AIMS PACLING '93 will be a workshop-oriented meeting on computational linguistics whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among Pacific Rim countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange showing openness towards good research falling outside current dominant "schools of thought," and on technological transfer within the Pacific region. GUEST SPEAKERS, TITLES AND BRIEF ABSTRACTS "An Overview of JPSG -- A Constraint-Based Grammar for Japanese" Dr Takao Gunji, Osaka University, JAPAN An overview of an ongoing project called JPSG (Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar) is presented. JPSG is an implementation of ideas from recent developments in the phrase structure grammar formalism, such as HPSG, applied to the Japanese language. Even though JPSG shares many aspects of grammatical formalization with HPSG, we have adopted a number of extensions and modifications in our development. We use an extended notion of unification -- constraint unification -- which takes into account declarative constraints, in addition to feature structures, so that the same declarative description can be used both for generation and recognition. "Industrial Strength NLP: The Challenge of Broad Coverage" Dr George E. Heidorn, Microsoft Research, USA To achieve apparent natural language understanding in consumer products, the underlying NLP system will have to be very robust. It will be expected to do more than a limited task in a limited domain. The NLP group at Microsoft Research is developing a system which is intended to be a central component for ubiquitous NLP. This work is still in its early stages, but we do have a system of some interest that runs on Windows 3.1 and produces reasonable logical forms for a fairly wide range of English text. This talk will describe the various facets of the work we are doing and show some of the results we have obtained to date. "Language Generation for Multimedia Explanations" Dr Kathleen R. McKeown, Columbia University, USA Multimedia information systems have the potential to greatly increase the effectiveness with which information is communicated. Whether language, visual media (e.g., pictures, charts, figures, etc.) or some combination are more appropriate for communication can depend on the kind of information being communicated, on user ability or background, and on the situations in which information is communicated. Our work on COMET (COordinated Multimedia Explanation Testbed) has as its goal the interactive generation of explanations that fully integrate and coordinate text and graphics, all of which is generated on the fly. In this talk, I will focus on three ways in which COMET coordinates its text and graphics: 1. cross references from text to graphics, 2. coordination of sentence and picture breaks, and 3. influence from one media on realization in another. ACCEPTED PAPERS (Confirmation of acceptance is still to be received from the authors of some accepted papers; groupings of papers are tentative.) *** Morphology, Phonology and Prosody *** "Parsing Indonesian Morphology Using Syllable-Based Model." Hammam R. Yusuf, Agency for the Assessment & Application of Technology, INDONESIA and University of Kentucky, USA. "Learning Vocabulary for a Register Vector Parser." David R. Astels & Bruce A. MacDonald, University of Calgary, CANADA. "Understanding Spoken English Using a Systemic Functional Framework." C. Rowles, X. Huang, M. de Beler, J. Vonwiller, R. King, C. Matthiesson, P. Sefton & M. O'Donnell, Telecom Research Laboratories/ Sydney University, AUSTRALIA. "An Experimental Discourse-Neutral Prosodic Phrasing System for Mandarin Chinese." Gina-Anne Levow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. *** Parsing -- General *** "Context-Free Grammar Parsing by Message Passing." Dekang Lin & Randy Goebel, University of Manitoba/Alberta, CANADA. "Parsing With Principles" David LeBlanc, Henry Davis & Richard Rosenberg, Tilburg University/ University of British Columbia, NETHERLANDS/CANADA. "Recovering a Logical Form Representation Using a Single-Pass Principle-Based Parser." Carl Alphonce, University of British Columbia, CANADA. *** Parsing -- Language-Specific *** "Grammar of Sino-Japanese Words." Nagiko I. Lee, Canadian International College/University of British Columbia, CANADA. "On Processing Empty Categories in English and Japanese." Tadao Miyamoto & Joseph F. Kess, University of Victoria, CANADA. "A Maximum Conditional-Probability Method and Bootstrapping-Acquisition of Simplified Markov Models for Japanese Word Succession." Toru Hisamitsu & Yoshihiko Nitta, Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory, JAPAN. *** Semantics and Cognitive Modelling *** "Handling Real World Input by Abduction." Loke Soo Hsu, Chew Lim Tan & Zhibiao Wu, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE. "An Image-Schematic System of Thematic Roles." Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, HONG KONG. "Beyond Deterministic Lexical Disambiguation." Jean-Pierre Corriveau, Carleton University, CANADA. "A Meaningful Approach to Natural Language Processing." Sait Dogru & James R. Slagle, University of Minnesota, USA. *** Pragmatics and Discourse *** "Constraint of the Japanese Conjunction "shikashi (but)." Tatsunori Mori & Hiroshi Nakagawa, Yokohama National University, JAPAN. "Reconciling Sharp True/False Boundaries With Scalar Vagueness." Alice I. Kyburg & Lenhart Schubert, University of Rochester, USA. "A Computational Formalism for Syntactic Aspects of Rhetoric." Marzena Makuta-Giluk & Chrysanne DiMarco, University of Waterloo, CANADA. "What's Going on in these Advertisements? -- A Case Study of Indirect Speech." Paul Wu Horng Jyh, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE. *** Natural Language Generation/Explanation *** "A Prototype of English Sentence Generation System Based on SD-form Semantics Model." Guifeng Shao, Masahiro Wakiyama, Sei-ichiro Kamata & Eiji Kawaguchi, Kyushu Institute of Technology/Kitakyushu National College of Technology, JAPAN. "Natural Language Explanation of Natural Deduction Proofs." Francis Jeffry Pelletier & Andrew Edgar, University of Alberta, CANADA. "The Placement of Examples in Descriptions: Before, Within or After the Text." Vibhu O. Mittal & Cecile L. Paris, Information Sciences Institute/ University of Southern California, USA. *** Natural Language Generation/Planning *** "Deciding Appropriate Query Content According to Topic Features." Yukiko Ishikawa & Tsuneaki Kato, NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories, JAPAN. "Planning Utterances with Prominence." Shozo Naito & Akira Shimazu, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, JAPAN. "Coordinating Ideational and Textual Resources in the Generation of Multisentential Texts in Chinese." Licheng Zeng, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA. *** Machine Translation and Machine Assisted Translation *** "Translation of Metonymy in an Interlingual MT System." Takahiro Wakao & Stephen Helmreich, New Mexico State University, USA. "Lexical Choice in Machine Translation." John Phillips, National Language Research Institute, JAPAN. "Tuning of a Machine Translation System to Wire-Service Economic News." Teruaki Aizawa, Naoto Katoh & Masoko Kamata, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories, JAPAN. "The Integration of MT and MAT." Robert Frederking, Dean Grannes, Peter Cousseau & Sergei Nirenburg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. *** Document Structure and Language Learning Aids *** "Cooperative Understanding of Natural Language and Picture Patterns in Drill Text." Tsutomu Endo, Hidehiro Ohki & Kazuhiro Takaoka, Oita University, JAPAN. "CWORDER: An Experimental Chinese Word Information Retrieval System for Language Learning Aids." Yu Zeng & John N. Crossley, Monash University, AUSTRALIA. "Why Johnny Can't Read the Screwiest Writing System in the World and How to Help Him Learn: On the Necessity of Japanese<->English Hyperdictionaries." Harvey Abramson, University of Tokyo, JAPAN. *** Information Retrieval/Extraction and Large-Scale Lexical Resources *** "Automatically Deriving Structured Knowledge Bases from Online Dictionaries." William Dolan & Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Corporation, USA. "Information Retrieval Based on Paraphrase." Peter Wallis, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, AUSTRALIA. "The Diderot Information Extraction System." Jim Cowie, Takahiro Wakao, Louise Guthrie & Wang Jin, New Mexico State University, USA. "Text Analysis: How Can Machine Learning Help?" Stan Matwin & Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa, CANADA. *** Tools and Environments *** "Graphical Interaction with Constraint-Based Grammars." Jo Calder, Simon Fraser University, CANADA. "STAS - A Relation For Comparing Tree Traversals of Grammar Processing Algorithms." Miroslav Martinovic, New York University, USA. "A Parallel Processing Environment for Natural Language Applications." Hsin-Hsi Chen & Jiunn-Liang Leu, National Taiwan University, TAIWAN. POSTER SESSIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS, COMPUTER FACILITIES Approximately 6 people are being invited to present posters. Invited speakers and authors of accepted papers are being encouraged to give demonstrations of their systems. The conference is providing Mac, IBM, NeXT and SUN machines for demonstrations. Conference attendees will be provided with guest e-mail facilities during the conference. LOCATION OF CONFERENCE AND HOTELS The conference will take place at the Harbour Centre, the recently opened extension of Simon Fraser University at 515 West Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver. PACLING has secured special rates with three hotels, each only a few minutes walk from the Harbour Centre and from downtown shops, restaurants and nightlife. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION Full registration fees for the conference, besides attendance at conference sessions and use of guest e-mail facilities, include: * copy of the conference proceedings * reception * banquet * day trip to Whistler Village, home to two of the finest skiing areas in North America, Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains; the village and surroundings are very picturesque; the village has many shops and restaurants; skiing is still good in April, weather permitting (ski passes not included in registration fee). REGISTRATION CATEGORY REGISTRATION FEE until March 15 after March 15 Full registration, reduced rate: (full time student or unemployed) CDN$105 US$88 CDN$135 US$115 Full registration, standard rate: (everyone else) CDN$210 US$175 CDN$270 US$230 Partial registration -- reception, banquet and day trip only: CDN$75 US$63 CDN$95 US$80 (partner of conference attendee) The registration fees include all taxes. We would prefer Canadian funds, but US funds are acceptable. Please pay by one of the following methods: 1. bankers draft or cheque in Canadian dollars drawn on a Canadian bank, 2. bankers draft or cheque in US dollars drawn on an American bank, 3. VISA card or MasterCard (please supply full name, card type, card number and expiry date). Please make bankers drafts and cheques payable to Simon Fraser University. Send your payment, complete with your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address (if applicable) to: Fred Popowich email: popowich@cs.sfu.ca PACLING '93 Registration tel: (604) 291-4193 School of Computing Science fax: (604) 291-3045 Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 For further information on the conference and on local arrangements, contact: Dan Fass email: fass@cs.sfu.ca PACLING '93 Publicity and Local Arrangements tel: (604) 291-3208 Centre for Systems Science fax: (604) 291-4424 Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 ATTENDEES WITH VISA DIFFICULTIES We are aware that some individuals may experience difficulties obtaining a visa. If people have paid for registration and then are not able to obtain a visa, their registration fee will be refunded. Unfortunately, hotel deposits probably cannot be refunded. HOTEL REGISTRATION INFORMATION Preferential rates have been negotiated with three downtown hotels at 82, 65 and 43 Canadian dollars per person per night. A minimum deposit equal to one night's accomodation is required. Conference registrants should establish their own contact with hotels -- please don't include money for hotel rooms with your conference registration. Attendees should aim to book rooms by Monday March 15th if possible as the earlier they book, the better the room they are likely to get. The phone numbers given below include the regional but not international code. People sending faxes or telephoning from outside North America should check their country's international code for calling Canada. When attendees contact hotels, they should mention the PACLING '93 convention in order to obtain PACLING's special rates. All prices given below are in Canadian dollars and include national and provincial taxes unless otherwise stated. HOTEL #1: Ramada Renaissance Hotel, 1133 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6E 3T3. Fax: (604) 689-4358. Telephone: (604) 689-9211. Toll free in Canada: 1-800-268-8998. Toll free in USA: 1-800-228-9898. Single CDN$81.90 (CDN$70 + 17% taxes) Two beds or double CDN$111.15 (CDN$95 + 17% taxes) Typical breakfast CDN$10.50 + tax and gratuities Comments -- This 432 room hotel is located on Vancouver's waterfront six blocks from the Harbour Centre. Rooms have colour televisions, telephones and individual heating. Ask for a room with a harbour view. The hotel has a restaurant, several lounge bars, a fitness club, sauna and indoor pool. Transportation is provided to and from Vancouver International Airport. -- The Ramada has given us very generous convention rates. Although Ramada has a worldwide reservation system, only the Vancouver hotel knows about PACLING's special rates, so please contact the hotel directly. If you contact the hotel, don't forget to mention that you are booking rooms as part of PACLING '93. HOTEL #2: Days Inn Vancouver Downtown, 921 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1M2. Fax: (604) 681-4335. Telephone: (604) 681-7808. Toll free in Canada and USA: 1-800-325-2525. Single CDN$64.35 (CDN$55 + 17% taxes) Two beds CDN$81.90 (CDN$70 + 17% taxes) Typical breakfast CDN$7.00 + tax and gratuities Comments -- This 85 room hotel is very centrally located in the heart of Vancouver's financial district, four blocks from the Harbour Centre. Rooms have colour televisions. Few rooms have a view. Rooms at the back of the hotel may be quieter than those at the front. A restaurant and bar are on the hotel site. A health club with sauna and squash facilities is located one block from the hotel. -- Please contact the hotel directly. If you do, please mention that you are booking rooms as part of PACLING '93 in order to get our special convention rate. HOTEL #3: The Hotel at the YWCA, 580 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 2K9. Fax: (604) 681-2550. Telephone: (604) 662-8188. Toll free in BC and Alberta: 1-800-663-1424. Single with hall bathroom (women only) CDN$42.90 (CDN$39 + 10% taxes) Single with shared bathroom (men and women) CDN$49.45 (CDN$45 + 10% taxes) Two beds with hall bathroom (women only) CDN$55.00 (CDN$50 + 10% taxes) Two beds with shared bathroom (men and women) CDN$58.30 (CDN$53 + 10% taxes) Typical breakfast (self-serve) CDN$4.50 + tax Comments -- This 169 room hotel also has a central downtown location, six blocks from the Harbour Centre. Some rooms have a view. Request a room with a bay view above the 10th floor as it is quieter up there. Rooms don't have televisions (there are TV lounges every other floor). Singles are a good size, but do not have sinks. Twins are a bit cramped. Self-serve restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. There is a pool and fitness centre for women only. -- Please contact the hotel directly and mention that you are part of PACLING '93. PACLING '93 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Members: Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) (Chair) Nick Cercone (University of Regina, Canada) Christian Matthiessen (University of Sydney, Australia) Yorick Wilks (New Mexico State University, USA) Local Members: Dan Fass (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Paul McFetridge (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Roland Sussex (Queensland University, Australia) Hiroaki Tsurumaru (Nagasaki University, Japan) Advisors: Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada) Observers: Minako O'Hagan (New Zealand Translation Center, New Zealand) SPONSORS Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication interest group of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan; the Australian Computer Science Society; Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems of Canada; the Advanced Systems Institute of British Columbia; Simon Fraser University; Centre for Systems Science. ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Thu Mar 4 17:31:47 1993 Received: from cs.rpi.edu ([128.213.1.1]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150189>; Thu, 4 Mar 1993 17:31:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 17:04:20 -0500 Received: by cs.rpi.edu (5.65c/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA22912; Thu, 4 Mar 1993 17:04:20 -0500 Message-Id: <199303042204.AA22912@cs.rpi.edu> From: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) Reply-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Digest) Approved: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Errors-To: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Maint-Path: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 10 No. 8 NL-KR Digest (Thu Mar 4 12:30:28 1993) Volume 10 No. 8 Today's Topics: CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Robot & Human Comm. (RO-MAN '93) CFP: ICLP'93 Workshop: Deductive Databases Program: EACL93 Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 14:27:20 +0900 From: myers@atr-la.atr.co.jp (John K. Myers) Subject: CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Robot & Human Comm. (RO-MAN '93) CALL FOR PAPERS RO-MAN '93 TOKYO The IEEE 2nd International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication Session on Emotional Communication and Dialogue in Virtual Realities Session moderator: John K. Myers November 3-5, 1993 Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Recently many researchers have begun to work with autonomous agents in artificial realities. The most challenging research in this area focuses not only on single autonomous agents interacting with their worlds, but also on multiple autonomous agents communicating with each other through dialogues and emotional signals. What are these systems capable of doing? What algorithms and operators are necessary? Where will such systems go in the future? Human users are also experimenting with communication in virtual realities. The recent popular Multiple User Dungeon (MUD) programs provide a way for users to interact with each other in a new mode of communication. What are the topics of these interactions? What kinds of dialogue patterns and strategies for emotional communication are used? A few leading-edge researchers are also exploring the problem of how a robotic intelligence can communicate with a human user. How does dialogue generation work? What primitives are used for emotional communication? How can these be recognized or generated? Real-world psychological problems include what kinds of commands are used when talking with an autonomous agent (e.g., the "Knowledge Navigator"), and how do people feel when talking to or with agents. In the not-so-distant future, a virtual-reality interface to normal computers, intelligent computer agents, and to other users (the palantir telephone/TV) may be commonplace. What knowledge technologies will be required to achieve full communication? How will these be used? What problems will occur? This session attempts to advance the state of the art by providing a platform to disseminate cutting-edge and futuristic research on these topics. Papers should emphasize the theoretical aspects of communication, including but not limited to ontologies of emotional and informative communicative acts, theories of emotions and of dialogue, algorithms for recognition, generation, and interaction, psychological studies, etc., etc. Speculations and projections of what this technology will lead to in the future are encouraged. Papers on implemented systems, and actual experiments, as well as position papers and well-thought-out theoretical designs are all welcomed. Please submit five copies of an extended summary of 300-600 words, together with one or two figures that best illustrate your work, to: John K. Myers American Film Technologies 11585 Sorrento Valley Road San Diego, CA 92121 USA to be received on or before May 3rd, 1993. Rough drafts of papers are also welcome at this point. Applicants will be notified of acceptance or rejection by the end of June. Successful applicants will be requested to submit a final draft of 8 pages or less by August 28th. The official language of the workshop is English. A proceedings will be published and distributed at the workshop. If you are even thinking of possibly submitting an extended summary, I ask that you send your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address to: myers@atr-la.atr.co.jp before March 24th if possible. I am relocating, and this will aid in communication. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 4 Mar 93 10:03:20 PST From: ICLP Publicity Subject: CFP: ICLP'93 Workshop: Deductive Databases Call for Papers ICLP'93 Postconference Workshop on Deductive Databases Budapest, Hungary June 25, 1993 Sponsored by the Association of Logic Programming One of the principal aims of research in deductive databases is to provide a declarative programming framework for building database applications. The research is also concerned with alleviating the shortcomings of traditional database programming languages like SQL etc. A deductive database system combines traditional database facilities with a powerful LOGIC-BASED language for queries, reasoning and application development. Recent research in this area has been closely linked to research in Non-monotonic reasoning, Semantics of logic programs and Ordered logic. The workshop is intended to bring together researchers (theoreticians as well as practicioners) involved in the area of deductive databases and deductive computing. The aim is to provide a forum for discussing and exchanging ideas on various aspects of deductive databases such as: - Object-oriented deduction (i.e. hierarchies and deduction) - Negation - Non-monotonic deduction - Sets (matching and unification) - Paraconsistency - Abstract data types - Meta programming - Compilation techniques (magic sets, counting etc.) - Abstract machines (execution architectures and computational models) - Query optimization techniques - Applications Papers (full papers and extended abstracts) are solicited on any aspect of deductive databases. Papers must be written in English, must not exceed 10 pages, and should include both an abstract and keywords to define the topic. Authors are asked to submit four copies to either Els Laenens or Natraj Arni at the addresses below. Submit papers to either: Els Laenens Natraj Arni Dept. of Math. and CS MCC University of Antwerp (RUCA) 3500, West Balcones Ctr. Dr. Groenenborgerlaan 171 Austin, TX. 78759 2020 Antwerpen U.S.A. Belgium Email: els@ccu.uia.ac.be Email: natraj@mcc.com Phone: +32 3 218.04.77 Phone: +1 512 338-3718 Fax: +32 3 820.22.44 Fax: +1 512 338-3890 Submissions Due: April 1, 1993 Notification: May 1, 1993 Final Version Due: May 15, 1993 ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 13:50:35 +0100 From: EACL 1993 Subject: Program: EACL93 EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93 THIRD NOTIFICATION -- PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics will hold its Sixth Conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from Wednesday to Friday, 21-23 April 1993, preceded by two days of tutorials on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20. General Conference Chair: The conference is co-chaired by Steven Krauwer, Michael Moortgat and Louis des Tombe (OTS, Utrecht). Programme Committee: Anne Abeille (University of Paris), Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge), Ken Church (AT T Bell Laboratories), Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania), Ewan Klein (University of Edinburgh), Andras Kornai (CSLI, Stanford), Jan Landsbergen (IPO, Eindhoven), Uwe Reyle (University of Stuttgart), Anne de Roeck (University of Essex), Remko Scha (University of Amsterdam), Susan Warwick-Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneva). Local Organization Coordinator: Renee Pohlmann (OTS, Utrecht). Tutorials Coordinator: Jan van Eijck (CWI, Amsterdam). Student Session Programme Committee: The Committee is co-chaired by Anne-Marie Mineur and Yvon Wijnen (Utrecht University), and consists of David Beaver, Morten Christiansen, Shona Douglas, Tomaz Erjavec, Alistair Knott, Carl Vogel (University of Edinburgh), Josef van Genabith (Essex University), Frank Piron (University of Freiburg), Patrizia Paggio (University of Kopenhagen), Melina Alexa (UMIST, Manchester), Kjetil Strand (University of Oslo), Uli Schatz, Juergen Oesterle (University of Muenchen), Irene Pimenta Rodrigues (University of Lisbon), Jochen Doerre (University of Stuttgart), Paolo Cattaneo (IDSIA, Lugano). The final programme is now being prepared, and a full time schedule will be published shortly. This announcement provides an overview of the contents of the main programme, and includes registration information and forms. Please note that the early registration period has been extended to 1 March, but note also that hotel accommodation cannot be guaranteed after this date! PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME TUTORIALS (Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 April): Each tutorial consists of an introductory class on Monday (3 hours), and an advanced class on the same topic on Tuesday (3 hours). There are 4 tutorials: (1) Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof (University of Amsterdam): Uses of Dynamic Logic in NL Processing (2) Hans Uszkoreit (University of Saarbruecken): Recent Developments in Unification-based NP Processing Tutorials (1) and (2) will take place in parallel. (3) Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania): Statistical Methods in NL Processing (4) Applications of Complexity Theory (teacher to be announced) Tutorials (3) and (4) will take place in parallel. MAIN PROGRAMME (Wednesday 21, Thursday 22 and Friday 23 April): INVITED SPEAKERS: (1) Ken Church (AT&T) (2) Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) (3) Third speaker to be announced PAPERS: Below we list the papers that have been accepted for EACL93 (including papers on the reserve list). Note that not all authors have confirmed their participation yet. Area: SYNTAX AND CL Doug Arnold, Toni Badia, Josef van Genabith, Stella Markantonatou, Stefan Momma, Louisa Sadler, Paul Schmidt: Experiments in Reusability of Grammatical Resources Bernd Abb, Michael Herweg and Kai Lebeth: The Incremental Generation of Passive Sentences Area: LEXICON, MORPHOLOGY Harald Trost: Coping with derivation in a morphological component Adam Kilgarriff: Inheriting Verb Alternations Josee Heemskerk: A probabilistic context-free grammar for disambiguation in morphological parsing Hideki Kozima and Teiji Furugori: Similarity between Words Computed by Spreading Activation on an English Dictionary Area: DATA-ORIENTED CL Yves Schabes, Michael Roth and Randy Osborne: Parsing the Wall Street Journal with the Inside-Outside Algorithm Rens Bod: Using an Annotated Corpus as a Virtual Grammar Didier Bourigault: An Endogeneous-Corpus Based Method for Structural Noun Phrase Disambiguation Masaki Kiyono and Jun-ichi Tsujii: Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition from Parsing Failures Pim van der Eijk: Automating the Acquisition of Bilingual Terminology Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans: Data-Oriented Methods for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Area: AI-RELATED METHODS IN CL Donna M. Gates and Peter Shell: Rule-based acquisition and maintenance of lexical and semantic knowledge Susan McRoy and Graeme Hirst: Abductive explanations of dialogue misunderstandings Geoffrey Simmons: Tradeoff between Compositionality and Complexity in the Semantics of Dimensional Adjectives Area: PARSING AND COMPLEXITY Alain Lecomte: Efficient Proof-Nets for Parsing Patrick Blackburn and Edith Spaan: Decidability and Undecidability in stand-alone Feature Logics Mark-Jan Nederhof: Generalized left-corner parsing K. Vijay-Shanker, David J. Weir: The use of shared forests in TAG parsing Gosse Bouma and Gertjan van Noord: Head-driven parsing for lexicalist grammars: experimental results Peter Staudacher: New frontiers beyond context-freeness: di-grammars and di-automata Atro Voutilainen, Pasi Tapanainen: Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser Area: LOGIC AND CL Juergen Wedekind and Ronald M. Kaplan: Type-driven semantic interpretation of f-structures Olivier Bouchez, Olivier Istace, Jan van Eijck: A strategy for dynamic interpretation: a fragment and an implementation Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping and Vijay Saraswat: LFG semantics via constraints Marcus Kracht: Mathematical Aspects of Command Relations Martin Boettcher: Disjunctions and inheritance in the context feature structure system Patrick Blackburn, Claire Gardent and Wilfried Meyer-Viol: Talking about trees Martin Emms: Parsing with polymorphism Koen Versmissen: Lambek calculus, modalities and semigroup semantics Glyn Morrill and Teresa Solias: Tuples, Discontinuity, and Gapping in Categorial Grammar Daniele Godard and Jacques Jayez: Towards a proper treatment of coercion phenomena Area: MORPHOLOGY, PHONOLOGY, SPEECH Scott Prevost, Mark Steedman: Generating contextually appropriate intonation Ajit Narayanan, Lama Hashem: On abstract, finite-state morphology Lynne J. Cahill: Morphonology in the Lexicon Marc van Oostendorp: Formal properties of metrical structure Area: MACHINE TRANSLATION Ronald M. Kaplan and Juergen Wedekind: Restriction and Correspondence-based Translation Area: SEMANTICS Sheila Glasbey: A computational treatment of sentence-final 'then' Claire Gardent: A unification-based approach to multiple VP ellipsis resolution E. Hajicova, H. Skoumalova, P. Sgall: Identifying topic and focus by an automatic procedure Andrew Kehler: A Discourse Copying Algorithm for Ellipsis and Anaphora Resolution Tim Fernando: The donkey strikes back Michael White: Delimitedness and trajectory-of-motion events Joke Dorrepaal: On the notion of uniqueness Alex Lascarides, Jon Oberlander: Temporal connectives in a discourse context Tadashi Nomoto and Yoshihiko Nitta: Resolving Zero Anaphora in Japanese STUDENT PAPERS: Johan Bos: VP Ellipsis in a DRT-implementation George C. Demetriou: Lexical Disambiguation Using CHIP (Constraint Handling in Prolog) Paola Monachesi: Object clitics and clitic climbing in Italian HPSG grammar Michael Schiehlen: Localising Barriers Theory Hadar Shemtov: A Translation Tool for Dealing with Updated Documents Manfred Stede: Lexical Choice Criteria in Language Generation POSTERS and DEMOS: The following poster and demo submissions have been accepted by the programme committee. A number of submissions (not listed here) is waiting for confirmation by the authors. I. Aduriz, E. Agirre, I. Alegria, X. Arregi, J.M. Ariola, X. Artola, A. Diaz de Ilarraza, N. Ezeiza, M. Maritxalar, K. Sarasola and M. Urkia: A morphological analysis based method for spelling correction Eric Wehrli and Mira Ramluckun: ITS-2: an interactive personal translation system Gabor Proszeky and Laszlo Tihanyi: Helyette: Inflectional Thesaurus for Agglutinative Languages Dario Bianchi, Rodolfo Delmonte and Emanuele Pianta: Understanding Stories in Different Languages with GETA_RUN Gunnar Eriksson and Gunnel Kallgren: Demonstration of software for annotation and automatic disambiguation Atro Voutilainen and Pasi Tapanainen: Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser Shinichi Doi, Kazunori Muraki and Shinichiro Kamei: Long Sentence Analysis by Domain Specific Pattern Grammar David Clemenceau and Emmanuel Roche: Enhancing a Large Scale Dictionary with a two-level System Robert Frederking, Ariel Cohen, Dean Grannes, Peter Cousseau and Sergei Nirenburg: The PANGLOSS MARK I MAT system Laila Dybkjaer, Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkjaer: Maximising Naturalness Dirk Heylen, Andre Schenk and Marc Verhagen: A Constraint-based Representation Scheme of Collocational Structures Gabor Proszeky and Laszlo Tihanyi: Helyette: Inflectional Thesaurus for Agglutinative Languages Atro Voutilainen and Pasi Tapanainen: Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser REGISTRATION INFORMATION NOTE THE EXTENSION OF THE EARLY REGISTRATION PERIOD!!!!!!!! Conference: The registration fee will be 275 Dutch guilders for ACL-members, and 165 guilders for students and unemployed members. Registration forms and payment should be received by 1 March 1993. The fees include one copy of the proceedings and an invitation to the reception. | until 1 March | after 1 March | - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Standard rate | | | ACL member (dues paid | | | for 1993) | 275 Dfl | 385 Dfl | Non-member (includes | | | membership for 1993) | 335 Dfl | 445 Dfl | Reduced rate (full time | | | students and unemployed) | | | ACL member (dues paid | | | for 1993) | 165 Dfl | 230 Dfl | Non-member (includes | | | membership for 1993) | 210 Dfl | 275 Dfl | - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorials: The tutorial fee will be 100 Dfl. per tutorial if registered before 1 March, 1993. After 1 March, the fee will be 130 Dfl. Please note that only people who register for the conference will be eligible to take part in the tutorials. | until 1 March | after 1 March | - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Standard rate | 100 Dfl | 130 Dfl | Reduced rate (full time | | | students and unemployed) | 70 Dfl | 100 Dfl | - -------------------------------------------------------------------- If a registration is cancelled before 1 April, the registration fee, less 50 Dfl for administrative costs, will be returned. Please note: We regret that we cannot accept any registrations by email. Send your registration and payment by (air)mail. Accommodation: The organisation has reserved a number of hotel rooms in Utrecht, close to the conference site. Cheaper accommodation is offered outside Utrecht. Travelling time will not be more than an hour. Please return the application for hotels as soon as possible. Accommodation cannot be guaranteed if applications with full payment are not received by 1 March. Payment: All payments must be made in Dutch guilders. - You can send us - together with your registration form - a cheque or banker's draft payable to: Faculteit Letteren RU, UTRECHT - You can transfer the appropriate amount to our bank account: Faculteit Letteren RU Account no 55 50 74 897 ABN-AMRO Bank Neude 4 3512 AD UTRECHT Reference : EACL93 registration fee A copy of the bank transfer should be sent to us together with your registration form. Make sure you add transfer charges. - You can use MasterCard/Eurocard and VISA credit cards. Participants from Eastern European countries: A limited number of grants will be available for participants living in Eastern European countries. These grants include free registration and accommodation, and a daily allowance of 50 Dfl. Authors of accepted papers will have priority. Please provide full details concerning affiliation and participation of your institution in EC exchange programmes such as TEMPUS. GENERAL INFORMATION Social Events: The participants will be offered a reception on Tuesday 20 April. A banquet featuring Indonesian `Rijsttafel' will be held on Thursday the 22nd. Space limitations restrict the number of participants; first come first served. The banquet fee is 60 Dfl. Venue: The conference site is located in the centre of Utrecht, 10 minutes walk from Utrecht Central Station, which in turn is located at 50 minutes by train (30 by taxi) from Amsterdam Airport (Schiphol). Addresses: General address for all communications with Programme Committee, Organizing Committee, Student Session Committee and Tutorials Coordinator: EACL93 [relevant committee/coordinator], OTS, Trans 10, NL-3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 30 53 63 77 Fax: +31 30 53 60 00 Email: eacl93@let.ruu.nl For information on the ACL in general, contact Don Walker (global), or Mike Rosner (for Europe): Dr. Donald E. Walker (ACL) Dr. Michael Rosner (ACL) Bellcore, MRE 2A379 IDSIA 445 South Street, Box 1910 Corso Elvezia 36 Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland walker@flash.bellcore.com mike@idsia.uu.ch **************************Registration form ************************** ****************************** Cut Here ****************************** Sixth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 21-23 April 1993, Utrecht Registration Form Mr/Ms ............................................................ Family Name ............................................................ First Name ............................................................ Affiliation ............................................................ 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Conference | until 1 March | after 1 March | Total | - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Standard rate | | | | ACL member (dues paid | | | | for 1993) | [ ] 275 Dfl | [ ] 385 Dfl | | Non-member (includes | | | | membership for 1993) | [ ] 335 Dfl | [ ] 445 Dfl | | Reduced rate (full time | | | | students and unemployed) | | | | ACL member (dues paid | | | | for 1993) | [ ] 165 Dfl | [ ] 230 Dfl | | Non-member (includes | | | | membership for 1993) | [ ] 210 Dfl | [ ] 275 Dfl | | - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Tutorial | | | | - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] Dynamic Logic OR | | | | [ ] Unification Based NLP | | | | - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Standard rate | [ ] 100 Dfl | [ ] 130 Dfl | | Reduced rate (full time | | | | students and unemployed) | [ ] 70 Dfl | [ ] 100 Dfl | | - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Tutorial (Monday | | | | and Tuesday) | | | | - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] Statistical Methods OR | | | | [ ] Complexity Issues | | | | Standard rate | [ ] 100 Dfl | [ ] 130 Dfl | | Reduced rate (full time | | | | students and unemployed) | [ ] 70 Dfl | [ ] 100 Dfl | | - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Banquet 60 Dfl | [ ] persons | | ============================================================================== Total | | - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] I wish to apply for a grant for participants from eastern European countries. 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Email: eacl93@let.ruu.nl. ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Mon Mar 8 17:49:24 1993 Received: from cs.rpi.edu ([128.213.1.1]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150219>; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 17:49:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 17:15:49 -0500 Received: by cs.rpi.edu (5.65c/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA07433; Mon, 8 Mar 1993 17:15:49 -0500 Message-Id: <199303082215.AA07433@cs.rpi.edu> From: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) Reply-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Digest) Approved: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Errors-To: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Maint-Path: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 10 No. 9 NL-KR Digest (Mon Mar 8 16:26:50 1993) Volume 10 No. 9 Today's Topics: Announcement: Free trial of an AI/IS/CS news service Announcement: CFV: comp.ai.nat-lang Announcement: EES-UETP AI Course Position: Spoken-Language Post-Doc, Univ at Buffalo CFP: ITCH'94 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN COMMUNITY HEALTH Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. 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The topics that will be discussed in this group will concentrate on, but are not limited to, the following: * Natural Language Understanding * Natural Language Generation * Machine Translation * Dialogue and Discourse Systems * Natural Language Interfaces * Parsing * Computational Linguistics * Computer-Aided Language Learning This newsgroup will avoid discussing topics such as speech synthesis, non computer-related linguistic issues, or other issues that are better addressed in other newsgroups such as comp.speech and sci.lang. However, because natural language processing is interdisciplinary, some overlap will be inevitable. The topic list above should serve as a guide as to the nature of topics that should be discussed in this newsgroup. Rules of Decorum: Because of the unmoderated format, anyone with access to this newsgroup will be able to post without being pre-reviewed, as is the case with moderated groups. This is meant to encourage discussion of the topics. Please refrain from "flames" or unnecessary criticism of a person's viewpoints or personality in a harsh or insulting manner. Criticisms should be constructive and polite whenever possible. Intended Audience: While linguistics serves as one of the foundations to natural language processing, this group is not strictly meant for linguists. This group is meant to attract people from linguistics, AI, computer science, philosophy, and psychology, (among others) who have interest in natural language processing. Although this group is meant as a forum for those people who work in the field of natural language processing, and therefore some discussion may be highly technical in nature, or may refer to work that is commonly known for those in the field, we should also be open to those who are just beginning in the field, or who have an active interest in the field but work in a different area. Because this group is unmoderated, there will be more noise (i.e., articles that are deemed by some as unimportant) than were this group moderated. Please think of this as a tradeoff that may lead to better discussion. End of charter Call For Votes - ------------- Period of voting ends: Monday, March 30, 1993. 23:59 Eastern Time. Eastern Time is the time zone that I am in, which is the same as Washington, DC, New York, Boston, and Atlanta. Rules of voting: (1) Votes must be cast by e-mail only. Votes may not be posted to the net. (2) You can NOT vote by proxy. That means, you are not allowed to have a friend vote for you. Therefore, you must have a e-mail address. Unless the moderator of news.announce.newsgroups says otherwise, I will not accept votes that are sent by anonymous locations (i.e., using an anonymous service). (3) You may only vote once. The determination of this will be made by e-mail address. Unique e-mail addresses will count as one vote, subject to the approval of the moderator. Please use your account when voting. If there are multiple votes from one address, only the vote with the latest legal timestamp (i.e., the time that I receive the vote, not the time you sent it out) which falls in the time period above will be counted. (4) You must vote for the charter and newsgroup name, as is. Votes which are qualified, such as "I would vote YES, if this happens" will not be counted. (5) Votes must be cast between the times given above in the period of voting. (6) Anyone who has an computer account which can send e-mail to me will be allowed to vote. (7) Votes must be sent to my e-mail address: clin@eng.umd.edu How to Vote: Instructions for those who SUPPORT the formation of comp.ai.nat-lang - ------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Use the following subject heading as close as you can. 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The actual tally of who voted FOR and AGAINST the newsgroup will be displayed after the end of the voting period. ******** Other information: You may continue discussion about the newsgroup, but it should be to persuade other voters to vote one way or the other. - - Charles Lin clin@eng.umd.edu ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: Luis M.F. Barruncho Date: Fri, 5 Mar 93 12:08:16 GMT Subject: Announcement: EES-UETP AI Course EES-UETP ELECTRIC ENERGY SYSTEMS UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISE TRAINING PARTNERSHIP COOPERATION NETWORK AMONG INSTITUTIONS FROM ELECTRIC ENERGY SYSTEMS COMMISSION OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES COMETT PROGRAMME ===== * ===== COURSE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS TO THE OPERATION OF ELECTRIC ENERGY SYSTEMS Lisbon, Portugal, June 21-25, 1993. ===== * ===== ################################# # GOALS * LECTURERS * ATTENDEES # ################################# - ------------- | Main Goals | - ------------- - to provide a technical course addressed to people who are or intend to be involved in Knowledge Based Systems (KBS) development; - to help on answering the utilities questins on how to maintain systems and on how to get involved in successful projects; - to provide an advanced course in the way techniques and tools are addressed, focusing the methodologies, the implementation and the project managements issues; - to provide the opportunity for hands-on laboratorial involvement; - to provide access to advanced information on industrial applications, namely on video; - to present demonstrations at a professional level and on computational environments similar to those of the control centres. - -------------------------------- | Desired Profile of Attendees: | - -------------------------------- - Energy Management Systems (EMS) personnel willing to assess the usefulness of artificial intelligence in their work environment. - People involved in the development of EMS systems, both in utilities and software houses or engineering companies, considering the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. - Engineers and technicians involved in the development of KBS, willing to work in a new applications area. - --------------------- | Group of Lecturers | - --------------------- Jarmo Partannen - Tampere University of Technology Mania Pavella - Universite de Liege Louis Wehenkel - Universite de Liege Alain Germond - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Dagmar Niebur - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Edmund Handschin - Universitat Dortmund Wolfgang Hoffmann - Universitat Dortmund Juan Jose Alba - Instituto de Investigation Tecnologica (IIT) Gomez Exposito - Universidad de Sevilla Luis Barruncho - INTERG,Instituto da Energia Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST, Tech. Univ. of Lisbon) Antonio Vidigal - Electricidade de Portugal (EDP) Rui Pestana - Electricidade de Portugal (EDP) Arnaud Hertz - Electricite de France (EdF) J.P Krivine - Electricite de France (EdF) Chen-Ching Liu - University of Washington, Seattle, WA-USA Stipe Fustar - ESCA Corporation, WA-USA ===== * ===== ############################### # COURSE LEADER AND ORGANIZER # ############################### LUIS M.F. BARRUNCHO INTERG - INSTITUTO DA ENERGIA Av. Rovisco Pais, 1096 LISBOA CODEX PORTUGAL Fax: 351-1-8482987 ; Tel.: 351-1-808257 Email: barruncho@interg.pt ===== * ===== ######## # FEES # ######## Basic Fee - lectures and documentation. 34200 escudos : EES-UETP members. 124200 escudos : University not member of the EES-UETP. 214200 escudos : Industry not member of the EES-UETP. Additional Fee (mandatory) - includes 5 lunches and 10 coffee breaks. 30000 escudos Thursday Course Diner (optional) 6000 escudos. ===== * ===== ################### # COURSE LOCATION # ################### Holiday Inn Hotel (close to the Instituto Superior Tecnico Campus) Av. Antonio Jose' de Almeida, 28-A 1000 LISBOA PORTUGAL ===== * ===== ###################### # HOTEL ACCOMODATION # ###################### The attendee should contact the Holiday Inn Reserves Department (tel: 351 1 7936368 ; fax: 351 1 7938374 ) and mention the Course name to have the special price of 10000 escudos per night (single room). ================================================================================ ######################## # PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE # ######################## MONDAY 08:30 - 10:00 : Introduction to Aritficial Intelligence. (JJ Alba). * Artificial Intelligence: . Symbolic / Knowledge based approaches. . Connectionist / Neural networks approaches. * Introduction to Knowledge Based Systems: . Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. * Relevant techniques: . Heuristic Search. . Learning. . Knowledge Acquisition. . Approximate Reasoning. * Hardware and Software for Artificial Intelligence. Break. 10:30 - 12:00 : Overview of AI applications in power systems. (A Hertz). Lunch. 13:30 - 14:30 : Video Session - Expert Systems Applications at the Tokyo Electric Power Company. 13:30 - 14:30 : Demo/Lab Session. 14:30 - 16:00 : Knowledge Based Systems / Expert Systems. Lesson 1 (JP Krivine). Application CO-PILOTE. Break. 16:30 - 18:00 : Knowledge Based Systems / Expert Systems. Lesson 2 (W Hoffmann). Integration of an expert system for security assessment into an energy management system. TUESDAY 08:30 - 09:30 : Knowledge Based Systems / Expert Systems. Lesson 3 (L Barruncho). Tools: OPS83; RTworks. 09:30 - 10:30 : Knowledge Based Systems / Expert Systems. Lesson 4 (JJ Alba). Tools (cont'd): ART; G2. Break. 11:00 - 12:00 : Knowledge Based Systems / Expert Systems. Lesson 5 (A Hertz/JP Krivine). Tools (cont'd): Prolog; EdF Tools. Lunch. 13:30 - 14:30 : Video Session - Introduction to AI and Expert Systems. 13:30 - 14:30 : Demo/Lab Session. 14:30 - 16:00 : Knowledge Based Systems / Expert Systems. Lesson 6 (JJ Alba). Switching operations plannning using heuristic search techniques. Application AISMAN. Break. 16:30 - 18:00 : Fuzzy Set Theory and Applications. Lesson 1 (E Handschin). Coordination of active and reactive power control based on fuzzy set theory. WEDNESDAY 08:30 - 10:00 : Fuzzy Set Theory and Applications. Lesson 2 (J Partanen). Using Fuzzy Sets in the Fault Location of Distribution Networks. Application: Distribution Network Operator Support System. Break. 10:30 - 12:00 : Decision Trees Applied to Power Systems Security Assessment. Lesson 1 (M Pavella/L Wehenkel). Introduction to the decision tree method. * Outline of the decision method: . Decision trees: a machine learning method. . Building decision trees. * Formulation of the decision tree method: . Construction of decision trees. . Tree and its dual representation, the attribute space. Lunch. 13:30 - 14:30 : Video Session - Fuzzy Logic Applications and Perspectives. 13:30 - 14:30 : Demo/Lab Session. 14:30 - 16:00 : Decision Trees Applied to Power Systems Security Assessment. Lesson 2 (M Pavella/L Wehenkel). Applications to power systems security assessment. * Applications to transient stability: the DTTS method: . Pinciple. . Two approaches. . Illustrative example. . A first batch of observations. * Case studies. * Demo. Break. 16:30 - 18:00 : Decision Trees Applied to Power Systems Security Assessment. Lesson 3 (M Pavella/L Wehenkel). Applications to power systems security assessment (cont'd). * Demo (cont'd). * Applications to voltage security. * Overview. THURSDAY 08:30 - 10:00 : Artificial Neural Networks. Lesson 1 (A Germond). Terminology and overview of the principal models. Supervised and unsupervised learning. Learning rules. Generalisation. Example: The Hopfield network and its application to an optimization problem. Break. 10:30 - 12:00 : Artificial Neural Networks. Lesson 2 (W Hoffmann). The multilayer perceptron and its application to short-term load forecasting. Lunch. 13:30 - 14:30 : Video Session - Neural Networks Applications in the 90's. - Neural Networks: Algorithms and Microhardware. 13:30 - 14:30 : Demo/Lab Session. 14:30 - 16:00 : Artificial Neural Networks. Lesson 3 (D Niebur). The Kohonen network and its application to security analysis. Break. 16:30 - 18:00 : Round Table. D. Niebur: Survey of the industrial applications. The CIGRE Task Force. L. Wehenkel: Hybrid decision trees - neural net approach. A. Germond: Hardware implementation and Software for neural network simulations. Conclusions. FRIDAY 08:30 - 09:30 : AI Technology for Distribution Automation. Lesson 1 (C-C Liu). Knowledge Based Systems in Distribution Automation. * State-of-the-art in DA. * Feeder Restoration. * Loss Reduction. * Protection Coordination. * Intelligent Operational Planning: IOPADS. 09:30 - 10:30 : AI Technology for Distribution Automation. Lesson 2 (S Fustar). An Advanced Concept for Distribution Automation Systems using AI Techniques. * Database issues. * MMI and Interface to SCADA. * DA Functions and Design Specifications. * Future Trends. Break. 11:00 - 12:00 : Knowledge Based Systems in Voltage/Var Control. Lesson 1 (L Barruncho). Reactive Management, Voltage Monitoring and Control: RMVC/VCES. 12:00 - 13:00 : Knowledge Based Systems in Voltage/Var Control. Lesson 2 (G Exposito). A Rule-Based Tool to Assist the Operator in Reactive Power/Voltage Control: SETRE. Lunch. 14:00 - 14:30 : Video Session - Uses of AI in Manufacturing. 14:00 - 14:30 : Demo/Lab Session. 14:30 - 15:30 : Project Management issues. (JP Krivine/A Hertz). Knowledge Acquisition and Design Support methodology (KADS). Maintenance. Break. 16:00 - 18:00 : Panel Session. The involvement of Utilities, EMS Manufacturers, Universities and Research Institutes. (L Barruncho; C-C Liu; A Vidigal; A Germond; E Handschin; M Pavella; A Hertz; J Alba; S Fustar; R Pestana). Topics: * Experience from joint projects for practical applications. * Integration of AI solutions into the EMS environment. Are current approaches satisfactory ? * Do EMS manufacturers consider AI techniques mature enough to be taken into account ? * New Techniques, namely Model Based Reasoning and Negotiation. * The impact of Open Systems on AI application to power systems. * Prospective views. ================================================================================ ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 4 Mar 93 16:47:43 EST From: rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU (William J. Rapaport) Subject: Position: Spoken-Language Post-Doc, Univ at Buffalo [ For those few that didn't get this and the ensuing barrage over on the cogsci thing... -CW ] State University of New York at Buffalo CENTER FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE Spoken Language Research Group Announcing a post-doctoral fellowship opportunity available through an N.I.D.C.D. training grant on the "Development of Spoken Language Capa- cities". The training grant provides support for individuals who have interests in the development of speech perception and production. The training program is interdisciplinary and involves the participation of faculty from the Departments of Psychology, Linguistics, Communicative Disord- ers & Sciences, and Pediatrics & Neurology. Trainees are expected to participate in interdisciplinary seminars and to conduct original experimental research related to these topics in the laboratories of participating faculty members. Inquiries and materials (3 letters of recommendation, vita, and relevant publications) should be directed to: Dr. Peter W. Jusczyk Department of Psychology Park Hall SUNY Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 (e-mail address: PSYPWJ@UBVMS.BITNET or psypwj@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu). No person, in whatever relationship with the State University of New York at Buffalo, shall be subject to discrimination on the basis of age, creed, color, handicap, national origin, race, religion, sex, marital, or veteran status. SUNY is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All applicants must be either US citizens or permanent residents of the USA. Fullest consideration will be given to applications received by May 1, 1993. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 02 Mar 93 13:33:30 PST From: JCOWARD@UVVM.UVic.CA Subject: CFP: ITCH'94 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN COMMUNITY HEALTH [ This is wickedly fringe for this Digest. If there are any opinions as to whether these things should be published here let me know. -CW ] ITCH 1994 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN COMMUNITY HEALTH OCTOBER 16 - 19, 1994 VICTORIA, B.C. CANADA A CONFERENCE ADDRESSING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ISSUES IN COMMUNITY HEALTH CALL FOR PAPERS This conference provides a forum for academics, health professionals and computer system professionals to present and exchange of ideas and research results in the general area of information technology for community health. Prospective contributors to the ITCH '94 Conference are encouraged to address topics in the following list. Technology * Community health data networks * Health data communication protocols * Appropriate technology * Telehealth Policy * Community health system assessment * Community health system planning * Program evaluation * Cost/benefit analysis * Technology assessment Applications * Community health information systems * Community health information resources * Diagnostic and clinical expert systems * Client and care giver education * Community health databases * Rehabilitation * Software user interfaces * User interfaces for the disabled * Systems for developing countries Papers should be limited to 20 minutes in length. Abstracts of 250 words will be accepted up to February 15 1994; authors will be notified by March 15 1994 and completed papers will be due August 15 1994. Please submit your abstract to: Dr. Kenneth Thornton, Chairman ITCH '94 - Scientific Program Committee School of Health Information Science University of Victoria P.O. Box 3050, Victoria B.C. V8W 3P5 SUBMISSIONS MAY BE SENT BY E-MAIL TO: KTHORNTO@HSD.UVIC.CA or by fax to (604) 721-1457 To obtain more information about the conference, please contact: Dr. Paul Fisher, Chairman - ITCH '94 School of Health Information Science University of Victoria P.O. Box 3050, Victoria B.C. V8W 3P5 INQUIRES MAY BE SENT BY E-MAIL TO: PFISHER@HSD.UVIC.CA or by phone at (604) 721-8575 or by fax to (604) 721-1457 Paul Fisher, Ph.D. School of Health Information Science The University of Victoria Box 3050 Victoria B.C., Canada Phone: (604) 721-8578 FAX: (604) 721-1457 E-mail: PFISHER@HSD.UVIC.CA ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Tue Mar 9 10:40:11 1993 Received: from cs.rpi.edu ([128.213.1.1]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150206>; Tue, 9 Mar 1993 10:40:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 10:14:06 -0500 Received: by cs.rpi.edu (5.65c/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA16214; Tue, 9 Mar 1993 10:14:06 -0500 Message-Id: <199303091514.AA16214@cs.rpi.edu> From: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) Reply-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Digest) Approved: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Errors-To: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Maint-Path: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 10 No. 10 NL-KR Digest (Mon Mar 8 19:39:09 1993) Volume 10 No. 10 Today's Topics: Announcement: PSYC Calls for Book Reviewers Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: sci.lang,sci.psychology,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: harnad@phoenix.princeton.edu (Stevan Harnad) Subject: Announcement: PSYC Calls for Book Reviewers Keywords: comprehension, modularity, neural nets, psycholinguistics Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:55:29 GMT TWO PSYCOLOQUY CALLS FOR BOOK REVIEWERS: Below are the precis of two books that have been selected for multiple book review in PSYCOLOQUY, a refereed electronic journal of BBS-style Open Peer Commentary. (1) LEARNING AND CATEGORIZATION IN MODULAR NEURAL NETWORKS by JMJ Murre (2) LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION AS STRUCTURE BUILDING by MA Gernsbacher If you wish to submit a formal book review on either of this books (see Instructions following precis) please write to psyc@pucc.bitnet indicating what expertise you would bring to bear on reviewing the book if you were selected to review it (if you have never reviewed for PSYCOLOQUY of Behavioral & Brain Sciences before, it would be helpful if you could also append a copy of your CV to your message). If you are selected as one of the reviewers, you will be sent a copy of the book directly by the publisher (please let us know if you have a copy already). Reviews may also be submitted without invitation, but all reviews will be refereed. The author will reply to all accepted reviews. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- psycoloquy.92.3.68.categorization.1.murre Thursday, 31 December 1992 ISSN 1055-0143 (6 paragraphs, 1 reference, 83 lines) PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) Copyright 1992 Jacob MJ Murre Precis of: LEARNING AND CATEGORIZATION IN MODULAR NEURAL NETWORKS JMJ Murre 1992, 244 pages Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf (In Canada and the USA: Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum) Jacob M.J. Murre MRC Applied Psychology Unit Cambridge, United Kingdom jaap.murre@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk 1.0 MODULARITY AND MODULATION IN NEURAL NETWORKS 1.1 This book introduces a new neural network model, CALM, for categorization and learning in neural networks. CALM is based on ideas from neurobiology, psychology, and engineering. It defines a neural network paradigm that is both modular and modulatory. CALM stands for Categorizing And Learning Module and it may be viewed as a building block for neural networks. The internal structure of the CALM module is inspired by the neocortical minicolumn. Several of these modules are connected to form an initial neural network architecture. Throughout the book it is argued that modularity is important in overcoming many of the problems and limitations of current neural networks. Another pivotal concept in the CALM module is self-induced arousal, which may modulate the local learning rate and noise level. 1.2 The concept of arousal has roots in both biology and psychology. In CALM, this concept underlies two different modes of learning: elaboration learning and activation learning. Mandler and coworkers have conjectured that these two distinct modes of learning may cause the dissociation of memory observed in explicit and implicit memory tasks. A series of simulations of such experiments demonstrates that arousal-modulated learning and categorization in modular neural networks can account for experimental results with both normal and amnesic patients. In the latter case, pathological but psychologically accurate behavior is produced by "lesioning" the arousal system of the model. The behavior obtained in this way is similar to that in patients with hippocampal lesions, suggesting that the hippocampus may form part of an arousal system in the brain. 1.3 Another application of CALM to psychological modelling shows how a modular CALM network can learn the word superiority effect for letter recognition. As an illustrative practical application, a small model is described that learns to recognize handwritten digits. 2.0 MODULAR NEURAL ARCHITECTURES AND NEUROCOMPUTERS 2.1 The book contains a concise introduction to genetic algorithms, a new computing method based on the metaphor of biological evolution that can be used to design network architectures with superior performance. In particular, it is shown how a genetic algorithm results in a better architecture for the digit-recognition model. 2.2 In five appendices, the role of modularity in parallel hardware and software implementations is discussed in some depth. Several hardware implementations are considered, including a formal analysis of their efficiency on transputer networks and an overview of a dedicated 400- processor neurocomputer built by the developers of CALM in cooperation with Delft Technical University. One of the appendices is dedicated to a discussion of the requirements of simulators for modular neural networks. 3.0 CATASTROPHIC INTERFERENCE AND OTHER ISSUES 3.1 The book ends with an evaluation of the psychological and biological plausibility of CALM models and a discussion of generalization, representational capacity of modular neural networks, and catastrophic interference. A series of simulations and a detailed analysis of Ratcliff's simulations of catastrophic interference show that in almost all cases interference can be attributed to overlap of hidden-layer representations across subsequent blocks of stimuli. It is argued that introducing modularity, or some other form of semidistributed representations, may reduce interference to a more psychologically plausible level. REFERENCE Murre, J.M.J. (1992) Learning and Categorization in Modular Neural Networks. Harvester Wheatsheaf/Erlbaum - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ psycoloquy.92.3.69.language-comprehension.1.gernsbacher Thurs 31 Dec 1992 ISSN 1055-0143 (29 paragraphs, 2 references, 275 lines) PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) Copyright 1992 Morton Ann Gernsbacher Precis of: LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION AS STRUCTURE BUILDING MA Gernsbacher (1990) Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Morton Ann Gernsbacher Department of Psychology University of Wisconsin-Madison 1202 W. Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706-1611 (608) 262-6989 [fax (608) 262-4029] mortong@macc.wisc.edu 0. KEYWORDS: comprehension, cognitive processes, sentence comprehension, psycholinguistics 1. Language can be viewed as a specialized skill involving language-specific processes and language-specific mechanisms. Another view is that language (both comprehension and production) draws on many general cognitive processes and mechanisms. According to this view, some of the same processes and mechanisms involved in producing and comprehending language are involved in nonlinguistic tasks. 2. This commonality might arise because, as Lieberman (1984) and others have suggested, language comprehension evolved from nonlinguistic cognitive skills. Or the commonality might arise simply because the mind is best understood by reference to a common architecture (e.g., a connectionist architecture). 3. I have adopted the view that many of the processes and mechanisms involved in language comprehension are general ones. This book describes a few of those cognitive processes and mechanisms, using a simple framework -- the Structure Building Framework -- as a guide. 4. According to the Structure Building Framework, the goal of comprehension is to build a coherent mental representation or "structure" of the information being comprehended. Several component processes are involved. First, comprehenders lay foundations for their mental structures. Next, they develop their mental structures by mapping on information when that incoming information coheres with the previous information. If the incoming information is less coherent, however, comprehenders engage in another cognitive process: They shift to initiate a new substructure. So, most representations comprise several branching substructures. 5. The building blocks of these mental structures are memory nodes. Memory nodes are activated by incoming stimuli. Initial activation forms the foundation of mental structures. Once the foundation is laid, subsequent information is often mapped onto a developing structure because the more coherent the incoming information is with the previous information, the more likely it is to activate similar memory nodes. In contrast, the less coherent the incoming information is, the less likely it is to activate similar memory nodes. In this case, the incoming information might activate a different set of nodes, and the activation of this other set of nodes forms the foundation for a new substructure. 6. Once memory nodes are activated, they transmit processing signals, either to enhance (boost or increase) or to suppress (dampen or decrease) other nodes' activation. In other words, two mechanisms control the memory nodes' level of activation: Enhancement and Suppression. Memory nodes are enhanced when the information they represent is necessary for further structure building. They are suppressed when the information they represent is no longer as necessary. 7. This book describes the three subprocesses involved in structure building, namely: the Process of Laying a Foundation for mental structures; the Process of Mapping coherent information onto developing structures; and the Process of Shifting to initiate new substructures. The book also describes the two mechanisms that control these structure building processes, namely: the Mechanism of Enhancement, which increases activation, and the Mechanism of Suppression, which dampens activation. 8. in discussing these processes and mechanisms, I begin by describing the empirical evidence to support them. I then describe comprehension phenomena that result from them. At each point, I stress that I assume that these processes and mechanisms are general; that is, the same ones should underlie nonlinguistic phenomena. This suggests that some of the bases of individual differences in comprehension skill might not be language specific. I describe how I have investigated this hypothesis empirically. 9. The process of laying a foundation is described in Chapter 2. Because comprehenders first lay a foundation, they spend more time reading the first word of a clause or sentence, the first sentence of a paragraph or story episode, and the first word of a spoken clause or spoken sentence; they also spend more time viewing the first picture of a picture story or picture story episode. 10. Comprehenders use these first segments (initial words, sentences, and pictures) to lay foundations for their mental representations of larger units (sentences, paragraphs, and story episodes). Because laying a foundation consumes cognitive effort, comprehenders slow down in understanding initial segments. Indeed, none of these comprehension time effects emerges when the information does not lend itself to building cohesive mental representations, for example, when the sentences, paragraphs, or stories are self-embedded or scrambled. 11. The process of laying a foundation explains why comprehenders are more likely to recall a sentence when cued by its first content word (or a picture of that first content word); why they are more likely to recall a story episode when cued by its first sentence; and why they are more likely to consider the first sentence of a paragraph the main idea of that paragraph, even when the actual theme occurs later. 12. Initial words, sentences, and pictures are optimal cues because they form the foundations of their clause-level, sentence-level, and episode-level structures; only through initial words, sentences, and pictures can later words, sentences, and pictures be mapped onto the developing representation. 13. Laying a foundation explains why comprehenders access the participant mentioned first in a clause faster than they access a participant mentioned later. This Advantage of First Mention occurs regardless of the first-mentioned participant's syntactic position or semantic role. First-mentioned participants are more accessible because they form the foundation of their clause-level substructures. 14. Laying a foundation also explains why the first clause of a multi-clause sentence is most accessible shortly after comprehenders hear or read that multi-clause sentence (even though while they are hearing or reading the sentence, the most recent clause is most accessible). According to the Structure Building Framework, comprehenders represent each clause of a multi-clause sentence in its own substructure. Although they have greatest access to the information that is represented in the substructure that they are currently developing, at some point, the first clause becomes most accessible because the substructure representing the first clause forms the foundation for the whole sentence-level structure. 15. The processes of mapping and shifting are described in Chapter 3. The process of mapping explains why sentences that refer to previously mentioned concepts (and are, therefore, referentially coherent) are read faster than less referentially coherent sentences; why sentences that maintain a previously established time frame (and are, therefore, temporally coherent) are read faster than sentences that are less temporally coherent; why sentences that maintain a previously established location or point of view (and are, therefore, locationally coherent) are read faster than sentences that are less locationally coherent; and why sentences that are logical consequences of previously mentioned actions (and are, therefore, causally coherent) are read faster than sentences that are less causally coherent. 16. The process of shifting from actively building one substructure to initiating another explains why words and sentences that change the topic, point of view, location, or temporal setting take substantially longer to comprehend. The process of shifting also explains why information presented before a change in topic, point of view, location, or temporal setting is harder to retrieve than information presented afterward. Such changes trigger comprehenders to shift and initiate a new substructure; information presented before comprehenders shift is not represented in the same substructure as information presented afterward. 17. Shifting also explains a well known language comprehension phenomenon: Comprehenders quickly forget the exact form of recently comprehended information. This phenomenon is not unique to language; it also occurs while comprehenders are viewing picture stories; and it is also exacerbated after comprehenders cross episode boundaries, even the episode boundaries of picture stories. 18. Finally, shifting explains why comprehenders' memories for stories are organized by the episodes in which the stories were originally heard or read. Comprehenders shift in response to cues that signal a new episode; each episode is hence represented in a separate substructure. 19. The mechanisms of suppression and enhancement are described in Chapter 4. The suppression mechanism explains why only the contextually appropriate meaning of an ambiguous word, such as bug, is available to consciousness although multiple meanings -- even contextually inappropriate ones -- are often immediately activated. The inappropriate meanings do not simply decay; neither do they decrease in activation because their activation is consumed by the appropriate meanings. Rather, the suppression mechanism dampens the activation of inappropriate meanings. It also dampens the activation of less relevant associations of unambiguous words. 20. Suppression and enhancement explain how anaphors (such as pronouns, repeated noun phrases, and so forth) improve their antecedents' accessibility. Anaphors both enhance their antecedents' activation and suppress the activation of other concepts, with the net effect that after anaphoric reference, antecedents are more activated than other concepts. They are accordingly more accessible. 21. Suppression and enhancement are triggered by information that specifies the anaphor's identity. More explicit anaphors trigger more suppression and enhancement. Information from other sources (such as semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic context) also triggers suppression, but it does so less quickly and less powerfully. 22. Suppression and enhancement explain why speakers and writers use more explicit anaphors at longer referential distances, at the beginnings of episodes, and for less topical concepts. The mechanisms of suppression and enhancement also explain why comprehenders have more difficulty accessing referents at longer referential distances, at the beginnings of episodes, and for less topical concepts. 23. Suppression and enhancement explain how concepts marked with cataphoric devices, like spoken stress and the indefinite article, "this," gain a privileged status in comprehenders' mental representations. Cataphoric devices enhance the activation of the concepts they mark. They also improve their concepts' representational status through the suppression: Concepts marked with cataphoric devices are better at suppressing the activation of other concepts, and they are better at resisting being suppressed themselves. 24. Finally, the mechanisms of suppression and enhancement explain why comprehenders typically forget surface information faster than they forget thematic information; why comprehenders forget more surface information after they hear or read thematically organized passages than after they hear or read seemingly unrelated sentences; and why comprehenders better remember the surface forms of abstract sentences and the thematic content of concrete sentences. 25. Individual differences in structure building are described in Chapter 5. The Structure Building Framework explains why skill in comprehending linguistic media (written and spoken stories) is closely related to skill in comprehending nonlinguistic media (picture stories). Comprehensible information, regardless of its medium, is structured, and comprehenders differ in how skillfully they use the cognitive processes and mechanisms that capture this structure. 26. The process of shifting explains why less-skilled comprehenders are poorer at remembering recently comprehended information: They shift too often. The mechanism of suppression explains why less-skilled comprehenders are less able to reject the contextually inappropriate meanings of ambiguous words; why they are less able to reject the incorrect forms of homophones; why they are less able to reject the typical-but-absent members of nonverbal scenes; why they are less able to ignore words written on pictures; and why they are less able to ignore pictures surrounding words: Less-skilled comprehenders have inefficient suppression mechanisms. 27. The distinction between the mechanisms of suppression and enhancement explains why less-skilled comprehenders are not less able to appreciate the contextually appropriate meanings of ambiguous words and why they are not less able to appreciate typical members of nonverbal scenes. It is less-skilled comprehenders' suppression mechanisms, not their enhancement mechanisms, that are faulty. 28. Although the Structure Building Framework accounts parsimoniously for many comprehension phenomena, several questions remain unanswered. In the final chapter, I briefly identify just a few of those questions: Are the cognitive processes and mechanisms indentified by the Structure Building Framework automatic, or are they under comprehenders' conscious control? In what medium are mental structures and substructures represented? How is the Structure Building Framework similar to other approaches to describing comprehension? And what is lost by describing language comprehension at a general level? 29. I conclude that by describing language comprehension using the Structure Building Framework as a guide, I am not forced to accept nativism, to isolate the psychology of language from the remainder of psychology, to honor theory over data, to depend on linguistic theory, or to ignore functionalism. Instead, by describing language comprehension as structure building, I hope to map the study of language comprehension onto the firm foundation of cognitive psychology. REFERENCE Gernsbacher, M.A. (1990) Language Comprehension as Structure Building. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Lieberman, P. (1984) The biology and evolution of language. Harvard University Press - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PSYCOLOQUY INSTRUCTIONS PSYCOLOQUY is a refereed electronic journal (ISSN 1055-0143) sponsored on an experimental basis by the American Psychological Association and currently estimated to reach a readership of 20,000. 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If anyone knows where I can find some, please respond to 72657.2203@COMPUSERVE.COM Thanks, Greg ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 10:41:34 EST From: Helene George Subject: Talk: Itsuki Noda on Semantics Nets and NNs at BBN AI Seminar Series Speaker: Itsuki Noda Electrotechnical Laboratory, Toyko Where: 70 Fawcett St., 15-300 When: March 17, 1993 Time: 2:30 - 3:30 ABSTRACTS: "Formalization of Semantic Networks for Neural Networks", In this paper, a formalization of semantic networks which is suitable for representing by patterns on neural networks is proposed. In order to represent semantic networks on neural networks, we focus on the function of semantic networks to track concepts along links between concepts, and incorporate a topology into concept sets in order to represent rules. Furthermore, I present a method how to determine semantic networks by external behavior. Moreover, I show an example of implementation this formalization into neural networks. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Natural Language Processing System that consists of Cooperative Modules", In this presentation, we describe a plan of a system for natural language processing that is based on "cooperative" principle. This system consists of several modules of lexicon, syntax, semantics and so on and each module runs parallel without control from each other. These modules try to have a hypothesis in the field where they work, and in order to do this they exchange information to confirm or change hypotheses of each module. But if necessary, each module can work alone although in low quality. So even if some module can not perform its work, other modules can output some hypothesis without deadlock. This means that the system can analyze semantics of sentence that is illegal in syntax. The main aim of this project is to show how useful the programming based on cooperative principle is. If this programing style is good, we will be able to build complex systems like natural language processing and add a new module to the system without wholly changing the system. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 11:34:56 +0100 (MET) From: Matthias Jarke Subject: CFP: EDBT 94 - Extending Database Technologies ========================= EDBT 94 CALL FOR PAPERS ========================= The Fourth International Conference on EXTENDING DATABASE TECHNOLOGY promoted by The EDBT Foundation sponsored by British Computer Society ESPRIT Network of Excellence IDOMENEUS 28 - 31 March 1994 St John's College, Cambridge, UK Conference Themes ================= With successful conferences in Venice (1988 and 1990) and in Vienna (1992), EDBT has established itself as Europe's premier international conference on databases. 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Conference Organisation ======================= Conference Chairman - ------------------ J Bubenko (SISU, Sweden) Programme Committee - ------------------ M Jarke (RWTH Aachen) - Chairman S Abiteboul (France) G Moerkotte (Germany) M Agosti (Italy) J Mylopoulos (Canada) R Bayer (Germany) S Nishio (Japan) E Bertino (Italy) A Olive (Spain) J Bocca (Chile/UK) M E Orlowska (Australia) A Borgida (USA) M Papazoglou (Australia) M Brodie (USA) A Pirotte (Belgium) M Carey (USA) A Reuter (Germany) J Clifford (USA) R v.d Riet (Netherlands) P Dadam (Germany) T Risch (Sweden) M Freeston (Germany) C Rolland (France) H P Frei (Switzerland) T Rose (Canada) H Garcia-Molina (USA) H Schek (Switzerland) G Gottlob (Austria) T Sellis (Greece) P Gray (UK) D Shasha (USA) V Jagadish (USA) E Simon (France) K G Jeffery (UK) A Solvberg (Norway) L Kalininchenko (Russia) A Stogny (Ukraine) H Kangassalo (Finland) M Stonebraker (USA) M Lenzerini (Italy) K Subieta (Poland) F Lochovsky (Hong Kong) B Thalheim (Germany) P Loucopoulos (UK) Y Vassiliou (Greece) L Mark (Denmark/USA) J Widom (USA) F Matthes (USA) J Zlatuska (Czechoslovakia) Organising Committee - ------------------- K G Jeffery (SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) - Chairman A Duckworth (BCS) J Kennedy (Napier) W A Gray (Cardiff) K Moody (Cambridge) M S Jackson (Wolverhampton) B J Read (SERC) R G Johnson (Birkbeck) G Sharman (IBM) Regional Co-ordinators - -------------- R Andersen (Norway) A Pirotte (Belgium) R Carapuca (Portugal) F Plasil (Czechoslovakia) J Fong (Hong Kong) S Sa (China) J B Grimson (Ireland) F Saltor (Spain) M Kersten (Netherlands) G Schlageter (Germany) K-C Lee (Taiwan) D Shasha (USA) M Leonard (Switzerland) C K Tan (Singapore) B G Lundberg (Sweden) C Thanos (Italy) S Nishio (Japan) L Tucherman (Brazil) M E Orlowska (Australia) Y Vassiliou (Greece) EDBT Foundation Consultants - -------------------------- S Ceri (Milan) J Schmidt (Hamburg) M Missikoff (Rome) ******************************************************************* * * * IMPORTANT DATES * * * * 18 June 1993 - submission deadline * * 20 September 1993 - acceptance notification * * 1 November 1993 - camera-ready copy due * * * ******************************************************************* Further Information =================== The Chairman of the Organising Committee is Dr Keith G Jeffery SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory E-mail: kgj@ib.rl.ac.uk For details of the conference or exhibition, please contact the secretariat: Miss Anna Duckworth EDBT 94 Conference British Computer Society PO Box 1454 Station Road SWINDON SN1 1TG, UK Telephone (+44) 793 480269 Facsimile (+44) 793 480270 To ensure that you receive the Advance Programme and that you are able to take advantage of early registration, please send your name and address to the secretariat. 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From: rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Subject: Announcement: Proceedings of Conf. Cognition & Representation Nntp-Posting-Host: adara.cs.buffalo.edu Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 18:28:57 GMT Announcing... PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION Held at the SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science, April 1992, the proceedings of this conference are now available as a technical report. The price is US$10.00. Payment may be made by check made payable to "Center for Cognitive Science", and orders should be sent to: Ms. Dawn Phillips Center for Cognitive Science 652 Baldy Hall SUNY Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 USA Email inquiries should be sent to dcp@cs.buffalo.edu. Phone inquiries should be made to 716-645-3794. ========================================================================= The contents of the Proceedings are as follows (abstracts of the papers are appended to this email): TIM VAN GELDER "Distributed Represenation--An Outline" DAVID BANACH "Representing, Similarity, and the Storage of Information" ANN ROBYNS "Primary and Mature Conceptual Structures--Evidence from Child Language" JOHN KOUNIOS and PHILLIPS HOLCOMB "Inferring Semantic-Memory Structure from Behavioral and Electrophysiological Measures" VINOD GOEL "Specifying Classifying Representational Systems: A Critique and Proposal for Cognitive Science" STEVEN HORST "Notions of Representation and the Diverging Interests of Philosophy and Empirical Science" JOHN F. SOWA: "Logic Foundations for Representing Object-Oriented Systems" BARBARA L. SPEICHER "Disentangling Conceptual and Linguistic Knowledge" BARBARA ABBOTT and LARRY HAUSER "Natural Language and Thought" MICHAEL TARR "Behavioral and Computational Constraints in Human Shape Representation" WHITMAN RICHARDS "Is Perception for Real?" K. N. LEIBOVIC "Brain Mechanisms for Perceptual Representation" ABSTRACTS TIM VAN GELDER "Distributed Represenation--An Outline" What is distributed representation? This question is central to many practical and philosophical concerns, both in connectionism and in cognitive science more generally, yet it has never been given an answer that is both comprehensive and precise. In this talk I propose a way of defining distribution that, on one hand, reveals the fundamental similarity between (for example) the gross functional neuroanatomy of the various brain areas and connectionist hidden unit activity patterns, while on the other is strict enough to yield mathematically precise descriptions in real modeling contexts. The key concept is that of semantic superimposition; I elaborate this suprisingly tricky concept, offer a formal framework rendering it precise, and explain how superimposition can be incorporated into a general definition of distributed representation. DAVID BANACH "Representing, Similarity, and the Storage of Information" Representing is an activity, a process through which a subject cognizes the world. Most theories of representation take one element or component of this activity and identify it as the representation by attributing to the element, in isolation, properties it has only in the context of the act of representing. In particular, I argue that the similarity of an icon to an object is neither necessary nor sufficient for representation and that seeing why this is so reveals fundamental defects with views that see representations as (1) stored information, which represents in virtue of an isomorphism effected by an information storage and retrieval algorithm; or (2) as a distributed pattern of activity over a set of units or phase space, which represents in virtue of a topological isomorphism to the represented object. All of these models identify the representation with some element of the cognitive process that cannot intrinsically represent apart from its situation in a wider context. I argue that such models of representation will fail to account for the cognitive role of representation as long as they mistake part of the representing process for the representating itself. ANN ROBYNS "Primary and Mature Conceptual Structures--Evidence from Child Language" Currently, in semanic enquiry some researchers represent lexical-conceptual structure as an architecture of sets and truth conditions. Others borrow from psychology such terms as 'conceptual primitives', 'canonical' and 'marginal' structures, and 'prototypes' (e.g. Jackendoff, 1990). The documentation of usage of verb argument structures, may shed considerable light on this division. Differentials in production of argument structures by children over time may shed light on the construction of underlying representations. These differences over time appear to also have an effect on complexity of context sentences. Production of tense, mood and negation markers appears to be contingent on the stability of conceptual structures underlying production of arguments. The current study supports the view that childrens' conceptual structures can be characterized as prototypes, and that gradual extension of structures is contingent on transition to new prototypes. Early on (1968), Fillmore advocated the need for distinct treatment of propositional and modal information. Our results show that the presence of modality in a sentence is contingent on high-frequency argument structures. If the development of modality (in Fillmore's sense) and propositional content are distinguishable but show this relation, how is it to be characterized? Jackendoff (1990) distinguishes between I-languages (internal, based on innate predispositions) and E-languages (input-dependent). He holds that truth-conditional semantics requires a theory of language as an abstract artifact extrinsic to speakers. A possible interpretation of our findings is that modality overlayed on propositional content may be the means whereby this abstract artifact is reconstructed as part of a speaker's internal representation. Truth-conditional semantics, then, involves modelling mature inferential processes, or mature representation. This possibility will be examined in light of actual developmental sequences, where modal forms can be shown to emerge gradually to condition verb meaning in ways at least reminiscent of model theoretic semantics. JOHN KOUNIOS and PHILLIPS HOLCOMB "Inferring Semantic-Memory Structure from Behavioral and Electrophysiological Measures" Researchers have investigated the structure of semantic-memory representations by examining subjects' performance in tasks in which they must judge the truth of sentences relating familar categories (e.g., _ALL DOGS ARE ANIMALS_., or _SOME PEOPLE ARE TREES_.). Differences in time to verify various classes of sentences were initally interpreted in terms of characteristics of the semantic representations retrieved from memory. Subsequent investigators have reinterpreted these findings in terms of characteristics of the verification _processes_ operating on these representations, rather than in terms of the representations themselves. We have taken a different approach. Instead of inferring the nature of knowledge representations based on how people _use_ them (i.e., "behavioral" response date), we have been investigating electrical protentials in the brain during sentence verification. A certain component of these potentials seems to reflect the _access_ or _retrieval_ of the stored knowledge, and not the processes that use this information to judge truth. These access/retrieval mechanisms better reflect structural characteristics of semantic memory than do behavioral measures, yielding a different picture of semantic-memory structure. VINOD GOEL "Specifying Classifying Representational Systems: A Critique and Proposal for Cognitive Science" Much of the work in cognitive science presupposes a theory of representation complete with a classification scheme; a scheme which allow us to say that two representations are interestingly similar or interestingly different for particular purposes. It is argued that such a scheme needs to meet at least the following eight constraints: (i) It must be grounded in some intuitions or a discipline-specific theory; (ii) It must not beg the crucial questions; (iii) It must result in an interesting number of categories (i.e., something other than a unit or infinite number); (iv) It must individuate on the basis of relevant/constitutive properties of symbol systems; (v) It must be readily applicable; (vi) It must be widely applicable; (vii) The distinctions must be detectable by our behavioral data and methodology; (viii) It must be compatible with the computational story of mind. The most widely used apparatus for classifying symbol systems is that of informational and computational equivalence. This is critiqued and found wanting on most accounts. A diagnosis of the problem is offered. Time permitting, some prescriptive suggestions will also be made. STEVEN HORST "Notions of Representation and the Diverging Interests of Philosophy and Empirical Science" Contemporary discussions of mental representation often seem to assume that there is a single sense of the word `representation' that (a) is applied univocally to such disparate objects as pictures, maps and symbols, (b) is utilized by empirical researchers in cognitive science, and (c) can readily be used to provide a philosophical account of intentionality. In fact, however, the notion of "representation" is paradigm-driven, and all of the familiar paradigms (symbols, etc.) are convention- or interpretation-dependent. This undercuts one philosophical strategy for explaining the content of mental states in representational terms. However, a non-conventional notion of "representation" as a theoretical term can be developed which seems to capture the empirical scientist's needs even if it does not explain the intentionality of mental states. This accords well with the following view of the importance of the computer paradigm: that what it provides is (i) a formalism for the mathematization of psychology and (ii) suggestive strategies for microexplanation. JOHN F. SOWA: "Logic Foundations for Representing Object-Oriented Systems" Systems of logic that have equivalent expressive power may have very different structure. Short, simple statements in one system can often be expressed only by awkward circumlocutions in another. During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, three complete systems of first-order logic were developed: Frege's Begriffsschrift, Peirce's linear form of predicate calculus, and Peirce's existential graphs. This talk compares the structures of propositions stated in these systems to one another and to the underlying semantic structures of language. Of the three, existential graphs have the most direct translations to natural language. Remarkably, they are isomorphic to Kamp's discourse representation structures that were independently developed over 80 years later. They also form the logical foundation for conceptual graphs, which are based on research on semantic networks in artificial intelligence. Although Peirce's linear notation has proved to be a powerful tool for foundational studies in mathematics, his existential graphs seem better suited to studies of language. [Note: This is the abstract of Sowa's oral presentation; the written version differs somewhat.] BARBARA L. SPEICHER "Disentangling Conceptual and Linguistic Knowledge" Language is the principal mediator of thought and one of the few vehicles with which to explore abstract conceptual structures. Cognitive psychologists use linguistic evidence to study psychological functions such as memory and categorization and to construct models of knowledge representation. However, researchers in cognitive psychology seldom address how to disentangle conceptual and linguistic knowledge. In fact, the field seems to assume that the two systems are isomorphic. The related field of neurology provides insights into the relationship between cognition and language. Findings from both split-brain and aphasic populations encourage a separation of linguistic and conceptual structures. Specifically, Antonio Damasio's neurological theory of convergence zones is presented and used to explain the differential cognitive and linguistic abilities of neurologically impaired individuals such as split-brain populations and aphasic populations. The paper analyuzes both simple concepts and complex conceptual structures known as scripts. BARBARA ABBOTT and LARRY HAUSER "Natural Language and Thought" Hauser defends the proposition that our languages of thought are public languages. One group of arguments points to the coincidence of clearly productive thought with overt possession of recursive symbol systems. Another group relies on phenomenological experiences of mental discourse and making thoughts physical. A third group cites practical considerations, e.g. Occam's razor and the `streetlight principle' (look under the lamp) motivating looking for instantiations of outer languages in thought first. Abbott points to the literature and adduces a number of specific replies to Hauser. Examples of productive behavior showing that natural language is not necessary for productive thought include problem solving by chimpanzees, dreams, and feral human cases (Genie). On phenomenological and practical grounds, Abbott argues that communication of thoughts should be trivial if the inner language is the outer language, but it is not; the decryption analogy Hauser uses to apply the `streetlight principle' is flawed; and Occam's razor doesn't cut any ice with Mother Nature. MICHAEL TARR "Behavioral and Computational Constraints in Human Shape Representation" Do visual representations use an object-centered or viewer-centered reference frame? Studies suggest that recognition is orientation-dependent under many circumstances. The resulting theory, Multiple-Views-Plus-Transformations, hypothesizes that recognition is achieved by using a mental transformation to match input shapes to object representations in a viewer-centered reference frame. Moreover, these representations are orientation-specific, e.g. "views", and are stored according to the frequency of occurrence of an object in a particular orientation. However, familiarity is not the only factor that determines represented views. First, there is evidence that views are contingent upon the frequency with which other objects appear at particular orientations. Representations of familiar objects in novel views may arise as a result of the frequent appearance of an object's visually similar cohorts. Second, there is evidence that views are contingent upon the geometry of an object. The likelihood of a representation arising increases with the distinctiveness of visible surfaces at each orientation -- novel orientations are likely to be represented to the extent that their geometry is unique, while orientations in which the geometry differs only slightly from that depicted in preexisting views are unlikely to be represented. WHITMAN RICHARDS "Is Perception for Real?" What is the relation between the "external" world and our conceptualization of this world? At one extreme an independent external reality is denied, whereas at the other, an external reality is a requirement for any conceptualization. Perception lies at the heart of this controversy: can our percepts really reflect (or approximate) the true structure of the world independent of our observations or not? To address this question we need a clear understanding of just what a percept is and what it entails. I offer one definition and provide support for this choice using examples from vision (Jepson & Richards 1991). For our percepts to be useful, enabling us to predict the consequences of events and actions, certain conditions must be met. Two I will discuss are (1) the ability to manipulate representations or internal models, and (2) criteria for data (observations) which generate reliable interpretations. This second condition imposes limitations on the scope of useful percepts, and shows that percepts (perhaps like scientific theories?) are critically dependent upon a matching of cognitive concepts to modal regularities in the world. K. N. LEIBOVIC "Brain Mechanisms for Perceptual Representation" The brain is designed on a pattern of converging and diverging fiber tracts with their associated broadly tuned receptive and responsive fields. This puts certain constraints on the processing, transmission and representation of information. The properties of perceptive fields and target cells are taken as neural analogs of cognitive and logical operations. Analysis and synthesis can then be carried out in parallel; and the neural representations of elementary constituents and categorical constructs can be grounded in associational programs of activity in groups of cells. ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Fri Mar 19 12:06:49 1993 Received: from cs.rpi.edu ([128.213.1.1]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150202>; Fri, 19 Mar 1993 12:06:40 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 11:29:28 -0500 Received: by cs.rpi.edu (5.65c/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA24756; Fri, 19 Mar 1993 11:29:28 -0500 Message-Id: <199303191629.AA24756@cs.rpi.edu> From: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) Reply-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Digest) Approved: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Errors-To: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Maint-Path: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 10 No. 12 NL-KR Digest (Fri Mar 19 10:28:54 1993) Volume 10 No. 12 Today's Topics: Query: algorithms to split words into morphemes Query: English to Italian translation Talk: Jon Ogborn on Modelling clay for computers at BBN CFP: New OED Conference - Making Sense of Words Announcement: IJCAI-93 server Announcement: AISB93 Dinner speaker Announcement: Corpus-Based Frequency Count of Modern Chinese Announcement: HCRC Map Task Corpus on CD Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: J_KANE@unhh.unh.edu (John J Kane) Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: Query: algorithms to split words into morphemes Date: 16 Mar 1993 23:25:10 GMT ... possibly including discussion of methods for handling ambiguous cases. Suggestions welcome. Will share results of search. Limited news access; prefer mail at jjk%nhstrat@virgin.mv.com [Explaining astrophysics is child's play compared to explaining child's play.] ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: ferretti@ipvmv1.unipv.it Subject: Query: English to Italian translation Summary: Is there any package ? Keywords: nat-language, translation Is anybody aware of a package for automatic translation from English to Italian for specific language domains, such as computer science, EE, and so on ? The ideal tool would allow to tailor the associated dictionary and would be capable of handling a fairly simple syntax. If this group is the wrong one, a redirection is gratefully acknowledged. Hints through the Net or directly to ferretti@ipvmv1.unipv.it Marco Ferretti DIS-University of Pavia, Italy ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 9:54:08 EST From: Helene George Subject: Talk: Jon Ogborn on Modelling clay for computers at BBN AI Seminar Series Who: Jon Ogborn Professor of Science Education Institute of Education University of London Title: Modelling clay for computers Where: 6/471 Time: 12:30 - 1:30 Date: March 30, 1993 Abstract How can students of all ages use the computer to model the real world? Modelling systems which iteratively solve difference equations are now common, and useful for older students. But they require that the world be imagined as composed of variables, not things. And they need some minimum mathematical sophistication. This paper discusses two new modelling tools suitable for quite young students, which could provide an introduction to modelling. One tool allows systems of variables to be constructed, without having to specify mathematical relations between them. The other provides for interacting objects whose behaviour can be specified, again without mathematics, through drawing Tbefore and afterU pictures to express interactions of objects. It is argued that the different types of models fit naturally into a developmental sequence, matching modelling at various ages to student's intellectual growth. A radical re-sequencing of teaching about Mathematics in Science is proposed. To create a world, whether constituted of variables or of objects, and to watch it evolve is a remarkable experience. It can teach one what it means to have a model of reality, which is to say what it is to think. It can show both how good and how bad such models can be. And by becoming a game played for its own sake it can be a beginning of purely theoretical thinking about forms. The microcomputer brings something of this within the reach of most pupils and teachers. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 16:45:17 -0500 From: Frank Wm Tompa Subject: CFP: New OED Conference - Making Sense of Words CALL FOR PAPERS MAKING SENSE OF WORDS 9th Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research September 27 - 28, 1993 St. Cross Building Oxford, England The Ninth Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research, jointly sponsored by the University of Waterloo and the Oxford University Press, will be held at St. Cross Building (with accommodations at St. Edmund Hall), Oxford, England, on September 27-28, 1993. This year's conference will focus on computational solutions to problems of equivalence among words and phrases. Within lexicog- raphy, one of the most important problems in this area is one of grouping equivalents: sifting through corpus citations to form sense groups. Within lexicology and computational linguistics, there are problems of finding equivalents: matching citations to dictionary senses, aligning one dictionary's senses with another's, and aligning parts of texts with their translations. In related fields, there are problems of forming equivalents: generating translations, expanding full-text queries to include synonyms, and tailoring texts to suit specific audiences. Conference participants will again include researchers from com- puter science and the humanities, as well as representatives from publishing houses and other industries. Papers presenting original research on theoretical and applied aspects of the theme are being sought. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest include computational lexicology, computational linguistics, syntactic and semantic analysis, computational lexi- cography, lexical databases, computer-assisted translation, and online reference works. Submissions will be refereed by the program committee listed below. Authors should send seven copies of a detailed abstract (5 to 10 pages) by April 27, 1993, to: Prof. Frank Tompa, Program Chair UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 or email: newoed@uwaterloo.ca or fax: 519-885-1208 Late submissions risk rejection without consideration. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by June 18, 1993. A working draft of the paper, not exceeding 15 pages, will be due by July 16, 1993, for inclusion in proceedings which will be made available at the conference. Program Committee Beryl T. Atkins (Oxford University Press) Kenneth Church (AT&T Bell Laboratories) Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California) Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Robert Ingria (BBN Laboratories) Frank Tompa, Chair (University of Waterloo) ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: Jean-Pierre Laurent Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 17:49:24 +0100 Subject: Announcement: IJCAI-93 server *************************************************************** * INFORMATION ABOUT IJCAI-93, USING THE EMAIL IJCAI SERVER * *************************************************************** The IJCAI server contains the Conference Brochure of IJCAI-93 and the list of accepted papers. To access to this information, you have to send mails to the IJCAI server, as follows: * First, to obtain the content of the IJCAI server, send a mail to ijcai-serv@imag.fr the subject can be empty (or anything you want), the content must be: index You will receive a reply with the list of all available files in the IJCAI server (name and brief description of the content). * Second, to receive the file NAME, send a new mail at the same address : ijcai-serv@imag.fr the subject is again empty or anything you want, the content must be : get NAME You will receive a reply with the content of the file NAME. *************************************************************** - - JP Laurent ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep From: axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.edu,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: Announcement: AISB93 Dinner speaker Date: 18 Mar 93 23:06:23 GMT Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK I am very pleased to announce that Professor Derek Partridge, University of Exeter, has agreed to give the "after dinner" talk at the Conference Banquet on Thursday 1st April in the City of Birmingham's Repertory Theatre. His title is "If you think connectionism killed AI wait till you hear what it did to computer science." Reminder: the AISB93 conference, at the University of Birmingham March 30th to April 2nd has the theme "Prospects for AI as the General Science of Intelligence". There are very large reductions for student registrations. Full registration (excluding accommodation and meals) 175 pounds (+30 pounds for non AISB members). 40 pounds for full time students. * For a programme and registration form please email the auto-reply service aisb93-info@cs.bham.ac.uk Brochures and posters available from: * Other enquiries: AISB'93, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, U.K. Phone: +44-(0)21-414-3711 Fax: +44-(0)21-414-4281 Email aisb93-prog@cs.bham.ac.uk Aaron Sloman (Programme Chair) ======================================================================= ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: rocltsh@iis.sinica.edu.tw Subject: Announcement: Corpus-Based Frequency Count of Modern Chinese Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 16:20:04 EAT Corpus-Based Frequency Count of Modern Chinese Corpus-based study of Chinese is one of the research projects of the Chinese Knowledge Information Processing Group (CKIP) at Academia Sinica. The current research is based on a Chinese newspaper corpus, which amounts to 20,698,116 characters ( 9,540,444 words after word segmentation.) Four technical reports in Chinese are published. These include: 1. Corpus-Based Frequency Count of Characters in Journal Chinese 30 pages (US$ 5) 2. Corpus-Based Frequency Count of Words in Journal Chinese 300 pages (US$ 20) 3. The Most Frequent Verbs in Journal Chinese and Their Classification 140 pages (US$ 10) 4. The Most Frequent Nouns in Journal Chinese and Their Classification 150 pages (US$ 10) The first report lists 5,666 distinct characters which appear in the entire corpus. The second report contains 42,686 words that occur more than three times in the corpus. The most common 14,956 words constitute more than 99.9995 percent of all the words occurring in the corpus. The third and the fourth report include 19,907 verbs and 21,368 nouns respectively which occur more than twice in the corpus with their syntactic or semantic classification. To order, please list the desired title(s) and enclose a cheque of the appropriate amount payable to the Computational Linguistic Society of the R.O.C. (ROCLING). The prices listed above include postage and handling. Address : Miss Tsai Shu-hui ROCLING Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Nankang Taipei, Taiwan 11529 R.O.C. Tel. : 886-2-788-1638 Fax : 886-2-788-1638 E-Mail : rocltsh@iis.sinica.edu.tw ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: "Henry S. Thompson" Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 23:03:02 GMT Subject: Announcement: HCRC Map Task Corpus on CD The HCRC Map Task Corpus The Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC) is happy to announce the release of the Map Task Corpus. The Map Task Corpus is a set of 8 CD-ROMs containing linked audio and transcriptions of a total of about 18 hours of spontaneous speech that was recorded from 128 two-person conversations according to a detailed experimental design. Altogether, the corpus as distributed provides a thorough and invaluable set of resources and tools for use in analyzing all levels of linguistic structure, via both text-based and speech-based investigation. The range of research questions that are addressable using this corpus span a wide spectrum of linguistic and cognitive issues. We have kept the price as low as possible to encourage researchers from many disciplines to use this corpus as a common reference point for many different kinds of research. The HCRC is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and the Universities Funding Council. The publication of the Map Task Corpus was made possible by assistance from the Linguistic Data Consortium. Corpus Details 64 different speakers, 32 female, 32 male, all adults, each took part in four conversations in a quiet recording studio. They were all students at the University of Glasgow, 61 of them being native Scots. The conversations were carried out in an experimental setting in which each participant has a schematic map in front of them, not visible to the other. Each map is comprised of an outline and roughly a dozen labelled features (e.g. "a white cottage", "an oak forest", "Green Bay", etc). Most features are common to the two maps, but not all. One map has a route drawn in, the other does not. The task is for the participant without the route to draw one on the basis of discussion with the participant with the route. In addition to the conversations, each speaker provides a wordlist reading, consisting of the major vocabulary items contained in the conversations. All recordings were direct to Digital Audio Tape (DAT) at 48KHz, providing very good acoustic quality. The experimental design allows a number of different phonemic, syntactico-semantic and pragmatic contrasts to be explored in a controlled way. In particular, maps and feature names were designed to allow for controlled exploration of phonological reductions of various kinds in a number of different referential contexts, and to provide, via varying patterns of matches and mis-matches between the two maps, a range of different stimuli for referent negotiation. Also the conditions of the conversations were carefully balanced: In half of them the speakers were strangers, in half friends; in half of them the speakers could see each other's faces, in half they could not. Subjects accommodated easily to the task and experimental setting, and produced evidently unselfconscious and fluent speech. The syntax is largely clausal rather than sentential; showing good turn-taking, with modest amounts of overlap and interruption. The total corpus runs to about 18 hours of speech, with the transcripts consisting of around 150,000 word tokens drawn from just over 2,000 word form types. Transcription is at the orthographic level, quite detailed, including filled pauses, false starts and repetitions, broken words, etc. Considerable care has been taken to ensure consistency of notation, which is thoroughly documented. Although the full complexity of overlapped regions has not been reflected in the transcriptions, such regions are clearly set off from the rest of the transcripts. Transcripts are connected to the acoustic sampled data by sample numbers marked every few turns. CD-ROM Contents The waveform data are provided in "raw" (headerless) files (16-bit samples, 20 kHz sample rate, 2 channels per conversation), and alternative header files are provided for use with software based on either the NIST "SPHERE" header structure or the European "SAM" header structure. Transcriptions are provided for each conversation, marked up with TEI-compliant SGML, in a minimally intrusive and easily separated way. PostScript files of the map images used in the experiments are provided, along with full documentation of the experimental design and data collection protocol, resources for using SGML tools on the transcriptions and other text materials, and an extensive set of source code for performing basic signal processing functions on the waveform data, such as down-sampling, de-multiplexing, channel summation, and D/A conversion for Sun workstations (including playback of segments selected via inspection of transcripts in Emacs). The CD-ROMs are in High Sierra (ISO 9660) format with the RockRidge extensions, and are compatible with (inter alia) Unix, MS-DOS and Macintosh operating systems. Copies of the Map Task Corpus are available from the LDC for $200 or from HCRC for 164.50 UK pounds (including VAT) at the addresses given below, plus postage and packing as necessary. Please contact us (by e-mail if possible) for details of payment methods and shipping costs. In Europe please contact Henry Thompson University of Edinburgh Human Communication Research Centre 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland Tel: +44 31 650-4440 Fax: +44 31 650-4587 email: maptask@cogsci.ed.ac.uk or Dawn Griesbach ELSNET 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland Tel: +44 31 650-4594 Fax: +44 31 650-4587 email: elsnet@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Outside Europe please contact Elizabeth Hodas Linguistic Data Consortium 441 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Tel: (215) 898-0464 Fax: (215) 573-2175 email: ehodas@unagi.cis.upenn.edu ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Mon Mar 29 18:14:53 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150192>; Mon, 29 Mar 1993 18:14:50 -0500 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA05708 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Mon, 29 Mar 1993 15:04:39 -0800 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 18:04:39 -0500 Message-Id: <199303292250.AA05570@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: nl-kr digest v12n1 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest --------------------------------------------------------------------- NL-KR Digest (Mon Mar 29 15:39:02 CST 1993) Volume 11 No. 1 Today's Topics: QUESTION: Brown Corpus QUESTION: Left-Corner Parsers RESPONSE TO QUERY: algorithms to split words into morphemes CFP: The 5th UNB AI Symposium CFP: ASIS SIG/Classification Research Workshop Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 11:50:44 EST From: jeng@thumper.bellcore.com (Fureching Jeng) Subject: QUESTION: Brown Corpus Does anyone know where I can ftp Brown Corpus? Any help will be appreciated. Fure-Ching ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 00:33:35 EST From: mahesh@cc.gatech.edu (K. Mahesh) Subject: QUESTION: Left-Corner Parsers Could some kind soul point me to a good reference for left-corner parsers? Thank you. Kavi Mahesh Natural Language Research Group, Georgia Tech mahesh@cc.gatech.edu ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: RESPONSE TO QUERY: algorithms to split words into morphemes Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 11:27:12 +1000 A great deal was done some 30 years ago by a Soviet scientist, B.V. Sukhotin. He proposed, in the early sixties, an algorithm for breaking up a continuous text into its constituent morphemes (properly: morphs). I tried it in 1977 on English and on Asmat (a language of Papua-New Guinea). Fiddling with his objective function yielded visibly better results. No-one was interested in such research in those days at the university where I was, so I did not pursue it. A translation of that particular algorithm was published by T.A. Informations, No.2, 1973 under the title "Algorithme de de'composition d'un texte en morphe`mes". For the Russian original, see B.V. Sukhotin: Algoritmy lingvisticheskoj deshifrovki, in "Problemy strukturnoj lingvisitki", 1963 ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: POCHEC@unb.ca Subject: CFP: The 5th UNB AI Symposium Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 15:36:46 AST Reply-To: POCHEC@unb.ca ================================================================== ================================================================== Final Call for Participation The 5th UNB AI Symposium ********************************* * * * Theme: * * ARE WE MOVING AHEAD? * * * ********************************* August 11-14, 1993 Sheraton Inn, Fredericton New Brunswick Canada Advisory Committee ================== N. Ahuja, Univ.of Illinois, Urbana W. Bibel, ITH, Darmstadt D. Bobrow, Xerox PARC M. Fischler, SRI P. Gardenfors, Lund Univ. S. Grossberg, Boston Univ. J. Haton, CRIN T. Kanade, CMU R. Michalski, George Mason Univ. T. Poggio, MIT Z. Pylyshyn, Univ. of Western Ontario O. Selfridge, GTE Labs Y. Shirai, Osaka Univ. Program Committee ================= The international program committee will consist of approximately 40 members from all main fields of AI and from Cognitive Science. We invite researchers from the various areas of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Pattern Recognition, including Vision, Learning, Knowledge Representation and Foundations, to submit articles which assess or review the progress made so far in their respective areas, as well as the relevance of that progress to the whole enterprise of AI. Other papers which do not address the theme are also invited. Feature ======= Four 70 minute invited talks and five panel discussions are devoted to the chosen topic: "Are we moving ahead: Lessons from Computer Vision." The speakers include (in alphabetical order) * Lev Goldfarb * Stephen Grossberg * Robert Haralick * Tomaso Poggio Such a concentrated analysis of the area will be undertaken for the first time. We feel that the "Lessons from Computer Vision" are of relevance to the entire AI community. Information for Authors ======================= Now: Fill out the form below and email it. --- March 30, 1993: -------------- Four copies of an extended abstract (maximum of 4 pages including references) should be sent to the conference chair. May 15, 1993: ------------- Notification of acceptance will be mailed. July 1, 1993: ------------- Camera-ready copy of paper is due. Conference Chair: Lev Goldfarb Email: goldfarb@unb.ca Mailing address: Faculty of Computer Science University of New Brunswick P. O. Box 4400 Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada E3B 5A3 Phone: (506) 453-4566 FAX: (506) 453-3566 Symposium location The symposium will be held in the Sheraton Inn, Fredericton which overlooks the beautiful Saint John River. IMMEDIATE REPLY FORM ==================== (please email to goldfarb@unb.ca) I would like to submit a paper. Title: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ I would like to organize a session. Title: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Name: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Department: _____________________________________ University/Company: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Address: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Prov/State: _____________________________________ Country: _____________________________________ Telephone: _____________________________________ Email: _____________________________________ Fax: _____________________________________ ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 00:36:09 -0500 (EST) From: Ray Schwartz Subject: CFP: ASIS SIG/Classification Research Workshop Reply-To:schwarts@nlm.nih.gov Call for Participation The American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group on Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 4th ASIS Classification Research Workshop, to be held at the 56th Annual Meeting of ASIS in Columbus, Ohio. The workshop will take place Sunday, October 24th, 1993, 8:30 a.m. -5:00 p.m. ASIS '93 continues through Thursday, October 28th. The CR Workshop is designed to be an exchange of ideas among active researchers with interests in the creation, development, management, representation, display, comparison, compatibility, theory, and application of classification schemes. Emphasis will be on semantic classification, in contrast to statistically based schemes. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Warrant for concepts in classification schemes * Concept acquisition * Basis for semantic classes * Automated techniques to assist in creating classification schemes * Statistical techniques used for developing explicit semantic classes * Relations and their properties * Inheritance and subsumption * Knowledge representation schemes * Classification algorithms * Procedural knowledge in classification schemes * Reasoning with classification schemes * Software for management of classification schemes * Interfaces for displaying classification schemes * Data structures and programming languages for classification schemes * Image classification * Comparison and compatibility between classification schemes * Applications such as subject analysis, natural language understanding, information retrieval, expert systems * The CR Workshop welcomes submissions from various disciplines. Those interested in participating are invited to submit a short (1-2 page single- spaced) position paper summarizing substantive work that has been conducted in the above areas or other areas related to semantic classification schemes, and a statement briefly outlining the reason for wanting to participate in the workshop. Submissions may include background papers as attachments. Participation will be of two kinds: presenter and regular participant. Those selected as presenters will be invited to submit expanded versions of their position papers and to speak to those papers in brief presentations during the workshop. All position papers (both expanded and short papers) will be published in proceedings to be distributed prior to the workshop. The workshop registration fee is $35.00. Submissions should be made by email, or diskette accompanied by paper copy, or paper copy only (fax or postal), to arrive by May 15, 1993, to: Phil Smith, 210 Baker Systems, 1971 Neil Avenue, Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210; Phone: 614-292-4120; Fax: 614-292-7852, Internet: Phil+@osu.edu ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Mon Mar 29 19:31:01 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150207>; Mon, 29 Mar 1993 19:31:00 -0500 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA06599 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Mon, 29 Mar 1993 16:24:10 -0800 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 19:24:10 -0500 Message-Id: <199303300018.AA06537@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: nl-kr digest v11n2 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest ----------------------------------------------------------------- NL-KR Digest (Mon Mar 29 15:40:02 CST 1993) Volume 11 No. 2 Today's Topics: CONFERENCE: EAST-WEST AI CONFERENCE: from theory to practice CONFERENCE: Multi-media language teaching standards Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: ewaic93@plb.icsti.su (East-West AI Conference 1993 LOC) Subject: CONFERENCE: EAST-WEST AI CONFERENCE: from theory to practice - EWAIC'93 Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 23:14:51 +0300 Reply-To: ewaic93@plb.icsti.su EAST-WEST AI CONFERENCE: from theory to practice - EWAIC'93 Moscow, September 7-9, 1993 The major aims of the "East-West Conference on Artificial Intelligence : From Theory to Practice" are to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between Eastern and Western scientists regarding the current state-of-the-art of the field of Artificial Intelligence and its applications. The main goal of the conference is to identify and study the relation between theory and practice. Authors are invi- ted to submit papers on all areas included in or related to Artificial Intelligence. However, preference will be given to papers that contain solid theoretical results directly leading to valuable practical applications. The Technical Programme will include invited talks, presen- tations, short talks, posters and demonstrations. Paper Submission Information Researchers are invited to submit one copy of an extended abstract (about 1500 words plus references on a separate page) describing their research. The abstract may report on original work leading to substantial practical results or ongoing research. Extended abstracts will be reviewed by at least two referees in order to assess originality, relevance and quality of the presentation.Both regular pre- sentations and poster sessions will be held according to the quality of the retained papers. One page of references and the cover page should be added. The cover page includes the title of the paper , the name, affiliation, mailing address, phone and fax number, and e-mail of each author, a short abstract (200 words) and the specific field addressed by the paper (up to five key words). All the accepted extended abstracts will be published in the Conference proceedings that will be distributed at the conference. Papers must be written in English, which is the working language of the Conference. We plan to publish long papers from the best contributions in a book after the con- ference. Please, send your submissions to either one of the Program co-chairs or the Scientific Secretary. Submissions would preferably be send by e-mail (ascii text). However, if this channel is not available , send your submission on a floppy disk to P.Brusilovsky (East side) or P.Brezillon (West side). Important deadlines are as follow: Submissions due: May 1, 1993 Author notification: June 15, 1993 Revised abstracts: July 1, 1993 General Information and registration materials may be obtained from General and Program Co-Chairs and the Scientific Secretary on request. -------------------------------------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs Dmitrii Pospelov, Russia: pospelov@sms.ccas.msk.su Bob Wielinga, the Netherlands: wielinga@swi.psy.uva.nl Program Co-Chairs Patrick Brezillon, France : brezil@laforia.ibp.fr Vadim Stefanuk, Russia: stefanuk@ippi.msk.su Scientific Secretary Peter Brusilovsky, Russia: plb@plb.icsti.su International Program Committee Luigia C. Aiello, Italy Robert Kowalski, United Kingdom Victor Alexandrov, Russia Jean-Pierre Laurent, France David Benyon, United Kingdom John McCarthy, USA Wolfgang Bibel, Germany Leonid Mikulich, Russia Ivan Bratko, Yugoslavia Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Joost Breuker, the Netherlands Dianne Murray, United Kingdom B.Chandrasekaran, USA Bernard Neumann, Germany Dmitrii Chereshkin, Russia Nils Nilsson, USA Vladimir Choroshevskii, Russia Tim O'Shea, United Kingdom William Clancey, USA Gennadii Osipov, Russia Mark Eisenstadt, United Kingdom Yuri Pecherskii, Moldova Olivier Faugeras, France Jean-Charles Pomerol, France Ronen Feldman, Israel Eduard Pogosyan, Armenia Richard Fikes, USA Eduard Popov, Russia Victor Finn, Russia Radoslav Pavlov, Bulgaria John Gilmore, USA Leonard Rastrigin, Latvia Victor Gladun, Ukraine Erik Sandewall, Sweden Vladimir Golenkov, Belorussia Erena Schtern, Ukraine Monique Grandbastien, France Youko Sepanen, Finland Jim Greer, Canada Luc Steels, Belgium Alistair Holden, USA Enn Tyugu, Estonia Werner Horn, Austria Haruki Ueno, Japan Yves Kodratoff, France Beverly Woolf, USA Local Organizing Committee (EWAIC93@plb.icsti.su) Alexander Butrimenko Victor Zheleznov Alexander Preobrazhenskii Registration, accommodation and visa support: Georgy Ostapenko - gost@suugost.msk.su Elena Alferova - elena@plb.icsti.su (use also Fax: +7 095 943 0089) -------------------------------------------------------------------- The conference is sponsored by: (Soviet) Association for Artificial Intelligence ===================================================================== >>> PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM TO RECEIVE FURTHER MAILINGS <<<< To EWAIC'93 Local Organizing Committee EWAIC93@plb.icsti.su Name: ________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________ Electronic mail: ____________________________________________ _____ I will attend the EWAIC'93, September 7-9, 1993 _____ Please send me the final announcement I do / do not plan to submit a paper. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: Stephen Woodruff/40000 Subject: CONFERENCE: Multi-media language teaching standards Reply-To: melodi@uk.ac.gla.lang Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 09:47:59 GMT Standards for Multimedia Materials in Language Education Workshop of the European MELODI Project Group University of Glasgow Language Centre 15-17 April 1993 This Workshop will focus on the research and development work of the European MELODI Project (Multimedia Language Object Definition and Implementation Project). The MELODI Group was formed after the 1991 Strasbourg Conference of CERCLES (the Confdration europenne des centres de languages dans l'enseignement suprieur). The group now comprises researchers from the Universities of Glasgow and Plymouth (UK), Antwerp (B) and Pisa (I), and beta testers from Bologna (I). A prototype hardware system for MELODI was demonstrated at the 1992 Bordeaux CERCLES conference. Teams were later formed at Antwerp to prepare suitable analyses of sample materials in English, Dutch, Italian, French and Spanish. German is to be added by 1994. A pilot multimedia teaching laboratory will be fully operational at the Workshop together with a range of tools for creating multimedia learning materials. Expert technical assistance will be provided for delegates' experimental work. Those with an active interest in resolving the linguistic and technological issues raised by multimedia in language education will be able to get hands-on experience of using leading edge technology. MELODI experience will enable some delegates to consider joining the Project as beta testers. Places at the workshop are strictly limited, however, and early registration is advisable. Further enquiries: melodi@uk.ac.gla.lang - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Provisional Programme Thursday 15 April 12-2 pm Registration and cold buffet lunch Language Centre Room 5 Opening Session: Linguistic Definition 2.15 Welcome and Introduction Issues and Outcomes for MELODI David Bickerton Professor of Modern Languages , University of Plymouth 3.00 The MELODI Platform Stephen Woodruff Software Manager, University of Glasgow Language Centre 3.30 Mark-up for Dutch: Relevant coding for eductional purposes: A matter of grammar, cognition and use Pol Cuvelier Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Antwerp 4.15 Coffee 4.45 French: Title to be specified Alex Vanneste Professor of French, University of Antwerp 5.30 Italian: Phonology and Pragmatics Anthony Cafazzo Lecturer in Modern Languages, University of Pisa 6.15 Spanish: Title to be specified David Bickerton 7.00 English: A coding scheme for discourse types Ronald Geluykens Research Fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation Free Evening - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friday 16 April Session Two: Hardware/Software Options 9.15 am Technological Scenarios for MELODI Richard Alexander Systems Manager, University of Glasgow Language Centre 10.00 New tools for MELODI Demonstrations 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Special Interest Groups 1. SGML Editors Stephen Woodruff 2. Parsers Giacomo Ferrari Assoc. Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Pisa 3. Tagged corpora To be announced 4. Morphology Giuseppe Capelli Technical Research Specialist, Centro Nazionale di Ricerca, University of Pisa 5.Language learning sample packages University of Glasgow 1.00 pm University Reception Sir William Kerr Fraser Principal, University of Glasgow Session Three: Implementation 2.15 - 6.00 pm Coffee 4pm Work areas: Authoring in Hypertext Network Design Learner support tools Mark-up Issues Lesson design Cultural Evening and Restaurant Delegates will leave the Language Centre by coach at 7.15, return by midnight - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Saturday 17 April Session Four: Summary and Work Allocation This session will be held in the Art Gallery Lecture Theatre Chairman: Pol Cuvelier 10.00 am Introduction 10.20 Report by Work Group Leaders 11.00 Coffee 11.20 Discussion 12.00 Summary and Work Allocation 12.30 Buffet lunch 1.30 Optional visit by coach to Burrel Collection and/or Whisky Distillery or Hands-on sessions in Language Centre until 4.30 Close of Workshop Places at the Workshop are limited in number and will be allocated in order to achieve a good spread of nationalities, interests and expertise. Standards for Multimedia Materials in Language Education 15-17 April 1993 Fees The Workshop Fee is 150 UK pounds for delegates and 70 UK pounds for accompanying persons (not attending the Workshop sessions). The fees are inclusive of all meals (except Thursday evening) and excursions and workshop materials. After 15 March no refunds will be possible. Further information from: Melodi Workshop The Language Centre University of Glasgow GLASGOW G12 8RS Scotland Airport taxi to Language Centre: approx 12 City taxi (phone 332 7070 from airport): approx 8 Taxi from Central station: approx 3.50 Underground from Buchanan Street station: 0.50 Telephone +41 339 2211 Fax +41 339 1119 Email melodi@uk.ac.gla.lang ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Tue Mar 30 00:45:38 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150226>; Tue, 30 Mar 1993 00:45:24 -0500 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA07721 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4); Mon, 29 Mar 1993 20:08:47 -0800 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 23:08:47 -0500 Message-Id: <199303300400.AA07672@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: nl-kr digest v11n3 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest --------------------------------------------------------------------- NL-KR Digest (Mon Mar 29 15:41:00 CST 1993) Volume 11 No. 3 Today's Topics: CFP: IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: usui@tut.ac.jp Subject: CFP: IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 23:27:18 JST Reply-To: usui@bpel.tutics.tut.ac.jp ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS (Second Version) IJCNN'93-NAGOYA, JAPAN INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS NAGOYA CONGRESS CENTER, JAPAN OCTOBER 25-29,1993 IJCNN'93-NAGOYA co-sponsored by the Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS), the IEEE Neural Networks Council (NNC), the International Neural Network Society (INNS), the European Neural Network Society (ENNS), the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE, Japan), the Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, the Aichi Prefectural Government and the Nagoya Municipal Government cordially invite interested authors to submit papers in the field of neural networks for presentation at the Conference. Nagoya is a historical city famous for Nagoya Castle and is located in the central major industrial area of Japan. There is frequent direct air service from most countries. Nagoya is 2 hours away from Tokyo or 1 hour from Osaka by bullet train. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: AM PM Evening '93.10.25(Mon.) Registration Registration Tutorial Tutorial 10.26(Tue.) Opening Ceremony Industry Forum Reception 10.27(Wed.) Technical Sessions (Oral,Poster) 10.28(Thu.) Technical Sessions Banquet (Oral,Poster) 10.29(Fri.) Technical Sessions Closing (Oral,Poster) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE: David E. Rumelhart, Methods for Improving Generalization in Connectionist Networks Shun-ichi Amari, Brain and Computer - A Perspective PLENARY SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Rodney Brooks, (TBD) Edmund T. Rolls, Neural Networks in the Hippocampus and Cerebral Cortex Involved in Memory Kunihiko Fukushima, Improved Generalization Ability Using Constrained Neural Network Architectures INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Keiji Tanaka, Neural Mechanisms of Visual Recognition Tomaso Poggio, Visual Learning: From Object Recognition to Computer Graphics Mitsuo Kawato, Inverse Dynamics Model in the Cerebellum Teuvo Kohonen, Generalization of the Self-Organizing Map Michael I. Jordan, Learning in Hierarchial Networks Rolf Eckmiller, Information Processing in Biology-inspired Pluse Coded Neural Networks Shigenobu Kobayashi, Hybrid Systems of Natural and artificial Intelligence Kazuo Kyuma, Optical Neural Networks / Optical Neurodevices TECHNICAL SESSIONS: Papers may be submitted for consideration as oral or poster presentations in the following areas: Neurobiological Systems Self-organization Cognitive Science Learning & Memory Image Processing & Vision Robotics & Control Speech, Hearing & Language Hybrid Systems (Fuzzy, Genetic, Expert Systems, AI) Sensorimotor Systems Implementation (Electronic, Optical, Bio-chips) Neural Network Architectures Other Applications(Medical and Social Systems, Network Dynamics Art, Economy, etc. Optimization Please specify the area of the application) Four(4) page papers MUST be received by April 30, 1993. Papers received after that date will be returned unopened. International authors should submit their work via Air Mail or Express Courier so as to ensure timely arrival. All submissions will be acknowledged by mail. Papers will be reviewed by senior researchers in the field, and all authors will be informed of the decisions at the end of the review process by June 30, 1993. A limited number of papers will be accepted for oral and poster presentations. No poster sessions are scheduled in parallel with oral sessions. All accepted papers will be published as submitted in the conference proceedings, which should be available at the conference for distribution to all regular conference registrants. Please submit six(6) copies (one camera-ready original and five copies) of the paper. Do not fold or staple the original camera-ready copy. The four page papers, including figures, tables, and references, should be written in English. The paper submitted over four pages will be charged 30,000 YEN per extra page. Papers should be submitted on 210mm x 297mm (A4) or 8-1/2" x 11" (letter size) white paper with one inch margins on all four sides (actual space to be allowed to type is 165mm (W) x 228mm (H) or 6-1/2" x 9"). They should be prepared by typewriter or letter-quality printer in one or two-column format, single-spaced, in Times or similar font of 10 points or larger, and printed on one side of the page only. Please be sure that all text, figures, captions, and references are clean, sharp, readable, and of high contrast. Fax submission are not acceptable. Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete title, author(s), affiliation(s), and mailing address(es), followed by a blank space and then an abstract, not to exceed 15 lines, followed by the text. In an accompanying letter, the following should be included. Send papers to: IJCNN'93- NAGOYA Secretariat. Full Title of the Paper Presentation Preferred Oral or Poster Corresponding Author Presenter* Name, Mailing address Name, Mailing address Telephone and FAX numbers Telephone and FAX numbers E-mail address E-mail address Technical Session Audio Visual Requirements 1st and 2nd choices e.g., 35mm Slide, OHP, VCR * Students who wish to apply for the Student Award, please specify and enclose a verification letter of status from the Department head. TUTORIALS INCLUDE: Prof. Edmund T. Rolls (TBD) Prof. H.-N. L. Teodorescu (TBD) Prof. Haim Sompolinsky (TBD) ============================== Models for the development on the visual system Professor Michael P. Stryker University of California ============================== Optical Neural Networks Demetri Psaltis, California Institute of Technology ============================= Self-Organizing Neural Architectures for Adaptive Sensory-Motor Control Stephen Grossberg, Boston University ============================= Biology-Inspired Image Preprocessing:the How and the Why Gart Hauske, Technischen Universitat Munchen ============================= Possible Roles of Stimulus-dominated and Cortex Dominated Synchronizations in the Visual Cortex Prof. Dr. Reinhard Eckhorn Philipps University Marburg ============================= Genetic Algorithm Kenneth De Jong George Mason University ============================= Networks of Behavior Based Robots Prof. Rodony Brooks AI Labo, MIT ============================= Pattern and Speech Recognition by Discriminative Methods B.H. Juang, AT&T Bell Labs. ============================= Developments of modular learning systems Michael I. Jordan MIT ============================= VLSI Implementation of Neural Networks Federico Faggin Synaptics, Inc. ============================= Time Series Prediction and Analysis Dr. Andreas Weigend Palo Alto Research Center ============================= The chaotic dynamics of large networks, R.S.MacKay University of Warwick, ============================= Synaptic coding of spike trains Jose Pedro Segundo University of California, ============================= NEURAL NETWORK BASICS: APPLICATIONS, EXAMPLES AND STANDARDS Mary Lou Padgett Auburn University ============================= Analog Neural Networks - Techniques, Circuits and Learning - Alan F. Murray University of Edinburgh, ============================= Methods to adapt neural or fuzzy networks for control. Paul J. Werbos National Science Foundation ============================= Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Sets and Neural Nets James C. Bezdek, U. of W. Florida, ============================= Learning, Approximation, and Networks Tomaso Poggio and Federico Girosi Tutorials for IJCNN'93-NAGOYA will be held on Monday, October 25, 1993. Each tutorial will be three hours long. The tutorials should be designed as such and not as expanded talks. They should lead the student at the college Senior level through a pedagogically understandable development of the subject matter. Experts in neural networks and related fields are encouraged to submit proposed topics for tutorials. INDUSTRY FORUM INCLUDE: Guido J. Deboeck Robert Heckt-Nielsen Toshirou Fujiwara Tsuneharu Nitta A major industry forum will be held in the afternoon on Tuesday, October 26, 1993. Speakers will include representatives from industry, government, and academia. The aim of the forum is to permit attendees to understand more fully possible industrial applications of neural networks, discuss problems that have arisen in industrial applications, and to delineate new areas of research and development of neural network applications. EXHIBIT INFORMATION: Exhibitors are encouraged to present the latest innovations in neural networks, including electronic and optical neuro computers, fuzzy neural networks, neural network VLSI chips and development systems, neural network design and simulation tools, software systems, and application demonstration systems. A large group of vendors and participants from academia, industry and government are expected. We believe that the IJCNN'93-NAGOYA will be the neural network largest conference and trade-show in Japan, in which to exhibit your products. Potential exhibitors should plan to sign up before April 30, 1993 for exhibit booths since exhibit space is limited. Vendors may contact the IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat. COMMITTEES & CHAIRS: Advisory Chair: Fumio Harashima, University of Tokyo Vice-cochairs: Russell Eberhart (IEEE NNC), Research Triangle Institute Paul Werbos (INNS), National Science Foundation Teuvo Kohonen (ENNS), Helsinki University of Technology Organizing Chair: Shun-ichi Amari, University of Tokyo Program Chair: Kunihiko Fukushima, Osaka University Cochairs: Robert J. Marks,II (IEEE NNC), University of Washington Harold H. Szu (INNS), Naval Surface Warfare Center Rolf Eckmiller (ENNS), University of Dusseldorf Noboru Sugie, Nagoya University Steering Chair: Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University General Affair Chair:Fumihito Arai, Nagoya University Finance Chairs: Hide-aki Saito, Tamagawa University Roy S. Nutter,Jr, West Virginia University Publicity Chairs: Shiro Usui, Toyohashi University of Technology Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Rutgers University Publication Chair: Yoichi Okabe, University of Tokyo Local Arrangement Chair:Yoshiki Uchikawa, Nagoya University Exhibits Chairs: Masanori Idesawa, Riken Shigeru Okuma, Nagoya University Industry Forum Chairs:Noboru Ohnishi, Nagoya University Hisato Kobayashi, Hosei University Social Event Chair: Kazuhiro Kosuge, Nagoya University Tutorial Chair: Minoru Tsukada, Tamagawa University Technical Tour Chair:Hideki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo REGISTRATION: Registration Fee Full conference registration fee includes admission to all sessions, exhibit area, welcome reception and proceedings. Tutorials and banquet are NOT included. Member-ship Before Aug. 31 '93 After Sept. 1 '93 On-site Member* 45,000 yen 55,000 yen 60,000 yen Non-Member 55,000 yen 65,000 yen 70,000 yen Student** 12,000 yen 15,000 yen 20,000 yen Tutorial Registration Fee Tutorials will be held on Monday, October 25, 1993, 10:00 am-1:00 pm. and 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm. The complete list of tutorials will be available in the June mailing. Member-ship Option Before August 31 '93 After Sept. 1 '93 Industrial Univ.& Nonprofit Inst. Member* Half day 20,000 yen 7,000 yen 40,000 yen Full day 30,000 yen 10,000 yen 60,000 yen Non- Half day 30,000 yen 10,000 yen 50,000 yen Member Full day 45,000 yen 15,000 yen 80,000 yen Student**Half day ------------ 5,000 yen 20,000 yen Full day ------------ 7,500 yen 30,000 yen * A member of co-sponsoring and co-operating societies. **Students must submit a verification letter of full-time status from the Department head. Banquet The IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Banquet will be held on Thursday, October 28, 1993. Note that the Banquet ticket (5,000 yen/person) is not included in the registration fee. Pre-registration is recommended, since the number of seats is limited. The registration for the Banquet can be made at the same time with the conference registration. Payment and Remittance Payment for registration and tutorial fees should be in one of the following forms : 1. A bank transfer to the following bank account: Name of Bank: Tokai Bank, Nagoya Ekimae-Branch Name of Account: Travel Plaza International Chubu, Inc. EC-ka Account No.: 1079574 Address: 6F Shirakawa Dai-san Bldg., 4-8-10 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, 450 Japan 2. Credit Cards (American Express, Diners, Visa, Master Card) are acceptable except for domestic registrants. Please indicate your card number and expiration date on the Registration Form Note: When making remittance, please send Registration Form to the IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat together with a copy of your bank's receipt for transfer. Personal checks and other currencies will not be accepted except Japanese yen. Confirmation and Receipt Upon receiving your Registration Form and confirming your payment, the IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat will send you a confirmation / receipt. This confirmation should be retained and presented at the registration desk of the conference site. Cancellation and Refund of the Fees All financial transactions for the conference are being handled by the IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat. Please send a written notification of cancellation directly to the office. Cancellations received on or before September 30, 1993, 50% cancel fee will be charged. We regret that no refunds for registration can be made after October 1, 1993. All refunds will be proceeded after the conference. NAGOYA: The City of Nagoya, with a population of over two million, is the principal city of central Japan and lies at the heart of one of the three leading areas of the country. The area in and around the city contains a large number of high-tech industries with names known worldwide, such as Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda, Sony and Brother. The city's central location gives it excellent road and rail links to the rest of the country; there exist direct air services to 18 other cities in Japan and 26 cities abroad. Nagoya enjoys a temperate climate and agriculture flourishes on the fertile plain surrounding the city. The area has a long history; Nagoya is the birth place of two of Japan's greatest heroes: the Lords Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who did much to bring the 'Warring States' period to an end. Tokugawa Ieyasu who completed the task and established the Edo period was also born in the area. Nagoya is flourished under the benevolent rule of this lord and his descendants Climate and Clothing The climate in Nagoya in the late October is usually agreeable and stable, with an average temperature of 16-23 C(60-74 F). Heavy clothing is not necessary, however, a light sweater is recommended. Business suit as well as casual clothing is appropriate. TRAVEL INFORMATION: Official Travel Agent Travel Plaza International Chubu, Inc. (TPI) has been appointed as the Official Travel Agent for IJCNN'93-NAGOYA, JAPAN to handle all travel arrangements in Japan. All inquiries and application forms for hotel accommodations described herein should be addressed as follows: Travel Plaza International Chubu, Inc. Shirakawa Dai-san Bldg. 4-8-10 Meieki, Nakamura-ku Tel: +81-52-561-9880/8655 Nagoya 450, Japan Fax: +81-52-561-1241 Airline Transportation Participants from Europe and North America who are planning to come to Japan by air are advised to get in touch with the following travel agents who can provide information on discount fares. Departure cities are Los Angeles, Washington, New York, Paris, and London. Japan Travel Bureau U.K. Inc. 9 Kingsway London Tel: (01)836-9393 WC2B 6XF, England, U.K. Fax: (01)836-6215 Japan Travel Bureau International Inc. Equitable Tower 11th Floor New York, N.Y. 10019 Tel: (212)698-4955 U.S.A. Fax: (212)246-5607 Japan Travel Bureau Paris 91 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore 750008 Paris Tel: (01)4265-1500 France Fax: (01)4265-1132 Japan Travel Bureau International Inc. Suite 1410, One Wilshire Bldg. 624 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90017 Tel: (213)687-9881 U.S.A. Fax: (213)621-2318 Japan Rail Pass The JAPAN RAIL PASS is a special ticket that is available only to travellers visiting Japan from foreign countries for sight-seeing. To be eligible to purchase a JAPAN RAIL PASS, you must purchase an Exchange Order from an authorized sales office or agent before you come to Japan. Please contact JTB offices or your travel agent for details. Note: The rail pass is a flash pass good on most of the trains and ferries in Japan. It provides very significant saving on transportation costs within Japan if you plan to travel more than just from Tokyo to Nagoya and return. Booking of Japan Railway tickets cannot be made before issuing Japan Rail Pass in Japan. Access to Nagoya Direct flights to Nagoya are available from the following cities: Seoul, Taipei, Pusan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Cheju, Jakarta, Denpasar, Kuala Lumpur, Honolulu, Portland, Los Angeles, Guam, Saipan, Toronto, Vancouver, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Moscow, Frankfurt, Paris, London, Brisbane, Cairns, Sydney and Auckland. Participants flying from the U.S.A. are urged to fly to Los Angeles, CA, or Portland, OR, and transfer to direct flights to Nagoya on Delta Airlines, or fly to Seoul, Korea, for a connecting flight to Nagoya. For participants from other countries, flights to Narita (the New Tokyo International Airport) or Osaka International Airport are recommended. Domestic flights are available from Narita to Nagoya, but not from Osaka. The bullet train, "Shinkansen", is a fast and convenient way to get to Nagoya from either Osaka or Tokyo. Transportation from Nagoya International Airport Bus service to the Nagoya JR train station is available every 15 minutes. The bus stop (signed as No. 1) is to your left as you exit the terminal. The trip takes about 1 hour. Transportation from Narita International Airport To the Tokyo JR train station (to connect with Shinkansen), 2 ways to get from Narita to the JR train station are recommended: 1. An express train from the airport to the Tokyo JR train station. This is an all reserved seat train. Buy tickets before boarding train. Follow the signs in the airport to JR Narita station. The trip takes 1 hour. 2. A non-stop service is available, leaving Narita airport every 15 minutes. The trip will take between one and one and a half hours or more, depending on traffic conditions. The limousine have reserved seating, so it is necessary to purchase a ticket before boarding. If you plan to stay in Tokyo overnight before proceeding to Nagoya, other limousine to major Tokyo hotels are available. Transportation from Osaka International Airport Non-stop-bus service to the Shin-Osaka JR train station is available every 15 min. Foreign Exchange and Travellaer's Checks Purchase of traveller's checks in Japanese yen or U.S. dollars before departure is recommended. The conference secretariat and most of stores will accept only Japanese yen in cash only. Major credit cards are accepted in a number of shops and hotels. Foreign currency exchange and cashing of traveller's checks are available at the New Tokyo International Airport, the Osaka International Airport and major hotels. Major banks that handle foreign currencies are located in the downtown area. Banks are open from 9:00 to 15:00 on the weekday, closed on Saturday and Sunday. Electricity 100 volts, 60 Hz. For registration and additional information please contact: IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat: Travel Plaza International Chubu, Inc. Shirakawa Dai-san Bldg., 4-8-10 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, 450 Japan Phone: +81-52-561-9880/8655 Fax: +81-52-561-1241 ________________________________________________________________________________ Please do not reply to this account. Please use the telephone number, fax number or Mail address listed above. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Mon Apr 5 11:49:35 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <150203>; Mon, 5 Apr 1993 11:49:33 -0400 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA21801 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Mon, 5 Apr 1993 08:44:02 -0700 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 11:44:02 -0400 Message-Id: <199304051448.AA21313@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 11 No. 4 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NL-KR Digest (Fri Apr 2 15:15:09 CST 1993) Volume 11 No. 4 Today's Topics: Program: Concepts Conference Program: First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Date: Wed, 31 Mar 93 10:08:15 -0500 From: rey@umiacs.UMD.EDU (Georges Rey) Subject: Program: concepts conference University of Maryland at College Park The Dept. of Philosophy in conjunction with the Committee on Cognitive Studies will present a D.C. Williams Fund conference on CONCEPTS WHO NEEDS THEM? an interdisiplinary discussion of the roles that concepts are required to play in the cognitive sciences. What laws, generalizations or explanations require them? Are they the same things in all cases? Are they really needed at all? visiting participants: Ned Block (linguistics and philosophy, MIT) Paul Bloom (psychology, University of Arizona) Martin Davies (philosophy, Oxford) Leila Gleitman (psychology, University of Pennsylvania) Jane Grimshaw (linguistics, Rutgers) Eric Lormand (philosophy, University of Michigan) Kenneth Taylor (philosopy, Rutgers( with College Park faculty: Michael Devitt (philosophy), John Horty (philosophy), Georges Rey (philosophy), Ellin Scholnick (psychology) Amy Weinberg (linguistics) Friday evening - Sunday afternoon 9-11 April 1993 University College (University & Adelphi Blvds) University of Maryland at College Park accomodations available; for further information, contact: Georges Rey, philosophy, UMCP, College Park, MD 20742 (301)-405-5707; email: rey@umiacs.umd.edu Schedule Friday, 9 April: 6-8PM: informal dinner arrangments in College Park 8-10PM: Opening talk and discussion: "Some Geography," Georges Rey (philosophy, UMCP) 10-11PM: wine Saturday, 10 April: 9:00AM coffee 9:30-12:30PM Concepts in Psychology Paul Bloom (psychology, Arizona) Leila Gleitman (psych, Univ Penn) panel: Ned Block (philos, MIT) Eric Lormand (philosophy, Michigan, UMCP) Ellen Scholnick (psych, UMCP) 12:30-2PM lunch, University College 2-5PM Concepts in Linguistics Jane Grimshaw (linguistics, Rutgers) Ken Taylor (philosophy, Rutgers) panel: Martin Davies (philosophy, Oxford) Michael Devitt (philosophy, UMCP) Amy Weinberg (linguistics, UMCP) 6:00-8:30 banquet 8:30-10PM address: Martin Davies (philosophy, Oxford) 10-12: bar @ cost sunday. 11 April: 9:00Am: coffee 10AM-1PM Concepts in Philosophy Jeff Horty (philosophy, UMIACS, UMCP) Michael Devitt (philosophy, UMCP) panel: Ned Block (philosophy, MIT) Eric Lormand (philosophy, Michigan) Georges Rey (philosophy, UMCP) afternoon: cherry blossoms in DC ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Subject: Program: FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 19:57:59 GMT SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT State University of New York at Buffalo CENTER FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE announces the ************************************************************************* * * * FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE: * * Multidisciplinary Foundations of Cognitive Science * * * ************************************************************************* to be held at the Amherst Campus of SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA JULY 5-30, 1994 Robert Van Valin & Barry Smith, Institute Co-Directors Leonard Talmy, Director of the Center for Cognitive Science HONORARY SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Margaret Boden University of Sussex, UK Charles Fillmore University of California, Berkeley, USA Charles Frake SUNY Buffalo, USA Elmar Holenstein ETH Zurich, Switzerland Philip Johnson-Laird Princeton University, USA Kevin Mulligan University of Geneva, Switzerland Dan Slobin University of California, Berkeley, USA Dan Sperber CREA, Paris, France David Waltz Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA, USA Sandra Witelson McMaster University, Canada ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE: American Association for Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Science Society Linguistic Society of America Society for Machines and Mentality The Center for Cognitive Science of the State University of New York at Buffalo will present a four-week summer institute, July 5-30, 1994. This project represents an important innovation in the Cognitive Science field; no venture of this type has been attempted before. The first three weeks of the Institute will be comprised of courses at basic and advanced levels in constituent disciplines of Cognitive Science. Courses will be taught by both SUNY Buffalo faculty and faculty invited from other institutions. The fourth week will then be devoted to workshops and special conferences. Running through the four weeks, there will also be a special speaker series of prominent invited scholars. The Institute will provide an opportunity for many faculty and students to get an introduction to the field of cognitive science and to complement courses in their own disciplines at their home institutions. It is anticipated that participants will include undergraduate and graduate students, faculty associates, and researchers from industry and government. A special effort will be made to recruit students and participants from outside the United States, where systematic courses across the range of Cognitive Science disciplines are rarely offered. Participants may enroll in the courses for academic credit, if desired. Each course will meet for a total of 15 hours over the three weeks and will carry 1 semester unit of credit. TENTATIVE LIST OF COURSES (as of March 1993): Foundations of Cognitive Science Introduction to the Anthropological Study of Cognition Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Introduction to Cognitive Psychology Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience Introduction to Linguistics in Cognitive Science Introduction to Philosophy for Cognitive Science Anthropology of Knowledge Systems Knowledge Representation Epistemology Mental Models Knowledge of Language: Syntax Knowledge of Language: Semantics Natural-Language Understanding Language Disorders Cognitive Development Neurological Development Linguistic Development Geographic Organization of Space Artificial Intelligence and Categorization Language and Conceptual Structure Philosophy and Categorization Psychology of Problem Solving Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence Logic Inference in Conversation, Discourse, and Narrative Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Perception Language and Speech Perception Neuropsychology of Vision Philosophy and Psychology of Perception TENTATIVE LIST OF WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, AND SYMPOSIA (as of March 1993): Workshop on Connectionism Evolution of Cognition The SNePS Knowledge Representation and Reasoning System Applied Cognitive Science: Cognitive Science in the Work-Place Narrative and Deixis Ontology and the Cognition of Space and Time Bilingualism and Cognition INVITED SPEAKERS (as of March 1993) Thomas G. Bever Psychology, Univ. of Rochester Antonio Damasio (tentative) Neuroscience, Univ. of Iowa Gilles Fauconnier Linguistics, Univ. of California, San Diego Jerry Feldman Computer Science, Univ. of California, Berkeley Janet Dean Fodor Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center Jerry Fodor Philosophy, Rutgers Univ. & CUNY Graduate Center Dedre Gentner Psychology, Northwestern Univ. Geoff Hinton Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto Ed Hutchins Anthropology, Univ. of California, San Diego Ray Jackendoff Linguistics, Brandeis Univ. Michael Jordan Artificial Intelligence, MIT Annette Karmiloff-Smith Psychology, Univ. of London, UK Stephen M. Kosslyn Psychology/Neuroscience, Harvard Univ. John Searle (tentative) Philosophy, Univ. of California, Berkeley Michael Silverstein Linguistics/Anthropology, Univ. of Chicago Brian Cantwell Smith Computer Science, Xerox PARC Paul Smolensky Computer Science, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder David Waltz Computer Science, Thinking Machines Corp. Sandra Witelson Neuroscience, McMaster Univ. Detailed information on the Institute, including course offerings, speaker series, workshops, fees, living accommodations, and scholarship and travel support for students, will be available in summer 1993. If you wish to receive the Institute brochure, please send your name and *postal* address (and e-mail address, if available) to either: Bitnet: cogsci94@ubvms Internet: cogsci94@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu or 1994 Cognitive Science Summer Institute Center for Cognitive Science 652 Baldy Hall SUNY Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 USA (716) 645-3794 (716) 645-3825 (fax) ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Thu Apr 22 12:37:25 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <238232>; Thu, 22 Apr 1993 12:37:22 -0400 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA28161 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Thu, 22 Apr 1993 09:26:20 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 12:26:20 -0400 Message-Id: <199304221552.AA27905@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 11 No. 5 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NL-KR Digest (Tue Apr 20 19:00:43 CDT 1993) Volume 11 No. 5 Today's Topics: Announcement: New Era for the NL-KR Digest Query: How do you choose your KR paradigm? Query: AI/ES in Telecommunications Program: International Conference on Conceptual Structures Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Announcement: New Era for the NL-KR Digest Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 11:39:48 -0400 The NL-KR Digest is entering a new era. The speed of electronic dissemination of information makes this medium ideal for announcements and other news, but also for scholarly discussion and review. The NL-KR Digest will be evolving along those lines with the goal of becoming a viable, citable, electronic journal. This evolution will be a slow one, many of the changes will be fairly transparent to the normal NL-KR readers. The first step has already been taken. The NL-KR Digest now has an editorial board who will share the load of moderating the Digest. Our first goal will be to insure that the Digest is regular and timely; where previously it was dependent on one person's volunteer efforts, it is now shared by four volunteers who are committed to turning this Digest into a reliable and useful source of information. Beginning with volume 11 of the digest (of which this is the 5th issue), this editorial board has already begun its work, and the transition was so smooth it was hardly noticeable. The new NL-KR editorial board consists of: Terry Gaasterland (gaasterland@mcs.anl.gov). Terry is currently an Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. She is pursuing work in intelligent and cooperative methods to handle database and logic program queries. Her work involves natural language generation, semantic query optimization, and representation of knowledge domains in logic. Her interests in crosslinguistic issues, logic, and computer science merged in her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Generating Cooperative Answers for Deductive Databases" at the University of Maryland, College Park. Tony McEnery (mcenery@computing.lancaster.ac.uk). Tony is the Research Development Officer at the Unit for Computer Research on the English Language (UCREL) at the department of linguistics at Lancaster University, U.K. His research interests include computational linguistics and corpus linguistics. He has published books in the areas of computational linguistics and information retreival. Al Whaley (Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com). Al is president of Sunnyside Computing, Inc. Sunnyside's primary business is custom implementations of large file and database systems and high speed random access retrieval systems, usually for terabyte and larger data stores requiring crash immunity. Al's background is primarily in systems, i.e. operating systems, high speed networking, chip design, etc. His interests in artificial intelligence are in knowledge representation and reasoning, which he intends to make an increasing part of his research activity. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He also operates cpsr.org (internet site of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility). Chris Welty (weltyc@cs.rpi.edu). Chris is the Assistant Director of the RPI Computer Science Labs, and the former moderator of the NL-KR Digest. Currently working part-time on a PhD in applying KR to Software Engineering, he has background in operating systems and networking as well as the two fields his research involves. He has spearheaded the efforts of ACM SIGART to establish an electronic information service for AI, and as a member of the ACM Electronic Community Strategic Initiatives Task Force seeks to broaden the impact of the electronic medium in general. Chris also serves as Announcements Editor for the (old-fashioned) paper version of the SIGART Bulletin. If you have any comments or suggestions about the direction you would like to see the NL-KR Digest take, let us know. The NL-KR Digest archives have moved to ftp.cs.rpi.edu (from archive.cs.rpi.edu) and are also available through gopher to cs.rpi.edu (port 70). ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: anant@cse.iitb.ernet.in (Chandrasekhar Anantaram) Subject: Query: How do you choose your KR paradigm? Date: Tue, 30 Mar 93 19:20:25 IST Reply-To: anant@cse.iitb.ernet.in I have been designing and developing Expert Systems in the Indian market for the last 6 years. In the process, it became apparent that the choice of a tool (and in turn the representation and reasoning paradigm) is based on a little informal analysis of the knowledge domain combined with heuristics (& guesswork) of the developer. This has also been acknowledged by a number of AI scientists, for example, Larry Wos in his book "Automated Reasoning : 33 Basic Research Problems",(Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1988) lists it as the 23rd problem. I am investigating (formally) the process of selecting the Representation (Logic, Rule-based, Frame-based, SN, etc.) and Reasoning (resolution, non-monotonic reasoning, uncertain reasoning, etc.) paradigm for a chosen domain/problem in the hope of making it less arbitrary (are certain paradigms more appropriate in certain domains that others and why). Any help, pointers to existing work and/or publications would be appreciated. Thanks and regards, C. Anantaram ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: RSL30@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Query: AI/ES in Telecommunications Date: 15 Apr 1993 00:01:49 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: RSL30@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu I am interested in recent publications (last two or three years), mainly books or general articles, on AI/Expert Systems in Telecommunications, Intelligent Networks, or Network Management. If you know of such publications, please send me an e-mail, with some description, if available. Thanks in advance. Merzad ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: BERNARD MOULIN Subject: Program: International Conference on Conceptual Structures Date: Thu, 08 Apr 93 08:17:22 HAE Reply-To: MOULIN@LAVALVM1.rpi.edu INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES EARLY PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT Quebec-city, Canada, August 4-7 1993 Sponsored by: Paramax, A Unisys Company, NSERC and Laval University (Canada), Butterworth Heinemann (UK) In cooperation with: AAAI, ACM (SIGART), CEFRIO, CRIM, GIRICO, CSSCI Over the past 25 years, researchers have proposed several approaches for modelling knowledge in KBS, including several kinds of formalisms: semantic networks, frames, logics, etc. In the early eighties, John F. Sowa intoduced the Conceptual Graph (CG) theory which provides a knowledge representation framework consisting of a form of logic with a graph notation and integrating several features from semantic net and frame representations. Since that time, several research teams over the world have been working on the application and on the extension of CG theory in various domains ranging from natural language processing to data base modelling and machine learning. This international conference follows a series of seven annual workshops and aims at providing an active forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas about the theory and application of conceptual graphs. Invited Speakers: Heterogeneous logic: reasoning with diagrams and sentences: J. Barwise, USA Representation, discourse, logic and truth: situating knowledge technology: B. Gaines (Canada) Knowledge Interchange Format: M. Genesereth (USA) Relating diagrams to logic: J. F. Sowa (USA). Registration Procedure If you are interested, please send us a note requesting the final program for ICCS'93 Conference, mentioning your name, complete address, phone, fax and email. Your mail must be addressed at: Guy Mineau / Bernard Moulin ICCS'93 Conference Laval University Computer Science Department Pavillon Pouliot Ste Foy Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada Phone: (418) 656 7979 fax: (418) 656 2324 Email: Mineau@ift.ulaval.ca ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Thu Apr 22 19:05:40 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <237409>; Thu, 22 Apr 1993 19:05:37 -0400 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA29971 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Thu, 22 Apr 1993 15:58:04 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 18:58:04 -0400 Message-Id: <199304222231.AA29829@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 11 No. 6 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NL-KR Digest (Thu Apr 22 16:04:28 CDT 1993) Volume 11 No. 6 Today's Topics: Announcement: Anthropomorphic Systems of Speech Recognition (ASRS '93) Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: M.Cooke@uk.ac.shef.dcs Subject: Announcement: Anthropomorphic Systems of Speech Recognition Reply-To: M.Cooke@uk.ac.shef.dcs Date:Tue, 30 Mar 93 11:25:59 GMT ANTHROPOMORPHIC SYSTEMS OF AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SYNTHESIS (ASRS' 93) St. Petersburg, Russia June 30-July 2 At present a lot of organizations invest considerable amounts of money, know-how and effort to solve problems of speech recognition and synthesis by machine. It is stimulated by practical requirements, and scientific research has been concentrated on the optimal solutions in the domain of speech technology systems. The peculiarity of the present situation is that most systems of speech recognition and synthesis are being built around mathematical theories of signal processing and do not involve our knowledge of actual processes taking place in the acts of speech production and perception. Speech technology has reached its major breakthrough in speech recognition systems via application of dynamic programming and hidden Markov models, and in speech synthesis - using large basic units such as diphones and allophones. Further success has been stimulated by an increasing computing power of the hardware being used. Most existing applied systems are, generally speaking, far from real biological, neural and psychophysiological systems. The designers of applied systems are not inclined to reach resemblance between the functioning of their systems and that of human beings. We believe that the knowledge about a human being might be helpful for the improvement of the automatic understanding of human speech and enhancement of synthesis-by-rule systems, taking into account the following arguments: - At present basic knowledge and the results of research of human speaking behaviour are considered as an important resource for the progress of automatic speech recognition, understanding of spoken language and synthesis-by-rule; - The users who order a speech technology system usually formulate their requirements only in terms of speech communicative behaviour; - It is necessary to take into account the fact, that the result of a project in speech technology is oriented towards involvement of a human user in any case; thus the knowledge of his communicative behaviour should be incorporated in an automatic device. The Organizers of the proposed symposium invite scientists in all fields of research to participate in discussions and to work out solutions to the problems that are facing them in the domain of anthropomorphic models and systems. We propose the following topics of our meeting: 1. Speech processing in biological systems. 2. Perspectives for the development of anthropomorphic systems. 3. Role of research in speech science for the development of speech technologies. 4. Types of knowledge that can be implemented in speech processing systems. 5. Methodological problems of experimental research of speech communicative process (using natural vs. laboratory - simulated speaking behaviour and signals). 6. Important features of human user behaviour that are being developed in the process of speech communication between a person and a speech processing system. 7. Role of symbol (phoneme, allophone) units in the processes of perception and speech generation and their relation to the problems of automatic speech synthesis and recognition. 8. Organization of a lexicon and its role in a speech process. 9. Organization of a word processor and a linguistic knowledge base of various levels. 10. User requirements to psychologically comfortable conditions of operations with a speech interface. Precise dates of ASRS'93: - for scientific sessions: June 30-July 2 - for social and cultural programme: June 28-29 and July 3-4. Important Dates: - April 10, 1993 - last date for visas submission - April 10, 1993 - last date for abstracts submission (about 2000 words, by E-mail to neva@coninfo.spb.su) - May 15, 1993 - last date for registration fee - June 27, 1993 - first date arrival to St. Petersburg Registration fees: - 300 USD for participants, - 100 USD for students, - 50 USD for accompanying persons. Accommodation: The Organising Committee proposes the Educational Center hotel (very cosy and comfortable) to be the most suitable for participants because our symposium will be held there. It is also possible to book three-, four- or five-stars hotels. Prices range from 60 USD for single room in the hotel of the Educational Center to 240-285 USD in a five-star hotel. ASRS '93 Organixing Committee Valery Galloonov Valentina Lublinskaja ------------------------------- End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Tue May 4 17:23:26 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <237426>; Tue, 4 May 1993 17:23:22 -0400 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA09716 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Tue, 4 May 1993 14:15:17 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 17:15:17 -0400 Message-Id: <199305042042.AA09563@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 11 No. 7 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NL-KR Digest (Mon May 3 18:56:39 CDT 1993) Volume 11 No. 7 Today's Topics: Announcement: ooops Query: Bitmaps of orthographic symbols CFP: KR94 Call for Papers] Announcement: SGAICO SUMMMER SCHOOL Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 12:02:11 -0400 From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Announcement: ooops There was a problem in forwarding mail to the new nl-kr moderators over the past two weeks and a number of submissions were lost. If you submitted something and have not seen it please resubmit it. My apologies for the inconvenience. ===== Christopher Welty Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs, Troy, NY 12180 weltyc@cs.rpi.edu "Porsche: Fahren in seiner schoensten Form" ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 14:35:46 +1000 From: mfw@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Michael John FEARN-WANNAN) Subject: Query: Bitmaps of orthographic symbols Reply-To: mfw@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU A colleague is doing some psycholinguistic research and needs some bitmaps of orthographic symbols from asian languages, especially Thai. Can anyone help us to locate these sorts of things? Michael Fearn-Wannan Department of Psychology University of Melbourne Australia email mfw@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 19:03:55 +0200 From: torasso@di.unito.it (Lesmo e Torasso) Subject: CFP: KR94 Call for Papers] Reply-To: torasso@di.unito.it KR'94 - CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Gustav Stresemann Institut, Bonn, Germany May 24-27, 1994 with support from Gesellschaft fuer Informatik Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by inference algorithms provide an important foundation for much work in Artificial Intelligence, from natural language to expert systems, and a growing number of researchers study the principles governing systems based on such representations and reasoning. The KR conferences bring together these researchers in a more intimate setting than that of general AI conferences, and provide authors with the opportunity to give presentations of adequate length to present substantial results. This year's conference will take place in Europe for the first time. The conference emphasizes both the theoretical principles of knowledge representation and reasoning and the relationships between these principles and their embodiments in working systems. Authors are encouraged to relate their work to at least one of the following questions: (1) What issues arise in representing and using knowledge about real problems, and how can they be addressed? (2) What are the theoretical principles in knowledge representation and reasoning? (3) How can these principles be embodied in implemented knowledge representation systems, and what practical tradeoffs arise? (4) How do these approaches to problems relate to corresponding approaches in other parts of AI (natural language, robotics, etc.) or in other fields (psychology, philosophy, logic, economics, cognitive science, computer science, management, engineering, etc.) Submissions are encouraged in (but are not limited to) the following topic areas: REPRESENTATIONAL FORMALISMS REASONING METHODS AND TASKS - logics of knowledge and belief - deduction - nonmonotonic logics - abduction - temporal logics - induction - spatial logics - deliberation and decision analysis - taxonomic logics - planning and plan analysis - logics of uncertainty - learning and evidence - diagnosis - logics of preference and utility - classification - logics of intentions and actions - inheritance - deontic logics - belief management and revision - constraint solving - analogical reasoning - reasoning about reasoning GENERIC ONTOLOGIES FOR DESCRIBING ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTED KR&R SYSTEMS - time - comparative evaluation - space - empirical results - causality - benchmarking and testing - resources - reasoning architectures - constraints - efficiency/completeness tradeoffs - decisions - complexity - activities - algorithms - mental states - embedded systems - multi-agent organizations - knowledge sharing and reuse - applications classes, e.g. medicine - standards SUBMISSION OF PAPERS The Program Committee will review EXTENDED ABSTRACTS rather than complete papers. Abstracts must be at most twelve (12) pages with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt), excluding the title page and the bibliography. Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. All abstracts must be submitted on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4 paper, and printed or typed in 12-point font (10 characters/inch on a typewriter). Dot matrix printout, FAX, or electronic submission will not be accepted. Each submission should include the names and complete addresses (including email, when possible) of all authors. Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise indicated. Also, authors should indicate under the title which of the questions and/or topic areas listed above best describes their paper (if none is appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best describe the topic of the paper). To be considered, five (5) paper copies of the extended abstract must be received by one of the program co-chairs no later than November 8, 1993 (or must have been sent by express courier no later than November 5). Authors are also STRONGLY encouraged (it is to their advantage) to submit an electronic abstract in the form described below. Electronic abstracts that accurately reflect the contents of the papers will significantly aid the reviewing process by helping direct the papers to the most appropriate reviewers. MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantively different from papers currently under review. Papers may be submitted after January 1, 1994 to other conferences as long as (a) the prior submission to KR'94 is noted on those submissions and (b) the paper is withdrawn >from the later conference if accepted by KR'94. ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT In addition to submitting the paper copies of the extended abstract, authors should (if possible) send a short (200 word) electronic abstract of their paper to KR94-abstracts@medg.lcs.mit.edu to aid in the reviewing process. In order to make use of software for classifying papers and selecting reviewers, most of the electronic abstract must be in plain ASCII text (no LaTeX or other formatting commands) in the following format, separating each field from the next with a blank line. TITLE: FIRST AUTHOR: <last name, first name> FIRST ADDRESS: <first author address or affiliation> COAUTHORS: <their names, if any> OTHER ADDRESSES: <addresses or affiliations of coauthors> CONTENT AREAS: <at most three content areas, separated by commas> KEYWORDS: <keywords, separated by commas> ABSTRACT: <text of the abstract> The content areas preferably should be drawn from the topics listed above, with other areas added only if necessary. The keywords are to aid the human reviewers only and may be chosen as desired. The text of the abstract field may include formatting commands, if desired, but these should be omitted from all other fields. A blank form for electronic abstracts and an example abstract may be found at the end of this Call. REVIEW OF PAPERS Submissions will be judged on clarity, significance, and originality. An important criterion for acceptance is that the paper clearly contributes to principles of representation and reasoning that are likely to influence current and future AI practice. Extended abstracts should contain enough information to enable the Program Committee to identify and evaluate the principal contribution of the research and its importance. It should also be clear from the extended abstract how the work compares to related work in the field. NOTIFICATION Authors will be notified of the Program Committee's decision by January 24, 1994. Notification will be made by electronic mail whenever possible. FINAL PAPERS Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit substantially longer full papers for the conference proceedings. Final camera-ready copies of the full papers will be due February 28, 1994. Final papers will be allowed at most twelve (12) double-column pages in the conference proceedings (corresponding to approximately 28 article-style LaTeX pages; a style file will be provided by the publisher). PLANNING TO ATTEND People planning to attend the conference are asked to send a note stating their intention as early as possible to the local conference organizer, Ms. Christine Harms (Christine.Harms@gmd.de), in order to help estimate the facilities needed for the conference. (Postal address: Christine Harms, c/o GMD, Schloss Birlinghoven, W-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, Germany. Phone: +49-2241-14-2473, Fax: +49-2241-14-2472.) CONFERENCE CHAIR Erik Sandewall Department of Computer and Information Science Linkoeping University S-58183 Linkoeping SWEDEN Voice: +46 1328 1408 Fax: +46 1328 2606 Email: ejs@ida.liu.se PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Jon Doyle Piero Torasso MIT Universita' di Torino Laboratory for Computer Science Dipartimento di Informatica 545 Technology Square Corso Svizzera 185 Cambridge, MA 02139 I-10149 Torino USA ITALY Voice: +1 (617) 253-3512 Voice: +39 11 7712002 Fax: +1 (617) 258-8682 Fax: +39 11 751603 Email: doyle@lcs.mit.edu Email: torasso@di.unito.it LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Gerhard Lakemeyer Institute of Computer Science III University of Bonn Roemerstrasse 164 D-5300 Bonn 1 GERMANY Voice: +49-228-550-281 Fax: +49-228-550-382 Email: gerhard@cs.uni-bonn.de PUBLICITY CHAIR Werner Horn Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Vienna AUSTRIA Voice: +43 1 53532810 Fax: +43 1 5320652 Email: werner@ai.univie.ac.at PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giuseppe Attardi (U. Pisa, Italy), Franz Baader (DFKI, Germany), Fahiem Bacchus (U. Waterloo, Canada), Philippe Besnard (IRISA, France), Piero Bonissone (GE, USA), Craig Boutilier (UBC, Canada), Ron Brachman (AT&T, USA) Maurice Bruynooghe (KUL, Belgium), Anthony Cohn (U. Leeds, UK), Ernest Davis (NYU, USA), Rina Dechter (UC Irvine, USA), Johan de Kleer (Xerox, USA), Oskar Dressler (Siemens, Germany), Jennifer Elgot-Drapkin (Arizona State U., USA), Richard Fikes (Stanford U., USA), Alan Frisch (U. York, UK), Hector Geffner (Simon Bolivar U., Venezuela), Georg Gottlob (TU Wien, Austria), Pat Hayes (U. Illinois, USA), Hirofumi Katsuno (NTT, Japan), Henry Kautz (AT&T, USA), Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan U., Israel), Maurizio Lenzerini (U. Rome, Italy), Vladimir Lifschitz (U. Texas, USA), David Makinson (Unesco, France), Joao Martins (IST, Portugal) David McAllester (MIT, USA), John-Jules Meyer (U. Amsterdam, Netherlands), Katharina Morik (U. Dortmund, Germany), Johanna Moore (U. Pittsburgh, USA), Hideyuki Nakashima (ETL, Japan), Bernhard Nebel (DFKI, Germany), Hans Juergen Ohlbach (Max Planck Institut, Germany), Lin Padgham (Linkoeping U., Sweden), Peter Patel-Schneider (AT&T, USA), Ramesh Patil (USC/ISI, USA), Raymond Perrault (SRI, USA), David Poole (UBC, Canada), Henri Prade (IRIT, France), Anand Rao (AAII, Australia), Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew U., Israel), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley, USA), Len Schubert (Rochester) Marek Sergot (Imperial College, UK), Lokendra Shastri (U. Pennsylvania, USA), Yoav Shoham (Stanford U., USA), Lynn Stein (MIT, USA), Devika Subramanian (Cornell U., USA), William Swartout (USC/ISI, USA), Austin Tate (AIAI, Edinburgh, UK), Peter van Beek (U. Alberta, Canada), Michael Wellman (U. Michigan, USA) IMPORTANT DATES Submission receipt deadline: November 8, 1993 Author notification date: January 24, 1994 Camera-ready copy due to publisher: February 28, 1994 Conference: May 24-27, 1994 <-- cut here --> ------------------------------------------------------------ KR'94 Electronic Abstract Form Complete and send to KR94-abstracts@medg.lcs.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: FIRST AUTHOR: FIRST ADDRESS: COAUTHORS: OTHER ADDRESSES: CONTENT AREAS: KEYWORDS: ABSTRACT: ------------------------------------------------------------ <-- cut here --> ------------------------------------------------------------ KR'94 Electronic Abstract Example ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: Begriffsschrift: A formula language, modeled upon that of arithmetic, for pure thought FIRST AUTHOR: Frege, Gottlob FIRST ADDRESS: Department of Mathematics, University of Jena, Germany CONTENT AREAS: logics, deduction KEYWORDS: ideography, conceptual content, inferential sequence, argument, function ABSTRACT: I present an ideography to provide the most reliable test of the validity of a chain of inferences, one that points out every presupposition that tries to sneak in unnoticed, so that its origin can be investigated. I am confident that my ideography can be successfully used wherever special value must be placed on the validity of proofs, as for example when the foundations of the differential and integral calculus are established. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 15:21:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: David Powers <powers@inf.enst.fr> Sender: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Announcement: SGAICO SUMMMER SCHOOL Reply-To: powers@inf.enst.fr SECOND SGAICO SUMMER SCHOOL ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2-6 August and 9-13 August 1993, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland To be held at the Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA) in Lugano, Switzerland. Organised by IDSIA with the collaboration of the Scuola Tecnico Superiore, Lugano Trevano and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne. Sponsored by Swiss Group for AI and Cognitive Science (SGAICO) Federal Office for Education and Science Invited Lecturers include Dean Allemang (EPFL) Anne Keuneke (University of California at Chico) Norbert Fuchs (Institut fur Informatik, University of Zurich) OVERVIEW The second School comprises two fully supervised, one-week courses on general principles of AI in the fields respectively of Language and Reasoning, and Machine Learning. The courses are aimed at practicing computer professionals, as well as students of computer science, who wish to achieve a high level of familiarity with AI techniques in these areas. Although the courses are intended to complement each other, each is self-contained, and participants may register for either or both. A novel aspect of the School is to offer participants extensive online experience using the Portable AI Lab, an integrated toolkit that brings a number of mature AI methods and tools together in a homogeneous software environment. The system, developed by the participating institutions, is designed to provide a useful level of practical experience with AI problem solving after a minimal initial period of familiarization. The Portable AI Lab was awarded a Technologiestandort Schweiz prize for innovation in technology for 1992. REGISTRATION FEES AND ACCOMMODATION Basic fees, per five-day course, are Sfr 600 for university participants and Sfr 1200 for industrial participants. Discounts apply for early registration and SGAICO membership. Low-cost student-style accommodation is available. In addition, a number of studentships are to be made available by SGAICO for full-time student participants. For further information, contact Michael Rosner (SSS), IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland, email mike@idsia.ch tel +41 91 22 88 81, fax +41 91 22 89 94. -- E-mail: powers@acm.org || powers@inf.enst.fr P-mail: Dr David Powers, Visiting Professor, TEL: +33-1-45.81.80.86 Telecom Paris (ENST), Departement Informatique FAX: +33-1-45.81.31.19 46, rue Barrault - 75634 Paris cedex 13 SEC: +33-1-45.81.78.70 End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Mon May 24 01:36:11 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <237351>; Mon, 24 May 1993 01:36:05 -0400 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA04227 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Sun, 23 May 1993 22:33:39 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 01:33:39 -0400 Message-Id: <199305240449.AA04080@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley <Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com> Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 11 No. 8 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NL-KR Digest 14/5/93 Volume 11 No. 8 Today's Topics: Announcement: COLING94 Announcement: AAAI Spring Symposium Series 1994 Announcement: Abstract Deadline for PACFoCoL I 1993 Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: Makoto NAGAO <coling94@jp.ac.kyoto-u.kuee.pine> Subject: CFP: COLING94 Reply-To: coling94@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp Date: Tue, 04 May 93 16:29:42 +0900 COLING 94 CALL FOR PAPERS Conference dates: August 5(Fri) -- 9(Tue), 1994 Conference place: Miyako Hotel, Kyoto, Japan General Chairman: Prof. Makoto Nagao Department of Electrical Engineering Kyoto University Tel. +81-75-753-5344 Fax. +81-75-751-1576 Email. coling94@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp Program Chairman: Prof. Yorick Wilks University of Sheffield Sheffield, S10 2UH, England Program Committee: Yorick Wilks (Sheffield) Louise Guthrie (Las Cruces) Graeme Hirst (Toronto) Margaret King (Geneva) Judith Klavans (New York) Wendy Lehnert (Amherst) Candy Sidner (Cambridge, MA) Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo) Henry Thompson (Edinburgh) Jun-ichi Tsujii (Manchester) Michael Zock (Paris) The International Committee on Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for COLING 94, the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, in Kyoto, Japan. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, the followings. - syntax - parsing - semantics - generation - phonetics - language understanding - phonology - speech analysis/synthesis - morphology - computational lexicons - discourse - electronic dictionaries - pragmatics - terminology - quantitative/qualitative linguistics - text database and retrieval - mathematical linguistics - documentation - contrastive linguistics - machine translation - cognitive linguistics - machine aids for translation - large text corpora - natural language interface - text processing - dialogue systems - hardware/software for NLP - multimedia systems REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION: Papers should be either topical papers (maximum six pages in final format) or project notes with demonstration (maximum four pages), preferably in English. Both should describe original work. The project note should specify the computer platform that will be used. They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the COLING Conference cannot be presented at another conference. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of preliminary versions of their papers with the page limits above, on A4 paper with the title, author(s), addresses (including email if possible), affiliation across the page top, a short (five line) summary, the words: topical paper or project note, and a specification of the topic area preferably drawn from the list above. As well, authors are strongly urged to email the title page information by the deadline date. Send the papers and emails to: COLING 94 Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2UH, England Email: coling@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk IMPORTANT DATES: Preliminary paper submission due: 6 January, 1994 Acceptance notification: 15 March, 1994 Camera-ready copies due: 1 May, 1994 REVIEW SCHEDULE: Preliminary papers are due by 6 January 1994. Papers received after that date will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. All inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by 27 January 1994. Designated authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 March, 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 1 May 1994 at Prof. Makoto Nagao Department of Electrical Engineering Kyoto University Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan along with a signed copyright release statement. Papers received after that date may not be included in the proceedings. OTHER ACTIVITIES: (1) Tutorial program will be presented on 3(Wed) -- 4(Thu), August, 1994. (2) Invited talks and panels will be included in the program. Proposals and suggestions for invited talks and panels should be sent to Prof. Yorick Wilks as soon as possible. (3) Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description, together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to Prof. M. Nagao. (4) Many attractive social programs will take place for the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of Kyoto. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: Rick Skalsky <skalsky@org.aaai> Subject: AAAI Spring Symposium Series 1994 Call for Proposals Reply-To: skalsky@org.aaai Date: Tue, 4 May 93 11:31:56 PDT 1994 Spring Symposium Series Call for Proposals AAAI invites proposals for the 1994 Spring Symposium Series, to be held at Stanford University, March 21-23, 1994. The Spring Symposium Series is a yearly set of symposia, designed to bring colleagues together in small, intimate forums. There will be about eight symposia on various topics in the 1994 Spring Symposium Series. All symposia will be limited in size. The symposia will run in parallel for two and one-half days. The symposia will allow for presentation of speculative work and work in progress, as well as completed work. Ample discussion time will be scheduled in each symposium. Working notes will be prepared, and distributed to the participants. Chairs can determine whether the working notes of their symposia will be available as AAAI Technical Reports following the meeting. Most participants of the symposia will be selected on the basis of statements of interest or abstracts submitted to the symposia chairs; some open registration will be allowed. Participants will be expected to attend a single symposium. Proposals for symposia should be between two and five pages in length, and should contain: - A title for the symposium - A description of the symposium, identifying specific areas of interest - Evidence that the symposium is of interest at this time--such as a completed, successful one-day workshop on a related topic - The names and addresses of the organizing committee, preferably three or four people at different sites, all of whom have agreed to serve on the committee - A list of several potential participants. Ideally, the entire organizing committee should collaborate in producing the proposal. If possible, a draft proposal should be sent out to a few of the potential participants and their comments solicited. All proposals will be reviewed by the AAAI Symposium Committee (cochairs: Lynn Andrea Stein, MIT; and Jim Hendler, University of Maryland). The criteria for acceptance of proposals include: - An appropriate level of perceived interest in the topic of the symposium among AAAI members. (Symposia proposals that appear to be too popular to fit in the size constraints should be turned into regular AAAI workshops.) - No long-term ongoing series of activities in the particular topic. (The Spring Symposium Series serves more to nurture interest in particular topics than to maintain it over a number of years.) The existence of activities in related and more-general topics will help to indicate the level of interest in the particular topic. - An appropriate organizing committee. - Accepted proposals will be distributed as widely as possible over the subfields of AI, and balanced between theoretical and applied topics. Symposia bridging theory and practice are particularly solicited. Symposium proposals should be submitted as soon as possible, but no later than June 7, 1993. Proposals that are submitted significantly before this deadline can be in draft form. Comments on how to improve and complete the proposal will be returned to the submitter in time for revisions to be made before the deadline. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent to submitters around June 21, 1993. The submitters of accepted proposals will become the chair of the symposium, unless alternative arrangements are made. The symposium organizing committees will be responsible for: - Producing, in conjunction with the general chair, a Call for Participation for the symposium, which will be published in the AI Magazine - Reviewing requests to participate in the symposium and determining symposium participants - Preparing working notes for the symposium - Scheduling the activities of the symposium - Preparing a short review of the symposium, to be printed in the AI Magazine. AAAI will provide logistical support, will take care of all local arrangements, and will arrange for reproducing and distributing the working notes. Please submit (preferably by electronic mail) your symposium proposals, and inquiries concerning symposia, to both of the chairs: Jim Hendler (hendler@cs.umd.edu) Department of Computer Science University of Maryland AV Williams Building College Park, MD 20742 USA Lynn Andrea Stein (las@ai.mit.edu) AI Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology 545 Technology Square #811 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: HSCHUREN@tw.edu.cs.ccvax Subject: Abstract Deadline for PACFoCoL Reply-To: HSHUREN@tw.edu.cs.ccvax Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 22:19 PDT Pacific Asia Conference on Formal and Computational Linguistics (PACFoCoL I, 1993) Academic Activity Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan August 30-31, 1993 Abstract Deadline (by email): MAY 10 (MONDAY) This is a reminder that the deadline for sumbitting an abstract for PACFoCoL is upcoming. PACFoCoL will provide an opportunity to further the scholarly exchange among linguists in Pacific Asia region in the areas of formal and computational linguistics and in fostering a cooperative environment for better understanding of the development or new trend in theoretical and computational linguistics in Pacific Asia region. Topics of the conference include theoretical and computational studies in syntax, semantic, corpus linguistics and contrastive analysis of Pacific Asian languages. The organizing committee welcomes submittance of one-page abstracts (with an additional optional page for references and/or data) that address the above topics. The abstract may be submitted via e-mail or via airmail. The notice of abstract acceptance will be mailed out by June 11, 1993. All the accepted Papers will be collected in a volume of conference proceedings. The full paper should be camera-ready and not exceed twelve (12) pages of A-4 or letter size paper (single-sided, single-spaced, and at least 12 points in size, with at least 1" margin on the right, at top, and 1.5" margin on the bottom). The deadline for the submission of the full paper and pre-registration is June 28, 1993. Please address all the correspondences to the organizing committee at the following address: Professor Chu-Ren Huang ROCLING c/o Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei 115 Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: 886-2-788-1638 Fax: 886-2-788-1638 e-mail: churen@iis.sinica.edu.tw OR hschuren@ccvax.as.edu.tw nccut086@twnmoe10.bitnet (Professor Claire H. Chang) nccut146@twnmoe10.bitnet (Professor O.-S. Her) Sponsored By: The Computational Linguistics Society of R.O.C. Co-Sponsored By: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica Department of English and Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University The Logico-Linguistics Society of Japan The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Mon May 24 03:23:23 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <237351>; Mon, 24 May 1993 03:23:21 -0400 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA04724 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Mon, 24 May 1993 00:19:19 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 03:19:19 -0400 Message-Id: <199305240704.AA04658@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley <Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com> Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 11 No. 9 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NL-KR Digest 12/5/93 Volume 11 No. 9 Today's Topics: Announcement: Automated Deduction in Non-Standard Logics Position: Information Retrieval Announcement: 12th European Meeting on Cybernetics & Systems Research Announcement: 4th International Conference on Knowledge Representation Position: Jet Propulsion Lab Announcement: IBM/Lancaster Grammar Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: Richard Scherl <scherl@edu.toronto.cs> Subject: NL-KR Digest Reply-To: scherl@edu.toronto.cs Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 14:11:24 -0400 Automated Deduction in Nonstandard Logics AAAI Fall Symposium Series 22 - 24 October, 1993 Raleigh, North Carolina AAAI presents the 1993 Fall Symposium Series to be held Friday through Sunday, October 22-24, 1993 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center, Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, North Carolina. The topics of the five symposia in the 1993 Fall Symposium Series are: - Automated Deduction in Nonstandard Logics - Games: Planning and Learning - Human-Computer Collaboration: Reconciling Theory, Synthesizing Practice - Instantiating Real-World Agents - Learning in Computer Vision: What, Why and How? Most symposia will be limited to approximately 60 participants. Each participant will be expected to attend a single symposium. Working notes will be prepared and distributed to participants in each symposium. A general plenary session will be scheduled in which the highlights of each symposium will be presented, and an informal reception will be held on Friday evening, October 22. In addition to invited participants, a limited number of other interested parties will be allowed to register in each symposium. Some student scholarship money may be available. Registration information will be available in late July, 1993. To obtain it, write to: AAAI Fall Symposium Series 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, California 94025 (415) 328-3123 fss@aaai.org Submission Requirements Submission requirements vary with each symposium, and are listed in the descriptions of the symposia. Please send your submissions directly to the address given in the description. DO NOT SEND submissions to AAAI. - All submissions must arrive by June 4, 1993. - Acceptances will be mailed by July 2, 1993. - Material for inclusion in the working notes of the symposia must be received by August 23, 1993. Automated Deduction in Nonstandard Logics A variety of nonstandard logics have been proposed in artificial intelligence to represent time, action, and various epistemic notions such as knowledge, belief, and intention. Over the past decade, a wide range of methods have been developed for performing deduction with modal logics, many-valued logics, and other nonstandard logics. Additionally, an array of methods utilizing concepts from nonstandard logic have been developed in work on nonmonotonic reasoning, abduction and belief revision. Although many nonstandard logics and associated deduction methods have been recently proposed, a number of shortcomings characterize the current state of the field. First, there are well-understood logics for which we do not yet have efficient deduction methods, e.g. multiple-knower epistemic logics, many nonmonotonic and conditional logics. Second, there is a need for systematic comparison among different deduction methods, both at the level of implementation or efficiency and at the level of naturalness or expressiveness for particular domains and applications. Third, quantitative analyses comparing the time and space requirements of nonstandard deduction algorithms are rarely to be found in the literature. Fourth, although complexity results are available for many nonstandard logics, we still lack a sense of how frequently worst-case results will be encountered in typical applications. Fifth, we need a convincing and well-constructed library of cases where these logics could be applied and where the performance of different deduction methods can be compared. Finally, there are few reports of the results of building AI systems (e.g. in natural language processing) that make use of theorem provers for nonstandard logics. These gaps are clearly related to one another in complex ways. The significance of worst-case results can only be gauged in the context of a particular application of a general proof method. Systematic comparison of different deduction methods must wait upon quantitative analyses of the various methods. Progress requires greater communication between theorem proving specialists and researchers in areas such as planning, natural language understanding and diagnosis. The goals of the symposium are to address the various issues listed above and also to bring together researchers working on automated deduction in nonstandard logics and AI researchers interested in making use of such deductive systems. As indicated in the above issues, our interests include both theoretical concerns and the practical considerations which attach to particular implementations and applications (including performance analyses, software tools, and successful or unsuccessful case studies). In keeping with the nature of the symposium, we encourage position papers and the reporting of works in progress. Prospective participants should submit a single page summarizing their research interests, and providing pointers to any relevant previous work. Those interested in presenting their work should instead submit an extended abstract (of at most ten pages) that describes the work. The following are examples of possible topics: - A theorem proving method for a nonmonotonic logic of belief. - A system that performs deduction in a language that combines a modal logic of belief with a temporal logic. - A description of a planner that utilizes a theorem prover for a nonstandard logic. - Accounts of abduction and belief revision based on nonstandard logic. - A description of an automated reasoning tool for a non-standard logic. - Experimental results with implementation(s) of different deduction methods for modal logics. - Theoretical discussions of the suitability of different logics (e.g. modal versus multi-valued logics) for different tasks (e.g. belief revision and natural language understanding). Electronic submissions are preferred, and should be sent to scherl@cs.toronto.edu. Otherwise, 5 copies should be sent to: Richard Scherl Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 6 Kings College Rd. Room 283 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4 Telephone: (416)978-7390 Invited Speaker: Melvin Fitting, Lehman College, CUNY. Organizing Committee: Peter Jackson (cochair), Clarkson University, jackson@sandman.soe.clarkson.edu; Rich Scherl (cochair); Donald Nute, The University of Georgia; Jeff Pelletier, University of Alberta; Lincoln Wallen, University of Oxford ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: Bob Powell (Continuum) <bobp@com.microsoft> Subject: job posting Reply-To: bobp@com.microsoft Date: Mon, 10 May 93 09:26:29 PDT Job posting - Continuum Productions Corp. Continuum Productions Corporation seeks a hands-on software development manager for the Advanced Information Retrieval (AIR) project. Manage and lead development of the core IR technology for a major new commercial multimedia information service. AIR is a retrieval subsystem combining the exact semantic retrieval characteristics of a relational database with the best modern linguistic pre-processing and probabilistic co-occurrence IR methods. It is an integration with commercial finesse of the best available commercial and experimental technologies - a practical application of, not a pursuit of new basic technology. This position requires successful software product development management experience, expert proficiency in C or C++ on UNIX, Mac or MS Windows platforms, and experience with database, knowledge representation and information retrieval applications. Continuum Productions Corporation was founded in 1989 as Interactive Home Systems Inc. and is privately owned and funded by William H. Gates III, co-founder of Microsoft. Continuum is developing high-quality visual information products for emerging markets in the converging "continuum" of computers, communications and entertainment. Continuum's products will be used at home, work, school and at public institutions. Please respond with resume and cover letter to bobp@continuum.com or mail to Robert Powell, Director of Research, Continuum Productions Corp., 15395 SE 30 Pl. #300, Bellevue, WA 98007. Email or hardcopy only, please. Continuum Productions is an equal-opportunity employer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: gerda@at.ac.univie.ai (Gerda Helscher) Subject: CFP: EMCSR'94 European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research Reply-To: gerda@at.ac.univie.ai Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 19:13:44 GMT * * * * * TWELFTH EUROPEAN MEETING * * ON * * CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH * * (EMCSR 1994) * April 5 - 8, 1994 UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies in cooperation with Dept.of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ.of Vienna and International Federation for Systems Research Cybernetics - "the study of communication and control in the animal and the machine" (N.Wiener) - has recently returned to the forefront, not only in cyberpunk and cyberspace, but, even more important, contributing to the consolidation of various scientific theories. Additionally, an ever increasing number of research areas, including social and economic theories, theoretical biology, ecology, computer science, and robotics draw on ideas from second order cybernetics. Artificial intelligence, evolved directly from cybernetics, has not only technological and economic, but also important social impacts. With a marked trend towards interdisciplinary cooperation and global perspectives, this important role of cybernetics is expected to be further strengthened over the next years. Since 1972, the biennial European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) have served as a forum for discussion of converging ideas and new aspects of different scientific disciplines. As on previous occasions, a number of sessions providing wide coverage of the rapid developments will be arranged, complemented with daily plenary meetings, where eminent speakers will present latest research results. SESSIONS + Chairpersons: A General Systems Methodology G.J.Klir, USA B Advances in Mathematical Systems Theory M.Peschel, Germany, and F.Pichler, Austria C Fuzzy Systems, Approximate Reasoning and Knowledge-Based Systems C.Carlsson, Finland, K.-P.Adlassnig, Austria, and E.P.Klement, Austria D Designing and Systems, and Their Education B.Banathy, USA, W.Gasparski, Poland, and G.Goldschmidt, Israel E Humanity, Architecture and Conceptualization G.Pask, UK, and G.de Zeeuw, Netherlands F Biocybernetics and Mathematical Biology L.M.Ricciardi, Italy G Systems and Ecology F.J.Radermacher, Germany, and K.Fedra, Austria H Cybernetics and Informatics in Medicine G.Gell, Austria, and G.Porenta, Austria I Cybernetics of Socio-Economic Systems K.Balkus, USA, and O.Ladanyi, Austria J Systems, Management and Organization G.Broekstra, Netherlands, and R.Hough, USA K Cybernetics of National Development P.Ballonoff, USA, T.Koizumi, USA, and S.A.Umpleby, USA L Communication and Computers A M.Tjoa, Austria M Intelligent Autonomous Systems J.W.Rozenblit, USA, and H.Praehofer, Austria N Cybernetic Principles of Knowledge Development F.Heylighen, Belgium, and S.A.Umpleby, USA O Cybernetics, Systems, and Psychotherapy M.Okuyama, Japan, and H.Koizumi, USA P Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems S.Grossberg, USA, and G.Dorffner, Austria Q Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science V.Marik, Czechia, and R.Born, Austria R Artificial Intelligence and Systems Science for Peace Research S.Unseld, Switzerland, and R.Trappl, Austria SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Acceptance of contributions will be determined on the basis of Draft Final Papers. These Papers must not exceed 7 single-spaced A4 pages (maximum 50 lines, final size will be 8.5 x 6 inch), in English. They have to contain the final text to be submitted, including graphs and pictures. However, these need not be of reproducible quality. The Draft Final Paper must carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation in this order. Please specify the session in which you would like to present your paper. Each scientist shall submit only one paper. Please send t h r e e copies of the Draft Final Paper to the Conference Secretariat (NOT to session chairpersons!) DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: October 8, 1993. In order to enable careful refereeing, Draft Final Papers received after the deadline cannot be considered. FINAL PAPERS: Authors will be notified about acceptance no later than November 13, 1993. They will be provided by the conference secretariat at the same time with the detailed instructions for the preparation of the final paper. PRESENTATION: It is understood that the paper is presented personally at the Meeting by the contributor. CONFERENCE FEE: Contributors: AS 2500 if paid before January 31, 1994 AS 3200 if paid later Participants: AS 3500 if paid before January 31, 1994 AS 4200 if paid later The Conference Fee includes participation in the Twelfth European Meeting, attendance at official receptions, and the volume of the proceedings available at the Meeting. Please send cheque, or transfer the amount free of charges for beneficiary to our account no. 0026-34400/00 at Creditanstalt-Bankverein Vienna. Please state your name clearly. HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS will be handled by OESTERREICHISCHES VERKEHRSBUERO, Kongressabteilung, Opernring 5, A-1010 Vienna, phone +43-1-58800-113, fax +43-1-5867127, telex 111 222. Reservation cards will be sent to all those returning the attached registration form. SCHOLARSHIPS: The Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research has kindly agreed to provide a limited number of scholarships covering the registration fee for the conference and part of the accommodation costs for colleagues from eastern and south-eastern European countries. Applications should be sent to the Conference Secretariat before October 8, 1993. * * * * * The Proceedings of the 1st to 11th European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research were published as Pichler F. and Trappl R.(eds.): ADVANCES IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, 2 vols, Transcripta Books, London, 1973. Trappl R. and Pichler F.R.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.I, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / Halsted-Wiley, New York, 1975. Trappl R. and Hanika F.de P.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.II, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / Halsted-Wiley, New York, 1975. Trappl R., Klir G.J. and Ricciardi L.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.III, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / Halsted-Wiley, New York, 1978. Trappl R. and Pask G.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.IV, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / Halsted-Wiley, New York, 1978. Trappl R., Hanika F.de P. and Pichler F.R.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.V, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / Halsted-Wiley, New York, 1979. Pichler F.R. and Trappl R.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.VI, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / McGraw-Hill, 1982. Pichler F.R. and Hanika F.de P.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.VII, Hemisphere, Washington,DC, 1980. Trappl R., Klir G.J. and Pichler F.R.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.VIII, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / McGraw-Hill, 1982. Trappl R., Ricciardi L. and Pask G.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.IX, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / McGraw-Hill, 1982. Trappl R., Hanika F.de P. and Tomlinson R.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.X, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / McGraw-Hill, 1982. Trappl R., Findler N.V. and Horn W.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol. XI, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / McGraw-Hill, 1982. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1982. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH 2, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1984. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '86, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1986. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '88, 2 vols., Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1988. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '90, World Scientific, Singapore, 1990. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '92, 2 vols., World Scientific, Singapore, 1992. Please contact the conference secretariat for more details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAIRMAN of the Meeting: Robert Trappl, President Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies SECRETARIAT: I. Ghobrial-Willmann and G. Helscher Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies A-1010 Vienna 1, Schottengasse 3 (Austria) Phone: +43-1-53532810 Fax: +43-1-5320652 E-mail: sec@ai.univie.ac.at PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: K.-P. Adlassnig (Austria) G. J. Klir (USA) K. Balkus (USA) T. Koizumi (USA) P. Ballonoff (USA) O. Ladanyi (Austria) B. Banathy (USA) V. Marik (Czechia) R. Born (Austria) G. Pask (UK) G. Broekstra (Netherlands) M. Peschel (Germany) E. Buchberger (Austria) F. Pichler (Austria) C. Carlsson (Finland) G. Porenta (Austria) G. Chroust (Austria) H. Praehofer (Austria) G. Dorffner (Austria) F. J. Radermacher (Germany) K. Fedra (Austria) J. Retti (Austria) W. Gasparski (Poland) L. M. Ricciardi (Italy) G. Gell (Austria) J. W. Rozenblit (USA) G. Goldschmidt (Israel) N. Rozsenich (Austria) S. Grossberg (USA) A M. Tjoa (Austria) F. Heylighen (Belgium) R. Trappl (Austria) W. Horn (Austria) H. Trost (Austria) R. Hough (USA) S. A. Umpleby (USA) N. C. Hu (China) S. Unseld (Switzerland) E. P. Klement (Austria) G. de Zeeuw (Netherlands) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: E. Buchberger P. Petta G. Chroust F. Pichler I. Ghobrial-Willmann R. Trappl G. Helscher H. Trost W. Horn M. Veitl J. Matiasek ****************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 8, 1993 ****************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMCSR-94 TWELFTH EUROPEAN MEETING ON CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH Please return to: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies Schottengasse 3, A-1010 VIENNA, AUSTRIA (EUROPE) E-mail: sec@ai.univie.ac.at o I plan to attend the Meeting. o I intend to submit a paper to Session ..... o I enclose the Draft Final Paper. o My Draft Final Paper will arrive prior to October 8, 1993. o My cheque for AS ....... covering the Conference Fee is enclosed. o I have transferred AS ........ to your account 0026-34400/00 at Creditanstalt Vienna. o I shall not be at the Meeting but am interested to receive particulars of the Proceedings. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: kr94@at.ac.univie.ai (KR94 Conference Service) Subject: CfP: KR94 Reply-To: kr94@at.ac.univie.ai Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 12:41:09 GMT KR'94 - CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Gustav Stresemann Institut, Bonn, Germany May 24-27, 1994 with support from Gesellschaft fuer Informatik Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by inference algorithms provide an important foundation for much work in Artificial Intelligence, from natural language to expert systems, and a growing number of researchers study the principles governing systems based on such representations and reasoning. The KR conferences bring together these researchers in a more intimate setting than that of general AI conferences, and provide authors with the opportunity to give presentations of adequate length to present substantial results. This year's conference will take place in Europe for the first time. The conference emphasizes both the theoretical principles of knowledge representation and reasoning and the relationships between these principles and their embodiments in working systems. Authors are encouraged to relate their work to at least one of the following questions: (1) What issues arise in representing and using knowledge about real problems, and how can they be addressed? (2) What are the theoretical principles in knowledge representation and reasoning? (3) How can these principles be embodied in implemented knowledge representation systems, and what practical tradeoffs arise? (4) How do these approaches to problems relate to corresponding approaches in other parts of AI (natural language, robotics, etc.) or in other fields (psychology, philosophy, logic, economics, cognitive science, computer science, management, engineering, etc.) Submissions are encouraged in (but are not limited to) the following topic areas: REPRESENTATIONAL FORMALISMS REASONING METHODS AND TASKS - logics of knowledge and belief - deduction - nonmonotonic logics - abduction - temporal logics - induction - spatial logics - deliberation and decision analysis - taxonomic logics - planning and plan analysis - logics of uncertainty - learning and evidence - diagnosis - logics of preference and utility - classification - logics of intentions and actions - inheritance - deontic logics - belief management and revision - constraint solving - analogical reasoning - reasoning about reasoning GENERIC ONTOLOGIES FOR DESCRIBING ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTED KR&R SYSTEMS - time - comparative evaluation - space - empirical results - causality - benchmarking and testing - resources - reasoning architectures - constraints - efficiency/completeness tradeoffs - decisions - complexity - activities - algorithms - mental states - embedded systems - multi-agent organizations - knowledge sharing and reuse - applications classes, e.g. medicine - standards SUBMISSION OF PAPERS The Program Committee will review EXTENDED ABSTRACTS rather than complete papers. Abstracts must be at most twelve (12) pages with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt), excluding the title page and the bibliography. Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. All abstracts must be submitted on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4 paper, and printed or typed in 12-point font (10 characters/inch on a typewriter). Dot matrix printout, FAX, or electronic submission will not be accepted. Each submission should include the names and complete addresses (including email, when possible) of all authors. Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise indicated. Also, authors should indicate under the title which of the questions and/or topic areas listed above best describes their paper (if none is appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best describe the topic of the paper). To be considered, five (5) paper copies of the extended abstract must be received by one of the program co-chairs no later than November 8, 1993 (or must have been sent by express courier no later than November 5). Authors are also STRONGLY encouraged (it is to their advantage) to submit an electronic abstract in the form described below. Electronic abstracts that accurately reflect the contents of the papers will significantly aid the reviewing process by helping direct the papers to the most appropriate reviewers. MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantively different from papers currently under review. Papers may be submitted after January 1, 1994 to other conferences as long as (a) the prior submission to KR'94 is noted on those submissions and (b) the paper is withdrawn from the later conference if accepted by KR'94. ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT In addition to submitting the paper copies of the extended abstract, authors should (if possible) send a short (200 word) electronic abstract of their paper to KR94-abstracts@medg.lcs.mit.edu to aid in the reviewing process. In order to make use of software for classifying papers and selecting reviewers, most of the electronic abstract must be in plain ASCII text (no LaTeX or other formatting commands) in the following format, separating each field from the next with a blank line. TITLE: <title of paper> FIRST AUTHOR: <last name, first name> FIRST ADDRESS: <first author address or affiliation> COAUTHORS: <their names, if any> OTHER ADDRESSES: <addresses or affiliations of coauthors> CONTENT AREAS: <at most three content areas, separated by commas> KEYWORDS: <keywords, separated by commas> ABSTRACT: <text of the abstract> The content areas preferably should be drawn from the topics listed above, with other areas added only if necessary. The keywords are to aid the human reviewers only and may be chosen as desired. The text of the abstract field may include formatting commands, if desired, but these should be omitted from all other fields. A blank form for electronic abstracts and an example abstract may be found at the end of this Call. REVIEW OF PAPERS Submissions will be judged on clarity, significance, and originality. An important criterion for acceptance is that the paper clearly contributes to principles of representation and reasoning that are likely to influence current and future AI practice. Extended abstracts should contain enough information to enable the Program Committee to identify and evaluate the principal contribution of the research and its importance. It should also be clear from the extended abstract how the work compares to related work in the field. NOTIFICATION Authors will be notified of the Program Committee's decision by January 24, 1994. Notification will be made by electronic mail whenever possible. FINAL PAPERS Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit substantially longer full papers for the conference proceedings. Final camera-ready copies of the full papers will be due February 28, 1994. Final papers will be allowed at most twelve (12) double-column pages in the conference proceedings (corresponding to approximately 28 article-style LaTeX pages; a style file will be provided by the publisher). PLANNING TO ATTEND People planning to attend the conference are asked to send a note stating their intention as early as possible to the local conference organizer, Ms. Christine Harms (Christine.Harms@gmd.de), in order to help estimate the facilities needed for the conference. (Postal address: Christine Harms, c/o GMD, Schloss Birlinghoven, W-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, Germany. Phone: +49-2241-14-2473, Fax: +49-2241-14-2472.) CONFERENCE CHAIR Erik Sandewall Department of Computer and Information Science Linkoeping University S-58183 Linkoeping SWEDEN Voice: +46 1328 1408 Fax: +46 1328 2606 Email: ejs@ida.liu.se PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Jon Doyle Piero Torasso MIT Universita' di Torino Laboratory for Computer Science Dipartimento di Informatica 545 Technology Square Corso Svizzera 185 Cambridge, MA 02139 I-10149 Torino USA ITALY Voice: +1 (617) 253-3512 Voice: +39 11 7712002 Fax: +1 (617) 258-8682 Fax: +39 11 751603 Email: doyle@lcs.mit.edu Email: torasso@di.unito.it LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Gerhard Lakemeyer Institute of Computer Science III University of Bonn Roemerstrasse 164 D-5300 Bonn 1 GERMANY Voice: +49-228-550-281 Fax: +49-228-550-382 Email: gerhard@cs.uni-bonn.de PUBLICITY CHAIR Werner Horn Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Vienna AUSTRIA Voice: +43 1 53532810 Fax: +43 1 5320652 Email: werner@ai.univie.ac.at PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giuseppe Attardi (U. Pisa, Italy), Franz Baader (DFKI, Germany), Fahiem Bacchus (U. Waterloo, Canada), Philippe Besnard (IRISA, France), Piero Bonissone (GE, USA), Craig Boutilier (UBC, Canada), Ron Brachman (AT&T, USA) Maurice Bruynooghe (KUL, Belgium), Anthony Cohn (U. Leeds, UK), Ernest Davis (NYU, USA), Rina Dechter (UC Irvine, USA), Johan de Kleer (Xerox, USA), Oskar Dressler (Siemens, Germany), Jennifer Elgot-Drapkin (Arizona State U., USA), Richard Fikes (Stanford U., USA), Alan Frisch (U. York, UK), Hector Geffner (Simon Bolivar U., Venezuela), Georg Gottlob (TU Wien, Austria), Pat Hayes (U. Illinois, USA), Hirofumi Katsuno (NTT, Japan), Henry Kautz (AT&T, USA), Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan U., Israel), Maurizio Lenzerini (U. Rome, Italy), Vladimir Lifschitz (U. Texas, USA), David Makinson (Unesco, France), Joao Martins (IST, Portugal) David McAllester (MIT, USA), John-Jules Meyer (U. Amsterdam, Netherlands), Katharina Morik (U. Dortmund, Germany), Johanna Moore (U. Pittsburgh, USA), Hideyuki Nakashima (ETL, Japan), Bernhard Nebel (DFKI, Germany), Hans Juergen Ohlbach (Max Planck Institut, Germany), Lin Padgham (Linkoeping U., Sweden), Peter Patel-Schneider (AT&T, USA), Ramesh Patil (USC/ISI, USA), Raymond Perrault (SRI, USA), David Poole (UBC, Canada), Henri Prade (IRIT, France), Anand Rao (AAII, Australia), Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew U., Israel), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley, USA), Len Schubert (Rochester) Marek Sergot (Imperial College, UK), Lokendra Shastri (U. Pennsylvania, USA), Yoav Shoham (Stanford U., USA), Lynn Stein (MIT, USA), Devika Subramanian (Cornell U., USA), William Swartout (USC/ISI, USA), Austin Tate (AIAI, Edinburgh, UK), Peter van Beek (U. Alberta, Canada), Michael Wellman (U. Michigan, USA) IMPORTANT DATES Submission receipt deadline: November 8, 1993 Author notification date: January 24, 1994 Camera-ready copy due to publisher: February 28, 1994 Conference: May 24-27, 1994 <-- cut here --> ------------------------------------------------------------ KR'94 Electronic Abstract Form Complete and send to KR94-abstracts@medg.lcs.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: FIRST AUTHOR: FIRST ADDRESS: COAUTHORS: OTHER ADDRESSES: CONTENT AREAS: KEYWORDS: ABSTRACT: ------------------------------------------------------------ <-- cut here --> ------------------------------------------------------------ KR'94 Electronic Abstract Example ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: Begriffsschrift: A formula language, modeled upon that of arithmetic, for pure thought FIRST AUTHOR: Frege, Gottlob FIRST ADDRESS: Department of Mathematics, University of Jena, Germany CONTENT AREAS: logics, deduction KEYWORDS: ideography, conceptual content, inferential sequence, argument, function ABSTRACT: I present an ideography to provide the most reliable test of the validity of a chain of inferences, one that points out every presupposition that tries to sneak in unnoticed, so that its origin can be investigated. I am confident that my ideography can be successfully used wherever special value must be placed on the validity of proofs, as for example when the foundations of the differential and integral calculus are established. Susan Epstein (sehhc@cunyvm.cuny.edu) Department of Computer Science Hunter College of the City University of New York 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 Telephone: 212/772-5210 Fax: 212/772-5219 Human-Computer Collaboration Reconciling Theory, Synthesizing Practice This symposium deals with the theory and practice of collaborative problem solving between people and computers. The study of collaborative problem solving involves understanding the processes by which agents work together to achieve goals. We seek a deep understanding of this process as it occurs between one human and one computational agent, an understanding that takes into account the unique characteristics of each type of agent. In particular, the goals of this workshop are to explore the fundamental nature of collaborative problem solving, to examine various approaches to modeling collaboration and designing collaborative systems, and to draw lessons from implemented systems. We have identified three major issues that we would like submissions to address: (1) effectively sharing responsibility for accomplishing a task between a person and computer, (2) managing the interaction between a person and computer, and (3) clarifying assumptions concerning the cognitive capabilities and knowledge requirements required for effective collaboration. Each of these issues has a number of sub-issues which are listed below. 1. Sharing Responsibility - Analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of people and computers. Such analyses form the basis for distributions of responsibility between people and computers that maximize the effectiveness of the joint cognitive system. - Analyses of the types of communication and coordination necessary to collaborate on a task, such as delegating responsibility for particular aspects of the task, reporting results in a timely fashion, and evaluating results. - Analyses of how people do work. For example, studies that show people interleave problem-solving with problem-setting or that they create personalized workspaces to organize task-relevant objects and partial solutions have major implications for system design. - Methods for shifting responsibility between people and computers. As people use a system, they may detect routines in their work or patterns of failure and repair interactions; users should be able to tell the system about such regularities and shift some of the burden for managing them to the system. On the other hand, as users' skills increase, they may want to assume greater responsibility. 2. Managing Interaction - Models of interaction. Two major models are intermediary and model world. An intermediary interface mediates between a user and an application, and communication occurs via linguistic description. A model world interface uses iconic displays and direct manipulation to give users the experience of direct engagement with objects in the domain of interest. We are interested in analyses of the conditions under which each model is most appropriate and ways in which they may be integrated. - Managing multi-media interaction. We are interested in analyses of which media are best for expressing particular types of information and techniques for coordinating the presentation of related information in different media. We also seek comparisons of linguistic and non-linguistic methods for presenting information. - Achieving natural communication. Issues such as managing trouble and controlling initiative are crucial to effective interaction, whatever modalities are used. 3. Clarifying Assumptions - What knowledge must a system have in order to be an effective collaborative partner? For example, are models of a user's goals and plans necessary? What about models of the task domain? - What are appropriate architectures for deploying this knowledge? How does the debate between planned and situated accounts of activity affect the design of collaborative problem solving systems? We are interested in both theoretical arguments concerning the type of knowledge that is necessary to be an effective collaborative partner, and system-based arguments that identify types of knowledge that have proved useful in practice, examine the cost of acquiring, representing, and utilizing such knowledge, or present general architectures for collaborative behavior. Those wishing to participate should submit their position paper to the committee chair by email. Papers that report on empirical studies of collaborative problem solving, theories of collaboration, and system architectures, implementations, and evaluations are all of interest. Papers should be no longer than ten pages and should be as short as possible. We seek papers that take clear positions, make crisp claims, even aim to provoke controversy, rather than simply present a description of a system, model, or study. Loren Terveen (Chair) AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 terveen@research.att.com Telephone: 908/582-2608 Program Committee: Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder; Lewis Johnson, USC/ISI; Johanna Moore, University of Pittsburgh; Chuck Rich, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories; Candace Sidner, Digital Equipment Corporation Instantiating Real-World Agents Rather than being centered on a research area, or a general unsolved problem area (e.g., intelligent agents), this symposium will concentrate on one specific real-world problem in the hopes that progress can be made on at least this problem, and that a solution to this specific problem will provide clues to solutions to the more general problems. This symposium will concentrate on AI as applied to a physically instantiated robot for vacuuming household floors. The target problem is to autonomously vacuum your living room, while doing the right thing with furniture, pets, trash, etc. In particular, research on navigation, planning, spatial representation, multi-agent control, behavior control, obstacle avoidance, perception, exploration, NLP interfaces, etc., will be of interest as long as they are related to household vacuuming. Theoretical work, simulations, and implemented systems will all be of interest. However, work presented at this symposium should be set in the target domain. Limiting the discussions to a specific task to be performed without allowing the engineering of a specific solution still leaves a plethora of issues to be explored. We hope that significant progress can be made on this problem, and that new research methods might grow out of this type of symposia. Perhaps most importantly, we are hopeful that a common problem domain may obviate the vocabulary problems that have crept up in recent years when researchers involved in different problems try to talk to one another. By having a common problem, we hope a common language will emerge. Additionally, by concentrating on a real-world problem domain, we hope that some practical progress can be made in this domain, and in the related research areas. Robotics and planning work are too often detached from their application areas. It is hoped that this symposium will bring to focus some research areas that are of more than just academic interest. It may even be possible that participants in this symposium will work on a commercial version of this robot-- allowing them to really clean up! Potential participants for the symposium on Instantiating Intelligent Agents should submit a short position paper (2 - 6 pages) that describes either their approach towards addressing the vacuuming problem, or their current research and how it can be related to the floor vacuuming problem. Pete Bonasso The MITRE Corporation MS Z459 7525 Colshire Drive McLean, VA 22102 Organizing Committee: Pete Bonasso, MITRE, cochair and contact person (bonasso@starbase.mitre.org); David Miller, JPL, cochair; Ramesh Jain, UCSD; Ben Kuipers, University of Texas at Austin Machine Learning in Computer Vision: What, Why, and How? This symposium will bring together researchers from different specialties in machine learning and computer vision to address issues raised by examining the use of machine learning in computer vision: - What elements of a computer vision system might be learned rather than hand-crafted by the designer? - What machine learning paradigms are appropriate to the computer vision domain (especially across the signal to symbol transition)? - Why or how would learning improve the performance or efficiency of computer vision systems? - How do we go about implementing or exploiting the machine learning paradigms which seem most appropriate to the computer vision domain? One of the acknowledged problems with computer vision systems is that they tend to be hand-crafted application-specific efforts that embody or reflect rather little in the way of general principles which can adapt easily from one application environment to another. While some in the computer vision are currently reconsidering the goal of general purpose vision systems as possibly too difficult or not relevant, there is still the clearly motivated desire to learn something from the experience in creating a vision system for one application domain that can be used to make it easier to create the vision system. Since much of the effort in creating a vision system often lies in creating a database of examples and facts, and in tuning the parameters and operations of the system to the application domain, learning techniques may be of use in addressing this problem. However, it is not yet clear what learning capabilities computer vision systems should have, why these capabilities should result in computer vision systems that display greater competence and generality, or how to go about building vision systems that incorporate learning capabilities. >From the standpoint of machine learning systems, visual domains present some interesting problems. The images and outputs of low-level image processing operations tend to be noisy, making it difficult to get true segmentation of images. Thus it is unreasonable to assume that the transition from image signal to symbol is made completely and correctly. Also, large numbers of exactly labeled examples suitable for inductive learning are generally not available. Some domain knowledge and clear examples are often available suggesting a multi-paradigm learning approach. Format: The symposium will contain both invited and submitted papers. There will be several longer talks by invited experts and a number of short talks. We will emphasize an interactive discussion of issues. One panel will be held on the obstacles to applying learning to vision and promising approaches. Panel suggestions are encouraged and may be given to any program committee member. There will be a poster session to encourage broad participation and discussion. To present a paper or poster, submit an extended abstract of three to five pages by email (ascii, latex or postscript) to: hall@csee.usf.edu or kwb@csee.usf.edu or by hard copy to: AAAI-Fall Workshop Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Engineering, ENG 118, 4202 E. Fowler Ave. University of South Florida Tampa, Fl. 33620 To attend the workshop without presenting, send a supporting note. Program Committee: Kevin Bowyer, University of South Florida, cochair; Chris Brown, University of Rochester; Bruce Draper, University of Massachusetts; Lawrence Hall, University of South Florida, cochair; Tom Mitchell, Carnegie-Mellon University; Dean Pomerleau, Carnegie-Mellon University; Larry Rendell, University of Illinois ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: fayyad@Gov.Nasa.Jpl.aig (Usama Fayyad) Subject: Job opportunity for Ph.D. at JPL Reply-To: fayyad@Gov.Nasa.Jpl.aig Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 14:11:24 -0400 Employment Opportunity for Ph.D. Candidates: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology is seeking candidates at the Ph.D. level to join the Machine Learning Research and Applications subgroup. A candidate must hold a degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on machine learning or pattern recognition. Research experience in one of the following areas is preferred: classification learning, clustering, adaptive systems, 2-D signal processing, or low-level vision (image processing). Familiarity with signal processing/estimation, Bayesian analysis, non-linear regression, or fundamentals of pattern recognition is desirable; but not required . The ideal candidate should have demonstrated ability to perform both mathematical analysis and implementation of computer programs to solve significant AI problems. The AI Group conducts research and develops applications in the form of deliverable software packages that are put to use by scientists or NASA operations personnel. The ML subgroup focusses on applications of machine learning in analysis of large image databases and in the automated acquisition of diagnostic knowledge from training data. The work will involve extending the state-of-the-art in machine learning as well as applications to real-world problems. Publication of research at major conferences and journals is strongly encouraged by JPL and NASA. Other ongoing efforts in the AI Group involve: intelligent system monitoring, model-based reasoning, planning and scheduling. If you are interested in this position, please send a resume, with a list of publications to the address below. Please include an e-mail address and copies of only two selected papers that represent your work best. Please respond by U.S. mail. Use e-mail only to make brief specific inquiries about this position. Students graduating before December 1993 are strongly encouraged to apply. Dr. Usama M. Fayyad Technical Group Leader, Artificial Intelligence Group Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 525-3660 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91109-8099 (818) 306-6197 Fayyad@aig.jpl.nasa.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: sabourco@ca.umontreal.ere (Sabourin Conrad) Subject: AI and linguistics database Reply-To: sabourco@ca.montreal.ere Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 19:14:39 -0400 (EDT) COMPUTERS - LINGUISTICS - COMMUNICATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE For the last 15 years, we have been compiling a bibliographical database on all aspects of computer processing of natural language communications. The bibliography, which now holds more than 67,000 references, is indexed with a thesaurus of over 3,400 keywords. More than 13,000 titles are related to artificial intelligence. The references cover the period beginning with the inception of the computer to the present and include theses, research reports, books, articles from specialized periodicals, papers in conference proceedings, etc. The entries were obtained mostly by systematically scanning more than 400 periodicals and 800 conference proceedings. Some of the thematic sections of the database are near completion and will be published in print in the coming months. Each thematic volume will have a two-level analytical index. Many researchers collaborated by sending us their lists of publications. All others who are interested are invited to do so. In the list that follows, the numbers refer to the approximate number of entries of some of the subsections of the database. ===================================================================== NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES (3000) Conversation, interfaces to database, to expert system, to robot, to operating system, to question answering system, etc. TEXT UNDERSTANDING (3800) PARSING (7000) Syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, semantic interpretation. COMPUTATIONAL MORPHOLOGY (2000) Morphological analysis and generation, lemmatization. TEXT GENERATION (2000) Generation from data or linguistic structure, explanation generation, paraphrasing, etc. SPEECH ANALYSIS, CODING, AND SYNTHESIS (2800) Speech compression, encryption, transmission, speech to tactile display, phoneme identification, speaker identification, tone recognition, etc. SPEECH RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING (3000) Connected, continuous, isolated words, speaker dependent and independent, etc. TEXT INFORMATION EXTRACTION (2000) Indexation (automatic and computer aided), text condensation, content analysis, etc. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (3000) Full text, conceptual. COMPUTER TRANSLATION (7000) Bilingual, multilingual, aids to translation MATHEMATICAL AND FORMAL LINGUISTICS (3000) COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (1600) LITERARY COMPUTING (3000) Concordances, author identification, style analysis, poetry analysis and production, text collation, literary criticism, etc. QUANTITATIVE AND STATISTICAL LINGUISTICS (2400) Frequencies of characters, phonemes, words, grammatical categories, syntactic structures; lexical richness, word collocations, etc. COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE TEACHING (5500) Teaching foreign languages, composition, writing, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, reading, translation, listening, speaking; text composition aids, etc. ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PROCESSING (2300) Document editing, formatting, typesetting, coding, storing, interchanging, etc. COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY (3000) Dictionaries, thesauri, terminological databanks; parsing, transfer and generation dictionaries; lexical semantics, etc. OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (2900) Character preprocessing, feature extraction, isolation, segmentation, thinning; multi-font recognition, writer identification, etc. CHARACTER PROCESSING (2200) Character coding (external and internal), input, output, synthesis, ordering, conversion, encryption, string matching, font design, etc. COMMUNICATING THROUGH COMPUTERS (2100) E-Mail, computer conferencing, electronic publishing, hypermedia, hypertext, etc. CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND DIALECT STUDY (1000) ===================================================================== Conrad F. Sabourin sabourco@ere.umontreal.ca P.O. Box 187, Snowdon Montreal, Qc, H3X 3T4 Canada ===================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: Tony McEnery <mcenery@uk.ac.lancs.comp> Subject: IBM/Lancaster Grammar Reply-To: mcenery@uk.ac.lancs.comp Date: May 12th, 1993, 13:11:00 GMT A new title in the Rodopi "Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics" series is "Statistically Driven Computer Grammars of English - the IBM/Lancaster Approach" (Black, Garside & Leech). The book is about building computer programs that parse sentences of "real-world" English, i.e. naturally occuring prose such as the entire text of a morning newspaper. The book records a five year research collaboration between IBM New York and Lancaster University, UK. It also shows how to build and implement a broad coverage grammar of English, supplying a grammar, a set of algorithms for its use and guidance on corpus development. ISBN - 90-5183-321-0 End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Mon May 24 05:22:08 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <237320>; Mon, 24 May 1993 05:22:04 -0400 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA05070 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Mon, 24 May 1993 02:20:55 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 05:20:55 -0400 Message-Id: <199305240904.AA04997@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley <Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com> Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 11 No. 10 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NL-KR Digest 20/5/93 Volume 11 No. 10 Today's Topics: Query: Availability of Knowledge Representation Systems Conference: Symposium on Process Integration Query: Current NL Theories Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: ahmed@edu.sdsc.cassatt (Zahid Ahmed) Subject: Puclicly available knowledge representation systems. Reply-To: ahmed@edu.sdsc.cassatt Date: 13 May 1993 22:20:21 GMT I am curious what knowledge representation systems are publicly available to educational/research institutions. Where can I get them from? Are there any ftp sites? In terms of our application requirements, we require: - ability to store rules - abilty to store rich semantic information in some frame-based system - user definable operators - user definable classes - ease of integrating with relational databases - language support for C, or C++, or Common Lisp, or CLOS - compilable on ULtrix, or some standard UNIX OS. I have considered CLASSIC that is available from AT&T Bell Labs. Others that come to my mind are extension to KL-like systems. However, I do not know where I can acquire them. Hence, any pointers to where I can acquire them particularly if the software has been used for real applications would be appreciated. Thanks, Zahid Ahmed San Diego Supercomputer Center 619/534-5105 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: Bill Riddle <riddle@com.sda> Subject: Symposium on Process Integration Reply-To: riddle@rmise.org Date: P R E L I M I N A R Y A N N O U N C E M E N T = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = SYMPOSIUM on *************** PROCESS INTEGRATION * Process * * Support * Washington, D.C. Area *************** April 1994 / \ / \ / \ / \ ******************** ******************** * Organizational * * Business * * Development * ----- * Process * ******************** * Re-engineering * ******************** Sponsored By: Rocky Mountain Institute of Software Engineering Effective processes are critical to an organization's - day-to-day operation, - medium and long-range planning, - marketing and sales, and - product/service development and delivery. One key to process effectiveness is their integration, the degree to which the processes complement each other and work smoothly together. Three communities are currently addressing the issues surrounding the creation and evolution of well-defined, well- supported processes exhibiting high degrees of integration: - The process support community is addressing techniques and technology to assist process definition and performance, with a special but non-exclusive emphasis on software processes. - The organizational development community is addressing people-related issues (communication, high-performance teams, team leadership. etc.) which facilitate management and collaboration. - The business process re-engineering community is addressing approaches to re-designing and iteratively improving an organization's operational, managerial and planning processes. Each of these communities are contributing to improving an organization's competitive advantage through well-integrated processes. Each is, however, addressing different process aspects and different concerns within an organization. The prospects for process integration will be greatly improved by building bridges among these three "islands" of activity. The intent of the four-day Symposium on Process Integration is to initiate cross-fertilization and collaboration across the process support, organizational development and business process re-engineering communities. The Symposium's first two days will be devoted to presentations and panels involving leaders from the three communities. Discussion periods will allow for audience participation. The Symposium's third and fourth days will be devoted to half and full-day seminars and workshops on specific topics. A final program and registration material will be available in late-Summer 1993. To receive this program and material, please send contact information to: Rocky Mountain Institute of Software Engineering SPI-94 Information 1113 Spruce Street Boulder, Colorado 80302 email: spi94@rmise.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Date: Sun, 16 May 93 15:59:23 EDT From: mrlindse@edu.peachnet.valdosta.grits (Mark R. Lindsey) Subject: Current theory Reply-To: mrlindse%edu.peachnet.valdosta.grits@edu.uga.cc.uga Date: Sun, 16 May 93 15:59:23 EDT I'm new to the whole NL thing, and I'm curious: could someone explain to me the current methods and associated theories being used in NL programming today? More precisely, are we taking a semantical-programming approach, or a true AI approach? Thank you for all responses. - Mark R. Lindsey Life is binary. mrlindse@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Mon May 24 07:29:03 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <237369>; Mon, 24 May 1993 07:28:57 -0400 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA05604 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Mon, 24 May 1993 04:26:57 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 07:26:57 -0400 Message-Id: <199305241104.AA05532@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley <Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com> Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 11 No. 11 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NL-KR Digest 20/5/93 Volume 11 No. 11 Today's Topics: Announcement: Recent Memoranda in NLP Announcement: AI Seminar Query: Tag Sets Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: <yorick@Edu.NMSU> Subject: Recent NLP Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science Reply-To: yorick@Edu.NMSU Date: Wed, 19 May 93 05:10:34 MDT Recent NLP Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science For ordering technical reports listed below write to: Memoranda Series, Computing Research Laboratory, Box 30001, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003, USA. Ball, Jerry T., (1992), PM, Propositional Model, a Computational Psycholinguistic Model of Language Comprehension Based on a Relational Analysis of Written English, CRL, (Ph.D. Thesis) MCCS-92-226. ($20.00) A computational psycholinguistic model of written language comprehension called PM (Propositional Model) is described. PM consists of two basic components: (1) a propositional system of representation for representing the relational structure and content of written English sentences, and (2) a processing mechanism for constructing propositional representations directly from written English input. PM is a highly interactive model. Written English text is processed directly into propositional representations. There is no separate syntactic analysis and no distinctly syntactic representations exist. The processing mechanism is lexically driven and most knowledge of language is assumed to be encoded in the lexicon. Of particular importance is the information encoded by relational lexical items. That information sets up expectations which drive the processing mechanism. It also determines the possible propositional structures. Following the description of the system of representation and processing mechanism, the results of two experiments which provide support for highly interactive models of language comprehension like PM and argue against autonomous models are presented. The dissertation concludes with a discussion of PM's contributions to the study of language processing. Important influences on the development of PM have been Y. Wilks (Preference Semantics), R. Langacker and G. Lakoff (Cognitive Linguistics), T. Givon (Functional-Typological Grammar), W. Kintsch and J. R. Anderson (Propositional Representations), G. A. Miller and P. Johnson-Laird (Lexical Semantics), and P. Johnson-Laird (Mental Models). Barnden, John A., (1992), Connectionism, Structure-Sensitivity, and Systematicity: Refining the Task Requirements, CRL, MCCS-92-227. ($7.00) Some issues in applying connectionism to reasoning and natural language understanding are explored. They center on systematicity and structure-sensitivity, two notions that are central to Fodor and Pylyshyn's critique of connectionism. Certain neglected but crucial aspects of these notions make them more troublesome for connectionism than has been previously acknowledged. First, connectionism must provide a way of embedding reasoning within certain types of context. For instance, a system must be able to reason within the context of another agent's beliefs. Secondly, connectionism must provide a way of matching two structured representations in working memory, as opposed to merely associating working-memory items to long-term memories. Thirdly, there may be variables within working memory representations, not just within long-term rules. These three points lead to significant systematicity and structure-sensitivity requirements over and above those that have already been discussed in the connectionism/symbolicism debate. The paper is, nevertheless, generally sympathetic to connectionism, and its intent is to clear the way for further advances within that field. Ball, Jerry T., (1992), PM, Propositional Model, a Computational Psycholinguistic Model of Language Comprehension Based on a Relational Analysis of Written English (Summary Paper), CRL, MCCS-92-229. ($7.00) A computational psycholinguistic model of written language comprehension called PM (Propositional Model) is described. PM consists of two basic components: (1) a propositional system of representation for representing the relational structure and content of written English sentences, and (2) a processing mechanism for constructing propositional representations directly from written English input. PM is a highly interactive model. Written English text is processed directly into propositional representations. There is no separate syntactic analysis and no distinctly syntactic representations exist. The processing mechanism is lexically driven and most knowledge of language is assumed to be encoded in the lexicon. Of particular importance is the information encoded by relational lexical items. That information sets up expectations which drive the processing mechanism. It also determines the possible propositional structures. After describing PM, the use of PM for computerized NLP is considered. A brief comparison of PM with compatible linguistic approaches follows. Finally, two experiments which support the interactive nature of PM are presented. Important influences on the development of PM have been Y. Wilks (Preference Semantics), R. Langacker and G. Lakoff (Cognitive Linguistics), T. Givon (Functional-Typological Grammar), W. Kintsch and J. R. Anderson (Propositional Representations), G. A. Miller and P. Johnson-Laird (Lexical Semantics), and P. Johnson-Laird (Mental Models). Barnden, John A., (1992), Beliefs, Connectionism, Meta-Representation, Vagueness: Stirring the Pot, CRL, MCCS-92-230. ($5.00) I discuss two separate topics in the area of propositional attitude representation. One is the question of how to treat vague quantification (viz. {\it most}, {\it several}, and so on) within propositional attitude contexts, as for example when someone says ``John believes that most of his toenails are ingrown.'' I report some initial considerations on this issue. The intention is to fill in a lacuna in propositional attitude research, which has been too narrowly concerned with strict universal and existential quantification. The other topic is to do with the representation of attitudes in non-implementational connectionist systems. It throws some light on attitude representation issues as well as on connectionism. One prominent way of representing attitudes is by means of meta-logics, including quotational logics. Meta-logic provides some of the most expressively powerful attitude representation approaches. Unfortunately, there are difficulties in importing its central ideas into non-implementational connectionist systems. I suggest that some of the difficulties are removed by meta-linguistic attitude representation proposals. These have terms denoting natural language sentences or utterances. An independent reason for considering such approaches is that they are strongly related to a prevalent commonsense metaphor of attitudes, namely the model of beliefs and so on as internal, natural language utterances. The discussion of the second topic reveals that connectionist concerns with representation have been insufficiently general, in failing to address the need for a cognitive system to be able to think about complex structured expressions, as opposed to thinking with them. Iverson, Eric and Helmreich, Stephen, (1992), Metallel: An Integrated Approach to Non-literal Phrase Interpretation, CRL, MCCS-92-231. ($5.00) Metallel is a program that incorporates marker passing techniques within a preference/collative semantics framework. This allows for the simultaneous generation of literal and non-literal meaning representations, while allowing for a much greater degree of parallelism during processing. In addition, we have integrated metonymic and metaphoric inferencing into one procedure, arguing that at least some types of metaphor can be represented as parallel metonymies. A number of examples are presented which show that metallel's output is roughly equivalent to conventional, rule-based approaches to metonymy. Barnden, John A., 1992, On Using Analogy to Reconcile Connections and Symbols, CRL, MCCS-92-232. ($7.00) How do we gain both standard advantages of connectionism and those of symbolic systems, without adopting hybrid symbolic/connectionist systems? Fully connectionist systems that support analogy-based reasoning are proposed as an answer, at least in the realm of high-level cognitive processing. This domain includes commonsense reasoning and the semantic/pragmatic aspects of natural language processing. The proposed type of system, purely by being analogy-based, gains forms of graceful degradation, representation completion, similarity-based generalization, learning, rule-emergence and exception-emergence. The system therefore gains advantages commonly associated with connectionism, although the precise forms of the benefits are different. At the same time, through being fully connectionist, the system also gains the traditional connectionist variants of those advantages, as well as gaining further advantages not provided by analogy-based reasoning per se. And, because the system is in part an implementation of a form of symbolic processing, it preserves the flexible handling of complex, temporary structures that are well supported in traditional artificial intelligence and which are essential for high-level cognitive processing. The chapter is in part a reaction against the excessive polarization of the connectionism/symbolicism debate. This polarization is seen as resulting from over-simplified, monolithic views both of what symbolic processing encompasses and of the nature of the benefits that connectionism provides. Dunning, Ted, Cowie, Jim, & Wakao, Takahiro, 1992, An Analysis of a Parallel Japanese-English Corpus, CRL, MCCS-92-233. ($5.00) We have analyzed a data set consisting of 10,000 paired English and Japanese scientific abstracts. Roughly 80% of these abstracts are direct translations, with the remainder being summaries in Japanese of originally English texts. This is the first example of a parallel corpus pairing English with any oriental language that we are familiar with. We show that Japanese in Extended Unix Code (EUC) is relatively more efficient at encoding information than English in ASCII, but that the information content of the two is similar. We present the results of a standard frequency analysis of the Japanese corpus alone, including character, character bigram, word and word bigram frequency analyses. Further, we present the results of statistical studies which attempt to extract a translation glossary from the paired texts and an initial assessment of the feasibility of automatic sentence alignment based on an analysis of 100 texts whose sentences were aligned manually. Jin, Wanying, 1992, A Case Study: Chinese Segmentation and its Disambiguation, CRL, MCCS-92-237. ($5.00) This paper first reviews the techniques used in the current Chinese segmentation systems. The methods include character string match, generate-and-test approach and knowledge-based expert system approach. A proposed algorithm for segmenting Chinese sentences in news articles is then presented. The basic idea is to use each character in the input string as an index to retrieve a list of candidate words from a Chinese lexical database, and then use the input string as a filter to rule out all the incompatible candidates. All compatible candidates are aligned to produce the plausible strings as hypotheses. The difficulties in Chinese segmentation are also discussed. A technique of reasoning under uncertainty is studied in an attempt of solving problems in disambiguation. Finally, a knowledge-based plausible reasoning mechanism is proposed. Harary, Frank & Wilks, Yorick, 1992, On Unidirectional Linguistic Comprehension, CRL, MCCS-92-238. ($5.00) NO ABSTRACT WITH THIS REPORT Stein, Gees C., (1993), Genus Verb Disambiguation: Possible or Impossible, CRL, MCCS-93-240. ($5.00) The problem of verb disambiguation is of interest to many research projects. This paper concentrates on the disambiguation of verbs as used in verb definitions: the genus verb. The verb definitions in the on-line dictionary LDOCE (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 1984) contain not only definition sentences and example sentences, but also grammatical information, pragmatic information and semantic information among others. The algorithm developed for the genus disambiguation is based on the definition and example sentences, the pragmatic information (in which contexts is a word in general used, like Law, Engineering etc.) and on semantic information (what kind of subject does a verb prefer). The algorithm was tested on a hand-disambiguated test set of 100 verb definitions. The disambiguation was done with respect to the definitions as found in LDOCE. The final results looked promising although verbs have some specific problems. Future work has to decide whether this approach really is useful. Helmreich, Steve, Jin, Wanying, Wilks, Yorick, Guillen, Rocio, 1992, Research Issues in Machine Translation at the Computing Research Laboratory, CRL, MCCS-92-242. ($5.00) In this paper, several issues related to Machine Translation and the ULTRA MT system that is currently under development at the Computing Research Laboratory (CRL) at New Mexico State University are presented. ULTRA is a five-language, interlingual-based system (English, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Japanese). Its theoretical goals lie in the area of pragmatics and communication, though to date this aspect has been implemented in only a limited manner. This paper emphasizes on issues which are particularly pertinent to interlingual systems and to those based on communicative principles. The approach to each of these issues within the ULTRA system and some of the ancillary tools to assist in the process of MT-system research are described. For example, a multi-lingual interface which supports special character sets and a lexicon-building menu system are described. The current state of the ULTRA system are summarized and future research directions are discussed. Wilks, Yorick, First Workshop of the Consortium for Lexical Research, 1992, CRL, MCCS-92-243. ($7.00) This document is a brief record of the presentations and discussion at the first workshop of the Consortium for Lexical Research (CLR), held at Las Cruces, New Mexico in January 1992. The nature and role of the CLR is explained at the end of this document. The workshop brought together researchers, publishers, funders and consumers of lexical data to discuss how a range of key legal and intellectual issues related to the functioning of the CLR. The transcript is partial and must be viewed in that light: notes were taken by a range of people and transcribed but, inevitably, some kept much fuller notes than others and my editing cannot repair that, so that the space given here to speakers is a function of the fullness of the notes and NOT of the length of what was said. It should be born in mind that the words ascribed to speakers are not literally their own, and we have avoided a lengthy process of consulting them because any editing by the speakers themselves would inevitably destroy dialogue coherence. Hence this record will not receive any formal publication beyond this form, and anyone who feels they have been misrepresented must accept my apologies. The workshop was supported by the Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation and the Association for Computational Linguistics, and many thanks are due to the relevant officers at all three institutions. Helmreich, Steve, Jin, Wanying, Wilks, Yorick, Guillen, Rocio, 1992, Questions de Traduction Automatique au Computing Research Laboratory (CRL) (French Version), CRL, MCCS-92-244. ($5.00) NO ABSTRACT Barnden, John & Srinivas, K., 1992, Working Memory Variables, Logical Combinators and Systematicity, CRL, MCCS-92-245. ($5.00) The connectionist problem of achieving the quantificational effect of symbolic variables is well recognized. However, one relatively neglected issue is that of variables in working memory representations (arising, for instance, from natural language inputs), as opposed to variables in rules. Working memory variables present difficulties, centering on the arbitrariness of the set of variables used in any given expression, and on non-uniformity in expressions and manipulations. However, the variables can in principle be avoided, for instance by using logical combinators. These are special functions much studied within the symbol processing arena. The use of combinators makes structures less arbitrary and more uniform. The reduced arbitrariness ameliorates an important systematicity problem, and the added uniformity could facilitate high-level parallelism. We do not claim that the combinator approach is definitely the right one to adopt, because of some problems. Nevertheless, combinators need to be borne in mind, and the symbolic/connectionist debate has been over-simplified in ignoring them. We discuss several ways in which combinator-based working memory items could be implemented in connectionism, with special attention to reduced-representation implementations. We also compare the combinator approach with the technique of using canonical sets of variables in expressions. Bruce, Rebecca, Wilks, Yorick, Guthrie, Louise, Slator, Brian, and Dunning, Ted, 1992, NounSense - A Disambiguated Noun Taxonomy with a Sense of Humour, CRL, MCCS-92-246. ($7.00) The Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University is involved in a project to create a data-base of lexical facts in the form of a network of semantically related word senses. The data-base will support the automatic construction of lexicons for many types of natural language processing systems. In this paper we discuss NounSense, a disambiguated IS-A hierarchy of nouns automatically constructed from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE). The primary focus of our presentation will be on the techniques used to construct the network, and on its semantic readable dictionaries in general. Additionally we will present a brief overview of the interface developed for NounSense, as we feel it incorporates many features that enhance the usability of the information in the data-base. Finally, we will exhibit the fact that our network does contain a sense of humor, indeed more than one, with some interesting taxonomical relationships. Wang, Jin and Wilks, Yorick, 1992, Protocols for Reference Sharing in a Belief Ascription Model of Communication, CRL, MCCS-92-248. ($5.00) The basic idea behind the \fIViewGen\fR model is that each agent involved in a conversation has a belief space which includes models of what other parties to the conversation believe. The distinctive notion is that a basic procedure, called belief ascription allows belief spaces to be amalgamated so as to model the updating and augmentation of belief environments. In this paper we extend the \fIViewGen\fR model to a more general account of reference phenomena, in particular by the notion of an ascription path (AP) that links intensional objects across belief environments so as to locate the most heuristically plausible referent at a given point in a conversation. The key notion is the location and attachment of entities that may be under different descriptions, the consequent updating of the system's beliefs about other agents by default, and the role in that process of speaker's and hearer's protocols that ensure that the choice is the appropriate one. The purpose of these protocols is to make the models of other agent's beliefs as good a representation as possible given the information to hand, and to make the agent's own beliefs more accessible to the other (on the assumption no deception is involved). The important characteristic of this model is that each communicator considers nothing beyond his own belief space. Guthrie, Louise, Guthrie, Joe, Wilks, Yorick, Cowie, Jim, Farwell, David, Slator, Brian, and Bruce, Rebecca, 1992, A research program on machine-tractable dictionaries and their application to text analysis, CRL, MCCS-92-249. ($5.00) Machine-readable dictionaries (MRD's) contain substantial knowledge about language and the world essential for large-scale tasks in natural language processing (NLP), though an important empirical question remains whether it is sufficient for such tasks. This knowledge, however, collected and recorded by lexicographers for human readers, is not expressed in MRD's in a form that can be used directly as a tool for NLP tasks. What the NLP research community needs is machine tractable dictionaries (MTD's); that is, MRD's transformed into a format appropriate for NLP tasks. At CRL we have explored several large-scale computational methods for the transformation of MRD's into MTD's, and have also developed a range of tools for extracting information from MRD's for specific NLP applications. We describe here a combination of these methods, based on their respective strengths: a hybrid SPIRAL methodology that combines elements from each of the methods (numerical and non-numerical) into a single coherent procedure to produce an MTD or lexical-knowledge base. Our hope is that, although each of the methods is incomplete in certain respects, and so a weak method in Newell's sense, the combination of them will yield better results than any individual method could. The chief difficulty with the MRD itself is that the defining items in the dictionary are themselves ambiguous, and it is this that the SPIRAL methodology seeks to overcome. The result is an MTD that is a knowledge-base of unambiguous lexical facts, linked by a network of semantically-related word senses. It is currently derived from Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), though we are augmenting that from other MRD's such as COBUILD. We also describe briefly one application of the MTD to machine translation, and the extension of the disambiguation techniques used in construction of the MTD to large-scale sense-tagging of general text. The end goal of the work described here is to develop methods for the production of larger systems faster than can be achieved with custom-made lexicons. Dunning, Ted and Davis, Mark, (1993), Multi-lingual Information Retrieval, CRL, MCCS-93-252. ($5.00) We have designed a fully multi-lingual information retrieval system and tested crucial parts. This system can accept a query in one language and find documents in others. Furthermore, relevance feedback can be used in a fully multi-lingual fashion. Our system is based on the availability of parallel and aligned texts. We use these texts to derive a linear approximation of the translation process, and then use this linear transformation to implement a conventional vector based information retrieval system. We describe three possible techniques for deriving this translation matrix, one of which we have implemented and tested on a relatively moderately sized training corpus. Our method appears to be very efficient in terms of the size of the necessary training corpus. Since our solution for the translation matrix is incremental in nature, additional parallel texts can be used to augment the system at any time. Wilks, Yorick, (1993), Second Workshop of the Consortium for Lexical Research: US/European Lexical Cooperation, CRL, MCCS-93-254. ($5.00) In January 1993 the Computing Research Laboratory hosted a workshop on international cooperation of lexical computation under the auspices of the Consortium for Lexical Research and supported by the National Science Foundation and the European Commission. This document is a report of the discussion and presentations. Wilks, Yorick, (1993), Stone Soup and the French Room: the empiricist-rationalist debate about machine translation, CRL, MCCS-93-255. ($5.00) The paper argues that the IBM statistical approach to machine translation has done rather better after a few years than many sceptics believed it could. However, it is neither as novel as its proponents suggest nor is it making claims as clear and simple as they would have us believe. The performance of the purely statistical system (and we discuss what that phrase could mean) has not equalled the performance of SYSTRAN. More importantly, the system is now being shifted to a hybrid that incorporates much of the linguistic information that it was initially claimed by IBM would not be needed for MT. Hence, one might infer that its own proponent do not believe "pure" statistics sufficient for MT of a usable quality. In addition to real limits on the statistical method, there are also strong economic limits imposed by their methodology of data gathering. However, the paper concludes that the IBM group have done the field a great service in pushing these methods far further than before, and by reminding everyone of the virtues of empiricism in the field and the need for large scale gathering of data. Cowie, Jim, Smith, Lisa, and Wilks, Yorick, (1993), Projects at CRL in Natural Language Processing, CRL, MCCS-93-256. ($5.00) NO ABSTRACT Wilks, Yorick, (1993), Language, vision and metaphor, CRL, MCCS-93-257. ($3.00) The integration of language and vision capabilities in computers can be seen purely as a multi-media task without any theoretical assumptions being required. However, it is worth exploring whether the modalities have anything serious in common, in particular in the light of the claim that most non-technical language use is metaphorical. What consequences would that have for the underlying relationship of language and vision: is it possible that vision is largely metaphorical? The conclusion is that visual processing can embody structural ambiguity (whether compositional or not), but not anything analogous to metaphor. Metaphor is essentially connected with the extension of sense and only symbols can have senses. But if it makes no sense to say a figure can be metaphorical (unless it embodies symbolic elements) that must also mean, alas, that it makes no sense to say it is literally anything either. Only a symbol can be literally something. A hat is a hat is a hat, but never, ever, literally so. Wilks, Yorick, (1993), Penrose on Artificial Intelligence, CRL, MCCS-93-258. ($3.00) Penrose's attack on artificial intelligence (AI) will give its practitioners less worry and discomfort than did its earlier philosophical critics Dreyfus and Searle, answering whom busied AI-ers for years. Penrose does not really understand his target, in the sense of knowing first-hand the detail and variety of AI work. He seems to have got much of his understanding of it second-hand from Searle whose critical terminology he uses, unexamined. Moreover, some of his arguments have already been well-rehearsed within philosophy, such as the one about the possible relevance of Goedel's theorem to machine intelligence. None of this would matter if his arguments were good but they are not; in the case of the Goedel argument he has added nothing not present in the older version. Penrose's only claim on our attention, apart from his book sales, is that he is an established physicist and mathematician, one with striking achievements to his name in topology, cosmology and quantum theory as well as the discovery of a new impossible object. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: Helene George <hgeorge@COM.BBN> Subject: AI Seminar Series Reply-To: ai-seminar@COM.BBN Date: Wed, 19 May 93 9:35:05 EDT BBN Science Development Program AI Seminar Series Lecture Bipartite Bitolerance Orders Ann N. Trenk Wellesley College atrenk@lucy.wellesley.edu BBN, 3rd floor large conference room 10 Moulton St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tuesday, May 25 at 10:30 AM Abstract: Tolerance orders and tolerance graphs arise as a generalization of interval orders and interval graphs in which some overlap of intervals is tolerated. The classes of bounded, proper and unit tolerance orders and graphs have been studied by other authors. Our motivation in introducing two-sided versions of these classes comes from the problem of scheduling rooms for seminars where some overlap between scheduled events is permitted. We show that all the two-sided classes are identical for bipartite ordered sets and give some examples to show that the classes differ in the nonbipartite case. We also give an algorithm for determining whether a bipartite ordered set is in these classes, and if so finding a representation of it. Finally, we discuss variations including directed tolerance graphs and circular arc tolerance graphs. This is joint work with Ken Bogart at Dartmouth College. Suggestions for AI Seminar speakers are always welcome. Please e-mail suggestions to Dan Cerys (Cerys@bbn.com) or (SBoisen@bbn.com) ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: ingria@COM.BBN Subject: Seeking Information on Tag Sets for Languages Other than English Reply-To: ingria@COM.BBN Date: Wed, 19 May 93 22:17:17 GMT I am familiar with many of the part-of-speech tag sets for English (e.g. Brown, UPenn Treebank, LOB, CLAWS1, CLAWS2, etc.) However, I need information about equivalent tag sets for languages other than English. (I do have a description of the tag set used by JUMAN for Japanese.) I would appreciate any descriptions, or pointers to published descriptions, of such tag sets. Please EMail to: ingria@bbn.com Thanks in advance. -30- Bob Ingria End of NL-KR Digest ******************* From nl-kr-distribution-owner Thu Jun 3 15:37:39 1993 Received: from snyside.sunnyside.com ([131.119.250.209]) by relay.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <237367>; Thu, 3 Jun 1993 15:37:35 -0400 Received: by snyside.sunnyside.com id AA03716 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for nl-kr-distribution@ai.toronto.edu); Thu, 3 Jun 1993 12:35:49 -0700 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 15:35:49 -0400 Message-Id: <199306031908.AA03574@snyside.sunnyside.com> Errors-To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com Reply-To: Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com Originator: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Sender: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Precedence: bulk From: Al Whaley <Al.Whaley@snyside.sunnyside.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com> Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 12 No. 1 X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Natural Language / Knowledge Representation Digest -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NL-KR Digest (Wed Jun 2 21:13:03 CDT 1993) Volume 12 No. 1 Today's Topics: Query: Tag Sets for Languages Other than English Announcement: lists of resources for content-based text processing Position: Lectureship in Information Science Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. Starting with V9, there is a subject index in the file INDEX. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPITSVM and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPITSVM. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: ingria@BBN.COM Subject: Query: Tag Sets for Languages Other than English Reply-To: ingria@BBN.COM Date: Wed, 19 May 93 22:17:17 GMT I am familiar with many of the part-of-speech tag sets for English (e.g. Brown, UPenn Treebank, LOB, CLAWS1, CLAWS2, etc.) However, I need information about equivalent tag sets for languages other than English. (I do have a description of the tag set used by JUMAN for Japanese.) I would appreciate any descriptions, or pointers to published descriptions, of such tag sets. Please EMail to: ingria@bbn.com Thanks in advance. -30- Bob Ingria ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep From: lewis@research.att.com (David Lewis) Subject: Announcement: lists of resources for content-based text processing Reply-To: lewis@research.att.con Date: Fri, 28 May 93 13:54 EDT Hello, As part of a tutorial I'm co-presenting (at SIGIR-93 and ACL-93, with Liz Liddy) on natural language processing for information retrieval, I would like to prepare two brief lists: 1. A list of "lists" of resources for natural language processing of text. I count electronic mailing lists, and archives of those lists, as such lists of lists when they frequently discuss language processing resources. I will also list network servers (FTP archives, Bitnet LISTSERVs, etc.) as "lists" but even better would be to be able to provide pointers to regularly maintained files on such archives. My current list is the following: Free electronic mailing lists: NL-KR IRLIST LINGUIST EMPIRICISTS CORPORA-LIST LN HUMANIST Commercial electronic mailing lists: Computists Communique Regularly Maintained Lists of Resources: /pub/catalog at anonymous FTP site clr.nmsu.edu Suggestions are welcome. This list of "lists" is intended to be a one-shot effort that will become immediately out-of-date, but will have pointed a group of people to maintained resources with a longer expected lifetime. 2. A second list of the 10 to 20 most useful, easily available, non-commercial resources for content-based processing of large (at least megabyte scale) bodies of text, and how to get them. (If it takes more than 50 words to describe how to get them, they fail on "easily available".) I want to include only resources that are robust, available at nominal cost (at least to academics), and have actually