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IRList Digest Volume 2 Number 26
IRList Digest Sunday, 8 June 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 26
Today's Topics:
Email - IRList Reaches 200 Mark!
Query - References for MS Thesis on Representing Natural Language
Announcement - MS Thesis Defense about CODER Project
Call for Papers - IJCAI-87
Call for Nominations - IJCAI Awards
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>From fox Sat Jun 7 10:46 EDT 1986
Subject: size of list
Congratulations, folks! We now have 200 entries in our mailing list!
Some of these are redistribution lists, so the set of readers is even
larger.
I will be sending out notes to selected individuals to ask that more
local redistributions be set up; please think about doing so even if I
don't ask since it is possible that there are other people at your site
who might be interested if they new a msg was already being received.
Thank you all for your continuing support of IRList!
- Ed Fox (BITNET[cheapest]:foxea@vtvax3 or foxea%vtvax3.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa;
CSNET:fox@vt;Internet:fox%vtisr1.uucp@seismo.css.gov;UUCP:seismo!vtisr1!fox)
Dr. Edward A. Fox; Dept. of Computer Science; 562 McBryde Hall
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061; (703) 961-5113 or 6931
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From: seismo!nwc-143b.ARPA!sefai
Date: 2 Jun 86 16:56:00 PST
Subject: References on Natural Language???
I am investigating literature that will hopefully help me on my
master's thesis. Without being too specific, the topic centers around
schemes for representing natural language in a computer system. So far,
my list of references includes:
1. Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Barr and Feigenbaum
2. NETL: A System for Representing and Using Real-World
Knowledge, Fahlman
3. Human Information Processing, Lindsay and Norman
4. A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language,
Marcus
5. Principles of Artificial Intelligence, Nilsson
6. Basic English (series), Ogden
7. The Cognitive Computer on Language, Schank with Childers
8. Computer Models of Thought and Language, Schank and Colby
9. Artificial Intelligence, Winston
10. A Handbook of English Grammar, Zandvoort
I'd appreciate any good references others have come across and
I'd be more than happy to send out the list afterwards.
Gene Guglielmo
sefai@nwc-143b
[Note: Thank you for the offer of collecting references. You have
quite an unusual assortment of works! I encourage you to look at
"Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval" by Salton and McGill
and "Information Retrieval, 2nd ed." by C.J. VanRijsbergen for a
rather different perspective. Let us know more details of your plans
when you become more focused. - Ed]
references
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Date: Tue, 27 May 86 10:31:37 edt
From: vtcs1::fox
Subject: Thesis defense on CODER system
The M.S. defense of Robert K. France will be held at 10am Monday June 2 in
Norris 301. The title of his thesis is "An Artificial Intelligence Environment
for Information Retrieval Research."
Abstract:
The CODER (COmposite Document Expert/extended/effective Retrieval) project is
a multi-year effort to investigate how best to apply artificial intelligence
methods to increase the effectiveness of information retrieval systems.
Particular attention is being given to analysis and representation of hetero-
geneous documents, such as electronic mail digests or messages, which vary
widely in style, length, topic, and structure. In order to ensure system
adaptability and to allow reconfiguration for controlled experimentation,
the project has been designed as a moderated expert system. This thesis
covers the design problems involved in providing a unified architecture and
knowledge representation scheme for such a system, and the solutions chosen
for CODER. An overall object-oriented environment is constructed using a set
of message-passing primitives based on a modified Prolog call paradigm.
Within this environment is embedded the skeleton of a flexible expert system,
where task decomposition is performed in a knowledge-oriented fashion and where
subtask managers are implemented as members of a community of experts. A
three-level knowledge representation formalism of elementary data types, frames,
and relations is provided, and can be used to construct knowledge structures
such as terms, meaning structures, and document interpretations. The use of
individually tailored specialist experts coupled with standardized blackboard
modules for communication and control and external knowledge bases for
maintenance of factual world knowledge allows for rapid prototyping, incre-
mental development, and flexibility under change. The system as a whole is
structured as a set of communicating modules, defined functionally and imple-
mented under UNIX using sockets and the TCP/IP protocol for communication.
Inferential modules are being coded in MU-Prolog; non-inferential modules are
being prototyped in MU-Prolog and will be re-implemented as needed in C++.
Host: Dr. Edward A. Fox, Dept. of Computer Science
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 86 06:53:33 edt
From: walker@MOUTON.ARPA
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS for IJCAI-87 [Edited - Ed]
CALL FOR PAPERS: IJCAI-87
Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
August 23-28, 1987
Milan, Italy
The IJCAI conferences are the main forums for the presentation of artificial
intelligence research to an international audience. The goal of IJCAI-87 is to
promote scientific interchange, within and between all subfields of AI, among
researchers from all over the world. The conference is sponsored by the
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc. (IJCAII).
In response to the growing interest in engineering issues within the AI
community, IJCAI-87's Technical Program will have two distinct tracks: science
and engineering. The science papers, presented Sunday through Wednesday
(August 23-26), will stress the computational principles underlying cognition
and perception in man and machine. The engineering papers, presented Tuesday
through Friday (August 25-28), will highlight pragmatic issues that arise in
applying these computational principles. Tutorials will be presented on Sunday
and Monday in parallel with the first two days of the science paper
presentations. Meetings or workshops focussed on specific research issues
might most appropriately be held on Thursday or Friday.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Authors are invited to submit papers to either the science or engineering
tracks within one of the following topic areas:
- Architectures and Languages (including logic programming, user
interface technology)
- Reasoning (including theorem proving, planning, explaining)
- Knowledge Acquisition and Learning (including knowledge-base
maintenance)
- Knowledge Representation (including task domain analysis)
- Cognitive Modeling
- Natural Language Understanding
- Perception and Signal Understanding (including speech, vision, data
interpretation)
- Robotics
REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION:
Authors are requested to prepare full papers, no more than 7 proceedings' pages
(approximately 5600 words), or short papers, no more than 3 proceedings' pages
(approximately 2400 words). The full-paper classification is intended for
well-developed ideas, with significant demonstration of validity, while the
short-paper classification is intended for descriptions of research in
progress. Authors must ensure that their papers describe original
contributions to or novel applications of AI, regardless of length
classification, and that the research is properly compared and contrasted with
relevant literature.
DETAILS OF SUBMISSION:
Authors should submit six (6) copies of their papers (hard copy only -- we
cannot accept on-line files) to the Program Chair no later than Monday, January
5, 1987. The following information must be included on the title page:
- Author's name, address, telephone number and computer mail address
(if applicable)
- Paper type (full-paper or short-paper), topic area, track (science or
engineering), and a few keywords for further classification within
the topic area
- An abstract of 100-200 words
The timetable is as follows:
- Submission deadline: 5 January 1987 (papers received after January 5
will be returned unopened)
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: 17 March 1987
- Camera ready copy due: 10 April 1987
The language of the conference is English; all papers submitted should be
written in English.
REVIEW CRITERIA:
Each paper will be reviewed by at least two experts. Acceptance will be based
on the overall merit and significance of the reported research, as well as on
the quality of the presentation. A paper may be reviewed by experts
responsible for an area or track other than the one to which it was submitted
if, in the opinion of a program committee member, it can thereby be more fairly
reviewed.
Papers submitted to the science track should make an original and significant
contribution to knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence.
Papers submitted to the engineering track should focus on pragmatic issues that
arise in reducing AI principles and techniques to practice. Such papers could
identify the critical features of some successful application system's approach
to reasoning or knowledge acquisition or natural language understanding. Of
particular interest are papers that demonstrate insightful analysis of a task
domain motivating the selection of a computational and representational
approach.
CONTACT POINTS:
Submissions and inquiries about the program should be sent to the Program
Chair:
John McDermott
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA
1-412-268-2599
McDermott@cmu-cs-a.arpa
Inquiries about registration, tutorials, exhibits, and other local arrangements
should be sent to the Local Arrangements Chair:
Marco Somalvico
Dipartimento di Elettronica
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci N.32
I-20133 Milano
ITALY
39-2-236-7241
somalvic!prlb2@seismo
Other inquiries should be directed to the General Chair:
Alan Bundy
Department of Artificial Intelligence
University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1HN
UK
44-31-225-7774 ext 242
Bundy%edinburgh.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 86 06:53:20 edt
From: bundy%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@CS.UCL.AC.UK
Subject: IJCAI AWARDS
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR IJCAI AWARDS
The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at each
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of
consistently high quality yielding several substantial
results. If the research program has been carried out col-
laboratively the award may be made jointly to the research
team. The first recipient of this award was John McCarthy
in 1985.
The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of
$1,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The
researcher(s) will be invited to deliver an address on the
nature and significance of the results achieved and write a
paper for the conference prodeedings. Primarily, however,
the award carries the honour of having one's work selected
by one's peers as an exemplar of sustained research in the
maturing science of Artificial Intelligence.
We hereby call for nominations for The IJCAI Award for
Research Excellence to be made at IJCAI-87 in Milan. The
accompanying note on Selection Procedures for IJCAI Awards
provides the relevant details.
The Computers and Thought Award
The Computers and Thought Lecture is given at each
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence by
an outstanding young scientist in the field of artificial
intelligence. The Award carries with it a certificate and
the sum of $1,000 plus travel and subsistence expenses for
the IJCAI. The Lecture is one evening during the Conferen-
ce, and the public is invited to attend. The Lecturer is in-
vited to publish the Lecture in the conference proceedings.
The Lectureship was established with royalties received
from the book Computers and Thought, edited by Feigenbaum
and Feldman; it is currently supported by income from IJCAI
funds.
Past recipients of this honour have been Terry Winograd
(1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975), Douglas
Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom
Mitchell (1983) and Hector Levesque (1985).
Nominations are invited for The Computers and Thought
Award to be made at IJCAI-87 in Milan. The note on Selection
Procedures for IJCAI Awards covers the nomination procedures
to be followed.
Selection Procedures for IJCAI Awards
Nominations for The Computers and Thought Award and The
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence are invited from all in
the Artificial Intelligence international community. The
procedures are the same for both awards.
There should be a nominator and a seconder, at least
one of whom should not have been in the same institution as
the nominee. The nominee must agree to be nominated. There
are no other restrictions on nominees, nominators or second-
ers. The nominators should prepare a short submission less
than 2,000 words for the voters, outlining the nominee's
qualifications with respect to the criteria for the parti-
cular award.
The award selection committee is the union of the Pro-
gram, Conference and Advisory Committees of the upcoming
IJCAI and the Board of Trustees of IJCAII, with nominees
excluded. Nominations should be submitted before December
1st, 1986 to the Conference Chair for IJCAI-87:
Dr Alan Bundy,
IJCAI-87 Conference Chair,
Department of Artificial Intelligence,
University of Edinburgh,
80 South Bridge,
Edinburgh, EH1 IHN,
Scotland. tel 44-31-225-7774 ext 242
ArpaNet: bundy@rutgers.arpa
JANet: bundy@uk.ac.edinburgh
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