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IRList Digest Volume 2 Number 27
IRList Digest Monday, 9 June 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 27
Today's Topics:
Query - Library Automation Software?
Announcement - MS Defense on IR Comparisons
Call for Papers - Eastern States Conf. on Linguistics
CSLI - Lexical Representation, Ordinals and Mathematical Structure
Announcement - 3rd IEEE Symp. on Logic Programming
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 86 09:16:59 EDT
From: SAROFF@UMass.bitnet (MANAGER OF THE KILLER DIGEST)
Subject: A question about library software......
Hi,
The University of Massachusetts Science Fiction Society has a library
with over 3000 books in it. We are currently using a paper-and-3x5-card
system to handle the books.
A number of people, myself included, have decided to investigate the
possibility of computerizing the library, card catalogue, and membership
roster. What sort of software is available to do this.
The requirements for the software follow:
1) It must be able to interface with a bar-code reader or some other
similar system (Minimizes Human Error In check-ins/check-outs).
2) It must prevent a person with books or fines outstanding from checking
out books.
3) It must be able to maintain an up to date membership roster.
4) It must be able to function as a card catalogue.
5) It must distinguish between hard and soft bound books.
6) It must be able to handle "doubles". (Books that have two novels, generally
by two different authors, that are bound together.)
7) Must be reasonably "idiot proof" to use.
8) The budgetary constraints limit us to: A micro-computer, a bar code reader,
and a hard disc.
U.M.S.F.S. does not currently have a micro, so any software source is fine
we will select the system based on the library software.
Matthew Saroff
BITNET:SAROFF@UMASS
ARPANET:SAROFF%UMASS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
[Note: I am not really current on latest automation software. I know
that the Virginia Tech library uses VTLS, and it handles most of your
requirements (I am not sure about 2,5), but uses HP mini for our
million record file. I am sure other readers can give you more info.
or you could go to upcoming Library conference to see for yourself.
By the way, there are other IRList subscribers at Umass such as Roger
Thompson who you might talk with. Let us know what your select!
Good luck - Ed]
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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 86 14:37:14 edt
From: vtcs1::fox
Subject: MS Project Defense Monday 6/9 at 3pm
Sharat Sharan will defend his report "Information Retrieval Comparisons"
on Monday June 6 at 3pm. This report deals with experimentatl studies
of extended Boolean query notations and with an investigation of retrieval
approaches to handle a fair subset of the VTLS data from our library.
All are invited to attend and to learn about the SMART retrieval system.
Regards, Edward A. Fox
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 86 00:48:20 edt
From: JAMIE@SU-CSLI.ARPA
Subject: [Carl Pollard <POLLARD@SU-CSLI.ARPA>: ESCOL 86]
Date: Tue 27 May 86 13:15:20-PDT
From: Carl Pollard <POLLARD@SU-CSLI.ARPA>
Subject: ESCOL 86
ESCOL 86, Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, will be jointly sponsored
by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University.
Dates: October 10-12, 1986
Invited Speakers: Charles Fillmore (Berkeley)
Lily Wong Fillmore (Berkeley)
Martin Kay (Xerox PARC)
George Miller (Princeton)
Added Attraction: Demonstrations of NLP Software
Theme of the conference is "Linguistics at work": we invite papers
on computational linguistics or language teaching, as well as on any
topic of general linguistic interest.
Send a 1 page anonymous abstract, with separate return
address, by US Mail to
ESCOL 86
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
or by netmail to
Thomason@c.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA.
Abstract should arrive in Pittsburgh by June 13. Submitted papers will
be scheduled for 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion.
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 86 06:53:26 edt
From: JAMIE@SU-CSLI.ARPA
Subject: Calendar, June 5, No. 19 [Extract - Ed]
CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR THIS THURSDAY, June 5, 1986
THIS WEEK'S COLLOQUIUM
AFT, Past and Prospects
Julius Moravcsik (Julius@csli)
AFT was introduced as a theory of lexical representation with the
following distinguishing features: a) Meanings determine extension
only partially, b) Meaning structures are composed of (at most) four
components c) by talking about the four meaning components we can give
the theory of lexical representation more empirical explanatory power.
This year's work expanded the theory considerably, showing how it ties in
with direct reference theory, with semantic predicate structure analysis,
and with accounts of linguistic competence. In the talk examples will be
given, showing how AFT analysis yields an interesting account of
verb-semantics and predicate argument structure, and what additional
factors are needed in order to specify fully reference.
CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT THURSDAY, June 12, 1986
NEXT WEEK'S SEMINAR
Ordinals and Mathematical Structure
Chris Menzel (Menzel@csli)
This talk will have two components, one semantical and the other
philosophical. I will begin with an account of the semantics of ordinals
in English as they occur in NPs like `The third man on the moon' and
`Seventeen of the first one hundred tickets'. The account will be
developed within the framework of generalized quantifiers, augmented by
work of Godehard Link on plurals.
I will then move to the philosophical problem that started me thinking
about these semantical issues in the first place, viz., the nature of
number. An influential movement in the philosophy of mathematics known
as ``structuralism'' claims that mathematics is the study of abstract
structure per se, and not of a realm of peculiarly mathematical objects
like ordinal numbers at all. Indeed, structuralists argue, any attempt
to find such objects is necessarily wrong-headed. For to identify any
particular objects as (say) THE ordinal numbers is in effect just to pick
out an INSTANCE of the structure which is the proper subject matter of
arithmetic (viz., the structure exemplified by all omega-sequences), and
not the structure itself.
I think structuralism is half right. Much of mathematics is in fact the
study of abstract structure, but I will argue that when we get clear
about what this comes to, there are natural accounts to be given of
several types of mathematical objects. In particular, I will revive an
old neglected doctrine of Russell's that the ordinal numbers are
(roughly) abstract relations between objects and structured situations of
a certain kind. I'll then point out why this doesn't run afoul of the
structuralist argument above. I'll close by showing that this view of
the ordinals is implicit in the semantics given in the first part of the
talk.
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Date: Thu, 29 May 86 00:49:45 edt
From: keller@UTAH-CS.ARPA
Subject: SLP '86 Program [Extract - this has been brutally cut - Ed]
SCHEDULE SLP '86
Third IEEE Symposium on LOGIC PROGRAMMING
September 21-25, 1986; Westin Hotel Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah
Conference Chairperson
Gary Lindstrom, University of Utah
Program Chairperson Local Arrangements Chairperson
Robert M. Keller, University of Utah Thomas C. Henderson, University of Utah
Tutorials Chairperson Exhibits Chairperson
George Luger, University of New Mexico Ross Overbeek, Argonne National Lab.
Program Committee:
Francois Bancilhon, MCC William Kornfeld, Quintus Systems
John Conery, University of Oregon Gary Lindstrom, University of Utah
Al Despain, U.C. Berkeley George Luger, University of New Mexico
Herve Gallaire, ECRC, Munich Rikio Onai, ICOT/NTT, Tokyo
Seif Haridi, SICS, Stockholm Ross Overbeek, Argonne National Lab.
Lynette Hirschman, SDC Mark Stickel, SRI International
Peter Kogge, IBM, Owego Sten Ake Tarnlund, Uppsala University
SUNDAY, September 21
19:00 - 22:00 Symposium and tutorial registration
MONDAY, September 22
08:00 - 09:00 Symposium and tutorial registration
09:00 - 17:30 TUTORIALS (concurrent)
George Luger Introduction to AI Programming in Prolog
University of New Mexico
David Scott Warren Building Prolog Interpreters
SUNY, Stony Brook
Neil Ostlund Theory of Parallelism, with Applications to
Romas Aleliunas Logic Programming
University of Waterloo
12:00 - 17:30 Exhibit set up time
18:00 - 22:00 Symposium registration
20:00 - 22:00 Reception
TUESDAY, September 23
08:00 - 12:30 Symposium registration
09:00 Exhibits open
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and announcements
09:30 - 10:30 INVITED SPEAKER: W. W. Bledsoe
Some Thoughts on Proof Discovery
11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 1: Applications
The Logic of Tensed Statements in English - an Application of Logic Programming
Incremental Flavor-Mixing of Meta-Interpreters for Expert System Construction
The Phoning Philosopher's Problem or Logic Programming for Telecommunications
Applications
14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 2: Secondary Storage
EDUCE - A Marriage of Convenience: Prolog and a Relational DBMS
Paging Strategy for Prolog Based Dynamic Virtual Memory
A Logical Treatment of Secondary Storage
16:00 - 17:30 SESSION 3: Compilation
Compiling Control
Automatic Mode Inference for Prolog Programs
IDEAL: an Ideal DEductive Applicative Language
17:30 - 19:30 Reception
20:30 - 22:30 Panel (Wm. Kornfeld, moderator)
Logic Programming for Systems Programming
WEDNESDAY, September 24
09:00 - 10:00 INVITED SPEAKER: Sten Ake Tarnlund
Logic Programming - A Logical View
10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 4: Theory
A Theory of Modules for Logic Programming
Building-In Classical Equality into Prolog
Negation as Failure Using Tight Derivations for General Logic Programs
13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 5: Control
Characterisation of Terminating Logic Programs
An Execution Model for Committed-Choice Non-Deterministic Languages
Timestamped Term Representation in Implementing Prolog
15:30 - 22:00 Excursion
THURSDAY, September 25
09:00 - 10:30 SESSION 6: Unification
Refutation Methods for Horn Clauses with Equality Based on E-Unification
An Algorithm for Unification in Equational Theories
An Implementation of Narrowing: the RITE Way
11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 7: Parallelism
Selecting the Backtrack Literal in the AND Process of the AND/OR Process Model
Distributed Semi-Intelligent Backtracking for a Stack-based AND-parallel Prolog
The Sync Model for Parallel Execution of Logic Programming
14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 8: Performance
Redundancy in Function-Free Recursive Rules
Performance Evaluation of a Storage Model for OR-Parallel Execution
MALI: A Memory with a Real-Time Garbage Collector for Implementing Logic
Programming Languages
16:00 - 17:30 SESSION 9: Warren Abstract Machine
A High Performance LOW RISC Machine for Logic Programming
Register Allocation in a Prolog Machine
Garbage Cut for Garbage Collection of Iterative Programs
EXHIBITS:
An exhibit area including displays by publishers, equipment manufacturers, and
software houses will accompany the Symposium. The list of exhibitors includes:
Arity, Addison-Wesley, Elsevier, Expert Systems, Logicware, Overbeek
Enterprises, Prolog Systems, Quintus, and Symbolics. For more information,
please contact:
Dr. Ross A. Overbeek
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439
312/972-7856
[Note: Additional information can be obtained by writing to address
below - Ed.]
Third IEEE Symposium on Logic Programming
IEEE Computer Society
1730 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036-1903
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