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IRList Digest Volume 2 Number 57
IRList Digest Friday, 7 November 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 57
Today's Topics:
Email - Fire and repair
Query - References on effect of hemispheres on speech and emotional behavior
Query - Publishing List of Active Research in Knowledge and Database Systems
Discussion - Publishing List of Active Research (above) and AIList
- Publishing List of Active Research (above) and TRList
Call for Papers - INFORMATION IN THE 1990'S: IMAGE, NUMERIC, SOUND, TEXT
- 1987 Workshop on Visual Languages
Report - Int'l Workshop on User Modelling
News addresses are ARPANET: fox%vt@csnet-relay.arpa BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet
CSNET: fox@vt UUCPNET: seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 13:11:20 est
From: vtopus!fox (Ed Fox)
Subject: fire in steam tunnels
On 25 Oct. we had a fire in the steam tunnels, destroying some of our
network on campus. The only effect relevant to IRList was with address
fox%vtcs1.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa
for ARPANET users and
fox@vtcs1
for BITNET users. These should be fixed shortly.
Regards, Ed
[Note as of 11/7: everything is working again, but if any of you sent
messages to one of the addresses above for a few days after, please
send again. Sorry, Ed]
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 21:16 EDT
From: <OCBNO@UTKVX4>
Subject: INFORMATION
To: FOXEA@VTVAX3
...
Second, I would appreciate it if you would send me anything that you can
about speech analysis and cognitive psychology. I am doing a paper on
the left and right hemispheres and their affect on speech and emotional
behavior. Any other information dealing with these topics would also
be on great help.
Thanks again, and I will be awaiting your reply.
[Note: I don't know much about this area, and hope that readers will
reply directly to you or else back to me for posting. - Ed]
CYNTHIA MARTIN
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 86 02:06:03 est
From: LAWS@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA [Actually, from Dr. J. Deken, forwarded by K.Laws]
To: laws@sri-stripe.arpa
Subject: List of Active Research in Knowledge and Database Systems
Ken,
I have an online list of the current awards in the Knowledge and Database
Systems Program at NSF, including a short abstract (150 words) of each
project. I would be happy to have this available for people. The
total file is about 85000 characters. Is it too long for AIlist?
If I send it to you, can you post a message and archive it somewhere
for FTP? Other possibilities? Let me know what you think.
Our Division has been renamed: Information, Robotics, and Intelligent
Systems (IRIS). It includes four programs:
Knowledge and Database Systems
Robotics and Machine Intelligence
Interactive Systems
Information Impact
I also have a list of awards/abstracts for the Robotics and Machine
Intelligence Program (Y.T. Chien, Director) which I think he would
be amenable to circulating.
Best regards,
Joseph Deken, Director
Knowledge and Database Systems Program, Rm 336
National Science Foundation
Washington, D.C. 20550
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Date: Thu 30 Oct 86 09:42:56-PST
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA>
Subject: Re: List of Active Research in Knowledge and Database Systems
To: ICS.DEKEN@R20.UTEXAS.EDU
I would have to break the file into at least four digests, which isn't
outrageous but is probably a bit much to broadcast. I'll forward your
message to Ed Fox (Fox%VPI.CSNet@CSNet-Relay). His information-retrieval
list is more likely to be interested in the abstracts. In fact, I believe
his list has already published the titles of the award projects. If
he does want the material, AIList could publish a notice directing
interested parties to you and to that source. If he doesn't, I could
store and forward the material as you suggest -- without making it part
of that AIList archive. I hesitate to accept the distribution responsibility,
though, since this comes out of SRI's pocket. (Perhaps someday NSF will
fund interchange media such as AIList, although there are good reasons
why I haven't asked for funding.)
-- Ken Laws
[Note: I will be happy to publish this over IRList. I believe we
will receive Macintosh files to be run through a LaserWriter here that
I will include in the next issue of ACM SIGIR Forum as well. Thanks, Ed]
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 86 02:24:00 est
From: E1AR0002%SMUVM1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Subject: response
I would be happy to distribute the lists of materials mentioned in
the previous communications of ICS.Deken@R20.UTexas.EDU through TRLIST.
They are not technically tech reports, but since there are abstracts the
same sort of people interested in keeping track of the tech report literature
should find it useful.
[Note: I think it would be fine to have them in either or both of
IRList and TRList. I look forward to getting the files at
foxea%vtvax3.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa
as well as on Macintosh diskettes from J. Deken. - Ed]
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 86 13:16:38 pst
From: Michael Shepherd <shepherd%cs.dal.cdn%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Subject: trying again
Ed:
The following mail was just returned to me, so I am trying again.
I also am in the process of putting together a short report of ongoing
ir work here in Nova Scotia. This will follow shortly.
regards,
mike
...
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 15th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information
Science will convene at The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada, May 6-8, 1987.
The theme of the conference will be:
INFORMATION IN THE 1990'S: IMAGE, NUMERIC, SOUND, TEXT
Previously unpublished contributions are solicited dealing with the
generation, processing, and dissemination of information and related
technologies, including but not limited to the following areas:
geology computer vision
geography music
art videotext
meteorology numeric databases
speech recognition full text databases
cybernetics artificial intelligence
expert systems logic-based systems
Three copies of a 500-1000 word abstract with the author's full name,
affiliation, address and telephone should be submitted to:
Dr. Michael A. Shepherd, Director
Computing Science Division
Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
B3H 3J5
The abstracts may also be submitted via e-mail to:
shepherd@cs.dal.cdn
shepherd@dalcs.uucp
Selected papers will be published in the Canadian Journal of
Information Science. For details regarding the Conference, contact:
Dr. Michael Nelson, School of Libary and Information Science, The University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6G 1H1.
Telephone: (519)661-3542.
IMPORTANT DATES: November 1, 1986 Abstract Due
November 15, 1986 Notification to Authors
January 15, 1987 Papers Due
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thanks
mike shepherd
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 03:08:38 edt
From: nl-kr-request@ROCHESTER.ARPA
Subject: NL-KR Digest Volume 1 No. 16 [Extract - Ed]
Date: Tue 14 Oct 86 17:26:14
From: Roland Hjerppe <enea!liuida!rhj@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: 1987 Workshop on Visual Languages
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Computer Society
1987 Workshop on Visual Languages
August 19 - 21, 1987, Linkoping, Sweden
Papers are invited on theory, methodology, and applications of visual
languages, including both languages that have a heavy visual component
and languages designed for operating on visual objects. Areas related
to visual languages, such as Man-Machine Interface, Office Automation,
Computer Aided Design, Computer Hardware, and Knowledge Based Systems
are also of interest if the visual language aspect is in focus.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Visual Data Structures
Formal, Cognitive and Semantic Models for Visual Languages
Shape Grammars
Visual Programming
Visual Support for Software Production
Visualization of Programs and their Behavior
User Interfaces Using Visual Objects
Representation and Acquisition of Visual Knowledge
Icon and Iconic System Design
Animation Research
Multimedia Systems
Important Dates
Submission Deadline February 20, 1987
Acceptance Notification April 20, 1987
Final Copy Due May 20, 1987
Conference August 19-21, 1987
Three copies of each paper - maximum length 5 000 words - should be
submitted to:
Erland Jungert
FFV Elektronik AB
Agatan 122
S-582 22 Linkoping
Sweden
Conference Chairman: Prof. Robert Korfhage, Dept. of Information
Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Program Chairman: Erland Jungert, FFV Elektronik AB
Organizers: Roland Hjerppe, Christian Krysander, Dept. of Computer and
Information Science, University of Linkoping, S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
For details, contact the the Organizers at:
UUCP:RHJ@LIUIDA
ARPA: RHJ%LIUIDA.UUCP@SEISMO
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 03:08:38 edt
From: nl-kr-request@ROCHESTER.ARPA
Subject: NL-KR Digest Volume 1 No. 16 [Extract - Ed]
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 86 14:43:56
From: "Alfred Kobsa" <unido!sbsvax!ak@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Subject: Report on UM86, International Workshop on User Modelling
Report on
UM86: International Workshop on User Modelling
30-31 Aug. 1986, Maria Laach, West Germany
Organizers: Alfred Kobsa and Wolfgang Wahlster
SFB 314: AI - Knowledge-Based Systems,
Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Saarbruecken,
D-6600 Saarbruecken 11, W. GERMANY
A two-day international workshop on user modelling in dialog systems has been
held in Maria Laach, West Germany. The organization of the workshop was made
possible by a grant of the German Science Foundation (DFG) in its Special
Collaborative Program on AI and Knowledge-Based Systems (SFB 314). The aim of
the meeting was to provide an opportunity for researchers in this field to
present their work and ideas, and to discuss topical problems and proposals
with colleagues.
24 invited researchers from the U.S.A. (12), West Germany (7), Canada, England,
Italy, The Netherlands and Switzerland participated in the workshop. The
pleasant setting of the conference site close to the medieval abbey of Maria
Laach and the volcanic Lake Laach fostered a nice atmoshphere for intensive
discussions and the exchange of ideas.
The following talks were given:
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware:
Dynamic Construction and Application of User Models
Jaime Carbonell and Jill Fain, Carnegie-Mellon University:
The Role and Nature of User Models in Task-Oriented Dialogs
David Chin, Univ. of California at Berkeley:
KNOME: Modeling What the User Knows in UC
Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo:
Towards User Specific Explanations From Expert Systems (short talk)
Marco Colombetti, Gabriella Airenti and Bruno Bara, Milan Polytechnic:
Modelling the Relationship between User and System in Man-Machine Dialogue
Tim Finin, University of Pennsylvania:
A General User Modelling System (Talk given by Ethel Schuster)
Bradley A. Goodman, BBN Laboratories Inc.:
Miscommunication and Plan Recognition
Anthony Jameson, Univ. of Nijmegen:
A Model of Impression Monitoring and Image Maintenance
Aravind K. Joshi, University of Pennsylvania:
The Role of User Models in Constraining Inferences (short talk)
Alfred Kobsa, University of Saarbru"cken:
A Taxonomy of Beliefs and Goals for User Models in Dialog Systems
William C. Mann, Information Science Institute:
The User Model: Varieties of Content for Text Generation (short talk)
Kathleen F. McCoy, University of Delaware:
Reasoning on a User Model to Respond to Misconceptions
Katharina Morik, Technical University of Berlin:
Modeling the User's Wants
Cecile L. Paris, Columbia University:
Tailoring Object Descriptions to the User's Level of Expertise
Alexander E. Quilici, University of California at Los Angeles:
User Modeling in AQUA (short talk)
Elaine Rich, MCC:
User Modelling in a Natural Language Dialogue System (short talk)
Ethel Schuster, University of Pennsylvania:
Establishing the Relationship between Discourse Models and User Models
(short talk)
Karen Sparck Jones, University of Cambridge:
Realism about User Modelling
Wolfgang Wahlster, University of Saarbruecken:
Some Terminological Remarks on User Modeling
Selected papers of the workshop will appear as a book in the Springer series
'Symbolic Computation' and in the Computational Linguistics journal. Abstracts
of all talks presented at the workshop are available from the organizers
upon request, and extended abstracts of the regular talks directly from
the authors.
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