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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 19
IRList Digest Thursday, 9 July 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 19
Today's Topics:
Discussion - Feedback
Announcement - ALLC-AIBI Joint Conferences
COGSCI - Default reasoning and sterotypes in user modeling
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Date: Tue 5 May 87 23:33:14
From: Roland Hjerppe <rhj@liuida.uucp>
Subject: feedback
Dear Ed,
I enjoy receiving IRList but seem to be missing the following
issues: ...
[Note: hope these arrived - let me know if I can help others too. - Ed]
Sometimes when reading questions or requests for information I wonder
if others have already answered or whether I should venture an answer.
It would be nice to have some kind of indication (satisfied, still
open, no answers) in the next issue (a regular feature) of the fate of
previous requests.
[Note: I agree that more feedback is needed, but that may also be a
result of my research. - Ed]
Roland Hjerppe
LIBLAB, Linkoping University
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 87 15:28:39 edt
From: Yaacov Choueka <choueka@thunder.bellcore.com>
Subject: Conferences announcement
ALLC--AIBI Joint Conferences
June 1988 -- Jerusalem, Israel
Preliminary Announcement
The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)
and the Association Internationale Bible et Informatique (AIBI) invite
you to attend their International Conferences to be held in
June 1988 in Jerusalem. The Fifteenth Annual Conference of ALLC
will take place on June 5-9, 1988, and it will be followed
immediately by the Second Conference of AIBI on June 9-13, 1988.
The conferences are jointly organized by the
Organizing Committee in Israel (which will also serve as the Conference
Committee for the ALLC one), but the procedures for papers'
submission and selection and for registrations will be kept separate.
A significant discount will be given, however, for a joint registration,
to encourage attendees of each conference to attend the other one also,
thus enhancing fruitful exchanges and communications between
researchers of closely related interests.
Special registration rates will also apply to speakers,
students, and members of sponsoring institutions.
The conferences are sponsored and supported by a number of academic
and professional societies and organizations that will be listed in
future mailings.
A ``Call for Papers'' for the ALLC conference is enclosed;
a ``Call for Papers'' for the AIBI one is being mailed separately.
The coordination between the two programs will be assured
by a special panel consisting of Y. Choueka and R.-F. Poswick.
Both conferences will consist of invited lectures,
contributed papers, panels, product-review sessions, poster displays,
exhibits and demonstrations. Standard hardware and communications
equipment for on-line demonstrations and large-screen displays will be
available on site. Every effort will be made to meet special
hardware needs if a detailed request is sent well in advance
to the Organizing Committee.
Selected papers from the two conferences will be
published in two separate Proceedings volumes.
The conferences will be accompanied by an exhibition
of hardware, software, books and other products and services
relevant, in general, to the computing-in-the-humanities domain.
The timing of the conferences was specially chosen
so as to coincide (hopefully...) with some of the most glorious
sunny days that Jerusalem can offer, and to assure availability
(and lower fares...) of air tickets and hotel rooms, while
avoiding the rush summer season when tourists usually crowd
the city.
A rich and interesting series of cultural, social and
tourist events for the registrants and their parties
will accompany the conferences. A few Mediterranean beaches,
beautiful in so many ways, are also about one hour of driving from
Jerusalem; far enough so as not to distract the conscientious
wisdom seeker, but close enough for an occasional refreshing jump
to the sun-and-sea worshipper...
The fascinating appeal and haunting beauty of Jerusalem, with
its multi-cultural environments and institutions, its intriguing
history, and its unique human and architectural landscapes,
coupled with the anticipated characteristic ambiance usually
associated with scientific activities and the gathering of scholars
and researchers from all over the world, will certainly turn these
meetings into an exciting professional and cultural event.
So, mark these dates on your calendar, and plan
early to join us in June 1988 in Jerusalem. Don't miss
this excellent opportunity for an enriching scientific and
human experience.
In order to receive future mailings about the conferences,
and to help us better plan them, please return the enclosed
Notification Form, duly filled out, as soon as possible.
For further information on the conferences and their programs,
and for suggestions for panels, tutorials, etc., please write
to the Organizing Committee at the address given in the enclosed
form.
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ALLC--AIBI Joint Conferences
5-13 June 1988, Jerusalem
Organizing Committee:
Yaacov Choueka, Chairman Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan
(visiting
Bell Communications Research, Morristown)
Hillel Weiss, Coordinator Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan
Daniel Boyarin Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan
Itamar Even-Zohar Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv
Ariel Frank Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan
Reuven Mirkin Academy of Hebrew Language, Jerusalem
Uzzi Ornan The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Yehuda Radday Technion, Haifa
Address:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 52100
electronic mail: R70016%BARILAN.BITNET
choueka@bimacs.bitnet
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Notification Form
Mail to:
Organizing Committee
ALLC--AIBI Joint Conferences
Deprtment of Mathematics and Computer Science
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat-Gan, Israel, 52100
Title_______Name_________________________________________________
Affiliation______________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________
Tel._______________
e-mail address___________________
__ Please send me more information when available
__ Please send me the Call for Papers of the AIBI conference
__ I plan to attend __ ALLC Conf. __ AIBI Conf. __ Both Conf.
__ I plan to submit a paper to __ ALLC __ AIBI
Tentative Title:
_______________________________________________________________
__ I propose the following panel to the __ALLC __AIBI conference:
_______________________________________________________________
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Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
Fifteenth Annual Conference
5-9 June 1988, Jerusalem
Literary and Linguistic Computing-1988
The Fifteenth Annual Conference of ALLC will be held on
5-9 June 1988 in Jerusalem. As has been traditional with ALLC meetings,
the full spectrum of literary and linguistic computing in general
is expected to be covered at the conference. Specific topics
which are currently under vigorous research, such as large
textual databases and corpora and linguistic computing in
multi-lingual environments, are naturally expected to
receive special attention.
Papers are invited on substantial unpublished research
on the main themes of the conference and similar related areas
such as:
-computational morphology, syntax and semantics
-computational lexicography and lexicology
-mechanized dictionaries, lexicons and grammars
-lemmatization and parsing
-ambiguity and its mechanical resolution
-stylistic analysis and authorship studies
-statistical linguistics and metrics
-research tools: corpora, concordances, indexes and thesauri
-full-text systems
-natural language understanding
-text processing and retrieval
Papers that present specific theoretical models coupled with new
experimental results are particularly welcome, but contributions
dealing with critical evaluations, general reviews and appraisal of
theoretical models, software packages and specialized hardware
will be also considered. General descriptions of on-going long-range
projects are acceptable only if they contain substantial new
and unpublished information.
Authors should send 6 copies of a one-page abstract and
a cover sheet in the format, and to the address, given below.
Abstracts should clearly point to the originality and importance
of the contribution and its relevance to the conference, and should
clarify the operational status of described projects;
vague or unsubstantiated claims and plans for the future will
be given little weight.
Priority in evaluation and consideration
will be given to abstracts that are accompanied by an Extended
Abstract of 4-6 pages (6 copies). Although not formally required,
authors are urged to include these extended abstracts, so as to help
making the reviewing process more reliable and balanced.
Papers must be received by December 15, 1987.
Authors will be notified for acceptance by February 29, 1988.
Based on the contribution's contents and on the feedback
from the conference, papers will be then selected for
inclusion in the Proceedings volume to be published by
Slatkine (Geneve). The happy selected authors will be notified
by the end of June 1988, and a camera-ready version of the full-length
papers must be received by August 15, 1988. Opportunity will be thus
given to the authors to include in the final version any refinements
or clarifications called for by the oral presentation and its feedback.
More details on local arrangements and accomodations,
registration fees and forms, etc., will be given in the second
call for papers to be mailed during winter 1987. If you would
like to receive future mailings, and certainly if you plan to
submit a paper or just to attend the conference, please
mail the enclosed notification note immediately.
Format for submissions:
Cover Sheet:
____________
ABSTRACT SUBMITTED TO ALLC 1988
Title
Author
Affiliation
Complete address,including tel. and e-mail address
Subject identification (e.g. statistical linguistics, morphological
disambiguation, etc.)
Abstract
________
Title
Author
ABSTRACT
the text of the abstract, one page of about 30 single-spaced lines
(in elite, pica or roman type, 10-12 points).
Extended Abstract:
__________________
Title
Author
EXTENDED ABSTRACT
text, 4-6 pages with the same format as the abstract.
Address: Send all material to:
Yaacov Choueka
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 52100.
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International Advisory Board
Paul Bratley Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Jacqueline Hamesse Universite Catholique, Louvain-La-Neuve
R.-F. Poswick Bible et Informatique, Maredsous
Klaus M. Schmidt Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Don Walker Bell Communications Research, Morristown, New Jersey
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Important deadlines
December 15, 1987 paper submission
February 29, 1988 author notification
April 5, 1988 end of early registration
August 15, 1988 camera-ready version of
full papers for the Proceedings
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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1987 10:40 EDT
From: Peter de Jong <DEJONG%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@xx.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar [Extract - Ed]
Date: Monday, 8 June 1987 11:08-EDT
From: AHAAS at G.BBN.COM
Re: ai seminar
- - - -
Monday, 8 June 2:00pm Room: second floor large conference room at
10 Moulton Street.
BBN Seminar
Default Reasoning and Stereotypes in User Modelling
Tim Finin
Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
This talk discusses the application of various kinds of default reasoning in
systems which must maintain a model of its users. In particular, we
describe a general architecture of a domain independent system for building
and maintaining long term models of individual users. The user modelling
system is intended to provide a well defined set of services for an
application system which is interacting with various users and has a need to
build and maintain models of them. As the application system interacts with
a user, it can acquire knowledge of him and pass that knowledge on to the
user model maintenance system for incorporation. We describe a prototype
general user modelling system (hereafter called GUMS1 which we have
implemented in Prolog. This system satisfies some of the desirable
characteristics we discuss.
[Note: Christine Borgman also sent in announcement from AIList of this
talk being presented on Thursday, June 18, 1987 in Doherty Hall 3313
(which I think was at CMU) - Ed]
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