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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 03
IRList Digest Friday, 20 February 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 3
Today's Topics:
Abstract - Recent article on The Memory Extender Personal Filing System
- Paper on IR and Expert Systems (German)
Announcement - Telesophy Project
- Proposals to Host IJCAI-91?
Call - Conference on Conceptual Information Processing
- Workshop on Office Knowledge
Seminar - What's in a Word?
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: Thu, 22 Jan 87 00:43:29 est
From: mccabe%hi.mcc.com@MCC.COM
Subject: article in IJMMS
I thought the following article, appearing in
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies (1986), 25, 191-228
might be of interest to the readers of IRList:
On the Applied Use of Human Memory Models:
The Memory Extender Personal Filing System
William P. Jones
The benefits of electronic information storage are enormous and largely
unrealized. As its cost continues to decline, the number of files in
the average user's personal database may increase substantially. How is
a user to keep track of several thousand, perhaps several hundred
thousand, files? The Memory Extender (ME) system improves the user
interface to a personal database by actively modeling the user's own
memory for files and for the context in which these files are used. The
ME system is similar, in many respects, to current spreading activation,
network models of human memory. Files are multiply indexed through a
network of variably weighted term links. Context is similarly
represented and is used to minimize the user input necessary to
disambiguate a file - either for purposes of storage or retrieval.
Files are retrieved through a spreading-activation-like process. The
system aims towards an ideal in which the computer provides a natural
extension to the user's own memory.
Any comments or questions are welcome. Thanks
-bill
William P. Jones
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
P.O. Box 200195
Austin, Texas 78720
512-338-3326
email address: mccabe@mcc.com ("mccabe" is a nickname)
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 87 13:30 CET
From: "Friedr. Gebhardt" <GF3001@DBNGMD21.bitnet>
Subject: recent papers
Dear Prof. Fox:
...
My paper "Connections between information retrieval systems
and expert systems" (I sent you the English abstract) is not
available in English. Reference of the German paper:
Querverbindungen zwischen Information-Retrieval- und
Experten-Systemen. In: Nachrichten fuer Dokumentation
36 (1985), pp. 255 - 263.
Within a couple months another paper will be published which,
however, is probably outside the scope of IRList:
Semantisches Wissen in Datenbanken - ein Literaturbericht.
In: Informatik-Spektrum 10 (1987) (in German).
If you are interested, I will send you an English abstract.
Sincerely yours, Friedrich Gebhardt
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 87 11:52:25 est
From: schatz@thumper.bellcore.com (Bruce R. Schatz)
Subject: Telesophy Project
[Extracted from WORKS Digest Tuesday, 10 Feb 1987 Volume 7 : Issue 2 - Ed]
Readers of this newsgroup may be interested in the following:
The Telesophy Project at Bell Communications Research is a research
effort to understand how to provide uniform access to AnyThing
AnyWhere and thus permit browsing the WorldNet. A telesophy system
transparently stores and retrieves information of different types
from different locations.
We have built a prototype on Sun workstation hardware, which
accesses multiple datatypes from multiple databases on multiple
machines. A set of databases have been obtained, ranging from
Netnews to journal citations to full-text magazines to color
pictures, and we are beginning to use the system on a daily basis.
The prototype attempts to achieve the full potential of networks of
bitmapped workstations. It provides a content-addressable
distributed file system coupled with local multi-media editing.
Building such an end-to-end system requires finding some workable
solution to a myriad of unsolved research problems.
We are seeking new colleagues to help build the telesophy
prototype. If interested, please contact me directly. A fuller
description appears on misc.jobs.
Bruce Schatz
schatz@bellcore.com
(decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax)!bellcore!schatz
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 87 18:19:59 est
From: walker@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM
Subject: REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST IJCAI-91 OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA
PROPOSALS FOR SITES FOR IJCAI-91 SOLICITED
The site for IJCAI-91 will be selected at the IJCAI-87 in Milan this
coming summer (23-28 August). Because of the size of the conferences,
it is now necessary to plan four years in advance. The selection
process has become more complicated for the same reason. As a result,
it will be necessary for countries that would like to host IJCAI-91 to
submit detailed proposals describing their plans for the meeting and
to prepare thorough budget estimates in advance. It will be necessary
for an officially recognized AI organization in the country selected
to sign an agreement with IJCAII that establishes a formal commitment
to hold the conference and that defines mutual responsibilities.
IJCAI conferences are organized every two years, usually in August,
and they alternate between North America and other parts of the world.
Since IJCAI-89 will be held in Detroit, Michigan, USA, IJCAI-91 will be
held outside of North America.
Proposals will be evaluated in relation to a number of site selection
criteria:
1. National, regional, and local AI community support.
2. National, regional, and local government and industry support.
3. Accessibility, attractiveness, and desirability of proposed site.
4. Appropriateness of proposed dates.
5. Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for anticipated number
of registrants (currently 7500-10000 for North America; 2000-3000
or more elsewhere, depending on the location).
6. Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of
price categories.
7. Adequacy of budget projections.
Prospective hosts should request a detailed list of site information
required and a set of budget categories as soon as possible. Initial
draft proposals should be submitted by 15 April 1987; final proposals
must be distributed to the Executive Committee by 15 July 1987.
Direct requests for proposal information to the IJCAII Secretary-Treasurer:
Dr. Donald E. Walker (IJCAII)
Bell Communications Research
435 South Street, MRE 2A379
Morristown, NJ 07960-1961, USA
+1 201 829-4312
telex: 275209 BELL UR
arpanet: walker@flash.bellcore.com
usenet: {ucbvax, ihnp4, mcvax, or ... }!bellcore!walker
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 87 14:28:03 EST
From: Jim Hendler <hendler@brillig.umd.edu>
Subject: Conference - Conceptual Information Processing
[Excerpted from AIList by NL-KR editor]
Call for Participation
Fourth Annual Workshop
on
Theoretical Issues in Conceptual Information Processing
Washington, D.C.
June 4-5, 1987
Sponsored by
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
and
University of Maryland Institute for
Advanced Computer Studies
Objectives:
The goal of the investigations under the title "conceptual information
processing" has been understanding intelligence and cognition
computationally, rather than merely the construction of performance programs
or formalization per se. Thus, this workshop will focus on an exploration
of issues common to representation and organization of knowledge and memory
for natural language understanding, planning, problem solving, explanation,
learning and other cognitive tasks. The approaches to be covered are united
by a concern with representation, organization and processing of conceptual
knowledge with an emphasis on empirical investigation of these phenomena by
experimentation and implementation of computer programs.
Format:
The TICIP workshop will be comprised of a combination of panels, invited
paper presentations, and "debates" designed to encourage lively and active
discussion. Not all participants will be invited to present, but all will
be expected to interact.
Attendance:
In order to maximize the interactive nature of this workshop, attendance
will be limited. Those interested in participating, either as speakers or
audience, are asked to submit a one-page summary of work in this area. A
small number of invitations will be extended to those who are interested in
the area but have not yet contributed. Those interested in such an
invitation should contact the Program Chair. A limited amount of financial
assistance will be available to graduate students invited to participate.
Review Process:
Invitation will be based on an informal review of submissions by the Program
Committee.
Workshop Information:
The conference chair is Prof. B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University). The
program committee consists of Prof.s R. Alterman (Brandeis), J. Carbonell
(CMU), M. Dyer (UCLA), and J. Hendler (U of Maryland, Chair).
Submission:
A one page abstract of recent work in the area should be submitted to the
Program Chair. The deadline for these submissions is April 15, 1987.
Applicants will be informed of their status soon thereafter. Send abstracts
(but please, no papers) to:
James Hendler
Computer Science Department
University of Maryland
College Park, Md. 20742.
hendler@brillig.umd.edu
hendler@maryland
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 87 18:44:08 est
From: rba@flash.bellcore.com
Subject: call regarding workshop on office knowledge
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
IFIP WG8.4 Workshop on
Office Knowledge: Representation, Management and Utilization
17-19 August 1987
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
WORKSHOP CHAIRMAN PROGRAM CHAIRMAN
Prof. Dr. Alex A. Verrijn-Stuart Dr. Winfried Lamersdorf
University of Leiden IBM European Networking Center
ORGANIZING CHAIRMAN
Prof. Fred H. Lochovsky
University of Toronto
This workshop is intended as a forum and focus for research in
the representation, management and utilization of knowledge in
the office. This research area draws from and extends techniques
in the areas of artificial intelligence, data base management
systems, programming languages, and communication systems. The
workshop program will consist of one day of invited presentations
from key researchers in the area plus one and one half days of
contributed presentations. Extended abstracts, in English, of
4-8 double-spaced pages (1,000-2,000 words) are invited. Each
submission will be screened for relevance and potential to
stimulate discussion. There will be no formal workshop
proceedings. However, accepted submissions will appear as
submitted in a special issue of the WG8.4 newsletter and will be
made available to workshop participants.
How to submit
Four copies of double-spaced extended abstracts in English of
1,000-2,000 words (4-8 pages) should be submitted by 15 April
1987 to the Program Chairman:
Dr. Winfried Lamersdorf
IBM European Networking Center
Tiergartenstrasse 15
Postfach 10 30 68
D-6900 Heidelberg
West Germany
Important Dates
Extended abstracts due: 15 April 1987
Notification of acceptance for presentation: 1 June 1987
Workshop: 17-19 August 1987
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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 87 19:59:12 PST
From: Subhana.pa@Xerox.COM
Subject: "WHAT'S IN A WORD?" by Martin Kay
Reply-To: Diebert.pa@Xerox.COM
[Extract from NL-KR Digest (2/10/87 17:44:01) Volume 2 Number 7 - Ed]
PARC FORUM
Thursday, February 12, 1987
4:00 pm, PARC Auditorium
MARTIN KAY
Principal Scientist, Natural Language Theory & Technology Area
Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Xerox PARC
WHAT'S IN A WORD?
ABSTRACT: Recognizing words in English text is generally easy in
principle--break the text into contiguous sequences of alphabet
characters and look each of them up in an alphabetical list. That is in
principle. It practice, it works poorly in some fields, like chemistry
and medicine, in some languages, like German and Arabic, and for some
applications, like dictionaries and spelling checkers for small
machines. The problem is that the list could be large--potentially
infinite--in size, though the information it contains is tantalizingly
redundant. Obvious strategies are to subdue the problem with
computational cunning, mathematical magic, or linguistic lore. This
talk will apply all three of these to English "unredegaussability",
Spanish "digamelo", German
"Strassenbahnschafnerversicherungsgesellschaft", Arabic "atakaatab", and
Turkish "otobusun" among others, with the aim of showing that
computation, mathematics, and linguistics combine to make a truly
dynamic trio.
Host: Tim Diebert (Computer Science Laboratory, 494-4433)
...
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