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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 17
IRList Digest Monday, 29 June 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 17
Today's Topics:
Query - Conceptual information research
Discussion - Conceptual information research
Abstracts - Tech. report on user models and electronic newspapers
Announcement - Database system for tree structures
Call for Papers - Workshop on Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces
News addresses are ARPANET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet
CSNET: fox@vt UUCPNET: seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq
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Date: Mon, 25 May 87 12:51 EDT
From: Walter Bunch <mcvax!ukc!its63b!hwcs!aimmi!walt@seismo.css.gov>
Subject: Conceptual Information Research
[From NL-KR Digest (5/28/87 17:33:56) Volume 2 Number 44 - Ed]
I'm interested in researching knowledge representation as part of a PhD
program.
What universities are supporting research in the use and properties of
conceptual information, e.g. in light of Sowa's "Conceptual Structures"
(1984)?
I've read about some work going on at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Inst Tech).
I suppose that anyone grappling with frames/schemas/etc. could say they
are exploring the use of conceptual information, in a broad sense.
My interest is less in the application of schema-like data structures to
specific problems than in the manipulation of the structures themselves,
e.g. in generic conceptual recognition and generalization.
As an aside: Is there anyone working with conceptual structures on
connectionist machines?
Thanks in advance,
Walt
--
Walter Bunch, Scottish HCI Centre, Ben Line Building, Edinburgh, EH1 1TN
UUCP: walt@uk.ac.hw.aimmi
ARPA: walt%aimmi.hw.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk
JANET: walt@uk.ac.hw.aimmi "Is that you, Dave?"
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 87 14:00 EDT
From: William J. Rapaport <rapaport@sunybcs.UUCP>
Subject: Re: Conceptual Information Research
[ From NL-KR Digest (6/16/87 19:14:20) Volume 2 Number 55 - Ed]
In article <33@aimmi.UUCP> walt@hci.hw.ac.uk (Walter Bunch) writes:
>
>I'm interested in researching knowledge representation as part of a PhD
>program.
>
>What universities are supporting research in the use and properties of
>conceptual information, e.g. in light of Sowa's "Conceptual Structures"
>(1984)?
>Walter Bunch, Scottish HCI Centre, Ben Line Building, Edinburgh, EH1 1TN
>UUCP: walt@uk.ac.hw.aimmi
>ARPA: walt%aimmi.hw.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk
>JANET: walt@uk.ac.hw.aimmi "Is that you, Dave?"
There is an active research group looking at knowledge representation
issues in the Dept. of Computer Science at SUNY Buffalo. The group is
the SNePS Research Group, directed by Stuart C. Shapiro (I'm its associate
director). You can get more complete information on our graduate
program by writing to:
Mrs. Eloise Benzel
Department of Computer Science
SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
USA
or contacting me electronically for specific questions:
William J. Rapaport
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
(716) 636-3193, 3180
uucp: ..!{allegra,decvax,watmath,rocksanne}!sunybcs!rapaport
csnet: rapaport@buffalo.csnet
bitnet: rapaport@sunybcs.bitnet
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 87 10:27:42 edt
From: "Robert B. Allen" <rba@flash.bellcore.com>
Subject: technical report on electronic newspapers and user models
Technical report available:
Selecting Articles from an Electronic Newspaper:
Some Limitations of User Models
Robert B. Allen
2A-367
Bell Communications Research
Morristown, NJ 07960
rba@bellcore.com
While the technology of new information services is rapidly
advancing, it is not entirely clear how this technology can be
best adapted to people's needs and interests. One often-mentioned
proposal is that user models may be developed to select and filter
information sources. This paper examines the possibilities and
implications for automatic filtering of information, and focuses
on predicting preferences for news articles presented
electronically. In the studies reported here, prediction of
preferences appears straightforward when general categories are
used; however, it is relatively difficult for specific news
reports. Beyond the specific results, fundamental issues about
user models are raised such as appropriate standards and
techniques for applying them, what are their essential components,
and what are the limits of using them to predict user behavior.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 87 16:20 N
From: <COR_HVH@HNYKUN52>
Subject: database for syntax analysis (or other) trees
Below you find a copy of an information folder about a database system
for tree structures. The pictures have lost some of their
attractiveness in the translation from graphics to characters, but I
hope they still give a reasonable impression of the system at work.
Hans van Halteren (COR_HVH@HNYKUN52.BITNET)
______________________________________________________________________
The LDB (Linguistic DataBase) project is concerned with the
construction and maintenance of a computer system for the
exploitation of analyzed corpus material.
To make possible a widespread use by linguists, the system is
designed without the need for specialized hardware and without
the need for computer expertise on the part of the user. The
first complete version features a menu system for overall
control, a sub-system for the examination of analysis trees on
standard terminal screens and a query language in which the
linguist can specify database actions in his own terminology.
The database has already been in use at 20 universities
throughout the world in its mainframe (VM/CMS) and supermini (VAX
with VMS or UNIX) versions. Now the availability of the database
has been improved even further with the completion of a version
for PC/AT (with the same possibilities and user-interface as the
other versions).
Packaged with the database system comes a 130,000 word corpus of
modern English with a full syntactical analysis of each
utterance (the Nijmegen corpus, analyzed in the CCPP project). In
the future more corpora will become available. Furthermore, as
the database system is formalism and language independent, it is
possible to use it for your own analyzed corpus material.
For scientific research, the system is available at a nominal fee.
For information about obtaining it, write to:
TOSCA Work Group
Dept. of English
University of Nijmegen
P.O. Box 9103
6500 HD Nijmegen
The Netherlands
or E-mail to COR_HVH @ HNYKUN52.BITNET
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
Figure I: The tree map view in the Tree Viewer
______________________________________________________________________
MANY A DOCTOR <# WHO APPEARS HESITANT AND RESERVED IN SOCIETY #> DONS
.-1- . . . . . MANY
|-2- . . . . . A
|-3- . . . . . DOCTOR
.-1---| .-1- . . . #WHO
| | |-2- . . . #APPEARS
| '(4)--| .-1- . #HESITANT
| |-3---+-2- . #AND
| | '-3- . #RESERVED
-*---| '-4-----1- . #IN
| '-2- . #SOCIETY
|-2- . . . . . . . DONS
|-3-----1- . . . . . COMPLETE
| '-2- . . . . . CONFIDENCE
| .-1- . . . . . WITH
'-4---| .-1- . . . HIS
'-2---+-2- . . . WHITE
|-3- . . . PROFESSIONAL
'-4- . . . COAT.
POSTMODIFIER:FINITE SENTENCE()
command:
scroll:YUDLR<>() focus:FS1-90PNMJ amb:CA view:V help:? exit:X
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
Figure II: A search pattern for sentences with noun phrases showing
a non-initial determiner and a postmodifying finite
sentence with subject WHO or THAT and a subject complement
of more than one word (for an example, see figure I)
______________________________________________________________________
.--------------------.
1--|FUN = 'DET' |
| |SNO > 1 |
| | |
| `--------------------'
.--------------------. | .--------------------.
|CAT = 'NP' |-2--|FUN = 'HD' |
| | | | |
| | | | |
`--------------------' | `--------------------'
| .--------------------. ######################
3--|FUN = 'POM' |-1--#FUN = 'SU' #
|CAT = 'SF' | | #WOR = 'WHO' OR WOR =>
| | | # #
`--------------------' | ######################
| .--------------------.
2--|FUN = 'CS' |
|WCT > 1 |
| |
`--------------------'
FUN = 'SU' ; WOR = 'WHO' OR WOR = 'THAT'
command:
scroll:YUDLR()<> focus:FS1-90PN edit:IETCOW view:V help:? exit:X
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 87 12:42 EDT
From: Sherman Tyler <wiley!sherman@lll-lcc.ARPA>
Subject: Conference - Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces
[Excerpted from NL-KR which in turn excerpted from AIList - Ed]
Call for Participation
Workshop on
Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces:
Elements and Prototypes
March 29 - April 1, 1988, Monterey, California
Sponsored by AAAI
Objective: The term ``Intelligent Interface'' characterizes the set
of computer-human interfaces which employ AI to enhance the
transactional nature of the interface. The goal of the workshop is to
explore ways in which AI techniques (e.g., knowledge representation,
inference mechanisms, and heuristic search) can be used to provide the
adaptability and reasoning capabilities required for a more
intelligent human-machine interaction.
Some possible areas for focused discussions might include:
* Models (user, system, task) - adapting the dialogue to the
current context of the interaction, considering the
particular user, the target system, and the high-level task
under execution;
* Channels of Communication - allowing users to communicate
intentions with a minimum of learning and effort, using
Natural Language, Graphics, and the integration of mixed
modalities of input;
* Planning - for recognizing user plans and their implied
goals, generating plans to meet those goals, and planning how
to best display the resulting information to communicate the
result of the executed action;
* Interface-Building Tools - using artificial intelligence
techniques to support developers in designing and
constructing interfaces.
Attendance: In order to provide an intellectually stimulating
environment conducive to interaction and exchange of ideas, the
attendance will be limited to approximately 35 participants. The
ideal participant is an individual who is actively addressing
theoretical, research, and/or implementation issues relevant to
Intelligent Interfaces (with a bias toward those who have dealt with
implementation issues at some level). Limited financial assistance
will be available for graduate students who are invited to
participate.
Review Process: The submitted abstracts and autobiographies will be
reviewed by the program committee. Invitation will be based upon
relevance of the work to the goals of the workshop, and on the basis
of significance, originality, and scientific quality.
Workshop Organization: The workshop organizers are J. Sullivan
(Lockheed AI Center) and S. Tyler (Lockheed AI Center). The program
committee consists of J. Mackinlay (Xerox PARC), R. Neches
(USC Information Sciences Institute), E. Rissland (University of
Massachusetts), and N. Sondheimer (USC Information Sciences Institute).
Submission: A detailed eight page abstract and a one page
biographical sketch (six copies of each) should be submitted by
September 1, 1987. Invitations for participation will be extended by
October 16, 1987, with complete papers due by December 18, 1987.
Publication of the proceedings is planned, therefore the quality of
the papers is important.
Submit abstracts to: Joseph W. Sullivan or Sherman W. Tyler,
O/90-06 B/259, Lockheed AI Center, 2710 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA
94025, (415) 354-5200, wiley!joe@lll-lcc.arpa or
wiley!sherman@lll-lcc.arpa
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