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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 05
IRList Digest Friday, 27 March 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 5
Today's Topics:
Query - Soundex coding
Addresses - Bob Korfhage
- M.J.Ouborg & R.J.Topp
Report - News from the Microsoft CDROM Conference
Announcement - ACL Europe Copenhagen Conference, 1-3 April 1987
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: 26-FEB-1987 11:07:42
From: <AFS@CSVAX.UCD.HEA.IRL>
To: FOX@VTCS1.BITNET
Subject: Question to IRList on Soundex coding ...
The Russell soundex code was developed at the end of the last centuary as
an aid to the US census. The idea was re-visited in the early 1960's with
the application being airline passenger lists (CACM 1963). Since then it
has become popular in searching large files of names (medical records,
banking, etc), as an aid to spelling error correction, and I believe it
has been used as an aid to Information Retrieval. I can't find any published
material on the latter however. Can anybody help please ?
I will summarise for IRList if I get anything worthwhile.
Many Thanks,
Alan Smeaton
[Note: There has been discussion in earlier IRList issues, but I will
let others comment and update that information. - Ed]
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 87 16:41:53 est
From: vtcs1::in% <korfhage%pitt@RELAY.CS.NET@idis>
To: fox@vpi.csnet@pitt
Subject: move
Ed:
I've been out of circulation for a long time, since I moved to Pitt in
September. Please bring me back up on the IRList Digest at the address
below, and if possible pop me the issues back through about the middle of
October.
Thanks!
Bob Korfhage
korfhage%idis.uucp@pitt.csnet
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 87 23:18 N
From: <VOORLRAN@HWALHW50>
Subject: INFORMATION
To: FOXEA@VTVAX3
Hello,
Please send us some information about your Bulletin Board.
If possible add us to your mailing list.
We are interested in the following subjects:
Cognitive Psychology
Expert Systems for IR
Statistical Techniques
Information Display
Pattern Recognition
Communication Networks
Thank you very much.
M.J.Ouborg & R.J.Topp
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Date: Sun, 8 Mar 87 22:31:19 est
From: fox@vtcs1
Subject: News from the Microsoft CDROM Conference
1) I saw the new Mac Products. The color on the Mac II was great!
2) Microsoft now has a CDROM (compact disk with digital data) that is
integrated with a number of word processors. The hardware, software,
and data will be sold by Sears soon for under $1100 list (excluding the
computer to be used, like a Mac or IBM PC), and includes a dictionary,
thesaurus, zip code book, collection of business form letters, spelling
corrector, usage corrector, Chicago Style Manual, etc. All of these
are instantly accessible from the word processor with only a few
key strokes.
3) RCA (owned by GE) has been working on special graphics/video chips.
Until recently, compact disks could store in digital form 1 hour of
music, or 30 seconds of full motion video. RCA uses supercomputers to
compress 1 hour of video, store it on a compact disc in digital form
to be mixed with sound, graphics, data, text. They play it back in
real time with the help of 2 new chips which can wrap video onto wireframe
forms. One chip is a special video processor running at 12.5 MIPW
forms. One chip is a special video processor running at 12.5 MIPS.
It looks like this will revolutionize computer instruction, games, etc.
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 87 00:36:20 est
From: vtcs1::in% <walker@flash.bellcore.com>
Subject: Information on the ACL Europe Copenhagen Conference, 1-3 April 1987
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: EUROPEAN CHAPTER
Third Conference and General Meeting
April 1-3 1987, University of Copenhagen
Due to communication problems, the first registration circular announcing
the Conference did not get sent to most ACL members. The attached
information contains the programme, which was just released, together
with information on registration (which because of the short time must
now be down at the meeting) and hotels. For further information,
contact: Bente Maegaard (ACL)
IAML
Njalsgade 96
DK-2300 Kobenhavn S, DENMARK
45-1-542 211, x2478
Bente_Maegaard_eurotra-dk%eurokom@mit-multics.arpa
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Wednesday April 1
9.30 Opening
10.00 Invited paper: Laurence Danlos, Paris
Coffee
11.15 Invited paper: Martin Kay, Palo Alto
Lunch (can be bought in the University cafeteria)
In the following there will be 2 parallel sessions A and B.
Session 1: 13.30-15.30
A: Ritchie, Black, Pulman, Russell: Formalisms for Morphographemic Description
Russo: A Rule Based System for the Morphologic and Morphosyntactic Analysis
of the Italian Language
Lau, Perschke: Morphology in the Eurotra Base Level Concept
Ralli, Galiotou: A Morphological Processor for Modern Greek
B: Atwell: How to detect Grammatical Errors in a Text without Parsing It
Menzel: Automated Reasoning about Natural Language Correctness
Casajuana, Rodriguez, Sopena, Villar: Towards an Integrated Environment
for Spanish Document Verification and Composition
Atwell, Drakos: Pattern Recognition Applied to the Acquisition of a
Grammatical Classification System from Unrestricted English Text
Session 2: 16.00-17.30
A: Boguraev, Carter, Briscoe: A Multi-Purpose Interface to an On-line Dictionary
Daelemans: A Tool for the Automatic Creation, Extention and Updating of
Lexical Knowledge Bases
Costantini, Fent, Fum, Guida, Montanari, Tasso: Parsing with Multiple
Knowledge Sources: An Experiment in Distributed Cooperative Text
Understanding
B: D'Orta, Ferreti, Martelli, Scarci: An Automatic Speech Recognition System
for Italian Language
Ehrlich: Multilevel Semantic Analysis in an Automatic Speech Understanding
and Dialogue System
Martelli: Stochastic Modelling of Language via Sentence-Space Partitioning
Reception offered by the Faculty of Humanities
Thursday April 2
Session 3: 9.00-10.00
A: Wood, Horsfall, Holden, Chandler, Carroll, Pollard: Dictionary Organisation
for Machine Translation: the Experiments and Implications of the UMIST
Japanese Project
Schmidt: The Syntactic Component of the German EUROTRA System
B: Ahrenberg: Parsing into Discourse Object Descriptions
Hess: Descriptional Anaphora in a Discourse Representation Theory
Session 4: 10.00-11.00
A: Sgall, Panevova: Machine Translation, Linguistics and Interlingua
Hajicova, Kirchner: Fail-Soft ("Emergency") Measures in a Production-Oriented
MT System
B: Kilbury: A Proposal for Modifications in the Formalism of GPSG
Zaharin: String-Tree Correspondence Grammar: A Declarative Grammar Formalism
for Tree Manipulation and for Defining String-Tree Correspondence
Session 5: 11.30-12.30
A: Kjarsgaard: REFTEX - a Context-Based Translation Aid
Hajic: RUSLAN - a System of MT between Closely Related Languages
B: Rue: Danish Field Grammar Implemented in Typed Prolog
Corluy, Baschung, Bes, Guillotin: Auxiliaries and Clitics in French UCG
Grammar
Session 6: 14.00-15.30
A: Landsbergen: Controlled M-Grammars in the Rosetta System
Apello, Fellinger: Subgrammars and Rule Classes in the Rosetta Translation
System
Petitpierre, Krauwer, Arnold, Varile: A Model for Preference
B: Schmauks: Natural and Simulated Pointing, An Interdisciplinary Survey
Decitre, Grossi, Jullien, Solvay: Planning for Problem Formulation in
Advice-Giving Dialogue
Bienkowski: Modeling Extemporeaneous Elaboration
Demonstrations from 16.00
Friday April 3
Session 7: 9.00-10.30
A: Ferrari, Marino, Spiezio, Prodanof: An Efficient Context-Free Parser for
Augmented Phrase Structure Grammars
Bunt: Discontinuous Constituents in Trees, Rules and Parsing
Briscoe: Deterministic Parsing and Unbounded Dependencies
B: Black: Acquisition of Conceptual Data Models from Natural Language
Descriptions
Velardi, Pazienza: A Structured Representation of Word-Senses for Semantic
Analysis
Colban, Fenstad: Situations and Prepositional Phrases
Session 8: 11.00-12.30
A: Valkonen, Jappinen, Lehtola: Blackboard Approach for Dependency Parsing -
a Step towards Declarative Modelling
Wiren: Evaluating the Efficiency of Different Rule Innovation Strategies
in Chart Parsing
Stock: Coping with Dynamic Syntactic Strategies: An Experimental
Environment for an Experimental Parser
B: Nakhimovsky: Temporal Reasoning in Natural Language Understanding
Van Eynde: A Model-Theoretic Analysis of Iterativity and Habituality
Expressions in Natural Languages
Danieli, Ferrara, Gemello, Rullent: Integrating Semantics and Flexible
Syntax by Exploiting Isomorphism between Grammatical and Semantical
Relations
Session 9: 14.00-15.30
A: Binot: Fragmentation and Part of Speech Disambiguation
Gibbon: Finite State Processing of Tone Systems
Kalman: Representation of Feature Systems in a Non-Connectionist Molecular
Machine
B: Kunze: Some Remarks on Case Relations
Pulman: Passives and Prepositional Phrases
Reimann: Dealing with the Notion "Obligatory" in Syntactic Analysis
ACL European Chapter Meeting
Closing Session
The conference will be held at the University of Copenhagen (Amager),
Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, DENMARK, which is about 10 minutes
by bus from the center of the city.
REGISTRATION will take place on March 31 from 17 p.m. to 21 p.m., at
the Institute of Applied and Mathematical Linguistics (Institut for
Anvendt og Matematisk Lingvistik=IAML), University of Copenhagen/Amager,
room 6.3.65 (stairway 6, third floor, room 65). The registration room
will be easily found if you enter the university by the main entrance
(Njalsgade 80) and follow the signs. It will also be possible to
register on April 1st from 8.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. or, if necessary,
during the conference.
HOTELS: A wide range of hotels are available; reservations can be
made through travel agents, directly to hotels or on application to
Hotelbooking Kobenhavn, Hovedbanegarden, DK-1570 Kobenhavn V;
telephone (45-1) 122880, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.
(prices in Danish Kroners; * includes breakfast):
Number single double
of beds room room
total with with
bath bath
Hotel Astoria 153 595-795* 740-890*
Banegardspladsen 4
DK-1570 Kobenhavn V
45-1 14 14 19
Copenhagen Admiral 815 465-605 675-775
Toldbodgade 42-28
DK-1253 Kobenhavn K
45-1 11 82 82
Hotel Danmark 80 420* 650
Vester Voldgade 89
DK-1552 Kobenhavn V
45-1 11 48 06
Missionshotellet 216 330-500* 750-850*
Hebron
Helgolandsgade 4
DK-1653 Kobenhavn V
45-1 31 69 06
71 Nyhavn Hotel 110 770-1070* 1000-1350*
Nyhavn 71
DK-1051 Kobenhavn K
45-1 11 85 85
SAS Royal Hotel 453 1225* 1500*
Hammerichsgade 1
DK-1611 Kobenhavn V
45-1 14 14 12
SAS Scandinavia 875 1125-1550 1325-1750
Amager Boulevard 70
DK-2300 Kobenhavn S
45-1 11 23 24
(within walking distance from the University)
Hotel Amager 26 300-350 400-450
Amagerbrogade 19
DK-2300 Kobenhavn S
45-1 54 40 08
(within walking distance from the University)
Savoy Hotel 142 400 600-800
Vesterbrogade 34
DK-1620 Kobenhavn V
45-1 31 40 73
Hotel Sonne 65 190-210 290-340
Egilsgade 33 without without
DK-2300 Kobenhavn S bath bath
45-1 54 44 44
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