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AIList Digest Volume 2 Issue 082
AIList Digest Friday, 29 Jun 1984 Volume 2 : Issue 82
Today's Topics:
Humor & Business - How Not to Buy a Hero-1,
Seminars - HAM-ANS Natural Language System,
Expert System for Medical Consultation,
Expert Systems at Hewlett-Packard,
Conferences - Logic Programming Symposium,
Workshop on Language Generation
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Date: 27 Jun 1984 08:23:02-EDT
From: kushnier@NADC
Subject: How Not to Buy a Hero-1
From kushnier@NADC Tue Jun 5 08:44:53 1984
Date: 5 Jun 1984 08:38:27-EDT
From: kushnier@NADC
To: SURINA@AFSC-HQ, kushnier@NADC.ARPA
Subject: Re: Small Computer Procurements
HOW NOT TO BUY A HERO 1
By Ron Kushnier
I am an Engineer, by trade.
I have my Double-E.
And When I saw the Hero-1,
I knew it was for me.
I gave the order to my boss
And explained the application,
He very quickly signed the thing
With the wildest jubilation.
The order went to Purchasing
And was no sooner in the door,
When panic struck
the buyer screamed,
"No one bought a Hero-1 before".
The order came back down to me
With a simple "DISAPPROVED"
My dreams were smashed
My hopes were dashed
My plans had been removed.
Now I could understand this
If a Shoeshine Boy I'd be
But I'm supposed to be
An Engineer
And work in R&D.
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Date: 28 Jun 1984 08:15:48-EDT
From: kushnier@NADC
Subject: Another Toy
Another Toy
By Ron Kushnier
Here's another toy
That my husband wants to buy.
I'll never know
What good it is
Or any reasons why.
But HERO-1, my fate is doomed
I see it very clear.
The age of
Personal Computer Pets
Is very nearly here.
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Date: Tue 26 Jun 84 11:29:16-PDT
From: Emma Pease <EMMA@SU-CSLI.ARPA>
Subject: Seminar - HAM-ANS Natural Language System
[Forwarded from the CSLI Newsletter by Laws@SRI-AI.]
The following will take place on Friday, June 29 in the Ventura
Conference room from 2:00 to 4:00 (followed by tea).
THE DIALOG SYSTEM HAM-ANS: NATURAL LANGUAGE ACCESS TO DIVERSE APPLICATION
SYSTEMS (H. Marburger, K. Morik, B. Nebel) -- St
This talk will introduce the overall goals of the NL-System HAM-ANS (HAMburg
Application-oriented Natural language System) which is currently being
developed at the University of Hamburg. HAM-ANS encompasses three different
application classes: natural language access to a vision system (traffic at
a street crossing), to a relational database system (fishery data), and for
guiding a competitive dialog with a client (hotel reservation situation).
The system accepts typed input in colloquial German and produces typed German
responses. The system's general architecture and knowledge sources will be
introduced.
USER MODELING, EVALUATION STANDARDS, AND DIALOGUE STRUCTURE -- THE HAM-ANS
APPROACH
(Katharina Morik) --
AI dialogue systems are now developing from question-answering systems toward
advising systems. This includes:
* structuring dialog
* understanding and generating a wider range of speech acts than
simply information request and answer
* modeling the user's familiarity with the system, his/her state
of knowledge about the domain, and his/her evaluation
standards (goals)
In this talk, first the field of user modeling is structured according to the
different aspects of the user (familiarity, knowledge, evaluation).
We may then, secondly, describe our ongoing work in this field and relate it
to other approaches. User modeling in HAM-ANS is closely connected to dialog
structure and dialog strategy. In advising the user, the system generates the
verbalizes speech acts. The choice of the speech act is guided by the user
profile and the dialog strategy of the system.
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Date: Tue 26 Jun 84 11:55:27-PDT
From: Ted Shortliffe <Shortliffe@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: Seminar - Expert System for Medical Consultation
[Forwarded from the Stanford bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
There will be a special seminar presented by Mario Fieschi from Marseilles
on Tuesday, July 10, from 2:30-3:30pm in the TC-135 conference room at the
medical school. Mario has done some interesting work on medical expert
systems, and is spending a few months at MIT with Peter Szolovits (who was on
his thesis committee). He will be visiting Stanford from July 9-11.
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Speaker: Mario Fieschi, MD, PhD
Affiliation: University of Marseilles, France
Title: SPHINX: An Expert System for Medical Consultations
Place: Room TC-135, Medical School
Time: Tuesday, July 10, 2:30-3:30pm
I will present an outline of the program SPHINX, designed for the
definition of medical knowledge and construction of a rule-based system,
currently being used in:
. Therapeutic decisions : Application in diabetes
. Diagnostic decisions : Application in jaundice
. Tool for education : Application in jaundice
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Date: Wed 27 Jun 84 09:46:18-PDT
From: Juanita Mullen <MULLEN@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: Seminar - Expert Systems at Hewlett-Packard
[Forwarded from the Stanford SIGLUNCH distribution by Laws@SRI-AI.]
SIGLUNCH
DATE: Friday, June 29, 1984
LOCATION: Chemistry Gazebo, between Organic & Physical Chemistry
TIME: 12:05
SPEAKER: Steven Rosenberg
Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories
Palo Alto
TOPIC: Expert Systems at Hewlett-Packard
The Applications Technology Laboratory of HP Labs is engaged in
developing "industrial strength" AI. As part of its contribution to
this effort, the Expert Systems Department has engaged in various
"experiments" to develop expert system prototypes. One such
experiment involved the development of PICC, an expert system for
diagnosing flaws in IC wafers during negative photolithography. This
talk will discuss the development and status of PICC. Besides
describing the technical aspects of PICC, I will explore some of the
issues involved in conducting expert systems experiments: why was
photolithography chosen as a good area to apply expert systems
technology; what were the pitfalls in moving PICC from a laboratory
environment into a real fab line; even if it works, is it useful?
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Date: 26 Jun 84 14:28:00-PDT (Tue)
From: hplabs!hp-pcd!uoregon!conery @ Ucb-Vax.arpa
Subject: Logic Programming Symposium
Article-I.D.: uoregon.30100001
>From John Conery (conery@uoregon)
-- Announcing --
1985 International Symposium on Logic Programming
Tentatively scheduled for Boston, Massachusetts, June 1985
Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Languages
The symposium will cover implementations and applications of logic programming
systems, including (but not limited to) parallel processing, expert systems,
natural language processing, systems programming, implementation techniques,
and performance issues.
Authors should send 8 copies of their papers (8-20 pages, double spaced) to
John Conery
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
Submission deadline is November 1, 1984. A formal call for papers will be
issued shortly. For more information, contact:
Conference Chairman: Doug DeGroot
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
PO Box 281, Yorktown Hts. NY 10598
Technical Co-Chairmen: Jacques Cohen
Computer Science Dept - Ford Hall
Brandeis University
415 South St
Waltham MA 02254
CSNET: jc@brandeis
ARPANET: jc.brandeis@csnet-relay
John Conery
Department of Computer and Information Sci
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
CSNET: conery@uoregon
ARPANET: conery.uoregon@csnet-relay
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Date: Thu 28 Jun 84 09:15:49-PDT
From: Dikran Karagueuzian <DIKRAN@SU-CSLI.ARPA>
Subject: Workshop on Language Generation
[Forwarded from the CSLI bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE GENERATION
Organizers - Doug Appelt and Ivan Sag
Staff - Emma Pease
Dates - July 8 - 11
Size - 30 invited + 30 local
Location - Stanford University
Sponsors - National Science Foundation, American Association for
Artificial Intelligence, CSLI, Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.
The Second International Workshop on Language Generation will be held at
Stanford University from July 8-10, immediately following the COLING
conference. The workshop, organized by Doug Appelt and Ivan Sag is designed
to allow researchers working in the field of language generation to share
recent research results and discuss matters of importance to the field.
Topics of discussion for this workshop include the design of grammatical
formalisms for language generation, the role of planning and speech act
theory in language generation, the production of extended discourse, the
foundations for a theory of language generation, modeling the hearer's
knowledge and intentions, and producing coherent explanations of reasoning
and decision-making. Linguists as well as artificial intelligence
researchers will participate in the workshop.
The workshop is being sponsored by a grant from the National Science
Foundation, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a gift
from Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Conference starts at noon, July 8 in the
Elliott Program Center. This is a workshop and so interested people
should check with Doug Appelt before going.
[...]
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