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AIList Digest Volume 4 Issue 187
AIList Digest Friday, 19 Sep 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 187
Today's Topics:
Queries - Natural Language DB Interface & NL Generation &
Production Systems & Facial Recognition & Smalltalk & Symbolics CAD &
Lisp Machine News & MACSYMA & San Diego Speakers Wanted
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Date: 16 Sep 86 20:05:31 GMT
From: mnetor!utzoo!utcs!bnr-vpa!bnr-di!yali@seismo.css.gov
Subject: natural language DB interface
Has anyone out there any experience with
the Swan* natural language database interface
put out by Natural Language Products of Berkeley?
This system was demo-ed at AAAI this August.
I am primarily interested in the system's
ability to talk to "different databases
associated with different DBMS's"
simultaneously (quoting an information sheet
put out by NLP).
How flexible is it and how easy is it
to adapt to new domains?
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Yawar Ali
{the world}!watmath!utcsri!utcs!bnr-vpa!bnr-di!yali
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* Swan is an unregistered trademark of NLP
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 86 16:34:47 edt
From: lb0q@andrew.cmu.edu (Leslie Burkholder)
Subject: natural language generation
Has work been done on the problem of generating relatively idiomatic English
from sentences written in a language for first-order predicate logic?
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Leslie Burkholder
lb0q@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 17:10 EDT
From: LIN@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU
Subject: queries about expert systems
Maybe some AI guru out there can help with the following questions:
1. Production systems are the implementation of many expert systems.
In what other forms are "expert systems" implemented?
[I use the term "expert system" to describe the codification of any
process that people use to reason, plan, or make decisions as a set of
computer rules, involving a detailed description of the precise
thought processes used. If you have a better description, please
share it.]
2. A production system is in essence a set of rules that state that
"IF X occurs, THEN take action Y." System designers must anticipate
the set of "X" that can occur. What if something happens that is not
anticipated in the specified set of "X"? I assert that the most
common result in such cases is that nothing happens. Am I right,
wrong, or off the map?
Thanks.
Herb Lin
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Date: 11 Sep 86 20:42:14 GMT
From: ihnp4!islenet!humu!uhmanoa!aloha1!ryan@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (ryan)
Subject: querying a data base using an inference engine
This is a sort of banner letting the rest of the world know that we at
the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Hawaii are currently
looking at the problem of querying a database using AI techniques. We will be
using a natural language front end for querying the database. We will appretiate
any information from anyone working on or interested in the same.
my address is
Paul Ryan
...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!aloha1!ryan
...nosvax!humu!islenet!aloha1!ryan
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 86 18:55:43 edt
From: philabs!micomvax!peters@seismo.CSS.GOV
Subject: Computer Vision
We are starting a project related to automatic classification of facial
features from photographs. If anyone out there has any info/references
related to this area please let me hear from you.
email: !philabs!micomvax!peters
mail: Peter Srulovicz
Philips Information Systems
600 Dr. Philips Blvd
St. Laurent Quebec
Canada H4M-2S9
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Date: 16 Sep 86 01:22:57 GMT
From: whuxcc!lcuxlm!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!krubin@bellcore.com
Subject: Smalltalk as an AI research tool?
I am currently working on an AI project where we are
using Smalltalk-80 as our implementation language. Are there
others who have used Smalltalk to do serious AI work? If so,
and you can talk about what you have done, please respond. I
would be interested in learning how well suited the language
is for serious AI work.
We have plans to implement an (Intelligent Operator
Assistant) using an IBM PC-AT running a version of Digitalk
Incorporated's Smalltalk/V. Any comments on this software
would also be helpful (especially speed information!).
Kenneth S. Rubin (404) 894-4318
Center for Man-Machine Systems Research
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Post Office Box 35826
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
Majoring with: School of Information and Computer Science
...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!krubin
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Date: 14 Sep 86 11:35:00 GMT
From: osiris!chandra@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Wanted: CAD program for Symbolics
CAD software for the Symbolics Machine
Hi,
I just got a Symbolics lisp machine. I am looking for any
Public Domain design/drafting program. Being an architect I'd
like to draw stuff on my lisp machine.
Hints, pointers, references would be appreciated.
Thanks,
navin chandra
ARPA: dchandra@athena.mit.edu
BITNET: ank%cunyvms1
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Date: 18 Sep 86 03:29:53 GMT
From: hp-sdd!ncr-sd!milano!dave@hplabs.hp.com
Subject: Lisp Machine News?
Does anyone have or know of a zwei-based interface
to news? (If it exists, 3 to 2 it's called ZNEWS.)
Dave Bridgeland -- MCC Software Technology
ARPA: dave@mcc.arpa
UUCP: ut-sally!im4u!milano!daveb
"Things we can be proud of as Americans:
* Greatest number of citizens who have actually boarded a UFO
* Many newspapers feature "JUMBLE"
* Hourly motel rates
* Vast majority of Elvis movies made here
* Didn't just give up right away during World War II
like some countries we could mention
* Goatees & Van Dykes thought to be worn only by weenies
* Our well-behaved golf professionals
* Fabulous babes coast to coast"
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Date: 15 Sep 86 16:17:00 GMT
From: uiucuxa!lenzini@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Wanted: MACSYMA info
Hi,
I have a friend in the nuclear eng. department who is currently working on
a problem in - I can't remember right now but that's not the point - anyway,
this problem involves the analytic solution of a rather complex integral
(I believe it's called Chen's (sp?) integral). A while back I heard something
about a group of programs called MACSYMA that were able to solve integrals that
were previously unsolvable. I suggested that he may want to look into the
availabiliy of MACSYMA. I would appreciate any information about these
programs - what they can and can't do, how they are used, how to purchase
(preferably with a university discount) , etc.
Thanks in advance,
Andy Lenzini
University of Illinois.
...pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxa!lenzini
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Date: 18 Sep 86 13:58 PDT
From: sigart@LOGICON.ARPA
Subject: Speakers wanted
The San Diego Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
(SDSIGART) is looking for speakers for its regular monthly meetings.
We are presently looking for individuals who would like to give a
presentation on any AI topic during the January to April 1987
time-frame. We typically hold our meetings on the fourth thursday of
the month, and provide for a single presentation during the meeting.
If you anticipate being in San Diego during that time and would like to
give a presentation please contact us via E-mail at
sigart\@logicon.arpa.
We cannot provide transportation reimbursement for speakers from
outside the San Diego area, but we can provide some reimbursement of
hotel/meal expenses.
Thank You,
Bill D'Camp
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