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AIList Digest Volume 8 Issue 027
AIList Digest Tuesday, 26 Jul 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 27
Today's Topics:
Queries:
ES technology in RightWriter or Grammatik
Journal of AI and Engineering
Pattern Matching
Memory Based Reasoning
Response to - Graphael
Expert System Applications in Government
Response to - programs in cognitive science
text-to-speech, text-to-phoneme, or text-to-syllable algorithms
Small on-line dictionary (or English nouns & verbs) sought
Modeling Trends
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Date: 20 Jul 88 12:00:20 GMT
From: Robert Dale <rda%epistemi.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Subject: ES technology in RightWriter or Grammatik
I notice that, according to the recently posted summary of Spang 4:5,
"Right Writer and Gramentek II (grammar and style checkers)
use expert system technology, sold 100,000 copies each and
have not been sold as expert systems."
I've never used either of these programs, but have read reviews of
them (and their promotional stuff) fairly closely, and I can't see the
ES technology. As far as I could tell, both simply search the text
for "bad strings" and suggest corresponding replacements, presumably
using a simple table lookup mechanism (although the newer Grammatik
III may be more sophisticated). Anyone care to comment? Does the
Spang article say anything more illuminating?
R
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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 88 17:29:55 EDT
From: Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@alv.umd.edu>
Subject: Journal of AI and Engineering
I have heard about a journal called The Journal of AI and Engineering. I
want to know who is on the Editorial Board of the journal, whether it has
started publishing and how I can get more info and sample copies etc. Any
comments regarding the quality of the journal will also be appreciated.
Please reply by e-mail to rao@alv.umd.edu
Thanks in advance
-rao
Subbarao Kambhampati
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Date: 22 Jul 88 02:28:28 GMT
From: att!chinet!mcdchg!clyde!watmath!watcgl!kppicott@bloom-beacon.mit
.edu (Dewey Duck)
Subject: Pattern Matching
Hi,
I am working on computer graphics and I recently ran into a problem that some
of you might be able to help me with. It is basically a problem in pattern
matching. I want to take as input, a collection of x,y points. From this
collection I would like to be able to decompose the points into maximal
curve sections. In general, I want to take a line drawing, digitize it using
some standard picture digitizing device, section the bitmap into groups of
points which represent single curves, represent these curves in a different
form and process those curves further. I can do all but the sectioning.
As I see it I have two options at this point. Either section the curves as
I've described above, or have a user sit there and mark the dots to be included
in each curve. I do not want to do the latter if it can be avoided at all
(mainly because the user will end up being me).
So, here is the question part. Is there any research out there that has
addressed and/or solved this class of problem? I would appreciate it if
anyone could either tell me how it's done, tell me that it can't be done, or
point me in the correct direction to look into this further. As I said
before, I am a graphics person and haven't run into this class of problem
so I am totally unaware of what has been done in this area. Any little bit
of information would help greatly.
Thanks. I will summarize any responses,
--- Kevin Picott, Dept. of CS, U. of Waterloo
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example:
bitmap is:
.
.
.
.. . ...
.. . ..
... . .
.... . ..
...... . ......
..........
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Resultant patterns are:
.
.
.
.. * ...
.. * ..
... * .
.... * ..
...... * ......
..*.......
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
where one curve is '*' and another is '.'. These points are fed into a bezier
curve-maker as a unit. (I have a program that can do this.)
Am I correct in my assumption above. If not, I would appreciate any further
references you could give me. I do not have access to a Mac, so looking at
the program myself is not an option at the moment.
Thanks,
--- Kevin Picott --- kppicott@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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Date: 22 Jul 88 11:44:50 GMT
From: dowjone!gregb@uunet.uu.net (Greg_Baber)
Subject: Memory Based Reasoning
Can anybody point me to refernces to something called
Memory Based Reasoning? (Books, articles, netnews, etc)
It would even be better if someone could (post,email)
a capsule summary. Thanks a lot.
gregb
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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 88 10:56:21 pdt
From: purcell@loki.hac.com (ed purcell)
Subject: Response to - Graphael
Recent issues of "AI Expert" (and probably AAAI's "AI Magazine" also)
have advertisements for Graphael and their G-Base oodbms. Their U.S.
address is:
Graphael
255 Bear Hill Road
Waltham, MA 02154
617-890-7055
Graphael's headquarters are in France.
(I have their President's business card, but it's from AAAI-84,
so I don't know if this address in France is still current.)
Ed Purcell
purcell%loki@hac2arpa.hac.com
213-607-0793
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Date: 23 Jul 88 03:28:52 GMT
From: koen@locus.ucla.edu
Subject: Expert System Applications in Government
I am looking for articles, books or summaries which give a good overview
of expert system applications currently being used or worked on in the US
government agencies. Any pointers will be appreciated.
-- Koenraad Lecot
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Date: 24 Jul 88 20:48:00 GMT
From: mcvax!ukc!warwick!cvaxa!aarons@uunet.uu.net (Aaron Sloman)
Subject: Response to - programs in cognitive science
>From Aaron Sloman Sun Jul 24 21:41:56 BST 1988
To: ghh@princeton.edu
Subject: Cognitive Sciences Programmes
Just saw your message
>Subject: programs in cognitive science
>Message-ID: <GHH.88Jul16135559@confidence.princeton.edu>
>Date: 16 Jul 88 04:55:59 GMT
>I am trying to get an up to date list of undergraduate
>programs in cognitive science or cognitive studies.
At Sussex University we started, in 1973, a Programme that included both
undergraduate and graduate studies in Cognitive Studies, including
Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Social Anthropology and AI.
Originally this was based as a sub-school in the School of Social
Sciences, but in 1987 it was deemed big enough to be a separate school,
and from August 1988 will be joined by Computer Science, leading to a
new name:
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Undergraduate majors now include
Psychology (various versions)
Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Philosophy
Computing and AI
(includes some of all the other disciplines)
Computer Science
Economics and Computing
There are also the following graduate courses:
MA
MSc conversion course in Knowledge Based Systems
MPhil
DPhil
The school is one of the few things still growing in UK Universities.
I hope this information is of some use.
Aaron Sloman,
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences,
Univ of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QN, England
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JANET aarons@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk
BITNET: aarons%uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa@uk.ac
As a last resort (it costs us more...)
UUCP: ...mcvax!ukc!cvaxa!aarons
or aarons@cvaxa.uucp
Phone: University +(44)-(0)273-678294
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Date: 24 Jul 88 23:31:57 GMT
From: hubcap!ncrcae!gollum!rolandi@gatech.edu (Walter Rolandi)
Subject: text-to-speech, text-to-phoneme, or text-to-syllable
algorithms
Thanks to all those who responded to my request for ways to identify
the syllables of English. Several people suggested text-to-speech
algorithms but no one has offered to provide one. Does anyone have a
text-to-speech algorithm that they would be willing to post? I am sure
many people would be interested.
Thanks.
Walter Rolandi
rolandi@ncrcae.UUCP
rolandi@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM
NCR Advanced Systems Development, Columbia, SC
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 88 15:57:06 +1000
From: "ERIC Y.H. TSUI" <munnari!aragorn.oz.au!eric@uunet.UU.NET>
Subject: Small on-line dictionary (or English nouns & verbs) sought
Would anyone has access to an electronic copy of English nouns and verbs ?
A small (500 entries) to medium collection (5000 entries) would be appropriate.
It would be ideal if the verbs (and/or nouns) are grouped into various
categories. I am also prepared to work with a small on-line dictionary and
manually extract the required knowledge.
The knowledge is sought for the design of lexicon and semantic knowledge
for a restricted NL front end (for encoding rules).
Eric Tsui eric@aragorn.oz
Division of Computing and Mathematics
Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria 3217
AUSTRALIA
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 88 19:35 N
From: <RCSTBW@HEITUE5>
Subject: Modeling Trends
Dear AIlisters,
At the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Bureau for Biomedical and
Health Technology will try to model trends in Medical Technology. They are
thinking of using an expert-system (shell) to do so, but is that the right
way to do it?
Does anyone of you out there know of earlier attempts to characterize trend?
Has anyone developed software to do so?
Can anyone tell me if there has been an attempt in cognitive psychology to
use artificial intelligence to recognize trends? I know for example of one
attempt tp predict the actions of persons by eliciting their goals ( C.F.
Schmidt N.S. Sridharan and J.L. Goodson, 1978 in Artificial Intelligence).
The system they used was called BELIEVER. But it seems impossible to track
down more recent research on that. The BELIEVER system was developed at the
Rutgers University, New Brunswick. It is a psychological theory of how
people understand actions of others. In my opinion recognizing trends is
understanding and predicting actions of groups of people (or companies).
At our department of Industrial Engineering people are working on research
in Human Factors and Automation in the process industry. We are especially
interested in how to use artificial intelligence (or expert-sytems if anyone
prefers that) to support proces-operators by their task as controller and
guard of (chemical) processes. There has already been research on this
subject Hoechst and DSM (2 pretty large chemical companies) by Harmen Kragt
and Tjerk van der Schaaf.
A colleague and very good friend of mine, Arjen den Boer, will do research
on this subjuct, starting at 1 september, 1988. His subject will be:
Diagnostic support of the process operator. Can anyone tell me about recent
research on that?
Summarizing:
I am looking for software for IBM PC/XT/AT or VAX/VMS, if possible public
domain, for the following applications:
1. Characterization and recognition of trends,
2. Recognition of actions of groups of people, can anyone tell me
where I can find Schmidt, Sridharan or Goodson,
3. Diagnostic support for process operators in (chemical)
industries.
I would appreciate it, when you will send me a copy of your response by
(direct) electronic mail, because that is much easier for me to process and
to react.
You can send your response to:
RCSTBW@HEITUE51 (Ben Willems)
Thanks in advance!
Ben.
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