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AIList Digest Monday, 26 Sep 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 89
Announcements:
6th International Workshop on Machine Learning
Symposium on Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery
Workshop on Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems
Canadian AI Table of Contents, October 1988
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Date: 12 Sep 88 20:20:44 GMT
From: segre@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu (Alberto M. Segre)
Subject: 6th International Workshop on Machine Learning
Call for Topics:
Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York; U.S.A.
June 29 - July 1, 1989
The Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning will be
held at Cornell University, from June 29 through July 1, 1989.
The workshop will be divided into four to six disjoint sessions,
each focusing on a different theme. Each session will be chaired
by a different member of the machine learning community, and will
consist of 30 to 50 participants invited on the basis of
abstracts submitted to the session chair. Plenary sessions will
be held for invited talks.
People interested in chairing one of the sessions should
submit a one-page proposal, stating the topic of the session,
sites at which research is currently done on this topic,
estimated attendance, format of the session, and their own
qualifications as session chair. Proposals should be submitted
by November 1, 1988 to the program chair:
Alberto Segre
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University, Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-7501 USA
Telephone: (607) 255-9196
Electronic mail should be addressed to "ml89@cs.cornell.edu" or
"segre@gvax.cs.cornell.edu". The organizing committee will
evaluate proposals on the basis of perceived demand and their
potential impact on the field. Topics will be announced by early
1989, at which time a call for papers will be issued. Partial
travel support may be available for some participants.
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 88 01:11 PDT
From: Shrager.pa@Xerox.COM
Subject: Symposium on Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery
Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery
Stanford University; January 7-8, 1989
Scientific discovery stands as a major open issue in Cognitive Science.
What are the conditions for discovery and what knowledge is brought to
bear? What roles are played by experimentation, observation,
instrumentation, and culture in the discovery process? How are
important discoveries noticed and how are they transmitted?
Recently, significant progress has been made in the computational
understanding of scientific discovery. In order to bring together the
principal researchers in this field, and so move closer to a unified
theory of scientific reasoning and discovery, a symposium on this topic
will be held at Stanford University on January 7 (Saturday) and January
8 (Sunday), 1989. The symposium will cross several methodological
boundaries, including Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and
Philosophy of Science, and will cover a variety of scientific domains.
Presentations will be through invitation, but to ensure participation by
researchers without `contacts' and from a broad range of related fields,
a small number of additional attendees will be invited. The ideal
participant will have developed and tested (by implementation,
experiment, etc.) a computational theory of scientific reasoning,
preferably emphasizing some aspect of discovery. These might include:
* Mechanisms of theory formation
* Prediction and causal reasoning
* Experimentation and instrument construction
* The organization of scientific information
* Sociological and cultural issues
* Unified models of discovery
Applicants should send a short research summary (**maximum** of two
pages) describing their research efforts and interests in scientific
reasoning or discovery to the program co-chair (see notes below) by:
>> OCTOBER 15, 1988 <<
Program co-Chairs:
Jeff Shrager
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Rd.
Palo Alto, CA
94304
Shrager@Xerox.com
Phone: 415/494-4338
Pat Langley
University of California at Irvine
langley@CIP.UCI.EDU
[Please direct queries and applications to Jeff Shrager. Applications
*must* be submitted in HARDCOPY via U.S.Mail (or in person). Other
queries may be made by netmail, telephone, in writing, or in person.]
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Date: 14 Sep 88 15:56:32 GMT
From: rutgers!prc.unisys.com!finin@ucsd.edu (Tim Finin)
Reply-to: rutgers!prc.unisys.com!finin@ucsd.edu (Tim Finin)
Subject: Workshop on Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Workshop on
Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems
December 8-9, 1988
Wayne Hotel, Wayne, PA
(Suburban Philadelphia)
There has been much recent interest in the difficult problem of
evaluating natural language systems. With the exception of natural
language interfaces there are few working systems in existence, and
they tend to be concerned with very different tasks and use equally
different techniques. There has been little agreement in the field
about training sets and test sets, or about clearly defined subsets of
problems that constitute standards for different levels of
performance. Even those groups that have attempted a measure of
self-evaluation have often been reduced to discussing a system's
performance in isolation - comparing its current performance to its
previous performance rather than to another system. As this
technology begins to move slowly into the marketplace, the need for
useful evaluation techniques is becoming more and more obvious. The
speech community has made some recent progress toward developing new
methods of evaluation, and it is time that the natural language
community followed suit. This is much more easily said than done and
will require a concentrated effort on the part of the field.
There are certain premises that should underly any discussion
of evaluation of natural language processing systems:
o It should be possible to discuss system evaluation in general without
having to state whether the purpose of the system is
"question-answering" or "text processing." Evaluating a system
requires the definition of an application task in terms of I/O pairs
which are equally applicable to question-answering, text processing,
or generation.
o There are two basic types of evaluation: a) "black box evaluation"
which measures system performance on a given task in terms of
well-defined I/O pairs; and b) "glass box evaluation" which examines
the internal workings of the system. For example, glass box
performance evaluation for a system that is supposed to perform
semantic and pragmatic analysis should include the examination of
predicate-argument relations, referents, and temporal and causal
relations.
Given these premises, the workshop will be structured around the
following three sessions: (1) Defining "glass box evaluation" and
"black box evaluation."; (2) Defining criteria for "black box
evaluation", (A Proposal for establishing task oriented benchmarks for
NLP Systems, Session Chair - Beth Sundheim); (3) Defining criteria for
"glass box evaluation." (Session Chair - Jerry Hobbs). Several
different types of systems will be discussed, including
question-answering systems, text processing systems and generation
systems.
Researchers interested in participating should submit a short (250-500
word) description of their experience and interests, and expected
contributions to the workshop. In particular, if they have been
involved in any evaluation efforts that they would like to report on,
they should include a short abstract (500-1000 words) as well. The
number of participants at the workshop must be restricted due to
limited room size. The descriptions and abstracts will be reviewed by
the following committee: Martha Palmer (Unisys), Beth Sundheim (NOSC),
Ed Hovy (ISI), Tim Finin (Unisys), and Lynn Bates (BBN).
This material should arrive at the address given below no later than
October 1st. Responses to all who submit abstracts or descriptions
will be sent by November 1st.
Martha Palmer
Unisys Paoli Research Center
PO Box 517
Paoli, PA 19301
palmer@prc.unisys.com
215-648-7228
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Tim Finin finin@prc.unisys.com
Paoli Research Center ..!{psuvax1,sdcrdcf,cbmvax}!burdvax!finin
Unisys 215-648-7446 (office) 215-386-1749 (home)
PO Box 517, Paoli PA 19301 215-648-7412 (fax)
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 88 12:05:02 EDT
From: Christopher Prince <mcgill-vision!arcsun!chris@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Canadian AI Table of Contents, October 1988
Table of contents from
Canadian Artificial Intelligence, No. 17, October 1988
a publication of the CSCSI (Canadian Society for Computational Studies
of Intelligence).
(Deadline for Next Issue: November 15, 1988)
Communications
3 Executive Notes
8 Notes from Members
AI News
9 Short Takes
11 New Products
Feature Articles
15 AI and Canada's Participation in Space Station
Connie Bryson
19 Neural Networks: An Engineer's Perspective
Casimir Klimasauskas
Research Reports
25 Research in the Knowledge Sciences at the University of Calgary
Ian Witten and Brian Gaines
30 AI Research and Development at CompEngServ, of the CEMTECH Group Ltd.
Archie Bowen
32 AI Research at Bell-Northern Research
Dick Peacocke
Conference Reports
39 CIAR Graduate Student Workshop on Knowledge Representation
Howard Hamilton and Sharon Hamilton
46 CSCSI '88 Conference
Howard Hamilton
49 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Dan Lyons and Mark Ryan
54 Intelligent Tutoring Systems International Conference - 88
members of ARIES lab at U. of Saskatchewan
Publications
61 Book Reviews
67 Books Received
67 Technical Reports
69 Conference Announcements
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 88 13:42:54 +0300
From: scia@stek5.oulu.fi (SCIA confrence in OULU)
The 6th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis
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June 19 - 22, 1989
Oulu, Finland
Second Call for Papers
INVITATION TO 6TH SCIA
The 6th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (6SCIA)
will be arranged by the Pattern Recognition Society of Fin-
land from June 19 to June 22, 1989. The conference is spon-
sored by the International Association for Pattern Recogni-
tion. The conference will be held at the University of Oulu.
Oulu is the major industrial city in North Finland, situated
not far from the Arctic Circle. The conference site is at
the Linnanmaa campus of the University, near downtown Oulu.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Erkki Oja, Conference Chairman
Matti Pietik{inen, Program Chairman
Juha R|ning, Local organization Chairman
Hannu Hakalahti, Exhibition Chairman
Jan-Olof Eklundh, Sweden
Stein Grinaker, Norway
Teuvo Kohonen, Finland
L. F. Pau, Denmark
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
The program will consist of contributed papers, invited
talks and special panels. The contributed papers will cov-
er:
* computer vision
* image processing
* pattern recognition
* perception
* parallel algorithms and architectures
as well as application areas including
* industry
* medicine and biology
* office automation
* remote sensing
There will be invited speakers on the following topics:
Industrial Machine Vision
(Dr. J. Sanz, IBM Almaden Research Center)
Vision and Robotics
(Prof. Y. Shirai, Osaka University)
Knowledge-Based Vision
(Prof. L. Davis, University of Maryland)
Parallel Architectures
(Prof. P. E. Danielsson, Link|ping University)
Neural Networks in Vision
(to be announced)
Image Processing for HDTV
(Dr. G. Tonge, Independent Broadcasting Authority).
Panels will be organized on the following topics:
Visual Inspection in the Electronics Industry (moderator:
prof. L. F. Pau);
Medical Imaging (moderator: prof. N. Saranummi);
Neural Networks and Conventional Architectures (moderator:
prof. E. Oja);
Image Processing Workstations (moderator: Dr. A. Kortekan-
gas).
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit four copies of an extended
summary of at least 1000 words of each of their papers to:
Professor Matti Pietik{inen
6SCIA Program Chairman
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Oulu
SF-90570 OULU, Finland
tel +358-81-352765
fax +358-81-561278
telex 32 375 oylin sf
net scia@steks.oulu.fi
The summary should contain sufficient detail, including a
clear description of the salient concepts and novel features
of the work. The deadline for submission of summaries is
December 1, 1988. Authors will be notified of acceptance by
January 31st, 1989 and final camera-ready papers will be re-
quired by March 31st, 1989.
The length of the final paper must not exceed 8 pages. In-
structions for writing the final paper will be sent to the
authors.
EXHIBITION
An exhibition is planned. Companies and institutions in-
volved in image analysis and related fields are invited to
exhibit their products at demonstration stands, on posters
or video. Please indicate your interest to take part by con-
tacting the Exhibition Committee:
Matti Oikarinen
P.O. Box 181
SF-90101 OULU
Finland
tel. +358-81-346488
telex 32354 vttou sf
fax. +358-81-346211
SOCIAL PROGRAM
A social program will be arranged, including possibilities
to enjoy the location of the conference, the sea and the
midnight sun. There are excellent possibilities to make
post-conference tours e.g. to Lapland or to the lake dis-
trict of Finland.
The social program will consist of a get-together party on
Monday June 19th, a city reception on Tuesday June 20th, and
the conference Banquet on Wednesday June 21st. These are all
included in the registration fee. There is an extra fee for
accompanying persons.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The registration fee will be 1300 FIM before April 15th,
1989 and 1500 FIM afterwards. The fee for participants cov-
ers: entrance to all sessions, panels and exhibition;
proceedings; get-together party, city reception, banquet and
coffee breaks.
The fee is payable by
- check made out to 6th SCIA and mailed to the
Conference Secretariat; or by
- bank transfer draft account or
- all major credit cards
Registration forms, hotel information and practical travel
information are available from the Conference Secretariat.
An information package will be sent to authors of accepted
papers by January 31st, 1989.
Secretariat:
Congress Team
P.O. Box 227
SF-00131 HELSINKI
Finland
tel. +358-0-176866
telex 122783 arcon sf
fax +358-0-1855245
There will be hotel rooms available for participants, with
prices ranging from 135 FIM (90 FIM) to 430 FIM (270 FIM)
per night for a single room (double room/person).
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