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NL-KR Digest Volume 01 No. 02
NL-KR Digest (8/15/86 17:06:12) Volume 1 Number 2
Today's Topics:
Knowledge Acquisition references
BU Seminar on: ANALOGIES AND METAPHORS
4th International Conference on Logic Programming
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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 86 21:10 EDT
From: goddard@venera.isi
Subject: Knowledge Acquisition references
Gray Abbot <harvard!dartvax!creare!gda> asks for references concerning
Knowledge Acquisition. The most principled work I have seen in this
area is by a group at the University of Amsterdam headed by Bob Wielinga
and Joost Breuker [I must confess prejudice - I used to work with them -
but it's still the best I've seen]. They are attempting to create a
methodology for K.A. and I think have a lot of protocol data (experts
talking to clients and knowledge engineers).
Their address is:
Department of Social Science Informatics
University of Amsterdam
Herengracht 196
1016 BS Amsterdam
The Netherlands
UUCP: mcvax!swivax!weilinga
mcvax!swivax!breuker
The only report of theirs that I have at hand is Models of Expertise,
which appeared in the Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, ECAI '86, Brighton, July 1986. The abstract follows.
Models of Expertise
This paper presents methods for describing expert knowledge in
such a way that the resulting model preserves the possibilities
of the extreme flexibility that experts have when performing a
task. The knowledge of the expert is modelled at several levels:
the domain level, where mainly objects and relations are
represented, and a number of higher levels which contain
descriptions of the ways in which the domain knowledge can be
used. Generic models at the various levels can be used to make
the interpretation of verbal data from experts more effective.
This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but I think some of
their previous reports might be more appropriate. A selection of the
references in the report described above include:
Breuker, J.A. & Wielinga, B.J. "Use of models in the interpretation of
verbal data" in A. Kidd (ed) Knowledge Elicitation for Expert Systems,
New York: Plenum Press, forthcoming.
De Greef, P. & Breuker, J.A. "A case study in structured knowledge
acquisition" IJCAI, 1985.
Wielinga, B.J. & Breuker, J.A. "Interpretation of verbal data for
knowledge acquisition", Proceedings of ECAI '84, p41-50.
The book referenced above edited by Dr. Kidd might be just
what you want. Dr. Kidd spoke here at ISI recently and you might
want to contact her at HPLABS in Brighton, England for her latest
work. She has a lot of data and analysis of what experts and clients
say to each other.
Nigel Goddard goddard@venera.isi.edu
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Date: Sat, 9 Aug 86 20:57:33 edt
From: JCMA%AI.AI.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU
Subject: BU Seminar on: ANALOGIES AND METAPHORS
[forwarded from IRList]
CS 791: ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
(To be offered in Fall 1986)
ANALOGIES AND METAPHORS
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
In this seminar we will examine the role played by metaphors and
analogies in several cognitive processes like learning, problem solving
etc. and in natural languages. We will take into account different points
of view ranging from philosophy and linguistics to psychology and artificial
intelligence.
We will discuss a formal framework in which several cognitive
properties of metaphors and analogies can be explained. Near the end of the
seminar we will spend some time considering how cognitive models of metaphors
and analogies can be designed.
Prereq: Consent of the Instructor.
Place: TBA, Boston University
Time: Thursday 6-9.
For further information contact Bipin Indurkhya at 353--8923.
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Date: 1 August 1986, 23:08:00 EDT
From: Jean-Louis Lassez <JLL@ibm.com>
Subject: 4th International Conference on Logic Programming
[forwarded from IRList]
CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth International Conference On Logic Programming
University of Melbourne, Australia
Late May 1987
The conference will consider all aspects of logic
programming, including, but not limited to:
Theory and Foundations
Architectures and Implementations
Programming Languages and Methodology
Databases
Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Expert Systems
Relations to other computation models, programming
languages, and programming methodologies.
Of special interest are papers discussing novel applications
and applications that address the unique character of logic
programming.
Papers can be submitted under two categories, short - up to
2000 words, and long - up to 6000 words. Submissions will
be considered on basis of appropriateness, clarity,
originality, significance, and overall quality.
Authors should send six copies of their manuscript, plus an
extra copy of the abstract to:
Jean-Louis Lassez
ICLP Program Chairman
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
H1-A12
P.O. Box 218
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
USA
Deadline for submission of papers is December 1, 1986.
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by
February 28, 1987. Camera ready copies are due April 1st,
1987.
General Chairman:
John Lloyd
Department of Computer Science
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia
Program Committee
Ken Bowen, Syracuse, USA
Keith Clark, Imperial College, U.K.
Jacques Cohen, Brandeis, USA
Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Maarten van Emden, University of Waterloo, Canada
Koichi Furukawa, ICOT, Japan
Ivan Futo, SZKI, Hungary
Seif Haridi, SICS, Sweden
Jean-Louis Lassez, Yorktown Heights, USA
Giorgio Levi, University of Pisa, Italy
Jacob Levy, Weizmann Institute, Israel
John Lloyd, University of Melbourne, Australia
Fumio Mizoguchi, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
Fernando Pereira, SRI International, USA
Antonio Porto, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Marek Sergot, Imperial College, U.K.
David Warren, Manchester University, U.K.
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