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NL-KR Digest Volume 06 No. 01
NL-KR Digest (1/21/89 15:24:15) Volume 6 Number 1
Today's Topics:
Welcome to the (new) machine
Call for Papers:
AI and Communicating Process Architecture
IEEE/EMS 1990 Conference in San Francisco
Bar-Ilan Symposium
CLSI Calendar
Job Offers
Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu OR nl-kr@turing.cs.rpi.edu
Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu OR
nl-kr-request@turing.cs.rpi.edu
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From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 13:12:34 EST
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Welcome to the (new) machine
Hello. Welcome to 1989, and Volume 6 of the NL-KR Digest. My
name is Chris Welty, and I am your new moderator. Hopefully I will be
providing as good a service as Brad did, but that remains to be seen.
Today's Digest is comprised of what seemed to be the most timely
postings of the 100 or so backlogged during the transition period.
I'm sure there will be PLENTY of problems arising from this
transition, mainly those involving reachability, expecially to
non-internet hosts, so bear with me.
The old addresses at Rochester will forward (for a while) to
the new ones at RPI, but try to get used to the new address because
the forwarding is not permanent.
I am in the process of automating the distribution of this
digest and that means a few changes. Most importantly, I probably
won't be exporting much from the sci.lang newsgroup, as Brad had been
doing. People interested in following those discussions will have to
look there, as the signal to noise ratio has gotten to the point that
selection of relevant articles is no longer something that can be done
in a reasonable amount of time. This also means that digests won't be
as organized as they have been, with related topics grouped into one
digest and so forth, but it will mean far more regular digests that
won't depend on how busy I am. I also hope to make automatic posting
to usenet news (comp.ai.nlang-know-rep) on an article by article basis
of all things mailed to nl-kr.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to
contact me. I am also revising the `maifesto' of nl-kr, which I will
be sending out shortly.
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Christopher Welty --- Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs
weltyc@cs.rpi.edu ...!njin!nyser!weltyc
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From: Steven Zenith <mcvax!inmos.co.uk!zenith@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 12:10:04 GMT
To: nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
International conference
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND
COMMUNICATING PROCESS ARCHITECTURE
17th/18th of July 1989, at Imperial College, London UK.
Keynote speakers include
* Prof. Igor Alexander, Imperial. *
* Prof. Iann Barron, INMOS. *
* Prof. David Gelernter, Yale. *
The conference organising committee includes:
Dr. Atsuhiro Goto Institute for New Generation Computer
Technology (ICOT), Japan.
Dr.med.Ulrich Jobst Ostertal - Klinik fur Neurologie und
klinische Neurophysiologie
Prof. Dr. T. L. Kunii The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Dr. Heather Liddell, Queen Mary College, London.
Prof. Dr. Y. Paker, Polytechnic of Central London
Prof. Dr. L. F. Pau, Technical University of Denmark.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Radig, Institut Fur Informatik, Munchen.
Prof. Dr. Alan Robinson,Syracuse University, USA.
Prof. Dr. David Warren Bristol University, UK.
Conference chairmen:
Dr. Mike Reeve Imperial College, London
Steven Ericsson Zenith INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
Topics include:
The transputer and a.i. Real time a.i
Applications for a.i. Implementation languages
Underlying kernel support Underlying infrastructure
Toolkits/environments Neural networks
Papers must be original and of high quality. Submitted papers
should be about 20 to 30 pages in length, double spaced and single
column, with an abstract of 200-300 words. All papers will be
refereed and will be assessed with regard to their quality and
relevance.
A volume is being planned to coincide with this conference to be
published by John Wiley and Sons as a part of their book series on
Communicating Process Architecture.
Papers must be submitted by the 1st of February 1989. Notification
of acceptance or rejection will be given by March 1st 1989.
Final papers (as camera ready copy) must be provided by April 1st
1989.
Submissions to be made to either:
Steven Ericsson Zenith Mike Reeve
INMOS Limited, Dept. of Computing,
1000 Aztec West, Imperial College,
Almondsbury, 180 Queens Gate,
Bristol BS12 4SQ, London SW7 2BZ,
UNITED KINGDOM. UNITED KINGDOM.
Tel. 0454 616616 x513 Tel. 01 589 5111 x5033
email: zenith@inmos.co.uk email: mjr@doc.ic.ac.uk
Regional Organisers:
J.T Amenyo Ctr. Telecoms Research, Columbia University,
Rm 1220 S.W. Mudd, New York, NY 10027-6699.
Jean-Jacques Codani INRIA, Domaine de Voluceau - Rocquencourt,
B.P.105-78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France.
Dr. Peter Kacsuk Multilogic Computing, 11-1015 Budapest,
Csalogaiy u. 30-32. Hungary.
Pasi Koikkalainen Lappeenranta University of Technology,
Information Technology Laboratory,
P.O.BOX 20, 53851 Lappeenrantra, Finland.
Kai Ming Shea Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
occam user group
* artificial intelligence *
special interest group
1st technical meeting of the OUG AISIG
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From: claris!bridge2!3comvax!fjd%bridge2.3Com.Com@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Farokh J. Deboo)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Subject: Call for Papers: IEEE/EMS 1990 Conference in San Francisco
Date: 15 Jan 89 07:48:44 GMT
To: nl-kr@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU
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| FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS |
| 1990 International Engineering Management Conference |
| in the San Francisco area |
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| The IEEE/EMS Conference sponsored by the IEEE Engineering Manage- |
| ment Society will be held in the San Francisco area between Oc- |
| tober 22 and 24, 1990, with the theme: |
| Management through the year 2000 and the Pacific Rim. |
| |
| This is an annual international conference dedicated to improving |
| engineering management. Contributions are solicited that address, |
| but are not limited to the following main topics: |
| |
| o Artificial Intelligence and Robotics |
| o Company Management Styles from the entrepreneur to the establis- |
| hed |
| o Transition from Engineer to Manager |
| o Management of Corporate R & D Centers |
| o Micro Devices |
| o Doing Business in the Pacific Rim, Europe, South America and |
| Canada |
| o Manufacturing Management & Factory Operations |
| o Just-in-Time and Dock-to-Stock Techniques |
| o Education for Manufacturing Managers |
| o Manufacturing Technology |
| |
| Prospective authors are requested to submit one to two page |
| abstracts of their presentation by April 30, 1990 to IEEE/EMS |
| 1990, c/o Judith Baar Inc., 620 Abbie Court, Pleasanton, Califor- |
| nia 94566. For further information call Judith Baar (415/484- |
| 4795) or Michael Crocker (415/354-5240). |
| |
| The program committee is also looking for additional volunteers. |
| If you are interested, please contact the Conference Chairman, Dr. |
| Burton V. Dean at (408) 924-3551 or send mail to "sun!bridge2!fjd" |
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From: Prof. Yaacov Choueka <choueka%BIMACS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 18:59:13 +0200
Subject: AI Symposium
To: nl-kr@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU
Bar-Ilan Symposium on the
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
19-21 June 1989
Sponsored by the Research Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Symposium Chair: Martin Golumbic
Organizing Chair: Ariel Frank
Program Committee:
Yaacov Choueka (Bar-Ilan University)
Rina Dechter (Technion)
Ariel Frank (Bar-Ilan University)
Martin Golumbic (IBM Israel Scientific Center)
David Harel (Weizmann Institute)
Daniel Lehmann (Hebrew University)
Judea Pearl (UCLA)
Uri Schild (Bar-Ilan University)
Micha Sharir (New York University)
Jonathan Stavi (Bar-Ilan University)
Bar-Ilan University, through its Center for Applied Logic and Artificial
Intelligence (CALAI) of the Research Institute for the Mathematical
Sciences, is pleased to announce its first "Symposium on the Foundations
of Artificial Intelligence" to be held June 19-21, 1989. The Symposium
will be international in scope, with invited lectures by several leading
researchers from Israel and abroad. Although a small meeting is
anticipated, with selected speakers and no parallel sessions, an attempt
will be made to open attendance to all interested research scientists.
The Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence is
intended to become a bi-annual event which will focus on a range of
topics of concern to scholars applying quantitative, combinatorial,
logical, algebraic and algorithmic methods to AI areas as diverse as
decision support, automatic reasoning, knowledge-based systems, machine
learning, computer vision, and robotics. These include applied
logicians, algorithms and complexity researchers, AI theorists, and
applications specialists using mathematical methods. By sponsoring such
symposia, we hope to influence the spawning of new areas of applied
mathematics and the strengthening of the scientific underpinnings of
artificial intelligence.
.................... INVITED LECTURES ......................
Ron Rivest (MIT) will lecture on
"Recent Developments in Machine Learning Theory".
Joe Halpern (IBM Research) will lecture on
"Reasoning about Knowledge and Probability".
Additional invited speakers will be announced at a later date.
.................... CALL FOR PAPERS .......................
High quality research papers are solicited for consideration by the
program committee to be presented at the Symposium. Submissions of
extended abstracts of 4-10 pages or full papers must arrive by
15 March 1989 and should be sent in triplicate to:
Prof. Martin Golumbic
IBM Israel Scientific Center
Technion City
Haifa, Israel
Decisions on presentations will be made on or before 15 April 1989.
.................. REFEREED PROCEEDINGS ....................
At the conclusion of the Symposium, all participants are invited to
submit full length papers which will be refereed according the usual
standard of the best professional journals, and those accepted will be
published in a separate, special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and
Artificial Intelligence as a permanent record of the Symposium.
For further information on the Symposium and to receive additional
announcements, contact
Dr. Ariel Frank, BISFAI-89
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat Gan, ISRAEL
(email: ariel@bimacs.bitnet)
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From: emma@csli.Stanford.EDU (Emma Pease)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 17:03:32 PST
Subject: CSLI Calendar, January 19, 4:12
To: nl-kr@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU
C S L I C A L E N D A R O F P U B L I C E V E N T S
_____________________________________________________________________________
19 January 1989 Stanford Vol. 4, No. 12
_____________________________________________________________________________
A weekly publication of The Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT THURSDAY, 26 January 1989
12 noon TINLunch
Cordura Hall Kazunori Ueda
Conference Room ICOT
3:30 p.m. Tea
Ventura Hall
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NEXT WEEK'S TINLUNCH
Kazunori Ueda
ICOT
January 26
Dr. Kazunori Ueda will talk on (the design principle of) his
concurrent logic programming language Guarded Horn Clause (GHC). The
talk will include how people who actually write application programs
feel, and Ueda's plan to refine GHC as a good logic programming
language, considering their response.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
Focusing on Phonological Phrases in Chichewa
Jonni M. Kanerva
Friday, 20 January, 3:15
Cordura Conference Room
From segment to word to phrase and beyond, each level of phonological
structure not only contains the forms of its parts but also adapts
their combination to that level's own patterns of form. The theory of
Prosodic Phonology is being developed as an explicit model of these
levels, their interrelationships, and their interactions with other
linguistic subsystems. In particular, the theory posits a hierarchy
of levels, two of which have received the majority of attention: the
intonational phrase (IP) and, one step down, the phonological phrase
(p-phrase). The IP is generally found to be a broad constituent,
often taking in an entire clause or more; its patterns of formation
show high variability with respect to syntactic constituent structure
and are sensitive to factors from semantics and discourse. The
p-phrase, on the other hand, is markedly smaller and is tightly
coupled to the syntax.
The evidence I present from Chichewa phrasal phonology presents a
rather different picture. Several lines of evidence converge to
locate IPs in Chichewa, yet much of the variability to be expected of
the IP occurs instead at the next level down. Prosodic constituents
at this level are medium-sized and, for a given syntactic structure,
may be formed into several alternate groupings. This indeterminacy
goes well beyond that allowed for p-phrases; it is resolved, though,
by taking into account the semantically and pragmatically motivated
feature focus. I conclude that, in order to maintain self-consistent
and meaningful prosodic levels, a new level in Prosodic Phonology, the
Focal Phrase, should be recognized between the IP and the p-phrase.
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
What Artificial Intelligence Is; What It Is Not
Stan Rosenschein
Computer Science and Teleos Research
Friday, 20 January, 3:15
Room 60:61J
Next week Peter Sells will speak on "Quantification in Natural
Language."
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From: Kent Wittenburg <HI.WITTENBURG@MCC.COM>
Date: Fri 6 Jan 89 11:46:23-CST
Subject: job posting
To: nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu
Please forward to any interested parties:
The MCC Human Interface Lab is currently seeking candidates for
full-time research positions. We are particularly interested in people
with expertise in natural language processing--areas of most interest
are semantics and pragmatics. The ideal candidate will hold a Ph.D. in a
relevant discipline and have Lisp programming talents as well as an
openness to interdisciplinary ventures that might include, for instance,
applying linguistic theories to more general views of language in
interfaces.
Contact:
Kent Wittenburg
MCC
3500 W. Balcones Center Dr.
Austin, TX 78759
(512) 338-3626
arpanet: kent@mcc.com
Here is some information about the MCC Human Interface Lab:
The Human Interface Lab is one of three labs in an MCC program called
Advanced Computer Architecture. The other two are the AI Lab and the
Systems Lab. We have excellent computing facilities, with every member
of the technical staff (and even most students) having a devoted
workstation. Our work currently is being done in Lisp, on Symbolics
machines. HI now has a total of 23 full-time research staff and 8
student and research assistants. Approximately a third of those are
connected with the natural language effort, the others with graphics and
advising efforts. We have close relationships with the University of
Texas, in particular, with the Cognitive Science Center, where we
sponsor fellowships and some of their computing facilies. At least five
faculty members from the U.T. linguistics, philosphy, computer science,
and psychology departments have at one time or another served HI as
consultants.
HI as a whole is now focusing on an integrated set of tools for
prototyping knowledge-based interfaces that include natural language,
intelligent graphics, freehand sketching as an additional input mode (we
have developed new hardware configurations for this purpose), and
advising facilities. In the past year we've focused on a knowledge
editing application (with CYC, Doug Lenat's common sense knowledge base
as the back end) and a demo of an integration of graphics, sketching
(using neural net technolgoy for recognition), and natural language on
an interactive worksurface. Our focus is on research--these
"applications" are for demonstration of concept, but we also support our
shareholder companies (Bellcore, NCR, Control Data, Digital, and Kodak)
in applying spinoffs of the technology in their own research or advanced
development groups.
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From: Steve Hirtle <hirtle@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 89 11:39:03 EST
To: nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu, soft-eng@mitre.arpa
Subject: job offered, Information Science Faculty Position
Please include this in your newsletter, if appropriate.
Thank you, Stephen Hirtle (hirtle@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu)
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Department of Information Science
The Department of Information Science announces two open
positions for tenure track Assistant or Associate Professors,
with appointments beginning in the Fall Term, 1989.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in information science, computer
science, or a closely related field. We are particularly
seeking applicants with teaching and research interests in
information systems design, database management, knowledge
bases, information storage and retrieval, microcomputer
systems, image databases, visual interfaces, software
engineering, or the design of interactive systems. We strongly
encourage women and minority candidates to apply. The
Department has eighteen faculty members and offers a Ph.D.
and master's degrees in information science and telecommuni-
cations, and a bachelor's degree in information science.
Current research interests within the Department are broadly
centered on meeting the information needs of the individual
user. Research topics include: information storage and re-
trieval, telecommunications, standards, natural language
processing, visual languages, human-computer interface design,
human information processing, electronic publishing,
and database systems design, including image databases.
The Department has extensive computing facilities, including
a VAX11/780, six Sun workstations, three TI Explorers,
three Xerox Viewpoints, and a large number of microcomputers.
The Telecommunications Laboratory is also well equipped with
an AT&T 3B/15, several smaller computers, and a wide variety
of communications equipment. In addition the Department has
access to the University's computing resources, which include
VAX Clustered 8650s, 8800s and the Cray XMP/48 at the Pittsburgh
Supercomputer Center.
The University of Pittsburgh offers a wide variety of oppor-
tunities to interact with faculty of other departments and
schools including an interdisciplinary program in intelligent
systems and a joint program (with Carnegie-Mellon University)
in computational linguistics. In addition, the Department and
the University have close relations with several major corpora-
tions that are funding research and teaching (Texas Instruments,
XEROX, AT&T, IBM, and DEC).
We seek applicants with balanced research and teaching interests.
Our salaries, benefits, and teaching schedules are highly
competitive. Applicants should send a vita, a statement of re-
search interests, any relevant reprints or preprints, and
three references to: Robert R. Korfhage, Chairman, Department
of Information Science, LIS Building, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260. The University of Pittsburgh is an
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
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From: Marc Vilain <MVILAIN@G.BBN.COM>
Date: Tue 10 Jan 89 15:53:05-EST
Subject: BBN Language/Cognition seminar: Andrea DiSessa
To: nl-kr@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU
BBN Science Development Program
Cognition/Language Seminar Series Lecture
A CHILD'S SCIENCE OF MOTION:
A FIRST REPORT
Andrea A. diSessa
University of California, Berkeley
(disessa@cogsci.berkeley.edu)
BBN Labs
10 Moulton Street
2nd floor large conference room
10:30 am, Monday January 16
The Boxer Group at Berkeley has just started a rather ambitious
project to teach elementary school children about motion, including
time, rate and distance, relative motion, and a qualitative calculus.
The two key strategic decisions (which both make it a "child's
science") define the character of this effort: (1) to design on the
basis of a heavy empirical input of children's conceptual state and
capabilities for local development; and (2) to try to design on the
basis of children's interests and capability for extended, self-driven
activities. These are dual "constructivist principles" in the domains of
knowledge and activity structures, respectively.
In this talk, I'll try to provide an overview of our goals and means,
particularly how the characteristics of Boxer will contribute to the
effort. I'll also show some of our first "data" -- videos of children
working in some of our initial microworlds. We have some striking
contrasts of "unschooled" competence to think about motion in very
abstract terms, and, on the other hand, almost complete incompetence
of other children (featuring apparently deep misconceptions about
relative motion).
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