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NL-KR Digest Volume 06 No. 06
NL-KR Digest (3/06/89 21:01:13) Volume 6 Number 6
Today's Topics:
Administrivia: More excuses
SUNY Buffalo Particularism Conference
Niagara Linguistics Society
CSLI Calendar
ALLC-ICCH89 Conference Summary
BBN AI Seminar -- Michael Jordan
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 22:00:34 EST
From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: More excuses
Well, well. For some odd reason V6#1 went out and there wasn't a single
error, but the past weeks I have been spending endless hours sorting out
the inevitable nonsense that various mailers spew out. There are still
about 50 or so people who didn't get the last two issues (#4 and #5)
because the messages are STILL queued and trying to make connections.
In an effort to combat this, I have taken many devious actions, one of
which will be to make digests a little smaller....Even though the messages
are getting ever larger.
Anyway for all the reasons, this digest is late, I seem to be running about
a week behind schedule, please keep this in mind when you post a conference
or other annoucement...
Also, this issue will probably also suffer from the same `>From ' problem the
previous ones did, I have yet to figure out how to get my mailer not to
do that...
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Christopher Welty --- Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs | "Porsche: Fahren in
weltyc@cs.rpi.edu ...!njin!nyser!weltyc | seiner schoentsen Form"
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 12:04:44 EST
From: rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU (William J. Rapaport)
To: james@cs.rochester.edu, joel@cs.rochester.edu, nl-kr@turing.cs.rpi.edu
Subject: SUNY Buffalo Particularism Conference
PARTICULARISM CONFERENCE
March 2-5, 1989
280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo
The purpose of this conference is to bring together a group of scholars
in various disciplines who practice an approach which may be defined as
particularist, in order to consider is implications for contemporary
thought.
"Particularism" characterizes a rapidly developing area of research
strategies in which emphasis falls on observations and experiences
rather than on systems and generalizations. In literary sutdies, this
has taken form as an expressly anti-theoretical movement; concern has
shifted towards the immediate experience of a work and the uniqueness or
_quidditas_ of the aesthetic event.
Particularist emphasis can also be seen in the biological and medical
sciences. Reading Oliver Sacks, one realizes that some physicians
regard the individual case as being in some degree inaccessible to any
general diagnosis. In zoology, Stephen Jay Gould has argued for the
importance of variety and exception in the survival of species.
Mathematics is concerned with discontinutities and singularities.
In social science, the "Annales" shcool, the Princeton school, and the
New Historicists have establishede a powerful tradition in micro-
history. Clifford Geertz has done the same for anthropology.
In ethics, a borad plea for the priority of the particular case over the
general principle has been entered by thinkers as various as Lyotard and
Bernard Williams.
Speakers:
Naomi Schor (Romance Languages, Brown)
David Hull (Philosophy of Science, Northwestern)
Lawrence B. McCullough (Baylor College of Medicine)
Paul Fry (English, Yale)
Roland Kany (Tuebingen)
Martha Nussbaum (Philosophy, Brown)
Lawrence Blum (Philosophy, UMass/Boston)
Rene Thom (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)
For further information, contact Irving Massey, Dept. of English, SUNY
Buffalo, 716-636-2575, 882-7652
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 12:52:49 EST
From: rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU (William J. Rapaport)
To: ai-cgs@cs.Buffalo.EDU, nl-kr@turing.cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Niagara Linguistics Society
NIAGARA LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
Working Papers Colloquium
BEYOND THE SENTENCE
Friday, 14 April 1989
3:00 - 6:00 pm
684 Baldy, SUNY Buffalo Amherst Campus
Featured Speaker:
ALLAN KORN
Buffalo State University College
"Listening"
Other Speakers:
AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
Mahamane Abdoulaye
SUNY Buffalo
"Being a Horseracing Fan"
Caroline Flury-Kashmanian
SUNY Buffalo
"Being a Bookie"
Renee Klotz
SUNY Buffalo
"Working in a Large Bookstore"
Monica Madera
SUNY Buffalo
"Meditating"
Lynette Spencer
SUNY Buffalo
"Being a Hard Scientist"
CALL FOR PAPERS
If you are interested in submitting a paper for this colloquium, contact
Zan Robinson, 716-854-6293, by 1 April 1989.
Refreshments will be served.
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 13:43:21 PST
From: emma@csli.Stanford.EDU (Emma Pease)
To: friends@csli.Stanford.EDU
Subject: CSLI Calendar 2 March, 4:18
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
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2 March 1989 Stanford Vol. 4, No. 18
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A weekly publication of The Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
A Computational Psychology Approach to Commonsense Perception
Jeffry Shrager
Friday, 3 March, 3:15
Room 60:61N
Commonsense Perception is a generalized version of what Dretske has
called "epistemic seeing"---that is, knowledge-based interpretation of
(perceptual) experience. In this talk I will outline a psychological
approach to the study of commonsense perception in incremental concept
learning. My goal is a computational framework and model whose basic
processing cycle is knowledge revision by commonsense perception, and
which subsumes rule-based inference, perceptual reasoning, and most
inductive and instructed learning tasks.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
Language Acquisition: "A Creolist's View"
Lawrence Carrington
University of the West Indies and Stanford
Friday, 3 March, 3:15
Cordura Conference Room
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CSLI SEMINAR
Indexicality and Quantified Modal Logic
Harry Deutsch
Illinois State University
Tuesday, 7 March, 4:00
Cordura Conference Room
Relations between recent philosophy of language and the semantics of
modality (possible worlds semantics) have not been good. I attempt to
mediate the dispute by formulating quantified modal logic (QML) so as
to incorporate some insights of the "new theory of reference" (NTR).
This sheds some new light on both QML and the NTR.
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SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
Ontology and Computers
Ruben Kleiman
Apple Intelligent Agents Group
Friday, 10 March, 3:15
Room 60:61N
This talk will be about artificial intelligence and knowledge
representation, focusing on how to encode knowledge into a computer.
On one hand, Winograd, Flores, and Putnam have advocated a
phenomenological view that abandons the standard mentalist position.
On the other hand, there are also many people (Hayes, McCarthy,
Dennett, and most AI workers) who keep the mentalist position. Dr.
Kleiman will attempt to reconcile these two philosophical positions.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
A Union Analysis of Noun Incorporation
Donna Gerdts, SUNY at Buffalo
Friday, 10 March, 3:15
Cordura Conference Room
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 22:49:15 EST
From: Ian Lancashire <IAN%vm.epas.utoronto.ca@CORNELLC.ccs.cornell.edu>
Subject: ALLC-ICCH89 Conference Summary
To: nl-kr@rochester.arpa
The Dynamic Text:
ALLC/ICCH Toronto Conference
Tools for Humanists, 1989:
a fair of notable software and hardware
June 6--10, 1989
Toronto-Oxford Summer School in Humanities Computing
May 29--June 16, 1989
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Search for >1, >2, etc.
>1 Sponsors
>2 The Conference
>3 The Fair
>4 The Toronto-Oxford Summer School
>5 Registration
>6 Accommodation
>7 Centre for Computing in the Humanities
>8 Advance Conference Schedule
>9 Summer School Course Schedule
>10 Summer School Faculty
>11 ACH & ALLC Application Forms
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[The 99K text of Ian's Summary is too large for Digest distribution,
so I sold the movie rights to MGM. It is also available from
archive.cs.rpi.edu in the file nl-kr/other/allc-icch89, or you
may mail to nl-kr-request. Since most people don't know what ACH &
ALLC are, I did include a short summary --- CW]
>11 ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
What is ACH?
Founded in 1977, the Association for Computers and the Humanities
is an international organization devoted to encouraging the
development and use of computing techniques in humanities research
and education. ACH fosters computer-assisted research in
literature and language, history, philosophy, anthropology,
art, music, dance, computational linguistics, and cognitive
science.
What the ACH Offers
ACH membership includes a subscription to its quarterly newsletter
as well as the scholarly journal Computers and the Humanities. ACH
sponsors the bi-annual International Conference on Computers and the
Humanities (ICCH) and a bi-annual conference on Teaching Computers
and the Humanities, as well as sessions at the annual meetings of the
Modern Language Association and the National Educational Computing
Conference.
ACH MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
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Includes subscription to ACH Newsletter (4 issues per year)
and to Computers and the Humanities (6 issues per year).
All issues of both publications for the current year
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OPTIONAL FEES
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Send application form and fee to:
Joseph Rudman, Treasurer
Association for Computers and the Humanities
Department of English
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
E-mail: RUDMAN @ CMPHYS
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ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING (ALLC)
What is the ALLC?
The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) is an
international association which brings together all who have an
interest in using computers in the analysis of text. The ALLC was
founded in 1973 and its members are drawn from subjects such as
literature, linguistics, lexicography, psychology, history, law
and computer science.
What the ALLC Offers
The ALLC offers conferences, courses, representatives for subject
and geographical areas and a major journal, Literary and Linguistic
Computing, published by Oxford University Press, which all members
receive. ALLC Members are also entitled to reduced rates at
ALLC-sponsored gatherings.
Representatives
The ALLC has representatives in over thirty countries throughout the
world. Recognised experts advise on over twenty-five subject areas
including Machine Translation, Computer-Assisted Learning, Software,
Lexicography, Structured Databases, Literary Statistics, Textual
Editing besides language-oriented groups for texts in many different
languages.
Conferences
Recent ALLC conferences have been held at Pisa (1982), San
Francisco (1983), Louvain-la-Neuve (1984), Nice (1985), Norwich
(1986), Gothenburg (1987) and Jerusalem (1988).
Officers
President: Professor Antonio Zampolli
Chairman: Mrs Susan Hockey
Honorary Secretary: Dr Tom Corns
Honorary Treasurer: Mr John Roper
Literary and Linguistic Computing
In 1986 the ALLC's own publications, the ALLC Bulletin (1973-1985)
and the ALLC Journal (1980-1985) were merged to form a major new
journal published by Oxford University Press. Literary and
Linguistic Computing is published four times per year and appeals to
all who have an interest in computer usage and the humanities.
The Editor-in-Chief is Mr Gordon Dixon, Institute of Advanced
Studies, Manchester Polytechnic, Manchester, UK.
MEMBERSHIP OF THE ALLC
IS BY PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTION TO
LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING
1989 Rates: Individual 14 pounds UK, US $27 N. America, 16
pounds elsewhere
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Date: Wed 1 Mar 89 17:26:13-EST
From: Marc Vilain <MVILAIN@G.BBN.COM>
Subject: BBN AI Seminar -- Michael Jordan
To: ai-folks@G.BBN.COM
BBN Science Development Program
AI Seminar Series Lecture
TOWARD A MODEL OF SPEECH ACQUISITION: SUPERVISED LEARNING
AND SYSTEMS WITH EXCESS DEGREES OF FREEDOM
Michael Jordan
MIT Center for Cognitive Science
(jordan@psyche.mit.edu)
BBN Labs
10 Moulton Street
2nd floor large conference room
10:30 am, Monday March 6
The acquisition of speech production is an interesting domain for
the development of connectionist learning methods. In this talk,
I focus on a particular component of the speech learning problem,
namely, that of finding an inverse of the function that relates
articulatory events to perceptual events. A problem for the learning
of such an inverse is that the forward function is many-to-one and
nonlinear. That is, there are many possible target vectors corresponding
to each perceptual input, but the average target is not in general a solution.
I argue that this problem is best resolved if targets are specified
implicitly with sets of constraints, rather than as particular vectors
(as in direct inverse system identification). Two classes of constraints
are distinguished---paradigmatic constraints, which implicitly specify
inverse images in articulatory space, and syntagmatic constraints, which
define relationships between outputs produced at different points in
time. (The latter include smoothness constraints on articulatory
representations, and distinctiveness constraints on perceptual
representations). I discuss how the interactions between these
classes of constraints may account for two kinds of variability in
speech: coarticulation and historical change.
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