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NL-KR Digest Volume 06 No. 42
NL-KR Digest (Tue Nov 14 10:52:55 1989) Volume 6 No. 42
Today's Topics:
graduate study in new mexico
NLP with OPS and Discourse+Anaphora
Looking for English sentence parser code
CSLI Seminar: Models of Rational Agency 7, 9 November 1989
SUNY Buffalo Linguistics Colloq: Greg Carlson
AI Seminar Reminder
NEW CSLI VISITORS
Text Encoding Initiative receives Mellon grant
NEW VISITOR
OPEN BOOK INITIATIVE :: NEW MAILING LIST
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: ted@NMSU.Edu
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 14:31:58 MST
Subject: graduate study in new mexico
GRADUATE STUDY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
AT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY
Computer Science Department & Computing Research Laboratory
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We are looking for able new students to join the Master's and Doctoral programs
in the Computer Science Department, with possible involvement in projects at
the Computing Research Laboratory (CRL). Areas of interest in the Department
and Laboratory include Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Processing (software
and architectures), Programming Languages, Interfaces, Databases, Computer
Security and Theory. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged: there are
interdisciplinary MS and PhD programs, and CRL includes faculty and students
from several departments apart from CS, notably Psychology, Mathematics and
Electrical Engineering.
The University is the prime research university in New Mexico, and is in the
Carnegie R1 research category. An MS program in computer science has existed
since 1966 and the CS department's Doctoral program was set up in 1980. CRL is
a Center of Excellence created in 1983 with funding from the New Mexico state
legislature, and is now self-supporting through a variety of federal and
industrial grants and contracts. CRL is engaged largely in Artificial
Intelligence and Cognitive Science research. Its AI research includes work on
natural language processing, knowledge representation, model-based problem
solving, neural and connectionist networks and computer vision. There is also
a variety of research on other topics, such as genome classification and
atmospheric analysis. There are fertile working relationships with the Sandia
and Los Alamos national laboratories.
The CS Department and CRL are housed, together with the psychology and
mathematics departments, in a new, well-appointed building with special
facilities for local computer networks. The working environment is superb,
making it pleasurable to come in early and stay late. CS/CRL equipment
includes a large Sun network (including several Sparc workstations), various
other workstations, a 64-node Intel Hypercube, a new, 8-node IBM ACE machine,
and image processing equipment. There are high-quality links to regional and
national networks, allowing convenient access to Connection Machines and other
computers elsewhere in the state and the country.
The university is in Las Cruces, a pleasant, inexpensive, uncrowded,
medium-sized town (although it is one of the fastest-growing cities in the
country). The area features clean air, very low humidity, and moderate
winters. There is good Mexican food, and Mexico itself is only an hour's drive
away. New Mexico as a whole benefits from a mixed Anglo/Hispanic/Indian
culture, well reflected in its architecture, art and activities. The state is
renowned for the highly variegated beauty of its scenery. It is one of the
larger states in the Union but has one of the smallest populations. Las Cruces
is in a partly mountainous, semi-arid region, but is blessed with lush pecan
orchards and a surprising variety of other greenery, and with being only an
hour and a half's drive from forests and ski areas. The spectacular White
Sands National Monument and Gila Wilderness are also within easy reach.
Enquiries should be directed to either:
John Barnden, OR Yorick Wilks, Director,
Graduate Committee Chair, Computing Research Laboratory,
Computer Science Dept, Box 30001/3CRL,
Box 30001/3CU,
New Mexico State University,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001.
(505) 646-6108 (505) 646-5466
E-mail enquiries should go to jbarnden@nmsu.edu.
(In any type of enquiry please state where you saw this announcement and what
research areas you're interested in.)
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 10:25:38 -0500
From: stede@cs.purdue.edu (Manfred Stede)
Subject: NLP with OPS and Discourse+Anaphora
Hello,
I have two notes for the NL-KR digest.
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Discourse and Anaphora Revisited
Thanks for your responses to my discourse representation & anaphora posting.
Incidentally, I lost the message headers of two responses and with them the
addresses of the senders. Thus, it is difficult to answer. May I ask John Myers
and John Nerbonne to drop me a line again? Please note my change of address.
Sorry about that.
Manfred Stede, stede@cs.purdue.edu
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NLP with OPS ?
Encouraged by a course on Expert Systems, I wondered whether the rule-based
language OPS-5 (or the successor, OPS-83) might be a suitable tool for language
understanding. I arrived at the conclusion that it is a neat language for im-
plementing pure bottom-up parsers which I consider to be much more flexible
than rigid top-down parsers for many applications. As part of my discourse
representation efforts I wrote a first tiny system and I am quite happy with
it conceptually.
The question is efficiency. Will OPS allow decent execution times when lexicon
and grammar are reasonably large? As far as I have understood the internals of
the RETE-matcher, speed shouldn't deteriorate drastically, but I am not sure.
In case anybody has experiences I would be happy to know.
Looking around the literature, the only OPS-based parser I found was in
Frederking: Integrated Natural Language Dialogue. Kluwer, Boston 1988.
Any further hints?
thanks,
Manfred Stede, stede@cs.purdue.edu
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: kcw@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Ken Whedbee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Looking for English sentence parser code
Date: 31 Oct 89 20:55:21 GMT
Organization: UF CIS Department
Hi,
I am interested in finding source code for an English sentence
parser. I was wondering if anybody knew of any "public domain"
source lying around somewhere before I have to go and
re-invent the wheel ... I would be especially interested in
Lisp or C code.
thanx in advance for any pointers,
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Ken Whedbee Internet: kcw@beach.cis.ufl.edu
University of Florida UUCP: ..!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!kcw
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 89 14:42:52 PST
From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: CSLI Seminar: Models of Rational Agency 7, 9 November 1989
Below is an abstract for the CSLI Seminar Models of Rational Agency 7,
on Thursday, 9 November 1989:
Joint Commitments and Intentions
Phil Cohen
SRI International
Theories of joint action are important both for the analysis (and
computer support) of human collaboration and for building autonomous
agents. For example, if we are successful in the latter endeavor, we
will want our creations to be available to help each other, and us.
In short, they should be able to act jointly with other agents.
In a recent paper, we argued that intention is a definable (i.e.,
nonprimitive) concept, founded on the idea of an internal commitment,
or "persistent goal," i.e., goals kept through time. In this talk, we
develop an analogous concept, that of a "joint commitment," that
serves as the basis for a definition of joint intention. We show how
joint commitments lead to synchronization, i.e., the establishment of
mutual beliefs that the agreed upon actions are about to commence, and
have terminated, to individual intentions by the collaborators to do
their individual parts, and to communication. A significant
complication arises when one considers that joint intentions should be
subject to similar demands for stability over time as are individual
intentions. Our attempts to meet this demand will be presented.
Finally, the analysis will be compared with other recent proposals.
This research is a joint effort with Hector Levesque and Joe Nunes,
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 89 11:18:34 -0500
From: rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU (William J. Rapaport)
Subject: SUNY Buffalo Linguistics Colloq: Greg Carlson
SUNY BUFFALO LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
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GREG N. CARLSON
Dept. of Foreign Language, Literature, and Linguistics
University of Rochester
"OPEN THEMATIC ROLES"
Many verbs have alternative subcategorizations with some categories
apparently "removed". In this talk, I examine such cases and argue that
a subset of these instances should be treated as "open thematic roles"-
-those cases where the removal of a syntactic constituent correspends in
the semantic interpretation neither to removal of the role, nor to some
kind of binding of the role (e.g., by an existential quantifier).
Furthermore, such cases need tobe distinguished from cases of pure
inference, but this can be difficult. In this talk, I attempt to out-
line the issues and problems, and comment on the role of psycholinguis-
tic evidence in possibly resolving these issues.
Tuesday, 14 November 1989
6:30 pm
684 Baldy Hall
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Discussion and refreshments to follow at Donna Gerdts's house,
295 Little Robin Road (Audubon New Community).
For further information, contact Dept. of Linguistics,
SUNY Buffalo, (716) 636-2177
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: AI Seminar Reminder
From: "Damaris M. Ayuso" <dayuso@BBN.COM>
Reply-To: dayuso@BBN.COM
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 89 12:33:29 EST
BBN STC Science Development Program
AI Seminar Series Lecture
FIRST STEPS TOWARDS AN ANNOTATED DATABASE
OF AMERICAN ENGLISH
MITCH MARCUS
University of Pennsylvania
mitch@linc.cis.upenn.edu
BBN STC, 2nd floor large conference room
10 Moulton St, Cambridge MA, 02138
Friday November 10, 10:30 AM
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Suggestions for AI Seminar speakers are always
welcome. Please e-mail suggestions to
Damaris Ayuso (dayuso@bbn.com) or Marie Meteer
(mmeteer@bbn.com). If you know of particular
dates when the person will be in the New England
area, it would be most useful.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 89 16:18:17 PST
From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: NEW CSLI VISITORS
HIROSHI KATO
Industrial Affiliates Program visiting researcher
C&C Information Technology Laboratories
NEC Corporation, Japan
Since 1983, Hiroshi has been engaged in research and development of
educational systems, such as Computer-Based Instruction (CBI) systems
and Computer-Managed Instruction (CMI) systems. He is interested in
cognitive models of human learning and human interface. He is now
working on a research project with James Greeno on a learner's
understanding model of first-order logic through the CBI system
"Tarski's World." He is located in Cordura 202 and his email address
is kato@csli.stanford.edu. Dates of visit: August 1989--August 1990.
HIDEO MIYOSHI
Industrial Affiliates Program visiting researcher
SHARP Corporation, Japan
>From 1982 to 1987, Hideo was involved in natural-language processing
as a researcher of ICOT (Japanese fifth generation computer project),
where he worked on the development of BUP (bottom-up parser in
Prolog), DUALS (an experimental discourse-understanding system), and
JPSG (Japanese Phrase-Structure Grammar). At SHARP, he recently
worked on the development of (1) a text-retrieval system using
flexible keywords, and (2) a support system for generating controlled
Japanese texts. Both projects were sponsored by ICOT.
Hideo is interested in the semantic analyses and representations of
the Japanese language. He is also interested in the role and
mechanism of knowledge in natural-language understanding. He hopes
that the STASS project will help him understand these better. While
at CSLI, he will be mainly involved in the STREP project. He is
located in Cordura 102 and his email address is
miyoshi@csli.stanford.edu. Dates of visit: October 1989--1990.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 89 17:10:38 EST
From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker)
Subject: Text Encoding Initiative receives Mellon grant
MELLON FOUNDATION SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL TEXT ENCODING PROJECT
WITH $100,000 GRANT
The Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for
Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing are pleased to announce that The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation has awarded a two-year $100,000 grant to support the Text Encoding
Initiative (TEI). The TEI, which is jointly sponsored by these three
organizations, is a major international project to develop guidelines for the
preparation and exchange of machine-readable texts for scholarly research and
to satisfy a broad range of uses by the language industries.
The project is being undertaken in response to the pressing need for a common
text encoding scheme, demonstrated by the present chaotic diversity of formats
now in use. The availability of these guidelines will make it possible for
research groups to share data collections, which are both costly and
time-consuming to develop.
Over 50 scholars from North America, Europe, and the Middle East are involved
in TEI's effort to create sets of tags for marking features of texts. The tag
sets, coded in the framework provided by the Standard Generalized Markup
Language (SGML), will provide the means to mark physical features of text such
as character sets and page layout. They will also provide discipline-specific
tag sets to mark the results of research on the text, such as the analysis of
sentence syntax or the identification of the metrical structure of verse.
Representatives of 15 scholarly and professional organizations form an Advisory
Board for the TEI, in order to ensure that all of the needs and interests of
the research community are adequately addressed.
The planning phase of this project was inaugurated by a $20,000 grant from the
United States National Endowment for the Humanities, which later awarded a
$185,000 grant to implement the first two years of a four-year work plan to
produce the encoding guidelines. The TEI has also received a $100,000 grant
from the European Economic Community.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 89 10:44:43 PST
From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: NEW VISITOR
PETER AUSTIN
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
and Japanese Language Coordinator
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Peter's main research areas are syntax, semantics, and Australian
Aboriginal languages. He has published on morphosyntax, case marking,
and complex sentence constructions (including switch-reference) in
Australian languages. His most recent publication is COMPLEX SENTENCE
CONSTRUCTIONS IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES (Benjamins, 1988).
Dates of visit: November 1989-January 1990
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 89 15:15:49 EST
From: bzs <%world.std.com@bu-it.bu.edu>
Subject: OPEN BOOK INITIATIVE :: NEW MAILING LIST
The Open Book Initiative Mailing List
The Open Book Initiative is being formed to make available freely
redistributable collections of information. There exists huge
collections of books, conference proceedings, reference material,
catalogues, etc. which can be freely shared. Some of it is in
machine-readable form, much of it isn't.
The purpose of the Open Book Initiative is to create a publicly
accessible repository for this information, a net-worker's library.
(A more complete description and original announcement is available.)
To bring people together in this effort two mailing lists have been
formed:
openbook@world.std.com General discussion
openbook-announce@world.std.com Announcements-only
To be added to either mailing list send to:
Internet: openbook-request@world.std.com
UUCP: {xylogics,uunet}!world!openbook-request
and specify which list you would like to be on (announce or
discussion.) If you don't specify I will put you on the discussion
list (all announcements will appear on the discussion list, you don't
need to be on both.)
There are already almost 100 people on the mailing list and it hasn't
been announced yet, given the interest it might take a few days to
keep up with changes until things settle down.
LARGE ORGANIZATIONS: I (and the networks) would appreciate if you would
set up local mail exploders for your organizations. Thank you!
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade | bzs@world.std.com
1330 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 | {xylogics,uunet}world!bzs
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David W. Talmage, Systems Programmer ...!bu.edu!lti!talmage
Language Technology, Inc. talmage%lti.uucp@bu.edu
27 Congress St., Salem, MA 01970 (508) 741-1507
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 89 09:35:41 EST
From: talmage@lti2.lti (David Talmage)
Subject: [bu.edu!bzs@world.std.com: Somewhat Important Administrivia]
Reply-To: lti!talmage@turing.cs.rpi.edu
Oops. The Open Book mailing list has a new name to avoid conflict with a
real book published by Prentice-Hall.
David Talmage
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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 89 21:03:57 EST
From: bu.edu!bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: obi@world.std.com
Subject: Somewhat Important Administrivia
Reply-To: bu.edu!obi-request@world.std.com
Message-Type: OBI Announcement
It turns out that Prentice-Hall has recently published a book, by a
friend no less!, called "The Open Book" (Marshall T. Rose) and he
suggested that this might cause some confusion with this list being so
widespread and coincident, etc.
No problem.
We are now "The OnLine Book Initiative" (TM)
All previous mail addresses referring to openbook WILL BE SUPPORTED AS
ALIASES but the new, correct addresses are (the envelope, please):
obi@world.std.com discussion
obi-request@world.std.com add/drop/change
obi-announce@world.std.com announcements only
obi-announce-request@world.std.com add/drop/change
MAILING REDIST MAINTAINERS:
YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING -- OLD ADDRESSES WILL WORK!
But for all public appearances we go by the new name. OBI for short.
You want to update eventually but no need to cause any confusion now.
(No, I do *not* need 100 amateur legal opinions about other things
called on-line or book, thank you! I have just checked the most recent
books-in-print (89/90), DataPro On-Line Services listing and a large
electronic library catalogue, I can find no book or on-line service
called "The Online Book" or terribly similar, which would mean "Online
Books" or thereabouts, there's a zillion "Online XXXXX".)
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade | bzs@world.std.com
1330 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 | {xylogics,uunet}world!bzs
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David W. Talmage, Systems Programmer ...!bu.edu!lti!talmage
Language Technology, Inc. talmage%lti.uucp@bu.edu
27 Congress St., Salem, MA 01970 (508) 741-1507
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