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NL-KR Digest (Fri Aug 16 11:53:47 1991) Volume 8 No. 43
Today's Topics:
Seeking Information About Lexical Resources
Symposium on AI and Informatics in Mexico
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Seeking Information About Lexical Resources
Reply-To: ingria@BBN.COM
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 91 13:52:30 EDT
From: ingria@BBN.COM
The following is the text of a message which has been sent to various
natural language researchers throughout the world. If you know of
any site not on the list and can provide a contact or if you are
involved in a project that should be surveyed, we would like to hear
from you. Thanks in advance.
Dear Colleague,
We are writing to you as members of the Computational Lexicon
Working Group of the Text Encoding Initiative. The overall goal of
the Text Encoding Initiative is to produce standards for interchanging
electronic documents of various types. The specific goal of the
Lexicon Working Group is to propose standards for interchanging data
stored in lexicons, i.e. lexical databases intended for use by natural
language processing systems of all sorts. (Please note that we are
not dealing with Machine-Readable Dictionaries, which are electronic
versions of printed documents intended for human consumption. A
distinct Dictionary Working Group is concerned with standards for
MRDs.)
In order to achieve this goal in a way that will satisfy the broadest
community of lexicon users, we need to have the widest possible survey
of currently existing lexicons. We will be presenting a preliminary
report on the results of our survey to the TEI Steering Committee at
Oxford on October 2, 1991. Therefore we are asking all those to whom
we are sending this survey to respond to us within one month (i.e. by
September 15). We will need the intervening time to compile
responses, so any information received after this date will not be
included in the October report. We appreciate that we may be imposing
upon your research time with this request. However, your response
will help create a more accurate standard for the community as a
whole. All those who respond will receive a copy of the final
standards proposal. We have already surveyed approximately 30 systems
and we expect the final survey to include between 50 and 70 systems at
a minimum. (We have included a list of centers to which we have sent
this survey. If you notice any site we might have overlooked, we
would be grateful if you informed us or passed on a copy of this
survey to the appropriate person.)
Thank you for your cooperation and quick response.
Robert Ingria, Chair, BBN Systems and Technologies (ingria@bbn.com)
Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR, Pisa (glottolo@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it)
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University (jamesp@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
Susan Warwick-Armstrong, ISSCO (susan@divsun.unige.ch)
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We would like to have example entries, including both syntax and
semantics, for the following classes of lexical items from your
system. (Please include the name of your system and the size(s) of
the lexicon(s) you have developed). If you have developed bilingual
or multilingual entries for your system, please also provide
translation examples for the classes listed below. Note that all our
examples are in English; please use the analogous classes for the
language(s) handled by your system.
(1) Nouns: entity nouns - apple, book, etc.
relational nouns - speed, age, height, father, brother, etc.
abstract nouns - courage, love, altruism, etc.
mass nouns - wine, sand, etc.
proper names - John, Europe, IBM, etc.
Also please indicate whether complement-taking properties
are represented: e.g. ``factive'' nouns like ``story'',
``transitive'' nouns, etc.
(2) Pronouns (I, he, she, it, etc.) and bound anaphors (myself,
himself, herself, each other, etc.)
(3) Verbs: a wide variety of valency classes:
intransitive
transitive
ditransitive
clausal complement taking
infinitival complement taking (raising and control)
``small-clause'' taking verbs including naked infinitives
etc.
If your verbal entries include an indication of variants of a basic
valency class (e.g. whether a transitive verb passivizes, whether an
indirect object-taking verb allows ``Dative movement'', etc.), please
indicate this by example
If your system deals with a language like German in which
the nominal complements of a verb may appear in different
Cases (e.g. helfen takes a dative object while sehen takes
an accusative object), please show how this is represented.
(4) Modals and auxiliaries
(5) Prepositions - any indication of subclasses of prepositions
e.g. ``case-marking'' prepositions vs.
semantical contentful
If English particles are a subset of prepositions in
your system, please indicate this
(6) Adjectives - please indicate whether complement-taking properties are
represented; e.g. ``proud of'', ``likely to'', etc.
please indicate what semantic classes of adjectives you
distinguish: e.g. scalar vs. bi-polar, intersective vs.
subsective, etc.
Also, please include any other information you may represent,
such as the position in which an adjective can appear
(pre-nominal, post-nominal, predicate position, etc.)
(7) Determiners and other similar nominal modifiers (e.g. articles,
quantifiers, demonstratives, etc.) - Please indicate whether
you indicate polarity, monotonicity, etc.
If your lexicon includes multi-word lexical entries, please supply
examples.
If your lexicon uses an inheritance mechanism, please describe it
and/or provide examples.
For the inflected categories of noun, verb, and adjective, please
indicate how irregular forms, inflectional paradigm, and other
morphological information is stored.
For translation entries, please indicate how they are interpreted or
used in the system.
Finally, if there are any other special characteristics of your
lexicon or the system controlling it that are not adequately covered
by the above categories, please provide a description and examples.
We would also appreciate it if you could send us any documentation on
your system that could help us to understand the examples, such as
technical reports, coding guidelines, etc.
Please send your EMail responses to:
ingria@bbn.com
If you have any trouble responding to this address, the following
addresses may be used:
jamesp@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
susan@divsun.unige.ch
Hardcopy responses may be sent to:
Robert Ingria
BBN Systems and Technologies
10 Moulton Street
Mailstop 6/4c
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
or
Susan Warwick-Armstrong
ISSCO
University of Geneva
54, Rte. des Acacias
1227 Geneva
SWITZERLAND
Again, thank you for your cooperation.
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List of sites being surveyed, by country:
U.K.:
Alvey
SRI-Cambridge
Edinborough
Sussex
Manchester ET
DATR
UK-Eurotra
France:
LADL (Paris VII)
IRIT
Gsi-ERLI
Eurotra-France
The Netherlands:
Utrecht: Lexic project
Utrecht: Mimo
University of Amsterdam
BSO DLT
Philips/Rosetta
Finland:
IBM Finland
Switzerland:
ISSCO: GB-Parsing
ISSCO: ELU
ISSCO: French unification grammar
ISSCO: MT
Avalanche report MT system
Italy:
Pisa
Trento
Venice
Eurotra Italy
Portugal:
Israel:
Belgium:
Brussels: KRS
Metal-Leuven
Germany:
Saarbruecken
Stuttgart
Bonn: IKP Center
Tuebingen
GMD
Eurotra Germany
Greece:
Eurotra Greece
Canada:
METEO
Toronto
Simon Fraser
USA:
BBN Delphi
BBN IRUS
Brandeis/CTI lexicon
MIT Spoken Language System
MIT Fast Parser
IBM Lexical Resources
IBM Stochastic Grammar
IBM MT
NYU Proteus
CMU Spoken Language System
CMU MT
Unisys
AT&T Spoken Language System
AT&T Fidditch
Bellcore
University of Maryland
NMSU CRL
NMSU MT
ISI MT
ISI Generation
HP Labs
SRI
Xerox PARC LFG
Xerox PARC MT
Boeing (Washington)
Japan:
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: ojuarez@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Octavio Juarez Espinosa)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Subject: Symposium on AI and Informatics in Mexico
Keywords: Symposium.Applications in Informatics
Date: 15 Aug 91 20:30:52 GMT
Followup-To: comp.software-eng
The ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey)
through its Center for Artificial Intelligence
is organizing the
Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
"Applications in Informatics & AI Technology Transfer"
November 13-15, 1991
Sheraton Cancun Resort & Towers
Cancun, Mexico
Sponsored by the ITESM and supported by the International Joint
Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc., in cooperation with the
American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Canadian Society
for Computational Studies of Intelligence, the International
Associaton of Knowledge Engineers, the Sociedad Mexicana de
Inteligencia Artificial and IBM of Mexico.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
- Wednesday, November 13
TUTORIALS * English
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Daniel O'Leary, USC
"Verification and Validation Techniques for Expert Systems"
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Janet Aikins, Aion Corp; Paul Harmon, Intelligent Software Strategies
"Object Oriented Programming and Expert Systems"
EXPERT SYSTEMS CONFERENCES * Spanish
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Yolanda Fernandez de Villasenor, Colegio de Postgraduados
"Knowledge Management Services in an Environment for Sc.
Research Support"
Ramn Brena, ITESM
"An Expert System for Diagnosis in Film Printing"
Pedro Gallardo, CYDSA Group
"Introduction of Expert Systems Technology in the
Organization: Experiences"
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Carlos Scheel, ITESM
"Intelligent System for the Support of Strategic Decisions on
Competitiviness"
Manuel Valenzuela, ITESM
"An Intelligent System for Steel Rool Anealing Scheduling"
Hector Sanchez, HYLSA
"Introduction of Expert Systems Technology in the
Organization: Experiences"
PLENNARY CONFERENCES * English
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Jay Liebowitz, George Washington University
"Expert Systems Life Cycle"
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Robert Moore, Gensym
"Real Time Expert Systems"
- Thursday and Friday, November 14 &15
TECHNICAL PROGRAM * English
INVITED SPEAKERS
* Saul Amarel, Rutgers University
"Artificial Intelligence and Computational Design"
* Raymond Reiter, University of Toronto
"On Database Updates"
* John McCarthy, Sandord University
"Generality in Artificial Intelligence via Formalized Contexts"
* Adolfo Guzman Arenas
"Interconection of Software Tools or Applications, Regarded as
Black Boxes"
ACCEPTED PAPERS
Area: IDSS (Intelligent Decision Support Systems)
* The Design of an Induction-Based KBDSS Development Assistant
Thomas E. Sandman, California State University at Sacramento, USA
* An Artificial Neural Network for Contract Bidding
Marijke F. Augusteijn, U of C- Colorado Springs, USA
* A Case Study in Neural Networks and Decision Support
Hamid Bacha, International Computer Services, USA
* CRESUS: Intelligent Cash Management
Peter Shell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Generating Natural Language Explanations for Decisions
Stephen Slade, Yale University, USA
* 3D Motion Planning on a Spherical Hierarchical Representation
Angel Pasqual Del Pobil, U of Navarra- Escuela Sup. de Ing.
Industrial, SPAIN
* Making Machines Learn like People Using Association in Learning
Krish S. Purswani, Naval Air Delvelopment Center, USA
* Case-Based Reasoning for a Decision Support System in Large
Scale Manufacturing
Lundy M. Lewis, General Dynamics Electric- Boat division, USA
* Remedial Action Assessment System: Decision Support for
Environmental Cleanup
Kelly A. Pennock, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, USA
* A Coincident Problem Space Perspective on Scheduling Support
Michael Prietula, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Applying Qualitative Evaluation Criteria to Improve Adaptive
Behavior in Example-Based Learning Environments
Christian Stary, Florida International University, USA
Area: IDBS (Intelligent Data Base Systems)
* A Knowledge-Based Approach to Correspondance Identification
and Conflict Detection in View Integration
Hing-yan Lee, University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign, USA
* The Role of Abstraction Concepts and Their Built-In
Reasoning in Document Representation and Structuring
Andreas Dengel, German Research Center for AI (DFKI), GERMANY
* ICAS: An Intelligent Assistant for Adapting Information Systems
Gabriel Jakobson, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, USA
* Using Multiple Query Optimization Technique to Minimize
Relation Searches in Processing Bounded Recursions
Shu-Shang Wei, The Ohio State Univ.-Dept of Computer and Info.
Science, USA
* Integrating Expert Systems and Databases: An Application in
Claims Processing
J. Walter Vera, The MITRE Corporation-Civil Systems Division, USA
* A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Partial Match Retrieval
Based on Hash Functions
Manuel Valenzuela-Rendon, ITESM-Centro de Inteligencia
Artificial, MEXICO
Area: THR (Theoretical)
* Narrowing Grammar for Stream Pattern Analysis
Hau-Ming Lewis Chau, IBM Corporation, USA
* A Semantic-Structure Description Forms of Natural Language
Concepts and Its Application for a Story Understanding
Koichi Nozaki, Nagasaki University-Information Science Center, JAPAN
* Incrementally Computing Preferred Explanation
Scott D. Goodwin, University of Waterloo, CANADA
* Overlapped Areas in a Distributed Problem Solving System for
Flat Structured Problems
Peng Hu, Tsinghua University, P.R. CHINA
* On Negative Rules and Queries in Expert Database Systems
Jonghoon Chun, Northwestern University, USA
* Well-Behaved Reasoning with Seminormal Defaults
Craig MacNish, University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM
* Inferential Modeling Technique for Semantic Representation of Domain
Knowledge
Christine W. Chan, Simon Fraser University, CANADA
* Constraint Satisfaction in a Connectionist Inference System
Walter Hower, Institut for Informatik, Fachbereich 4, GERMANY
* Tailoring Natural Language Generation by User Model Attributes
Jennifer Chu, University of Waterloo, CANADA
Area: OA (Other Applications)
* Knowledge Acquisition Methods for Finding Belief Functions
with an Application to Medical Decision Making
Mary Deutsch-McLeish, University of Guelph, CANADA
* DAME- An Expert Microprocessor-Based-Systems-Designer
King G. Li, University of Victoria, CANADA
* FEAT-REP: Representing Features in CAD/CAM
Christoph Clauck, DFKI GAmbH, ARC-TEC Project, GERMANY
* The Automated Knowledge Engineer: Natural Language
Acquisition for Expert Systems
Yong Gao, Boston University- Department of Computer Science, USA
* Defense Priority Model: Experience of Developing an
Environmental Expert
System for Remedial Site Ranking
Judith Hushon, ERM- Program Management Company, USA
* A Construction Kit Approach to Knowledge-Based Design
Christian Rathke, Universitat Stuttgart-Institut for
Informatik, GERMANY
* Solving Combinatorial Constraint Satisfaction and
Optimization Problems Using Sufficient Conditions for
Constraint Violations
Fumihiro Maruyama, Fujistsu Laboratories Ltd. AI Laboratory, JAPAN
* Relaxed Constraint Satisfaction
Bing Liu, Information Technology Institute, SINGAPORE
* A Neural Network Approach to Load Forecasting
Hamid Bacha, International Computer Services, USA
* Incorporating Genetic Algorithms into Simulated Annealing
Cheng-Yan Kao, National Taiwan Univ- College of Engineering, CHINA
* Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Computer Integrated
Manufacturing: Process Planning and Line Balancing for Manufacturing
Printed Circuit Boards
Aldo Dagnino, Alberta Research Council- Advanced Comp. and
Eng. Dept., CANADA
* An Automated Knowledge Acquisition System for Model-Based Diagnostics
Gregory B. Winter, Prospective Computer Analysts, Inc., USA
* An Approach for Self-Adapting Structuring of Space Using
Puzzletree-Encoding
Andreas Dengel, DFKI, GERMANY
* Constructive Cognitive Adversary Models
Steven Walczak, University of Florida- Computer and
Information Systems, USA
* TAXOPS: Tax Opportunity Identification Tool
Maureen Zabloudil, Andersen Consulting-Institute for the
Learning Sciences, USA
* A Representation of an Office Form System
Heyun Liu, Sheffield City Polytechnic, ENGLAND
* Using a Structured Knowledge Base and a Hierarchical Expert
System to Coach Students in Elementary Programming
Ruddy Lelouche, Univeristy Laval, CANADA
Area: CN (Computer Networks)
* A Connectionist Method for Adaptive Real-Time Network Routing
Tony Martinez, Brigham Young University- Computer Science
Department, USA
* NetAdvisor- A Computer Advisor for Network Users and Managers
Mark Lease, Texas A&M University- Cognitive Systems Lab, USA
* An Expert System for Maintenance of AXE Telephone Switches
Marlon Nunez, Telefonica I+D- Div Interfases y Protocolos, SPAIN
* Intelligent Link Manager: An Application of a Network Health
Monitoring System
Greg Arbon, COVIA Partnership- AI-Expert Systems Group, USA
* A Distributed, Cooperative, Knowledge-Based Approach to
Congestion Avoidance in High Speed Networks
Andrea F. Lobo, University of Delaware, USA
* An Application of Machine Learning in Large Scale Data
Communications: An Exploratory Study
Terry L. Janssen, Computer Sc. Corporation-Special Projects
Division, USA
Area: SE (Software Engineering)
* A Knowledge-Based Approach to Requirements Specification and
Analysis of Software Systems
Jeffrey J. P. Tsai, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA
* Software Process Description and Enactment Considering
Temporal Constraints
Wolfgang Schramm, University of Kaiserslautern, FB Informatik, GERMANY
* Model Management base Expert System Development
R. de Hoog, University of Amsterdam Faculty of Psychology, THE
NETHERLANDS
* EBIRT: Extending Computer-Aided Software Engineering by
Harnessing Corporate Experience
Mark Orttung, Andersen Consulting- Institute for the Learning
Sciences, USA
* A Retrieval Tool for Software Components
Sigi Meggendorfer, Tech Universitat Munchen-Institut fur
Informatik, GERMANY
* Proof Development for Program Synthesis and Compilation
D. Galmiche, CRIN-CNRS-INRIA, FRANCE
* KBRAS: Knowledge-Based Requirements Acquisition System
Kacem Zeroual, Universite de Sherbrooke, CANADA
* Building a Course Curriculum that Supports an Intelligent
Learning Environment
Gilles Imbeau, Universidad EAFIT- Linea Informatica Educativa,
COLOMBIA
* Modeling Reasoning and Knowledge for Software Development
and Maintenance
Joanna Pomain, CISI INGENIERIE, FRANCE
* An AI-bassed Classification System for Software Reuse
Eduardo Ostertag, University of Maryland, USA
Area: TOOLS
* A Hypertext-based Knowledge Organization Tool
Kevin R. Gutekunst, Texas A&M University, USA
* On Testing Expert Systems: Criteria and Test Data Generation
Guillermo A. Francia III, New Mexico Tech, USA
* Using Network Analysis to Identify Expertise in Organization
for Knowledge Acquisition
Eric W. Stein, Penn State University Great Valley-Management
Department, USA
* CODEX: A Language for Distributed Multi-expert Systems
T. Martelli, Universite de Paris V-EHEI, Lab. deIntelligence
Artificielle, FRANCE
* SVL: A User-Friendly Environment for High-Level Computer Vision
Giovanni Adorni, DIST- University of Genova, ITALY
Area: MIS, DP (Management Information Systems, Data Processing)
* Modelling and Design of a Strategic Information System: a
Cognitive and Object-Oriented Approach
Cao Lieu Nguyen, University of Quebec at Montreal, CANADA
* Knowledge-Based Support for the Information Systems Design Process
Louis C-Y Cheung, Univ. of Cambridge-Dep. of Engineering,
UNITED KINGDOM
Area: IPE (Intelligent Programming Environments)
* Using Subgoal Ordering to Create Programming Environments
Routines from a Declarative Specification
J. Michael Dyck, Simon Fraser University, CANADA
* Conceptual Graphs: A Framework for Knowledge Representation
in Logic Programming Environments
Peter E. Maher, University of Missouri-Saint Louis, USA
* A Formal Model for Solving Inheritance Conflicts
Norbert Giambiasi, LERI, FRANCE
* Knowledge-Based Implementation of Very-High-Level Data-Types in KETI
Ann Nowe, VUB INFO, BELGIUM
Area: IHI (Intelligent Human Interfaces)
* An Intelligent Command Interpreter for Consultation and Use
of Information Systems
Jun-ichi Aoe, Univ. of Tokushima-Dept. of IS and Intelligent
Systems, JAPAN
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
- HOST CITY AND VENUE
The Symposium will be held at the Sheraton Cancun Resort & Towers at
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. (It's a 5-diamond hotel). Cancun is a
selected place in the world, located on the Yucatan Peninusla, where
samples of the most wonderful and diverse creations of nature and men
can be appreciated: powder-white beaches, turquoise waters and emerald
jungle; magnificent coral reefs and mysterious Mayan temples. It's a
blend of the old and the new: timeless thatched Mayan houses and
sophisticated shopping malls. It's well known by its restaurants,
marinas, top-class stores and the latest word in discos; its splendid
sailing, fishing, windsurfing and even wildlife watching. The Hotel
is situated directly on a half mile stretch of Mexico's Caribbean Sea.
The airport is only 20 minutes away. Climate It is usually sunny with
a high relative humidity. Temperatures range form 27C to 35C.
Language Spanish, English. Electricity The electricity supply is
110V, 60 cycles. Currency Monetary unit is Peso.
- ROOM RESERVATION
Call Center for Artificial Intelligence or Sheraton Cancun Resort &
Towers and mention that you are attending the 4rd. ISAI. The Rate is
$65 USD + 15% (Tax) per night (single/double room). Sheraton phone is:
(988) 3-1988; the fax is: (988) 5-0202.
- TUTORIAL AND CONFERENCES HOURS
From 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. There are
two plennary conferences, one in the afternoon and the other in the
evening, which will be held as soon as the tutorials and conferences end.
Conferences on Expert Systems: There will be a 15 min. break between
conferences.
Tutorials: A break will be given every hour or hour and a half
(depending on the instructor).
- TECNHICAL PROGRAM HOURS
From 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. On
Thursday there will be a Discussion Panel from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
- EXHIBIT HOURS
Wednesday-Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Located at the hotel foyer.
- LANGUAGES
The Tutorials, Plennary Conferences and Technical Program will be
given in English; the Conferences on Expert Systems in Spanish.
Simultaneous translation will not be available.
- EVENING EVENTS
The Tutorials and Conferences on Expert Systems fees include a
cocktail party on Wednesday. On Thursday you can enjoy the delicious
mexican food hearing mariachi music at the mexican party.
We have left friday night open.
INFORMATION
Center for Artificial Intelligence, ITESM
Sucursal de Correos "J", CP 64849
Monterrey, NL, MEXICO
Phone: (83) 58-2000 Ext. 5132
Fax: (83) 58-2000 Ask Ext. 5143 or (83) 58-1400 Dial Ext. 5143
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