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NL-KR Digest Volume 08 No. 02
NL-KR Digest (Tue Jan 22 13:23:10 1991) Volume 8 No. 2
Today's Topics:
Early Announcement of CSLI Seminar for Winter Quarter 1991
Case Grammar Articles
Interface information
Help: Machine Translation of Russian from/into Other Languages
Schedule for Language and Thought Workshop
LIFER: Info needed.
Syntax Workshop on 29 January, 7:30 p.m.
Recent Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science
Lexical Functional Grammar Interface for a Database
VP-Expert Users Wanted To Share Info
Introductory Reading material anyone?
Call for Participation
CILS Calendar
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 91 14:12:12 PST
From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: Early Announcement of CSLI Seminar for Winter Quarter 1991
CSLI SEMINAR
Phenomenology for Cognitive Scientists
Izchak Miller
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
(miller@csli.stanford.edu)
Thursdays (starting 17 January), 2:15 p.m.
Cordura 100
The CSLI seminar this quarter will be designed with the busy cognitive
scientist in mind, trying to introduce her/him to phenomenology.
Impenetrable texts and unending issues of interpretation will be set
aside, in order to focus on the ideas and insights that phenomenology
has to offer.
Izchak Miller is the author of many articles on issues relating to
phenomenology and the book _Husserl, Perception and Temporal
Awareness_ (Bradford, 1983).
The opportunity to have Professor Miller visit the Department of
Philosophy this winter developed rather suddenly, so the seminar will
not begin until Thursday, 17 January.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 91 10:11:29 MST
From: mnu@inel.gov (Rick Morneau)
Subject: Case Grammar Articles
I'm looking for references to journal articles that deal with
deep case relations and the use of case notation to represent
the content of English sentences. If anyone can help, I'd
greatly appreciate hearing from you. Also, if there is
sufficient interest, I'll post a summary. Thank you!
*=*=* A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. (T.J.) *=*=*
= Rick Morneau Idaho National Engineering Laboratory =
* mnu@nairobi.inel.gov Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415 *
=*=*=*=*=*=* All kings is mostly rapscallions. (M.T.) =*=*=*=*=*=*=
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 10:46:20 EST
From: dennisp@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil
Subject: Interface information
A while back I requested information on natural language interfaces to
expert systems and database management systems. I promised a listing
of what I received. While I am still collecting information, I
did come across "The Spang Robinson Report on Artificial Intelligence,"
Vol. 6, No. 12 (December 1990). This issue is titled "Using Natural
Language for Database Queries."
Individuals interested in NLIs might, therefore, be interested in
reading this highly informative report.
Dennis Perzanowski
Code 5512
Navy Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C. 20375-5000
phone: 202-767-9005
arpanet: dennisp@aic.nrl.navy.mil
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 14:08:28 CST
From: seo@cs.utexas.edu
Subject: Help: Machine Translation of Russian from/into Other Languages
Hi,
I am looking for any papers, reports or comments about machine
translation of Russian into/from other languages such as English,
Japanese, or German, etc. Especially, information about special
features (if any) of syntax and phonology of Russian for machine
translation and pointers to Russian corpora and Lexicon (preferably in
electronic form) would be greatly appreciated.
I'll post summaries of replies if there are enough interest.
Thank you very much.
Jungyun Seo (seo@cs.utexas.edu)
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1 (512) 471-9573 ARPA: seo@cs.utexas.edu 1
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Schedule for Language and Thought Workshop
X-Mailer: MH 6.6 #5[UCI]
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 91 16:01:39 -0600
From: colleen@tira.uchicago.edu
WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT
Winter Schedule on topics of
Poetry, Poetics, Prose
Thursday, January 17: Wayne C. Booth: "Why we need an implied author:
4:00 p.m., Wb 408 A Reply to Gerard Genette"
Wednesday, January 23: Paula C. Schiller: "Frontiers of Description"
4:00 p.m., Wb 408
5th Week TBA: Stuart Sherman: on song, syntax, and prose
7th Week TBA: Laura McKnight: discussion of readings in
preparation for M. Fishbane's talk
Wednesday, March 6: Michael Fishbane: on Biblical Poetics
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: sxl@edsdrd.eds.com (S.-G. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.databases
Subject: LIFER: Info needed.
Keywords: AI, Natural Language, User Interface
Date: 10 Jan 91 18:38:33 GMT
LIFER was developed by G. Hendrix at SRI International in the 70's as a
tool for building natural language (NL) front-ends.
Could someone tell me how and where I can get a copy of the system?
Are there other systems like it (tool for building NL interface) that are
commercially or publically available?
Any information, pointers will be much appreciated.
(Please e-mail!)
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Sang-goo Lee /
EDS Research & Development / SXL@edsdrd.eds.com
Auburn Hills, MI 48326 /
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 91 09:20:06 PST
From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: Syntax Workshop on 29 January, 7:30 p.m.
SYNTAX WORKSHOP
On Syntactic Reconstruction in Ellipsis
Mary Dalrymple
Xerox PARC
(dalrymple@parc.xerox.com)
Tuesday, 29 January, 7:30 p.m.
Cordura 100
Analyses of elliptical constructions fall into one of two general
types. According to the first type of analysis, syntactic structure
is present in the elided portion of a sentence containing ellipsis at
some level or stage of derivation. For example, the analysis of Sag
(1976) involves deletion of syntactic material in the ellipsis site;
more recent analyses within the Government-Binding framework involve
reconstruction of syntactic material within the ellipsis site.
According to the second type of analysis, the interpretation for a
sentence containing ellipsis is obtained by means of a semantic
operation in which no syntactic reconstruction or deletion is
involved. On the analysis of Dalrymple, Shieber, and Pereira (to
appear), for example, the interpretation of elided material is
provided by means of solving a semantic equality.
Certain phenomena seem to indicate that the first approach is correct;
these phenomena involve relations that are usually taken to be
syntactic, such as anaphoric and filler-gap dependencies, but which
hold even in sentences containing ellipsis. I will examine the
evidence for syntactic reconstruction in ellipsis and show that an
analysis based on syntactic reconstruction or deletion makes incorrect
predictions in many cases. I will also discuss a possible alternative
explanation for the data that seem to support a syntactic
reconstruction analysis.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: yorick@NMSU.Edu
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 91 08:49:46 MST
Subject: Recent Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science
Recent Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science
Ordering of technical reports listed below write to:
Memoranda Series
Computing Research Laboratory
Box 30001
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003
USA
[The list of titles and abstracts was too long for inclusions in the
digest. Contact the yorick@nmsu.edu for a complete list. - CW ]
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 91 16:46
From: Peter Hancox <HANCOXPJ@vax1.computer-centre.birmingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Lexical Functional Grammar Interface for a Database
Lexical-Functional Grammar Interface
for
Database Access
The School of Computer Science is seeking a Research Associate or Research
Fellow to work on a two-year project funded by the Speech Research Unit, Royal
Signals and Radar Establishment, under the supervision of Dr P J Hancox. The
project will take an existing keyboard interface and (through a series of
stages) change it into a speech interface.
Applicants should have a background in computer science or an allied
discipline such as artificial intelligence/cognitive science.
Experience of pursuing individual research (eg taught-course project
work or an MSc or PhD by research) in a related field (eg cognitive
science/artificial intelligence, computational linguistics or logic
programming) would be an asset. It may be possible to appoint at the
post-doctoral level.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr P J Hancox (021-414 3819;
JANET: P.J.Hancox@uk.ac.bham).
Salary on scale for Research Associate/Fellow #11,399 - #13,495/#11,399 -
#18, 165. Ref S13079.
Application forms (2 copies) returnable by 3rd February 1991 (late
applications may be considered) and further particulars available from
the Director of Staffing Services, The University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT. Telephone: 021-414 6483 (24 hours).
The University is an equal opportunities employer.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.ai.shell.comp.ai.edu
From: looi@sutro.sfsu.edu (Wan W. Looi)
Subject: VP-Expert Users Wanted To Share Info
Followup-To: looi@sutro.sfsu.edu
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 1991 01:30:19 GMT
Hi, I'm developing an expert sysm application utilizing ES shell
called VP-Expert by Paperback Software. I'd like to share or exhange
info with anyone who is using this package. I'm sure we can all
benefit from these information sharing.
Thanks in advance.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1991 9:35:24 MST
From: "s16062111@uavax0.ccit.arizona.edu"@Arizona.EDU
Subject: Introductory Reading material anyone?
I'm a very beginner in the subject. Can anyone out there suggest good
books on this subject? I need to get information for a semi-intelligent user
interface which would be able to translate formatted input in English, i.e.
the answers to the questions are kept in a certain syntax and semantic format
that is understandable by the interface.
Rawn Shah
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shah@caslon.cs.arizona.edu
s16062111@ccit.arizona.edu
wolfsbayne@128.196.128.35
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 91 15:39:59 EST
From: neal@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Jeannette Neal)
Subject: Call for Participation
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Workshop on Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems
18 June 1991
University of California
Berkeley, CA
There has been increased concern with the evaluation of natural
language processing (NLP) systems over the past few years.
The evaluation of NLP systems is essential in order to measure
the capabilities of individual systems, to measure technical progress
and growth in the field, and to provide a basis for selecting NLP
systems to best fit the communication requirements of application
domain systems. This 1991 Workshop is a follow on to the workshop
on evaluation held in December of 1988 at the Wayne Hotel in Wayne, PA.
Technical report RADC-TR-89-302 on the previous workshop is available
from Rome Laboratory.
Important issues for any evaluation effort and relevant to this workshop
include identification of the items or capabilities to be evaluated, choosing
between "black box" and "glass box" approaches, definition of evaluation
criteria, development of methods or procedures for evaluation, determination
of evaluation metrics, and determination of the type of output to be produced
by the evaluation procedures. The areas of NLP relevant for this workshop
include syntactic analysis, semantic analyisis, pragmatic analysis, lexical
processing, morphology, sharable knowledge bases and ontologies, speech
understanding, and trainable systems.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for computational
linguists to report on and discuss current efforts and activities,
research progress, new approaches, problems and issues; to promote
scientific interchange on important evaluation issues; and to
generate recommendations and directions for future investigations
in the evaluation area.
Workshop attendance will be by invitation, limited to 45 people.
The workshop will be held June 18th at the University of California,
Berkeley Campus, in association with the 29th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics.
SUBMISSIONS:
Interested participants should submit a 3-5 page abstract of their
presentation and a brief description of their research activities.
Persons desiring to attend the workshop, but not make a presentation,
should send only a brief description of their research activities.
All persons should include name, mailing address, phone number, and
electronic mail address. Submission may be transmitted via electronic
mail, U.S. Postal Service, or FAX. If hardcopy is submitted, please
include six copies (including the original). Send submissions to:
Jeannette G. Neal, Ph.D.
Calspan Corporation
P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225
(716) 631-6844
FAX: (716) 631-6722
neal@cs.buffalo.edu
SCHEDULE:
March 1, 1991 Submissions due
April 1, 1991 Notification of acceptance/invitation
ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Jeannette G. Neal, Calspan Corporation (Committee Chair)
Tim Finin, Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology
Ralph Grishman, New York University
Christine Montgomery, Language Systems, Inc.
Sharon Walter, Rome Laboratory
SUPPORT for this workshop is provided by Rome Laboratory.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CILS Calendar
X-Mailer: MH 6.6 #5[UCI]
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 91 15:45:50 -0600
From: colleen@tira.uchicago.edu
_________________ T H E C I L S C A L E N D A R ________________
The Center for Information and Language Studies
Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
Subscription requests to: cils@tira.uchicago.edu
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Vol. 1, No. 11 January 14, 1991
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Upcoming events:
1/14 16:00 Wb 130 Workshop Pragmatics
1/17 16:00 Wb 408 Workshop Wayne C. Booth, English
1/21 14:30 Ry 276 Lecture Abraham Bookstein, CILS
1/23 16:00 Wb 408 Workshop Paula C. Schiller
1/25 13:00 Psy G110 Workshop Ronald McClamrock, Philosophy
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MONDAY, JANUARY 14
4:00 p.m. Workshop Wb 130 The Pragmatics of Language
Topic to be announced. Readings will be available in the Departments of
Philosophy and Linguistics, and in the CILS office.
For more information, please contact Jerrold Sadock, Dept. of
Linguistics (2-8524) or Josef Stern, Dept. of Philosophy (2-8594).
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17
4:00 p.m. Workshop
Wb 408 Language and Thought
Wayne C. Booth, Dept. of English
"Why We Need an Implied Author:
A Reply to Gerard Genette"
Readings are available in Cl 11.
New participants are welcome.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 21
2:30 pm. Lecture
Ry 276 Abraham Bookstein, CILS (bkst@tira)
"Modelling Bitmap Sets for Data Compression"
Abstract
Recent approaches to data compression emphasize the distinction between
data modelling to determine probabilities of message occurrence, and the
use of these probabilities to encode the data. Most such efforts involve
a single stream of messages. However, bitmaps often occur in sets in which
pairs of bitmaps are related to one another. In this talk I shall review
the use of bitmaps in information retrieval and describe three models that
exploit relations between bitmaps that might be useful for estimating
probabilities of bit occurrence. I shall also indicate how such information
can be used as part of a practical compression technique.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23
4:00 p.m. Workshop
Wb 408 Language and Thought
Paula C. Schiller
"Frontiers of Description"
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 25
1:00 p.m. Workshop
Psy G110 Speech Science
Ronald McClamrock, Dept. of Philosophy
"Levels of Explanation"
For further information, please contact Howard Nusbaum, Department of
Psychology, Beecher 408, 702-6468, hcn1@midway.
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POSITION AVAILABLE
The CENTER FOR INFORMATION AND LANGUAGE STUDIES has a position available for a
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE in COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS.
The Center is an interdisciplinary unit created to conduct research on the
organization and analysis of textual and natural language information in a
computerized environment. The current staff includes Research Associates in
language-oriented information retrieval -- including retrieval software
systems and architecture, database organization, and analytic retrieval
techniques -- and others interested in natural language parsing, pragmatics,
and artificial intelligence. The Center works with associated faculty in the
Departments of Computer Science, Linguisitics, and Psychology, and sponsors
Graduate Assistantships with these Departments.
The Center has an opening at the postdoctoral level for a Research Associate
in Computational Linguistics with an interest in natural language processing.
This is a research oriented position, with some application development and
teaching activities. Current Center interests include morphological and
syntactic parsing of French, English and Japanese. The candidate will also
work with the Natural Language Software Registry housed at the Center. The
position of Research Associate is a one-year appointment with the possibility
of reappointment for a second year.
The Center has state of the art computing equipment, with research centered
around a network of Sun workstations connected to the University ethernet.
There is a high speed datalink to the supercomputer center in Urbana. The
University is the depository of the ARTFL French language database of 2000
works and 750 megabytes of text; this, as well as a number of other large
full-text databases, is available for research purposes through the University
Network.
Please send a curriculum vitae by e-mail or surface mail to
Assistant Director
Center for Information and Language Studies
University of Chicago
JRL S-107
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
mark@gide.uchicago.edu
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