Copy Link
Add to Bookmark
Report
NL-KR Digest Volume 08 No. 17
NL-KR Digest (Thu Apr 11 16:28:45 1991) Volume 8 No. 17
Today's Topics:
Reminder: Workshop on Language and Information Processing
ICAME'91 Corpus Research Open Day
IJCAI91
PCD Seminar, Wednesday, 3 April, 12:15 p.m. Cordura 100
Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu
Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.10.18] in
the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will
not be promptly satisfied. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want
to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead.
BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr.
You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPIECS
and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPIECS.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 15:39:19 EST
From: mccray@nlm.nih.gov (Alexa T. McCray)
Subject: Reminder: Workshop on Language and Information Processing
** REMINDER **
CALL FOR PAPERS
PAPERS DUE: May 31, 1991
WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING
October 27, 1991
Washington, D.C.
The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) invites sub-
missions for a Language and Information Processing Workshop, to
be held on October 27, 1991 at the ASIS '91 meeting in Washington,
D.C. The theme of ASIS '91 is "Systems Understanding People,
People Understanding Systems".
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are
concerned with the potentially significant role of sophisticated natural
language processing (NLP) in intelligent information retrieval (IR).
The workshop will focus on the progress that has been made to date on
the application of NLP methods to the IR problem and will provide a forum
for discussing some promising areas for future research. Submitted papers
must reflect substantive work done at the intersection of NLP and IR.
Papers should emphasize completed work rather than future plans.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Alexa T. McCray, National Library of Medicine
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
Carl Weir, Unisys
David Lewis, University of Massachusetts
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Submit 5 copies of a draft paper, not exceeding 10 single-spaced
pages (exclusive of references) to arrive no later than May 31,
1991. A cover page should include the title, full names of all
authors, the address of the primary author, including an e-mail
address if possible, and a short abstract. Send submissions to
the workshop chair:
Alexa T. McCray
National Library of Medicine
Bldg. 38A/9N905, Mail Stop 54
Bethesda, Md. 20894
Phone: (301) 496-9300
Internet: mccray@nlm.nih.gov
SCHEDULE:
Submissions should be sent to arrive by May 31, 1991.
Notification of acceptance will be made by July 15, 1991.
Camera-ready papers will be due on September 16, 1991.
Workshop will be held on October 27, 1991.
WORKSHOP INFORMATION:
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 54th annual
meeting of the American Society for Information Science (October
27-31, 1991). A full proceedings of the workshop will be made
available to those attend. The workshop will be open to all
interested researchers, but presentations will be limited to
accepted papers. There will be a $30.00 workshop registration fee
which will be used to cover the cost of preparing the proceedings
and providing refreshments. Lunch will not be provided.
------------------------------
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: E.S.Atwell <csc6ea%uk.ac.leeds.sun@pucc.princeton.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 17:23:53 BST
Subject: ICAME'91 Corpus Research Open Day
ICAME'91 Corpus Research Open Day
Thursday May 9th 1991, Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley, Yorkshire
The International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) annual
conference is the principal meeting place for linguists and computer
scientists using English language Corpora in their research. Recently
there has been a surge of interest in Corpus-based research in the wider
speech and language technology community. For the benefit of this wider
community, the 12th ICAME Conference will include an Open Day, when
leading ICAME researchers will give overviews of the stages in the
"Corpus life cycle":
10.30 Arrival and registration
11.00 An Overview of ICAME
(Stig Johansson, Oslo University, ICAME Committee Chairman)
11.30 Corpus Collection (Antoinette Renouf, Birmingham University)
12.00 Corpus Annotation (Sidney Greenbaum, University College London)
12.30 Corpus-based Parsing (Eric Atwell, Leeds University)
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Tools for Using Corpora (Jan Aarts, Nijmegen University)
2.30 Corpora for Lexicography and English Language Teaching
(John Sinclair, Birmingham University)
3.00 Using Spoken Corpora (Gerry Knowles, Lancaster University)
3.30 The ICAME Storehouse: Corpus Availability and Distribution
(Knut Hofland, Bergen University)
4.00 Departure
All are welcome to attend this Open Day; in addition to seeing the above
presentations, Open Day participants will be able to meet other ICAME'91
conference delegates to discuss specialist needs, applications, etc. The
conference language will be English. The Craiglands Hotel, Cowpasture
Road, Ilkley (0943 607676) is c5 minutes walk from the station, and is on
the edge of Ilkley Moor (hats not required). Ilkley is about half an
hour by rail or road from Leeds, which in turn has good rail and road
links to the rest of the UK. Leeds/Bradford Airport, mid-way between
Leeds and Ilkley, has regular flights to several UK and European cities.
Attendance at the ICAME'91 Open Day costs 50 pounds, which covers lunch
and ICAME'91 documentation including a full list of ICAME'91 conference
delegates. To attend, please return the booking form below a.s.a.p. (not
later than 1st May) to:
Eric Atwell, School of Computer Studies, Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT;
tel: +44 (0532) 335761 email: eric@uk.ac.leeds.ai
- ----------------------------cut here------------------------------------
ICAME'91 CORPUS RESEARCH OPEN DAY:
May 9th 1991, 10.30-4.00, Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley, Yorkshire, England.
I would like to register for the ICAME'91 Corpus Research Open Day.
NAME:
ADDRESS:
EMAIL ADDRESS:
PHONE:
FAX:
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (eg vegetarian; disabled access):
DELETE ONE OF:
I enclose a cheque/bankers draft for fifty pounds sterling made payable
to the University of Leeds.
OR:
I have arranged for a bank to bank transfer of fifty pounds sterling to
National Westminster Bank, Leeds City Office, 8 Park Row, Leeds LS1 1QS
A/c name: University of Leeds; A/c no: 86577220; Sort-code: 60-60-05
NB PLEASE QUOTE REFERENCE: "ICAME91 Conference a/c 334320/0618".
------------------------------
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 16:19:46 EDT
From: morrow@das.harvard.edu
Subject: IJCAI91
Please post the following.
====================================
==========================================================================
12th INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
24 - 30 August, 1991
* Darling Harbour * Sydney * Australia *
IJCAI-91
========
IJCAI-91 will be held at Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia, 24-30
August, 1991. Professor Barbara Grosz of Harvard University is the
Conference Chair; Professor John Mylopoulos and Professor Ray Reiter,
both of the University of Toronto, are Program CoChairs; and
Professor Michael McRobbie of the Australian National University is
the Australian National Committee Chair. Dr. Donald Walker of
Bellcore is Secretary-Treasurer for the Conference.
REGISTRATION BROCHURES AND FORMS FOR IJCAI-91
=============================================
The Australian National Committee has arranged for Registration
Brochures and Forms for IJCAI-91, to be obtained by three methods:
hard copy, ftp, e-mail. These are described below. As noted
below, the e-mail option is an option of last resort only.
*******************************************************************************
IJCAI-91 WORKSHOP PROGRAM
=========================
It is strongly recommended that people interested in the IJCAI-91
Workshop Program obtain a copy of the Registration Brochure via
anonymous ftp (see below) as soon as possible since the closing date
for submissions for all workshops is 15 May, or in some cases earlier.
*******************************************************************************
OBTAINING REGISTRATION BROCHURES
================================
1. Hard Copies
- -------------
Hard copies of the Registration Brochures will be available
mid- to late April, 1991.
Brochures will then be mailed to all current members of the national
and regional AI societies and interest groups in the following
countries: Australia, Canada, China, Europe (to all who receive AICOM
publications), Japan, Korea, Mexico, United States (AAAI), USSR, and
to all people who have requested information from IJCAI-91 Conference
Committee members or the IJCAI-91 Secretariat. Attempts are being
made to send mail to Eastern European countries as well.
Anyone who is not a member of one of these societies or does not
receive a brochure by mid-May can request one by sending an e-mail
message to:
ijcai.rego.hardcopy@vulcan.anu.edu.au
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS TO WHICH *ONLY* E-MAIL
REQUESTS FOR *HARD COPIES* OF THE REGISTRATION BROCHURES AND FORMS
SHOULD BE SENT. IT IS *NOT* A GENERAL IJCAI CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS.
Requests for hard copies of the Registration Brochure and Form and
any other enquiries concerning IJCAI-91, can be made directly to:
IJCAI-91 Secretariat
PO Box 787
Potts Point, NSW 2011
AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61-2) 3572600
Fax: (+61-2) 3572950
2. Anonymous ftp
- ---------------
For those connected to the Internet, the IJCAI Registration Brochure
and Form are available as compressed POSTSCRIPT files via anonymous
ftp from
vulcan.anu.edu.au (IP number 130.56.4.173) (in /IJCAI)
and from
uunet.uu.net (alias ftp.uu.net, IP number 137.39.1.2) (in /doc/IJCAI)
**********************************************************************
NOTE: So as to reduce unnecessary network traffic and the number of
transfers from vulcan.anu.edu.au, please make the relevant POSTSCRIPT
files publicly available at your site. Please contact your local
system manager for details of how best to do so.
**********************************************************************
To transfer the Registration Brochure and Form proceed as follows:
diana 201 $ ftp vulcan.anu.edu.au
Connected to vulcan.anu.edu.au.
220 vulcan FTP server ($Header: ftpd.c 2.5 89/12/15 $) ready.
Name (vulcan.anu.edu.au:gustav): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:
Now type in your full e-mail address as password (it will be logged).
After a successful login change to directory IJCAI. You can issue the
command "ls" to see the contents of that directory:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd IJCAI
(on uunet.uu.net do "cd pub/IJCAI" instead)
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes).
README
reg.brochure.A4.ps.Z
reg.brochure.11.ps.Z
reg.form.A4.ps.Z
reg.form.11.ps.Z
226 Transfer complete.
64 bytes received in 0.039 seconds (1.6 Kbytes/s)
ftp>
Now enter ftp commands "binary" (in order to transfer the compressed
files which are not ASCII) and "prompt" (in order to be able to
transfer more than one file with one command without being molested
by ftp with unnecessary questions):
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> prompt
Interactive mode off.
ftp>
At this stage things depend on whether your printers use 11 inch paper
(e.g. as in the USA) or A4 size paper. If you use 11 inch paper say:
ftp> mget README *.11.*
After a successful transfer, quit ftp and unpack the files:
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
% uncompress reg.brochure.11.ps.Z reg.form.11.ps.Z
The two files: "reg.brochure.11.ps" and "reg.form.11.ps" can be now
sent directly to any PostScript printer, e.g.,
% lpr -Plsr -s reg.brochure.11.ps
% lpr -Plsr -s reg.form.11.ps
After uncompressing file reg.brochure.11.ps will be about 3.5 Mbytes
in size. For this reason you should use "-s" option while invoking
lpr as lpr will then make a symbolic link between that file and the
spooler rather than copy the file to the spooler.
If your printer uses A4 instead of 11 inch paper repeat the above
procedure for the files "reg.brochure.A4.ps.Z" and "reg.form.A4.ps.Z".
On some Sys V systems, you may not be able to create files with names
longer than 10 or so characters. In that case you may have to transfer
files one by one, e.g.:
ftp> get reg.brochure.11.ps.Z bro.ps.Z
...
ftp> get reg.form.11.ps.Z form.ps.Z
...
Also, on Sys V systems the name of the print command is "lp" and some
versions of Sys V do not support symbolic links. However, there
should still be an option to lp which will prevent the printed file
from being copied to the spooler.
In case of problems or difficulties contact your local system manager
or:
ijcai.network.support@vulcan.anu.edu.au.
3. By automatic e-mail
- ---------------------
******************************************************************************
NOTE: This procedure is complex and it puts a great burden on any system
that participates in the mailing process. Use it ONLY AS A LAST RESORT.
If you transfer files in this way, make sure that they become publicly
accessible within your site and its neighbourhood.
******************************************************************************
For those not connected to the Internet, A4 and 11'' versions of the IJCAI
Registration Brochure and Form can be obtained via e-mail in uuencoded
compressed shar format. Send a message to
ijcai.rego.email.11@vulcan.anu.edu.au
for the 11 inch documents and to
ijcai.rego.email.A4@vulcan.anu.edu.au
for the A4 size documents.
The corresponding aliases on vulcan will automatically send you back
several shar files. For 11 inch documents you will receive:
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.1 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.7
66 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.10 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.8
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.2 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.9
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.3 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.1
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.4 94 r.f.11.ps.Z.shar.2
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.5 18 r.f.11.ps.Z.shar.3
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.6
and for the A4 size documents:
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.1 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.6
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.10 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.7
9 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.11 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.8
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.2 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.9
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.3 94 r.f.A4.ps.Z.shar.1
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.4 94 r.f.A4.ps.Z.shar.2
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.5 18 r.f.A4.ps.Z.shar.3
Observe the numbers in front of file names. These are the sizes of the
files in kilobytes.
******************************************************************************
WARNING: Do not send an automatic e-mail request if:
1) you do not have enough space in the mail spooler to
accomodate these files;
2) your mail links are very slow;
3) your mailer cannot process files of this size;
4) you can use ftp from a machine to which you have an access.
******************************************************************************
To unpack the documents, save the messages on the files with the corresponding
names in a separate directory. For example, call that directory IJCAI.
If you have program unshar (the latest versions of shar and unshar can
be obtained from volume 15 of comp.sources.unix) then do:
$ cd IJCAI
$ unshar *
otherwise you will have to strip the mail headers from all files by
hand and then run /bin/sh on them (Bourne shell syntax assumed):
$ for i in *
> do
> /bin/sh $i
> done
This will create numerous files in your directory with extensions .uu.aa,
.uu.ab, .uu.ac, etc. It will also create two command files:
r.b.A4.ps.Z.unpack
r.f.A4.ps.Z.unpack
(if you have asked for A4 size documents). Execute these to finally
recreate the PostScript files
r.b.A4.ps (the registration brochure)
and
r.f.A4.ps (the registration script)
The two files: "r.b.A4.ps" and "r.f.A4.ps" can be now sent directly to
any PostScript printer, e.g.,
% lpr -Plsr -s r.b.A4.ps
% lpr -Plsr -s r.f.A4.ps
The file r.b.A4.ps is about 3.5 Mbytes in size. For this reason you
should use the "-s" option while invoking lpr as lpr will then make a
symbolic link between that file and the spooler rather than copy the
file to the spooler.
If your printer uses 11 inch instead of A4 paper repeat the above
procedure for the files "r.b.11.ps.Z" and "r.f.11.ps.Z".
In case of problems or difficulties contact your local system manager
or:
ijcai.network.support@vulcan.anu.edu.au.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE E-MAIL ADDRESSES TO WHICH *ONLY* E-MAIL
REQUESTS FOR THE REGISTRATION BROCHURE AND REGISTRATION FORM *IN
UUENCODED COMPRESSED SHAR FORMAT* SHOULD BE SENT. THESE ARE *NOT*
GENERAL IJCAI CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESSES.
*******************************************************************************
* A note to system managers: *
* *
* The shar files described above live in ftp anonymous area on *
* vulcan.anu.edu.au (IJCAI/shar). You are welcome to transfer these files *
* to your system via ftp and set up a similar facility to the one described *
* above. A script which bounces mail lives on "bouncepost" in the same *
* directory. A script "pack" in that directory illustrates the packing *
* process, in case you have to unpack files by hand. *
*******************************************************************************
------------------------------
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 91 10:29:41 PST
From: ingrid@russell.stanford.edu (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: PCD Seminar, Wednesday, 3 April, 12:15 p.m. Cordura 100
PEOPLE, COMPUTERS, AND DESIGN SEMINAR
The Opportunistic Dynamics of the Design Process:
Some Implications for HCI
Raymonde Guindon
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Wednesday, 3 April, 12:15 p.m.
Cordura 100
Contrary to some popular prescriptive model of sofware design, such as
the top-down or waterfall model, the early stages of software design
have been observed to be opportunistic. I will show that the
opportunistic design behaviors are not noise or resulting from bad
design practices or performance breakdowns. Rather they are an
intrinsic consequence of the ill-structuredness of early design
problems and they are beneficial to the design process. Implications
for HCI will be noted.
Background: Raymonde will summarize a research project she did while
at the Human-Computer Interface and Software Technology programs at
MCC. The results of this project just appeared in _IJMMS_ and
_Human-Computer Interaction_ journals.
References:
Guindon, R. 1990. Designing the Design Process: Exploiting
Opportunistic Thoughts. _Human-Computer Interaction_ 5:305-44.
Guindon, R. 1990. Knowledge Exploited by Experts During Software
System Design. _International Journal of Man-Machine Studies_
33:279-304.
------------------------------
End of NL-KR Digest
*******************
