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NL-KR Digest Volume 08 No. 01
NL-KR Digest (Thu Jan 3 10:38:27 1991) Volume 8 No. 1
Today's Topics:
CALL FOR PAPERS: APPLICATIONS IN INFORMATICS:
CogSci/Education Position
Please post CFP for 1991 ILPS
Call for Papers: Uncertainty in AI 91
Call for Papers: ACL-91 Workshop on Lexical Semantics and KR
German-to-English Natural Languages Machine Translation
Proceed. Linguistic Approaches to AI
First TINLunch on winter quarter, 1/10/91
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 12:03:31 CST
From: "Centro de Inteligencia Artificial(ITESM)" <ISAI@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: APPLICATIONS IN INFORMATICS:
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
APPLICATIONS IN INFORMATICS:
Software Engineering, Data Base Systems, Computer Networks,
Programming Environments, Management Information Systems,
Decision Support Systems.
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Preliminary Version.
The Fourth International Sysmposium on Artificial Intelligence
will be held in Cancun Mexico on November 13-15, 1991.
The Symposium is sponsored by the ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico
y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) in cooperation with the
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc.,
the American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence,
the Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial and IBM of Mexico.
Papers from all countries are sought that:
(1) Present applications of artificial intelligence technology
to the solution of problems in Software Engineering, Data
Base Systems, Computer Networks, Programming Environments,
Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems
and other Informatics technologies; and
(2) Describe research on techniques to accomplish such applications,
(3) Address the problem of transfering the AI Technology in
different socio-economic contexts and environments.
Areas of application include but are no limited to:
Software development, software design, software testing and
validation, computer-aided software engineering, programming
environments, structured techniques, intelligent databases,
operating systems, intelligent compilers, local networks,
computer network design, satellite and telecommunications,
MIS and data processing applications, intelligent decision
support systems.
AI techniques include but are not limited to:
Expert systems, knowledge acquisition and representation,
natural language processing, computer vision, neural
networks and genetic algorithms, automated learning,
automated reasoning, search and problem solving,
knowledge engineering tools and methodologies.
Persons wishing to submit a paper should send five copies written
in English to:
Hugo Terashima, Program Chair
Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM.
Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Col.Tecnologico
C.P. 64849 Monterrey, N.L. Mexico
Tel.(52-83) 58-2000 Ext.5134
Telefax (52-83) 58-1400 Dial Ext.5143 or 58-2000 Ask Ext.5143
Net address: ISAI@tecmtyvm.bitnet or ISAI@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx
The paper should identify the area and technique to which it
belongs. Extended abstract is not required. Use a serif type font,
size 10, sigle-spaced with a maximum of 10 pages. No papers will be
accepted by electronic means.
Important dates:
Papers must be received by April 30,1991. Authors will be
notified of acceptance or rejection by June 15,1991. A final copy
of each accepted paper, camera ready for inclusion in the Symposium
proceedings, will be due by July 15,1991.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 90 16:23:49 -0600
From: Ellen Brewer <ebrewer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: CogSci/Education Position
Faculty Position in
COGNITIVE SCIENCE and EDUCATION,
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN.
Tenure track faculty position in Cognitive Science in Department of
Educational Psychology. Open rank, preference for advanced assistant or
beginning associate professor, available August 1991. Requires earned
doctorate specializing in some aspect of cognitive science, plus a
demonstrated record of scholarly productivity in an area of cognitive
science important to educational issues, or in applying cognitive science
perspectives to education.
The successful candidate will be expected to fulfill traditional
professorial roles; also, to provide leadership in graduate instruction
in cognitive science and education, and in developing programs of research
that take cognitive science approaches to address issues of importance to
education.
With appropriate qualifications, affiliation with the Center for the Study
of Reading or the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology is
possible.
Salary is competitive. To ensure full consideration, apply by January 31,
1991, (letter of application, curriculum vita, three letters of reference,
sample publications, and other supporting materials) to George McConkie,
Department of Educational Psychology, 1310 S. Sixth St., Champaign, IL
61820. (217) 333-7634.
The University of Illinois is an affirmative action/equal opportunity
employer.
Please address all email concerning this position to george@huey.vp.uiuc.edu
- -
Ellen Brewer (ebrewer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
"Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco."
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: saraswat@parc.xerox.com
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 23:39:24 PST
Subject: Please post CFP for 1991 ILPS
ILPS91 --- Call For Papers
1991 INTERNATIONAL LOGIC PROGRAMMING SYMPOSIUM *
(* Formerly called ``North American Conference
on Logic Programming'' (NACLP))
San Diego, California, U.S.A., October 28--31, 1991
Sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming.
In cooperation with ACM (SIGACT, SIGPLAN, SIGART, SIGMOD),
IEEE Computer Society, AAAI and ESPRIT (pending).
Arising from logic programming, exciting new areas of intellectual
inquiry are emerging in the interaction of concurrency, logic,
constraints, algorithms, and parallel processing. To foster the
development of such areas, a major goal of this conference is to promote
technical interaction between logic programming and neighboring fields
including artificial intelligence, logic, databases and theoretical
computer science.
Papers are invited on all aspects of logic programming and its
connections with neighboring fields. Both theoretical and practical
papers are solicited. Topics of interest include (but are not limited
to):
- Foundations --- Semantics / Proof theory / Concurrency / Constraints
and partial information / Knowledge representation and reasoning /
Non-monotonic reasoning / Computational interpretation of various
logics / Constructive logics (proofs-as-program principle) /
Higher-order logics / Situation semantics
- Languages and Programming --- [Concurrent] [Constraint] Logic
programming languages / Extensions to logic programming / Language
design and constructs / Constraint-satisfaction techniques and
algorithms / Programming environments / Meta-programming and
reflection
- Implementation --- Compilation techniques / Architectures /
Parallelism / Performance evaluation
- Reasoning About Programs --- Program analysis and abstract
interpretation / Program synthesis / Program transformation /
Verification / Reasoning about safety and liveness properties
- Applications --- Natural languages / Design, Diagnosis and Testing /
Planning / Software engineering
- Logic Databases ---
Disjunctive databases / Finite model theory / Logical updates /
Logics of objects / Datalog optimization
Papers must be written in English and must not exceed 5000 words in
length, including a 200 word abstract and excluding references. (This
translates to approximately ten pages in 10 point on 16 point spacing.)
Papers that exceed this limit are likely to be returned without being
refereed. Submit six copies by MARCH 15, 1991 to:
Vijay Saraswat, Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
E-mail: ilps91@parc.xerox.com
Phone: +1.415.494.4747 Fax: +1.415.494.4334
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by JUNE 15,
1991. Final versions of accepted papers must be received by the MIT
Press in camera-ready form by July 19, 1991.
The conference will have one poster session on applications and will
be followed by several post-conference workshops, which will be
announced separately.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Robert Constable, Cornell U., USA
Koichi Furukawa, ICOT, Japan
Vladimir Lifschitz, Stanford U., USA
Johan van Benthem, U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Hassan Ait-Kaci, DEC PRL, France
Catriel Beeri, Hebrew U., Israel
Mats Carlsson, SICS, Sweden
Johan de Kleer, Xerox PARC, USA
Atsuhiro Goto, NTT, Japan
Ken Kahn, Xerox PARC, USA
Deepak Kapur, SUNY (Albany), USA
Michael Kifer, SUNY (Stony Brook), USA
Alan Mackworth, U. British Columbia, Canada
Michael Maher, IBM Hawthorne, USA
Ugo Montanari, U. Pisa, Italy
Gopalan Nadathur, Duke U., USA
Shamim Naqvi, Bellcore, USA
Stanley Peters, CSLI, USA
David Plaisted, U. North Carolina, USA
Gordon Plotkin, U. Edinburgh, UK
Teodor Pryzmusinski, U. Texas (El Paso), USA
Harald Sondergaard, U. Melbourne, Australia
Evan Tick, U. Oregon, USA
Allen van Gelder, U. California (Santa Cruz), USA
Pascal van Hentenryck, Brown U., USA
David H.D. Warren, U. Bristol, UK
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Vijay Saraswat, Xerox PARC, USA
Kazunori Ueda, ICOT, Japan
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Ken Kahn, Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
E-mail: ilps91@parc.xerox.com
Phone: +1.415.494.4390 Fax: +1.415.494.4334
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Steve Taylor, CalTech, USA
E-Mail: steve@vlsi.caltech.edu
WORKSHOP COORDINATOR
Kim Marriott, IBM Hawthorne, USA
E-mail: kimbal@ibm.com
POSTER SESSION CHAIR
Leon Sterling, Case Western Reserve U., USA
E-mail: leon@alpha.ces.cwru.edu
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Call for Papers: Uncertainty in AI 91
Reply-To: dambrosi@CS.ORST.EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 90 12:33:02 GMT
From: dambrosi@kowa.CS.ORST.EDU
THE SEVENTH CONFERENCE ON UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
UCLA, Los Angeles
July 13-15, 1991 (Preceding AAAI)
The seventh annual Conference on Uncertainty in AI is concerned with the full
gamut of approaches to automated and interactive reasoning and decision making
under uncertainty including both quantitative and qualitative methods.
We invite original contributions on fundamental theoretical issues, on the
development of software tool embedding approximate reasoning theories, and on
the validation of such theories and technologies on challenging applications.
Topics of particular interest include:
- Foundations of uncertainty
- Semantics of qualitative and quantitative uncertainty representations
- The role of uncertainty in automated systems
- Control of reasoning; planning under uncertainty
- Comparison and integration of qualitative and quantitative schemes
- Knowledge engineering tools and techniques for building approximate
reasoning systems
- User Interface: explanation and summarization of uncertain information
- Applications of approximate reasoning techniques
Papers will be carefully refereed. All accepted papers will be included in the
proceedings, which will be available at the conference. Papers may be
accepted for presentation in plenary sessions or poster sessions.
Five copies of each paper should be sent to the Program Chair by March 4,
1991. Acceptance will be sent by April 22, 1991. Final camera-ready papers,
incorporating reviewers' comments, will be due by May 10, 1991. There will be
an eight page limit on the camera-ready copy (with a few extra pages
available for a nominal fee.)
Program Co-Chair:
Bruce D'Ambrosio Philippe Smets
Dept. of Computer Science IRIDIA
303 Dearborn Hall Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
Oregon State University 50 av. Roosevelt, CP 194-6
Corvallis, OR 97331-3202 USA 1050 Brussels, Belgium
tel: 503-737-5563 tel: +322.642.27.29
fax: 503-737-3014 fax: +322.642.27.15
e-mail: dambrosio@CS.ORST.EDU e-mail: R01501@BBRBFU01.BITNET
General Chair:
Piero Bonissone
General Electric
Corporate Research and Development
1 River Rd., Bldg. K1-5C32a, 4
Schenectady, NY 12301
tel: 518-387-5155
fax: 518-387-6845
e-mail: bonisson@crd.ge.com
Program Committee: Piero Bonissone, Peter Cheeseman, Max Henrion, Henry
Kyburg, John Lemmer, Tod Levitt, Ramesh Patil, Judea Pearl, Enrique Ruspini,
Ross Shachter, Glenn Shafer, Lofti Zadeh.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 90 17:52 EDT
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@vaxsar.vassar.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers: ACL-91 Workshop on Lexical Semantics and KR
X-Envelope-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation
17 June 1991
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA
A workshop sponsored by the
Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX)
of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
TOPICS OF INTEREST: The recent resurgence of interest in lexical
semantics (LS) has brought many linguistic formalisms closer to the
knowledge representation (KR) languages utilized in AI. In fact, some
formalisms from computational linguistics are emerging which may be
more expressive and formally better understood than many KR languages.
Furthermore, the interests of computational linguists now extend to
include areas previously thought beyond the scope of grammar and
linguistics, such as commonsense knowledge, inheritance, default
reasoning, collocational relations, and even domain knowledge.
With such an extension of the purview of "linguistic" knowledge, the
question emerges as to whether there is any logical justification for
distinguishing between lexical semantics and world knowledge. The
purpose of this workshop is to explore this question in detail, with
papers addressing the following points:
a. Possible methods for determining what is lexical knowledge
and what is outside the scope of such knowledge.
b. Potential demonstrations that the inferences necessary for language
understanding are no different from supposed non-linguistic
inferences.
c. Arguments from language acquisition and general concept development.
d. Cross-linguistic evidence for the specificity of lexical semantic
representations.
e. Philosophical arguments for the (impossibility of the) autonomy of
lexical knowledge.
f. Theoretical approaches and implemented systems that combine lexical
and non-lexical knowledge.
FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of a
position paper describing the work they have done in this area and
specifying why they would like to participate in the workshop.
Papers should be a minimum of four pages and a maximum of ten
single-spaced pages (exclusive of references). The title page
should include the title, full names of all authors and their
complete addresses including electronic addresses where applicable,
and a short (5 line) summary. Submissions that do not conform to
this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to:
James Pustejovsky
Computer Science Department
Ford Hall
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254-9110 USA
(+1-617) 736-2709
jamesp@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
SCHEDULE: Papers must be received by 1 March 1991. Authors will
be notified of acceptance by 5 April 1991.
WORKSHOP INFORMATION: Attendance will be limited to 35-40 participants.
The workshop is held in connection with the 29th Meeting of the
ACL (18-21 June). Local arrangements are being handled by Peter
Norvig (Division of Computer Science, University of California,
573 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, (+1-415) 642-9533,
norvig@teak.berkeley.edu).
TENTATIVE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Branimir Boguraev
Ulrich Heid
Peter Norvig
James Pustejovsky
Robert Wilensky
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: hpm@eatdust.uswest.com
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Subject: German-to-English Natural Languages Machine Translation
Date: 26 Dec 90 19:50:48 GMT
Reply-To: hpm@eatdust.uswest.com ()
I am currently involved in analyzing German-to-English machine
translation techniques. With all the experience out there in
usenet-land, I was wondering if anyone having done or attempted
natural language machine translation (rule-based expert system
or using AI) could enlighten me via email correspondence. I have
written code and would like to discuss some of issues and ideas.
Thanks for your reply,
Hans
Real World: Hans-Peter Mueller
Email: hpm@uswest.com OR ..!boulder!uswat!hpm
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: he225di@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Dirven)
Subject: Proceed. Linguistic Approaches to AI
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 90 11:57:02 GMT
Linguistic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence
The collective volume of the LAUD-symposium on artficial intelligence has recently been published. It comprises 21 papers of different kinds:
Janusz S. Bien
Towards Displacement Model of Memory
Toni Bollinger / Ulrich Hedtstueck /
Claus-Rainer Rollinger / Rudi Studer
Text Understanding in LILOG
Ralph Grishman
Domain Modeling for Language Analysis
Walter von Hahn
Analysis and Generation of Discourse
Eva Hajicova
Automatic Compilation of a Knowledge Base
Yasunari Harada
On Describing Natural Languages in Unification Environments
Robert R. Hoffman
What Is a Hill? Computing the Meanings of Topographic and
Physiographic Terms
Juergen Krause
The Concepts of Sublanguage and Language Register in Natural
Language Processing
Juergen Kunze
Semantic Representation as a Link between Parsing and
Knowledge Representation
Ira Monarch / Sergei Nirenburg
ONTOS: An Ontology-Based Interactive Know-ledge Acquisition
System
Greg Myers / Tony Hartley
Modeling Lexical Cohesion and Focus in Written Texts: Popular
Science Articles and the Naive Reader
James Pustejovsky
Semantic Function and Lexical Decomposition
Ulrich Reimer / Udo Hahn
An Overview of the Text Understanding System TOPIC
Dietmar Roesner
Text Generation in the Framework of the SEMSYN Project:
Current Status, Future Prospects
Annely Rothkegel
Knowledge Representation and Text Processing
Petr Sgall
Meaning, Sense, and Contradiction
Joerg H. Siekmann
Unification Theory
Brian M. Slator / Yorick A. Wilks
Towards Semantic Structures from Dictionary Entries
Harold Somers
Subcategorization Frames and Predicate Types
Gerhard Strube
Empirical Constraints for Modeling Human Language Processing:
On-Line Analysis of Temporal Sentences
Masaru Tomita
Parser Factory: The Universal Parser Compiler and Its
Application to a Knowledge-Based Speech Translation System
The volume appears under
Ulrich Schmitz/Ruediger Schuetz/Andreas Kunz (eds.):
Linguistic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence.
Frankfurt/Main, New York, Paris, Bern: Peter Lang. 1990.
Price: 118.- DM (ca. 74.- US $)
If you like to get the book, please write to:
Verlag Peter Lang AG
Jupiterstr. 15
CH-3000 Bern 15
Switzerland
or contact
Ruediger Schuetz
Linguistic Agency
University of Duisburg
Fachbereich 3
Lotharstr. 65
D-4100 Duisburg 1
Germany
e-mail: he225di%unidui.uucp@unido.bitnet
or he225di@unidui.uni-duisburg.de
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 91 13:05:26 PST
From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: First TINLunch on winter quarter, 1/10/91
TINLUNCH ON 10 JANUARY
Diagrammatics
Gerrard Liddell
Lecturer in Mathematics
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
(currently on sabbatical leave as a Visiting Scholar in Mathematics
at the University of Indiana, Bloomington)
(liddell@cica.indiana.edu)
Thursday, 10 January, 12:00 noon
Cordura 100
Between traditional linear text and the flat collection of objects in
a picture lies the systematic, structured presentation of information
we call diagrammatics. The diagrammatic manipulation of concepts has
been used in mathematics (for geometry, symbolic notations, category
theory), in the formal languages of logic, the computations of
physics, the description of computing machines, and in other areas
such as sign languages in linguistics.
In the past, such techniques have been limited, at least for formal
presentations, yet they seem to have a great potential, especially for
handling complex concepts more naturally. I will give examples of
diagrammatic techniques and consider the issues they raise.
The computer provides a medium that seems ideal for diagrammatic
methods and I will discuss the implementation of suitable
applications.
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