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NL-KR Digest Volume 09 No. 02
NL-KR Digest (Thu Jan 23 10:48:52 1992) Volume 9 No. 2
Today's Topics:
Announcement: Machine Translation Program Available Via Anonymous FTP
Position: Endowed Chair at Lehigh University
CFP: 5th Inatl Symposium on Knowledge Engineering
Announcement: CAIA-92: 8th IEEE Conference on AI for Applications
Program: GLOW 1992
Announement: Sixth International Natural Language Generation Workshop
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1992 23:13 CST
From: B912DIEG@UTARLG.UTA.EDU
Subject: Machine Translation Program Available Via Anonymous FTP
In response to those who inquired about machine translation
programs, my Spanish to English machine translation program for
fixed texts is available via anonymous FTP from cs.arizona.edu in
the subdirectory /icon/contrib/. The program is in the file
TRAN1SP.ZIP. The documentation is in either PCL.ZIP (HP Laserjet
format) or PCW.ZIP (PC Write format). You will also need one of
the large memory model versions of the Icon programming language
such as ICON386 for DOS. Icon can be obtained from the same FTP
site. For instance, the DOS version of ICON386 can be found in
the subdirectory /icon/interpr/packages/msdos/ in the file
de-386.lzh.
I'm hoping to do a version of this program for an Austronesian
language called Tigak within the next twelve months. I hope to
reuse about 60 percent of the code. If someone wanted to convert
the program to Portuguese or Italian, it should require very
little change.
Doug Witmer
b912dieg@utarlg.uta.edu
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 18:42:12 EST
From: GDB0@NS.CC.LEHIGH.EDU (Glenn D. Blank)
Subject: Endowed Chair at Lehigh University
Lehigh University
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania seeks candidates
for the Wieseman chair in computer science. The CSEE Department is
looking for an exceptional individual to fill this position at the rank
of Professor by August, 1992. We are interested in candidates with
established research records, dedication to excellence in graduate and
undergraduate education and with a demonstrated potential for leadership
in the field of computer science.
The Department has an excellent undergraduate program as well as a
strong and expanding graduate program at the MS and PhD levels. The
primary research concentrations in computer science are in artificial
intelligence applications, knowledge-based systems, natural language,
programming languages, and parallel processing. The Department plans
to continue building on these areas of strength as well as expanding
into new areas. Departmental laboratory facilities include a network
of Sun workstations, Unix minicomputers, a hypercube, Symbolics machines
and PCs, and an Intel microcomputer development laboratory.
Lehigh University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.
Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Candidates should send
a curriculum vita and list of references to Professor D. R. Decker,
Wieseman Chair Search Committee, CSEE Department, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: 20 Jan 92 13:48 +0100
From: CETTICO <cettico%fi.upm.es@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU>
Subject: CFP: 5th Inatl Symposium on Knowledge Engineering
X-Envelope-To: NL-KR@RPIECS.BITNET
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* CALL FOR PAPERS *
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FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
======================================================
Seville, Spain
October 1992
There is a Spanish saying which goes "the fifth one never turns
out bad", and the organizers of the 5th Symposium on Knowledge
Engineering hope to live up to this proverb. Of course, the success
of the previous ones means that they will be very difficult to
surpass, but, at all events, it is worth a try.
This having been said, "heuretics", in the sense of discovery,
would seem to be an appropriate leitmotiv for this Symposium, since
this falls in the year of the 500th anniversary of the Discovery of
America. Of course, all the traditional subjects and those of
previous symposiums on this field will be included. They are listed
below. But, the serendipitous aspects of any discovery and
intelligent behaviour should be stressed as being the most original
subject of this event:
- Causal, spatial and temporal modelling
- Deep modelling knowledge engineering
- Common sense reasoning
- Knowledge acquisition and machine learning
- Knowledge representation
- Natural language
- Knowledge engineering and education
- Philosophical basis and impact of the technology
- Cooperating expert systems
- Computer integrated manufacturing, robotics computer vision
- Neural networks
- Hybrid reasoning
Authors should submit four (4) complete copies of their papers.
Submissions should be limited to ten (10) double-spaced pages, and
the total text should not exceed 6,000 words. Papers will be
evaluated with respect to their relevance, clarity, correctness,
originality and significance. It is important to include specific
results, outlines of their derivation and comparisons with previous
work.
The following information must be submitted along with each
paper:
1.Author's name, address, telephone number and netmail address
(if possible).
2.The subject area (plus a set of 6 key words for further
classification).
3.An abstract of 100 to 200 words.
4.The length of the paper (number of words).
Important dates:
March 30th, 1992: Limit.
May 1992: Trial programme.
July 1992: Camera ready copies.
September 1992: Final programme.
October 5th, 1992: Symposium begins.
Papers should be submitted to:
Prof. Dr. Juan Castellanos.
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING.
Facultad de Informatica - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Campus de Montegancedo
28660 Boadilla del Monte
Madrid, Spain
Fax: (341) 3524645
Email: CETTICO@FI.UPM.ES
Additional information may be obtained from:
Mr Jose Chelala
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
Almagro, 38-1 izda.
28010 Madrid, Spain
FAX: (341) 4100121
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From: umbc3!algol.cs.umbc.edu!finin@uunet.uu.net (Timothy Finin)
Subject: CAIA-92: 8th IEEE Conference on AI for Applications
Keywords: Conference, AI, Applications, CAIA
Reply-To: umbc3!cs.umbc.edu!caia@uunet.uu.net
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1992 00:58:46 GMT
Call for Participation
CAIA-92
The Eighth IEEE Conference on
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE for APPLICATIONS
March 2-6, 1992
Doubletree Hotel, Monterey, California
During the last seven years, the IEEE Computer Society's Conference on
Artificial Intelligence for Applications has established itself as a
key conference for business and technical people who want to keep up
on the fast-changing world of commercial AI. This year the eighth
annual CAIA will continue that tradition by providing a provocative
mix of introductory, intermediate and advanced talks, tutorials,
workshops, and panels. This year's conference will also feature a
special series of talks and panels on the various knowledge
representation standardization efforts that are underway in a variety
of organizations. Special plenary talks will be:
DR. MELVIN MONTEMERLO, NASA
AI Applications at NASA: Hindsight and Foresight
PROFESSOR RANDALL DAVIS, MIT
Software Patents and Copyrights: How Did We Get Into This Mess? And
How Do We Get Out?
PROFESSOR LOTFI ZADEH, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
The Calculus of Fuzzy If-Then Rules and Its Application
For a complete copy of the text of the advance program, send email to
CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU. A mail agent will immediately respond with the
program which describes the tutorials and workshops, lists all of the
invited talks, panels, and accepted papers, and includes information
of registration and housing.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: GLOW 1992 --- The Program
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 92 14:44:29 N
From: kolb@kub.nl
Here is the provisional program of the
1992 GLOW Colloquium,
to be held at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, April 13-15, 1992.
The Colloquium will be followed, on April 16, by two workshops,
one on the "Interfaces between Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and
the Lexicon", the other on "African and Creole Languages".
For more information
>>>> WATCH THIS SPACE <<<<
or refer to the GLOW Newsletter #28 (available late February).
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************ GLOW 1992 ************
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University of Lisbon, Portugal
Monday, April 13
Guglielmo Cinque (U. Venice):
Functional Projections and N-movement within the DP
Maria-Luisa Zubizarreta & Jean-Roger Vergnaud (USC):
Generics and Existentials in English and in French
Edward Gibson & Ken Wexler (MIT):
Parameter Setting, Triggers and V2
John Harris (U.C., London):
Licensing Inheritance
Monik Charette (SOAS, London):
Government-Licensing and Licensers
Dominique Sportiche (UCLA):
Clitics, Voice and Spec/Head Licensing
Richard Kayne (CUNY):
Invited Lecture (Title t.b.a.)
Tuesday, April 14
Jean-Yves Pollock (U. Rennes II):
Questions in French and the Theory of U.G.
Curtis Rice (U. Trondheim):
Re-Solving Ternary Alternations: Parametric Mapping in
Metrical Theory
Ur Shlonsky (U. Geneva):
Semitic Resumptive Pronouns, the Representation of AGR in CP
and Aspects of V2
Hubert Haider (U. Stuttgart) & Gisbert Fanselow (U. Passau):
Conditions on Scrambling
Gereon Mueller & Wolfgang Sternefeld (U. Konstanz):
A-bar Movement Asymmetries
Andrea Moro (U. Venice):
A Syntactic Decomposition of a Lexical Primitive: the
"Unaccusative Effect"
Juan Uriagereka (U. Maryland):
Focus in Iberian Languages
Wednesday, April 15
Knut Tarald Taraldsen (U. Tromsoe):
Agreement as Pronoun Incorporation
Jan-Wouter Zwart (U. Groningen):
Verb Movement and Complementizer Agreement
Yafei Li (Cornell U.):
Why Doesn't X-zero-trace Seem to Need Formal Licensing?
Rita Manzini (U.C., London):
Parasitic Dependencies and Locality Theory
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Paris VII):
LF Representations, Weak Islands and the ECP
Raffaella Zanuttini (Johns Hopkins U.):
Constraints on LF-movement: TP as barrier for negative
quantifiers
Tim Stowell (UCLA):
Aspects of Tense Theory
Alternate Papers:
Alessandra Giorgi & Fabbio Pianesi (IRST):
Syntactic Structures and Temporal Representations
Lazlo Maracz (U. Groningen):
Inversion, Locality and Economy in Hungarian
Sabine Iatridou & Anthony Kroch (U. Pennsylvania):
The licensing and distribution of CP recursion
Ian Roberts (U. Wales, Bangor):
Wackernagel meets the Extended Projection Principle
Alicja Gorecka (USC):
Passive articulator features in phonology
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hans-peter kolb kolb@kub.nl
Computational Linguistics kolb@htikub5.bitnet
Tilburg University (KUB) P.O.Box 90 153
The Netherlands NL-5000 LE Tilburg
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Sixth International Natural Language Generation Workshop
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 13:00:50 +0000
From: Robert Dale <rda@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Call for Registration
The Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Castel Ivano, Trento, Italy, 5th--7th April 1992
PURPOSE AND SCOPE:
Following on from the five previous International Workshops on Natural
Language Generation, this workshop aims to bring together researchers
in a rapidly consolidating field. The workshop will take place in the
scenic surroundings of Castel Ivano, near Trento, and has been timed
to follow the ACL's Applied Natural Language Processing conference in
Trento.
WORKSHOP CONTENTS
In addition to the 17 papers listed below, to highlight the theme of
multimodal generation, our invited speaker is Professor Nadia
Magnenat-Thalmann, author of several books on computer animation, a
nonlinguistic form of generation that shares many fascinating
similarities with language production. There will also be two panel
sessions, on "Extending Language Generation to Multiple Media" and
"Multilinguality and Generation".
The following papers will be presented at the workshop:
- Wim Claassen: Generating Referring Expressions in a
Multimodal Environment
- Michael Elhadad and Jacques Robin: Controlling Content
Realization with Functional Unification Grammars
- Robin P Fawcett and Bethan Davies: Monologue as a Turn in
Interactive Discourse: Towards an Integration of Exchange
Structure and Rhetorical Structure Theory
- Helmut Horacek: An Integrated View of Text Planning
- Eduard Hovy, Julia Lavid, Elisabeth Maier, Vibhu Mittal and
Cecile Paris: Employing Knowledge Resources in a New Text
Planner Architecture
- Masato Ishizaki: Syntactic Choice in Grammar-Based
Generation: A Comparative Study
- Mark Jones and Kathleen McCoy: Transparently-Motivated
Metaphor Generation
- Mark Kantrowitz and Joseph Bates: Integrated Natural Language
Generation Systems
- Inui Kentaro, Tokunaga Takenobu and Tanaka Hozumi: Text
Revision: What Comes After Text Generation
- Alex Lascarides and Jon Oberlander: Abducing Temporal Discourse
- David McDonald: Type-Driven Suppression of Redundancy in the
Generation of Inference-Rich Reports
- Norbert Reithinger: The Performance of an Incremental
Generation Component for Multi-modal Dialog Contributions
- Dietmar Roesner and Manfred Stede: Customizing RST for the
Automatic Production of Technical Manuals
- Robert Rubinoff: Integrating Text Planning and Linguistic
Choice by Annotating Linguistic Structures
- Patrick Saint-Dizier: A Constraint Logic Programming
Treatment of Syntactic Choice in Natural Language Generation
- Keith Vander Linden, Susanna Cumming and James Martin: Using
System Networks to Build Rhetorical Structures
- Nick Youd and Scott McGlashan: Generating Utterances in
Dialogue Systems
REGISTRATION
The total cost of attendance at the workshop is $260 per person: this
includes all accommodation and meals, daily transport from the hotel
to the castle, and a copy of the workshop proceedings. The workshop
will begin at 9am on Sunday 5th April and end sometime during the
afternoo of Tuesday 7th April; the package includes accommodation for
the three nights from 4th--6th April inclusive, and those wishing to
stay overnight on the 7th April may do so by paying an additional sum
of approximately 35000 Lira direct to the hotel on arrival.
Financial support for the workshop is being sought: we may be able to
offer some financial assistance for full-time students and for Eastern
European colleagues. If you would like to apply for financial
assistance, please fill in the appropriate part of the application
form.
Unfortunately, we can accommodate no more than 50 people at the
workshop, and so inevitably not all applications for registration will
be accepted. If you would like to attend the workshop, please fill in
the form below and send it by paper mail to one of the specified
addresses, enclosing payment; if your registration is unsuccessful, we
will return your payment promptly. To be considered, your application
*must* be received by February 19th 1992 at the very latest. One
place is guaranteed for each of the papers being presented, but
speakers should confirm their attendance by following the above
registration procedure.
Payment can be accepted in any of the following currencies: US
Dollars, UK pounds, Deutschmarks, and Italian Lira. No other
currencies can be accepted. There are different payment methods
available for each currency; complete addresses to which payment
should be sent are provided below.
- Those paying in US Dollars should send a cheque for $260 to
Hovy, made payable to "NLG Workshop".
- Those paying in UK pounds should send a cheque or a Eurocheque
for \pounds140, made payable to "Cognitive Science", or your
Visa/Access card number, billing address and expiration date, to Dale.
- Those paying in DM should send a cheque or a Eurocheque for
400DM to Roesner, made payable to "NLG Workshop".
- Those paying in Italian Lira should send a cheque for 308,000
Lira to Roesner, made payable to "Hotel Romanda".
If you do not have access to any of these currencies, then payment by
Visa/Access to Dale is the best solution. Your account will not be
debited unless your application is accepted.
RELATED EVENTS
The workshop has been timed to follow the Third Conference on Applied
Natural Language Processing, being held in Trento, Italy from 1st--3rd
April 1991. Details of this conference can be obtained from Oliviero
Stock, IRST, 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy; Tel: (+39) 461 81444, email:
stock@irst.it.
Travel details for getting to the workshop will be sent out in the
very near future.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Robert Dale, Eduard Hovy, Dietmar Roesner and Oliviero Stock. The
workshop is co-sponsored by the Esprit Basic Research Actions and the
Special Interest Group on Generation of the Association for
Computational Linguistics.
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I would like to attend the Sixth International Workshop on Natural
Language Generation, at Castel Ivano, near Trento, Italy, on 5th--7th
April 1992.
Name: ____________________________________________________________
Address: ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Email: ____________________________________________________________
Tel: ____________________________________________________________
Fax: ____________________________________________________________
I enclose payment in
[Tick one] US Dollars ___ $260
UK Pounds ___ \pounds140
DM ___ 400DM
Italian Lira ___ 300800 L
Please debit my Visa/Access/MasterCard/EuroCard account (circle as
appropriate).
Card number ____________________
Expiration date ________
Signature ____________________
Billing address, if different from the address shown above:
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
If you wish to apply for financial assistance, please indicate your status:
Full-time student: ______
Working in Eastern Europe: ______
If you are applying for financial assistance, do not send any money
now. Student applicants should provide photocopied proof of student
status.
Please send your application to the appropriate person from the
following list, to arrive no later than February 19th 1992:
Dr Robert Dale
Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND
Tel: +44 31 650 4416
Fax: +44 31 650 4587
Email: R.Dale@ed.ac.uk
Dr Eduard Hovy
USC/Information Sciences Institute, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del
Rey, CA 902292-6695, USA
Tel: +1 310 822 1511
Fax: +1 310 823 6714
Email: hovy@isi.edu
Dr Dietmar Roesner
FAW, PO Box 2060, W-7900 Ulm, GERMANY
Tel: +49 731 501 530
Fax: +49 731 501 999
Email: roesner@dulfaw1a.bitnet
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