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NL-KR Digest Volume 07 No. 14
NL-KR Digest (Thu Aug 9 17:01:50 1990) Volume 7 No. 14
Today's Topics:
Homographs with different dictionary entries and pronunciations)
Connectionist Natural Language Processing - AAAI Spring Symposium '91
Integrating NLP and KBP (Unisys AI Seminar)
Natural Language
Workshop on Logic Programming & Non-Monotonic Reasoning
CSLI Talk 7 August - CHANGE OF TITLE
position openings announcment for the NL-KR newsletter
New CSLI Visitors this summer
THIRD ISAI IN MEXICO
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: carlson@lance.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Subject: Homographs with different dictionary entries and pronunciations (Heteronyms)
Date: 17 Jul 90 23:50:05 GMT
Reply-To: carlson@lance.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson)
Here's the contributions to my collection of words. I have classified
them according to the following key:
* different entries, different pronunciation
+ related entries, different pronunciation
@ different entries, one pronunciation the same
- related entries, one pronunciation the same
~ I'm not sure...
I used Webster's 9th New Collegiate Dictionary. Your dictionary/interpretation
may be somewhat different.
John Carlson
carlson@tis.llnl.gov
Contributers from NL-KR were:
ames!harley.tti.com!paulb (Paul Blumstein) 92!
Anthony Lee Kimball <alk@neuro.med.umn.edu>
"Daniel Boley" <boley%cs%cs@cs.umn.edu>
Danielle Fafchamps <danielle@hpldlf.hpl.hp.com>
fsg!doug@uunet.uu.net (Doug Harris)
Gordon Joly <gj@psychiatry.sm.ucl.ac.uk>
John Goldsmith <gldsmth@sapir.uchicago.edu>
KROVETZ@cs.umass.EDU 20!
lisp5!simon%prosun.UUCP%TUB.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (Simon Leinen)
lkoplow@drone2.prime.com (Leslie Koplow x4421)
Morton A Hirschberg <mort@brl.mil>
o10@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Paul Baltes)
reeves@cs.ucla.edu
Rick Kirkham <RKIRKHAM@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu>
Rob Kracik <kracik@cs.uiuc.edu>
Robert.Mercer@irisa.fr (Robert Mercer)
schulenb@ics.uci.edu
Steve Albrecht <ALBRECHT@intellicorp.com>
vivier@sol.crd.ge.com (vivier)
Yigal Arens <arens@venera.isi.edu>
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*a
@abstract
+abuse
+addict
-advocate
+affix
*appropriate
-associate
+attribute
@august
*bass
*bow
*buffet
~cello
*close
*combine
-compound
+compress
+concert
-conduct
-confine
-conflict
+conserve
*console
+construct
*content
+contest
-contract
*converse
+convert
+convict
~coop
-coordinate
-decrease
~defense
+deliberate
*desert
+diffuse
*digest
*does
*dove
~drawer
+duplicate
+elaborate
*entrance
+estimate
+excuse
-exploit
~fillet
+forte
-graduate
@herb
~honer
+house
*Houston
+implant
*incense
+initiate
+insert
+intimate
*invalid
~Joly
*lead
+learned
*lineage
+live
*lunged
*minute
+misuse
-mobile
+moderate
+multiply
~nova
*number
*object
~offense
+overage
~pate
@peaked
-perfect
-permit
+pervert
*Polish
+predica
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 90 17:00:09 -0400
From: rba@flash.bellcore.com (Bob Allen)
Subject: Connectionist Natural Language Processing - AAAI Spring Symposium '91
AAAI Spring Symposium - Palo Alto, CA - March 26/29, 1991
Connectionist Natural Language Processing
Recent results have lead some researchers to propose that connectionism
is an alternative to AI/Linguistic approaches to natural language
processing, both as a cognitive model and for practical applications.
This symposium will bring together both critics and proponents of
connectionist NLP to discuss its strengths and weaknesses.
This symposium will cover a number of areas, spanning from new phonology
models to connectionist treatments of anaphora and discourse issues.
Participants should address what is new that connectionism brings to the
study of language. The purpose of the symposium is to examine this issue
from a range of perspectives including:
Spoken language understanding/generation
Parsing
Semantics
Pragmatics
Language acquisition
Linguistic and representational capacity issues
Applications
Some of the questions expecting to be addressed include:
What mechanisms/representations from AI/Linguistics
are necessary for connectionist NLP? Why?
Can connectionism help integrate signal processing
with knowledge of language?
What does connectionism add to other theories
of semantics?
Do connectionist theories have implications for
psycholinguistics?
Prospective participants are encouraged to contact a member of the
program committee to obtain a more detailed description of the
symposium's goals and issues. Those interested in participating in this
symposium are asked to submit a 1-2 page position paper abstract and a
list of relevant publications. Abstracts of work in progress are
encouraged, and potential participants may also include 3 copies of a
full length paper describing previous work. Submitted papers or
abstracts will be included in the symposium working notes, and
participants will be asked to participate in panel discussions.
Three (3) copies of each submission should be sent to arrive by November
16, 1990 to:
Charles Dolan, Hughes Research Laboratories, RL96, 3011 Malibu Canyon
Road, Malibu CA, 90265
All submissions will be promptly acknowledged.
E-Mail inquiries may be sent to:
cpd@aic.hrl.hac.com
Program Committee: Robert Allen, Charles Dolan (chair),
James McClelland, Peter Norvig, and Jordan Pollack.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 90 12:37:03 -0400
From: finin@PRC.Unisys.COM
Subject: Integrating NLP and KBP (Unisys AI Seminar)
AI SEMINAR
UNISYS Center for Advanced Information Technology
(formerly Unisys Paoli Research Center)
Integrating Natural Language Processing
and
Knowledge Based Processing
Rebecca Passonneau
UNISYS Center for Advanced Information Technology
A central problem in text-understanding is the indeterminacy of
natural language. Two related issues that arise in confronting this
problem are the need to make complex interactions possible among the
system components that search for cues, and the need to control the
amount of reasoning that is done once cues have been discovered. We
identify a key difficulty in enabling true interaction among system
components and we propose an architectural framework that minimizes
this difficulty. A concrete example of a reasoning task encountered
in an actual text-understanding application is used to motivate the
design principles of our framework.
This talk is a dry run of a presentation to be given at AAAI.
Comments and constructive criticism from the audience will be
encouraged and appreciated.
10:30 am Wednesday, July 25, 1990
Conference Room 115
Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology
Great Valley Laboratories #1
70 E. Swedesford Road
Paoli PA 19301
-- non-Unisys visitors who are interested in attending should --
-- send email to finin@prc.unisys.com or call 215-648-2480 --
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 90 18:47 MST
From: <AUEAN%ASUACVAX.BITNET@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Natural Language
Emilio A. Navarro
E-mail: AUEAN@ACVAX.INRE.ASU.EDU
My name is Emilio Navarro. I am a student at Arizona State University.
I would like to obtain some information about Natural Language. What I
am trying to do is to create a program in PASCAL to translate ASCII text
from english into spanish.
If anyone has some information, please let me know.
Thank you.
Emilio Navarro
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: vs@tarski.cs.umd.edu (VS Subrahmanian)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Subject: Workshop on Logic Programming & Non-Monotonic Reasoning
Date: 28 Jul 90 12:43:06 GMT
Reply-To: vs@tarski.cs.umd.edu (VS Subrahmanian)
Workshop on
LOGIC PROGRAMMING and NON-MONOTONIC REASONING
---------------------------------------------
Austin, Texas
Nov. 1 (afternoon) and Nov. 2, 1990
A workshop on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning will be
held in conjunction with the 1990 North American Conference on Logic
Programming. The workshop is co-sponsored and additional funding
for the workshop is being provided by the
Mathematic Science Institute, Cornell University.
OBJECTIVE: The main aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for
researchers interested in the relationship between logic programming
(theory and practice) and non-monotonic reasoning to interact
fruitfully. We are interested in seeing experts in both these
areas come under one roof and discuss matters of common interest.
A (non-exclusive) list of topics of interest follows:
stable semantics probabilistic non-monotonic theories
default logic inheritance networks
auto-epistemic logic logics of belief
truth maintenance systems applications
implementation issues meta-programming and non-monotonicity
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS: Potential authors should submit four
copies of an extended abstract (maximum length: 8 pages,
double-spaced) by August 21, 1990 to:
V.S. Subrahmanian
Department of Computer Science
A.V. Williams Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742, USA.
vs@cs.umd.edu , (301) 454-1862
Authors should indicate e-mail addresses on their manuscript. Authors
will be notified of acceptance/rejection by Sep. 15, 1990.
PARTICIPATION: In order to increase the degree of interaction amongst
workshop participants, we plan to limit attendance to 40. If you wish
to participate, please send e-mail to: marek@ms.uky.edu. A nominal
fee may be required of participants in order to cover the cost of
organization.
PROGRAM Co-CHAIRS: W. Marek (Kentucky)
A. Nerode (Cornell)
D. Pedreschi (Pisa)
V.S. Subrahmanian (Maryland)
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 90 11:12:20 PDT
From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: CSLI Talk 7 August - CHANGE OF TITLE
A Description Language for Polymorphic Object
Ei-ichi Osawa
Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
Tuesday, 7 August, 3:30 p.m.
Cordura 100
Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc. has been aiming to achieve
breakthroughs in computer technology to design future computer
systems. From its birth, we have been focusing on research of dynamic
open systems. Future computer systems will be geographically widely
distributed and their structure will be very dynamic in nature. This
dynamic nature will appear at all levels; the physical processors, the
logical entities, and the users.
Object-oriented systems offer a good basis for a model for open
systems. However, current object-oriented systems are largely static,
sequential, and centralized. The open systems of the future will be
dynamic, concurrent, and distributed. At Sony Computer Science
Laboratory, several systems including Muse (object-oriented
distributed operating system), Muse IP (Muse internet protocol), Music
(object model/description language), Moss (Muse object storage
system), and SocioAgent (cooperative computing model of rational
agents) are being developed to support such computer systems. Also we
have been proposing a generic computing model called Computational
Field Model, which unifies all of our systems for solving problems in
an object-oriented distributed computing environment.
In this talk, we propose a model/language, Music (Muse object
description language), that can be used to describe applications in
open systems. It is based on an extended object-oriented view of
widely distributed open systems and introduces a novel approach to
abstraction, object structure, and behavior and the use of types. The
basic concepts of Music are object, slot, and situated constraint. As
a derived concept we obtain a powerful abstraction mechanism, which is
called polymorphic (= multiform) object. Also, a very simple but
powerful mechanism of objects' acquiring situation-dependent
information in the course of composition is introduced.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: Ralph Weischedel <weischedel@BBN.COM>
Subject: position openings announcment for the NL-KR newsletter
Reply-To: weisched@BBN.COM
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 90 14:17:33 EDT
POSITIONS OPEN IN NATURAL LANGUAGE R & D
AT BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN INC.
Positions are available for research and development in natural
language processing of text or spoken input. The work involves the
development and implementation of state-of-the-art natural language
processing algorithms on research computers, as well as the delivery
of application systems.
EDUCATION:
B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science preferred
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
Background in one or more of the following areas: knowledge
representation, discourse processing, definite clause grammars,
semantics. Background in statistical modeling also desired.
Programming experience in one or more computer languages; Lisp and
C/Unix preferred. Foreign language skills in at least one language,
such as Japanese, Spanish, or Korean, highly desirable.
SEND YOUR RESUME TO:
Dr. Michael A. Krasner
BBN Systems and Technologies
10 Moulton Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 873-3452
mkrasner@bbn.com
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 90 11:37:33 PDT
From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: New CSLI Visitors this summer
TWO NEW CSLI VISITORS
YASUNARI HARADA, Assistant Professor at School of Law, Waseda
University, Tokyo, Japan. Yasunari has been a member of JPSG-WG at
ICOT as a linguist since 1985, and also participated in the STREP
project at CSLI. His research interests include constraint-based
description of natural-language grammars and related issues. Dates of
visit: 18 July-20 August 1990.
MASAYOSHI SHIBATANI, Professor of Linguistics at the Faculty of
Letters, Kobe University, is known as "Matt" among his American and
European friends, the name he acquired during his Berkeley years some
twenty years ago. Matt's primary interests during the past several
years have been centered around two topics; language typology and
modularity of grammar. In the former area, he's been interested in
integrating Greenbergian approach and Chomskian
principles-and-parameters approach. In the latter, he is much
concerned with the interface problems between morphology and syntax.
This summer he hopes to complete a paper on the
principles-and-parameters approach to language typology and
universals, and a review article on Mark Baker's book "Incorporation".
Dates of visit: 20 July-25 August 1990.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 90 09:13:56 CST
From: "Centro de Inteligencia Artificial(ITESM)" <ISAI@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX>
Subject: THIRD ISAI IN MEXICO
To whom it may concern:
Here you will find the information concerning the
"THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE".
Please display it in your department's bulletin board.
Thank you very much in advance.
Sincerely,
The Symposium Publicity Committee.
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THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
APPLICATIONS OF ENGINEERING DESIGN & MANUFACTURING IN
INDUSTRIALIZED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
OCTOBER 22-26, 1990
ITESM, MEXICO
The Third International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence will
be held in Monterrey, N.L. Mexico on October 22-26, 1990.
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 Sociedad
Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial and IBM of Mexico.
GOALS:
* Promote the development and use of AI technology in the
solution of real world problems. Analyze the state-of-the-art
of AI technology in different countries. Evaluate efforts
made in the use of AI technology in all countries.
FORMAT:
ISAI consists of a tutorial and a conference.
Tutorial.- Oct. 22-23
Set of seminars on relevant AI topics given in two days.
Topics covered in the Tutorial include:
"Expert Systems in Manufacturing"
Mark Fox, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, USA
"A.I. as a Software Development Methodology"
Randolph Goebel, Ph.D., University of Alberta, Canada
Conference.- Oct. 24-26
Set of lectures given during three days. It consists of
invited papers and selected papers from the "Call for Papers"
invitation. Areas of application include: computer aided product
design, computer aided product manufacturing, use of industrial
robots, process control and ES, automatic process inspection and
production planning.
Confirmed guest speakers:
Nick Cercone, Ph.D, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Alan Mackworth, Ph.D, University of British Columbia, Canada
Mitsuru Ishizuka, Ph.D, University of Tokyo, Japan
IMPORTANT:
Computer manufacturers, AI commercial companies,
universities and selected papers with working programs could
present products and demonstrations during the conference.
In order to encourage an atmosphere of friendship and exchange
among participants, some social events are being organized.
For your convinience we have arranged a free shuttle bus
service between the hotel zone and the ITESM during the three
day conference.
FEES: (Valid before August 31)
Tutorial.-
Professionals $ 250 USD + Tx(15%)
Students $ 125 USD + Tx(15%)
Conference.-
Professionals $ 180 USD + Tx(15%)
Students $ 90 USD + Tx(15%)
Simultaneous Translation $ 7 USD
Formal dinner $ 25 USD *
*(Includes dinner, open bar, music (Oct 26))
Tutorial fee includes:
Tutorial material.
Welcoming cocktail party (Oct.22)
Conference fee includes:
Proceedings.
Welcoming cocktail party (Oct.24)
Cocktail party. (Oct.25)
HOTELS:
Call one to the hotels listed below and mention that you
are going to the 3rd. ISAI. Published rates are single or
double rooms.
HOTEL PHONE* RATE
Hotel Ambassador 42-20-40 $85 USD + Tx(15%)
Gran Hotel Ancira 42-48-06 $75 USD + Tx(15%)
91(800) 83-060
Hotel Monterrey 43-51-(20 to 29) $60 USD + Tx(15%)
Hotel Rio 44-90-40 $48 USD + Tx(15%)
* The area code for Monterrey is (83).
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:
Send personal check payable to "I.T.E.S.M." to:
"Centro de Inteligencia Artificial,
Attention: Leticia Rodriguez,
Sucursal de Correos "J", C.P. 64849,
Monterrey, N.L. Mexico"
INFORMATION:
CENTRO DE INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL, ITESM.
SUC. DE CORREOS "J", C.P. 64849 MONTERREY, N.L. MEXICO.
TEL. (83) 58-20-00 EXT.5132 or 5143.
TELEFAX (83) 58-07-71, (83) 58-89-31,
NET ADDRESS:
ISAI AT TECMTYVM.BITNET
ISAI AT TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX
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