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NL-KR Digest Volume 09 No. 39
NL-KR Digest (Tue Jul 21 11:32:11 1992) Volume 9 No. 39
Today's Topics:
Query: Chinese/English, English/Chinese Translation Software
Query: Feature Type Hierarchies
Announcement: Call for Nominations for IJCAI-93 Awards
CFP: JAVA-93 (acquisition, validation, apprentissage)
Announcement: International Logic Programming Summer School (Final)
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Subject: Query: Chinese/English, English/Chinese Translation Software
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 16 Jul 92 20:25:37 EST
Message-ID: <199207170038.AA08315@tuna.wang.com>
Sender: news@wang.com
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Regarding that request for information [V9N33] on leading edge Chinese/
English machine translation software, please FAX your information
directly to Miguel Brazao, who is in charge, at Peritus, the natural
language MT translation firm, at (617) 221 7122 in Massachusetts
(instead of sending it to the Imaging Club).
Thanks!
Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: Ossama Ahmed Essa <essa@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>
Subject: Query: Feature Type Hierarchies
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 15:18:30 EDT
Features type hierarchies is a way of representing the semantic
features in a hierarchical(tree) form where each node is a sub-type of
its parent. It was introduced by Katz and Fodor "the structure of
semantic theory" Language 39, 170-210, 1963. It was also mentioned in
Allen, James "Natural Language Understanding", pp194-197, The
Benjamin/Cumming Publishing Company Inc., 1987.
I am looking for references about using type hierarchies for
representing the semantics. If anyone is aware of any
systems/researchs elaborating the usage of type hierarchies for NLP,
please let me know. I am desparate. For over 6 weeks, I've been
searching for such thing.
I am a Computer Science graduate student. I am working on my Master's
thesis in which I am developing a system for inferring word meaning
from context. I built a prototype hierarchy to test my system. Now I
am supposed to have a more general domain which requires a bigger
hierarchy.
Either posting or e-mail is OK
Your help is much appreciated
Ossama Essa (essa@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu).
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 92 10:28:55 -0400
From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker)
Subject: Announcement: Call for Nominations for IJCAI-93 Awards
INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INC.
*** Call for Nominations for IJCAI-93 Awards ***
THE IJCAI AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at an IJCAI to a
scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently
high quality yielding several substantial results. If the research
program has been carried out collaboratively, the Award may be made
jointly to the research team. Past recipients of this award are
John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell (1989) and Marvin Minsky (1991).
The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of US$ 2,000
plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The recipient will
be invited to deliver an address on the nature and significance of
the results achieved and write a paper for the conference proceedings.
Primarily, however, the Award carries the honour of having one's
work selected by one's peers as an exemplar of sustained research
in Artificial Intelligence.
We hereby call for nominations for The IJCAI Award for Research
Excellence, which will be presented at IJCAI-93 in Chambery, France,
29 August - 3 September 1993. The accompanying note on Selection
Procedures provides the relevant details.
THE COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD
The Computers and Thought Lectures are presented at IJCAI conferences
by outstanding young scientists in the field of Artificial
Intelligence. Past recipients of this honour have been Terry
Winograd (1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975),
Douglas Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981),
Tom Mitchell (1983), Hector Levesque (1985), Johan de Kleer (1987),
Henry Kautz (1989), Rodney Brooks (1991) and Martha Pollack (1991).
The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of US$ 2,000 plus
travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The lecture is given one
evening during the conference, and the public is invited to attend.
The lecturer is encouraged to publish the lecture in the conference
proceedings. The lectureship was established with royalties received
from the book Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and
Julian Feldman; it is currently supported by income from IJCAII funds.
We hereby call for nominations for the Computers and Thought Award,
which will be presented at IJCAI-93 in Chambery, France, 29 August
- 3 September 1993. The accompanying note on Selection Procedures
provides the relevant details.
SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR IJCAI AWARDS
Nominations for the IJCAI Research Excellence Award and the Computers
and Thought Award are invited from everyone in the international
Artificial Intelligence community.
There should be a nominator and a seconder, at least one of whom
should not be from the same institution as the nominee. Nominees
for the Computers and Thought Award cannot be older than 35 at the
start of the conference. They must agree to be nominated. There
are no other restrictions on nominees, nominators or seconders.
The nominators should prepare a short submission of less than 2,000
words, outlining the nominee's qualifications with respect to the
particular award.
An IJCAI Awards Search Committee has been established to encourage
high quality nominations for IJCAI Awards. It consists of the
three most recent past IJCAI conference chairs, currently: Alan
Bundy (convenor), Wolfgang Bibel and Barbara Grosz. Members of
this committee can be contacted for advice on nominations.
The IJCAI Award Selection Committee is the union of the Board of
Trustees and the former Trustees of IJCAII, the Advisory Committee
of IJCAI-93, the program chairs of the last three IJCAI conferences,
and the past recipients of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
and the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award, with nominees excluded.
Nominations should be sent to the Conference Chair for IJCAI-93 at
the address below. The deadline for nominations is 1 December 1992.
To avoid duplication of effort, nominators are requested to submit
the name of the person they are nominating by 1 November 1992 so that
people who propose to nominate the same individual may be so informed
and can coordinate their efforts.
Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster
Conference Chair, IJCAI-93
German Research Center for AI (DFKI)
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-W-6600 Saarbruecken 11, Germany
Tel: (+49 681) 302-5252
Fax: (+49 681) 302-5341
E-mail: wahlster@dfki.uni-sb.de
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: dieng@picsou.inria.fr (Rose Dieng)
Newsgroups: inria.general,comp.ai.edu,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Subject: CFP: JAVA-93 (acquisition, validation, apprentissage)
Date: 15 Jul 92 12:03:15 GMT
APPEL AUX COMMUNICATIONS
JAVA - 93
Journees sur l'Acquisition, la Validation et l'Apprentissage
(PRC-GDR-IA du CNRS)
29 Mars - 2 Avril 1993, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis
L'organisation commune des journees d'acquisition, de validation
et d'apprentissage (respectivement JAC, JVAL et JFA) est le temoignage
d'un souci de convergence de ces trois approches au probleme difficile du
developpement des systemes a base de connaisances.
Un des objectifs de ces journees est de degager une
complementarite entre ces approches. Cette manifestation scientifique
constitue l'evenement annuel francais le plus important dans les trois
domaines. Les echanges intra et inter-approches sont concus pour favoriser la
presentation et l'evaluation des travaux en cours (recherches et applications)
ainsi que la formation des chercheurs.
Chaque approche aura son propre programme. Des periodes d'echanges permettront
a l'ensemble des participants de confronter leurs points de vue et methodes.
Ces periodes d'echanges pourront etre des seances plenieres (exposes
inter-approches ou panels) ou des ateliers sur un theme specifique.
President du comite de programme de JAC-JVAL-JFA : Guy BOY (ONERA, Toulouse)
Les propositions de communication portant sur des themes communs a 2
voire 3 des journees sont encouragees.
Les presentations seront faites en francais ; les propositions pourront
etre soumises en francais ou en anglais mais en cas d'acceptation,
elles devront etre publiees en francais. Elles contiendront environ 5000 mots
(10 pages simple interligne), et seront envoyees en cinq exemplaires au
president du comite de programme concerne.
Pour tous les details concernant l'organisation de la conference, contacter :
Rose DIENG, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis & CERMICS
2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS Cedex
e-mail: dieng@sophia.inria.fr tel.: 93 65 78 10 fax: 93 65 77 83
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Calendrier :
15 novembre 1992 : date limite de soumission des communications.
18 janvier 1993 : notification aux auteurs.
22 fevrier 1993 : date limite de reception des versions definitives des
communications acceptees.
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4es JAC (Journees d'Acquisition des Connaissances)
- ------------------------------------------------
Themes (liste non restrictive) :
- Extraction et modelisation de connaissances a partir de textes et autres
medias.
- Dimension cognitive de l'acquisition : techniques linguistiques et
psychologiques.
- Methodes et outils d'aide a l'acquisition des connaissances.
- Construction de modeles conceptuels de la connaissance.
- Acquisition des connaissances guidee par la modelisation.
- Lien entre modele conceptuel et modele d'implementation.
- Acquisition des connaissances et modelisation des interactions avec
l'utilisateur ou de l'utilisateur lui-meme.
- Integration de l'apprentissage et de l'acquisition des connaissances.
- Evaluation des systemes d'acquisition des connaissances.
- Validation des modeles de connaissances.
- Genie logiciel et acquisition des connaissances .
Comite de programme:
Chantal REYNAUD (LRI-CNRS, Orsay) Presidente
Nathalie AUSSENAC (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse)
Jean CHARLET (INSERM, Paris)
Jean-Marc DAVID (RENAULT, Boulogne-Billancourt)
Rose DIENG (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis)
Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA (LAFORIA-CNRS, Paris)
Philippe LAUBLET (ONERA, Chatillon)
Marc LINSTER (GMD, Bonn, Allemagne)
Violaine PRINCE (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay)
Jean SALLANTIN (LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier)
Brigitte TROUSSE (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis)
Envoyer les propositions de contribution, en cinq exemplaires, a:
Chantal REYNAUD, LRI-CNRS, Batiment 490,
Universite Paris-Sud, 91405 ORSAY Cedex.
e-mail: cr@lri.lri.fr tel.: (1) 69 41 64 95 fax: (1) 69 41 65 86
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2e JVAL (Journee VALidation des Systemes a Bases de Connaissances)
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
Themes (liste non restrictive) :
- Standardisation du vocabulaire du domaine (Validation, Verification,
Coherence ...).
- Validation/Verification par l'etude du comportement du S.B.C. (Test).
- Validation/Verification par l'etude de proprietes formelles de la B.C.
(coherence, completude, ...).
- Mise au point et Deboguage des S.B.C.
- Validation/Verification et Representation des Connaissances.
- Fondements theoriques de la Validation/Verification de B.C.
- Description d'experiences industrielles.
Comite de programme :
Marie-Christine ROUSSET (LRI - CNRS, Orsay) Presidente
Marc AYEL (Universite de Chambery)
Philippe DAGUE (Universite Paris 6)
Gilles KASSEL (Universite Technologique de Compiegne)
Laurent GIBET (CNES)
Jacques GUYOT (FRAMENTEC)
Joanna POMIAN (CISI)
Envoyer les propositions de contribution, en cinq exemplaires, a:
Marie-Christine ROUSSET, LRI-CNRS, Batiment 490,
Universite Paris-Sud,91405 ORSAY Cedex.
e-mail: mcr@lri.lri.fr tel.: (1) 69 41 61 97 fax: (1) 69 41 65 86
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8es JFA (Journees Francophones d'Apprentissage)
- ----------------------------------------------
Themes (liste non restrictive) :
- Aspects fondamentaux de l'apprentissage.
- Apprentissage Automatique et techniques numeriques.
- Apprentissage Automatique en environnement reel :
* Apprentissage Automatique et donnees de mauvaise qualite.
* Problemes de combinatoire (lies a la quantite de donnees et/ou a la taille des bases de connaissances
apprises).
* Apprentissage Automatique avec des ressources limitees (temps,
memoire, ...).
- Representation des connaissances pour l'apprentissage et des connaissances
apprises.
- Apprentissage automatique et validation des Bases de Connaissances..
- Validation de la connaissance apprise.
- Integration de l'apprentissage et de l'acquisition des connaissances.
Comite de programme :
Christian de SAINTE-MARIE(3A.S.I. - Grenoble) President
Francesco BEREGADANO (Universite de Turin)
Christine DECAESTECKER (IRIDIA - Bruxelles)
Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA (LAFORIA-CNRS - Paris)
Yves KODRATOFF (LRI-CNRS - Orsay)
Michel LIQUIERE (IREMIA - La Reunion)
Stan MATWIN (Universite d'Ottawa)
Guy MINEAU (Universite Laval - Quebec)
Marjorie MOULET (LRI - Orsay)
Jacques NICOLAS (IRISA - Rennes)
Joel QUINQUETON (LIRMM-INRIA - Montpellier)
Celine ROUVEIROL (LRI - Orsay)
Stefan WROBEL (GMD - St Augustin)
Envoyer les propositions de contribution, en cinq exemplaires, a:
Christian de SAINTE-MARIE, 3A.S.I. sarl,
4 rue Chanaron, 38000 GRENOBLE
e-mail: csma@lifia.imag.fr tel.: 76 47 77 99
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: Michael.Ratcliffe@ecrc.de (Michael Ratcliffe)
Subject: Announcement: International Logic Programming Summer School (Final)
Reply-To: Michael.Ratcliffe@ecrc.de (Michael Ratcliffe)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1992 17:28:59 GMT
*** LAST CHANCE ***
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LPSS '92
**********
Second International Logic Programming Summer School
Zurich, Switzerland
7 - 11 September 1992
Industrial Applications of Logic Programming for Constraint Handling
Knowledge-Based Systems, Deductive Databases, Software Engineering
Natural and Formal Languages, Planning and Scheduling etc.
Tutorial Speakers
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Ken Bowen (ALS, USA)
Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Alexander Herold (ECRC, Germany)
Michael Hess (ISSCO, Switzerland)
Robert Kowalski (Imperial College, Great Britain)
Shalom Tsur (University of Texas, USA)
Organized on behalf of the ESPRIT Network of Excellence in
Computational Logic by
Gerard Comyn Norbert E. Fuchs
ECRC Institut fuer Informatik
Arabellastr. 17 University of Zurich
D-8000 Munich 81 CH-8057 Zurich
fax +49-89-926 99 170 fax +41-1-363 00 35
email gerard@ecrc.de email fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch
Program
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The program of the Logic Programming Summer School consists of
tutorials and of projects presentations addressing the following
fields: knowledge-based systems, constraint handling, deductive
databases, processing of natural and formal languages, software
engineering, planning and scheduling.
Researchers well-known in the Logic Programming community will give
tutorials in their fields of expertise and introduce into the
project presentations. While most of the tutorials presume some
knowledge of the respective fields, there will be one introductory
tutorial for participants with no or little knowledge in logic
programming.
Groups from industry and from research institutions will present
their projects. There will be ample time for detailed accounts of
the projects, for demonstrations, and for discussions.
Here is an overview of the program.
Monday, September 7
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Welcome
Tutorial
Ken Bowen (ALS, USA)
Logic Programming Fundamentals
Tutorial
Ken Bowen (ALS, USA)
Industrial Applications of Logic Programming
Project Presentation
Lutz Pluemmer (University of Bonn, Germany)
Expert Systems in Mining
Reception
Speaker: George Metakides (CEC, Belgium)
Tuesday, September 8
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Tutorial
Alexander Herold (ECRC, Germany)
Constraint Logic Programming
Project Presentation
Mehmet Dincbas (Cosytec, France)
Industrial Applications of Constraint Logic Programming
Project Presentation
Owen Evans (ICL, Great Britain)
Factory Scheduling using Finite Domains
Project Presentation
Michel d'Andrea (Bull, France)
Scheduling and Optimisation in the Automobile Industry
Project Presentation
Pierre-Joseph Gailly (BIM, Belgium)
Wolfgang Krautter (FAW, Germany)
The Prince Project and Its Applications
Wednesday, September 9
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Tutorial
Shalom Tsur (University of Texas, USA)
Deductive Databases
Project Presentation
Christoph Beierle (IBM, Germany)
Protos-L - Knowledge-Based Scheduling Applications
Project Presentation
Carlo Chiopris (Icon, Italy)
The SECReTS Banking Expert System
Project Presentation
John Fox (ICRF, Great Britain)
Deductive Databases and Clinical Dilemmas
Project Presentation
Edward Freeman (US West, USA)
Knowledge-Based Strategic Planning
Thursday, September 10
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Tutorial
Michael Hess (ISSCO, Switzerland)
Natural and Formal Language Processing
Project Presentation
Udo Pletat (IBM, Germany)
Lilog - Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Processing
Project Presentation
Peter Reintjes (Quintus, USA)
A Set of Tools for VHDL Design
Project Presentation
Deborah Dahl (Unisys, USA)
Pundit - A Large-Scale Natural Language Processing System
Project Presentation
Thomas Grossi (CAP Gemini Sogeti, France)
The ESTEAM Dialogue Manager
Banquet
Speakers: Herve Gallaire (GSI, France). David Talbot (CEC, Belgium)
Friday, September 11
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Tutorial
Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Reasoning About Logic Programs
Project Presentation
Mireille Ducasse (ECRC, Germany)
OPIUM - An Advanced Debugging System
Project Presentation
Peter Breuer (University of Oxford, Great Britain)
Reverse Engineering of COBOL Programs
Tutorial
Robert Kowalski (Imperial College, Great Britain)
Theory and Practice in Logic Programming
Assessment and Discussion
Poster Sessions and Demonstrations
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Additional projects will be presented in the form of poster sessions
and demonstrations. For demonstrations various hardware platforms
(IBM, Macintosh, Sun) can be provided by the organisers.
Exhibitions
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We are inviting a small number of companies - especially software
houses and publishers - to exhibit their products related to logic
programming.
Social Events
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Two social events will allow participants to meet and to exchange
information. On Monday evening there will be a reception. Guest
speaker will be G. Metakides (CEC, Brussels). On Thursday night
participants will be invited to a banquet. After dinner talks will
be given by H. Gallaire (GSI, Paris) and by D. Talbot (CEC,
Brussels).
Documentation
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Participants will receive preparatory material (extended abstracts,
reading lists etc.) before the summer school, and detailed
documentation (proceedings of the summer school etc.) at the summer
school. The Proceedings of LPSS '92, containing transcripts of the
tutorials and project presentations, will be published by Springer
Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
series.
Fees for the Summer School
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The fee for the Logic Programming Summer School is ECU 1000 for
industrial participants and ECU 600 for academic participants. A
late payment surcharge of ECU 200 will be levied on all payments
received after May 31, 1992.
The Logic Programming Summer School fee covers
admission to all lectures and presentations
a pre-Summer School information pack
a copy of the Summer School Proceedings
lunch and refreshments
banquet and reception
a tram ticket valid during the time of the Summer School
Additional banquet and tram tickets are available at extra cost for
accompanying persons.
Payment
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Please remit the fee only after your application has been accepted
and an invoice issued. The acceptance letter will indicate the
possible methods of payment.
Once your fee has been paid in full, you will receive a receipt
along with the pre-Summer School information pack and the hotel
reservation form.
Cancellation Charges
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If you decide to cancel your application after it has been accepted,
a cancellation charge of 20% will be levied unless you name a
replacement. No refund will be possible after August 15, 1992.
Venue
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The Logic Programming Summer School will be held at the Irchel
campus of the University of Zurich. This picturesque campus is
located in a spacious park adjacent to a forest. Its buildings
provide lecture halls of various sizes, meeting rooms, a restaurant
and a coffee shop. Ample car parking space is available.
The Irchel campus is 10-15 minutes by tram from the centre of
Zurich, a medium-sized international city located on the beautiful
Lake Zurich at the foot of the Alps. Zurich offers all the amenities
of much larger cities. Besides its well-known banking district and
shopping areas, it boasts a charming and lively "Altstadt" situated
along the river Limmat. Zurich is easily accessible by all kinds of
transportation and has a large international airport.
Accommodation
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Rooms will be reserved for participants at special Summer School
rates in hotels situated only a short distance from the University
of Zurich. Reservation forms will be sent as part of the pre-Summer
School information packs.
Official Address
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LPSS'92
Ms. Anne-Marie Nicolet
Schwandenholzstr. 286
CH-8046 Zurich
Switzerland
fax +41-1-371 2300
email si@ifi.unizh.ch
Sponsors
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The Summer School organisation gratefully acknowledges the generous
support of the following organisations
Bull
Commission of the European Communities (CEC)
European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC)
ICL
Industrade AG (Apple Computer Division)
University of Zurich
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Logic Programming Summer School LPSS '92
Application Form
Name................................................................
Organisation........................................................
Address.............................................................
Country.............................................................
Telephone...........................................................
Fax.................................................................
Electronic Mail Address.............................................
Please return to
LPSS '92
Ms. Anne-Marie Nicolet
Schwandenholzstr. 286
CH-8046 Zurich
Switzerland
fax +41-1-371 2300
email si@ifi.unizh.ch
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