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NL-KR Digest Volume 09 No. 52
NL-KR Digest (Thu Oct 1 10:34:34 1992) Volume 9 No. 52
Today's Topics:
Position: Linguistics/Semantics at Georgetown
CFP: Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems (ICICIS)
CFP: Corpus-Based Linguistics Round Table
CFP: 12th Workshop on Distributed AI
Announcement: New Visitors at CSLI
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 09:59 EDT
From: Cathy Ball <CBALL@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Position: Linguistics/Semantics at Georgetown
The Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University invites
applications for a tenure-track position in linguistics, at the
assistant professor level, beginning Fall 1993. Applicants should have
a PhD in Linguistics and a record of research in formal semantics.
A demonstrated ability to teach undergraduate and graduate linguistics
courses is required. Related research interests in syntax, pragmatics,
historical or computational linguistics are desirable; applicants with
breadth and versatility will be preferred. Send letter of application,
CV, representative publications, and names and addresses of three references
to: Search Committee, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC 20057-1068. Deadline for full consideration of applications
is November 15, 1992. Georgetown is an AA/EO employer.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 12:59-0500
From: Michael N. Huhns <HUHNS@mcc.com>
Subject: CFP: Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems (ICICIS)
Call for Papers
First International Conference on Intelligent and Cooperative
Information Systems (ICICIS)
May 12-14 1993
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
IN COOPERATION WITH: AAAI, ACM SIGART, IEEE, IFIP DC. 12, NGI
The purpose of the International Conference on Intelligent & Cooperative
Information Systems (ICICIS) is to provide a forum within which both the
AI and DB research communities can come to understand the intricacies of
intelligent cooperative work. The existence of such a forum will
contribute to the evolution of Intelligent Cooperative Information
Systems (ICIS), thereby leading to its appreciation by the wider
computer science community and its integration into the next generation
of information systems.
ICICIS addresses a two-sided problem: how can the information systems
technology of the future benefit from AI, and what can information
technology offer to contemporary and future AI systems. ICIS represents
the broad area where the fields of information systems (in particular
data/knowledge representation and modeling in distributed databases) and
distributed AI systems overlap. Specifically, the conference will
provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and for the identification
of the potential roles and nature of the emerging notion of ICIS, and
will examine a wide spectrum of issues related to interdisciplinary
research and development in ICIS. It will help assess the
state-of-the-art and future prospects of ICIS.
ICICIS will solicit papers describing original ideas and new results on
the foundations and role of intelligent and cooperative information
systems.
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
o Novel Architectures for ICIS,
o Advanced Modeling and Reasoning Techniques for Intelligent
Information Processing,
o Knowledge Engineering Techniques in ICIS,
o Higher Level Descriptive Programming Languages for ICIS,
o Data/Knowledge Representation and Management Techniques for
Coordinating Multiple Cooperating Agents,
o Interoperability Issues in Distributed, Heterogeneous Knowledge
Bases,
o Techniques for Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving,
o Techniques for Partitioning and Composing Data and Knowledge,
o Effective Techniques for Cooperative Problem Solving,
o Active Decision Support Systems,
o Cooperative User Interfaces for Problem Solving and Effective
Decision Making,
o Transaction Scheduling Models for Cooperative Information Systems,
o Models for Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
The Conference welcomes methodology oriented, practical contributions,
solid theoretical results, and empirical studies that are expected to
have a potential impact on the emerging field of ICIS.
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Contributions should be submitted in a double-spaced format, not
exceeding the length of 5000 words, to any one of
European Chairman American Chairman
Guenther Schlageter Michael Huhns
Fern Univ. Hagen MCC
Praktische Informatik I 3500 West Balcones Center Dr.
Feithstrasse 140 Austin TX 78759-6509
D-5800 Hagen USA
Germany e-mail: huhns@mcc.com
e-mail: schlageter@dhafeu11.bitnet (512) 338-3651
Far East Chairman
Mike Papazoglou
QUT School of Information Systems
Faculty of Information Technology
GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4001
Australia
e-mail: mikep@stoney.fit.qut.edu.au
For further information and/or enquiries about the conference please
contact the above mentioned addresses or write to ICICIS@fac.fbk.eur.nl
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions due: October 19, 1992
Notification of Acceptance: January 10, 1993
Camera-ready copies: February 20, 1993.
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press in the Conference
Proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the
International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information
Systems.
General Conference Chairman
Mike Papazoglou (QUT, Australia)
Program Chairs
Michael Huhns (MCC, TX),
Guenther Schlageter (Fern Univ. Hagen)
Program Committee
Bruce Blum (John Hopkins Univ.),
Nick Bourbakis (SUNY, Binghamton, NY),
Patrick Bobbie (Univ. of Florida),
Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Labs),
David Broe (Univ. of Manchester),
Michael Brodie (GTE Labs Inc. MA),
Edward Durfee (Univ. of Michigan),
Les Gasser (USC, Los Angeles),
Jaap van den Herik (Univ. of Limburg, Netherlands),
John Hughes (Univ. of Ulster),
Matthias Jarke (Univ. of Aachen),
Peter de Jong (IBM Cambridge Labs),
Yahiko Kambayashi (Univ. of Koyoto),
Dimitris Karagiannis (FAW - Ulm),
Stefan Kirn (Fern Univ. Hagen),
Bernd Kraemer (GMD, Bonn),
Steven Laufmann (US West Advanced Technologies),
Frederick Lochovsky (Hong-Kong UST),
Vince Lum (Naval Postgraduate School),
Frank Manola (GTE Labs Inc. MA),
Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam),
Robert Meersman (Univ. of Tilburg, Netherlands),
John Mylopoulos (Univ. of Toronto),
Moira Norrie (Univ. of Glasgow),
Marek Rusinkiewicz (Univ. of Huston),
Jos Schreinemakers (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam),
Timos Sellis (Univ. of Maryland),
Susan Urban (Arizona State Univ.),
Joe Urban (Arizona State Univ.),
John Vittal (GTE-Labs Inc. MA),
Ben Wah (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana),
Jay Weber (Lockheed Labs, Palo Alto),
Keith Werkman (IBM, Owengo Labs),
John Zeleznikow (La Trobe Univ. Australia),
Noshihiko Yoshida (Kuyshu Univ. Japan)
Organizing Committee
Chairman:
Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam)
Publicity Chairman:
Nick Bourbakis (SUNY, Binghamton, NY)
Local Organization:
Joyce Bokhoven (Erasmus Forum),
E.K. Park (U.S Naval Academy),
Ruud Smit (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam)
Conference Office:
Erasmus Forum
Burg. Oudlaan 50
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Organization:
AI-Lab, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:06 EDT
From: Cathy Ball <CBALL@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
Subject: CFP: Corpus-Based Linguistics Round Table
Call for Papers
Georgetown University Round Table On Languages and Linguistics (GURT)
Pre-Session: CORPUS-BASED LINGUISTICS
Wednesday March 10, 1993
The analysis of large text corpora is engaging the interest of linguists from
many subfields, as the field turns away from linguistic analysis based on
introspection to data-oriented approaches. Currently, insights are not fully
shared, as the subfields and related disciplines often present research at
different conferences. For this full-day GURT pre-session, 20-minute
papers are solicited on the following topics:
- the design and collection of text/speech corpora
- tools for searching and processing on-line corpora
- critical assessments of on-line corpora and corpus-processing tools
- methodological issues in corpus-based analysis
- applications and results in linguistics and related
disciplines, including language teaching, computational linguistics,
historical linguistics, discourse analysis, and stylistic analysis
Send 1 page (500-word) abstracts to cball@guvax.georgetown.edu (Internet),
cball@guvax (Bitnet), or Catherine N. Ball, Dept. of Linguistics,
Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057. Electronic submissions are
encouraged. Please include name, institution, address, telephone number, and
e-mail address.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Dec. 1, 1992.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:30-0500
From: Michael N. Huhns <HUHNS@mcc.com>
Subject: CFP: 12th Workshop on Distributed AI
Call for Participation
12th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Hidden Valley Resort
Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania
May 18-20, 1993
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is concerned with the study of
knowledge and action as embodied in multiagent intelligent systems that
include both humans and computers. More specifically, it is concerned
with using computational models to understand coordination in both
cooperative and competitive situations. Coordination is necessary to
enable efficient resource use, synchronization of agent actions, and
informed balancing of decision tradeoffs in achieving agents' goals.
The objective of the 12th International Workshop on DAI is to bring
together researchers and practitioners interested in the broader issues
of coordinating intelligent agents. Diverse perspectives and approaches
are of interest including models of coordination, cooperative
distributed problem solving, integration of heterogeneous systems,
knowledge representation at social and organizational levels,
distributed search and constraint satisfaction, cognitive modeling of
multiagent interactions, coordination support tools.
Participation at the Workshop will be by invitation only and will be
limited to approximately 40 people. To participate, please submit a
technical paper describing original research or significant applications
in DAI to the Workshop chair. Preference will be given to work that
addresses one or more of the five DAI themes listed below. We
specifically discourage the submission of papers in areas such as
fine-grained parallelism, hardware or language-level concurrency, and
connectionism, because we feel that work in these areas is more
appropriate for other workshops. A small number of "interested
observers" may also be invited to attend. If you would like to be
considered for attendance on this basis, please submit a written request
justifying your participation.
To encourage participants to relate their work to ongoing themes in DAI
beforehand, papers are solicited for (but not strictly limited to) the
following themes:
1. Coordination/Collaboration Knowledge: The identification, encoding,
and use of generic knowledge for coordination and collaboration. This
theme focuses on general knowledge about resolving conflicts,
compromising, and cooperating.
2. Coordination as Search: When viewing coordination as a search
process, decisions are needed regarding algorithms for conducting the
search, heuristics for controlling the search, and protocols for
exchanging and updating portions of the search space. This theme
broadly includes approaches such as distributed constraint satisfaction
search, search for compatible distributed plans, search in cooperative
problem-solving and design, negotiation search, and search for
appropriate organizational designs.
3. Intelligent Agents in Enterprises and Applications: Embedding DAI
systems in computer networks used by people to solve problems allows the
automation of both cooperative problem-solving activities (such as
distributed interpretation or diagnosis) and coordination activities
(such as information filtering or resource allocation). This theme
includes issues in identifying suitable applications of DAI technology
and in developing DAI agents that interact effectively with people and
each other.
4. Modeling through Communication and Observation in Adversarial and
Cooperative Systems: Building and maintaining models of other agents'
beliefs, abilities, goals, and plans is crucial for intelligent
interaction. Topics in this theme include acquiring modeling
information (through communication and plan recognition) and using
models to make decisions about communication (deciding whether to tell
the truth, eliciting more information), and about other actions.
5. Societies and Organizations of Agents: Viewing the society rather
than the agent as the building block on which to base collaborative
behavior. Topics in this theme include emergent system behavior, swarm
intelligence, organizational schemes, issues in organizational design
and redesign, and self-adapting organizations.
These themes are not mutually exclusive, and we welcome papers that
integrate insights from more than one of them.
As DAI matures, it is appearing more and more in real-world
applications. This welcome development raises the need for engineering
principles that will help match particular techniques with kinds of
problems. We welcome both theoretical and applied papers, and encourage
each to contribute to the development of these principles.
Specifically, theoretical papers should explain how their principles and
methods can be mapped to applications, while applied papers should
explain why they use the techniques that they do and why other
approaches are less appropriate for the problem at hand.
LOCATION:
DAI'93 will be held at the Hidden Valley Resort, Hidden Valley,
Pennsylvania. Hidden Valley Resort is 60 miles from Pittsburgh. The
participants can arrive by rental car or by shuttle van (price depends
on number of participants on a particular ride). The resort offers a
variety of activities including, indoor/outdoor pools, whirlpool, sauna,
lake fishing and boating, hiking and bike trails, tennis, basketball,
volleyball and golf. We'll continue the DAI tradition of a
participatory workshop by active practitioners in a setting that offers
seclusion, natural beauty, and recreational intermissions.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Papers for review should be a maximum length of 15 pages, in a legible
format (font size 11 or 12 pt). Please submit 4 copies to Katia P.
Sycara (address below) and indicate on the title page the theme(s) for
which the paper is most relevant. Also, please include an electronic
mail address for the appropriate contact person along with the
submission.
DATES:
Deadline for paper submissions (4 copies, 15 page max): February 1, 1993
Notification of acceptance: March 20, 1993
Final papers due (for distribution at the Workshop): April 20, 1993
We expect that revised versions of the best papers from the Workshop
will be considered for inclusion in an appropriate journal or in a
published collection.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Katia P. Sycara (chair)
The Robotics Institute
School of Computer Science
5000 Forbes Av.
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA. 15213
Tel: (412) 268-8825
FAX: (412) 621-5477
e-mail: katia@cs.cmu.edu
Susan Conry, Clarkson University <conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Edmund Durfee, University of Michigan <durfee@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Les Gasser, University of Southern California <gasser@morue.usc.edu>
Frank v. Martial, DETECON GmbH <martial@gmd.de>
Van Dyke Parunak, Industrial Technology Institute <van@iti.org>
Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew University <jeff@cs.huji.ac.il>
Evangelos Simoudis, Lockheed AI <simoudis@titan.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
Marty Tenenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technologies <marty@eitech.com>
ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
Mark Fox, University of Toronto, Canada
Jacques Ferber, LAFORIA, France
Michael Huhns, MCC, USA
Carl Hewitt, MIT, USA
Toru Ishida, NTT, Japan
Victor R. Lesser, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Eric Werner, INRIA, France
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 12:03:29 PDT
From: ingrid@Russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: Announcement: New Visitors at CSLI
FRED ADAMS
(adams@csli.stanford.edu)
Professor and Chair of Philosophy
Central Michigan University
Dates of Visit: September-December 1992
Fred Adams is working on the explanation of intentional behavior on
the assumption that there is nothing that can be called narrow
content. This requires handling Twin-Earth puzzles, Frege Puzzles,
Vacuous Singular Thought puzzles, among others. He is also interested
in the literature on whether there is a language of thought and
whether it requires a notion of modes of presentation that can survive
objections to their introduction. His preference is for a notion of
modes of presentation that treats them as syntactic items in a
language of thought. His other interests include epistemology and
various issues in action theory.
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KENJI ARAKI
(araki@csli.stanford.edu)
Department of Electronics and Information Engineering
Hokkai-Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan
Dates of Visit: September 1992-September 1993
Kenji Araki has been working on morphological analysis, recovery of
errors of speech recognition, and learning of semantic concepts of
natural language. He is interested in the realization of knowledge
acquisition through incorporation of human inborn and acquired
learning capabilities, and is currently most concerned with inductive
learning from examples. In a morphological analysis, the system based
on his proposed method can recognize words from Japanese sentences
that include unregistered words. During the recovery of errors of
speech recognition, the recognized monosyllable strings correctness
rate of 85% can be improved to 93.5% using his proposed method, which
uses language information. By learning about semantic concepts, the
system based on his proposed method can learn unknown concepts included
in copular sentences by using many heuristics. Araki's other
interests includes machine translation by inductive learning from
examples, and question-answering systems by inductive learning from
examples of question-answering.
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EROS CORAZZA
(eros@csli.stanford.edu)
Department of Philosophy
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dates of Visit: September 1992-September 1993
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JANET FODOR
(fodor@csli.stanford.edu)
Graduate Center
City University of New York
Dates of visit: September-December 1992
Janet Fodor is a linguistically minded psycholinguist with a special
fondness for phrase structure grammar. She has worked on parsing and
learnability of GPSG and HPSG. Current projects include Japanese
sentence processing, experiments on empty categories aimed at finding
out whether NP-trace exists, and a study of how to prevent the
periphery from disrupting the setting of core parameters.
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KATSUJI ISOBE
(isobe@csli.stanford.edu)
Industrial Affiliates Program Visiting Researcher
Human Factors Department, Nuclear Power R&D Center
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), Japan
Dates of Visit: August 1992-August 1993
The Human Factors Department at Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)
was established in July 1991 to conduct research on human aspects of
safety at electric power stations. Isobe majored in cognitive
psychology and has been working on the human/machine interface to
support operators of electric power stations at TEPCO. During his
stay at CSLI, Isobe intends to do research on the cognitive interface
that helps operators make mental models of the system or plant. He is
also interested in the ecological approach advocated by J. J. Gibson.
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POUL SOREN KJAERSGAARD
(psk@csli.stanford.edu)
Associate Professor
Institute of Language and Communication
Odense University, Denmark
Dates of Visit: August-December 1992
Kjaersgaard, whose background is in (Romance) linguistics, has mainly
been working in the area of machine-aided translation and morphology.
In this context, he has worked out a program that can generate
inflected forms of Spanish and French nouns, adjectives, and verbs,
without the use of dictionaries, but from the surface canonical form.
During his stay at CSLI, he will test a morphology program developed
by Lauri Karttunen. His other interests include syntax, especially
LFG and related formalisms, valency (dependency) grammar, and the
teaching of syntax.
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HIDEYUKI NAKASHIMA
(nakashim@csli.stanford.edu)
Chief of Cooperative Architecture Section
Electrotechnical Laboratories (ETL), Japan
Dates of Visit: 21 September-4 October 1992
This is Hideyuki Nakashima's fifth visit to CSLI. His current
interest resides in situated reasoning and the design of a
programming/knowledge-representation language PROSIT based on
situation theory.
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SERGEI TUPAILO
(sergei@csli.stanford.edu)
Institute of Cybernetics
of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
Tallinn, Estonia
Dates of Visit: September 1992-January 1993
Sergei Tupailo has been working on the normalization of proofs in
first- and higher-order logical systems. He is currently most
concerned with two groups of problems: extending Hilbert's
epsilon-substitution method on (subsystems of) second-order
arithmetic, and normalization of higher-order systems containing the
axiom of choice. His background is in mathematics. His other
interests include a constructive approach to the foundations of
mathematics and philosophy.
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KEES VAN DEEMTER
(deemter@csli.stanford.edu)
Institute for Perception Research, The Netherlands
Dates of Visit: September 1992-September 1993
Kees van Deemter has worked on semantic problems that arise in
computational linguistics applications such as question-answering, and
especially on the problem that so many expressions in a text tend to
require contextual information for their correct interpretation. He
has recently been involved with attempts to bring theories of
discourse to bear on the prediction of pitch accent location. He is
also interested in the formal modeling of human/computer interaction,
especially in the setting of consumer electronics equipment. At CSLI,
he intends to continue work that he has done to model the
interpretation of ambiguous sentences. The basic assumption of this
work is that disambiguation is sometimes bound to be less than
completely successful, and that reasoning with ambiguous expressions
is therefore an important capability, both for a person and for a
computer that has to interpret natural language.
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