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NL-KR Digest (Tue Apr 28 08:51:44 1992) Volume 9 No. 20
Today's Topics:
Query: Grounded Theory for Knowledge Aquisition?
Announcement: PreCOLING 92: Symposium on Computational Semantics
Announcement: Alvey Natural Language Tools (3rd Release)
CFP: AISB'93 - AI and Simulation of Behavior
CFP: International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: muhr@cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr)
Subject: Query: Grounded Theory for Knowledge Aquisition?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1992 19:47:35 GMT
I am looking for applications of Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss) or
other methods used in qualitative research within the social sciences in
the domain of knowledge aquisition/elicitation.
We are developing a tool which incorporates the above mentioned methodology
which is already used for the purposes of KA. I am interested in what others
do in this respect.
There was an article by R.J. Hardiman "A Naturalistic Method for Knowledge
Engeneering", August 1987 (I dont recall in which context). Does anybody
know an address of Hardiman, preferrably an e-mail address?
Thank you very much in advance!
- Thomas Muhr
PS.: Please answer by e-mail as I am not always able to read the news in time
(fast garbage collector......).
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Thomas Muhr - Project ATLAS - Technical University of Berlin
voice: (xx49) (030) 314 27882
BITNET: muhrth@db0tui11 INTERNET: muhr@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de
Compu$erve: 100013,377
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 19:39:49 +0200
From: Hans Uszkoreit <uszkoreit@coli.uni-sb.de>
Subject: Announcement: PreCOLING 92: Symposium on Computational Semantics
PreCOLING-92
22nd July, 2-6 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
Sponsored by the European Foundation
of Logic, Language and Information
With support from the
Commission of the European Communities, DG XIII
Recent developments in both theoretical and computational semantics
suggest that there is now a real possibility for exploring high level
computational techniques for dealing with meaning in natural language
which are informed by semantic theory but which are not restricted
to any particular theoretical approach (e.g. quantifier scoping algorithms,
semantic operators of the kind proposed by Johnson and Kay). This
symposium will attempt to explore the relationship between current
work in theoretical and computational semantics. Papers will be
presented by researchers in both theoretical and computational
semantics and there will be ample time for discussion from the floor.
Invited speakers are:
Hiyan Alshawi, SRI, Cambridge
Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam (to be confirmed)
Robin Cooper, University of Edinburgh
Hans Kamp, Stuttgart University
Remko Scha, University of Amsterdam
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Hans Uszkoreit, Comput.Ling., Univ.of Saarbruecken, 66 Saarbruecken 11, FRG
uszkoreit@coli.uni-sb.de - phone: +49(681)302-4115 - fax: +49(681)302-4351
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 15:35:29 +0100
From: Ted.Briscoe@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Announcement: Alvey Natural Language Tools (3rd Release)
THE ALVEY NATURAL LANGUAGE TOOLS (RELEASE 3)
BASIC DESCRIPTION AND DISTRIBUTION ARRANGEMENTS
A third release of the Alvey Natural Language Tools (ANLT) is now
available. The UK Alvey Programme originally funded three projects at
the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Lancaster to provide
tools for use in natural language processing research. The DTI and
SERC has funded their continued support and enhancement. The tools, a
MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSER, PARSERS and a GRAMMAR and LEXICON, are usable
individually as well as together (integrated by a GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT) forming a complete system for the morphological,
syntactic and semantic analysis of a considerable subset of English.
DISTRIBUTION
The ANLT system is available by anonymous FTP from Cambridge
University, Computer Laboratory. The files containing grammars,
lexicons and source code are encrypted, however, reports describing
the system, specimen licence agreement and other information is not.
If after examining the documentation, you wish to purchase a licence
for use of the system for research purposes, you should complete and
sign the specimen agreement and return it together with a cheque for
the amount specified in the agreement (currently 500 ECU -- 100 ECU
upgrade -- or local currency equivalent) to:
Lynxvale WCIU Programs
20 Trumpington St.
Cambridge, CB2 1QA, UK
Fax: +223 332797
On receipt Lynxvale will send you (by letter) the key which can be used
in conjunction with the software provided to decrypt the remaining
files.
DESCRIPTION
The MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSER provides a set of mechanisms for the
analysis of complex word forms. The analyser requires data files
specifying a lexicon of base morphemes, rules governing spelling
changes when concatenating morphemes, and rules describing valid
combinations of morphemes in complex words. The tools include a
description of English morphology in this form. The analyser should be
capable, though, when provided with the necessary linguistic analyses,
of being used for most European languages and many others.
There are two alternative PARSERS. The main one is an optimized chart
parser, incorporating a 'packing' mechanism (making it much more
efficient when parsing sentences containing multiple local
ambiguities). The other parser is a non-deterministic LALR(1) parser
which seems, in most cases, to be even more efficient than the chart
parser.
The GRAMMAR is a wide-coverage syntactic and semantic grammar of
English, written in a metagrammatical formalism derived from
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. Full coverage is provided of the
following constructions and their combinations:
- all sentence types: declaratives, imperatives and questions (yes/no,
tag and wh questions),
- all unbounded dependency types: topicalisation, relativisation, wh
questions,
- a relatively exhaustive treatment of verb and adjective complement
types,
- phrasal and prepositional verbs of many complement types,
- passivisation, verb phrase extraposition,
- sentence and verb phrase modification,
- noun phrase complements,
- noun phrase pre- and post-modification,
- partitives,
- coordination of all major category types,
- nominal and adjectival comparatives.
The LEXICON contains 40,000 homonyms (63,000 entries in total) in the
form required by the morphological analyser.
The GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT gives access to all of the other
components of the tools, allowing grammars to be input, edited, and
browsed; it also compiles them into the base grammatical formalism
used by the parsers, and provides extensive grammar debugging
facilities. A simple quantifier scoping and post-processing module is
supplied as an example of how the result of parsing a sentence can be
converted into a representation suitable for further semantic and
pragmatic processing.
All of the software components are written in Common Lisp and have
been tested in several implementations on a wide range of machines.
Some published references to these projects can be found in:
Briscoe, E., C. Grover, B. Boguraev & J. Carroll, 'A Formalism and
Environment for the Development of a Large Grammar of English',
Proceedings of 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, Milan, 1987, pp. 703-708.
Ritchie, G., G. Russell, A. Black & S. Pulman, 'Computational
Morphology: Practical Mechanisms for the English Lexicon', MIT Press,
1991.
Technical reports describing the system in detail are available via
FTP as detailed in the file `instruct' (and Annex A of the licence
agreement).
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ANLT distribution arrangements and instructions, and a machine-readable
specimen licence agreement are available in files on the FTP server
ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk (128.232.0.56).
To fetch this information use anonymous FTP (login with user name
anonymous, and password your e-mail address), go to the directory
`nltools', and fetch the files
licence a machine-readable specimen licence agreement
instruct instructions on how to FTP technical reports and the ANLT itself
The following example shows how to fetch these files:
$ ftp ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk
Connected to swan.cl.cam.ac.uk.
220- swan.cl.cam.ac.uk FTP server (Version 5.60+UA) ready.
...
Name (ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk:jac): anonymous
Password (ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk:anonymous): <type your e-mail address here>
...
ftp> cd nltools
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> get licence
...
ftp> get instruct
...
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
(The $ is the Unix shell command prompt). If the FTP command does not
know about the address ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk, try giving the command the
internet number (128.232.0.56) instead. If you still have problems, or
FTP is not available to you, then you can obtain the ANLT on magnetic
tape by writing to Lynxvale WCIU Programs at the address given above
(specifying the type of tape and format you require).
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: dmp@fat-controller.cs.bham.ac.uk (Donald Peterson)
Subject: CFP: AISB'93 - AI and Simulation of Behavior
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1992 10:50:29 GMT
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AISB'93 CONFERENCE : ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Theme: "Prospects for AI as the General Science of Intelligence"
29 March -- 2 April 1993
University of Birmingham
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1. Introduction
2. Invited talks
3. Topic areas for submitted papers
4. Timetable for submitted papers
5. Paper lengths and submission details
6. Call for referees
7. Workshops and Tutorials
8. LAGB Conference
9. Email, paper mail, phone and fax.
1. INTRODUCTION
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the
Simulation of Behaviour (one of the oldest AI societies) will hold its
ninth bi-annual conference on the dates above at the University of
Birmingham. The site is Manor House, a charming and convivial
residential hall close to the University.
Tutorials and Workshops are planned for Monday 29th March and the
morning of Tuesday 30th March, and the main conference will start with
lunch on Tuesday 30th March and end on Friday 2nd April.
The Programme Chair is Aaron Sloman, and the Local Arrangements
Organiser is Donald Peterson, both assisted by Petra Hickey.
The conference will be "single track" as usual, with invited speakers
and submitted papers, plus a "poster session" to allow larger numbers to
report on their work, and the proceedings will be published.
The conference will cover the usual topic areas for conferences on AI
and Cognitive Science. However, with the turn of the century
approaching, and with computer power no longer a major bottleneck in
most AI research (apart from connectionism) it seemed appropriate to
ask our invited speakers to look forwards rather than backwards, and
so the theme of the conference will be "Prospects for AI as the
general science of intelligence". Submitted papers exploring this are
also welcome, in addition to the normal technical papers.
2. INVITED TALKS
So far the following have agreed to give invited talks:
Prof David Hogg (Leeds)
"Prospects for computer vision"
Prof Allan Ramsay (Dublin)
"Prospects for natural language processing by machine"
Prof Glyn Humphreys (Birmingham)
"Prospects for connectionism - science and engineering".
Prof Ian Sommerville (Lancaster)
"Prospects for AI in systems design"
Titles are provisional.
3. TOPIC AREAS for SUBMITTED PAPERS
Papers are invited in any of the normal areas represented at AI and
Cognitive Science conferences, including:
AI in Design,
AI in software engineering
Teaching AI and Cognitive Science,
Analogical and other forms of Reasoning
Applications of AI,
Automated discovery,
Control of actions,
Creativity,
Distributed intelligence,
Expert Systems,
Intelligent interfaces
Intelligent tutoring systems,
Knowledge representation,
Learning,
Methodology,
Modelling affective processes,
Music,
Natural language,
Naive physics,
Philosophical foundations,
Planning,
Problem Solving,
Robotics,
Tools for AI,
Vision,
Papers on neural nets or genetic algorithms are welcomed, but should be
capable of being judged as contributing to one of the other topic areas.
Papers may either be full papers or descriptions of work to be presented
in a poster session.
4. TIMETABLE for SUBMITTED PAPERS
Submission deadline: 1st September 1992
Date for notification of acceptances: mid October 1992
Date for submission of camera ready final copy: mid December 1992
The conference proceedings will be published. Long papers and invited
papers will definitely be included. Selected poster summaries may be
included if there is space.
5. PAPER LENGTH and SUBMISSION DETAILS
Full papers:
10 pages maximum, A4 or 8.5"x11", no smaller than 12 point print
size Times Roman or similar preferred, in letter quality print.
Poster submissions
5 pages summary
Excessively long papers will be rejected without being reviewed.
All submissions should include
1. Full names and addresses of all authors
2. Electronic mail address if available
3. Topic area
4. Label: "Long paper" or "Poster summary"
5. Abstract no longer than 10 lines.
6. Statement certifying that the paper is not being
submitted elsewhere for publication.
7. An undertaking that if the paper is accepted at least
one of the authors will attend the conference.
THREE copies are required.
6. CALL for REFEREES
Anyone willing to act as a reviewer during September should write to the
Programme Chair, with a summary CV or indication of status and
experience, and preferred topic areas.
7. WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS
The first day and a half of the Conference are allocated to workshops
and tutorials. These will be organised by Dr Hyacinth S. Nwana, and
anyone interested in giving a workshop or tutorial should contact her
at:
Department of Computer Science,
University of Keele,
Staffs.
ST5 5BG.
U.K.
phone: +44 782 583413, or +44 782 621111(x 3413)
email
JANET: nwanahs@uk.ac.keele.cs
BITNET: nwanahs%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl
UUCP : ...!ukc!kl-cs!nwanahs
other : nwanahs@cs.keele.ac.uk
8. LAGB CONFERENCE.
Shortly before AISB'93, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain
(LAGB) will hold its Spring Meeting at the University of Birmingham
from 22-24th March, 1993. For more information, please contact Dr.
William Edmondson: postal address as below; phone +44-(0)21-414-4763;
email EDMONDSONWH@vax1.bham.ac.uk
9. EMAIL, PAPER MAIL, PHONE and FAX.
Email:
* aisb93-prog@cs.bham.ac.uk
(for communications relating to submission of papers to the programme)
* aisb93-delegates@cs.bham.ac.uk
(for information on accommodation, meals, programme etc. as it
becomes available --- enquirers will be placed on a mailing list)
Address:
AISB'93 (prog) or AISB'93 (delegates),
School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham,
B15 2TT,
U.K.
Phone:
+44-(0)21-414-3711
Fax:
+44-(0)21-414-4281
Donald Peterson, April 1992.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CFP: International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 14:08:40 EDT
From: Bill Hefley <weh@SEI.CMU.EDU>
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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1993 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES
Sponsored by:
ACM SIGCHI - Special Interest Group on Computer & Human Interaction
ACM SIGART - Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
In Cooperation with:
AAAI - American Association for Artificial Intelligence
British HCI Group
January 4-7, 1993
Buena Vista Palace Hotel, Walt Disney World Village, Orlando, Florida
OBJECTIVES
Advances in multidisciplinary research are creating a new generation of
intelligent interfaces that use computers to facilitate the interaction of
people with information, knowledge, tasks and situations. These
interfaces rely on advanced computational techniques and cognitive
science theories to build systems that enhance user performance. Such
systems can help users to accomplish complex tasks by interpreting
ambiguous input, phrasing multimodal output in ways sensitive to users'
abilities and situations, and providing effective advice and assistance.
This new event stems from a prior successful workshop in 1988 on
Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces (sponsored by AAAI/ACM SIGCHI).
The 1993 International Workshop will focus on a diversity of approaches
to human-computer interaction, from those employing advanced
computational techniques to those incorporating cognitive and user
models to amplify human cognitive abilities.
GOAL
The goal of the workshop is to explore ways in which techniques for
knowledge representation, inferencing, modeling, and presentation can
provide the adaptability and reasoning capabilities required for more
intelligent human-computer interaction. We aim to stimulate high quality
discussion amongst participants from different countries and from
disciplines such as cognitive science, human-computer interaction,
computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. The workshop will
bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in methods,
techniques, tools, and technology for constructing and evaluating
intelligent systems.
FORMAT
The intimate size, single track, and comfortable surroundings make this
workshop an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and
implementation experiences. Attendance will be limited to 100
participants with presentations spread over three days. The format is
split into two and a half days of presentations with one half day of
working sessions, enhanced by three thought-provoking plenary speakers.
SCOPE
Interested participants should submit an original paper for review.
Submissions addressing theory, system building, or evaluation issues are
welcomed. Papers may address human-computer interaction or artificial
intelligence/computational perspectives on (but not limited to) the
following topics:
- - Intelligent User Interfaces in a diverse range of application areas
including tutoring and advisory systems; natural language processing;
generation and understanding of nonverbal media; planning and
explanation; information retrieval; computer-supported cooperative
work, decision support and supervisory control.
- - Interface-Building Tools and Techniques: knowledge-based and user
modelling techniques for intelligent interface design, including plan
and intent recognition, automatic presentation, explanation, user
aiding (aids, critics, tutors), knowledge representation and modeling of
users, systems, tasks.
- - Intelligent front-ends to interactive, multimedia, hypermedia, and
knowledge-based systems.
- - Adaptive and customisable systems.
- - Intelligent Agents and agent-based interaction.
- - Requirements and architectures for intelligent, cooperative, and
multimodal interfaces.
- - Methods for analyzing, designing & evaluating users' needs &
performance, intelligent interfaces & systems.
SUBMISSIONS
Papers will be accepted either for presentation as talks or posters.
Authors are encouraged to submit work-in-progress to the poster session
whilst longer papers should highlight both the general scientific
contribution of the research and its practical significance. Six camera-
ready copies of original papers written in English should be submitted, as
long papers (presented as a talk: 8 pages) or as short papers (interactive
poster presentation: 4 pages). Submitted papers must be unpublished,
substantively different from papers currently under review and must not
be submitted elsewhere before notification date. A book, including revised
papers and workshop results, may be published following the meeting.
Each paper should have a separate cover page containing the title of the
paper; author(s) and affiliation(s), contact address of main author, phone,
fax and e-mail address; an abstract (100-200 words) and a list of up to
five key words or phrases linked to the submission topics describing its
content. Detailed formatting instructions are available (for an example,
see the ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, July 1991, pp. 93-96).
DEADLINES
You are requested to send notification of intention to participate and
potential titles of submissions before July 1, 1992, to
iiWorkshop93.chi@xerox.com. lnterested participants should forward SIX
camera-ready copies of their paper to Wayne Gray, Graduate School of
Education, Room 1008, Fordham University, 113 West 60th Street, New
York, NY 10023 U.S.A.; +1-212-636-6464. E-mail or fax submissions will
not be considered. Papers must be received before July 17, 1992. Authors
will be notified by September 25, 1992. For further information, contact
the Conference Secretariat at iiWorkshop93.chi@xerox.com or at the
mailing address below.
STUDENT SUPPORT
Limited financial support is available to support attendance of deserving
students at the 1993 Workshop in an attempt to help foster the field and
expose students to a broad base of current research. The 1993 Workshop
acknowledges the support of AAAI in providing this funding.
Interested students should submit to the Workshop Secretariat a letter
describing their research interests and current projects along with an
endorsement from their advisor no later than August 25.
SCHEDULE
July 1, 1992 -- Intention to Participate due
July 17, 1992 -- Camera-ready workshop paper due
August 25, 1992 -- Student applications due
September 25, 1992 -- Notification of acceptance
November 1, 1992 -- Early registration deadline
December 15, 1992 -- Late registration deadline
January 4-7, 1993 -- Workshop
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Co-Chairs:
William E. Hefley, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
Dianne Murray, University of Surrey, U.K.
Treasurer: Steven Roth, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
Publications: Wayne Gray, Fordham University, U.S.A.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
David Benyon, The Open University, U.K.
Joelle Coutaz, IMAG, Grenoble, France
Steven Feiner, Columbia University, U.S.A.
Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary, Canada
Bob Kass, EDS Center for Advanced Research, U.S.A.
Johanna Moore, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Lisa Neal, EDS Center for Advanced Research, U.S.A.
Reinhard Opperman, GMD, Germany
Elaine Rich, MCC, U.S.A.
Michael Wilson, SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, U.K.
WORKSHOP SECRETARIAT:
International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces
c/o Bill Hefley
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 U.S.A.
+1-412-268-7793
ii-Workshop93.chi@xerox.com
INFORMATION and REGISTRATION
A complete workshop registration package can be requested by completing
and returning the form below :
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Name____________________________________________________________
Last First Middle
Organization____________________________________________________
Street__________________________________________________________
City ___________________ State/Country __________ Zip/Code______
Phone ______________________ FAX ______________________________
Email ______________________________
Please note that attendance is limited. Would you like to reserve a space
at no obligation?
YES. Please reserve a space subject to later confirmation by me _______
NO. But send me the registration package while I decide _______
Return via postal mail, email, or fax to :
International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces
c/o Bill Hefley
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
U.S.A.
Internet: ii-Workshop93.chi@xerox.com
Fax: +1-412-268-5758
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