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NL-KR Digest Volume 09 No. 42
NL-KR Digest (Tue Aug 11 09:08:54 1992) Volume 9 No. 42
Today's Topics:
Query: Looking for word frequency software
Query: Texas Linguistic Forum
Position: Spoken Language Systems Research at TI (Dallas)
Announcement: BU Conference on Language Development
CFP: NASA Goddard AI Conference
CFP: JICSLP '92 - Distributed/Parallel Implementations of LPSs
Program: TWENTE WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (TWLT 4)
Discussion: comp.speech
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 15:00:28 MDT
From: eiverson@NMSU.Edu
Subject: Query: Looking for word frequency software
A friend of mine would like to do some word frequency/trigram work on
an IBM PC. Does anyone know of software (commercial or not) that is
available?
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Eric Iverson Internet: eiverson@nmsu.edu
Computing Research Lab
Box 30001/3CRL Life is something to do when
New Mexico State University you can't get to sleep.
Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001 -Fran Lebowitz
VOICE: (505) 646-5711
FAX: (505) 646-6218
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From: asm@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Scott MALONE)
Subject: Query: Texas Linguistic Forum
Organization: Department of Computer Sci, University of Melbourne
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 10:49:34 GMT
Hi.
I'm trying to track down the journal "Texas Linguistic Forum".
Would anyone be able to tell me
1- If it available on-line anywhere,
2- If they know of any Australian universities/libraries that
should possess copies
3- If they have access to it and could aquire a few papers
for me.
Thanks muchly,
Andrew
asm@cs.mu.oz.au
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 17:16:49 CDT
From: hemphill@lingua.csc.ti.com (Charles Hemphill)
Subject: Position: Spoken Language Systems Research at TI (Dallas)
SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS RESEARCH POSITION
at
Texas Instruments (TI) in Dallas, Texas
Texas Instruments' Computer Science Laboratory in Dallas seeks a
computational linguist, computer scientist, or engineer with a
background in natural language processing to join its Speech Research
Group. The successful applicant will become a Member of the Technical
Staff at TI in Dallas and work with a research team that focuses on
the design, development, and implementation of voice-based telephone
and workstation applications that make use of speech recognition.
The applicant will be responsible for mid- to long-term research
toward the integration of natural language processing techniques and
linguistic models with spoken language applications.
For more information, please contact,
Charles Hemphill
214-995-0393
hemphill@ti.com
or send your CV to
Raja Rajasekaran (NL-KR)
Texas Instruments, MS 238
P.O. Box 655474
Dallas, TX 75265
or e-mail in text, postscript, or latex form to raja@ti.com
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 14:24:05 -0400
From: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development)
Subject: Announcement: BU Conference on Language Development
17th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
October 23, 24 and 25, 1992
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: George Miller, Princeton University
"Looking through the Lexicon"
PLENARY SPEAKERS: Jean Aitchison, London School of Economics
"Shuddering Start or Sudden Spurt?
The Linguistic Development of Pre-Adolescents"
Ken Hale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"On Resisting Language Loss: The Human Value
of Local Languages"
Sessions include first and second language acquisition of syntax,
morphology, phonology, lexical and conceptual knowledge, discourse,
narrative and literacy, social and cultural aspects of language use, as
well as exceptional language, language processing, and bilingualism.
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For more information:
A preliminary program, pre-registration form, and information about
hotels, discounts on domestic air fares, and child care arrangements,
are available via e-mail. If you send a message to info@louis-xiv.bu.edu
you will receive an automated reply that contains these materials.
Early in August, these materials will also be sent by regular mail to
those who are on our mailing list. (Speakers are urged to wait to pre-
register until they receive that mailing.)
Anyone who plans to attend the conference is advised to make hotel
arrangements as soon as possible.
If you have any questions, or if you would like to add your address
to our regular mailing list or inform us of a change in address,
please send e-mail to langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu, phone 617-353-3085,
fax 617-353-6218, or write to:
Boston University Conference on Language Development
138 Mountfort Street
Boston, MA 02215
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Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: short@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nick Short (IDM))
Subject: CFP: NASA Goddard AI Conference
Nntp-Posting-Host: nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1992 14:21:18 GMT
GSFC AI and Space Applications Conference 93
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Eighth Annual Goddard Conference on
Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence
May 10 - May 14, 1993
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Scope:
The Eighth Annual Goddard Conference on Space Applications of
Artificial Intelligence will focus on AI research and applications
relevant to space systems, space operations, and space science. Topics
will include, but are not limited to:
o Knowledge-based spacecraft command and control
o Expert system management and methodologies
o Distributed knowledge-based systems
o Intelligent database management
o Fault-tolerant rule-based systems
o Simulation-based reasoning
o Fault isolation and diagnosis
o Planning and scheduling
o Knowledge acquisition
o Robotics and telerobotics
o Neural networks
o Image analysis
Original, unpublished papers are now being solicited for the
conference. Papers must describe work with clear AI content and
applicability to space-related problems. Authors are asked to submit
abstracts first for initial review.
Accepted papers will be presented formally or as poster presentations,
which may include demonstrations. All accepted papers will be
published in the Conference Proceedings as an official NASA document,
and select papers will appear in a special issue of the international
journal "Telematics and Informatics". There will be a Conference
award for Best Paper.
Submission:
Abstracts should be 300-500 words in length. Two copies of the
abstract should be submitted by September 1, 1992 along with the
author's name, affiliation, address, and telephone number.
Notification of tentative acceptance will be given by September 16,
1992. Papers should be no longer than 15 pages and must be submitted
in camera-ready form for final acceptance by November 16, 1992.
Abstracts may be submitted through e-mail, FAX, or regular mail.
E-mail and FAX are preferred.
Submission Addresses:
Mail: Mike Moore
NASA GSFC, Code 522.1
Building 23, Room E413
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
E-mail: moore@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov
FAX: (301) 286-4627
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission September 1, 1992
Abstract Acceptance Notification September 16, 1992
Paper Submission November 16, 1992
Conference Co-Chairs:
Mike Moore
NASA GSFC, Code 522.1
Greenbelt, MD 20771
(301) 286-3192
moore@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov
Bob Cromp
NASA GSFC, Code 930.4
Greenbelt, MD 20771
(301) 286-4351
cromp@sauquoit.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Nick Short
Intelligent Data Management Project
Code 934
NASA/GSFC
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From: dawn@umiacs.umd.edu (Dawn Vance)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Subject: CFP: JICSLP '92 - Distributed/Parallel Implementations of LPSs
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:25:26 GMT
Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
CALL FOR PAPERS
JICSLP '92
Joint Workshop on
Distributed and Parallel Implementations of Logic
Programming Systems
Washington, D.C.
November 13-14, 1992
The joint workshop has two main tracks:
Workshop A : Distributed Implementations
Organizers: Peter Kacsuk (KFKI-MSZKI, Hungary),
Michael Wise (Sydney Univ., Australia).
Workshop B : Concurrency and Parallelism
Organizers: Domenico Talia (CRAI- Italy)
Giancarlo Succi (Unv. of Genova, Italy)
Co-ordinating Organizer: Doug Degroot (TI, USA)
Workshop A : Distributed Implementations
Recently distributed memory multicomputers (like Intel's
Hypercube or Transputer systems) have become more and
more popular since they have much better scalability and
locality than shared memory multiprocessors. However
their programming seems to be more difficult than that of
the shared memory systems. Efficient implementation of
logic programming languages on these machines would
significantly augment the reputation of logic programming
in the parallel processing community and would probably
initiate large application projects of logic programming
on these machines.
The workshop aims at exchanging ideas of implementing
logic programs on distributed memory multicomputers
including topics like distributed Prolog abstract
machines, distributed memory management, distributed
scheduling, distributed unification, distributed garbage
collection, distributed/parallel logic languages. Also of
interest is the interaction of the techniques used in
distributed Prolog implementations with those used in
distributed computation generally.
Workshop B : Concurrency and Parallelism
The integration of the expressive power of declarative
systems such as logic programming languages with the
computational power of massively parallel computers is today
one of the major challenges of computer science research.
Recently, many models and architectures for the parallel
execution of logic programs have been proposed and
implemented, yet broadly successful solutions remain
elusive.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a fruitful place
where people working on parallel implementations of
logic programming systems can meet and discuss technical
issues in an informal atmosphere. This scope of workshop
B is somewhat broader than workshop A in that it will not
restrict itself to considering distributed memory multi-
computers.
The workshop will focus (but not limited to) on implementation
techniques of logic programming systems on parallel computers. Papers which
demonstrate significant performance improvement are of special interest.
Topics of particular interest are:
- Scheduling and load balancing techniques
- Throttling and speculative parallelism
- Side effect management
- Performance analysis
- Experiences on actual parallel implementations
ADDRESS SUBMISSION
Doug DeGroot
Texas Instr.
6550 Chase Oaks Blvd.
MS 8435
Dallas, Texas 75023
USA
Tel: (214) 575-3763
Fax: (214) 575-5974
Email: degroot@dog.dseg.ti.com or degroot@csc.ti.com
PAPER SUBMISSION
Three copies of an extended abstract of 3-10 pages should be
sent to Doug DeGroot. Email submissions are acceptable.
Please, indicate which track the paper is submitted to.
PROCEEDINGS
A joint informal proceedings containing the accepted papers
will be compiled and will be distributed to all workshop
participants.
SCHEDULE
Abstracts due: September 7th, 1992
Notification sent: October 1st, 1992
Workshop date: November 13th, 1992
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 92 10:25:44 +0200
From: anijholt@cs.utwente.nl (Anton Nijholt)
Subject: Program: TWENTE WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (TWLT 4)
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ANNOUNCEMENT
TWENTE WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY: TWLT 4
University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
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+ Pragmatics in Language Technology +
+ September 23, 1992 +
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Program TWLT 4
10.00 Registration
10.25 Anton Nijholt (Enschede): Opening
Session 1: Pragmatics and Semiotics
10.30 Jan van der Lubbe (Delft) and Doede Nauta (Enschede):
Semiotics, Pragmatism, and Expert Systems
11.10 Fernand Vandamme (Ghent):
Semiotics, Epistemology, and Human Action
11.50 Huib de Jong and Wouter Werner (Enschede):
Separation of Powers and Semiotic Processes
12.30 Lunch
Session 2: Functional Approach in Linguistics
13.30 Casper de Groot (Amsterdam):
Pragmatics in Functional Grammar
14.10 Erich Steiner (Saarbrucken):
Systemic Functional Grammar
14.50 Renate Bartsch (Amsterdam):
Concept Formation on the Basis of Utterances in Situations
15.30 Coffee, tea
Session 3: Logic of Belief, Utterance, and Intention
16.00 Jonathan Ginzburg (Edinburgh):
Enriching Answerhood and Truth: Questions within Situation
Semantics
16.40 Jan Schaake (Enschede):
The Logic of Peirce's Existential Graphs
17.10 Harry Bunt (Tilburg):
Belief Contexts in Human-Computer Dialog
17.50 Informal reception
TWLT 4 is organized by the Parlevink Project of the University of
Twente.
Financial support has been provided by the Linguistic Research
Foundation (Stichting Taalwetenschap) and the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
Registration
There is a limit on the number of participants. Registration must
be received before September 11. Registration can be done by
sending mail or preferably email to the organizing secretariat.
Please include your full name and address, telephone and whether
you want the organizing secretariat to make a hotel reservation.
The workshop fee is Dfl. 60. Students pay Dfl. 40. The fee includes
the proceedings of the workshop, lunch, coffee and tea during the
breaks and the informal reception. Payment by the participants will
be made only on-site.
Accommodations
The organizing secretariat is able to handle hotel reservations at
the campus, in Enschede or in Hengelo. Please indicate your wishes
as soon as possible and preferably include them in your email
registration.
Conference Site
The workshop will take place in "Logica" at the campus of the
University of Twente. The campus can be reached by bus from Hengelo
(nr. 51, 55 or 56) or from Enschede (nr. 1 or 51). a At the campus
follow the blue signs to "Logica" (a 15 minutes walk). During the
conference hours participants can be reached at (31)- (0)53-895000.
Organization
The TWLT workshops are organized by the PARLEVINK Project, a language
theory and technology project of the University of Twente. TWLT 1 was
held in March 1991 and was attended by almost fifty participants. Its
theme was "Tomita's Algorithm: Extensions and Applications". TWLT 2
was organized in November 1991. Over seventy participants attended
lectures on "Linguistic Engineering: Tools and Products". The third
workshop, TWLT 3 on 12 and 13 May 1992, was devoted to connectionist
natural language processing. Proceedings of the workshops can be
ordered from the organizing secretariat.
Workshop Organizing Secretariat
Ms. J. Lammerink and ms. A. Hoogvliet-Haverkate,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Twente, PO Box 217,
7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands.
email: lammerin@cs.utwente.nl
telephone: 053-893680 fax: 31-53-893811
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Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: andrewh@ee.su.OZ.AU (Andrew Hunt)
Subject: Discussion: comp.speech
Keywords: speech, new group
Reply-To: andrewh@ee.su.OZ.AU (Andrew Hunt)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 01:48:18 GMT
Request For Discussion (RFD) concerning the creation of a new
newsgroup, comp.speech. This news group should be unmoderated.
With the growth of interest and research in speech science and
the rapid growth in real-world application of speech technology it
is appropriate to establish a group for the discussion of the
relevant technology and scientific knowledge.
Currently such discussion is spread across a variety of groups
including comp.ai.neural-nets, comp.dsp, comp.compression,
comp.ai.nlang-know-rep, comp.multimedia and sci.lang. A single group
is needed for the discussion of the research issues and the application
of speech technology.
Proposed Charter
comp.speech will be a newsgroup for discussion of application and
research issues associated with speech technology and speech science.
By nature speech science is an inter-disciplinary field and the newsgroup
should reflect this. The involvement of people from different backgrounds
should add to the quality of the newsgroup.
The following is a list of possible topics but certainly does not cover
all matters related to the field - no order of importance is implied.
[1] Speech recognition - discussion of methodologies, training,
techniques, results and applications. This should cover the application
of techniques such as HMMs, neural-nets and other techniques to the field.
[2] Speech Synthesis - discussion concerning theoretical and practical
issues associated with the design on speech synthesis systems.
[3] Speech Coding and Compression - discussion of issues related to the
representation and coding of speech and issues related to the compression
and transmission of speech. Covers both research and application issues.
[4] Linguistic Issues - coverage of linguistic and phonetic issues which
are pertinent to speech technology applications. Could cover syntactic
parsing, natural language processing, and prosodic work. Both practical
and theoretical issues are relevant.
[5] Psychological Issues - the human information processing of speech.
Cover areas from the design and use of auditory models to psycholinguistically
motivated models of speech recognition and production.
[6] Speech System Design - issues relating to the application of
speech technology to real-world problems. Includes the design of
user interfaces, the building of real-time systems and so on.
Already there are volunteers who will put together a FAQ list,
maintain archives and collect relevant papers.
A vote will take place in 3 weeks unless there is some major change in
the name or the charter.
Andrew Hunt andrewh@ee.su.oz.au
Tony Robinson ajr@eng.cam.ac.uk
Andrew Tridgell tridge@nimbus.anu.edu.au
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