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NL-KR Digest Volume 09 No. 17
NL-KR Digest (Fri Apr 17 09:38:10 1992) Volume 9 No. 17
Today's Topics:
Announcement: IJCAI-93 server
Query: Grammar for Tomita's Generalized LR Parser/Compiler, tools
Query: A Micro-Grammar of English
Query: NLG WS presenters mailing addresses
Query: ICASSP92 proceedings?
Query: DOS NL query systems
Query: NL Tools for Teaching
CFP: 4th Intl. Conf. on Tools for Artificial Intelligence
CFP: IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
CFP: LPNMR93 workshop (Preliminary announcement)
Announcement: 1st INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: Jean-Pierre Laurent <jplaure@imag.fr>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:13:54 +0200
Subject: IJCAI-93 server
IJCAI-93 : Information is available on a special automatic IJCAI server.
At present you can get from this server the different Calls for Papers,
Videos, Tutorials, Workshops, Panels, as well as the coordinates of all
responsibles and a process to follow in order to be sure to receive the
Conference Brochure in early 93.
People must send an email to: ijcai-serv@imag.fr
subject: anything
content: for first time used type only 'help'
J.P. LAURENT
University of Chambery
LIA - BP 1104
F - 73011 CHAMBERY
Tel: (+33) 79 96 10 62
Fax: (+33) 79 96 34 75
email: jplaure@imag.fr
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JP Laurent
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: jgw1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Jan G. Wilms)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 08:45:15 CDT
Subject: Query: Grammar for Tomita's Generalized LR Parser/Compiler, tools
Does anyone have a wide-coverage grammar that can be used in conjuction
with Tomita's Generalized LR Parser/Compiler ? We are looking for one to
be used for academic research.
Also, does anyone know of a public domain tool to display a parse tree in
an X-window? The input is a bracketed list of parsed sentences
(lisp notation). Either a standalone program or library routine would
be fine.
Thanks,
J Wilms
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.lang.english,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: Mark Friedman <markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Query: A Micro-Grammar of English
Reply-To: markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:49:30 GMT
About 15 years ago I received a reprint of a paper or book chapter
entitled something like "A Micro-Grammar of English". I received it
as part of the materials for a class that I was taking. I thought that
it was an excellent short (approximately 20 page) description of
English grammar. Unfortunately, I no longer have my copy. I'm
wondering if anybody out there recognizes the paper that I am talking
about and could e-mail me a reference for it? Thanks.
-Mark
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Mark Friedman
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
545 Technology Sq.
Cambridge, Ma. 02139
markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 20:07 GMT
From: TOM BREHONY <BREHONYT@ul.ie>
Subject: WANTED : Error classification + Freq Analysis references
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland
I am interested in obtaining references to work done in the field of error
classification and frequency analysis of errors made by French speakers
learning English. Can anybody out there help me with this ?. Thanks.
Tom Brehony.
Internet Email brehonyt@ul.ie
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 12:26:58 UTC+0200
From: Thanasis Daradoumis <daradoumis@lsi.upc.es>
Subject: Query: NLG WS presenters mailing addresses
Would it be possible to have the mailing addresses of all those people who
presented papers at the 6th International Workshop on Natural Language
Generation held in Trento, Italy, 5th - 7th April 1992 ?
Thanks
Thanasis Daradoumis
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: ueberla@cs.sfu.ca (Joerg Ueberla)
Subject: Query: ICASSP92 proceedings?
Keywords: acoustics,speech,signal processing
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 02:15:19 GMT
I would like to order the ICASSP92 conference proceedings. Does anyone
have an email address, fax or phone number for that purpose? How long
does it usually take for them to be printed and will there be some
preprints available? All help is most welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Joerg
ueberla@cs.sfu.ca
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 15:06:51 EDT
From: Eric Sven Ristad <ristad@Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Query: DOS NL query systems
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
What commercial MS-DOS-based software is available as a natural
language database front end? I'm interested in commercial software
that transforms strings of English words (in ascii) to SQL queries,
and in commercial speech recognition software that transforms
acoustic signals to SQL queries (as in the DARPA evaluations).
Reply to me by email (ristad@princeton.edu) or netpost.
If the responses are helpful, I will post a summmary to the net.
Thanks,
Eric Ristad
ristad@princeton.edu
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: rda@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Robert Dale)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Subject: Query: NL Tools for Teaching
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:10:02 GMT
We teach a number of courses in natural language processing and
computational linguistics here in Edinburgh, at both undergraduate and
graduate levels and in a number of different departments.
We'd like to move towards using more existing software as one of the
background resources for these courses. That includes both the use of
NL toolkits of various kinds, and also commercial and demonstrator
systems to show what's being done out there right now.
Apart from one of our courses using the Alvey Tools grammar
development environment, part of the problem is that we don't have a
wonderfully good idea of what the potential for the use of tool kits
is in a teaching environment. Anyone have any experiences here they'd
like to share? There are plenty of expert system building toolkits
out there, but as far as I can tell not a great deal in the way of NL
toolkits. Any pointers, comments, suggestions more than welcome;
please email me and I'll post a summary of what seems to be out there.
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Robert Dale Phone: +44 31 650 4416 | University of Edinburgh
Fax: +44 31 650 4587 | Centre for Cognitive Science
ARPA: rda%cogsci.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | 2 Buccleuch Place
JANET: rda@uk.ac.ed.cogsci or R.Dale@uk.ac.ed | Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: mb@cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard)
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee,ieee.announce,comp.robotics,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: CFP: 4th Intl. Conf. on Tools for Artificial Intelligence
Date: 22 Mar 92 22:42:06 GMT
4th International Conference on
TOOLS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
November 10-13, 1992
Arlington, VA
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
This conference encompasses the technical aspects of specifying, designing,
implementing, and evaluating tools for artificial intelligence and tools for
artificial intelligence applications. The topics of interest include the
following aspects:
Machine Learning, Theory and Algorithms
AI and Software Engineering
AI Knowledge Base Architectures
AI Algorithms
AI Language Tools
Expert Systems and Environments
AI Applications
Parallel Processing and Hardware Support
Artificial Neural Networks
Intelligent Robotics
Reasoning Under Uncertainty, Fuzzy Logic
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Authors are requested to submit five copies (in English) of their double-
spaced typed manuscript (maximum of 25 pages) with an abstract to the program
chair by April 15, 1992. The conference language is English and the final
papers are restricted to seven IEEE model pages, A submission letter that
includes which of the conference areas is most relevant to your paper and the
postal address, electronic mail address, telephone number, and fax number (if
available) of the contact author must accompany the paper. Authors will be
notified of acceptance by July 15, 1992 and will be given instructions for
final preparation of their papers at that time. Outstanding papers will be
eligible for publication in International Journal on Artificial Intelligence
Tools.
Submit papers by April 15, 1992 to:
Prof. Harry E. Stephanou
New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Automation and Robotics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180 USA
(518)276-6156; (518)276-6965 (secy); (518)276-4897 (fax)
TUTORIALS & PANELS
In addition to papers, proposals for panels and one-day tutorials are
solicited in any of the conference areas. Such proposals should be submitted
to the tutorial-panel chair by April 15, 1992:
Prof. Susan N. Gottschlich
Department of Electrical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180 USA
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: Anthony Finkelstein <acwf@doc.imperial.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 09:17:05 BST
Subject: CFP: IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
RE '93
4-6th January 1993
Coronado Island, San Diego, California, USA.
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT & SIGART
Scope
Requirements Engineering, is a topic of vital importance to software
engineering. This symposium will cover all aspects of software requirements
elicitation, specification and analysis. It aims to make a significant
contribution to the state-of-the art, to reflect the important work being
carried out in this area and to bring researchers and practitioners together.
Areas to be covered by the symposium include, but are not restricted to:
formal representation schemes and requirements specification languages;
descriptions of the requirements engineering process;
tools and environments to support requirements engineering;
requirements engineering methods;
requirements analysis and validation;
requirements elicitation, acquisition and formalisation;
establishing traceability to requirements;
requirements metrics;
reuse and adaptation of requirements;
animation and execution of requirements;
requirements through reverse engineering and re-engineering;
intersections with artificial intelligence, particularly domain modelling and
analysis;
intersections with computer-human-interaction and cognitive science;
intersections with group and cooperative work
intersections with systems engineering.
Attention will be paid to requirements engineering for distributed,
safety-critical, composite, real-time and embedded systems.
Format
The format of the symposium will include paper presentations, workshop and
panel sessions, reviews and keynote talks.
Submissions should be in one of the following forms:
technical papers describing new techniques, methods and the like, not
exceeding 5,000 words in length;
review papers giving a detailed account of significant progress in the area of
requirements engineering (for example: major projects & research initiatives;
large tool sets), not exceeding 10,000 words in length;
short papers covering case studies or stating a position, not exceeding 2000
words.
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the symposium to be
published by IEEE CS Press. Short papers will not be presented at the
symposium.
Submit 5 copies of papers to Anthony Finkelstein, Programme Chair, at the
address below.
Author's schedule
Papers to be submitted by: 1st June 1992
Notification of acceptance: 30th July 1992
Submission of camera-ready papers: 15th September 1992
Conference General Chair
Stephen F. Fickas,
University of Oregon,
Department of Computer & Information Science,
Eugene OR 97403, USA
[1] 503-346-3964
fickas@cs.uoregon.edu
Programme Chair
Anthony C.W. Finkelstein
Imperial College,
Department of Computing,
180 Queens Gate,
London SW7 2BZ, UK
[44] 71-589-5111
acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk
Programme Committee
William Agresti - The Mitre Corporation (USA)
Bob Balzer - USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
Dave Barstow- Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science (France)
Wayne Butcher - TSTT (Trinidad & Tobago)
Jeff Conklin - Corporate Memory Systems Inc. (USA)
Alan Davis - University of Colorado (USA)
Martin Feather - USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
Peter Freeman - Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Brian Gaines - University of Calgary (Canada)
Michael Goedicke - University of Essen (Germany)
Joseph Goguen - Oxford University (UK)
Cordell Green - Kestrel Institute (USA)
Sol Greenspan - GTE Labs (USA)
Jacques Hagelstein - Sema Group (Belgium)
Michael Harrison - University of York (UK)
Hisayuki Horai - Fujitsu Ltd (Japan)
Matthias Jarke - RWTH Aachen (Germany)
Lewis Johnson - USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
Elaine Kant - Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science (USA)
Simon Kaplan - University of Illinois (USA)
Jeff Kramer - Imperial College (UK)
Manny Lehman - Imperial College (UK)
Julio Cesar Leite - PUC-RJ (Brasil)
Nancy Leveson - University of California, Irvine (USA)
Peri Loucopoulos - UMIST (UK)
Tom Maibaum - Imperial College (UK)
John Mylopoulos - University of Toronto (Canada)
Derek Partridge - University of Exeter (UK)
Colin Potts - MCC (USA)
Kevin Ryan - University of Limerick (Ireland)
Alastair Sutcliffe - The City University (UK)
Axel Van Lamsweerde - Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Dick Waters - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (USA)
Jeanette Wing - Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Jim Woodcock - Oxford University (UK)
Pamela Zave - AT&T Bell Laboratories (USA)
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 15:06:25 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: jna@dharma.fct.unl.pt (Joaquim Nunes Aparicio)
Subject: CFP: LPNMR93 workshop (Prelimanry announcement)
Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Preliminary Announcement
2nd International Workshop on
LOGIC PROGRAMMING & NON-MONOTONIC REASONING
Lisbon, Portugal
June 28-30, 1993
after ICLP'93
This is the second in a series of international workshops on the relationship
between logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Papers are invited on
all aspects of logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. The following
is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest.
stable semantics well-founded semantics
default logic autoepistemic logic
truth maintenance diagnosis
abduction probabilistic theories
complexity and theory implementation issues
applications handling inconsistency
In particular, papers on the relationship between LP and NMR are preferred,
rather than papers on LP alone, or NMR alone.
Workshop Chair: Luis Moniz Pereira (Lisbon)
Program Chair : Anil Nerode (Cornell)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Krzysztof Apt (CWI) Wiktor Marek (Kentucky)
Howard Blair (Syracuse) Anil Nerode (Cornell)
Allen Brown (Xerox WRC) Luis Moniz Pereira (Lisbon)
Michael Gelfond (UT El Paso) V.S.Subrahmanian (Maryland)
Vladimir Lifschitz (UT Austin) David S. Warren (Stonybrook)
Carlo Zaniolo (MCC and UCLA) Andonakis Kakas (Cyprus)
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Submit 6 copies (double-spaced, 12 point font) of a full paper of 20 pages or
less to:
LP & NMR-93
Attn: Prof. Anil Nerode
Mathematical Sciences Institute
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Submission Deadline: Nov. 2, 1992
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: Jan. 15, 1993
Camera-Ready Copies Due: Feb. 25, 1993
The workshop proceedings will be published by MIT Press.
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Joaquim Nunes Aparicio BITNET/Internet: jna@host.fctunl.rccn.pt
UUCP: ...{mcvax,inria}!inesc!unl!jna PSI/VMS: PSI%(+2680)05010310::JNA
ARPA: jna%host.fctunl.rccn.pt@mitvma.mit.edu Phone: (+351) (1) 295-4464 x.0707
Fax: (+351) (1) 295-4461
Snail: Dept. de Informatica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2825 Monte Caparica, PORTUGAL
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.theory,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai.vision,sci.logic,comp.edu.composition
From: rapaport@acsu.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport)
Subject: FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Nntp-Posting-Host: adara.cs.buffalo.edu
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:59:47 GMT
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
The Center for Cognitive Science
of the State University of New York at Buffalo
announces the
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
July 1994
The theme will be:
MULTIDISCIPLINARY FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Robert Van Valin & Barry Smith, Institute Co-Directors
Leonard Talmy, Director of the Center for Cognitive Science
Honorary Scientific Committee:
Margaret Boden (University of Sussex, UK)
Charles Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Charles Frake (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
Elmar Holenstein (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Philip Johnson-Laird (Princeton University, USA)
Kevin Mulligan (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Dan Slobin (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Dan Sperber (CREA, Paris, France)
David Waltz (Thinking Machines, USA)
Sandra Witelson (McMaster University, Canada)
The Center for Cognitive Science of the State University of New York at
Buffalo will present a four-week summer institute in July 1994. The
preliminary dates are July 5-30, 1994. This project represents an
important innovation in the Cognitive Science field; no venture of this
type has ever been attempted before.
It will be comprised of introductory and advanced courses in the
constituent disciplines of Cognitive Science, which will be run during
the first three weeks of the institute. Courses will be taught by both
SUNY Buffalo faculty and invited faculty from other institutions. The
fourth week will then be devoted to workshops and special conferences.
There will also be a special lecture series running through the four
weeks, with prominent scholars from the United States, Europe and Asia
brought in to participate.
The model for this institute is the Summer Institute that the
Linguistic Society of America has been sponsoring over the past 70
years, and there is an interesting historical analogy here. The LSA
summer institutes began at a time when there were very few formal
Departments of Linguistics or Linguistics Programs at American
universities, and they served to provide a venue at which students and
faculty at universities without any offerings in Linguistics could get
training in the field.
Cognitive Science is in a similar position today: There are very few
Departments of Cognitive Science or degree-granting Cognitive Science
Programs, and there are many universities and colleges with no
organized offerings in this area at all. This Institute will provide
an opportunity for many faculty and students to get an introduction to
this field and to supplement discipline-based courses at their home
institutions.
A special effort will be made to recruit minority students and
participants from outside the United States, where systematic courses
across the range of Cognitive Science disciplines are very rarely
offered.
With respect to course offerings, two types of courses will be offered,
introductory and advanced. The first and most important would be
systematic introductory courses for advanced undergraduates or
beginning graduate students in each of the major Cognitive Science
disciplines: Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics,
Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Psychology. These courses will be
designed for students with no background in that discipline but with
expertise in another. Examples would be "Introduction to Cognitive
Psychology", "Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics", "Introduction to
Anthropology for Cognitive Scientists", "Introduction to Philosophy for
Cognitive Scientists" and "Introduction to AI for Non-Computer
Scientists". This would permit a student in, e.g., Psychology, to get an
introduction to, e.g., Cognitive Linguistics and AI.
There will be two types of more advanced courses. The first is courses
in specific disciplines, e.g., "Cognitive Semantics" (Linguistics),
"Knowledge Representation" (Computer Science), "Cognitive
Development" (Psychology). In addition to the six disciplines listed
above, courses will also be offered in Communicative Disorders and
Cognitive Geography.
The second type of course will be interdisciplinary, team-taught
courses that bring together ideas and methods from more than one
Cognitive Science discipline to bear on a particular problem, e.g.,
Narrative, Neuropsychology of Cognitive Development, Vision.
It is anticipated that participants will include undergraduate and
graduate students, faculty associates, and researchers from industry
and government. For students, each course will meet for a total of 15
hours over the three weeks and will carry 1 semester unit of credit.
Detailed information on the Institute will be available in Summer
1992. If you wish to receive more information about exact course
offerings, speaker series, workshops, fees, living accommodations, and
scholarship and travel support (for students), please send your name
and address to:
COGSCI94@UBVMS.BITNET
cogsci94@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
or
1994 Cognitive Science Summer Institute
Center for Cognitive Science
652 Baldy Hall
SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260 USA.
(716) 636-3794
(716) 636-3825 (fax)
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