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NL-KR Digest Volume 09 No. 12
NL-KR Digest (Tue Mar 24 10:15:13 1992) Volume 9 No. 12
Today's Topics:
Query: information about ICASSP 92 needed
Query: Looking for speech database software
Query: Natural Language and Petri nets
Position: Part-Time Lisp/AI/Linguistics at TRW (LA)
Position: CL & KBC at SICS
Program: ECAI92 Advance Information
Announcement: EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: ueberla@cs.sfu.ca (Joerg Ueberla)
Subject: information about ICASSP 92 needed
Keywords: speech, signal processing, acoustics
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1992 04:48:07 GMT
Can someone send me information about time, location and registration
for the ICASSP92 (Intl. Conf. on Acoustics,Speech and Signal processing)?
thanks,
Joerg
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 92 10:14:04 -0800
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai
From: neal@grover.stat.washington.edu (Phil Neal)
Subject: Looking for speech database software
Organization: Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation
Dear Speech Recognition people,
Is there anyone out there who would know of
data base managment software to handle
speech data; acoustics , signal, and/or spectrograms.
Especially, with respect to organizing the TIMIT
data base.
Thanks,
Phil Neal
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Phil Neal | "Vous asseyez sur mon visage"
neal@stat.washington.edu | -- Charles De Gaulle --
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: piccolbo@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (antonio piccolboni)
Subject: Natural Language and Petri nets
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1992 18:08:35 GMT
I am working to my thesis in computer science (I don't know which is the
equivalent degree in other countries but it requires about five years).
I am trying to develop a new approach to natural language understanding,
based on this hypothesis: a text describes a system. Perhaps this is
only a part of text meaning, but I hope not a trivial one.
The process of understanding usually implies the translation from natural
language to an artificial one, perhaps not explicitly defined but with
'nice' properties. The target language in my approach will be Petri Nets.
As far as I know, there are few works exploring this direction.
These are the references:
Degli Antoni, G.; Zonta B. General net theory and language understanding.
In: Petri nets and related system models, Gesellschaft fuer Informatik,
Newsletter number 5 (1981).
Degli Antoni, G.; Zonta B. Analysis of laws by means of Petri nets: motivation
and methodology. In: Artificial Intelligence and legal information
system, vol.1 (1982)
Degli Antoni, G.; Zonta B. System view in text analysis: the use of Petri nets
In: Deuxieme conference internationale sur bases de donnees dans les
humanites et les sciences sociales.
Is there anybody interested? Comments? Hints? Addictional bibliography?
Requests? Thank you in advance.
Antonio Piccolboni
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Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.lang.lisp,comp.ai
From: jost@wilbur.coyote.trw.com (Patrick Jost)
Subject: Research Positions: Part-Time Lisp/AI/Linguistics at TRW (LA)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 20:34:32 GMT
Please forgive the exotic title, but there was a lot of information
to convey...
Due to some changes here at TRW, I may have a need for a part time
research assistant. Please send your resume or a letter of interest
or qualifications now, though, as I expect to work this out in the
next two weeks or so; if things go as I expect, I'll have an immediate
need.
This will be a part time position (2-3 days a week) lasting about
six months. Work will be performed here at TRW, in Redondo Beach. I
believe that this would be an ideal position for a graduate student,
but will consider all applicants. Due to limited funds, I can only
really consider applicants in the greater Los Angeles area.
The work is in research in natural langugage processing to support
economic analysis. I am developing a system to identify and extract
proper names (persons and organizations) from free text documents.
Required qualifications:
* Knowledge of Lisp
* Knowledge of UNIX
* Knowledge of principles of natural language processing
* US citizenship/work permit
* Willingness to sign a nondisclosure agreement
Desired qualifications:
* Knowledge of Spanish
* Knowledge of Prolog
* Familiarity with basic linguistics
* Familiarity with object oriented design techniques
* Familiarity with Sun envioronment
If you are interested, please email. If my requirement becomes real,
I'll be making interview contacts ASAP. I will interview at TRW or
UCLA.
Thank you.
Patrick Jost
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Airlines, Hotels, Car Rental Companies: The Lowest Forms of Life
Patrick Jost/jost@coyote.trw.com/(310) 812-2759/(310) 313-2803
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From: pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson)
Subject: Research positions: CL & KBC at SICS
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 12:56:13 GMT
Research positions for Scientists in Computational Linguistics and
Knowledge Based Systems
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Applications are invited for two permanent positions as senior
researchers at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SICS.
Both positions involve leading research teams in respective areas and
supervision of PhD students. The research at SICS is goal oriented and
organized in projects. The research program is revised every third year.
SICS is a non-profit research foundation sponsored jointly by the
Swedish government and by an industrial consortium consisting of six
major industrial and governmental organizations: Asea Brown Boveri AB,
Defence Material Administration, IBM Svenska AB, NobelTech Systems AB,
Swedish Telecom and Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson. The budget of SICS
for the fiscal year of1991/92 is US$ 7,5 M.
SICS is organized in three research laboratories; Distributed Systems
(DSLab), Logic Programming and Parallel Systems (LPSLab) and Knowledge
Based Systems (KBSLab). The research staff during the present fiscal
year is 55 persons. SICS has a well developed net of contacts and
cooperation with leading research centers throughout the world.
Furthermore we are engaged in a number of international research
programmes such as Esprit, Drive and Eureka.
The research positions in Computational Linguistics and Knowledge Based
Systems are at the KBSLab.
For both positions the applicants should have a PhD in areas such as
Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence,
Knowledge Based Systems or related disciplines. We are looking for
researchers well established in the international research community.
The applicant should have a well documented record of research including
supervision of graduate students and/or a minimum of three years
practical experience in development of large-scale systems.
For an applicant in Computational Linguistics experience with
unification grammars and logic programming techniques is essential.
Experience in application areas such as machine translation, data bases
and spoken language processing is valuable. Knowledge of a Scandinavian
language is also desirable.
An applicant in Knowledge based systems should more specifically have
experience in the modeling approach to KBS development. Research in
areas such as knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition, task
specific architectures and models of communication between users and KBS
are desirable. Experiences of applications of KBS in design and/or
diagnosis in technical domains are also valuable.
To apply, and for further information, please use the following contact
person and address
Dr. Rune Gustavsson
KBSLab
SICS
Box 1263
S-164 28 KISTA
SWEDEN
Phone: +46 8 752 15 70 Telefax: +46 8 751 72 30
Telex: 8 126 154 sics s Internet: rune@sics.se
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Per Danielsson pd@sics.se
Swedish Institute of Computer Science, PO Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 12:27:21 +0100
From: ECAI92 Vienna Conference Service <ecai92@ai.univie.ac.at>
Subject: ECAI92 Advance Information
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Advance Information - ECAI92 - Advance Information - ECAI92 - VIENNA
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10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 92)
August 3-7, 1992, Vienna, Austria
Programme Chairperson
Bernd Neumann, University of Hamburg, Germany
Local Arrangements Chairperson
Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Vienna
The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is the
European forum for scientific exchange and presentation of AI research.
The aim of the conference is to cover all aspects of AI research and to
bring together basic research and applied research. The Technical
Programme will include paper presentations, invited talks, survey
sessions, workshops, and tutorials. The conference is designed to
cover all subfields of AI, including non-symbolic methods.
ECAIs are held in alternate years and are organized by the European
Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI). The 10th
ECAI in 1992 will be hosted by the Austrian Society for Artificial
Intelligence (OGAI). The conference will take place at the Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
Mon-Tue (Aug 3-4): Tutorials and Workshops
Wed-Fri (Aug 5-7): Invited Talks, Paper Presentations, Survey Sessions
Tue-Fri (Aug 4-7): Industrial Exhibition
======================== INVITED LECTURES ==============================
Stanley J.Rosenschein (Teleos Research, Palo Alto, Calif., USA):
Perception and Action in Autonomous Systems
Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento, Italy):
A Third Modality of Natural Language?
Promising Trends in Applied Natural Language Processing
Peter Struss (Siemens AG, Muenchen, Germany):
Knowledge-Based Diagnosis - An Important Challenge and Touchstone
for AI
=================== TECHNICAL PAPERS PROGRAMME =========================
This will consist of papers selected from the 680 that were submitted.
These papers will be given in parallel sessions held from August 5
to 7, 1992. The topics of the papers include:
- Automated Reasoning
- Cognitive Modeling
- Connectionist and PDP Models for AI
- Distributed AI and Multiagent Systems
- Enabling Technology and Systems
- Integrated Systems
- Knowledge Representation
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language
- Philosophical Foundations
- Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning about Actions
- Principles of AI Applications
- Reasoning about Physical Systems
- Robotics
- Social, Economic, Legal, and Artistic Implications
- User Interfaces
- Verification, Validation & Test of Knowledge-Based Systems
- Vision and Signal Understanding
============================ TUTORIALS =================================
- -- Tutorials ----- Mon, August 3, 9:00-13:00
Applied Qualitative Reasoning
Robert Milne, Intelligent Applications Ltd, Scotland, and
Louise Trave-Massuyes, LAAS, Toulouse, France
In Search of a New Planning Paradigm - Steps Beyond Classical Planning
Joachim Hertzberg, GMD, Germany, and
Sam Steel, Essex University, Cholchester, UK
Machine Learning: Reality and Perspectives
Lorenza Saitta, Universita di Torino, Italy
- -- Tutorials ----- Mon, August 3, 14:00-18:00
AI in Service and Support
Anil Rewari, Digital Equipment Corp., Marlboro, Mass.
Case-Based Reasoning
Katia P. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Penn.
Computer Vision, Seeing Systems, and Their Applications
Jan-Olof Eklundh, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Gerhard Brewka, ICSI, Berkeley, Calif., and
Kurt Konolige, SRI, Menlo Park, Calif.
- -- Tutorials ----- Tue, August 4, 9:00-13:00
Distributed AI
Frank von Martial, Bonn, and Donald Steiner, Siemens AG, Germany
Fuzzy Set-Based Methods for Inference and Control
Henri Prade, IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems
Jean-Pierre Laurent, Universite de Savoie, Chambery, France
- -- Tutorials ----- Tue, August 4, 14:00-18:00
Current Trends in Language Technology
Harald Trost, Austrian Research Institute for AI and University of
Vienna, Austria
KADS: Practical, Structured KBS Development
Robert Martil, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Croydon, UK, and
Bob Wielinga, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Neural Networks: From Theory to Applications
Francoise Fogelman Soulie, Mimetics, France
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware,
and Alfred Kobsa, University of Konstanz, Germany
============================ WORKSHOPS =================================
Workshops are part of the ECAI92 scientific programme. They will give
participants the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in a
small, informal environment, which encourages interaction and exchange
of ideas. Persons interested in attending a workshop should contact the
workshop organizer (addresses below), and the conference office (ADV)
for ECAI92 registration. Note that all workshops require an early
application for participation.
A full description of all workshops can be obtained by sending an email
to ecai92.ws@ai.univie.ac.at, which will automatically respond.
- -- Workshops ----- Mon, August 3
Art and AI: Art / ificial Intelligence
Robert Trappl, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelli-
gence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; Fax: +43-1-630652,
Email: robert@ai.univie.ac.at
Coping with Linguistic Ambiguity in Typed Feature Formalisms
Harald Trost, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelli-
gence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; Fax: +43-1-630652,
Email: harald@ai.univie.ac.at
Formal Specification Methods for Complex Reasoning Systems
Jan Treur, AI Group, Dept.of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 108-1a, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands; Fax: +31-29-6427705, Email: treur@cs.vu.nl
Knowledge Sharing and Reuse: Ways and Means
Nicolaas J.I. Mars, Dept.of Computer Science, University of Twente,
PO Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands; Fax: +31-53-339605,
Email: mars@cs.utwente.nl
Model-Based Reasoning
Gerhard Friedrich, Franz Lackinger, Dept.Information Systems, CD-Lab
for Expert Systems, Univ.of Technology, Paniglg.16, A-1040 Vienna;
Fax: +43-1-5055304, Email: friedrich@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Neural Networks and a New AI
Georg Dorffner, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelli-
gence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; Fax: +43-1-630652,
Email: georg@ai.univie.ac.at
Scheduling of Production Processes
Juergen Dorn, CD-Laboratory for Expert Systems, University of
Technology, Paniglgasse 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria;
Fax: +43-1-5055304; Email: dorn@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Validation, Verification and Test of KBS
Marc Ayel, LIA, University of Savoie, BP.1104, F-73011 Chambery,
France; Fax: +33-79-963475, Email: ayel@frgren81.bitnet
- -- Workshops ----- Tue, August 4
Advances in Real-Time Expert System Technologies
Wolfgang Nejdl, Department for Information Systems, CD-Lab for Expert
Systems, University of Technology, Paniglgasse 16, A-1040 Vienna,
Austria; Fax: +43-1-5055304, Email: nejdl@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Application Aspects of Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Thies Wittig, Atlas Elektronik GmbH, Abt.TEF, Sebaldsbruecker
Heerstrasse 235, D-W-2800 Bremen 44, Germany; Fax: +49-421-4573756,
Email: t_wittig@eurokom.ie
Applications of Reason Maintenance Systems
Francois Charpillet, Jean-Paul Haton, CRIN/INRIA-Lorraine, B.P. 239,
F-54506 Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy Cedex, France; Fax: +33-93-413079,
Email: charp@loria.crin.fr
Artificial Intelligence and Music
Gerhard Widmer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelli-
gence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; Fax: +43-1-630652,
Email: gerhard@ai.univie.ac.at
Beyond Sequential Planning
Gerd Grosse, FG Intellektik, TH Darmstadt, Alexanderstr.10, D-6100
Darmstadt, Germany; Fax: +49-6151-165326,
Email: grosse@intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Concurrent Engineering: Requirements for Knowledge-Based Design Support
Nel Wognum, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O.Box
217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands; Fax: +31-53-339605, Email:
wognum@cs.utwente.nl
Improving the Use of Knowledge-Based Systems with Explanations
Patrick Brezillon, CNRS-LAFORIA, Box 169, University of Paris VI,
2 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France; Fax: +33-1-44277000,
Email: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr
The Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Institut f.Informatik III, Universitaet Bonn,
Roemerstr.164, D-W-5300 Bonn 1, Germany; Fax: +49-228-550382,
Email: gerhard@uran.informatik.uni-bonn.de
- -- Workshops ----- Mon and Tue, August 3-4
Expert Judgement, Human Error, and Intelligent Systems
Barry Silverman, Institute for AI, George Washington University, 2021
K St. NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20006, USA; Fax: (202)785-3382,
Email: barry@gwusun.gwu.edu
Logical Approaches to Machine Learning
Celine Rouveirol, Universite Paris-Sud, LRI, Bat 490, F-91405 Orsay,
France; Fax: +33-1-69416586, Email: celine@lri.lri.fr
Spatial Concepts: Connecting Cognitive Theories with Formal
Representations
Simone Pribbenow, Email: pribbeno@informatik.uni-hamburg.de, and
Christoph Schlieder, Institut f.Informatik und Gesellschaft,
Friedrichstr.50, D-7800 Freiburg, Germany; Fax: +49-761-2034653,
Email: cs@cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de
======================== GENERAL INFORMATION ===========================
DELEGATE'S FEE
(in Austrian Schillings, approx. 14 AS = 1 ECU, 12 AS = 1 US$)
early late on-site
(rec.before) (Jun 1) (Jul 15)
Members of ECCAI member organizations 4.500,- 5.000,- 6.000,-
Non-Members 5.000,- 6.000,- 7.000,-
Students 1.500,- 2.000,- 2.500,-
The delegate's fee covers attendance at the scientific programme
(invited talks, paper presentations, survey sessions, and workshops),
conference documentation including the conference proceedings, admission
to the industrial exhibition, and participation in selected evening
events.
TUTORIAL FEE (per tutorial)
early late on-site
(rec.before) (Jun 1) (Jul 15)
Members of ECCAI member organizations 3.000,- 3.500,- 4.000,-
Non-Members 3.500,- 4.000,- 4.500,-
Students 1.500,- 2.000,- 2.500,-
Tutorial Registration entitles to admission to that tutorial, admission
to the exhibition, a copy of the course material, and refreshments
during the tutorial.
ACCOMODATION
Hotels of different price categories, ranging from DeLuxe to the very
cheap student hostel (available for non-students too), are available for
the first week of August. The price ranges (in AS) are given below.
Hotel Category single room double room
with bath without bath with bath without bath
DeLuxe ***** 1690,-/2375,- 2400,-/3200,-
A **** 990,-/1300,- 1400,-/1790,-
B *** 750,-/980,- 1100,-/1350,-
Season Hotel 480,-/660,- 335,-/450,- 780,-/900,- 580,-/730,-
Student Hostel 220,- 380,-
The conference venue is located in a central district of Vienna. It can
be reached easily by public transport.
============================ REGISTRATION ==============================
For detailed information and registration material please contact the
conference office:
ADV
c/o ECAI92
Trattnerhof 2
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43-1-5330913-74, Fax: +43-1-5330913-77, Telex: 75311178 adv a
or send your postal address via email to: ecai92@ai.univie.ac.at
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 16:12 GMT
From: Martin Davies <UBTY003@cu.bbk.ac.uk>
Subject: EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
****** EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY ******
*********** INAUGURAL CONFERENCE ***********
**** 17 - 19 JULY, 1992 ****
The Inaugural Conference of the European Society for Philosophy
and Psychology will take place in Louvain (Leuven) Belgium,
from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 July, 1992.
The goal of the Society is 'to promote interaction between
philosophers and psychologists on issues of common concern'.
The programme for this inaugural meeting will comprise invited
lectures - by Dan Sperber and Larry Weiskrantz - and invited
symposia. Topics for symposia include: Intentionality, Reasoning,
Connectionist Models, Consciousness, Theory of Mind, and
Philosophical Issues from Linguistics.
There will also be a business meeting to inaugurate the Society formally.
The conference will be held in the Institute of Philosophy, University
of Louvain. The first session will commence at 3.00 pm on Friday 17
July, and the conference will end at lunchtime on Sunday 19 July.
Accommodation at various prices in hotels and student residences will
be available.
To receive further information about registration and accommodation,
along with programme details, please contact one of the following:
Daniel Andler
CREA
1 rue Descartes
75005 Paris
France
Email: azra@poly.polytechnique.fr
Martin Davies
Philosophy Department
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
England
Email: ubty003@cu.bbk.ac.uk
Beatrice de Gelder
Psychology Department
Tilburg University
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
Netherlands
Email: beadegelder@kub.nl
Tony Marcel
MRC Applied Psychology Unit
15 Chaucer Road
Cambridge CB2 2EF
England
Email: tonym@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk
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