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NL-KR Digest Volume 09 No. 26
NL-KR Digest (Fri May 22 09:49:04 1992) Volume 9 No. 26
Today's Topics:
Query: books on ai for young readers
Position: post doc notice
News: Soviet Association for AI
CFP: 6th European ACL Conference
CFP: Logic Programming and NonMonotonic Reasoning Wkshp (LPNMR 93)
Announcement: FGNLP Workshop
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: kautz@research.att.com (Henry Kautz)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Subject: Query: books on ai for young readers
Date: 14 May 92 17:28:51 GMT
Reply-To: kautz@research.att.com
Can anyone suggest books on AI for a very bright 12 year old (that's
8th grade, but taking 10th grade math), who also programs fairly
seriously?
(Please email as well as posting replies.)
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- --- Henry Kautz
:internet: kautz@research.att.com
:uucp: allegra!kautz
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 18 May 92 14:00:11 -0400
From: james@cs.rochester.edu
Subject: Position: post doc notice
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS IN THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES AT ROCHESTER
The Center for the Sciences of Language [CSL] at the University of
Rochester has two NIH-funded postdoctoral trainee positions that
can start anytime after July 1, 1992, and can run from one to two
years. CSL is an interdisciplinary unit which connects programs in
American Sign Language, Psycholinguistics, Linguistics, Natural
language processing, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Vision. Fellows
will be expected to participate in a variety of exisiting research
and teaching projects between these disciplines. Applicants should
have a relevant background and an interest in interdisciplinary
research training in the language sciences. We encourage
applications from minorities and women. Applications should be
sent to Tom Bever, CSL Director, Meliora Hall, University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627; Bever@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu;
716-275-8724. Please include a vita, a statement of interests and
the names and email addresses and/or phone numbers of three
recommenders.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 18 May 92 00:26:55 +0300 (GMT+3:00)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest,comp.ai.edu,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,...
From: plb@plb.icsti.su (Peter L. Brusilovsky)
Subject: News: Soviet Association for AI
Reply-To: stefanuk@ippi.msk.su
Organization: International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information
Date: Sat, 16 May 92 23:08:15 +0300
I am posting this on behalf of SAAI -
the Soviet Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Please send answers directly to Vadim Stefanuk.
Peter Brusilovsky
- ----A R T I F I C I A L I N T E L L I G E N C E G R O U P ----
- ---------- ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE--------------
Mail: D.Sc. Stefanuk, V.L., Institute for Information
Transmission Problems Russian Academy of Sciences, Ermolovoy, 19,
101447 Moscow GSP-4, RUSSIA.
Moscow Tel.:7-095-2995002; 7-095-2094981;Moscow Fax: 7-095-2090579,
e-mail: stefanuk@ippi.msk.su Telex: 411947 TEMPO
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Subject: "AI News" from Moscow 6 May 1992,
Dear Colleague:
We are planning to make a serial publication in English devoted
to Artificial Intelligence in the former USSR. This will be
published jointly by the Soviet Association for Artificial
Intelligence (SAAI) and by the International Centre for Scientific
and Technical Information (MCNTI).
The first issue will appear in a month. The contents is the
following one:
Official Reports
D.A.Pospelov "Soviet Association for Artificial Intelligence
(SAAI)"
V.L.Stefanuk "International Relations of SAAI"
Artificial Intelligence in the Former USSR
T.A.Gavrilova "Investigations on the Artificial Intelligence in
Leningrad"
Rastrigin L. "Works on the Artificial Intelligence in Latvia"
V.L.Stefanuk "A five year project on Expert Tutoring Systems has
started"
>From the History of Artificial Intelligence
D.A.Pospelov "The Seminar on Psychonics"
Discussion Tribune
Averkin A.N., Blishun A.F., Pospelov D.A., Tarasov V.B.
"Do we need the membership function in the theory of Fuzzy Sets?"
B.Kovalerchuk, H.Yusupov "Why belief functions are effective?
Consideration of examples."
AI From the Psychological Point of View
Gavrilova T.A. and Dolnykova A.A."Soviet experience of
professional selection and training of specialists in knowledge
engineering"
Believe It or Not, But...
Pospelov D.A. "Foreword"
Polessky V.P. "Esoteric view on the origin of mathematics
and the development of its logic"
Stebakov S.A. "On the paper 'Looking for a Sponsor'"
There is Many a True Word Spoken in Jest
Pospelov D.A. "Foreword"
Lavrov "Programming in various dimensions"
The cost of one copy of the first issue is expected to be $14
(postage included). The corresponding order form will be sent to You
upon request.
Please acknowledge the receipt of the present message and let us
know Your intention as soon as possible by email:
stefanuk@ippi.msk.su
Prof. Pospelov,D.A. President of Soviet Association
for Artificial Intelligence
D.Sc. Stefanuk,V.L. Vice-Chairmen of Coordinating
Council of Soviet Association
for Artificial Intelligence
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: pim@let.ruu.nl (Pim van der Eyk)
Subject: CFP: 6th European ACL Conference
Keywords: computational linguistics
Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 10:53:16 GMT
FIRST NOTIFICATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth Conference of the European Chapter
of the Association for Computational Linguistics
21-23 April 1993
Onderzoeksinstituut voor Taal en Spraak (OTS)
Research Institute for Language and Speech
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Purpose: This conference is the sixth in a series of biennial
conferences on computational linguistics sponsored by the European
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Previous
conferences were held in Pisa (September 1983), Geneva (March 1985),
Copenhagen (April 1987), Manchester (April 1989) and Berlin (April
1991). Although hosted by a regional chapter, these conferences are
global in scope and participation. The European Chapter represents a
major subset of the ACL. The conference is open to both members and
nonmembers of the Association.
Scope: Papers are invited on all aspects of computational linguistics,
including, but not limited to: morphology, syntax, semantics,
discourse analysis, pragmatics, grammar formalisms, formal languages,
software tools, knowledge representation, AI-methods in computational
linguistics, analysis and generation of language, computational
lexicography and lexicology, lexical databases, machine translation,
computational aids to translation, speech analysis and synthesis,
natural language interfaces, dialogue, computer-assisted language
learning, corpus analysis and corpus-based language modelling, and
information retrieval and message understanding.
Special Sessions/Tutorials: The Programme Committee plans special
sessions around the following themes:
- logic and computational linguistics
- data-oriented methods in computational linguistics
This thematic orientation will be further developed in a tutorial
programme to be held the day preceding the conference (20 April 1993).
Details will be provided in the circular of October 1992.
Submission: Authors should submit an extended abstract of their
papers, or in case of hardcopy 6 copies, to the Programme Committee at
the following address:
EACL-93 Programme Committee
OTS
Trans 10
NL-3512 JK Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: (+31) 30-392531
Fax: (+31) 30-333380
Email: eacl93@let.ruu.nl
The first page should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s),
complete addresses (including e-mail), a specification of the topic
area (one or two keywords, preferably from the list above), and an
indication of whether the paper addresses one of the themes of the
Special Sessions. The extended abstract should not exceed 5 pages A4.
It should contain sufficient information to allow the referees and the
Programme Committee to determine the scope of the work and its
relation to relevant literature. Contributions should report on
original research that has not been presented elsewhere. Electronic
submission is preferred, using standard LaTeX or plain ASCII. In case
of problems with this, contact the organizers at the above address.
For future final versions, hardcopy or LaTeX files will be accepted.
Schedule: The deadline for submission is 1 December 1992. Authors
will be notified of acceptance by 1 February 1993. Camera-ready
copies of the final papers must be postmarked before 5 March 1993, and
received by 12 March 1993, along with a signed copyright release
statement. Papers not received by the due date will not be included
in the conference proceedings, which will be published in time for
distribution to everyone attending the conference.
Programme Committee: The Programme Committee will be co-chaired
by Louis des Tombe, Steven Krauwer and Michael Moortgat (OTS, Utrecht).
Local Arrangements: Contact Nadine Buenen or Joke Dorrepaal at the above
address. More information on local arrangements will be provided in the
next circular.
Other Activities: A programme of demonstrations and exhibits is
planned. For information, contact the EACL address above.
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Pim van der Eijk | Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, Netherlands.
Research Institute for Language and Speech | Email: vandereijk@let.ruu.nl
Foundation for Language Technology. | Tel: *31-30-392369
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 19 May 92 14:04:32 GMT
From: jna@fct.unl.pt
Subject: CFP: Logic Programming and NonMonotonic Reasoning Wkshp (LPNMR 93)
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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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: Melina Alexa <melina@language-linguistics.umist.ac.uk>
Subject: Announcement: FGNLP Workshop
Date: Thu, 21 May 92 11:34:03 BST
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
WORKSHOP ON THE FUTURE GENERATION OF NLP (FGNLP)
TOPIC: RULE-BASED VS CORPUS-BASED/EXAMPLE-BASED/STOCHASTIC
APPROACHES IN NLP
HOST: CENTRE FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
UMIST
30-31 JULY 1992
VENUE: HOTEL DOMINION, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
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THE WORKSHOP IS LIMITED TO 50 PARTICIPANTS, THEREFORE EARLY
BOOKING IS ADVISED
************************************************************
This Workshop is the second in the FGNLP series organised
under the aegis of the ATR Research Centre, in Japan.
The Workshop is for researchers throughout the world to discuss
recent developments in corpus-based, example-based, stochastic
aproaches to NLP, to compare this paradigm with the knowledge-based
and more conventional rule based approach, to assess future
trends both at the research and commercial level and to engage
in technical discussions on a range of topics of interest to
the community at large. Issues to be addressed will include:
corpus based techniques, example (memory)based MT, knowledge based
paradigm, strongly linguistics-oriented NLP, applications of new
computing techniques ,i.e. massively parallel computing/connectionism,
possibilities of integrating different approaches.
Ten speakers have been invited from Japan, USA and the UK, to talk
about:
(1) commercial experience in NLP
(2) the most recent developments in prominent research centers and
(3) the ATR research programme.
The Workshop is centred around 10 talks followed by discussions
and ending with a 2 hour wrap-up panel discussion, focusing on the
main issues addressed by the speakers.
Names of speakers and titles of papers are as follows:
V. Della Pietra (IBM Watson Research Centre, USA)
SOME SUCCESSES IN STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Osamu Furuse & Hitoshi Iida (ATR, Japan)
TRANSFER-DRIVEN MACHINE TRANSLATION
Hiroaki Kitano (NEC, Japan)
UTILITY OF MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTING PLATFORM IN NATURAL
LANGUAGE PROCESSING
G. Leech (Univ. of Lancaster, U.K.)
MANUAL, AUTOMATIC AND MACHINE ASSISTED CORPUS ANNOTATION:
THE LANCASTER EXPERIENCE
M. Marcus (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
EXPERIMENTS IN SUPREVISED AND UNSUPERVISED ACQUISITION
OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE
Makoto Nagao (Univ. of Kyoto, Japan)
HOW TO USE EXAMPLE TRANSLATIONS IN ANALOGY-BASED MACHINE
TRANSLATION
Sergei Nirenburg (CMU, USA)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE TRANSLATOR'S WORKSTATION AND
PANGLOSS PROJECTS
Louisa Sadler (Univ. of Essex, U.K.)
`RULE BASED' TRANSLATION AS CONSTRAINT RESOLUTION
Yves Schabes (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
GRAMMAR INFERENCE WITH LEXICALIZED GRAMMARS
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST, U.K.)
AQUISITION OF LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE FROM TEXTS
A wrap-up panel discussion will close the workshop with Prof. A. Joshi
(Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA), T. McEnery (Univ. of Lancaster, U.K.),
(R. Sharman, IBM, U.K.) and a Japanese participant as panelists.
The main meeting room of the Workshop is the executive
boardroom of the hotel Dominion at the heart of Manchester
(capacity 60).
PROGRAMME ORGANISER : Sofia ANANIADOU
Centre for Computational Linguistics
UMIST
PO Box 88
Sackville Street
Manchester M60 1QD
tel: +44.61.200.3084 (direct)
email: effie@ccl.umist.ac.uk
fax : +44 61 200 3099
ASSISTANT ORGANISER : Melina ALEXA
Centre for Computational Linguistics
tel: +44.61.200.3109 (direct)
email: melina@ccl.umist.ac.uk
fax : +44 61 200 3099
PLEASE SEE OVERLEAF FOR ACCOMMODATION DETAILS AND APPLICATION
FORM
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> ACCOMMODATION ARRANGEMENTS
>
> Accommodation and food, including a wine reception on the
> evening of Thursday, 30th July 1992, will be provided at the
> Hotel Dominion. Bed and breakfast will also be available on the
> previous night for those who cannot conveniently travel to
> Manchester on the Thursday morning. A sufficient number of
> rooms has been booked for that purpose.
>
> All the rooms booked are one bedroom suites. Each suite features a
> private bathroom with shower, kitchenette, living-room. They are
> modern furnished with TV and telephone.
> Dominion Hotel is a first class hotel. Free use of gym, pool and
> jacuzzi in the hotel's leisure/health club is offered. The Dominion
> Hotel Restaurant is one of the finest restaurants in Manchester with a wide
> selection of dishes.
>
> ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION, CONFERENCE CENTRE UMIST
>
> Alternative accomodation can be provided at the Conference Centre at
> UMIST with double bedrooms (NOTICE:the rooms offered are rather small!).
>
> The cost is as follows:
>
> At the Dominion Hotel
>
> 1. All lunches and refreshments during the period of the
> Workshop plus accommodation for the nights of the 30th and 31st
> of July ...................................160 pound sterling
>
> 2. Extra nights (Bed and Breakfast) per night .........65 pounds
>
> or
>
> at UMIST Conference Centre per night ..................35 pounds
>
> 3. Catering only: participation at the conference, lunches,
> refreshments ........................................ 50 pounds
>
> It is appreciated that many people may not be certain at this
> stage whether they will be able to attend the Workshop.
> 30 rooms have been reserved at the Hotel Dominion (on a single
> occupancy basis) at a rate of 65 pound sterling per night. A
> further 20 rooms (single occupancy) at a rate of 35 pound
> sterling per night have been reserved at the UMIST Conference
> Centre. You are advised to send a booking form as quickly as
> possible and certainly by the end of May (31/5/1992). Other
> hotel accommodation may be available for those who book late
> but will not be arranged by the local organisers.
>
> You can make a definite booking by returning a form to:
>
> Melina Alexa
> Centre for Computational Linguistics
> UMIST
> PO Box 88
> Sackville Street
> Manchester M60 1QD
>
> email: melina@ccl.umist.ac.uk
>
> AS THIS IS A LIMITED ASSISTANCE WORKSHOP, IF YOU THINK YOU
> WILL ATTEND, PLEASE RETURN THE ATTACHED FORM NOW
>
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>
> FGNLP WORKSHOP
> CENTRE FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
> 30TH & 31ST JULY 1992
>
> ATTENTION: THIS IS A LIMITED ATTENDANCE WORKSHOP-50
> PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM.
>
> APPLICATION FORM
>
>
> I wish to make a definite booking now
> and enclose a cheque payable to "UMIST"
> (please write item number or
> numbers for the option required): please tick
>
>
> 1. Participation & Catering only 50
>
> 2. As 1. plus accommodation for 2
> nights at the Dominion 160
>
> 3. As 1. plus accommodation for 2
> nights at the Conference Centre 120
> (standard room)
>
> 4. Extra night (at the Dominion) 65
>
> 5. Extra night (at the Conference Centre) 35
>
>
> If paying by cheque,
> please write name and address on back of cheque.
> We can accept sterling cheques drawn on a UK bank, or Eurocheques
> made out in sterling.
>
> Alternatively, payment by bank transfer is possible. Please send your
> bank transfer payment to:
>
> Name of account: UMIST
> Account Number: 05532221
> Name of Bank: National Westminster Bank plc
> Address of Bank: 76 Sackville Street, MANCHESTER, M1 3NL, UK
> International Sort Code: 01-08-94
> IMPORTANT:
> **********
> Please quote as REFERENCE D11 025 079" and ALSO
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> send a copy of your transfer to the organisers.
>
> Please tick if you require a receipt:
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> Please indicate special meal requirements:
> (vegetarian, kosher etc.)
>
> I am not able to attend, but I would like a copy
> of any Proceedings which may be produced: ________
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> (price not specified yet)
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> Institution___________________________________________
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> Address_______________________________________________
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> Telephone_____________________________Fax_____________
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> Email address_________________________________________
>
> Please return this form (with your payment if applicable) as
> quickly as possible and certainly by the end of May to:
>
> Melina Alexa
> FGNLP Workshop assistant organiser
> Centre for Computational Linguistics
> UMIST
> PO Box 88
> Sackville Street
> Manchester M60 1QD
>
> Telephone: +44.61.200.3109 (direct)
> +44.61.200.3100 (Centre for Computational Linguistics)
> Email: melina@ccl.umist.ac.uk
> Fax: +44 61 200 3099
>
> If returning form by post, please mark FGNLP Workshop in the top left
> hand corner of the envelope. IF SENDING FORM BY E-MAIL, PLEASE
> ALSO INCLUDE A COPY OF THE FORM WITH YOUR EVENTUAL PAYMENT.
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