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NL-KR Digest Volume 09 No. 25
NL-KR Digest (Thu May 14 10:34:13 1992) Volume 9 No. 25
Today's Topics:
Query: spelling and/or style checker
Query: MACHINE TRANSLATION - Guidelines for authors.
Query: Prolog expert system
Discussion: concept language MINSPEAK & pasigraphy
CFP: Logic & Change Workshop (GWAI'92)
Announcement: Workshop on the Future Generation of NLP
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 8 May 1992 10:38 GMT
From: TOM BREHONY <BREHONYT@ul.ie>
Subject: Query: spelling and/or style checker
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland
I am looking for a spelling and/or style checker for English. It should only
do very basic checks and be very fast. Source code as well would be helpful.
Does anyone out there know of anything available out there shareware or
otherwise that knows of something similar to the above. If so I would
appreciate hearing from you.Thanks.
Tom Brehony.
University of Limerick , Ireland.
Internet Email : IN%"brehonyt@ul.ie"
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: ewalsh@afit.af.mil (Edward Walsh)
Subject: Query: MACHINE TRANSLATION - Guidelines for authors.
Keywords: NLP MT translation
Nntp-Posting-Host: phantom.afit.af.mil
Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 03:37:03 GMT
Hello.
I am a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) officer completing a masters
programme in Information Resource Management at the US Air Force's
Institute of Technology (AFIT).
My thesis involves the development and testing of guidelines which could
be used by the authors of technical documents to facilitate subsequent
translation by machine. The guidelines are intended to be generic and
texts produced could be translated into any target language using any MT
system.
I have reviewed the literature, so this post is not intended to avoid good
old fashioned hard work. Rather, I am attempting to ensure that there is
not something "out there" which I am unaware of. Consequently, I would
appreciate any pointers to relevant sources or your own ideas on the
subject.
Thanks.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: awenn@matilda.vut.edu.au (Andrew Wenn)
Subject: Query: Prolog expert system
Reply-To: awenn@matilda.vut.edu.au (Andrew Wenn)
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 03:23:37 GMT
WANTED.
1 Expert system written in Prolog complete with knowledge rules.
I am a Masters student at the Victoria University of Technology
Melbourne. For my thesis, I am investigating the possibility of
using natural language processing of an experts text description
of their knowledge domain to build the rules for the system. I
have a very small system to work with but would like to try it on
a larger and hopefully more realistic ES. As my project does not
require the building of such a system, just assembling the rules
for the system, I am hoping someone knows of a system that I can
use.
If you do please contact me by email at:
awenn@matilda.vut.edu.au
or by phone at:
03 688 4342
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Sat, 9 May 92 13:47:49 CDT
From: fritz@rodin.wustl.edu (Fritz Lehmann)
Subject: Discussion: concept language MINSPEAK & pasigraphy
In answer to the earlier inquiry about MINSPEAK, a visual language
in which conceptual primitive graphic symbols are combined, see the
article "MINSPEAK" by B. Baker in Byte magazine, Sept. 1982, p. 186. This
is cited a number of times in the current issue of CACM (special issue on
Computers & People with Disabilities) 35(5), 1992.
This subject is the field of pasigraphy: graphic symbol
languages based on composition of semantic primitives. It has a long
history, going back at least to Bishop John Wilkins' "An Essay Towards
a Real Character and a Philosophical Language", Royal Society, printed
for Gellibrand by Martin, London, 1668. I cite several pasigraphic
works in "Semantic Networks", Computers & Math. with Applications,
23(2-9), 1992, pp1-50, at p30, reprinted in Semantic Networks in
Artificial Intelligence, ed. by F. Lehmann, Pergamon Press, Oxford,
1992. Certain conceptual combinations in written Chinese are of a
pasigraphic nature.
On this subject, does anyone know of any reference or source on a
pasigraphic network language called "Shum" invented in the 1960's to represent
the basic ideas of the great eastern religions?
Yours truly, Fritz Lehmann
124 Parsons, Webster Groves, MO 63119 USA (314)968-8337 fritz@rodin.wustl.edu
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: Remo.Pareschi@ecrc.de (Remo Pareschi)
Subject: CFP: Logic & Change Workshop (GWAI'92)
Keywords: Logic, Action, Change
Date: Mon, 11 May 1992 16:35:19 GMT
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
(Workshop at GWAI'92)
BONN, 1-2 September 1992
LOGIC & CHANGE
Logical approaches to Artificial Intelligence have the advantage
of offering a declarative framework for the representation of
knowledge. On the other hand, Classical Logic, which has been the
generally assumed logical theory in AI during the past decades,
was originally conceived for the static world of mathematics;
therefore, it is not equipped to deal with the notions of ACTION
and CHANGE, which are often crucial in the problems that AI is
meant to address. Many of the criticisms against the ``logicist''
view of AI find one of their main motivations in the fact that
Classical Logic even rules out the possibility of a dynamically
changing world.
However, recently the AI community has started to consider alter-
native logical theories, which are better equipped to cope with
the problems mentioned above. Among such theories there are Modal
Logic, Temporal Logic, Dynamic Logic, Girard's Linear Logic,
Bibel's Linear Proofs, and Gabbay's Labeled Deductive Systems.
THE WORKSHOP WILL FOCUS ON THE TOPICS OF ACTION AND CHANGE AND
THE WAY LOGIC ATTEMPTS TO DEAL WITH THEM. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION
WILL BE GIVEN TO LOGICS OR LOGICAL FORMALISMS WHICH NOT ONLY ARE
ABLE TO MAKE STATEMENTS ABOUT ACTIONS AND CHANGES, BUT ADDITION-
ALLY OFFER A MORE _EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION_ OF ACTIONS AND
CHANGES.
Concerned fields of application are among others : Planning,
Reactive Concurrent Systems, Multiagent Worlds, Non-Monotonic
Reasoning, Inheritance with Exceptions, Change and Logic Program-
ming.
A workshop on this topic has already been organised at last
year's GWAI with a large number of international contributions.
This year workshop will include the following invited lectures:
Christoph Brzoska (University of Karlsruhe):
"Temporal Logic Programming based on the CLP paradigm"
Dov Gabbay (Imperial College):
"Temporal Visas --- Skolemizing across Time"
Stephen Hoelldobler (TH Darmstadt):
"Equational Logic Programming, Action, and Change"
Alberto Martelli (University of Turin):
"Truth Maintenance Systems and Belief Revision"
Camilla Schwind (University of Marseille):
"Reasoning about Change and Evolution"
If you are interested to contribute this year, please submit an
extended abstract (2-3 pages) or a full paper.
Submissions must be sent to:
Remo Pareschi
ECRC
Arabellastr. 17
D--8000 M
Tel.: +49--89--92699--172
Fax: +49--89--92699--170
E-mail: remo@ecrc.de
The submitted abstracts/papers will be refereed by
the organizers.
Deadlines: June 30, 1992 Deadline for submissions
July 15, 1992 Notification of acceptance
Organizers :
Bertram Fronhoefer, Technical University Munich
Alexander Herold, ECRC Munich
Remo Pareschi, ECRC Munich
The GWAI is the National German Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. All Workshop participants also have to register for the
GWAI conference and have to pay the GWAI conference fees
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: Melina Alexa <melina@language-linguistics.umist.ac.uk>
Subject: Announcement: Workshop on the Future Generation of NLP
Date: Thu, 7 May 92 14:40:37 BST
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
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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.
Eleven 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)
Osamu Furuse & Hitoshi Iida (ATR, Japan)
TRANSFER-DRIVEN MACHINE TRANSLATION
Hiroaki Kitano (NEC, Japan)
UTILITY OF MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTING PLATFORM IN NATURAL
LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Louisa Sadler (Univ. of Essex, U.K.)
`RULE BASED' TRANSLATION AS CONSTRAINT RESOLUTION
G. Leech (Univ. of Lancaster, U.K.)
MANUAL, AUTOMATIC AND MACHINE ASSISTED CORPUS ANNOTATION:
THE LANCASTER EXPERIENCE
M. Marcus (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
Makoto Nagao (Univ. of Kyoto, Japan)
HOW TO USE EXAMPLE TRANSLATIONS IN ANALOGY-BASED MACHINE
TRANSLATION
Sergei Nirenburg (CMU, USA)
Yves Schabes (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
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.),
and some other selected participants being part of the panel.
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 "L&L D11025" and also send a copy of
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your transfer to the organisers.
Please tick if you require a receipt:
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: ________
(price not specified yet)
From: Name__________________________________________________
Institution___________________________________________
Address_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
Telephone_____________________________Fax_____________
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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