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NL-KR Digest Volume 12 No. 18
NL-KR Digest Fri Sep 10 09:21:39 PDT 1993 Volume 12 No. 18
Today's Topics:
Talk: Keith Decker on Modeling Task Environments at BBN
Announcement: Harvard-MIT-NEMC Medical Informatics Research Training
Position: MedicalInformatics Training at Duke and UNC
CFP: LISP and Functional Programming (LFP-94)
Query: Parsers for English
CFP: Wkshp on Speaker Recognition, Identification and Verification
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To: ai-seminar@BBN.COM
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 12:31:24 EDT
From: Helene George <hgeorge@BBN.COM>
Subject: Talk: Keith Decker on Modeling Task Environments at BBN
AI Seminar Series
Keith S. Decker
Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Lab
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
decker@cs.umass.edu
QUANTITATIVE MODELING OF COMPLEX COMPUTATIONAL TASK ENVIRONMENTS
10 Moulton 4th Floor Large Conference Room
10:30am, September 14, Tuesday
ABSTRACT:
There are many formal approaches to specifying how the mental state of an
agent entails that it perform particular actions. These approaches put the
agent at the center of analysis. For some questions and purposes, it is
more realistic and convenient for the center of analysis to be the task
environment, domain, or society of which agents will be a part. We will
present such a task environment-oriented modeling framework that can work
hand-in-hand with more agent-centered approaches. Our approach features
careful attention to the quantitative computational interrelationships
between tasks, to what information is available (and when) to update an
agent's mental state, and to the general structure of the task environment
rather than single-instance examples. This framework avoids the
methodological problems of relying solely on single-instance examples, and
provides concrete, meaningful characterizations with which to state general
theories. Task environment models built in our framework can be used for
both mathematical analysis and simulation to answer questions about how
agents should be organized, or the effect of various coordination
algorithms on agent behavior. This paper is organized around an example
model of cooperative problem solving in a distributed sensor network.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 10:22:43 -0500
From: greenes@harvard.edu (Robert A. Greenes)
Subject: Announcement: Harvard-MIT-NEMC Medical Informatics Research Training
*** Fellowships Available for AY 1994 ***
HARVARD, MIT, and TUFTS/NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL CENTER COMBINED
RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM IN MEDICAL INFORMATICS
We are seeking qualified applicants for the Harvard Medical School,
MIT, Tufts/New England Medical Center combined training program in
medical informatics, for July, 1994 or later.
A number of different training options are offered, including:
Formal doctoral degree training (for both predoctoral and postdoctoral
trainees) in:
o Medical Computer Science at MIT (under the direction of Prof. Peter
Szolovits), emphasizing medical knowledge representation, model
building, and clinical decision making
o Health Decision Science at Harvard School of Public Health (under
the direction of Prof. Milton Weinstein), emphasizing decision
analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and outcome modeling
Research fellowship training (postdoctoral only):
o Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital (under the
direction of Robert A. Greenes, M.D., Ph.D.), emphasizing clinical
decision making, medical educational strategies, clinical
guidelines, clinical record keeping, medical knowledge
representation and query (UMLS), radiologic image management, and
object-oriented software architectures for network-based application
development
o Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital
(under the direction of G. Octo Barnett, M.D.), emphasizing clinical
decision making, medical student education, student/physician
workstation design, problem-based knowledge access, ambulatory
computer-based medical record systems, and implementation/evaluation
of guidelines
o Division of Clinical Decision Making, NEMC (under the direction of
Stephan G. Pauker, M.D.), emphasizing clinical decision making,
knowledge representation, and guidelines and outcome evaluation
o Other special opportunities are also available to qualified
candidates in radiology informatics.
Predoctoral fellowship applicants must concurrently apply for admission
to the MIT or Harvard degree program. Postdoctoral applicants will
usually have at least one year and preferably three years of residency
training prior to beginning of fellowship.
The combined training program offers a wide range of opportunities for
education, research, and collegial interaction among the training sites.
A large variety of course offerings at Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, many
seminars, journal clubs, and other opportuities for exchange of
information provide all trainees with opportunities to learn about the
variety of work occurring at the various laboratories and in the
affiliated institutions, as well as in the larger field of medical
informatics. A number of associated faculty participate in the
program through the research activities of each of the training sites.
In addition to the research programs of the participating laboratories,
we encourage the fellows to develop projects that may involve unique
collaborative relationships.
NLM-supported fellowships are available to U.S. permanent residents
only. For more information, contact the training program office:
Medical Informatics Training Program
ATTN: Robert A. Greenes, MD, PhD
Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
(617) 732-6281 FAX: (617) 732-6317
email: greenes@harvard.edu
or the individual training program component directors via email at:
Barnett: obarnett@hstbme.mit.edu
Greenes: greenes@harvard.edu
Pauker: sgp@cor.cdm.nemc.org
Szolovits: psz@mit.edu
Weinstein: mcw@biostat.harvard.edu
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 93 17:40:48 -0500
From: Chuck Friedman <friedman@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Position: MedicalInformatics Training at Duke and UNC
Duke University - University of North Carolina (Duke-UNC)
Training Program in Medical Informatics
The Duke - UNC medical informatics training program, supported by the National
Library of Medicine, prepares students for research and development careers
focused on the application of information technology to health care. The Duke -
UNC program is one of ten such programs funded by the NLM and the only program
in the southeast.
Training positions are available each year at the predoctoral and postdoctoral
levels. Predoctoral training is typically three or more years in duration,
leading to the Ph.D. degree. Predoctoral students will typically have
baccalaureate level training in engineering or an appropriate field of science.
Postdoctoral training is typically two years in duration, leading to the M.S.
degree. Postdoctoral trainees can be physicians or other health professionals
holding doctoral degrees.
The program director for Duke University is Dr. W. Edward Hammond; the director
for UNC is Dr. Charles P. Friedman.
Positions at the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels will be available for the
1994-95 academic year.
A Program Exploiting the Strengths of Two Universities: Each trainee in the
Duke - UNC program will matriculate as a graduate student at one of the two
universities. Duke and UNC are 11 miles apart in the Research Triangle area of
North Carolina. Program activities are highly integrated, so that all trainees
can benefit from the faculty expertise and research resources of both
institutions. All students can meet degree requirements through course work
across the full range of graduate-level offerings at both institutions since
there are full cross-registration privileges. Laboratories and research
projects at both sites will be available to all students for research internship
and dissertation experiences. Masters and doctoral committees can be
interinstitutional as well. A bi-weekly program seminar series involves
students and faculty from both institutions and alternates meeting place between
the two institutions.
Curriculum: Medical informatics is a broad, interdisciplinary field and the
training curricula reflect that structure. The Duke - UNC program stresses both
the basic sciences underlying medical informatics and an equally important body
of practical knowledge necessary to design and implement computer applications
that function in support of health care. The program also stresses the methods
used to study rigorously the effectiveness of these information technology
applications. To these ends, degree programs include courses specifically
addressing topics in medical informatics; courses in biomedical engineering,
computer science, information science, biostatistics, and other basic
disciplines; electives tailored to each student's special interests; and
internships that provide experience with computer applications installed in
clinical settings. Thesis/dissertation work is required for all degrees.
Trainees at both institutions enroll as graduate students in the Department of
Biomedical Engineering, in a designated medical informatics program track. More
specific information about the curriculum is available on request.
Program Faculty: At each institution, the program faculty consists in part of a
core group serving as primary advisors to students and offering the courses that
address topics within medical informatics. This core group is complemented by a
larger group of affiliated faculty with relevant research interests and spanning
many departments at the two schools. These affiliated faculty members are
available to students for project, thesis, and dissertation work; and for
specialized guided reading courses. In all, the program faculty includes 25
from 13 departments at Duke, and 29 faculty members representing 16 departments
at UNC.
At Duke, areas of special faculty interest include:
- development and support of computer-based medical record and hospital
information systems;
- implementation of IAIMS (Integrated Academic Information Management Systems)
within the academic medical center;
- medical instrumentation and real-time patient monitoring;
- development and use of clinical research databanks.
At UNC, areas of special faculty interest include:
- development of clinical data and knowledge bases, and the presentation of
information from these resources to positively influence medical decision
making;
- applications of advanced image processing techniques to diagnosis and
treatment planning;
- studies of the reasoning processes of clinicians and the impact of information
technology on patient care;
- application of advanced information technology to education in the basic and
clinical sciences.
Current Trainees: In 1993-94, there are thirteen medical informatics trainees
across the two institutions. Many students in the program receive full tuition
and stipend support from the National Library of Medicine training grant, while
other students receive support from research assistantships provided by academic
departments affiliated with the program. The current students are a diverse
group including physicians and non-physicians with interests ranging from
decision support to imaging to business/financial aspects of informatics. Most
but not all students are full time.
Application Process: Qualified applicants are invited to apply to the
Department of Biomedical Engineering, specifying their interest in the medical
informatics track, at either or both institutions. For postdoctoral trainees,
no specific medical informatics or computer science background is required.
Trainees typically begin coursework in the fall semester of the academic year.
Fall semester application deadlines are December 31 at Duke and January 31 at
UNC.
For more information:
At Duke: At UNC:
Dr. W. Edward Hammond Dr. Charles P. Friedman
Box 2914 322 MacNider Building
Duke University Medical Center University of North Carolina
Durham, NC 27710-2914 School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7530
Phone: (919) 684-6421 Phone: (919) 966-3641
Fax: (919) 684-8675 Fax: (919) 962-2027
E-mail: hammo001@mc.duke.edu E-mail: cpf@med.unc.edu
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 12:39:40 -0400
From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Chris Welty)
To: nl-kr-postings@ai.sunnyside.com
Subject: CFP: LISP and Functional Programming (LFP-94)
CALL FOR PAPERS
1994 ACM Conference on Lisp and Functional Programming
Orlando, Florida, USA
June 27-29, 1994
The 1994 ACM Conference on Lisp and Functional Programming is the eighth
in a series of biennial conferences devoted to the theory, design, and
implementation of programming languages and systems related to Lisp,
functional programming, and symbolic computation. The conference is
co-sponsored jointly by ACM SIGPLAN, SIGACT, and SIGART, and will take
place at the Hilton at Walt Disney World Village in Orlando Florida.
Papers presented at the conference must include new ideas or experimental
results that have not previously been published. Suggested areas for
submissions include [but are not limited to] the following: programming
language concepts and facilities; implementation methods; garbage collection;
semantic foundations; programming logics; program development environments,
and their interaction with language design; and topics such as persistence,
distributed computation, and architectural support taken in the context of
Lisp and functional programming. Beyond these areas, authors are strongly
encouraged to submit papers that introduce important new topics that are
relevant to functional programming and symbolic computation. Papers
describing actual application of theoretical results, or that contain a
mixture of theory and application are strongly encouraged.
Authors should submit 14 copies of a full conference paper to the program
chair at the address below. The length of the paper should not exceed 12
pages typeset 11 point on 16 point spacing. The paper should include a
clear summary that identifies what has been accomplished, and explains why
it is significant and the relation with previous work. Papers will be
judged on relevance, clarity, correctness, originality and significance.
Overly simplified abstracts that only indicate which results are to appear
in the final paper are strongly discouraged. To facilitate interaction
between authors and the program committee, the following information, for
each paper submitted, should be sent by electronic mail to
lfp94@sail.stanford.edu: complete title of paper; lead author name,
affiliation, postal address, and electronic mail address.
Submissions must be received by Nov 30 1993. Authors will be notified of
acceptance or rejection of their papers by Jan 31 1994. Final versions of
accepted papers must be received in camera-ready form by March 7 1994.
Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign ACM copyright release
forms. Proceedings will be distributed at the conference and will be later
available for purchase from ACM. They will also appear as a special issue
of Lisp Pointers.
Conference Chair
Robert R. Kessler
University of Utah
Department of Computer Science
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
email: kessler@cons.cs.utah.edu
fax: (801)581-5843
tel: (801)581-5017
Program Chair
Carolyn L. Talcott
Attn: LFP 94
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford CA 94305
email: clt@sail.stanford.edu
tel: (415)-723-0936
fax: (415)-725-7411
Program Committee
Henry Baker, Nimble Computer Corp., USA
Jerome Chailloux, ILOG, France chailloux@ilog.fr
Matthias Felleisen, Rice Univ., USA felleisen@rice.edu
John Field, IBM Watson, USA jfield@watson.ibm.com
Dick Gabriel, Lucid Inc., USA rpg@lucid.com
Carl Gunter, Univ. Pennsylvania, USA gunter@cis.upenn.edu
Mark Jones, Yale, USA jones-mark@cs.yale.edu
John Lamping, Xerox PARC, USA lamping@parc.xerox.com
Robert Muller, Apple Computer, USA muller@cambridge.apple.com
Guillermo Rozas, MIT, USA gjr@ai.mit.edu
Guy Steele, Thinking Machines, USA gls@think.com
Taiichi Yuasa, Toyohashi Univ., Japan yuasa@katura.tutics.tut.ac.jp
Submission information and other inquiries: lfp94@sail.stanford.edu
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@cis.ohio-state.edu
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 93 14:18:55 EDT
From: lindaq+@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Lin Chase)
Subject: Query: Parsers for English
The speech recognition research group at Carnegie Mellon is
working on combining stochastic and rule-based information in
our language models. One of our current approaches requires
the use of a "general English" parser. Specifically, we are
looking at parsers that can handle text from the Wall Street
Journal.
Do you have such a parser? Would you be interested in collaborating
with us and/or lending us your system?
Please contact
Lin Chase
chase@cs.cmu.edu
(412)268-5728
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 19:14:35 +0200
From: chollet@idiap.ch (Gerard Chollet)
Subject: CFP: Wkshp on Speaker Recognition, Identification and Verification
Workshop on
AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION, IDENTIFICATON AND VERIFICATION
Martigny, Switzerland, APRIL 5-7, 1994
Advance Notice, Preliminary Registration and Call for Papers
The European Speech Communication Association (ESCA) has identified Automatic
Speaker Recognition, Identification and Verification as important areas of
current research interest. An ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ETRW) is
being organized in Martigny on 5-7 April 1994. Contributions should be research
oriented but also concerned with applications, which may be demonstrated (live
or video).
WORKSHOP THEMES
Contributions are welcome on the following topics:
- Intra-and inter-speaker variability
- Multi-speaker speech data-bases
- Voice transformation and mimics
- Speaker verification systems
- Vocabulary dependent/independent approaches
- Tools for speaker identification
- Telecommunication applications
- Banking and finance applications
- Forensic applications
WORKSHOP SITE
Situated in the heart of the Alps, Martigny offers most summer and winter
sports including mountaineering and skiing. Several sites, in Martigny, are
under consideration. The final location will be announced in the next circular.
FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP
This will be an international workshop with a limited number of active
participants. Each session will be introduced by a tutorial presentation from an
invited expert. Most papers will be presented in plenary sessions with time for
demonstration and discussion. Other papers will be presented in poster sessions
preceded by an oral summary of all session contributions. An exhibition will be
organized for those desiring to demonstrate their work.
PUBLICATION
The Proceedings will be available upon registration. After the workshop the
International Scientific Committee will select a number of workshop papers for
publication as articles in a Book to be edited by the organizers. These authors
will be invited to produce an updated version of their original paper on the
basis of the Committee's comments.
REGISTRATION FEES
The Registration fee is 430 FS ( ~250 ECUs) including mailing, administration,
proceedings, refreshment served at coffee breaks and workshop dinner with a 50
FS (~30 ECUs) reduction for ESCA members. A special package including two years'
membership (94/95) in ESCA, is 480 FS (~280 ECUs). Students with certificate of
status pay 250 FS (~140 ECUs). These rates apply before January 15, 1994. Late
registration will be charged an additional 90 FS (~ 50 ECUs).
You can apply for grants from the EEC HCM and PECO programs to attend ESCA conferences and workshops. If you are interested and /or concerned, please
contact: ESCA, BP 7, B 1040 Brussels.
PAYMENT
Payment can be made either by Eurocheque, credit card (Eurocard-Master Card or
Visa) or transfer to the bank account 309 718-01, Credit Suisse, Martigny,
Switzerland, payable to "ESCA". Note the extra charge for late payment (after
January 15). Personal checks are not accepted.
SCHEDULE
SEPT 15, 1993 Submission of extended summary.
NOV 30, 1993 Notification of acceptance.
JAN 15, 1994 Submission of photo-ready paper and advanced registration.
MARCH 1, 1994 Preliminary program sent out.
APRIL 5-7 , 1994 Workshop.
WORKSHOP SECRETARIAT
For all correspondence concerning the workshop, please use the following
address :
IDIAP-ESCA Workshop
Case postale 609
CH-1920 Martigny, Switzerland
Phone: + 41 26 22 76 64
Fax: + 41 26 22 78 18
e-mail: esca@idiap.ch
EUROPEAN SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (ESCA)
ESCA is a non-profit organization for promoting Speech Communication Science
and Technology in a European context. For membership and other information,
please contact : ESCA, BP 7, B-1040 Brussels 40, Belgium.
The GFCP (Groupe Francophone de la Communication Parlee) of SFA and ESCA
is also supporting this workshop.
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
B. ATAL (AT&T, Bell Labs, USA), F. BIMBOT (TELECOM-Paris, FRANCE),
L.-J. BOE (ICP, France), H. BOURLARD (L&H, BELGIUM),
G. CHOLLET (IDIAP, SWITZERLAND),
G. DODDINGTON (DARPA, USA), S. FURUI (NTT, JAPAN), D. JOHNSTON (BT, UK),
J.P. KOSTER (Univ. TRIER GERMANY), J. LAVER (CSTR, UK),
J. MARIANI (LIMSI-CNRS, FRANCE), L. MICLET (CNET, FRANCE),
H. NEY (PHILIPS, GERMANY), A. PAOLONI (FUB, ITALY),J. PECKHAM (LOGICA, UK),
B. PFISTER (ETHZ, SWITZERLAND), P.K. RAJASEKARAN (TI, USA),
A ROSENBERG (AT&T, Bell Labs, USA), F. SOONG (AT&T, Bell Labs, USA),
A.T. TSOI, (Univ Queensland, AUSTRALIA).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Dr Gerard CHOLLET - IDIAP, CNRS
Dr Andrea PAOLONI - FUB
Dr Frederic BIMBOT - TELECOM-Paris, CNRS
ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on
Speaker Recognition, Identification and Verification.
MARTIGNY,Switzerland, April 5-7, 1994
Preliminary registration and
submission of extended summary
Name.
Title:
Affiliation:
Mailing address:
Phone:
Fax:
e-mail:
I would like to participate in the Research Workshop as a
[ ] full participant, [ ] student.
[ ] I am an ESCA Member. Membership #
[ ] Please send information on ESCA membership.
I intend to submit a paper with the title:
Preferred presentation:
[ ] oral, [ ] poster, [ ] either.
An abstract of max. 400 words is included (5 copies).
[ ] Special equipment needs
[ ] Payment made. Amount paid: FS
[ ] Eurocheque[ ] Money is transferred to account 309 718-01, Credit Suisse,
Martigny, Switzerland, payable to "ESCA"
[ ] Visa, [ ] Eurocard-Master card
Credit card #: Last name: First name:
Expiration date:
Signature: Date:
Please complete this form and attach your extended summary on separate page(s).
Form and summary shoud be sent no later than Sept 15, 1993 by mail or fax to :
IDIAP-ESCA Workshop, C.P. 609, CH-1920 MARTIGNY- SWITZERLAND
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