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NL-KR Digest Volume 13 No. 02
NL-KR Digest Fri Jan 21 09:40:19 PST 1994 Volume 13 No. 2
Today's Topics:
Correction: ECAI'94 is at RAI Conference Center in Amsterdam
CFP: Jelia'94, European Workshop on Logics, York, Sep 94
CFP: CIKM'94 3rd Info and Knowledge Mgmt, Nov 94, Gaithersburg
Position: Visiting Fellowships at ITK, Tilburg
Announcement: Consortium for Lexical Research Repository
CFP: AI'94, 7th Aus. Joint Conf. on AI, Nov 94, Armidale, N.S.W.
Announcement: AAAI-94 Deadline Extended to January 28th
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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 94 10:34:55 +0100
From: vet@cs.utwente.nl (Paul van der Vet)
To: welty@cs.rpi.edu, al@sunnyside.com
Subject: Correction: ECAI'94 is at RAI Conference Center in Amsterdam
Dear editors of NL-KR Digest,
You may have inadvertedly confused some of your readers by adding the
word "Twente" to the caption for the CFP ECAI'94. As the CFP itself
correctly states, ECAI'94 is not held at the University of Twente but
in the RAI Conference Center in Amsterdam.
Yours Sicnerely,
Paul van der Vet.
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From: craig@minster.york.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 14:44:30
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CFP: Jelia'94, European Workshop on Logics, York, Sep 94
J E L I A '9 4
4th European Workshop on Logics in AI
York, September 5-8, 1994
Final Call for Papers
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The European Workshop on Logics in AI provides a major biennial forum
for the discussion of logic-oriented approaches to artificial
intelligence. Following previous meetings in France (1988), The
Netherlands (1990) and Germany (1992), the fourth workshop will be
held in York, England, from 5-8 September 1994. The workshop will be
hosted by the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of York.
The 1994 workshop is sponsored by the ESPRIT NOE COMPULOG-NET, the
Association for Logic Programming - UK Branch (ALP-UK) and the German
Informatics Society (GI). Further sponsors are currently being sought,
and it is hoped that some grants may be made available to students.
As in previous workshops, the aim is to bring together researchers
involved in all aspects of logic in artificial intelligence. The
workshop will include submitted contributions and invited papers, all
of which will be presented in plenary sessions. Papers are sought in
areas which include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
o foundations of logic programming and
knowledge-based systems
o automated theorem proving
o knowledge representation
o modal, epistemic and temporal logics
o constructive and many-valued logics
o nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: helal@cs.purdue.edu (Abdelsalam Helal)
Subject: CFP: CIKM'94 3rd Info and Knowledge Mgmt, Nov 94, Gaithersburg
Date: 11 Jan 1994 18:42:04 -0500
C a l l F o r P a p e r s
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C I K M ' 9 4
Third International Conference on Information
and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94)
November 29 - December 2, 1994
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland
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Sponsored by: ACM (Pending Approval), in cooperation with: AAAI, NIST, UMBC,
Purdue University, and Rutgers University
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The Conference
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CIKM provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research
on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and
knowledge bases. The purpose of the con ference is to identify challenging
problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and
to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high quality,
applied and theoretical research findings. An important part of the conference
is the Workshops program which focuses on timely research challenges and
initiatives.
Focus
~~~~~
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas:
o Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic modeling
o Development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases
o Automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases (especially raw text)
o Object-oriented DBMS
o Optimization techniques
o Transaction management
o High performance OLTP systems
o Security techniques
o Performance evaluation
o Hypermedia
o Unconventional applications
o Parallel database systems
o Physical and logical database design
o Data and knowledge sharing
o Interchange and interoperability
o Cooperation in heterogeneous systems
o Domain modeling and ontology-building
o Knowledge discovery in databases
o Information storage and retrieval and interface technology
o Concurrent engineering and computer integrated manufacturing
o Digital Libraries
o Multimedia Databases.
Paper and Workshop Submission
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Authors are invited to submit papers and workshop proposals to the Program
Chair at the following address:
Nabil R. Adam, Professor and Chair
Dept. of MS/CIS
GSM - Rutgers University
180 University Ave.
Newark, NJ 07102
E-mail: cikm94@adam.rutgers.edu
Tel: (201) 648-5239
All papers and workshop proposals should reach the program chair by May 1, 94.
Authors must send eight (8) DOUBLE-SIDED copies of each paper, not exceeding
5,000 words, accompanied by a cover let ter containing a list of all authors,
their affiliations, telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and fax
numbers. All submissions will be reviewed and judged with respect to quality
and relevance.
Important Dates
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Papers & Workshop Submission: ................. May 1, 1994.
Notification of acceptance: ................... July 1, 1994.
Camera Ready Copies Due: ...................... September 1, 1994.
More Information
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More information on CIKM-94 can be obtained in a variety of ways. For an
automatic reply with general information send email to cikm-info@cs.umbc.edu.
A variety of documents on CIKM-94 and earlier CIKM conferences is available
via the gopher server at gopher.cs.umbc.edu, through WWW via the
URL http://gopher.cs.umbc.edu/cikm.html, and via ftp from ftp.cs.umbc.edu
in pub/cikm.
Steering Committee
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Bruce Blum
Tim Finin
David Jefferson
Keith Humenik
Charles Nicholas
E. K. Park
Yelena Yesha
General Co-Chairs
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Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University
Yelena Yesha, UMBC
Program Chair
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Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University
Program Vice-Chairs
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T. Finin, UMBC
E. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic
S. Hurwitz, NIST
C. Kulikowski, Rutgers University
K. Makki, UNLV
S. Naqvi, Bellcore
E. K. Park, U.S. Naval Academy
N. Pissinou, SW Luisiana U.niversity
M. Singhal, Ohio State University
S. Spaccapietra, EPFL Lausanne
M. Stonebraker, UC-Berkeley
B. Wah, University of Illinois, UC
Publicity Chair
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A. Helal, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Local Arrangements
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E. Fong, NIST
European Coordinator
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G. Schlagter, Fern University
Workshop Chair
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G. Ozsoyoglu, CWRU
Exhibit Chair
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M. Masulo, IBM Watson Research Center
Program Committee
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A. El Abbadi, UC-Santa Barbara
Y. Arens, USC/ISI
R. Alonso, MITL
R. Ashany, NSF
B. Badrinath, Rutgers University
E. Bertino, University of Genoa
G. Belford, UIUC
M. Brodie, GTE Labs
A. Buchmann, Tech. Hochschule Dramstadt
W. Chu, UCLA
J. Clifford, NYU
S. Davidson, University of Pennsylvania
K. Dittrich, Universitat Zurich
R. Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington
S. Gadia, Iowa Satate University
N. Gehani, At&T Bell Labs.
J. Geller, NJIT
J. Gowens, Army Research Lab
M. Halem, NASA
D. Harman, NIST
K. Humenik, Indiana University
P. Kanellakis, Brown University
M. Kohli, Bellcore
D. Lewis, At&T Bell Labs
R. MacGregor, USC/ISI
R. Martin, NIST
D. McKay, Unisys
J. Mylopoulos, University of Toronto
S. Navathe, Georgia Tech.
E. Neuhold, GMD
P. Ng, NJIT
T. Nguyen, IBM Watson Research Center
C. Nicholas, UMBC
C. Overton, University of Pennsylvania
M. Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University
M. Papazoglou, Queensland University
R. Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsen-Madison
S. Ray, NIST
P. Scheurmann, Northwestern University
T. Seidman, UMBC
K. Sycara, RI/CMU
P. Vassallo, NIST
L. Welch, NIST
W. Wong, DISA
X. Wu, James Cook University
V. Zwass, FDU
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From: Walter.Daelemans@kub.nl (Walter Daelemans)
Subject: Position: Visiting Fellowships at ITK, Tilburg
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 09:41:53 GMT
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Visiting Researcher
Fellowships
at the
Institute for Language Technology and AI
(ITK)
The Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence
(ITK) in Tilburg, Holland, offers fellowships for a stay at ITK up to
six months to qualified researchers in the fields of computational
linguistics, human-computer communication, databases, natural language
semantics and pragmatics, knowledge representation, machine learning
and AI-related subjects in general.
Our current and long-range interests and projects include dialogue
management, object orientation, machine learning of natural language,
dynamic interpretation theories, computer aided-systems engineering
and design methodologies. Of specific importance to us is the
integration - theoretical as well as practical - of these approaches
and technologies.
Interested researchers should submit a detailed CV with publications
(and for graduate students two letters of recommendation) and a broad
indication of their intended period of stay, to either of the
following institute directors:
Harry C. Bunt Robert A. Meersman
(natural language, AI) (databases, AI)
Harry.Bunt@kub.nl Robert.Meersman@kub.nl
The fellowship may involve the reimbursement of travel, accommodation
in Tilburg, and in some cases, a salary supplement.
ITK is a young (1988) institute employing some 40 researchers in the
fields mentioned above. It already entertains many international
contacts. ITK is situated on the Tilburg University campus in a wooded
area at the edge of town with excellent connections by road, train and
air. Visiting researchers will find at ITK a fertile, dynamic,
project-oriented environment that allows them to develop their ideas
individually or in small groups of like-minded researchers. Naturally,
they have access to our latest computer, communication and publishing
technology during their stay and to the university's high-tech
library.
For additional information contact:
ITK Secretariat
Warandelaan 2
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE TILBURG
The Netherlands
itk@kub.nl
Fax: +3113 662537
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 13:38:22 MST
From: lexical@crl.nmsu.edu (Consortium for Lexical Research)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Announcement: Consortium for Lexical Research Repository
The Consortium for Lexical Research is designed to serve as a
repository for software and resources of importance to the linguistics
and natural language processing research community.
Sharable resources, and the task of centralizing lexical data and
tools, are of foremost concern in lexical research and computational
linquistics. It is our objective to help alleviate the repeated
re-creation of basic software tools, and to assist in making essential
data sources more generally available.
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* For more information on CLR, please write *
* to lexical@crl.nmsu.edu. You may also ftp *
* to clr.nmsu.edu, and get our "catalog.ps" *
* (postscript) or "catalog" (ascii). *
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If you have developed a piece of software for computational
linguistics or natural language processing that other researchers
might find useful, you can include it in the CLR archives by returning
the following description form. We would be very pleased to review
your contribution.
__________________________________________________________________
TODAY'S DATE:
AUTHOR'S NAME:
SOFTWARE NAME or NAME OF THE RESOURCE:
TYPE: (type of tool or data)
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY OF THE RESOURCE:
AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTATION, MANUALS, OR README FILE:
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE:
PLATFORM: (Hardware, OS, etc.)
COPYRIGHT:
PRICE OR LIMITATIONS: (academic use only, freely available, etc.)
NOTES: (any additional info)
_______________________________________
Please be sure to include the following:
Author Name:
Complete Address:
Telephone:
Email address:
__________________________________________________________________
Thank you very much,
Katherine A. Mitchell
Consortium for Lexical Research
email: lexical@nmsu.edu
postal: Box 30001/ 3CRL
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003
phone: (505)-646-5466
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@munnari.OZ.AU
From: ai94@fermat.une.edu.au (Artificial Intelligence Conference 1994)
Subject: CFP: AI'94, 7th Aus. Joint Conf. on AI, Nov 94, Armidale, N.S.W.
Date: 19 Jan 94 01:39:13 GMT
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F I R S T
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94)
"Sowing the Seeds for the Future"
21 - 25 November 1994
Proudly sponsored by
Microsoft Institute (principal sponsor),
IBM, Sun Microsystems, Australian Computer Society, and
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science (UNE).
Hosted by
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science
The University of New England
Armidale, N.S.W., 2351
AUSTRALIA
AI'94 is the Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. AI'94 is conducted under the auspices of the Australian
Computer Society's National Committee for Artificial Intelligence and
Expert Systems. The theme of the conference is "Sowing the Seeds for the
Future", which reflects the nature of research in Artificial Intelligence.
The goal of the conference is to promote research in artificial
intelligence (AI) and scientific interchange among AI researchers and
practitioners. AI'94 will be hosted by The Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computing Science at The University of New England, between
Monday 21st November to Friday 25th November 1994.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Dr. Chengqi Zhang (co-chair) Dr. Dickson Lukose (chair)
Prof. John Debenham (co-chair) Mr. Allan Williams (secretary)
Dr. Simant Dube (treasurer)
Mr. Neil Dunstan
Ms. Gabrielle Aldridge
We invite authors to submit papers describing both experimental and
theoretical results from all stages of AI research. In particular, we
encourage submission of papers that describe innovative concepts,
techniques, perspectives, or observations that are not yet supported by
mature results. Such submissions must include substantial analysis of the
ideas, the technology needed to realise them, and their potential impact.
Papers describing applied AI are particularly solicited. In addition,
because of the essential interdisciplinary nature of AI and the need to
maintain effective communication across sub-specialties, we encourage
authors to position and motivate their work in the larger context of the
general AI community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Machine Learning Knowledge Acquisition
Natural Language Processing Natural Language Understanding
Hybrid Systems Genetic Algorithms
Evolutionary Programming Knowledge Based Systems
Knowledge Representation Qualitative Reasoning
Automated Reasoning Planning and Scheduling
Cognitive Modelling Robotics
Vision Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Neural Network Image Analysis
Authors are invited to submit complete, original papers in the format
specified below, reflecting their current research results. All submitted
papers will be refereed for quality and originality. The program committee
reserves the right to accept submissions as either technical or poster
presentation paper. Authors must submit five (5) copies of the completed
paper to the AI'94 Conference Secretary at the following address by 15th.
June 1994.
AI'94 Conference Secretary
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science
The University of New England
Armidale, N.S.W., 2351
AUSTRALIA
All five (5) copies of the submitted paper must be clearly legible. Neither
computer files nor fax submission are acceptable. Papers received after the
15th. June 1994 will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be
mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt.
PAPER FORMAT FOR REVIEW
All five copies of the submissions must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4
paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters or 12
point LaTeX article-style). Double-sided printing is strongly encouraged.
The body of submitted papers must be at most 8 pages, including figures,
tables, diagrams, and bibliography, but excluding the title page. Papers
exceeding the specified length or formatting requirements are subject to
rejection without review. Each copy of the paper must have a title page
(separate from the body of the paper) containing the title of the paper,
the names and addresses of all authors, telephone number, fax number and
electronic mail address, a short (less than 200 word) abstract, and a
descriptive content area or areas. The body of the paper should have a copy
of the title and a page number on each page. To facilitate the reviewing
process, authors are requested to select appropriate content areas from the
list below. Authors are invited to add additional content area descriptors
to their title page as needed.
Artificial Life, Automated Reasoning, Behaviour-Based Control, Belief
Revision, Case-Based Reasoning, Cognitive Modelling, Common Sense
Reasoning, Communication and Cooperation, Constraint-Based Reasoning,
Computer-Aided Education, Connectionist Models, Corpus-Based Language
Analysis, Deduction, Diagnosis, Discourse Analysis, Distributed Problem
Solving, Expert Systems, Geometrical Reasoning, Information Extraction,
Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Sharing
Technology, Large Scale Knowledge Engineering, Learning/Adaptation, Machine
Learning, Machine Translation, Mathematical Foundations, Multi-Agent
Planning, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Nonmonotonic
Reasoning, Perception, Planning, Probabilistic Reasoning, Qualitative
Reasoning, Reasoning about Action, Reasoning about Physical Systems,
Reactivity, Robot Navigation, Robotics, Rule-Based Reasoning, Scheduling,
Search, Sensor Interpretation, Sensory Fusion/Fission, Simulation, Situated
Cognition, Spatial Reasoning, Speech Recognition, System Architectures,
Temporal Reasoning, Terminological Reasoning, Theorem Proving, Truth
Maintenance, User Interfaces, Virtual Reality, Vision, 3-D Model
Acquisition.
Each paper will be carefully reviewed. Questions that will appear on the
review form have been reproduced below. Authors are advised to bear these
questions in mind while writing their papers: How important is the work
reported? Does it attack an important/difficult problem or a
peripheral/simple one? Does the approach offered advance the state of the
art? Has this or similar work been previously reported? Are the problems
and approaches completely new? Is this a novel combination of familiar
techniques? Does the paper point out differences from related research? Is
it re-inventing the wheel using new terminology? Is the paper technically
sound? Does it carefully evaluate the strengths and limitations of its
contribution? How are its claims backed up? Is the paper clearly written?
Does it motivate the research? Does it describe the inputs, outputs and
basic algorithms employed? Does the paper describe previous work? Are the
results described and evaluated? Is the paper organised in a logical
fashion?
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission : 15th. June 1994
Notification of acceptance : 31st. July 1994
Camera Ready Copy : 22nd. August 1994
FURTHER INFORMATION
All enquires regarding AI'94 should be directed to the following address:
AI'94 Conference Secretary
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science
The University of New England
Armidale, N.S.W., 2351
AUSTRALIA
E-mail: ai94@fermat.une.edu.au
You may e-mail the following address with the Subject Heading "help" to
obtain details on AI'94, UNE, and Armidale.
ai94-info@fermat.une.edu.au
ai94-info mail server has been established to enable electronic request for
information regarding AI'94 Conference.
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To: bboards@aaai.org
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 07:17:27 PST
From: Rick Skalsky <skalsky@aaai.org>
Subject: Announcement: AAAI-94 Deadline Extended to January 28th
Due to the earthquake in Los Angeles, and the severe winter weather in the
North-Eastern U.S. and Canada, the deadline for the receipt of AAAI papers is
being extended to Friday, January 28, 1994, for those authors that are severely
impacted by these events. In order to minimize disruption of the self-selection
and review process, however, the title pages, including paper title, authors,
addresses, content areas, and abstract, must still arrive at the AAAI office by
Monday, January 24th. These should be sent electronically, to
abstract@aaai.org, in the format specified in the call for papers. This
extension applies only to those individuals whose ability to complete their
papers on time was severely impacted by these events, and authors are requested
and expected to be honest in their use of it. If an electronic title page is
submitted, but a decision is later made not to submit the paper, please send a
message to abstract@aaai.org informing us of this fact as soon as possible.
Please forward this message to anyone you know who may have been impacted by
the storms or earthquake. Thank you very much.
Barbara Hayes-Roth (bhr@ksl.stanford.edu) and Richard Korf (korf@cs.ucla.edu)
Program Co-Chairs, AAAI-94
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