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NL-KR Digest (Thu Mar 4 12:30:28 1993) Volume 10 No. 8
Today's Topics:
CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Robot & Human Comm. (RO-MAN '93)
CFP: ICLP'93 Workshop: Deductive Databases
Program: EACL93
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 14:27:20 +0900
From: myers@atr-la.atr.co.jp (John K. Myers)
Subject: CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Robot & Human Comm. (RO-MAN '93)
CALL FOR PAPERS
RO-MAN '93 TOKYO
The IEEE 2nd International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication
Session on Emotional Communication and Dialogue in Virtual Realities
Session moderator: John K. Myers
November 3-5, 1993
Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Recently many researchers have begun to work with autonomous agents
in artificial realities. The most challenging research in this area
focuses not only on single autonomous agents interacting with their
worlds, but also on multiple autonomous agents communicating with
each other through dialogues and emotional signals. What are these
systems capable of doing? What algorithms and operators are necessary?
Where will such systems go in the future?
Human users are also experimenting with communication in virtual realities.
The recent popular Multiple User Dungeon (MUD) programs provide a way
for users to interact with each other in a new mode of communication.
What are the topics of these interactions? What kinds of dialogue
patterns and strategies for emotional communication are used?
A few leading-edge researchers are also exploring the problem of
how a robotic intelligence can communicate with a human user.
How does dialogue generation work? What primitives are used for
emotional communication? How can these be recognized or generated?
Real-world psychological problems include what kinds of commands
are used when talking with an autonomous agent (e.g., the "Knowledge
Navigator"), and how do people feel when talking to or with agents.
In the not-so-distant future, a virtual-reality interface to
normal computers, intelligent computer agents,
and to other users (the palantir telephone/TV) may be commonplace.
What knowledge technologies will be required to achieve
full communication? How will these be used? What problems will occur?
This session attempts to advance the state of the art by providing
a platform to disseminate cutting-edge and futuristic research
on these topics. Papers should emphasize the theoretical aspects
of communication, including but not limited to ontologies of emotional
and informative communicative acts, theories of emotions and of dialogue,
algorithms for recognition, generation, and interaction,
psychological studies, etc., etc. Speculations and projections
of what this technology will lead to in the future are encouraged.
Papers on implemented systems, and actual experiments, as well as
position papers and well-thought-out theoretical designs are all welcomed.
Please submit five copies of an extended summary of 300-600 words,
together with one or two figures that best illustrate your work, to:
John K. Myers
American Film Technologies
11585 Sorrento Valley Road
San Diego, CA
92121 USA
to be received on or before May 3rd, 1993. Rough drafts of papers
are also welcome at this point. Applicants will be notified of
acceptance or rejection by the end of June. Successful applicants
will be requested to submit a final draft of 8 pages or less
by August 28th. The official language of the workshop is English.
A proceedings will be published and distributed at the workshop.
If you are even thinking of possibly submitting an extended summary,
I ask that you send your name, address, telephone number, and
e-mail address to: myers@atr-la.atr.co.jp before March 24th
if possible. I am relocating, and this will aid in communication.
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 93 10:03:20 PST
From: ICLP Publicity <iclp-publicity@quintus.com>
Subject: CFP: ICLP'93 Workshop: Deductive Databases
Call for Papers
ICLP'93 Postconference Workshop on
Deductive Databases
Budapest, Hungary
June 25, 1993
Sponsored by the Association of Logic Programming
One of the principal aims of research in deductive databases is to
provide a declarative programming framework for building database
applications. The research is also concerned with alleviating the
shortcomings of traditional database programming languages like SQL
etc. A deductive database system combines traditional database
facilities with a powerful LOGIC-BASED language for queries, reasoning
and application development. Recent research in this area has been
closely linked to research in Non-monotonic reasoning, Semantics of
logic programs and Ordered logic.
The workshop is intended to bring together researchers (theoreticians
as well as practicioners) involved in the area of deductive databases
and deductive computing. The aim is to provide a forum for discussing
and exchanging ideas on various aspects of deductive databases such
as:
- Object-oriented deduction (i.e. hierarchies and deduction)
- Negation
- Non-monotonic deduction
- Sets (matching and unification)
- Paraconsistency
- Abstract data types
- Meta programming
- Compilation techniques (magic sets, counting etc.)
- Abstract machines (execution architectures and computational models)
- Query optimization techniques
- Applications
Papers (full papers and extended abstracts) are solicited on any
aspect of deductive databases. Papers must be written in English, must
not exceed 10 pages, and should include both an abstract and keywords
to define the topic. Authors are asked to submit four copies to
either Els Laenens or Natraj Arni at the addresses below.
Submit papers to either:
Els Laenens Natraj Arni
Dept. of Math. and CS MCC
University of Antwerp (RUCA) 3500, West Balcones Ctr. Dr.
Groenenborgerlaan 171 Austin, TX. 78759
2020 Antwerpen U.S.A.
Belgium
Email: els@ccu.uia.ac.be Email: natraj@mcc.com
Phone: +32 3 218.04.77 Phone: +1 512 338-3718
Fax: +32 3 820.22.44 Fax: +1 512 338-3890
Submissions Due: April 1, 1993
Notification: May 1, 1993
Final Version Due: May 15, 1993
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 13:50:35 +0100
From: EACL 1993 <eacl93@let.ruu.nl>
Subject: Program: EACL93
EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93-EACL93
THIRD NOTIFICATION -- PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
The European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics will hold its Sixth Conference in Utrecht, The
Netherlands, from Wednesday to Friday, 21-23 April 1993, preceded
by two days of tutorials on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20.
General Conference Chair: The conference is co-chaired by Steven
Krauwer, Michael Moortgat and Louis des Tombe (OTS, Utrecht).
Programme Committee: Anne Abeille (University of Paris), Ted
Briscoe (University of Cambridge), Ken Church (AT T Bell
Laboratories), Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania), Ewan
Klein (University of Edinburgh), Andras Kornai (CSLI, Stanford),
Jan Landsbergen (IPO, Eindhoven), Uwe Reyle (University of
Stuttgart), Anne de Roeck (University of Essex), Remko Scha
(University of Amsterdam), Susan Warwick-Armstrong (ISSCO,
Geneva).
Local Organization Coordinator: Renee Pohlmann (OTS, Utrecht).
Tutorials Coordinator: Jan van Eijck (CWI, Amsterdam).
Student Session Programme Committee: The Committee is co-chaired by
Anne-Marie Mineur and Yvon Wijnen (Utrecht University), and consists
of David Beaver, Morten Christiansen, Shona Douglas, Tomaz Erjavec,
Alistair Knott, Carl Vogel (University of Edinburgh), Josef van
Genabith (Essex University), Frank Piron (University of Freiburg),
Patrizia Paggio (University of Kopenhagen), Melina Alexa (UMIST,
Manchester), Kjetil Strand (University of Oslo), Uli Schatz, Juergen
Oesterle (University of Muenchen), Irene Pimenta Rodrigues (University
of Lisbon), Jochen Doerre (University of Stuttgart), Paolo Cattaneo
(IDSIA, Lugano).
The final programme is now being prepared, and a full time
schedule will be published shortly. This announcement provides an
overview of the contents of the main programme, and includes
registration information and forms.
Please note that the early registration period has been extended
to 1 March, but note also that hotel accommodation cannot be
guaranteed after this date!
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
TUTORIALS (Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 April):
Each tutorial consists of an introductory class on Monday (3 hours),
and an advanced class on the same topic on Tuesday (3 hours).
There are 4 tutorials:
(1) Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof (University of Amsterdam):
Uses of Dynamic Logic in NL Processing
(2) Hans Uszkoreit (University of Saarbruecken):
Recent Developments in Unification-based NP Processing
Tutorials (1) and (2) will take place in parallel.
(3) Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania):
Statistical Methods in NL Processing
(4) Applications of Complexity Theory
(teacher to be announced)
Tutorials (3) and (4) will take place in parallel.
MAIN PROGRAMME (Wednesday 21, Thursday 22 and Friday 23 April):
INVITED SPEAKERS:
(1) Ken Church (AT&T)
(2) Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam)
(3) Third speaker to be announced
PAPERS:
Below we list the papers that have been accepted for EACL93
(including papers on the reserve list). Note that not all authors
have confirmed their participation yet.
Area: SYNTAX AND CL
Doug Arnold, Toni Badia, Josef van Genabith, Stella Markantonatou,
Stefan Momma, Louisa Sadler, Paul Schmidt:
Experiments in Reusability of Grammatical Resources
Bernd Abb, Michael Herweg and Kai Lebeth:
The Incremental Generation of Passive Sentences
Area: LEXICON, MORPHOLOGY
Harald Trost:
Coping with derivation in a morphological component
Adam Kilgarriff:
Inheriting Verb Alternations
Josee Heemskerk:
A probabilistic context-free grammar for disambiguation in
morphological parsing
Hideki Kozima and Teiji Furugori:
Similarity between Words Computed by Spreading Activation
on an English Dictionary
Area: DATA-ORIENTED CL
Yves Schabes, Michael Roth and Randy Osborne:
Parsing the Wall Street Journal with the Inside-Outside
Algorithm
Rens Bod:
Using an Annotated Corpus as a Virtual Grammar
Didier Bourigault:
An Endogeneous-Corpus Based Method for Structural Noun
Phrase Disambiguation
Masaki Kiyono and Jun-ichi Tsujii:
Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition from Parsing Failures
Pim van der Eijk:
Automating the Acquisition of Bilingual Terminology
Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans:
Data-Oriented Methods for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
Area: AI-RELATED METHODS IN CL
Donna M. Gates and Peter Shell:
Rule-based acquisition and maintenance of lexical and
semantic knowledge
Susan McRoy and Graeme Hirst:
Abductive explanations of dialogue misunderstandings
Geoffrey Simmons:
Tradeoff between Compositionality and Complexity in the
Semantics of Dimensional Adjectives
Area: PARSING AND COMPLEXITY
Alain Lecomte:
Efficient Proof-Nets for Parsing
Patrick Blackburn and Edith Spaan:
Decidability and Undecidability in stand-alone Feature
Logics
Mark-Jan Nederhof:
Generalized left-corner parsing
K. Vijay-Shanker, David J. Weir:
The use of shared forests in TAG parsing
Gosse Bouma and Gertjan van Noord:
Head-driven parsing for lexicalist grammars: experimental
results
Peter Staudacher:
New frontiers beyond context-freeness: di-grammars and
di-automata
Atro Voutilainen, Pasi Tapanainen:
Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser
Area: LOGIC AND CL
Juergen Wedekind and Ronald M. Kaplan:
Type-driven semantic interpretation of f-structures
Olivier Bouchez, Olivier Istace, Jan van Eijck:
A strategy for dynamic interpretation: a fragment and an
implementation
Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping and Vijay Saraswat:
LFG semantics via constraints
Marcus Kracht:
Mathematical Aspects of Command Relations
Martin Boettcher:
Disjunctions and inheritance in the context feature
structure system
Patrick Blackburn, Claire Gardent and Wilfried Meyer-Viol:
Talking about trees
Martin Emms:
Parsing with polymorphism
Koen Versmissen:
Lambek calculus, modalities and semigroup semantics
Glyn Morrill and Teresa Solias:
Tuples, Discontinuity, and Gapping in Categorial Grammar
Daniele Godard and Jacques Jayez:
Towards a proper treatment of coercion phenomena
Area: MORPHOLOGY, PHONOLOGY, SPEECH
Scott Prevost, Mark Steedman:
Generating contextually appropriate intonation
Ajit Narayanan, Lama Hashem:
On abstract, finite-state morphology
Lynne J. Cahill:
Morphonology in the Lexicon
Marc van Oostendorp:
Formal properties of metrical structure
Area: MACHINE TRANSLATION
Ronald M. Kaplan and Juergen Wedekind:
Restriction and Correspondence-based Translation
Area: SEMANTICS
Sheila Glasbey:
A computational treatment of sentence-final 'then'
Claire Gardent:
A unification-based approach to multiple VP ellipsis
resolution
E. Hajicova, H. Skoumalova, P. Sgall:
Identifying topic and focus by an automatic procedure
Andrew Kehler:
A Discourse Copying Algorithm for Ellipsis and Anaphora Resolution
Tim Fernando:
The donkey strikes back
Michael White:
Delimitedness and trajectory-of-motion events
Joke Dorrepaal:
On the notion of uniqueness
Alex Lascarides, Jon Oberlander:
Temporal connectives in a discourse context
Tadashi Nomoto and Yoshihiko Nitta:
Resolving Zero Anaphora in Japanese
STUDENT PAPERS:
Johan Bos:
VP Ellipsis in a DRT-implementation
George C. Demetriou:
Lexical Disambiguation Using CHIP (Constraint Handling in Prolog)
Paola Monachesi:
Object clitics and clitic climbing in Italian HPSG grammar
Michael Schiehlen:
Localising Barriers Theory
Hadar Shemtov:
A Translation Tool for Dealing with Updated Documents
Manfred Stede:
Lexical Choice Criteria in Language Generation
POSTERS and DEMOS:
The following poster and demo submissions have been accepted by
the programme committee. A number of submissions (not listed
here) is waiting for confirmation by the authors.
I. Aduriz, E. Agirre, I. Alegria, X. Arregi, J.M. Ariola,
X. Artola, A. Diaz de Ilarraza, N. Ezeiza, M. Maritxalar,
K. Sarasola and M. Urkia:
A morphological analysis based method for spelling correction
Eric Wehrli and Mira Ramluckun:
ITS-2: an interactive personal translation system
Gabor Proszeky and Laszlo Tihanyi:
Helyette: Inflectional Thesaurus for Agglutinative Languages
Dario Bianchi, Rodolfo Delmonte and Emanuele Pianta:
Understanding Stories in Different Languages with GETA_RUN
Gunnar Eriksson and Gunnel Kallgren:
Demonstration of software for annotation and automatic disambiguation
Atro Voutilainen and Pasi Tapanainen:
Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser
Shinichi Doi, Kazunori Muraki and Shinichiro Kamei:
Long Sentence Analysis by Domain Specific Pattern Grammar
David Clemenceau and Emmanuel Roche:
Enhancing a Large Scale Dictionary with a two-level System
Robert Frederking, Ariel Cohen, Dean Grannes, Peter Cousseau
and Sergei Nirenburg:
The PANGLOSS MARK I MAT system
Laila Dybkjaer, Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkjaer:
Maximising Naturalness
Dirk Heylen, Andre Schenk and Marc Verhagen:
A Constraint-based Representation Scheme of Collocational Structures
Gabor Proszeky and Laszlo Tihanyi:
Helyette: Inflectional Thesaurus for Agglutinative Languages
Atro Voutilainen and Pasi Tapanainen:
Ambiguity resolution in a reductionistic parser
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
NOTE THE EXTENSION OF THE EARLY REGISTRATION PERIOD!!!!!!!!
Conference: The registration fee will be 275 Dutch guilders for
ACL-members, and 165 guilders for students and unemployed
members. Registration forms and payment should be received by 1
March 1993. The fees include one copy of the proceedings and an
invitation to the reception.
| until 1 March | after 1 March |
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Standard rate | | |
ACL member (dues paid | | |
for 1993) | 275 Dfl | 385 Dfl |
Non-member (includes | | |
membership for 1993) | 335 Dfl | 445 Dfl |
Reduced rate (full time | | |
students and unemployed) | | |
ACL member (dues paid | | |
for 1993) | 165 Dfl | 230 Dfl |
Non-member (includes | | |
membership for 1993) | 210 Dfl | 275 Dfl |
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Tutorials: The tutorial fee will be 100 Dfl. per tutorial if
registered before 1 March, 1993. After 1 March, the fee will be
130 Dfl. Please note that only people who register for the
conference will be eligible to take part in the tutorials.
| until 1 March | after 1 March |
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Standard rate | 100 Dfl | 130 Dfl |
Reduced rate (full time | | |
students and unemployed) | 70 Dfl | 100 Dfl |
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If a registration is cancelled before 1 April, the registration fee,
less 50 Dfl for administrative costs, will be returned.
Please note: We regret that we cannot accept any registrations by
email. Send your registration and payment by (air)mail.
Accommodation: The organisation has reserved a number of hotel
rooms in Utrecht, close to the conference site. Cheaper
accommodation is offered outside Utrecht. Travelling time will
not be more than an hour. Please return the application for
hotels as soon as possible. Accommodation cannot be guaranteed if
applications with full payment are not received by 1 March.
Payment: All payments must be made in Dutch guilders.
- You can send us - together with your registration form - a
cheque or banker's draft payable to: Faculteit Letteren RU,
UTRECHT
- You can transfer the appropriate amount to our bank account:
Faculteit Letteren RU
Account no 55 50 74 897
ABN-AMRO Bank
Neude 4
3512 AD UTRECHT
Reference : EACL93 registration fee
A copy of the bank transfer should be sent to us together with
your registration form. Make sure you add transfer charges.
- You can use MasterCard/Eurocard and VISA credit cards.
Participants from Eastern European countries: A limited number of
grants will be available for participants living in Eastern
European countries. These grants include free registration and
accommodation, and a daily allowance of 50 Dfl. Authors of
accepted papers will have priority. Please provide full details
concerning affiliation and participation of your institution in
EC exchange programmes such as TEMPUS.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Social Events: The participants will be offered a reception on
Tuesday 20 April. A banquet featuring Indonesian `Rijsttafel'
will be held on Thursday the 22nd. Space limitations restrict the
number of participants; first come first served. The banquet fee
is 60 Dfl.
Venue: The conference site is located in the centre of Utrecht,
10 minutes walk from Utrecht Central Station, which in turn is
located at 50 minutes by train (30 by taxi) from Amsterdam
Airport (Schiphol).
Addresses: General address for all communications with Programme
Committee, Organizing Committee, Student Session Committee and
Tutorials Coordinator:
EACL93 [relevant committee/coordinator],
OTS,
Trans 10,
NL-3512 JK Utrecht,
The Netherlands.
Tel: +31 30 53 63 77
Fax: +31 30 53 60 00
Email: eacl93@let.ruu.nl
For information on the ACL in general, contact Don Walker
(global), or Mike Rosner (for Europe):
Dr. Donald E. Walker (ACL) Dr. Michael Rosner (ACL)
Bellcore, MRE 2A379 IDSIA
445 South Street, Box 1910 Corso Elvezia 36
Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland
walker@flash.bellcore.com mike@idsia.uu.ch
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Sixth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, 21-23 April 1993, Utrecht
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