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NL-KR Digest Volume 13 No. 06
NL-KR Digest Sat Feb 5 10:50:46 PST 1994 Volume 13 No. 6
Today's Topics:
Query: Vocabulary with Phonetic Transcription Sought
CFP: ACLIC, Abstracts for 8th ASIAN CONF. ON LANG., Aug 94, Kyoto
CFP: Abstracts for Wkshp on Prog. Paradigms, AI-GI-VI May 94, Banff
Announcement: Wkshp Statistical and Symbolic NL, Jul 94, Las Cruses
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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 18:29:41 +0100
From: bateman@darmstadt.gmd.de (Dr. John Bateman)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Query: Vocabulary with Phonetic Transcription Sought
In order to conduct a study of a text-to-phoneme converter
for American and British English we are looking for standard
testing reference data. For example, we would need a computer readable
vocabulary (or TEXT corpus e.g. I read=ai ri:d) with phonetic
transcription.
Does anyone out there have, or know of the whereabouts of, such
a body of information? We would appreciate, if you could send one through e-mail
(7bit ASCII or 8bit uuencoded format is O.K.) or give us the
source (e.g. for ftp).
Thanks,
John Bateman (bateman@ipsi.darmstadt.gmd.de)
for: G'eza N'emeth (Technical University Budapest): h1796nem@ella.hu
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 18:51:16 +0900
From: ishikawa@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp (Akira Ishikawa)
Subject: CFP: ACLIC, Abstracts for 8th ASIAN CONF. ON LANG., Aug 94, Kyoto
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Dear Moderator:
The following is the call for abstracts for the 1994 Joint Conference
of the 8th ACLIC/the 2nd PacFoCoL to be held in Kyoto this summer. I'd
appreciate it very much if you'd kindly post it on your board.
Thanks in advance.
Akira Ishikawa
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
1994 JOINT CONFERENCE OF
THE 8TH ASIAN CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION
AND
THE 2ND PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON FORMAL AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
The Logico-Linguistic Society of Japan is pleased to announce that
the 1994 Joint Conference of the 8th ACLIC/the 2nd PacFoCoL is going to
be held at Shiran Kaikan in Kyoto on August 10-11, 1994. This is the
first effort to bring together the two conferences which have been
specifically concerned with the development of milieus conducive to
the exchange and mutual understanding of current research trends
among the researchers working on theoretical and computational
linguistics in this region. Topics of the conference include
theoretical and computational studies in syntax, morphology, semantics,
pragmatics, discourse and dialogue analysis, corpus linguistics, and
logic grammars. Around 20 papers will be presented at plenary sessions.
The authors will have 30 minutes for presentation and quesion period.
Abstracts should not exceed in length three A4 pages with one additional
page for reference and/or data. 4 hard-copies of the abstract with the
title, the author's name, affiliation, Mailing address, phone number
and/or e-mail address on a separate page should be sent to by April 30,
1994:
Dr Akira Ishikawa
1994 ACLIC/PacFoCoL
Dept of English Language & Studies
Sophia University
7 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, 102
Japan
Tel: 81-3-3238-3917
Fax: 81-3-3238-3910
e-mail: ishikawa@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp
The notice of abstract acceptance will be mailed out by June 10,1994.
For further information, please contact
Akira Ishikawa
ishikawa@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp, or
Masahito Kawamori
kawamori@atom.ntt.co.jp.
Programm Committee
Chairperson:
Akira Ikeya, Toyo Gakuen University
Co-chairpersons:
Byungsoo Park, Kyun Hee University
Benjamin K T'sou, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
Organizing Committee
Takao Gunji, Osaka University
Yasunari Harada, Waseda University
Koiti Hasida, Electrotechnical Laboratory
Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica
Akira Ishikawa, Sophia University
Masahito Kawamori, NTT
Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University
Kiyong Lee, Korea Universtiy
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
K.P. Mohanan, National University of Singapore
Yoshihiko Nitta, Advanced Research Laboratory Hitachi, Ltd.
Keh-yi Su, Tsing Hua University
Paul Horn Jyh Wu, National University of Singapore
Yun-Mei Ying, Chengchi University
Hongming Zhang, National Universtiy of Singapore
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From: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews)
Subject: CFP: Abstracts for Wkshp on Prog. Paradigms, AI-GI-VI May 94, Banff
Reply-To: popowich@cs.sfu.ca
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 20:05:36 GMT
Call for ABSTRACTS
Workshop on Programming Paradigms for Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday May 17, 1994
Banff, Alberta
CANADA
in conjunction with AI-GI-VI'94
There have been several efforts into merging programming paradigms such as
logic programming, functional programming and object-oriented programming.
The latter is gaining more and more ground in AI applications, but it is not
clear why this should be the trend. Typically, each one of these frameworks
is ideal for certain kinds of problems while exhibiting deficiencies for
other kinds; no single approach is ideal for all problems. So it is not
surprising that researchers are putting effort into incorporating and adapting
features from the different approaches, but this borrowing is not without
problems. The time is ripe for an examination of which features are best in
which approach and why, of how transferrable these features are between
approaches, and of the effort involved vs. the results expected.
Logic, functional and object-oriented paradigms, among others, have sprung from
the desire to make the task of programming more akin to a specifically human
endeavour, rather than an endeavour of giving machines what they expect. This
workshop aims at providing a perspective of the state of the art in programming
paradigms for AI and for expressing complex knowledge in general. Its topics
of focus include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Logic vs. functional vs. other paradigms
- How close are we to declarative programming?
- Do we even want to be close to declarative programming?
- Should the competing approaches be merged, and if so how can this be done?
SUBMISSIONS
Individuals interested in presenting a paper at the workshop should prepare an
extended abstract or position paper of about 1000 words including references,
approximately 4 double-spaced pages. The title page must include: author's
name, postal address, e-mail address (if applicable), telephone and fax
numbers. Electronic submission of abstracts (in either PostScript, LaTeX or
ASCII) is encouraged. Abstracts should be sent to via e-mail to
popowich@cs.sfu.ca or to:
Fred Popowich
PPAI Workshop
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
CANADA V5A 1S6
If there is sufficient interest, the proceedings will be published after the
conference in electronic format.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: Friday March 4th, 1994
Notification of acceptance: Tuesday April 5th, 1994
OTHER INFORMATION
The workshop is being held in conjunction with the Tenth Canadian Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94) and with the Graphics Interface (GI'94) and
Vision Interface (VI'94) conferences, at the Banff Park Lodge, in Banff,
Alberta. Banff is located in the spectacular Canadian Rockies, the beauty of
which remains unsurpassed, and is just an hour and a half drive from Calgary.
The Calgary International Airport can be reached from many North American
cities via many different airlines. In addition, there is direct bus service
from the airport to Banff, or alternatively one can arrange a limousine or
rental car at the airport. The ski season usually ends around the 24th of May
at Sunshine, so ski enthusiasts may enjoy spring skiing at its finest.
For non-skiers there are many other activities to occupy their precious time.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Jamie Andrews, Simon Fraser University
Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University
Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser University
Paul Tarau, University of Moncton.
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 12:03:39 -0500
From: Judith Klavans <klavans@cs.columbia.edu>
To: mantaras@ceab.es, arpanet-bboards@mc.lcs.mit.edu,
Subject: Announcement: Wkshp Statistical and Symbolic NL, Jul 94, Las Cruses
THE BALANCING ACT:
Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language
1 July 1994
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
A workshop in conjunction with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
(27-30 June 1994)
A renaissance of interest in corpus-based statistical methods has
rekindled old controversies -- rationalist vs. empiricist
philosophies, theory-driven vs. data-driven methodologies, symbolic
vs. statistical techniques. The aim of this workshop is to set aside
a priori biases and explore the balancing act that must take place
when symbolic and statistical approaches are brought together. We
plan to accept papers from authors having a wide range of
perspectives, and to initiate a discussion that includes
philosophical, theoretical, and practical issues.
Submissions to the workshop must describe research in which both
symbolic and statistical methods play a part. All research of this
kind requires that the researcher make choices: What knowledge will be
represented symbolically and how will it be obtained? What
assumptions underlie the statistical model? What is the researcher
gaining by combining approaches? Questions like these, and the
metaphor of the balancing act, will provide a unifying theme to draw
contributions from a wide spectrum of language researchers.
ORGANIZERS:
Judith Klavans, Columbia Univerisity
Philip Resnik, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work; they should
clearly emphasize the type of paper to be presented (e.g.
implementation, philosophical, etc.) and the state of completion of
the research. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented
or have been presented at any other meeting. In addition to the
workshop proceedings, plans for publication as a book require that
papers not have been published in any other publicly available
proceedings. Papers submitted to other conferences will be
considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the
submission.
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Following guidelines for the ACL meeting,
authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to
exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside the
specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection
without review. Papers should be headed by a title page containing
the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the
subject area(s). If the author wishes reviewing to be blind, a
separate page with author identification information must be
submitted.
SUBMISSION MEDIA: Papers may be submitted electronically or in hard
copy to either organizer at the addresses given below. Electronic
submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or plain
text. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty)
retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described
below) and should not refer to any external files or styles except for
the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. A model submission
modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well as a
bibliography style acl.bst. Note that the bibliography for a
submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual
bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source
file. Be sure that e-mail submissions have no lines longer than 80
characters to avoid mailer problems.
Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) copies of the paper.
A plain text version of the identification page should be sent
separately by electronic mail if possible, giving the following
information: title, author(s), address(es), abstract, content areas,
word count.
Schedule: Papers must be received by 15 March 1994. Late papers will
not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the
first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will
be notified of acceptance by 10 April 1994. Camera-ready copies of
final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a
laser printer, must be received by 10 May 1994, along with a signed
copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is
available through the ACL LISTSERV.
REGISTRATION: Registration fees are $25 for participants who register
by 15 May 1994. Late registrations will be $30. Registration
includes a copy of the proceedings, lunch, and refreshments during the
day. Payment in US$ checks payable to ACL or credit card payment
(Visa/Mastercard) can be sent to Philip Resnik at the address below.
Please submit the following information along with payment:
name
affiliation
postal address
email
method of payment (check or credit card)
credit card info (name, card number, expiration date)
dietary requirements (vegetarian, kosher, etc)
ACL INFORMATION: For other information on the ACL conference which
precedes the workshop and on the ACL more generally, please use the
ACL LISTSERV, described below.
ACL LISTSERV: Listserv is a facility to allow access to an electronic
document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up
at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from
the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to
listserv@cs.columbia.edu
with an empty subject field and the message body containing the
request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help
on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL
archive and "get acl-l <file>" to get a particular file named <file>
from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a
message with the following body should be sent:
get acl-l membership-form.txt
Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have
many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued
up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled.
The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an
example of how to get the same file by FTP (user typein is
underlined):
$ ftp cs.columbia.edu
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Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous
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Password:pereira@research.att.com << not echoed
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ftp> cd acl-l
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ftp> get membership-form.txt.Z
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ftp> quit
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$ uncompress membership-form.txt.Z
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This file is listed under acl-l/ACL94/Workshop_balancing_act.ascii.Z.
SPONSORSHIP: This workshop is sponsored by the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL). It is organized by:
Judith L. Klavans Philip Resnik
Columbia University Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc.
Department of Computer Science Mailstop UCHL03-207
500 W 120th Street Two Elizabeth Drive
New York, NY 10027, USA Chelmsford, MA 01824-4195 USA
klavans@cs.columbia.edu philip.resnik@east.sun.com
Phone: (212) 939-7120 Phone: (508) 442-0841
Fax: (914) 478-1802 Fax: (508) 250-5067
[94-01-27]
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