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NL-KR Digest Sun May 29 23:37:36 PDT 1994 Volume 13 No. 21
Today's Topics:
CFP: Computational linguistics conference., Nov. 94, Cranfield
Announcement: Seeking texts to build French corpora
Announcement: FISI-CS RIDE BOARD, Jul 94, Buffalo
Announcement: Free Edition of the Computists' Communique
Announcement: Release CW of SCHOLAR
Program: AAAI-94 workshop on Speech and Langauge, Jul 94, Seattle
Program: AAAI-94 Workshop on Vision and Language, Jul 94, Seattle
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: rwsh@dircon.co.uk (Roger Harris)
Subject: CFP: Computational linguistics conference., Nov. 94, Cranfield
Date: 16 May 1994 07:48:07 +0100
Computational linguistics conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
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A conference entitled 'MACHINE TRANSLATION - TEN YEARS ON'
is being jointly organised by Cranfield University and the
Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (part of the
British Computer Society).
Conference date: 12-14 November, 1994.
Venue: Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England.
Theme: All aspects of computerised language translation.
Please send your e-mail address to Roger Harris < rwsh@dircon.co.uk >
for further details and an application form.
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
From: rochdi@steinway.u-strasbg.fr (OUESLATI Rochdi)
Subject: Announcement: Seeking texts to build French corpora
Date: 18 May 1994 16:11:28 GMT
we are looking for a large amount of texts especially in french
langage to help researchers to test their tools for NL processing.
This collect will help students and researchers to test their
projects easily. It is important to have the corpus collected at one and
same address. We need any type of corpus: scientific and technical texts
in french langage are needed too. send any e-mail address helpfull
please write to rochdi@steinway.u-strasbg.fr
Think you
rochdi@steinway.u-strasbg.fr (OUESLATI Rochdi)
Universite Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg (France)
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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 09:44:32 -0400
From: cogsci94@cs.Buffalo.EDU (SUNY at Buffalo Cognitive Science Announcements)
To: cogsci94@cs.Buffalo.EDU
Subject: Announcement: FISI-CS RIDE BOARD, Jul 94, Buffalo
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
(FISI-CS)
July 5 to 29 at the University at Buffalo
Dear FISI-CS Attendee:
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Directions:
1. Fill out the form and send it in as early as possible.
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3. It is your responsibility to contact the driver to set up meeting time.
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Date: Thu 19 May 94 10:16:24-PDT
From: Ken Laws <LAWS@ai.sri.com>
Subject: Announcement: Free Edition of the Computists' Communique
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
The Computists' Communique is now available free on the day
of each full moon. Just reply to laws@ai.sri.com and ask to be
added to the Full Moon distribution.
The Communique is a weekly 32KB newsletter from Computists
International, a mutual-aid association for AI/IS/CS researchers,
founded in 1991. Members get job ads, NSF announcements, grant
and research news, journal calls, business tips, software industry
analysis, and leads to online resources. (Ask me if you'd like to
hear more about it.)
Please forward this offer to your friends and local bboards.
-- Dr. Kenneth I. Laws
Computists International
Palo Alto, CA
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Date: Fri, 20 May 94 16:03:59 EDT
From: Joseph Raben <JQRQC%CUNYVM.BITNET@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU>
Subject: Announcement: Release CW of SCHOLAR
To: scitdoc%qucdn.BITNET@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU,
P L E A S E P O S T
Release CW of SCHOLAR: Natural Language Processing Online
will be distributed shortly to registered subscribers. If
not subscribed, send email to <listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
as follows: sub scholar Firstname Lastname .
This release contains the following items:
A notice that SCHOLAR has been WAISindexed so that the
entire contents of the database can be searched on any
combination of boolean terms.
A book sumary of Arnold Trehub, _The Cognitive Brain_
(contents pages, abstract and index)
A book summary of Myron C. Tuman, _Literacy in the Com-
puter Age_ (contents pages and abstract)
A book summary of _Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril
of Reading and Writing with Computers_, ed. Myron C. Tuman
(contents pages and abstract)
A book summary of Donna Lee Berg, _A Guide to the Oxford
English Dictionary (contents pages and abstract)
A book summary of John R. Searle, _The Rediscovery of the
Mind_ (contents pages, abstract and index)
A book summary of Eugene Charniak, _Statistical Language
Learning_ (contents pages and abstract)
A book summary of Peter Robinson, _The Digitalization of
Primary Textual Sources_ (contents pages and abstract)
A book summary of _Electronic Information Resources and
Historians: A European Perspective_, ed. Manfred Thaller
(contents pages)
A book summary of Peter Kahle, _Working with Foreign Lan-
guages and Characters in WordPerfect (contents pages, ab-
stract and index)
A book summary of _Survey of Computational Lingistics
Courses_
_Computational Linguistics_, vol. 20 no. 1 (contents pages
and abstracts)
A notice of the SUSANNE Corpus of American English
A notice of the Computational Language Electronic Preprint
Server.
A notice of library gophers in the United Kingdom
A global calendar of meetings and workshops in North America,
Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa
A notice of funding guidelines for the Annenberg/CPB Higher
Education Program.
A notice that Russian computer scientists are seeking work in
hypertext and related applications.
A notice of free concordance programs.
A notice that the _Oxford Dictionary of Familiar Quotations_,
the _Oxford Thesaurus_ and _Webster's Dictionary_ can be
reached by telnet.
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: M.Lee@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Mark Lee)
Subject: Program: AAAI-94 workshop on Speech and Langauge, Jul 94, Seattle
Date: 23 May 1994 07:59:10 -0500
PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
AAAI-94 Workshop on
Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing
Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94)
Seattle, Washington, USA
Sunday/Monday, July 31st/August 1st, 1994
Chair:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield, ENGLAND, EU
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
Prof. Ole Bernsen (Roskilde, Denmark)
Dr. Martin Cooke (Sheffield, England)
Dr. Daniel Jurafsky (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
Dr. Steve Renals (Cambridge, England)
Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England)
Dr. Eiichiro Sumita (ATR, Japan)
Prof. Dr. Walther v.Hahn (Hamburg, Germany)
Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany)
Dr. Sheryl R. Young (CMU, USA)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of
perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991
and Mc Kevitt (Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research
involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Speech Processing (SP). The aim here is to bring to the AI community
results being presented at computational linguistics (e.g.
COLING/ACL), and speech conferences (e.g. ICASSP, ICSLP).
Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models
and systems in the areas of NLP and SP we have just started to see
progress on integrating these two subareas of AI. Most success has
been with speech synthesis and less with speech understanding.
However, there are still a number of important questions to answer
about the integration of speech and language processing. How is
intentional information best gleaned from speech input? How does one
cope with situations where there are multiple speakers in a dialogue
with multiple intentions? How does discourse understanding occur in
multi-speaker situations with noise? How does prosodic information
help NLP systems? What corpora (e.g. DARPA ATIS corpora, MAP-TASK
corpus from Edinburgh) exist for integrated data on speech and
language?
The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research
in NLP and SP have advanced to the stage that they can each benefit
from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as
people in NLP and SP can gain insight from each others' work.
References
Dennett, Daniel (1991)
Consciousness explained
Harmondsworth: Penguin
Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor)
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing
Special Volume 8(1,2,3) of AI Review Journal
Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming)
WORKSHOP TOPICS:
The workshop will focus on these themes:
* Speech understanding
* Dialogue & Discourse
* Machine translation
* Architectures
* Site descriptions (Hamburg, JANUS-II, ATR, CMU)
PROGRAMME:
Sunday, July 31st, 1994
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INTRODUCTION I:
8.45 `Introduction'
Paul Mc Kevitt
SPEECH UNDERSTANDING I:
(Chair: Alberto Lavelli)
9.00 `Left-to-Right analysis of spoken language'
Bernd Seestaedt, Franz Kummert & Gerhard Sagerer
University of Bielefeld, Germany, EU
9.30 `An N-Best representation for bidirectional parsing strategies'
Anna Corazza & Alberto Lavelli
IRST, Trento, Italy, EU
10.00 Break
10.30 `Incorporation of phoneme-context-dependence in LR table
through constraint propagation method'
Hozumi TANAKA, Hui LI & Takenobu TOKUNAGA
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
11.00 Discussion
SPEECH UNDERSTANDING II:
(Chair: Karen Ward)
11.15 `On the need for a theory of knowledge sources
for spoken language understanding'
Karen Ward & David G. Novick
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Oregon, USA
11.45 `Misrecognition detection in speech recognition'
Sheryl R. Young
Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
12.15 Discussion
12.30 LUNCH
SITE DESCRIPTION I:
(Chair: Nigel Ward)
2.00 `An outline of the Verbmobil project with focus on the
work at the University of Hamburg'
J. Amtrup, Andreas Hauenstein, C. Pyka, V. Weber & S. Wermter
University of Hamburg, Germany, EU
ARCHITECTURES I:
(Chair: Nigel Ward)
2.15 `An investigation of tightly coupled time synchronous speech language
interfaces using a unification grammar'
Andreas Hauenstein & Hans H. Weber
University of Hamburg & University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, EU
2.45 `An approach to tightly-coupled syntactic/semantic
processing for speech understanding'
Nigel Ward
University of Tokyo, Japan
3.15 Discussion
3.30 Break
DIALOGUE & DISCOURSE I:
(Chair: Jean Veronis)
4.00 `Pragmatic linguistic constraint models for
large-vocabulary speech processing'
Eric Atwell and Paul Mc Kevitt
University of Leeds & University of Sheffield, England, EU
4.30 `SpeechActs: a testbed for continuous speech applications'
Paul Martin & Andy Kehler
Sun Microsystems Laboratories & Harvard University, USA
5.00 `NL and speech in the Multext project'
Jean Veronis, Daniel Hirst, Robert Espesser & Nancy Ide
CNRS & Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
5.30 Discussion
6.00 OICHE MHAITH
Monday, August 1st, 1994
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INTRODUCTION II:
8.45 `Introduction'
Paul Mc Kevitt
SITE DESCRIPTIONS II & III:
(Chair: Eiichiro Sumita)
9.00 `JANUS-II: research in spoken language translation'
Alex Waibel
Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
& University of Karlsruhe, Germany, EU
9.15 `Work at ATR on spoken language translation'
Dr. Eiichiro Sumita
ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories,
Kyoto, Japan
MACHINE TRANSLATION:
(Chair: Bernhard Suhm)
9.30 `Bilingual corpus for speech translation'
Osamu FURUSE, Yasuhiro SOBASHIMA, Toshiyuki TAKEZAWA &
Noriyoshi URATANI
ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories,
Kyoto, Japan
10.00 Break
10.30 `Speech-language integration in a multi-lingual
speech translation system'
Bernhard Suhm, Lori Levin, N. Coccaro, Jaime Carbonell,
K. Horiguchi, R. Isotani, A. Lavie, L. Mayfield, C.P. Rose,
C. Van Ess-Dykema & Alex Waibel
Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories,
Kyoto, Japan
U.S. Department of Defense, & University of Karlsruhe, Germany, EU
11.00 Discussion
ARCHITECTURES II:
(Chair: Daniel Jurafsky)
11.30 `Towards an artificial agent as the kernel of a spoken dialogue system:
a progress report'
David Sadek, A. Ferrieux & A. Cozannet
French Telecom, CNET, France, EU
12.00 `Integrating experimental models of syntax, phonology, and
accent/dialect in a speech recognizer'
Daniel Jurafsky, Chuck Wooters, Gary Tajchman,
Jonathan Segal, Andreas Stolcke & Nelson Morgan
ICSI and University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
12.30 Discussion
12.45 LUNCH
SITE DESCRIPTION IV:
(Chair: Sheryl R. Young)
2.00 `Work at CMU on spoken dialogue systems'
Sheryl R. Young
Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
DIALOGUE & DISCOURSE II:
(Chair: Sheryl R. Young)
2.15 `Speech recognition in multi-agent dialogue'
Sheryl R. Young
Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2.45 `A study of intonation and discourse structure in directions'
Barbara J. Grosz, Julia Hirschberg & Christine H. Nakatani
Harvard University & AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA
3.15 Discussion
3.30 Break
ARCHITECTURES III:
(Chair: Mary P. Harper)
4.00 `An integrative architecture for speech and language understanding'
William Edmondson, Jon Iles & Paul Mc Kevitt
University of Birmingham & University of Sheffield, England, EU
4.30 `Integrating language models with speech recognition'
Mary P. Harper, Leah H. Jamieson, Carl D. Mitchell, Goangshiuan Ying,
SiriPong Potisuk, Pramila N. Srinivasan, Ruxin Chen,
Carla B. Zoltowski, Laura L. McPheters, Bryan Pellom &
Randall A. Helzerman
School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, USA
5.00 Discussion
5.15 OICHE MHAITH
PUBLICATION:
Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is
sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI
Press.
WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court
University of Sheffield
211 Portobello Street
GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield
England, UK, EU.
e-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk
fax: +44 742 780972
phone: +44 742 825572 (office)
825590 (secretary)
ATTENDANCE:
We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the
workshop.
If you are interested in attending then please send the following
form to p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk as soon as possible:
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Name:
Affiliation:
Full Address:
E-mail:
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REGISTRATION ENQUIRIES FOR AAAI CAN BE MADE TO:
NCAI@aaai.org
REGISTRATION FEE:
Incorporated into the technical registration fee except for
those who are workshop attendees only.
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: M.Lee@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Mark Lee)
Subject: Program: AAAI-94 Workshop on Vision and Language, Jul 94, Seattle
Date: 23 May 1994 07:59:20 -0500
PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
AAAI-94 Workshop on
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing
Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94)
Seattle, Washington, USA
Tuesday/Wednesday, August 2nd/3rd, 1994
Chair:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield, ENGLAND, EU
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
Prof. Mike Brady (Oxford, England)
Prof. Jerry Feldman (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
Prof. John Frisby (Sheffield, England)
Prof. Frank Harary (CRL, New Mexico, USA)
Dr. Eduard Hovy (USC ISI, Los Angeles, USA)
Dr. Mark Maybury (MITRE, Cambridge, USA)
Dr. Ryuichi Oka (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan)
Prof. Derek Partridge (Exeter, England)
Dr. Terry Regier (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
Prof. Roger Schank (ILS, Illinois, USA)
Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England)
Dr. Oliviero Stock (IRST, Italy)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany)
Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of
perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991
and Mc Kevitt (Guest Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research
involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Vision Processing (VP).
Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models
and systems in the areas of NLP and VP there has been little progress
on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It
is not clear why there has not already been much activity in
integrating these two areas. Is it because of the long-time reductionist
trend in science up until the recent emphasis on chaos theory,
nonlinear systems, and emergent behaviour? Or, is it because the
people who have tended to work on NLP tend to be in other Departments,
or of a different ilk, from those who have worked on VP?
We believe it is high time to bring together NLP and VP. Already we
have advertised a call for papers for a special volume of the Journal
of AI Review to focus on their integration and we have had
a tremendous response. There will be three special issues focussing
on theory and applications of NLP and VP and intelligent multimedia
systems.
The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research
in NLP and VP has advanced to the stage that they can each benefit
from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as
people in NLP and VP can gain insight from each others' work.
References
Dennett, Daniel (1991)
Consciousness explained
Harmondsworth: Penguin
Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor)
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing
Special Volume 8(1,2,3) of AI Review Journal
Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming)
WORKSHOP TOPICS:
The workshop will focus on these themes:
* Multimedia retrieval
* Multimedia document processing
* Speech, gesture and gaze
* Theory
* Multimedia presentation
* Spatial relations
* Multimedia interfaces
* Reference
PROGRAMME:
Tuesday, August 2nd, 1994
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INTRODUCTION I:
8.45 `Introduction'
Paul Mc Kevitt
MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL:
(Chair: Neil C. Rowe)
9.00 `Domain-independent rules relating captions and pictures'
Neil C. Rowe
Computer Science, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, USA
9.30 `An image retrieval system that accepts natural language'
Hiromasa NAKATANI and Yukihiro ITOH
Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering,
Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan
10.00 Break
MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENT PROCESSING:
(Chair: Rohini Srihari)
10.30 `Integrating text and graphical input to a knowledge base'
Raman Rajagopalan
Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA
11.00 `Photo understanding using visual constraints generated'
from accompanying text
Rohini Srihari
Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR),
SUNY Buffalo, NY, USA
11.30 Discussion
SPEECH, GESTURE AND GAZE:
(Chair: Jordi Robert-Ribes)
12.00 `Audiovisual recognition of speech units: a tentative functional
model compatible with psychological data'
Jordi Robert-Ribes, Michel Piquemal, Jean-Luc Schwartz &
Pierre Escudier
Institut de la Communication Parlee (ICP)
Grenoble, France, EU
12.30 Discussion
12.45 LUNCH
SITE DESCRIPTION (VIDEO):
(Chair: Arnold G. Smith)
2.00 `The spoken image system: on the visual interpretation of verbal
scene descriptions'
Sean O Nuallain, Benoit Farley & Arnold G. Smith
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, EU &
NRC, Ottawa, Canada
THEORY:
2.20 `Behavioural descriptions from image sequences'
Hilary Buxton and Richard Howarth
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex &
Department of Computing Science, QMW, University of London
2.50 `Visions of language'
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, England, EU
3.15 Discussion
3.30 Break
4.00 `Language animation'
A. Narayanan, L. Ford, D. Manuel, D. Tallis, and M. Yazdani
Media Laboratory, Department of Computer Science,
University of Exeter, England, EU
4.30 Discussion
MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION:
(Chair: Arnold G. Smith)
4.45 `Assembly plan generation by integrating pictorial and textual
information in an assembly illustration'
Shoujie He, Norihiro Abe and Tadahiro Kitahashi
Dept of Information Systems and Computer Science,
National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore,
Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering,
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka-shi, Japan &
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
5.15 `Multimedia presentation of interpreted visual data'
Elisabeth Andre, Gerd Herzog & Thomas Rist
DFKI & Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany, EU
5.45 Discussion
6.00 OICHE MHAITH
Wednesday, August 3rd, 1994
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INTRODUCTION:
8.45 `Introduction'
Paul Mc Kevitt
SPATIAL RELATIONS I:
(Chair: Jeffrey Mark Siskind)
9.00 `Propositional semantics in the WIP system'
Patrick Olivier & Jun-ichi Tsujii
Centre for Intelligent Systems
University of Wales at Aberystwyth, Penglais, Wales, EU &
Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, England, EU
9.30 `Spatial layout identification and incremental descriptions'
Klaus-Peter Gapp & Wolfgang Maass
Cognitive Science Program, Saarbruecken, Germany, EU
10.00 Break
10.30 `Axiomatic support for event perception'
Jeffrey Mark Siskind
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada
11.00 Discussion
SPATIAL RELATIONS II:
(Chair: Stephan Kerpedjiev)
11.30 `A cognitive approach to an interlingua representation of
spatial descriptions'
Irina Reyero-Sans & Jun-ichi Tsujii
Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, England, EU
12.00 `Describing spatial relations in weather reports through prepositions'
Stephan Kerpedjiev,
NOAA/ERL/Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA
12.30 Discussion
12.45 LUNCH
MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES:
(Chair: Yuri A. TIJERINO)
2.00 `Talking pictures: an empirical study into the usefulness of
natural language output in a graphical interface'
Carla Huls, Edwin Bos & Alice Dijkstra
NICI, Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands &
Unit of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology, Leiden University,
The Netherlands
2.30 `From verbal and gestural input to 3-D visual feedback'
Yuri A. TIJERINO, Tsutomu MIYASATO & Fumio KISHINO
ATR Communication Systems Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
3.00 Discussion
3.30 Break
4.00 `An integration of natural language and vision processing
towards an agent-based future TV system'
Yeun-Bae Kim, Masahiro Shibata & Masaki Hayashi
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
4.30 Discussion
REFERENCE:
(Chair: Lawrence D. Roberts)
4.45 `An AI module for reference based on perception'
John Moulton, Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y. USA
and Lawrence D. Roberts, SUNY, Binghamton, N.Y. USA
5.15 `Instruction use by a vision-based mobile robot'
Tomohiro Shibata, M. Inaba, & H. Inoue
Department of Mechano Informatics, The University of Tokyo, Japan
5.45 Discussion
6.00 OICHE MHAITH
PUBLICATION:
Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is
sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI
Press.
WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court
University of Sheffield
211 Portobello Street
GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield
England, UK, EU.
e-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk
fax: +44 742 780972
phone: +44 742 825572 (office)
825590 (secretary)
ATTENDANCE:
We hope to have an attendance between 30-50 people at the workshop.
If you are interested in attending then please send the following
form to p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk as soon as possible:
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Name:
Affiliation:
Full Address:
E-mail:
cut----------------------------------------------------------------------------
REGISTRATION ENQUIRIES FOR AAAI CAN BE MADE TO:
NCAI@aaai.org
REGISTRATION FEE:
Incorporated into the technical registration fee except for
those who are workshop attendees only.
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**** VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE ****
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