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NL-KR Digest Volume 13 No. 11
NL-KR Digest Wed Mar 16 09:18:59 PST 1994 Volume 13 No. 11
Today's Topics:
Announcement: FISI-CS 1st Intl. Instit. in Cog. Sci, Jul 94, Buffalo
Announcement: Intl. Summer School in Comp. Ling., Sep 94, Varna
Announcement: THINK Quarterly (partially) on-line
Position: Natural Language Postdoc, 94-95, Rochester
CFP: ECOOP '94 Workshop on AI for OO SE, Jul 94, Bologna
Position: University of Sheffield Lecturer Grade A, Cognitive Systems
CFP: JNLE [New] Journal of Natural language Engineering
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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 10:20:52 -0500
From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com
Subject: Announcement: FISI-CS 1st Intl. Instit. in Cog. Sci, Jul 94, Buffalo
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE (FISI-CS)
Multidisciplinary Foundations of Cognitive Science
Center for Cognitive Science
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo NY, USA
(Amherst Campus)
JULY 5 - 29, 1994
The Center for Cognitive Science at State University of New York at Buffalo
invites you to attend the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive
Science, to be held July 5 - 29, 1994.
The first three weeks of the Institute will feature courses at basic and ad-
vanced levels in constituent disciplines of cognitive science. Participants
may enroll in the courses for academic credit. Each course will meet for a
total of 15 hours and will carry 1 semester unit of credit. During the four
weeks, there will be a speaker series featuring some of the most prominent
scholars in the cognitive science disciplines. The fourth week will be de-
voted to special workshops and seminars. July 5 is reserved for a welcoming
reception and registration.
Participants will include graduate and undergraduate students, faculty as-
sociates, and researchers from business, industry, and government from the
USA and around the world. The Institute has received hundreds of requests
for registration applications. Thus, to ensure a space at the Institute,
please register early. Only registered participants will have access to
Institute events. Information on off-campus housing, childcare, and cul-
tural activities will be sent to all registrants.
Those interested in exhibiting books, software, and related products and
technologies, please contact Dr. Valerie Shalin, Institute Exhibits Manager.
For further information, including registration forms, please contact:
FISI-CS
Office of Conferences and Special Events
Room 120, Center for Tomorrow
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-1602
USA
Telephone: (716) 645-2018
Fax: (716) 645-3869
E-Mail: cogsci94@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
INVITED SPEAKERS & WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Thomas G. Bever University of Rochester
Ellen Bialystok York University
James Cummins Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Martin Daly McMaster University
Eve Danziger Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Annick De Houwer University of Antwerp
Anna Maria Escobar University of Illinois
Gilles Fauconnier University of California, San Diego
Jerry Feldman International Computer Science Institute
Janet Dean Fodor City University of New York Graduate Center
Jerry Fodor Rutgers University and CUNY Graduate Center
Fred Genesee McGill University
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Talmy Givon University of Oregon
Lila Gleitman University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Habel University of Hamburg
Michael Harrington Carnegie Mellon University
Patrick Hayes University of Illinois
Monica Heller Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Annette Herskovits Wellesley College
Geoffrey Hinton University of Toronto, Canada
Edwin Hutchins University of California, San Diego
Ray Jackendoff Brandeis University
Michael Jordan Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Annette Karmiloff-Smith Medical Research Council & Univ. College London
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
George Lakoff University of California, Berkeley
Steve Levinson Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Don Norman Apple Computer
Eric Pederson Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Jean Petitot CREA, Paris
Steven Pinker Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zenon Pylyshyn Rutgers University
Terry Regier University of Chicago
Eleanor Rosch University of California, Berkeley
Jacqueline Schachter University of Oregon
Eta Schneiderman University of Ottawa
John Schumann University of California, Los Angeles
John Searle University of California, Berkeley
Michael Silverstein University of Chicago
Brian Cantwell Smith Xerox PARC
Paul Smolensky University of Colorado, Boulder
Russel Tomlin University of Oregon
Barbara Tversky Stanford University
David L. Waltz NEC Research Institute and Brandeis University
Margo Wilson McMaster University
VISITING FACULTY
Roberto Casati Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland
Eve V. Clark Stanford University
Herbert H. Clark Stanford University
Lynn Cooper Columbia University
Nina Dronkers VAMC, Martinez, CA, & University of California, Davis
Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley
Scott M. Freundschuh University of Maine
Annette Herskovits Wellesley College
Lynne E. Hewitt Pennsylvania State University
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto, Canada
Frank Keil Cornell University
Janet Dixon Keller University of Illinois
Joao P. Martins Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Steve Palmer University of California, Berkeley
Naomi Quinn Duke University
David E. Rumelhart Stanford University
Paul Smolensky University of Colorado, Boulder
Claudia Strauss Duke University
Michael Swain University of Chicago
Michael Tomasello Emory University
David Wilkins Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Eran Zaidel University of California, Los Angeles
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SUMMER FACULTY, SPEAKERS, AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Matthew Dryer Linguistics
Judith F. Duchan Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Patricia Fox Linguistics
LouAnn Gerken Psychology
Peter Hare Philosophy
Jeri Jaeger Linguistics
Peter Jusczyk Psychology
John Kearns Philosophy
K. Nicholas Leibovic Biophysical Sciences
Paul A. Luce Psychology
David Mark Geography
Madeleine Mathiot Linguistics
Donald Pollock Anthropology
William J. Rapaport Computer Science
James R. Sawusch Psychology
Erwin Segal Psychology
Valerie Shalin Industrial Engineering
Stuart C. Shapiro Computer Science
David Shucard Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Barry Smith Philosophy
J. David Smith Psychology
Leonard Talmy Linguistics
Susan B. Udin Physiology
Robert Van Valin Linguistics
Wolfgang Wolck Linguistics
Lynne Yang Learning and Instruction
David Zubin Linguistics
To ftp the full brochure (with application forms) or the FISI-CS handbook with
course and workshop descriptions, do the following (where % is your prompt):
%ftp ftp.cs.buffalo.edu
When you are asked for your name, type "anonymous"
When you are asked for your password, type your email address
When you get the "ftp>" prompt, type:
cd users/rapaport
At the next "ftp>" prompt, type either:
get fisi-brochure [for a copy of this document]
or get fisi-handbook.ps [for the postscript version]
or get fisi-handbook.dvi [for the .dvi version]
or get fisi-handbook.tex [for the LaTeX (ASCII) version]
At the next "ftp>" prompt, type
quit
For further assistance, send email to: cogsci94@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 08:02:08 GMT
From: Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Announcement: Intl. Summer School in Comp. Ling., Sep 94, Varna
To: nicolas@aisb.ed.ac.uk,
*PLEASE POST*
Advance Announcement
International Summer School
"CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS"
____________________________________________________________________
1 - 5 Sept 1994
Varna, Black Sea Coast, BULGARIA
Sponsored by:
European Association for Machine Translation and
ECCAI-European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence
Dates: 1 - 5 Sept 1994, (arrival 31 August, departure 6 September)
Location: near Varna, Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria
The exact location of the Summer School will be given in
the second announcement.
Who should attend: The school is intended mainly for university students
and young researchers, but will offer both introductory and advanced
courses. Those who would like to extend their stay in Bulgaria can
join the Bulgarian National seminar on Mathematical and Computational
Linguistics which will take place from the 4th to the 10th of
September 1994 at the same place.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME: (three or four more courses will be added)
Margaret King (ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems
Sergei Nirenburg (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Latest Developments in Machine Translation
Pieter Seuren (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Introduction to Semantic Syntax
Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
Multilingual Natural Language Interfaces
Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy)
Discourse Structure and Reference resolution
Manfred Kudlek (University Hamburg, Germany)
Models for Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural
Languages
Carlos Martin-Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
Mathematical Linguistics: Its relevance for
Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science
ORGANISERS:
R.Mitkov Institute of Mathematics BULGARIA
M.Zock LIMSI, Orsay FRANCE
M.Kudlek University of Hamburg GERMANY
N.Nikolov Incoma-TD Co, Ltd, Shumen BULGARIA
COSTS: in the second announcement.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
People wishing to participate should contact one of the people
mentioned below. Please use the attached registration form.
Ruslan Mitkov E-mail: ruslan@cslab.kaist.ac.kr
Nicolas Nicolov E-mail: nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk
Nikolai Nikolov Tel: +359-54 56948
Fax: +359-54 56881
____________________________________________________________________
REGISTRATION REPLY FORM:
International Summer School
"CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS"
Name: (Last)_________________________ (First)_______________________
Affiliation:________________________________________________________
Address:____________________________________________________________
Country:_____________________________
Phone:_______________________________
Fax :_______________________________
Email:_______________________________
* Mail Registration Reply Form to:
Mr. Nikolai Nikolov
P.O. Box 20, Incoma,
9700 Shumen
BULGARIA
*PLEASE POST*
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From: Arthur.vanHorck@kub.nl (Arthur van Horck)
Subject: Announcement: THINK Quarterly (partially) on-line
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 94 10:46:55 GMT
Reply-To: Arthur.vanHorck@kub.nl
L.S.
Some time ago, a collegue (Wessel Kraaij) of mine has advertised the
existence of ITK's (The Institute for Language Technology and AI of
Tilburg University) THINK quarterly journal. Two back issues that may
be of interest to readers of these groups:
* Vol 1, #2 devoted to Machine Learning
* Vol 2, #1 devoted to Symbol Groundig
are now available through the World Wide Web at
http://itkwww.kub.nl:2080/itk/Docs/Think/
The documents contain the full text of the Theme sections of these two
issues of THINK. More back issues will (probably) be made available in
the near future, as time permits...
Best Regards,
Arthur van Horck
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***--*--*---------------------- Arthur van Horck ----------------------------+
** * * KUB-University Tilburg, the Netherlands Phone: (+31) 13 662232|
* * * Arthur.vanHorck@kub.nl Fax: (+31) 13 662537|
+-*--*-----------------------------SPIN\SMCT---------------------------------+
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From: schubert@cs.rochester.edu
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 14:37:02 -0500
To: linguist@tamsun.tamu.edu,
Subject: Position: Natural Language Postdoc, 94-95, Rochester
>From mtan@psych.rochester.edu Fri Mar 4 14:54:20 1994
From: Michael Tanenhaus <mtan@psych.rochester.edu>
The Center for Sciences of Language at the University of Rochester
anticipates having one and possibly two NIH-funded post-doctoral
fellowships available for the 1994-95 academic year. If two
positions are available, preference for one of the positions will be
given to candidates who already have the Ph.D. and can begin before
July 1, 1994. The appointment will be for one year with the
possibility of renewal for a second year. The Center brings
together faculty and students with interests in spoken and signed
languages from the departments of Linguistics, Computer Science,
Psychology, and Philosophy; and the interdisciplinary programs in
Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. We encourage applicants from
any of these disciplines who have expertise in any area of natural
language. We are particularly interested in post-doctoral fellows
who want to contribute to an interdisciplinary community.
Applications should be sent to Michael K. Tanenhaus, University of
Rochester, Department of Psychology, Meliora Hall, Rochester, NY
14627. Include a vita, sample reprints and/or pre-prints, a
statement of research and training interests, and arrange for
letters of reference from at least three referees. In order to
guarantee full consideration, applications should be received by
April 1. The University of Rochester is an equal opportunity
employer. We encourage applications from women and from minorities.
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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 23:51:52 +0100
From: kaih@oop.geu.siemens.co.at (Hermann Kaindl)
To: Al.Whaley@sunnyside.com
Subject: CFP: ECOOP '94 Workshop on AI for OO SE, Jul 94, Bologna
CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop at ECOOP '94
Artificial Intelligence for Object-Oriented Software Engineering
Tuesday, July 5, 1994, Bologna, Italy
Motivation:
AI has contributed to OO. For example, frames for knowledge
representation have contributed to the object notion.
Classification of concepts helped to develop the notion of
inheritance. Moreover, software engineering has been an
enduring interest in the AI community ranging from program
verification, automatic programming up to the development
of programming assistants. Therefore, the application of AI
technology especially to OO software engineering is very promising.
This workshop will provide a forum to discuss open questions, to
present work done, and to establish future collaborations and
mutual insemination. Every useful contribution to apply AI
technology to object-oriented software engineering is welcome.
Objective:
The objective of this workshop is to strengthen the bridges between
AI and OO. In particular, we want to foster impact from AI onto OO
software engineering.
The workshop is intended to support the following purposes:
- to provide an overview of academic and industrial activities
- to serve as a discussion panel for the coordination of these
efforts
- to identify research topics of common interest
- to identify industrially applicable results of current research
- to establish a network of people and organizations interested
in these questions.
Theme(s):
We invite contributions, among others, on the following topics:
Knowledge acquisition and elicitation techniques for OOA
Knowledge representation
- for capturing OO analysis, design and code artifacts
(and their traceability links) to support retrieval
and/or reasoning about these artifacts
- for capturing domain models and other results of
OO domain analysis
- capturing macro and micro development processes in
order to assist developers in an unobtrusive fashion
- for dealing with quality requirements on classes/objects
(Semi-)automatic support based on AI techniques for
- constructing designs from OOA specs
- constructing low level designs from high level OO designs
- programs from low level OO designs
- the verification of
. a high level design against OO analysis specifications
. transformations of high level OO designs into low level
designs
User interfaces:
- natural language processing for assisting requirements
specification, use case development, automatic artifact
descriptions, etc.
- visual development of OO software systems based on knowledge
repositories
Formal descriptions for
- the definition of OO features
(inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic binding, ...)
- extensions of pre- and post-condition formalisms to
represent the semantics of asynchronous one-way
interactions and/or object creation and deletion
Case-based reasoning for identifying frameworks and class libraries
Model-based reasoning for diagnosing software bugs
The final content of the workshop will depend on the contributions. We
are aiming at both the presentation of academic results applicable to
practical problems and the identification of practical challenges
needing further research.
Addressees:
Practitioners in OO SE,
senior fellows in AI both from industry and academia,
students interested in application of AI techniques to OO SE
Schedule:
Deadline for submission: May 1, 1994
Notification of acceptance or rejection: June 1, 1994
Deadline for final version of position papers: June 19, 1994
Agenda:
This workshop will be full-day. The first half day will be used
to communicate the work of selected participants in short presentations.
The second half day will be dedicated to small groups discussing
topics of special interest, and the presentation of their key results
to the other participants. An open discussion will conclude the
workshop.
Attendance and Submissions:
Every prospective attendee is required to submit a 1-2 page research
summary including a list of relevant publications, regular and email
address (where possible), and voice and fax phone numbers.
Participants who wish to present their work are additionally required
to submit a short paper (3-5 pages).
Please send submissions preferably via e-mail (ASCII or PostScript) to
all of the organizers, or send three copies to A. Schappert (in Europe)
or to D. de Champeaux (in the US).
Participation at the workshop is by invitation only, based on the
submission. It will be for free, but each workshop attendee must have
registered for the main ECOOP conference.
Organizing Committee:
****
**** Dr. Dennis de Champeaux
**** 14519 Bercaw Ln
**** San Jose, CA 95124, USA
**** Phone: +1-408-559 7264
**** e-mail: ddc@netcom.COM
****
**** Dr. Hermann Kaindl
**** Siemens Austria
**** Program and System Engineering
**** Geusaugasse 17
**** A-1030 Vienna, Austria
**** Phone: +43-1-71600-288
**** e-mail: kaih@siemens.co.at
****
**** Dr. Albert Schappert
**** Siemens AG
**** Software and Engineering
**** D-81730 Munich, Germany
**** Phone: +49 89 636 2296
**** e-mail: albert.schappert@zfe.siemens.de
****
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 09:38:08 GMT
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Subject: Position: University of Sheffield Lecturer Grade A, Cognitive Systems
To: nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu,
THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
The Department of Computer Science wishes to recruit a Lecturer Grade
A to a fixed 5 year appointment arising from the award of an SERC
Advanced Research Fellowship to Dr. P Mc Kevitt. The lectureship will
be tenable from 1/10/94 and applications are invited from anyone with
research interests in the following areas:
Cognitive Systems
Computational Models of Hearing
Speech Technology
Natural Language Processing
Computer Graphics
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Computer Argumentation
Connectionist Language Processing
Formal Methods and Software Engineering
Theory of Computer Science
Software and systems engineering
Communication Networks
Neural Networks
Parallel Systems
Safety Critical Systems
Parallel Databases
CASE Tools for Parallel Systems
Further details are available from the Department of Computer
Science.
Closing date for applications 8th April, 1994.
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court
University of Sheffield
211 Portobello Street
GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield
England, UK, EU.
e-mail: dept@dcs.shef.ac.uk
fax: +44 742 780972
phone: +44 742 825590
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 14:35:54 PST
From: Bran Boguraev <bkb@babel.apple.com>
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CFP: JNLE [New] Journal of Natural language Engineering
Reply-To: bkb@apple.com
== CALL FOR PAPERS ==
JOURNAL OF NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING
"Natural Language Engineering" is a new journal, to be launched by Cambridge
University Press in 1995. It is an international forum for the dissemination
of results concerning the theory and practice of applied natural language
processing. The focus is on publications addressing research and development
issues fundamental to engineering of natural language technologies. A principal
concern will be systems which can operate in realistic application
environments, in terms of their scale, robustness, feasibility, maintenability,
usability and system integration.
The editors are particularly anxious to respond to identified needs in the
research community. The field currently lacks an outlet dedicated to
communicating technology-oriented work. There is also a lack of easily
accessible reference materials discussing the impact of research in
computational linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and
cognitive psychology on the task of engineering for practical natural language
processing applications.
Original articles are sought, addressing issues in all areas of linguistic
engineering; these include, but are not limited, to: adaptive systems; corpus
processing; delivery of assistance (e.g. help systems, explanation); dialogue
management; front ends to computational systems, both single modality and
multimodal; grammar and style checking; information management and access;
language teaching aids; lexicon acquisition and implementation; linguistic
knowledge bases (e.g. lexica, grammars, term banks); localising for
multilingual systems; machine translation; multimedia authoring and delivery
environments; performance evaluation; speech and natural language integration;
text analysis and content extraction; text generation; tools for natural
language processing. Articles may discuss separate technologies, complete
applications, system evaluations, and limitations of particular designs.
The review process is specifically designed for speedy publication.
Editors:
Roberto Garigliano, University of Durham Executive Editor
John Tait, University of Sunderland Joint Editor
Branimir Boguraev, Apple Computer, Inc. Joint Editor
Editorial Board:
Hiyan Alshawi, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Susan Armstrong, ISSCO Geneva
Madeleine Bates, BBN Systems and Technologies
Peter Bosch, IBM Germany, Heidelberg Scientific Centre
Ted Briscoe, Xerox Grenoble and University of Cambridge
John Carroll, University of Cambridge
Philip Cohen, SRI International
Robert Dale, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Software Technology and
University of Edinburgh
Nicholas Haddock, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Philip Hayes, Carnegie Group, Inc. and Carnegie-Mellon University
Karen Jensen, Microsoft Corp.
Fred Karlsson, University of Helsinki
David Lewis, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Paul Martin, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh
Andrei Mikheev, IPIAN, Russian Academy of Sciences and University of
Edinburgh
Roger Moore, Speech Research Unit, DRA
Kazunori Muraki, NEC Corporation
Yoshinori Sagisaka, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories
Donia Scott, University of Brighton
Oliviero Stock, IRST
Junichi Tsujii, UMIST
David Waltz, NEC Research
Peter Whitelock, Sharp Laboratories
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield
Natural Language Engineering is published four times a year in March, June,
September and December. Four issues form a volume. Volume 1 will be published
in 1995.
Authors should submit papers to:
[submissions from Europe, Asia [submissions from North and
and Africa] South America and Oceania]
Roberto Garigliano Branimir Boguraev
Laboratory for Natural Language Engineering Advanced Technologies Group
Computer Science Department Apple Computer, Inc.
University of Durham One Infinite Loop, MS: 301-3S
South Road Cupertino
Durham DH1 3LE California 95014
United Kingdom USA
tel: +44 91 374 2639 tel: +1 408 974 1048
fax: +44 91 374 2560 fax: +1 408 974 8414
Roberto.Garigliano@durham.ac.uk bkb@apple.com
Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. For guidelines for authors
please contact as above.
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