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NL-KR Digest Fri Feb 18 07:58:11 PST 1994 Volume 13 No. 8
Today's Topics:
CFP: ECAI workshop on Parts and Wholes, Aug 94, Amsterdam
Announcement: Inst. in Cog. Sci.: FINANACIAL AID, Jul 94, Buffalo
CFP: AAAI Fall Symp.: KR for NLP in Impl. Sys., Nov, New Orleans
Query: Example Based MT
Program: ETS Conf. on NL and Educ. Assesement, May 94, Princeton
Position: Computational Linguist (German), CMU Center for MT
CFP: NTNLP workshop on NLP, May 23 94, Arlington, Texas
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Date: 06 Feb 1994 13:23:29 +0100 (MET)
From: Nicola Guarino <GUARINO@ladseb.pd.cnr.it>
Subject: CFP: ECAI workshop on Parts and Wholes, Aug 94, Amsterdam
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu, cg@cs.umn.edu, srkb-list@ISI.EDU, ontology@IPDCNR.BITNET,
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
PARTS AND WHOLES:
CONCEPTUAL PART-WHOLE RELATIONS AND FORMAL MEREOLOGY
Monday, August 8, 1994
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Held in conjunction with
ECAI-94
(11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
Currently, there are two main approaches to the study of "parts" and
their relations. The conceptual (cognitive) approach looks at the variety
of part-whole relations and their role in language processing, perception,
and action planning; the philosophical/logical approach, on the other hand,
looks at formal theories of parts, wholes and related concepts in the
framework of formal ontology.
There are important differences between the two views. Philosophical
systems tend to focus on a single "part-*of*" relation used for modeling
ontological domains like time, space, or pluralities; conceptual approaches
tend to assume a whole family of different "part-*whole*" relations for a
variety of entities and tasks. Classical logical theories such as Lesniewski's
or Goodman's privileged extensional aspects of the part-wholerelation, while
for conceptual approaches and intensional formal mereology the old proverb
holds that a whole is more than its parts.
While disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy and psychology have
contributed significantly to the research in this field, their impact on
artificial intelligence is extremely limited, although AI could represent
the ideal workbench for a unification of approaches dominant in different
fields. Knowledge about parts is of great importance for a wide variety of AI
domains, like vision, qualitative and naive physics, robotics, and natural
language processing. For example, the structure of an object can be used
for visual recognition, for reasoning about the functionality of the whole,
or for planning its assembly.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these
various disciplines in order to explore
(i) the benefits and limits of formal mereology in modeling commonsense
part-whole relations;
(ii) the import for knowledge representation formalisms of the two
current approaches to the study of "parts" and their relations;
(iii) the possibility of a unified theory of parts and wholes.
The workshop topics will include the following:
- Classical extensional mereology: uses, extensions and adaptations;
comparison with alternatives to mereology: set theory and lattices.
- Intensional mereology: essence, dependence, and integrity; individual
properties as parts.
- Conceptual distinctions among wholes: masses, collections, complexes;
natural entities and artifacts; sums and scattered individuals.
- Parts and structure: physical connection, spatial, temporal, functional
and other constraints among parts; Gestalt theories and perceptual parts;
granularity issues.
- Parts, space and time: relationships between mereology, topology,
geometry; boundaries and surfaces; relationships between parts of physical
objects (continuants) and parts of events (occurrents).
- Parts and natural language: parts, part-names and possessive constructions;
plurals and mass terms.
- Reasoning about parts: transitivity, upper and downward inheritance of
properties.
- Dealing with parts within existing KR formalisms: distinguishing parts
from other attributes, computational issues of reasoning about parts.
Two possible kinds of contributions are solicited from interested participants:
(a) regular papers of 10 pages max, presenting on-going research;
(b) position papers of 3 pages max, motivating the interest in the field
and explaining particular points of view.
A limited number of regular papers will be chosen for an oral presentation
at the workshop, while suitable space will be devoted to discussions based
on contributions from participants (rejected regular papers are
automatically treated as position papers). Participation will be limited to
around 35 people.
Preference will be given in the workshop schedule to contributions
underlining the impact of mereological issues on AI practice, especially
on: knowledge representation, natural language processing, qualitative and
naive physics, spatial and temporal reasoning, vision, and robotics.
Submission of papers, regular and position, to any member of the workshop
organizing committee is due by April 15 1994. Hard copy (4 copies) and
electronic submissions (either PostScript, LaTex or MacWord converted in BinHex
format) are equally acceptable, with a strong preference for the latter.
All submissions should include an exact address and an e-mail address.
TIMETABLE:
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 1994
Notification: May 20, 1994
Final version due: June 6, 1994
Workshop: August 8, 1994
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Participants will be requested to register for the main
ECAI conference.
Organizing committee:
Nicola Guarino
LADSEB-CNR
Corso Stati Uniti 4, I-35020 Padova
tel: +39 49 8295751, fax: +39 49 8295778
email: guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it
Simone Pribbenow
University of Hamburg, Computer Science Department,
Bodenstedtstr. 16, D-22765 Hamburg
tel: +49 40 4123-6111, fax: +49 40 4123-6159
email: pribbeno@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Laure Vieu
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, UPS,
118 route de Narbonne, F-31326 Toulouse
tel: +33 61556091, fax: +33 61558325
email: vieu@irit.fr
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 10:19:27 -0500
From: cogsci94@cs.Buffalo.EDU (SUNY at Buffalo Cognitive Science Announcements)
To: cogsci94@cs.Buffalo.EDU
Subject: Announcement: Inst. in Cog. Sci.: FINANACIAL AID, 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 - 30, 1994
INFORMATION ON FINANCIAL AID
Although the official deadline for applications for financial aid for the
Summer Institute in Cognitive Science has now passed, we will continue to
process further such applications. However, applications received before
the deadline will be given priority.
Financial aid forms should be filled out as completely as possible. If
there are sections of the form that do not apply to you (for example, be-
cause you have no GRE scores), please leave these sections blank and ex-
plain why you are doing so in an accompanying note, enclosing all docu-
mentation that you think relevant.
It is anticipated that the Organizing Committee will, unfortunately, have
very limited resources of its own to aid deserving candidates to attend
the Institute. And decisions about awards from this source cannot be made
before April. However, we will do all we can to help applicants receive
support from third-party sources (and we have already had some success in
this respect, specifically for US minorities, and for persons applying
from outside the US).
People who believe they may be eligible for assistance from third-party
sources or who would like any clarification or advice on financial aid
should contact Barry Smith as soon as possible:
Dr. Barry Smith
Department of Philosophy
SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
USA
PHISMITH@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
716-645-2463
People needing financial aid forms should 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
Completed financial aid forms should be sent to this address as well. We
will not normally send back acknowledgment of receipt of financial aid
applications. If you would like an acknowledgement, please send a request
to Barry Smith at his address above (enclosing, if possible, a stamped,
self-addressed envelope).
Applicants from former USSR countries should also contact:
Prof. Robert Van Valin
Department of Linguistics
SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
USA
email: LINVAN@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 16:20:55 -0500
From: Sy Ali <syali@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CFP: AAAI Fall Symp.: KR for NLP in Impl. Sys., Nov, New Orleans
AAAI 1994 Fall Symposium
Knowledge Representation for Natural Language Processing
in
Implemented Systems
November 4-6, 1994
The Monteleone Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana
Call for Participation
This symposium is intended to be a meeting of researchers actively working
on implemented knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) systems
for general natural language processing (NLP) in order to assess the current
state of that field. Specific topics of interest include the following:
Expressiveness and generality of the representation language with respect to
natural language. For example, coverage of complex object descriptions and
treatment of quantification. What are the trade-offs in increasing the
expressiveness of the representation language to support natural language?
Inference methods that parallel reasoning in natural language. Natural
deduction systems, for example, are so called because of the apparent
naturalness of the proof procedure. Another example is surface reasoning,
based on the syntactic structure of the natural language.
Ability of the formalism or system to capture important semantic and
pragmatic aspects of natural language. For example, the computational
relationship between the representation language and the parser/generator.
Is it possible to define the representation language to facilitate this
relationship? At what cost?
How many or kinds of representation languages are needed for general
NLP? Many NLP systems actually use two representation languages: a
semantic representation language that captures the semantics of a sentence,
and a knowledge representation language that is used to do reasoning and
represent the system's general knowledge about the domain. Typically these
languages are quite different, with the former being a much more powerful
language (including modalities, lambda expressions and other higher order
constructs, generalized quantifiers, etc) and the latter being what the
system's reasoning engine actually operates on, usually something more or
less equivalent to first-order logic, (or an even more restricted vivid
representation like a relational database) This raises the question of how
these languages relate to each other, and if it is possible (or desirable) to
have a semantic representation language that supports inference.
Stands on issues such as:
- What problems are solved, and how to use the solution(s).
- What areas need work.
- Defense or attacks of the standard design of morphology-syntax-
semantics-pragmatics.
Submissions to the symposium should address these topics by showing
some text that an actual implemented system can understand, how the
information contained in that text is represented, what background
information is used by the system, how that information is represented,
how the system processes the knowledge to do interesting things (such as
answering interesting questions about the text), and how the information is
processed into answers. Reports on projects whose purpose is to simulate
human understanding of texts will be preferred over projects whose purpose
is to provide natural language interfaces to databases, planners, or to
pragmatically oriented knowledge bases.
The format of this symposium will be designed to encourage interaction
amongst the participants. To this end, new, previously unpublished work-
in-progress on the topics of the symposium is most desirable, as are stands
on the issues outlined above.
Submission Information
Potential attendees should submit an extended abstract of no more than 10
pages (exclusive of references), twelve point, double-spaced, with one inch
margins. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines will not be
reviewed.
The symposium format will also include one or more panel discussions on
the issues listed above. Attendees wishing to participate in panels, or
wishing to suggest other panel topics, should indicate their interest and
include a current vita along with their extended abstract.
Demonstrations of working NLP/KRR systems are also of interest,
however attendees must provide their own hardware and software support.
Attendees interested in this option should indicate what they are planning on
demonstrating, and how they propose to do so. This information should be
provided with their extended abstract in a cover letter that clearly
states their interest in this option.
Email submission is preferred, and should be directed to the Symposium
Chair at
ssa231f@csm560.smsu.edu and
syali@cs.buffalo.edu
Preferred email submission formats are: stand-alone LaTeX, PostScript, or
plain text (for abstracts without complex figures, etc).
If email submission is not possible, then five copies of the paper should be
mailed to the Symposium Chair:
Syed S. Ali
Chair, AAAI Fall Symposium on Knowledge Representation
for Natural Language Processing in Implemented Systems
Department of Computer Science
Southwest Missouri State University
901 South National Avenue
Springfield, MO 65804
(417) 836-5773
Submission Dates
- Submissions for the symposium are due on April 15, 1994.
- Notification of acceptance will be given by May 17, 1994.
- Material to be included in the working notes of the symposium must be
received by August 19, 1994.
Organizing Committee
Syed S. Ali (chair), Southwest Missouri State University,
ssa231f@csm560. smsu.edu or syali@cs.buffalo.edu; Douglas Appelt,
SRI International; Lucja Iwanska, Wayne State University; Lenhart
Schubert, University of Rochester; Stuart C. Shapiro, State University of
New York at Buffalo.
Attendance
The symposium will be limited to between forty and sixty participants.
Working notes will be prepared and distributed to participants in
the symposium.
A general plenary session, in which the highlights of each symposium will
be presented, will be held on November 5, and an informal reception will be
held on November 4.
In addition to invited participants, a limited number of other interested
parties will be able to register in each symposium on a first-come, first-
served basis. Registration will be available by mid-July 1994. To obtain
registration information write to the AAAI at 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo
Park, CA 94025 (fss@aaai.org).
Sponsored by the
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415) 328-3123
fss@aaai.org
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@relay1.uu.net
From: pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen)
Subject: Query: Example Based MT
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 15:45:44 GMT
I am interested in finding out about current research being conducted
in the area of Machine Translation (MT) that has been variously termed
Memory Based MT, Analogy Based MT, or Example Based MT. (Maybe there
are other terms?)
I have worked with rule based MT systems in the past and I was
disappointed with the results. I'm very curious to see if some better
results might be obtained by mixing rule based and
example/analogy/memory based systems.
I have located the following references. Clearly this list is short
and surely dated. Any other contributions would be much appreciated.
If you have some opinions or experiences to relate about this area I
would be very interested in hearing those.
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Brown et al. 1989 "A Statistical Appraoch to Machine Translation". Yorktown
Heights: IBM Research Divison
Chen et al. 1991 "ArchTran: A Corpus-based Statistics-oriented
English-Chinese Machine Translation System" MT Summit III, July 1991.
Sadler 1989 "Working with Analogical Semantics: Disambiguation
Techniques in DLT" Dordrecht:Foris
Sato and Nagao 1990 "Towards Memory Based Translation" COLING'90.
Sumita et al. 1990 "Translating with Examples: A New Approach to
Machine Translation" The Third International Conference on Theoretical
and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Language,
June 1990.
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Thanks
Ted
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* Ted Pedersen pedersen@seas.smu.edu *
* Department of Computer Science and Engineering, *
* Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275 (214) 768-2126 *
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 13:23:03 -0500
From: Jill C Burstein <jburstein@rosedale.org>
Subject: Program: ETS Conf. on NL and Educ. Assesement, May 94, Princeton
To: aisb@cogs.sussex.ac.uk, arpanet-bboards@mc.lcs.mit.edu,
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* The Educational Testing Service Conference *
* on Natural Language Processing Techniques *
* and Technology in Assessment and Education *
* *
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****CONFERENCE PROGRAM****
Dates: May 18th - 19th, 1994
Location: Chauncey Conference Center
Educational Testing Service
Rosedale Road
Princeton, New Jersey 08541
Conference Purpose:
ETS is sponsoring this conference to stimulate discussion about
the use of various technologies in education and assessment.
The particular focus of this meeting will be on the uses of
Natural Language Processing Techniques and
Applied Technology in education and assessment.
ETS has been exploring the use of technologies, such as
Natural Language Processing, to facilitate the implementation
of new and innovative items for assessment. This conference will help
to establish a continuing discourse among the Natural Language Processing,
technology, education, and assessment communities.
--MAY 18, 1994 (DAY 1)--
Welcome
8:00 - 8:55 Continental Breakfast and Check-in
9:00 - 9:15 Henry Braun
(Vice President for Research Management-
Educational Testing Service)
"Opening Remarks and Welcome"
9:20 - 9:35 Ernest J. Anastasio
(Executive Vice President-Educational Testing Service)
TBA
9:40 - 9:55 Randy Kaplan (Educational Testing Service)
"Conference Overview"
Session I: Applied Technology in Education and Assessment
10:00 - 10:55 Keynote Speaker: Linda Roberts
Special Advisor on Technology,
(U.S. Department of Education)
"Technology and Education Reform"
11:00 - 11:55 Laura D'Amico (Northwestern University)
Louis Gomez (Northwestern University)
Steven McGee (Northwestern University)
"A Case Study of Student and Teacher Use
of Projects in a Technology-Supported Distributed
Learning Environment"
12:00 - 1:20 Lunch
Session II: Natural Language Processing Techniques for Education
and Assessment
1:30 - 2:25 Jacquelynn M. Kud
(General Electric-Corporate Research and Development)
George R. Krupka
(General Electric-Corporate Research and Development)
Lisa F. Rau
(General Electric-Corporate Research and Development)
"Methods for Clustering Short-Answer Responses"
2:30 - 3:25 Karen Kukich (Bellcore)
"Automatic Word Correction:
Can computers do it write?"
3:30 - 3:55 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:55 Linda Suri (Educational Testing Service)
"Developing Computer Tools for the Assessment and
Instruction of Deaf Writers"
Roundtable Discussion:
5:00 - 6:00 "Setting an Agenda for Creating Educational
Technology"
Panelists: Randy Kaplan (ETS), Jill Burstein (ETS),
Lisa Rau (GE), Thomas Landauer (Bellcore and
The University of Colorado),
Louis Gomez (Northwestern University),
Karen Kukich (Bellcore)
6:30 Dinner
--MAY 19, 1994 (DAY 2)--
Session I: Applied Technology in Education and Assessment
8:00 - 8:55 Continental Breakfast and Check-in
9:00 - 9:55 Mike Eleey (University of Pennsylvania)
"The Smart Textbook"
10:00 - 10:55 Steve Clyman (National Board of Medical Examiners)
Anna Bersky (National Council on the State Boards
of Nursing)
"Processing Examinee Free-Text Entries and
Authoring Tools for Patient-Care Simulations"
11:00 - 11:55 Randy Kaplan (Educational Testing Service)
"A Vision of the Future of Assessment"
12:00 - 1:20 Lunch
Session II: Applied Technology and NLP in Education and Assessment
1:30 - 2:25 Melissa Holland (Army Research Institute)
"Intelligent Tutors for foreign languages:
What parsers and lexical semantics do to
help learners and assess learning"
2:30 - 3:25 George Miller (Princeton University)
"Word-Sense Resolution and Reading Comprehension"
3:30 - 3:55 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:55 Thomas Landauer
(Bellcore and The University of Colorado)
"Latent structure analyses of word knowledge as
models, measures and methods for patient care
simulations"
5:00 Dinner
FEES and ACCOMMODATIONS:
The conference will be held at the Chauncey Conference
Center on ETS' Princeton campus. Chauncey Conference Center has
rooms for conference guests who choose to stay overnight. The price
of the conference varies depending on the type of accommodations
requested.
Cost of Conference Proceedings: $20.00
CONFERENCE COSTS:
DAY GUESTS: $60.00/day
OVERNIGHT GUESTS OPTIONS:
Plan A:
Arrive for dinner the evening of May 17th and stay through the day of
May 19th: (2 Days + 2 Overnights)
$450 (single)
$340 (twin)
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Arrive the morning of May 18th and stay through the day of
May 19th: (2 Days + 1 Overnight)
$285 (single)
$230 (twin)
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Arrive for dinner the evening of May 17th and stay through the day of
May 18th: (1 Day + 1 Overnight)
$225 (single)
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Arrive for dinner the evening of May 18th and stay through the day of
May 19th: (1 Day + 1 Overnight)
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Prices for DAY GUESTS and OVERNIGHT GUESTS include the following.
DAY GUESTS: OVERNIGHT GUESTS:
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Lunch ---------------------------
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Complete Breakfast
Dinner ($28.00 extra) Lunch
Coffee Break
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Registration is limited. Please return Reply Form and address
inquiries to Corrine Cohen, Eleanore DeYoung or
Jill Burstein at the following addresses:
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Mailstop 16-R
Educational Testing Service
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phone: (609) 734-1108
Eleanore DeYoung
Mailstop 17-R
Educational Testing Service
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Princeton, NJ 08541
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March 15, 1994. (Subject to availability)
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From: Alex_Franz@NAIROBI.MT.CS.CMU.EDU
To: linguist@TAMSUN.TAMU.EDU, LN@frmop11.CNUSC.FR, LANTRA-L@SEARN.SUNET.SE,
Subject: Position: Computational Linguist (German), CMU Center for MT
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 16:15:01 EST
The Center for Machine Translation at Carnegie Mellon University is
seeking a full-time staff member to work on the German generation
component of a large-scale machine translation system. The chosen
applicant will participate in the creation and testing of German
computational lexicon entries, grammar rules, and semantic mapping
rules for the domain of heavy machinery manuals.
Required skills:
* Native or near-native fluency in German.
* Experience with computational grammars, computational lexicons, or
similar.
Preferred skills:
* Programming experience (e.g. Lisp, Unix tools).
* Experience with machine translation.
* Formal training in computational linguistics.
Salary will depend on experience and skills. To apply, please send
your resume to Alexander Franz, whom you may also contact via
electronic mail or FAX for further information.
Alexander Franz
Center for Machine Translation
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
email: amf@cs.cmu.edu
Fax: (412) 268-6298
The Center for Machine Translation (CMT) is a research center within
the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Founded
in 1986, the CMT presently includes about 50 faculty, staff, graduate
students, and visiting researchers. The CMT conducts basic and applied
research in Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, text
extraction, and computer-aided language instruction.
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From: cook@cse.uta.edu (Diane Cook)
Subject: CFP: NTNLP workshop on NLP, May 23 94, Arlington, Texas
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 22:10:22 GMT
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Call for Papers
North Texas Natural Language Processing Workshop
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Motivation
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a fast growing area of research
and development. Both government and industry have high interest in NLP
systems, and there is a need for more research and progress in this area.
A workshop in NLP is being organized at UT-Arlington with the
intent of bringing researchers together to share their recent results
with each other. Participants from industry as well as academia are
invited to attend the workshop, and to participate in discussions.
Research in NLP is timely because there is a convergence in
several areas such as high-performance computer technology, large data
storage systems, and new results in parsing and reasoning. Recently,
several research sites have gained experience in building systems with
large knowledge bases for processing natural language. Some of these
sites have participated in the TIPSTER program, and some in the Message
Understanding Conferences (MUC). The availability of large ontologies
such as WordNet will undoubtably stimulate construction of even larger
linguistic knowledge bases.
Workshop Format
Researchers are invited to submit an extended summary
(approximately 1000 words) of their papers to the workshop committee.
Abstracts should describe original results. The intent is to accommodate
as many presentations as possible and to allow ample time for discussion.
Currently, the workshop is intended for one day; however, if there are a
large number of participants, the workshop will be extended to two days.
Participation is open to all interested individuals, and is not restricted
to researchers from North Texas. Individuals who do not wish to submit
a paper for presentation are invited to attend the workshop and participate
in discussions.
Important Dates
Extended summaries should be submitted to the workshop committee
no later than March 15, 1994. Authors will be notified of paper acceptance
by April 11, 1994, and final copies of papers are due on May 10, 1994.
Papers must be submitted in hard copy to the address below, and will be
assembled into the proceedings, which will be available at the workshop.
Electronic versions of ASCII or Postscript submissions may also be sent to
ntnlp@centauri.uta.edu.
The workshop will take place at the University of Texas at
Arlington on May 23. Registration information will be sent to all
submitters and will be available upon request.
Cost
The workshop fee is $50.00, and includes a copy of the
proceedings and refreshments.
Workshop Committee
Diane Cook, co-chair University of Texas at Arlington
Dan Moldovan, co-chair Southern Methodist University
Don Burquest University of Texas at Arlington
Jerry Edmondson University of Texas at Arlington
Charles Hannon University of Texas at Arlington
Sanda-Maria Harabagiu University of Southern California
Kenneth J. Hendrickson University of Southern California
John Paolillo University of Texas at Arlington
Lynn Peterson University of Texas at Arlington
Gary Simons International Linguistics Center (SIL)
Send all correspondences to
North Texas Natural Language Processing Workshop
c/o Diane Cook
University of Texas at Arlington
Box 19015
Arlington, TX 76019
ntnlp@centauri.uta.edu
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