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NL-KR Digest Fri Apr 1 12:32:49 PST 1994 Volume 13 No. 14
Today's Topics:
CFP: IJCAI-95 Intl. Joint Conf. on AI, Aug 95, Montreal
Announcement: MLnet Mach. Learn. Summer School Sep 94, Paris
CFP: Intl. Wkshp, Directions of Lexical Res., Aug 94, Beijing
CFP: BU Conference on Language Development, Nov 94, Boston
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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 11:18:58 PST
From: Rick Skalsky <skalsky@aaai.org>
Subject: CFP: IJCAI-95 Intl. Joint Conf. on AI, Aug 95, Montreal
To: "arpalists+computing.common-lisp"@andrew.cmu.edu,
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: IJCAI-95
IJCAI-95 will take place at the Palais de Congres, Montreal, August 20-25
1995.
The biennial IJCAI conferences are the major forums for the international
scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The Conference Technical
Program will include workshops, tutorials, panels and invited talks, as well
as tracks for paper and videotape presentations.
PAPER TRACK: SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES
Topics of Interest
Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished
research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to:
* Architectures and languages for AI (e.g. parallel hardware and software for
building AI systems)
* Artistic, entertainment and multimedia applications.
* Automated reasoning (e.g. theorem proving, abduction, automatic
programming, search, context management and truth maintenance systems,
constraint satisfaction, satisfiability checking)
* Cognitive modeling (e.g. user models, memory models)
* Connectionist and PDP models
* Distributed AI, autonomous agents, multi-agent systems and real-time
issues.
* Intelligent teaching systems
* Knowledge Engineering and Principles of AI applications (e.g. for design,
manufacturing control, grand challenge applications)
* Knowledge representation (e.g. logics for knowledge, action, belief and
intention, nonmonotonic formalisms, complexity analysis, languages
and systems for representing knowledge)
* Learning, knowledge acquisition and case-based reasoning
* Logic programming (e.g. semantics, deductive databases, relationships to
AI knowledge representation)
* Natural language (e.g. syntax, semantics, discourse, speech recognition
and understanding, natural language front ends, generation systems,
information extraction and retrieval)
* Philosophical foundations
* Planning and reasoning about action (including the relation between
planning and control)
* Qualitative reasoning and naive physics (e.g. temporal and spatial
reasoning, model-based reasoning, diagnosis)
* Reasoning under uncertainty (including fuzzy logic and fuzzy control)
* Robotic and artificial life systems (e.g. unmanned vehicles,
vision/manipulation systems)
* Social, economic and legal implications
* Vision (e.g. color, shape, stereo, motion, object recognition, active
vision, model-based vision, vision architectures and hardware, biological
modeling).
Timetable
Submissions must be received by 6th January 1995. Submissions received after
that date will be returned unopened. Authors should note that ordinary mail
can sometimes be considerably delayed, especially over the new year period,
and should take this into account when timing their submissions. Notification
of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon
after receipt.
Notification of acceptance or rejection: successful authors will be notified
on or before 20th March 1995. Unsuccessful authors will be notified by 27th
March 1995. Notification will be sent to the first author (or designated
author).
Camera ready copies of the final versions of accepted papers must be received
by the publisher in the USA by 24th April 1995.
Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend
the conference to present the work.
General
Authors should submit six (6) copies of their papers in hard copy form. All
paper submissions should be to the following address. Electronic or fax
submissions cannot be accepted.
IJCAI-95 Paper Submissions,
American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
445, Burgess Drive,
Menlo Park, CA. 94025, USA.
(telephone (415) 328-3123, email ijcai@aaai.org).
Appearance and Length
Papers should be printed on 8.5'' x 11'' or A4 sized paper. They must be a
maximum of 15 pages long, each page having no more than 43 lines, lines being
at most 140mm long and with 12 point type. Title, abstract, figures and
references must be included within this length limit. Papers breaking these
rules will not be considered for presentation at the conference.
Letter quality print is required. (Normally, dot-matrix printout will be
unacceptable unless truly of letter quality. Exceptions will be made for
submissions from countries where high quality printers are not widely
available.)
Title Page
Each copy of the paper must include a title page, separate from the body of
the paper. This should contain:
* Title of the paper
* Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email
addresses (where these exist) of all authors. The first postal address
should be one that is suitable for delivery of items by courier service
* An abstract of 100-200 words
* A set of keywords giving the area/subarea of the paper and describing the
topic of the paper. This information, together with the title of the paper,
will be the main information used in allocating reviewers.
* The following declaration:
``This paper has not already been accepted by and is not currently under
review for a journal or another conference. Nor will it be submitted
for such during IJCAI's review period.''
Policy on Multiple Submissions
IJCAI will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under
review for a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to
submit their papers elsewhere during IJCAI's review period. These
restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and
similar specialized presentations with a limited audience.
Review Criteria
Papers will be subject to peer review, but this review will not be ``blind''
(that is, the reviewers will be aware of the names of the authors). Selection
criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance
of results and the quality of the presentation. The decision of the Program
Committee, taking into consideration the individual reviews, will be final
and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will be scheduled for presentation
and will be printed in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their
representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference.
Distinguished Paper Awards
The Program Committee will distinguish one or more papers of exceptional
quality for special awards. This decision will in no way depend on whether
the authors choose to enhance their paper with a video presentation.
Other Calls
Calls for tutorial and workshop proposals and video presentations for
IJCAI-95 will be issued shortly.
For questions or comments, (415) 328-3123, email ijcai@aaai.org
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From: Dolores.Canamero@lri.fr (Dolores Canamero)
Subject: Announcement: MLnet Mach. Learn. Summer School Sep 94, Paris
Reply-To: Dolores.Canamero@lri.fr (Dolores Canamero)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 09:32:23 GMT
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MLNET'S SUMMER SCHOOL - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
September 5 - 10, 1994
Dourdan (south neighborhood of Paris), France
==============================================
The Summer School is organized by Celine Rouveirol (LRI, France). Its aim
is to provide training in the latest developments in Machine Learning and
Knowledge Acquisition to AI researchers, but also to industrials who are
investigating possible applications of those techniques. The Summer School
is sponsored by CEC and PRC-IA.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
Monday, September 5
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. Morning: Case-Based Reasoning (Agnar Aamodt, Univ. Trondheim, Norway) [3h]
. Afternoon: Learning and Probabilities (Wray Buntine, RIACS/NASA Ames,
Moffet Field, CA, USA) [3h]
Tuesday, September 6
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. Morning: Learning and Noise (Ivan Bratko, JSI, Ljubljana, Slovenia) [3h]
. Afternoon: Knowledge Acquisition (Bob Wielinga, Univ. Amsterdam, NL) [3h]
Wednesday, September 7
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. Morning: Integrated Architectures (Lorenza Saitta, Univ. Torino, Italy) [3h]
. Afternoon: Knowledge Revision (Derek Sleeman, Univ. Aberdeen, UK) [2h],
(Stefan Wrobel, GMD, Bonn, Germany) [2h]
Thursday, September 8
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. Morning: Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning (Maarten van
Someren, Univ. Amsterdam, NL) [3h]
. Afternoon: Reinforcement Learning (Leslie Kaebling, Brown Univ., USA) [3h]
Friday, September 9
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. Morning: Inductive Logic Programming (Steve Muggleton, Univ. Oxford,UK) [3h]
. Afternoon: Inductive Logic Programming (Celine Rouveirol, LRI, Univ.
Paris-Sud, France) [2h], (Francesco Bergadano, Univ. Catania, Italy) [2h]
Saturday, September 10
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. Morning: Conceptual Clustering (Gilles Bisson, LIFIA, Grenoble, France) [3h]
Invited conferences and demonstrations of software will be organized during
the evenings.
Requests for information and registration forms are to be addressed to
Dolores Canamero, (ML-SS'94), LRI, Bat. 490, Universite Paris-Sud,
F-91405, Orsay Cedex, France (e-mail: mlss94@lri.fr).
Full and partial grants can be accorded to European students and to members
of PRC-IA groups.
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAM OF MLNET'S WORKSHOP ON
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
September 2 and 3, 1994
Dourdan (south neighborhood of Paris), France
============================================
Organizer: Yves Kodratoff (LRI & CNRS, Orsay, France)
The workshop will take place in Dourdan (some 50 km south of Paris), the 2
and 3 September 1994.
The registration fee will be FF. 800.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
Second of Sept. 1994: Overview presentations
-------------------------------------------------------
. Ivan Bratko (Univ. Ljubljana) "On the state-of-the-art of industrial
applications of ML"
. Gregory Piatewski-Shapiro (GTE) "DDB: data mining in data bases"
. XXX "Industrial applications of KADS-II" (if not possible, an overview
of the industrial applications of Knowledge Acquisition is planned)
. Attilio Giordana (Univ. Torino) "Applications of ML to robotics"
. Franz Schmalhofer (DFKI) "Unifying KA and ML for applications"
. Vassilis Moustakis (Univ. Crete) "An overview of applications of ML to
medicine"
Third of Sept. 1994
------------------------
Special address:
Setsuo Arikawa "Knowledge Acquisition from Protein Data
by Machine learning System BONSAI"
Results of ESPRIT projects:
. Nick Puzey (BAE) "Industrial applications of MLT"
. Pavel Brazdil (Univ. Porto) "Industrial applications of STATLOG"
. Attilio Giordana (Univ. Torino) "The results of BLEARN"
Reports on results:
. Pieter Adriaans "Application of GAs at Syllogics"
. Fabio Malabocchia "ML at CSELT"
. Juergen Hermann "Learning Rules about VLSI-Design"
. Reza Nakaeizadeh "ML at Daimler-Benz"
. Francois Lecouat "CBR at Matra-Space"
Demos will take place during the evenings. Participants are welcome to
follow the Monday and Tuesday courses of the subsequent ML summer school on
Case-Based Reasoning, ML and Statistics, Noise in Data, Knowledge Acquisition.
Note however that they will have to register specifically to this school.
Requests for information and registration forms are to be addressed to
Dolores Canamero, (ML-SS'94), LRI, Bat. 490, Universite Paris-Sud,
F-91405, Orsay Cedex, France (e-mail: mlss94@lri.fr).
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 14:09:33 BST
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Intl. Wkshp, Directions of Lexical Res., Aug 94, Beijing
To: nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu,
POST-COLING 94 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
ON
DIRECTIONS OF LEXICAL RESEARCH
15-17th of August, 1994
in Beijing
Co-Chairs
Nicoletta Calzolari
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR
Via della Faggiola 32, 56100 PISA, ITALIA
Cheng-ming Guo
China National Laboratory of AI Technology and Systems
Tsinghua University
BEIJING 100084 CHINA
1. Intentions
The scholarly and scientific tradition in lexical research
was given an engineering edge by three outbursts of massive
lexical work that began in the last decade, the CYC project
in the United States, the EDR project in Japan, and the
Grosseto Workshop whose principle of reusability generated a
series of EC projects including Acquilex, ET-7, Multilex,
and Genelex. These projects led to, and were equalled by,
world wide interest in statistics on very large corpora. The
close inter-relationships between Lexicon development and
Corpus analysis are increasingly accentuated. This
international drive on the lexicon over a period of a decade
has done the field an immense service.
However, recent reflections on the lexical research over the
last ten years are not always as favourable as one might
expect. Wilks (1993) made a criticism of IBM's approach to
Machine Translation. The main point was that there is a
natural ceiling of success to PURE statistical methods. Ide
and Veronis (1993) went so far as to ask if we have wasted
our time over the last decade on extracting knowledge from
machine-readable dictionaries.
Another area of concern nowadays is the development of
common lexical specifications, or lexical standards. Up to
which level of lexical description can standards be
proposed, to ensure data reusability?
Furthermore, one important development in AI and Cognitive
Science in recent years warrants the attention of lexical
researchers. It involves the trend for the integration of
NLP with various subareas of AI, e.g. computer vision (see
Dennett, 1991; Mc Kevitt, 1994). The need for unified
representation scheme incorporating both perceptual
information and common sense knowledge poses new challenges.
The proposed workshop attempts to clarify issues in current
lexical research in terms of further research directions as
an answer to recent challenges. Suggested topics are as
follows:
a) notes comparing between well-known lexical projects,
particulary the EDR project, the CYC project, and the EC
projects --what have we learned ?
b) lexical needs for unified representations of common sense
knowledge and perceptual knowledge, visual or audio
--brainstorming on the design and construction of the
lexicons for such integrated systems;
c) lexical needs of very large knowledge bases for nuclear
lexicons as the core for knowledge acquisition --
speculations and practice concerning the design and
construction of such nuclei.
2. Format
This workshop is intended as an opportunity provided for the
exchange of views on issues of common concern to the area of
lexical research. Panel sessions and discussions are
stressed rather than formal speeches. All activities at the
workshop are intended as reactions to recent challenges.
The workshop will take place on the beautiful Tsinghua
University campus on the outskirt of Beijing.
Day 1: the state-of-the-art discussion -- achievements,
issues and concerns
Day 2: lexical needs for integrated systems
Day 3: lexical needs for knowledge acquisition for very
large knowledge systems
Each attendee of the workshop pays $100 to cover
registration, preprints,local transportation from and to
Beijing Airport, and hotel + food expenses for the 3-day
workshop duration. Air fare to and from Beijing rests with
all attendees themselves.
Registation forms will be sent out to workshop attendees upon
request. All correspondence concerning workshop registration
should be directed to Chengming Guo by fax, e-mail, or postal
mail at the Computer Science Department, Tsinghua University,
Beijing, 100084, China. To ensure proper accomodation, special
pre-arrangements have to be made with Chengming Guo, should
the attendee wish to arrive earlier than August 14th and/or
stay a little longer after the workshop ends on the 17th of
August.
3. Submission requirements
Papers of no more than 6 pages should be submitted by
e-mail to the co-chairs of the workshop at
"glottolo@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it" for Nicoletta Calzolari,
and at "chengming%bepc2@scs.bitnet" for Chengming Guo.
Postal mail of three hard copies of the paper to Nicoletta
Calzolari and Chengming Guo are also acceptable. Papers must
be printed to 8 1/2 to 11" size. Workshop preprints will be
made available to all attendees.
Paper submission by the 15th of May, 1994
Notification of acceptance by 5th June, 1994
Camera-ready copy by 30th of June, 1994
4. Sponsors
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa, ITALY
China National Laboratory of AI Technology and Systems,
Tsinghua University, Beijing China
5. Co-Chairs
Nicoletta Calzolari
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR
Via della Faggiola 32, 56100 PISA, ITALIA
Phone: +39 50 56 04 81
Fax:+39 50 58 90 55
Email:glottolo@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it
Cheng-ming Guo
Computer Science Department
Tsinghua University
Beijing 100084 CHINA
Phone: +86 1 2594895
Fax:+86 1 2562768
Email:chengming%bepc2@scs.bitnet
6. Program committee:
Sue Atkins
Oxford University Press, UK
Nicoletta Calzolari
Institute of Computational Linguistics, CNR, Italy
Kenneth Church
AT&T Bell Laboratory, USA
Cheng-Ming Guo
Tsinghua University, China
Judith Klavans
Columbia University, USA
Paul Mc Kevitt
University of Sheffield, UK
Yoshihiko Nitta
Hitachi Advanced Laboratory, Japan
Yorick Wilks
University of Sheffield, UK
Toshio Yokoi
EDR, Japan
Antonio Zampolli
Institute of Computational Linguistics, CNR, Italy
Uri Zernik
GE, USA
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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 09:30:28 -0500
From: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development)
To: langconf-announce@louis-xiv.bu.edu
Subject: CFP: BU Conference on Language Development, Nov 94, Boston
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 19th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
November 4, 5 and 6, 1994
Keynote Speaker: Andrew Radford, University of Essex
Plenary Speaker: Jill de Villiers, Smith College
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FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
All topics in the field of language acquisition will be fully considered,
including:
Bilingualism Literacy
Cognition & Language Narrative
Creoles & Pidgins Neurolinguistics
Discourse Pragmatics
Exceptional Language Pre-linguistic Development
Input & Interaction Signed Languages
Language Disorders Sociolinguistics
Lexicon Speech Perception & Production
Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology)
Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.
We regret that we are unable to accept more than TWO submissions
per author. (This includes abstracts with multiple authors.)
Presentations will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions.
PLEASE SUBMIT:
1) six copies of an anonymous, clearly titled 450-word
summary for review
2) one 3 x 5 card stating:
i) Title, ii) Topic area, iii) audiovisual requests, and
iv) for EACH author:
a) Full name & affiliation d) Summer address & phone
b) Current address & phone e) Summer e-mail address
c) E-mail address f) Fax number
Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for acknowledgment
of receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by
late July. Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will
be available in late August 1994. Note: All conference papers will be
selected on the basis of abstracts submitted. Although each abstract
will be evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor requests to
schedule accepted papers together in group sessions.
If your paper is accepted, you will be asked to submit a 150-word
abstract for inclusion in the conference program book. Requests for
these program abstracts will be sent with acceptance letters. Program
abstracts must be submitted on diskette or by e-mail.
DEADLINE: All submissions must be RECEIVED by May 15, 1994.
Send abstract submissions to:
Boston University Telephone: (617) 353-3085
Conference on Language Development Fax: (617) 353-6218
138 Mountfort Street E-mail: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu OR
Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. info@louis-xiv.bu.edu (automated reply)
(WE ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT ABSTRACTS
SUBMISSIONS BY FAX OR E-MAIL.)
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