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NL-KR Digest Volume 13 No. 18
NL-KR Digest Sat May 14 22:59:57 PDT 1994 Volume 13 No. 18
Today's Topics:
CFP: Machine Translation J. Issue on the Lexicon
CFP: ACL94 Call for demos, Jun 94, Las Cruces
Program: NTNLP Call For Participation, May 94, Arlington
Query: speech synthesis research info
Announcement: FISI - SNePS Tutorial, Jul 94, Buffalo
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 13:17:01 -0400
From: Judith Klavans <klavans@cs.columbia.edu>
To: aimagazine@aaai.org,
Subject: CFP: Machine Translation J. Issue on the Lexicon
THE MACHINE TRANSLATION JOURNAL
SPECIAL ISSUE ON BUILDING LEXICONS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION
Editor: Sergei Nirenburg
Guest Editors: Bonnie J. Dorr and Judith L. Klavans
The Journal of Machine Translation is planning a Special Issue on the
Lexicon in Machine Translation (MT). The lexicon plays a central role
in any MT system, regardless of the theoretical foundations upon which
the system is based. However, it is only recently that MT researchers
have begun to focus more specifically on issues that concern the
lexicon, e.g., the automatic construction of cross-linguistically
valid lexical-semantic and knowledge-based representations for use by
multi-lingual systems. The need for large dictionaries is overwhelming
in any natural language application, but the problem is especially
difficult for MT because of cross-linguistic divergences and
mismatches that arise from the perspective of the lexicon.
Furthermore, scaling up dictionaries is an essential requirement for
MT that can no longer be dismissed; researchers need to move from
toy-dictionary MT systems into larger-scale MT systems so that they
will be in a better position to demonstrate the validity of the
theoretical underpinnings of their systems.
The intent of this Issue is to address critical issues concerning the
automatic and semi-automatic acquisition of lexical representations
for MT dictionaries. Among traditional approaches to constructing
dictionaries for natural language applications has been the massaging
of on-line dictionaries that are primarily intended for human
consumption. Given that many natural language applications have
focused primarily on syntactic information that can be extracted from
the lexicon, these methods have constituted a reasonable first-pass
approach to the problem. However, it is now widely accepted that
natural language processing in general, and MT in particular, requires
language-independent conceptual information in order to successfully
process a wide range of phenomena in more than one language. Thus, the
task of lexicon construction has become a much more difficult problem
as researchers endeavor to extend the concept base to support more
phenomena and additional languages. Added to this is the standard
size, coverage, efficiency trade-off, combined with the fundamental
question of anticipated vs actual functionality.
High-quality original research papers are invited on issues relevant
to this topic including, but not limited to:
- Lexical levels required by a machine translation (syntactic, lexical
semantic, ontological, etc.) and interdependencies between these levels.
- Automatic procedures for the construction of lexical representations.
- Semi-automatic methods for the acquisition of lexical knowledge.
- Use of existing resources and aids for transforming these resources into
appropriate representations for MT.
- Augmentation of statistically driven corpus analysis with linguistically
motivated techniques for extracting lexical knowledge.
- Role of bilingual dictionaries, including example sentences and phrases.
Extraction of information from pairwise data in dictionaries.
- MT mappings (transfer, interlingual, statistically based, memory-based,
etc.) and the effect of these mappings on the representation that is used
in the lexicon.
- Language universals in the lexicon and the construction of an interlingua
for MT.
- Incorporation of lexical/non-lexical knowledge for selection of suitable
candidates for target constructions in MT.
- Accommodation of MT divergences and mismatches in the lexicon;
implication for automatic construction of lexicons.
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DEADLINE for submission of articles: July 15, 1994
Articles may be submitted in hard-copy, electronic (either plain text
or .ps format) to either guest editor. If submitting hard-copy,
please send four copies of the paper.
Bonnie J. Dorr Judith L. Klavans
Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science
A.V. Williams Building Mudd Building Room 420
University of Maryland 520 W. 120th Street
College Park, MD 20742 New York, New York 10027
Email: bonnie@umiacs.umd.edu Email: klavans@cs.columbia.edu
Fax: 301-314-9658 Fax: 914-478-1802
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: ted@crl.nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
Subject: CFP: ACL94 Call for demos, Jun 94, Las Cruces
Date: 29 Apr 94 16:46:17
CALL FOR DEMOS
ACL-94, JUNE 28-30, 1994
NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY
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The 1994 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics will
be held on June 28-30, on the campus of New Mexico State University in
Las Cruces, NM.
The local arrangements committee at NMSU is currently looking for
exhibits and demonstrations for this conference. Specifically, we are
looking for demos in the areas of Machine Translation, Information
Retrieval, Computational Morphology, Lexical Semantics, Machine
Readable Dictionaries, Speech/Handwriting Recognition, Natural
Language Query Systems, or anything else in the area of computational
linguistics.
People interested in organizing exhibits or in demonstrating programs
at the conference should contact Ted Dunning, Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL,
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA;
+1-505-646-6221; ted@crl.nmsu.edu</a> - AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE. Those with papers on the program and academics without
grant or contract support can present demonstrations without charge,
to the extent that scheduling permits.
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From: cook@cse.uta.edu (Diane Cook)
Subject: Program: NTNLP Call For Participation, May 94, Arlington
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 19:55:40 GMT
+---------------------------------------------------+
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| CALL FOR PARTICIPATION |
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| North Texas Natural Language Processing Workshop |
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| Arlington, Texas |
| May 23, 1994 |
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+---------------------------------------------------+
We are pleased to invite participation in the North Texas Natural Language
Workshop, to be held at the University of Texas at Arlington, May 23, 1994.
The intent of this workshop is to bring researchers together in order to share
recent results with each other. Participants from industry as well as
academia are invited to attend the workshop, and to participate in discussions.
Registration Form
Name: _________________________________________________________________________
Affiliation: __________________________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Email: ________________________________________________________________________
Phone: ________________________________________________________________________
The workshop fee is $50.00. The fee covers workshop attendance, a copy of
the workshop proceedings, lunch and refreshments. Full payment must accompany
the registration form. Credit cards can not be accepted. Make checks payable
to the University of Texas at Arlington / NTNLP-94. Payment and the completed
registration form should be sent to:
NTNLP
c/o Diane J. Cook
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Arlington
Box 19015
Arlington, TX 76019
The NTNLP workshop will take place Monday, May 23, 1994, in 601 Nedderman
Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington. A map of the
Arlington area will be sent to all participants. For out-of-town attendees,
hotel arrangements can be made at the Arlington Holiday Inn ($79/night,
(817) 640-7712).
For more information, write to the above address or send email to one of the
program chairs.
Chairs
Dan Moldovan -- Southern Methodist University, moldovan@seas.smu.edu
Diane J. Cook -- University of Texas at Arlington, cook@cse.uta.edu
Program Committee
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)
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NTNLP-94
May 23, 1994
University of Texas at Arlington
PROGRAM
8:00 - 8:30 Registration
8:30 - 8:40 Opening Remarks
Session 1: Parsing
8:40 - 9:05 PLOP2: A Parser driven by OLLC
Massimo Paolucci, University of Pittsburgh
9:05 - 9:30 A New Parallel LR Parsing Algorithm
Kenneth J. Hendrickson, University of Southern California
9:30 - 9:55 Morphological Parsing with a Unification-Based Word Grammar
Evan Antworth, Summer Institute of Linguistics
9:55 - 10:15 Break
Session 2: Discourse and Reference Processing
10:15 - 10:40 Event-Attribution Extraction from Text Samples: Use of Local
Syntax Rules
Lynn Peterson and J.J. Kernell, University of Texas at Arlington
Rita D'Arcangelis, Mary Washington College
10:40 - 11:05 A Computational Model for Capturing the Coherence and Structure
of Discourse
Sanda Harabagiu, University of Southern California
11:05 - 11:30 An AI Model for Indexical Reference Based on Perception
John Moulton and Lawrence Roberts, SUNY Binghamton
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion: ARPA MUC-6
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
Session 3: Theory and Knowledge Representation
1:00 - 1:25 The Use of a Formal Type Hierarchy in Dealing With Ambiguity
Clark A. Sexton, Kansas State University
1:25 - 1:50 Formal Specification for Natural Language Applications
David C. Hunter, Mary Washington College
1:50 - 2:15 Formal Specifications of Output in Writing Systems
Will Briggs and Lynn Peterson, University of Texas at Arlington
2:15 - 2:45 Break
Session 4: Systems and Applications
2:45 - 3:10 SMU's Project in Natural Language Understanding
Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University
3:10 - 3:35 The Effects of Actions in Natural Language Processing
M. Z. Bleyberg and Isenhour, Kansas State University
3:35 - 4:00 A n-Towers Model for an Adaptive Semantic Language
Charles Hannon and Karan Harbison, University of Texas at
Arlington
4:00 - 5:00 Discussion
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: raz@northshore.ecosoft.com (ron a. zacharski)
Subject: Query: speech synthesis research info
Date: 2 May 1994 18:24:50 -0400
I'm curious to find out what companies are doing research
or development on text-to-speech or other speech synthesis
systems. Does anyone know of such places or know of a file
in some archive that contains this information?
If you are interested in receiving a summary of what I
find out please email me.
Ron Zacharski
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Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 22:00:28 -0400
From: Hans Chalupsky <hans@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Announcement: FISI - SNePS Tutorial, Jul 94, Buffalo
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
at the
SNePS (Semantic Network Processing System) TUTORIAL
to be held during the
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 28, 1994
The SNePS Tutorial is intended to be a one-day hands-on learning
session for people interested in how to use the SNePS system. The
tutorial constitutes the first part of a two-day SNePS workshop which
will take place during the First International Summer Institute in
Cognitive Science to be held in July 1994 in Buffalo, NY. The second
day of the workshop is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of
SNePS-related research papers.
WHAT IS SNePS?
The Semantic Network Processing System (SNePS), developed by Stuart C. Shapiro
et al., is the implementation of a fully intensional theory of knowledge
representation and reasoning. Since its first incarnation in the early
seventies, the main goal driving its development has been the construction of
an artificial computational cognitive agent capable of communicating
intelligently with other cognitive agents in natural language.
SNePS is implemented in Common-Lisp and is available free of charge
(via anonymous ftp) under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Here is a short summary of the major features and components of the
current version of SNePS (aka SNePS-2.1):
+ Creation of and access to propositional semantic networks
+ Path-based inference (a generalized form of inheritance)
+ Node-based inference based on SWM (a relevance logic with quantification)
that uses natural deduction and can deal with recursive rules
+ Forward, backward and bi-directional inference
+ Generalized forms of logical connectives and quantifiers
+ An assumption-based TMS for belief revision
+ A morphological analyzer and a generalized ATN (GATN) parser for parsing
and generating natural language
+ SNePSLOG, a predicate-logic-style interface to SNePS
+ XGinseng, an X-based graphics interface for displaying, creating and
editing SNePS networks
+ SNACTor, a preliminary version of the SNePS Acting component
+ SNIP 2.2, a new implementation of the SNePS Inference Package that uses
rule shadowing and knowledge migration to speed up inference.
TUTORIAL FORMAT
The tutorial will be taught by Stuart C. Shapiro with the assistance of
William J. Rapaport and members of the SNePS Research Group. Participants
will receive a set of "classic" SNePS papers and a complete SNePS
bibliography.
The tutorial will be held in a computer laboratory equipped with SPARC
workstations. Participants will work in small groups on individual
workstations where they will be able to follow how things are done by the
instructors, and where they will work individually on exercises to test what
they have learned.
At least the following topics will be discussed:
- Building networks
- Retrieving nodes
- Path-based inference
- Rules and node-based inference
- Belief revision
- Natural language processing
- SNePSLOG
- XGinseng
Since this is a lot of ground to cover in a one-day session we will
try to first give a general overview and then divide people into groups
according to their focus of interest and expertise.
In order to get the maximum benefit from the tutorial, prospective
participants are strongly encouraged to retrieve and install the SNePS
software themselves prior to attending the tutorial (see ftp instructions
below). This will provide them with an initial familiarity with the system so
that they can concentrate on more specific questions about SNePS.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The tutorial is designed for students and researchers in artificial
intelligence, computational linguistics, and cognitive science who are
interested in learning how to use a flexible knowledge representation and
reasoning system of the "classical" or "symbolic" type.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
The second day of the workshop is dedicated to the presentation and discussion
of SNePS-related research papers. If you are interested in submitting a paper
(submission deadline is June 6, 1994) please refer to the call-for-papers
which is available via anonymous ftp from `ftp.cs.buffalo.edu' (128.205.32.9)
in file `/users/hans/snorkshop-cfp.ascii'. In case you cannot retrieve it via
ftp please send e-mail to <hans@cs.buffalo.edu>.
REGISTRATION AND FEES
Tutorial participants have to register for at least the last week of the
Summer Institute for Cognitive Science (week 4) with form C given below. The
partial registration fees for one week are US$ 350 for academic affiliates
(faculty/student), and US$ 650 for corporate affiliates. It should be
pointed out that registering for the last week does entitle you to attend all
lectures, workshops and tutorials held during that week, not just the SNePS
tutorial. Full registration for the whole Summer Institute or any partial
registration including the last week will of course also entitle you to attend
the SNePS tutorial.
To register for the SNePS tutorial please do the following:
1) Send a short e-mail message to <hans@cs.buffalo.edu> indicating
whether you want to attend the tutorial and/or paper session.
2) If you want to attend the SNePS tutorial and/or paper session but
not the entire four-week FISI-CS session fill out form C below
(circle week 4 in the partial registration section) and send it
**by postal/surface/snail mail** (not e-mail) to
FISI-CS
Office of Conferences and Special Events
Center for Tomorrow, Room 120
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-1602
USA
If you want to attend other parts of the Summer Institute as well or want
complete information about lectures/courses/workshops offered at FISI-CS,
please refer to the comprehensive FISI-CS brochure and handbook which are
available via anonymous ftp from `ftp.cs.buffalo.edu' (128.205.32.9) in
directory `/users/rapaport/' as files `fisi-brochure' and
`fisi-handbook.{tex,dvi,ps,ascii}'. In case you cannot retrieve these
files via ftp please send e-mail to <hans@cs.buffalo.edu>.
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Hans Chalupsky
William J. Rapaport
Stuart C. Shapiro (chair)
IMPORTANT DATE:
E-mail notification about your intent to attend: As soon as possible,
but please no later than July 1, 1994.
REGISTRATION FORM C
FISI-CS PAYMENT FORM FORM C
NAME: _____________________________________________________________________
Dr./Mr./Ms. Last First Middle
Student/Faculty Corporate
INSTITUTE REGISTRATION FEE
FULL Session (to register for the entire 4 weeks)
Circle the applicable amount. (Books and course materials are not included.)
Advance Registration (payment in full, postmarked on or before April 30, 1994)
$ 750.00 $ 1800.00
LATE Registration (postmarked after April 30, 1994)
$ 850.00 $ 2000.00
PARTIAL Registration (per week) (NO academic credit given)
(1 week registration can include either associated weekend):
_____ Weeks X $350.00 for Faculty and Students $ _______
_____ Weeks X $650.00 for Corporate Affiliates $ _______
Circle weeks attending: Wk1: 7/5-9, Wk2: 7/10-16, Wk3: 7/17-23, Wk4: 7/24-30
ADDITIONAL CREDIT FEE
(total number of credits minus 3) X $150.00 $ _______ $ _______
UNIVERSITY FEE $ 12.50 $ 12.50
HOUSING FEE
Governors Residence Halls, University at Buffalo
_____ Weeks X $140.00, Single Occupancy Room $ _______ $ _______
_____ Weeks X $110.00 X ____ persons
for a Double Occupancy $ _______ $ _______
Roommate preference:____________________________
MEAL PLAN
Includes 3 buffet-style meals per day at an on-campus dining facility.
Meals will be served Monday through Friday.
_____ Weeks X $85.00 $ _______ $ _______
A 2-meal (brunch & dinner) option is also available for weekends (Sat-Sun).
_____ Weekends X $30.00 $ _______ $ _______
TOTAL FEES DUE $ _______ $ _______
TOTAL U.S. FUNDS ACCOMPANYING THIS FORM $ _______ $ _______
A $100.00 non-refundable deposit is required for registration, unless you are
paying in full. If you are making a partial payment, then you must send a
minimum of $100.00 to be used as a deposit to hold your place at the Institute.
BALANCE DUE $ _______ $ _______
METHOD OF PAYMENT
_____ Check/Money Order (in US FUNDS) enclosed and made payable to
U.B. FOUNDATION (Federal ID No. 16-1372561)
_____ Credit Card: _____ Visa _____ MasterCard
Card Number: ________________________ Exp. Date: ___________
Name (as it appears on card): ________________________________________________
Signature: __________________________________________________________
Date: __________________
RETRIEVING AND INSTALLING SNePS
SNePS without the optional graphics interfaces is written entirely in
Common-Lisp (as defined in Guy Steele's CLtL-I), hence, every proper
implementation of CLtL-I should be sufficient to run SNePS - in theory.
In practice, SNePS runs successfully in the following Common-Lisp
implementations:
+ Allegro CL 4.1 (on Sun SPARCs, SunOS 4.1.3)
+ Sun/Lucid CL 4.0 (on Sun SPARCs, SunOS 4.1.3)
+ TI Common-Lisp (on TI-Explorers I/II, Rel.6.1)
+ CLISP May-93 (on Sun SPARCs, SunOS 4.1.3)
+ CMU Common-Lisp 17b (on Sun SPARCs, SunOS 4.1.3)
More detailed information about what is required to install and run
SNePS is provided in the README file mentioned below.
To retrieve SNePS via anonymous FTP connect to `ftp.cs.buffalo.edu'
(128.205.32.9), login as user `anonymous' and supply your e-mail address as a
password. Then cd to the directory `/pub/sneps', change the transmission mode
to binary and retrieve the file `rel-x-yyy.tar.Z' (fill in the correct `x-yyy'
according to the directory listing). The `README' file and the bibliography
and manual files are all part of the distribution, they are just there
separately so you can get a hold of them without unpacking the complete
distribution. See the following script for more details (done on a UNIX host):
> ftp ftp.cs.buffalo.edu
Connected to talos.cs.buffalo.edu.
220 talos.cs.Buffalo.EDU FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
Name (ftp.cs.buffalo.edu:snwiz): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:snwiz@cs.buffalo.edu
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd /pub/sneps
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (128.205.32.11,1543) (0 bytes).
total 3726
-rw-r--r-- 1 612 3012 17982 Sep 16 23:19 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 612 3012 8714 Sep 16 23:19 GARNET
-rw-r--r-- 1 612 3012 777 Sep 16 23:47 INFO
-rw-r--r-- 1 612 3012 16791 Sep 16 23:19 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 612 3012 21771 Sep 16 23:40 bibliography.bib.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 612 3012 48360 Sep 16 23:40 bibliography.ps.Z
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 11 512 Jun 18 1991 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 11 512 Jun 18 1991 etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 612 3012 908 Sep 16 23:52 genbib.tex.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 612 3012 237381 Sep 16 23:39 manual.ps.Z
-rw-r----- 1 612 310 1732906 Jan 19 1993 rel-1-308.tar.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 612 3012 1693670 Sep 17 00:25 rel-1-400.tar.Z
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
801 bytes received in 0.082 seconds (9.5 Kbytes/s)
ftp> get README
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for README (128.205.32.11,1544) (16791 bytes).
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
local: README remote: README
17134 bytes received in 0.081 seconds (2.1e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get rel-1-400.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Binary data connection for rel-1-400.tar.Z (128.205.32.11,1545) (1693670 bytes).
226 Binary Transfer complete.
local: rel-1-400.tar.Z remote: rel-1-400.tar.Z
1693670 bytes received in 3.5 seconds (4.7e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.
>
Sorry, you can only retrieve SNePS via FTP, we do not have the manpower to
make tapes.
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