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NL-KR Digest Wed Jul 20 11:57:04 PDT 1994 Volume 13 No. 31
Today's Topics:
Query: Seeking Template Matching as in Eliza and IR Software
Query: Hierarchy of verbs sought.
Program: ESSLLI'94 Aug 94, Copenhagen, Program available via FTP
CFP: MTJ - Deadline extended for Mach Transl. Jrnl Spcl Issue
Announcement: Workshop on Compound Nouns, Dec 94, Geneva
Query: Seeking entries for a KR Language Directory
Announcement: POST-ILPS'94 WKSHP ON UNCERTAINTY IN DATABASES
Announcement: LPW-10 94 - Deadline Postponed, Oct 94, Zurich
CFP: EACL-95 7th Eur. Conf. on Comp. Ling., Mar 95, Dublin
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: wnelson@engin.umich.edu (William Michael Nelson)
Subject: Query: Seeking Template Matching as in Eliza and IR Software
Date: 6 Jul 1994 02:59:40 GMT
Greetings!
How's this for a naive question: Whatever happened to the Eliza program?
Has any research at all been done which tried a minimalist approach (like
Eliza) in other domains? Have people tried natural language "template matching"
approaches where very little parsing is done, and keywords in input sentences
are simply matched with pre-programmed templates?
I'm beginning research on mixing hypertext and natural language systems, and
have gotten (what I think is) some success out of a very minimalist approach.
I would _very_ much appreciate pointers to any relevant references to work
which tries to extend an Eliza-like program, or which is based on a very
minimalist NLP approach. Since keyword matching in info retrieval systems is
something of a "minimalist" approach, I think some relevant work might deal
with both IR and NLP.
Thank you!
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 13:18:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mark.deBoer@research.ptt.nl (Mark de Boer)
Subject: Query: Hierarchy of verbs sought.
To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
Greetings,
I want to make case frames of sentences. What I have is a parser which extracts
an action-object-parties triple from a sentence, e.g. in
Journalist sends copies to central editorial office
This becomes:
Action : sends
Object : copies
Parties: Journalist (source), office (sink)
>From this triple I can make a case frame of the sentence. But for comparing
two sentences (frames) I must make a hierarchy of actions in the domain of
business activities, like:
/Put
-Move -Get
/ \Goto
/
/ /send
Relation --- -Communicate -Retrieve
\ \Converse
\
\ /Append
-Change -Picture
(This looks very much like what Eugene Charniak made in his book
"Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, 1985, pp 236.)
Who has made such a hierarchy of actions (verbs) or knows where I can get it ?
Thanks,
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ===
Mark de Boer
PTT Research, Groningen, The Netherlands
E-Mail : Mark.deBoer@research.ptt.nl
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From: charp/ID@cbs.dk
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 12:17:36 +0200
Subject: Program: ESSLLI'94 Aug 94, Copenhagen, Program available via FTP
To: aisb@cogs.sussex.ac.uk,
REMINDER
SIXTH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION
August 8 - 19, 1994
Copenhagen Business School
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Denmark
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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 19:13:32 -0400
From: bonnie@umiacs.UMD.EDU (Bonnie J. Dorr)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu,
Subject: CFP: MTJ - Deadline extended for Mach Transl. Jrnl Spcl Issue
Dear prospective MTJ submitters:
In order to avoid conflicts with AAAI, COLING, and related workshops,
we are extending the deadline for submissions to the MT Journal
Special Issue on Building Lexicons for Machine Translation to
September 1, 1994. (See revised announcement below.)
* ** CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS * **
Special Issue on Building Lexicons for Machine Translation
The Machine Translation Journal
Editor: Sergei Nirenburg
Guest Editors: Bonnie J. Dorr (Maryland) and Judith L. Klavans (Columbia)
The Journal of Machine Translation is inviting submissions for a Special
Issue on the Lexicon in Machine Translation (MT) and Machine Assisted
Translation (MAT). The lexicon plays a central role in any MT/MAT system,
regardless of the theoretical foundations upon which the system is based.
However, it is only recently that MT/MAT 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/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/MAT
that can no longer be dismissed; researchers need to move from toy-dictionary
MT/MAT systems into larger-scale MT/MAT 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 and
MAT 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/MAT 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 and MAT.
- Lexicon design for machine-assisted translation systems.
- Accommodation of MT divergences and mismatches in the lexicon;
implications for automatic construction of lexicons.
* * * * * * * ****
* REVISED DEADLINE: September 1, 1994 *
* * * * * * * ****
FORMAT: Articles may be submitted in hard-copy, electronic (either plain text
or .ps format) to either guest editor. Please do not send to the subscription
address. If submitting hard-copy, please send four copies of the paper.
Articles should be approximately 20-30 pages (12 point font) and of journal
quality (i.e., refer to the literature, comment on how solutions approach
problems central in the field, etc.).
JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION: Please contact Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O.
Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands; or P.O. Box 358, Accord Station,
Hingham, MA, 02018-0358, USA.
GUEST EDITORS:
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
E-mail: bonnie@umiacs.umd.edu E-mail: klavans@cs.columbia.edu
Fax: 301-314-9658 Fax: 914-478-1802
GUEST EDITORIAL BOARD will include:
Scott Bennett (Logos)
Robert Dale (Edinburgh)
Pierre Isabelle (Laval),
Beth Levin (Northwestern),
Dekang Lin (Manitoba),
Paola Merlo (Geneva),
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis).
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 11:59:58 +0200
From: estival@divsun.unige.ch
To: list.@divsun.unige.ch@cs.rpi.edu;
Subject: Announcement: Workshop on Compound Nouns, Dec 94, Geneva
From: estival@divsun.unige.ch (Dominique Estival)
Reply-To: estival@divsun.unige.ch
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 09:59:54 GMT
Workshop
Compound Nouns
Mulilingual Aspects of Nominal Composition
3-4 December 1994
Geneva
Organization Commitee:
Pierrette Bouillon, Dominique Estival (ISSCO, Geneva)
Purpose:
Following the previous meetings concerned with the question of Compound
Nouns (Fontenay 1992 et Paris 1993) and in order to continue this series, we
are organizing another two-day workshop on this topic. This year, a special
emphasis will be given to the multilingual aspects of nominal composition.
We hope that such a meeting, gathering both linguists and computational
linguists, will enable us to bridge the gap between theory and practice and
will foster discussions about the respective constributions from linguistics
and computational linguistics to the multilingual treatment of nominal
composition.
We propose several sub-themes:
* theoretical contrastive approaches to nominal composition
* description and analysis tools for compound nouns in multilingual
applications
* detection and extraction of compound nouns
* statistical studies of compound nouns and their application in NLP
* compound nouns in electronic multilingual dictionaries
* compound nouns in machine translation
* links with studies in terminology
* compound nouns and the processing of bilingual corpora (e.g. through
text alignment, or for terminology acquisition)
* and any other theme for which the representation and computational
treatment of nominal composition, in particular in its multilingual
aspects, are crucial.
Program Committee:
Philippe BARBAUD, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
Paul Bennett, UMIST, Great-Britain
Paul Boucher, Universite de Nantes, France
Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO, Switzerland
Pierre Cadiot, Universite Paris 8, France
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Anne Condamines, Universite Toulouse, France
Beatrice Daille, TALANA, France
Dominique Estival, ISSCO, Switzerland
Benoit Habert, ENS Fontenay Saint Cloud, France
Christian Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes, France
Pierre Lerat, Universite Paris 13, France
Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Angela Ralli, University of Athens, Greece
Sergio Scalise, Universita degli studi di Ferrara, Italy
Pascale Sebillot, IRISA Rennes, France
Alina Villalva, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Stefan Wermter, Universitat Hamburg, Germany
Wiecher Zwanenburg, Rijkuniversiteit te Utrecht, Netherlands
Organization:
The two-day workshop will be constituted by 30 minutes presentations,
followed by a round table at the end of the second day.
It will take place at the ``Hotel Le Grenil'', in the center of
Geneva, where a number of room will be reserved for participants.
Registration fee: 300 FF or 75 SF.
For further information, contact:
Pierrette Bouillon or Dominique Estival
ISSCO, Universite de Geneve
54 rte des Acacias
CH-1227 Geneve
SWITZERLAND
tel: +41-22-705-7116
fax: +41-22-300-1086
--
Dominique Estival
<estival@divsun.unige.ch>
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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 11:22:18 -0400
From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Chris Welty)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Query: Seeking entries for a KR Language Directory
I am compiling a FAQ for KR languages, basically a "directory" of
the different ones out there. If you know the contact person
for a particular KR language, please send me this information along
with a BRIEF description of the language's features.
I have this information for Classic, Loom, and Sneps, so those
people needn't reply.
-Chris
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From: subbu@cs.concordia.ca (SUBRAMANIAN iyer n.)
Subject: Announcement: POST-ILPS'94 WKSHP ON UNCERTAINTY IN DATABASES
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 04:15:53 GMT
Our apologies if you receive this call more than once.
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Workshop on Uncertainty in Databases and Deductive Systems
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A Postconference Workshop to be held immediately following
International Logic Programming Symposium, Nov. 13-19, 1994.
Ithaca, NY, USA
OBJECTIVES: Most real-life applications require an ability to represent,
manage, and reason with uncertain knowledge. Examples include
diagnostic applications, data mining, image and scientific databases,
legal and military applications. Numerous formalisms for dealing with
uncertainty have been studied over the years, several of which are in
the context of logic programming and deductive databases. This
workshop aims at bringing together researchers working in all aspects of
this area, in an informal setting. A primary objective is to promote
intensive discussions on the use of uncertainty in databases and
deductive systems. We encourage submissions dealing with the
theoretical foundations, implementation and prototype development
issues, and applications. Papers describing new challenges arising out
of applications, for future research in this area, are also welcome.
The following is a non-exclusive list of TOPICS OF INTEREST:
UNCERTAINTY FORMALISMS SEMANTICS
* numerical approaches: * uncertainty in higher order
probabilistic, fuzzy sets, logic systems
Dempster-Shafer, possibilistic, etc.
* non-numerical approaches: * managing uncertainty in
lattice theoretic, multivalued different data models
logics, etc. (e.g. uncertain OODBs)
* hybrid approaches
QUERY PROCESSING AND IMPLEMENTATION APPLICATIONS
* calculus for query answering * traditional
(e.g. probabilistic calculus) (e.g. diagnostics, etc.)
* complexity and termination issues
* query processing and optimization * novel (e.g., data mining,
* design and implementation of image databases, scientific
prototype systems databases, etc.)
All submissions must be approximately 10 pages (double spaced) in length.
Papers will be reviewed by the program committee for their technical merit,
significance, and relevance to the workshop. Please send papers to the
following address. We strongly encourage email submissions. The title
page must include the name and email address of the contact author.
Submissions MUST reach the following address no later than September 15,
1994. To submit, you can either send the .ps file of your paper to the
email address below (this is the PREFERRED option), OR send 4 hardcopies of
your paper to the following address.
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan
Department of Computer Science
Concordia University
H 961 - 18
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd West
Montreal, Quebec
CANADA H3G 1M8
Phone: (514) 848 - 3018
Fax : (514) 848 - 2830
email: wudds@cs.concordia.ca
Authors will receive notification of acceptance/rejection by October 15.
Final versions of the papers to appear in the proceedings (again preferred
in .ps form, sent by email) are due on October 30, 1994. The workshop will be
held either on Thursday, November 17, or on Friday, November 18, 1994.
A special issue of an international journal, devoted to selected papers
from the workshop, is being planned. Expanded versions of papers, which are
due following the workshop, will be subject to further refereeing. Full
details will be announced later.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Melvin Fitting (CUNY, Bronx, NY, USA)
Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser U., Burnaby, Canada)
Michael Kifer (SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (Concordia U., Montreal, Canada)
Raymond Ng (U. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Fereidoon Sadri (Concordia U., Montreal, Canada)
Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, CA, USA)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submissions due: September 15, 1994.
Notification of acceptance/rejection: October 15, 1994.
Final versions due: October 30, 1994.
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@chx400.switch.ch
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 18:06:27 +0200
From: USENET News Admin <news@ifi.unizh.ch>
From: fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch (Norbert E. Fuchs)
Subject: Announcement: LPW-10 94 - Deadline Postponed, Oct 94, Zurich
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 17:09:07 GMT
WLP 94 - Deadline Postponed
10th Logic Programming Workshop
-------------------------------
Contributions keep arriving, but so are requests for more time. To give
everyone a fair chance, we decided to postpone the deadline for submissions
to July 29. The other dates remain as before.
Organisers
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N. E. Fuchs
Department of Computer Science
University of Zurich
CH-8057 Zurich
Email fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch
G. Gottlob
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Expert Systems
Institute for Applied Informatics and System Analysis
Technical University Vienna
A-1040 Wien
Email gottlob@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Deadlines
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Submission of contributions 29 July 1994
Notification of authors 15 August 1994
Final versions of contributions 15 September 1994
See NL-KR Digest of Tue Jul 5 (Volume 13 No. 29) for details.
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To: arpanet-bboards@mc.lcs.mit.edu,
Subject: CFP: EACL-95 7th Eur. Conf. on Comp. Ling., Mar 95, Dublin
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 12:00:14 +0100
From: Allan Ramsay <allan@monkey.ucd.ie>
EACL-95 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
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spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and
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