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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 08
NL-KR Digest Tue Jan 31 23:18:47 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 8
Today's Topics:
Program: First Israeli Seminar on Comp. Ling., Feb 95, Haifa
Program: EACL-95, 7th Europeans Comp. Ling. Mar 95, Dublin
CFP: SIGIR-95 Info. Retriev. Poster sessions, Jul 95, Seattle
Announcement: PAP'95, PACT'95 - Applications of Prolog, Apr 95, Paris
CFP: ASIS SIG/CR 6 Classification Research Wrkshp, Oct 95, Chicago
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 07:54:47 --200
From: shuly@CS.Technion.Ac.IL (Shuly Wintner)
To: al@Sunnyside.COM
Subject: Program: First Israeli Seminar on Comp. Ling., Feb 95, Haifa
Call for Participation
First Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics
Laboratory of Computational Linguistics
Department of Computer Science
Technion, Haifa
February 16, 1995
The Seminar is intended to bring together researchers and
practitioners in all areas of Computational Linguistics (or Natural
Language Processing), and also in related areas such as Formal
Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Cognitive Science etc. Its main
objective is exposition of the kind of work that is carried out in both
academia and industry in Israel in those fields. It is hoped that as
a result from such a gathering, more cooperation among different sites
will emerge; resources will be shared; and the entire field will
become more prominent. The Seminar will also serve as a means to
introduce the area to graduate students who are attracted to it but
are unaware of the possibilities of majoring in it.
In this first Seminar the format of future meetings will be
defined. Hopefully, it will be the first in a series of periodic
gatherings. Some speakers will survey various ongoing activities in
Israel; some projects will be described in more details. The
possibility of creating a more formal organization will be discussed.
Programme (tentative)
13:00 -- 13:30 Coffee
13:30 -- 13:45 Opening remarks
13:45 -- 15:00 I
Nissim Francez, Technion
Uzzi Ornan, Technion
Dani Cohen, Tovna Ltd.
15:00 -- 15:30 Break
15:30 -- 16:45 II
Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University
Michael Elhadad, Ben Gurion University
Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University
16:45 -- 17:30 Discussion
For more details please contact:
Shuly Wintner
Department of Computer Science, Technion
32000 Haifa
phone: 04-294315 fax: 04-294353
email: shuly@cs.technion.ac.il
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 21:05:54 +0100
From: abney@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (Steven Abney)
To: aisb@cogs.sussex.ac.uk, elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, corpora@hd.uib.no,
Subject: Program: EACL-95, 7th Europeans Comp. Ling. Mar 95, Dublin
EACL-95
7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
March 27-31, 1995
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
PROGRAM
Registration information is available from the ftp file server:
<ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/Eacl95/registration.txt.Z>.
$ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu
Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous
Password: yourname@address [not echoed]
cd acl-l/Eacl95
ftp> get registration.txt.Z
ftp> quit
$ uncompress registration.txt.Z
WEDNESDAY, March 29
9:00-9:30: Registration
9:45-10:00: Opening remarks, welcome
10:00-11:00: Stuart Shieber, invited speaker (theatre P)
11:00-11:30: Coffee
11:30-12:30: Parallel sessions
theatre P:
11:30 Uwe Reyle
On Reasoning with Ambiguities
12:00 Anette Frank, Uwe Reyle
Principle Based Semantics for HPSG
theatre N:
11:30 Andy Lauriston
Criteria for Measuring Term Recognition
12:00 F. Wolinski, F Vichot, B Dillet
Automatic Processing of Proper Names in Texts
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
2:00 Mary Dalrymple, Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Vijay Saraswat
The Semantics of Resource Sharing in Lexical-Functional Grammar
2:30 Patrick Blackburn, Claire Gardent
A Specification Language for Lexical Functional Grammars
3:00 J"urgen Wedekind
Some Remarks on the Decidability of the Generation Problem in
LFG- and PATR-Style Unification Grammars
theatre N: Student Session
2:00 Kuang-hua Chen
Topic Identification in Discourse
2:30 David Tugwell
A State-Transition Grammar for Data-Oriented Parsing
3:00 Christopher C. Huckle
Grouping Words Using Statistical Context
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:30: Parallel sessions
theatre P:
4:00 Moon J. Kim, Young S. Han, Key-Sun Choi
Collocation Map for Overcoming Data Sparseness
4:30 Brett Kessler
Computational dialectology in Irish Gaelic
5:00 Mark Davis, Ted Dunning, Bill Ogden
Text Alignment in the Real World: Improving Alignments of
Noisy Translations Using Common Lexical Features, String
Matching Strategies and N-Gram Comparisons
theatre N:
4:00 Bill Keller, David Weir
A tractable extension of linear indexed grammar
4:30 Chris Brew
Stochastic HPSG
5:00 Annius V. Groenink
Literal Movement Grammars
THURSDAY, March 30
9:30-10:30: Patrick Hanks, invited speaker (theatre P)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
11:00 Gregory Grefenstette, Simone Teufel
Corpus-based Method for Automatic Identification of Support
Verbs for Nominalizations
11:30 Rens Bod
A Statistical Model for Corpus-Based Semantic Interpretation
12:00 Francesc Ribas Framis
On Learning more Appropriate Selectional Restrictions
theatre N:
11:00 David Milward
Incremental Interpretation of Categorial Grammar
11:30 Mark Hepple
Mixing Modes of Linguistic Description in Categorial Grammar
12:00 Glyn Morrill
Higher-order Linear Logic Programming of Categorial Deduction
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
2:00 Hinrich Schuetze
Distributional Part-of-Speech Tagging
2:30 Jean-Pierre Chanod, Pasi Tapanainen
Tagging French -- comparing a statistical and a
constraint-based method
3:00 Atro Voutilainen
A syntax-based part-of-speech analyser
theatre N:
2:00 Suresh Manandhar
Deterministic Consistency Checking of LP Constraints
2:30 Guido Minnen, Dale Gerdemann, Thilo G"otz
Off-line optimization for Earley-style HPSG processing
3:00 Gregor Erbach
ProFIT: Prolog with Features, Inheritance and Templates
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:00 EACL Business Meeting (theatre P)
Evening: conference banquet
FRIDAY, March 31
9:30-10:30: Wolfgang Wahlster, invited speaker (theatre P)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
11:00 Jan Alexandersson, Elisabeth Maier, Norbert Reithinger
A Robust and Efficient Three-Layered Dialog Component for a
Speech-to-Speech Translation System
11:30 Andrei Mikheev, Steven Finch
A Workbench for Acquisition of Ontological Knowledge from
Natural Language
12:00 David Carter
Rapid Development of Morphological Descriptions for Full
Language Processing Systems
theatre N: student session
11:00 Pierre Sablayrolles
The Semantics of Motion
11:30 Saliha Azzam
An algorithm to coordinate anaphora resolution and PPs
12:00 Hercules Dalianis (Stockholm, Sweden)
Aggregation in the NL-generator of the Visual and Natural
language Specification Tool
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
2:00 Atro Voutilainen, Timo Jarvinen
Specifying a shallow grammatical representation for parsing
purposes
2:30 Caroline Lyon, Bob Dickerson
A fast partial parse of natural language sentences using a
connectionist method
3:00 Kong Joo Lee, Cheol Jung Kwon, Jungyun Seo, Gil Chang Kim
A Robust Parser Based on Syntactic Information
theatre N:
2:00 Richard Crouch
Ellipsis and Quantification: A Substitutional Approach
2:30 Michael Strube, Udo Hahn
Anaphora in Dependency Grammar
3:00 Beryl Hoffman
Integrating ``Free'' Word Order Syntax and Information Structure
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:00: Parallel Sessions
theatre P:
4:00 Janet Hitzeman, Marc Moens, Claire Grover
Algorithms for Analysing the Temporal Structure of Discourse
4:30 Rani Nelken, Nissim Francez
Splitting the reference time: temporal ansaphora and
quantification in DR
theatre N: student session
4:00 Patrick Sturt
Incorporating ``Unconscious Reanalysis'' into an Incremental,
Monotonic Parser
4:30 Tanya Bowden
Cooperative Error Handling and Shallow Processing
Reserve Student Paper:
Frank Keller
Towards an Account of Extraposition in HPSG
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 95 13:55:39 PST
From: ene@argo.gslis.ucla.edu (Efthimis N. Efthimiadis)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CFP: SIGIR-95 Info. Retriev. Poster sessions, Jul 95, Seattle
For those of you who may have missed the deadline for submission of
papers to the ACM/SIGIR Conference in Seattle - you still have time to
submit a poster. Details follow!
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CALL FOR POSTERS
SIGIR'95
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18th International Conference on Research
and Development in Information Retrieval
The Sheraton, Seattle, WA, USA
July 9 - July 13, 1995
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POSTERS
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SIGIR '95 will include poster presentations to enable researchers an
opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in
progress, or research that is best communicated in conversational mode.
Poster presenters will have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one
with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply
interested in the same topic.
Posters will be reviewed by appropriate subject specialists as well
as the Program Committee and will be selected on the basis of
their contribution to research-focused discussion. Posters will be
accepted a full month later than papers in order to provide an
opportunity for submitting very current work that need not be
written up in a full paper.
Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings. Authors
will be expected to be present at their posters to describe their work and
answer questions on Monday, July 10, from 5: pm to 10:00 pm.
Doctoral students are encouraged to consider poster submission as
a viable means for discussing ongoing dissertation research.
Submissions shall be made to the Posters Chair and shall consist of:
(a) Abstract shall be submitted in three copies.
(b) An extended abstract of approximately three to four pages.
(c) Abstract shall emphasize the research problem, the approach
or methodology being used, and why the work is important.
(d) A separate cover page with the title of the poster, the name and
affiliation of the author(s)/presenter(s), as well as complete contact
information to include postal address, email address, phone number and
fax number of the author(s).
IMPORTANT DATES
FEB. 10, 1995 Submission of proposals for tutorials, panels,
demonstrations, posters, and workshops to the
relevant Chair
MAR. 10, 1995 Author notification
APR. 3, 1995 Final manuscript due in camera ready and electronic
forms
POSTERS CHAIR Elizabeth D. Liddy
School of Information Studies
4-206 Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-4100
email: liddy@mailbox.syr.edu
phone: +1-315-443-4456
fax: +1-315-443-5806
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Detailed information regarding the conference is available via
anonymous ftp from ftp.u.washington.edu (/public/sigir95/cfp).
A full version of the Call for Papers (with all the details
for submissions) is also available at the URL:
http://info.sigir.acm.org./sigir/ under Upcoming Events
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:27:52 -0500
To: postmaster@pap.com
From: Al Roth <alroth@alroth.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Announcement: PAP'95, PACT'95 - Applications of Prolog, Apr 95, Paris
My apologies if you receive multiple copies
Announcing the PAP'95 and PACT'95 conferences....
The Third International Conference on
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The Practical Applications of PROLOG - PAP'95
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Monday 3rd April - Friday 6th April 1995
The Hotel Sofitel Paris St Jacques, Paris, France
The Commercial Value of Prolog:-
An Exploration Through Practical Applications
The PAP conferences are the world's showcase for Prolog systems and
applications. Outstanding examples of fielded industrial applications from
all over the world formed the core of the previous two conferences.
In recognition of the international status of Prolog technology, this event
takes place outside the UK for the first time, and features a rich mix of
excellent speakers from international companies, tutorials presented by the
world's leading developers of state-of-the-art systems, and exhibits of the
latest applications, tools and products.
This year's Conference and Exhibition will focus on the industrial and
commercial exploitation of Prolog and Constraint Logic Programming.
PAP'95 will bring together major Prolog users, researchers, developers and
suppliers, in a relaxed but productive setting, to explore the growing
capability and power of these rapidly evolving technologies.
An industrial exhibition will accompany the main conference, providing
delegates and visitors with an opportunity to see demonstrations of the
latest Prolog technology.
INVITED TALKS
PAP'95 includes invited talks from:
Oskar Bartenstein, IF Computer Japan
Prolog Success Factors - Current Trends in the East
Ross Overbeek, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Genetic Sequence Analysis - the Grand Challenge
David Hovel, Microsoft Research, USA
The Use of Prolog in Windows/NT Network Configuration
Professor Luis Moniz Pereira, Lisbon University, Portugal
Prolog Applications: the Portuguese Twenty-Year Experience
TUTORIALS
Monday 3rd April, 14:00 - 17:30
Tutorial 1A - Prolog for Software Engineering
Peter Reintjes, IBM - T.J.Watson Research Center
Leon Sterling, Case Western Reserve University
Tutorial 1B - Applications of Constraint Programming
Mark Wallace, IC PARC.
Tuesday 4th April, 9:00 - 12:30
Tutorial 2A - How to teach Prolog: Teaching beginners Prolog
Ulrich Neumerkel, Technical University of Vienna
Tutorial 2B - Planning and Scheduling
Helmut Simonis, COSYTEC
Tuesday 4th April, 14:00 - 17:30
Tutorial 3A - Object-Oriented Programming in Prolog
Chris Moss, Imperial College,
Bruce Smith , Quintus Corporation
Tutorial 3B - User-Defined Constraints in CLP
Micha Meier, ECRC
PAP'95 CONFERENCE Wednesday 5th, Thursday 6th April
A two day conference designed to cater for the varied interests of each
delegate. Invited lectures by a number of world authorities on Prolog lead
this multi-track conference, with the main programme featuring a wide cross
section of application stories, case studies and technical presentations.
* Two day multi-level conference and exhibition
* Presentations from leading international developers
* Bound copy of conference proceedings
* Lunches and Gala Dinner
* Poster Session
PACT'95 CONFERENCE Friday 7th April
This year sees the launch of PACT'95, a special one-day conference and
exhibition on the practical application of constraint technology. This
sister event will focus on the industrial exploitation of Constraint
Programming and Constraint Logic Programming, examine the benefits for
business, and indicate the future trends of this important technology.
This exciting one-day event includes presentations from leading
international companies which have successfully introduced this key
technology, case studies, technology overviews, demonstrations, and round
table panel discussion. PACT'95 will provide an opportunity to find out how
companies in many industries are controlling their costs, and achieving
superior customer service through the application of constraint technology.
EXHIBITION PAP'95: Wednesday 5th, Thursday 6th April
PACT'95: Friday 7th April
Leading suppliers of Prolog based products and services will provide
practical displays of Prolog applications and development tools. Delegates
will have the opportunity to see the latest Prolog systems and to discuss
at length any issues with individual companies. The exhibition is open to
non-delegates and will be adjacent to the conference sessions.
SPONSORS
PAP'95 is supported and sponsored individual members of the Prolog
Management Group, an international organisation of companies including
AdTrack, AI International, ALS, Boeing, BIM, Cosytec, Dassault
Electronique, DS Logics, SLIGOS-Delphia, ECRC, IBM, ICON, Integral
Solutions, IQSoft, LPA, Paralogic, Prolog Development Center, PrologIA,
Quintus Corporation, SICS, and Siemens Nixdorf. The PMG aims to demonstrate
the successful use of Prolog throughout industry and commerce for the
development of practical, real-world applications.
COMPULOG NET is the Network of Excellence in Computational Logic supported
by the ESPRIT Program of the European Union. Founded in 1991, this
fast-expanding network already links over 90 centres in leading European
Universities, research institutions, and industrial companies.
INRIA (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) is
a French public sector scientific and technological institute under the
responsibility of the Ministry for Research and the Ministry of Industry.
INRIA's missions include basic and applied research, design of experimental
systems, technology and knowledge transfer, international scientific
exchanges, contribution to international cooperation programmes, scientific
assessments, contribution to standardisation.
UNICOM SEMINARS is a value-added information company, specialising in high
quality seminars, conferences, well-focused workshops and business to
business information products. Unicom publishes a series of industry
reports and books which are carefully reviewed by professional peers. The
company specialises in the fields of Software Development, Corporate
Information Systems, Telecommunications, Computing / Multimedia Convergence
and IT in management.
ORGANISATION
The Conference Organiser is Al Roth, and the Sponsorship and Exhibition
Coordinator is Clive Spenser, PMG Treasurer, and Marketing Director of
Logic Programming Associates.
The Chair of the Programme Committee is Andre' Marien, BIM. The Tutorial
Chair is Peter Reintjes, IBM Watson Research Centre. The Programme
Committee is drawn worldwide from industry leaders including Boeing,
Dassault Electronique, British Telecommunications, Lockheed Canada,
Motorola, US West, British Petroleum, and first rate universities and
research organisations.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The organisers of PAP'95 are also grateful for the support of PC AI
magazine and the Windows/DOS Developers Journal.
PAP'95 is run in cooperation with the Association of Logic Programming,
AFCET, ALP, and its French national equivalent ALPS.
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TO RECEIVE A FULL CONFERENCE BROCHURE AND REGISTER INTEREST IN THE
CONFERENCE PLEASE RETURN THE FOLLOWING REPLY FORM
Name:
Position:
Organisation:
Address:
Postcode:
Country:
Telephone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Please return this form to:
PAP'95
PO Box 137, Blackpool
Lancashire, FY2 0XY
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1253 358081
Fax: +44 (0)1253 353811
E-mail: info@pap.com
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: schwartz@panix.com (Ray Schwartz)
Subject: CFP: ASIS SIG/CR 6 Classification Research Wrkshp, Oct 95, Chicago
Date: 1 Feb 1995 00:31:08 -0500
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
6th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop:
An interdisciplinary meeting
The American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group on
Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 6th
ASIS Classification Research Workshop, to be held at the 58th Annual
Meeting of ASIS in Chicago, IL. The workshop will take place Sunday,
October 8th, 1995, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ASIS '95 continues through
Thursday, October 12th.
The CR Workshop is designed to be an exchange of ideas among active
researchers with interests in the creation, development, management,
representation, display, comparison, compatibility, theory, and
application of classification schemes. Emphasis will be on semantic
classification, in contrast to statistically based schemes. Topics
include, but are not limited to:
- Warrant for concepts in classification schemes.
- Concept acquisition.
- Basis for semantic classes.
- Automated techniques to assist in creating classification schemes.
- Statistical techniques used for developing explicit semantic classes.
- Relations and their properties.
- Inheritance and subsumption.
- Knowledge representation schemes.
- Classification algorithms.
- Procedural knowledge in classification schemes.
- Reasoning with classification schemes.
- Software for management of classification schemes.
- Interfaces for displaying classification schemes.
- Data structures and programming languages for classification schemes.
- Image classification.
- Comparison and compatibility between classification schemes.
- Applications such as subject analysis, natural language understanding,
information retrieval, expert systems.
- Representation and access on the Internet
The CR Workshop welcomes submissions from various disciplines. Those
interested in participating are invited to submit a short (1-2 page
single-spaced) position paper summarizing substantive work that has been
conducted in the above areas or other areas related to semantic
classification schemes, and a statement briefly outlining the reason for
wanting to participate in the workshop. Submissions may include
background papers as attachments. Participation will be of two kinds:
presenter and regular participant. Those selected as presenters will be
invited to submit expanded versions of their position papers and to speak
to those papers in brief presentations during the workshop. Submitted
position papers will be refereed for acceptance for publication in the
proceedings. Some of the accepted papers will be selected for an
expanded version in the proceedings. Authors of expanded papers will be
invited to speak to their papers in brief presentations during the
workshop. All position papers (both expanded and short papers) will be
published in proceedings to be distributed prior to the workshop. The
workshop's early registration fee is $35.00 for SIG/CR members and/or
participants; $45.00 for ASIS members; $60.00 for non-members. (The
workshop is separate from the ASIS Annual, an additional registration is
required for the Annual Conference).
Previous proceedings are titled "Advances in Classification Research:
proceedings of the ... ASIS SIG/CR Classification Workshop" and are
published by Learned Information, Inc., Medford, NJ.
Submissions should be made by email, or diskette accompanied by paper
copy, or paper copy only (fax or postal), to arrive by April 15, 1995, to:
Ray Schwartz, 530 Jefferson St., #13, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, USA
Work Phone: 212-305-3294; Fax: 212-305-6193;
Home Phone: 201-656-8807; Email: rps4@columbia.edu
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/~rps4/sigcr.html
Email or Postcard confirmations will be sent upon receipt of
submissions. For additional information, email rps4@columbia.edu or
access URL: http://www.columbia.edu/~rps4/sigcr.html
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