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NL-KR Digest Sun Dec 18 22:57:22 PST 1994 Volume 13 No. 54
Today's Topics:
Announcement: CFP: CAIPEP AI in Petroleum Industry, Sep 95, Lillehammer
Position: Research studentship, NL processing: Sheffield University
Announcement: KI-95 and DAGM '95 Pattern Recognition, Sep 95, Bielefeld
CFP: IJCAI-95 workshop on Context in NL Processing, Aug 95, Montreal
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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 18:22:27 +0100
From: Bertrand.BRAUNSCHWEIG@ifp.fr (Bertrand Braunschweig)
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
Subject: Announcement: CFP: CAIPEP AI in Petroleum Industry, Sep 95, Lillehammer
AI Petro
The International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence in the Petroleum Industry
Incorporating CAIPEP and EUROCAIPEP
13 - 15 September 1995
Lillehammer Hotel
Lillehammer, Norway
Site of the 1994 Winter Olympics
First Announcement
Call for Abstracts, Workshops, Demonstrations & Tutorials
Organised by
Norwegian AI Society
Norwegian Society of Chartered Engineers
Bremdal Technology Services
The Conference
AI Petro is an international conference focusing on the application of
advanced information technology in the petroleum industry. The
conference brings together existing users, researchers and
potential users of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology.
AI Petro follows and extends the CAIPEP and EUROCAIPEP conferences
which have taken place in America and Europe since 1988. It addresses
the whole petroleum industry. We encourage contributions and
participation on all technical activities in upstream and downstream
operations as well as activities in economics, finance and petroleum
management. The conference is hosted by the Norwegian AI Society (NAIS)
in association with:
Bremdal Technology Services
P O Box 115 Norwegian Society of Chartered Engineers
N 1392 Vettre P O Box 2312, Solli
Norway N 0201 Oslo
Tel: + 47 66 90 20 24 Norway
Fax: + 47 66 90 20 24 Tel: +47 22 94 75 00
+47 22 94 75 45
Email: bernt@oslonett.no Fax: +47 22 94 75 02 (administration) Attention of: Mrs Hanne Stokkeland
(secretariat)
All requests and proposals can be sent to either one of the addresses
above.
Papers
Papers will be solicited from all areas of the petroleum industry
including exploration, engineering, production, distribution, marketing
and management.
AI Petro welcomes two kinds of written contributions:
Descriptions of new applications of proven and leading edge AI
technologies in the petroleum industry. Example technologies are:
Applications of knowledge-based systems, evolutionary computing,
adaptive systems, case-based reasoning, fuzzy logic, neural networks,
knowledge management etc.
Descriptions of current issues faced by the petroleum industry and how
they have been solved or can be solved with AI techniques. Example
issues include: Interpretation of signals such as well logs, seismic
traces etc.
business-process re-engineering, logistics, field development,
environment control, safety etc.
Abstracts
The programme committee will select each paper based on the contents of
an abstract and keyword information.
1. Abstracts should be typewritten with 300 - 500 words and must
contain:
ú Paper title
ú Objective of paper
ú Purpose of the work described
ú Approach and concepts applied
ú Significant results or experiences
2. The keyword information must indicate:
ú Project status (i.e. Fielded, Beta-test, Prototype, Feasibility or
Conceptual)
ú Emphasis of the paper (i.e. Research, Application, Technique, Problem
analysis, Survey, Tool development, Investigation of
application area)
ú Tools applied (i.e. Hardware, Software and Methods)
3. Abstracts should be accompanied by information on the principal
author:
ú Surname (including Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Dr/Prof)
ú First name
ú Job title
ú Company
ú Address including post code
ú Telephone
ú Telefax
ú Email (if any)
and the name and company affiliation of each co-author in the order
that they will appear in the final paper.
Please send abstracts and keyword information by February 20th, 1995
to:
AI Petro
Bremdal Technology Services, P O Box 115, N 1392 Vettre, Norway
Authors will be advised of acceptance by 10th April 1995. We will
accept papers previously presented elsewhere, provided that all
copyright matters can be resolved by authors of the paper.
You are welcome to discuss prospective papers with:
Dr. Per Stokke
STATOIL, Forus, P O Box 300, N 4001 Stavanger, Norway
Tel: + 47 51 80 78 79 Fax: + 47 51 80 70 42
Email: Per.Stokke@st.notes.telemax.no
or with any member of the committee.
Proceedings
The proceedings of the conference will be published. The authors of
the accepted papers must have their final manuscript ready by 1st July
1995.
Tutorials
We intend to run a number of parallel tutorials the first day of the
conference. Tutorials will be short (2 hours) or half day (4 hours)
sessions aimed at audiences ranging from novices to experts, engineers,
researchers and managers. We are encouraging submission of proposals
for tutorials on any timely topics of interest within the scope of the
conference.
Format for tutorial proposals is as follows:
ú Tutorial title
ú Summary of objectives
ú Summary of content
ú Description of intended audience
ú Length: short or half day
ú Speakers' names, postal addresses, telephone, fax and e-mail addresses
ú List of publications and contributions that will support the
ú tutorial
ú Audio-visual needs: Video, slide projector, whiteboard, computers etc.
Tutorial presenters will be offered free conference attendance and
accommodation.
Workshops
AI Petro will feature workshops on topics of special interest related
to both petroleum issues and AI technologies. We invite submissions of
topics with a short description from individuals interested in
co-ordinating contributions and leading a workshop.
Format for workshop proposals is as follows:
ú Workshop title
ú Summary of objectives
ú Summary of content
ú Description of intended contributors
ú Length: half day or more
ú Organisers' names, postal addresses, telephone, fax and e-mail
addresses
ú Audiovisual needs: Video, slide projector, whiteboard, computers etc.
Where to send proposals for workshops and tutorials
Please send four copies of tutorial or workshop proposals by 1st
February 1995 to:
Technical Director Roar Fjellheim
Computas Expert Systems a.s, P O Box 430, N 1301 Sandvika, Norway
Tel: +47 67 54 11 11 Fax: +47 67 54 10 11
Email: raf@cx.dnv.no
Exhibition and Demonstrations
Software and hardware vendors are invited to exhibit their products.
Delegates are encouraged to demonstrate their work. No charge will be
made for non-commercial systems.
Exhibition space will be available close to the conference rooms. The
exhibition will run in parallel with the technical paper sessions.
There will also be sessions during the conference entirely dedicated to
the demos and product presentations.
Those interested in details on floor plans, product presentations and
pricing are welcome to contact Bremdal Technology Services. Deadline
for registration for the exhibition is 1st May 1995.
Committee members
The programme committee consists of the following members:
Proshanto Banerjee Indian Oil Corporation India
Bertrand Braunschweig IFP France
Bernt A. Bremdal BTS Norway
Jim Bridges KSI USA
Ron Day Arco Oil & Gas USA
Euginio de Luna Pedrosa Filho Petrobras Brazil
Roar Fjellheim CX Norway
John Fraser AIAI UK
Francois Hartmann Elf Antar France
Dermott McQuillan Texaco UK
Rob Milne Intelligent ApplicationsUK
Johan Moller-Holst Norsk Hydro Norway
John Scheutte EXXON USA
Dag Sjong STATOI Norway
Per Stokke STATOIL Norway
Lorenzo Tomada Agip Italy
Steve Trythall ERC Tigress UK
Junior Williamson Conoco UK
Magnus ívereide IFE Norway
Deadlines
Abstract submission: 20th February 1995
Notification of abstract acceptance: 10th April 1995
Final manuscript submission: 1st July 1995
Workshop and tutorial proposals: 1st February 1995
Exhibition registrations: 1st May 1995
Conference Site
Lillehammer is located about 2 hours drive from Oslo. There are
excellent communications by road and by rail. It is a small town at
the shores of Lake Mjøsa and is known world wide as the site of the
XVII Olympic Winter Games. Scenes from the skiing arenas, ice rinks,
bobsleigh and luge courses as well as the crowded Pedestrian Street
became a familiar sight for the whole world during the exciting winter
days of February 1994.
Apart from the Olympic attractions Lillehammer hosts some of the finest
scenic and cultural history of the inland area of Eastern Norway. In
spite of its late status as a town (1842) the first buildings date back
to the 11th Century. The Hammer farm is assumed to be the location
were the Birkebeiners (Birchlegs) Torstein Skjelva and Skjervdal
Skrukka celebrated Christmas in 1205. This was just before these two
Vikings embarked on the rough winter expedition across the mountains to
ísterdalen and Nidaros in order to save the royal heir, Hkon
Hkonson.
Lillehammer hosts the collection of Sandvig at Maihaugen. This famous
open-air museum is a monument of the old culture of the Gudbrandsdalen
area. Artists and authors, including Nobel Prize winner Sigrid
Undset, have been attracted and inspired by the beautiful landscape
and the history of the area.
Lillehammer is the gateway to splendid mountain areas such as Rondane.
The low land is dominated by hills of evergreen forest. The upper land
of moor stretches and smooth peaks excellent for hiking, cycling and
horseback riding.
There are many tourist opportunities that can be combined with
conference participation.
Guided tours to attractions such as the Olympic arenas, the Banken
Cultural Centre, The Norwegian Museum of Vehicle History, Maihaugen,
art galleries, the Ringebu Stave Church and theme parks are available.
There are also opportunities for the more active: Trips on horseback,
shopping, a cruise with the worlds oldest paddle steamer, Skibladner,
still in regular traffic, canoe paddling, downhill and bobsleigh
simulator, and wilderness trips. Fine restaurants in all categories can
be found in this small town.
Lillehammer is characterised by a stable inland climate, cold winters
and hot summers. The temperature mid-September can range from very
warm to slight chill with very good chances of fine, sunny days.
Conference Hotel
Lillehammer Hotel is the principal hotel of the Olympic city. It was
the official base for the International Olympic Committee. It is also
known as one of Norway´s leading conference centres with a series of
elegant and well equipped meeting rooms, sophisticated conference
facilities and comfortable areas for post conference leisure.
It has approximately 200 rooms. Elegant bars and restaurants with
orchestras playing every
night, an inviting swimming pool with saunas and solarium as well as a
number of comfortable sitting rooms offer the guests a feeling of
luxury.
Beside the Olympic park and only a short walk from the Maihaugen
Museum, Lillehammer Hotel has a splendid location. The hotel is
surrounded by a large private park with a heated swimming pool,
minigolf, playground for children and other activities.
Preliminary Information Form
Send to: AI Petro, Bremdal Technology Services, P O Box 115, N 1392
Vettre, Norway
Name:Dr/Prof/Mr/Ms__________________________________________________(surname)
____________________________________________________________________(first names)
Company/affiliation_______________________________________________________________
Mailing
address:__________________________________________________________________
City:_____________________________Zip
Code:_______________________________________
Country:__________________________________
Email:_________________________________
Phone:________________________________Fax:_______________________________________
Main field of
work:_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Particular topics that you would like the conference to highlight
(keywords):
____________________________________________________________________________
Information received will influence the composition of the final
programme.
Mark as appropriate:
___Yes, I wish to attend the Conference
I wish to present ___Paper __Tutorial __Workshop
Probable
Subject:______________________________________________________________
I want to exhibit: ______.
I wish to receive further information:______.
______No I am not able to attend, but I recommend that my
colleague/associate as described above should receive further details
on the conference.
Name of
recommender:__________________________________________________________
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Subject: Position: Research studentship, NL processing: Sheffield University
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 20:22:17 GMT
Reply-To: Yorick Wilks <yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
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* University of Sheffield *
* Department of Computer Science *
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RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
The department seeks to recruit a postgraduate student
to start in January 1995 in the area of natural
language processing, preferably in lexicon construction,
or computational pragmatics or semantics.
Candidates should have a good honours degree in a relevant
discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), and preferably some
NLP experience. The award is for three years and is at the standard
rate (just under 5K pounds a year) but there may be opportunities for
additional income within the university's regulations on graduate
student employment. A brochure on the work of the NLP group can be
obtained from liz@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk.
Enquiries and applications should be addressed to:
Professor Yorick Wilks, Director of Research,
phone +44(0)114-282 5563,
email yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk
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From: yong@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Dr. Yong Cao)
Subject: Announcement: KI-95 and DAGM '95 Pattern Recognition, Sep 95, Bielefeld
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 09:03:27 GMT
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K"UNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ UND MUSTERERKENNUNG
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PATTERN RECOGNITION
11 - 15 September 1995, University of Bielefeld, Germany
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In September 1995, the 19th Annual Conference of the AI division
in the German National Computer Science Society, KI-95, will be
held together with the 17th Symposium of the German Working
Group on Pattern Recognition (DAGM) at the University of
Bielefeld. For the first time, these two annual conventions,
which have overlapping themes but so far address different
groups of participants, will take place in a joint framework.
KI-95 will be conducted from Monday, 11 September to Wednesday,
13 September, 1995. This convention consists of the Scientific
Conference with several paper and workshop tracks, and the
Applications Congress. Contributions to formal and cognitive
foundations are equally welcome as papers concerned with
applications of intelligent systems. Conference languages are
German and English; conference papers must be in English.
The DAGM Symposium will begin on Wednesday, 13 September, and
end on Friday, 15 September, 1995. In a single-track program,
themes are mathematical, psychological, and biological foundations
of pattern recognition, as well as techniques and applications
for the processing of speech, language, and images. The conference
Language is German; papers can be published in English.
Both conventions will be accompanied by poster and industrial
exhibitions.
Important dates - Overview
Feb.1995 Announcement of KI-95 workshops
31.03.95 Submission of papers for KI-95 and DAGM
18.04.95 Submission of workshop contributions for KI-95
31.05.95 Notification of acceptance
30.06.95 Submission of camera-ready manuscripts
30.06.95 Submission of posters and system demonstrations
Detailed information is available (in German and English)
with regular updates at World Wide Web entry:
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ki-dagm95/
or, when necessary, from the organizers:
Ipke Wachsmuth (KI-95) Gerhard Sagerer (DAGM '95)
Faculty of Technology Faculty of Technology
University of Bielefeld University of Bielefeld
P.O. Box 100131 P.O. Box 100131
D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Phone +49-521-106-2910 Phone +49-521-106-2935
Fax +49-521-106-2962 Fax +49-521-106-2992
ki95@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de dagm95@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
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From: lucja@iwanska.cs.wayne.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 94 15:45:32 EST
To: distribution.@cs.rochester.edu@cs.rpi.edu; (see end of body)
Subject: CFP: IJCAI-95 workshop on Context in NL Processing, Aug 95, Montreal
CALL FOR PAPERS
IJCAI-95 Workshop on CONTEXT IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
August 19, 20, or 21, 1995
Montreal, Canada
Correct interpretation of natural language utterances and texts
requires linguistic and non-linguistic context. The goal of this
workshop is to investigate the nature of context in natural language,
its role in natural language processing, and shed some light on this
largely unexplored area of great theoretical and practical importance.
Dialogue and text processing are two application domains where the
lack of good theories of context impedes significant progress in
applying and developing new technologies.
As speech technology matures, it becomes technically feasible to build
dialogue systems. However, understanding dialogues, and especially
multimodal dialogues, is not possible without some account of the role
of context. Similarly, with today's text processing technology it is
feasible to automatically create knowledge bases from fairly
unconstrained texts such as newspaper archives. Ignoring
context in such texts, however, results in knowledge bases that are
not only very incomplete, but also dramatically different from
knowledge bases created by humans, based on the same texts.
We invite papers from researchers active in the fields of natural
language processing, knowledge representation, and other related areas
addressing theoretical aspects of context and their implications for
designing practical NLP systems. We are interested in reports on
implemented NLP systems utilizing contextual information. We are also
interested in knowledge representation systems, inference methods, and
algorithms that would allow one to computationally handle specific
aspects of context.
AGENDA:
Our workshop will provide answers and insights into how to go about
answering a number of questions, including the following:
I: ROLE OF CONTEXT IN NATURAL LANGUAGE
What is context ?
What is
"context of the previous utterance/sentence"
"context of the dialog-so-far/text-so-far"
and what is the relationship between them ?
How many different contexts are there ?
What makes two contexts different ?
What is the relationship between formalization of context and
natural language ideas of context ?
What is the status of context in a formal representation
aiming at truthfully capturing all the characteristics
of natural language ?
Is context an inherent characteristic of natural language
that ultimately decides the formal power of natural language ?
Is natural language minus context a less powerful formal language ?
Does representing context and truthfully capturing characteristics
of natural language require new knowledge representation or automated
reasoning systems ?
What is the relationship between context,
and the semantics and pragmatics of natural language ?
Is context different from possible worlds and situations ?
What is the relationship between domain ontologies and contexts ?
II: CONTEXT-DEPENDENT INTERPRETATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE
In which way does context affect interpretation of
natural language utterances and texts ?
Which aspects of context or which contexts result in
refined, more general, and different interpretations of natural language ?
Which aspects of context are explicit and which are implicit
in natural language utterances and texts ?
Which phenomena and inferences observed in natural language are
context-independent and which ones always depend on context ?
III: COMPUTABILITY
Does handling context increase or decrease computational complexity
of natural language processing ?
How to automatically identify context-provided constraints
resulting in conveying and understanding additional or different
aspects of information ?
How to represent those extra constraints provided by context
and how to automatically compute context-dependent
interpretation of natural language ?
Should the final interpretation of natural language be decontextualized
when stored in a knowledge base ?
How can information obtained in one context be utilized
in another, possibly unanticipated context ?
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WORKSHOP FORMAT:
We will hold four sessions:
I: Role of context in natural language
II: Context-dependent interpretation of natural language
III: Computability
IV: General discussion
Sessions I, II, and III will be mildly structured:
First,
the committee will present a brief overview of possible answers
to the specific questions included in the agenda, and discuss their
own answers. This presentation will be mixed with questions
from the participants.
Second,
the participants whose papers were accepted will briefly comment
on their own answers to these questions. These presentations will
also be mixed with questions from the participants.
Session IV, a general discussion, will give each participant
a chance to make a statement about any context-related issue,
make a comment, raise a question, argue for or against some answers etc.
PRE-WORSHOP ACTIVITIES:
A pre-workshop mailing list will be established;
please, indicate whether you want to be included;
In order to facilitate interaction and focus the discussion, two
months before the workshop, we will provide all the participants with
specific examples and data illustrating various aspects of context.
Authors+titles+abstracts of the accepted papers,
but NOT the papers themselves, will be available on-line to everybody.
The papers will only be available to the workshop participants. We
hope that this will encourage people to make strong claims even if the
support for them is not quite there, report on partial, ongoing,
promising research, be frank in evaluating existing approaches and
their own accomplishments, openly comment on limitations, in short, say
all those (very) informative things that are sometimes difficult, if
not impossible, to communicate in "official" publications.
Shared data, references, papers and the mailing list
are to allow the participants to:
- Sort out as many as possible things before the workshop
- Help focusing the workshop discussion on the hardest and
most controversial issues
- Raise objections and bring up controversial claims early on
in order to prepare well thought of answers and constructive
critique
PARTICIPANTS:
A limited number, 30 or so, active participants will be selected
on the basis of submitted papers. A small number, 5 or so, of
no-paper-attendance-only participants will also be considered;
such persons should submit a one page research summary and a list
of relevant publications.
Attendees are required to register for the main IJCAI-95 conference.
SCHEDULE/DEADLINES:
Very soon
Mosaic home page for the workshop set
3.15.95
Papers received
4.03.95
Selected papers accepted
Participants chosen
4.05.95
Acceptance notifications sent to authors
Sent to IJCAI
Selected papers to be included in the working notes
List of confirmed participants
Request for equipment/room
4.15.95
Mosaic home page for the workshop updated
e-mail discussion begins
5.01.95
Distributed to the participants
Final list of specific issues to be discussed at the workshop
References to the existing work on context
Examples and data illustrating various aspects of context
7.15.95
Final list of participants sent to IJCAI
8.19.95
Workshop takes place
12.01.95
Written review of the workshop ready
PAPER FORMAT:
Same as IJCAI-95:
12 pt article latex style
15 pages maximum, including title, abstract, figures, and references
The first page must include:
title
author's name(s)
affiliation
complete mailing address
e-mail address
phone/fax number(s)
abstract of 200 or so words
keywords
SUBMISSIONS:
Electronic submissions are strongly preferred:
DIRECT:
anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.wayne.edu ~pub/context directory
Place the postscript or ASCII version of your paper,
your author+title+abstract ASCII file,
your references (bibtex format preferred) file, and
a file with sample data and/or specific examples
Please, name your files with the name of the first author.
For example, John Block might place there the following:
block.ps a .ps version of his paper
block.text an ASCII version of his paper if .ps not possible
block-a.text an ASCII file with authors names, title, and abstract
block-r.bbl a bibliography file with references
block-e.text an ASCII file with sample data and/or specific examples
EMAIL:
lucja@cs.wayne.edu
As the last resort, four hard copies of the paper
can be snail mailed to
Lucja Iwanska
Department of Computer Science
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202, USA
(313) 577-1667 (phone)
(313) 577-2478 (secretary)
(313) 577-6868 (fax)
Info about the workshop and the abstracts of the accepted papers
is available via a Mosaic home page at
http://www.cs.wayne.edu/context
PRIMARY CONTACT:
Should you have any questions or need additional information,
please contact
Lucja Iwanska
Department of Computer Science
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
lucja@cs.wayne.edu
(313) 577-1667 (phone)
(313) 577-2478 (secretary)
(313) 577-6868 (fax)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Harry C. Bunt, KUB-University (Netherlands)
Keith Devlin, Saint Mary's College (USA)
R.V. Guha, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (USA)
Lucja Iwanska, Wayne State University (USA)
Karen Jensen, Microsoft Corporation (USA)
John McCarthy, Stanford University (USA)
John F. Sowa, SUNY at Binghampton (USA)
Wlodek Zadrozny, IBM TJ Watson Research Center (USA)
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