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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 07
NL-KR Digest Wed Jan 18 12:40:07 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 7
Today's Topics:
Announcement: IFIP Wkshp on Comput. Lex. Sem., Apr 95, Philadelphia
CFP: ADL'95 Advances in Digital Libraries, May 95, McLean
Position: C/LISP, KR, NL, Cycorp, Austin, TX
Announcement: ACAI'95 Advanced Course on AI, June 95, Perros-Guirec
CFP: LMO'95 Confe'rence Francophone sur les Objets, Oct 95, Nancy
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To: linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu, comp-ai@ucbvax.berkeley.edu, ln@frmop11.BITNET,
Subject: Announcement: IFIP Wkshp on Comput. Lex. Sem., Apr 95, Philadelphia
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 17:29:35 EST
From: Martha Palmer <mpalmer@linc.cis.upenn.edu>
1st Annual Workshop for the IFIP Working Group for
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation
Computational Lexical Semantics of Verbs
April 28 and 29
U. of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
sponsored by the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
at the U. of Pennsylvania
and IFIP
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Martha Palmer, Harry Bunt, Bonnie Dorr,
Paul Jacobs, Sergei Nirenburg, James Pustejovsky, Patrick St.
Dizier, Rich Thomason
We would like to hold a two-day workshop on issues in
computational lexical semantics. Long recognized as a critical
component of any natural language system, this area has
paradoxically offered tantalizing glimpses of a wealth of data
for resolving parsing and reference issues, while at the same
time successfully eluded systematic representation. Current
implementations each have their own representation schemas, and
require customized lexical semantic representations, with the
notion of reuse and recycle with respect to lexicons seemingly
quite far out of reach. However, a recent spate of workshops
on dictionaries and on lexical semantics, current developments
in linguistics such as Wordnet [Miller, 1991], and Levin's verb
classes [Levin,1993] , as well as the wide-spread use of MRDs,
(Machine Readable Dictionaries), suggest that the time is ripe
for a push towards commonality.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together influential
researchers in linguistics, text analysis, machine translation,
lexical semantics, formal semantics and knowledge representation
for an in-depth discussion of fundamental issues. The focus
of the workshop will be the discussion of the representational
needs of pre-selected controversial lexical items, all verbs.
Having established these needs, the ability of individual
system implementations to meet these needs will be compared and
contrasted. The utility of data structures such as multi-lingual
ontologies and cross-linguistic verb classification schemes will
be stressed, with an open discussion of possible techniques and
methodologies for determining such data structures. The short
term benefit would be a greater consensus on representation that
would allow researchers to exchange lexicons and morphological
analyzers, and to collaborate on common corpora. The long term
goal is a unified methodology for resolving issues in semantic
representation that would allow the whole to be built from the
sum of its parts - that would encourage the joint development of
a shared core lexicon. It is not expected that a single workshop
can accomplish this objective, but rather that open discussion
can allow us to recognize unexpected areas of agreement and
isolate areas of disagreement. The two day workshop would begin
each day with presentations and panel discussions, and break up
into working groups in the afternoons. These working groups
will examine the pre-selected examples and work through the
comparisons of the implementations of these examples with respect
to different systems. It will be necessary to keep the number
of participants in the workshop quite low, and we will expect the
participants to engage in a certain amount of advance preparation
in order to make the working groups as effective as possible.
The two days will be organized as follows: The first day will
concentrate on semantic problems in text analysis of English,
with presentations of different system approaches. The speakers
will be asked to focus on selected examples, and give details
about their system's treatment of the following issues:
- Interaction between syntax and semantics; definition of
linking rules (by class, by thematic role, by verb argument,
etc.)
- Relation between alternations and verb classes; properties
inherited by verb classes
- Status of thematic roles vs. thematic relations vs. verb
classes
In addition to system approach presentations, we would like to
have three invited speakers, on Knowledge Representation, Lexical
Semantics and Verb Classifications.
The second day the emphasis will shift more to multilingual
analysis, and extending some of the techniques discussed the
day before to other languages. The presentations of different
approaches will look at some of the same examples as the day
before, as well as additional ones, focusing on:
- language-specific primitives vs. interlingua primitives
- language-specific ontologies vs. an interlingua ontology
We would hope to have one more invited talk on Wordnet.
Anyone interested in participating in this workshop is invited to
send a 1/2 page Statement of Interest to mpalmer@linc.cis.upenn.edu
or
Martha Palmer
CIS Department
Moore School
U of Pennsyslvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
by Feb 17. Participants will be notified by March 17.
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: rundenst@berlin.eecs.umich.edu (Elke A. Rundensteiner)
Subject: CFP: ADL'95 Advances in Digital Libraries, May 95, McLean
Date: 17 Jan 1995 00:42:37 GMT
NOT MUCH TIME REMAINS ... !
THE DEADLINE FOR CALL-FOR-PAPERS IS ONE WEEK AWAY.
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ADL'95
Call for Papers
A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL'95)
Monday-Friday, May 15-19, 1995
McLean, Virginia
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SPONSORED BY: NASA-GSFC
IN COOPERATION WITH: ACM*, ARPA, IEEE Computer Society, NIST-CAIT
NSF, Purdue University, Rutgers-CIMIC and UMBC
*-Pending Approval.
COPORATE SUPPORT FROM: ATT and Bellcore
HONORARY CHAIR: Michael R. Nelson, Special Asst., Information Technology,
Executive Office of The President, The White House
GENERAL CHAIR: Milton Halem, NASA-GSFC
STEERING COMMITTEE (Partial List): A. Aho, Columbia University;
D. Atkins, Univ. of Michigan; W. Day, Prodigy;
L. Holcomb, NASA; S. Howe, NCO/HPCC; D. Tiedeman, AT&T;
J. Ullman, Stanford Univ.
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers Univ.; Bharat Bhargava, Purdue Univ.;
Yelena Yesha, UMBC/NASA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Partial List): T. Finin, UMBC; P. Hunter, NASA;
P. Kanellakis, Brown Univ.;
M. Lesk, Bellcore; C. Pu, OGI;
Daniel Rosenkrantz, Univ. at Albany-SUNY; J. Schwartz, NYU;
J. Slonim, IBM Canada; H. Stone, NEC; H. Wactlar, CMU
EUROPEAN COORDINATOR: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany;
Shigeo Sugimoto, Univ. of Library&Info. Science, Japan
PUBLICITY C0-CHAIRS: Susan Hoban, NASA-GSFC;
Elke Rundensteiner, University of Michigan
EXHIBIT CHAIR: Susan Hoban, NASA-GSFC
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*OBJECTIVE:
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This forum is intended to bring together researchers from universities,
industry and government to discuss evolving research issues and applications
in digital libraries. Invited speakers will share their experiences in
building and using prototype systems, present their vision for the future,
and address applied and theoretical research related to such areas
as: capturing, and organizing of data, management of heterogeneous databases
and knowledge bases, and effective use of multimedia databases and knowledge
bases available on various national and international networks.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
-Searching Indexing -Resource Discovery
-Scalability -Standards
-Compression -Browsing
-Information Representation -Interoperability
-Knowledge Discovery - Intelligent Agents
The forum will feature keynote addresses, invited talks, regular sessions,
and panel discussions. In addition, several follow-up workshops will be held
in conjunction with the forum on May 18 and 19
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*INFORMATION TO AUTHORS:
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Authors interested in participating in the forum are invited to electronically
submit a 8-10 page paper/1-2 page panel proposal by January 23, 1995 to only
one of the three program co-chairs.
Prof. Nabil R. Adam Prof. Bharat K. Bhargava Prof. Yelena Yesha
Tel: (201)648-5239 Tel: (317)494-6013 Tel: (301)286-4108
adam@adam.rutgers.edu bb@cs.purdue.edu yeyesha@cs.umbc.edu
Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 24, 1995.
A co-edited book that will be published by Springer Verlag as part of its
Lecture Notes Series in Computer Science and special issue of a journal
are planned.
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Elke A. Rundensteiner | Elect. Engineering & Computer Science Dep.
Assistant Professor | Software Systems Research Laboratory
rundenst@eecs.umich.edu| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:36-0600
From: Karen Pittman <karen@MCC.COM>
Subject: Position: C/LISP, KR, NL, Cycorp, Austin, TX
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
Cycorp is seeking enthusiastic, highly-motivated multi-talented people
for positions in software development, ontological engineering, and
natural language processing. Each of these involves working with and
extending the Cyc technology -- an immense, broad, multi-contextual
knowledge base and inference engine which our group has developed over
the last eleven years. Cyc already contains a useful selection of
fundamental human knowledge: facts, rules of thumb, and heuristics for
reasoning about the objects and events of modern everyday life. Cyc
enables a multitude of knowledge-intensive products and services which
could revolutionize the way in which people use and interact with
computers, and Cycorp is dedicated to making this happen. To date, Cyc
has made possible ground-breaking pilot applications in the areas of
heterogeneous database browsing and integration, captioned image
retrieval, and natural language processing. We are looking for a few
individuals to join us in this challenging enterprise.
Software Development
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o C applications programming expertise (Unix, Macintosh, PC)
o Preferably some Common Lisp programming experience
o Database theory and application development (Oracle, DB2)
o Formal logic (predicate calculus) and deductive theorem proving
o Inference engine design, implementation, and maintenance
Ontological Engineering
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o Facility with formal logic (predicate calculus)
o Preferably some background in AI, esp. knowledge representation
o Programming ability is a plus, but not required
Natural Language Processing
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o Familiarity with NL parsing theory (including statistical
and/or corpus-based parsing methods and other methods)
o Experience in designing, building, and extending parsers
o Facility with predicate calculus, and some knowledge of
mathematical methods in linguistics
o Familiarity with linguistic theory, esp. morphology and syntax;
knowledge of pragmatics and/or discourse theory a plus
o Ability to think procedurally and concretely (thus, programming
skills would be a plus)
For immediate consideration, send your resume and a cover letter to:
Doug Lenat
Cycorp, Inc.
3500 West Balcones Center Drive
Austin, Texas 78759
FAX: 512-338-3858
E-MAIL: doug@cyc.com
Cycorp is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 12:43 EST
From: kautz@research.att.com (Henry Kautz)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu, and@research.att.com, let@research.att.com,
Subject: Announcement: ACAI'95 Advanced Course on AI, June 95, Perros-Guirec
ACAI'95 : Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 95
June 29th to July 6th
Perros-Guirec
France
The ACAI'95 Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence will be held
in Perros-Guirec (France) from June 29th to July 6th, 1995.
ACAI is a biannual Advanced Course, organized under the auspices of
the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence
(ECCAI).
In 1995 it is organized by CNET (Centre National d'Etudes des
Telecommunications - France Telecom) and AFIA (Association Francaise
pour l'Intelligence Artificielle).
The general theme of the course for ACAI'95 will be
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"AI Algorithmics"
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The aim is to study the basics of AI algorithms, including
complexity issues and practical implementation techniques. The course
will take into account some of the most recent results in these
areas, illustrated with relevant examples and case studies.
The course encompasses a general introduction on complexity of
algorithms in AI, and a variety of specific topics such as SAT-GSAT
problems, the practical resolution of NP-complete problems, games
problems and heuristics, and complexity in several practical domains
(planning and learning, reasoning about time, belief revisions,
consistency maintenance, reasoning under time constraints, parallel
algorithms, etc.).
Symbolic as well as numerical and stochastic approaches, will be
presented.
The course will be taught by well known experts in their respective
areas (R. Gavalda, M. Ghallab, T. Hogg, H. Kautz, B. Nebel,
J-M. Robson, R. Smith).
The whole of ACAI'95 will last 7 working days from 8h30 to 13h00
and a Sunday, the afternoons being free for sightseeing and or
informal working sessions where participants may propose to present
their own work. There will also be invited presentations in the
evenings, to highlight directions and challenges in present day
research.
The course is open to all interested persons, from academia or
industries, whatever their nationality. It has been planned to be
useful to young researchers or students, but should also appeal to
more experienced people as an overview of the field and a place to
exchange valuable ideas. The working language of the course will be
English.
Perros-Guirec is a nice seaside resort in Brittany, in the west of
France. The course will be held in a vacation residence where most
of the participants will be hosted.
The registration fee for a participant is 1400 F (academy) or 2000 F
(industry). Accomodation is planned in the vacation residence or near
by hotels. Students rooms will also be available in a university
residence.
If you intend to participate, please send back the attached coupon
at the address below, or reply using e-mail.
NB: In order to preserve optimal efficiency of the course,
attendance will be limited to a hundred participants.
Jean-Francois Cloarec
Course Director ACAI'95
CNET (France Telecom)
22301 Lannion Cedex
FRANCE
Fax : (33) 96 05 37 84
Tel : (33) 96 05 28 74
e-mail : cloarec@lannion.cnet.fr
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YES I AM INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING TO ACAI'95
June 29th to July 6th In PERROS-GUIREC (France)
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(this is NOT a registration form)
NAME: FIRST MAME:
ADRESS:
COUNTRY:
E-MAIL:
FAX:
POSITION:
ACADEMY (1400 F): YES/NO INDUSTRY (2000 F): YES/NO
ACCOMODATION PREFERENCE:
VACATION RESIDENCE SINGLE/DOUBLE ROOM (350 F / 175 F)
HOTEL SINGLE ROOM (220 F)
UNIVERSITY RESIDENCE SINGLE/DOUBLE ROOM (80 F / 40 F)
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The board of professors is:
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R. Gavalda, M. Ghallab, T. Hogg, H. Kautz, B. Nebel, J-M. Robson,
R. Smith
The course committee consists of:
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E. Burattini, M. Chein, M-O. Cordier, J-F. Cloarec,
F. Hautin, J-P. Haton, J-P. Laurent, R. Lopez de Mantaras,
E. Sandewall, W. Van de Velde.
ACAI' 95 is organized by AFIA (Association Francaise pour
l'Intelligence Artificielle) and CNET (France Telecom National
Research Center) on behalf of ECCAI, and with the APAST sponsorship
(Association Pour l'Animation Scientifique du Tregor)
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@moderators.univ-lyon1.fr
From: Amedeo.Napoli@loria.fr (Amedeo Napoli)
Subject: CFP: LMO'95 Confe'rence Francophone sur les Objets, Oct 95, Nancy
Date: 16 Jan 1995 13:23:51 +0100
Appel aux communications
LANGAGES ET MODELES A OBJETS
Nancy
12 et 13 octobre 1995
Le colloque LMO'95 fait suite au colloque LMO'94, qui s'est de'roule'
a` Grenoble en octobre 1994.
Ce nouveau colloque, qui se tiendra dans le me^me esprit que le
pre'ce'dent, devrait aborder des questions sur les relations entre la
notion d'objets en programmation, en bases de donne'es et en
repre'sentation de connaissances, sur les points de convergence et de
divergence entre ces approches, et sur les tendances futures.
Le colloque LMO'95 devrait mettre en e'vidence les diffe'rentes
perspectives d'utilisation actuelles des objets, et les capacite's de
mode'lisation, de programmation et de repre'sentation qui leur sont
attache'es.
Les the`mes suivants seront plus particulie`rement aborde's :
- mode'lisation a` base d'objets
- langages de programmation a` objets
- syste`mes de repre'sentation a` objets
- logiques terminologiques,
- re'seaux se'mantiques et graphes conceptuels
- bases de donne'es a` objets
- he'ritage de proprie'te's, gestion des exceptions
- objets composites, points de vue multiples
- objets et contraintes
- cate'gorisation et conception de hie'rarchies d'objets,
liens avec l'analyse de donne'es symbolique et nume'rique
- objets et raisonnement par classification et a` partir de cas
- syste`mes re'flexifs
- interfaces a` objets
- objets et intelligence artificielle distribue'e
- langages d'acteurs,
syste`mes paralle`les
- applications (CAO, configuration, diagnostic, etc.)
SOUMISSION DES COMMUNICATIONS
Les propositions de communications, redige'es en franc~ais (ou en
anglais pour les non francophones), ne doivent pas de'passer 5000 mots
(ou 12 pages en format A4, a` raison de 50 lignes par page, marges de
3 cm, caracte`res 12 points, figures, tableaux et sche'mas compris).
La premie`re page comportera le titre de la communication, les noms
des auteurs, leurs affiliations et adresses (en particulier
e'lectroniques), ainsi qu'un re'sume' d'une dizaine de lignes et une
liste de 5 mots-cle'.
Chaque communication soumise sera e'value'e par 3 lecteurs membres du
comite' de programme.
Les propositions de communication doivent parvenir au plus tard le
30 avril 1995, en 5 exemplaires, a l'adresse suivante :
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Amedeo Napoli
"Langages et mode`les a` objets 95"
CRIN CNRS -- INRIA Lorraine
BP 239
54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy Cedex
INFORMATIONS SUPPLE'MENTAIRES
E-mail : napoli@loria.fr
Tel. (+33) 83 59 20 68
Fax. (+33) 83 41 30 79
CALENDRIER
30 avril 1995 : date limite de re'ception des propositions de
communication
15 juin : notification aux auteurs de la de'cision du comite' de
programme
15 juillet : date limite de re'ception des textes de'finitifs
12 et 13 octobre 1995 : colloque
COMITE DE PROGRAMME
Hassan Ai"t-Kaci (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Patrick Albert (ILOG, Gentilly)
Jean Bezivin (Universite' de Nantes)
Jean-Pierre Briot (LITP, Paris)
Bernard Carre' (LIFL, Lille)
Franc~oise Carre' (Matra Marconi Space, Toulouse)
Yves Caseau (Bouygues, Paris)
Pierre Cointe (E'cole des Mines, Nantes)
Michel Dao (CNET, Issy-les-Moulineaux)
Yves Dennebouy (EPFL, Lausanne)
Christophe Dony (LIRM, Montpellier)
Roland Ducournau (LIRM, Montpellier)
Je'rome Euzenat (INRIA - IMAG, Grenoble)
Jacques Ferber (LAFORIA, Paris)
Serge Garlatti (ENST Bretagne, Brest)
Robert Godin (Universite' de Montre'al, Que'bec)
Michel Habib (LIRM, Montpellier)
Marianne Huchard (LIRM, Montpellier)
Jacques Malenfant (Universite' de Montre'al, Que'bec)
Kris Van Marcke (Knowledge Technologie, Bruxelles)
Amedeo Napoli (CRIN - INRIA, Nancy)
Mourad Oussalah (EERIE, Nimes)
Jean-Franc~ois Perrot (LAFORIA, Paris)
Joe"l Quinqueton (INRIA - LIRM, Montpellier)
Franc~ois Rechenmann (INRIA - IMAG, Grenoble)
Roger Rousseau (I3S, Sophia Antipolis)
Jean-Claude Royer (Universite' de Nantes)
Pierre-Yves Schobbens (Universite' de Namur, Belgique)
ORGANISATION
INRIA Lorraine et CRIN (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy),
Groupe ``Classification et objets'' du PRC-IA
Groupe ``Evolution des Langages a` Objets'' du GDR-Programmation
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Amedeo NAPOLI (napoli@loria.fr)
CRIN CNRS -- INRIA Lorraine
BP 239 -- 54506 Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy Cedex -- France
Tel : (33) 83 59 20 68 -- Fax : (33) 83 41 30 79
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