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NL-KR Digest Sun Dec 18 22:57:11 PST 1994 Volume 13 No. 53
Today's Topics:
CFP: Special Issue of INFORMATICA: MIND not equal COMPUTER
Query: Looking for remote speech to text service (batch form)
Announcement: Computists International free newsletter
CFP: Digital Libraries Conference - May, 1995, McClean
Humor: Representing Knowledge
CFP: CCP'95 Concurrent Constraints, May 95, Venice
Correction: Rectificatie NVKI-nieuwsbrief t.a.v. IJCAI'95
CFP: EACL-95 Sigdat Workshop on Represention, Mar 95, Dublin
CFP: AISB-95: Workshop on Lang. Visualisation, Apr 95, Sheffield
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 12:34:27 -0500
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From: geller@hertz.njit.edu (James Geller)
Subject: CFP: Special Issue of INFORMATICA: MIND not equal COMPUTER
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CFP: This is a Call For Papers for a special journal issue of
INFORMATICA on the topic:
MIND <> COMPUTER [i.e. Mind NOT EQUAL Computer]
MOTIVATION: Recent progress in AI (or, as some people would say, the
lack of progress) brings to mind papers by Winograd, Dreyfus,
etc. that question the possibility of achieving "strong" AI.
Was the scientific community correct when rejecting their ideas
years ago?
In this special issue we want to re-evaluate the soundness of current
AI research positions, especially the heavily disputed strong-AI
paradigm, and explore new approaches that aim to achieve true
intelligence.
The core of this special issue will be a small number of invited
papers, including papers by Winograd, Dreyfus, Michie, McDermott,
Agre, Tecuci, etc. Here, we are soliciting additional papers on the
topic.
TOPICS: Papers are invited in all subareas and aspects of the above
topic, especially in:
- Current state, positions, and "real" advancements achieved
in the last 5 years (as opposed to parametric improvements).
- Trends, perspectives and foundations of natural and artificial
intelligence.
- Strong AI versus weak AI versus the reality of most "typical"
publications in AI.
- New directions in AI.
TIME TABLE AND CONTACTS:
Papers in 5 hard copies should be received by May 15, 1995 at one of
the following addresses (no email/fax submissions):
North & S. America: Jim Geller
New Jersey Institute of Technology
CIS Department
323 Dr. King Blvd.
Newark, NJ 07102, USA
geller@vienna.njit.edu
Asia, Australia: Xindong Wu
Department of Software Development, Monash University,
Melbourne, VIC 3145, Australia
xindong@insect.sd.monash.edu.au
Europe, Africa: Matjaz Gams
Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39,
61000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe
matjaz.gams@ijs.si
E-mail information about the special issue is available from
the above 3 contact editors.
The special issue will be published in late 1995. Depending on
the number and quality of submissions there is a possibility
for the special issue to be reproduced as or extended to a book.
FORMAT AND REVIEWING PROCESS: Papers should not exceed 8,000 words
(including figures and tables but excluding references. A
full page figure should be counted as 500 words). Ideally 5,000
words are desirable. If accepted, the authors will be invited to
transform their manuscripts into the Informatica LaTeX style.
Each paper will be refereed by at least two anonymous referees
outside the author's country and by an appropriate subset of the
program committee.
More information about Informatica and the special issue can be accessed
through URL: ftp://ftp.arnes.si/magazines/informatica.
--
James Geller
New Jersey Institute of Technology / CIS Department
Newark, NJ 07102
email: geller@hertz.njit.edu /fax: (201) 596-5777 /voice: (201) 596-3383
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: ko@komac.knoware.nl (kS)
Subject: Query: Looking for remote speech to text service (batch form)
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 13:33:07 GMT
(Demo) sites wanted I can send a chunk of speech (speaker independend) to
translate it into ASCII natural language.
Anyone willing to let me experiment a bit, so that I can decide what
solution has enough potential
1. processing time not to important
2. software solution No dedicated hardware
3. speaker independent
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Date: Sun 4 Dec 94 20:14:16-PST
From: Ken Laws <LAWS@ai.sri.com>
Subject: Announcement: Computists International free newsletter
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Fourth annual membership drive:
Computists International is looking for members. We are
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@rutgers.edu
From: holowcza@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Richard D Holowczak)
Subject: CFP: Digital Libraries Conference - May, 1995, McClean
Date: 5 Dec 1994 12:44:31 -0500
ADL'95
Preliminary Call for Papers
A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL'95)
Monday-Friday, May 15-19, 1995
McClean, VA
SPONSORED BY: NASA-GSFC
IN COOPERATION WITH: ARPA, NSF, IEEE Computer Society*, ACM*, NIST-CAIT
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
Program Co-Chairs: Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers Univ.; Bharat Bhargava, Purdue Univ.;
Yelena Yesha, UMBC/NIST
* *
*OBJECTIVE:
* *
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
* * * * ***
*INFORMATION TO AUTHORS:
* * * * ***
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)975-3279
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.
From: "RVANRAAM@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca"@VENUS.GOV.BC.CA
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1994 17:32:51 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Humor: Representing Knowledge
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Hopefully this group will get started soon with the
difficult discussion of how to represent knowledge.
What I am interested in is to read an article say in English
translate this to an intermediate language of concepts
and how these concepts relate, then translate this into
fuzzy neural nets plus rule based logic and Fuzzy Cognitive
maps (or similar ideas). It is interesting to go through
a newspaper or magazine article or to listen to a debate
and then draw a cognitive map of what was really said
and then apply some numerics to the map to determine if the
conclusions of the author are valid or to make predictions
based on a rough understanding of the relationships
(as in Kosko's FCMs or as in Limits to Growth type of
models.)
* * *
Regards,
Ray Van Raamsdonk (389-3725)
BC Systems
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To: clp@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: CFP: CCP'95 Concurrent Constraints, May 95, Venice
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1994 11:17:17 +0100
From: Philippe Codognet <Philippe.Codognet@inria.fr>
CALL FOR PAPERS -- CCP'95
First International Workshop on
CONCURRENT CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING
Venice, Italy, May 29 - 31, 1995
`` Una in se, in multis diversimoda ''
Concurrent Constraint Programming is a new paradigm that emerged at the end
of the eighties and which generalizes both Concurrent and Constraint Logic
Programming. The key idea underlying this merger is to use Constraints to
extend the synchronization and communication mechanisms of Concurrent Logic
languages. The family of Concurrent Constraint languages makes it possible to
combine the advantages of both approaches, that is, on the one hand the ability
offered by Constraint Logic Programming to reason (symbolically) and compute
(numerically) on specific domains and, on the other hand, the possibility
provided by Concurrent Logic Programming of a data-driven computation.
CCP'95 is the first international workshop devoted to Concurrent Constraint
Programming and is intented to cover all aspects of this new paradigm :
Theoretical foundations and semantics Language design
Parallel and distributed implementations Compilation techniques
Relations with other paradigms Constraint solving
Distributed artificial intelligence Practical systems
Static analysis and program transformation Applications
The workshop will include invited talks by Ugo Montanari (Pisa, Italy),
Vijay Saraswat (Xerox PARC, USA) and Pascal van Hentenryck (Brown, USA),
and presentation of refereed papers.
Papers must be written in English and must not exceed 15 pages (including
references and figures). Submitted papers should not have been previously
published or submitted to any journals or conferences.
Send four (4) copies of your paper by January 6, 1995 to
Philippe Codognet, INRIA - Rocquencourt, B. P. 105, 78 153 Le Chesnay, FRANCE
together with an email to Philippe.Codognet@inria.fr containing title, name of
authors and abstract of the paper. Authors will be notified of the decision by
the beginning of March, 1995. A selection of the papers accepted for
presentation at the workshop will appear in a special issue of a major journal.
Conference Chair : A. Cortesi (Venezia, Italy)
Program Chair : P. Codognet (INRIA, France)
Program Committee :
K. Clark (Imperial College, UK) C. Codognet (LIENS, France)
M-M. Corsini (Bordeaux, France) R. Giacobazzi (LIX, France)
S. Haridi (SICS, Sweden) J-L. Imbert (Clermont-ferrand, France)
M. Maher (IBM Yorktown, USA) C. Palamidessi (Genova, Italy)
A. Porto (Lisboa, Portugal) F. Rossi (Pisa, Italy)
G. Smolka (DFKI, Germany) K. Ueda (Tokyo, Japan)
Sponsored by French Ministry of Research and Education, INRIA
and Universita di Venezia
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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 12:25:12 -0500
To: al@sunnyside.com
Subject: Correction: Rectificatie NVKI-nieuwsbrief t.a.v. IJCAI'95
From: meulen@cs.rulimburg.nl (Maarten van der Meulen)
Aan de lezers van de NVKI-Nieuwsbrief,
In het oktobernummer van de NVKI-Nieuwsbrief is een verkeerde call for
papers voor de IJCAI'95 conferentie opgenomen. Door een fout is onder
het kopje `Information' de deadline for submission en het
informatieadres van de CAMP'95 conferentie terecht gekomen.
Hieronder volgt de nieuwe call for papers voor de IJCAI'95 conferentie.
Let u vooral op de data en het adres voor inlichtingen. Mochten er
mensen in uw omgeving zijn die hiervan niet op de hoogte zijn wilt u
dit dan a.u.b. doorgeven. Onze excuses voor het ongemak.
De redactie van de NVKI-Nieuwsbrief
RECTIFICATIE
IJCAI'95
INTERNATIONAL JOINT
CONFERENCE ON AI
20-25 augustus, 1995
Montreal, Canada
The biennial IJCAI conferences are the major forums for the
international scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The
Conference Technical Program will include workshops, tutorials, panels
and invited talks, as well as tracks for paper and videotape
presentations.
Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously
unpublished research in all aspects of AI.
INFORMATION
Deadline for submission: January 6, 1995
Notification of acceptance: March 20, 1995
Full camera ready papers due: April 24, 1995
For additional information, please contact email: ijcai@aaai.org
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From: evelyne@research.att.com
To: dg@ai.uga.edu, lantra-l%finhutc.BITNET@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu,
Reply-To: evelyne@research.att.com
Subject: CFP: EACL-95 Sigdat Workshop on Represention, Mar 95, Dublin
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 94 11:18:37 -0500
From: Evelyne Tzoukermann <evelyne@research.att.com>
CALL FOR PAPERS
FROM TEXTS TO TAGS: ISSUES IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS
EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP
Dublin, Ireland - March 27, 1995
Second Announcement
Workshop organized by the ACL special interest group SIGDAT
to be held in conjunction with the meeting of the European Chapter
of the Association of Computational Linguistics. The meeting will be
co-chaired by Susan Armstrong, ISSCO and Evelyne Tzoukerman, AT&T Bell
Laboratories.
Submission deadline: Jan 23
Notice of acceptance/rejection: February 10
Camera ready copy due: March 1
With the growing amount of multilingual corpus data becoming
available, there is a pressing need to explore issues in
representation and analysis of these texts. Although extensive and
leading work has been accomplished for languages such as English, for
the most part many theoretical and concrete issues need to be resolved
in the representation and tagging of other languages.
The focus of this workshop is on multilingual text analysis, from the
level of text itself, e.g. tokenization, sentence separation, etc, to
morphosyntactic analysis, specifically tagging. We intend to focus on
tagging since it appears to be the case that, from a computational
point of view, part of speech tagging is often an important
prerequisite to further structural analysis. Additionally, many NLP
systems can make use of tagged corpora for various applications.
However, tasks such as tokenization and tagging continue to raise
serious challenges in multilingual text analysis, due to differing
types of morphological characteristics across languages.
Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
- tokenization and segmentation
- interfaces between morphological analysis and part-of-speech tagging
- size and choice of tagset
- defining and refining new tag sets
- mapping between tag sets
- universal vs. language specific tags
- multilingual approaches to tagging
We invite submissions on topics that in general reflect an awareness
of differences and similarities in working on multilingual text.
We also welcome substantive descriptions of newly started and ongoing
projects.
Program Committee:
K. Church, USA
B. Gale, USA
J.-M. Lange, FR
G. Leech, UK
A. Voutilainen, FI
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit extended abstracts
(2000-3000 words), either electronically or in hard-copy. Electronic
submissions must either be plain ascii text or a postcript file
following the EACL-95 stylesheet. Hard copy backup should include
two (2) copies of the paper. Abstracts should be sent to either of
the addresses:
Evelyne Tzoukermann Susan Armstrong-Warwick
AT&T Bell Laboratories ISSCO University of Geneva
Room 2D-448, P.O. Box 636 54 route des Acacias
600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ, 07944-0636 CH-1227 Geneve
USA Switzerland
tel. +1-908-582-2924 +41-22-705-7113
fax +1-908-582-7308 +41-22-300-1086
email evelyne@research.att.com susan@divsun.unige.ch
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 94 10:45:00 GMT
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com, nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu, nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CFP: AISB-95: Workshop on Lang. Visualisation, Apr 95, Sheffield
Advance Announcement
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* AISB-95 WORKSHOP IN LANGUAGE VISUALISATION *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
April 4th 1995
at the
The Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science (AISB-95)
(Theme: Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions)
Halifax Hall
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, England
(Monday 3rd -- Friday 7th April 1995)
Society for the Study of
Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)
Chair:
Ajit Narayanan
Department of Computer Science
University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
Lindsey Ford (University of Exeter, England)
Antony Galton (University of Exeter, England)
Paul Mc Kevitt (University of Sheffield, England)
Patrick Olivier (University of Aberystwyth, Wales)
Irina Reyero Sans (UMIST, England)
Masoud Yazdani (University of Exeter, England)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
The focus of this one-day Workshop is on the use of systematic and
consistent mappings between language input and output graphical forms,
where the graphical forms constitute or convey the meaning of the
input language.
Language visualisation can be of use when (i) the language describes
some real-world domain which is intrinsically visual or spatial in
nature, and the visualisation tries to recover the visual/spatial
meaning from the language description (eg. from a description of a
scene, try to draw a picture of the scene); and (ii) the language describes
some essentially abstract structure, and the purpose of visualisation
is to help us understand the structure by presenting a visual/spatial
analogue (eg. a diagram representing the flow of control in a program).
Examples of language visualisation include: software visualisation
(eg. visualising data structures and program instructions); story
visualisation (eg. deriving mental images of text); logic
visualisation (eg. deriving visual interpretations of spatial and
temporal expressions); visualisation-based diagnosis; visualisation-aided
CALL.
WORKSHOP AIMS:
The aims are:
1. To allow participants to share their knowledge and experience of
constructing visual systems for artificial and natural languages, so
that useful techniques can be exported from one area to another.
2. To identify recurring and common elements of language
visualisation, so that the first steps are taken towards a theory of
visualisation. Such a theory will include aspects of system
architecture and the appropriate use of visual objects,
as well as general considerations of the ways in which systems
can represent visual information.
3. To explore the theoretical foundations of language visualisation,
such as the use of formal visualisation languages,
visualisation morphologies, primitive-based visualisation, and
spatio-temporal models and interpretations.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS:
The workshop is intended for researchers currently active in
software visualisation, natural language visualisation, visual
programming, iconic languages and spatio-temporal representations.
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
The workshop will consist of half-hour presentations, with 15 minutes
for discussion at the end of each presentation. This format may change
once the number of accepted papers is known.
Applications and brief video demonstrations of experimental and
constructed systems should also be provided where appropriate.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION:
Papers addressing these issues should be sent to the Workshop Chair
(address below) by 30th January, 1995. All papers will
be refereed by the Workshop Committee and other specialists.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified
by 24th February. Final versions of accepted papers must be submitted
by 10th March, 1995. A collated set of workshop papers will be
distributed to workshop attenders only. Authors will retain copyright.
Papers describing experimental work are particularly welcome.
Attendance at the Workshop will be restricted to 30 to encourage
discussion. There will be a separate fee (about 60 pounds)
for Workshop attenders (more information will be supplied later). The
planned date for the Workshop is April 4th, 1995.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Further information can be obtained from: Ajit Narayanan, Department
of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PT, UK.
Telephone: +44 (0) 392 264064; email: ajit@dcs.exeter.ac.uk.
AISB-95 WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS CHAIR:
Dr. Robert Gaizauskas
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
211 Portobello Street
Regent Court
Sheffield S1 4DP
U.K.
E-mail: robertg@dcs.shef.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/
WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/
Ftp: ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk
FaX: +44 (0) 114 278-0972
Phone: +44 (0) 114 278-5572
AISB-95 CONFERENCE/LOCAL ORGANISATION CHAIR:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court
211 Portobello Street
University of Sheffield
GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield
England, UK, EU.
E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/
WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/
Ftp: ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk
FaX: +44 (0) 114-278-0972
Phone: +44 (0) 114-282-5572 (Office)
282-5596 (Lab.)
282-5590 (Secretary)
AISB-95 REGISTRATION:
Alison White
AISB Executive Office
Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS)
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton
England, UK, BN1 9QH
Email: alisonw@cogs.susx.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/christ/aisb
Ftp: ftp.cogs.susx.ac.uk/pub/aisb
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 678448
Fax: +44 (0) 1273 671320
AISB-95 ENQUIRIES:
Debbie Daly,
Administrative Assistant, AISB-95,
Department of Computer Science,
Regent Court,
211 Portobello Street,
University of Sheffield,
GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield,
UK, EU.
Email: debbie@dcs.shef.ac.uk (personal communication)
Fax: +44 (0) 114-278-0972
Phone: +44 (0) 114-278-5565 (personal)
-5590 (messages)
Email: aisb95@dcs.shef.ac.uk (for auto responses)
WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/aisb95 [Sheffield Computer Science]
Ftp: ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk (cd aisb95)
WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ [Sheffield Computing Services]
Ftp: ftp.shef.ac.uk (cd aisb95)
WWW: http://ijcai.org/) (Email welty@ijcai.org) [IJCAI-95, MONTREAL]
WWW: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/christ/aisb [AISB SOCIETY SUSSEX]
Ftp: ftp.cogs.susx.ac.uk/pub/aisb
VENUE:
The venue for registration and all conference events is:
Halifax Hall of Residence,
Endcliffe Vale Road,
GB- S10 5DF, Sheffield,
UK, EU.
FaX: +44 (0) 114-268-4227
Tel: +44 (0) 114-268-2758 (24 hour porter)
Tel: +44 (0) 114-266-4196 (manager)
SHEFFIELD:
Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in the Britain and is situated
well having the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major
city in the UK. The Peak District National Park is only minutes
away. It is a good city for walkers, runners, and climbers. It has
two theatres, the Crucible and Lyceum. The Lyceum, a beautiful
Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated. Also, the city has
three 10 screen cinemas. There is a library theatre which shows more
artistic films. The city has a large number of museums many of which
demonstrate Sheffield's industrial past, and there are a number of
Galleries in the City, including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin. A
number of important ancient houses are close to Sheffield such as
Chatsworth House. The Peak District National Park is a beautiful site
for visiting and rambling upon. There are large shopping areas in the
City and by 1995 Sheffield will be served by a 'supertram' system: the
line to the Meadowhall shopping and leisure complex is already open.
The University of Sheffield's Halls of Residence are situated on the
western side of the city in a leafy residential area described by John
Betjeman as ``the prettiest suburb in England''. Halifax Hall is
centred on a local Steel Baron's house, dating back to 1830 and set in
extensive grounds. It was acquired by the University in 1830 and
converted into a Hall of Residence for women with the addition of a
new wing.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT SHEFFIELD:
Sheffield Computer Science Department has a strong programme in
Cognitive Systems and is part of the University's Institute for
Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH). ILASH has its own machines and
support staff, and academic staff attached to it from nine
departments. Sheffield Psychology Department has the Artificial
Intelligence Vision Research Unit (AIVRU) which was founded in 1984 to
coordinate a large industry/university Alvey research consortium
working on the development of computer vision systems for autonomous
vehicles and robot workstations. Sheffield Philosophy Department has
the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies, founded in 1992, which
runs a workshop/conference series on a two-year cycle on topics of
interdisciplinary interest. (1992-4: 'Theory of mind'; 1994- 6:
'Language and thought'.)
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