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NL-KR Digest Volume 13 No. 48
NL-KR Digest Mon Oct 31 00:37:26 PST 1994 Volume 13 No. 48
Today's Topics:
Announcement: Master of Logic (including Linguistics), U. Amsterdam
CFP: EPIA'95 - 7th Portuguese AI Conf., Oct 95, Funchal
CFP: Natural Language Advances, Sep 95, Bulgaria
CFP: Wkshp Proposals for Mach. Learning Conf., Jul 95, Tahoe
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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 11:03:58 +0100
To: colibri@let.ruu.nl, weischedel@bbn.com, nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu,
From: Erik-Jan van der Linden <erikjan@fwi.uva.nl>
Subject: Announcement: Master of Logic (including Linguistics), U. Amsterdam
MASTER OF LOGIC
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University
of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) offers an international program Master of
Logic.
The program consists of courses and a Masters' thesis project in the area
of logic and its applications. Besides, ILLC regularly organises colloquia,
conferences and master classes. Specialisation areas and courses in these
areas are the following:
LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS:
Recursion theory; Constructivism and proof theory; Modal logic and formal
arithmetic; Lambda calculus; Reasoning with probability and uncertainty;
Extensional and intensional logics.
LOGIC, PHILOSOPHY AND LINGUISTICS:
Logical semantics; Montague grammar; Non-standard notions of inference;
Meaning and context; Natural language question-answering systems; Seminar
in logical semantics
LOGIC AND COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Computational learning theory; Structured complexity theory; Theorem
proving; Semantics of programming languages; Theory and practice of logic
programming; Language processing
All courses are taught in English. The thesis is supervised by one of the
following members of the ILLC-staff. Most of them have studied or taught
abroad
ILLC PERMANENT STAFF:
Krzysztof Apt; Johan van Benthem; Jan Bergstra; Jacob Brunekreef; Kees
Doets; Peter van Emde Boas; Theo Janssen; Dick de Jongh; Paul Klint;
Michiel van Lambalgen; Piet Rodenburg; Leen Torenvliet; Anne Troelstra;
Paul Vitanyi; Renate Bartsch; Jeroen Groenendijk; Martin Stokhof; Frank
Veltman; Remco Scha; Henk Zeevat;
For a brochure with all necessary information, send us your postal address
by regular mail, e-mail of fax, and state `brochure Master of Logic'.
ILLC
Plantage Muidergracht 24
1018 TV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
e-mail: illc@fwi.uva.nl
fax: +31 20 525 5206
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From: njm@cupido.inesc.pt
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CFP: EPIA'95 - 7th Portuguese AI Conf., Oct 95, Funchal
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 11:03:24 +0000
EPIA'95 - CALL FOR PAPERS
SEVENTH PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE
ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
October 3-6, 1995
(Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI)
The Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(EPIA'95) will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal,
on October 3-6, 1995. As in previous issues ('89, '91, and
'93), EPIA'95 will be run as an international conference,
English being the official language. The scientific program
encompasses tutorials, invited lectures, demonstrations, and
paper presentations. Five well known researchers will present
invited lectures. The conference is devoted to all areas of
Artificial Intelligence and will cover both theoretical and
foundational issues and applications as well. Parallel
workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural
Networks, and Applications of A.I. to Robotics and Vision
Systems will run simultaneously (see below).
INVITED LECTURERS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following researchers have already confirmed their
participation, as guest speakers:
Marvin Minsky, MIT (USA)
Manuela Veloso, CMU (USA)
Luis Borges de Almeida, IST (Portugal)
Rodney Brooks, MIT (USA)
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Authors must submit five (5) complete printed copies of their
papers to the "EPIA'95 submission address". Fax or electronic
submissions will not be accepted. Submissions must be printed
on A4 or 8 1/2"x11" paper using 12 point type. Each page must
have a maximum of 38 lines and an average of 75 characters
per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12
point). Double-sided printing is strongly encouraged. The
body of submitted papers must be at most 12 pages, including
title, abstract, figures, tables, and diagrams, but excluding
the title page and bibliography.
ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In addition to submitting the paper copies, authors should
send to epia95-abstracts@inesc.pt a short (200 words)
electronic abstract of their paper to aid the reviewing
process. The electronic abstract must be in plain ASCII text
(no LaTeX)) in the following format:
TITLE: <title of the paper>
FIRST AUTHOR: <last name, first name>
EMAIL: <email of the first author>
FIRST ADDRESS: <first author address>
COAUTHORS: <their names, if any>
KEYWORDS: <keywords separated by commas>
ABSTRACT: <text of the abstract>
Authors are requested to select 1-3 appropriate keywords from
the list below. Authors are welcome to add additional
keywords descriptors as needed. Applications, agent-oriented
programming, automated reasoning, belief revision, case-based
reasoning, common sense reasoning, constraint satisfaction,
distributed AI, expert systems, genetic algorithms, knowledge
representation, logic programming, machine learning, natural
language understanding, nonmonotonic reasoning, planning,
qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, robotics, spatial
reasoning, theorem proving, theory of computation, tutoring
systems.
REVIEW OF PAPERS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Submissions will be judged on significance, originality,
quality and clarity. Reviewing will be blind to the
identities of the authors. This requires that authors
exercise some care not to identify themselves in their
papers. Each copy of the paper must have a title page,
separated from the body of the paper, including the title of
the paper, the names and addresses of all authors, a list of
content areas (see above) and any acknowledgments. The second
page should include the same title, a short abstract of less
than 200 words, and the exact same contents areas, but not
the names nor affiliations of the authors. This page may
include text of the paper. The references should include all
published literature relevant to the paper, including
previous works of the authors, but should not include
unpublished works of the authors. When referring to one's own
work, use the third person. For example, say "previously,
Peter [17] has shown that ...". Try to avoid including any
information in the body of the paper or references that would
identify the authors or their institutions. Such information
can be added to the final camera-ready version for
publication. Please do not staple the title page to the body
of the paper. Submitted papers must be unpublished.
PUBLICATION
~~~~~~~~~~~
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (lecture
notes in A.I. series). Authors will be required to transfer
copyright of their paper to Springer-Verlag.
ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the framework of the conference three workshops will be
organized: Applications of Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and
Neural Networks in Engineering, and Applications of
Artificial Intelligence to Robotics and Vision Systems. Real
world applications, running systems, and demos are welcome.
CONFERENCE & PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Carlos Pinto-Ferreira Nuno Mamede
Instituto Superior Tecnico Instituto Superior Tecnico
ISR, Av. Rovisco Pais INESC, Apartado 13069
1000 Lisboa, Portugal 1000 Lisboa, Portugal
Voice: +351 (1) 8475105 Voice: +351 (1) 310-0234
Fax: +351 (1) 3523014 Fax: +351 (1) 525843
Email: cpf@kappa.ist.utl.pt Email: njm@inesc.pt
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Antonio Porto (Portugal) Lauiri Carlson (Finland)
Benjamin Kuipers (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium)
Bernhard Nebel (Germany) Luigia Aiello (Italy)
David Makinson (Germany) Luis Moniz Pereira (Portugal)
Erik Sandewall (Sweden) Luis Monteiro (Portugal)
Ernesto Costa (Portugal) Manuela Veloso (USA)
Helder Coelho (Portugal) Maria Cravo (Portugal)
Joao Martins (Portugal) Miguel Filgueiras (Portugal)
John Self (UK) Yoav Shoham (USA)
Jose Carmo (Portugal) Yves Kodratoff (France)
DEADLINES
~~~~~~~~~
Papers Submission: ................. March 20, 1995
Notification of acceptance: ........ May 15, 1995
Camera Ready Copies Due: ........... June 12, 1995
SUBMISSION & INQUIRIES ADDRESS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EPIA95
INESC, Apartado 13069
1000 Lisboa, Portugal
Voice: +351 (1) 310-0325
Fax: +351 (1) 525843
Email: epia95@inesc.pt
SUPPORTERS
~~~~~~~~~~
Banco Nacional Ultramarino Governo Regional da Madeira
Instituto Superior Tecnico INESC
CITMA IBM
TAPair Portugal
PLANNING TO ATTEND
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
People planning to submit a paper or/and to attend the
conference or attend a workshop are asked to complete and
return the following form (by fax or email) to the inquiries
address standing their intention. It will help the conference
organizers to estimate the facilities needed for the
conference and will enable all interested people to receive
updated information.
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| REGISTRATION OF INTEREST |
| |
| Title . . . . . Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| Address1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| Address2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fax . . . . . . . . . . |
| Email address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| I intend to submit a paper (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| I intend to participate only (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| I will travel with ... guests |
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From: "Ruslan Mitkov" <ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de>
Subject: CFP: Natural Language Advances, Sep 95, Bulgaria
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 16:17:18 +0100 (MET)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"RECENT ADVANCES NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING"
14-16 September 1995
Velingrad, Bulgaria
Topics of interest
------ -- --------
Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language
Processing and Language Engineering are invited, including but not limited to:
pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon;
phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation;
multilingual NLP, machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation
aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; written and spoken natural
language interfaces; knowledge acquisition; text summarization; computer-
assisted language learning; language resources; evaluation, assessment and
standards in language engineering; and theoretical and application-oriented
papers related to NLP of every kind.
The conference welcomes also new results in NLP based on modern
alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of
symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connectionist as well
as hybrid and multimedia approaches.
In general, the conference especially welcomes any contribution to the
area of language engineering in view of the imminent developments in
information technology.
Program committee
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B. Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino)
C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble)
K.S. Choi (KAIST, Taejon)
A. DeRoeck (University of Essex)
R. Delmonte (University of Venice)
S. Fincher (University of Edinburgh)
J. Haller (IAI, Saarbruecken)
P. Jacobs (SRA, Arlington)
A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
L. Kartunen (Xerox Grenoble)
R. Kittredge (University of Montreal)
K. Kukich (Bellcore, Morristown)
C. Martin-Vide (University Rovira i Virgili)
Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
K. McKeown (Columbia University)
R. Mitkov (IAI/Institute of Mathematics)
S. Nirenburg (New Mexico State University)
H. Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
P. Seuren (University of Nijmegen)
O. Stock (IRST, Trento)
B. Tsou (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong)
J. Tsuji (UMIST, Manchester)
D. Tufis (Romanian Academy of Sciences)
Z. Yusoff (University Science Malaysia)
M. Zock (LISMI, Orsay)
Paper submission
----- ----------
Papers not exceeding 3500 words should be submitted via Email
(preferably as plain text or LATEX format) not later than 15 April 1995 to:
ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de
If electronic submission is problematic (e.g. due to non-standard
format, characters, graphics) not possible, 4 copies of the paper should
reach
Ruslan Mitkov
IAI
Martin-Luther str. 14
D-66111 Saarbruecken
GERMANY
not later than 20 April 1995.
The submissions will be reviewed by three members of the program
committee and authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection of their papers
by June 1995. Camera-ready versions of the accepted papers will be due
on 20 July 1995.
Invited speakers
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The invited speakers of the conference are outstanding academics
including A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) and J. Tsuji (UMIST,
Manchester).
Location
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The town of Velingrad is situated in a picturesque valley in the
Western Rhodope mountains and is only 130km from Sofia, the capital
of Bulgaria. The local organizers will provide a daily shuttle bus/
conference taxi from the Sofia airport to the conference location
at an inexpensive rate. Sofia is easily accessible by plane from most
of the major European cities (e.g. daily flights or several flights
per week from Frankfurt, London, Paris, Zurich, Vienna and other European
cities). There are also direct flights to Sofia from North America
(Washington) and Asia (Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur).
Organizing Committee
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The Organizing Committee of the Conference includes
Ruslan Mitkov (IAI Saarbruecken/Institute of Mathematics Sofia),
Michael Zock (LIMSI, Orsay), Manfred Kudlek (University of Hamburg),
Nikolai Nikolov (Incoma/School of Computational Linguistics Bulgaria),
Nicolas Nicolov (University of Edinburgh).
Conference information
---------- -----------
For further information please contact Mr. Nicolas Nicolov, Email
nicolas@edinburgh.aisb.ac.uk. Local Email addresses, faxes and
telephone numbers will be given at a later date.
Conference Listserv
---------- --------
Conference Listserv will soon be set up and details will be given in
the second call for papers.
Related events
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Conference participants are also invited to take part in the
International Summer School "Contemporary Topics in Computational
Linguistics", which will take place just before the conference in
Tzigov Chark, Batak Lake, only 20 km from Velingrad.
Further information on the summer school can be obtained from
Prof. R. Mitkov, Email ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de or Mr. Nicolas Nicolov,
Email nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk.
Industrial participants / Publishing companies
---------- ------------ ---------- ---------
Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP-
related products as well as publsihing companies to exhibit their
new books on NLP. Company representatives should inform Mr. Nicolas
Nicolov (Email nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk) of their intention and
publishing houses should contact Dr. Mitkov at ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de.
Alternative program
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An alternative program can be arranged for persons accompanying
delegates. Among the places which can be visited is Plovdiv, the
second largest and oldest Bulgarian city, beautifully situated on
7 hills 80 km away from Velingrad.
Second Call for Papers
------ ---- --- ------
A second call for papers, including more information on invited talks,
conference location and registration fees is due to come out in January
1995.
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 10:35:01 -0700
To: al@snyside.sunnyside.com (comp.ai.nl-know-rep),
From: schlimme@eecs.wsu.edu (Jeffrey C. Schlimmer)
Subject: CFP: Wkshp Proposals for Mach. Learning Conf., Jul 95, Tahoe
Please redistribute this as appropriate. --Jeff Schlimmer
TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING (ML95)
Tahoe City, California
July 9-12, 1995
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The ML-95 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program
of the Twelfth International Conference on Machine Learning (ML-95).
Informal workshops will be held 9 July 1995. Workshop participants
will have the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with a selected
focus -- providing an informal setting for active exchange among
researchers, developers and users on topics of interest. Members of
all segments of the ML community are encouraged to submit proposals.
To encourage interaction and exchange of ideas, we prefer small
informal workshops, with 25-50 participants, most of whom will be
active participants. The format of the workshop presentations will be
determined by the organizers, who are encouraged to leave ample time
for general discussion. Workshops will typically be one full day in
length, although half-day proposals will be considered.
** PROPOSAL CONTENT **
Proposals for workshops should be about 2 pages in length, and should
contain:
- A description of the workshop. Identify the specific issues
on which the workshop will focus.
- A brief discussion of why the workshop is of particular
interest at this time.
- The names and addresses of the organizing committee; 3 to
4 people knowledgeable in the field. Strong proposals
include organizers who bring differing perspectives to the
workshop topic.
- An indication as to whether the workshop should be
considered for a half-day, one or two-day meeting.
** SUBMISSIONS **
Workshop proposals should be submitted as soon as possible but NO
LATER THAN 15 December 1994. Organizers will be notified of the
committee's decision by 15 January 1995. Workshop organizers will be
responsible for producing a call for participation. The Call is due 15
February 1995. We will post the call in various newsgroups;
individual organizers are also encouraged to distribute the Call
themselves.
** PARTICIPANT SELECTION **
Workshop attendance is by invitation of the organizers. Selection of
attendees will be made by the organizers on the basis of submissions;
we encourage organizers to impose a deadline for submissions, perhaps
20 March 1995. Workshop organizers will need to provide the ML '95
conference organizers with a list of the participants by 1 June 1995.
Please submit (preferably by email) your workshop proposal and address
inquiries concerning workshops to:
Sridhar Mahadevan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue, ENG 118
Tampa, Florida 33620-5399
mahadeva@csee.usf.edu
Phone: (813)974-3260
Fax: (813)974-5456
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~schlimme/ml95.html
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Jeffrey C. Schlimmer, Asst. Prof., School of EE & CS, Washington State
University, Pullman, WA 99164-2752, (509) 335-2399, (509) 335-3818 FAX
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~schlimme/
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