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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 45
NL-KR Digest Tue Jul 25 09:38:33 PDT 1995 Volume 14 No. 45
Today's Topics:
Query: Rhyming Dictionary Sought
Announcement: COLING-96 Comp. Linguistics, Aug 96, Copenhagen
CFP: UM-96 User Modeling Doctoral Consortium, Jan 96, Kailua-Kona
Announcement: New NYNEX Corpus from the LDC
Announcement: Seminar on NLP, Sep 95, Singapore
Announcement: TC17 Translating & Computer 17, Nov 95, London
Position: Research Scientist, Intel. Networks, MIT AI Lab.
CFP: ILPS'95 Wrkshp on Logic Prog. Environments, Dec 95, Portland
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From: Kim Binsted <kimb@ainews.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Query: Rhyming Dictionary Sought
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:18:00 GMT
Apologies if this is a double post - there seems to have been a problem with my
first try.
Does anyone know where I could find an online rhyming dictionary? A list of
sets of rhyming words would be fine.
Thanks,
Kim.
Kim Binsted
kimb@aisb.ed.ac.uk
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/students/kimb/
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:34:35 +0200
From: Bente Maegaard Center for Sprogteknologi <M750@eurokom.ie>
Subject: Announcement: COLING-96 Comp. Linguistics, Aug 96, Copenhagen
To: linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu,
Reply-To: linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu,
The International Conference on Computational Linguistics,
COLING, will take place next time in Copenhagen, at the premises
of the Universoty of Copenhagen, August 5-9, 1996.
Tutorials will be organised August 2-3. Sunday, August 4, will be
used for workshops. Proposals for workshops and or tutorials
should be sent to the local organizer, whereas questions related
to the programme should be addressed to the programme chairman
(see below).
The Call for papers will be published in August. The call will
contain the following deadlines:
December 15, 1995: Submission
March 15, 1996: Notification of acceptance
May 1, 1996: Submission of final papers
We are looking forward to seeing you in Copenhagen.
Jin-ichi Tsujii Bente Maegaard
professor director, professor
Chairman of the programme committee Local organiser
E-mail: tsujii@ccl.umist.ac.uk E-mail:bente@cst.ku.dk
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@math.waterloo.edu
From: strachan@silver.cs.umanitoba.ca (Linda Strachan)
Subject: CFP: UM-96 User Modeling Doctoral Consortium, Jan 96, Kailua-Kona
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:04:04 -0400
UM-96: DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
CALL FOR PAPERS
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING
Kailua-Kona on the Island of Hawaii
January 2-5, 1996
Doctoral Consortiums at major conferences are becoming increasingly
popular. These are tremendous opportunities for Graduate students to
present their work to a knowledgable audience. The first Doctoral
Consortium (DC) for the International Conference on User Modeling took
place at UM-94 in Boston. It was considered a success by everyone
involved.
UM-96 will again include a DC in its agenda. Students will benefit in
several different ways by participating in the consortium; primarily by
presenting work to a knowledgable audience, but other benefits include
meeting established researchers and other graduate students doing similar
work.
Suggested Topics
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In much the same way that the research done in User Modeling spans several
different domains, graduate research may cover a wide range of topics but
should contribute to some aspect of user modeling and user-adapted
interaction. These include (but are not limited to) the following topic
areas: user model acquisition, plan and intention recognition, user
stereotypes, representation and inferencing techniques for user models,
consistency of user models, user modeling shell systems, explanation
generation, intelligent/adaptive user interfaces, adaptation to users with
special needs, student modeling and intelligent tutoring systems,
navigational aids, adaptive hypertext and hypermedia, information
retrieval and information filtering, knowledge-based information
presentation, natural-language systems, and other applications.
Format of the Consortium
------------------------
Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to
scholars and researchers in the field who will provide constructive
comments about their work. Students are expected to have completed their
proposals and be able to document in a brief submission the thesis topic,
the approach to be taken and the amount of work that has already been
completed, if any. A small number of applicants will be chosen by the
consortium committee and invited to present their work in a short (15
minute) presentation. This presentation may include a demonstration if
appropriate. After the presentation the committee members will comment on
the student's work and attempt to address the questions that the student
has identified. The consortium will be a separate session, two to three
hours in length.
Committee Members
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Mathias Bauer, DFKI, Germany
Judy Kay, Sydney University, Australia
Alfred Kobsa, GMD, Germany
Kathleen McCoy, Univ. of Delaware, USA
Alex Quilici, University of Hawaii, USA
Peter van Beek, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Julita Vassileva, Univ. der Bundeswehr, Germany
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia
Submission Requirements
-----------------------
Students who are interested in participating should submit a two page
abstract of their doctoral research in plain ascii format to:
strachan@cs.umanitoba.ca
Between four and six students will be accepted. Funding may be available.
Students that have been selected will be asked to submit a short list of
questions to the committee to help identify areas where the student feels
that the committee can be of assistance.
Important Dates
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September 15 1995 Deadline for Submissions
October 6 1995 Notification of Acceptance
Further Information
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Consortium:
Linda Strachan
Department of Computer Science
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA R3T 2N2
E-mail: strachan@cs.umanitoba.ca
Phone: 204-474-8313
Fax: 204-269-9178
UM-96 Conference:
http://www.ics.hawaii.edu/um-96
David Chin
E-mail: chin@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu
Martha Crosby
E-mail: crosby@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu
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To: nl-kr@snyside1.sunnyside.com
Subject: Announcement: New NYNEX Corpus from the LDC
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 14:06:56 EDT
From: LDC Office <ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the
LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM:
PHONEBOOK: NYNEX Isolated Words
PhoneBook is a phonetically-rich, isolated-word, telephone-speech
database, created because of (1) the lack of available
large-vocabulary isolated-word data, (2) anticipated continued
importance of isolated-word and keyword-spotting technology to
speech-recognition-based applications over the telephone, and
(3) findings that continuous-speech training data is inferior to
isolated-word training for isolated-word recognition.
The goal of PhoneBook is to serve as a large database of American
English word utterances incorporating all phonemes in as many
segmental/stress contexts as are likely to produce coarticulatory
variations, while also spanning a variety of talkers and telephone
transmission characteristics. We anticipate that it will be useful
in ways analogous to TIMIT/NTIMIT.
The core section of PhoneBook consists of a total of 93,667
isolated-word utterances, totaling 23 hours of speech. This breaks
down to 7979 distinct words, each said by an average of 11.7 talkers,
with 1358 talkers each saying up to 75 words. All data were
collected in 8-bit mu-law digital form directly from a T1 telephone
line. Talkers were adult native speakers of American English chosen
to be demographically representative of the U.S.
Given the large set of talkers being recruited for PhoneBook
database, it made sense to exploit the opportunity to collect
additional utterances. We have chosen spontaneous numerical
utterances, because of widespread interest in them and the need for
very large numbers of talkers for research into spontaneous-speech
effects. We restricted to just three spontaneous digit sequences and
one money amount, as the lists for the core of PhoneBook have been
designed to approach the limit of reasonable duration for a caller's
session. As a result, PhoneBook contains a total of 5105 spontaneous
utterances.
Questions and orders for PHONEBOOK should be sent to
ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu.
Please be aware that we have changed our World Wide Web URL. The new
URL for the LDC home page is:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc
Our ftp address has not changed. LDC is at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under
pub/ldc. When accessing anonymous ftp, use your computer id or
"anonymous" when asked for password.
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From: Lua Kim Teng <luakt@iscs.nus.sg>
Subject: Announcement: Seminar on NLP, Sep 95, Singapore
To: paulwu@iss.nus.sg (Dr Paul Wu), zddong@iss.nus.sg (Prof Dong Zhendong),
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 18:07:08 +0800 (GMT+0800)
Call of Papers
RE: Inter-Faculty Seminar on Natural Language Processing,
Sept 8-9 (Fri-Sat), 1995
ISCS is organising the above meeting during our Sept term break. We wish to
invite you and your colleagues to present papers for the seminar. the theme
of the seminar shall be The Use of Computer Technology In The Processing of
Natural Language.
Areas include:
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Languages: any languages
Syntax, Semantic, Pragmatic Analysis
Discourse & Query
NLP Interface to computers
Voice processing
Character Recognition
Natural Language Understanding
Text understanding & Analysis
Any other related topics
Other details are:
Date: 8-9 Sept, 1995
Time: 9.00 am to 5 pm(Friday) & 9.00 am to 12 pm (Sat)
venue: Department Seminar Room, ISCS, Science Faculty
S-16 Level 3
Fee: Free of charge
Important Dates:
Submission of abstracts: 31 July, 95
Acceptance of abstract: 16 August, 95
Submission of final manuscript: 26 August, 95
A proceedings will be printed for the seminar.
We shall be most grateful if you can kindly submit abstracts to our seminar
and encourage your colleagues who are actively doing research in the areas
of natural language processing using computer to participate.
Seminar Co-ordinator: Dr Lua Kim Teng, Tel 65-7722783, FAX 65-77945890 Email
luakt@iscs.nus.sg
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From: pdg@aslib.co.uk
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 12:08:59 GMT
To: nl-kr@snyside1.sunnyside.com
Subject: Announcement: TC17 Translating & Computer 17, Nov 95, London
TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 17 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
9-10 November 1995, London
This conference series, now in its 17th year, is a two daY
event organized by Aslib, The Association for Information
Management. Over the last 16 years, the series has become a
key internationalevent in the machine translation (MT)
calendar.
THE CONFERENCE
Following Minako O'Hagan's successful talk at last year's
conference on the Internet and email, we shall further
explorethe use of the Information Superhighway.
This year, we shall also hear:
- from users of small and large machine translation systems
- about the latest in translation tools
- about advances in terminological support
- about recent developments in speech and language
technology
- from exhibitors and users in a forum setting
This year's programme includes two parallel fora on each day,
onedebating the implementation and use of MT and tools in a
largescale environment and the other the use of tools and
aids in asmall scale environment. These fora will provide
an opportunityfor producers and users of products to discuss
ways forward.
The conference venue is One Great George Street, London,
Westminster, SW1.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Gary Jeckel, Ericsson Language Services, Sweden
Dirk Lueke, SAP Aktiengesellschaft, Germany
John Hatley, Logos GmbH, Germany
Roger Harris, Independent Consultant, UK
Gerda Klimonov and Andreas Kustner, Gesellschaft fur
Multilinguale Systeme, Germany
Terence Lewis, Hook & Hatton, UK
Carol B Eckmann, Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ursula Bernhard, GMO Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik,
Germany
Bob Clark, Praetorius, UK
Joyce Pashley, Santa Cruz Operations, USA and UK
David Carter, SRI International, UK
Ian Johnson, Sharp Laboratories of Europe, UK
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE CONFERENCE OR EXHIBITION,
CONTACT:
Nicole Adamides, Events Manager,
Aslib, The Association for Information Management,
20-24 Old Street, London, EC1V 9AP.
Tel:+(44) 171 253 4488 Fax:+(44) 171 430 0514
Email: pdg@aslib.co.uk
WWW: http://www.aslib.co.uk/aslib/
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 08:25:16 -0400
To: common-lisp@ai.sri.com, alu@ai.sri.com, ai+lisp-jobs@cs.cmu.edu,
From: JCMA@ai.mit.edu (John C. Mallery)
Subject: Position: Research Scientist, Intel. Networks, MIT AI Lab.
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
seeks a Research Scientist
Position 95-0553
The Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project seeks a programmer
to maintain, integrate, and develop a variety of large Common Lisp
systems in the areas of intelligent network services, machine
learning, natural language understanding, and knowledge
representation. A keen sense of program abstraction and system
modularity are essential. The individual will work with a team on
information infrastructure projects as well as state of the art
artificial intelligence systems. The position also involves
contributing to the maintenance of the project's computational
infrastructures and teaching programming to students working on the
project. Most work will be done on Symbolics Lisp machines, with some
ancillary work on UNIX platforms.
For a description of the project, see:
URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/home-page.html
Qualifications: B.S. or M.S. in computer science or related
field, and a demonstrated ability to conceptualize and complete
software engineering projects. Must be fluent in ANSI Common Lisp,
including the Common Lisp Object System and the Common Lisp Interface
Manager. Experience with Genera operating system and development
environment on Symbolics Lisp Machines is important. Familiarity with
operating systems on the Apple MacIntosh, DEC Alpha, and UNIX are a
plus. Other relevant skills or experience include: transaction-controlled,
persistent-object object systems; database programming; Internet
protocols (e.g., HTTP, SMTP, NNTP, Z39.50).
Qualified applicants, please send a resume to:
Mr. James McCarthy, Personnel Officer
MIT--Personnel Office
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. E19-238
Cambridge, MA 02139
MIT is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
This is a non-smoking environment.
7/20/95
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From: fromherz@parc.xerox.com (Markus Fromherz)
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 11:39:53 PDT
To: distribution.@parc.xerox.com@cs.rpi.edu; (see end of body)
Subject: CFP: ILPS'95 Wrkshp on Logic Prog. Environments, Dec 95, Portland
CALL FOR PAPERS
Seventh Workshop on Logic Programming Environments
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December 8, 1995
Portland, Oregon, USA
Held in conjunction with ILPS'95.
Description:
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Logic programming environments have come a long way from the
original text-based paradigm. Much work has been done on the creation
of better logic programming environments. Furthermore, the
characteristics of logic programming languages often motivate
innovative approaches and techniques in the areas of user environments
and programming tools. New logic programming languages, such as
constraint and concurrent languages, also motivate new programming
environments.
The Seventh Workshop on Logic Programming Environments will provide
a forum for researchers and logic programming system developers to
exchange ideas and results on all aspects of environments for logic
programming. This includes work related to design issues, new
techniques and tools, and the solution of noteworthy problems arising,
for example, from new logic programming languages or interesting
application areas. Both state-of-the-practice and state-of-the-art
presentations are welcome. Specific topic areas relevant to the
workshop include, but are not be limited to:
* user interfaces and human engineering
e.g., support of program composition, execution control,
intelligent or enhanced debugging, embedded windowing
and graphics capabilities, execution visualization
* software development tools
e.g., program composition aids, automatic transformation
or induction facilities, code partitioning and module schemes,
debugging aids
* provisions for new paradigms
e.g., special characteristics or techniques for dealing with
logic programming languages other than Prolog, such as parallel
(LP) languages, constraint-based (LP) languages, languages
merging logical and functional paradigms, visual languages, etc.
* interfacing to other language system tools
e.g., interfacing to partial evaluators, source-to-source
transformers, global analyzers, abstract interpreters in the
underlying language system
* interfacing to external systems
e.g., foreign-language interfaces, data-base and file system
interfaces, interfaces to external windowing and graphics
systems
* provisions for component integration
e.g., interpreters, compilers, and solvers as component software
The workshop will be informal in nature, allowing ample time for
questions and discussions as well as presentations. However, all
presentations will be subject to a review process. Registration for
the workshop will be open to all ILPS'95 attendees. Duration of the
workshop is dependent upon the level of participation received, but is
expected to be one day. A copy of the proceedings will be made
available to all participants.
This workshop follows the 6th Workshop on Logic Programming
Environments, which was held in conjunction with ICLP'94.
Submissions:
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Submissions are invited for presentation during the workshop. All
presentations will be subject to peer review. The bulk of
presentations is expected to be research papers, though posters and
software demonstrations (either live or on video tape) are also
welcome.
Papers submitted for presentation are restricted to 6 pages in
length. Authors are encouraged to write in the style of a "position
paper", and also identify whether state-of-the-practice or
state-of-the-art work is being described.
Participants wishing to make poster presentations or give
demonstrations must submit an abstract describing the work. A note
should also be included discussing any equipment or presentation
needs.
The following guidelines apply to either type of submission:
* The title, author name(s), affiliation(s), and address(es) (both
postal and electronic), and date must be clearly given on the first
page.
* The actual submission should be in machine-readable form (either
self-contained LaTeX source document or PostScript file), and
submitted electronically (e.g., by electronic mail). If it is not
possible for authors to submit electronically, hard-copy
submissions can be accommodated.
* Submissions should be sent to
wlpe-95@parc.xerox.com
Authors may wish to compress and uuencode large PostScript files
before sending them to increase the probably of their safe and
timely delivery ("compress" and "uuencode" are the standard
UNIX facilities by those names, modern mail systems also include
these features).
If submission by e-mail is impossible, three copies of the
submission should be sent by post to Markus Fromherz at the address
below.
* Participants can expect confirmation shortly after submission
that their paper or abstract has been received and is printable.
(Please allow a few days in certain circumstances.)
Otherwise, they should send an electronic mail message describing
the situation to
fromherz@parc.xerox.com
or
kusalik@cs.usask.ca
Final paper versions will also be required in machine-readable form,
with electronic submission.
Dates:
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Deadline for submissions: Sept. 11, 1995
Notification of review results: Oct. 16, 1995
Final version of papers due: Nov. 13, 1995
Workshop Dec. 8, 1995
We welcome your input:
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Suggestions or proposals for panel discussions in focused areas
are also invited.
Organizers:
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Dr. Markus Fromherz
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
U.S.A.
tel: (415) 812 4273 fax: (415) 812-4334
email: fromherz@parc.xerox.com
Dr. Anthony J. Kusalik
Department of Computational Science
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7N 0W0 Canada
tel: (306) 966 4904 fax: (306) 966 4884
email: kusalik@cs.usask.ca
Dr. Marc Kirschenbaum
Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sci.
John Carroll University
Cleveland, OH 44118
U.S.A.
tel: (216) 397-4684
email: kirsch@jcvaxa.jcu.edu
Pertinent Network Information:
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Public information (e.g., this call-for-participation, and
eventually the workshop program) is (will be) available by WWW at
http://www.cs.usask.ca/projects/envlop/wlpe-95.html
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